What I'm worried about are parks. People there can easily hold conversations at such a distance from other people that noone can hear what information they are exchanging.
The only and best use I can think of for that would be for paranoid right-wingers planning to take away all my freedoms in a futile attempt to soothe their own fear, when in fact of course they by so doing will only feed it. Given the current climate I'd say this is pretty much happening for sure.
I hope park wardens are keeping an eye out and reporting any suspiciously paranoid conversations to the authorities.
Or one could take a cue from the Apple engineers who were sued by Carl Sagan for internally code-naming their project "Sagan" without paying him, and promptly changed the internal name to "Asshole Astronomer". For which they were sued a second time by Carl Sagan, presumably in an attempt to convince the world that he was in fact not an asshole, *snigger*.
The "Asshole Games"(tm)?
Has a certain ring^H^H^H^Hasshole to it, doesn't it?.
Alternatively, one could solicit a bid from microsoft to buy the entire british language, so that any use outside properly licensed Microsoft products incurs extra fees, includiong from the IOC. Just think how much money the government could make!
Damn right! I also abdolutely refuse to buy insurance for my house until it is completely and irrefutably documented that it has in actual fact burned down, and not just damage a little, but all the way down to the ground, and forensics have sifted through the ashes and made sure that there were no other confounding factors that may have been responsible for part of the dmage but fire itself. They're not gonna hustle me!
Risk mangement? Meh! Pointing fingers after the fact is what counts.
It's a type of bait used to identify and tag the kind of people who implausably fail to anticipate that before their post is finished about 500 other readers will already have pointed out the same bleedingly obvious typo which everyone saw in the first place.
That would have been a good snide remark, had it actually benn an informed one. There really is a marked difference in the track record, esp. whenever republicans are in power in the US.
Rotational motor of a DVD will run way too fast and generate too little torque. Just think of spin-up speed of a CD, and compare mass of a CD to mass of the turntable
Wow. Analysing turntable torque requirements, yet hasn't heard of gears and transmissions. Impressive.
But put that up against big oil which we know funds studies to get the results it wants, and has great lobbying force in government and media, and still the consensus in mainstream science is overwhelming (no, those nuts that US media like to use to "balance" things are nowhere near as numerous or as respected as media tries to make out) that climate change is very real, and that the probability is great that human activity plays a large part in it.
The level of scepticism towards climatologists I see on slashdot is frightening. Are there people paid to hang about and push big oil's point of view, or are US geeks really so incredibly gullible that they fall for the spin that mainstream climatologists are the bad guys, highly suspect, grinding an axe, and probably corrupted, wheras the minority who happen to support the position of oil companies and are uaually paid by tham are not?
For audio I guess you could theoretically allow only analog output, although I seriously doubt DVD-Audio players will have no digital out. But for movies, I really don't see why they even bother trying to stop ripping at all, as long as there's such a thing as the DVI out port.
Damn! First thing I thought about was "there's got to be some pr0n-related use of this, but I just can't find it", and then they've already thought of it. Guess I'm not a real geek after all.
Yeah, and you can find pictures on the net too. And maybe noone would go to jail if a major newspaper printed more than token imagery from the war zone, but the goverment has plenty of other ways to influence major media outlets than "censorship" in a strict techincal legal sense. It is still censorship, though, by virtue of simply borking, no matter what exact means are used.
They're taking the effort to censor right now reports and imagery from Iraq right, of death, injuries and suffering to locals and americans alike, even coffins returning to America, so clearly someone fears that allowing this full publicity in the US would have some significant effects...
"Solarize" and "posterize" are right there on the menu in any decent photo app. They are essentially just simple curve manipulations and really simple to copy in software. The ice thing might be more complex; haven't seen the effect myself.
I'm sure hands-on darkroom work is enjoyable and has a completely different feel to it than digital, and I can understand why many photographers stick with it. But the claim that you can technically do things you can't on a computer is, when it comes to the finished image, mostly just not true. Barring the effects your state of mind have on what you choose to do, of course.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can do sometimes extensive work with JavaScript and still not spot what an elegant and powerful language it is. Sure, most of that work is about doing meaningless browser-related stuff and wrestling with bad APIs, but come on. I really do expect from an averagely talented real IT person to be able to separate that from the langauge, and be able to recognise the things it can do that their normal language can't. Its almost single-abstraction design that turns out to be able to do just about everything and still look nice and procedural and newbie-friendly totally rocks.
Bad software design can be directly lined to non-technical people designing it in the first place and then giving the developers very little room to work.
Hooey. There are lots of brilliant-to-good programmers about, but evry very few of them know the first thing about building a consistent and usable interface. You need to pick someone who actually knows that job to do it (be it a programemr witht he extra skill/talent or a specialist that just specs and audits it). Ask a programmer who doesn't even like GUIs and thinks emacs is the best thing ever and ask him to design a good GUI, and you're basically hosed before you even start, no matter how good a programmer he is. He proabably won't even be aware of half the conventions GUIs are built one (and is proabably extremely inefficient in using one).
But how much should the deposit be on a cheap but out-of print book, to avoid the library becoming effectively a used book shop with a really nice selection?
Sure, you can abuse the old system like that too (just pay the fine and keep the book), but the psychology of it is sure to be more tempting when they have no way of finding you (even if they proabably wouldn't bother in any case).
you must prove the conesequences and that they are known
No he mustn't.
When it comes to politics and resource management, we quite obviously need to approach the issue as a matter risk management. If the risk of terrible conequences is real (even if it was small, which it is not), we cannot afford to gamble if we can help it.
Proof won't do you any good after the decisions have had their effect, and there is no rewind button.
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What I'm worried about are parks. People there can easily hold conversations at such a distance from other people that noone can hear what information they are exchanging.
The only and best use I can think of for that would be for paranoid right-wingers planning to take away all my freedoms in a futile attempt to soothe their own fear, when in fact of course they by so doing will only feed it. Given the current climate I'd say this is pretty much happening for sure.
I hope park wardens are keeping an eye out and reporting any suspiciously paranoid conversations to the authorities.
Or one could take a cue from the Apple engineers who were sued by Carl Sagan for internally code-naming their project "Sagan" without paying him, and promptly changed the internal name to "Asshole Astronomer". For which they were sued a second time by Carl Sagan, presumably in an attempt to convince the world that he was in fact not an asshole, *snigger*.
The "Asshole Games"(tm)?
Has a certain ring^H^H^H^Hasshole to it, doesn't it?.
Alternatively, one could solicit a bid from microsoft to buy the entire british language, so that any use outside properly licensed Microsoft products incurs extra fees, includiong from the IOC. Just think how much money the government could make!
Damn right! I also abdolutely refuse to buy insurance for my house until it is completely and irrefutably documented that it has in actual fact burned down, and not just damage a little, but all the way down to the ground, and forensics have sifted through the ashes and made sure that there were no other confounding factors that may have been responsible for part of the dmage but fire itself. They're not gonna hustle me!
Risk mangement? Meh! Pointing fingers after the fact is what counts.
What in the name of fuck is "oxigen"?
It's a type of bait used to identify and tag the kind of people who implausably fail to anticipate that before their post is finished about 500 other readers will already have pointed out the same bleedingly obvious typo which everyone saw in the first place.
That would have been a good snide remark, had it actually benn an informed one. There really is a marked difference in the track record, esp. whenever republicans are in power in the US.
Insightful my ass. That's so stupid I don't even know where to start.
You're fried!
many mammals also display nurturing
I thought that was more or less required to qualify as a mammal. Check out the etymology.
Unfortunaltely the whole planet is already claimed in the name of Mars.
Remember, this is a list of stuff to turn OFF:
[...]
Machine Debug Manager
Hey, this is news for nerds.
Rotational motor of a DVD will run way too fast and generate too little torque. Just think of spin-up speed of a CD, and compare mass of a CD to mass of the turntable
Wow. Analysing turntable torque requirements, yet hasn't heard of gears and transmissions. Impressive.
Am I alone in feeling that we haven't even used hubble to the fullest extent of its abilities?
...? hell, I cant't even see that you have a coherent argument at all.
No idea if you're alone in it, but your argument makes no sense.
You mean we should postpone making something better than hubble because
Should we have waited to deploy transistors that were ready until we had maxed out everything that could be done with tubes and relays too?
But put that up against big oil which we know funds studies to get the results it wants, and has great lobbying force in government and media, and still the consensus in mainstream science is overwhelming (no, those nuts that US media like to use to "balance" things are nowhere near as numerous or as respected as media tries to make out) that climate change is very real, and that the probability is great that human activity plays a large part in it.
The level of scepticism towards climatologists I see on slashdot is frightening. Are there people paid to hang about and push big oil's point of view, or are US geeks really so incredibly gullible that they fall for the spin that mainstream climatologists are the bad guys, highly suspect, grinding an axe, and probably corrupted, wheras the minority who happen to support the position of oil companies and are uaually paid by tham are not?
Jeeeesus.
For audio I guess you could theoretically allow only analog output, although I seriously doubt DVD-Audio players will have no digital out. But for movies, I really don't see why they even bother trying to stop ripping at all, as long as there's such a thing as the DVI out port.
Damn! First thing I thought about was "there's got to be some pr0n-related use of this, but I just can't find it", and then they've already thought of it. Guess I'm not a real geek after all.
Yeah, and you can find pictures on the net too. And maybe noone would go to jail if a major newspaper printed more than token imagery from the war zone, but the goverment has plenty of other ways to influence major media outlets than "censorship" in a strict techincal legal sense. It is still censorship, though, by virtue of simply borking, no matter what exact means are used.
They're taking the effort to censor right now reports and imagery from Iraq right, of death, injuries and suffering to locals and americans alike, even coffins returning to America, so clearly someone fears that allowing this full publicity in the US would have some significant effects...
Make sense. Who the hell would want to be a warehouse?
"Solarize" and "posterize" are right there on the menu in any decent photo app. They are essentially just simple curve manipulations and really simple to copy in software. The ice thing might be more complex; haven't seen the effect myself.
I'm sure hands-on darkroom work is enjoyable and has a completely different feel to it than digital, and I can understand why many photographers stick with it. But the claim that you can technically do things you can't on a computer is, when it comes to the finished image, mostly just not true. Barring the effects your state of mind have on what you choose to do, of course.
Crockford suggests a couple on this page:m l
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.ht
It never ceases to amaze me how people can do sometimes extensive work with JavaScript and still not spot what an elegant and powerful language it is. Sure, most of that work is about doing meaningless browser-related stuff and wrestling with bad APIs, but come on. I really do expect from an averagely talented real IT person to be able to separate that from the langauge, and be able to recognise the things it can do that their normal language can't. Its almost single-abstraction design that turns out to be able to do just about everything and still look nice and procedural and newbie-friendly totally rocks.
Bad software design can be directly lined to non-technical people designing it in the first place and then giving the developers very little room to work.
Hooey. There are lots of brilliant-to-good programmers about, but evry very few of them know the first thing about building a consistent and usable interface. You need to pick someone who actually knows that job to do it (be it a programemr witht he extra skill/talent or a specialist that just specs and audits it). Ask a programmer who doesn't even like GUIs and thinks emacs is the best thing ever and ask him to design a good GUI, and you're basically hosed before you even start, no matter how good a programmer he is. He proabably won't even be aware of half the conventions GUIs are built one (and is proabably extremely inefficient in using one).
But how much should the deposit be on a cheap but out-of print book, to avoid the library becoming effectively a used book shop with a really nice selection?
Sure, you can abuse the old system like that too (just pay the fine and keep the book), but the psychology of it is sure to be more tempting when they have no way of finding you (even if they proabably wouldn't bother in any case).
you must prove the conesequences and that they are known
No he mustn't.
When it comes to politics and resource management, we quite obviously need to approach the issue as a matter risk management. If the risk of terrible conequences is real (even if it was small, which it is not), we cannot afford to gamble if we can help it.
Proof won't do you any good after the decisions have had their effect, and there is no rewind button.
Yeah, and they worship devils, fuck their dogs, and eat babies, just like everyone else outside the US. Christ.