That's actually a cultural thing in some parts of Asia. You'll notice that women often cover their mouths when laughing; it's considered uncouth for a woman to show her teeth.
While I see your point, I respectfully disagree. At the risk of being trite, I offer a couple of famous quotes as counter-examples:
"Give me liberty or give me death." -popularly attributed to Patrick Henry
"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die free men rather than to live slaves." -Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson
These words, combined with the silent statements of countless people who have given their lives to preserve others' liberty, I think this speaks well that liberty is, at times, more important than life. And it is easily inferred that life, without liberty, is not worth living.
And while it may be perfectly acceptable for some to live life with only the hope of future liberty, as this is of itself an exercise of liberty, it is not acceptable for those who concede their liberties to acquiesce to the concession of the liberties of those who do not.
Agreed. With power comes responsibility, to adapt a phrase.
I concur with the view that the rights of an individual extend fully to the rights of another, but not beyond, if those rights are mutually exclusive.
What I'm positing is that there is no more egregious harm in the universe one can do to another than to deprive them of their liberty without just cause.
I hope and pray that you are being ironic, because if you are not, you are exactly what is wrong with the United States at the moment.
There is NEVER a more urgent, pressing, and immediate need than liberty. Without liberty, and the true freedoms it provides, everything else becomes meaningless.
Interesting... I've never done T9, only multi-tap. And over the years I've gotten good enough that I can text a three-SMS-long message with a mean approaching zero errors without looking at the message even once before I send it. I take notes during meetings, blind text, etc., without having to do so much as glance at my device. Contrast this to a smartphone, where I have to double-check every WORD, in case I mis-typed. And it's not a screen- or keyboard-size issue; even a 10" iPad turned sideways gives me exactly the same problem.
So until there is a tactile feedback mechanism for keyboard orientation AND key feedback, count me out for "smart"phone use for typing. Thanks, but no thanks.
I know that I'm in the minority, though... there are many people who seem to have the same experience you've had, which is why I'm left with a dinosaur phone and the burden of multiple devices/chargers/phone plans/etc. I can only hope there's someone like me out there who has some manufacturing experience and the ability to solve our problem. I'd pay $300-400 for a solution at this point; it would cost less than my data plan and pay for itself in a few months!
I've been doing this for years - I have multiple phones in my pockets at all times.
I have a small candybar phone with a 12-digit keypad that I use as a phone, and a 4+ smartphone that my s.o. affectionately calls my "mini-tab", since it replaced my large tablet for all things portable and android.
I tried using the smartphone as my primary for a while, and I nearly threw it against the walls on a daily basis. Texting on a touchscreen with big fingers is very nearly the most consistently frustrating thing I have ever attempted. On my candybar, (literally) on the other hand, I can text with 99.3%+ accuracy without looking at the screen. My ease of textual communication is outstanding in comparison on the small phone.
So even though the candybar has shitty voice quality, I won't give it up as my "primary" phone.
Now if someone would make a bluetooth, T9/multi-tap, phone-sized, reasonably ergonomic, 12-key keypad that I could pair with the smartphone, I'd be in heaven and would ditch the little guy straightaway. But until then, two devices is where I'll stay.
This doesn't prevent you from carrying an unlocked phone; it's specifically the act of unlocking it that is prohibited in the U.S. It's perfectly legal to have your phone unlocked while you're in the U.K, and generally costs about £15 (in my experience) to have it done for you. You can then use a local (O2/Orange/Vodaphone/Virgin/etc.) SIM.
The 5th Amendment (which, for those who may not know, is the US Constitutional amendment forbidding the government from forcing individuals to self-incriminate) only applies to people.
Oh, wait. Corporations are "people" now, too. It's official. The world is insane. I think I shall have to build an asylum to keep it in and prevent it from hurting itself.
This study suggests there's a real effect going on there.
I didn't realize that Viagra is just a specific vasodilator. (It works on the smooth vessels found only in erectile tissue and in the lungs, apparently.) I wonder if there's an analogue that would work for vasoconstriction-induced migraines?
Except that in this case, their status is a result of their actions.
The problem is that in the US, "sex offender" is a catch-all for many different types of behaviour, not simply pædophelia. Therefore many people who are "registered sex offenders", but who pose absolutely zero threat to minors, are being grossly punished. (And this applies to many things far outside of online gaming, for certain.)
A great example is of a 16-year-old girl who takes a naked picture of herself and sends it to her 16-year-old boyfriend; an authority finds out; and she is charged with felony production and possession of child pornography. It has happened. A lot.
Fortunately, some places are trying to bring common sense thinking to this. But not enough, not yet. (Btw, the douchebag threatening felony charges against the 16-year-old girl was District Attorney George Skumanick, who was thankfully voted out of office in part because of this in 2009.)
Screw the assist. I love to drive, and I'll never want to give up the option of manual control completely, but I would MUCH rather spend my commute reading, playing music, writing, watching movies, or fucking while my car automatically gets me to work. Give me the whole enchilada and not just some driver augmentation.
I think you missed the point of the pp's question. What "tools"? What is a VM stack controller, and why/when/where would I need one? What is a VM stack? What are REST, XML, AWS, Rackspace, marionette, puppet, etc.?
Should I care about OpenStack if I'm not a developer?
The questions that aren't being answered are a whole lot more fundamental than what you're responding to. Not a critique on what you wrote, just more information - I have the same questions as the pp.
The point of contention for which this was presented is the design patent; the inner workings are irrelevant (cf. here).
Apple is seeking to prevent Samsung (and, by extension, most other tablet manufacturers, if the case succeeds) from selling anything that resembles their design (namely, the rounded corners, form factor, etc.) based on the idea that they came up with an original, non-obvious design for the iPad and should be awarded exclusive rights to it. Samsung's evidence points to the idea that Apple were beaten to the design by almost 20 years, and were exposed to it then, and therefore their idea is neither original nor non-obvious, thus invalidating their patent.
Again, none of this requires "working" hardware. Patents don't require it, except for perpetual motion machines; for those, a working prototype is mandatory.
I guess in a way that depends on how you define "drastic". Are we changing the environment? I believe so, but really, who can say? We have a lot of evidence that seems to suggest that we do, but on such a short timescale, we cannot possibly think we have definitive proof. The hole in the ozone layer over the antarctic that people were convinced was a harbinger of the apocalypse 20 years ago? We didn't even start measuring it until 1956. Did CFCs really cause it, or has it existed in various forms for millions of years? We don't know. We've been measuring the world around us consistently for, at most, 500 years. That's like measuring the last ten seconds of the past 2.5 years. And even though our techniques for reading the past are getting better, the readings are getting more complex. So how much are we changing the world? We have absolutely no idea - because we just don't have enough data to compare it against.
If we lived in 17th century London, we'd have thought the Earth wouldn't last in its current state another 50 years.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but your statement uses "wonderfully diverse" and "interesting" - both of which are highly human-centered concepts. I am no stranger to aesthetics, and I would certainly mourn the loss of all the wondrous species that give our planet such rich (in our minds) diversity. But if you take us and our emotional attachment to the status quo out of the equation, it's quickly apparent that the Earth has no sense of aesthetics, nor does it care about biodiversity. Only the creatures that depend on it do. And even with all of our bombs, guns, pesticides, artificial chemicals, and everything else, nature is capable of so much grander scales of catastrophe than we can produce that it dwarfs our efforts in comparison. Volcanoes produce as much as 1/3rd the pollutants humans currently do... and have been doing it for 10,000,000 times as long.
We are stewards of the Earth, but most certainly not masters of it. We have an inflated sense of self, and an inflated sense of our own impact. We should do what we can to preserve what we can, because that is important to us - but we should do it knowing that it is only because it is important to us that it needs to be done, and not because the world around us cares a whit for our meddling.
Take a look at this map. Even if you set the sea level rise to sixty meters (100 times the worst-case scenario for the next century), it barely changes the noticeable shape of the continents.
Yes, some places will be affected more than others, which will suck for those people. I'm not saying it will be fun. But it will be survivable, for nearly everyone.
I made no attempt to address these things. I was simply taking issue with the inflammatory and reactionary parent post, which implied that rising sea levels will directly drown people.
Sea level rise will hurt. It will suck for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons. But it will happen so slowly that most people won't realize it's happening, and it certainly won't drown the whole Bangladeshi people. The 2004 tsunami killed many times more people than will die as a result of rising sea levels.
I am ignorant of many things, but not of this, in this particular case.
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That's actually a cultural thing in some parts of Asia. You'll notice that women often cover their mouths when laughing; it's considered uncouth for a woman to show her teeth.
While I see your point, I respectfully disagree. At the risk of being trite, I offer a couple of famous quotes as counter-examples:
"Give me liberty or give me death." -popularly attributed to Patrick Henry
"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die free men rather than to live slaves." -Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson
These words, combined with the silent statements of countless people who have given their lives to preserve others' liberty, I think this speaks well that liberty is, at times, more important than life. And it is easily inferred that life, without liberty, is not worth living.
And while it may be perfectly acceptable for some to live life with only the hope of future liberty, as this is of itself an exercise of liberty, it is not acceptable for those who concede their liberties to acquiesce to the concession of the liberties of those who do not.
Agreed. With power comes responsibility, to adapt a phrase.
I concur with the view that the rights of an individual extend fully to the rights of another, but not beyond, if those rights are mutually exclusive.
What I'm positing is that there is no more egregious harm in the universe one can do to another than to deprive them of their liberty without just cause.
I hope and pray that you are being ironic, because if you are not, you are exactly what is wrong with the United States at the moment.
There is NEVER a more urgent, pressing, and immediate need than liberty. Without liberty, and the true freedoms it provides, everything else becomes meaningless.
Interesting... I've never done T9, only multi-tap. And over the years I've gotten good enough that I can text a three-SMS-long message with a mean approaching zero errors without looking at the message even once before I send it. I take notes during meetings, blind text, etc., without having to do so much as glance at my device. Contrast this to a smartphone, where I have to double-check every WORD, in case I mis-typed. And it's not a screen- or keyboard-size issue; even a 10" iPad turned sideways gives me exactly the same problem.
So until there is a tactile feedback mechanism for keyboard orientation AND key feedback, count me out for "smart"phone use for typing. Thanks, but no thanks.
I know that I'm in the minority, though... there are many people who seem to have the same experience you've had, which is why I'm left with a dinosaur phone and the burden of multiple devices/chargers/phone plans/etc. I can only hope there's someone like me out there who has some manufacturing experience and the ability to solve our problem. I'd pay $300-400 for a solution at this point; it would cost less than my data plan and pay for itself in a few months!
I've been doing this for years - I have multiple phones in my pockets at all times.
I have a small candybar phone with a 12-digit keypad that I use as a phone, and a 4+ smartphone that my s.o. affectionately calls my "mini-tab", since it replaced my large tablet for all things portable and android.
I tried using the smartphone as my primary for a while, and I nearly threw it against the walls on a daily basis. Texting on a touchscreen with big fingers is very nearly the most consistently frustrating thing I have ever attempted. On my candybar, (literally) on the other hand, I can text with 99.3%+ accuracy without looking at the screen. My ease of textual communication is outstanding in comparison on the small phone.
So even though the candybar has shitty voice quality, I won't give it up as my "primary" phone.
Now if someone would make a bluetooth, T9/multi-tap, phone-sized, reasonably ergonomic, 12-key keypad that I could pair with the smartphone, I'd be in heaven and would ditch the little guy straightaway. But until then, two devices is where I'll stay.
This doesn't prevent you from carrying an unlocked phone; it's specifically the act of unlocking it that is prohibited in the U.S. It's perfectly legal to have your phone unlocked while you're in the U.K, and generally costs about £15 (in my experience) to have it done for you. You can then use a local (O2/Orange/Vodaphone/Virgin/etc.) SIM.
It appears that "one treatment" refers to a single medicine (as opposed to the several currently required), not a single dose.
It is if he had written "argenteus" and "cypreus". :-P
The 5th Amendment (which, for those who may not know, is the US Constitutional amendment forbidding the government from forcing individuals to self-incriminate) only applies to people.
Oh, wait. Corporations are "people" now, too. It's official. The world is insane. I think I shall have to build an asylum to keep it in and prevent it from hurting itself.
How do I change my /. username to Wonko?
This study suggests there's a real effect going on there.
I didn't realize that Viagra is just a specific vasodilator. (It works on the smooth vessels found only in erectile tissue and in the lungs, apparently.) I wonder if there's an analogue that would work for vasoconstriction-induced migraines?
Except that in this case, their status is a result of their actions.
The problem is that in the US, "sex offender" is a catch-all for many different types of behaviour, not simply pædophelia. Therefore many people who are "registered sex offenders", but who pose absolutely zero threat to minors, are being grossly punished. (And this applies to many things far outside of online gaming, for certain.)
A great example is of a 16-year-old girl who takes a naked picture of herself and sends it to her 16-year-old boyfriend; an authority finds out; and she is charged with felony production and possession of child pornography. It has happened. A lot.
Fortunately, some places are trying to bring common sense thinking to this. But not enough, not yet. (Btw, the douchebag threatening felony charges against the 16-year-old girl was District Attorney George Skumanick, who was thankfully voted out of office in part because of this in 2009.)
My girlfriend had a job at a charity whose President made $500k+ per year. Working for a 503(c) can be very, very lucrative.
Screw the assist. I love to drive, and I'll never want to give up the option of manual control completely, but I would MUCH rather spend my commute reading, playing music, writing, watching movies, or fucking while my car automatically gets me to work. Give me the whole enchilada and not just some driver augmentation.
And a lack of power enables corruption. QED
Any mathematics, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.
I think you missed the point of the pp's question. What "tools"? What is a VM stack controller, and why/when/where would I need one? What is a VM stack? What are REST, XML, AWS, Rackspace, marionette, puppet, etc.?
Should I care about OpenStack if I'm not a developer?
The questions that aren't being answered are a whole lot more fundamental than what you're responding to. Not a critique on what you wrote, just more information - I have the same questions as the pp.
The point of contention for which this was presented is the design patent; the inner workings are irrelevant (cf. here).
Apple is seeking to prevent Samsung (and, by extension, most other tablet manufacturers, if the case succeeds) from selling anything that resembles their design (namely, the rounded corners, form factor, etc.) based on the idea that they came up with an original, non-obvious design for the iPad and should be awarded exclusive rights to it. Samsung's evidence points to the idea that Apple were beaten to the design by almost 20 years, and were exposed to it then, and therefore their idea is neither original nor non-obvious, thus invalidating their patent.
Again, none of this requires "working" hardware. Patents don't require it, except for perpetual motion machines; for those, a working prototype is mandatory.
The surest way to make a club desirable is to restrict its membership.
It was actually Picasso who said that. Jobs stole it from... oooh.
Almost modded you "flamebait" for that one...
I have that Top Gear episode. Love that series. The real one.
You mean the one that wasn't copied in another country for 1/10th the price...?
I guess in a way that depends on how you define "drastic". Are we changing the environment? I believe so, but really, who can say? We have a lot of evidence that seems to suggest that we do, but on such a short timescale, we cannot possibly think we have definitive proof. The hole in the ozone layer over the antarctic that people were convinced was a harbinger of the apocalypse 20 years ago? We didn't even start measuring it until 1956. Did CFCs really cause it, or has it existed in various forms for millions of years? We don't know. We've been measuring the world around us consistently for, at most, 500 years. That's like measuring the last ten seconds of the past 2.5 years. And even though our techniques for reading the past are getting better, the readings are getting more complex. So how much are we changing the world? We have absolutely no idea - because we just don't have enough data to compare it against.
If we lived in 17th century London, we'd have thought the Earth wouldn't last in its current state another 50 years.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but your statement uses "wonderfully diverse" and "interesting" - both of which are highly human-centered concepts. I am no stranger to aesthetics, and I would certainly mourn the loss of all the wondrous species that give our planet such rich (in our minds) diversity. But if you take us and our emotional attachment to the status quo out of the equation, it's quickly apparent that the Earth has no sense of aesthetics, nor does it care about biodiversity. Only the creatures that depend on it do. And even with all of our bombs, guns, pesticides, artificial chemicals, and everything else, nature is capable of so much grander scales of catastrophe than we can produce that it dwarfs our efforts in comparison. Volcanoes produce as much as 1/3rd the pollutants humans currently do... and have been doing it for 10,000,000 times as long.
We are stewards of the Earth, but most certainly not masters of it. We have an inflated sense of self, and an inflated sense of our own impact. We should do what we can to preserve what we can, because that is important to us - but we should do it knowing that it is only because it is important to us that it needs to be done, and not because the world around us cares a whit for our meddling.
There's a lot of land to move to EVERYWHERE.
Take a look at this map. Even if you set the sea level rise to sixty meters (100 times the worst-case scenario for the next century), it barely changes the noticeable shape of the continents.
Yes, some places will be affected more than others, which will suck for those people. I'm not saying it will be fun. But it will be survivable, for nearly everyone.
I made no attempt to address these things. I was simply taking issue with the inflammatory and reactionary parent post, which implied that rising sea levels will directly drown people.
Sea level rise will hurt. It will suck for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons. But it will happen so slowly that most people won't realize it's happening, and it certainly won't drown the whole Bangladeshi people. The 2004 tsunami killed many times more people than will die as a result of rising sea levels.
I am ignorant of many things, but not of this, in this particular case.