They can't stop you from hitting mute, but they will argue in open court that there exists an implied contract to watch the advertisements. Hence, going to get a beer during a commercial would put you in breach. Certainly not saying I agree with this mindset, but it does exist and its many more standard deviations from the norm than a rational person would expect it could be.
Aza Raskin, Mozilla head of user experience and the one who is spearheading Jetpack, has stated (one link deep from TFA) ""The question we asked ourselves is what [would happen] if any eighth-grader that can write a Web page [could] fundamentally enhance the functionality of the browser"", and TFA states a "goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play".
The majority of people don't know HTML, let alone CSS, and then add to that a JavaScript requirement. Now that we have established a population base, of the people who know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, how many are using Firefox? Who in their right mind would want to do anything complicated in JavaScript without firebug (and its associated FirePHP for PHP AJAX developers), as well as extensions such as Web Developer, DOM Inspector, Live HTTP Headers, etc...
If one defines the new breed of "major web surfers" as Web 2.0 Mashup creators, it should be apparent that this new breed of "major web surfer" would refuse to be crippled by Internet Explorer. Its only if you retain the old skool view of couch potato surfing content consumer that IE market share dominates.
Disclaimer: I hold these truths to be self-evident, but only time will tell.
I've seen several references to AdBlock. This isn't just using AdBlock, this includes a system for creating whitelists and blacklists. Rather than clicking on one of several choices for your AdBlocking list, you have the ability to use regular expressions and create your own. If you are happy with other people deciding what you (or you children) are not going to see, thats fine. If you want to take responsibility, this tool allows you to do so.
I don't understand why you think I should need your permission to increase the size of the font displayed in my browser when I view a web page from your server. Likewise, changing colors or even radically reinventing a better (for me) CSS scheme has nothing to do with any legal rights you might accrue due to having created (or published, or bought) said content.
Can you imagine if textbook publishers tried this? "Highlighting text in this book without the publisher's permission is contrary to our purpose in publishing this work. If the author had wanted that text highlighted, it would be highlighted. Likewise, margin notes require written permission beforehand. If the author had wanted a note in the margin, one would have been printed."
"Quantum physics does not allow one to solve any problems that systems based on classical physics cannot solve. "
This is not only not insightful, it is false. In classical physics, any moving charge radiates. Thus, an electron orbiting a nucleus would be unstable. Hence, atoms (and thus molecules), can not form. Maxwell's equations can't get around this. This paradox, as well as blackbody radiation, the photo-electric effect, and of course the double slit experiments, are without resolution in classical physics.
"For its own good". But does that mean for human kinds own good? Or the robot's own good? And thus is illustrated the fallacy of programming in a human language.
Agreed. And isn't there a Godel-like incompleteness law that states that its impossible to codify a set of finite rules to apply a finite set of principles to the full range of human behavior? Either the laws must be incomplete (think edge cases), or self-contradictory? Hence the requirement for Judicial Interpretation as a physical limitation of reality, rather than mere politics.;-)
(Tongue in cheek, sure, but I wish I could remember where I was reading about such real limitations to law code.)
Pictured:
Artificial Beings
The conscience of a conscious machine
Jacques Pitrat, LIP6, University of Paris 6, France.
ISBN: 97818482211018
Publication Date: March 2009 Hardback 288 pp.
whereas TFA refers to:
Artificial Ethics: Moral Conscience, Awareness and Consciencousness
by Jacques Pitrat (Author)
# Publisher: Wiley-ISTE (June 15, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1848211015
"All of them might well have been using Linux. (After all, if it's such a slam-dunk obvious choice, those teams would know that, too.)"
Isn't there quite a bit of difference in terms of Linux use between the different branches? I was under the impression that the Army was the most interested in Linux, whereas the Navy was totally a Microsoft shop. If so, war games are especially useful.
While I agree we are approaching a limit on transistors/area, maybe the way to go is increase overall transistor count by radically increasing chip size. Whatever happened to the idea of growing silicon in zero gravity to reduce defects and increase usable size? Are the materials science guys finding any solutions?
Sounds like Apple. With all the pieces designed for each other, it means that Oracle-on-Solaris-on-UltraSparc (OSUS?) will "just work". I predict a seamless turnkey system that is highly optimized for doing just exactly what it does. This is good news for Oracle and Oracle customers.
Ham-Fisted
One alternate explanation is that "ham" is a shortened version of "ham-fisted", meaning clumsy. This is a reasonable conjecture, given that all early amateur radio stations used hand-operated telegraph keys to transmit Morse code, and sending style is referred to as an operator's "fist", so someone who sends badly could be called ham-fisted. But the earliest references to "ham" use only the single word, and there is no evidence that it evolved as a truncation of a longer phrase.
"A little station called HAM"
This widely circulated but fanciful tale claims that, around 1911, an impassioned speech made by Harvard University student Albert Hyman to the United States Congress, in support of amateur radio operators, turned the tide and helped defeat a bill that would have ended amateur radio activity entirely, by assigning the entire radio spectrum over to the military. An amateur station that Hyman supposedly shared with two others (Bob Almy and Peggie Murray), which was said to be using the self-assigned call sign HAM (short for Hyman-Almy-Murray), thus came to represent all of amateur radio. However, this story seems to have first surfaced in 1948, and practically none of the facts in the account check out, including the existence of "a little station called HAM" in the first place. [9][10][11]
"Home Amateur Mechanic" magazine
In this version, supposedly HAM was derived from the initials of a "very popular" magazine which covered radio extensively. But there is no evidence that there ever was a magazine by this name.
Hertz-Armstrong-Marconi
It is sometimes claimed that HAM came from the first letter from the last names of three radio pioneers: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Edwin Armstrong, and Guglielmo Marconi. However, this cannot be the source of the term as Armstrong was an unknown college student when the term first appeared .
Hammarlund legend
Likely an example of corporate wishful thinking, Hammarlund products were supposedly so preeminent in the pioneering era of radio that they became a part of the language of radio. As the story goes, early radio enthusiasts affectionately referred to Hammarlund products as "Ham" products, and called themselves "Ham" operators.[12] In truth, Hammarlund was a minor and barely known company at the time "ham" started to be used.
[PDF]Easy Guidance to Become a HAM What is HAM Radio?
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HAM, though not an acronym, is used and written with capital letter to show the respect and in remembrance of the three scientists who have contributed in...
Full relevant quote:
Its origin is attributed to the discovery of three scientists Hertz, Armstrong and Marconi.
HAM,though not an acronym, is used and written with capital letter to show the
respect and in remembrance of the three scientists who have contributed in the
invention of radio theory and made it possible to use radio communication easy
to use.
The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file.[1] It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software.
Indeed, I'm familiar. And thats very appropriate, because what happens when a principal gets a phone call from "Chief of Detectives, Detective Smith", who reports that Mary Sue is known to be dealing drugs today, and in fact the drugs are known to be hidden in her panties.
A third (perhaps somewhat less related) study would be the Stanford Prison Experiment. Obedience to Authority is available, as is the Standford Prison Experiment, and both should be watched by every kid with their parents.
Pardon my commen sense, but the fact that ibuprofen is a drug (as is aspirn, or coffee for that matter) doesn't really seem to justify molesting a child.
Rather an extension of Stanly Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiments. If an authority figure orders you to assist in molesting a 13 year old girl, how many would molest her? We know of two. How many would refuse? Thats the real question. If people refuse to assist much evil just evaporates: *poof*.
Without speed, all the other features fall by the wayside. You can't enjoy a WebSlice (which is a slice of a Webpage that is constantly updated) if it takes forever to load. And if you look at Internet Explorer's market share, it has steadily been eroded over the past few years by its faster rivals Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera.
...If you've already left IE for a speedier browser, IE8 is not going to bring you back, and Microsoft knows it.
...IE may still hold 67 percent of the browser market, according to Net Apps, but that share is declining. Firefox claims 22 percent, Safari has 8 percent, and Chrome has captured 1 percent. And speed is not their only advantage. Many of the new features in IE8 are simply catch-up features. The rest are not enough to make most switchers switch back.
Microsoft Corp. may be talking up the performance boost it gave to its just-launched Internet Explorer 8, but the new browser remains the slowest of the top five on the market, benchmark tests show.
Firefox proved to be 59% faster than IE8, while Safari was 47% faster. Opera, the slowest non-Microsoft production browser, was still 38% faster than IE8.
But the real reason most people are leaving IE is not speed:
The wikipedia link seems to suggest it isn't normal copyright law that is in effect:
The chief recommendation was to end the distinction between the Crown and other copyright holders. In particular, the Committee was "emphatic" that the Crown lose its unique position of gaining copyright over material whenever it is the first publisher of such material. For example, a previously unpublished short story, upon being published in a government work, would cease to belong to the author and would instead become Crown copyright, denying the author any future royalties or rights to it.
Every lab I've worked in used GPIB controlled instruments. Python "import gpib" makes this trivial. If you want an environment like MatLab or LabView, there is Scilab:
The scilab serial port interface provides direct access to peripheral devices such as modems, printers, and scientific instruments that you connect to your computer's serial port. This interface is established through a serial port object.
If you want to communicate with PC-compatible data acquisition hardware such as multifunction I/O boards, you need the Data Acquisition Toolbox. If you want to communicate with GPIB- or VISA-compatible instruments, you need the Instrument Control Toolbox. Note that this toolbox also includes additional serial I/O utility functions that facilitate object creation and configuration, instrument communication, and so on.
Slashdot Mirror
They can't stop you from hitting mute, but they will argue in open court that there exists an implied contract to watch the advertisements. Hence, going to get a beer during a commercial would put you in breach. Certainly not saying I agree with this mindset, but it does exist and its many more standard deviations from the norm than a rational person would expect it could be.
Aza Raskin, Mozilla head of user experience and the one who is spearheading Jetpack, has stated (one link deep from TFA) ""The question we asked ourselves is what [would happen] if any eighth-grader that can write a Web page [could] fundamentally enhance the functionality of the browser"", and TFA states a "goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play".
The majority of people don't know HTML, let alone CSS, and then add to that a JavaScript requirement. Now that we have established a population base, of the people who know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, how many are using Firefox? Who in their right mind would want to do anything complicated in JavaScript without firebug (and its associated FirePHP for PHP AJAX developers), as well as extensions such as Web Developer, DOM Inspector, Live HTTP Headers, etc...
If one defines the new breed of "major web surfers" as Web 2.0 Mashup creators, it should be apparent that this new breed of "major web surfer" would refuse to be crippled by Internet Explorer. Its only if you retain the old skool view of couch potato surfing content consumer that IE market share dominates.
Disclaimer: I hold these truths to be self-evident, but only time will tell.
I've seen several references to AdBlock. This isn't just using AdBlock, this includes a system for creating whitelists and blacklists. Rather than clicking on one of several choices for your AdBlocking list, you have the ability to use regular expressions and create your own. If you are happy with other people deciding what you (or you children) are not going to see, thats fine. If you want to take responsibility, this tool allows you to do so.
I don't understand why you think I should need your permission to increase the size of the font displayed in my browser when I view a web page from your server. Likewise, changing colors or even radically reinventing a better (for me) CSS scheme has nothing to do with any legal rights you might accrue due to having created (or published, or bought) said content.
Can you imagine if textbook publishers tried this? "Highlighting text in this book without the publisher's permission is contrary to our purpose in publishing this work. If the author had wanted that text highlighted, it would be highlighted. Likewise, margin notes require written permission beforehand. If the author had wanted a note in the margin, one would have been printed."
"Quantum physics does not allow one to solve any problems that systems based on classical physics cannot solve. "
This is not only not insightful, it is false. In classical physics, any moving charge radiates. Thus, an electron orbiting a nucleus would be unstable. Hence, atoms (and thus molecules), can not form. Maxwell's equations can't get around this. This paradox, as well as blackbody radiation, the photo-electric effect, and of course the double slit experiments, are without resolution in classical physics.
"For its own good". But does that mean for human kinds own good? Or the robot's own good? And thus is illustrated the fallacy of programming in a human language.
Agreed. And isn't there a Godel-like incompleteness law that states that its impossible to codify a set of finite rules to apply a finite set of principles to the full range of human behavior? Either the laws must be incomplete (think edge cases), or self-contradictory? Hence the requirement for Judicial Interpretation as a physical limitation of reality, rather than mere politics. ;-)
(Tongue in cheek, sure, but I wish I could remember where I was reading about such real limitations to law code.)
Pictured:
Artificial Beings
The conscience of a conscious machine
Jacques Pitrat, LIP6, University of Paris 6, France.
ISBN: 97818482211018
Publication Date: March 2009 Hardback 288 pp.
whereas TFA refers to:
Artificial Ethics: Moral Conscience, Awareness and Consciencousness
by Jacques Pitrat (Author)
# Publisher: Wiley-ISTE (June 15, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1848211015
"All of them might well have been using Linux. (After all, if it's such a slam-dunk obvious choice, those teams would know that, too.)"
Isn't there quite a bit of difference in terms of Linux use between the different branches? I was under the impression that the Army was the most interested in Linux, whereas the Navy was totally a Microsoft shop. If so, war games are especially useful.
While I agree we are approaching a limit on transistors/area, maybe the way to go is increase overall transistor count by radically increasing chip size. Whatever happened to the idea of growing silicon in zero gravity to reduce defects and increase usable size? Are the materials science guys finding any solutions?
Sounds like Apple. With all the pieces designed for each other, it means that Oracle-on-Solaris-on-UltraSparc (OSUS?) will "just work". I predict a seamless turnkey system that is highly optimized for doing just exactly what it does. This is good news for Oracle and Oracle customers.
False etymologies
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
HAM, though not an acronym, is used and written with capital letter to show the respect and in remembrance of the three scientists who have contributed in
Full relevant quote:
The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file.[1] It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software.
Indeed, I'm familiar. And thats very appropriate, because what happens when a principal gets a phone call from "Chief of Detectives, Detective Smith", who reports that Mary Sue is known to be dealing drugs today, and in fact the drugs are known to be hidden in her panties.
A third (perhaps somewhat less related) study would be the Stanford Prison Experiment. Obedience to Authority is available, as is the Standford Prison Experiment, and both should be watched by every kid with their parents.
Pardon my commen sense, but the fact that ibuprofen is a drug (as is aspirn, or coffee for that matter) doesn't really seem to justify molesting a child.
Its reached the point where "think of the children" is actually a punchline for just this type of conservative hypocrisy.
"We had to burn the village in order to save it."
becomes
"We have to molest little girls in order to protect them."
Rather an extension of Stanly Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiments. If an authority figure orders you to assist in molesting a 13 year old girl, how many would molest her? We know of two. How many would refuse? Thats the real question. If people refuse to assist much evil just evaporates: *poof*.
Real men telnet the FTP protocol by hand. Using a console FTP client is for wimps.
Make that "using windows for something other than games or photoshop".
New IE8 still the slowest browser
Microsoft's final code comes in dead last in JavaScript benchmark tests
But the real reason most people are leaving IE is not speed:
Ostensibly, yes. Emacs and Lisp. In reality, God http://xkcd.com/224/
I doubt that any material was unavailable from else where at any time. Redundancy.
If you want an environment like MatLab or LabView, there is Scilab:
There are many such toolboxes: DATA ACQUISITION AND REAL-TIME