Some people don't learn by reading. They have to be told and shown. That does not make them any less valuable, or unintelligent, that makes them different.
It's certainly no reason to turn them away from Linux, because there are a lot more of those people than there are geeks like us that can learn from reading.
also beleive that some guns, such as fully automatic weapons and rocket launchers, should not be in the hands of the general public... at least, not without special permits (much like you need a special class of license to drive a semi - you can't drive one with the same type of license you get to drive your car).
Such weapons are called Class III weapons and a member of the public CAN get them legally by paying a $200 tax surcharge on the firearm.
That seems low today, but the law was enacted during prohibition to stop Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. from using heavy military weapons against cops. $200 was a major tax in 1930s dollars.
Also anyone with a FFL (Federal Firearm License - i.e. a licensed gun dealer) can own and traffic in Class III weapons as long as the paperwork is done right.
Frontier Airlines is quite the same. While getting the safety briefing the attendant said something like "please remain in your seats and pretend to listen to us while we do this pointless exercise in showing you how a seat belt works."
I'm American and I have the right, god damn it, to use a computer any way I want to. If I go to jail for it, well, poor me. But I had the right to take the chance. Anything else is pre-crime and 1984./
Oops, that's wrong. The lovely high level code you write still becomes machine language. Even with Java. If a program does real work, there's real machine code. Even if it doesnt, there's still calls, which are still opcodes
You karma-whoring moron. Let me spell it out in terms that you can't fucking twist into something that gets you modded up:
Bob needs to write a Windows app, to, let's say, perform a certain mathematical function on a number when he types it in the box and presses the button. Bob must use Visual C++ for this. Bob then uses VC++ to write the program and design the forms. He puts a textbox on the form, and a button, and ties the click event of the button to a method that performs the math on the text property of the textbox. It then copies the result into a label component. The program has an event loop, managed by the OS interface, and an X button.
My point is that Bob does not care, nor does he NEED to care, what the opcodes are that did this. He wrote the program to make the button, textbox, and Windows do something. This is where 90% of the programming is done these days.
Even on Unix, most apps are nothing but firing off library calls to things you didn't write. You're at the mercy of the library implementors.
There are always exceptions, such as super-low-level simulation code, and other things that must run as fast as possible. THAT IS NOT WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
Is that clear or is that too high-level for you, o mighty god of the shift right?
I can appreciate the common-denominator factor for the MIX language, but nobody programs computers anymore - they program the OPERATING SYSTEM of those computers. The people who write the O/S are the ones actually programming the machine, and once that's done, the application developers (i.e. the majority) just use the services they provide. The last time I heard of anyone programming the machine rather than the OS was in DOS games.
Easy: have the portions of the station that need to stay upright/pointing at the sun/dockable stabilized and mounted on a race bearing so that the rotating part rotates around it, while it stays stationary.
if Moby's music didn't suck, people would buy it. HTH.
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nice artistic attitude there. I hope you enjoy not creating anything of your own, but instead leeching off of others' hard work and inspiration. Seems to make a lot of money for guys like Sean Combs
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The original publication is the first historical instance of the song. This can be either a score, or a recording of people playing it.
However, in all other cases, I'm stating my opinions, not the law. In my opinion nobody else has any right to mess with my songs. Sorry if I didn't make it clear that I'm speaking only for myself.
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exactly. In music the notes ARE the original, no matter how it's transmitted - live musicians playing it, on sheet music, tablature, or on a playback medium.
Therefore, any alteration destroys the original intent.
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I think you gave up all hope of artistic integrity when you allowed people to take your music and remix it and manipulate it even as audio. Once the notes are out of order it's not your vision any more, it's just a blob of media and nobody respects it.
Copyright PROTECTS artistic integrity. It's a horrible thing when this is abused, but hell, I'm a musician, and I don't want anyone chopping my stuff up and making it into their own statement. It's MY statement, not theirs. They can go write something of their own if they have something to say.
What if I went to the city art museum and decided to chop up one of the Picassos and rearrange it because I thought it looked better?
bad prices, though. Anything you find at Crutchfield you can usually find somewhere else for at least 10% less.
OTOH, car audio is a major racket and there are lots of shady people in it. Crutchfield doesn't even try to compete on price, they compete on service. You can get some things cheaper elsewhere, but you might be paying someone who definitely doesn't deserve the money.
While my friend did have his own office, as did everyone else at that particular campus, it could be an interesting management experiment (if you want to call it that) to rotate people's desks around... maybe every month. That way, if people have a problem with coworkers, you can separate them,
We did this in high school!
Wow, the corporate world becomes ever more domineering. Whatever happened to leaving people alone to do their jobs... Sun doesn't hire just anyone
Amidala will get framed by Palpatine saying she [planted Jar Jar|left her post] in the senate to start the war. Palpatine will use this to split Amidala and Anakin up - he swore an oath to the Jedi, and his duty is to the republic, etc.
She'll go into hiding on Tatooine with the Lars family, where she'll discover that she's pregnant while Anakin is out being Palpatine's flunky after Dooku gets killed by Windu or Yoda.
why does anyone pay attention to what Stallman says? isn't it obvious by now that he has no high-minded ideals and is only out for his own interest? geez..
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Oraperl (capital O) is a reverse compatibility wrapper around DBI.. lots of people are brain-locked on it and don't even know about DBI.
Yes, I know.
Ruby's a bloated joke. I don't want an object interface to literals.
It's almost like the US gov't has a list of things techies hate, and they're going down the list and doing each thing, just to piss us all off.
Learning is a highly subjective process.
Some people don't learn by reading. They have to be told and shown. That does not make them any less valuable, or unintelligent, that makes them different.
It's certainly no reason to turn them away from Linux, because there are a lot more of those people than there are geeks like us that can learn from reading.
That seems low today, but the law was enacted during prohibition to stop Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. from using heavy military weapons against cops. $200 was a major tax in 1930s dollars.
Also anyone with a FFL (Federal Firearm License - i.e. a licensed gun dealer) can own and traffic in Class III weapons as long as the paperwork is done right.
Frontier Airlines is quite the same. While getting the safety briefing the attendant said something like "please remain in your seats and pretend to listen to us while we do this pointless exercise in showing you how a seat belt works."
they might be part of Southwest, I dunno.
yeah, I counter. Fuck China.
I'm American and I have the right, god damn it, to use a computer any way I want to. If I go to jail for it, well, poor me. But I had the right to take the chance. Anything else is pre-crime and 1984./
Bob needs to write a Windows app, to, let's say, perform a certain mathematical function on a number when he types it in the box and presses the button. Bob must use Visual C++ for this. Bob then uses VC++ to write the program and design the forms. He puts a textbox on the form, and a button, and ties the click event of the button to a method that performs the math on the text property of the textbox. It then copies the result into a label component. The program has an event loop, managed by the OS interface, and an X button.
My point is that Bob does not care, nor does he NEED to care, what the opcodes are that did this. He wrote the program to make the button, textbox, and Windows do something. This is where 90% of the programming is done these days.
Even on Unix, most apps are nothing but firing off library calls to things you didn't write. You're at the mercy of the library implementors.
There are always exceptions, such as super-low-level simulation code, and other things that must run as fast as possible. THAT IS NOT WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
Is that clear or is that too high-level for you, o mighty god of the shift right?
I can appreciate the common-denominator factor for the MIX language, but nobody programs computers anymore - they program the OPERATING SYSTEM of those computers. The people who write the O/S are the ones actually programming the machine, and once that's done, the application developers (i.e. the majority) just use the services they provide. The last time I heard of anyone programming the machine rather than the OS was in DOS games.
didn't francis drake circumcise the world with a 30-foot clipper?
INCONCEIVABLE!
Easy: have the portions of the station that need to stay upright/pointing at the sun/dockable stabilized and mounted on a race bearing so that the rotating part rotates around it, while it stays stationary.
if Moby's music didn't suck, people would buy it. HTH.
nice artistic attitude there. I hope you enjoy not creating anything of your own, but instead leeching off of others' hard work and inspiration. Seems to make a lot of money for guys like Sean Combs
The original publication is the first historical instance of the song. This can be either a score, or a recording of people playing it.
However, in all other cases, I'm stating my opinions, not the law. In my opinion nobody else has any right to mess with my songs. Sorry if I didn't make it clear that I'm speaking only for myself.
exactly. In music the notes ARE the original, no matter how it's transmitted - live musicians playing it, on sheet music, tablature, or on a playback medium.
Therefore, any alteration destroys the original intent.
I think you gave up all hope of artistic integrity when you allowed people to take your music and remix it and manipulate it even as audio. Once the notes are out of order it's not your vision any more, it's just a blob of media and nobody respects it.
Copyright PROTECTS artistic integrity. It's a horrible thing when this is abused, but hell, I'm a musician, and I don't want anyone chopping my stuff up and making it into their own statement. It's MY statement, not theirs. They can go write something of their own if they have something to say.
What if I went to the city art museum and decided to chop up one of the Picassos and rearrange it because I thought it looked better?
bad prices, though. Anything you find at Crutchfield you can usually find somewhere else for at least 10% less.
OTOH, car audio is a major racket and there are lots of shady people in it. Crutchfield doesn't even try to compete on price, they compete on service. You can get some things cheaper elsewhere, but you might be paying someone who definitely doesn't deserve the money.
well, they want EQ to reflect real communities, right?
if it's not scottish it's CRAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!
but what we really want to know is - and we know you can tell us - how does McNealy's dick taste?
We did this in high school!
Wow, the corporate world becomes ever more domineering. Whatever happened to leaving people alone to do their jobs... Sun doesn't hire just anyone
Amidala will get framed by Palpatine saying she [planted Jar Jar|left her post] in the senate to start the war. Palpatine will use this to split Amidala and Anakin up - he swore an oath to the Jedi, and his duty is to the republic, etc.
She'll go into hiding on Tatooine with the Lars family, where she'll discover that she's pregnant while Anakin is out being Palpatine's flunky after Dooku gets killed by Windu or Yoda.
How the kids get split up, I don't know.
the majority of the spam I get is chinese/japanese/korean shit that I can't even read anyway.
Is there a way to filter spam by charset?
why does anyone pay attention to what Stallman says? isn't it obvious by now that he has no high-minded ideals and is only out for his own interest? geez..