"It is one of the most complex development environments imaginable."
Well, you better start sweating, because.NET is going to be a big improvement. It's sad to say, but does Open Source have to show in the realm of "helping amateur developers"? (yeah yeah, use the source luke, but nothing that is as integrated as.NET or Java). We've largely ignored "Let's Make Unix Not Suck" and instead are still down the path of "Let's Make Unix Suck But More Efficiently and Faster!"
my assertion is that atheism does not preclude morality. I am moral simply because I think I can live a fuller life in the here and now, not because I'm having my eternal afterlife dangled before me as a prize or punishment
EXACTLY. In fact, I find that people who are dogmatically religious to be LESS MORAL. Because they are guaranteed that if they follow a few rules set in stone that no matter what they do they will be righteous and will be rewarded in heaven. To that effect, religion removes human conscience. Now, if you are a Hobbesian, and think that humans in the "natural state" are some awful, dispicable creates who just randomly murder and commit atrocities against each other for no reason, I guess I can see why you feel in need to write down some "absolute rules" that people follow. I happen not to think that (and I believe science, as well as the history of many indigenous peoples and civilizations prove), but instead that on balance humans are generally "good" (if we were not "good", we'd just end up killing each other and we'd be extinct). If humans are generally good, the effect of religion (well, "religion" can be interpreted broady, let's say "organized religions with fixed absolute moral system"), is to erase human conscience, and replace it with some arbitrary absolute rules. If your religion has the misfortune of decreeing that it is the only "true" religion, you have instant strife because now it is your "duty" to convert the unwashed masses. Enter most crimes against humanity.
On the other hand, although an atheist *may* be amoral, in fact, an atheist is probably MORE moral, because an atheist has to consciously determine, manage and control their own set of values and morals and interactions with other human beings. They take responsibility. They can't defer to some "god" which says it is just naturally OK to do this but not that. In fact, I think short of one religion "winning" and converting the entire population, we will have to rely on humanism, our consciences, and rational thought. We will do a great disservice to humanity (and everything else involved, e.g. the environment) if we refuse to take responsibility for our own actions.
And if you don't like this post, well, it's not my fault, God made me do it (or was it the Devil? They are so similar, I always forget).
What is your problem with that link? If you bothered to scroll to the bottom you'd see:
The FreeBSD Foundation logo contest has ended.
We received 106 entries altogether. Many thanks to all of you who took the time to participate! The entries were very creative and showed a lot of design talent. Unfortunately, there was no entry that spoke to us as the logo we should use. So for now, the FreeBSD Foundation will remain logoless.
The JIT has since been folded into (well, at least Sun's VM) the HotSpot VM architecture, which can identify and natively compile bottlenecks ("hot spots") at run time. This is the same idea that the Crusoe chip/software uses, as well as HP's venture into dynamic interpretation/compilation where they showed that running a program in interpreted mode actually turned out *faster* because they had the benefit of dynamically profiling and optimizing it at runtime (e.g. dynamically unrolling loops and frequently followed branch paths).
While it might give the poster the jollies to use a TLD totally unrelated to his site or its geographic location, I think it is an abuse. Maybe he thinks people in other countries should just be able to register, for instance,.gov.us?
Terribly misleading. If you want your site associated with its geographic location, us that. If you don't, use a non-geographic TLD. But don't abuse the TLD of other countries. It's just rude and misleading.
"As much as I like free beer and booth babes, you don't need to spend millions of dollars selling a free product to a bunch of geeks who already have it, and don't intend to buy support."
No. You spend millions of dallors selling it to corporate clients. That means your boss. Or your boss's boss. etc. Obviously they are not selling it to us who will just download an ISO and slap it on some box under the desk (or whatever we can get our hands on).
I'm in a bit of an activist mood this morning, so let me rhetorically ask a question. Is protesting, and peaceful resistence in general doomed? (let's take protesting to mean the legal, peaceful acts allowed by the constitution, not setting cars on fire)
Peaceful resistence is predicated on the notion that by evoking a brutal backlash on the non-voilent, the population at large will be called to attention. This seemed to work for example, when the British were cracking skulls open with big brass-tipped staves. But, through the wonders of technology, *peaceful protest* might now be threated. We have new inventions in the hands of the police, military, etc., which can stop a protest *without* violence: guns that shoot rubbering gooey stuff, guns that remotely electrically stun/disable people, technology with can direct sound, and make people nautious and throw up on command, or can specifically target and cancel sound. Yeah, it might sound callous because now the police won't really be hurting people or running them over with trucks ("oops") and shooting them and stuff. But it also means that protesting will be useless. You can't get your opinions heard because you will be silenced, stunned, and disabled remotely and effortlessly.
I'm glad a don't live in San Antonio and have to fund this with my tax dollars. It is a stupid and clueless waste, and a cop out for real education. A computer lab should be enough. We have such a freaking gadget fetish, and now we're shoving it onto kids? So they are not allowed to carry cell phones and pages, but handhelds are now mandatory? These will largely just be used for games and various other bullshit and time wasting. The most valuable part of education will come from teachers and books - not the technological gadget of the day. Imagine a teacher having to compete for attention with the handhelds of each student. Hey, I have a really cool handheld: a notepad and a freakin pencil.
Let me give a big fat plug for Directron.com. I'm a pretty picky and fussy buyer, but I was able to find everything I needed on their site, and for a small fee (something like $30) they assemble it all for you (worth it to avoid the hassle). Plus you can pay extra little fees for all sorts of goodies: case mods, paint jobs (wide selection), case badges (free for orders over $100 I believe), wire ties, etc.. If you go to their specials section you can find all sorts of coupons and extras. They also have specials and coupons almost daily that they send out in an opt-in list. A lot of their parts have discounts for bundling with another related part. I can't say enough good things about Directron. It sure beats wasting your whole damn life searching for the best deal on every little part and then paying shipping seperately and assembling the mess yourself, when you can get people who do this day in and day out to assemble (and optionally test) it for you.
It's hard to do this when both the materials and technology you are working with change daily. We don't even have an agreed upon set of materials with which to create software. Plus, software doesn't really have a natural "lifespan". It's relatively easy to replace a car with newer technology: it breaks down, and you go to the dealership and get a new, better model with newer design and materials and technology. There are no other dependencies. Software on the other hand has TONS of dependencies. You can't just "upgrade" a flight system running on some code from the 80s like you can a car.
"1) Including original copyrighted material along with your mod."
If it is within fair use, why not.
"2) Using the original characters."
Why the hell not? Monopolies on copying something I understand. Monopolies on an invention I understand. Monopolies on a mere fictional character? Completely bogus. Copyright only covers COPYING.
All I have to say is that watching British parliament on CSPAN is *WAY* more interesting than watching US Congress. I mean, these people actually argue to each others face! They have to use logic on their feet (not written by staffers the last week) and support their arguments. The actually seem to know understand the issues they are talking about, and don't just blow smoke with colorful presentations from Kinkos. It seems so (relatively) spin-free! What a contrast to stale old Congress, where everyone gets their turn to stand up and drone on in a monotonous overblown topheavy grandeloquent speech. At times it seems like people in Parliament are actually going to physically fight with each other. Now that's what I call government!
I may very well do this as long as DVD players play non-MPAA burnt DVDs. Of course I'll not be able to purchase anything *new* without it being cleaned of copy restriction somehow.
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"700mg file"
700 milligrams? I don't know about that...it could be over their daily allowance.
"It is one of the most complex development environments imaginable."
.NET is going to be a big improvement. It's sad to say, but does Open Source have to show in the realm of "helping amateur developers"? (yeah yeah, use the source luke, but nothing that is as integrated as .NET or Java). We've largely ignored "Let's Make Unix Not Suck" and instead are still down the path of "Let's Make Unix Suck But More Efficiently and Faster!"
Well, you better start sweating, because
EXACTLY. In fact, I find that people who are dogmatically religious to be LESS MORAL. Because they are guaranteed that if they follow a few rules set in stone that no matter what they do they will be righteous and will be rewarded in heaven. To that effect, religion removes human conscience. Now, if you are a Hobbesian, and think that humans in the "natural state" are some awful, dispicable creates who just randomly murder and commit atrocities against each other for no reason, I guess I can see why you feel in need to write down some "absolute rules" that people follow. I happen not to think that (and I believe science, as well as the history of many indigenous peoples and civilizations prove), but instead that on balance humans are generally "good" (if we were not "good", we'd just end up killing each other and we'd be extinct). If humans are generally good, the effect of religion (well, "religion" can be interpreted broady, let's say "organized religions with fixed absolute moral system"), is to erase human conscience, and replace it with some arbitrary absolute rules. If your religion has the misfortune of decreeing that it is the only "true" religion, you have instant strife because now it is your "duty" to convert the unwashed masses. Enter most crimes against humanity.
On the other hand, although an atheist *may* be amoral, in fact, an atheist is probably MORE moral, because an atheist has to consciously determine, manage and control their own set of values and morals and interactions with other human beings. They take responsibility. They can't defer to some "god" which says it is just naturally OK to do this but not that. In fact, I think short of one religion "winning" and converting the entire population, we will have to rely on humanism, our consciences, and rational thought. We will do a great disservice to humanity (and everything else involved, e.g. the environment) if we refuse to take responsibility for our own actions.
And if you don't like this post, well, it's not my fault, God made me do it (or was it the Devil? They are so similar, I always forget).
The JIT has since been folded into (well, at least Sun's VM) the HotSpot VM architecture, which can identify and natively compile bottlenecks ("hot spots") at run time. This is the same idea that the Crusoe chip/software uses, as well as HP's venture into dynamic interpretation/compilation where they showed that running a program in interpreted mode actually turned out *faster* because they had the benefit of dynamically profiling and optimizing it at runtime (e.g. dynamically unrolling loops and frequently followed branch paths).
While it might give the poster the jollies to use a TLD totally unrelated to his site or its geographic location, I think it is an abuse. Maybe he thinks people in other countries should just be able to register, for instance, .gov.us?
Terribly misleading. If you want your site associated with its geographic location, us that. If you don't, use a non-geographic TLD. But don't abuse the TLD of other countries. It's just rude and misleading.
For example, here is the entire codebase of my free Enterprise Application Server:
:)
/* this code covered by GPL, see COPYING */
a
Of course, you can just pay $GAZILLIONBUCKS to me to save yourself the hassle of compiling it.
"My god you are all pricks! (Score:3, Troll)"
Haha...it's marked Troll. Priceless! The circle is complete.
"As much as I like free beer and booth babes, you don't need to spend millions of dollars selling a free product to a bunch of geeks who already have it, and don't intend to buy support."
No. You spend millions of dallors selling it to corporate clients. That means your boss. Or your boss's boss. etc. Obviously they are not selling it to us who will just download an ISO and slap it on some box under the desk (or whatever we can get our hands on).
That for however much we love them Pearl Jam and Moby are in the top top top percentage of artists already. The vast majority of artists are fucked.
Uhrhrhrugh...according to this picture, it's more like "Helen, Hungover Nightclub Floozy of the Internet"
I'm in a bit of an activist mood this morning, so let me rhetorically ask a question. Is protesting, and peaceful resistence in general doomed? (let's take protesting to mean the legal, peaceful acts allowed by the constitution, not setting cars on fire)
Peaceful resistence is predicated on the notion that by evoking a brutal backlash on the non-voilent, the population at large will be called to attention. This seemed to work for example, when the British were cracking skulls open with big brass-tipped staves. But, through the wonders of technology, *peaceful protest* might now be threated. We have new inventions in the hands of the police, military, etc., which can stop a protest *without* violence: guns that shoot rubbering gooey stuff, guns that remotely electrically stun/disable people, technology with can direct sound, and make people nautious and throw up on command, or can specifically target and cancel sound. Yeah, it might sound callous because now the police won't really be hurting people or running them over with trucks ("oops") and shooting them and stuff. But it also means that protesting will be useless. You can't get your opinions heard because you will be silenced, stunned, and disabled remotely and effortlessly.
I'm glad a don't live in San Antonio and have to fund this with my tax dollars. It is a stupid and clueless waste, and a cop out for real education. A computer lab should be enough. We have such a freaking gadget fetish, and now we're shoving it onto kids? So they are not allowed to carry cell phones and pages, but handhelds are now mandatory? These will largely just be used for games and various other bullshit and time wasting. The most valuable part of education will come from teachers and books - not the technological gadget of the day. Imagine a teacher having to compete for attention with the handhelds of each student. Hey, I have a really cool handheld: a notepad and a freakin pencil.
The conveniences you demanded are now mandatory.
Let me give a big fat plug for Directron.com. I'm a pretty picky and fussy buyer, but I was able to find everything I needed on their site, and for a small fee (something like $30) they assemble it all for you (worth it to avoid the hassle). Plus you can pay extra little fees for all sorts of goodies: case mods, paint jobs (wide selection), case badges (free for orders over $100 I believe), wire ties, etc.. If you go to their specials section you can find all sorts of coupons and extras. They also have specials and coupons almost daily that they send out in an opt-in list. A lot of their parts have discounts for bundling with another related part. I can't say enough good things about Directron. It sure beats wasting your whole damn life searching for the best deal on every little part and then paying shipping seperately and assembling the mess yourself, when you can get people who do this day in and day out to assemble (and optionally test) it for you.
"there ate not enough users"
Maybe if they would stop eating their users...
"Why carry Windows, Lindows & Mandrake? Isn't this just overkill?"
Three whole choices? Well OF COURSE that's overkill! Americans can't even handle a choice of more than two political parties. Muahaha.</sardonicism>
You're getting a Microtel!
BitTorrent
I'll have some of what he's smoking...
It's hard to do this when both the materials and technology you are working with change daily. We don't even have an agreed upon set of materials with which to create software. Plus, software doesn't really have a natural "lifespan". It's relatively easy to replace a car with newer technology: it breaks down, and you go to the dealership and get a new, better model with newer design and materials and technology. There are no other dependencies. Software on the other hand has TONS of dependencies. You can't just "upgrade" a flight system running on some code from the 80s like you can a car.
"1) Including original copyrighted material along with your mod."
If it is within fair use, why not.
"2) Using the original characters."
Why the hell not? Monopolies on copying something I understand. Monopolies on an invention I understand. Monopolies on a mere fictional character? Completely bogus. Copyright only covers COPYING.
All I have to say is that watching British parliament on CSPAN is *WAY* more interesting than watching US Congress. I mean, these people actually argue to each others face! They have to use logic on their feet (not written by staffers the last week) and support their arguments. The actually seem to know understand the issues they are talking about, and don't just blow smoke with colorful presentations from Kinkos. It seems so (relatively) spin-free! What a contrast to stale old Congress, where everyone gets their turn to stand up and drone on in a monotonous overblown topheavy grandeloquent speech. At times it seems like people in Parliament are actually going to physically fight with each other. Now that's what I call government!
"There's no silver bullet" -Fred Brooks, a long time ago.
;)
No, but there are many many little normal ones
Seriously, "little" things like languages that espouse safety and clarity add up.
Now I'll just call up Conan and make sure Triump the Insult Comic dog shows up, spectacular...
I may very well do this as long as DVD players play non-MPAA burnt DVDs. Of course I'll not be able to purchase anything *new* without it being cleaned of copy restriction somehow.