The TIVO gives the advertisers the ability to send the ads to people who actually give a shit about what they're selling, and people who don't fast forward through their style of ad. If they would just get their shit together, they could end up creating much more effective ads (by knowing what people watch & don't watch), hitting their target market (meaning you & I just don't see ads for stupid crap), and selling more stuff with less ad time to people who actually want their stuff.
It's another case of dragging an industry by the hair, kicking & screaming, to vastly greater profits.
Yeah, hence my caveat about "knowing which electrons are being stored". I would be surprised if they can detect that unless they use multiple different colored lasers to detect which frequencies they get, gah, can't think of the right word - electron orbital jump and subsequent fall back to the ground state. That thing.
Of course, I didn't RTFA so I really shoulda just kept my mouth shut:)
Firstly, up to 8 electrons stored, unless you can detect which of the electrons is being stored, only yields 3 bits (one molecule can have a "value" of 0-8, actually the last one is superfluous). It would take a range of 0-15 electrons to get 4 bits.
As to ovonics, ovum means egg. Maybe it just refers to the shape and biological nature of the globules.
I think that if you look at copyright law, it is not illegal to receive an illegal copy of something. Copyright law makes it illegal to *distribute* copyrighted material.
So the guy downloading a file isn't breaking the law - the guy uploading it is. Or at least they can make a much more clear-cut case in court that the uploader has broken the law.
At least as far as it is possible to do what you're saying, Jabber does it. You can't communicate to anyone on Yahoo unless you yourself have a Yahoo ID, so Jabber makes you get one. Once you have a Yahoo ID or an ID on any other IM, Jabber lets you message to anyone on that IM directly from your Jabber account. It uses *exactly* the kind of aim:david address that you're talking about, using xml.
Until you get the IM services to accept a universal namespace and messages from another system, Jabber is as good as it gets.
I don't think I would bump any of yours, but I love lsof. All the time I'm wondering what file some program is messing about in and taking so long, or what is blocking port X, or what apps have sockets open, or what sockets app X has open, and lsof comes to the rescue.
strace is pretty darn handy too. Lets me see a log of what a program did before it blew up. ("Oh! It didn't have permissions to open configuration file K. Let me fix that...")
A joule is consumed in *applying 1 newton of force* to something over one meter of distance. There is no limit to how small an amount of energy it requires to move any arbitrary amount of mass any distance at all (disregarding other forces). A one millionth of a newton force applied over a millimeter will move the earth a light year, if you have long enough to wait and the earth doesn't encounter too many hydrogen atoms going the other direction in the meantime. This means that in a frictionless environment there is literally no limit to the milage you can get, regardless of the mass of your fantasy car.
Of course, there is friction and air resistance to worry about, but those can't be solved with the minimal information you've linked to.
It's interesting that your essentially arbitrary calculation ended up with something approximating the milage they're getting.
I did mean the software one, my brain was already warped, and I found it intuitive in the same way that one finds pronouncing a new word intuitive - I had already done so much work with things like the patterns in the book that they looked like natural solutions to common problems.
That said, I find it odd that if the multiple dispatch mechanisms are so good, none of them are in common use (at least in my social circles). The only reason I can find to argue against them is the simplicity of the alternative.
I guess I agree that it would bother me if they kept those books on their desk. A little. Since you had loads bad to say and nothing good to say, it sounded as if you were condemning people for reading them. I see now that you are condemning people for displaying them as books they refer to frequently.
I still disagree with you about the book's value, but not as sharply as it first seemed. When I picked it up, I expected it to be self-help buzzword laden bullshit. When I read it, I got some value out of it, and I recommend it to people. It surprised me.
That's what Frimp is for. Take all the old crap cluttering up your house and list it on http://www.frimp.net and then post a flier about it. Kind of a neverending yard sale that you can search online.
We don't support creating the flier for you yet, but it's next on our to-do list. Yes, we know the site is ugly. We're working on it. It works like a champ, though.
Personally, I find that what's in Design Patterns is intuitive. I shouldn't need a reference book. Being less than perfect, though, I do.
I also find that it's intuitively obvious that I should delegate responsibility, not just work. Being less than perfect, sometimes I find myself convincing myself that I shouldn't, or arguing ineffectually with others about it. Having the reasons clearly laid out is a benefit.
If you never find yourself doing the wrong things out of expedience or stupidity, more power to you. One wonders why you're posting to slashdot instead of changing the world. Otherwise, having an inspirational and well thought out text to help you do the right things is a good thing.
I don't know much about HtWFaIP or WHMC, but Seven Habits is good stuff. Most books are focused on letting you do the same stuff you've been doing more efficiently. Seven Habits tells you to figure out better stuff to do, and some tips on how. You are deceiving yourself if you think you just naturally do a good job of ignoring what people tell you you must do and instead do the right thing. It is very helpful to have a book to remind you of why and how you should do the right thing, even if you already know. And I'll guarantee that you haven't thought out how to do the right thing as well as Covey has.
By your argument, anyone with Design Patterns on their desk is a fool, because they should already know that stuff intuitively. That's true, to a degree - the stuff in Design Patterns should look very familiar. But you haven't spent the time weighing the pros & cons and communicating them clearly that Gamma et al have, and you need Design Patterns. If you think you don't, you probably need it more.
You've already modified your personality to deal with what people demand of you. Why not spend some time intelligently introspecting and modify your personality so you're happier and get better things done?
A lot of the time it makes sense (sickening as it may be) to take a shortcut that will take longer to fix in the future than it would have to do it right in the first place.
If you have enough money to develop for 3 months and you have the choice of producing a working product that it will take 6 months more to get right, or producing half of a working product that is done right, the first is almost always the right choice. It's hard to get ongoing development money based on half of a product. Which means, of course, that it will never get done right, because no one is financing it.
Trademarks are held in some area of business. Linus can trademark Linux for an operating system and someone else can trademark it for mining equipment (or whatever Linux Gold Corp. is about) with no conflict. When the areas of business vaguely overlap, it becomes an issue for the courts.
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Linus holds the *trademark* for the word Linux. He holds the copyright on some of the code for Linux, but at this point I'm sure it's far from all of it, probably not actually even a large fraction of it. If I write a patch and submit it to Linus, I hold the copyright on that patch. Copyright on the patched code would be a very sticky issue, but since we all agree to distribute the code under the GPL license, as long as you stay within the terms of the license who owns the copyright is moot.
It's possible that Linus requires you to agree to assign copyright to him to submit code, but I doubt it.
Personally, I write code. You can call it developing or creating, and you're right, but the specifics of what I do is writing. It is no different than writing a book, except that it's instructions in a very pedantic language.
<Note: I personally have not contributed to the Linux kernel; I'm using the royal we above:)>
Just how lazy are you? Try a little cursory investigation of a service before you go off asserting what they do or don't do. They don't hold your private key - they hold only your private key encrypted with the passphrase. The key is only ever decrypted on your machine. The only ways to circumvent this would also circumvent any ssl site (e.g. your bank). If you did a little investigation before making assertions you would know this.
Show me the link or point me to the article.
Find your own damn link - google is available to everyone. It is not my responsibility to educate you. Of course, if you had indicated any notion of appreciation for someone attempting to help you I would have gladly looked up the link. As it is, I have no desire to help you further.
This keeps coming up again and again, and every time I tell people: use https://www.hushmail.com!
Free webmail, as easy to use as any other free webmail. The user interface could use a little work (I want to be able to use nicknames instead of typing in the whole address!) but other than some fluff it just works.
Schneier reviewed their security and gave it the OK, so you know it's secure.
We pay the same 'tax' on blank music CDs in the US. Per the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, if you use digital audio equipment and audio CDs to copy borrowed music CDs that is not a violation of copyright. The trade-off is that you pay a fee to the RIAA on every audio cd and piece of digital audio recording equipment. Of course, they don't tell you this - they just let you pay the fee on audio CDs and leave digital audio recording equipment essentially unavailable, so they get their tax and can still sue you for copying music CDs.
The government states that it is illegal to copy copyrighted materials for other than some particular purposes. The copyright owner has absolutely no right to stop you from doing anything at all other than the rights anyone has.
In fact, as with all profiling, all of this talk is BS - the only way to get a real answer is to profile in a real-world situation and see what happens. I don't have any data nor the time to do so, so we're reduced to opinion, and a difference thereof;-)
RAID only protects against _hard drive_ failure. At the last place I worked, the RAID controller went nuts three times, losing all data we didn't have backed up. The drives were physically fine, but all the data was lost because the controller went bad.
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140,000 *pounds*, or about $240,000.
The TIVO gives the advertisers the ability to send the ads to people who actually give a shit about what they're selling, and people who don't fast forward through their style of ad. If they would just get their shit together, they could end up creating much more effective ads (by knowing what people watch & don't watch), hitting their target market (meaning you & I just don't see ads for stupid crap), and selling more stuff with less ad time to people who actually want their stuff.
It's another case of dragging an industry by the hair, kicking & screaming, to vastly greater profits.
Yeah, hence my caveat about "knowing which electrons are being stored". I would be surprised if they can detect that unless they use multiple different colored lasers to detect which frequencies they get, gah, can't think of the right word - electron orbital jump and subsequent fall back to the ground state. That thing.
:)
Of course, I didn't RTFA so I really shoulda just kept my mouth shut
Firstly, up to 8 electrons stored, unless you can detect which of the electrons is being stored, only yields 3 bits (one molecule can have a "value" of 0-8, actually the last one is superfluous). It would take a range of 0-15 electrons to get 4 bits.
As to ovonics, ovum means egg. Maybe it just refers to the shape and biological nature of the globules.
I think that if you look at copyright law, it is not illegal to receive an illegal copy of something. Copyright law makes it illegal to *distribute* copyrighted material.
So the guy downloading a file isn't breaking the law - the guy uploading it is. Or at least they can make a much more clear-cut case in court that the uploader has broken the law.
At least as far as it is possible to do what you're saying, Jabber does it. You can't communicate to anyone on Yahoo unless you yourself have a Yahoo ID, so Jabber makes you get one. Once you have a Yahoo ID or an ID on any other IM, Jabber lets you message to anyone on that IM directly from your Jabber account. It uses *exactly* the kind of aim:david address that you're talking about, using xml.
Until you get the IM services to accept a universal namespace and messages from another system, Jabber is as good as it gets.
I don't think I would bump any of yours, but I love lsof. All the time I'm wondering what file some program is messing about in and taking so long, or what is blocking port X, or what apps have sockets open, or what sockets app X has open, and lsof comes to the rescue.
strace is pretty darn handy too. Lets me see a log of what a program did before it blew up. ("Oh! It didn't have permissions to open configuration file K. Let me fix that...")
If you're shmoozing clients in the corporate world, I'm not laughing. I'm pitying you. It sounds like a yucky way to live.
I am embroiled in corporate life too, but I build things - it's not my job to make some idiot happy. Except my boss. By building things.
A joule is consumed in *applying 1 newton of force* to something over one meter of distance. There is no limit to how small an amount of energy it requires to move any arbitrary amount of mass any distance at all (disregarding other forces). A one millionth of a newton force applied over a millimeter will move the earth a light year, if you have long enough to wait and the earth doesn't encounter too many hydrogen atoms going the other direction in the meantime. This means that in a frictionless environment there is literally no limit to the milage you can get, regardless of the mass of your fantasy car.
Of course, there is friction and air resistance to worry about, but those can't be solved with the minimal information you've linked to.
It's interesting that your essentially arbitrary calculation ended up with something approximating the milage they're getting.
I did mean the software one, my brain was already warped, and I found it intuitive in the same way that one finds pronouncing a new word intuitive - I had already done so much work with things like the patterns in the book that they looked like natural solutions to common problems.
That said, I find it odd that if the multiple dispatch mechanisms are so good, none of them are in common use (at least in my social circles). The only reason I can find to argue against them is the simplicity of the alternative.
I guess I agree that it would bother me if they kept those books on their desk. A little. Since you had loads bad to say and nothing good to say, it sounded as if you were condemning people for reading them. I see now that you are condemning people for displaying them as books they refer to frequently.
I still disagree with you about the book's value, but not as sharply as it first seemed. When I picked it up, I expected it to be self-help buzzword laden bullshit. When I read it, I got some value out of it, and I recommend it to people. It surprised me.
We don't support creating the flier for you yet, but it's next on our to-do list. Yes, we know the site is ugly. We're working on it. It works like a champ, though.
Personally, I find that what's in Design Patterns is intuitive. I shouldn't need a reference book. Being less than perfect, though, I do.
I also find that it's intuitively obvious that I should delegate responsibility, not just work. Being less than perfect, sometimes I find myself convincing myself that I shouldn't, or arguing ineffectually with others about it. Having the reasons clearly laid out is a benefit.
If you never find yourself doing the wrong things out of expedience or stupidity, more power to you. One wonders why you're posting to slashdot instead of changing the world. Otherwise, having an inspirational and well thought out text to help you do the right things is a good thing.
I don't know much about HtWFaIP or WHMC, but Seven Habits is good stuff. Most books are focused on letting you do the same stuff you've been doing more efficiently. Seven Habits tells you to figure out better stuff to do, and some tips on how. You are deceiving yourself if you think you just naturally do a good job of ignoring what people tell you you must do and instead do the right thing. It is very helpful to have a book to remind you of why and how you should do the right thing, even if you already know. And I'll guarantee that you haven't thought out how to do the right thing as well as Covey has.
By your argument, anyone with Design Patterns on their desk is a fool, because they should already know that stuff intuitively. That's true, to a degree - the stuff in Design Patterns should look very familiar. But you haven't spent the time weighing the pros & cons and communicating them clearly that Gamma et al have, and you need Design Patterns. If you think you don't, you probably need it more.
You've already modified your personality to deal with what people demand of you. Why not spend some time intelligently introspecting and modify your personality so you're happier and get better things done?
A lot of the time it makes sense (sickening as it may be) to take a shortcut that will take longer to fix in the future than it would have to do it right in the first place.
If you have enough money to develop for 3 months and you have the choice of producing a working product that it will take 6 months more to get right, or producing half of a working product that is done right, the first is almost always the right choice. It's hard to get ongoing development money based on half of a product. Which means, of course, that it will never get done right, because no one is financing it.
Trademarks are held in some area of business. Linus can trademark Linux for an operating system and someone else can trademark it for mining equipment (or whatever Linux Gold Corp. is about) with no conflict. When the areas of business vaguely overlap, it becomes an issue for the courts.
Linus holds the *trademark* for the word Linux. He holds the copyright on some of the code for Linux, but at this point I'm sure it's far from all of it, probably not actually even a large fraction of it. If I write a patch and submit it to Linus, I hold the copyright on that patch. Copyright on the patched code would be a very sticky issue, but since we all agree to distribute the code under the GPL license, as long as you stay within the terms of the license who owns the copyright is moot.
:)>
It's possible that Linus requires you to agree to assign copyright to him to submit code, but I doubt it.
Personally, I write code. You can call it developing or creating, and you're right, but the specifics of what I do is writing. It is no different than writing a book, except that it's instructions in a very pedantic language.
<Note: I personally have not contributed to the Linux kernel; I'm using the royal we above
Show me the link or point me to the article.
Find your own damn link - google is available to everyone. It is not my responsibility to educate you. Of course, if you had indicated any notion of appreciation for someone attempting to help you I would have gladly looked up the link. As it is, I have no desire to help you further.
This keeps coming up again and again, and every time I tell people: use https://www.hushmail.com!
Free webmail, as easy to use as any other free webmail. The user interface could use a little work (I want to be able to use nicknames instead of typing in the whole address!) but other than some fluff it just works.
Schneier reviewed their security and gave it the OK, so you know it's secure.
We pay the same 'tax' on blank music CDs in the US. Per the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, if you use digital audio equipment and audio CDs to copy borrowed music CDs that is not a violation of copyright. The trade-off is that you pay a fee to the RIAA on every audio cd and piece of digital audio recording equipment. Of course, they don't tell you this - they just let you pay the fee on audio CDs and leave digital audio recording equipment essentially unavailable, so they get their tax and can still sue you for copying music CDs.
How dare that jackass follow the traffic advisory signs!
The government states that it is illegal to copy copyrighted materials for other than some particular purposes. The copyright owner has absolutely no right to stop you from doing anything at all other than the rights anyone has.
In fact, as with all profiling, all of this talk is BS - the only way to get a real answer is to profile in a real-world situation and see what happens. I don't have any data nor the time to do so, so we're reduced to opinion, and a difference thereof ;-)
RAID only protects against _hard drive_ failure. At the last place I worked, the RAID controller went nuts three times, losing all data we didn't have backed up. The drives were physically fine, but all the data was lost because the controller went bad.