Ah, who's a gwumppy widdle fewwow..?!
Not everyone has the amount of extra time you apparently do,
so relax and maybe try to find a way to not waste space.
In practice, it means you can't [in Finland] start posting stupid signs telling people what they're allowed to do.
Not everyone thinks like you, but that doesn't necessarily make it stupid.
I can't understand why you would buy land, then have to cater to "everyone else's enjoyment"
of it. It's like you're paying to have people party on your land. If I own some land,
I think I should have the right to pick the mushrooms on it, not other people.
Ah, so it's the ATI card? I do indeed have one, ATI Mobility Radeon X600. Yesterday I managed to workaround this
problem (I think) by booting into previous kernel versions, since I think it's
a kernel-driver problem.
I found that "kacpid" processes kept starting, and after 5 or 10 minutes
windows would start closing at random and finally everything locked up and
the fan started whirring faster.
Is he getting lobbied by genetics companies who want to mine the data when the government
sells them the data? I don't want to fucking live in Gattaca.
The only problem I think is the name having "suggest" in it. If it was "Google Autocomplete" or "Google Previous Searches By Other People", there wouldn't be an issue.
You don't consider wiretapping to be a violation of Amendment 4?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Furthermore, the US and western societies in general are supposed to be more individual-oriented whereas eastern societies
emphasize relationships between people, so you have to factor in a few points whenever Chinese do something that tramples
on individual freedoms. The Chinese people really might not consider that the most important thing.
I've been reading a book recently (The Geography of Thought)
on the differences between how Western and Eastern people think. One of the main theses in the
book is that Western thought (since ancient Greek times) is oriented toward objects and their
classification, whereas Eastern thought (since ancient Chinese times) focuses more on
continuous substances and the relationships between them. Another thesis (or corrolary of
the previous one) is that Western thought avoid contradictions, whereas Eastern thought
invites them.
So I wonder if this is a case (debating the classification of a "planet") where Western-style thinking misleads us. Although this kind of thinking is great for science,
at the same time insisting on logic can be irrational: simply wasting time on an issue
that is inherently complex and not either-or.
I'd say it's more like buying a car from your neighbour, and his crackhead son gets to keep the alarm control that runs a kill switch for the motor and can pop the locks on demand.
So the neighbor, knowing that you're the kind of person
who considers buying into deals like that, is supposed to trust you
with his valuables?
In network programming, the "best practice" is "be strict in what you send and tolerant in what you receive".
In any kind of programming, I think one should strive to fail as gracefully as possible.
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Doesn't "has turned into one of the Web's fastest-growing properties" just give you a fuzzy feeling?
Properties.
I know, right? Everytime this space elevator thing comes up, I feel like it's some kind
of hoax that's gotten out of control. Like they need to keep up the pretense that it's
going to work, so they say in an exaggeratedly loud voice, "all right, *now* we're going
to.... (whispering to buddies in background) put Christmas lights on the 'space elevator' (suppressed laughter)."
This is only tangentially related, but I'm learning Mandarin and would like to find
Chinese IRC channels but haven't found any. Although channels inside China might try
to keep a low profile, I'd guess there are some channels created by communities
outside of China.
The blurb was misleading. I think they're actually referring to the mass of women
online, not the number. I'll clarify by slightly editing the quote. ObFatties:
There are now more [of] American women than men using the Internet... the
larger population of American women tips the balance... larger
margins than the wider population.
(I find it hilarious that I was marked offtopic
for pointing out that the original story was offtopic.
I stand by that comment regardless of how it's modded, though.)
AJAX for 3d modeling? AJAX for word processors? AJAX for
image manipulation?
Okay, you're undoubtedly right. (By the way, I maintain a Perl-Gtk module,
so I don't mean to knock on Gtk. It's simple to use, and importantly for
me the Perl-Gtk community is very active.)
I'm not sure though for example why you couldn't implement a word
processor in AJAX. Or, using SVG, you could do something with 3-d modeling?
I guess it would depend on the features. A grammar checker
might be hard to write in JavaScript, for example... Then again,
you might be able to send the text to the server to do something
like that. (I think the distributed computing dream has never
seemed to materialize. That's the context in which I see "AJAX"
being really powerful, though. I imagine having a web service
(use JSON instead of SOAP, if you want) running on a server
dedicated to grammar checking. You might whine about network
latency, but then again you never had to download (or even load
into memory) the grammar checker, and it could be optimized
on the server end (in practice, it'd no doubt be hammered all
the time, though, which along with security concerns is probably
a big reason why distributed computing has been a pipe dream).)
But your point is that not every application can be done using AJAX.
Okay, granted. But maybe a generic XUL-like framework? Why isn't something
like Gtk exposed through Mozilla, then? (Maybe it is. I think you can write
custom widgets, expose them using...XBL or XPCONNECT or whatever it is.)
The browser itself is done with Gtk. So a browser can be implemented
in Gtk, and using XUL we can create fairly sophisticated GUI
applications (browser, mailer, calendar). I wouldn't be surprised
if in fact you couldn't implement a word processor in XUL. So my argument
has drifted from AJAX to XUL. But XUL and AJAX are similar in ways,
just different focuses. Another dream that hasn't seemed to have lived
up to its initial promise, XUL. Now this comment does deserve to be
modded offtopic. Thanks.
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Ah, who's a gwumppy widdle fewwow..?! Not everyone has the amount of extra time you apparently do, so relax and maybe try to find a way to not waste space.
Not everyone thinks like you, but that doesn't necessarily make it stupid. I can't understand why you would buy land, then have to cater to "everyone else's enjoyment" of it. It's like you're paying to have people party on your land. If I own some land, I think I should have the right to pick the mushrooms on it, not other people.
Ah, so it's the ATI card? I do indeed have one, ATI Mobility Radeon X600. Yesterday I managed to workaround this problem (I think) by booting into previous kernel versions, since I think it's a kernel-driver problem. I found that "kacpid" processes kept starting, and after 5 or 10 minutes windows would start closing at random and finally everything locked up and the fan started whirring faster.
Is he getting lobbied by genetics companies who want to mine the data when the government sells them the data? I don't want to fucking live in Gattaca.
The only problem I think is the name having "suggest" in it. If it was "Google Autocomplete" or "Google Previous Searches By Other People", there wouldn't be an issue.
You don't consider wiretapping to be a violation of Amendment 4?
Thank you. Article I, Section 8. "The Congress shall have power...to declare war." There's an interesting article called "Violating the Constitution With an Illegal War", by Rep. Ron Paul (republican).
It does start to get tedious, eh?
Hand grips are great. After a few months you get popeye/mechanic forearms.
Furthermore, the US and western societies in general are supposed to be more individual-oriented whereas eastern societies emphasize relationships between people, so you have to factor in a few points whenever Chinese do something that tramples on individual freedoms. The Chinese people really might not consider that the most important thing.
Maybe from your perspective it's a problem. I want everyone to think we're lazy, fat, and stupid. It makes kicking their asses easier.
I've been reading a book recently (The Geography of Thought) on the differences between how Western and Eastern people think. One of the main theses in the book is that Western thought (since ancient Greek times) is oriented toward objects and their classification, whereas Eastern thought (since ancient Chinese times) focuses more on continuous substances and the relationships between them. Another thesis (or corrolary of the previous one) is that Western thought avoid contradictions, whereas Eastern thought invites them.
So I wonder if this is a case (debating the classification of a "planet") where Western-style thinking misleads us. Although this kind of thinking is great for science, at the same time insisting on logic can be irrational: simply wasting time on an issue that is inherently complex and not either-or.
Or "have more important things to do with my limited time on Earth".
Keep thinking that, if it makes you feel better.
The code the US was withholding.
So the neighbor, knowing that you're the kind of person who considers buying into deals like that, is supposed to trust you with his valuables?
In network programming, the "best practice" is "be strict in what you send and tolerant in what you receive". In any kind of programming, I think one should strive to fail as gracefully as possible.
Doesn't "has turned into one of the Web's fastest-growing properties" just give you a fuzzy feeling? Properties.
Well, that's convenient. How much are we paying them, again? Tax forms are pretty complicated, maybe I should settle for not filing them for now.
I know, right? Everytime this space elevator thing comes up, I feel like it's some kind of hoax that's gotten out of control. Like they need to keep up the pretense that it's going to work, so they say in an exaggeratedly loud voice, "all right, *now* we're going to.... (whispering to buddies in background) put Christmas lights on the 'space elevator' (suppressed laughter)."
This is only tangentially related, but I'm learning Mandarin and would like to find Chinese IRC channels but haven't found any. Although channels inside China might try to keep a low profile, I'd guess there are some channels created by communities outside of China.
I barely even made it through your Slashdot comment. Whew.
The blurb was misleading. I think they're actually referring to the mass of women online, not the number. I'll clarify by slightly editing the quote. ObFatties:
You guys are my best friends, I love you man!
(I find it hilarious that I was marked offtopic for pointing out that the original story was offtopic. I stand by that comment regardless of how it's modded, though.)
Okay, you're undoubtedly right. (By the way, I maintain a Perl-Gtk module, so I don't mean to knock on Gtk. It's simple to use, and importantly for me the Perl-Gtk community is very active.)
I'm not sure though for example why you couldn't implement a word processor in AJAX. Or, using SVG, you could do something with 3-d modeling? I guess it would depend on the features. A grammar checker might be hard to write in JavaScript, for example... Then again, you might be able to send the text to the server to do something like that. (I think the distributed computing dream has never seemed to materialize. That's the context in which I see "AJAX" being really powerful, though. I imagine having a web service (use JSON instead of SOAP, if you want) running on a server dedicated to grammar checking. You might whine about network latency, but then again you never had to download (or even load into memory) the grammar checker, and it could be optimized on the server end (in practice, it'd no doubt be hammered all the time, though, which along with security concerns is probably a big reason why distributed computing has been a pipe dream).)
But your point is that not every application can be done using AJAX. Okay, granted. But maybe a generic XUL-like framework? Why isn't something like Gtk exposed through Mozilla, then? (Maybe it is. I think you can write custom widgets, expose them using...XBL or XPCONNECT or whatever it is.) The browser itself is done with Gtk. So a browser can be implemented in Gtk, and using XUL we can create fairly sophisticated GUI applications (browser, mailer, calendar). I wouldn't be surprised if in fact you couldn't implement a word processor in XUL. So my argument has drifted from AJAX to XUL. But XUL and AJAX are similar in ways, just different focuses. Another dream that hasn't seemed to have lived up to its initial promise, XUL. Now this comment does deserve to be modded offtopic. Thanks.