I wonder if the military is already looking into practical applications of this technology for wide dispersal. Imagine bombs exploding clouds of skin absorbent forget-me-dust over hostile territories (like Republican conventions), or adding barrels of who-am-i solution to water supplies for parched desert inhabitants (the sinners in Vegas?).
Wow, I'm thinking like a comic-book super-villain!
There's actually an additional system of moderation. It's called the courts. This is where crappy legislation is given several more chances of actually being studied in depth before being ejected and strapped into the system. It works for the most part.
Something that is shoved into the system without much thought or design can eventually be replaced if it continues to remain ill-fitting and generates too much friction. The system just gives a bumpy ride until then.
I know. The Scheme books were offered as good introductions to software engineering in general, no matter what language you decided to use in work or play. The JavaScript links were to show that you could implement what you learned in Lisp with a standard language used in business and play.
But, as other Algol-variant programming languages begin to get Lisp-y (C# is slated to get Closures, after which Sun will probably end up re-introducing it into Java), I think it would be better to know in advance what others will have to catch up on;-)
No, never did get a degree in MIT or anywhere else. Never had the money or the means. I'm an autodidact. I might get a degree when I retire. Always wanted one.
If people were to watch episode 4, where Bill Nye explains things in layman's terms, only the religious fundamentalists would remain worked up about the issue.
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1) Not loved the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength?
2) Held anything as a higher priority than God Himself (e.g. money, sex, status, etc)?
3) Used God's name in vain, or as a curse-word?
4) Failed to keep the Sabbath Holy (worked instead of worshipped God on His day)?
5) Dishonored or disrespected your parents in any way?
6) Lied to anyone (even a "white lie")?
7) Stolen anything from anyone (even a piece of candy as a child)?
8) Killed/murdered anyone?
9) Committed adultery (lust or sex with one to whom you weren't married)?
10) Envied someone else (i.e. resentment because of desire for someone else's possessions)?
The Holy Bible indicates that the person GUILTY OF ANY of the above will be SENTENCED TO HELL **UNLESS** s/he REPENTS AND RECEIVES JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOR AND LORD.
Hey, if I answer No to any of those, I don't have to be X-ian to avoid going to hell? Sweet!
1. Know in your heart that the one true God is the Father of our Messiah Jesus Christ
Does god have testicles? Why is it the Father, and not the Mother. Or, even the Great Noodle in the sky? I suppose its better than the "Holy Uncle" with testicles. How creepy is that?
2. Accept that Jesus Christ was sinless, He lovingly and sacrificially shed His own blood on the cross as substitute punishment for your sins, and that His resurrection on the third day symbolizes every born-again believer's new life in Him. His ascension represents the believing Christian's ultimate ascension into heaven to spend eternity in the presence of Almighty God.
I don't quite get how if we're made in god's image, he gets away with being perfect and we're not. Can something perfect make something that isn't? If it could make something imperfectly, isn't that a sign of fallibility? Or, maybe because its perfect, it can perfectly screw up what was to be a perfect thing into being imperfect? But, that still leads to imperfection as a result, or does it mean we're not really imperfect, just a perfect example of something imperfect. Again, the result is that we're imperfect, which means that whatever made us fucked up somehow and couldn't be perfect to begin with. Sheesh!
3. Repent of your sins. Say a sincere prayer thanking God for sending His son Jesus Christ to shed His blood for your sins, confess that you are a sinner, concede that you are truly sorry for your sins, trust in Jesus Christ for redemption, and receive the Holy Spirit to help you live in obedience from now on. hxxp://www.stevehill.org/needhelpnow/Howtobecomeac hristian.asp
If I shed my blood for you, will you worship me? Do I have to worship the hundreds of thousands of people who died in the Revolutionary War or Civil War because they shed their blood for me?
3. Repent of your sins. Say a sincere prayer thanking God for sending His son Jesus Christ to shed His blood for your sins, confess that you are a sinner, concede that you are truly sorry for your sins, trust in Jesus Christ for redemption, and receive the Holy Spirit to help you live in obedience from now on. hxxp://www.stevehill.org/needhelpnow/Howtobecomeac hristian.asp
Hey, wait a minute...You're just repeating yourself to put me into a hypnotic daze when you pass the collection my way! Why does god "need" us to do anything anyways? It doesn't make any sense. Anyway, I'm non-partisan and don't want anything to do with clubs that operate on exclusivity. If X-ians can't get it past their thick skulls that religion and its inherent passive/aggressive bigotry is devisive and leads to the hell of strife, they're gonna get coals in their stockings come X-Mas.
Uh-huh... Now do the same thing without needing a special, stripped-down, nearly featureless JRE. I don't need a special build of GCC to satisfy the condition, why did we shift from apples to oranges to make it possible in the Java world?
Because, Java has had a special purpose since its inception - to be cross-platform without code changes. The Java Runtime Environment is something like an Operating System - more accurately, an Operating Environment that can run on multiple Operating Systems. Or, it can be an Operating System on its own if implementedthatway.
C is executed by the Operating System. Java is executed by the JRE - Operating Environment. GCC is a compiler. JRE is a byte-code interpreter. Now who's talking apples and oranges?
A more accurate comparison would be running a C program under an Operating System (mostly written in C) and a Java programming running under an Operating System/Environment (mostly written in C or in Java). I wouldn't know the purpose for it... but, it would've been apples to apples. GCC != JRE.
The next stipulation you'll demand is that Java should operate without hardware.
My wife wondered at my guffaw when that quip caught me by surprise. I then made the sad mistake of trying to explain why a particular joke about software licensing was so funny...I was soon given a sympathetic smile and shown the hand as she quickly walked away saying it was more than she needed to know...sigh. I think my cat's a nerd and would've enjoyed it, but I don't speak cat.
Hmm...Smells familiar. Doesn't appear to be very market driven, does it? Seems capitalism is only good for the goose, and not the gander. Music execs are the dregs of the corporate world. It's ridiculous to expect any better behavior from them.
Why is he a coward? I think that being a coward would be someone who is scared of being searched, someone who wants terrorists to be able to bomb up whoever they want because they can't be searched.
The person testifying here is an example of a coward. Notice anything familiar...?
How on earth did you get modded up to 5 without actually saying anything?
If succinct styles or literal subtlety elude you, studying poetry can be beneficial.
Why is it that naive, idealistic comments get modded up, but harsh realistic comments get modded down?
Why do people who make naive, idealistic comments think they're stating something worth modding up?
Please, don't consider this a personal criticism, I simply dislike your thoughts on the subject.
Give the community Internet Exploder's sourcecode and you'll find more vulnerabilities. The real question is why Microsoft doesn't identify more vulnerabilities to the public. Oh, right... what would the point be? The public isn't going to fix it for them.
"This License (GPL V. 3) is revoked if a person or company files for and receives a software patent and does not explicitly license any and all use of that patent to all GPLed software free of any requirements (monetary or otherwise) except those stated in the GPL, and if they ever seek to enforce that patent in a non-defensive matter. I.e. the only enforcement of said patent which will not revoke this license is one that is in direct retaliation of a patent enforcement action by another firm or person."
A reasonable protection and possible mechanism for GPL propogation that would achieve the end goal of the license. If the biggest patent holders were to agree with it, the only logical course for anyone else not to violate those patents would be to 1) Pay a licensing fee to the holder. Or, 2) Use the same software under GPL thereby gaining protection.
Good chess, I hope something like it is adopted.
The GPL is the most often used open source license by a very large percentage with 10 times the number of projects than the second closest competitor, and that happens to be the LGPL. It will be difficult for corporations to avoid using it as the current patent craze takes hold and goes beyond reason. They'll be taking the medicine even as they're making themselves sick.
...in a lawsuit in California where a company sued its former president for taking two key employees with him and starting a competing company. I don't believe any of them signed an agreement not to compete or disclose trade secrets; at least I don't think the two employees did (they were being sued too). Maybe the ex-president did. It didn't matter. You can't stop people from working in California, no matter what they have in their heads. I'm not sure about the rest of the United States.
I'm of the opinion that what is in your head is yours, and makes you what you are. As no one can own you, in part or in whole, they can't own what's in your head. They can only share in it. Your life experiences are your own, and no one elses.
Trade secrets must be acknowledged as temporary artifices at best. As the pirates say, two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.
Thank you for the link, but I should've clarified that the print preview in Excel has bugs. The view of the actual workspace has no glaring problems. However, the Mac screenshot looks more attractive than the Windows version. I've also heard that the Mac version of Office is generally better than the Windows cousin. Not a surprise, since that's platform it started from.
it can mean implementation of existing technology in innovative ways.
Right, two decades of Excel, and I still can't get a decent preview of a spreadsheet. Some innovation.
It isn't that taking other people's ideas and improving on them is a bad thing. It's the complete lack of candor and appreciation of the real author's work by not citing your source that is bad form. Then, claiming that you "innovated" the idea, is just pure theft of credit due to the real innovator and a lie. Pointing out what you consider lack of innovation from others is then pure hypocrisy.
The crazy thing is, they just keep doing it, and the news media doesn't call them on it.
Lets end all these issues by calling OUR definition of free by a different word. Take their power away.
How about Unbound. As in Prometheus who open sourced (read liberated) fire from the proprietary gods and gave it to man. Sure, he and Richard Stallman get their liver eaten out by immortal vultures (read proprietary lovin' hypocrites) for eternity. But, that's the price for caring for humanity - it just doesn't pay.
Personally, I don't see why anyone would care for a population that couldn't give a rat's ass if you spent your life fighting to improve their lives. It's easier just to be indifferent.
OSX not being free puts it in the same boat as Windows against Linux. Windows is easy enough, and that's why it remains dominant. Linux will be easy enough in time, along with being free. Those two factors will eventually allow for gradual increase of desktop/portable computer system marketshare. But that isn't why it will maintain dominance.
People still haven't realized that it isn't the OS that is winning the OS battles. It's the licences. The GPL is what drove Linux to dominate the Unix variant world, just as it will allow it to supplant the other proprietary OS over time.
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Can someone who would prefer to learn the Clojure flavor of Lisp be able to adapt the book's explanations and code?
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Wow, I'm thinking like a comic-book super-villain!
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Something that is shoved into the system without much thought or design can eventually be replaced if it continues to remain ill-fitting and generates too much friction. The system just gives a bumpy ride until then.
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But, as other Algol-variant programming languages begin to get Lisp-y (C# is slated to get Closures, after which Sun will probably end up re-introducing it into Java), I think it would be better to know in advance what others will have to catch up on ;-)
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Good suggestion! I would supplement it with the following as well:
1. Episodic Learner Model/An online Lisp tutorial
2. Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
3. How to Design Programs
4. Practical Common Lisp
5a. The book - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
5b. The movies - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
6. Loving Lisp - the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon
7. Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
8. On Lisp
9. common lisp: a web application tutorial for beginners
10. JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language
11. Free JavaScript Learning Center
12. JavaScript for Scared People
13. JavaScript Closures
14. Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
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2) Held anything as a higher priority than God Himself (e.g. money, sex, status, etc)?
3) Used God's name in vain, or as a curse-word?
4) Failed to keep the Sabbath Holy (worked instead of worshipped God on His day)?
5) Dishonored or disrespected your parents in any way?
6) Lied to anyone (even a "white lie")?
7) Stolen anything from anyone (even a piece of candy as a child)?
8) Killed/murdered anyone?
9) Committed adultery (lust or sex with one to whom you weren't married)?
10) Envied someone else (i.e. resentment because of desire for someone else's possessions)?
The Holy Bible indicates that the person GUILTY OF ANY of the above will be SENTENCED TO HELL **UNLESS** s/he REPENTS AND RECEIVES JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOR AND LORD.
Hey, if I answer No to any of those, I don't have to be X-ian to avoid going to hell? Sweet!
1. Know in your heart that the one true God is the Father of our Messiah Jesus Christ
Does god have testicles? Why is it the Father, and not the Mother. Or, even the Great Noodle in the sky? I suppose its better than the "Holy Uncle" with testicles. How creepy is that?
2. Accept that Jesus Christ was sinless, He lovingly and sacrificially shed His own blood on the cross as substitute punishment for your sins, and that His resurrection on the third day symbolizes every born-again believer's new life in Him. His ascension represents the believing Christian's ultimate ascension into heaven to spend eternity in the presence of Almighty God.
I don't quite get how if we're made in god's image, he gets away with being perfect and we're not. Can something perfect make something that isn't? If it could make something imperfectly, isn't that a sign of fallibility? Or, maybe because its perfect, it can perfectly screw up what was to be a perfect thing into being imperfect? But, that still leads to imperfection as a result, or does it mean we're not really imperfect, just a perfect example of something imperfect. Again, the result is that we're imperfect, which means that whatever made us fucked up somehow and couldn't be perfect to begin with. Sheesh!
3. Repent of your sins. Say a sincere prayer thanking God for sending His son Jesus Christ to shed His blood for your sins, confess that you are a sinner, concede that you are truly sorry for your sins, trust in Jesus Christ for redemption, and receive the Holy Spirit to help you live in obedience from now on. hxxp://www.stevehill.org/needhelpnow/Howtobecomeac hristian.asp
If I shed my blood for you, will you worship me? Do I have to worship the hundreds of thousands of people who died in the Revolutionary War or Civil War because they shed their blood for me?
3. Repent of your sins. Say a sincere prayer thanking God for sending His son Jesus Christ to shed His blood for your sins, confess that you are a sinner, concede that you are truly sorry for your sins, trust in Jesus Christ for redemption, and receive the Holy Spirit to help you live in obedience from now on. hxxp://www.stevehill.org/needhelpnow/Howtobecomeac hristian.asp
Hey, wait a minute...You're just repeating yourself to put me into a hypnotic daze when you pass the collection my way! Why does god "need" us to do anything anyways? It doesn't make any sense. Anyway, I'm non-partisan and don't want anything to do with clubs that operate on exclusivity. If X-ians can't get it past their thick skulls that religion and its inherent passive/aggressive bigotry is devisive and leads to the hell of strife, they're gonna get coals in their stockings come X-Mas.
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Because, Java has had a special purpose since its inception - to be cross-platform without code changes. The Java Runtime Environment is something like an Operating System - more accurately, an Operating Environment that can run on multiple Operating Systems. Or, it can be an Operating System on its own if implemented that way.
C is executed by the Operating System. Java is executed by the JRE - Operating Environment. GCC is a compiler. JRE is a byte-code interpreter. Now who's talking apples and oranges?
A more accurate comparison would be running a C program under an Operating System (mostly written in C) and a Java programming running under an Operating System/Environment (mostly written in C or in Java). I wouldn't know the purpose for it... but, it would've been apples to apples. GCC != JRE.
The next stipulation you'll demand is that Java should operate without hardware.
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The person testifying here is an example of a coward. Notice anything familiar...?
How on earth did you get modded up to 5 without actually saying anything?
If succinct styles or literal subtlety elude you, studying poetry can be beneficial.
Why is it that naive, idealistic comments get modded up, but harsh realistic comments get modded down?
Why do people who make naive, idealistic comments think they're stating something worth modding up?
Please, don't consider this a personal criticism, I simply dislike your thoughts on the subject.
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A reasonable protection and possible mechanism for GPL propogation that would achieve the end goal of the license. If the biggest patent holders were to agree with it, the only logical course for anyone else not to violate those patents would be to 1) Pay a licensing fee to the holder. Or, 2) Use the same software under GPL thereby gaining protection.
Good chess, I hope something like it is adopted.
The GPL is the most often used open source license by a very large percentage with 10 times the number of projects than the second closest competitor, and that happens to be the LGPL. It will be difficult for corporations to avoid using it as the current patent craze takes hold and goes beyond reason. They'll be taking the medicine even as they're making themselves sick.
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I'm of the opinion that what is in your head is yours, and makes you what you are. As no one can own you, in part or in whole, they can't own what's in your head. They can only share in it. Your life experiences are your own, and no one elses.
Trade secrets must be acknowledged as temporary artifices at best. As the pirates say, two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.
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Apparently, most people realize that following the Golden Rule is a good thing.
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Keep that up every year as mandatory courses along with the other mandatory courses, and there won't be educational problems.
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Right, two decades of Excel, and I still can't get a decent preview of a spreadsheet. Some innovation.
It isn't that taking other people's ideas and improving on them is a bad thing. It's the complete lack of candor and appreciation of the real author's work by not citing your source that is bad form. Then, claiming that you "innovated" the idea, is just pure theft of credit due to the real innovator and a lie. Pointing out what you consider lack of innovation from others is then pure hypocrisy.
The crazy thing is, they just keep doing it, and the news media doesn't call them on it.
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How about Unbound. As in Prometheus who open sourced (read liberated) fire from the proprietary gods and gave it to man. Sure, he and Richard Stallman get their liver eaten out by immortal vultures (read proprietary lovin' hypocrites) for eternity. But, that's the price for caring for humanity - it just doesn't pay.
Personally, I don't see why anyone would care for a population that couldn't give a rat's ass if you spent your life fighting to improve their lives. It's easier just to be indifferent.
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Some days, you just can't tell the difference.
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People still haven't realized that it isn't the OS that is winning the OS battles. It's the licences. The GPL is what drove Linux to dominate the Unix variant world, just as it will allow it to supplant the other proprietary OS over time.
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