Thompson was a sensationalist. O'Rourke is an opinion writer...And don't confuse either with Naomi Klein. wait, you mean this publication actually serves different viepoints and reader needs? They must be up to something nefarous. Trusty old fox news serves only one set of interests and we can sure rely on them!
I've wondered about this: if the technology improved to the point where you could feel all the sensations with a prosthetic arm as with your original arm, but the materials were stronger, faster and more flexible, why not replace them voluntarily?
I severely doubt anyone will be held to any meaningful degree of responsibility over this. You might be right, but the FBI is looking into it. Let's save our outrage until MediaDefender is actually exonerated.
It is civial disobedience if we all do it. No. Read the link. Destruction of property is not civil disobedience. If you have a lot of people dispensing vigilante justice is it simply mob rule, or maybe in this case, Collectivist Anarchism
I say some local Slashdot'ers drop by and do a little painting. This is not civil disobedience. It is more commonly referred to as vigilante justice. Generally speaking, it is a despicable practice. But go ahead, lower yourself to the standards of those you castigate. Cede the moral high-ground. I'm sure it will be fun.
It's actually one of Microsoft's better products. I'll grant that Excel is really quite simple and flexible. However it has some serious drawbacks when compared with something like SPSS when it comes to the management (and analysis) of actual data. like how sorting can be limited to one column and botch all your data. Like how data types aren't strictly enforced. Like how a single sheet can be only 256 columns wide or some such nonsense. (maybe they've fixed that since?)
Excel is a toy when it comes to serious manipulation of data, and if you don't agree, you haven't actually done any. I was a data processor at a market research firm, and they seriously expected me to combine and normalize 20 different international datasets (60k+ records with ~350 fields) in Excel. Were it not for SPSS, I would have lost the scant scraps of sanity I have remaining.
Cops who arrest pot smokers should be aware of this. On the other hand, do you really want the police to be selectively enforcing the laws they feel are "moral?"
Are you saying that such an implementation already exists and simply costs a godawful lot of money, or that it doesn't yet exist, and may never, but my coughing up a couple mill might just speed it along?
COSA is the answer to everything that ails computing and you can't stop it I'm curious... where can I download an actual functional implementation of this miracle of CS?
The latest tells a tale of how a man accidentally bought 7 copies of Vista. He goes on to relate how Microsoft are refusing him a refund, even though the story he links to states he's already had a refund for 4 of them, he's just waiting on the other 2. Not in an edit, in the actual article.
Nitpick all you want, but the guy in the article asked for all of his money back, (including the initial license he had ordered because he apparently was ordering the wrong thing) and MS still hasn't refunded him. twitter may be a little fanatical, but his claim in your linked journal post, that ms hasn't given him his money back, is factually true.
The freedom he's talking about isn't the "freedom to do whatever you want" but the freedom to explore. In the autocratic family structure you describe, the parents can be strict mormons who don't allow their kids to have fun and require them to marry off at 15, or they can be easy-going sure-have-a-couple-sips-of-beer-you're-18-they-can-draft-you types. The point of the learning argument about proprietary software is that you can only learn so much about the proprietary inner functions.
your buisness argument is pretty good though, however, the OS functioning differently didn't affect those of us who grew up in the 80's when schools were hooked on apple, and now use OSX, Linux, and Windows on the same machine. (maybe those of us are a rare breed... i don't know)
quoting TFA:
Stallman similarly called a Windows port of Sugar "not a good thing to do". Here's the thing: such a port is only a waste of time if free software is not the means here, but an end Well I would agree if development tools were equally available amongst the two. Development tools for windows are for the most part flawed unless you buy a license. Since part of the point of this experiment, I would think, is to see how the developing world can help us innovate from their own background experiences, I think FOSS makes sense as a basis for the project. Further, it helps prevent hardware obsolescence over the long term, and since this is a philanthropic experiment, I should think that would be a goal.
Of course, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that the GIMP's user interface was haphazardly thrown together by programmers with absolutely no concern for HCI. Photoshop's interface couldn't possibly be better despite the thousands of hours of research and user interface testing that Adobe has put into it. Nope, absolutely none of that matters! Well that may be why they brought together a UI design team. Still it's an argument I've heard from people who don't use PS for anything but resizing photos: "but the gimp's crop tools don't work exactly the same as they do in photoshop." No, I think PS will always be more widely used because hey, only like 60% of the copies of it out there are pirated.
Are there some people that are still running MS DOS and trying to game out there?
I can't get nvidia drivers for my c64, you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, and maybe this isn't the point that was being made, but I have a 2 year old laptop with the intel integrated graphics, and I was given NWN2 for christmas. It won't run because I don't have the right pixel shader support. Granted laptops aren't really good gaming PCs unless you get a xps or alienware one, but still.
I think the gp's comment was more about Perl's "hack factor," where more skilled practitioners come up with unique solutions using less-used features of the language. This owes largely to Perl's "There's more than one way to do it" mentality.
Maybe I'm stupid, and being your typical/.er I didn't RTFA, but how does a second layer deal with dirt? Is the first layer permeable? That's just... weird.
Exactly backwards. Give a child freedom to do as they wish, but establish ground rules. These rules will of course vary from household to household based on values. The restrictions, then, can only be enforceable through monitoring. Don't keep the monitoring a secret... let the child know that their activities will be watched.
What the worst that could happen?
That's called the internet. Goatse. 2G1C. Tubgirl. Furries. Myspace. Need I go on?
This has worked a treat with 7 & 9 year old stepdaughters. They know that the mighty proxy server (location unknown) monitors all things they do online. They also know they are supposed to ask before they go to a new website. I will not forbid anything that is reasonably safe. But if they log in when I'm not there, I know, and they know I know, so they won't do anything I would forbid in the first place, or the magical internet box goes away.
locking curious minds out of things but letting them do as they please unsupervised is a recipe for disaster. I should know... I am more or less the result of that disaster.
As for the password issue, they use simple easy to guess passwords now, and still every so often I have to reset it. When they can remember them on their own, they can make their passwords as tough as they want.
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Yes because VA hospitals are great and there's always room in them. They just hand out whatever care you want because you Served Your Country.
No seriously the republicans just blocked the expansion of VA benefits.
I've wondered about this: if the technology improved to the point where you could feel all the sensations with a prosthetic arm as with your original arm, but the materials were stronger, faster and more flexible, why not replace them voluntarily?
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Market research is hardly "scientific" despite what the researchers would have you believe.
I believe any good sword has two edges.
That would be true if everyone had one... clearly, not everyone does.
Are you saying that such an implementation already exists and simply costs a godawful lot of money, or that it doesn't yet exist, and may never, but my coughing up a couple mill might just speed it along?
This appears to fall under the definition of cyberterrorism under the same section, as proscribed by the USA PATRIOT ACT as well.
Nitpick all you want, but the guy in the article asked for all of his money back, (including the initial license he had ordered because he apparently was ordering the wrong thing) and MS still hasn't refunded him. twitter may be a little fanatical, but his claim in your linked journal post, that ms hasn't given him his money back, is factually true.
The freedom he's talking about isn't the "freedom to do whatever you want" but the freedom to explore. In the autocratic family structure you describe, the parents can be strict mormons who don't allow their kids to have fun and require them to marry off at 15, or they can be easy-going sure-have-a-couple-sips-of-beer-you're-18-they-can-draft-you types. The point of the learning argument about proprietary software is that you can only learn so much about the proprietary inner functions.
your buisness argument is pretty good though, however, the OS functioning differently didn't affect those of us who grew up in the 80's when schools were hooked on apple, and now use OSX, Linux, and Windows on the same machine. (maybe those of us are a rare breed... i don't know)
quoting TFA:
Stallman similarly called a Windows port of Sugar "not a good thing to do". Here's the thing: such a port is only a waste of time if free software is not the means here, but an end Well I would agree if development tools were equally available amongst the two. Development tools for windows are for the most part flawed unless you buy a license. Since part of the point of this experiment, I would think, is to see how the developing world can help us innovate from their own background experiences, I think FOSS makes sense as a basis for the project. Further, it helps prevent hardware obsolescence over the long term, and since this is a philanthropic experiment, I should think that would be a goal.I can't get nvidia drivers for my c64, you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, and maybe this isn't the point that was being made, but I have a 2 year old laptop with the intel integrated graphics, and I was given NWN2 for christmas. It won't run because I don't have the right pixel shader support. Granted laptops aren't really good gaming PCs unless you get a xps or alienware one, but still.
I think the gp's comment was more about Perl's "hack factor," where more skilled practitioners come up with unique solutions using less-used features of the language. This owes largely to Perl's "There's more than one way to do it" mentality.
Maybe I'm stupid, and being your typical /.er I didn't RTFA, but how does a second layer deal with dirt? Is the first layer permeable? That's just... weird.
Exactly backwards. Give a child freedom to do as they wish, but establish ground rules. These rules will of course vary from household to household based on values. The restrictions, then, can only be enforceable through monitoring. Don't keep the monitoring a secret... let the child know that their activities will be watched.
What the worst that could happen?That's called the internet. Goatse. 2G1C. Tubgirl. Furries. Myspace. Need I go on?
This has worked a treat with 7 & 9 year old stepdaughters. They know that the mighty proxy server (location unknown) monitors all things they do online. They also know they are supposed to ask before they go to a new website. I will not forbid anything that is reasonably safe. But if they log in when I'm not there, I know, and they know I know, so they won't do anything I would forbid in the first place, or the magical internet box goes away.
locking curious minds out of things but letting them do as they please unsupervised is a recipe for disaster. I should know... I am more or less the result of that disaster.
As for the password issue, they use simple easy to guess passwords now, and still every so often I have to reset it. When they can remember them on their own, they can make their passwords as tough as they want.
Implies being the operative word. Until one presents such evidence, such a statement remains an opinion.
Have you had your sense of humor checked lately? I think it might be missing or damaged.
Well, that's what you think. I think you're wrong.