All that it would take for 100 songs to be useful would be a nifty script that rotates out songs based on popularity. It would keep the songs you listened to a lot on your phone, and rotate other ones out more frequently. Combine that with auto-rating (perhaps play-counts & playtime?) and a music library like mine of 1,600 songs or so, and you have a nice system. In the future when I have a laptop again (all I"m looking for is something thats -just- good enough to have a cardbus slot or two and run linux...small is good...battery life is important...cheap is a big plus...), I'll be writing such a script so I can take my music with me
If the parent is OK with it, and the kid is well educated on sexuality, what the hell harm does it cause? It is NOT the woman's fault if she is assaulted for "dressing provocatively" (not that I was suggesting anyone was thinking that, just stating since that line of reasoning is still fairly common despite having been tossed out almost a century ago).
Sorry to come off ranting here a bit, and I want to make it clear I am not ranting at you, I also support the ACLU fully, and believe in a rather absolute freedom of expression. I think our fear of especially sexuality but many other things in this country (referring to the USA of course) is really harming us. Two things that really piss me off are #1 the 'shady' light in which 'pornography' is viewed, and #2 the illegality of things like prostitution. Seriously, someone, tell me, how is a woman being 'degraded' by AGREEING to participate in something? in fact by DESIRING to? Now of course I am ALL for going after those who would force ANYONE to do these things against their will, but that is a whole other story. I am in fact quite the feminist, I just think that its ridiculous, much like the "think of the children" arguments.
Admittedly I'm walking out into hotly contested area here, but I also feel that such quantum events are required for the essence of free will...otherwise you are merely a state machine. My basic "religious" theory is that the "soul" is what decides the actual outcomes of the quantum events within the brain that are connected to "consciousness", and thus the soul can't actually "bind" to the being until the brain has formed to a certain degree. My guess is that time is somewhere around the beginning of the third trimester but I could be wrong.
I'll pass along that idea to the developers (I host their cvs at the moment), though I don't know if any of them has a DS...
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its not the slingshot effect that makes this so interesting as much as the fact that to have orbital velocities this high, the anchor object must be extremely massive indeed, well into the range of "wtf could that possibly be?"
Actually, I think (well I hope) that the grandparent poster was suggesting that none of it is immoral because until you actually have an independant living human being (generally accepted to be somewhere around the beginning of the third trimester), its only a possibility. In my own "religious" beliefs, I don't believe that the soul even attatches to the body until around then (as the brain isn't fully enough formed before then), so I agree that there is nothing patently immoral about abortion or contraception (or abstinence).
How about we just stop the censorship in the first place? Isn't it rather obvious that adults can simply choose not to look at / buy / watch / whatever the stuff in question? As for children, well, the truth is it is the parent's job first, and in some cases the school's job to watch over the children, not the government's. The availability of pornography likely won't harm children. The real harm comes from absentee parents. This is true in cases of pornography too. If children aren't taught the right way to approach sexuality by their parents and only get their ideas from (bad) porn, of course they won't know right from wrong, but thats not porn's fault. Its the parent's fault. Its the parent's job first and foremost to teach their children right from wrong, and to foster enough trust in their children that they actually do listen to them. Good parents can tell kids something and the kids will believe it because they know they can trust their parents.
I believe the reason for using ethernet & tcp/ip is that they are ubiquitous at this point. Almost everyone who would even be remotely considering this sort of technology already has the equipment or at least the understanding to run an ethernet network. Using any other sort of bus/network would likely be a lot more expensive and require the manufacturing of all new hardware and cabling. Ethernet has become a commodity to the point where on ebay you can find lots of 10 10/100 ethernet pci cards for like $40(US).
Mine as well
seriously though, people do come in many flavors, and a lot of that has precious little to do with nurture. there will always be those apples that do fall far from the tree.
I'd like to second this request. Even without it, Pandora really has drawn my attention (I just wish the licenses were more permissive but thats not their fault). One other idea I had for it was perhaps some sort of maybe XMLRPC frontend for subscribers to use with a plugin with their favorite audio player that would do suggestions and generally add what you listen to to the profile for a given "station". Of course this assumes people tag their files correctly (heh). While audioscrobbler is nice, this is far better, and I'd LOVE to see some integration into amaroK. Oh, and kudos on playing uncut versions of songs. I'd never pay to listen to G-rated "clean" songs.
I doubt they will be killed by the RIAA, in fact most likely 90% of the subscription fees go to purchase the music licenses they actually have for what they play. Now if only I can get the damned thing out of this annoying downtempo loop its in...I need some good uptempo synthpop to reseed from.
Strangely enough, this sounds like one of the few places XML actually -makes sense-. Generally I am against the bloat it introduces, but in this case it sounds perfect as it would contain the document structure as well as information all in ASCII/UTF text.
It is this third philosophy that KDE is actually striving for, now that they have gained some semblance of direction, and by KDE 4.1 or 4.2, if I were to take a guess, they should have something that will offer a few nice clean sane defaults (other than "KDE", "Mac OS", "Windows", "Unix" like the current kpersonalizer). If they don't seem to be heading that way after 4.0 comes out, I'll probably dig in there and start straightening it out myself. As it is, KDE has many powerful frameworks, and more than a small amount of very good code, it just has a few problems. Specifically some of the modules aren't coded so well, and some do not have the number of developers that they need at all.
Re:And yet Europe seems to be doing fine
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I can't comment about the specifics of your post, but the generality you propose seems absurd to me. How is it more "infantile" to accept, embrace, and not hide something, than it is to shove it under the carpet under the guise of "dignity" or some other such nonsense? Its almost as stupid as the argument that if we women were to -choose- to show our naked bodies to someone it would somehow be degrading?! Let alone the thought of letting someone pay us for pleasure... Its as though when sexuality comes up, people shut their brains off (yeah yeah, I know), and they recite the same arguments over and over again, arguments that have exactly zero logical validity.
For simple share-level security, Samba is one-two-three...at least on debian and gentoo. Admittedly I've never run it as a domain controller or anything, but I do use it instead of NFS for unix-to-unix sharing b/c NFS doesn't work right on my boxen.
Yes. Specifically I would part with a share based on my ability to give. If I could give the full $120,000 and still live a life above the poverty line I would. Since I could not, I would have to give less. Saving even one human life is worth it.
Especially when the "kernel" is responsible for handling a "virtual machine", it is fully correct to refer to it as one. One good example would be UML (user-mode linux, not to be confused with..whatever that bizarre prototyping / flowcharting 'language' is). Most here would agree that Linux is a kernel, even when it is abstracted to the level of an application. Another example, based on UML is CoLinux, which allows Linux to run as a privileged application on an NT-based windows system. (It may run on 9x, but I haven't tried that, check their site for more info, google is your friend.)
I realize I didn't RTFA, but the summary made a disturbing trend clear enough. It is indeed a fantasy. Thus, why does it have to be that the "villain" loses? That the "good guys" are stronger? Why can there not be an equally balanced game, where at the very least both "sides" of a storyline are playable, let alone a game where the entire goal is to play as the villain until you actually succeed? The same game elements are there, tactically work your way through scenarios, beating your opponents, gathering power, etc. Because it is just a game, whether you are the "hero" or the "villain" is just flavor, like whether you are the top-hat or wheelbarrow in monopoly.
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/me runs off to patent Z(ed)PMs, and perhaps that huge gizmo from "trinity" to take vacuum energy from our own universe
All that it would take for 100 songs to be useful would be a nifty script that rotates out songs based on popularity. It would keep the songs you listened to a lot on your phone, and rotate other ones out more frequently. Combine that with auto-rating (perhaps play-counts & playtime?) and a music library like mine of 1,600 songs or so, and you have a nice system. In the future when I have a laptop again (all I"m looking for is something thats -just- good enough to have a cardbus slot or two and run linux...small is good...battery life is important...cheap is a big plus...), I'll be writing such a script so I can take my music with me
If the parent is OK with it, and the kid is well educated on sexuality, what the hell harm does it cause? It is NOT the woman's fault if she is assaulted for "dressing provocatively" (not that I was suggesting anyone was thinking that, just stating since that line of reasoning is still fairly common despite having been tossed out almost a century ago).
Sorry to come off ranting here a bit, and I want to make it clear I am not ranting at you, I also support the ACLU fully, and believe in a rather absolute freedom of expression. I think our fear of especially sexuality but many other things in this country (referring to the USA of course) is really harming us. Two things that really piss me off are #1 the 'shady' light in which 'pornography' is viewed, and #2 the illegality of things like prostitution. Seriously, someone, tell me, how is a woman being 'degraded' by AGREEING to participate in something? in fact by DESIRING to? Now of course I am ALL for going after those who would force ANYONE to do these things against their will, but that is a whole other story. I am in fact quite the feminist, I just think that its ridiculous, much like the "think of the children" arguments.
I'd love to live in Rave World....PLUR FOR ALL! (only half joking)...now if only I had billions of dollars to throw away
Admittedly I'm walking out into hotly contested area here, but I also feel that such quantum events are required for the essence of free will...otherwise you are merely a state machine. My basic "religious" theory is that the "soul" is what decides the actual outcomes of the quantum events within the brain that are connected to "consciousness", and thus the soul can't actually "bind" to the being until the brain has formed to a certain degree. My guess is that time is somewhere around the beginning of the third trimester but I could be wrong.
I'll pass along that idea to the developers (I host their cvs at the moment), though I don't know if any of them has a DS...
its not the slingshot effect that makes this so interesting as much as the fact that to have orbital velocities this high, the anchor object must be extremely massive indeed, well into the range of "wtf could that possibly be?"
Actually, I think (well I hope) that the grandparent poster was suggesting that none of it is immoral because until you actually have an independant living human being (generally accepted to be somewhere around the beginning of the third trimester), its only a possibility. In my own "religious" beliefs, I don't believe that the soul even attatches to the body until around then (as the brain isn't fully enough formed before then), so I agree that there is nothing patently immoral about abortion or contraception (or abstinence).
$5 for 10 cards? wow...(not intending to be an asshole if you just did misread what I said). Thats...insane...if its what you meant.
How about we just stop the censorship in the first place? Isn't it rather obvious that adults can simply choose not to look at / buy / watch / whatever the stuff in question? As for children, well, the truth is it is the parent's job first, and in some cases the school's job to watch over the children, not the government's. The availability of pornography likely won't harm children. The real harm comes from absentee parents. This is true in cases of pornography too. If children aren't taught the right way to approach sexuality by their parents and only get their ideas from (bad) porn, of course they won't know right from wrong, but thats not porn's fault. Its the parent's fault. Its the parent's job first and foremost to teach their children right from wrong, and to foster enough trust in their children that they actually do listen to them. Good parents can tell kids something and the kids will believe it because they know they can trust their parents.
I believe the reason for using ethernet & tcp/ip is that they are ubiquitous at this point. Almost everyone who would even be remotely considering this sort of technology already has the equipment or at least the understanding to run an ethernet network. Using any other sort of bus/network would likely be a lot more expensive and require the manufacturing of all new hardware and cabling. Ethernet has become a commodity to the point where on ebay you can find lots of 10 10/100 ethernet pci cards for like $40(US).
Mine as well
seriously though, people do come in many flavors, and a lot of that has precious little to do with nurture. there will always be those apples that do fall far from the tree.
I'd like to second this request. Even without it, Pandora really has drawn my attention (I just wish the licenses were more permissive but thats not their fault). One other idea I had for it was perhaps some sort of maybe XMLRPC frontend for subscribers to use with a plugin with their favorite audio player that would do suggestions and generally add what you listen to to the profile for a given "station". Of course this assumes people tag their files correctly (heh). While audioscrobbler is nice, this is far better, and I'd LOVE to see some integration into amaroK. Oh, and kudos on playing uncut versions of songs. I'd never pay to listen to G-rated "clean" songs.
I doubt they will be killed by the RIAA, in fact most likely 90% of the subscription fees go to purchase the music licenses they actually have for what they play. Now if only I can get the damned thing out of this annoying downtempo loop its in...I need some good uptempo synthpop to reseed from.
Strangely enough, this sounds like one of the few places XML actually -makes sense-. Generally I am against the bloat it introduces, but in this case it sounds perfect as it would contain the document structure as well as information all in ASCII/UTF text.
Hell they don't even need to escort it...it can CARRY them (and thus launch them as needed)
It is this third philosophy that KDE is actually striving for, now that they have gained some semblance of direction, and by KDE 4.1 or 4.2, if I were to take a guess, they should have something that will offer a few nice clean sane defaults (other than "KDE", "Mac OS", "Windows", "Unix" like the current kpersonalizer). If they don't seem to be heading that way after 4.0 comes out, I'll probably dig in there and start straightening it out myself. As it is, KDE has many powerful frameworks, and more than a small amount of very good code, it just has a few problems. Specifically some of the modules aren't coded so well, and some do not have the number of developers that they need at all.
I can't comment about the specifics of your post, but the generality you propose seems absurd to me. How is it more "infantile" to accept, embrace, and not hide something, than it is to shove it under the carpet under the guise of "dignity" or some other such nonsense? Its almost as stupid as the argument that if we women were to -choose- to show our naked bodies to someone it would somehow be degrading?! Let alone the thought of letting someone pay us for pleasure... Its as though when sexuality comes up, people shut their brains off (yeah yeah, I know), and they recite the same arguments over and over again, arguments that have exactly zero logical validity.
Yet more offtopicness...
South Park said it best. PETA doesn't care about humans.
For simple share-level security, Samba is one-two-three...at least on debian and gentoo. Admittedly I've never run it as a domain controller or anything, but I do use it instead of NFS for unix-to-unix sharing b/c NFS doesn't work right on my boxen.
If $1/day supposedly keeps someone above the poverty line...that's news to me. (or perhaps a sign that the poverty line is set WAY too low)
Yes. Specifically I would part with a share based on my ability to give. If I could give the full $120,000 and still live a life above the poverty line I would. Since I could not, I would have to give less. Saving even one human life is worth it.
I think eventually Reiser4 is supposed to support that, but I could be wrong...however there's also the option of simply implementing it yourself ;)
Especially when the "kernel" is responsible for handling a "virtual machine", it is fully correct to refer to it as one. One good example would be UML (user-mode linux, not to be confused with..whatever that bizarre prototyping / flowcharting 'language' is). Most here would agree that Linux is a kernel, even when it is abstracted to the level of an application. Another example, based on UML is CoLinux, which allows Linux to run as a privileged application on an NT-based windows system. (It may run on 9x, but I haven't tried that, check their site for more info, google is your friend.)
I realize I didn't RTFA, but the summary made a disturbing trend clear enough. It is indeed a fantasy. Thus, why does it have to be that the "villain" loses? That the "good guys" are stronger? Why can there not be an equally balanced game, where at the very least both "sides" of a storyline are playable, let alone a game where the entire goal is to play as the villain until you actually succeed? The same game elements are there, tactically work your way through scenarios, beating your opponents, gathering power, etc. Because it is just a game, whether you are the "hero" or the "villain" is just flavor, like whether you are the top-hat or wheelbarrow in monopoly.