I've said it before, I'll say it again: mainstream users don't want to use the command line, *ever*. They don't even want to know it exists. If you rely on it for getting something done, you've failed for mainstream users.
Granted, everyone reading this on/. probably can't possibly get their job done with a command line, but that's not the point....
You really should have read the Wikipedia entry before posting that reply -- you now have just shown your lack of knowledge on this subject.
Suffice to say that Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem turning mathematics world upside down by demonstrating that within a mathematical system there will be propositions that are true, but cannot be proved so by formal proof.
It's actually quite fascinating, and for more thoughts on the implications, I highly recommend the book "Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter.
That's a pretty bold statement. At one feel swoop you've just eliminated most of the humanities from schools.
Literature? Not fact-based. Gone.
History? Whoa, quite a can of worms! One man's history is another man's horrific distortion of the past. Whose history of, say, World War II will we be teaching this week?
Math? Well, according to Goedel even arithmetic will contain statements that are true but cannot be proven. Does this mean they aren't facts?
In fact, it's quite famous that James Ussher examined those lives in the Bible and by backwards counting came to the conclusion that the world was created on October 23, 4004 BC.
As opposed to, say, the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
Once this happens, JavaFX will load faster than flash, open source, be more portable and easier to code against. It will be used natively on phones, desktops and PDAs.
And if I had wheels on my feet, I'd be a bicycle.
When this is actually working (and available on, oh, 95%+ of web-browsing systems), let us know.
I know nothing of this guy's policies, but asking immigrants to learn the dominant language, and assimilate (at least partially) into the existing culture sounds extraordinarily reasonable to me.
If you want to immigrate somewhere (and by "immigrate" I mean "live there long term"), I would think you'd *want* to learn the local language and customs. I know I sure would...
For your convenience, I have highlighted the brain malfunction(s) that most closely resemble(s) the one(s) you recently made on the topic of Advertising.
I am the World Example: I don't listen to country music. Therefore, country music is not popular.
Generalizing from Self Example: I'm a liar. Therefore, I don't believe what you're saying.
Faulty Pattern Recognition Example: His last six wives were murdered mysteriously. I hope to be wife number seven.
You missed the proper emphasis in this, which is, "will allow websites... to force ads"...
Are you suggesting that people providing video shouldn't be *allowed* to put advertising into it?
Put another way... are you suggesting that someone creating content shouldn't have a say in deciding how it's used? (e.g., "I worked hard on this video, I want to get paid for it, and getting advertisers seems like the best way...")
Or perhaps you feel it's your right to be able to watch any form of media without payment of any form?
No, really, I'd love to hear the explanation for the/. reaction on this one.
Actually, "spelunking" isn't really used in that way (at least in the USA) by people who regularly explore caves; "caving" is the preferred term.
For reasons that aren't completely clear, "spelunker" has come to mean "person who goes in caves without proper equipment or training" among American cavers. (At caving conventions, you'll see bumper stickers that read "Cavers Rescue Spelunkers".)
Yeah, good catch, I misspoke: the 256k AAC won't be *smaller* than the 256k MP3, but it will sound better for the same size. My bad.
I rip all my CDs into FLAC for transcoding into lossy formats depending on usage.
I find it maddening that iTunes doesn't support this directly, as it seems like a no-brainer: keep your sources in high resolution, transcode down for portable devices. Hell, you could keep everything cached in a smaller format and it would take up only a small fraction of the lossless source.
You have a point, but 256k AAC is considerably smaller than 256k MP3. If I was purchasing, that would be a nice advantage.
What I want to know is... why the hell not offer this in a lossless format?
The two major sticking points for me refusing to by digital-only tracks have been DRM (now mooted, yay!) and sound quality... there's no reason for me to settle for something that is lower sound quality than a CD, which is what 256k AAC is giving me.
(yeahyeahyeah, naysayers will argue that at that bit rate it's "essentially indistinguishable", and they may be right, but as long as a CD is comparably priced, I fail to see why I should give up sound quality...)
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"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
You just lost my mom at the word "type".
/. probably can't possibly get their job done with a command line, but that's not the point....
I've said it before, I'll say it again: mainstream users don't want to use the command line, *ever*. They don't even want to know it exists. If you rely on it for getting something done, you've failed for mainstream users.
Granted, everyone reading this on
You really should have read the Wikipedia entry before posting that reply -- you now have just shown your lack of knowledge on this subject.
Suffice to say that Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem turning mathematics world upside down by demonstrating that within a mathematical system there will be propositions that are true, but cannot be proved so by formal proof.
It's actually quite fascinating, and for more thoughts on the implications, I highly recommend the book "Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter.
No, schools should be teaching facts.
That's a pretty bold statement. At one feel swoop you've just eliminated most of the humanities from schools.
Literature? Not fact-based. Gone.
History? Whoa, quite a can of worms! One man's history is another man's horrific distortion of the past. Whose history of, say, World War II will we be teaching this week?
Math? Well, according to Goedel even arithmetic will contain statements that are true but cannot be proven. Does this mean they aren't facts?
Good research is repeatable. And in fact, good research isn't accepted unless it's demonstrated to be repeatable.
Geez, ever take a lab class?
In fact, it's quite famous that James Ussher examined those lives in the Bible and by backwards counting came to the conclusion that the world was created on October 23, 4004 BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
This is quite possibly the best posting I have ever read on Slashdot. My hat is off to you.
No, you have it exactly wrong: belief has nothing to do with it, and that's the point.
The schools should be teaching what is supported by evidence (e.g., evolution), not what is proposed to prop up a theology (e.g. creationism).
As opposed to, say, the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
Once this happens, JavaFX will load faster than flash, open source, be more portable and easier to code against. It will be used natively on phones, desktops and PDAs.
And if I had wheels on my feet, I'd be a bicycle.
When this is actually working (and available on, oh, 95%+ of web-browsing systems), let us know.
How did you manage to get this right in the headline and STILL get it wrong in the summary?
Geez!
I know nothing of this guy's policies, but asking immigrants to learn the dominant language, and assimilate (at least partially) into the existing culture sounds extraordinarily reasonable to me.
If you want to immigrate somewhere (and by "immigrate" I mean "live there long term"), I would think you'd *want* to learn the local language and customs. I know I sure would...
b) It's still interpretated as a virtual machine, so it's not native system performance
e rvision3d_demos_cellshadin.html
Actually, ActionScript 3 (introduced in Flash Player 9) is a JIT with excellent performance... not interpreted.
Your other points are valid, but you can still get impressive performance, e.g.,
http://www.papervision3d.org/
http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/papervision3d/pap
I'm feeling very old, since I saw it in the theatre when it was first released... but I guess that was, what, 25 years ago?
Yes, Blues Brothers is a good analogy.
Very very very funny movie. Go rent it now. Learn, grasshopper.
If only there was a "-1, Bonehead" mod....
Cue the "Silverfish" nickname in 3... 2... 1....
http://www.megat.co.uk/wrong/wrong.php?r=cft&n=Fre ezeS&c=%23FF0000&t=Advertising
For your convenience, I have highlighted the brain malfunction(s) that
most closely resemble(s) the one(s) you recently made on the topic of Advertising.
I am the World
Example: I don't listen to country music. Therefore, country music is not popular.
Generalizing from Self
Example: I'm a liar. Therefore, I don't believe what you're saying.
Faulty Pattern Recognition
Example: His last six wives were murdered mysteriously. I hope to be wife number seven.
Yeah. Advertising has certainly killed broadcast TV.
Oh, wait...
You missed the proper emphasis in this, which is, "will allow websites... to force ads"...
/. reaction on this one.
Are you suggesting that people providing video shouldn't be *allowed* to put advertising into it?
Put another way... are you suggesting that someone creating content shouldn't have a say in deciding how it's used? (e.g., "I worked hard on this video, I want to get paid for it, and getting advertisers seems like the best way...")
Or perhaps you feel it's your right to be able to watch any form of media without payment of any form?
No, really, I'd love to hear the explanation for the
Actually, "spelunking" isn't really used in that way (at least in the USA) by people who regularly explore caves; "caving" is the preferred term.
For reasons that aren't completely clear, "spelunker" has come to mean "person who goes in caves without proper equipment or training" among American cavers. (At caving conventions, you'll see bumper stickers that read "Cavers Rescue Spelunkers".)
See Wikipedia for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caving
For more info in general (at least on USA caving), check out the website of the National Speleological Society: http://www.caves.org/
or the chat forum, http://www.cavechat.org/
Yeah, good catch, I misspoke: the 256k AAC won't be *smaller* than the 256k MP3, but it will sound better for the same size. My bad.
I rip all my CDs into FLAC for transcoding into lossy formats depending on usage.
I find it maddening that iTunes doesn't support this directly, as it seems like a no-brainer: keep your sources in high resolution, transcode down for portable devices. Hell, you could keep everything cached in a smaller format and it would take up only a small fraction of the lossless source.
You have a point, but 256k AAC is considerably smaller than 256k MP3. If I was purchasing, that would be a nice advantage.
What I want to know is... why the hell not offer this in a lossless format?
The two major sticking points for me refusing to by digital-only tracks have been DRM (now mooted, yay!) and sound quality... there's no reason for me to settle for something that is lower sound quality than a CD, which is what 256k AAC is giving me.
(yeahyeahyeah, naysayers will argue that at that bit rate it's "essentially indistinguishable", and they may be right, but as long as a CD is comparably priced, I fail to see why I should give up sound quality...)
Too bad you posted as AC. You are on the money.
Really? I have never found info on that. I'd gladly pay for Yahoo mail if I could access it via IMAP in addition to webmail. Can you provide a link?
Too bad you posted as AC.