Really? I can give you two apples that have the same nutritional value but one has cyanide in it. Are you going to trust the study that doesn't look into the affects of poison in the food?
Just like culture and human happiness advances when artistic works are freely enjoyed, spread, and built upon to create new works.
Copyrights exist to encourage artistic expression, not suppress it. There's little incentive to spend your life creating art if you can't make money from it. Without copyrights art would all but disappear; would-be artists would be forced to spend their time making a living some other way.
Pesonally, I welcome the use of Flash on web sites. I'm sure you remember, before Flash came along, we had to put up with huge Java applets and animated GIFs. I'll take a 50K Flash animation over a 200K animated GIF any day, and choosing between Flash's 2MB plug-in and a 50MB+ installation of Java (which takes at least 10 times as long to load) is a no-brainer.
Believe it or not, back in the days of Applesoft BASIC (for the Apple II line of computers), code with short variable names and no comments ran faster. This stems from the fact that the code was interpreted directly, without an intermediate bytecode state.
They're fake. So what?
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There seems to be a lot of anti-Elena sentiment here, mostly due to the fact that she didn't really take those pictures on a motorcycle.
Who cares? I sure don't.
Her stories, fact or fiction, are a great read, and provide a wonderful thread connecting the photographs. The photographs themselves (which certainly are real) are a great record of the past that tell a story on their own.
If someone posted a "space log" with lots of beautiful pictures of the planets, and linked the pictures together using a story about flying in a spaceship from one to the next, no-one would think the story was real, but many would still enjoy it. Elena's made-up story just happend to be a lot more down-to-earth and believable.
She mentioned at one time that she was planning on turning the Chernobyl story into a chapter of a book she was working on (I can only presume that the Serpent Wall story will be another chapter). If such a thing comes about, you can bet I'm buying it! Why pass up such a great collection of photographs and enjoyable stories?
I acquired a "broken" Neoware thin client which serves this purpose quite well. I simply netboot it from my main box, have it run X and esd, and connect its sound output to my stereo system. Its built-in sound isn't so great, but it's got a free PCI slot, so I can plug in just about any sound card I want.
I've been trying to find a way to fix my TI-99/4A's RF converter for years... little did I realize I could just make a simpler adaptor myself! Thanks for the info! Time to go play some Parsec now...:)
This was with VB 6. I wasn't even supposed to have it installed (I had to borrow it from a co-worker who doesn't even know the language), despite the fact that I needed it to get my job done. I'm glad to hear that proper geometry management has finally been added, albeit more than a decade after it was available in most other GUI environments.
Unfortunately, this IDE seems to suffer from the same horrible method of GUI design as VB (judging from the screenshot), whereby one draws components on a form, thus specifying the widgets' absolute coordinates. This is all good and well until you decide to make the form resizable. Then all hell breaks loose: none of the widgets move unless you explicitly change their coordinates. I was forced to write my own geometry manager, in VB, to overcome this problem in a clean way.
Otherwise, this looks like a very good product for a company looking to switch to Unix, but wanting to retain compatibility with all their VB scripts (like the one I work at). Of course, porting the scripts to a better language (*cough*Python*cough*) would be the best solution, but management just won't hear of it:/.
The point of using Linux was not to add features, but to lower the cost of the PDA: not only could Sharp avoid the Windows tax by using another OS, they could also (theoretically) reduce their specs from those required for a Windows-CE certified PDA.
Unfortunately, where Sharp could have sold an iPaq-equivalent for hundreds less, they chose to use the money saved by using Linux to add extra hardware features to the device. Thus, rather than a $100-$200 device with functionality equivalent to an iPaq, they delivered a $500-$600 device with functionality and raw performance equivalent to an iPaq, with many extra fancy features such as a full VGA display and the built-in keyboard. Nifty, but this may have been the death of them.
I believe I speak for many "religious folk" when I say:
However, the Republicans still appeal to these people.
Not really. Why would a war-mongerer appeal to followers of a religion that promotes peace? Or a liar to one that promotes truth? Or an oil-hungry businessman to one that looks down on greed?
The religious folks say, "I'm glad he took out those damn Arabs...
No, most of us "religious folk" (very poor choice of words, that) really don't say that. Especially since Bush has only targetted the Taliban and Iraqis, not Saudi Arabia. Get your terms straight.
I'm glad he's against Roe v. Wade...
I can't speak for all "religious folk" on this, but most Catholics agree with him on that. They also agree with other candidates who have the same stance.
I'm glad he believes in supporting 'faith baised' organizations."
Good for him. Maybe then, faith-based organizations can dole out welfare, rather than the government.
Thus, they are able to completely ignore all other facts.
Oh, I know people like this. They're few and far between. Most "religious folk" are perfectly aware of the facts.
Keep in mind, many of these people are the same folks who believe that the Earth was created in under 7 days.
Quit being naïve. The person of whom you paint a picture is more likely to vote for Peroutka than Bush.
"You'd be buying Apple hardware to run it on, without a doubt."
I highly doubt this, because:
"There are several reasons for this:
1. Apple makes a lot of money on their hardware."
And IBM/Motorola (dunno who it is now) makes a lot of money on those G5 processors. Apple would only ever make x86 hardware if IBM/Motorola came out with an x86 chip (or if they drop PowerPC entirely, but I highly doubt that).
"There is no speech-recognition system available for Linux, which is a big gap."
Um, Sphinx 2 (a predecessor of Sphinx 4) has been around for quite some time now. Like Sphinx 4, it's speaker-independent. Unlike Sphinx 4, it's a C library, and is thus easily interfaced with other languages (insert shameless plug for a simple Python interface for Sphinx 2 I wrote).
As a matter of fact, he did. But rather than using a language such as Matlab, Java, or C, he used the a wonderfully versatile and universal language called "math".
Seriously though, this is one of the most straightforward, algorithmical, descriptions I've ever seen in a math paper. I'm not even a math major and I can follow it (or at least theoretically should be able to, given my background in diff eqs and linear algebra). Would that more math papers be written like this....
I'm actually choosing to refrain from voting this year (though I am registered) because I don't believe I am educated enough about the political processes (partly because I'm lazy, partly because I'm 19) to cast an informed vote. Normally I would choose the candidate with whose policies I agree the most, but neither stands out to me (and nor do any third-party candidates). 'Tis a shame Dean isn't running.
OTOH, I know a girl whom I believe to be politically educated enough to cast an informed vote, but who is unable to vote due to her age (17), so I am going to act as a proxy and vote for the candidate she chooses. Long live democracy.
"It would be incredibly naive to believe that other countries and terrorist organizations would not exploit an easy opportunity to sabotage our military or critical infrastructure systems when we have been doing the same to them for more than 20 years!"
It would be incredibly naive to believe that bitter employees and terrorist infiltrators would not exploit an easy opportunity to sabotage our military or critical infrastructure systems when we have been doing the same to them for more than 20 years!
Wow, you guys should do this more often. During the time Slashdot was down, I found a girlfriend, got a secure, high-paying job, learned to ski, and seamlessly integrated KDE and GNOME into the Next Big Thing(tm).
What I fail to understand is the difference between this 'no execute' bit and the 'executable' bit in standard 386 protected mode. Does the 'executable' bit not cause an exception if the PC proceeds to pages without it set? Even then, protected mode also has a 'read-only' bit - isn't this set for code pages? And if not, why not?
That extension, like any other Moz extension, is implemented in JavaScript - so this (JavaScript gestures) is really nothing new. Though in reality, I really really dislike JS and wish it would just go away.
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Really? I can give you two apples that have the same nutritional value but one has cyanide in it. Are you going to trust the study that doesn't look into the affects of poison in the food?
Actually I think all apples have cyanide in them... http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp
Copyrights exist to encourage artistic expression, not suppress it. There's little incentive to spend your life creating art if you can't make money from it. Without copyrights art would all but disappear; would-be artists would be forced to spend their time making a living some other way.
Pesonally, I welcome the use of Flash on web sites. I'm sure you remember, before Flash came along, we had to put up with huge Java applets and animated GIFs. I'll take a 50K Flash animation over a 200K animated GIF any day, and choosing between Flash's 2MB plug-in and a 50MB+ installation of Java (which takes at least 10 times as long to load) is a no-brainer.
Believe it or not, back in the days of Applesoft BASIC (for the Apple II line of computers), code with short variable names and no comments ran faster. This stems from the fact that the code was interpreted directly, without an intermediate bytecode state.
There seems to be a lot of anti-Elena sentiment here, mostly due to the fact that she didn't really take those pictures on a motorcycle.
Who cares? I sure don't.
Her stories, fact or fiction, are a great read, and provide a wonderful thread connecting the photographs. The photographs themselves (which certainly are real) are a great record of the past that tell a story on their own.
If someone posted a "space log" with lots of beautiful pictures of the planets, and linked the pictures together using a story about flying in a spaceship from one to the next, no-one would think the story was real, but many would still enjoy it. Elena's made-up story just happend to be a lot more down-to-earth and believable.
She mentioned at one time that she was planning on turning the Chernobyl story into a chapter of a book she was working on (I can only presume that the Serpent Wall story will be another chapter). If such a thing comes about, you can bet I'm buying it! Why pass up such a great collection of photographs and enjoyable stories?
I acquired a "broken" Neoware thin client which serves this purpose quite well. I simply netboot it from my main box, have it run X and esd, and connect its sound output to my stereo system. Its built-in sound isn't so great, but it's got a free PCI slot, so I can plug in just about any sound card I want.
I've been trying to find a way to fix my TI-99/4A's RF converter for years... little did I realize I could just make a simpler adaptor myself! Thanks for the info! Time to go play some Parsec now... :)
This was with VB 6. I wasn't even supposed to have it installed (I had to borrow it from a co-worker who doesn't even know the language), despite the fact that I needed it to get my job done. I'm glad to hear that proper geometry management has finally been added, albeit more than a decade after it was available in most other GUI environments.
Unfortunately, this IDE seems to suffer from the same horrible method of GUI design as VB (judging from the screenshot), whereby one draws components on a form, thus specifying the widgets' absolute coordinates. This is all good and well until you decide to make the form resizable. Then all hell breaks loose: none of the widgets move unless you explicitly change their coordinates. I was forced to write my own geometry manager, in VB, to overcome this problem in a clean way.
Otherwise, this looks like a very good product for a company looking to switch to Unix, but wanting to retain compatibility with all their VB scripts (like the one I work at). Of course, porting the scripts to a better language (*cough*Python*cough*) would be the best solution, but management just won't hear of it :/.
The point of using Linux was not to add features, but to lower the cost of the PDA: not only could Sharp avoid the Windows tax by using another OS, they could also (theoretically) reduce their specs from those required for a Windows-CE certified PDA.
Unfortunately, where Sharp could have sold an iPaq-equivalent for hundreds less, they chose to use the money saved by using Linux to add extra hardware features to the device. Thus, rather than a $100-$200 device with functionality equivalent to an iPaq, they delivered a $500-$600 device with functionality and raw performance equivalent to an iPaq, with many extra fancy features such as a full VGA display and the built-in keyboard. Nifty, but this may have been the death of them.
I believe I speak for many "religious folk" when I say:
Not really. Why would a war-mongerer appeal to followers of a religion that promotes peace? Or a liar to one that promotes truth? Or an oil-hungry businessman to one that looks down on greed?
No, most of us "religious folk" (very poor choice of words, that) really don't say that. Especially since Bush has only targetted the Taliban and Iraqis, not Saudi Arabia. Get your terms straight.
I can't speak for all "religious folk" on this, but most Catholics agree with him on that. They also agree with other candidates who have the same stance.
Good for him. Maybe then, faith-based organizations can dole out welfare, rather than the government.
Oh, I know people like this. They're few and far between. Most "religious folk" are perfectly aware of the facts.
Quit being naïve. The person of whom you paint a picture is more likely to vote for Peroutka than Bush.
"You'd be buying Apple hardware to run it on, without a doubt."
I highly doubt this, because:
"There are several reasons for this:
1. Apple makes a lot of money on their hardware."
And IBM/Motorola (dunno who it is now) makes a lot of money on those G5 processors. Apple would only ever make x86 hardware if IBM/Motorola came out with an x86 chip (or if they drop PowerPC entirely, but I highly doubt that).
I wonder how much more difficult it would be for them to set up a phone bank interfacing with the search engine using a text-to-speech program....
Indeed, I've a Hyundai Elantra that will remain in neutral if you shift into reverse while it's still moving (yes, I did do this by accident once!).
"There is no speech-recognition system available for Linux, which is a big gap."
Um, Sphinx 2 (a predecessor of Sphinx 4) has been around for quite some time now. Like Sphinx 4, it's speaker-independent. Unlike Sphinx 4, it's a C library, and is thus easily interfaced with other languages (insert shameless plug for a simple Python interface for Sphinx 2 I wrote).
As a matter of fact, he did. But rather than using a language such as Matlab, Java, or C, he used the a wonderfully versatile and universal language called "math". Seriously though, this is one of the most straightforward, algorithmical, descriptions I've ever seen in a math paper. I'm not even a math major and I can follow it (or at least theoretically should be able to, given my background in diff eqs and linear algebra). Would that more math papers be written like this....
Does it take into account voters whose vote is easily swayed by surveys such as these?
I'm actually choosing to refrain from voting this year (though I am registered) because I don't believe I am educated enough about the political processes (partly because I'm lazy, partly because I'm 19) to cast an informed vote. Normally I would choose the candidate with whose policies I agree the most, but neither stands out to me (and nor do any third-party candidates). 'Tis a shame Dean isn't running.
OTOH, I know a girl whom I believe to be politically educated enough to cast an informed vote, but who is unable to vote due to her age (17), so I am going to act as a proxy and vote for the candidate she chooses. Long live democracy.
> Why am I still getting massive amounts of spam in my yahoo, angelfire, and comcast accounts today?
Because they're Yahoo, AngelFire, and Comcast?
+shameless plug How about PostScript Wumpus? -shameless plug
From the article:
"It would be incredibly naive to believe that other countries and terrorist organizations would not exploit an easy opportunity to sabotage our military or critical infrastructure systems when we have been doing the same to them for more than 20 years!"
It would be incredibly naive to believe that bitter employees and terrorist infiltrators would not exploit an easy opportunity to sabotage our military or critical infrastructure systems when we have been doing the same to them for more than 20 years!
Wow, you guys should do this more often. During the time Slashdot was down, I found a girlfriend, got a secure, high-paying job, learned to ski, and seamlessly integrated KDE and GNOME into the Next Big Thing(tm).
What I fail to understand is the difference between this 'no execute' bit and the 'executable' bit in standard 386 protected mode. Does the 'executable' bit not cause an exception if the PC proceeds to pages without it set? Even then, protected mode also has a 'read-only' bit - isn't this set for code pages? And if not, why not?
That extension, like any other Moz extension, is implemented in JavaScript - so this (JavaScript gestures) is really nothing new. Though in reality, I really really dislike JS and wish it would just go away.