Looks like Ars Technica is now a front for jihadists, either that or their ignorant dupes. You'd think a technically focused team wouldn't fall for this obviously religious indoctrination. Shows just how insidious this stuff is. Interesting that they posted the story under the name "Machkovech" -- vaguly jewish sounding. False flag? This guy is embedded deep, too (long writing history of articles there, none of them overtly Muslim). I guess more likely just identity theft. Someone should let this schmuck know how his name is being misused to unwittingly advancing bigotry and tyranny, so he can liberate his byline from this (IS?) quagmire.
For those who think I don't know what I'm talking about, I can tell you I know of these things from personal experience. I once downloaded a "shareware" (communist?) program a long time ago that animated Celtic knot designed. Seemed innocent and interesting, but before I knew it I had Druids recruiting me. And young innocent that I was at the time, I fell for it. Sure I went on a few raids, just some minor raping and pillaging and all that. But thank God (not Odin!) I finally (thanks to some helpful posts on Slashdot, like yours) realised the error of my ways, and woke up to reality. Got a job at one of the few remaining American call centers. It's a bit boring, but at least it lets me talk to a lot of people, who I can help by telling my story.
I thought it was the law of programming that recursion be introduced with a Fibonacci sequence generator. I believe this AP thing is breaking the law of programming.
Is there any evidence that any scientists on this board directly benefit from grants due to the clock or their statements surrounding their analysis related to the clock?
At least it's science-based politics, which one hopes some would consider at least better than the usual utterly self-serving and corporate greed based politics out there.
Kids should start with raw machine language and fairly quickly move up to assembly, and then maybe plain old C, and only then get to higher level languages later. These lower levels don't have to be mastered to high degrees, but just introduced to lay the foundation to build on logically. I think these intro courses look at things backwards.
Higher level languages should be saved for experts as a tool for getting stuff done faster, with greater amounts of complexity, by people who understand how things work and are less likely to shot themselves (and their users) in the face.
That being said, good programmers can start with any language... doesn't really matter all that much.
Letting kids go outside is cruel and stupid when it can be so easily avoided in our modern society. Have you people not heard of lightening? This is not paranoia, it's verifiable fact. On average 50 people are killed each year in the USA from lightning. Thankfully the average is going down, and we less now... thanks probably to more people staying inside. But it's still more than are killed in the average terrorist attack or school shooting, or pedophile rampage, which people seem to be very concerned about. Since irresponsible parents historically have not seen fit to make sure their children are properly shielded from lightning each and every time they leave home, it would seem there is no choice but for a society who cares about children to make sure the children are secured indoors.
I would mention the actually astronomically greater threat posed by automobiles, directly and indirectly, but I understand that our society has made the conscious decision to holds cars sacred. So that's fine.
It might be helpful to know what linux distro you tend to use, because the type of distro may indicate which BSD variant you would be most comfortable with.
I have in times past run 3 of the original BSDs and all have (many) strengths and (a few) weaknesses.
I would generally recommend FreeBSD for the community and documentation. Ever since it adopted OpenBSD's PF firewall many years ago (which is wonderful), I have generally recommended FreeBSD for it's generally greater modern compatibility and larger community for anyone who isn't entirely hardcore into a particular BSD for particular reasons.
It's a bit superficial, but why not fire up some VMs with all OS's you may be interested in and give them an install to kick the wheels... get at least a bit of a feel for the thing.
I love my progressives. When I used to have dual monitors they were near a window which I used to look out of often, switching from close to far vision. I remember the wavy distortion and the slight feeling of disorientation when i first went progressive (especially when walking), but it didn't last very long for me, and I loved the option of distance clarity too much to give it up. Single vision lenses are definitely clearer, with a larger field of vision, for reading. I have reading glasses, but I find I rarely use them... I can't be bothered. I prefer the flexibility of the progressives, despite their quirks and limitations, and have just grown used to moving my head up and down to get the clarity where I want it. I don't even think about it anymore.
Different people have different priorities and different tolerances, but I can say that for myself I have gotten entirely used to progressives and prefer them.
Zoho Docs has supported ODT for some time. It's sad so few know about it. Their app Zoho Writer even supports editing ODT on android (and perhaps other platforms?). I was amazed when I stumbled on this functionality entirely by accident. The Zoho Writer app also supports opening files from Google Drive and Dropbox... so technically you could say that it supports editing ODT on those platforms as well.
Furthermore, Zoho has a desktop file sync client that supports Linux, unlike Google who has has seemingly utterly failed to provide a linux client despite promising it when Drive launched.
Way too little, way too late from Google, as far as I'm concerned.
(My documents are fairly simple, so I'm not sure how technically complete the ODT support is. But it's worked for me.)
So, here we have a nice example of something like Jon Stewart's "one mistake"... with all the willful environmental destruction in the world, this story of one admitted dreadful mistake by people who actually care deeply (for which the Greenpeace response -- as strong an apology as possible, while accepting that mere apology is insufficient -- is missing from the summary) becomes the story.... sad.
Despite having had a phone and tablet, I still use my sandisk sansa e200-series mp3 player daily. I've owned the newer sansa clip, fuse and fuse+, but I just keep going back to an e-series... the perfect device for me, with rockbox installed. It's small, and tactile, and has fantastic battery life, and microSD slot. The design is a sort of clunkier miniature iPod classic. I can operate it completely (rockbox has voice menus) in my pocket without looking, or from a lanyard hanging around my neck. I also use the sleep timer, and variable speed play back (for audio books) a lot.
And there were years when you could get these things pretty cheap on ebay, because in the ipod/ipod touch frenzy, only an enlightened few seemed to want these things. Well, the enlightened few (mostly rockbox users) still cling to this device, but they are getting harder to find... and in recent years the price is going up. Though they are still usually well under $100; sometimes even under $50. I have a couple of them hoarded for myself. I fear the day when they break down (i've gone through a few of them) and I can find no more sources.
Though, also I earnestly have hoped through the years that something better could come along. I hoped my android devices, with suitable software, would take over... but they have not managed it. The ability to operate the thing blind, it's size and battery life, (and the handy lanyard attachment spot!) just keep it in use...
Rockbox also runs on ipod classic, and I've considered many times getting an iPod classic to run rockbox... it seems like they'd work similarly to my sansas, but they (like most apple products) are just too damned expensive. Also bigger and heavier.
KDE has overwhelming support by linux users, considering how many choose it despite it not being a default in hardly any distros. Gnome 3 and Unity have overwhelming rejection just about everywhere you look, but it didn't stop most of the distros listed from pushing it on their users. Because the mostly monolithic leaders of the most-used distros choose something, or do not choose something, doesn't necessarily mean it has support -- they sometimes choose for their own reasons, which evidently do not always sync with their users short-term or long-term interests.
The Debian divide at least shows Debian has some healthy level of non-monolithic leadership... until the divide splits them into two more-monolithic camps.
It's disturbing all these comparisons between the budget of Hollywood movies and a space program. It's ridiculous... the space program may aim to eventually travel to the stars, but Hollywood movies are MADE FROM stars. Imagine if space programs had to build orbiters and probes out of actual stars... now you get the picture. The precious resource that Hollywood movies are made from far outshines any glorified firework.
To look at it yet another way, Gravity took US ALL into space, in a way that probably felt more real to us than if we had actually gone into boring old space. Whereas the Indian mars orbiter didn't take anyone, not even Matt Daemon. It might send back a few snapshots and data hardly anyone will be interested in. We won't even get a T-Shirt out of it. There is no comparison.
I'd say, fundamentally (as you say), you are to blame. Such a shallow yet verbose analysis of historical social forces... yes, that is exactly one of the things holding us back. Alas.
So that's why you can't even sign up for an account without surrendering your mobile number and complying with SMS activation... they're after the cell phone photographer generation now, who are used to this sort of bending over for service....
Kdenlive is awesome, and has been awesome for a long time. Even when it was horrifically unstable it was still better than anything else on linux (and usually resumed right where you left off when it crashed). And it's been awesome all this time without constantly begging for money.
It seems like another tragic blind spot in the larger linux community for superior KDE based software, thanks to ubuntu and other distros with their gnominess.
Another person checking in to say he's done all of these things. And it's really not that bad in most cases as people who have not done it seem to think.
First of all, most of those weather conditions are actually very rare. Even bike communiting every day in Canadian winter is not that bad in a city. Most roads are sufficiently poughed, that snowfall depth really is irrelvant (just make sure you have suitable bike tires). And you'd be surprised how warm you stay when cycling; it was often more of a problem for me being overheating than being too cold in the winter. That's why dressing with layers is key! So you can adjust...
Significant rain (at last where I am, which is pretty average) is usually not an issue. Rain comes and goes; shift your schedule slightly and watch local weather radar and you usually can find a relatively tame window to travel through. Days where it rains hard all day are relatively rare.
Other weather is mostly a matter of some simple gear. People would be amazed when I'd show up from a torrential downpour on my bike, get into the office and strip my rain pants, shoe covers, and rain jacket, gloves, wipe my glasses & face, and be 100% dry. It's no big deal; but just an alien concept to them. The people driving to work could be wetter than me! (Because they had to run from their car parking.... and where not equipped for the weather.)
Riding a bike year round makes you very intimate with weather, and it's not bad at all (usually). In fact it feels quite wonderful to have that connection with weather, and not be controlled by weather. I describe above staying completely dry biking in rain; but actually the other lesson you learn is that actually it's not so bad being wet either! You just go with it and learn not to worry about it...
Most of the people complaining about bikes never try it! Try it! It's great, and a whole new perspective. (Unless maybe your bike is exceptionally crappy.)
It's interesting that Americans have a choice to contribute a few bucks to this defense... while having apparently no choice about the amount they are paying for the prosecution.
I appreciate your attempt to apply logic, but apparently Linus did already prove the premises, as stated in your post, to be incorrect (or incomplete).
Your premises seem to assume rdrand is the sole source of random numbers; Linus explained that it is not the source of random numbers, but just one possible source which is mixed up with other sources in such a way that a single input is essentially meaningless. "Long answer: we use rdrand as _one_ of many inputs into the random pool, and we use it as a way to _improve_ that random pool."
Now, you (and they) need to prove that LInus' premise and/or conclusion is false.
Interesting article on slate yesterday (Revolution Blues) talking about how even now newly published popular histories (by people who should know better) miss/ignore a lot of stuff.
I check out a lot of ebooks from my library. It's pretty great. The main problem is that libraries don't have the technical ability to serve the books with DRM and whatever licencing agreements are required... so they farm the digital service to a third party. And that third party (Overdrive) is a virtual monopoly source for libraries... every library I know of around the region I live in uses Overdrive... and have mostly the same books on offer. It's like Overdrive is the Amazon of ebook lending... only with even less competition.
Besides the technicalities of serving ebooks in an out-moded artificial physical book model (limited numbers of copies available, limited borrowing time), it's probably managing the adobe-controlled DRM (another monopoly) that is the biggest hurdle. I only hope in the future things become saner, and can be more diverse again. Both for publishers & readers... and reading devices.
Just an FYI on point one, in case you don't know. GoodReads will email you a handy monthly report of all new books by authors you've shown interest in on their site. Their recommendation engine can be helpful also, though it is kind of wonky. All this and they aren't even trying to sell you anything (though they do have links to buy via "partners"... i've never used them.)
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Looks like Ars Technica is now a front for jihadists, either that or their ignorant dupes. You'd think a technically focused team wouldn't fall for this obviously religious indoctrination. Shows just how insidious this stuff is. Interesting that they posted the story under the name "Machkovech" -- vaguly jewish sounding. False flag? This guy is embedded deep, too (long writing history of articles there, none of them overtly Muslim). I guess more likely just identity theft. Someone should let this schmuck know how his name is being misused to unwittingly advancing bigotry and tyranny, so he can liberate his byline from this (IS?) quagmire.
For those who think I don't know what I'm talking about, I can tell you I know of these things from personal experience. I once downloaded a "shareware" (communist?) program a long time ago that animated Celtic knot designed. Seemed innocent and interesting, but before I knew it I had Druids recruiting me. And young innocent that I was at the time, I fell for it. Sure I went on a few raids, just some minor raping and pillaging and all that. But thank God (not Odin!) I finally (thanks to some helpful posts on Slashdot, like yours) realised the error of my ways, and woke up to reality. Got a job at one of the few remaining American call centers. It's a bit boring, but at least it lets me talk to a lot of people, who I can help by telling my story.
I thought it was the law of programming that recursion be introduced with a Fibonacci sequence generator. I believe this AP thing is breaking the law of programming.
Is there any evidence that any scientists on this board directly benefit from grants due to the clock or their statements surrounding their analysis related to the clock?
At least it's science-based politics, which one hopes some would consider at least better than the usual utterly self-serving and corporate greed based politics out there.
Kids should start with raw machine language and fairly quickly move up to assembly, and then maybe plain old C, and only then get to higher level languages later. These lower levels don't have to be mastered to high degrees, but just introduced to lay the foundation to build on logically. I think these intro courses look at things backwards.
Higher level languages should be saved for experts as a tool for getting stuff done faster, with greater amounts of complexity, by people who understand how things work and are less likely to shot themselves (and their users) in the face.
That being said, good programmers can start with any language... doesn't really matter all that much.
Letting kids go outside is cruel and stupid when it can be so easily avoided in our modern society. Have you people not heard of lightening? This is not paranoia, it's verifiable fact. On average 50 people are killed each year in the USA from lightning. Thankfully the average is going down, and we less now... thanks probably to more people staying inside. But it's still more than are killed in the average terrorist attack or school shooting, or pedophile rampage, which people seem to be very concerned about. Since irresponsible parents historically have not seen fit to make sure their children are properly shielded from lightning each and every time they leave home, it would seem there is no choice but for a society who cares about children to make sure the children are secured indoors.
I would mention the actually astronomically greater threat posed by automobiles, directly and indirectly, but I understand that our society has made the conscious decision to holds cars sacred. So that's fine.
It might be helpful to know what linux distro you tend to use, because the type of distro may indicate which BSD variant you would be most comfortable with.
I have in times past run 3 of the original BSDs and all have (many) strengths and (a few) weaknesses.
I would generally recommend FreeBSD for the community and documentation. Ever since it adopted OpenBSD's PF firewall many years ago (which is wonderful), I have generally recommended FreeBSD for it's generally greater modern compatibility and larger community for anyone who isn't entirely hardcore into a particular BSD for particular reasons.
It's a bit superficial, but why not fire up some VMs with all OS's you may be interested in and give them an install to kick the wheels... get at least a bit of a feel for the thing.
I love my progressives. When I used to have dual monitors they were near a window which I used to look out of often, switching from close to far vision. I remember the wavy distortion and the slight feeling of disorientation when i first went progressive (especially when walking), but it didn't last very long for me, and I loved the option of distance clarity too much to give it up. Single vision lenses are definitely clearer, with a larger field of vision, for reading. I have reading glasses, but I find I rarely use them... I can't be bothered. I prefer the flexibility of the progressives, despite their quirks and limitations, and have just grown used to moving my head up and down to get the clarity where I want it. I don't even think about it anymore.
Different people have different priorities and different tolerances, but I can say that for myself I have gotten entirely used to progressives and prefer them.
Zoho Docs has supported ODT for some time. It's sad so few know about it. Their app Zoho Writer even supports editing ODT on android (and perhaps other platforms?). I was amazed when I stumbled on this functionality entirely by accident. The Zoho Writer app also supports opening files from Google Drive and Dropbox... so technically you could say that it supports editing ODT on those platforms as well.
Furthermore, Zoho has a desktop file sync client that supports Linux, unlike Google who has has seemingly utterly failed to provide a linux client despite promising it when Drive launched.
Way too little, way too late from Google, as far as I'm concerned.
(My documents are fairly simple, so I'm not sure how technically complete the ODT support is. But it's worked for me.)
So, here we have a nice example of something like Jon Stewart's "one mistake"... with all the willful environmental destruction in the world, this story of one admitted dreadful mistake by people who actually care deeply (for which the Greenpeace response -- as strong an apology as possible, while accepting that mere apology is insufficient -- is missing from the summary) becomes the story.... sad.
Despite having had a phone and tablet, I still use my sandisk sansa e200-series mp3 player daily. I've owned the newer sansa clip, fuse and fuse+, but I just keep going back to an e-series... the perfect device for me, with rockbox installed. It's small, and tactile, and has fantastic battery life, and microSD slot. The design is a sort of clunkier miniature iPod classic. I can operate it completely (rockbox has voice menus) in my pocket without looking, or from a lanyard hanging around my neck. I also use the sleep timer, and variable speed play back (for audio books) a lot.
And there were years when you could get these things pretty cheap on ebay, because in the ipod/ipod touch frenzy, only an enlightened few seemed to want these things. Well, the enlightened few (mostly rockbox users) still cling to this device, but they are getting harder to find... and in recent years the price is going up. Though they are still usually well under $100; sometimes even under $50. I have a couple of them hoarded for myself. I fear the day when they break down (i've gone through a few of them) and I can find no more sources.
Though, also I earnestly have hoped through the years that something better could come along. I hoped my android devices, with suitable software, would take over... but they have not managed it. The ability to operate the thing blind, it's size and battery life, (and the handy lanyard attachment spot!) just keep it in use...
Rockbox also runs on ipod classic, and I've considered many times getting an iPod classic to run rockbox... it seems like they'd work similarly to my sansas, but they (like most apple products) are just too damned expensive. Also bigger and heavier.
KDE has overwhelming support by linux users, considering how many choose it despite it not being a default in hardly any distros. Gnome 3 and Unity have overwhelming rejection just about everywhere you look, but it didn't stop most of the distros listed from pushing it on their users. Because the mostly monolithic leaders of the most-used distros choose something, or do not choose something, doesn't necessarily mean it has support -- they sometimes choose for their own reasons, which evidently do not always sync with their users short-term or long-term interests.
The Debian divide at least shows Debian has some healthy level of non-monolithic leadership... until the divide splits them into two more-monolithic camps.
Well, I for one have been completely convinced by your argument... that clocks *should* be metric!
If you've ever had to teach kids to do clock math, you may notice how unintuitive and ridiculous it is.
It's disturbing all these comparisons between the budget of Hollywood movies and a space program. It's ridiculous... the space program may aim to eventually travel to the stars, but Hollywood movies are MADE FROM stars. Imagine if space programs had to build orbiters and probes out of actual stars... now you get the picture. The precious resource that Hollywood movies are made from far outshines any glorified firework.
To look at it yet another way, Gravity took US ALL into space, in a way that probably felt more real to us than if we had actually gone into boring old space. Whereas the Indian mars orbiter didn't take anyone, not even Matt Daemon. It might send back a few snapshots and data hardly anyone will be interested in. We won't even get a T-Shirt out of it. There is no comparison.
> So who is to blame?
I'd say, fundamentally (as you say), you are to blame. Such a shallow yet verbose analysis of historical social forces... yes, that is exactly one of the things holding us back. Alas.
So that's why you can't even sign up for an account without surrendering your mobile number and complying with SMS activation... they're after the cell phone photographer generation now, who are used to this sort of bending over for service....
Amen.
"The sun also rises" --Hemmingway
Kdenlive is awesome, and has been awesome for a long time. Even when it was horrifically unstable it was still better than anything else on linux (and usually resumed right where you left off when it crashed). And it's been awesome all this time without constantly begging for money.
It seems like another tragic blind spot in the larger linux community for superior KDE based software, thanks to ubuntu and other distros with their gnominess.
Another person checking in to say he's done all of these things. And it's really not that bad in most cases as people who have not done it seem to think.
First of all, most of those weather conditions are actually very rare. Even bike communiting every day in Canadian winter is not that bad in a city. Most roads are sufficiently poughed, that snowfall depth really is irrelvant (just make sure you have suitable bike tires). And you'd be surprised how warm you stay when cycling; it was often more of a problem for me being overheating than being too cold in the winter. That's why dressing with layers is key! So you can adjust...
Significant rain (at last where I am, which is pretty average) is usually not an issue. Rain comes and goes; shift your schedule slightly and watch local weather radar and you usually can find a relatively tame window to travel through. Days where it rains hard all day are relatively rare.
Other weather is mostly a matter of some simple gear. People would be amazed when I'd show up from a torrential downpour on my bike, get into the office and strip my rain pants, shoe covers, and rain jacket, gloves, wipe my glasses & face, and be 100% dry. It's no big deal; but just an alien concept to them. The people driving to work could be wetter than me! (Because they had to run from their car parking.... and where not equipped for the weather.)
Riding a bike year round makes you very intimate with weather, and it's not bad at all (usually). In fact it feels quite wonderful to have that connection with weather, and not be controlled by weather. I describe above staying completely dry biking in rain; but actually the other lesson you learn is that actually it's not so bad being wet either! You just go with it and learn not to worry about it...
Most of the people complaining about bikes never try it! Try it! It's great, and a whole new perspective. (Unless maybe your bike is exceptionally crappy.)
It's interesting that Americans have a choice to contribute a few bucks to this defense... while having apparently no choice about the amount they are paying for the prosecution.
I appreciate your attempt to apply logic, but apparently Linus did already prove the premises, as stated in your post, to be incorrect (or incomplete).
Your premises seem to assume rdrand is the sole source of random numbers; Linus explained that it is not the source of random numbers, but just one possible source which is mixed up with other sources in such a way that a single input is essentially meaningless. "Long answer: we use rdrand as _one_ of many inputs into the random pool, and we use it as a way to _improve_ that random pool."
Now, you (and they) need to prove that LInus' premise and/or conclusion is false.
Interesting article on slate yesterday (Revolution Blues) talking about how even now newly published popular histories (by people who should know better) miss/ignore a lot of stuff.
I check out a lot of ebooks from my library. It's pretty great. The main problem is that libraries don't have the technical ability to serve the books with DRM and whatever licencing agreements are required... so they farm the digital service to a third party. And that third party (Overdrive) is a virtual monopoly source for libraries... every library I know of around the region I live in uses Overdrive ... and have mostly the same books on offer. It's like Overdrive is the Amazon of ebook lending... only with even less competition.
Besides the technicalities of serving ebooks in an out-moded artificial physical book model (limited numbers of copies available, limited borrowing time), it's probably managing the adobe-controlled DRM (another monopoly) that is the biggest hurdle. I only hope in the future things become saner, and can be more diverse again. Both for publishers & readers... and reading devices.
Just an FYI on point one, in case you don't know. GoodReads will email you a handy monthly report of all new books by authors you've shown interest in on their site. Their recommendation engine can be helpful also, though it is kind of wonky. All this and they aren't even trying to sell you anything (though they do have links to buy via "partners"... i've never used them.)