There was a thing which Mrs Thatcher (former British PM) said once about "the oxygen of publicity". Now that was in regard of terrorists, but these *AA idiots are basically in the same mold, smashing the lives of ordinary folks with wildly disproportionate force in an attempt to sow terror and implement their politics.
In my opinion, when their output amounts to no more than obvious FUD without even backing from the biased law, they ought to be shut out of public discourse. The only purpose of spreading stories like these is to scare and manipulate the gullible. People who know better ought not to allow themselves to be used as a conduit.
I don't necessarily agree. Like most tech it's a tool - the task is up to the user. I find that fansubbed anime helps my Japanese. I'm picking out words and grammar from the flow of speech and simultaneously matching them against the translation. Often I can actually pick out where the translation was fudged or the subtleties were left out. Without the feedback from the subscripts, I wouldn't have that yet.
On the other hand, there are cases where I just want to read something quiclkly, and putting the page through Google translate is a whole lot better than staring at a page of squiggles.
The reason I personally hate Flash is that it violates the principle of "the browser belongs to the user". You have to take what you're given, all or nothing. This isn't tangential to open source! Firefox has extensions that give you control of HTML, javascript, animations, etc because both the data spec and the rendering process are open. You may not need the source, but others do and you benefit by their work.
Go is cool, except the baroqueness comes out in (1) the scoring (2) all the rule subvariants about time, scoring, ko/superko, etc.
It's probably easier for a kid to estimate winning/losing in a game of chess. Go's simplicity means you have to do more mental heavy lifting to analyse a position. In chess, discrete units are discrete pieces, but in Go the units are several pieces and may span gaps or interlock black and white stones.
People nowadays might pay an awful lot for a genuine monk-painted illuminated manuscript. There probably are still a few on sale to exclusive customers. But do you think any modern book publisher would willing go back to small volume, high price? The bulk market is bigger.
Because big-government types (among whom I number as many Republicans as Democrats, and Bush is among the worst) have wrecked the limited state and turned it into electoral dictatorship, people genuinely have something to fear. Conservatives fear that liberals will intrude with tax, nationalization and bureaucracy. Liberals fear that conservatives will make church compulsory and happiness illegal. Therefore they struggle and polarize, and hate one another. Nothing less than total annihilation will suffice!
Libertarians like me look on and think "make the state powerless, and there'd be no need to brawl over the remote control".
Nah, the reason it takes two minutes is because the Java's running on a chip that would be underpowered for an early 90s game console. And it's doing that in order to give you a battery life counted in hours, not minutes.
When somebody invents a good battery, Java will be fast on cell phones, too.
"if your child searches breast... and finds a sweet pair of titties" - it's liable to make him think "milk please".
Seriously, the people panicking over sex aren't the kids. They could see it, snicker at how gross and icky it all is, and oh my god that's sure to give him cooties, eww - but at the end of the day they probably care a whole lot more about football. It's the adults who are going nuts here. Or at least, people who ought to be adults.
I've used Azureus a lot on my Linux box, and one of its features is tunability and graphs. Number of connections, max up and down, etc, and watch the results. Now, I have a very asymmetric line (10:1 ratio). I've noticed that trying to use maximum upload and download at once can create sinewave patterns of slow response that look a lot like resonant feedback, and in extreme cases can wedge the line completely, throughput zero on all net apps. Running uploads at 20K and leaving the top 5K unused gets a far better total rate both up and down.
What I'm wondering is, might it be possible to make these sort of calculations in kernel, detect congestion feedback and back off automatically? I'm not talking about the regular exponential backoff algorithm, but about some sort of best-rate prediction based on detecting the characteristic shape of feedback waves and backing off until they disappear.
Their software attracts the customers, but their hardware pays the bills. So, not only do they have to push hardware, they can't afford to untie it from the OS. Using a non-mainstream chip has been a form of lock-in, finally abandoned only under unsupportable pressure due to economies of scale.
In a completely robotic war the intended casualties will be civilians.
War is about civilians, and their stuff. A robot war won't be about the bloodless battlefield. It will be about columns of chromed killers rolling through your city, arresting the city authorities, imposing curfew and deference at gunpoint. It will be about having your home broken into in the dead of night by a dozen robots, who drag your out of the house into the street, search through all your stuff, download your hard drive, interrogate you about the resistance, and then summarily execute you for the unregistered handgun they found under a floorboard.
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PHP is just too perfectly adapted. Perl 6's dialect programming flexibility could match PHP's specialized design, but not its simplicity. It might displace Java which was always a bit of an expedient rough fit (as witness the innumerable layers of Struts/Hibernate/servlets/blah that basically amount to smoothing the corners).
On the other hand, Perl 6 is likely to take some other niches nobody might have expected. It's probably the first language to surpass Lisp in the ability to be metaprogrammed.
That's almost right, except that it doesn't quite capture the depth of wierdness. Lets label that beastie a "knuffle". The picture shows one regular sized knuffle, and a casual glance shows perl 6 looking rather like that. In truth though it's more like a fractal aggregation of nano-knuffles which can be morphed into more or less anything else. In fact, apart from the initial morphing commands that initiate the change (lets, say, the antlers), it needn't look anything like a knuffle at all. So perhaps you see a python with antlers, or a cup of coffee with antlers. In fact the antlers can be hidden in hardlink magic, so/usr/bin/perl starts out looking like your regular perl 5 camel.
I don't actually disapprove of perl 6. If I were a lot cleverer, I might even be able to understand it. But it's a fearsome and alien creature, and I wouldn't use it to do paying work.
I'm group founder and moderator for my local freecycle, and I have NO problem with people who post wanting stuff, even frivolous stuff. Get this: every exchange must have a source and a sink. If it's not available they won't find it, but if it is available and they had never asked, maybe somebody would be stuck storing it or throwing it away. Whatever - an exchange is set up, both parties go away happy, and the total joy in the world rises a small amount. Not a negligible improvement!
However I have posted admin notices warning people that each frivolous feature they stipulate cuts down the pool of possible replies. More people will have "a table" than "a french-polished mahogany table in the Regency style".
the first time someone submits any code and says 'this is v3' it'll force the entire project v3
Only if you merge the patch. That is v2 => v3 can't be accidental, it has to involve an intentional act.
Only the other hand, my point is, if you strand your code in v2 like you're suggesting, and accept patches under those terms, then in the entirely predictiable future in which something you meed to include is v3 you'll be forced to chase everyone down and get their permission to relicense. For example, if you need to link a GPL (not LGPL) shared library, and it's 2010, and no modern distro uses the creaky antique version of that library which is GPLv2 (except Debian stable, heh). So you're either forced to recode, relicense, link a copy of the old v2 library statically, or allow your program to fade into historical irrelevance. Like I said, uncomfortable.
I'm not really asking if they can be merged with pure pure v3 code. I'm asking whether the baseline version ought to be dragged up to v3. Ought GPL2 to be abandoned?
Note that merging v2+ with v3+ code makes the resuling whole become v3+, the baseline has been moved up. So in that regard the questions overlap. In fact, Linus for example is likely to face that question when considering merging patches that were licensed v3+ or derived from v3+ code. It will eventually get rather uncomfortable trying to hang onto v2+ purity.
The Galileo GPS exists for only one reason: to fight a war against the USA. Nothing else fits the facts. They want the US not to have the off switch - why? The US has not used the off switch, and has promised never even to use the "lo rez" switch. So far they've kept that promise. Why would they break it? Only in the direst national emergency. Why then would any friend want them to be unable? They wouldn't. Only an attacker, or the friend of an attacker would want that.
You're mistaken. Energy efficiency is like overoptimizing programs. A lot of effort, time and wealth spent chasing a non-problem in ways that complicate infrastructure and limit choices.
You're reacting as if energy were scarce. It isn't. If more would be useful, build more power stations.
BTW, if I haven't made it clear, your arrogant use of first-person-plural disgusts me. Allow me to bring to your attention the important question: whose property is this energy? And the important answer: not yours. So who are you to be telling people what to do with it? Let alone what some unspecified "we" should impose! You're a would-be tyrant hiding behind a sock-puppet collective. Go to hell!
Folks are rightly poking fun at the terrorist thing. But that's also a small part of these regulations. So far as I can see, they're mostly common sense. I'm normally a very strict anti-statist, but I don't see these regulations as being much different than those which would have been imposed by insurers, or indeed, by any sane commercial rocket airline on their own staff. Nobody benefits when ill-prepared flights blow up or crash.
...just run an unsecured FTP server that allows anonymous uploads. You put up your favourite music files, and pretty soon you'll have a very nice collection of illegal porn, warez and viruses.
Yes, some people work for free, because they want something other than money (eg: fame, appreciation, creative satisfaction). So long as they don't ONLY work for free, they still get to eat.
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There was a thing which Mrs Thatcher (former British PM) said once about "the oxygen of publicity". Now that was in regard of terrorists, but these *AA idiots are basically in the same mold, smashing the lives of ordinary folks with wildly disproportionate force in an attempt to sow terror and implement their politics.
In my opinion, when their output amounts to no more than obvious FUD without even backing from the biased law, they ought to be shut out of public discourse. The only purpose of spreading stories like these is to scare and manipulate the gullible. People who know better ought not to allow themselves to be used as a conduit.
I don't necessarily agree. Like most tech it's a tool - the task is up to the user. I find that fansubbed anime helps my Japanese. I'm picking out words and grammar from the flow of speech and simultaneously matching them against the translation. Often I can actually pick out where the translation was fudged or the subtleties were left out. Without the feedback from the subscripts, I wouldn't have that yet.
On the other hand, there are cases where I just want to read something quiclkly, and putting the page through Google translate is a whole lot better than staring at a page of squiggles.
The reason I personally hate Flash is that it violates the principle of "the browser belongs to the user". You have to take what you're given, all or nothing. This isn't tangential to open source! Firefox has extensions that give you control of HTML, javascript, animations, etc because both the data spec and the rendering process are open. You may not need the source, but others do and you benefit by their work.
Go is cool, except the baroqueness comes out in (1) the scoring (2) all the rule subvariants about time, scoring, ko/superko, etc.
It's probably easier for a kid to estimate winning/losing in a game of chess. Go's simplicity means you have to do more mental heavy lifting to analyse a position. In chess, discrete units are discrete pieces, but in Go the units are several pieces and may span gaps or interlock black and white stones.
People nowadays might pay an awful lot for a genuine monk-painted illuminated manuscript. There probably are still a few on sale to exclusive customers. But do you think any modern book publisher would willing go back to small volume, high price? The bulk market is bigger.
...then there will be battles to control ideas.
Because big-government types (among whom I number as many Republicans as Democrats, and Bush is among the worst) have wrecked the limited state and turned it into electoral dictatorship, people genuinely have something to fear. Conservatives fear that liberals will intrude with tax, nationalization and bureaucracy. Liberals fear that conservatives will make church compulsory and happiness illegal. Therefore they struggle and polarize, and hate one another. Nothing less than total annihilation will suffice!
Libertarians like me look on and think "make the state powerless, and there'd be no need to brawl over the remote control".
The Trac project is rather nice, a wiki with svn and bug-tracking integration, for use in collaborate project management.
Nah, the reason it takes two minutes is because the Java's running on a chip that would be underpowered for an early 90s game console. And it's doing that in order to give you a battery life counted in hours, not minutes.
When somebody invents a good battery, Java will be fast on cell phones, too.
"if your child searches breast... and finds a sweet pair of titties" - it's liable to make him think "milk please".
Seriously, the people panicking over sex aren't the kids. They could see it, snicker at how gross and icky it all is, and oh my god that's sure to give him cooties, eww - but at the end of the day they probably care a whole lot more about football. It's the adults who are going nuts here. Or at least, people who ought to be adults.
I've used Azureus a lot on my Linux box, and one of its features is tunability and graphs. Number of connections, max up and down, etc, and watch the results. Now, I have a very asymmetric line (10:1 ratio). I've noticed that trying to use maximum upload and download at once can create sinewave patterns of slow response that look a lot like resonant feedback, and in extreme cases can wedge the line completely, throughput zero on all net apps. Running uploads at 20K and leaving the top 5K unused gets a far better total rate both up and down.
What I'm wondering is, might it be possible to make these sort of calculations in kernel, detect congestion feedback and back off automatically? I'm not talking about the regular exponential backoff algorithm, but about some sort of best-rate prediction based on detecting the characteristic shape of feedback waves and backing off until they disappear.
Their software attracts the customers, but their hardware pays the bills. So, not only do they have to push hardware, they can't afford to untie it from the OS. Using a non-mainstream chip has been a form of lock-in, finally abandoned only under unsupportable pressure due to economies of scale.
In a completely robotic war the intended casualties will be civilians.
War is about civilians, and their stuff. A robot war won't be about the bloodless battlefield. It will be about columns of chromed killers rolling through your city, arresting the city authorities, imposing curfew and deference at gunpoint. It will be about having your home broken into in the dead of night by a dozen robots, who drag your out of the house into the street, search through all your stuff, download your hard drive, interrogate you about the resistance, and then summarily execute you for the unregistered handgun they found under a floorboard.
PHP is just too perfectly adapted. Perl 6's dialect programming flexibility could match PHP's specialized design, but not its simplicity. It might displace Java which was always a bit of an expedient rough fit (as witness the innumerable layers of Struts/Hibernate/servlets/blah that basically amount to smoothing the corners).
On the other hand, Perl 6 is likely to take some other niches nobody might have expected. It's probably the first language to surpass Lisp in the ability to be metaprogrammed.
That's almost right, except that it doesn't quite capture the depth of wierdness. Lets label that beastie a "knuffle". The picture shows one regular sized knuffle, and a casual glance shows perl 6 looking rather like that. In truth though it's more like a fractal aggregation of nano-knuffles which can be morphed into more or less anything else. In fact, apart from the initial morphing commands that initiate the change (lets, say, the antlers), it needn't look anything like a knuffle at all. So perhaps you see a python with antlers, or a cup of coffee with antlers. In fact the antlers can be hidden in hardlink magic, so /usr/bin/perl starts out looking like your regular perl 5 camel.
I don't actually disapprove of perl 6. If I were a lot cleverer, I might even be able to understand it. But it's a fearsome and alien creature, and I wouldn't use it to do paying work.
I'm group founder and moderator for my local freecycle, and I have NO problem with people who post wanting stuff, even frivolous stuff. Get this: every exchange must have a source and a sink. If it's not available they won't find it, but if it is available and they had never asked, maybe somebody would be stuck storing it or throwing it away. Whatever - an exchange is set up, both parties go away happy, and the total joy in the world rises a small amount. Not a negligible improvement!
However I have posted admin notices warning people that each frivolous feature they stipulate cuts down the pool of possible replies. More people will have "a table" than "a french-polished mahogany table in the Regency style".
Only the other hand, my point is, if you strand your code in v2 like you're suggesting, and accept patches under those terms, then in the entirely predictiable future in which something you meed to include is v3 you'll be forced to chase everyone down and get their permission to relicense. For example, if you need to link a GPL (not LGPL) shared library, and it's 2010, and no modern distro uses the creaky antique version of that library which is GPLv2 (except Debian stable, heh). So you're either forced to recode, relicense, link a copy of the old v2 library statically, or allow your program to fade into historical irrelevance. Like I said, uncomfortable.
I'm not really asking if they can be merged with pure pure v3 code. I'm asking whether the baseline version ought to be dragged up to v3. Ought GPL2 to be abandoned?
Note that merging v2+ with v3+ code makes the resuling whole become v3+, the baseline has been moved up. So in that regard the questions overlap. In fact, Linus for example is likely to face that question when considering merging patches that were licensed v3+ or derived from v3+ code. It will eventually get rather uncomfortable trying to hang onto v2+ purity.
One question for OSS projects currently using GPL, will be, should they relicense?
For example, should Linux become GPL3'd?
Discuss...
The Galileo GPS exists for only one reason: to fight a war against the USA. Nothing else fits the facts. They want the US not to have the off switch - why? The US has not used the off switch, and has promised never even to use the "lo rez" switch. So far they've kept that promise. Why would they break it? Only in the direst national emergency. Why then would any friend want them to be unable? They wouldn't. Only an attacker, or the friend of an attacker would want that.
...it's a pig-jellyfish (pellyfish? jellyfig?). It has heredity from both.
1. Bedtime stories
2. Synthetic phonics
3. Visit the library, buy them their favourite books as presents
4. Upgrade to meta-reading using this.
At no point in the above does a computer feature as anything other than a source of readables.
You're mistaken. Energy efficiency is like overoptimizing programs. A lot of effort, time and wealth spent chasing a non-problem in ways that complicate infrastructure and limit choices.
You're reacting as if energy were scarce. It isn't. If more would be useful, build more power stations.
BTW, if I haven't made it clear, your arrogant use of first-person-plural disgusts me. Allow me to bring to your attention the important question: whose property is this energy? And the important answer: not yours. So who are you to be telling people what to do with it? Let alone what some unspecified "we" should impose! You're a would-be tyrant hiding behind a sock-puppet collective. Go to hell!
Folks are rightly poking fun at the terrorist thing. But that's also a small part of these regulations. So far as I can see, they're mostly common sense. I'm normally a very strict anti-statist, but I don't see these regulations as being much different than those which would have been imposed by insurers, or indeed, by any sane commercial rocket airline on their own staff. Nobody benefits when ill-prepared flights blow up or crash.
...just run an unsecured FTP server that allows anonymous uploads. You put up your favourite music files, and pretty soon you'll have a very nice collection of illegal porn, warez and viruses.
http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/latest/ doesn't exist
Yes, some people work for free, because they want something other than money (eg: fame, appreciation, creative satisfaction). So long as they don't ONLY work for free, they still get to eat.