Byzantine? You have seen nothing! Go look at Germany, France, or the like. 19% tax on everything you buy is only the beginning. According to my uncle, who runs a 50-person business, 80% of what the client pays, ends up as taxes. 80 freakin percent! (Don't forget to add all the layers of taxation.)
Of course you get healthcare... kinda... and all the other government stuff... up to someone coming to your house to help you do your work... kinda... the service you get is mostly lousy.
But hey, at least your constitution openly states, that when your government becomes unbearable, you can shoot them. If I were a General, I would have started at the beginning of the second term of Bush. And by now, there would be two countries. Mine (includes New York, LA, etc), and the bible country. Of course, as a bible country can't get anything done, because they would just pray for bombs, and kill all engineers for wizardry, soon there would only be one country again. ^^
If so, don't pop the spheres inside! Or the plants will grow into bizarre forms, the insects will inflate, the trees will start to twitch, and everything will smell nauseating, turn gray, be eaten away and glow with that same unearthly color.
I never understood the "pro-life" (actually more like anti-health) movement. A fetus is nothing special. Because a human is nothing special. It is very arrogant to think that we're oh-so-special. We're not. Life in itself is nothing special. It's just a state of the machine of the class "lifeform". You can make a new fetus in what? Weeks? And this time a healthy one. One that is more likely to create healthy offspring. Or even offspring at all.
The numbers of people who have a very hard time making children grows like crazy. With the current trend, in 3 generations, there will be no human left in the western world, who can reproduce without advanced medical help. A few generations later we're done. At least if we continue to go that way.
To me, all that fearmongering of "terrorists" (that don't exist) is creating terror itself. So all the censorship and surveillance on the net would be the actual "cyberterror". If there were a point in adding "cyber-" in front of everything. It's just plain terrorizing the people. For the usual reasons: To gain control over them.
You have obviously no graps of software design principles.
Look at how it's done on pretty much all Linux distributions: You choose your architecture when you choose the install medium. From then on, the package manager pulls your packages for the right arch. There is no need to re-compile it for every user, if it's the same. Just offer specially optimized binaries for every arch right on the package repository servers. That's the basic principle: Never do something twice. It's like caching.
The other one is efficiency. And in the case of such a standard Linux package management, having the machine code for different architectures in that binary, despite you exactly knowing your architecture, is not only inefficient for no freakin' reason at all, but downright stupid. Yeah, disk space is cheap. But does that mean you should flood it for no reason at all? No. Of course not. Or else, why not just run a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/cache/$(date +%N).trash bs=1G" on every boot? It's cheap,...no? And it's just as pointless.
What do you think? How likely is it at all, that a user copies a binary to a different architecture? I think zero point zero zero. There is just no freakin point to it. Except "because I can". So you lost all connections to reality, if you think it's a good idea.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I think for open software, that does not follow "traditional" models of software distribution, it's a pointless waste of resources.
Also, it won't affect me anyway, as I'm compiling everything from sources. (Gentoo)
You seem to think, that they are not the ones who profit most from criminality. What made you come up with that.
Who ran all the drug deals in the Netherlands, prior to legalization? THE FUCKIN' COPS! Who runs the hard drugs deals in Luxemburg right now? THE COPS! They stand right next to Heroine dealers, and to NOTHING! Because they get their share of the cash.
Uuum, in what perverse sick world is sex not the opposite of filth? It seems you got the "Religion" disease, which makes you think, that beautiful thing has any bad association at all. You should be ashamed of yourself. And "profanity"?? For real? If you dislike being a human, and living in a world of reality, then please STOP doing so. Instead of looking through the glasses of a twisted and sick reality. Or get yourself a therapy. You disgust me.
I'm sorry to tell you that, but that makes you a beta-male. One with a weak own opinion, who mostly follows the realities of others. A potential human cattle. I was like that too. But I realized, that because of the way I was raised, I never acquired the natural own set of values and the strong reality I should have. So I stopped reacting to others, and started to question every matter of course I always assumed without thinking. That was the first time in my life, that I was really myself.
I really recommend to try it too. If nothing else, it will make you live a much more happy life. And the strong reality is very attractive to women, and to every beta male out there. (And for a good reason!) Before you know it, you're the one that people use as a guide, instead of as a menial.:)
Why I'm so sure? Because there is no "they" in the Internet. Everybody can connect to his neighbors' wifi router, if needed. And the moment when no company on the planet is interested in using the now unused wires and cell phone towers, to sell services to customers, is the moment when humanity itself ceases to exist.
I don't see a point in imagining not having the Internet. And I know how it would look anyway, since I already lived when there was no such thing. I even know how life in a monastery without electricity is. Or in a hut in the middle of nowhere.
Now, that we know of the concept of a Internet, as long as there is a critical mass of humans exists, there will be such a network.:)
That's the nice thing in Germany: You can't sell your rights to your inventions/creations. You are always the one who created it. That fact can't change without a time-machine. (Don't dare calling German Urheberrecht a "copyright law". They are very different. And luckily so.)
1. "If someone can do something wrong, someone will." There's no way to circumvent this. Ever. Period. You have to accept, that humans make errors. But it's ok if they learn from it. The problem is:
2. "To get people to learn from something, they have to have an interest in it." So if it does not hurt them, and does not give them a advantage, then why should they learn anything? Humans are all about efficiency. In fact all competing life-forms ever, are. In all of the universe. So what do you do? You follow basic rules of creating a motivating gradient. By offering advantages for those who learn, and disadvantages for those who don't.
Here, remember, that positive gradients (relative to the person's state) are always better, than negative ones (like punishment).
So I recommend this: At the next raise of salaries, raise them a bit less. But offer the remaining part as a bonus for those who can prove their security-awareness. The amount is pretty easy to choose: It's the amount that you'd lose (e.g. the money to recover from loss or destruction), multiplied by the factor of likeliness (e.g. one in a million = 0.000001), divided by the number of people in the company (optional, depending on your p.o.v.).
You could check their security-awareness, by testing them every year on a random day. Like a fire drill. But with a security drill. (Without announcing anything. Without any alarm going off.) And by filling out a question form at the end of the day (one that takes a negligible amount of time, and is also there, to refresh the knowledge. One more reason to make it a random day [= better learning])
You can bet your mother on the fact that they will be much better at caring for security! ^^
Only remember, to make all those drills, bonuses and tests proportional to the actual real amount of damage. Don't be surprised, if it then will be less than you thought.
Hey, I bet with you, that my car, full of hard disks, is also faster than an ISP.
That pigeon thing is a straw-man. There are better ways to say that there are problems. Like mentioning, I don't know, perhaps...the actual average transfer rate!! (Including outages.)
- Doctor Who and Top Gear:) - PayPal micro-payment as an alternative to watching ads, or where you can't get any ads for. - A price that is somewhere in the range of what you'd get from advertisers.
Why that price? Because I know what you get for ads on the web. And those prices are so low per individual viewer, that BBC would still make a better profit, by asking 5 cent per show, or something like that. A price that nobody can ever think of as too expensive.
I would be happy to pay for something that deserves that money.
Comedy Central should do the same with The Daily Show. Come on. Those prices are like nothing! And you still make a hell of a better profit, as when advertising! And people still can choose to watch the ads, if it's not worth money for them. It's a no-brainer! A win-win!
You could also let us buy a whole season at once. 65 cent for 13 episodes.
Oh, and of course I expect to be able to save it right from the player. Because I can save it anyway (After all, it already had to be transferred to my computer, to be watchable!), and using my Firefox add-on is not even any hassle. But the gesture of letting me save it right in your player, will show a friendliness that crates important sympathies.
P.S.: I'm a bit ill today, and not that fit. so sorry if my sentences look a bit weird to read. ^^ I hope it all makes sense anyway.
Their spiders still are pretty cool. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have planned to take over the country. I would welcome them more, that the current government. ^^
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Also, obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.org/
Byzantine? You have seen nothing! Go look at Germany, France, or the like. 19% tax on everything you buy is only the beginning. According to my uncle, who runs a 50-person business, 80% of what the client pays, ends up as taxes. 80 freakin percent! (Don't forget to add all the layers of taxation.)
Of course you get healthcare... kinda... and all the other government stuff... up to someone coming to your house to help you do your work... kinda... the service you get is mostly lousy.
But hey, at least your constitution openly states, that when your government becomes unbearable, you can shoot them. If I were a General, I would have started at the beginning of the second term of Bush. And by now, there would be two countries. Mine (includes New York, LA, etc), and the bible country. Of course, as a bible country can't get anything done, because they would just pray for bombs, and kill all engineers for wizardry, soon there would only be one country again. ^^
If so, don't pop the spheres inside! Or the plants will grow into bizarre forms, the insects will inflate, the trees will start to twitch, and everything will smell nauseating, turn gray, be eaten away and glow with that same unearthly color.
Good luck,
H. P.
I never understood the "pro-life" (actually more like anti-health) movement. A fetus is nothing special. Because a human is nothing special. It is very arrogant to think that we're oh-so-special. We're not. Life in itself is nothing special. It's just a state of the machine of the class "lifeform". You can make a new fetus in what? Weeks? And this time a healthy one. One that is more likely to create healthy offspring. Or even offspring at all.
The numbers of people who have a very hard time making children grows like crazy. With the current trend, in 3 generations, there will be no human left in the western world, who can reproduce without advanced medical help. A few generations later we're done. At least if we continue to go that way.
... but this is stereo(-2D), not (volumetric) 3D. Despite the layman definition.
To me, all that fearmongering of "terrorists" (that don't exist) is creating terror itself. So all the censorship and surveillance on the net would be the actual "cyberterror". If there were a point in adding "cyber-" in front of everything. It's just plain terrorizing the people. For the usual reasons: To gain control over them.
It's not for the PC. It's for Windows only. I don't see any other OSes there.
Also, I already have a better "Kindle" on my PC. It's called a "PDF reader". ^^
You have obviously no graps of software design principles.
Look at how it's done on pretty much all Linux distributions: You choose your architecture when you choose the install medium. From then on, the package manager pulls your packages for the right arch. There is no need to re-compile it for every user, if it's the same. Just offer specially optimized binaries for every arch right on the package repository servers. That's the basic principle: Never do something twice. It's like caching.
The other one is efficiency. And in the case of such a standard Linux package management, having the machine code for different architectures in that binary, despite you exactly knowing your architecture, is not only inefficient for no freakin' reason at all, but downright stupid. Yeah, disk space is cheap. But does that mean you should flood it for no reason at all? No. Of course not. Or else, why not just run a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/cache/$(date +%N).trash bs=1G" on every boot? It's cheap, ...no? And it's just as pointless.
What do you think? How likely is it at all, that a user copies a binary to a different architecture? I think zero point zero zero. There is just no freakin point to it. Except "because I can". So you lost all connections to reality, if you think it's a good idea.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
I think for open software, that does not follow "traditional" models of software distribution, it's a pointless waste of resources.
Also, it won't affect me anyway, as I'm compiling everything from sources. (Gentoo)
You seem to think, that they are not the ones who profit most from criminality. What made you come up with that.
Who ran all the drug deals in the Netherlands, prior to legalization? THE FUCKIN' COPS!
Who runs the hard drugs deals in Luxemburg right now? THE COPS! They stand right next to Heroine dealers, and to NOTHING! Because they get their share of the cash.
Open your eyes, man!
Uuum, in what perverse sick world is sex not the opposite of filth? It seems you got the "Religion" disease, which makes you think, that beautiful thing has any bad association at all. You should be ashamed of yourself. And "profanity"?? For real? If you dislike being a human, and living in a world of reality, then please STOP doing so. Instead of looking through the glasses of a twisted and sick reality. Or get yourself a therapy.
You disgust me.
Architecturally, it's identical to the more advanced Cortex-A9
How can it be identical, when it's more advanced? Those two are opposites.
Or is their definition of identity itself more advanced? ^^
Like "(==) a b = a >= b" in Haskell?
I'm sorry to tell you that, but that makes you a beta-male. One with a weak own opinion, who mostly follows the realities of others. A potential human cattle.
I was like that too. But I realized, that because of the way I was raised, I never acquired the natural own set of values and the strong reality I should have.
So I stopped reacting to others, and started to question every matter of course I always assumed without thinking. That was the first time in my life, that I was really myself.
I really recommend to try it too. If nothing else, it will make you live a much more happy life. And the strong reality is very attractive to women, and to every beta male out there. (And for a good reason!) Before you know it, you're the one that people use as a guide, instead of as a menial. :)
That was the best quote you could manage? You missed out on the epic chance to quote
"We can't go back to Playboy now!"
Because it would never happen.
Why I'm so sure? Because there is no "they" in the Internet. Everybody can connect to his neighbors' wifi router, if needed. And the moment when no company on the planet is interested in using the now unused wires and cell phone towers, to sell services to customers, is the moment when humanity itself ceases to exist.
I don't see a point in imagining not having the Internet. And I know how it would look anyway, since I already lived when there was no such thing. I even know how life in a monastery without electricity is. Or in a hut in the middle of nowhere.
Now, that we know of the concept of a Internet, as long as there is a critical mass of humans exists, there will be such a network. :)
Does all of your other software auto update as well?
Have you never heard of package management systems?
eix-sync && emerge -auDNtv world
Done. Man, you Windows guys are weird.
That's the nice thing in Germany: You can't sell your rights to your inventions/creations. You are always the one who created it. That fact can't change without a time-machine. (Don't dare calling German Urheberrecht a "copyright law". They are very different. And luckily so.)
Distributed?
You are posting on Slashdot. You can't fool us! ^^
Uuum, where did you get the idea, that a replacement of the CRTC would be any better?
If anything, this site actually IS by the ISPs. And after dissolving it, things will be much, much worse.
Ok. Then the only thing left to do, is help mother nature a bit, with her natural selection... by using them, to give you an advantage. ^^
Seriously. You're doing humanity a favor, that way.
1. "If someone can do something wrong, someone will."
There's no way to circumvent this. Ever. Period. You have to accept, that humans make errors. But it's ok if they learn from it.
The problem is:
2. "To get people to learn from something, they have to have an interest in it."
So if it does not hurt them, and does not give them a advantage, then why should they learn anything? Humans are all about efficiency. In fact all competing life-forms ever, are. In all of the universe.
So what do you do? You follow basic rules of creating a motivating gradient. By offering advantages for those who learn, and disadvantages for those who don't.
Here, remember, that positive gradients (relative to the person's state) are always better, than negative ones (like punishment).
So I recommend this: At the next raise of salaries, raise them a bit less. But offer the remaining part as a bonus for those who can prove their security-awareness.
The amount is pretty easy to choose: It's the amount that you'd lose (e.g. the money to recover from loss or destruction), multiplied by the factor of likeliness (e.g. one in a million = 0.000001), divided by the number of people in the company (optional, depending on your p.o.v.).
You could check their security-awareness, by testing them every year on a random day. Like a fire drill. But with a security drill. (Without announcing anything. Without any alarm going off.)
And by filling out a question form at the end of the day (one that takes a negligible amount of time, and is also there, to refresh the knowledge. One more reason to make it a random day [= better learning])
You can bet your mother on the fact that they will be much better at caring for security! ^^
Only remember, to make all those drills, bonuses and tests proportional to the actual real amount of damage. Don't be surprised, if it then will be less than you thought.
Hey, I bet with you, that my car, full of hard disks, is also faster than an ISP.
That pigeon thing is a straw-man. There are better ways to say that there are problems. Like mentioning, I don't know, perhaps...the actual average transfer rate!! (Including outages.)
- Doctor Who and Top Gear :)
- PayPal micro-payment as an alternative to watching ads, or where you can't get any ads for.
- A price that is somewhere in the range of what you'd get from advertisers.
Why that price? Because I know what you get for ads on the web. And those prices are so low per individual viewer, that BBC would still make a better profit, by asking 5 cent per show, or something like that. A price that nobody can ever think of as too expensive.
I would be happy to pay for something that deserves that money.
Comedy Central should do the same with The Daily Show. Come on. Those prices are like nothing! And you still make a hell of a better profit, as when advertising! And people still can choose to watch the ads, if it's not worth money for them.
It's a no-brainer! A win-win!
You could also let us buy a whole season at once. 65 cent for 13 episodes.
Oh, and of course I expect to be able to save it right from the player. Because I can save it anyway (After all, it already had to be transferred to my computer, to be watchable!), and using my Firefox add-on is not even any hassle. But the gesture of letting me save it right in your player, will show a friendliness that crates important sympathies.
P.S.: I'm a bit ill today, and not that fit. so sorry if my sentences look a bit weird to read. ^^ I hope it all makes sense anyway.
Their spiders still are pretty cool. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have planned to take over the country. I would welcome them more, that the current government. ^^
You mean, because there is no transformation at all because they are the same thing?