Exactly. You would have to measure the associative spill-over (eg. of "fear equals X") related to the event(s). Just because it's harder to detect, mental injury is not less bad than bodily injury. Luckily you can fix it today. You can even sue for the loss you had because of it.
I just hope, that some day, these damages are not able to occur in the first place.
What I'm saying is, that IN THIS CASE, they would follow a reasonable man, because I think Obama is the most reasonable man in politics since...well... Some mystical figure from the old tales? By the standard of all information and logic acquired in my brain, which is pretty fuckin much, and in fact a multiple of the average American.:P
And get off with your straw man argument about...shit, Godwin's Law kicked in... Look what you have done!
What do we nowadays know about that guy, who maybe lived very roughly 2000 years ago? A book full of magic unicorn stories and moral teachings, where someone called Jesus did "magic" and got killed for it - or did he? (Sounds familiar from other fairy tales?)
I'm sorry, but nobody today knows a stinkin' shit about that guy, or if there even was such a guy. It's just that it's so much in the mind of the people, that they think it really happened. Give me enough time, and I can make you believe for real, that Santa Claus came to you as a girl and told you the world formula for this universe, and then you had a big orgy. Although I could not be that cruel, it's still basic psychology.
We have tons of fanatics anyway. So it's better they fanatically follow a reasonable man, that some religious loony. And then we still have many reasonable people left. It's not as if there were only fanatics.
So in the end, while not perfect, it's at least a very good deal. Better than the old shit by far...:)
The console does not disturb Klickibuni people. (There is no English word for this German word that comes from clicking and "bunt" which means colorful.)
They can still use the method where you don't have to learn a thing.
In fact that's my exact point: Windows is made so that every retard can use it. But it kills it for us pros. Vi is made for total geeks, but it kills it for those who do not want to get that deep into it.
But, for Joe Pesci's sake!!! (I pray to him, for he is the prophet of our noodliness;) You can have both! Make it very intuitive to use at first, and allow it to gradually grow with how much the user actually needs it. If possible, offer an interface for more than one level of expertise at the same time.
So to the grandparent kae77 I say: Your narrow false dichotomy is not our problem. It is yours. And "to work" is entierly subjective. For me the Windows Media Player does not work. Neither does the Windows system control or the missing logging in Windows. But the bash and the "everything is a file" system of linux works very nice for me, and so does greasemonkey. You would support monkeys so much, that there would not be anything else left. Including yourself. And then some monkeys like you would complain that it's too complicated for the average prosimian, and that they only want to beat it with sticks. Way to go... You are no retard... you just are a responsible for the retards of this world. I hate you.
When are developers going to admit that they should just stick to the OS's GUI toolkit? The user can then theme their entire window manager, instead of each individual program.
I agree. But try that on Windows XP. First you have to patch the kernel (!!) to allow non MS-"validated" themes, then you find out that they want you to pay for the tool, except if you download some obscure patcher from the gray area of the web. (Good luck with the trojans.) And when you finally got it working, the choice of themes is poor, because the theme engine is poor. Or you install some +100MB-in-RAM Klickibunti (there is no English word for this German word) thing like WindowBlinds, that slows your Desktop to a slide show.
Thank Joe Pesci (I'm praying to him too;) that I'm now running Compiz-Fusion with KDE 3.5 (Fuck 4.1. I want features!). I have a very nice clean theme *everywhere*, tons of shortcuts just like I like them, and do not even need the mouse most of the time. And Windows XP got confined to a Virtual-box on my second virtual screen, whit its own stick of RAM and HDD.
And I leave the cube plug-in on for the sole purpose of changing the OS by turning the cube, and thereby making people's jaws drop.;)
I actually though. Only 5 times? Why could he not use the console even more?
I really hate this "GUI good, console baaad" bullshit. The console is a good thing, and yelling out that uneducated bullshit of yours should result in a good old straight punch in the face. Luckily for you, I'm non that kind of person.
The console is what makes the difference from being a monkey who uses a pre-fabricated toy to having the power over your computer and creating your own tools. It's the power to automate. The whole fuckin' point of a computer!
My ideal UI would have graphical output, but would be controlled like a console. (Perhaps with a small command line with history at the bottom of the screen.) Look at Autodesk Maya. They did a wonderful job. Everything you do is a script command. (In Python now too!) Everything can be entered both ways. Graphically or in the console. And then you select some lines, and drag them on the toolbar, or add a menu item with a shortcut. Or you add some flow control statements, some variables, and some UI elements, and there you have it: Your new tool!
If someone would integrate Linux UIs so tightly (by disallowing programs without UI/logic separation and letting you choose between different scripting languages), we would get the power of the console with a modern graphical view. And I'd dedicate a huge thankfulness gift to that person. (= Something that is worth more than just money.)
Definitely. The green ones are organic. Of course the degrade. Dhe golden ones actually are real gold, and i recommend them. And the blue ones? Don't even ask me about this shit!
He means burned CDs, not the pressed ones from the factory.
They are an entierly different beast. They are made of some plastic (which does not degrade much, except for very slow gravity deformation), a writable layer (the one that gives it a color too) and a very thin layer of something very hard, that's painted on top.
So scratching the bottom side can be fixed, but scratching the top side can't.
The writable layer is what degrades first. There are differend kinds: Blue ones, green ones and golden ones (rare).
The golden ones are rather rare, except for CD-RWs, because they are real gold. This makes them more expensive, but ups their lifespan by at least 400-500%. The green ones are actually made out of some organic material. In my eyes this is a horrible choice. They obviously degrade rather quickly. The blue ones are even worse. I don't remember the exact material, but I remember that they degrade even quicker than the green ones, but here it matters how they were produced.
In a huge test of some german magazine, they simulated aging of dozens of different cd-rs and cd-rws in a climate chamber. The golden CD-RWs died after 10 simulated years. The green and blue ones were already unreadable after 2-3 years.
This was some time ago (5-7 years), so I think the quality got better by some percentage. But the media got cheaper too, so maybe not much has changed. In any case: Don't rely on the media to live for more than 10 years.
If you want to have real pressed CDs: The "drive" is huge, costs as much as a car, but gives you a real pressed CD in seconds. These will last very long. Just don't scratch them (no dust or no movement), and don't let them deform (pack them with spacer layers out of something very stiff or turn them around regularily).
Ok, I did not see it like that. I always imagine a translation table for EBML and XML which looks somewhat like this (for the example of html):
1 html 2 head 3 body 4 attributes (contains a tag's attributes) 5 id (an attribute) 6...and so on
This way, you could simply use the most significant bits as the namespace part. in this example the second byte would identify the namespace.
256 svg 257 line 258 path 259...and so on
Now the coolest part, would be, to enforce the header or the first tag of EBML to contain this table, and the URL of the RelaxNG definition (or even the definiton itself).
That way, every XML-editor, and with a file format handler even every basic text editor, could handle the files, and we finally would have a complete and still efficient common structured file format for everything. I just wish Autodesk, Adobe and Steinberg (or Native Instruments) would adopt such formats. It would make life so much easier.
Seriously... it makes the news, when a device is rooted, that you OWN? I mean, isn't that the point of owning a device? That you can do whatever you want with it? Else it is not sold but leased. If they say they sold it, but do not give you root access, to me that is deliberate fraud and should be followed by a billon-dollar class-action lawsuit to sue them out of business.
How long before such news come out on the newest PC (eg from Dell)?
Oh, I forgot... that was a major "feature" of Vista, called TCPA.
Thank god all my friends and I never ever have to buy a complete PC in one piece, because of me.:)
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*lol* For that comment alone, you get a new fan.:D
(I hope your nickname does not mean that you're a troll.)
I'll take a pill, and the nanomachines will work their way up to my brain, converting it into denser thinking material so that I am able to think several billion times faster.
Unfortunately, there's a problem with that: Your brain already is getting hot from all the thinking. If it works several billon times faster, I can guarantee you that it will become extremely hot. You better excange your blood for a super-coolant, and make your hair a giant heat spreader, or else you'll literally burn up after your head explodes on you next math problem.;)
It would look fuckin' cool tough. I give you that.:P
ogv (aka ogg) and mkv (can be named mka for audio-only too) are containers. Theora is a codec. Like H.264 aka MPEG 4 AVC. Except that H.264 is an actual standard which compresses much better. (Theora is more "last generation".) Unfortunately, H.264 ist patented, so for some applications it's out of question.
Oh, and in terms of containers, mkv kicks the shit out of ogg.;) I love the concept of EMBL, binary markup, behind it. It's like XML, but without the verbosity. With a DTD you could perfecly convert between XML and EBLM, tag by tag. (I dislike XML for its extreme verbosity, but I like a common file format standard that everybody can understand and read/write.)
I, for one, will still use mkv plus x264 and 5.1 vorbis (or the original AC3-track) for encoding my videos. If I make no money with it, I will not pay money for using it, because they lost nothing.
Not if you stream HD videos all day long, without storing them. Yeah, I know that it's stupid, but then again, so is YouTube. People will do it anyway.:(
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Exactly. You would have to measure the associative spill-over (eg. of "fear equals X") related to the event(s).
Just because it's harder to detect, mental injury is not less bad than bodily injury.
Luckily you can fix it today. You can even sue for the loss you had because of it.
I just hope, that some day, these damages are not able to occur in the first place.
What QA?
As if there were Google products that actually pass beta before DNF is out... lol. ;)
What I'm saying is, that IN THIS CASE, they would follow a reasonable man, because I think Obama is the most reasonable man in politics since...well... Some mystical figure from the old tales? By the standard of all information and logic acquired in my brain, which is pretty fuckin much, and in fact a multiple of the average American. :P
And get off with your straw man argument about ...shit, Godwin's Law kicked in... Look what you have done!
What do we nowadays know about that guy, who maybe lived very roughly 2000 years ago?
A book full of magic unicorn stories and moral teachings, where someone called Jesus did "magic" and got killed for it - or did he? (Sounds familiar from other fairy tales?)
I'm sorry, but nobody today knows a stinkin' shit about that guy, or if there even was such a guy. It's just that it's so much in the mind of the people, that they think it really happened. Give me enough time, and I can make you believe for real, that Santa Claus came to you as a girl and told you the world formula for this universe, and then you had a big orgy. Although I could not be that cruel, it's still basic psychology.
... when you want a CTO... you select a CIO?
I guess you also take strawberry ice cream when you want chocolate?
Maybe you should first find out what you want, and then find the person who can get it, instead of the other way around.
And that's why you are just a "pundit" (aka. consultant), and no real leader.
I had a long hard thought about this.
We have tons of fanatics anyway. So it's better they fanatically follow a reasonable man, that some religious loony.
And then we still have many reasonable people left. It's not as if there were only fanatics.
So in the end, while not perfect, it's at least a very good deal. Better than the old shit by far... :)
Exactly. Who said there is an either-or?
The console does not disturb Klickibuni people. (There is no English word for this German word that comes from clicking and "bunt" which means colorful.)
They can still use the method where you don't have to learn a thing.
In fact that's my exact point: Windows is made so that every retard can use it. But it kills it for us pros.
Vi is made for total geeks, but it kills it for those who do not want to get that deep into it.
But, for Joe Pesci's sake!!! (I pray to him, for he is the prophet of our noodliness ;)
You can have both! Make it very intuitive to use at first, and allow it to gradually grow with how much the user actually needs it. If possible, offer an interface for more than one level of expertise at the same time.
So to the grandparent kae77 I say: Your narrow false dichotomy is not our problem. It is yours.
And "to work" is entierly subjective. For me the Windows Media Player does not work. Neither does the Windows system control or the missing logging in Windows. But the bash and the "everything is a file" system of linux works very nice for me, and so does greasemonkey.
You would support monkeys so much, that there would not be anything else left. Including yourself. And then some monkeys like you would complain that it's too complicated for the average prosimian, and that they only want to beat it with sticks. Way to go...
You are no retard... you just are a responsible for the retards of this world. I hate you.
When are developers going to admit that they should just stick to the OS's GUI toolkit? The user can then theme their entire window manager, instead of each individual program.
I agree. But try that on Windows XP. First you have to patch the kernel (!!) to allow non MS-"validated" themes, then you find out that they want you to pay for the tool, except if you download some obscure patcher from the gray area of the web. (Good luck with the trojans.)
And when you finally got it working, the choice of themes is poor, because the theme engine is poor.
Or you install some +100MB-in-RAM Klickibunti (there is no English word for this German word) thing like WindowBlinds, that slows your Desktop to a slide show.
Thank Joe Pesci (I'm praying to him too ;) that I'm now running Compiz-Fusion with KDE 3.5 (Fuck 4.1. I want features!). I have a very nice clean theme *everywhere*, tons of shortcuts just like I like them, and do not even need the mouse most of the time. And Windows XP got confined to a Virtual-box on my second virtual screen, whit its own stick of RAM and HDD.
And I leave the cube plug-in on for the sole purpose of changing the OS by turning the cube, and thereby making people's jaws drop. ;)
Aaah... sorry for that typo.
"tough." = "tought:"
I hope I did not ruin it, because I really wanted to bring something useful to the discussion. :(
I actually though. Only 5 times? Why could he not use the console even more?
I really hate this "GUI good, console baaad" bullshit. The console is a good thing, and yelling out that uneducated bullshit of yours should result in a good old straight punch in the face. Luckily for you, I'm non that kind of person.
The console is what makes the difference from being a monkey who uses a pre-fabricated toy to having the power over your computer and creating your own tools. It's the power to automate. The whole fuckin' point of a computer!
My ideal UI would have graphical output, but would be controlled like a console. (Perhaps with a small command line with history at the bottom of the screen.)
Look at Autodesk Maya. They did a wonderful job. Everything you do is a script command. (In Python now too!) Everything can be entered both ways. Graphically or in the console. And then you select some lines, and drag them on the toolbar, or add a menu item with a shortcut. Or you add some flow control statements, some variables, and some UI elements, and there you have it: Your new tool!
If someone would integrate Linux UIs so tightly (by disallowing programs without UI/logic separation and letting you choose between different scripting languages), we would get the power of the console with a modern graphical view. And I'd dedicate a huge thankfulness gift to that person. (= Something that is worth more than just money.)
Definitely. The green ones are organic. Of course the degrade. Dhe golden ones actually are real gold, and i recommend them.
And the blue ones? Don't even ask me about this shit!
He means burned CDs, not the pressed ones from the factory.
They are an entierly different beast.
They are made of some plastic (which does not degrade much, except for very slow gravity deformation),
a writable layer (the one that gives it a color too)
and a very thin layer of something very hard, that's painted on top.
So scratching the bottom side can be fixed, but scratching the top side can't.
The writable layer is what degrades first. There are differend kinds: Blue ones, green ones and golden ones (rare).
The golden ones are rather rare, except for CD-RWs, because they are real gold. This makes them more expensive, but ups their lifespan by at least 400-500%.
The green ones are actually made out of some organic material. In my eyes this is a horrible choice. They obviously degrade rather quickly.
The blue ones are even worse. I don't remember the exact material, but I remember that they degrade even quicker than the green ones, but here it matters how they were produced.
In a huge test of some german magazine, they simulated aging of dozens of different cd-rs and cd-rws in a climate chamber.
The golden CD-RWs died after 10 simulated years.
The green and blue ones were already unreadable after 2-3 years.
This was some time ago (5-7 years), so I think the quality got better by some percentage. But the media got cheaper too, so maybe not much has changed.
In any case: Don't rely on the media to live for more than 10 years.
If you want to have real pressed CDs: The "drive" is huge, costs as much as a car, but gives you a real pressed CD in seconds.
These will last very long. Just don't scratch them (no dust or no movement), and don't let them deform (pack them with spacer layers out of something very stiff or turn them around regularily).
I hope this clears up the details.
Hmm... because it's a tag?
And special handling for one specific tag would be stupid extra code.
The point is, I think, that you can search for stories that made the front page (or didn't).
Ok, I did not see it like that.
I always imagine a translation table for EBML and XML which looks somewhat like this (for the example of html):
1 html ...and so on
2 head
3 body
4 attributes (contains a tag's attributes)
5 id (an attribute)
6
This way, you could simply use the most significant bits as the namespace part. in this example the second byte would identify the namespace.
256 svg ...and so on
257 line
258 path
259
Now the coolest part, would be, to enforce the header or the first tag of EBML to contain this table, and the URL of the RelaxNG definition (or even the definiton itself).
That way, every XML-editor, and with a file format handler even every basic text editor, could handle the files, and we finally would have a complete and still efficient common structured file format for everything.
I just wish Autodesk, Adobe and Steinberg (or Native Instruments) would adopt such formats. It would make life so much easier.
What? They are against fusion??
Ok, I'm now officially not shining for them anymore!
Against fusion... pah...
Yours,
Sol the Sun
(Friend of Joe the Plumber)
Oh ...come...on....
Have you no humor? :(
My humor is crazy, and I love it exactly for this! :P
You don't know what's funny.
Valid question.
Well, if a story comes from the firehose, it gets tagged "story", because it became a story. And If it didn't, it gets tagged "!story".
I have eight vaginas, you insensitive clod!
(And eight penises on the other side. But shhhhh, do not tell him. He better has eight orifices. Huar, huar, huar,... *drool*...)
Seriously... it makes the news, when a device is rooted, that you OWN? I mean, isn't that the point of owning a device? That you can do whatever you want with it?
Else it is not sold but leased. If they say they sold it, but do not give you root access, to me that is deliberate fraud and should be followed by a billon-dollar class-action lawsuit to sue them out of business.
How long before such news come out on the newest PC (eg from Dell)?
Oh, I forgot... that was a major "feature" of Vista, called TCPA.
Thank god all my friends and I never ever have to buy a complete PC in one piece, because of me. :)
*lol* For that comment alone, you get a new fan. :D
(I hope your nickname does not mean that you're a troll.)
I'll take a pill, and the nanomachines will work their way up to my brain, converting it into denser thinking material so that I am able to think several billion times faster.
Unfortunately, there's a problem with that: Your brain already is getting hot from all the thinking. If it works several billon times faster, I can guarantee you that it will become extremely hot. You better excange your blood for a super-coolant, and make your hair a giant heat spreader, or else you'll literally burn up after your head explodes on you next math problem. ;)
It would look fuckin' cool tough. I give you that. :P
ogv (aka ogg) and mkv (can be named mka for audio-only too) are containers. Theora is a codec. Like H.264 aka MPEG 4 AVC. Except that H.264 is an actual standard which compresses much better. (Theora is more "last generation".)
Unfortunately, H.264 ist patented, so for some applications it's out of question.
Oh, and in terms of containers, mkv kicks the shit out of ogg. ;)
I love the concept of EMBL, binary markup, behind it. It's like XML, but without the verbosity.
With a DTD you could perfecly convert between XML and EBLM, tag by tag. (I dislike XML for its extreme verbosity, but I like a common file format standard that everybody can understand and read/write.)
I, for one, will still use mkv plus x264 and 5.1 vorbis (or the original AC3-track) for encoding my videos. If I make no money with it, I will not pay money for using it, because they lost nothing.
Maybe it's because the only terrorists that are not an illusion to create FUD, are in your government right now...
No, better:
-1, Brillant
Not if you stream HD videos all day long, without storing them. Yeah, I know that it's stupid, but then again, so is YouTube. People will do it anyway. :(