I f I where to switch to organic food only, it would not be on the basis of it having more or less nutrients - but on the basis of it having freaking less pesticides! T.F.A. does not seem to cover teh health issues on long term consuming food with traces of chemicals engineered to terminate life. That is what the whole thing about "organic being healthier" should be.
If you missed Orwell's novel (perhaps in Amazon's remote erasing)... there is a war going on, somewhere in the World and we are winning, Big Brother is something good, and we are eing watched on what we do and what we consume by our gadgets' app stores - and everything is fine as far as we are not informed enough
Jomar, a core contributor to ODF, was one of Brazil's envoy to the ISO group in which Microsoft format were aproved, trying to prevent it from happening as it went.
So-- there is this businnes model I believe is doomed! What do I do? Purchase 63 companies that rely on it! I'd say that is pulling a Homer as few other things could be.
Never thought they could image a Steampunk version of Prof. Lunazzi's 3D screen - http://www.physorg.com/news156072878.html Wait...using vapour and one LCD projector per voxel is "serious" not Steam age retro joke? What???
There is a "Décret" which actually makes the 2004 law effective published on March 1, 2011 - apparently it is for real, and it is the internert companies response to this decree that triggered the news.
Yes ..thank you8 for helping me filling up the puzzle -- the law requiring data retnetion is actually from 2004 - -a "opinion" about the law is dated from 2008 - which led to the required "Décret" to be published on March 1, 2011, as can be seem here: Official Decrét text(french) Google Translation
So, what made the news is that large internet services and companies such as Google et all. are in French Justice trying to invalidate the law alltogether(which I believe they will suceed in, since it is really clueless) - but the law is actually passed and getting ready to be effective in a 60 days or so.
"Launch on top of Windows" - A.K.A. an emulator app (even if through a virtual machine, nonetheless it will be an emulator for something that allows web OS apps launch seamlessly on windows... none of whcih I can see as anything close of newsworthy)
Absolutely no fear - In Brazil we had lived with more than 10 years of irregualr schedules for D.S.T. (although it was al=ways for one hour, never two) - sometimes computer locks would be off by one hour for a week or more -- and the country never experienced any major failure from that. Event today old windows xp installs change the time back and forth D.S.T. in the incorrect dates, again wioth no victims.
(We have regular dates for the switch since 2008).
Yes! Instead of lots of inneficient conversion methods, and n orer to overcome the last mile problem, this would finally allow the deployment of Lava To The Home technology, through some simple piping.
Besides heating, hot lava could be used in special taps to allow for inexpensive 3D printing, allowing everyone to produce their own custo made Rock Consumer Appliances.
Asimov's "zeroth law" was to " protect humanity - but regardless of that the " thress laws" are already perverted here in order to "protect the corporation". Asimov's 3 lawas where : Protect humans; 2) OBEY humans; 3) Protectself.
"Protect self" here is a cheap excuse for DRM - protecting the corp. and harming humans.
Re-ordering the laws is just an Orwelian sadistic twist.
The accidentein Goiania was cesium 137 - and it was quite real. It happened in my contry and made the headlines for about 2 months while great parts of the city were closed for search of contaminated people.
It may be it was not an simple x-ray machinne - possibliy it as some other equipment - but medical equipment nonetheless. (And rememebr we are talinmg of a machinne out of use by 1986 here).
As anyone searching for "Goiania 1986 Cesium" can note, one of the more serious radioactive accidents ever to take place in the World was due to Cesium used for medical purposes from an X-ray machine
Well - taht is the base for the author site risk assesment: While almost everyone would have an issue with living close to a nuclear ower plant, the risk of the M.A.D. policy uiis equivalent to that several times over, and no one cares.
I've been foloowing this blog/news site over the past months -- it exposes the danger of thenuclear arsenals in qa quite rational way - and the way to address it is just giving more exposure to these rational dangers, sot hat people demand dismantling nuclear weapons over time.
Sorry -- I can't get how parent was not modded "+5 funny" - is there some deeper nested joke I am missing?
That is -- when using proprietary software - -any proprietary software today, not just Windows, but current generation videogames or smartphones, don't the network is used __all__ the time for the "updates" and "windows genuine advantage." things? Don't theese updates run with highest priority on the system, overriding any action the user (owner) cound take? So, in times before thigns got so screwed up, this is what was called "Back door". I know, you have sometimes the option to delay a " software update" -- but that is mostly an illusion,a s everything is designed for you to have to update sooner or later;
The one right thing to say here, has been said on the second comment I see on this thread:
"Why would Microsoft build a back door into Win7, when the front door is so wide open?" (by Wowsers)
Currently what you find is that Javascript does not have a good interface to the system, without native javascript APIs for open, read, etc, and without a standard set of hooks into C programs. This is entirely because of javascript starting in the web browser, but what you'll see is people developing these and then...
I should rest my case here.
But, jsut for nto being so dry, I will write on:
The Syntax: javascript doses use an archaic C syntax - which is nice when you have to closely follow the way the processor is behaving inside so you can have maximum effectiveness and even have a good idea of the machine code generated as you write it. The only good reason this syntax was choosen is that it...resembles C! Python syntax drops some punctuation so that the language resembles the way we do think our algorithms when we address our problems (at least in western Languages like English and Portuguese). As other peopl have noted in this thread: it resembles pseudo-code.
As an example, pick the integer dependent "for" statement - when you can have those in high level. (yes I know there is a "for each" in javascript. I tried to use it once, only to learn it would work only in some browers, so nobody actually uses it)
Finally: Python is there already, it is not "going" anywhere. One of the strrnghts in python is exactly the ease to open and manipulate files - to single method calls and you have the data in memory, ready for manipulation - and you just admited javascript can't read files at all. And if current javascript engines are faster than the standard python implementation's engine, no problem in there as well: python with it is nicer, higher level syntax can be seamlessly translated to javascript and run on javascript backends for at least two different projects (Pypy and pyjamas).
No trolling here: just try a bit of Python - it is much better to write (and read) than the C legacy syntax of Javascript. And there are a few goodies in the language that javascript don't do, for example: namespaces, and trying to access an as of yet unattributed variable yields an error - it may sound simple, but saves hours on debugging complex incorrect behaviors derived form small typos in variable names.
That said, I agree with you that the javascript VMs are evolving at huge steps with Apple, Google and Mozilla each trying to deliver a faster engine. And I will be running Python (auto-translated to javascript if needed) on those - on client side web pages. Up to there, I will just use native python to do desktop GUI programing, web server apps, network and server management tasks, videogames, scientfic computing, and so on.
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I f I where to switch to organic food only, it would not be on the basis of it having more or less nutrients - but on the basis of it having freaking less pesticides! T.F.A. does not seem to cover teh health issues on long term consuming food with traces of chemicals engineered to terminate life. That is what the whole thing about "organic being healthier" should be.
As is, , T.F.A. is a perfect Troll!
If you missed Orwell's novel (perhaps in Amazon's remote erasing)... there is a war going on, somewhere in the World and we are winning, Big Brother is something good, and we are eing watched on what we do and what we consume by our gadgets' app stores - and everything is fine as far as we are not informed enough
To whoever missed the "format wars" they are nicely (And fervently) documented on Jomar Silva's (A.K.A. Homembit) blog -
ending at 2008-09 entries: http://homembit.com/2008/09/popular-participation-on-international-standardization-process-opening-the-black-box.html
Jomar, a core contributor to ODF, was one of Brazil's envoy to the ISO group in which Microsoft format were aproved, trying to prevent it from happening as it went.
So-- there is this businnes model I believe is doomed! What do I do? Purchase 63 companies that rely on it! I'd say that is pulling a Homer as few other things could be.
... that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of factors after all.
Never thought they could image a Steampunk version of Prof. Lunazzi's 3D screen - http://www.physorg.com/news156072878.html
Wait...using vapour and one LCD projector per voxel is "serious" not Steam age retro joke? What???
Is it just me, or anything putting "sony" and "solution" in the same phrase just don't make sense anymore?
There is a "Décret" which actually makes the 2004 law effective published on March 1, 2011 - apparently it is for real, and it is the internert companies response to this decree that triggered the news.
Decrét Text (French)
Yes . .thank you8 for helping me filling up the puzzle --
the law requiring data retnetion is actually from 2004 - -a "opinion" about the law is dated from 2008 - which led to the
required "Décret" to be published on March 1, 2011, as can be seem here:
Official Decrét text(french)
Google Translation
So, what made the news is that large internet services and companies such as Google et all. are in French Justice trying to invalidate the law alltogether(which I believe they will suceed in, since it is really clueless) - but the law is actually passed and getting ready to be effective in a 60 days or so.
Like...is not this last Friday's news?? Is /. slipping into a time-reality offset from our own?
"Launch on top of Windows" - A.K.A. an emulator app (even if through a virtual machine, nonetheless it will be an emulator for something that allows web OS apps launch seamlessly on windows ... none of whcih I can see as anything close of newsworthy)
Absolutely no fear -
In Brazil we had lived with more than 10 years of irregualr schedules for D.S.T. (although it was al=ways for one hour, never two) -
sometimes computer locks would be off by one hour for a week or more -- and the country never experienced any major failure from that. Event today old windows xp installs change the time back and forth D.S.T. in the incorrect dates, again wioth no victims.
(We have regular dates for the switch since 2008).
Yes! Instead of lots of inneficient conversion methods, and n orer to overcome the last mile problem, this would finally allow the deployment of Lava To The Home technology, through some simple piping.
Besides heating, hot lava could be used in special taps to allow for inexpensive 3D printing, allowing everyone to produce their own custo made Rock Consumer Appliances.
Asimov's "zeroth law" was to " protect humanity -
but regardless of that the " thress laws" are already perverted here in order to "protect the corporation".
Asimov's 3 lawas where : Protect humans; 2) OBEY humans; 3) Protectself.
"Protect self" here is a cheap excuse for DRM - protecting the corp. and harming humans.
Re-ordering the laws is just an Orwelian sadistic twist.
Even, if one does the math, they are just going from 0.000017 workers per CD per month to 0. Not a great loss from this point of view.
The difference is that they are no longer cashing in $20.00 - (pay of 1.66e-5 worker) per 20 or so musics people listen to.
The accidentein Goiania was cesium 137 - and it was quite real. It happened in my contry and made the headlines for about 2 months while great parts of the city were closed for search of contaminated people.
It may be it was not an simple x-ray machinne - possibliy it as some other equipment - but medical equipment nonetheless. (And rememebr we are talinmg of a machinne out of use by 1986 here).
As anyone searching for "Goiania 1986 Cesium" can note, one of the more serious radioactive accidents ever to take place in the World was due to Cesium used for medical purposes from an X-ray machine
Well - taht is the base for the author site risk assesment:
While almost everyone would have an issue with living close to a nuclear ower plant, the risk of the M.A.D. policy uiis equivalent to that several times over, and no one cares.
I've been foloowing this blog/news site over the past months -- it exposes the danger of thenuclear arsenals in qa quite rational way - and the way to address it is just giving more exposure to these rational dangers, sot hat people demand dismantling nuclear weapons over time.
It is certainly worth a look - and an rss feed to follow! http://nuclearrisk.org/
Sorry -- I can't get how parent was not modded "+5 funny" - is there some deeper nested joke I am missing?
That is -- when using proprietary software - -any proprietary software today, not just Windows, but current generation videogames or smartphones, don't the network is used __all__ the time for the "updates" and "windows genuine advantage." things? Don't theese updates run with highest priority on the system, overriding any action the user (owner) cound take? So, in times before thigns got so screwed up, this is what was called "Back door". I know, you have sometimes the option to delay a " software update" -- but that is mostly an illusion,a s everything is designed for you to have to update sooner or later;
The one right thing to say here, has been said on the second comment I see on this thread:
"Why would Microsoft build a back door into Win7, when the front door is so wide open?" (by Wowsers)
dito.
Just call me terminally sick then! :-)
here, Fixed that for you. /> element)
(please check html 5 draft spec concerning the <canvas
How could it be any different? First thing I did on my Red Hat 6.0 or so was to fireup xbill and enjoy squashing the bastard for hours.
Currently what you find is that Javascript does not have a good interface to the system, without native javascript APIs for open, read, etc, and without a standard set of hooks into C programs. This is entirely because of javascript starting in the web browser, but what you'll see is people developing these and then ...
I should rest my case here.
But, jsut for nto being so dry, I will write on:
The Syntax: javascript doses use an archaic C syntax - which is nice when you have to closely follow the way the processor is behaving inside so you can have maximum effectiveness and even have a good idea of the machine code generated as you write it. The only good reason this syntax was choosen is that it...resembles C! Python syntax drops some punctuation so that the language resembles the way we do think our algorithms when we address our problems (at least in western Languages like English and Portuguese). As other peopl have noted in this thread: it resembles pseudo-code.
As an example, pick the integer dependent "for" statement - when you can have those in high level. (yes I know there is a "for each" in javascript. I tried to use it once, only to learn it would work only in some browers, so nobody actually uses it)
Finally: Python is there already, it is not "going" anywhere. One of the strrnghts in python is exactly the ease to open and manipulate files - to single method calls and you have the data in memory, ready for manipulation - and you just admited javascript can't read files at all. And if current javascript engines are faster than the standard python implementation's engine, no problem in there as well: python with it is nicer, higher level syntax can be seamlessly translated to javascript and run on javascript backends for at least two different projects (Pypy and pyjamas).
No trolling here: just try a bit of Python - it is much better to write (and read) than the C legacy syntax of Javascript.
And there are a few goodies in the language that javascript don't do, for example: namespaces, and trying to access an as of yet unattributed variable yields an error - it may sound simple, but saves hours on debugging complex incorrect behaviors derived form small typos in variable names.
That said, I agree with you that the javascript VMs are evolving at huge steps with Apple, Google and Mozilla each trying to deliver a faster engine. And I will be running Python (auto-translated to javascript if needed) on those - on client side web pages. Up to there, I will just use native python to do desktop GUI programing, web server apps, network and server management tasks, videogames, scientfic computing, and so on.