Woah , like controlling lights from your own network! Woo! 7337 dude!
Do you realise what a sad lazy basement dwelling loser you sound like?
And books, music and video games are by their nature portable. However its unlikely you'll want to take your home lighting system with you when you go out unless you live in a caravan.
Woo yeah, controlling a lightbulb from a phone - thats like so totally l337 and k00l!!
Or you could just get off your fat arse and flick the switch, And no , you couldn't do that if you weren't in the house - but then you wouldn't need the lights on in that case dumbass.
No, all this injunction does is make the law seem an ass. They might just as well do a Cnut and make a ruling that its illegal for the tide to come in. Creating a ruling that does nothing except make people point and laugh at the judge who made it brings the whole legal system into disrespect.
Those bewigged fossils in the law courts really are living in a different age. Someone needs to give the poor things a crash course on what the internet is and how it works. I realise the sort of people who studied law are usually the sort who think using a pocket calculator is major techno kudos but it really is time they dragged themselves into the late 20th century, never mind the 21st.
"As well as witnessing it and hearing it happen elsewhere, I recall Woolf's biography of Roger Fry describing a similar incident. Perhaps it's a common way for young English boys to respond to flogging."
Or perhaps you're just talking out your arse. Which would be fairly apt.
"None."
Really? You did an observational study did you? Because its contrary to my experiences.
"I've never been in a class experiencing "anarchy","
Perhaps you should have gone to an inner london comprehensive like I did instead of some posh boarding school.
"I know what physical punishment feels like and I don't care"
Thats your lookout. If you'd sooner suffer pain than improve your behaviour then perhaps the best route for you would be a psychiatrist. Or maybe you get turned on by pain.
"Provide evidence "
You made the initial assertion that it did no good. You back it up.
"When he was hit, IIRC, he'd deliberately shit his pants to annoy the teacher."
A very likely story. But even if it is true, how many of the other kids *didn't* shit their pants but behaved a lot better? I have memories of school too funnily enough and the teachers who had the most discipline had the best behaved classes. The ones who tried to be nice to the kids and "be their friend" (usually women) ended up with anarchy.
"Punishment in general (do not confuse this with reward-based incentive nor removal for the protection of others) does not work for producing a free society, let alone corporal punishment. No research has/ever/ been published to the contrary. Corporal punishment is pure sadism."
Total and utter looney left crap, but you keep believing it if it gives you a nice warm superior feeling when you're with all the other bleeting right-on sheep. I hope for your sake that one day you'll wake up and take your rose coloured blinkers off.
I wasn't talking about hitting the slower kids but the badly misbehaved ones. And yes , it did make them behave. But lets not let facts get in the way of your self righteous little feelgood post.
Hilarios pal. But unlike people like you I don't need to justify my beliefs anymore - the proof is out there on the streets. When left wing fuckwits like you eventually wake up to the problems you've caused it'll be too late. If it isn't already.
.... they obviously don't test their code with all the browsers out there which does smack of lazyness and a can't be bothered attitude. If you're running a geek site at least get coders who care about the software that runs it.
... instead of being left with the result of a liberal left wing teaching establishment that has increasingly let kids run riot over the last few decades culminating with headmasters being stabbed outside his own school. Of course if anyone ever criticised this politically correct insanity you instantly they were instantly labelled as some kind of ranting right wing child abuser who wanted to go back to the days of kids up chimneys. Rational discussion was off the table and the inmates have taken over the asylum. Hopefully one day people will wake up to the collective insanity of the liberal agenda but I won't hold my breath.
... if they'd kept the raw analogue copies of the original video and image data it would have been a hell of a lot easier to port it to the web. Its still easy to find something that will read a VHS or Betamax tape compared to a laserdisk , never mind a laserdisk in LV-Rom format.
Complex machines require training - make it too easy for the untrained and/or idiots and it'll either lose functionality or become a PITA for people who do know what they're doing. I don't want a car with a max speed of 20mph that flashes a red light and does its horn if I get within 6 foot of a kerb , and nor do I want a computer that hand holds me all the time.
Ah what a load of left wing reactionary crap. Schools don't train , they educate. If you can't tell the difference then you need some more education yourself - assuming you're not too "free spirited" (aka ADD) to be educated.
We all live in society and have to conform to some extent - if you don't want to conform at all then go live in a shack in the woods and shout at the bears. Society is what makes mankind strong - if everyone was a solitary individualist we'd have gone extinct a million years ago.
"But don't expect to write code that keeps a 777 safely in the air."
I'm sorry, but thinking up code that keeps a 777 flying safely requires someone with creative thinking as well as good process. You won't always find the answers in he Dummies Guide to Writing Avionics Software.
"What creativity is needed to code a crystal clear requirement or specification? Sorry I don't get it."
I sure as hell wouldn't hire you then - you sound like a standard issue glue coder doing lego brick style programming. Algorithms and solutions to tricky problems don't just invent themselves, someone with creative flair and intelligence needs to dream them up. Thats obviously not you.
What I mean is the human body has easily enough power to raise itself up a vertical ladder or rock face so presumably a huge amount of this power must be lost just moving air around when that power is used inside a human powered helicopter. But how much power is wasted , or to put it another way , how much power put into the system is actually used to raise the mass of the helicopter?
Most (all?) exoplanets discovered so far are close to their stars. Saturns rings are ice. They'd evaporate in no time so if we do find any rings they'd have to be made of rock which is probably rather unlikely. Its one thing breaking up passing ice comets, its another to break up a rocky world via gravity and that close in most other planets would have been swallowed by the star, flung out or eaten by the gas giant.
Multiprocess was standard on early unix browsers - you opened a link in a new window it spawned a new process. It was only later that netscape switched to multithreaded presumably so the codebase was easier to port to Windows which as everyone knows has a piss poor process model and still can't even do fork() never mind sophisticated parent-child process interaction.
So long as its reliable, easy to use and isn't full of security holes I doubt many people give a damn about their web browser. Can you imagine an entire article about the relative merits of ftp or telnet clients? All most people want is for their browser to render pages properly. End of. If a new standard comes out and web sites use it then yes, browser should support it. Otherwise, apart from the browser developers themselves and a few fanbois, does anyone really care?
"This is the only way for Slackware to remain relevant in 2011 onwards"
Slackware is still relevant. Plenty of people still use it. If you don't like the way its done then pick a different distro. I use it precisely because it doesn't use rpms or yum with all the attendent dependency hell. I can use slackpkg if I want but I'm perfectly happy with tar and administering my system manually thanks.
"I am sorry but the fact of the matter is user(non geek) don't want to run make clean install in 2011"
A non geek user would choose slackware in the first place. Slackware is FOR geeks and thats the way it should stay.
... I hope 13.37 is better than 13.1. I upgraded to the latter from 13.0 on my laptop and stuff just stopped working properly so I had to revert back to 13.0.
Fingers crossed for 13.37 and kudos to Pat and the guys for still doing Slackware in the face of all the corporate competition (no I don't mean MS or Apple, I mean Novell, RedHat AND Canonical).
Not in every country. Also even if you are it doesn't stop other people using up all your bandwidth and depending on yout ISP contract it may cost you a fortune. Oh , and they may throttle your connection while they're at it.
Yeah , genius idea. Not.
Someone tell the hippies to keep away from things that concern grown ups.
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Woah , like controlling lights from your own network! Woo! 7337 dude!
Do you realise what a sad lazy basement dwelling loser you sound like?
And books, music and video games are by their nature portable. However its unlikely you'll want to take your home lighting system with you when you go out unless you live in a caravan.
Woo yeah, controlling a lightbulb from a phone - thats like so totally l337 and k00l!!
Or you could just get off your fat arse and flick the switch, And no , you couldn't do that if you weren't in the house - but then you wouldn't need the lights on in that case dumbass.
No, all this injunction does is make the law seem an ass. They might just as well do a Cnut and make a ruling that its illegal for the tide to come in. Creating a ruling that does nothing except make people point and laugh at the judge who made it brings the whole legal system into disrespect.
Those bewigged fossils in the law courts really are living in a different age. Someone needs to give the poor things a crash course on what the internet is and how it works. I realise the sort of people who studied law are usually the sort who think using a pocket calculator is major techno kudos but it really is time they dragged themselves into the late 20th century, never mind the 21st.
"As well as witnessing it and hearing it happen elsewhere, I recall Woolf's biography of Roger Fry describing a similar incident. Perhaps it's a common way for young English boys to respond to flogging."
Or perhaps you're just talking out your arse. Which would be fairly apt.
"None."
Really? You did an observational study did you? Because its contrary to my experiences.
"I've never been in a class experiencing "anarchy","
Perhaps you should have gone to an inner london comprehensive like I did instead of some posh boarding school.
"I know what physical punishment feels like and I don't care"
Thats your lookout. If you'd sooner suffer pain than improve your behaviour then perhaps the best route for you would be a psychiatrist. Or maybe you get turned on by pain.
"Provide evidence "
You made the initial assertion that it did no good. You back it up.
I run 3.6 on LInux and don't have the problem. Must be a FF on windows issue.
"When he was hit, IIRC, he'd deliberately shit his pants to annoy the teacher."
A very likely story. But even if it is true, how many of the other kids *didn't* shit their pants but behaved a lot better? I have memories of school too funnily enough and the teachers who had the most discipline had the best behaved classes. The ones who tried to be nice to the kids and "be their friend" (usually women) ended up with anarchy.
"Punishment in general (do not confuse this with reward-based incentive nor removal for the protection of others) does not work for producing a free society, let alone corporal punishment. No research has /ever/ been published to the contrary. Corporal punishment is pure sadism."
Total and utter looney left crap, but you keep believing it if it gives you a nice warm superior feeling when you're with all the other bleeting right-on sheep. I hope for your sake that one day you'll wake up and take your rose coloured blinkers off.
The *youth* crime rate is one of the highest ever.
I wasn't talking about hitting the slower kids but the badly misbehaved ones. And yes , it did make them behave. But lets not let facts get in the way of your self righteous little feelgood post.
Hilarios pal. But unlike people like you I don't need to justify my beliefs anymore - the proof is out there on the streets. When left wing fuckwits like you eventually wake up to the problems you've caused it'll be too late. If it isn't already.
.... they obviously don't test their code with all the browsers out there which does smack of lazyness and a can't be bothered attitude. If you're running a geek site at least get coders who care about the software that runs it.
... instead of being left with the result of a liberal left wing teaching establishment that has increasingly let kids run riot over the last few decades culminating with headmasters being stabbed outside his own school. Of course if anyone ever criticised this politically correct insanity you instantly they were instantly labelled as some kind of ranting right wing child abuser who wanted to go back to the days of kids up chimneys. Rational discussion was off the table and the inmates have taken over the asylum. Hopefully one day people will wake up to the collective insanity of the liberal agenda but I won't hold my breath.
... if they'd kept the raw analogue copies of the original video and image data it would have been a hell of a lot easier to port it to the web. Its still easy to find something that will read a VHS or Betamax tape compared to a laserdisk , never mind a laserdisk in LV-Rom format.
You not heard of Amish-R-Us?
But usually they require lessons first.
Complex machines require training - make it too easy for the untrained and/or idiots and it'll either lose functionality or become a PITA for people who do know what they're doing. I don't want a car with a max speed of 20mph that flashes a red light and does its horn if I get within 6 foot of a kerb , and nor do I want a computer that hand holds me all the time.
Ah what a load of left wing reactionary crap. Schools don't train , they educate. If you can't tell the difference then you need some more education yourself - assuming you're not too "free spirited" (aka ADD) to be educated.
We all live in society and have to conform to some extent - if you don't want to conform at all then go live in a shack in the woods and shout at the bears. Society is what makes mankind strong - if everyone was a solitary individualist we'd have gone extinct a million years ago.
"But don't expect to write code that keeps a 777 safely in the air."
I'm sorry, but thinking up code that keeps a 777 flying safely requires someone with creative thinking as well as good process. You won't always find the answers in he Dummies Guide to Writing Avionics Software.
"What creativity is needed to code a crystal clear requirement or specification? Sorry I don't get it."
I sure as hell wouldn't hire you then - you sound like a standard issue glue coder doing lego brick style programming. Algorithms and solutions to tricky problems don't just invent themselves, someone with creative flair and intelligence needs to dream them up. Thats obviously not you.
...compared to just climbing up a ladder?
What I mean is the human body has easily enough power to raise itself up a vertical ladder or rock face so presumably a huge amount of this power must be lost just moving air around when that power is used inside a human powered helicopter. But how much power is wasted , or to put it another way , how much power put into the system is actually used to raise the mass of the helicopter?
Most (all?) exoplanets discovered so far are close to their stars. Saturns rings are ice. They'd evaporate in no time so if we do find any rings they'd have to be made of rock which is probably rather unlikely. Its one thing breaking up passing ice comets, its another to break up a rocky world via gravity and that close in most other planets would have been swallowed by the star, flung out or eaten by the gas giant.
Multiprocess was standard on early unix browsers - you opened a link in a new window it spawned a new process. It was only later that netscape switched to multithreaded presumably so the codebase was easier to port to Windows which as everyone knows has a piss poor process model and still can't even do fork() never mind sophisticated parent-child process interaction.
So long as its reliable, easy to use and isn't full of security holes I doubt many people give a damn about their web browser. Can you imagine an entire article about the relative merits of ftp or telnet clients? All most people want is for their browser to render pages properly. End of. If a new standard comes out and web sites use it then yes, browser should support it. Otherwise, apart from the browser developers themselves and a few fanbois, does anyone really care?
"This is the only way for Slackware to remain relevant in 2011 onwards"
Slackware is still relevant. Plenty of people still use it. If you don't like the way its done then pick a different distro. I use it precisely because it doesn't use rpms or yum with all the attendent dependency hell. I can use slackpkg if I want but I'm perfectly happy with tar and administering my system manually thanks.
"I am sorry but the fact of the matter is user(non geek) don't want to run make clean install in 2011"
A non geek user would choose slackware in the first place. Slackware is FOR geeks and thats the way it should stay.
... I hope 13.37 is better than 13.1. I upgraded to the latter from 13.0 on my laptop and stuff just stopped working properly so I had to revert back to 13.0.
Fingers crossed for 13.37 and kudos to Pat and the guys for still doing Slackware in the face of all the corporate competition (no I don't mean MS or Apple, I mean Novell, RedHat AND Canonical).
Not in every country. Also even if you are it doesn't stop other people using up all your bandwidth and depending on yout ISP contract it may cost you a fortune. Oh , and they may throttle your connection while they're at it.
Yeah , genius idea. Not.
Someone tell the hippies to keep away from things that concern grown ups.