Clearly you don't know very much about how many counties in Texas operate. Sure, in Travis county (where Austin is located), it would be a minor offense. Right next door in Williamson county? Any contraband, including just a pipe, will guarantee an overnight stay in jail. Paraphernalia is a minimum of $500 fine. An oz of weed could net you a year's probation. Anything over a gram of any other illegal substance will be a felony, with 4-10 years probation if you take the plea bargain. It's fucking sickening.
Posting this on my Fire. It is most certainly an android device. In fact, the *only* differences I can discern between it and my cyanogenmod phone (as far as User Experience goes) are the custom launcher and lack of android market. After rooting and installing a regular launcher and the market, it works exactly like you'd expect an android tablet to work. Are people really so shallow that they think the launcher and skin define a whole different OS?
I love how everyone in this thread is commenting on the app like they have any idea what it actually did. Go do some research. The app wasn't promising anything. It wasn't called the "Gay Cure" app, it wasn't promoting a "cure" for anything. For the most part, it could be compared to a bible study app that was targeted to people with unwanted same-sex attraction, combined with some social interaction aspects.
Alan is a friend of mine. He's not evil or smug. He's not even remotely close. He's genuinely disappointed that something he felt could help other people like himself was censored simply because a bunch of people made a big deal about it.
In the interest of being truthful, the name of the app was Exodus International. There was nothing at all hateful or bigoted. This was aimed purely at people who had *unwanted* same-sex attraction, as is the entire organization behind it. People should really inform themselves about an organization before they start spewing rhetoric about how hateful they are. Exodus is not, and never will be, an anti-gay interest group. They sincerely want to help people, whether it's because they are fed up with the gay lifestyle, can't reconcile their same-sex attractions with their faith, or honestly just want information about whether there is another way. My family are close friends with Alan Chambers, as well as many other people within Exodus. If you are happy being gay, more power to you. They will never try to coerce someone into being "ex-gay", and they will never be a source of hatefulness to anyone. All they want to do is show that there might be another way of life that they believe is more fulfilling than the typical gay lifestyle.
On another note, this is yet another example of why the Android platform is light-years ahead of the iPhone platform. Never would have been removed, and even if it had been, the developer would have been free to distribute it themselves. While I completely understand that it is within Apple's rights to remove any app for any reason, I can't help but think that this sets a very bad precedent. If all it takes is a petition and enough public pressure to remove an app, who's to say what other legitimate apps might be taken down? I'll take my open(-ish) platform, thank you.
You can develop for Android on Mac, Linux, or Windows officially. It'll probably work on *BSD too. And if you consider using vi to edit text files bloatware, then yeah, I guess that's a problem. Sure, Google provides you with some nice Eclipse plugins that make development waaaaay easier, but if you can't run Eclipse for some reason, nobody is stopping you from writing the source and compiling it with make.
Okay, I'll bite. All of my servers are named after Transformers. Main server is Optimus, backup is Rodimus, media server is Soundwave, virtual machine host is Megatron, and virtual machines are all Decepticon names. If you don't get why I named them that way, you probably don't know Transformers very well, but that doesn't really matter. What matters is, all of these machines have DNS aliases that are more descriptive, i.e. www, fileserver, git, etc. all point to Optimus. vmhost points to Megatron. dbserver points to one of the virtual machines. That way, if a server is repurposed, I don't have to go in there and replace all the name instances on the box to something else (and for a well-used box with many running services, this can be daunting), or find out where that name is referenced on all the other boxes and rename them. I simply change the DNS entry and I'm done. All client services use the descriptive naming scheme (so our web application points to dbserver instead of Starscream), and it makes it really simple to change db servers: one DNS entry change. The personal name is the name of the box: unchanging, linked to the hardware. The DNS alias is a description of what the box does: easily changed, not hardware linked.
That's all well and good for you. What about me? I live in Texas. For half the year, the average temperature is above 100F (37C). Not exactly comfortable cycling weather. And I live about 35 miles (56 km) from my job, so that means self-powered transportation is impossible. And don't tell me to move closer, I can't afford to with the price of city real estate. I would wager there is a much larger percentage of people in my position than in your position.
Is it just me, or does the summary defy the headline? From the summary:
"...report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the internet should be 'managed or controlled,' 85% want the government to do this managing" (emphasis mine). So really, they aren't saying 85% of Chinese people like censorship, they're saying 85% of some nebulous 'overwhelming majority' like government-controlled censorship. Not really a meaningful statistic at all.
Just curious, where are you getting your information that babies become self-aware around the age of 2? Having been around babies, both my own and others, for a good many years now, I think I'd have to debate that. It could be that I just don't have a good grasp of what you mean by self-aware, though. I know my ten-month-old seems pretty aware of his environment, can respond to his name, knows me as da-da, and happily plays with his reflection in a mirror. Does that count?
Can anyone here point me towards a fair, unbiased, RECENT comparison between MySQL and PostgreSQL? I hear fanboys on Slashdot always touting PG being oh-so-much-better, but I have yet to see a real comparison done on the most recent versions of each. I have done quite a bit of Google searching, but all I've turned up is articles written 3-4 years ago, comparing ancient or beta versions. My company is currently trying to decide between the two, and thus far, I haven't really found any reasons not to go with MySQL. I'm already familiar with it, it seems to have all the features we need built-in, there just doesn't seem to be any compelling reason for using PG besides the already discussed free-and-open vs. free-and-owned-by-Sun arguments. Help? Anybody?
dunno if anybody's said it yet, but i would freaking love it if chrono trigger and chrono cross were redone as a two-disc game with current-gen level 3d graphics. i adore both of those games so much, i can't imagine how awesome they would be in full, real 3d.
I assume on point one you are talking about the Windows Update dialog that comes up and says "Can Windows connect to the Internet to look for this driver?" or something like that. Just so you know, to date (after at least a few hundred Windows installs), I have never seen that thing work. Now maybe it's because I'm always installing hardware that isn't Certified and all that, but honestly, if Joe Blow goes down to Best Buy to buy a new piece of hardware, he's probably gonna buy the cheapest thing there, and more than likely it won't be Certified. Even a lot of server-level hardware isn't certified to work in Windows XP (since they assume you'll be using 2000 or 2003), but it functions just fine. And on point two, maybe it's just me, but I never trust any drivers that come on the CD. I've been burned too many times by out-of-date, buggy drivers. Always download the latest from the company's web site (which, incidentally, probably aren't Certified either).
No, no, no, no. Unless the user connecting to the open AP is doing something ridiculous like download a torrent or something (which probably wouldn't work very well anyway unless you set up port forwarding), he's not denying anyone else on the network their share of bandwidth. Fact is, for most general internet use, you could have a hundred users connected and not fill up the pipe. So, let's modify your analogy from "Then he goes missing for a week..." to something more appropriate. How about:
"And on my way down to the wealthy, self-important hang-out, this guy on a skateboard holds on to the back of the car for a few miles and then lets go. Oh yeah, and I didn't even see it."
That's more like it. In other words, yeah, it might annoy Mr. Richguy to have hooligans hanging off his limo, but it isn't hurting his gas mileage, or causing him to be late, or anything. And more than likely, if he's being driven around, he probably doesn't care enough to look out the back window anyway (i.e. if you aren't savvy enough to close your AP, you probably aren't savvy enough to even notice when someone's piggybacking it).
That brings me to my second point:
"How many people know they have to do anything to their wrouter (sic) to restrict access to it?"
Come on, now. Every AP I've set up for the last two years has had it clearly spelled out in the quick-start instructions the reasoning for encrypting the wireless signal. Generally, these are the instructions that are followed by the clueless user who just wants the thing to work. So if they get to that part in the instructions and disregard it, well, I don't know, maybe they don't get to bitch about people using their network.
Perhaps it was a bit shady to sit in front of a neighbor's house and all that. But how about this: when I moved into my new house a few months ago, our DSL wasn't going to be hooked up for a month. So I fired up my laptop, and lo and behold, there were about five neighbors with open APs right around me. I didn't feel like it was inconveniencing them for me to check my email and do my internet banking for a couple weeks off their connections. And when my DSL did get hooked up, I set up an AP in my house. And I left it open, so that if anybody else is in the same boat, they can do the same thing.
Amen to that. A few years, I actually had a two or three year stint of no tickets at all (which, if you knew me in high school, is pretty amazing). I was quite proud of my l33t driving skillz. About a month before Halloween one year I decided to grow out a mohawk just for fun. In the less than two months sporting this hairdo, I got pulled over no less than five times. Every time the officer just gave me a warning and told me to be on my way, but this just cemented my hatred and paranoia of cops even more.
Look, I'm not gonna comment on whether or not file sharing is wrong. But I am reaaaaaaally tired of hearing it compared to shoplifting. When you steal a physical object, you are denying someone else the chance to legally purchase that same object, and it is clear that you are denying profit to the creator of the object. However, when you make a digital copy of something, you are not denying anything from anyone. If I make a copy of your DVD, you still have the physical media. Plus (and this is definitely arguable) I'm not really denying any profit from the content creator, if I never intended to purchase the DVD in the first place. So really, the content creator is just unhappy that someone is consuming their creation for free. I know quite a few artists (granted, they aren't huge media conglomerates) that would be overjoyed at a few extra thousand people liking their work, whether or not they paid for it.
I actually agree with you. I put a much higher value on music than I do on movies. My comment was more about the actual DVD disc holding more content, and the fact that most movies cost much more to produce than your average CD. From a financial perspective, it really makes no sense that a disc that holds four times the data and cost ten times as much to record (the movie) is less expensive to buy in the store than the CD. It makes me laugh to see a DVD on sale for $9.99, then right next to it the soundtrack will be $18.99.
I agree with the point you are making, that CDs themselves are DRM-free. However, I haven't bought a brand new CD in probably five years, because they are waaaaaay too expensive. Almost $20 for an album is ridiculous, especially when DVDs (which arguably contain much more content) are the same price or cheapr for the most part. I'll buy used CDs occasionally, but only if they are less than $10. Maybe I'm just cheap, but I really don't have the disposable income to afford the prices that major labels advocate.
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Clearly you don't know very much about how many counties in Texas operate. Sure, in Travis county (where Austin is located), it would be a minor offense. Right next door in Williamson county? Any contraband, including just a pipe, will guarantee an overnight stay in jail. Paraphernalia is a minimum of $500 fine. An oz of weed could net you a year's probation. Anything over a gram of any other illegal substance will be a felony, with 4-10 years probation if you take the plea bargain. It's fucking sickening.
Posting this on my Fire. It is most certainly an android device. In fact, the *only* differences I can discern between it and my cyanogenmod phone (as far as User Experience goes) are the custom launcher and lack of android market. After rooting and installing a regular launcher and the market, it works exactly like you'd expect an android tablet to work. Are people really so shallow that they think the launcher and skin define a whole different OS?
I love how everyone in this thread is commenting on the app like they have any idea what it actually did. Go do some research. The app wasn't promising anything. It wasn't called the "Gay Cure" app, it wasn't promoting a "cure" for anything. For the most part, it could be compared to a bible study app that was targeted to people with unwanted same-sex attraction, combined with some social interaction aspects.
Alan is a friend of mine. He's not evil or smug. He's not even remotely close. He's genuinely disappointed that something he felt could help other people like himself was censored simply because a bunch of people made a big deal about it.
On another note, this is yet another example of why the Android platform is light-years ahead of the iPhone platform. Never would have been removed, and even if it had been, the developer would have been free to distribute it themselves. While I completely understand that it is within Apple's rights to remove any app for any reason, I can't help but think that this sets a very bad precedent. If all it takes is a petition and enough public pressure to remove an app, who's to say what other legitimate apps might be taken down? I'll take my open(-ish) platform, thank you.
Um, hasn't Fluxbox had this for years? It's one of the reasons I love Fluxbox so much.
I second this approach. My company has used phing quite successfully to manage both the staging and production instances of our code.
You can develop for Android on Mac, Linux, or Windows officially. It'll probably work on *BSD too. And if you consider using vi to edit text files bloatware, then yeah, I guess that's a problem. Sure, Google provides you with some nice Eclipse plugins that make development waaaaay easier, but if you can't run Eclipse for some reason, nobody is stopping you from writing the source and compiling it with make.
Y'know, my G1 has a big Google logo on the back of it. Just sayin'.
Okay, I'll bite. All of my servers are named after Transformers. Main server is Optimus, backup is Rodimus, media server is Soundwave, virtual machine host is Megatron, and virtual machines are all Decepticon names. If you don't get why I named them that way, you probably don't know Transformers very well, but that doesn't really matter. What matters is, all of these machines have DNS aliases that are more descriptive, i.e. www, fileserver, git, etc. all point to Optimus. vmhost points to Megatron. dbserver points to one of the virtual machines. That way, if a server is repurposed, I don't have to go in there and replace all the name instances on the box to something else (and for a well-used box with many running services, this can be daunting), or find out where that name is referenced on all the other boxes and rename them. I simply change the DNS entry and I'm done. All client services use the descriptive naming scheme (so our web application points to dbserver instead of Starscream), and it makes it really simple to change db servers: one DNS entry change. The personal name is the name of the box: unchanging, linked to the hardware. The DNS alias is a description of what the box does: easily changed, not hardware linked.
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That's all well and good for you. What about me? I live in Texas. For half the year, the average temperature is above 100F (37C). Not exactly comfortable cycling weather. And I live about 35 miles (56 km) from my job, so that means self-powered transportation is impossible. And don't tell me to move closer, I can't afford to with the price of city real estate. I would wager there is a much larger percentage of people in my position than in your position.
That's a very interesting test, I'll give it a shot. Hadn't ever heard of it before.
Is it just me, or does the summary defy the headline? From the summary: "...report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the internet should be 'managed or controlled,' 85% want the government to do this managing" (emphasis mine). So really, they aren't saying 85% of Chinese people like censorship, they're saying 85% of some nebulous 'overwhelming majority' like government-controlled censorship. Not really a meaningful statistic at all.
Just curious, where are you getting your information that babies become self-aware around the age of 2? Having been around babies, both my own and others, for a good many years now, I think I'd have to debate that. It could be that I just don't have a good grasp of what you mean by self-aware, though. I know my ten-month-old seems pretty aware of his environment, can respond to his name, knows me as da-da, and happily plays with his reflection in a mirror. Does that count?
Can anyone here point me towards a fair, unbiased, RECENT comparison between MySQL and PostgreSQL? I hear fanboys on Slashdot always touting PG being oh-so-much-better, but I have yet to see a real comparison done on the most recent versions of each. I have done quite a bit of Google searching, but all I've turned up is articles written 3-4 years ago, comparing ancient or beta versions. My company is currently trying to decide between the two, and thus far, I haven't really found any reasons not to go with MySQL. I'm already familiar with it, it seems to have all the features we need built-in, there just doesn't seem to be any compelling reason for using PG besides the already discussed free-and-open vs. free-and-owned-by-Sun arguments. Help? Anybody?
dunno if anybody's said it yet, but i would freaking love it if chrono trigger and chrono cross were redone as a two-disc game with current-gen level 3d graphics. i adore both of those games so much, i can't imagine how awesome they would be in full, real 3d.
I assume on point one you are talking about the Windows Update dialog that comes up and says "Can Windows connect to the Internet to look for this driver?" or something like that. Just so you know, to date (after at least a few hundred Windows installs), I have never seen that thing work. Now maybe it's because I'm always installing hardware that isn't Certified and all that, but honestly, if Joe Blow goes down to Best Buy to buy a new piece of hardware, he's probably gonna buy the cheapest thing there, and more than likely it won't be Certified. Even a lot of server-level hardware isn't certified to work in Windows XP (since they assume you'll be using 2000 or 2003), but it functions just fine. And on point two, maybe it's just me, but I never trust any drivers that come on the CD. I've been burned too many times by out-of-date, buggy drivers. Always download the latest from the company's web site (which, incidentally, probably aren't Certified either).
I think you might be speaking some sort of English, but I'm not entirely sure.
No, no, no, no. Unless the user connecting to the open AP is doing something ridiculous like download a torrent or something (which probably wouldn't work very well anyway unless you set up port forwarding), he's not denying anyone else on the network their share of bandwidth. Fact is, for most general internet use, you could have a hundred users connected and not fill up the pipe. So, let's modify your analogy from "Then he goes missing for a week..." to something more appropriate. How about:
"And on my way down to the wealthy, self-important hang-out, this guy on a skateboard holds on to the back of the car for a few miles and then lets go. Oh yeah, and I didn't even see it."
That's more like it. In other words, yeah, it might annoy Mr. Richguy to have hooligans hanging off his limo, but it isn't hurting his gas mileage, or causing him to be late, or anything. And more than likely, if he's being driven around, he probably doesn't care enough to look out the back window anyway (i.e. if you aren't savvy enough to close your AP, you probably aren't savvy enough to even notice when someone's piggybacking it).
That brings me to my second point:
"How many people know they have to do anything to their wrouter (sic) to restrict access to it?"
Come on, now. Every AP I've set up for the last two years has had it clearly spelled out in the quick-start instructions the reasoning for encrypting the wireless signal. Generally, these are the instructions that are followed by the clueless user who just wants the thing to work. So if they get to that part in the instructions and disregard it, well, I don't know, maybe they don't get to bitch about people using their network.
Perhaps it was a bit shady to sit in front of a neighbor's house and all that. But how about this: when I moved into my new house a few months ago, our DSL wasn't going to be hooked up for a month. So I fired up my laptop, and lo and behold, there were about five neighbors with open APs right around me. I didn't feel like it was inconveniencing them for me to check my email and do my internet banking for a couple weeks off their connections. And when my DSL did get hooked up, I set up an AP in my house. And I left it open, so that if anybody else is in the same boat, they can do the same thing.
Amen to that. A few years, I actually had a two or three year stint of no tickets at all (which, if you knew me in high school, is pretty amazing). I was quite proud of my l33t driving skillz. About a month before Halloween one year I decided to grow out a mohawk just for fun. In the less than two months sporting this hairdo, I got pulled over no less than five times. Every time the officer just gave me a warning and told me to be on my way, but this just cemented my hatred and paranoia of cops even more.
Look, I'm not gonna comment on whether or not file sharing is wrong. But I am reaaaaaaally tired of hearing it compared to shoplifting. When you steal a physical object, you are denying someone else the chance to legally purchase that same object, and it is clear that you are denying profit to the creator of the object. However, when you make a digital copy of something, you are not denying anything from anyone. If I make a copy of your DVD, you still have the physical media. Plus (and this is definitely arguable) I'm not really denying any profit from the content creator, if I never intended to purchase the DVD in the first place. So really, the content creator is just unhappy that someone is consuming their creation for free. I know quite a few artists (granted, they aren't huge media conglomerates) that would be overjoyed at a few extra thousand people liking their work, whether or not they paid for it.
I actually agree with you. I put a much higher value on music than I do on movies. My comment was more about the actual DVD disc holding more content, and the fact that most movies cost much more to produce than your average CD. From a financial perspective, it really makes no sense that a disc that holds four times the data and cost ten times as much to record (the movie) is less expensive to buy in the store than the CD. It makes me laugh to see a DVD on sale for $9.99, then right next to it the soundtrack will be $18.99.
I agree with the point you are making, that CDs themselves are DRM-free. However, I haven't bought a brand new CD in probably five years, because they are waaaaaay too expensive. Almost $20 for an album is ridiculous, especially when DVDs (which arguably contain much more content) are the same price or cheapr for the most part. I'll buy used CDs occasionally, but only if they are less than $10. Maybe I'm just cheap, but I really don't have the disposable income to afford the prices that major labels advocate.
Dude, 90% of the world lives in Texas. Duh. We're huge.