Viewing ads that you'll never buy from actually is a burden on society as it takes a little more energy to download and display those ads.
Also most ads are PPC now so the site owner only loses if you would otherwise of clicked on the ad. I have no disposible income (I've not been able to afford new shoes for 3 years - having wet feet sucks!).
Ergo, viewing ads for me would be a burden on society.
Adblocking can be done by cutting out rectangles of sticky backed paper and placing them on the screen as you read. I'd sooner use an install and forget it system - with an auto-updated adblock file I can't recall when I last had to take action to block ads. Yes one could write a script to update the HOSTS file from an online repo but one doesn't need to, the FF addon does it.
For those who believe this is content-view "stealing": Places I frequent I whitelist ads on - if however they use dynamic or misleading ads they get disabled again for good.
Perhaps I should have gone with the thixotrope (my wife's toffee - flows together but you can crack it with a hammer)? Perhaps not...
"An amorphous (or synonymously, non-crystalline) material can be defined as one which is topologically disordered and which does not exhibit either the long-range translational order (periodicity) characteristic of single crystals, or the long-range orientational order characteristic of quasicrystals. Within this definition, such materials could be either solid or liquid, and this distinction is essentially simply one of timescale. A material is a solid when there is no observable long-range translational diffusive motion during the duration of the experiment; in other words, dynamic disorder is absent. " ("Amorphous Solids: an Introduction"; S.R. Elliott)
I know that small children get killed everyday, yet it would traumatise me to see one having their body blown apart in front of me now. Anyone that wouldn't be emotionally affected by that has either had serious military training or has some sort of emotional/mental deficit.
A little junk food never hurt anybody.
Exactly, but eating nothing but marshmallow-cakes will almost certainly make you sick and continuing that practice will almost certainly kill you.
You've not been rickrolled to goatse or lemonparty then? Those images scar you mentally as an adult. Those activities, IMO, are something to hide and be ashamed of.
We're not talking about "sight of sexual activity" we're talking about pornography. The difference is like the difference between feeding your children proper food vs feeding them on a diet of junk food.
Both photos are altered, you're not telling me that the one on the left is direct RAW from the camera are you? It's frigging awful, very grainy and looks like it was JPEG at 50% quality and then resized and cropped.
The RHS one is too good, they got way more detail in, how did they manage that.
The bit that jars with me is the shadow round the right (ie for an observer) of her head where it's clearly a cut-n-shut.
Yes animals usually urinate/defecate outside - no not in the playpark, why not? Because it's clearly marked human territory without anything attractive for the animals (save maybe some crumbs of food for smaller beasties).
If a wild animal pisses up against the swings, fine; if it's your dog, not fine.
Urine may be sterile, but that's not the point. For one it smells.
So, your answer is you don't mind people pissing next to your desk because it's sterile and will boost your immune system (contradictory!)?
Or perhaps it's using your front door as a toilet then...?
FWIW I don't believe in keeping a child in a sterile environment but I do believe in being civil towards my fellow man. And dog owners may not all be so foolish but most around here don't care if you get dog shit on your shoes, how hard is it to put your dog in the gutter to crap or to take it to a dog toilet...
If companies who develop software have nothing to gain by open sourcing it, why would they open source it?
Companies are just associations of people.
If you have nothing to lose by open-sourcing - you had to make the software, you can't sell it on as nobody else will buy it, it's not so poor that you'll never work again if anyone sees it(!). Then you have something to gain.. free presentation of knowledge and possible improvement in the available intellectual resources of the world. As soon as anyone uses it - for any purpose - then you have gained by aiding them to reduce the resources needed and hence (by an iota) optimise use of the planet.
Even if the use is to view your code and know how not to do something then that's a benefit.
So I guess I ask, why would they not open source it?
And before you go assuming "communism" is nothing like any of the communist-style dictatorships that have existed. AFAIK there has never been a true large scale trial of communism (ie a pure communist state)- greed always seems to get in the way.
Regardless of how you feel, mathematics actually relates to (and is constrained by) our physical universe.
Eh?
I really don't follow you on this one. I can see how in an abstract sense the performance of maths is limited by the physical universe (as our brains are within that same universe). But, maths equally models non-existent populations, non-existent topologies, non-existent particle interactions, non-existent chemistries as it models those observed in our Universe (in fact in models the former better as usually the latter models are incomplete).
Physical circles aren't round. Infinite fractal coastlines don't exist. Vacuums aren't. Equilibrium isn't. Probabilities don't account for all situations (the coin lands on the side, the prisoners are blown up by a bomb before they choose, etc.)...
Are you a Platonic Realist?
A degree in mathematics, from a responsible university, should include at least some physics.
Why? You're there to do maths. They should teach you maths, if you choose to keep it pure they shouldn't force you to make application of maths part of your course.
If you're a mathematician analysing an auto crash you can look at the inputs and outputs without needing to worry about the mechanisms - in fact it probably helps not to. Your assertion is hard to challenge as outcomes of crashes and heart attacks are pretty common sense conclusions (yes physics based) - what do you need to know about them to assess them actuarially, just the approx. statistical outcomes, surely??
I did Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at Uni. I always struggle with applied maths however (strange I know) I think because of the way it was approached. My preference in maths was DE, complex analysis, fractal geometry but all taught in a pure way - I prefered to apply such things in physics lectures.
Maths is not a science.
FWIW I've studied a little Art History, Logic and Philosophy, Ecological Modelling and Material Science at undergrad level too. I'm not sure if Art History is valuable except inasmuch as something that entertains is [hugely] valuable.
WTF do you expect? "We're having a major downturn, here's your hefty salary increase"?
$11 million sounds like quite a large bonus - that's gotta be a smack in the face for all Sun employees if the company is saying they can't afford to give them an inflationary pay increase. I bet there are people working harder at Sun than the CEO, the myth that managers work harder/deserve more money than others needs to die. You can't blame an employee for being angry at that.
Incidentally share holders couldn't care less (on the whole) about "value". They care about short-term monetary profit, nothing else. If you're an uber coder that produces great products it doesn't matter - you can probably be forced to work faster and produce poorer code that will still sell.
Why they won't apply these principles to the executives I don't know.
That's exactly what I'm saying! If you've got the best platform, and no one wants to buy it, you suck at selling stuff.
Sometimes the best just costs too much. If the extra expense doesn't produce any extra return then no matter how hard you tout it, provided your customers have the sense, you won't sell it.
I love sirloin steak, but beef mince fills me up too.
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Viewing ads that you'll never buy from actually is a burden on society as it takes a little more energy to download and display those ads.
Also most ads are PPC now so the site owner only loses if you would otherwise of clicked on the ad. I have no disposible income (I've not been able to afford new shoes for 3 years - having wet feet sucks!).
Ergo, viewing ads for me would be a burden on society.
Discuss.
Adblocking can be done through the HOSTS file, ...
Adblocking can be done by cutting out rectangles of sticky backed paper and placing them on the screen as you read. I'd sooner use an install and forget it system - with an auto-updated adblock file I can't recall when I last had to take action to block ads. Yes one could write a script to update the HOSTS file from an online repo but one doesn't need to, the FF addon does it.
For those who believe this is content-view "stealing": Places I frequent I whitelist ads on - if however they use dynamic or misleading ads they get disabled again for good.
Perhaps I should have gone with the thixotrope (my wife's toffee - flows together but you can crack it with a hammer)? Perhaps not ...
"An amorphous (or synonymously, non-crystalline) material can be defined as one which is topologically disordered and which does not exhibit either the long-range translational order (periodicity) characteristic of single crystals, or the long-range orientational order characteristic of quasicrystals. Within this definition, such materials could be either solid or liquid, and this distinction is essentially simply one of timescale. A material is a solid when there is no observable long-range translational diffusive motion during the duration of the experiment; in other words, dynamic disorder is absent. "
("Amorphous Solids: an Introduction"; S.R. Elliott)
I know that small children get killed everyday, yet it would traumatise me to see one having their body blown apart in front of me now. Anyone that wouldn't be emotionally affected by that has either had serious military training or has some sort of emotional/mental deficit.
A little junk food never hurt anybody.
Exactly, but eating nothing but marshmallow-cakes will almost certainly make you sick and continuing that practice will almost certainly kill you.
As for lemonparty, to be only slightly tongue-in-cheek, are you saying old people should be ashamed for having sex, gay people, or old gay people...?
Somehow I think you may disagree .. both.
Also, three lightbulbs? Watts please... Found no proper specs on the site.
12000 W!
http://www.usasearchlights.com/L_4000.htm
Glass? That's a solid liquid.
You've not been rickrolled to goatse or lemonparty then? Those images scar you mentally as an adult. Those activities, IMO, are something to hide and be ashamed of.
We're not talking about "sight of sexual activity" we're talking about pornography. The difference is like the difference between feeding your children proper food vs feeding them on a diet of junk food.
Both photos are altered, you're not telling me that the one on the left is direct RAW from the camera are you? It's frigging awful, very grainy and looks like it was JPEG at 50% quality and then resized and cropped.
The RHS one is too good, they got way more detail in, how did they manage that.
The bit that jars with me is the shadow round the right (ie for an observer) of her head where it's clearly a cut-n-shut.
Could you have tesseradecades's?
"The triples all have orthogonality but the tesseradecades's orthogonality is questionable?"
the only way to be sure is to nuke them from orbit .. or something
Cleaner but stinking and sopping wet.
[Other peoples!] Urine really smells bad.
Yes animals usually urinate/defecate outside - no not in the playpark, why not? Because it's clearly marked human territory without anything attractive for the animals (save maybe some crumbs of food for smaller beasties).
If a wild animal pisses up against the swings, fine; if it's your dog, not fine.
Urine may be sterile, but that's not the point. For one it smells.
So, your answer is you don't mind people pissing next to your desk because it's sterile and will boost your immune system (contradictory!)?
Or perhaps it's using your front door as a toilet then ...?
FWIW I don't believe in keeping a child in a sterile environment but I do believe in being civil towards my fellow man. And dog owners may not all be so foolish but most around here don't care if you get dog shit on your shoes, how hard is it to put your dog in the gutter to crap or to take it to a dog toilet ...
Can't you just let your dog piss somewhere where the kids don't play.
Presumably you wouldn't want someone pissing against your computer desk?
thanks, nobody seems to say where that figure comes from ...
Me: You'd need to hack some workarounds to boot-block protection [to allow a game to properly overwrite the MBR].
You: Go to BIOS setup - select "boot sector protection" - done.
Erm? If they'd hacked a workaround to your BIOS setting, how does it help?
There are a lot of people who can't type quickly.
Globally there are a lot of sign language users.
The number of lazy-ass people seems to be quite high too ...
However, I'm in general agreement that we don't tend to need many new advances but they nonetheless prove useful.
Sure it was free to distribute but I'll bet it wasn't free to make.
If companies who develop software have nothing to gain by open sourcing it, why would they open source it?
Companies are just associations of people.
If you have nothing to lose by open-sourcing - you had to make the software, you can't sell it on as nobody else will buy it, it's not so poor that you'll never work again if anyone sees it(!). Then you have something to gain .. free presentation of knowledge and possible improvement in the available intellectual resources of the world. As soon as anyone uses it - for any purpose - then you have gained by aiding them to reduce the resources needed and hence (by an iota) optimise use of the planet.
Even if the use is to view your code and know how not to do something then that's a benefit.
So I guess I ask, why would they not open source it?
And before you go assuming "communism" is nothing like any of the communist-style dictatorships that have existed. AFAIK there has never been a true large scale trial of communism (ie a pure communist state)- greed always seems to get in the way.
Regardless of how you feel, mathematics actually relates to (and is constrained by) our physical universe.
Eh?
I really don't follow you on this one. I can see how in an abstract sense the performance of maths is limited by the physical universe (as our brains are within that same universe). But, maths equally models non-existent populations, non-existent topologies, non-existent particle interactions, non-existent chemistries as it models those observed in our Universe (in fact in models the former better as usually the latter models are incomplete).
Physical circles aren't round. Infinite fractal coastlines don't exist. Vacuums aren't. Equilibrium isn't. Probabilities don't account for all situations (the coin lands on the side, the prisoners are blown up by a bomb before they choose, etc.) ...
Are you a Platonic Realist?
A degree in mathematics, from a responsible university, should include at least some physics.
Why? You're there to do maths. They should teach you maths, if you choose to keep it pure they shouldn't force you to make application of maths part of your course.
If you're a mathematician analysing an auto crash you can look at the inputs and outputs without needing to worry about the mechanisms - in fact it probably helps not to. Your assertion is hard to challenge as outcomes of crashes and heart attacks are pretty common sense conclusions (yes physics based) - what do you need to know about them to assess them actuarially, just the approx. statistical outcomes, surely??
I did Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at Uni. I always struggle with applied maths however (strange I know) I think because of the way it was approached. My preference in maths was DE, complex analysis, fractal geometry but all taught in a pure way - I prefered to apply such things in physics lectures.
Maths is not a science.
FWIW I've studied a little Art History, Logic and Philosophy, Ecological Modelling and Material Science at undergrad level too. I'm not sure if Art History is valuable except inasmuch as something that entertains is [hugely] valuable.
What does it mean for a company to "survive" if it lays off most of its employees? I don't see what the point is.
I think they mean [simplistically] that it continues to employ the poorer working to make profits for the wealthy elite. That's "survival".
WTF do you expect? "We're having a major downturn, here's your hefty salary increase"?
$11 million sounds like quite a large bonus - that's gotta be a smack in the face for all Sun employees if the company is saying they can't afford to give them an inflationary pay increase. I bet there are people working harder at Sun than the CEO, the myth that managers work harder/deserve more money than others needs to die. You can't blame an employee for being angry at that.
Incidentally share holders couldn't care less (on the whole) about "value". They care about short-term monetary profit, nothing else. If you're an uber coder that produces great products it doesn't matter - you can probably be forced to work faster and produce poorer code that will still sell.
Why they won't apply these principles to the executives I don't know.
That's exactly what I'm saying! If you've got the best platform, and no one wants to buy it, you suck at selling stuff.
Sometimes the best just costs too much. If the extra expense doesn't produce any extra return then no matter how hard you tout it, provided your customers have the sense, you won't sell it.
I love sirloin steak, but beef mince fills me up too.
>>> Who wants to use voice recognition, and for what?
Those that can't type, or can't type quickly.
>>> Who wants to see the person they're talking to on the phone on a screen?
Makes sign language a heap easier.
>>> Who wants to turn the lights on by clapping their hands?
Anyone who can't, or can't be bothered to, get out of bed.
Just because you don't need or want something doesn't mean someone else doesn't.