>>> Especially when the technicians are likely to see it as deskilling. What's the point of learning something that's of next to no use to you in your next job?
So what you're saying is there's no demand for people who can help move a 2000 person userbase to OSS (and support MS stuff during transition)? You ever read any stories here about companies using Linux ever? No, guess not...
>>> "Unless you can provide data in a method that is deemed "un-crackable", I doubt it would be allowed."
Sure people would be suspicious but the burden of proof lies with those that have to show your evidence is not valid, surely - presumption of innocence and all. Either they show you fabricated the evidence (and are thus due an even longer stretch in prison) or they don't and your evidence stands. Indeed if your evidence doesn't balance with that of the police then there's something for the jurors to weigh against you.
However I suspect the tolerances of the GPS speed and police speed systems are such that you could have sped but appeared to be within the police tolerance zone (about 10% I think).
That is: you do 77mph in a 70mph. Except tolerance of your GPS is 5% so you're actually doing 80mph. Error band of police equipment is say 2% (when used correctly). You're booked as they are sure you're going over the limit and know it.
It's actually impossible for you to be that rich. No bank could ever pay out. Indeed I'd speculate (no haven't calculated) that your wealth would mean you could effectively buy everything in the world (probably several times over). Wealth is a relative concept but is also based on production of worth at some level (though western financial systems are abstracted from production when you look to the root you'll see production of some sort is at the base).
When you get to a particular level of wealth the bank would simply stop paying interest. There is no way it could. Suppose your bank then collapses (perhaps because you have assumed everyone elses money as your hourly interest payment and have decided to buy the moon). There's no government can guarranttee more than it's GNP to buoy up a commercial entity.
Similarly I think there is a step point, a discontinuity, in the ability of chemicals to self organise.
No but I have heard of dissipative structures and know a little about self-organising systems having studied material science and particle physics to some extent. I'm aware of the way entropy can "bootstrap" (for want of a simple description) the generation of structures which appear to oppose the second law... we live under the sun, etc..
Linux and MacOS users tend not to maximize apps?
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I've noticed that Mac users often don't maximise but instead have windows laying like a lot of clutter on the desktop. I think this is something to do with historically better management of application focus and memory (but I don't know).
Linux users? Don't know haven't had the pleasure of seeing any other linux users at work!
Sorry I can't find any right angles. All the ones I look at, when I look closely enough, they turn out not to be right angles. Can you give me a real world example of a perfect right angle?
Re:needs better tablet support ... inkscape?
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Have you tried inkscape for tablet support? This appears to come from GTK so YMMV but is stated to support pressure and angle sensitivity.
I haven't, but I love the app. They've made considerable advances in the last couple of releases. I know there's a tutorial by a guy who draws and shades comics using it. Also that you can simplify lines or using some (built in python) scripts add jitter or add jitter as you draw.
If you've not tried it recently it's worth a punt.
I'm using Slackware 12 and installed the development release via autopackage (http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en).
It doesn't appear to have been granted yet. I imagine it's probably at "search" stage wherein the search examiner has issued their preliminary report with citations.
Anyhow Google URLs are acknowledged prior art. The idea is to use simply a free-form string of 1 or more words to perform a search. Wikipedia isn't a spot on citation (though it would help to refine the main claims) as, for example, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/write an article" simply leads to a page which allows a search to be performed. Granted that's not a huge inventive step but in such a well worked field it is significant.
What I'd be considering is for example the use of mod_rewrite (or similar) to perform a "search" in alternate directories if a file is not found with the specified name. At least the claims would need to be more specific as to what constitutes a "search".
So wikipedia isn't a spot on citation... anyone want to cite documentary evidence from before 3 March 2004.
Evolutionary Psychology: Yeah this is like the psychology equivalent of drawing a pot from a shard of handle except without evidence of any pots like the drawing to measure against. This ain't science as there's no way to test the hypotheses (note that it will be science when we discover time travel assuming it can be proved that we are travelling back within the same timeline I suppose).
Heights have changed, bodily proportions, simply due to different nutrition (and there may be a perceivable change due to changing dna but I doubt it) but that's not a qualitative change (as I was trying to indicate with "moved on").
Take a look at Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Meno (to go Greek for a bit).. do you suppose the complexity of there philosophical considerations was different to that of modern man. Whilst the ideas differ the range of quality apparently does not. Our majority philosophies have changed I grant you that. I bet there's still some platonic realists though and equally I bet there were post-modernists "back in the day".
These things are granted outside my direct experience and so I try to measure my language.
If you're interested I follow Piyrho as far as acatalepsia goes and consider that in as much as I know anything is real I know God in Spirit and through the person of Jesus Christ. That addition to Piyrho's thinking, born of personal experience (in a rather Cartesian manner), leads me away from detachment a-la Buddhists and Hedonists and towards a belief system that - iff (sic.) I could prove reality - that is more evangelical Christian than anything (but please don't temper that label with observations of others who claim it instead consider Jesus Christ and me as a follower).
>>> Religion is like the appendix, it was useful at some point in our evolution, but for modern man, it's more likely to kill you than to do anything for you.
If you genuinely mean religion is useless.. then yes as a Christian I agree. Christ himself despised blank religion, true faith brings action and transformation. Religion brings rule following, guilt and selfish living.
Anyway. Did you know that the appendix is currently considered to be used as a bootstrap for your digestive system. It harbours bacteria in the event of diseases that flush out bacteria from your gut. It was even reported on Slashdot with a link to http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html .
Oh yeah and God wants you to return his calls...
Modern Man? The psychology, philosophy and physicality of man hasn't moved on in thousands of years. Just because we've built up our system "on the shoulders of giants" don't make us any more advanced. We have more technology and information. We have _more_ but to my mind we are less.
They should use the special protection facility in apache:
"# apachectl stop"
it prevents people from linking to your content (at least via port 80) and stops them from viewing your source code. As a bonus it also cuts bandwidth bills.
Use it today! A better internet experience for all.
No adverts? Have you watched the BBC recently. There's about a 10 min. break while they tell you about the latest celebrity dancing show. Offer you a magazine (other magazines are available!) or a website to look at. Tell you what's on the 15 (? yes it's hyperbole) other BBC channels you can't view. Show you an infotainment-ad for digi boxes. Then they'll show a teaser/trailer and won't even tell you when it's going to be on (yes they think they're a commercial station, morons). Then to cap it off they show some (great looking but completely superfluous) video artwork of hippos or something.
What I want to see is a list of programmes coming on next, this should be read out; sidebar with programmes on maybe 3 other channels and then perhaps a 30s teaser with details of exactly when it's going to be on the TV. Follow that with an announcement of the current program, series, episode. Then instead of all the hippos and flashy commercials they can spend the money on other public resources in the entertainment arena like libraries, sports centers, etc..
You'll be telling me next it's all just high quality thought provoking programming.
Some highly educated idiot at the Beeb thinks they have to compete as the lowest common denominator. So they now spend the license fee on over-paid presenters, ripping off other peoples reality TV ideas (like how to steal from your viewers in competitions!) and advertising for the National Lottery.
If you genuinely don't believe that people will think "it's digital I need a new telly that can do digital" and that the retailers aren't going to just go along with it and make loadsamoney then you've never come across someone who was going to throw out their computer because it had a virus!
So basically the Director General just got a youtube account and thought.. hot-dang-diggity I could just upload all our content here and it'll be just as good (!) as having local files.
I'm assuming that they aren't going to attempt to stream full quality?
Does the MS Windows iPlayer, the one they let the BBC use at the moment, have any torrent-ing ability to reduce the infrastructure demands of a few hundred thousand people downloading a giga-byte file from the BBC servers?
It's a perfect application for torrents I'd have thought given the time-limited availability and the mass appeal.
There's a lack of phpbb like systems after all... release it immediately!
@:0)>
Everyone has pet projects.. thing is that systems like this take time to document, understand and integrate. At the end of the day does your system add anything to the gamut of CMS (see eg http://www.opensourcecms.com/) - if not why release it? [that's a genuine question, I'm sure there are valid reasons]
If it does add something, a new way to handle captchas, cheaper DB access, better CSS templating or whatever then arguably you're better distilling those parts into mods/libraries for currently popular systems. That way the advance that you've made can be used and developed by more people.
I'm really not trying to be down on your contribution, btw.
The Article: >>> "The first charge relates to the possession of material for terrorist purposes in October last year.
The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism. "
So basically the Police are charging him with "possession of materials" that are modified for, or clearly indicate, terrorist activity (they'd just observe him otherwise to wait for some real evidence and look for co-conspirators, etc.). The fact he had the anarchist cookbook just means that they can also accuse him of "possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism".
Now whether that second charge requires the information to be being used to prepare for an apparent act of terrorism or not I don't know. But the BBC article seems quite clear that the possession of information is secondary.
I applaud your attempted misreading of your quoted citation:
Quoting "Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?" (Adams, et al.): "Whereas difficulties of objectively evaluating psychoanalytic hypotheses are well-documented, these ap- proaches would predict that sexual arousal is an intrinsic re- sponse to homosexual stimuli, whereas Barlow's (1986) theory would predict that sexual arousal to homosexual stimuli by ho- mophobic individuals is a function of anxiety. These competing notions can and should be evaluated by future research."
Basically the summary (which this is not) makes it clear that the study is inconclusive for several reasons.
Incidentally (and I'm guessing this is where you're coming from) being a "homosexual offender" (1 Corinthians 6:9) means doing something sexual to someone of the same sex. If you refuse to follow the stimulus then no "sin" is committed (YMMV). Just as if you're tempted to steal but don't you are not a thief, etc..
The you-hate-it-means-you-are-one argument is quite an intriguing one (I hate bananas!). It's logically flawed, of course, but is a "stronger" argument for those lacking any factual basis than a simple ad-hominem attack as it's hard to refute against a weak minded opposition....
Of course the reason you hate theists is because you realise the truth about your relationship with god but don't want to admit it.:0)>
System files won't be moved unless they can be moved before the system properly starts (I think there's a paging file defragger in the linked one I mentioned up the thread). Either try booting in safe-mode and using the progs or you can do this: 1) under advanced settings of Control Panel > System dialog you can set pagefile to 0. Reboot in safe mode (will be slow if you have small RAM). Defrag using favourite defragger. Reboot, recreate pagefile at desired size. Fixing pagefile size will reduce future fragmentation - 2.5x the RAM should do.
When I needed to defrag my WinXP system I found that windows defrag actually doesn't move all files to the start of the drive. I used a program called Vopt (see http://alicious.com/linuxR40, http://www.vopt.com/nutry.htm ) to make the most possible contiguous freespace at the end of the drive. Then I used ntfsresize (which is in some distros installers, I think it's used in Ubuntu's qtparted partition resizer) to alter the size of the partition, creating freespace in which to install my linux system.
HTH someone out there.
YMMV, this stuff scares me! Make a backup.
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I've been using GIMP as long as I've used Linux (possibly slightly longer, can't recall), about 9 years or so. Every time I've mentioned "The GIMP" [means "weird, idiotic, crippled"] to people they've said "what? what's it called?". Gimp is derogatory and offensive. It's like calling it "The Wanker" [means "one who masturbates excessively"], that sort of level. I'm not happy about mentioning it to people because of the name.
People say "did you do this in photoshop?", I say "no I used Inkscape and another program, on Linux".
How about PhotoGIM ("photo-gym" where images get a work out and come out fitter for the purpose!).
I guess I'm just another voice echoing in the wilderness.
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>>> Especially when the technicians are likely to see it as deskilling. What's the point of learning something that's of next to no use to you in your next job?
...
So what you're saying is there's no demand for people who can help move a 2000 person userbase to OSS (and support MS stuff during transition)? You ever read any stories here about companies using Linux ever? No, guess not
>>> "Unless you can provide data in a method that is deemed "un-crackable", I doubt it would be allowed."
Sure people would be suspicious but the burden of proof lies with those that have to show your evidence is not valid, surely - presumption of innocence and all. Either they show you fabricated the evidence (and are thus due an even longer stretch in prison) or they don't and your evidence stands. Indeed if your evidence doesn't balance with that of the police then there's something for the jurors to weigh against you.
However I suspect the tolerances of the GPS speed and police speed systems are such that you could have sped but appeared to be within the police tolerance zone (about 10% I think).
That is: you do 77mph in a 70mph. Except tolerance of your GPS is 5% so you're actually doing 80mph. Error band of police equipment is say 2% (when used correctly). You're booked as they are sure you're going over the limit and know it.
You kinda follow my point there.
It's actually impossible for you to be that rich. No bank could ever pay out. Indeed I'd speculate (no haven't calculated) that your wealth would mean you could effectively buy everything in the world (probably several times over). Wealth is a relative concept but is also based on production of worth at some level (though western financial systems are abstracted from production when you look to the root you'll see production of some sort is at the base).
When you get to a particular level of wealth the bank would simply stop paying interest. There is no way it could. Suppose your bank then collapses (perhaps because you have assumed everyone elses money as your hourly interest payment and have decided to buy the moon). There's no government can guarranttee more than it's GNP to buoy up a commercial entity.
Similarly I think there is a step point, a discontinuity, in the ability of chemicals to self organise.
Yes we pushed the analogy too far.
No but I have heard of dissipative structures and know a little about self-organising systems having studied material science and particle physics to some extent. I'm aware of the way entropy can "bootstrap" (for want of a simple description) the generation of structures which appear to oppose the second law ... we live under the sun, etc..
So, what's your point exactly?
So you put a few coins in the bank and now you're the richest man in the world?
No?
So you put a few chemicals together and created RNA?
No?
[ http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=245 , http://www.2ndlaw.com/obstructions.html ]
I've noticed that Mac users often don't maximise but instead have windows laying like a lot of clutter on the desktop. I think this is something to do with historically better management of application focus and memory (but I don't know).
Linux users? Don't know haven't had the pleasure of seeing any other linux users at work!
Sorry I can't find any right angles. All the ones I look at, when I look closely enough, they turn out not to be right angles. Can you give me a real world example of a perfect right angle?
Have you tried inkscape for tablet support? This appears to come from GTK so YMMV but is stated to support pressure and angle sensitivity.
I haven't, but I love the app. They've made considerable advances in the last couple of releases. I know there's a tutorial by a guy who draws and shades comics using it. Also that you can simplify lines or using some (built in python) scripts add jitter or add jitter as you draw.
If you've not tried it recently it's worth a punt.
I'm using Slackware 12 and installed the development release via autopackage (http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en).
It doesn't appear to have been granted yet. I imagine it's probably at "search" stage wherein the search examiner has issued their preliminary report with citations.
... anyone want to cite documentary evidence from before 3 March 2004.
Anyhow Google URLs are acknowledged prior art. The idea is to use simply a free-form string of 1 or more words to perform a search. Wikipedia isn't a spot on citation (though it would help to refine the main claims) as, for example, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/write an article" simply leads to a page which allows a search to be performed. Granted that's not a huge inventive step but in such a well worked field it is significant.
What I'd be considering is for example the use of mod_rewrite (or similar) to perform a "search" in alternate directories if a file is not found with the specified name. At least the claims would need to be more specific as to what constitutes a "search".
So wikipedia isn't a spot on citation
Evolutionary Psychology: Yeah this is like the psychology equivalent of drawing a pot from a shard of handle except without evidence of any pots like the drawing to measure against. This ain't science as there's no way to test the hypotheses (note that it will be science when we discover time travel assuming it can be proved that we are travelling back within the same timeline I suppose).
.. do you suppose the complexity of there philosophical considerations was different to that of modern man. Whilst the ideas differ the range of quality apparently does not. Our majority philosophies have changed I grant you that. I bet there's still some platonic realists though and equally I bet there were post-modernists "back in the day".
Heights have changed, bodily proportions, simply due to different nutrition (and there may be a perceivable change due to changing dna but I doubt it) but that's not a qualitative change (as I was trying to indicate with "moved on").
Take a look at Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Meno (to go Greek for a bit)
These things are granted outside my direct experience and so I try to measure my language.
If you're interested I follow Piyrho as far as acatalepsia goes and consider that in as much as I know anything is real I know God in Spirit and through the person of Jesus Christ. That addition to Piyrho's thinking, born of personal experience (in a rather Cartesian manner), leads me away from detachment a-la Buddhists and Hedonists and towards a belief system that - iff (sic.) I could prove reality - that is more evangelical Christian than anything (but please don't temper that label with observations of others who claim it instead consider Jesus Christ and me as a follower).
>>> Religion is like the appendix, it was useful at some point in our evolution, but for modern man, it's more likely to kill you than to do anything for you.
.. then yes as a Christian I agree. Christ himself despised blank religion, true faith brings action and transformation. Religion brings rule following, guilt and selfish living.
...
If you genuinely mean religion is useless
Anyway. Did you know that the appendix is currently considered to be used as a bootstrap for your digestive system. It harbours bacteria in the event of diseases that flush out bacteria from your gut. It was even reported on Slashdot with a link to http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html .
Oh yeah and God wants you to return his calls
Modern Man? The psychology, philosophy and physicality of man hasn't moved on in thousands of years. Just because we've built up our system "on the shoulders of giants" don't make us any more advanced. We have more technology and information. We have _more_ but to my mind we are less.
They should use the special protection facility in apache:
"# apachectl stop"
it prevents people from linking to your content (at least via port 80) and stops them from viewing your source code. As a bonus it also cuts bandwidth bills.
Use it today! A better internet experience for all.
No adverts? Have you watched the BBC recently. There's about a 10 min. break while they tell you about the latest celebrity dancing show. Offer you a magazine (other magazines are available!) or a website to look at. Tell you what's on the 15 (? yes it's hyperbole) other BBC channels you can't view. Show you an infotainment-ad for digi boxes. Then they'll show a teaser/trailer and won't even tell you when it's going to be on (yes they think they're a commercial station, morons). Then to cap it off they show some (great looking but completely superfluous) video artwork of hippos or something.
... get orf my lawn!
What I want to see is a list of programmes coming on next, this should be read out; sidebar with programmes on maybe 3 other channels and then perhaps a 30s teaser with details of exactly when it's going to be on the TV. Follow that with an announcement of the current program, series, episode. Then instead of all the hippos and flashy commercials they can spend the money on other public resources in the entertainment arena like libraries, sports centers, etc..
You'll be telling me next it's all just high quality thought provoking programming.
Some highly educated idiot at the Beeb thinks they have to compete as the lowest common denominator. So they now spend the license fee on over-paid presenters, ripping off other peoples reality TV ideas (like how to steal from your viewers in competitions!) and advertising for the National Lottery.
Lastly
If you genuinely don't believe that people will think "it's digital I need a new telly that can do digital" and that the retailers aren't going to just go along with it and make loadsamoney then you've never come across someone who was going to throw out their computer because it had a virus!
Is it nice under your rock?
So basically the Director General just got a youtube account and thought .. hot-dang-diggity I could just upload all our content here and it'll be just as good (!) as having local files.
I'm assuming that they aren't going to attempt to stream full quality?
Does the MS Windows iPlayer, the one they let the BBC use at the moment, have any torrent-ing ability to reduce the infrastructure demands of a few hundred thousand people downloading a giga-byte file from the BBC servers?
It's a perfect application for torrents I'd have thought given the time-limited availability and the mass appeal.
>>> "But if you sell copies of your picture ..."
Of course you're only "selling" a small part of the copy of your picture (in most cases).
Wow if you read that as "viagra" what the hell did you write in your essay?
There's a lack of phpbb like systems after all ... release it immediately!
.. thing is that systems like this take time to document, understand and integrate. At the end of the day does your system add anything to the gamut of CMS (see eg http://www.opensourcecms.com/) - if not why release it? [that's a genuine question, I'm sure there are valid reasons]
@:0)>
Everyone has pet projects
If it does add something, a new way to handle captchas, cheaper DB access, better CSS templating or whatever then arguably you're better distilling those parts into mods/libraries for currently popular systems. That way the advance that you've made can be used and developed by more people.
I'm really not trying to be down on your contribution, btw.
The Article:
>>> "The first charge relates to the possession of material for terrorist purposes in October last year.
The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism. "
So basically the Police are charging him with "possession of materials" that are modified for, or clearly indicate, terrorist activity (they'd just observe him otherwise to wait for some real evidence and look for co-conspirators, etc.). The fact he had the anarchist cookbook just means that they can also accuse him of "possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism".
Now whether that second charge requires the information to be being used to prepare for an apparent act of terrorism or not I don't know. But the BBC article seems quite clear that the possession of information is secondary.
I think you'll find that $9250 is the actual iTunes price in the UK. :0)>
I applaud your attempted misreading of your quoted citation:
...
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Quoting "Is Homophobia Associated With Homosexual Arousal?" (Adams, et al.):
"Whereas difficulties of objectively evaluating
psychoanalytic hypotheses are well-documented, these ap-
proaches would predict that sexual arousal is an intrinsic re-
sponse to homosexual stimuli, whereas Barlow's (1986) theory
would predict that sexual arousal to homosexual stimuli by ho-
mophobic individuals is a function of anxiety. These competing
notions can and should be evaluated by future research."
Basically the summary (which this is not) makes it clear that the study is inconclusive for several reasons.
Incidentally (and I'm guessing this is where you're coming from) being a "homosexual offender" (1 Corinthians 6:9) means doing something sexual to someone of the same sex. If you refuse to follow the stimulus then no "sin" is committed (YMMV). Just as if you're tempted to steal but don't you are not a thief, etc..
The you-hate-it-means-you-are-one argument is quite an intriguing one (I hate bananas!). It's logically flawed, of course, but is a "stronger" argument for those lacking any factual basis than a simple ad-hominem attack as it's hard to refute against a weak minded opposition.
Of course the reason you hate theists is because you realise the truth about your relationship with god but don't want to admit it.
System files won't be moved unless they can be moved before the system properly starts (I think there's a paging file defragger in the linked one I mentioned up the thread). Either try booting in safe-mode and using the progs or you can do this: 1) under advanced settings of Control Panel > System dialog you can set pagefile to 0. Reboot in safe mode (will be slow if you have small RAM). Defrag using favourite defragger. Reboot, recreate pagefile at desired size. Fixing pagefile size will reduce future fragmentation - 2.5x the RAM should do.
HTH
any joy?
When I needed to defrag my WinXP system I found that windows defrag actually doesn't move all files to the start of the drive. I used a program called Vopt (see http://alicious.com/linuxR40, http://www.vopt.com/nutry.htm ) to make the most possible contiguous freespace at the end of the drive. Then I used ntfsresize (which is in some distros installers, I think it's used in Ubuntu's qtparted partition resizer) to alter the size of the partition, creating freespace in which to install my linux system.
HTH someone out there.
YMMV, this stuff scares me! Make a backup.
I've been using GIMP as long as I've used Linux (possibly slightly longer, can't recall), about 9 years or so. Every time I've mentioned "The GIMP" [means "weird, idiotic, crippled"] to people they've said "what? what's it called?". Gimp is derogatory and offensive. It's like calling it "The Wanker" [means "one who masturbates excessively"], that sort of level. I'm not happy about mentioning it to people because of the name.
People say "did you do this in photoshop?", I say "no I used Inkscape and another program, on Linux".
How about PhotoGIM ("photo-gym" where images get a work out and come out fitter for the purpose!).
I guess I'm just another voice echoing in the wilderness.