Uh, that's a great concept, but not everyone has time to port to their favorite new hardware. The point of open source software is so that people can take full advantage of what is already done - and that is going to be done more effectively with a set of written requirements for hardware the software is known to __already__ work on.
That having been said, it's better to have potentially usable software than no software at all.
Good call. There are a lot more reasons than those you mentioned to go 100% libertarian and 0% republican, but I don't want to potentially alienate you, so I'll keep them to myself.
Just because you pick up a weapon and follow orders doesn't necessarily mean you are defending freedom. In fact you sign away a huge portion of your existing freedom when you agreed to try.
Remember that you are still responsible for actions you take that are illegal or immoral, even when you are ordered to do so. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately.
I agree with your predicitons for the future of america, all of those things are already happening, just not as widespread/severe as they surely will be in 2025.
But what the hell do you suggest the 'Americans' do to 'take destiny into their own hands'? If our crazy leaders enjoy quashing rebellions all over the rest of the world, doesn't it follow that they're deadly efficient at quashing rebellion at home? Our media ignores any protest, or mass dissent our citizens attempt. Our votes are run through republican-controlled machines for tallies.
We put people to death here with state approval. We send 'enemy combatants' to other countries to be tortured. We have the most expensive and least comprehensive healthcare. We would be spending half of our federal budget on war, except that for some reason the president keeps the war OUT of the budget entirely, as if it's some kind of unexpected emergency that pops up, every 6 months or so. Why do we put up with it? Well, there isn't really much we can do - at least without lots of money. Rights have become de-emphasized in the 'post-9/11' US. Fear is the replacement.
If reading the data out accurately isn't an issue, here's a simple way to store ANY amount of data on a single wire less than 1 cm long!!!
0. Start out with a wire > 1cm long. 1. Take the data and encode it into a sequence of decimal digits. If you don't know how to do this you shouldn't be reading slashdot. This sequence is concatenated into one huge number N. 2. Cut the wire to a length of EXACTLY 1/N cm long. 3. Now you can read the length of the wire, invert it, and decode your sequence of digits.
The wire now contains however much information you wanted to store. Whether you can retrieve that info depends on the accuracy of your reading (and writing) equipment. In the meantime while 1cm is too small for effective equipment to be used, make it an appropriate fraction of 1m. Or 1km. Whatever.
I think that is the main reason they don't (or shouldn't, at least) care if people re-distribute their content. Hell, it becomes MORE valuable with extra free distribution. They should go to their advertisers and say "we're gonna charge more now, because we're gonna let millions of internet users see your ad when they d/l our show".
They're with other users. Your job is to say something dumb like "mod parent up". Then some other non-moderator is supposed to reply to you to tell you how you are wasting everyone's time by playing moderator. Then real moderators mod your post down and it's children.
If you try posting as a real user, you might someday get real mod points.
This whole message and it's ilk are a huge experiment in futility. I'm sure you know all this. I do. Pretty much everyone reading this does. We all do it anyway beause it sucks less than work.
Sweet! Now all I have to do is get a reader for these things, set it to auto-charge $20 when I get near a card, and go walking around a big city!
Forget worrying about bumping into someone on the street and having them take your wallet, they could just be getting close enough to scan and charge your card!
When I lost a job due to medical issues a while ago I similarly chose not to apply for unemployment, etc.. when I probably should have. It was a bad move.
You can refuse to recieve the benefits of government programs, but you can't refuse to stop paying for them. I recommend getting all you can, especially if you are just scraping by. I'm in a very similar situation (debt), though no longer eligible for gov't assistance because I have a decent job (though it'll be a while before I have a positive amount of money). It makes me feel like even less of a person to be scraping by and living off the kindness of my family (sucks here also), if I still had the option to get assistance, I'd take it.
You don't have to involve pride. You paid into the system (I bet), you deserve output.
That would be pretty cool if Al would pop out in the final episode of Enterprise, give Sam/Jonathan the elusive final hint he needs to save the day, discuss the pros and pros of banging Tupal, and how much he'd like to do it, and then watching as Sam finally Leaps after destroying the Andorian homeworld to stop the Klingon Augments, or whatever resolution is needed there..
And that, of course, would be the (FINAL) leap Home.
You're not an asshole, at least in my opinion, from reading this post. There are many practical reasons to focus on helping locally when you have limited resources to expend (but.. are YOU expending them helping your local area already???)
1. Much more efficient, you can see in detail where the problems are in your local area and solve them.
2. Better feedback as to the accuracy and effectiveness of what you're doing.
3. More motivational to have it improve your local life - stuff you see every day. This is why graphics programming is often more fun than backend stuff.
On the other hand, if this happened to you you'd be expecting the rest of the world to come line up to deliver assistance of various, mostly symbolic kinds. And also, you and I have no fucking clue how badly the rest of the world needs our help.
But.. America is in a shitty mood. It has been lashing out at other countries for no particular reason. It's gotten greedy, insecure, and anti-social. I think it would be a good thing for us to just stop trying to fix the whole world, just for a couple of decades, and get America working right. If we're going to spread our political seed throughout the world with military force (rape, btw, is not the most brilliant strategy for reproduction), let's try to make sure that what we are spreading is not malignant.
I agree. We need to fix our own shit. But really, if we just stop spending half our budget on ruining other people's days, maybe we could save some and improve our own.
Exactly. You build a relationship with any entity you interact with, and Google has treated me very, very well. I've almost always enjoyed working with Google products, while I've almost always become angry when working with microsoft products.
Google is a good company and I trust them until they break that trust.
ONE too many times? You have to be kidding, unless after that one time you just stopped using MS products forever (which is damn near impossible, even with my magical consumer dollar power. I have to work.)
And on a related note, why should I ever pay taxes when richer people are already paying them!! I mean, if they just go after the richer people, they should get more money, right? I never agreed to pay taxes. And if some asshole forebearer did, I withdraw his signature. Ha!
IAAPP, and there is an element of truth to it (how are those statements related though?)
Anyway - if you really know perl, it's so easy to make small changes that it can seem easier to fix a problem in code than to write down a note to solve it later. Same thing with new functionality - it's too tempting to change things.
Perl code is naturally unstable because it's fairly trivial to add functionality. Perl vs. C can feel like a word processor vs. typewriter and white-out.
You're going to do a lot more edits with the word processor, because you can. You'll also get a much more mature result for a similar time investment.
Trying to look at C and document it does not tempt me to modify the code, because it's a pain.
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Uh, that's a great concept, but not everyone has time to port to their favorite new hardware. The point of open source software is so that people can take full advantage of what is already done - and that is going to be done more effectively with a set of written requirements for hardware the software is known to __already__ work on.
That having been said, it's better to have potentially usable software than no software at all.
what kind of bandwidth does uwb supposedly promise to support?
(if there are competing standards, what are each of their bandwidths?)
Good call. There are a lot more reasons than those you mentioned to go 100% libertarian and 0% republican, but I don't want to potentially alienate you, so I'll keep them to myself.
So when you used to take LSD, all it did to you was make monitor flicker more obvious? I think you might have did it wrong.
Uh, doesn't this imply that testing itself creates a false sense of security? Sure, let's not bother testing. Great solution.
Just because you pick up a weapon and follow orders doesn't necessarily mean you are defending freedom. In fact you sign away a huge portion of your existing freedom when you agreed to try.
Remember that you are still responsible for actions you take that are illegal or immoral, even when you are ordered to do so. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately.
Exactly. "Theoretically", when applied in this context, really means "not".
I agree with your predicitons for the future of america, all of those things are already happening, just not as widespread /severe as they surely will be in 2025.
But what the hell do you suggest the 'Americans' do to 'take destiny into their own hands'? If our crazy leaders enjoy quashing rebellions all over the rest of the world, doesn't it follow that they're deadly efficient at quashing rebellion at home? Our media ignores any protest, or mass dissent our citizens attempt. Our votes are run through republican-controlled machines for tallies.
We put people to death here with state approval. We send 'enemy combatants' to other countries to be tortured. We have the most expensive and least comprehensive healthcare. We would be spending half of our federal budget on war, except that for some reason the president keeps the war OUT of the budget entirely, as if it's some kind of unexpected emergency that pops up, every 6 months or so. Why do we put up with it? Well, there isn't really much we can do - at least without lots of money. Rights have become de-emphasized in the 'post-9/11' US. Fear is the replacement.
This is the dark side of the world, buddy.
Yes.
If reading the data out accurately isn't an issue, here's a simple way to store ANY amount of data on a single wire less than 1 cm long!!!
0. Start out with a wire > 1cm long.
1. Take the data and encode it into a sequence of decimal digits. If you don't know how to do this you shouldn't be reading slashdot. This sequence is concatenated into one huge number N.
2. Cut the wire to a length of EXACTLY 1/N cm long.
3. Now you can read the length of the wire, invert it, and decode your sequence of digits.
The wire now contains however much information you wanted to store. Whether you can retrieve that info depends on the accuracy of your reading (and writing) equipment. In the meantime while 1cm is too small for effective equipment to be used, make it an appropriate fraction of 1m. Or 1km. Whatever.
I think that is the main reason they don't (or shouldn't, at least) care if people re-distribute their content. Hell, it becomes MORE valuable with extra free distribution. They should go to their advertisers and say "we're gonna charge more now, because we're gonna let millions of internet users see your ad when they d/l our show".
They're with other users. Your job is to say something dumb like "mod parent up". Then some other non-moderator is supposed to reply to you to tell you how you are wasting everyone's time by playing moderator. Then real moderators mod your post down and it's children.
If you try posting as a real user, you might someday get real mod points.
This whole message and it's ilk are a huge experiment in futility. I'm sure you know all this. I do. Pretty much everyone reading this does. We all do it anyway beause it sucks less than work.
look up, shout your ad.
Sweet! Now all I have to do is get a reader for these things, set it to auto-charge $20 when I get near a card, and go walking around a big city!
Forget worrying about bumping into someone on the street and having them take your wallet, they could just be getting close enough to scan and charge your card!
Yeah, a percentage of $1.50. That's worth suing over.
When I lost a job due to medical issues a while ago I similarly chose not to apply for unemployment, etc.. when I probably should have. It was a bad move.
You can refuse to recieve the benefits of government programs, but you can't refuse to stop paying for them. I recommend getting all you can, especially if you are just scraping by. I'm in a very similar situation (debt), though no longer eligible for gov't assistance because I have a decent job (though it'll be a while before I have a positive amount of money). It makes me feel like even less of a person to be scraping by and living off the kindness of my family (sucks here also), if I still had the option to get assistance, I'd take it.
You don't have to involve pride. You paid into the system (I bet), you deserve output.
That would be pretty cool if Al would pop out in the final episode of Enterprise, give Sam/Jonathan the elusive final hint he needs to save the day, discuss the pros and pros of banging Tupal, and how much he'd like to do it, and then watching as Sam finally Leaps after destroying the Andorian homeworld to stop the Klingon Augments, or whatever resolution is needed there..
And that, of course, would be the (FINAL) leap Home.
You're not an asshole, at least in my opinion, from reading this post. There are many practical reasons to focus on helping locally when you have limited resources to expend (but.. are YOU expending them helping your local area already???)
1. Much more efficient, you can see in detail where the problems are in your local area and solve them.
2. Better feedback as to the accuracy and effectiveness of what you're doing.
3. More motivational to have it improve your local life - stuff you see every day. This is why graphics programming is often more fun than backend stuff.
On the other hand, if this happened to you you'd be expecting the rest of the world to come line up to deliver assistance of various, mostly symbolic kinds. And also, you and I have no fucking clue how badly the rest of the world needs our help.
But.. America is in a shitty mood. It has been lashing out at other countries for no particular reason. It's gotten greedy, insecure, and anti-social. I think it would be a good thing for us to just stop trying to fix the whole world, just for a couple of decades, and get America working right. If we're going to spread our political seed throughout the world with military force (rape, btw, is not the most brilliant strategy for reproduction), let's try to make sure that what we are spreading is not malignant.
I agree. We need to fix our own shit. But really, if we just stop spending half our budget on ruining other people's days, maybe we could save some and improve our own.
Actually, you should hope your brain is not broadcast-flag enabled, or you won't be able to tell anyone about it.
Exactly. You build a relationship with any entity you interact with, and Google has treated me very, very well. I've almost always enjoyed working with Google products, while I've almost always become angry when working with microsoft products.
Google is a good company and I trust them until they break that trust.
ONE too many times? You have to be kidding, unless after that one time you just stopped using MS products forever (which is damn near impossible, even with my magical consumer dollar power. I have to work.)
Oops, should have been "why should I ever agree to pay taxes when richer people are getting away with avoiding them"
Dude, totally!
And on a related note, why should I ever pay taxes when richer people are already paying them!! I mean, if they just go after the richer people, they should get more money, right? I never agreed to pay taxes. And if some asshole forebearer did, I withdraw his signature. Ha!
IAAPP, and there is an element of truth to it (how are those statements related though?)
Anyway - if you really know perl, it's so easy to make small changes that it can seem easier to fix a problem in code than to write down a note to solve it later. Same thing with new functionality - it's too tempting to change things.
Perl code is naturally unstable because it's fairly trivial to add functionality. Perl vs. C can feel like a word processor vs. typewriter and white-out.
You're going to do a lot more edits with the word processor, because you can. You'll also get a much more mature result for a similar time investment.
Trying to look at C and document it does not tempt me to modify the code, because it's a pain.
mod parent up (and mod me down, this post totally sucks!)
mod parent up