Thanks for the citation. That's what I was going to say: What standards for redaction are there, exactly? It seems to me like there are probably thousands of "redacted" documents just like the ones you cite.
By their own theory, every event in history delaying the creation and operation of the LHC would have to be included. Not least of which would be the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, which probably set back the experiment by a thousand years.
Very silly. Who funds these guys?
...for being a complete dick. Not everyone who owns an Apple product is a black-shirted zealot, and it's obnoxious to paint all of a company's customers with such a broad brush. Nick is just feeding the trolls by echoing the same stupid tropes that unoriginal people endlessly repeat in forums and comment sections all over the web.
A decent writer - editorial or otherwise - should discuss the merits and facts of the situation without bringing in useless and alienating invective. He may get a few yuks from the dumb crowd and incite a colorful flame war in the comment section, but he certainly won't gain any deep or lasting respect as a journalist. But I suppose this is just a temporary thing until he gets a job he actually cares about or finishes that sci-fi novel he's been working on.
And you might also think differently about the Hare Krishnas if you read Monkey on a Stick - although it seems perhaps a more peaceful sect now than during the frenetic 60's.
Support for legacy technologies gets dropped all the time. It sucks, but it opens up new opportunities for enterprising developers. Besides, Palm themselves stopped making Palm Desktop for the Mac ages ago.
Obviously there is lingering demand. So, in due course there will be an open source solution to sync from the Mac OS to the Palm OS. After all, it's not rocket science.
Absolutely right that people are free to believe whatever they like. And lots of people take that point to its logical extreme, believing only what they like. Which is why people need to be educated to use their brains properly, to be courageous in facing down their own assumptions, and to outgrow foolish superstitions.
A hundred thousand years of human technology, and we're supposed to be impressed at the latest version of the club. Wake me up when the human race does something impressive.
A user can freely download the source of a GPL iPhone app, freely compile it on the iPhone simulator, freely alter it to suit his needs, and freely contribute those changes back to the main project, or any other branches out there. So far, so good.
But if he wants to install it on his own iPhone that he must either pay Apple to become a developer or jailbreak his device. Does that fly in the face of the GPL? I'm not sure.
GPL can get in the way of iPhone developers too. If you have a game based on SDL and you don't want to open the source code, you either have to abandon SDL or buy a commercial license - and last I heard it was $500 for an SDL iPhone commercial license.
Things are only funny to me when they're true, and sadly that video props up way too many fallacies, leaving the savvy viewer merely feeling that the ignorance of the average user is being abused.
Fact is, unless you've got bad RAM or other hardware issues, Mac OS X "never" crashes. (I was going to say "rarely" or "hardly ever" but frankly it's much closer to never.) And don't even get me started on the endless virus labyrinth Windows represents.
As a graphic designer and a programmer of Mac, iPhone, and web applications, I want a UNIX-like platform where I can stage my websites and use a real shell with the full compliment of GNU software, a decent JVM, and a full and optimized OpenGL implementation. Only the Mac provides the complete solution for me. And when I do want to test a website on IE6/7 or build my SDL binary for Windows I can just start up VMWare with Windows XP.
Any web developer worth his salt ought to have strong experience with the UNIX shell, shell scripting, and Apache configuration. Developers with broader interests should have Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash at their disposal. And every developer should have decent C/C++ skills. I wish Linux had all this, and perhaps soon it will have a comparable set of apps. But in 2009, Mac OS X with XCode provides an amazing set of tools that Windows and Linux simply can't match - certainly not at any comparable price.
So, enough with bashing the Mac with outmoded and fallacious arguments. Especially when the guy doing the bashing is just a dunderhead without any recent multi-platform development experience.
Back when there was significantly more CO2 in the atmosphere different forms of life predominated, and we have evolved during the relatively oxygen-rich period which followed the lengthy period of sequestration of CO2 in trees and underground petroleum.
The CO2 we have been increasingly releasing for the last century and a half is not counterbalanced at all because the number of woody trees which absorb CO2 is being significantly cut back at the same time.
The combination of these factors causes more heat energy to remain in the atmosphere, which means more kinetic energy. Thus we should see an increase in extreme weather, plus an increase in the amount of heat flowing to the polar regions.
As CO2 and heat increase there will be a corresponding increase in the amount of gaseous H2O in the atmosphere, which is also a heat-trapping molecule. Thus we should expect to see an increase in the number of hurricanes and large-scale storms.
What is most feared is a runaway greenhouse effect, in which there simply isn't enough re-uptake of CO2 to counterbalance the domino effect, thus heat and kinetic energy keep going up and up. Ocean levels will most certainly rise, and at an increasing rate, which will lead to the increasing loss of coastal regions, large-scale loss of property, displacement of millions of people throughout the world, and various related crises.
Certainly no one needs to be alarmist, but it is clear that we need to find some solution to regain a reasonable balance, and to do what we can right now. And the most effective thing we can do to slow this trend is alter our behavior and encourage others to do the same.
In terms of long-term fitness, diversity within a population is probably the hugest advantage. How is it entirely subjective to apply the word "superior" within a well-defined context?
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Thanks for the citation. That's what I was going to say: What standards for redaction are there, exactly? It seems to me like there are probably thousands of "redacted" documents just like the ones you cite.
By their own theory, every event in history delaying the creation and operation of the LHC would have to be included. Not least of which would be the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, which probably set back the experiment by a thousand years. Very silly. Who funds these guys?
...in case anyone missed it...
I'm sorry, Sark, but touch is the future, so you'll just have to get used to it. End of line. - MCP
"all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work"
Huh, that's a very cryptic statement!
...for being a complete dick. Not everyone who owns an Apple product is a black-shirted zealot, and it's obnoxious to paint all of a company's customers with such a broad brush. Nick is just feeding the trolls by echoing the same stupid tropes that unoriginal people endlessly repeat in forums and comment sections all over the web.
A decent writer - editorial or otherwise - should discuss the merits and facts of the situation without bringing in useless and alienating invective. He may get a few yuks from the dumb crowd and incite a colorful flame war in the comment section, but he certainly won't gain any deep or lasting respect as a journalist. But I suppose this is just a temporary thing until he gets a job he actually cares about or finishes that sci-fi novel he's been working on.
Oh, now look, I'm doing it too. Dammit!
And you might also think differently about the Hare Krishnas if you read Monkey on a Stick - although it seems perhaps a more peaceful sect now than during the frenetic 60's.
..besides, those were only ordinary whippets. What we're talking about here is in a whole new class, Whippets of Doom!
Does this affect the Mac OS X version, or does at least one of the callers have to be on a PC?
Support for legacy technologies gets dropped all the time. It sucks, but it opens up new opportunities for enterprising developers. Besides, Palm themselves stopped making Palm Desktop for the Mac ages ago.
Obviously there is lingering demand. So, in due course there will be an open source solution to sync from the Mac OS to the Palm OS. After all, it's not rocket science.
So there you go. Competitiveness is restored.
Absolutely right that people are free to believe whatever they like. And lots of people take that point to its logical extreme, believing only what they like. Which is why people need to be educated to use their brains properly, to be courageous in facing down their own assumptions, and to outgrow foolish superstitions.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Other items on the menu include...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot
Rave this weekend in SF. For details irc #rave09xxx
Natch!
A hundred thousand years of human technology, and we're supposed to be impressed at the latest version of the club. Wake me up when the human race does something impressive.
A user can freely download the source of a GPL iPhone app, freely compile it on the iPhone simulator, freely alter it to suit his needs, and freely contribute those changes back to the main project, or any other branches out there. So far, so good.
But if he wants to install it on his own iPhone that he must either pay Apple to become a developer or jailbreak his device. Does that fly in the face of the GPL? I'm not sure.
GPL can get in the way of iPhone developers too. If you have a game based on SDL and you don't want to open the source code, you either have to abandon SDL or buy a commercial license - and last I heard it was $500 for an SDL iPhone commercial license.
Apologies. I was under the impression that apps needed to be linked to the system libraries.
They do. But the linking occurs at runtime, not at compile time.
Things are only funny to me when they're true, and sadly that video props up way too many fallacies, leaving the savvy viewer merely feeling that the ignorance of the average user is being abused.
Fact is, unless you've got bad RAM or other hardware issues, Mac OS X "never" crashes. (I was going to say "rarely" or "hardly ever" but frankly it's much closer to never.) And don't even get me started on the endless virus labyrinth Windows represents.
As a graphic designer and a programmer of Mac, iPhone, and web applications, I want a UNIX-like platform where I can stage my websites and use a real shell with the full compliment of GNU software, a decent JVM, and a full and optimized OpenGL implementation. Only the Mac provides the complete solution for me. And when I do want to test a website on IE6/7 or build my SDL binary for Windows I can just start up VMWare with Windows XP.
Any web developer worth his salt ought to have strong experience with the UNIX shell, shell scripting, and Apache configuration. Developers with broader interests should have Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash at their disposal. And every developer should have decent C/C++ skills. I wish Linux had all this, and perhaps soon it will have a comparable set of apps. But in 2009, Mac OS X with XCode provides an amazing set of tools that Windows and Linux simply can't match - certainly not at any comparable price.
So, enough with bashing the Mac with outmoded and fallacious arguments. Especially when the guy doing the bashing is just a dunderhead without any recent multi-platform development experience.
Rant ended, huzzah!
Back when there was significantly more CO2 in the atmosphere different forms of life predominated, and we have evolved during the relatively oxygen-rich period which followed the lengthy period of sequestration of CO2 in trees and underground petroleum.
The CO2 we have been increasingly releasing for the last century and a half is not counterbalanced at all because the number of woody trees which absorb CO2 is being significantly cut back at the same time.
The combination of these factors causes more heat energy to remain in the atmosphere, which means more kinetic energy. Thus we should see an increase in extreme weather, plus an increase in the amount of heat flowing to the polar regions.
As CO2 and heat increase there will be a corresponding increase in the amount of gaseous H2O in the atmosphere, which is also a heat-trapping molecule. Thus we should expect to see an increase in the number of hurricanes and large-scale storms.
What is most feared is a runaway greenhouse effect, in which there simply isn't enough re-uptake of CO2 to counterbalance the domino effect, thus heat and kinetic energy keep going up and up. Ocean levels will most certainly rise, and at an increasing rate, which will lead to the increasing loss of coastal regions, large-scale loss of property, displacement of millions of people throughout the world, and various related crises.
Certainly no one needs to be alarmist, but it is clear that we need to find some solution to regain a reasonable balance, and to do what we can right now. And the most effective thing we can do to slow this trend is alter our behavior and encourage others to do the same.
And this post is supposed to be ... the bait?
Where we're going we don't need roads.
[nazi]
True, however the grammatical rule calling for the word "sung" in this instance is still in effect.
[/nazi]
Hey, my wife's an ignorant buffoon, you overbearing troglodyte!
In terms of long-term fitness, diversity within a population is probably the hugest advantage. How is it entirely subjective to apply the word "superior" within a well-defined context?