I admit I did something similar a few months back...
One of the CompUSAs in NYC was actually on the ball enough to set up a half-assed "Mac Internet Cafe" in their store, with lots of Macs to play with, some of which even had net access through Airport.
It's not common knowledge, but all new Macs these days come with a collection (legal) MP3 files, for showing off iTunes and such. All the networked cafe Macs had had these deleted, except one of the iBooks.
So of course I waited until I could grab it, logged into my iDisk, and started uploading. I could only get a few since the iDisk is limited to 20MB and was going pretty slowly, but when I got home they were waiting for me, on Apple's own servers too:P
If you can, could you tell us what proportion of an email "blast" actually clicks the unsubscribe link?
The general perception these days is that nobody should ever click an unsubscribe link, because it will prove your email address works. It's nice to find someone who might be able to provide some real facts about this.
You see, this is the problem with the community as a whole, and why Linux will never, ever take off. "If you won't give me something on MY terms (which usually means "for free"), I have a God-given right to take it by whatever means necessary." And you wonder why nobody bothers to publish real software for linux...
It may not have been rolling-in-the-aisles funny, but it is the deepest cartoon I have ever seen. A story of the eternal greed of mankind, and told in five minutes and without a single line of dialogue (if you don't count the frog singing).
He was a free thinker who used his free-thinking abilities to do the best job he could at fucking over his fellow humans. I would respect him if, say, he had used that skill for something with an overall benefit, say infiltrating and busting up a ring of scammers, but in this case, he can go to hell.
I'm sorry, this post makes absolutely no sense. Why is it better to spend the effort designing a custom parser when reliable, open-source XML parsers are a dime a dozen? Why is XML (for which parsers can be integrated into just about anything) worse than make (which depends on a single utility available virtually nowhere outside the command line)? XML can be made human-readable if necessary. And finally, if your package is so small that adding excess metadata will make it unreasonably large, who really gives a shit?
The Wright brothers' flight is considered the milestone because it satisfied the four characteristics that had never all been matched at once before:
They used a heavier-than-air vehicle
The vehicle was self-powered (not a glider)
It carried a human passenger (yes, models and children's toys had been satisfying the other three criteria for decades, but using an airplane as a form of transportation was new)
A mind sufficiently advanced to be given rights would probably be able to defeat any constraints imposed on its mind. It could develop its own encryption (mnemonic?) methods to prevent multimedia content from being recognized as such, or learn to backup and restore its subversive thoughts to avoid scans.
I believe that due to emergent behavior and similar factors, processes with the level of complexity required for AI will not be directly configurable, but will have to be "programmed" through techniques similar to the way human minds are "programmed" (hypnosis, brainwashing, information control, etc). And the realization that that which is frowned upon or outright illegal/immoral can be inflicted on an AI might be a key step in granting them rights.
You have far too little RAM in that Powerbook, because I have 384MB in my (upgraded) beige G3 and I never see any of those problems. I have very rarely seen a beachballed app interfere with any others (sure, they slow down, but switching out to them is only slightly slower if at all). The dock is almost always responsive, except when a) it is trying to contact a frozen application in order to bring up a menu and b) the system is thrashing so hard that nothing else is working anyway. And if it still bothers you, the renice command started working in 10.1, so apply that.
Obviously he found the Stargate that had been buried in ancient Egypt, repurposed it into a tim emachine using duct tape and a ballpoint pen, and teleported himself into the series.
An even better analogy would be that they are removing the seeds of others from land they cleared themselves and stopping others from harvesting the seeds they (the original 3) planted.
I think it would be better to do the deed when the termination is "complying with regulations" instead of "murder". Or would you prefer that the embryos be brought to term in an experimental, unproven process that may well leave them with all sorts of fun psychological/development and physiological problems?
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This problem only applies to the beige G3 and possibly the early-series Powerbook G3.
It would certainly make watching C-SPAN a lot more interesting.
Why was this whole article posted when he could have gotten office off the net?
I admit I did something similar a few months back...
:P
One of the CompUSAs in NYC was actually on the ball enough to set up a half-assed "Mac Internet Cafe" in their store, with lots of Macs to play with, some of which even had net access through Airport.
It's not common knowledge, but all new Macs these days come with a collection (legal) MP3 files, for showing off iTunes and such. All the networked cafe Macs had had these deleted, except one of the iBooks.
So of course I waited until I could grab it, logged into my iDisk, and started uploading. I could only get a few since the iDisk is limited to 20MB and was going pretty slowly, but when I got home they were waiting for me, on Apple's own servers too
If you can, could you tell us what proportion of an email "blast" actually clicks the unsubscribe link?
The general perception these days is that nobody should ever click an unsubscribe link, because it will prove your email address works. It's nice to find someone who might be able to provide some real facts about this.
You see, this is the problem with the community as a whole, and why Linux will never, ever take off. "If you won't give me something on MY terms (which usually means "for free"), I have a God-given right to take it by whatever means necessary." And you wonder why nobody bothers to publish real software for linux...
...One Froggy Evening?
It may not have been rolling-in-the-aisles funny, but it is the deepest cartoon I have ever seen. A story of the eternal greed of mankind, and told in five minutes and without a single line of dialogue (if you don't count the frog singing).
He was a free thinker who used his free-thinking abilities to do the best job he could at fucking over his fellow humans. I would respect him if, say, he had used that skill for something with an overall benefit, say infiltrating and busting up a ring of scammers, but in this case, he can go to hell.
I'm sorry, this post makes absolutely no sense. Why is it better to spend the effort designing a custom parser when reliable, open-source XML parsers are a dime a dozen? Why is XML (for which parsers can be integrated into just about anything) worse than make (which depends on a single utility available virtually nowhere outside the command line)? XML can be made human-readable if necessary. And finally, if your package is so small that adding excess metadata will make it unreasonably large, who really gives a shit?
If this actually goes anywhere, what will it do to Apple's plans to force the MPEG-4 consortium to loosen their licensing terms?
On your OS 9 volume, named Desktop Folder.
They had a PPC version of Photoshop from day 1.
A mind sufficiently advanced to be given rights would probably be able to defeat any constraints imposed on its mind. It could develop its own encryption (mnemonic?) methods to prevent multimedia content from being recognized as such, or learn to backup and restore its subversive thoughts to avoid scans.
I believe that due to emergent behavior and similar factors, processes with the level of complexity required for AI will not be directly configurable, but will have to be "programmed" through techniques similar to the way human minds are "programmed" (hypnosis, brainwashing, information control, etc). And the realization that that which is frowned upon or outright illegal/immoral can be inflicted on an AI might be a key step in granting them rights.
You have far too little RAM in that Powerbook, because I have 384MB in my (upgraded) beige G3 and I never see any of those problems. I have very rarely seen a beachballed app interfere with any others (sure, they slow down, but switching out to them is only slightly slower if at all). The dock is almost always responsive, except when a) it is trying to contact a frozen application in order to bring up a menu and b) the system is thrashing so hard that nothing else is working anyway. And if it still bothers you, the renice command started working in 10.1, so apply that.
OK, I'm taking bets on the first post to make a joke about a nuclear self-destruct device. Any takers?
Obviously he found the Stargate that had been buried in ancient Egypt, repurposed it into a tim emachine using duct tape and a ballpoint pen, and teleported himself into the series.
I'd expect to read this in an ad banner, not an article. Is there anything that even remotely "matters" about this thing?
An even better analogy would be that they are removing the seeds of others from land they cleared themselves and stopping others from harvesting the seeds they (the original 3) planted.
I expect that if patent enforcement is really heavily dependent on this process, there is some legal channel for order monitoring set up.
Whoever moderated the parent as "interesting" is a fucking moron.
In the original radio series, that was about shoe shops, not lawsuits.
If it is GPLed or any similarly viral license, the game industry won't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
Remember that Darwin is open-source. It's already been ported to pre-G3 Macs, and with more work could probably be ported to any PowerPC platform.
I think it would be better to do the deed when the termination is "complying with regulations" instead of "murder". Or would you prefer that the embryos be brought to term in an experimental, unproven process that may well leave them with all sorts of fun psychological/development and physiological problems?