I've take a look at your historic since I was thinking it is hard to belive somebody could be that stupid (yeah, I'm that bored). You should stop to think a bit about what you say. You have some good insights, but you don't seem to think about them enough to discover they are insightfull.
You are forgetting: B is difficult to explain in another way. Now the conclusion follow from the 3 premisses.
Anyway, it is logical, but it doesn't mean it is right. Also, I don't know enough to judge if "Some As make Bs", "It looks like a B" and "B is difficult to explain in another way" are correct.
"That is begging the question: The "kill-bone" arrangement was made by a "kraken". The kraken must have existed because the kill-bone arrangement exists." To put this in perspective "The universe was made by a god. The god must have existed because the universe is here." Do you see the problem with the logic now?"
Current octupos make some funny bone arrangements... Look, a giant bonne arangement that is similar to the current ones; must have been a giant actopus.
I find that Python is quite usefull for writting any kind of fancy UI. It is simlper to write in than C++ (or Java, how can a garbage collected language be harder to write in than C++?), and yet, it doesn't collapse at its own weight like Perl or PHP. I guess that is some of your more complex stuff, so I'd recomend you learn python next time you go out to use QT or do web development (or more complex UIs, like what you can do with PyGame or 3D modellers).
PHP by its turn, I now consider defunct.
I looked at Haskel to try to create some automatic software paralelizer, just to learn that Lisp is better for that task. Anyway, my time just vanished before I really started the project, so I don't have one:( Anyway, it surprised me how easy it is to deal with text files. I'd recommend it to the more complex kind, that need a statefull parser, something that is harder to do on Perl. It is also great to parse trees, but that is common knowledge, and it is very easy to write a Prolog-like backtracking in it, with the advantaje that it is resctricted to a small part of your code, thus a small error elsewhere won't make your calculation take years to run, also, you can change the search algorithm. (I'm quite near to consider Prolog defunct too.)
Interestingly, I don't know ObjectiveC. When I have some time, I may try it. I've heard it is way clearer then C++ (I just don't know if it is a good or a bad thing).
Well, it should be obvious, but I'm saying anyway: Wait to learn Python when you have a problem that isn't The One Thing one of the languages you know shines at.
When you need to filter a text file, please do it in Perl*, not Python. That is good advice even for Python programmers.
* Or Haskel. It is amazing how good Haskel is for filtering text. But, of course, you need a completely different mindset than you'd use with Perl.
You'd be hard pressed to find a surgeon that takes surgery easily, or a soldier that takes killing easily. If anything, they are even more reluctant of accepting they'd do any good than the rest of society.
I don't know what plannet are you from, but at this gravity weel you can hire quite a number of editors and graphic artits with 600k dollars.
I also don't know where do you get any vague "everyone is getting rich but me" from my post. I don't think I left anything vague there, and well, nothing there has no relation with me. But I admit you may speek a slightly different english there where 600k for editing a book is nearly no money at all.
Well, there is some party getting way too much money here. Except for the author and the reader (ok, maybe one editor, but not that mcuh), everybody else is optional and should get rewarded as such.
Middleman know that, and are betting on copywrigth to keep the authors captive, and DRM to keep the readers locked. Both will not work for long.
"EULA is a license which allows you to use software."
Yeah, and software patents are ok because you have a different computer after loading some software.
Some news for you. If somebody sells you (an end user) a piece of software, that software is sold to be used. It is not sold so that you can keep it at your disk and appreciate the bytes. Somebody is stealing you when ater he takes your money he tells you can't use the software.
As your system needs updates in data, it must have a system to constantly put data in it. Whatever you make it of, pen drives, network, punched cards, paper and scanner, it will be a vector for intrusion, and there is no way to turn it off.
Well, I explicitly allow cookies from my bank (they have a browser plugin, they shouldn't need it), while I don't allow them from just anybody that asks.
I'm just a bit less paranoid than the GP, since I allow cookies from/. too. But this is slashdot, if you want an audience that isn't composed of geeks, go to Dig.
Well, I mod down minority oppinions all the time. Not the ones that have merit, mind you, just the majority of them.
Or, in a better way, I used to mod them down. That was before I got so anoyed with the javascript interface that I changed to the "classical" one. The "classical" interface is so bad that even modding is hard, so I don't do it anymore (neither up nor down). It is in no way as good as what/. had at the old times.
1 - Repeat after me: "watermarks are not DRM". Ok, they have some similarities, one is that both fail to work, but for different reasons.
2 - It's trivial to have a distribution channel easier than downloading pirated movies. You just need a nice bandwidth, a hight quality coppy (that excludes DRM, sorry) and hight availability. Also, it doesn't hurt to have an as universal translation as you can do. Of course, also without a too hight price*. Movie distributors just aren't interested, one day they'll be.
3 - How do all those bloggers get a global audience? That is how you do global distribution. I really don't understand why you think it is so hard.
* Sorry, I can't stipulate a price here. That is what market research is for. Whatever price you put, some people will pirate. That's ok, your goal is to maximize revenues, not fight piracy.
I'd seccond you here, if it only was trendy for slashdotters to do it, and add that I'm from Brazil, what turns your anecdonte into a multi-country anecdonte.
Netflix is offering a free month here, you decide if you subscribe latter. Most people that I know get the free month, but don't go into subscribing because the movies are old (classics not included) and it would still be cheaper to rent them.
Excell 2007 is way better than 2003, what locks people into the ribbon interface. After a bit of using (and changing the default configuration) most people get used to the ribbon and stop being inconvenienced, but I still think it is not better than the old menus in any way (and for other applications - e.g. AutoCad - lack of hierarchy is killer).
There are already a few more examples on the thread. Add there the scanning tunnel microscope. (Aren't there also other microscope and telescope inventions?)
If you don't consider your and those other examples engineering, what is it? In fact, lots physics nobels are over the very fuzzy line that separates science from engineering.
"I always thought the complaints of "security by obscurity" were not that obscurity couldn't be helpful to security, but that it was a bad idea to rely on obscurity."
Sometimes that isn't true, and those are the most common times people use the term "security by obscurity".
When dealing with algorithms or protocols, if you don't let the white hat people discover the problems with your idea (what can't happen when it is obscure), all those problems will be still there when you deploy it. On those cases, obscurity really oposes security.
I always tought readability reformatted a webpage into a desktop friendly format. Up to now I've never imagined it was intented to be used on e-readers.
Except that Flash was a little too universal for it to work well. Before it being known for waisting CPU and not being available on mobile, Flash was known for destroying the interface of your pages on any browser that differed from the standard desktop where they were developped.
It doesn't matter if your screen is too big, or too small, or if you don't have a screen at all. It doesn't matter if you can read well or badly, if your display has colors or not, if you want to use a small window or maximize your browser. With Flash you are going to see the contents exactly the way it was developped or not see at all! Even if you are blind.
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I've take a look at your historic since I was thinking it is hard to belive somebody could be that stupid (yeah, I'm that bored). You should stop to think a bit about what you say. You have some good insights, but you don't seem to think about them enough to discover they are insightfull.
You are forgetting: B is difficult to explain in another way. Now the conclusion follow from the 3 premisses.
Anyway, it is logical, but it doesn't mean it is right. Also, I don't know enough to judge if "Some As make Bs", "It looks like a B" and "B is difficult to explain in another way" are correct.
Current octupos make some funny bone arrangements... Look, a giant bonne arangement that is similar to the current ones; must have been a giant actopus.
Quite a sane way of thinking.
Are the cops within that 1% that will call them?
I find that Python is quite usefull for writting any kind of fancy UI. It is simlper to write in than C++ (or Java, how can a garbage collected language be harder to write in than C++?), and yet, it doesn't collapse at its own weight like Perl or PHP. I guess that is some of your more complex stuff, so I'd recomend you learn python next time you go out to use QT or do web development (or more complex UIs, like what you can do with PyGame or 3D modellers).
PHP by its turn, I now consider defunct.
I looked at Haskel to try to create some automatic software paralelizer, just to learn that Lisp is better for that task. Anyway, my time just vanished before I really started the project, so I don't have one :( Anyway, it surprised me how easy it is to deal with text files. I'd recommend it to the more complex kind, that need a statefull parser, something that is harder to do on Perl. It is also great to parse trees, but that is common knowledge, and it is very easy to write a Prolog-like backtracking in it, with the advantaje that it is resctricted to a small part of your code, thus a small error elsewhere won't make your calculation take years to run, also, you can change the search algorithm. (I'm quite near to consider Prolog defunct too.)
Interestingly, I don't know ObjectiveC. When I have some time, I may try it. I've heard it is way clearer then C++ (I just don't know if it is a good or a bad thing).
Well, it should be obvious, but I'm saying anyway: Wait to learn Python when you have a problem that isn't The One Thing one of the languages you know shines at.
When you need to filter a text file, please do it in Perl*, not Python. That is good advice even for Python programmers.
* Or Haskel. It is amazing how good Haskel is for filtering text. But, of course, you need a completely different mindset than you'd use with Perl.
Well, I'd ask you to enumerate what other technologies are as central to daily life as computers, but you already did it. That saves time.
Next time I'm searching for a job I'll make sure to put "toaster expertize" in my CV.
You'd be hard pressed to find a surgeon that takes surgery easily, or a soldier that takes killing easily. If anything, they are even more reluctant of accepting they'd do any good than the rest of society.
Unfortunately, lawyers don't share that feature.
I don't know what plannet are you from, but at this gravity weel you can hire quite a number of editors and graphic artits with 600k dollars.
I also don't know where do you get any vague "everyone is getting rich but me" from my post. I don't think I left anything vague there, and well, nothing there has no relation with me. But I admit you may speek a slightly different english there where 600k for editing a book is nearly no money at all.
The ip also returns a blanck page to me. They are probably relying too much on name virtualhosts.
Well, there is some party getting way too much money here. Except for the author and the reader (ok, maybe one editor, but not that mcuh), everybody else is optional and should get rewarded as such.
Middleman know that, and are betting on copywrigth to keep the authors captive, and DRM to keep the readers locked. Both will not work for long.
It would be great to have a system to help finding books, but I'd pass anything that relied on tags I enter.
If I knew what I'd want on a book, I'd write it myself.
Yeah, and software patents are ok because you have a different computer after loading some software.
Some news for you. If somebody sells you (an end user) a piece of software, that software is sold to be used. It is not sold so that you can keep it at your disk and appreciate the bytes. Somebody is stealing you when ater he takes your money he tells you can't use the software.
As your system needs updates in data, it must have a system to constantly put data in it. Whatever you make it of, pen drives, network, punched cards, paper and scanner, it will be a vector for intrusion, and there is no way to turn it off.
Well, I explicitly allow cookies from my bank (they have a browser plugin, they shouldn't need it), while I don't allow them from just anybody that asks.
I'm just a bit less paranoid than the GP, since I allow cookies from /. too. But this is slashdot, if you want an audience that isn't composed of geeks, go to Dig.
Well, I mod down minority oppinions all the time. Not the ones that have merit, mind you, just the majority of them.
Or, in a better way, I used to mod them down. That was before I got so anoyed with the javascript interface that I changed to the "classical" one. The "classical" interface is so bad that even modding is hard, so I don't do it anymore (neither up nor down). It is in no way as good as what /. had at the old times.
1 - Repeat after me: "watermarks are not DRM". Ok, they have some similarities, one is that both fail to work, but for different reasons.
2 - It's trivial to have a distribution channel easier than downloading pirated movies. You just need a nice bandwidth, a hight quality coppy (that excludes DRM, sorry) and hight availability. Also, it doesn't hurt to have an as universal translation as you can do. Of course, also without a too hight price*. Movie distributors just aren't interested, one day they'll be.
3 - How do all those bloggers get a global audience? That is how you do global distribution. I really don't understand why you think it is so hard.
* Sorry, I can't stipulate a price here. That is what market research is for. Whatever price you put, some people will pirate. That's ok, your goal is to maximize revenues, not fight piracy.
I'd seccond you here, if it only was trendy for slashdotters to do it, and add that I'm from Brazil, what turns your anecdonte into a multi-country anecdonte.
Netflix is offering a free month here, you decide if you subscribe latter. Most people that I know get the free month, but don't go into subscribing because the movies are old (classics not included) and it would still be cheaper to rent them.
Excell 2007 is way better than 2003, what locks people into the ribbon interface. After a bit of using (and changing the default configuration) most people get used to the ribbon and stop being inconvenienced, but I still think it is not better than the old menus in any way (and for other applications - e.g. AutoCad - lack of hierarchy is killer).
We are just missing some smart person with no preconcept and unwilling to rule anybody.
There are already a few more examples on the thread. Add there the scanning tunnel microscope. (Aren't there also other microscope and telescope inventions?)
If you don't consider your and those other examples engineering, what is it? In fact, lots physics nobels are over the very fuzzy line that separates science from engineering.
Well, that's their problem. They could just insert static ads at their pages, but no, they want tracking devices too.
Anyway, I don't need their site, what is evidenced by me not having RTFA and not suffering any inconvenience.
Sometimes that isn't true, and those are the most common times people use the term "security by obscurity".
When dealing with algorithms or protocols, if you don't let the white hat people discover the problems with your idea (what can't happen when it is obscure), all those problems will be still there when you deploy it. On those cases, obscurity really oposes security.
I always tought readability reformatted a webpage into a desktop friendly format. Up to now I've never imagined it was intented to be used on e-readers.
Except that Flash was a little too universal for it to work well. Before it being known for waisting CPU and not being available on mobile, Flash was known for destroying the interface of your pages on any browser that differed from the standard desktop where they were developped.
It doesn't matter if your screen is too big, or too small, or if you don't have a screen at all. It doesn't matter if you can read well or badly, if your display has colors or not, if you want to use a small window or maximize your browser. With Flash you are going to see the contents exactly the way it was developped or not see at all! Even if you are blind.