Would you deny a meal to a starving person standing in front of you because it will contribute to other problems? How is it different if you deny it from a distance?
Okay so some aid is misdirected/misused/etc -- but that's no reason to throw your hands in the air, say the problem is too hard, and ignore it completely.
You want them to stop? Don't randomly drift; return a stupid time like now minus a year (so nice and stable, just wrong). That's easy enough with a second NTP server and DNAT.
And yet every other piece of software on the planet seems to at least manage to fit text within horizontal margins without a human to hold its hand. What the TeX engine does when it allows a line to simply overrun by a few characters is the worst possible solution to the problem that I can imagine. It really did take several years before I realised that it was actually doing so by design and not just a bug they hadn't fixed yet; the idea that anyone might consider that acceptable behaviour hadn't even occurred to me.
pdflatex and the microtype package help immensely with this, by letting TeX stretch the glyphs horizontally a little bit. Not enough for you to notice, but enough for the gaps between the words to be small enough for you not to notice either. Microtype rocks.
I don't know what Android businesses (the big, big, big ones who are in this fight) should do but I don't get to decide anyway. I don't think ethical customers leaving Apple will save them -- and I don't think things are as black and white as "Apple: unethical; Android handset manufacturers: ethical" anyway. But I'm going to avoid supporting what I see as bad behaviour. I know that my individual action won't make any difference by itself. But I'm going to do it anyway.
And oh wow, I'm not going to pat my mate on the back for shooting a burglar. That's not self-defense unless it looked like the burglar was going to kill my mate. But then I live in a country where hardly anyone has a gun, so it's a pretty unlikely situation anyway.
I disagree (and agree with #39157489). "Parasites who gum up the works" -- and I know lawyers and government employees who most definitely do not fall into that category -- will stay as long as we accept them as a necessary evil. The system will remain broken as long as we continue to say "OK, that's how the world works, we're stuck with it". As long as we think "Nothing I do will make any difference".
What does this mean? It means avoiding buying products made by companies who have serious ethical lapses -- or at a minimum, getting as much use out of them as you can before getting rid of them, as avoiding companies like that can be pretty difficult. Personally, yes I have a smartphone made in China, but just like the last one, I won't get rid of it until it drops dead, or I can give it as a hand-me-down to someone else whose phone has died or doesn't have one at all. And I have a cheapie one, not something that's produced a massive profit margin for the company who made it.
The "I won't act until everyone else does" line (or "I won't act until legislation forces us all to") is a great way to sound sanctimonious without having to do anything. If you think what's happening is wrong, don't do it yourself and don't contribute to it. Sure, it may mean you have a slightly lower quality of life than your neighbour, but I'd prefer that to getting angry with "other people" who are doing exactly the same thing I would -- that's just hypocrisy.
Possible hairsplitting but Romans 1:32 says "are worthy of death", not "are people who you should kill".
Less hairsplitting is the context. The next verse is 2:1, "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things". So it's not a "kill these people" at all, it's working the reader up to agree and then be told "btw, you're just as bad". 2:3 "So when you, a mere human being, pass judgement on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgement?"
Interestingly the last bit of Romans 1 is also what is used to justify "teh gays r teh evil".
Yes, I know lots of Christians are pretty hopeless at not judging others. You're free to quote Romans 2 to them. Please, please do.
And Revelation is Jewish apocalpytic literature -- taking any of it literally is a sure sign of ass-hattery.
The best thing about American politics, to a non-American, is the ability to stand outside and point and laugh at *everyone*. Seriously, do you guys ever take a good long hard look at yourselves and realise that you've become the laughingstock of the world? I may be not be happy with domestic politics here (New Zealand) politics, but they're still much much saner than yours.
The worst thing is that American foreign policy affects the whole world, and if your domestic economy tanks you'll drag down the rest of us (if the banks don't beat you to it). And your domestic policy is pretty hard on the poor. Hint: expecting to run into homeless people downtown is a sign there's something wrong.
The other thing you could get is a work-life balance. I hear there are jobs where you don't have to answer emails out of work hours. I know they exist, because I have one -- but then I'm one of those weird people who voluntarily takes a pay cut in order to not work Mondays.
I wanted to see the scouring of the shire -- like banemc, it's one of my favourite bits too. The soft focus hobbits smiling and wedding scenes and Gandalf and the boats and all that -- not needed at all. Ending with Frodo and Sam on the side of Mt Doom, with evil vanquished, was the right thing to do. The epilogue added nothing, and it was 20 minutes long! (Yes, I saw a midnight showing when it came out, and yes, I timed that bit.)
Doom on DOS had multiplayer LAN (and dial-up modem, IIRC) support. Ages before Marathon. With all the horribleness of IPX -- but it had it, and it worked.
2G GSM has limitiations due to the time-division nature of its air interface that makes covering large areas not work due to propogation delay. 3G GSM *is* CDMA. It covers large areas well at a lower frequency, but initial deployments were all at 2.1GHz which has issues with signal propogation (read: doesn't go through buildings/etc as well as sub 1GHz GSM).
Minor nitpick: in the above I use "CDMA" to mean "Code-division multiple access", a generic description of the approach that the IS-95 and 1xRTT air interfaces use -- they are commonly referred to as CDMA, they're what sprint/verizon use/used, but there are other protocols that use that approach too.
...as well as having less impact on important modern nations and therefore less impact on modern man.
Yeah, those subhumans in less affluent nations don't count for squat -- which is also, coincidentally, what they get paid for assembling your consumer electronics and running shoes.
Possibly only correct in my country fact: When speaking, people often talk about "K"s rather than kilometres -- e.g. "I cycled 7 Ks to work today". Worse, they often use the same thing for kilometres per hour, e.g. "I was doing 12 Ks over the limit when the speed camera got me."
My Dad was an electrical engineer, and bought an old ZX Spectrum. They were as old as I was; when I was 8, I learnt to program one; now I have an MSc in Computer Science.
The difference: ZX Spectrums were cheap mass-produced computers. For your generation, getting access to computers at a young age was hard. For mine, it was (relatively) easy. iPads are not such a radical departure from the PC of today that kids (or anyone else) who aren't exposed to them will be behind in 5 years if tablets become ubiquitous.
Because there's massive unemployment and you can't find a job? Because you saved for your own retirement into a financial institution run by people whose insatiable greed caused them to lose your savings? Because you're one of the many people who isn't that great at managing their money?
You, personally, may be OK. Maybe you have skills which are highly desirable in the current job market. Maybe you're really good with money. Maybe you're not wheelchair-bound. Maybe your mother was careful enough to not drink while she was pregnant so you don't have foetal alcohol syndrome. Good for you. But don't let that make you think that everyone else has the same abilities, opportunities and good health that you may have.
I think it's more of a cultural thing. Not that I live in the US and understand your politics (does anyone?) but from outside it looks like you've got a big group of people who don't look terribly carefully at what their politicans do, are easily whipped up into a frenzy, and have a fairly simplistic approach to their religion that says more about them and the culture they live in than it does about the religion itself.
Mind you, I hang out with a bunch of extremely left-wing christians, in a country with a public health system and a right wing government that seems to have been voted in by people who think their leader is likeable and forget what they did when they were last in power. Political naivety is distressingly widespread.
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Does it make you any less of a dick because someone else paid you to be one?
Would you deny a meal to a starving person standing in front of you because it will contribute to other problems? How is it different if you deny it from a distance?
Okay so some aid is misdirected/misused/etc -- but that's no reason to throw your hands in the air, say the problem is too hard, and ignore it completely.
You want them to stop? Don't randomly drift; return a stupid time like now minus a year (so nice and stable, just wrong). That's easy enough with a second NTP server and DNAT.
Well you can rent Windows servers from Rackspace...
Also I hear myspace runs (ran? is it dead yet?) on Windows.
The only thing that threw me is that "unix" symbol. cpp says it's "1" -- I assume it's one of those #defines to let you know what platform you're on.
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After that it's easy -- obvious principle at work is that a[b] is equivalent to *(a+b).
pdflatex and the microtype package help immensely with this, by letting TeX stretch the glyphs horizontally a little bit. Not enough for you to notice, but enough for the gaps between the words to be small enough for you not to notice either. Microtype rocks.
I'll take one! What's shipping to New Zealand?
What's with the fast drives and the SSD? Even maximum bitrate Blu-Ray is only 54Mbps. Any hard drive you can buy will be able to keep up with that.
I don't know what Android businesses (the big, big, big ones who are in this fight) should do but I don't get to decide anyway. I don't think ethical customers leaving Apple will save them -- and I don't think things are as black and white as "Apple: unethical; Android handset manufacturers: ethical" anyway. But I'm going to avoid supporting what I see as bad behaviour. I know that my individual action won't make any difference by itself. But I'm going to do it anyway.
And oh wow, I'm not going to pat my mate on the back for shooting a burglar. That's not self-defense unless it looked like the burglar was going to kill my mate. But then I live in a country where hardly anyone has a gun, so it's a pretty unlikely situation anyway.
I disagree (and agree with #39157489). "Parasites who gum up the works" -- and I know lawyers and government employees who most definitely do not fall into that category -- will stay as long as we accept them as a necessary evil. The system will remain broken as long as we continue to say "OK, that's how the world works, we're stuck with it". As long as we think "Nothing I do will make any difference".
What does this mean? It means avoiding buying products made by companies who have serious ethical lapses -- or at a minimum, getting as much use out of them as you can before getting rid of them, as avoiding companies like that can be pretty difficult. Personally, yes I have a smartphone made in China, but just like the last one, I won't get rid of it until it drops dead, or I can give it as a hand-me-down to someone else whose phone has died or doesn't have one at all. And I have a cheapie one, not something that's produced a massive profit margin for the company who made it.
The "I won't act until everyone else does" line (or "I won't act until legislation forces us all to") is a great way to sound sanctimonious without having to do anything. If you think what's happening is wrong, don't do it yourself and don't contribute to it. Sure, it may mean you have a slightly lower quality of life than your neighbour, but I'd prefer that to getting angry with "other people" who are doing exactly the same thing I would -- that's just hypocrisy.
Possible hairsplitting but Romans 1:32 says "are worthy of death", not "are people who you should kill".
Less hairsplitting is the context. The next verse is 2:1, "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things". So it's not a "kill these people" at all, it's working the reader up to agree and then be told "btw, you're just as bad". 2:3 "So when you, a mere human being, pass judgement on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgement?"
Interestingly the last bit of Romans 1 is also what is used to justify "teh gays r teh evil".
Yes, I know lots of Christians are pretty hopeless at not judging others. You're free to quote Romans 2 to them. Please, please do.
And Revelation is Jewish apocalpytic literature -- taking any of it literally is a sure sign of ass-hattery.
Intel is the underdog!
Just like Microsoft was when it entered new markets.
And legacy old x86 code gets easier to run under emulation each time a new generation of CPUs come out.
The best thing about American politics, to a non-American, is the ability to stand outside and point and laugh at *everyone*. Seriously, do you guys ever take a good long hard look at yourselves and realise that you've become the laughingstock of the world? I may be not be happy with domestic politics here (New Zealand) politics, but they're still much much saner than yours.
The worst thing is that American foreign policy affects the whole world, and if your domestic economy tanks you'll drag down the rest of us (if the banks don't beat you to it). And your domestic policy is pretty hard on the poor. Hint: expecting to run into homeless people downtown is a sign there's something wrong.
The other thing you could get is a work-life balance. I hear there are jobs where you don't have to answer emails out of work hours. I know they exist, because I have one -- but then I'm one of those weird people who voluntarily takes a pay cut in order to not work Mondays.
I wanted to see the scouring of the shire -- like banemc, it's one of my favourite bits too. The soft focus hobbits smiling and wedding scenes and Gandalf and the boats and all that -- not needed at all. Ending with Frodo and Sam on the side of Mt Doom, with evil vanquished, was the right thing to do. The epilogue added nothing, and it was 20 minutes long! (Yes, I saw a midnight showing when it came out, and yes, I timed that bit.)
Doom on DOS had multiplayer LAN (and dial-up modem, IIRC) support. Ages before Marathon. With all the horribleness of IPX -- but it had it, and it worked.
The old palmpilots were great for that. Hold in one hand, use your thumb on the scroll buttons.
Yes, I used to walk to university (50 minutes) reading off one. And on the way back, at night, with the backlight on.
2G GSM has limitiations due to the time-division nature of its air interface that makes covering large areas not work due to propogation delay. 3G GSM *is* CDMA. It covers large areas well at a lower frequency, but initial deployments were all at 2.1GHz which has issues with signal propogation (read: doesn't go through buildings/etc as well as sub 1GHz GSM).
Minor nitpick: in the above I use "CDMA" to mean "Code-division multiple access", a generic description of the approach that the IS-95 and 1xRTT air interfaces use -- they are commonly referred to as CDMA, they're what sprint/verizon use/used, but there are other protocols that use that approach too.
I didn't read the article, and I'm not a 7 digit. Just sayin'.
I can't believe I just read that.
Yeah, those subhumans in less affluent nations don't count for squat -- which is also, coincidentally, what they get paid for assembling your consumer electronics and running shoes.
Possibly only correct in my country fact: When speaking, people often talk about "K"s rather than kilometres -- e.g. "I cycled 7 Ks to work today". Worse, they often use the same thing for kilometres per hour, e.g. "I was doing 12 Ks over the limit when the speed camera got me."
Let's try that story, a few years later:
My Dad was an electrical engineer, and bought an old ZX Spectrum. They were as old as I was; when I was 8, I learnt to program one; now I have an MSc in Computer Science.
The difference: ZX Spectrums were cheap mass-produced computers. For your generation, getting access to computers at a young age was hard. For mine, it was (relatively) easy. iPads are not such a radical departure from the PC of today that kids (or anyone else) who aren't exposed to them will be behind in 5 years if tablets become ubiquitous.
After all, Tonga is a country well known for its fast and cheap internet and therefore an ideal place to locate seedboxes.
Because there's massive unemployment and you can't find a job? Because you saved for your own retirement into a financial institution run by people whose insatiable greed caused them to lose your savings? Because you're one of the many people who isn't that great at managing their money?
You, personally, may be OK. Maybe you have skills which are highly desirable in the current job market. Maybe you're really good with money. Maybe you're not wheelchair-bound. Maybe your mother was careful enough to not drink while she was pregnant so you don't have foetal alcohol syndrome. Good for you. But don't let that make you think that everyone else has the same abilities, opportunities and good health that you may have.
I think it's more of a cultural thing. Not that I live in the US and understand your politics (does anyone?) but from outside it looks like you've got a big group of people who don't look terribly carefully at what their politicans do, are easily whipped up into a frenzy, and have a fairly simplistic approach to their religion that says more about them and the culture they live in than it does about the religion itself.
Mind you, I hang out with a bunch of extremely left-wing christians, in a country with a public health system and a right wing government that seems to have been voted in by people who think their leader is likeable and forget what they did when they were last in power. Political naivety is distressingly widespread.