Socialism is about forcing everyone to be equally poor and equally miserable. There's nothing 'fair' about that system, either.
Along the same lines capitalism is 'about' forcing underpaid workers work for slave-like contracts solely for the purpose of creating massive wealth for richest, who already are filthy rich. Luckily for us living in capitalistic soceties, the simple textbook writeups seldom coincide with the world though. Socialism isn't an economic system, its just a basic premise that sharing the wealth and the responsibilites of society is a good thing[tm].
Personally, I would go as far as saying as individualism and socialism need each other. Only when the wealth is somewhat evenly distributed will the population get the necessary resources and freetime to actually develop themselves. The sucker with the minimum wage working 14 hours a day just to afford a place to live in the US ain't got much time for individualism. In comparison the same sucker in Europe works 8 hours a day , with one months standard vacation, and social security as backup if things get too tight. Who's got a better chance of living a worthy life?
But when they nail a dumbass kid who thought he was 1337 and releases a virus (or a variation of one) then it's "phantom damages".
Ahh..but it is actually.
He released a virus that worked exactly the same as the original one, any damages that might have occured, would have occured anyway. This doesn't absolve him of guilt, and he should be punished, however holding him financially responsible for something his actions had no effect on his just plain silly.
Especially considering how many worthy parties to blame for this mess.... the original author firstly, Microsoft for silly-ass mistakes, IT-personell for not doing their bloody job (evt.managers for not hiring enough IT-personell so they can do their bloody job:-) )
Atleast here in Norway (we have 12 months compulsary service), they have a tendency to decide who they want or doesn't want first, and if they want to get rid of you they'll accept next to any reasoning.
My drafting was one of the few times in life i wish were fat, frail or had any disabilities:)
I could name dozens of things I encountered in the past few weeks but I will name just a few: -primitive types and associated classes: When I want to store a variable of one the primitve types like int (the ones you use in every class) you have to wrap them into a class (Integer) which has no way to change the Value later.
You can't change the value of an Integer because it's an immutable class. This means that since it can't be changed, there is never any need for more than one object which each value. This means that regardless of how many times you do 'new Integer(5)' you'll only create one object with many pointers to it.This can be a very desirable property at times.
If you really can't pass the primitive around itself, create your own container class for the primitive. Its no big deal.
If I want to compare two Classes I have to use the equals-Method instead of a simple operator-overloading which would enable me to use == -
My java skills are starting to get rusty, but doesn't == check if it is the actual same object, while.equals checks if the contents are the same?
Sounds pretty well defined and simple to me, and it isn't like.equals is the longest hard-to-read word ever..
When I retrieve an Object from a Container it is a java.lang.Object instead of the type I stored which totally negates the advantages of static typing
When choosing somewhere to store the whatever you're taking out you implicitly casting it anyways though. This was one of the things that surprised me too at the start, but I've yet to meet a situation where it really complicated the code, and I'm sure somebody smart could explain why they're doing it that way:)
Either the people modding parent informative are making a fairly deep and eloborate joke, or they're just plain stupid. Somehow I suspect the latter, as people never cease to amaze me.
Web bugs work on all web browsers, unless you have image loading disabled. Read about them here, and repeat after me: "I will not be a mindless fanboy. I will not be a mindless fanboy.".
For christs sake, woke up on your bad side this morning? Your parent is misinformed, but hardly fanboy'ish.
Webbugs works in all browsers yeah (except lynx I guess), as turning off image loading while browsing seems kinda silly. However, as you'd probably realise if you bothered, E-mail clients are a whole different slew. The only use I've ever seen of external images in mail is exactly for tracking.
That makes the real difference lie in the default settings. I know Opera blocks them by default, Outlook does not (for that matter, I'm not even sure it can). In my little world, that makes the microsoft product unsafe to use, while *my* alternative is safe(r).
>Skolelinux
sounds too much like
SKOAL linux (linux for rednecks)
Well, if you just mispronounce anything enough it'll sound like something completly different:)
The 'o' sound is quite different from yours, and americans seem 100% unable to pronounce it (period). Also, the whole word is pronounced with a much more (eerm) straight intonation.
Laws, unions, anything that unnaturally hinders the market breaks equilibrium. Forcing high prices on cds. Suing your customers into submission.
Its funny you consider something breaking the abstract all-too-human concept of free market as unnatural.
As far as I can tell, well thoughtout laws are one of the key ingredients to creating a healthy market, and many will argue, so are unions (and no, I don't consider a job-market where somebody has to keep two jobs to afford the tuition for their kids a healthy one.)
You just got me winded atleast. Evanessence is a cheap well-produced non-innovative rip-off off several good artists you've sadly never heard off. They were nothing special until they were picked up by American recording industry, and they are still nothing special. The stuff they produce is bland and boring compared to the other bands in the genre, and they add *nothing* musically to the scene.
In my not so humble opinion, they suffer from the same disease alot of other well produced music does; blandness. All the songs have about the same background sounds, everything is filtered and 'perfected'. Yeah, it sounds great the first time you listen to it, but gawd does it get boring fast. Normal albums grow on you as you discover and grow used to the songs, Evanessance's album went into the trash after a week.
Anyways, 'melodic metal' is a fairly popular sub-genre back here in Europe. Go check out 'Within Temptation' or 'Lacuna Coil' for some quality and innovation ('My dying bride' or 'Sins of thy beloved' are other favourites). They all actually have several songs that doesn't sound the same after listening to them more than twice:)
All have a few test songs on their websites, else I'm sure you can find some for try-before-buying on your favourite p2p (just make sure there are europeans there).
Translating properly is hard.. but I'll give it a try just for the heck of it:)
Headline: Secret Million-settlement
Picturetext: MSN: This is how the broken MSN looked like.
Ingress: An american company must pay one year of earnings(one year of opera's earning that is, the sentence was unclear in norwegian too) to Opera software. Why is a secret.
(Dagbladet.no): Opera software has just reached a settlement in a legal dispute with an american company. According to a stockmarket note issued today, the compensation given to Opera was 89 millions.
The company was not one of Operas existing customers.
- We have presented a few fact against this company. We agreed to avoid taking this court. A part of the bargain is not telling which company this is, says technical manager Håkon Wium Lie in Opera software to dagbladet.no
- Is this about the mobilephone reader or the pc-version?
- This issue is not a pirating or patent issue. In the settlement we do not give away any rights concering our products, and we shall continue making good products, says Lie.
It was after a substantial amound of documentation was sent over to the american company that the settlement came to be. As a consequence, this will not come before the court.
Last year Opera made 78 million kroners (about 10 million dollars). This settlement therefor equals one year of revenues.
- However, this year our ambitions are far greater, claims Lie.
Accusing Microsoft
Dagbladet.no doesn't know which company entered the settlement with Opera. It is however formerly known that since 2001 Microsoft have been blocking out Opera customers on purpose from their net pagers.
On his private webpages Wium Lie have in detalj explained what happens when a user enters the netpage msn.com with Opera.
He has documented that MSN sends a seperate version of their pages that looks worse on Opera and Netscape. On these pages, the page looks broken and weird. Among other things, part of the content is being placed outside the margin. MSN fixed the error after being by Opera, however older version still have trouble.
Since no-one has mentioned it yet, I guess I'm the only one who feels like vommiting from the plot/stereotypes in C&C Generals...
Muslims portrayed as terrorist, while performing vile and evil actions without regard for human life. They did refer to themselves as freedom fighters, which makes the entire game just a smear campaign in my eyes. Innocent as it seams, redefing words is half the game of politics these days in my opinion.
Regardless of what you Americans think about muslim fundamentalists, many of them consider themselves freedom fighters, and in my not so humble opinion, not totally without merit either (Israeli oppresion (justified or not), several invasions (panama / iraq / afghanistan / iraq), US troops in Saudi Arabia etc).
I mean.. would it have hurt so much to just cite one example during the GLA campaign of 'evil' acts (or atleast acts percieved as evil by the GLA) done by the other sides?
There is a problem with 80% of the chinese being peseants? Of all the problems China faces (pollution, harsh working conditions, crime etc), I'd hardly say people actually being peasents is a *problem*
Ofc, if you measure the Chinese society with our values (doh, there are people without color-tv's!) they come off pretty badly, but like it or not; Chinese value things quite differently than we do. (While urban Chinese are more proned to individualsizm/materiliasm, most of China is still 'stuck' in the group-thing/socialism/village-mentality which is quite different from anything we're used to)
The other thing is, in a largely centralized non-capitalistic country, it becomes more of a question of which resources you have available, not how much money to buy resources from the private corporations. There is a slight, but important difference there, as it means prioritizing on one thing won't necessarily mean downpiroritizing something else.
(I'm not native english speaking, so please excuse the semi-crappy english)
Nobody receiving a dns query for www.somesite.com would eeeever guess its a query for a web page.
(/me is off filing a patent for a advanced method of determing a DNS querys target, based on advanced algebra comparing a subset of the DNS-query against a pre-compiled list of types. I even have an implentation already, now its just two months of patentwriting remaining: def advancedalgorithm(url)):
if url[-3:] == "www":
return "webserver"
return "something else"
I'm currently working on an open-source general data-analyses tool named Zherlock (www.zherlock.org).
We're actually funded by 'norsk forskningsrad' (norwegian councel of science), and we're situated at my uni. If you're going to take money, there are a couple of questions you're going to have to ask yourself:
1. What does the grant-giver want in return? While some grants are nearly no-strings attached, in the end there's strings on everything; and no exceptions made..
2. How much more time will you spend writing documentation/progress reports/other stuff purely for whoever gave you money?
3. And more importantly, how will taking a grant change the pace of the project? Will taking money for making something mean you're taking on responsibility you'll not be able to meet with your other responsibilites? When you're taking money for doing something, its going to be *alot* harder putting it away for a month because your wife/gf/dog/actionman turns sick, and your female boss at work gets her period.
PCA = Principal Component Analyses.. in essence it draws reduces the number of variables in a dataset by making up totally new ones... so in essence its just a simplification of their input.
As to what the others are, I'm sure there are somebody here with more than my extremely meager signal processing knowledge:
ACB = No clue DTW = Dynamic Time Warping NMF = Non-negative Matrix Factorization
A more common way to view dividends is:
One company should keep to the *one* thing they are good at. If you're running a pigfarm, your owners bought you because they wanted to own a pigfarm, not a sheepfarm:p.. Instead of going into new markets, give the money to the owners and let them buy into that market...
Along the same lines, investors like to spread their shares on a-cyclic shares (half money on shares which benefit from high oil-prises, half money on shares which benefits from low oil-prises fx).. Alot of companies invest their own money on shares in other companies; however they are really spending their *owners* money (thats why they're called owners) and its also generally a safe assumptition that the owners rather spend their money themselves than have some half-talented nitwit at the pigfarm do it..
Generally the Nordic and British market are conceived as some of the hardest markets to have a successfull commercial in, and I've heard of alot of agencies using it as testing ground before using ads elsewhere(in the western'ish world atleast).. '
if it works there, it'll bloody hell work everywhere'
Because I want to. Now, name a particularly good reason why I shouldn't. I'm trained in handling, marksmanship, and am not a felon.
There is a first time for everything, and nobody is actually born a felon. Restricting felons from doings things is a looser's strategy, it can only reduces the damage, not remove it.
You thinks its ok for someone to have the right to have guns until they've shot someone..Is it ok for someone to have nuclear weapons until they've used it also?
Slashdot Mirror
Along the same lines capitalism is 'about' forcing underpaid workers work for slave-like contracts solely for the purpose of creating massive wealth for richest, who already are filthy rich. Luckily for us living in capitalistic soceties, the simple textbook writeups seldom coincide with the world though. Socialism isn't an economic system, its just a basic premise that sharing the wealth and the responsibilites of society is a good thing[tm].
Personally, I would go as far as saying as individualism and socialism need each other. Only when the wealth is somewhat evenly distributed will the population get the necessary resources and freetime to actually develop themselves. The sucker with the minimum wage working 14 hours a day just to afford a place to live in the US ain't got much time for individualism. In comparison the same sucker in Europe works 8 hours a day , with one months standard vacation, and social security as backup if things get too tight. Who's got a better chance of living a worthy life?
I don't understand, what about my nuts? I generally don't use them while installing windows. Do you?
Ahh..but it is actually. :-) )
He released a virus that worked exactly the same as the original one, any damages that might have occured, would have occured anyway. This doesn't absolve him of guilt, and he should be punished, however holding him financially responsible for something his actions had no effect on his just plain silly. Especially considering how many worthy parties to blame for this mess.... the original author firstly, Microsoft for silly-ass mistakes, IT-personell for not doing their bloody job (evt.managers for not hiring enough IT-personell so they can do their bloody job
Atleast here in Norway (we have 12 months compulsary service), they have a tendency to decide who they want or doesn't want first, and if they want to get rid of you they'll accept next to any reasoning.
:)
My drafting was one of the few times in life i wish were fat, frail or had any disabilities
You can't change the value of an Integer because it's an immutable class. This means that since it can't be changed, there is never any need for more than one object which each value. This means that regardless of how many times you do 'new Integer(5)' you'll only create one object with many pointers to it.This can be a very desirable property at times.
If you really can't pass the primitive around itself, create your own container class for the primitive. Its no big deal.
If I want to compare two Classes I have to use the equals-Method instead of a simple operator-overloading which would enable me to use == -
My java skills are starting to get rusty, but doesn't == check if it is the actual same object, while .equals checks if the contents are the same?
Sounds pretty well defined and simple to me, and it isn't like .equals is the longest hard-to-read word ever..
When I retrieve an Object from a Container it is a java.lang.Object instead of the type I stored which totally negates the advantages of static typing
When choosing somewhere to store the whatever you're taking out you implicitly casting it anyways though. This was one of the things that surprised me too at the start, but I've yet to meet a situation where it really complicated the code, and I'm sure somebody smart could explain why they're doing it that way :)
Either the people modding parent informative are making a fairly deep and eloborate joke, or they're just plain stupid. Somehow I suspect the latter, as people never cease to amaze me.
For christs sake, woke up on your bad side this morning? Your parent is misinformed, but hardly fanboy'ish.
Webbugs works in all browsers yeah (except lynx I guess), as turning off image loading while browsing seems kinda silly. However, as you'd probably realise if you bothered, E-mail clients are a whole different slew. The only use I've ever seen of external images in mail is exactly for tracking.
That makes the real difference lie in the default settings. I know Opera blocks them by default, Outlook does not (for that matter, I'm not even sure it can). In my little world, that makes the microsoft product unsafe to use, while *my* alternative is safe(r).
sounds too much like
SKOAL linux (linux for rednecks)
Well, if you just mispronounce anything enough it'll sound like something completly different :)
The 'o' sound is quite different from yours, and americans seem 100% unable to pronounce it (period). Also, the whole word is pronounced with a much more (eerm) straight intonation.
Its funny you consider something breaking the abstract all-too-human concept of free market as unnatural.
As far as I can tell, well thoughtout laws are one of the key ingredients to creating a healthy market, and many will argue, so are unions (and no, I don't consider a job-market where somebody has to keep two jobs to afford the tuition for their kids a healthy one.)
You just got me winded atleast. Evanessence is a cheap well-produced non-innovative rip-off off several good artists you've sadly never heard off. They were nothing special until they were picked up by American recording industry, and they are still nothing special. The stuff they produce is bland and boring compared to the other bands in the genre, and they add *nothing* musically to the scene.
In my not so humble opinion, they suffer from the same disease alot of other well produced music does; blandness. All the songs have about the same background sounds, everything is filtered and 'perfected'. Yeah, it sounds great the first time you listen to it, but gawd does it get boring fast. Normal albums grow on you as you discover and grow used to the songs, Evanessance's album went into the trash after a week.
Anyways, 'melodic metal' is a fairly popular sub-genre back here in Europe. Go check out 'Within Temptation' or 'Lacuna Coil' for some quality and innovation ('My dying bride' or 'Sins of thy beloved' are other favourites). They all actually have several songs that doesn't sound the same after listening to them more than twice :)
All have a few test songs on their websites, else I'm sure you can find some for try-before-buying on your favourite p2p (just make sure there are europeans there).
Translating properly is hard.. but I'll give it a try just for the heck of it :)
Headline: Secret Million-settlement
Picturetext: MSN: This is how the broken MSN looked like.
Ingress: An american company must pay one year of earnings(one year of opera's earning that is, the sentence was unclear in norwegian too) to Opera software. Why is a secret.
(Dagbladet.no): Opera software has just reached a settlement in a legal dispute with an american company. According to a stockmarket note issued today, the compensation given to Opera was 89 millions.
The company was not one of Operas existing customers.
- We have presented a few fact against this company. We agreed to avoid taking this court. A part of the bargain is not telling which company this is, says technical manager Håkon Wium Lie in Opera software to dagbladet.no
- Is this about the mobilephone reader or the pc-version?
- This issue is not a pirating or patent issue. In the settlement we do not give away any rights concering our products, and we shall continue making good products, says Lie.
It was after a substantial amound of documentation was sent over to the american company that the settlement came to be. As a consequence, this will not come before the court.
Last year Opera made 78 million kroners (about 10 million dollars). This settlement therefor equals one year of revenues.
- However, this year our ambitions are far greater, claims Lie.
Accusing Microsoft
Dagbladet.no doesn't know which company entered the settlement with Opera. It is however formerly known that since 2001 Microsoft have been blocking out Opera customers on purpose from their net pagers.
On his private webpages Wium Lie have in detalj explained what happens when a user enters the netpage msn.com with Opera.
He has documented that MSN sends a seperate version of their pages that looks worse on Opera and Netscape. On these pages, the page looks broken and weird. Among other things, part of the content is being placed outside the margin. MSN fixed the error after being by Opera, however older version still have trouble.
Read also: 'ditch Internet Explorer'
Muslims portrayed as terrorist, while performing vile and evil actions without regard for human life. They did refer to themselves as freedom fighters, which makes the entire game just a smear campaign in my eyes. Innocent as it seams, redefing words is half the game of politics these days in my opinion.
Regardless of what you Americans think about muslim fundamentalists, many of them consider themselves freedom fighters, and in my not so humble opinion, not totally without merit either (Israeli oppresion (justified or not), several invasions (panama / iraq / afghanistan / iraq), US troops in Saudi Arabia etc).
I mean.. would it have hurt so much to just cite one example during the GLA campaign of 'evil' acts (or atleast acts percieved as evil by the GLA) done by the other sides?
(flame away)
No problem, just run NetBSD. It runs on anything.
Laugh all you want, moose are dangerous; and anything that may cause them to behave erraticly is newsworthy :)
- Proud to live in Norway -
There is a problem with 80% of the chinese being peseants? Of all the problems China faces (pollution, harsh working conditions, crime etc), I'd hardly say people actually being peasents is a *problem*
Ofc, if you measure the Chinese society with our values (doh, there are people without color-tv's!) they come off pretty badly, but like it or not; Chinese value things quite differently than we do. (While urban Chinese are more proned to individualsizm/materiliasm, most of China is still 'stuck' in the group-thing/socialism/village-mentality which is quite different from anything we're used to)
The other thing is, in a largely centralized non-capitalistic country, it becomes more of a question of which resources you have available, not how much money to buy resources from the private corporations. There is a slight, but important difference there, as it means prioritizing on one thing won't necessarily mean downpiroritizing something else.
(I'm not native english speaking, so please excuse the semi-crappy english)
But I would be allowed to patent chewing gum while walking or running? That sounds just plain silly.
Yes, you are so right.
Nobody receiving a dns query for www.somesite.com would eeeever guess its a query for a web page.
(/me is off filing a patent for a advanced method of determing a DNS querys target, based on advanced algebra comparing a subset of the DNS-query against a pre-compiled list of types. I even have an implentation already, now its just two months of patentwriting remaining:
def advancedalgorithm(url)):
if url[-3:] == "www":
return "webserver"
return "something else"
We're actually funded by 'norsk forskningsrad' (norwegian councel of science), and we're situated at my uni. If you're going to take money, there are a couple of questions you're going to have to ask yourself:
1. What does the grant-giver want in return? While some grants are nearly no-strings attached, in the end there's strings on everything; and no exceptions made..
2. How much more time will you spend writing documentation/progress reports/other stuff purely for whoever gave you money?
3. And more importantly, how will taking a grant change the pace of the project? Will taking money for making something mean you're taking on responsibility you'll not be able to meet with your other responsibilites? When you're taking money for doing something, its going to be *alot* harder putting it away for a month because your wife/gf/dog/actionman turns sick, and your female boss at work gets her period.
Actually..
PCA = Principal Component Analyses.. in essence it draws reduces the number of variables in a dataset by making up totally new ones... so in essence its just a simplification of their input.
As to what the others are, I'm sure there are somebody here with more than my extremely meager signal processing knowledge:
ACB = No clue
DTW = Dynamic Time Warping
NMF = Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Archer
Description:
Human distance unit. Attacks the enemy by throwing arrows.
I can't imagine them inflicting much damage though, nor have great that great of a reach.
IP would work.. I can't exactly see them standardizing on forged headers so its impossible to track the request ;)
Given how large their error-margin is to begin with, its not like having another unreliable factor's going to make things that more worse either.
A more common way to view dividends is: One company should keep to the *one* thing they are good at. If you're running a pigfarm, your owners bought you because they wanted to own a pigfarm, not a sheepfarm :p.. Instead of going into new markets, give the money to the owners and let them buy into that market...
Along the same lines, investors like to spread their shares on a-cyclic shares (half money on shares which benefit from high oil-prises, half money on shares which benefits from low oil-prises fx).. Alot of companies invest their own money on shares in other companies; however they are really spending their *owners* money (thats why they're called owners) and its also generally a safe assumptition that the owners rather spend their money themselves than have some half-talented nitwit at the pigfarm do it..
There is alot of thruth in that statement.
Generally the Nordic and British market are conceived as some of the hardest markets to have a successfull commercial in, and I've heard of alot of agencies using it as testing ground before using ads elsewhere(in the western'ish world atleast).. '
if it works there, it'll bloody hell work everywhere'
I think a far more common approach to the 'having to watch distastefull commercials during dinner'-problem is to turn off the tv and talk....
atleast rather than you spending dinner all bitter and sour..
There is a first time for everything, and nobody is actually born a felon. Restricting felons from doings things is a looser's strategy, it can only reduces the damage, not remove it.
You thinks its ok for someone to have the right to have guns until they've shot someone..Is it ok for someone to have nuclear weapons until they've used it also?