So you don't think that poor, sick people on the streets wouldn't affect your way of life negatively? A large underclass of people that can't pay for doctors would create all kinds of problems for everyone. A dying man that is dying just because he doesn't have enough money knows he has nothing to lose.If he has a year to live, and can't afford chemotherapy, why not take it from someone else?
Marie Antoinette wasn't all that worried about the extreme poverty that surrounded her, but that didn't save her head. Letting your neighbors die because they can't pay for a doctor would lead to the exact same place.
Apple's prices make sense at launch. Look at the cheapest MacBook: It's not changed specs or price in over a year! it was well priced back then. Today, not so much.
Nobody needs an iPhone, period. There's a gazillion phones out there. An expensive phone whose main claim to fame is the iTunes integration falls in the category of toys. How many people out there have both mp3 players, PDAs and phones, but don't own computers?
The iPhone doesn't try to be all things to all people. If that was the case, it'd be a monstrosity nobody could use. It has a target market, and to that target market, an activation process that requires a computer is a minor nuisance at worst. Would you pout and moan because a Dodge Viper is not all that good at going off road? Or because a minivan doesn't go from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds? Just like a family of 5 wouldn't consider my little two-seater practical, someone that wants 'just a phone' will not want an iPhone. Different needs for different people.
No, I don't own an iPhone myself. I fall out of their target market because my phone use is to small for any of their plans to make any sense to me. But that doesn't mean I have to think the phone sucks.
There are plenty of contradictions on matters of dogma. For example, there's the matter of the means to salvation. If you just read Matthew, you'll find quotes talking about how important deeds are, and how a lot of praying and not living morally is not really a great idea. Then, you can read Romans, and see how Paul says that it's really all about faith, which is what some crazy fundies hang on to. This of course is not really a problem for the Catholic Church, or many denominations that don't claim that the Bible is inerrant.
It'd be a much better keyboard if it was broken in two parts, to be adjusted at will. The contour expects you to type with your arms parallel to each other, and doesn't account for different shoulder sizes. Say goodbye to carpal tunnel syndrome, say hello to upper back pain!
The US had great social mobility 50 years ago. As of today, there's more upwards mobility in most of Europe. There's plenty of studies on the matter, if you look in scholarship search sites. It's in the news too:
I tried that kinesis keyboard, and I'd rather type on a PC JR. I just couldn't type comfortably in a keyboard that wanted me to have my forearms parallel to each other. A derivatinve of a MS Natural Keyboard is much more comfortable to me, but to each his own.
The whole 'dvorak is better' is just trying to troll, and I hope it's modded accordingly.
The best option to improve security is to let people get training and a permit that allows them to carry a weapon anywhere. If you have a significant portion of the population armed at all times then the chance of terrorist getting much further than "I have a bom..." before someone drops them would reduce the chances of such act to virtually zero.
Then all the terrorist will try to do is to try to take down the plane, taking everyone else with him. It won't hit buildings, but if it'd be legal to get a loaded gun on the plane, so there's not much planning involved.
The key to terrorism is that there's no way to stop any determined person from doing a very significant amount of damage. Stop one method, and another one will replace it. It's unavoidable.
Those things are really important for becoming a great programmer. Are they the best use of someone's time that just wants to be easily employable? No.
In my region, good knowledge of SQL and a passing familiarity with persistence libraries will get someone with no experience much closer to a job than more C experience and knowledge of the Linux Kernel.
A laptop can be used to carry contraband. Pirated software. Nuclear secrets. What makes it different from opening a suitcase?
There's a few things that make it different. First, by opening a suitcase and performing a cursory inspection, an official doesn't read every notebook and letter the traveler is carrying. A customs official that takes a computer for inspection can do all kinds of unreasonable things to it, and there's little that can be done about it. There's also the problem of figuring out what is illegal: Should a traveler prove that every mp3 he is carrying was ripped legally? Should we have to carry the licenses of all commercial software? It'd be crazy.
And finally, there's the fact that anyone smuggling software will just get an internet connection and send it across through the wire.
Except that they might not be so extremists if they didn't have to run on a single issue like they do now. Most people wouldn't vote a third party anyway because they feel it's throwing their vote away! Therefore, most Americans that do disagree with the major parties end up voting against the one they dislike the most, so that their voice has some influence.
In most of Europe, there are more parties that obtain representation in the US, and it's rare for any of them to be extremists. There's still extreme right parties, others that are against having armies at all, and other fringe ideas. The fringe don't get representation, it's that simple. A two party system makes it pretty much impossible to show the political class that you are against extending copyrights, or against DRM. Europe has third parties that have embraced those ideas, and some are getting enough votes to make a fuss over it. When a major party needs help to form a government, chances are they'll have to listen to the demands of a third party like that.
In the US system, with the gerrymandering and the people voting emotionally, there's so much more inertia that changes are pretty much impossible.
Of course, there's the small matter of discs being twice as expensive as normal DVDs, which might make the adoption rate of Blu-Ray over the 'good enough' DVDs be properly described as glacial.
If this DRM system used a similar scheme as RFC 3514. This RFC has been extensively discussed before in Slashdot. A DRM implementation based on the same concept would keep all the open source community happy, while providing the standardization the EU recommends.
This one might not have all the rules you might want, and some of his concepts are debatable, but it goes into the nitty gritty details other books don't.
The whole point of a ruling like this is to make domestic interests in the US to pressure the government to change the practices that led to the ruling.
If someone in Antigua is legally violating your IP because the government decided to help a special interest, sue your own government.
Depending on the car you drive. What distance do you need to see what's in front of an Escalade if you drive a low riding two seater like a Corvette, a Miata or an S2000? You might as well have a wall in front of you. At jam speeds, a distance that is safe enough to make sure you don't crash with the car in front of you is not enough to smooth out erratic behavior by the guy in the truck. If instead of a truck you get a car small enough to see through/over, it's much easier to handle.
If flux is your favorite game, you really need to see what else is out there. The game is so random, the decisions you make are pretty much irrelevant. The fact is a friend of mine played against his cat, and lost!
There are a ton of good boardgames out there: From Descent to Agricola, with oldies such as Carcassonne, El Grande or Tikal.
As far as videogames go, I've played pretty much every nominee, and Mario Galaxy is head over shoulders above the competition. Mass Effect did nothing KOTOR hadn't done better years ago. Better writing, better characters, better inventory system, better AI. The romance arcs were so absolutely lame they had me longing for Baldur's Gate II. Bioshock has a great story, but it's a pretty average shooter. Half of the plasmoids are pointless, and there's not much enemy variety as the game goes along. Portal is much better, but it is very short. Rock Band is better than Guitar Hero, but they did screw up with the manufacturing problems, and the lack of career online mode is disappointing.
And they were both right: At that time, nuclear power was expensive, and left residues that we'd have to deal with for centuries. Modern technology allows for cheaper reactors that burn what we used to consider waste, and that generate less waste that will be active for much shorter time periods.
Having a computer in every home didn't make any economic sense in the 60s either.
Except for the part where the poor decide that their best policy is to kill the rich, and take their stuff. It's happened before. Chances are it will happen again at some point.
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I for one would rather use emacs, but if key combinations like ctrl+alt+meta+% are beyond your manual dexterity, the best vi clone is vigor
A few years ago, I modified all of the system test environments at my workplace so that vi was just an alias to vigor. All of the administrators were thrilled with vigor's responses, including everyone's favorite: 'You pressed the right arrow key. Push OK to continue'. No OS can be considered mature (or senile) if Vigor isn't installed by default.
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There is about a dozen online games now, like Madden, Battallion Wars 2, Mario Strikers, Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z;3.
It's not quite the same experience as with the 360s friend lists and the like, but the games are online.
In most european sofware development offices I've been to there's open space, but each space is occupied by for 4 or 5 people at most. This is not unreasonable, and might actually provide some benefits. Every person had their own personal are they worked in, they just didn't have walls.
Your typical American cube farm is large enough to sit at least 50 in cubicles. Remove the walls, make people work with no personal effects and laptops, and you'd get a space that is way more uncomfortable than those European offices. They'll also be way more cramped: Many cubes are 6 feet by 6 feet. With that density, open areas are a nightmare.
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So you don't think that poor, sick people on the streets wouldn't affect your way of life negatively? A large underclass of people that can't pay for doctors would create all kinds of problems for everyone. A dying man that is dying just because he doesn't have enough money knows he has nothing to lose.If he has a year to live, and can't afford chemotherapy, why not take it from someone else?
Marie Antoinette wasn't all that worried about the extreme poverty that surrounded her, but that didn't save her head. Letting your neighbors die because they can't pay for a doctor would lead to the exact same place.
Apple's prices make sense at launch. Look at the cheapest MacBook: It's not changed specs or price in over a year! it was well priced back then. Today, not so much.
Silly argument:
Nobody needs an iPhone, period. There's a gazillion phones out there. An expensive phone whose main claim to fame is the iTunes integration falls in the category of toys. How many people out there have both mp3 players, PDAs and phones, but don't own computers?
The iPhone doesn't try to be all things to all people. If that was the case, it'd be a monstrosity nobody could use. It has a target market, and to that target market, an activation process that requires a computer is a minor nuisance at worst. Would you pout and moan because a Dodge Viper is not all that good at going off road? Or because a minivan doesn't go from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds? Just like a family of 5 wouldn't consider my little two-seater practical, someone that wants 'just a phone' will not want an iPhone. Different needs for different people.
No, I don't own an iPhone myself. I fall out of their target market because my phone use is to small for any of their plans to make any sense to me. But that doesn't mean I have to think the phone sucks.
Am I the only one that finds it funny to find a blurb that mentions the Mediterranean Sea and lists countries like India and Pakistan?
Maybe in the US. In most of Europe, the ZX Spectrum family had a much bigger install base, and a whole lot more games.
There are plenty of contradictions on matters of dogma. For example, there's the matter of the means to salvation. If you just read Matthew, you'll find quotes talking about how important deeds are, and how a lot of praying and not living morally is not really a great idea. Then, you can read Romans, and see how Paul says that it's really all about faith, which is what some crazy fundies hang on to. This of course is not really a problem for the Catholic Church, or many denominations that don't claim that the Bible is inerrant.
It'd be a much better keyboard if it was broken in two parts, to be adjusted at will. The contour expects you to type with your arms parallel to each other, and doesn't account for different shoulder sizes. Say goodbye to carpal tunnel syndrome, say hello to upper back pain!
The US had great social mobility 50 years ago. As of today, there's more upwards mobility in most of Europe. There's plenty of studies on the matter, if you look in scholarship search sites. It's in the news too:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAGgEkbAMbW1o-iyzlKrkY9C_82g
It's the unwritten rule of the grammer Nazi's to make at least two grammar mistakes in every post correcting someone else. Those darn Nazis.
I tried that kinesis keyboard, and I'd rather type on a PC JR. I just couldn't type comfortably in a keyboard that wanted me to have my forearms parallel to each other. A derivatinve of a MS Natural Keyboard is much more comfortable to me, but to each his own.
The whole 'dvorak is better' is just trying to troll, and I hope it's modded accordingly.
Then all the terrorist will try to do is to try to take down the plane, taking everyone else with him. It won't hit buildings, but if it'd be legal to get a loaded gun on the plane, so there's not much planning involved.
The key to terrorism is that there's no way to stop any determined person from doing a very significant amount of damage. Stop one method, and another one will replace it. It's unavoidable.Those things are really important for becoming a great programmer. Are they the best use of someone's time that just wants to be easily employable? No.
In my region, good knowledge of SQL and a passing familiarity with persistence libraries will get someone with no experience much closer to a job than more C experience and knowledge of the Linux Kernel.
A laptop can be used to carry contraband. Pirated software. Nuclear secrets. What makes it different from opening a suitcase?
There's a few things that make it different. First, by opening a suitcase and performing a cursory inspection, an official doesn't read every notebook and letter the traveler is carrying. A customs official that takes a computer for inspection can do all kinds of unreasonable things to it, and there's little that can be done about it. There's also the problem of figuring out what is illegal: Should a traveler prove that every mp3 he is carrying was ripped legally? Should we have to carry the licenses of all commercial software? It'd be crazy.
And finally, there's the fact that anyone smuggling software will just get an internet connection and send it across through the wire.
Except that they might not be so extremists if they didn't have to run on a single issue like they do now. Most people wouldn't vote a third party anyway because they feel it's throwing their vote away! Therefore, most Americans that do disagree with the major parties end up voting against the one they dislike the most, so that their voice has some influence.
In most of Europe, there are more parties that obtain representation in the US, and it's rare for any of them to be extremists. There's still extreme right parties, others that are against having armies at all, and other fringe ideas. The fringe don't get representation, it's that simple. A two party system makes it pretty much impossible to show the political class that you are against extending copyrights, or against DRM. Europe has third parties that have embraced those ideas, and some are getting enough votes to make a fuss over it. When a major party needs help to form a government, chances are they'll have to listen to the demands of a third party like that.
In the US system, with the gerrymandering and the people voting emotionally, there's so much more inertia that changes are pretty much impossible.
Of course, there's the small matter of discs being twice as expensive as normal DVDs, which might make the adoption rate of Blu-Ray over the 'good enough' DVDs be properly described as glacial.
If this DRM system used a similar scheme as RFC 3514. This RFC has been extensively discussed before in Slashdot. A DRM implementation based on the same concept would keep all the open source community happy, while providing the standardization the EU recommends.
This one might not have all the rules you might want, and some of his concepts are debatable, but it goes into the nitty gritty details other books don't.
The whole point of a ruling like this is to make domestic interests in the US to pressure the government to change the practices that led to the ruling.
If someone in Antigua is legally violating your IP because the government decided to help a special interest, sue your own government.
Depending on the car you drive. What distance do you need to see what's in front of an Escalade if you drive a low riding two seater like a Corvette, a Miata or an S2000? You might as well have a wall in front of you. At jam speeds, a distance that is safe enough to make sure you don't crash with the car in front of you is not enough to smooth out erratic behavior by the guy in the truck. If instead of a truck you get a car small enough to see through/over, it's much easier to handle.
If flux is your favorite game, you really need to see what else is out there. The game is so random, the decisions you make are pretty much irrelevant. The fact is a friend of mine played against his cat, and lost!
There are a ton of good boardgames out there: From Descent to Agricola, with oldies such as Carcassonne, El Grande or Tikal.
As far as videogames go, I've played pretty much every nominee, and Mario Galaxy is head over shoulders above the competition. Mass Effect did nothing KOTOR hadn't done better years ago. Better writing, better characters, better inventory system, better AI. The romance arcs were so absolutely lame they had me longing for Baldur's Gate II. Bioshock has a great story, but it's a pretty average shooter. Half of the plasmoids are pointless, and there's not much enemy variety as the game goes along. Portal is much better, but it is very short. Rock Band is better than Guitar Hero, but they did screw up with the manufacturing problems, and the lack of career online mode is disappointing.
It's Galaxy's year.
And they were both right: At that time, nuclear power was expensive, and left residues that we'd have to deal with for centuries. Modern technology allows for cheaper reactors that burn what we used to consider waste, and that generate less waste that will be active for much shorter time periods.
Having a computer in every home didn't make any economic sense in the 60s either.
Except for the part where the poor decide that their best policy is to kill the rich, and take their stuff. It's happened before. Chances are it will happen again at some point.
I for one would rather use emacs, but if key combinations like ctrl+alt+meta+% are beyond your manual dexterity, the best vi clone is vigor
A few years ago, I modified all of the system test environments at my workplace so that vi was just an alias to vigor. All of the administrators were thrilled with vigor's responses, including everyone's favorite: 'You pressed the right arrow key. Push OK to continue'. No OS can be considered mature (or senile) if Vigor isn't installed by default.
There is about a dozen online games now, like Madden, Battallion Wars 2, Mario Strikers, Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z;3.
It's not quite the same experience as with the 360s friend lists and the like, but the games are online.
In most european sofware development offices I've been to there's open space, but each space is occupied by for 4 or 5 people at most. This is not unreasonable, and might actually provide some benefits. Every person had their own personal are they worked in, they just didn't have walls. Your typical American cube farm is large enough to sit at least 50 in cubicles. Remove the walls, make people work with no personal effects and laptops, and you'd get a space that is way more uncomfortable than those European offices. They'll also be way more cramped: Many cubes are 6 feet by 6 feet. With that density, open areas are a nightmare.