"Although preventing harassment is an admirable goal, a requirement that LGBT people remain invisible and silent is not an acceptable means of reaching that goal."
Can we count on that support by trying to reverse the downmods for the Gay Nigger Association of America, member of which often post to Slahsdot?
This is merely meant to stimulate discussion on the second part of TFS.
I like the concept, but cutting holes for fans was cheap.
Putting sufficient airpressure in the top usually pops the bottom off a glass bottle, look at the mould marks in any spirit or beer bottle to see the join. To apply such pressure, decend the palm of your hand onto a bottle mostly filled with water, should make a clean break.
Note that economics isn' bad, but it should be micro, not macro. Even entry level devs need to have some inkling of business trade offs.
Actually, his history of economics course could be ideal. It would ideally cover the history of economic thought, and the arguments, postulations, counter-arguments and refudations that went along the course. That is, it would teach how others abstracted ideas and concepts that hadn't been thought before - somewhat akin to what others here have said that a CS degree is to teach how to think rather than drill in a vocational skill. I'm glad it stopped at Keynes and avoids the inevitable pollution of politics dressing up as economics, only recognisable as noise somewhat after the event.
I totally agree. To me, yeah I may sound a fool, but the definition of teacher is someone who teaches things. Not orates something in a textbook, not someone who performs intellectual msturbation on the naive, but someone who uses their knowledge and skill to help others achieve their goal.
The final exam that a course of teaching culminates in is usually the benchmark of achievement of the student, but in what way is this useful to a teacher given it does not help someone teach. No doubt tests are important to benchmark students' achievements over the run of a course, but they are a means to an ends, and that end is to teach, and to teach is not only to be knowledgable but to be skillful and sensitive enough to translate that knowledge from the teacher's mind to the student's mind. Using an automated scoring system does nothing other than to tell black from white and to ignore the huge range of abilities and difficulties their students face.
Hell, I know many who give more respect to their personally devised neuural networks than this guy seems to give his students.
Apologies for the inevitably poor spelling, I would not usually post in haste in my present state of ineberation, but this story pulled a nerve.
i support any license, i as a consumer use what I feel is best. that's why i develop on my ibook.
It is anyone's perogative, as a consumer or producer, to apply any value they want to something, be that value assessed in time lost from doing something wage earning, the colour of the box, whatever. In your example you expected little/no moneraty gain vs. the hassle of trying to market it and your intrinsic feeling of "oh what the heck, this'll get my name about and I have only to gain from getting it out in the public [perhaps you didn't even expect that but an alturistic subconscous gave you some feeling of pleasure in giving something to others]."
Value is what you make of it; today value is often seen as the price of something, but I derive great value from going for a walk in the countryside, which is free - is that value or is that my own personal profit - is value as we use the term infact profit (be it personal or corporate, or more correctly surplus value)? It is quite ironic that many Slashdotter, neigh workers in America, on the one hand claim to be proud of capitalism and the gains it brings, but on the other employ pure Marxist thinking that effort or time producing something has an automatic value.
So, if I try to insert, say, a string of 10 chars into a varchar(9) field, what will it do? Will the magic version 5 reject it, as ever real database does, or will it truncate it silently, just as Toy databases (ala MySql 4.x) are wont to do?
What sort of toy program passes invalid variables/values? While an OK second check, relying on the database to pick up potential correction is a damn poor first line of defense; what would happen when the user gets your error message "err #123123 wrong thing passed to thing..." (if parsable by the program at all), could be really useful huh?
1. His website was linked in such a way not as to give credit to the site, but to pass it off as Fuddruckers'(s in parenthesis as I do not know if Fuddruckers is singular or plural) own.
2. Even if he did change content on his site to redirect visitors from Fuddruckers, which you objected to, then by your logic (which may or may not be philosophically conpatable with varieties of other web browsers and/or webmasters) he is quite correct to do so.
3. "Just because a company did it they need to reimburse someone,when sites like slashdot and fark link to tons of sites, should they be paying bandwidth to every site they link?" Fark and Slashdot explicitly attribute stories to their originating websites and identify themselves as news aggregators not commercialised content. Additionally, remember when Wikipedia was a tiny site (bandwidth terms) but Slashdot would link to it and/. the entire site... well with Wikipedia's feedback Slashdot have since promoted a policy of warning vulnerable sites (not BBC or Wikipedia (since it now has a massive bandwidth) or Arstechnica or Geocities, etc, because they are well established) sites before they get an article linking to them. How well this is enforced I don't know, but such stories are not frontpage links to content being passed off without attribution.
"And the fact he take others content and does not give credit, but yet gets angry when the same is done to him..."
Do you have evidence for this, because if you do it would certainly turn the tables on him... but it was not in TFA and I do not know of this guy's reputation, please cite a source to show this is indeed a 'fact'.
As for "...he chose to do something incredibly malicious..." well I disagree. If someone stole something from me, i.e. took my creation and passed it off for their own commercial benefit when I had not given it a BSD etc style disclaimer (infact the guy has a copyright sign on his pages), then I would be pissed off. That shows human character not some weak livered "oh Mr CEO stop linking to me"; the action he took was entirely reasonable - the sites and images he linked to were factual and informative - just because Fuddruckers wouldn't want you to see them doesn't make them wrong, they entered into an asymmetric contract of trust with this guy and he let them have it.
If Fuddruckers had an ounce of decency they should reimburse the expenses this guy has incurred on their behalf (while not his major referred, they still consumed finite resources).
Many large internet services companies are based on the west or east coast or in Texas.The aftermath of the hurricane is now threatening DirectNIC.
It seemed pretty good that DirectNIC were based in New Orleans, and its still pretty good that they are - because we're talking loss given extreme events. You could assess the potential of extreme events vs. the cost of protecting against them. Much of California is precariously situated, New Orleans was thought to be a little less precarious, but the potential of damage in New Orleans was not the main consideration, it was that New Orleans offers diversification.
Another location could indeed offer greater diversification, but should something terrible had happened to California we'd be thanking DirectNIC for locating in New Orleans not becasue it was New Orleans but because things that affect it tended to be less correlated with California than other locations and that lack of correlation and dynamic redundancy is the real key. They could have located in Sao Paolo, and there are a few internet companies that are, but there is also the trade-off of local convenience (despite discorrelation, low pings are still seen as desirable) and ability to visit/inspect (due dilligence of anyone who is making a large investment).
If you can lower the probability of correlation of extreme events, then you've achieved a lot. Other locations could have been choson, potentiall at lower probabilities, but they were not and in the case of as disaster in California we'd the licking DirectNIC's ass!
...but the judge said "So let's set another conference date for July 8th at, 9 say, 10 a.m. And hopefully you will have an attorney by then." She had 60 days to find a somewhat competant lawyer...
It's like a drama... so what happened after the sounding off? This was not a court case, this was a pelimnary hearing... nothing was decided (though the sentiment of the judge was obvious).
Serious? PHP is a damn ugly, slow and bug-attracting language - Python has a nice web interface and IMHO is a language sustainable for the longer term. MySQL is OKish but for 'BIG Enterprise' features it gets whopped by PosgreSQL, or even Oracle, unless the use of it is simplistic enough.
Well I hated to do it, but after my website was replaced with this:
(anyone know what it means? I'm still trying to figure it out, hence why it's saved in a text file on my computer)
I blocked china and haven't gotten hacked since.
I've never blocked China and never been hacked. QED. Not.
I also have 1400*1050 (native) resolution on my laptop, and sure it is nice and crisp, but consider the amount of processing going on at 1400*1050 for a desktop display (even with whatever widgets you use) is no thing compared to even just 800*600 fps games. Its not the driver's fault, you're comparing completely different ball games. If I tried to play CS:S on 1400*1050 with by 32MB Ge5200 (fine for the desktop, probably not as good as yours as its old and wasn't cutting edge at the time) my computer would freeze to a piece of stone.
Offer full CD or near CD quality MP3 downloads of your best singles, demos, etc.
If you do this, I'd recommend using Bittorrent because a small band could get beaten up by bandwidth charges should they get popular.
Not ure of CD quality because a new band probably havn't produced to studio style before, reducing the concept of 'quality' to 'raw skill'; 128kbps (or even substantially less) should be fine as more general studio production issues dominate kbps above this.
Why is Google offering a Google talk system? It currently serves no ads, and being client agnostic, will likely be a long time before it does serve ads consistently.
It does not need to serve ads to be useful. Google excel at word and verbal pattern recognition. When I use Gmail I get an email relevent to the email I'm reading in isolation, but not very relevent to me in the broad interaction of interests I have. The more Google know about me the more they can tailor an ad to me as a person, not me as an isolated communication thread: knowing what I casually chat about is a great leap forward - this could also be true in monitoring your interaction with stories via Google's RSS based personalised homepages. It's like Yahoo tried to be but actualy done so the user enjoys it instead of being expected to endure it.
For example, I may have a daily news bulletin email about hedge funds, at the moment I get some really quite poor hedge fund/IFA adverts in these. I also have IMs about asymetric returns of financial markets with friends that research these things. If I got an ad about a hedge fund company that offered a service in relation to asymetric returns (because Google could tie up my interests - the all important interaction effect), or a data provider offering reaearch quality data, I'd be very keen to click on the ad (and possibly follow up the service). Thus Google make several fold the revenue they would do had they not monitored my IM.
China already bought a very modern aircraft carrier from Russia (about 40 fighter capacity, cutting edge (Russian aircraft carriers concentrated on establishing fighter superiority with Mig-29s and SU-37s instead of being general purpose bombardment platforms like US carriers), it was destined as a new modern ship for the Russian navy).
The Chinese turned it into a floating casino.
So why the fuck would they buy a supertanker to turn into an aircraft carrier when they already produce the largest amount of tankers and cargo ships in the world?!?!!?!?
1. Taiwan is a small and culturally and economically insignificant island off the coast of a massive country. Almost everyone of economic significance in Taiwan is forging commercial links with the mainland. The mainland see it of minor importance, gaining points purely in chest beating; 300 years ago Chinese were a minority on the island, Ploynesians were the majority. It has zero cultural or economic significance for Chine.
2. China, unlike the US, has huge coal resources, which can provide the bulk of national power requirements for the next 30 years (providing the power plants and lines get put up). Everyone may indeed like to drive a car (car ownership does not increase linearly with income, insetead it goes from 10% of the population to 80% of the population in a decade - witnessed in South Jorea and Japan), but unlike the US it is not necessary or desirable to drive a car 10 miles along a congested freeway or highway to get to work, it is more similar to European population concentration and reliance on public transport.
3. Korea. If Korea get the chance to deliver nukes (well, it already has nukes and missiles to go several hundred miles, even if it hasn't been witness to combine them) it would be tragically comical to see it get invaded/bombed/decimated by China, Japan, Russia and the US (South Korea) almost simulteneously.
4. Southest Asia. Dont know that you mean by "that part of the world has cooled considerably in the last 30 years". Yes they have lost their cold war jingoism (from both sides); economics 101 surely teaches that mutual treade, sharing of expertise, and co-operative development aids all involved. Of course that is subject to an environment encouraging free trade, not hegoistic partisanship (cold war).
5. South and Central America. Reasons are not unclear at all. Those regions a natural resource rich and useful to a developing country, especially one with cash to burn (witness the Chinese saving rate vs. the global average - saving has to go somewhere and acquisition of US companies is conviently resisted).
Where does it all lead? To one country bettering itself and another country so obsessed with competition against others, from little leauge baseball to nuclear aircraft carriers, it believes being superiou to others is synominous to being satisfied, yet satisfaction never arives.
..Yes, how dare they obey the laws of a land they are opperating in.
.'nuff said.
There are plenty of laws in the US that I disagree with, and find incompatable with my assessment of the somewhat vacant "dont't be evil" statement. Likewise Europe, likewise Asia (and most, all I have investigated countries within).
"nuff said" could hardly be more untrue. On a broader level, I find the predominant US style of politics some of the most offensive on this Earth, so using your logic I should not expect relations with the US, "'nuff said".
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"Although preventing harassment is an admirable goal, a requirement that LGBT people remain invisible and silent is not an acceptable means of reaching that goal."
Can we count on that support by trying to reverse the downmods for the Gay Nigger Association of America, member of which often post to Slahsdot?
This is merely meant to stimulate discussion on the second part of TFS.
I like the concept, but cutting holes for fans was cheap.
Putting sufficient airpressure in the top usually pops the bottom off a glass bottle, look at the mould marks in any spirit or beer bottle to see the join. To apply such pressure, decend the palm of your hand onto a bottle mostly filled with water, should make a clean break.
Hey Buddy,
Good to see you back.
I've used it on laptops more resently...
Why did you resent it?
Note that economics isn' bad, but it should be micro, not macro. Even entry level devs need to have some inkling of business trade offs.
Actually, his history of economics course could be ideal. It would ideally cover the history of economic thought, and the arguments, postulations, counter-arguments and refudations that went along the course. That is, it would teach how others abstracted ideas and concepts that hadn't been thought before - somewhat akin to what others here have said that a CS degree is to teach how to think rather than drill in a vocational skill. I'm glad it stopped at Keynes and avoids the inevitable pollution of politics dressing up as economics, only recognisable as noise somewhat after the event.
Your round-up does as much justice as possible to that seemingly thoughtless tirade.
I totally agree. To me, yeah I may sound a fool, but the definition of teacher is someone who teaches things. Not orates something in a textbook, not someone who performs intellectual msturbation on the naive, but someone who uses their knowledge and skill to help others achieve their goal.
The final exam that a course of teaching culminates in is usually the benchmark of achievement of the student, but in what way is this useful to a teacher given it does not help someone teach. No doubt tests are important to benchmark students' achievements over the run of a course, but they are a means to an ends, and that end is to teach, and to teach is not only to be knowledgable but to be skillful and sensitive enough to translate that knowledge from the teacher's mind to the student's mind. Using an automated scoring system does nothing other than to tell black from white and to ignore the huge range of abilities and difficulties their students face.
Hell, I know many who give more respect to their personally devised neuural networks than this guy seems to give his students.
Apologies for the inevitably poor spelling, I would not usually post in haste in my present state of ineberation, but this story pulled a nerve.
You summed it up in your last sentence:
i support any license, i as a consumer use what I feel is best. that's why i develop on my ibook.
It is anyone's perogative, as a consumer or producer, to apply any value they want to something, be that value assessed in time lost from doing something wage earning, the colour of the box, whatever. In your example you expected little/no moneraty gain vs. the hassle of trying to market it and your intrinsic feeling of "oh what the heck, this'll get my name about and I have only to gain from getting it out in the public [perhaps you didn't even expect that but an alturistic subconscous gave you some feeling of pleasure in giving something to others]."
Value is what you make of it; today value is often seen as the price of something, but I derive great value from going for a walk in the countryside, which is free - is that value or is that my own personal profit - is value as we use the term infact profit (be it personal or corporate, or more correctly surplus value)? It is quite ironic that many Slashdotter, neigh workers in America, on the one hand claim to be proud of capitalism and the gains it brings, but on the other employ pure Marxist thinking that effort or time producing something has an automatic value.
So, if I try to insert, say, a string of 10 chars into a varchar(9) field, what will it do? Will the magic version 5 reject it, as ever real database does, or will it truncate it silently, just as Toy databases (ala MySql 4.x) are wont to do?
What sort of toy program passes invalid variables/values? While an OK second check, relying on the database to pick up potential correction is a damn poor first line of defense; what would happen when the user gets your error message "err #123123 wrong thing passed to thing..." (if parsable by the program at all), could be really useful huh?
I thought Klingons were allergic to deterium?
Also notice how his articles are spaced at roughly two hour intervals for the last 15 hours?
It is always like that at weekends unless something extraordinary happens. Lucky to get 2 hour intervals and not 4.
You seem extremely defensive.
,when sites like slashdot and fark link to tons of sites, should they be paying bandwidth to every site they link?" Fark and Slashdot explicitly attribute stories to their originating websites and identify themselves as news aggregators not commercialised content. Additionally, remember when Wikipedia was a tiny site (bandwidth terms) but Slashdot would link to it and /. the entire site... well with Wikipedia's feedback Slashdot have since promoted a policy of warning vulnerable sites (not BBC or Wikipedia (since it now has a massive bandwidth) or Arstechnica or Geocities, etc, because they are well established) sites before they get an article linking to them. How well this is enforced I don't know, but such stories are not frontpage links to content being passed off without attribution.
1. His website was linked in such a way not as to give credit to the site, but to pass it off as Fuddruckers'(s in parenthesis as I do not know if Fuddruckers is singular or plural) own.
2. Even if he did change content on his site to redirect visitors from Fuddruckers, which you objected to, then by your logic (which may or may not be philosophically conpatable with varieties of other web browsers and/or webmasters) he is quite correct to do so.
3. "Just because a company did it they need to reimburse someone
"And the fact he take others content and does not give credit, but yet gets angry when the same is done to him..."
Do you have evidence for this, because if you do it would certainly turn the tables on him... but it was not in TFA and I do not know of this guy's reputation, please cite a source to show this is indeed a 'fact'.
As for "...he chose to do something incredibly malicious..." well I disagree. If someone stole something from me, i.e. took my creation and passed it off for their own commercial benefit when I had not given it a BSD etc style disclaimer (infact the guy has a copyright sign on his pages), then I would be pissed off. That shows human character not some weak livered "oh Mr CEO stop linking to me"; the action he took was entirely reasonable - the sites and images he linked to were factual and informative - just because Fuddruckers wouldn't want you to see them doesn't make them wrong, they entered into an asymmetric contract of trust with this guy and he let them have it.
If Fuddruckers had an ounce of decency they should reimburse the expenses this guy has incurred on their behalf (while not his major referred, they still consumed finite resources).
As Covenant said, "dead stars still burn".
Many large internet services companies are based on the west or east coast or in Texas. The aftermath of the hurricane is now threatening DirectNIC.
It seemed pretty good that DirectNIC were based in New Orleans, and its still pretty good that they are - because we're talking loss given extreme events. You could assess the potential of extreme events vs. the cost of protecting against them. Much of California is precariously situated, New Orleans was thought to be a little less precarious, but the potential of damage in New Orleans was not the main consideration, it was that New Orleans offers diversification.
Another location could indeed offer greater diversification, but should something terrible had happened to California we'd be thanking DirectNIC for locating in New Orleans not becasue it was New Orleans but because things that affect it tended to be less correlated with California than other locations and that lack of correlation and dynamic redundancy is the real key. They could have located in Sao Paolo, and there are a few internet companies that are, but there is also the trade-off of local convenience (despite discorrelation, low pings are still seen as desirable) and ability to visit/inspect (due dilligence of anyone who is making a large investment).
If you can lower the probability of correlation of extreme events, then you've achieved a lot. Other locations could have been choson, potentiall at lower probabilities, but they were not and in the case of as disaster in California we'd the licking DirectNIC's ass!
...but the judge said "So let's set another conference date for July 8th at, 9 say, 10 a.m. And hopefully you will have an attorney by then." She had 60 days to find a somewhat competant lawyer...
It's like a drama... so what happened after the sounding off? This was not a court case, this was a pelimnary hearing... nothing was decided (though the sentiment of the judge was obvious).
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP
Serious? PHP is a damn ugly, slow and bug-attracting language - Python has a nice web interface and IMHO is a language sustainable for the longer term. MySQL is OKish but for 'BIG Enterprise' features it gets whopped by PosgreSQL, or even Oracle, unless the use of it is simplistic enough.
Well I hated to do it, but after my website was replaced with this: (anyone know what it means? I'm still trying to figure it out, hence why it's saved in a text file on my computer) I blocked china and haven't gotten hacked since.
I've never blocked China and never been hacked. QED. Not.
I also have 1400*1050 (native) resolution on my laptop, and sure it is nice and crisp, but consider the amount of processing going on at 1400*1050 for a desktop display (even with whatever widgets you use) is no thing compared to even just 800*600 fps games. Its not the driver's fault, you're comparing completely different ball games. If I tried to play CS:S on 1400*1050 with by 32MB Ge5200 (fine for the desktop, probably not as good as yours as its old and wasn't cutting edge at the time) my computer would freeze to a piece of stone.
Swap you for my Ge5200 32MB!
Offer full CD or near CD quality MP3 downloads of your best singles, demos, etc.
If you do this, I'd recommend using Bittorrent because a small band could get beaten up by bandwidth charges should they get popular.
Not ure of CD quality because a new band probably havn't produced to studio style before, reducing the concept of 'quality' to 'raw skill'; 128kbps (or even substantially less) should be fine as more general studio production issues dominate kbps above this.
Why is Google offering a Google talk system? It currently serves no ads, and being client agnostic, will likely be a long time before it does serve ads consistently.
It does not need to serve ads to be useful. Google excel at word and verbal pattern recognition. When I use Gmail I get an email relevent to the email I'm reading in isolation, but not very relevent to me in the broad interaction of interests I have. The more Google know about me the more they can tailor an ad to me as a person, not me as an isolated communication thread: knowing what I casually chat about is a great leap forward - this could also be true in monitoring your interaction with stories via Google's RSS based personalised homepages. It's like Yahoo tried to be but actualy done so the user enjoys it instead of being expected to endure it.
For example, I may have a daily news bulletin email about hedge funds, at the moment I get some really quite poor hedge fund/IFA adverts in these. I also have IMs about asymetric returns of financial markets with friends that research these things. If I got an ad about a hedge fund company that offered a service in relation to asymetric returns (because Google could tie up my interests - the all important interaction effect), or a data provider offering reaearch quality data, I'd be very keen to click on the ad (and possibly follow up the service). Thus Google make several fold the revenue they would do had they not monitored my IM.
China already bought a very modern aircraft carrier from Russia (about 40 fighter capacity, cutting edge (Russian aircraft carriers concentrated on establishing fighter superiority with Mig-29s and SU-37s instead of being general purpose bombardment platforms like US carriers), it was destined as a new modern ship for the Russian navy).
The Chinese turned it into a floating casino.
So why the fuck would they buy a supertanker to turn into an aircraft carrier when they already produce the largest amount of tankers and cargo ships in the world?!?!!?!?
Ah, to bait the trollish sentiment of doom
1. Taiwan is a small and culturally and economically insignificant island off the coast of a massive country. Almost everyone of economic significance in Taiwan is forging commercial links with the mainland. The mainland see it of minor importance, gaining points purely in chest beating; 300 years ago Chinese were a minority on the island, Ploynesians were the majority. It has zero cultural or economic significance for Chine.
2. China, unlike the US, has huge coal resources, which can provide the bulk of national power requirements for the next 30 years (providing the power plants and lines get put up). Everyone may indeed like to drive a car (car ownership does not increase linearly with income, insetead it goes from 10% of the population to 80% of the population in a decade - witnessed in South Jorea and Japan), but unlike the US it is not necessary or desirable to drive a car 10 miles along a congested freeway or highway to get to work, it is more similar to European population concentration and reliance on public transport.
3. Korea. If Korea get the chance to deliver nukes (well, it already has nukes and missiles to go several hundred miles, even if it hasn't been witness to combine them) it would be tragically comical to see it get invaded/bombed/decimated by China, Japan, Russia and the US (South Korea) almost simulteneously.
4. Southest Asia. Dont know that you mean by "that part of the world has cooled considerably in the last 30 years". Yes they have lost their cold war jingoism (from both sides); economics 101 surely teaches that mutual treade, sharing of expertise, and co-operative development aids all involved. Of course that is subject to an environment encouraging free trade, not hegoistic partisanship (cold war).
5. South and Central America. Reasons are not unclear at all. Those regions a natural resource rich and useful to a developing country, especially one with cash to burn (witness the Chinese saving rate vs. the global average - saving has to go somewhere and acquisition of US companies is conviently resisted).
Where does it all lead? To one country bettering itself and another country so obsessed with competition against others, from little leauge baseball to nuclear aircraft carriers, it believes being superiou to others is synominous to being satisfied, yet satisfaction never arives.
..Yes, how dare they obey the laws of a land they are opperating in.
.'nuff said.
There are plenty of laws in the US that I disagree with, and find incompatable with my assessment of the somewhat vacant "dont't be evil" statement. Likewise Europe, likewise Asia (and most, all I have investigated countries within).
"nuff said" could hardly be more untrue. On a broader level, I find the predominant US style of politics some of the most offensive on this Earth, so using your logic I should not expect relations with the US, "'nuff said".