We don't really get a voice anyway in our two-party (of any power) state. No proportional representation, no referenda on issues (despite being promised them, for, say, the Euro), and a political system that's gamed to work in one way whoever gets into power.
Let's face it.. we've reached a reasonably happy status quo with the current system and nothing too shocking happens under it. The problems we're having now are little different to those of ten or twenty years ago, and the average Brit has just as little say on matters as they ever have. This has led to a disillusioned populace that isn't really THAT interested in voting. I don't vote either, because it a) would have no effect, and b) all the parties look the same and are likely to lie and change their policies once they get in anyway (like Labour did).
Perhaps the dangers of electronic voting are worth it because our current system is so ineffectual. The room for abuse of electronic voting is no worse than the abuse of the entire system of government going on now.
But if they paid him $25,000 for the tax bill, wouldn't he then still owe a few thousand in taxes on that new $25k? And if they paid $25,000+$X,000, wouldn't he then still owe a small percentage of that? It never ends:)
You should always use the best tools for the job, whatever you're doing. People's impressions of what tool does the best job varies, but I think anyone who's a zealot for any ONE system is a moron. The smartest people I know use whatever is needed in the circumstances.. for example, Windows or a console for gaming, OS X for desktop, Linux for servers (or Ubuntu for desktop, etc).
So this 'debate' will really be three or more zealots sitting in a circle flinging mud at each other, screaming that one operating system is the best, rather than actually admitting they all have their niche. This isn't just a BBC trait, but one of the whole media.
Okay, okay, I've read the page now. I originally only saw the news item with the list which didn't explain anything about the choices. But then I checked the other link and found this.
Back in the 'good old days' you could hack the meter and switch the wires around so that the meter would run backwards, even though you'd still be getting electricity. A one-time friend of the family did this in a shop he owned. He figured he'd switch it, operate for a week on, week off, so the bill would be low, but not too low. Unfortunately he forgot about this arrangement and the meter showed him to be $1000+ in 'credit' with the electricity board saying they were going to be visiting in a week or so. Panic ensued, and he bought a bunch of electric kettles and rigged them up 24/7 to suck juice from the grid to get back into the red.
Indeed, we do. Quite bizarre really, as Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. There's a saying: Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper
See, that actually makes sense to me. That way you get all day to digest and get the energy from your breakfast.. rather than have a big dinner giving you energy and a whole ton of digestive work when you don't want it!
I'd be interested in the scientific aspect of this. Doesn't it make more sense to 'fuel up' and then use that energy.. rather than work all day and THEN fuel up?
Without reading the Wikipedia article (although I think it is explained there), it was 'constructed' as a tongue-in-cheek joke against European integration about ten years ago, as far as I recall.
Europanto is a language that mixes together the best of the major European languages into a mix that even a non-speaker can understand.
Ici eine sample:
Eine terrible menace incumbe over el Kingdom des Angleterra. Poor Regina Elisabeth habe spent todo seine dinero in charmingantes hats und pumpkinose carrosses und maintenow habe keine penny left por acquire de Champagne dat necessite zum celebrate Prince Charles anniversario op el 14 Novembro. (Diego Marani)
Using something like Ruby, Python, or even Java, for a non-performance console app is perfectly reasonable (and, IMHO, the best way) nowadays. C is an excellent language, but unless you're a C-god, you'll get better results in a shorter time with more dynamic languages in the 21st century.
I've been a big Google fan for many years now since I started using them in 2000. I was the sort of idiot who got people to try them out in the early days and changed my clients' default search engines to them:) But now... man, the results they're dredging up in the last few weeks have been so atrocious I'm trying to jump ship to another search engine with a clean design and actually good results (still looking though.. Yahoo has nice results, but is surrounded by spam and distractions).
I think people have celebrated Google a lot in the past couple of years while they've been on top and the largest, most popular search engine. Some of the other respondents talk about tall poppy syndrome, but Google have been a much celebrated tall poppy for a while now. I think the reason for the whining is legitimate here and based on things like quirky advertising, piss-poor search results, and the lack of any great new developments from Google since Gmail in 2004.
After reading your points, I'm getting the impression we need a pre-built form like the "Why your anti-spam idea will not work" one but for "Why your new Internet idea will not work" and include some of your above points..
You're going to run out of money, because..
( ) - Your ass will get sued for patent violation ( ) - No-one would be stupid enough to buy you out ( ) - No-one would be stupid enough to pay for your product etc..
The lack of the ability to use a Bootcamp partition really drags on Fusion's practicality for me -- maintaining two XP setups is a pain and a huge suck on disk space.
I don't know if you've looked into it, but Parallels does this already.
Why can't OS X based VMWare of Parallels run OS X?
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I know OS X has some protection features to stop it running (unaltered) under VMs. That's fine. I don't want to run OS X under Windows. However, it would be useful to be able to run a second copy of OS X under a virtualized environment on OS X. Why isn't this possible? Couldn't Parallels and/or VMWare provide access through to whatever piece of Apple hardware does the "Yes, this Apple hardware" security check?
I don't really know how it works internally, but it seems insane you can't virtualize the host OS yet you can virtualize almost any other.
Almost, but not quite all the way..
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In conclusion, this seems like a very useful guide for anyone who is starting out to configure and use the Mongrel web server for their Ruby projects.
Intriguingly, though, the book doesn't appear to cover using Mongrel as a library from Ruby at all. The closest it gets is in "Handlers" in Section 6, but this is still working with the regular Mongrel application rather than Mongrel as a library. Admittedly, many people don't want to use Mongrel as a library, but it makes a great replacement for the slow WEBrick, and can be used as an HTTP server library just fine.. so it's weird it wasn't covered (at least, not in my review copy).
1) Videos do not burn as audio. I bought the new Jay Z album. For some reason the main single "Show Me What You Got" came as a video only. Fine, I thought, "something for nothing!".. Well, no, it turns out iTunes isn't smart enough to burn videos to audio CDs as just audio. So I can't burn the album to CD to play in the car. I had to buy the track AGAIN in audio format. I complained to Apple and they gave me a credit, but it still sucks, since I had to buy a radio edit instead of the album version (which is video only).
2) Woefully poor video quality. The quality of videos on the iTunes Music Store is atrocious. Even the average rip distributed illegally will be streets ahead. It's just like YouTube in terms of sound quality.. it's not even up to 128kbps AAC standards.
3) CDs cost the same. I don't know about the US, but I can buy an audio CD for the same price as an album on iTunes. iTunes is more convenient for singles, but I think most people over a certain age buy albums instead.
4) Convenience costs. You might get some convenience with the instant downloads, which I totally love, but it's at the cost of all the above.. AND the fact sound quality is worse than CD.
AllOfMP3 was one of the best things to exist and would have even been popular with a pricing scheme fair to artists and the labels.. but no, anyone who does something in a customer friendly way these days is bound to be shot down by the cartels.
In the UK this sort of expression is related to how fish and chips always came wrapped in newspaper. It still does in some places, although usually they use more sanitary methods these days.
Not only that, but an ex international football player. He is probably better known across the world than any American football player (I must admit, I can't name a single one).
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We don't really get a voice anyway in our two-party (of any power) state. No proportional representation, no referenda on issues (despite being promised them, for, say, the Euro), and a political system that's gamed to work in one way whoever gets into power.
Let's face it.. we've reached a reasonably happy status quo with the current system and nothing too shocking happens under it. The problems we're having now are little different to those of ten or twenty years ago, and the average Brit has just as little say on matters as they ever have. This has led to a disillusioned populace that isn't really THAT interested in voting. I don't vote either, because it a) would have no effect, and b) all the parties look the same and are likely to lie and change their policies once they get in anyway (like Labour did).
Perhaps the dangers of electronic voting are worth it because our current system is so ineffectual. The room for abuse of electronic voting is no worse than the abuse of the entire system of government going on now.
But if they paid him $25,000 for the tax bill, wouldn't he then still owe a few thousand in taxes on that new $25k? And if they paid $25,000+$X,000, wouldn't he then still owe a small percentage of that? It never ends :)
Is that the speed you can talk at?
You should always use the best tools for the job, whatever you're doing. People's impressions of what tool does the best job varies, but I think anyone who's a zealot for any ONE system is a moron. The smartest people I know use whatever is needed in the circumstances.. for example, Windows or a console for gaming, OS X for desktop, Linux for servers (or Ubuntu for desktop, etc).
So this 'debate' will really be three or more zealots sitting in a circle flinging mud at each other, screaming that one operating system is the best, rather than actually admitting they all have their niche. This isn't just a BBC trait, but one of the whole media.
Okay, okay, I've read the page now. I originally only saw the news item with the list which didn't explain anything about the choices. But then I checked the other link and found this.
Why's it in the list? Just intrigued. It has a pretty bad reputation.
Back in the 'good old days' you could hack the meter and switch the wires around so that the meter would run backwards, even though you'd still be getting electricity. A one-time friend of the family did this in a shop he owned. He figured he'd switch it, operate for a week on, week off, so the bill would be low, but not too low. Unfortunately he forgot about this arrangement and the meter showed him to be $1000+ in 'credit' with the electricity board saying they were going to be visiting in a week or so. Panic ensued, and he bought a bunch of electric kettles and rigged them up 24/7 to suck juice from the grid to get back into the red.
Indeed, we do. Quite bizarre really, as Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. There's a saying:
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper
See, that actually makes sense to me. That way you get all day to digest and get the energy from your breakfast.. rather than have a big dinner giving you energy and a whole ton of digestive work when you don't want it!
I'd be interested in the scientific aspect of this. Doesn't it make more sense to 'fuel up' and then use that energy.. rather than work all day and THEN fuel up?
In other news, PICS support in Internet Explorer has killed the online pornography industry, and DRM has succeeded in eradicating piracy.
Sorry to take a dump on a cute joke with pedantry, but 1 isn't a prime.
Without reading the Wikipedia article (although I think it is explained there), it was 'constructed' as a tongue-in-cheek joke against European integration about ten years ago, as far as I recall.
That's a nice sentiment, but it's not really true. Look at Steve Jobs. He's not known for his respect to others.
I think I'd rewrite it to say.. in order for society to respect you, you must know how to manipulate society.
Europanto is a language that mixes together the best of the major European languages into a mix that even a non-speaker can understand.
Ici eine sample:
Eine terrible menace incumbe over el Kingdom des Angleterra. Poor Regina Elisabeth habe spent todo seine dinero in charmingantes hats und pumpkinose carrosses und maintenow habe keine penny left por acquire de Champagne dat necessite zum celebrate Prince Charles anniversario op el 14 Novembro. (Diego Marani)
Hey, I've got 1992 on the phone here.
Using something like Ruby, Python, or even Java, for a non-performance console app is perfectly reasonable (and, IMHO, the best way) nowadays. C is an excellent language, but unless you're a C-god, you'll get better results in a shorter time with more dynamic languages in the 21st century.
Excellent. Just what we need, more hermetic negativism designed to throw the baby out with the bath water
;-)
But on Slashdot these sorts of things are not hermetic
I've been a big Google fan for many years now since I started using them in 2000. I was the sort of idiot who got people to try them out in the early days and changed my clients' default search engines to them :) But now... man, the results they're dredging up in the last few weeks have been so atrocious I'm trying to jump ship to another search engine with a clean design and actually good results (still looking though.. Yahoo has nice results, but is surrounded by spam and distractions).
I think people have celebrated Google a lot in the past couple of years while they've been on top and the largest, most popular search engine. Some of the other respondents talk about tall poppy syndrome, but Google have been a much celebrated tall poppy for a while now. I think the reason for the whining is legitimate here and based on things like quirky advertising, piss-poor search results, and the lack of any great new developments from Google since Gmail in 2004.
After reading your points, I'm getting the impression we need a pre-built form like the "Why your anti-spam idea will not work" one but for "Why your new Internet idea will not work" and include some of your above points..
You're going to run out of money, because..
( ) - Your ass will get sued for patent violation
( ) - No-one would be stupid enough to buy you out
( ) - No-one would be stupid enough to pay for your product
etc..
The lack of the ability to use a Bootcamp partition really drags on Fusion's practicality for me -- maintaining two XP setups is a pain and a huge suck on disk space.
I don't know if you've looked into it, but Parallels does this already.
I know OS X has some protection features to stop it running (unaltered) under VMs. That's fine. I don't want to run OS X under Windows. However, it would be useful to be able to run a second copy of OS X under a virtualized environment on OS X. Why isn't this possible? Couldn't Parallels and/or VMWare provide access through to whatever piece of Apple hardware does the "Yes, this Apple hardware" security check?
I don't really know how it works internally, but it seems insane you can't virtualize the host OS yet you can virtualize almost any other.
In conclusion, this seems like a very useful guide for anyone who is starting out to configure and use the Mongrel web server for their Ruby projects.
Intriguingly, though, the book doesn't appear to cover using Mongrel as a library from Ruby at all. The closest it gets is in "Handlers" in Section 6, but this is still working with the regular Mongrel application rather than Mongrel as a library. Admittedly, many people don't want to use Mongrel as a library, but it makes a great replacement for the slow WEBrick, and can be used as an HTTP server library just fine.. so it's weird it wasn't covered (at least, not in my review copy).
1) Videos do not burn as audio. I bought the new Jay Z album. For some reason the main single "Show Me What You Got" came as a video only. Fine, I thought, "something for nothing!" .. Well, no, it turns out iTunes isn't smart enough to burn videos to audio CDs as just audio. So I can't burn the album to CD to play in the car. I had to buy the track AGAIN in audio format. I complained to Apple and they gave me a credit, but it still sucks, since I had to buy a radio edit instead of the album version (which is video only).
2) Woefully poor video quality. The quality of videos on the iTunes Music Store is atrocious. Even the average rip distributed illegally will be streets ahead. It's just like YouTube in terms of sound quality.. it's not even up to 128kbps AAC standards.
3) CDs cost the same. I don't know about the US, but I can buy an audio CD for the same price as an album on iTunes. iTunes is more convenient for singles, but I think most people over a certain age buy albums instead.
4) Convenience costs. You might get some convenience with the instant downloads, which I totally love, but it's at the cost of all the above.. AND the fact sound quality is worse than CD.
AllOfMP3 was one of the best things to exist and would have even been popular with a pricing scheme fair to artists and the labels.. but no, anyone who does something in a customer friendly way these days is bound to be shot down by the cartels.
In the UK this sort of expression is related to how fish and chips always came wrapped in newspaper. It still does in some places, although usually they use more sanitary methods these days.
Not only that, but an ex international football player. He is probably better known across the world than any American football player (I must admit, I can't name a single one).
I think the point is to reduce the speed of traffic to make it safer and so that the "two second rule" becomes easier to maintain. Not hard braking.
Check out YAML.