I guess it's a different experience for everyone, which is why it's worth taking the individual into account. I can't remember a thing before the age of 5, but I know I was already programming by then (to be honest, it's quite creepy that my first memories include already being computer proficient..) I guess this means younger kids can learn, but the skills picked up will become more innate than factually memorable.
Isn't that 700 megabyte XVid version of.. I don't know.. Star Trek: Generations that you just downloaded using BitTorrent 'a number'. I mean, any number of bytes can be represented as a single number made up of all those bytes.
If sending around that 'number' is copyright infringement, what difference does it make to the length of the number? I'm not trying to play devil's advocate here, as I can see defending the copyright on the number 2, for example, is ridiculous. But.. I'd agree defending the copyright of something represented by even a 2 megabyte number is right for that copyright holder to do. Where IS the line?
The sad thing is that most people who report spam are the idiots of the Internet who don't understand things like joe-jobbing, etc, and assume that because it says "jkrwejkrweq@yourdomain.com" in the From field, it's not necessarily anything to do with "yourdomain.com". SPF is, supposedly, a solution to this but the penetration seems pretty low. Certainly in my experience it's not usually Hotmail or Gmail customers who send the all-caps "STOP SENDING ME E-MAIL" to joe-job victims, but people on various.com domain names most likely hosted at hundreds of different budget web hosts who have poor anti-spam tools (or none at all).
I'm sure it can't be/absolutely/ true, otherwise you could, for example, end up with 20 people who find your Slashdot post 'disturbing' (sounds like a personal judgement to me) and you're up on twenty counts of disorderly conduct;-)
You seriously think that the squash you're drinking is *that* much healthier than the carbonated soda you only drink in "moderation"?! Sheesh!:-)
Seriously, even if I didn't mind turning orange (and I don't think Robert Kilroy Silk/ Dale Winton type orangeness convinces as a tan either), my main issue would be with the amount of chemical garbage I was swallowing each day (including sweeteners, although if they used sugar instead, that would also be pretty unhealthy).
Yeah, that is one downside. Even though I only go sugar free, there's still a lot of freaky stuff in there. That said, I'm willing to hedge my bets in life and actually trust sweetners. Of course, if millions of us die of some weird cancer in ten years' time then you can have the last laugh:) I'm far more concerned about my teeth (hence the low soda)!
Have you seriously considered drinking water instead?
Tried it for a year but just didn't find it that.. fun, I guess. I guess this is why a lot of people drink tea and coffee rather than just water too. I think everyone has a certain amount of willpower and we all use it in different ways. Some people can use it on their diet, but being self employed I gotta use it to make sure I keep bringing in a living;-)
(Then there was even more scandal when there were reports of kids turning yellow through drinking the stuff. I know it's crap, but how much of the damn stuff were these parents feeding their kids?)
Actually, drinking a lot of squash can make you turn yellow(er). My main drink is orange squash (not any particular brand) mainly because I'm too impatient with hot drinks, it's cheap, and I only drink soda in moderation. I guess I drink about 4 litres a day, considering I drink about 1 litre of concentrate per day.
And.. after twenty or so years of that.. my skin definitely has a yellow tinge to it. My girlfriend is out in the sun more than I am, yet I look like I have a tan year round!:) I always thought it might have been something unhealthy, but supposedly this is quite normal (and safe) if you consume a lot of things containing carotenes. It's called carotenesis.
The speed of a bittorrent download is dependent on the speed of your connection. If your connection doesn't suck, it will be faster. If you're using 6 meg down / 128 k up DSL, bittorrent will be slow.
I'm certainly not clued up on the ratio side of things. However, what you say is certainly a shame as most of us home users are on DSL. I guess my point stands if there's a fast source server available and you're using DSL, you might as well use that instead of being a good neighbor and using BitTorrent (only of benefit to people who have good connections anyway or in situations where the source server sucks/is non-existent).
"Ordinary user" logic dictates that upload speed doesn't matter if you're not uploading.. but with BitTorrent it does;-)
Meanwhile I'm downloading from Ubuntu's official site at 200KB/sec (as much as my connection will do).
I think BitTorrent is a great idea, but in nearly every case it's slower than using the regular source. And I don't feel too guilty given Shuttleworth's wealth;-)
Firefox has its own password management system. Keychain is next to useless as I wouldn't want to store usernames and passwords that actually matter anyway.. whereas Firefox is used for non-important Web stuff, so having Firefox store usernames and passwords is no skin off of my nose. I only ever use Firefox for the Web anyway, so why do I need authentication info accessible system wide?
Also, I don't use proxies. I'm not behind some corporate firewall.
What you are clearly forgetting is that Mac applications, more than those on any other platform, are woefully inconsistent anyway. iTunes looks nothing like Mail which looks nothing like iCal, etc, etc. If Aperture, iCal, Mail, and Photoshop can all look radically different (even right down to the widget set) then why should Firefox look the same as anything else? It shouldn't. It's a Web browser.. it's not a mail program, a photo editing suite, or a calendar. My car and my house don't look the same.. neither should two totally different apps.
Firefox is pretty good on OS X. There seem to be a lot of whiners about it, but I have it running almost constantly with varying numbers of tabs and it's always worked very well. I certainly prefer it to Safari or Opera. Who cares about native widgets? I'm looking at the Web, not a bunch of Apple themed Web pages.
I had to go through a ton of headaches just to get my PSP able to run homebrew stuff. I don't run homebrew because I want to screw Sony, but because there's so much good homebrew stuff! One of the biggest things is emulation. The PSP is great for playing NES and Sega Genesis games. The screen is a good size, controls are good, etc.. but Sony requires apps be signed unless you hack your PSP.
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E-TextEditor. The TextMate guy has helped them a bit, and they bleat on all the time about how it's like TextMate;-)
However this could have unintended consequences. We're just beginning to understand the effects of natural light on humans. And for now at least, incandescent lamps (or preferably halogen lamps) are the healthiest sources of artificial light we can buy.
I spend 90% of my time in a house entirely lighted by them and I is doing good by it with no sine of mental retard nation at hall!
In a 24 hour society, daylight savings is an absolute farce outside of the May->August period when it's possible to have 16 hours of daylight. If there's, say, 14 hours of daylight, then you have 2 hours of darkness in most peoples' days wherever you shift the timezones, and that's only the optimum outcome because millions wake up before daylight and millions stay up after it.
If the government was really interested in "saving energy", it'd clamp down on emissions and fuel efficiency, and promote more effective techniques. Banning incandescent lighting and enforcing energy-saving bulb usage would strip several percent off of electricity demands year round and would cause a whole lot less annoyance than timezone changes. The EU and Australia have already figured this one out.
Beekeeper 1: Well, very clever, Simpson, luring our bees to your sugar pile and selling them back to us at an inflated price. Homer: Bees are on the what now?
Yeah, but the only reason you'd own a poseur car like a Ferrari is because few other people have them. If they did, and you were interested more in driving experience, you'd buy a good driving car rather than a poseur one.
Americo-Australianian relations are at an all-time low. As I'm sure you remember, in the late 1980s the US experienced a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture. For some bizarre reason, the Aussies thought this would be a permanent thing. Of course, it wasn't. Anyway, the Down Under fad fizzled and the diplomatic climate turned absolutely frosty.
Anyway, Australia wanted to put him in stern for 5 years, but the diplomats had another option. They said the US would drop the charges if he made a public apology in the US.
It wouldn't surprise me. Whenever a story comes up about Ruby (which has been mentioned about two trillion times on Slashdot) someone always whines about Slashdot assuming everyone knows what Ruby is and that they don't know.
1) You're out of your mind. You might need a license to drive, but not to travel. You can even fly without ID.
Not in the entire EU. Within a single member state, you can travel where you like, but I don't believe I can drive from the UK onto a ferry and get off in France without showing a driving license or passport.
In countries under the Schengen agreement, sure.. but not all EU countries are under that agreement.
I don't know about anyone else, but there are at least two discrete personalities in my mind. Only one of them is actually expressed as my true personality to the world, but I have a little voice (perhaps what some would call a conscience) that throws up all sorts of crazy ideas for my 'real' self to then choose to implement or not.
So this little voice has told me to steer my car into oncoming traffic, maim people, and all manner of things, but because my 'real' self is pretty sane, it just ignores these stupid requests and does the 'right' thing in each situation. That doesn't mean the 'little voice' will stop coming up with ideas though. I just see this as part of being an introverted objectivist who doesn't see/thinking/ about anything whatsoever as taboo, just/doing/ certain things is taboo.
If they can read our inner thoughts in future, I'd suggest we'd ALL be in jail, because I don't think I'm the only one who subconciously thinks about nasty things without ever entertaining the thought of/actually/ doing them.
I don't condone cracking or similar shenanigans.. but there's no motivation for disclosing vulnerabilities. Most companies have shown a lack of appreciation for it. To an egotistical teenager it's FAR better to get some fame (even infamy) than merely get an automated mail (or, if you're really lucky, a 'hey thanks, we've fixed it now!') from some corporation.. that's why they start cracking in the first place
I would strongly agree with you if the electoral system and the society that uses it actually provided a mechanism for change. They do not. Voting is not a way to 'do something' anymore. Evil already made it with people doing something with the current system, so it's time for a different system.
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I guess it's a different experience for everyone, which is why it's worth taking the individual into account. I can't remember a thing before the age of 5, but I know I was already programming by then (to be honest, it's quite creepy that my first memories include already being computer proficient..) I guess this means younger kids can learn, but the skills picked up will become more innate than factually memorable.
Isn't that 700 megabyte XVid version of.. I don't know.. Star Trek: Generations that you just downloaded using BitTorrent 'a number'. I mean, any number of bytes can be represented as a single number made up of all those bytes.
If sending around that 'number' is copyright infringement, what difference does it make to the length of the number? I'm not trying to play devil's advocate here, as I can see defending the copyright on the number 2, for example, is ridiculous. But.. I'd agree defending the copyright of something represented by even a 2 megabyte number is right for that copyright holder to do. Where IS the line?
The sad thing is that most people who report spam are the idiots of the Internet who don't understand things like joe-jobbing, etc, and assume that because it says "jkrwejkrweq@yourdomain.com" in the From field, it's not necessarily anything to do with "yourdomain.com". SPF is, supposedly, a solution to this but the penetration seems pretty low. Certainly in my experience it's not usually Hotmail or Gmail customers who send the all-caps "STOP SENDING ME E-MAIL" to joe-job victims, but people on various .com domain names most likely hosted at hundreds of different budget web hosts who have poor anti-spam tools (or none at all).
I'm sure it can't be /absolutely/ true, otherwise you could, for example, end up with 20 people who find your Slashdot post 'disturbing' (sounds like a personal judgement to me) and you're up on twenty counts of disorderly conduct ;-)
Here's a clue... WHAZzzzzzzUPPPP!!!!!
And this! :)
Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star
Might just pop over there now..
They don't drink it. At least, when I lived in the US I struggled to find it. The closest thing they have is Kool-Aid! :)
You seriously think that the squash you're drinking is *that* much healthier than the carbonated soda you only drink in "moderation"?! Sheesh! :-)
:) I'm far more concerned about my teeth (hence the low soda)!
;-)
Seriously, even if I didn't mind turning orange (and I don't think Robert Kilroy Silk/ Dale Winton type orangeness convinces as a tan either), my main issue would be with the amount of chemical garbage I was swallowing each day (including sweeteners, although if they used sugar instead, that would also be pretty unhealthy).
Yeah, that is one downside. Even though I only go sugar free, there's still a lot of freaky stuff in there. That said, I'm willing to hedge my bets in life and actually trust sweetners. Of course, if millions of us die of some weird cancer in ten years' time then you can have the last laugh
Have you seriously considered drinking water instead?
Tried it for a year but just didn't find it that.. fun, I guess. I guess this is why a lot of people drink tea and coffee rather than just water too. I think everyone has a certain amount of willpower and we all use it in different ways. Some people can use it on their diet, but being self employed I gotta use it to make sure I keep bringing in a living
(Then there was even more scandal when there were reports of kids turning yellow through drinking the stuff. I know it's crap, but how much of the damn stuff were these parents feeding their kids?)
:) I always thought it might have been something unhealthy, but supposedly this is quite normal (and safe) if you consume a lot of things containing carotenes. It's called carotenesis.
Actually, drinking a lot of squash can make you turn yellow(er). My main drink is orange squash (not any particular brand) mainly because I'm too impatient with hot drinks, it's cheap, and I only drink soda in moderation. I guess I drink about 4 litres a day, considering I drink about 1 litre of concentrate per day.
And.. after twenty or so years of that.. my skin definitely has a yellow tinge to it. My girlfriend is out in the sun more than I am, yet I look like I have a tan year round!
The speed of a bittorrent download is dependent on the speed of your connection. If your connection doesn't suck, it will be faster. If you're using 6 meg down / 128 k up DSL, bittorrent will be slow.
;-)
I'm certainly not clued up on the ratio side of things. However, what you say is certainly a shame as most of us home users are on DSL. I guess my point stands if there's a fast source server available and you're using DSL, you might as well use that instead of being a good neighbor and using BitTorrent (only of benefit to people who have good connections anyway or in situations where the source server sucks/is non-existent).
"Ordinary user" logic dictates that upload speed doesn't matter if you're not uploading.. but with BitTorrent it does
Meanwhile I'm downloading from Ubuntu's official site at 200KB/sec (as much as my connection will do).
;-)
I think BitTorrent is a great idea, but in nearly every case it's slower than using the regular source. And I don't feel too guilty given Shuttleworth's wealth
Firefox has its own password management system. Keychain is next to useless as I wouldn't want to store usernames and passwords that actually matter anyway.. whereas Firefox is used for non-important Web stuff, so having Firefox store usernames and passwords is no skin off of my nose. I only ever use Firefox for the Web anyway, so why do I need authentication info accessible system wide?
Also, I don't use proxies. I'm not behind some corporate firewall.
What you are clearly forgetting is that Mac applications, more than those on any other platform, are woefully inconsistent anyway. iTunes looks nothing like Mail which looks nothing like iCal, etc, etc. If Aperture, iCal, Mail, and Photoshop can all look radically different (even right down to the widget set) then why should Firefox look the same as anything else? It shouldn't. It's a Web browser.. it's not a mail program, a photo editing suite, or a calendar. My car and my house don't look the same.. neither should two totally different apps.
Firefox is pretty good on OS X. There seem to be a lot of whiners about it, but I have it running almost constantly with varying numbers of tabs and it's always worked very well. I certainly prefer it to Safari or Opera. Who cares about native widgets? I'm looking at the Web, not a bunch of Apple themed Web pages.
I had to go through a ton of headaches just to get my PSP able to run homebrew stuff. I don't run homebrew because I want to screw Sony, but because there's so much good homebrew stuff! One of the biggest things is emulation. The PSP is great for playing NES and Sega Genesis games. The screen is a good size, controls are good, etc.. but Sony requires apps be signed unless you hack your PSP.
E-TextEditor. The TextMate guy has helped them a bit, and they bleat on all the time about how it's like TextMate ;-)
However this could have unintended consequences. We're just beginning to understand the effects of natural light on humans. And for now at least, incandescent lamps (or preferably halogen lamps) are the healthiest sources of artificial light we can buy.
I spend 90% of my time in a house entirely lighted by them and I is doing good by it with no sine of mental retard nation at hall!
In a 24 hour society, daylight savings is an absolute farce outside of the May->August period when it's possible to have 16 hours of daylight. If there's, say, 14 hours of daylight, then you have 2 hours of darkness in most peoples' days wherever you shift the timezones, and that's only the optimum outcome because millions wake up before daylight and millions stay up after it.
If the government was really interested in "saving energy", it'd clamp down on emissions and fuel efficiency, and promote more effective techniques. Banning incandescent lighting and enforcing energy-saving bulb usage would strip several percent off of electricity demands year round and would cause a whole lot less annoyance than timezone changes. The EU and Australia have already figured this one out.
Beekeeper 1: Well, very clever, Simpson, luring our bees to your sugar pile and selling them back to us at an inflated price.
Homer: Bees are on the what now?
Yeah, but the only reason you'd own a poseur car like a Ferrari is because few other people have them. If they did, and you were interested more in driving experience, you'd buy a good driving car rather than a poseur one.
Americo-Australianian relations are at an all-time low. As I'm sure you remember, in the late 1980s the US experienced a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture. For some bizarre reason, the Aussies thought this would be a permanent thing. Of course, it wasn't. Anyway, the Down Under fad fizzled and the diplomatic climate turned absolutely frosty.
Anyway, Australia wanted to put him in stern for 5 years, but the diplomats had another option. They said the US would drop the charges if he made a public apology in the US.
It wouldn't surprise me. Whenever a story comes up about Ruby (which has been mentioned about two trillion times on Slashdot) someone always whines about Slashdot assuming everyone knows what Ruby is and that they don't know.
1) You're out of your mind. You might need a license to drive, but not to travel. You can even fly without ID.
Not in the entire EU. Within a single member state, you can travel where you like, but I don't believe I can drive from the UK onto a ferry and get off in France without showing a driving license or passport.
In countries under the Schengen agreement, sure.. but not all EU countries are under that agreement.
I don't know about anyone else, but there are at least two discrete personalities in my mind. Only one of them is actually expressed as my true personality to the world, but I have a little voice (perhaps what some would call a conscience) that throws up all sorts of crazy ideas for my 'real' self to then choose to implement or not.
/thinking/ about anything whatsoever as taboo, just /doing/ certain things is taboo.
/actually/ doing them.
So this little voice has told me to steer my car into oncoming traffic, maim people, and all manner of things, but because my 'real' self is pretty sane, it just ignores these stupid requests and does the 'right' thing in each situation. That doesn't mean the 'little voice' will stop coming up with ideas though. I just see this as part of being an introverted objectivist who doesn't see
If they can read our inner thoughts in future, I'd suggest we'd ALL be in jail, because I don't think I'm the only one who subconciously thinks about nasty things without ever entertaining the thought of
I don't condone cracking or similar shenanigans.. but there's no motivation for disclosing vulnerabilities. Most companies have shown a lack of appreciation for it. To an egotistical teenager it's FAR better to get some fame (even infamy) than merely get an automated mail (or, if you're really lucky, a 'hey thanks, we've fixed it now!') from some corporation.. that's why they start cracking in the first place
I would strongly agree with you if the electoral system and the society that uses it actually provided a mechanism for change. They do not. Voting is not a way to 'do something' anymore. Evil already made it with people doing something with the current system, so it's time for a different system.