I'm always skeptical of these third world countries scientific claims of some miracle cure usinging some natrual substance
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I'm sure they lack the level of technical abilities and testing proceedure to make a truly scientific claim.
But this is illogical. Scientific doesn't mean accurately measured, it's a matter of method. A Fermi problem's solution is not unscientific.
Back to the topic, verifying the effectiveness of a cure for AIDS doesn't necessarily involve a pretty color image of a neutralized HIV. Watch for average life expectancy, reaction to infections. So the technical ability needed is a six month course in statistics, and the testing procedure involves being able to count days of survival for a decent sized sample.
If you want to be logical then be skeptical whenever a therapy involving artificial stuff is compared favorably against a natural cure because:
the interests in pushing something proprietary and patented are usually much higher.
nature synthesizes complex stuff which has been around for longer while the interactions of artificial substances with man and environment are analyzed for too little time, for sheer impracticality and again commercial interests.
there are documented precedents of interests pushing the under-performing candidate. Cotton against hemp. Private cars against public transport (see). Windows against a real OS...
I suggest you realize that replacing the battery with a fresh one != travelling with the expired battery and add-ons. Besides, I recall spare battery options were used in cellphones before the iPod even existed, i did not forget about those.
Grand parent essentially says: Phone companies in the US formed a cartel (same here in europe). You say: but you are free not to own a cellphone.
Arguably true, but You are NOT free to BE your own phone company.
Today's tech would allow VOIP phones using privately owned hotspots connected to the Net and between themselves in a mesh fashion - unlike the crippled ones we get from ISPs. The contract would be a kind of peering with other people: you let x packets travel on your network, you get x packets to send when you are around. The biggest hurdle would be provide reliable accounting but google yahoo or others would likely jump at that opportunity, your account page which is a good spot for ads.
But the hard to replace battery is a handicap even before the battery dies. You Can't Use A Spare Battery. It saves you lots of trouble for increased performance and convenience if the spare battery comes with a spare charger.
Indeed but I usually help people out because i feel part of some communities. When I have problems I see somebody took the time to do howtos, so when I can help I do it myself.
Who cares about the status. (did I mention my ***EXCELLENT*** karma on slashdot?)
I sure can't define the border between decision and reaction. But I'd be satisfied once people have just asked themselves the question ("Am I rejecting faith/atheism because it's what I feel, or am I influenced by the way Somebody incarnates it?").
IMO those types often have "troll" written all over. It's not possible to fail the literal interpretation of "Love thy enemy" or believing that whatever other part of the scriptures/tradition says otherwise can override it. Sorry for all the potentially good people that get caught into this and either get pushed to accept a sin or refuse religion altogether.
(Before i get flamed for nothing: no prob if one refuses/accepts any religion but it must be a decision, not a reaction)
>So a government organization should not be allowed to do what it thinks is best...
Big assumption here, that after an evaluation of all factors wmv was chosen as the best format overall. Maybe no discussion about formats ever took place, leaving the decision to the blokes who built the site.
>...without allowing some open source zealot to impose his software on them by legal harrassment? What a free world you want for the rest of us, twitter.
They are discussing formats not open source software. And, if they chose some easily decodable quicktime format they would not be open source yet a lawsuit would not probably be coming. About your idea of DRM as a feature, I pass. You're not a subtle enough troll for me to engage in further exchange.
it must be something other than file sharing that induces this manufacturing
The naive answer is that they want a market that is Not driven by the quality of the product, feeding people a blob of music+public image+gossip+merchandise which is easier to control and keep away from external influence. With a market driven by quality you'd have most good musicians doing whatever they want on their own label as soon as the first hit give 'em some money.
The less naive answer is that mainstream music is too good as a propaganda vehicle to have been overlooked. So, even if artists and music writer themselves think they are on top of the star system when they are successful, it's their usefulness in that particular moment that keeps them there. Punk, black metal and gangsta rap stuff is no more rebellious than britney spears: writing free software, refusing the culture of debt, considering money produced by banks through fractional reserve as a big scam instead of the only way modern society can work: these are examples of rebellions that actually can accomplish something.
No. They [office formats] "were" designed to reflect the internal workings of the program...
and that's something most programmers would consider a terrible idea. Wanna keep entrusting your data to MS on the assumption that they won't break compatibility with ODF as soon as it gives them a marketing advantage? good luck to you.
he's saying "I wrote this tool because the other options are crap".
AFAIK he wrote git because he got bitten by bitkeeper:)
Anyway I think he is just spinnin' a little his project, and git probably deserves kudos. Still, subversion is great because it's like CVS. All people used to CVS concepts could enjoy the better file handling Subversion gave them, and that made subversion successful. It might harm SCM to have people attached to CVS concepts, like it might harm to have people attached to office suites instead of document centric software. That doesn't make SVN or Openoffice less of a huge success anyway.
Linus is a git and you, please, avoid being a bunch of darcs.
But they don't have the same data of the "captcha server" to do ocr, they have the distorted one. The similarity is weighed with the original data, so bots ought to have a pretty good ocr program, equivalent to a pretty good captcha decoder.
You raise some good points, anyway if a weight is given to the submitted answers according to its string similarity with the ocr (wrong) guess and a dictionary, then it becomes easier to spot spammers, unless spammers do an ocr and post the second best dictionary guess. Anyway, no "goatse" instead of "slashdot". Add that to the captcha server being centralized so bots can be analysed for submission and/or error frequency and demoted or given "impossible" captchas.
But, on the exterior wall. Some people even questioned the feasibility of the maneuver by a pilot of little experience with such aircrafts. I won't go into it, just give anybody a flight simulator and tell them to do the terrorist and hit the pentagon, they will stay higher and drop towards the inner buildings. So, again, those terrorist were either fools or false flag.
About the other flight: what were the chances of succeed once they hit two towers and the pentagon not to be shot down when going towards capitol hill? Is this strategy? using surprise to hit the lower profile targets and keep the big one for later when alarm is raised? Please.
Remember that osama and friends fought the friggin' red army in afghanistan! they know a little about military strategy. Only, they seem to have forgotten it all, together with the importance of propaganda. So, again, those terrorist are either fools or false flag. Fools can be tricked to fight against the wrong enemy, false flag know what they are doing.
I dunno if your better method is really better. If the trigger is driven by the strength of the signal, jamming is likely not to work: all you need is a triggering signal which is at least the sum of the trigger sensitivity and the maximum jamming signal power, to take into account the worst case and terribly unlikely scenario that the jamming equipment broadcast a signal in counter phase when the bomb has to be triggered. Of course you need to discover what the jamming signal power is.
Besides, terrorist could have got the President, if they wanted it, instead of killing innocent people in the WTC. They didn't, concentrating on irrelevant targets for the sake of the show, so now they made their life difficult and their opponents can portrait themselves as defenders of democracy and freedom: either terrorists are fools or running false flag operations, in both cases they are no real threats to the powerful. Only to us.
the anti-copyright crowd is a convenient radicalization which can be better dealt with by the opponent: it worked with communism (fighting against the power of fake, anonymous capital became negating people whatever property and whatever freedom), it worked with nationalism (being patriot means being pro fascist/bushist right) it worked with geeks (depicting people who wants to share their own damn code and reverse engineer what is needed to interoperate in communist hippies who want all software to be free and copyright to be abolished).
She made the photos? they are hers, modulo the rights of the photographed subject. Am I pro microsoft, pro patents, pro drm? LOL no way. So how do I fit your mental model of pro vs anti copyright? The model is too simple.
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You're dealing with RIAA blockheads- your site will likely still be illegal unless the last of free-from-DRM devices has gone off the 'net.
But this is illogical. Scientific doesn't mean accurately measured, it's a matter of method. A Fermi problem's solution is not unscientific.
Back to the topic, verifying the effectiveness of a cure for AIDS doesn't necessarily involve a pretty color image of a neutralized HIV. Watch for average life expectancy, reaction to infections. So the technical ability needed is a six month course in statistics, and the testing procedure involves being able to count days of survival for a decent sized sample.
If you want to be logical then be skeptical whenever a therapy involving artificial stuff is compared favorably against a natural cure because:
> I wonder what sort of knotty problems this computer was able to unravel.
I dunno if it was turing complete. It sure was "multithreaded" though.
It also likely sparked a debate whether 640 knots would be enough for everybody.
my counter is borked, the year of the linux desktop was 2002, here.
I suggest you realize that replacing the battery with a fresh one != travelling with the expired battery and add-ons. Besides, I recall spare battery options were used in cellphones before the iPod even existed, i did not forget about those.
Grand parent essentially says: Phone companies in the US formed a cartel (same here in europe).
You say: but you are free not to own a cellphone.
Arguably true, but You are NOT free to BE your own phone company.
Today's tech would allow VOIP phones using privately owned hotspots connected to the Net and between themselves in a mesh fashion - unlike the crippled ones we get from ISPs. The contract would be a kind of peering with other people: you let x packets travel on your network, you get x packets to send when you are around. The biggest hurdle would be provide reliable accounting but google yahoo or others would likely jump at that opportunity, your account page which is a good spot for ads.
But the hard to replace battery is a handicap even before the battery dies. You Can't Use A Spare Battery. It saves you lots of trouble for increased performance and convenience if the spare battery comes with a spare charger.
I didn't RTFA, but git + gitweb or whatever the web client is named already does distributed storage, it's efficient and, I guess, scales wonderfully.
And surely there are older distributed SCM systems with a web client than git.
Dumb patents must die.
Indeed but I usually help people out because i feel part of some communities. When I have problems I see somebody took the time to do howtos, so when I can help I do it myself.
Who cares about the status. (did I mention my ***EXCELLENT*** karma on slashdot?)
I sure can't define the border between decision and reaction. But I'd be satisfied once people have just asked themselves the question ("Am I rejecting faith/atheism because it's what I feel, or am I influenced by the way Somebody incarnates it?").
IMO those types often have "troll" written all over. It's not possible to fail the literal interpretation of "Love thy enemy" or believing that whatever other part of the scriptures/tradition says otherwise can override it. Sorry for all the potentially good people that get caught into this and either get pushed to accept a sin or refuse religion altogether.
(Before i get flamed for nothing: no prob if one refuses/accepts any religion but it must be a decision, not a reaction)
>So a government organization should not be allowed to do what it thinks is best...
Big assumption here, that after an evaluation of all factors wmv was chosen as the best format overall. Maybe no discussion about formats ever took place, leaving the decision to the blokes who built the site.
>...without allowing some open source zealot to impose his software on them by legal harrassment? What a free world you want for the rest of us, twitter.
They are discussing formats not open source software. And, if they chose some easily decodable quicktime format they would not be open source yet a lawsuit would not probably be coming. About your idea of DRM as a feature, I pass. You're not a subtle enough troll for me to engage in further exchange.
> 'I don't do e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person.'"
> No, those crafty Defense Secretaries!
I guess they have their special secret code such as: dropping one bomb on innocent civilians means "Ok", dropping two means "No Way"?
I'm most skeptical about the 700mhz overclocked Sinclair Spectrum, instead.
He doesn't have a clue about the difference between appleII and mac, too.
Windows=Scientology.
it must be something other than file sharing that induces this manufacturing
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The naive answer is that they want a market that is Not driven by the quality of the product, feeding people a blob of music+public image+gossip+merchandise which is easier to control and keep away from external influence. With a market driven by quality you'd have most good musicians doing whatever they want on their own label as soon as the first hit give 'em some money.
The less naive answer is that mainstream music is too good as a propaganda vehicle to have been overlooked. So, even if artists and music writer themselves think they are on top of the star system when they are successful, it's their usefulness in that particular moment that keeps them there. Punk, black metal and gangsta rap stuff is no more rebellious than britney spears: writing free software, refusing the culture of debt, considering money produced by banks through fractional reserve as a big scam instead of the only way modern society can work: these are examples of rebellions that actually can accomplish something.
This first of four parts, all at archive.org can explain how propaganda works in the western world.
http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyof
AFAIK he wrote git because he got bitten by bitkeeper
Anyway I think he is just spinnin' a little his project, and git probably deserves kudos. Still, subversion is great because it's like CVS. All people used to CVS concepts could enjoy the better file handling Subversion gave them, and that made subversion successful. It might harm SCM to have people attached to CVS concepts, like it might harm to have people attached to office suites instead of document centric software. That doesn't make SVN or Openoffice less of a huge success anyway.
Linus is a git and you, please, avoid being a bunch of darcs.
lemme guess, somebody patented enumerating three possibilities with a summary stating there are three possibilities, so you had to work around that.
But they don't have the same data of the "captcha server" to do ocr, they have the distorted one. The similarity is weighed with the original data, so bots ought to have a pretty good ocr program, equivalent to a pretty good captcha decoder.
You raise some good points, anyway if a weight is given to the submitted answers according to its string similarity with the ocr (wrong) guess and a dictionary, then it becomes easier to spot spammers, unless spammers do an ocr and post the second best dictionary guess. Anyway, no "goatse" instead of "slashdot". Add that to the captcha server being centralized so bots can be analysed for submission and/or error frequency and demoted or given "impossible" captchas.
A plane hit the pentagon.
But, on the exterior wall. Some people even questioned the feasibility of the maneuver by a pilot of little experience with such aircrafts. I won't go into it, just give anybody a flight simulator and tell them to do the terrorist and hit the pentagon, they will stay higher and drop towards the inner buildings. So, again, those terrorist were either fools or false flag.
About the other flight: what were the chances of succeed once they hit two towers and the pentagon not to be shot down when going towards capitol hill? Is this strategy? using surprise to hit the lower profile targets and keep the big one for later when alarm is raised? Please.
Remember that osama and friends fought the friggin' red army in afghanistan! they know a little about military strategy. Only, they seem to have forgotten it all, together with the importance of propaganda. So, again, those terrorist are either fools or false flag. Fools can be tricked to fight against the wrong enemy, false flag know what they are doing.
I dunno if your better method is really better. If the trigger is driven by the strength of the signal, jamming is likely not to work: all you need is a triggering signal which is at least the sum of the trigger sensitivity and the maximum jamming signal power, to take into account the worst case and terribly unlikely scenario that the jamming equipment broadcast a signal in counter phase when the bomb has to be triggered. Of course you need to discover what the jamming signal power is.
Besides, terrorist could have got the President, if they wanted it, instead of killing innocent people in the WTC. They didn't, concentrating on irrelevant targets for the sake of the show, so now they made their life difficult and their opponents can portrait themselves as defenders of democracy and freedom: either terrorists are fools or running false flag operations, in both cases they are no real threats to the powerful. Only to us.
the anti-copyright crowd is a convenient radicalization which can be better dealt with by the opponent: it worked with communism (fighting against the power of fake, anonymous capital became negating people whatever property and whatever freedom), it worked with nationalism (being patriot means being pro fascist/bushist right) it worked with geeks (depicting people who wants to share their own damn code and reverse engineer what is needed to interoperate in communist hippies who want all software to be free and copyright to be abolished).
She made the photos? they are hers, modulo the rights of the photographed subject. Am I pro microsoft, pro patents, pro drm? LOL no way. So how do I fit your mental model of pro vs anti copyright? The model is too simple.