It should come as no surprise that a majority of American High School students believe there should be strong limits to the first amendment. I'm talking limits like what newspapers can print, what people can just say, etc. It's a rather scary precedent to be sure. Luckily it is well covered and our mass media (no surprise) thinks these kids are lost. Which they are.
I'm happy to live in America and proud of the great things my countrymen have done in the past. I also recognize the many failures we have had as a nation. But lately it seems that our constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence are simply pieces of paper that any politician or judge can simply ignore. Not to mention the vast amount of people here that believe in things that are rather unconstitutional, but yet clamor about the USA liberating all these people everywhere, screw Europe mentality, etc. It seems the wool is over many peoples eyes and I fear they cannot change.
Maybe when oil crashes in the next 25 or less years, people will wake up. But I doubt it. I'm sure the blame will be passed elsewhere by dubious forces and the people will eat it up. I never really thought it could happen, and it is avoidable, but it seems Orwell's "1984" is almost a manual for what is to come.
Oh well, I can't change a thing and even if I could they wouldn't listen. Maybe I'm wrong and really everything is OK. I don't mean to complain so much but I don't understand people (both major parties btw) that want to take away their own rights. Why would I want to take away reasonable things from myself?
I didn't think he would actually say these things. Personally, I have no problem with MS's way of doing things. They are a business, there to make money and their method seems to work for them. It doesn't work for me so I don't use their products.
But as for data, I believe if I create anything and it spits out a proprietary file format, I have every right to use algorithms that pick away at it and do with it as I please. MS may own the binary software, but users should have access to their data and if MS doesn't want to publish their data formats, then I will simply use things that figure them out for me and use my data as I please.
Somewhere here I sense the whole monopoly thing...
Can't anyone see that this is bacteria controlling us?! It cares nothing for our well being, it only wants us to create space ships so it can find its way our of here and infect other systems with itself, spawning all types of bizarre life. Bacteria is smarter than us. It controls us and will simply do its bidding. How can something evolving that fast not be superior? It doesn't "communicate" with us for the same reason we don't communicate with Ants. When it has no use for us, we will simply fade away and it will move on to the next system and repeat this over and over again until it rules the cosmos!
Hopefully there is some entrepreneuring Aussie television network that understands this market and can use their leverage as a broadcaster to quickly get this media to those that demand it. Or they could be non-capitalists and just complain about this and ask for legislation, but I wouldn't expect a business to do this... C'mon boy's, go get 'em! There's gold in them hills!
"Now, put this up against the fact that most other countries can't afford to put an AI in the pilots seat, and the result is continuous overwhelming air superiority without risk to humans on our side."
All is fair in love and war, but starting wars without human loss on our side seems like we have nothing to lose, as far as life is concerned. And that's kind of scary. I hope it is never used as a justification for fighting. One of the costs of war is the life you may lose and if that's too compared to what you may gain, then you cannot fight.
"It's not an academic argument; Obj-C has been key to the design of one of the best application development environments for 15 _years_. And I would still consider it one of the strongest choices for such development, starting clean-sheet today."
Wouldn;t debate that.
"I would not argue that Obj-C is one of the better OO languages for applications where true OO is necessary or useful."
My main point.
"There are plenty of situations where such control is useful or critical, and much as I love the convenience & safety of a garbage collector, a large gc app in my experience is hell on virtual memory, whereas it is possible to have a very light footprint with obj-c."
I agree. A garbage collector its not always necessary...especially with a referencing counting technique which is much more efficient but still has costs of its own as opposed to a manual method, but obviously we know this method isn't worth the minor efficiency upgrade.
"Your argument on the expense of the message dispatcher doesn't hold water..."
You probably are right.
"You're arguing for a Java implementation"
Yeah I guess I really was. I'm not really much of a Java programmer and would say my Obj-C knowledge is much better. But not the write once run anywhere style. A dedicated set of libraries (Cocos) Java was naively available..NET similar but an evolution on the solid base Obj-C built. Why not move forward even more?
"Objective-C is a terrific choice as a system programming language, and I would consider it a strong choice for most problems sets you would otherwise choose C or C++ for"
I wish the language was just called Objective and didn't have the C binding it has (no pun intended, oops....wait...not again!). Why did they feel they had to bolt it onto C? That really bugs me. What I think Java did right was take the basic syntax out and reuse it so a programmer can use the general control system the same as they always have. I think of 'for', 'while', foo(), etc as axioms of iterative style programming languages.
Syntax is definitely an issue but the real problem with the syntax is the way it is interleaved with regular C. I don't see the advantage to it and think the language design should have been pure and focused on it's OO premise. It allows too much nonsense interleaved with everything else. Of course you can mainly program around this, as in not use many C libraries and function call style, but this also proves it shouldn't even be in the language. It's a good language built on a poorly chosen foundation. Why did it naturally cripple itself?
"The REAL problem is that C is not a good base for an OO operating system. The best OO C derivitive is Livescript/Javascript/ECMAscript, and that's because it doesn't try and retain C semantics anywhere."
My main problem with Objective-C is it feels like Small Talk bolted on rather crudely with C. It works and I see it's purpose, but it feels like you're using 2 different languages when programming in it.
Openstep is a well designed API, if not the best ever so this makes up for the ugliness of Objective-C. However, I could not imagine using Objective-C for anything but a Cocoa program.
The dispatch is rather expensive, but having dynamic binding like it does is the reason for this. This allows for great flexibility while designing software but of course comes at an execution cost. For the OOP nuts, it's pure but I agree, they could have done things better with the language. It's definitely the Achilles heal of the whole Cocoa thing and makes you guess they will have a superior Java implementation eventually.
The government is formed by the people and for the people. Therefore, the government is entitled to do what they believe what is in the best interest of the people. Feeding people, creating jobs, education and even things such as civic pride (the arts) are definitely in the interest of the people. Poverty, crime and ignorance are definitely not in the interest of the people and country as whole.
Of course you may have your opinions and run for government with them. If the people believe you are doing what is best for them, then the people will elect you to install your ideas for the peoples benefit. I wager the people will reject your ideas and fail to elect you, but you can always try.
Firstly, if "making it big" is your main concern, stop now. There is no formula for this and infinite talent won't lead to it. You need a mixture of talent and lots of luck.
Anyways, my comments: Give your music away. You will never, under any circumstances, make much money from your music and if you make most of it available for free, in high quality, available to your users, you will get a larger (hopefully) audience by the songs being freely distributed from a central spot. Keep in mind this has bandwidth costs, so maybe look to other methods but keep the music free.
You will make your money off shows and t-shirts. The more people that like you the more people that will pay to see you. Expect, if you're a good band to get 3/4 the door and 1/4 the bar. That's actually really goo so don't expect to get any of the bar.
Sell your CD's (people will buy them at a show), t-shirts, etc. Tour, tour, tour. And have patience. Use the Internet to promote yourself and obviously create a Website and post about your band on any number of fan sites.
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I see so many people complaining about the April Fools stories being posted as they comment about how this isn't funny anymore, is stupid, etc. The point is, I think, Slashdot is collecting stories from around the Net and posting them...like they always do. It just so happens many Websites enjoy posting ludicrous stories today for obvious reasons. Slashdot is just here to collect them. Nothing is different than a typical day mainly. It's a theme, get it? So, complain about it if you will but you don't deserve anything and you can always read things elsewhere. I for one enjoy all the crazy stories they have gathered around the Net. It's like getting a free edition of the Onion between issues. Lighten up, it's fun. And RTFA at least today because many of them are rather amusing and entertaining. No one's trying to trick you...think of this as one big day of hanging around bizzaro world.
"The United States has Iraq, Iran, Syria, China, the EU, The UN, The Environment, Social Security and Jobs to worry about before a bottom of the heap internet study is to be conducted."
Bomb them, get ready to bomb them, bomb them later, exploit them, screw them, ignore them, piss on it, destroy it and down play it. So, lets study the Net!
Lighten up. It's just a joke that people like to make over and over. We all like to laugh at politicians and really, if this is all they have, big deal. This joke has just become part of pop culture. I do admit though, it doesn't take great wit to make this joke and it's sad to see professional comedians still make reference to it. So, to you: Lighten up. To Others: Get over it and give us some new material.
That's not my point and in some circumstances it's OK to use so long as you document this (and in fact it is wrong to use it if you don't attach the license with it!). Usually it's OK to use OSS in more advanced classes when you are building a system and in fact I would encourage it. But for classes like a basic programming class where they have one write basic data structures, etc...you cannot. Especially when it is explicitly stated you must write your own code.
I'm sure you're just making a wise crack here, and I respect that:), but I want it to be known that nate nice is indeed an OSS advocate.
How is this any different than the widespread cheating that goes on in campuses everywhere now days? It's common to see students cheating by sharing answers to homework, gathering information from others about previous quizzes/tests and the silly amount of plagiarised papers/code, etc that is turned in as original work and graded as so because it slips by the plagiarism filters? I'm not blaming professors as this is not necessarily their responsibility at all times. It is expected you are there to learn and work hard to get there. But with grades being so important to some people, they will go to great lengths to cheat. The saddest part is many people don't see this as cheating but rather "playing the game".
The fact this girl changed her grades is of course wrong in every way possible but I give her credit for being original about it. She should have thought it out better but she is better off having been caught. My only point is her type of cheating only scrapes the surface of what I've observed going on around campus.
I myself have never cheated, although tempted, in any of my courses and I think that gives me an edge on others. But, with so many curved systems, it bothers me to know that you see someone coping someone else's homework get the same, if not better, grade than you. In the end I don't care. I'm not in a personal contest to get the best grades...I do it for myself. But lets make no mistake, cheating is rampant on probably every campus in the world. And lets not even start on parents doing their kids homework in high school with the hope of landing a better college for their brat!
Of course not. Amazing soccer comes from Brazil..Pele!!...Circus is there which I must attend some day as well as a fabulous culture and good people! And hot women in tiny thongs.
... let's have a discussion on how hot round booties in Brazilian thongs are. Better than porn I argue! Seriously, if you mod this down as offtopic or whatever, you are seriously messed up. These amazing butts warrant a good discussion. What do my fellow slashdotters think of these things? I can hardly wait for summer! Shawing!!!
Actually, you're an idiot. You are right thought, you cannot have a rational discussion with me because you are a most irrational person. I believe you were not looking for a rational discussion though or else you wouldn't have posted such a terrible comment. Lets face it, you're a moron. But like I said, I am ready to help you and guide you through your ignorant ways. It's what I do. I'm a good person.
As for hugs, I probably got enough of those and I'm pretty sure my education is just fine. I'm sorry you feel it is such a waste of time responding to me which begs the question: Why did you respond to me?.. Oh, I see your sarcasm. I'm guessing you just ran out of clever things to say...well, that actually happened awhile ago...seeing as you're a moron and all...etc. I don't feel it's a waste to respond to you. That is because I like to help unfortunate people as yourself.
Anyways, you're still a moron and everyone knows it. I hope to help you in the future but you keep showing me you cannot be helped. We all can only hope. Anyways, dickface, talk to you later. BTW, I'm happy to see you were added people who hate me. It' alerts me to those that I can easily confuse. Moron.
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It should come as no surprise that a majority of American High School students believe there should be strong limits to the first amendment. I'm talking limits like what newspapers can print, what people can just say, etc. It's a rather scary precedent to be sure. Luckily it is well covered and our mass media (no surprise) thinks these kids are lost. Which they are.
I'm happy to live in America and proud of the great things my countrymen have done in the past. I also recognize the many failures we have had as a nation. But lately it seems that our constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence are simply pieces of paper that any politician or judge can simply ignore. Not to mention the vast amount of people here that believe in things that are rather unconstitutional, but yet clamor about the USA liberating all these people everywhere, screw Europe mentality, etc. It seems the wool is over many peoples eyes and I fear they cannot change.
Maybe when oil crashes in the next 25 or less years, people will wake up. But I doubt it. I'm sure the blame will be passed elsewhere by dubious forces and the people will eat it up. I never really thought it could happen, and it is avoidable, but it seems Orwell's "1984" is almost a manual for what is to come.
Oh well, I can't change a thing and even if I could they wouldn't listen. Maybe I'm wrong and really everything is OK. I don't mean to complain so much but I don't understand people (both major parties btw) that want to take away their own rights. Why would I want to take away reasonable things from myself?
I didn't think he would actually say these things. Personally, I have no problem with MS's way of doing things. They are a business, there to make money and their method seems to work for them. It doesn't work for me so I don't use their products.
But as for data, I believe if I create anything and it spits out a proprietary file format, I have every right to use algorithms that pick away at it and do with it as I please. MS may own the binary software, but users should have access to their data and if MS doesn't want to publish their data formats, then I will simply use things that figure them out for me and use my data as I please.
Somewhere here I sense the whole monopoly thing...
That puts him/her above about 99% of slashdot, huh.
Can't anyone see that this is bacteria controlling us?! It cares nothing for our well being, it only wants us to create space ships so it can find its way our of here and infect other systems with itself, spawning all types of bizarre life. Bacteria is smarter than us. It controls us and will simply do its bidding. How can something evolving that fast not be superior? It doesn't "communicate" with us for the same reason we don't communicate with Ants. When it has no use for us, we will simply fade away and it will move on to the next system and repeat this over and over again until it rules the cosmos!
You had better be careful with those ideas or you'll be whisked away too! Now go! Go quickly and don't look back. Room 101 awaits!
Hopefully there is some entrepreneuring Aussie television network that understands this market and can use their leverage as a broadcaster to quickly get this media to those that demand it. Or they could be non-capitalists and just complain about this and ask for legislation, but I wouldn't expect a business to do this... C'mon boy's, go get 'em! There's gold in them hills!
"Now, put this up against the fact that most other countries can't afford to put an AI in the pilots seat, and the result is continuous overwhelming air superiority without risk to humans on our side."
All is fair in love and war, but starting wars without human loss on our side seems like we have nothing to lose, as far as life is concerned. And that's kind of scary. I hope it is never used as a justification for fighting. One of the costs of war is the life you may lose and if that's too compared to what you may gain, then you cannot fight.
"It's not an academic argument; Obj-C has been key to the design of one of the best application development environments for 15 _years_. And I would still consider it one of the strongest choices for such development, starting clean-sheet today."
.NET similar but an evolution on the solid base Obj-C built. Why not move forward even more?
Wouldn;t debate that.
"I would not argue that Obj-C is one of the better OO languages for applications where true OO is necessary or useful."
My main point.
"There are plenty of situations where such control is useful or critical, and much as I love the convenience & safety of a garbage collector, a large gc app in my experience is hell on virtual memory, whereas it is possible to have a very light footprint with obj-c."
I agree. A garbage collector its not always necessary...especially with a referencing counting technique which is much more efficient but still has costs of its own as opposed to a manual method, but obviously we know this method isn't worth the minor efficiency upgrade.
"Your argument on the expense of the message dispatcher doesn't hold water..."
You probably are right.
"You're arguing for a Java implementation"
Yeah I guess I really was. I'm not really much of a Java programmer and would say my Obj-C knowledge is much better. But not the write once run anywhere style. A dedicated set of libraries (Cocos) Java was naively available.
"Objective-C is a terrific choice as a system programming language, and I would consider it a strong choice for most problems sets you would otherwise choose C or C++ for"
I wish the language was just called Objective and didn't have the C binding it has (no pun intended, oops....wait...not again!). Why did they feel they had to bolt it onto C? That really bugs me. What I think Java did right was take the basic syntax out and reuse it so a programmer can use the general control system the same as they always have. I think of 'for', 'while', foo(), etc as axioms of iterative style programming languages.
Syntax is definitely an issue but the real problem with the syntax is the way it is interleaved with regular C. I don't see the advantage to it and think the language design should have been pure and focused on it's OO premise. It allows too much nonsense interleaved with everything else. Of course you can mainly program around this, as in not use many C libraries and function call style, but this also proves it shouldn't even be in the language. It's a good language built on a poorly chosen foundation. Why did it naturally cripple itself?
"The REAL problem is that C is not a good base for an OO operating system. The best OO C derivitive is Livescript/Javascript/ECMAscript, and that's because it doesn't try and retain C semantics anywhere."
Good point and great analogy.
My main problem with Objective-C is it feels like Small Talk bolted on rather crudely with C. It works and I see it's purpose, but it feels like you're using 2 different languages when programming in it.
Openstep is a well designed API, if not the best ever so this makes up for the ugliness of Objective-C. However, I could not imagine using Objective-C for anything but a Cocoa program.
The dispatch is rather expensive, but having dynamic binding like it does is the reason for this. This allows for great flexibility while designing software but of course comes at an execution cost. For the OOP nuts, it's pure but I agree, they could have done things better with the language. It's definitely the Achilles heal of the whole Cocoa thing and makes you guess they will have a superior Java implementation eventually.
The government is formed by the people and for the people. Therefore, the government is entitled to do what they believe what is in the best interest of the people. Feeding people, creating jobs, education and even things such as civic pride (the arts) are definitely in the interest of the people. Poverty, crime and ignorance are definitely not in the interest of the people and country as whole.
Of course you may have your opinions and run for government with them. If the people believe you are doing what is best for them, then the people will elect you to install your ideas for the peoples benefit. I wager the people will reject your ideas and fail to elect you, but you can always try.
Firstly, if "making it big" is your main concern, stop now. There is no formula for this and infinite talent won't lead to it. You need a mixture of talent and lots of luck.
Anyways, my comments:
Give your music away. You will never, under any circumstances, make much money from your music and if you make most of it available for free, in high quality, available to your users, you will get a larger (hopefully) audience by the songs being freely distributed from a central spot. Keep in mind this has bandwidth costs, so maybe look to other methods but keep the music free.
You will make your money off shows and t-shirts. The more people that like you the more people that will pay to see you. Expect, if you're a good band to get 3/4 the door and 1/4 the bar. That's actually really goo so don't expect to get any of the bar.
Sell your CD's (people will buy them at a show), t-shirts, etc. Tour, tour, tour. And have patience. Use the Internet to promote yourself and obviously create a Website and post about your band on any number of fan sites.
Well damn, someone had to say it.
I see so many people complaining about the April Fools stories being posted as they comment about how this isn't funny anymore, is stupid, etc. The point is, I think, Slashdot is collecting stories from around the Net and posting them...like they always do. It just so happens many Websites enjoy posting ludicrous stories today for obvious reasons. Slashdot is just here to collect them. Nothing is different than a typical day mainly. It's a theme, get it? So, complain about it if you will but you don't deserve anything and you can always read things elsewhere. I for one enjoy all the crazy stories they have gathered around the Net. It's like getting a free edition of the Onion between issues. Lighten up, it's fun. And RTFA at least today because many of them are rather amusing and entertaining. No one's trying to trick you...think of this as one big day of hanging around bizzaro world.
I love watching movies while jogging. I also love watching them while driving and walking and studying.
ROFL, now that's good! See, people have already started to invent new jokes. Way to go.
If them biatches don't give ya no respect, pull yo gat and straight fade those biatches.
"The United States has Iraq, Iran, Syria, China, the EU, The UN, The Environment, Social Security and Jobs to worry about before a bottom of the heap internet study is to be conducted."
Bomb them, get ready to bomb them, bomb them later, exploit them, screw them, ignore them, piss on it, destroy it and down play it. So, lets study the Net!
Lighten up. It's just a joke that people like to make over and over. We all like to laugh at politicians and really, if this is all they have, big deal. This joke has just become part of pop culture. I do admit though, it doesn't take great wit to make this joke and it's sad to see professional comedians still make reference to it. So, to you: Lighten up. To Others: Get over it and give us some new material.
That's not my point and in some circumstances it's OK to use so long as you document this (and in fact it is wrong to use it if you don't attach the license with it!). Usually it's OK to use OSS in more advanced classes when you are building a system and in fact I would encourage it. But for classes like a basic programming class where they have one write basic data structures, etc...you cannot. Especially when it is explicitly stated you must write your own code.
:), but I want it to be known that nate nice is indeed an OSS advocate.
I'm sure you're just making a wise crack here, and I respect that
How is this any different than the widespread cheating that goes on in campuses everywhere now days? It's common to see students cheating by sharing answers to homework, gathering information from others about previous quizzes/tests and the silly amount of plagiarised papers/code, etc that is turned in as original work and graded as so because it slips by the plagiarism filters? I'm not blaming professors as this is not necessarily their responsibility at all times. It is expected you are there to learn and work hard to get there. But with grades being so important to some people, they will go to great lengths to cheat. The saddest part is many people don't see this as cheating but rather "playing the game".
The fact this girl changed her grades is of course wrong in every way possible but I give her credit for being original about it. She should have thought it out better but she is better off having been caught. My only point is her type of cheating only scrapes the surface of what I've observed going on around campus.
I myself have never cheated, although tempted, in any of my courses and I think that gives me an edge on others. But, with so many curved systems, it bothers me to know that you see someone coping someone else's homework get the same, if not better, grade than you. In the end I don't care. I'm not in a personal contest to get the best grades...I do it for myself. But lets make no mistake, cheating is rampant on probably every campus in the world. And lets not even start on parents doing their kids homework in high school with the hope of landing a better college for their brat!
Of course not. Amazing soccer comes from Brazil..Pele!!...Circus is there which I must attend some day as well as a fabulous culture and good people! And hot women in tiny thongs.
... let's have a discussion on how hot round booties in Brazilian thongs are. Better than porn I argue! Seriously, if you mod this down as offtopic or whatever, you are seriously messed up. These amazing butts warrant a good discussion. What do my fellow slashdotters think of these things? I can hardly wait for summer! Shawing!!!
Actually, you're an idiot. You are right thought, you cannot have a rational discussion with me because you are a most irrational person. I believe you were not looking for a rational discussion though or else you wouldn't have posted such a terrible comment. Lets face it, you're a moron. But like I said, I am ready to help you and guide you through your ignorant ways. It's what I do. I'm a good person.
As for hugs, I probably got enough of those and I'm pretty sure my education is just fine. I'm sorry you feel it is such a waste of time responding to me which begs the question: Why did you respond to me?.. Oh, I see your sarcasm. I'm guessing you just ran out of clever things to say...well, that actually happened awhile ago...seeing as you're a moron and all...etc. I don't feel it's a waste to respond to you. That is because I like to help unfortunate people as yourself.
Anyways, you're still a moron and everyone knows it. I hope to help you in the future but you keep showing me you cannot be helped. We all can only hope. Anyways, dickface, talk to you later. BTW, I'm happy to see you were added people who hate me. It' alerts me to those that I can easily confuse. Moron.