> The keyboard is missing a bunch of keys (a real delete key, pgup, pgdn, home, end, etc.)
Fn+Arrow Up = Page Up Fn+Arrow Down = Page Down
But yeah the lack of a dedicated insert key sucks for programming. (I solved the problem by switching to VIM)
> They also have this odd Command key (flower power)
Um, you -do- realize that the Apple ][ had Closed Apple and Open Apple keys YEARS before Microsoft ever put their Windows key on the keyboard in 95 right ?
Maybe after you've actually worked on a professional C/C++ compiler you will be able to point out BOTH the positive and negatives to Unity/Bulk Builds. Until then, just because YOU are ignorant of Unity / Bulk Builds and have obviously never used them, doesn't mean other people would be wiling to trade there 5 min compiles + 2 min links times for 1+ hr builds using the inefficient precompiled header approach.
You completely missed the point -- morality was not the point -- what is acceptable in one society as normal, is an abomination in another, due to people's understandings at the time.
Copyright is spiritual immaturity. Other civilizations and races have out grown it. That doesn't make it wrong. It is a necessary learning experience until humans grow up.
> But it would be hard to argue that it is inherently wrong for the law to recognize intellectual property,
Not its not.
Is it legal to loan your CD to your friend? To a stranger? To a thousand strangers?
You're confused that the medium somehow magically makes a difference.
> If you are the kind of casual gamer who just wants to finish the game,
Uhm, you DO realize there is NO way to "finish" WoW -- there is no "game over" that good, traditional games have.
It has a "soft win", not a "hard win" -- it is shitty gameplay designed for one thing -- string out the customer to keep the paying as long as possible to play.
Let's apply your logic a few hundred years ago . . .
- - - The fundamental question is, do masters "own" their slaves? Do they have a right to control what they have produced?
Sure, the "system" is stilted and unfair. But try buying a new slave. Do you think the owner is going to give you a fair deal? NO WAY! They are going to use every trick and lie in the book to relieve you of as much money as they can, while making you think you're the winner. But just because the dealer is crooked, doesn't give you the right to steal one of their slaves.
Masters are equally crooked. They try to keep as much money as they can for themselves, depriving slaves of what is rightfully theirs. But that does not give people a right to free one of their slaves.
So, if there is indeed such a thing as slavery (as every civilized nation recognizes), the "case" for a free man is just an excuse for freedom. - - -
As my satirical post points your, your _opinion_ on what is "law" is clouded by you ignorant of the past and future: ALL [Legal] LAW IS RELATIVE and ONLY exists because the MAJORITY agrees. The _only_ reason imaginary property exists is in the first place is because of: a) Greed, b) Control (which is fear).
Who invented copyright? The book _publishers_ because they didn't want competition!
You can't fucking prevent others from copying a number, aka a representation of reality just because you say so, no matter how hard you pretend to. While the current US Laws say "sharing this number is Copyright Violation (NOT "stealing" that you've been brainwashed into thinking) the day will come when society grows up past needing to dictate to others who can share public works.
The crux of the issue is this: Artists and Consumers have two diametrically opposed ideologies of "value."
* The artist wants to get paid for EVERY INSTANCE someone enjoys their work because they want work to be valued, and rewarded for their time, energy, creativity, and incentive to create more.
* The Consumers wants to share an artists work to everyone because they value it.
One is financial, the other intrinsic.
Because of these contradictory ideologies you end up with absurdities...
Is it illegal to "share" a CD? (Why not? The author didn't get paid and someone else enjoyed/valued their work?)
If no, then why is a _physical_ medium even required? Why is it illegal to share a representation of the music digitally yet not physically??
I'm sorry, but the former model is going, going, gone. I.e. In Canada it is perfectly legal to share music digitally, because at the end of the day there is NO difference HOW the music gets shared. Civilization is built upon the idea of sharing ideas, physical things, and [NOW] digital things.
Music is just the TIP of the iceberg on society growing up and getting over this archaic and idiotic concept of "ownership". In 100 years we'll have 3D printers that can print anything. Trying to claim you own a "pattern" is just as ridiculous as saying you "own" a mathematical formula. Whether it is an algorithm or data,it is absurd to apply the concept of "ownership" to a numeric representation of reality whether it be music, audio, text, models, etc.
I am going to repeat that last phrase: Do you understand the important and ramifications of what we can do in the 21st century?? We can _represent_ reality numerically. Long ago, we rejected the notion that someone can "own" numbers. So stop clinging to the past and projecting the same thing to the physical. As Einstein showed, ALL physical matter is just a frequency of energy. Today we don't have to tech to create any physical object, but tomorrow we will. Sooner or later you will be forced to let go of this concept of copyright.
That's was my fault, not Wired's, for mixing up superconductor and semiconductor. That's what you get when you rush a submission when you first wake up:/
Alright, here's a list -- let's check back in 100 years and see how close I got:
- there are 6 fundamental forces, not 4 - aliens _are_ humans - free energy is possible - Actual Intelligence (not the joke of Artificial Ignorance) will eventually happen due to a hybrid bio-computing - South America and Africa will have a recognized world currency - Plants and Minerals have a consciousness
Software - iRotate - This little util is (tiny 111K) & free, and supports dual screen, if your display driver doesn't let you rotate the image. http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm
> For example, CPA's, accountants, auditors, the IRS!!! If you get rid of all exceptions and go to a simple flat tax rate, you instantly have destroyed thousands of business and caused I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of people to lose their job.
Cry me a river. So lets keep a BROKEN system because change is SO DIFFICULT. Yeah, nice ":solution:" there...
The biggest problem with America is that there are too many useless Lawyers and Accountants that produce NOTHING of value except shuffle money around; Laws are completely over-engineer solely based on greed. The only real lasting solution is to completely remove the financial motivation for this stupidity.
"Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" - Oscar Wilde on [Redundancy] Bureaucracy
-- Show me ONE country that has not collapsed and I'll show you haven't waited long enough.
> Each religion tends to give one answer, but none can be shown to be right and the others wrong. Why do you keep assuming truth is binary?
> Not unimportant, just that it is impossible to narrow down the possible explanations. As a mystic, that's nonsense. If _you_ are unable to come to the answer(s), then you are doing it wrong.
> A: We don't know, and even if we ever find something more fundamental that explains gravity, then that again won't have a "why".
And that's total nonsense. Science _assumes_ that there is no answer to this question, that it is not attainable, and not knowable. The problem is, Science is incomplete: is is _unable_ to answer these types of questions so it it hand-waves them as being "unimportant."
Science: Answers "How". Ignores Why. Religion: Tries to answer "Why" but fucks that up even worse by using incomplete definitions and bastardizing meta-physics.
Just because you are completely and utterly clueless about Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
(PEAR), doesn't mean everyone is as clueless about consciousness as you are:
> In the old days, there was two ways for a programmer to optimize code; for speed, or for size. And these days for some platforms (ARM, PS3) you optimize for size because it is often faster then speed.
> No one really bothers with whether structure or class variables are 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit, or whether an array should have an upper limit of 32, 128 or 1024, That's nonsense -- talk to ANYONE in the games industry _shipping_ games on the PS3 & XBox 360, doing small console development such as DS.
> the magic word is "integration" which lets be honest, MSFT hasn't been the greatest on that front in awhile > the only question is do they have the ability to make the whole more than the sum of its parts.
I would argue Microsoft has NEVER grasped integration the way Apple does, aside from Word/Excel/Powerpoint, and maybe the XBox360. i.e. Microsoft is a software company who doesn't understand hardware, nor user experience. Sony is a hardware company who doesn't understand software, nor user experience. Apple is both a hardware and software company who understands user experience.
Case in point -- someone INSIDE Microsoft made this MS Parody if they made an iPod -- it sums up the multi-headed hydra of MS perfectly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0
Microsoft's "success" was never about innovation, but about buying other companies that did all the hard work. MS is just another "me too" company at this point.
> he moderation system seriously needs thinking and redone. It's constantly abused on Slashdot,
Even WITH all the group think, it is _light_ years ahead of Reddit. You can't even hold a civil discussion over there. At least here people can disagree.
22:36 âoeTeacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?â 22: 37 Jesus replied: âoeâLove the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.â(TM) 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: âLove your neighbor as yourself.â(TM) 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.â
âoeThis was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and thatâ(TM)s what I had.â...Steve Jobs, at home in 1982. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacman3000/4042368287/
> Yeah, but what if someone yells "fire" in a crowded theater?
a) If the theater REALLY is on fire, no problem b) If the theater is NOT on fire...
For the LAST time, that is NOT a Free Speech issue, it is a PROPERTY issue. You agreed to an implicit contract that while on someone else's property (the Movie Theater's) you don't have the right to cause panic or disrupt the general public.
You seem to be ignoring the "Original Gospel of the Hebrews" which was never given to the gentiles; it was the original Gospel of Matthew before some unknown heathen called "Mark" hijacked the name with his version.
> Same problem with proof of aliens and disproving gods. If you can prove we weren't the "chosen ones" or you can ultimately prove what actually created the universe and create life from nothing in a scientific way, a LOT of religious people will be disappointed.
It's only a "problem" for fundamentalists -- people who's thinking has become so fossilized and institutionalized that the mere fact that aliens look completely human would give them a total and mental breakdown. (Kids today though would have very little mental problems accepting this.) Everyone else will enjoy the opportunity to ask another civilization what beliefs they have, what knowledge they have found, etc.
Thank God by at by 2030-2050 we'll be over our stupid hangups of xenophobia and we can move onto more important issues - namely how to have 8 billion people get along and move away from the "have nots", and "haves" that civilization is based upon.
Slashdot Mirror
> The keyboard is missing a bunch of keys (a real delete key, pgup, pgdn, home, end, etc.)
Fn+Arrow Up = Page Up
Fn+Arrow Down = Page Down
But yeah the lack of a dedicated insert key sucks for programming. (I solved the problem by switching to VIM)
> They also have this odd Command key (flower power)
Um, you -do- realize that the Apple ][ had Closed Apple and Open Apple keys YEARS before Microsoft ever put their Windows key on the keyboard in 95 right ?
Maybe after you've actually worked on a professional C/C++ compiler you will be able to point out BOTH the positive and negatives to Unity/Bulk Builds. Until then, just because YOU are ignorant of Unity / Bulk Builds and have obviously never used them, doesn't mean other people would be wiling to trade there 5 min compiles + 2 min links times for 1+ hr builds using the inefficient precompiled header approach.
You completely missed the point -- morality was not the point -- what is acceptable in one society as normal, is an abomination in another, due to people's understandings at the time.
Copyright is spiritual immaturity. Other civilizations and races have out grown it. That doesn't make it wrong. It is a necessary learning experience until humans grow up.
> But it would be hard to argue that it is inherently wrong for the law to recognize intellectual property,
Not its not.
Is it legal to loan your CD to your friend?
To a stranger?
To a thousand strangers?
You're confused that the medium somehow magically makes a difference.
> If you are the kind of casual gamer who just wants to finish the game,
Uhm, you DO realize there is NO way to "finish" WoW -- there is no "game over" that good, traditional games have.
It has a "soft win", not a "hard win" -- it is shitty gameplay designed for one thing -- string out the customer to keep the paying as long as possible to play.
Let's apply your logic a few hundred years ago . . .
- - -
The fundamental question is, do masters "own" their slaves? Do they have a right to control what they have produced?
Sure, the "system" is stilted and unfair. But try buying a new slave. Do you think the owner is going to give you a fair deal? NO WAY! They are going to use every trick and lie in the book to relieve you of as much money as they can, while making you think you're the winner. But just because the dealer is crooked, doesn't give you the right to steal one of their slaves.
Masters are equally crooked. They try to keep as much money as they can for themselves, depriving slaves of what is rightfully theirs. But that does not give people a right to free one of their slaves.
So, if there is indeed such a thing as slavery (as every civilized nation recognizes), the "case" for a free man is just an excuse for freedom.
- - -
As my satirical post points your, your _opinion_ on what is "law" is clouded by you ignorant of the past and future: ALL [Legal] LAW IS RELATIVE and ONLY exists because the MAJORITY agrees. The _only_ reason imaginary property exists is in the first place is because of: a) Greed, b) Control (which is fear).
Who invented copyright? The book _publishers_ because they didn't want competition!
You can't fucking prevent others from copying a number, aka a representation of reality just because you say so, no matter how hard you pretend to. While the current US Laws say "sharing this number is Copyright Violation (NOT "stealing" that you've been brainwashed into thinking) the day will come when society grows up past needing to dictate to others who can share public works.
The crux of the issue is this: Artists and Consumers have two diametrically opposed ideologies of "value."
* The artist wants to get paid for EVERY INSTANCE someone enjoys their work because they want work to be valued, and rewarded for their time, energy, creativity, and incentive to create more.
* The Consumers wants to share an artists work to everyone because they value it.
One is financial, the other intrinsic.
Because of these contradictory ideologies you end up with absurdities ...
Is it illegal to "share" a CD? (Why not? The author didn't get paid and someone else enjoyed/valued their work?)
If no, then why is a _physical_ medium even required? Why is it illegal to share a representation of the music digitally yet not physically??
I'm sorry, but the former model is going, going, gone. I.e. In Canada it is perfectly legal to share music digitally, because at the end of the day there is NO difference HOW the music gets shared. Civilization is built upon the idea of sharing ideas, physical things, and [NOW] digital things.
Music is just the TIP of the iceberg on society growing up and getting over this archaic and idiotic concept of "ownership". In 100 years we'll have 3D printers that can print anything. Trying to claim you own a "pattern" is just as ridiculous as saying you "own" a mathematical formula. Whether it is an algorithm or data, it is absurd to apply the concept of "ownership" to a numeric representation of reality whether it be music, audio, text, models, etc.
I am going to repeat that last phrase: Do you understand the important and ramifications of what we can do in the 21st century?? We can _represent_ reality numerically. Long ago, we rejected the notion that someone can "own" numbers. So stop clinging to the past and projecting the same thing to the physical. As Einstein showed, ALL physical matter is just a frequency of energy. Today we don't have to tech to create any physical object, but tomorrow we will. Sooner or later you will be forced to let go of this concept of copyright.
The fashion industry has already viewed this as a non-issue. Itâ(TM)s the rest of the industries that are stuck in 17th century thinking.
http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
That's was my fault, not Wired's, for mixing up superconductor and semiconductor. That's what you get when you rush a submission when you first wake up :/
Sorry.
Sorry, too monotonous ... I much prefer the Liquid Mind Series by Chuck Wild
* http://www.amazon.com/Ambience-Minimus/dp/B000QQY31A/
* http://www.amazon.com/Slow-World-Liquid-Mind/dp/B000002XYJ/
* http://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Mind-III-Balance/dp/B00000I57B/
* http://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Mind-IV-Unity/dp/B00004SVLE/
* http://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Mind-V-Serenity/dp/B00005MNFL/
* http://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Mind-VI-Spirit/dp/B00008BR0V/
Alright, here's a list -- let's check back in 100 years and see how close I got:
- there are 6 fundamental forces, not 4
- aliens _are_ humans
- free energy is possible
- Actual Intelligence (not the joke of Artificial Ignorance) will eventually happen due to a hybrid bio-computing
- South America and Africa will have a recognized world currency
- Plants and Minerals have a consciousness
You may be interested in this ...
Hardware - Neo-Flex Dual LCD Lift Stand, $149
http://www.ergotron.com/Products/tabid/65/PRDID/241/Language/en-US/Default.aspx
Software - iRotate - This little util is (tiny 111K) & free, and supports dual screen, if your display driver doesn't let you rotate the image.
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm
> For example, CPA's, accountants, auditors, the IRS!!! If you get rid of all exceptions and go to a simple flat tax rate, you instantly have destroyed thousands of business and caused I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of people to lose their job.
Cry me a river. So lets keep a BROKEN system because change is SO DIFFICULT. Yeah, nice ":solution:" there ...
The biggest problem with America is that there are too many useless Lawyers and Accountants that produce NOTHING of value except shuffle money around; Laws are completely over-engineer solely based on greed. The only real lasting solution is to completely remove the financial motivation for this stupidity.
"Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" - Oscar Wilde on [Redundancy] Bureaucracy
--
Show me ONE country that has not collapsed and I'll show you haven't waited long enough.
> Each religion tends to give one answer, but none can be shown to be right and the others wrong.
Why do you keep assuming truth is binary?
> Not unimportant, just that it is impossible to narrow down the possible explanations.
As a mystic, that's nonsense. If _you_ are unable to come to the answer(s), then you are doing it wrong.
> A: We don't know, and even if we ever find something more fundamental that explains gravity, then that again won't have a "why".
And that's total nonsense. Science _assumes_ that there is no answer to this question, that it is not attainable, and not knowable. The problem is, Science is incomplete: is is _unable_ to answer these types of questions so it it hand-waves them as being "unimportant."
Science: Answers "How". Ignores Why.
Religion: Tries to answer "Why" but fucks that up even worse by using incomplete definitions and bastardizing meta-physics.
Just because you are completely and utterly clueless about Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
(PEAR), doesn't mean everyone is as clueless about consciousness as you are:
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/publications.html
> In the old days, there was two ways for a programmer to optimize code; for speed, or for size.
And these days for some platforms (ARM, PS3) you optimize for size because it is often faster then speed.
> No one really bothers with whether structure or class variables are 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit, or whether an array should have an upper limit of 32, 128 or 1024,
That's nonsense -- talk to ANYONE in the games industry _shipping_ games on the PS3 & XBox 360, doing small console development such as DS.
> the magic word is "integration" which lets be honest, MSFT hasn't been the greatest on that front in awhile
> the only question is do they have the ability to make the whole more than the sum of its parts.
I would argue Microsoft has NEVER grasped integration the way Apple does, aside from Word/Excel/Powerpoint, and maybe the XBox360.
i.e.
Microsoft is a software company who doesn't understand hardware, nor user experience.
Sony is a hardware company who doesn't understand software, nor user experience.
Apple is both a hardware and software company who understands user experience.
Case in point -- someone INSIDE Microsoft made this MS Parody if they made an iPod -- it sums up the multi-headed hydra of MS perfectly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0
Microsoft's "success" was never about innovation, but about buying other companies that did all the hard work. MS is just another "me too" company at this point.
> 3) We need better trolls. The trolls right now are lame. What happened to GNAA? Maybe you should invite them back.
Uhm? Ogg the Caveman, Hot Gritz, Natalie Portman, Goatse? No thanks...
> he moderation system seriously needs thinking and redone. It's constantly abused on Slashdot,
Even WITH all the group think, it is _light_ years ahead of Reddit. You can't even hold a civil discussion over there. At least here people can disagree.
So was it HUMANS or GOD doing the molestation?
Last I recall, ALL religion can be summarized:
22:36 âoeTeacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?â
22: 37 Jesus replied: âoeâLove the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.â(TM) 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: âLove your neighbor as yourself.â(TM) 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.â
Some inspirational speeches
"Focus is not about saying Yes, but about saying No"
http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-1997-video-2011-6
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
âoeThis was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and thatâ(TM)s what I had.â ...Steve Jobs, at home in 1982.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacman3000/4042368287/
> Yeah, but what if someone yells "fire" in a crowded theater?
a) If the theater REALLY is on fire, no problem ...
b) If the theater is NOT on fire
For the LAST time, that is NOT a Free Speech issue, it is a PROPERTY issue. You agreed to an implicit contract that while on someone else's property (the Movie Theater's) you don't have the right to cause panic or disrupt the general public.
Porn
Or
News such as slashdot, rescue, etc with each interesting news item in their own tab
Every firefox version I've tried leaks memory with video.
You seem to be ignoring the "Original Gospel of the Hebrews" which was never given to the gentiles; it was the original Gospel of Matthew before some unknown heathen called "Mark" hijacked the name with his version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Hebrews
Surprisingly, No. There were MANY people who wrote under that pen-name. Some who got it, some who didn't.
> Same problem with proof of aliens and disproving gods. If you can prove we weren't the "chosen ones" or you can ultimately prove what actually created the universe and create life from nothing in a scientific way, a LOT of religious people will be disappointed.
It's only a "problem" for fundamentalists -- people who's thinking has become so fossilized and institutionalized that the mere fact that aliens look completely human would give them a total and mental breakdown. (Kids today though would have very little mental problems accepting this.) Everyone else will enjoy the opportunity to ask another civilization what beliefs they have, what knowledge they have found, etc.
Thank God by at by 2030-2050 we'll be over our stupid hangups of xenophobia and we can move onto more important issues - namely how to have 8 billion people get along and move away from the "have nots", and "haves" that civilization is based upon.
--
Religion answers "Why", Science answers "How"
> This is something that has bugged me for years: why do people still use calculators?
Dedicated KEYS for sin, cos, 1/x, etc is FAR faster then some bullshit scripting language when you just want a numeric answer.