You write source code in the way you do because it has a specific audience that is intended to be able to understand it and behave according to that understanding. That audience is a computer.
Do you always code alone?
That aside, a computer as an audience is deterministic, discrete and fully knowable in operation. Can that be said for the entity that is a body of people?
Yet, in fact, laws are often written a lot like code; formally and in great detail. There is scope for them to be much more complicated because they (only partially) govern a far more complex system.
with an eye to users' privacy and dignity. Some examples (with pictures) would be the Pill Pets, stuffed animals with LCD's that tell their owners when to take their medicine
The author obviously has a rather different definition of dignity to me...
I still don't see how this departs from the basic ideas of evolution.
A new predator was introduced, altering the environment in which the lizard operates. Suddenly running away is less effective than climbing trees, so lizards with the tools and inclination to climb trees survive at a better rate in the new environment. Perhaps a naive observer might read some "decision" on the part of the lizards into this, but it looks like pretty simple natural selection to me. The instincts and behavioural patterns of animals are as much subject to natural selection as their physical makeups (particularly at the level of these little fellows, learning by imitation has been shown to be something even apes struggle almost impossibly with, so their instincts are all the lizards really have to guide them), so I'm still at a loss as to how the fact that in a highly pressured evolutionary situation both evolve in tandem is somehow novel or suprising.
The texting champion seems to be using multiple keypresses per letter. Does anyone seriously do this anymore? I can type using predictive text about as fast as I can type at a querty keyboard. Occasionally you have to flick to a different word (but you quickly learn which common ones collide and the extra keypress becomes part of the muscle memory for the word), but on the other hand there are far few keys which is a big advantage. Admittedly I'm not a proper touch typist, but I do use all my fingers, so it's hardly slow...
Anyway, the comparison seems a bit bogus to me as we already have a system many times faster than the one they are comparing to.
Their time would be better spent on improving Free Software instead of trying to plug holes of closed-source software. Microsoft does not appreciate help like this.
They don't expect MS to appreciate this, if anything they probably want to embarrass them. They are trying to help the customers who have been abandoned by MS. Of course the value of that is also debatable, but if you RTFA they are concerned about the effects such exploits have on the general Internet populance in terms of SPAM, worm traffic, DDOS oppertunities and so on, which has implications for those who are not infected as well as those who are.
eg: You use $1.20 of electricity to charge your electric-only car up. Gas costs $2.40/gal. You have bought the equivalent of 1/2 gal of gas. You drive 100 miles before recharging, thus you've reached the equivalent of 200MPG.
Surely, given the reasons for moving to these cars in the first place it should be the environmental cost in terms of pollutants released to travel the distance which we use for the comparison? After all, if people gave the slightest fuck about the cost of running the vehicle* then >99% wouldn't drive gas guzzling tanks like they do, no?
Economic cost is relatively unomportant, we are well aware the destroying the planet is cheap in short term economic terms...
*. Aside from as an excuse not to move to something more environmentally friendly...
Easy tiger! Was a wee joke about the quality of the RIAA's music output, nothing serious. The first half of the sentence was a straight quote from the OP ffs.
what you have to remember is the people who are copying music like this are music lovers and are all more likely to be buying music than other people who dont. so cracking down on them will lower revenues for RIAA.
Not quite. People who are copying music like this are music lovers and therefore are all more likely to be buying music which does not belong to the RIAA.
I support the original point that the copying often promotes sales. I swap copied CDs as recommendations among my group of friends, we always end up shelling out for anything worth listening to. I would save a lot of money (and temptation) by not listening to those recommendations!
First, though, the mini gets no advantage from DDR, because DDR requires 2 chips for full speed, so already 1 bad thing about the mini...
That's rubbish, DDR is about transmitting data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal. You're thinking about dual channel access, where pairs of modules can be addressed simultaneously, which obviously can't happen in the mini. But the benefit of dual channel isn't as large as DDR (which is a straight doubling of the front side bus clock) because if you don't need something from one of the sticks, but have a queue for the other then the cycles are wasted.
And I suppose we should never blame the school system which soaks up 80% of the kids time and energy but offers little of interest to anyone but the least common denominator...
True, but the blame is shared by parents who don't promote the right attitude towards school. Kids who are discouraged from learning (even if it's just because there's no attempt at all to help when they ask for it) don't want to learn. When they don't want to learn they are very difficult to teach. But there is a tipping point when the overall attitude becomes one of wanting to learn and the teacher is able to teach much more freely, engaging even those less keen.
If that point is reached in a class then the teaching can become much more engaging and rewarding for the students in most cases (barring truely bad teachers) because it's not a constant battle.
Just an observation, it's not such a long time since I was in school that I can't remember and I still have sisters in school now.
So people are born knowing this? I too prefer a CLI for a lot of things, but don't kid yourself. If the interface is going to be discoverable, that has to start with the first thing presented to us or we'll never be able to start the road.
I started the road with a copy of a UNIX primer my dad gave me from his time at university, others stumble over the first step in many different ways, but no one was born knowing it and it sure as hell isn't presented as standard after the log in prompt!
On the contrary. While most programming languages (within a given paradigm) are pretty similar really, the shift from natural to formal language troubles a lot of people.
I see programming as describing a solution or procedure, and that is language based.
Not a troll, not even a Windows-only user, just someone who is fed up of zealots who want to keep us in the dark ages of blinking text prompts and teletype screens
Ok then, try
emerge --update world
or
apt-get upgrade
There's nothing technically inferior about a command line. Perhaps you were a troll, or perhaps you are just misinformed.
You just wouldn't be able to make a recording of their actual broadcast if they set the flag. It doesn't grant them any rights to the material they are broadcasting or the order of broadcast, it just stops you recording that particular instance.
The problem comes when the only source of the songs / shows you want to mix / timeshift sets the flag. Bye bye fair use and timeshifting...
I do like how single song downloads would make artists more prone to focus on making a few good songs then a lot of bad ones.
Aargh! This is the worst thing about the whole individual download system, it has the potential to destroy the album as a coherent document.
Thankfully, the musicians I listen to are good enough to be able to put together an album rather than a couple of overplayed singles and some filler, but there is a real danger that artists will have to concentrate on making one song which appeals to the lowest common denominator in order to make the sales. That would be a great loss to those who actually enjoy music as opposed to those who just listen to the odd bit now and again (at whom the individual d/ls are aimed).
If you are annoyed about the amount of filler on your albums then ask yourself why you bought them and if there aren't real artists out there who could make a proper job of it.
Initially, I was of the same opinion. But then I thought what if this had been an al-Qaeda agent who had done this?
OK, so what you are saying. Maybe you are thinking that regardless of who committed the crime, the incident was still too small to qualify as terrorism. But what if it had been 100 users? 10,000 users? 1 million users? 100 million users
It's the intention to incite terror which makes it "terrorism". This was not an attempt to DoS the emergency services, it was a petty attempt to inconvenience some personal enemies, therefore it was irresponsible, yes, childish, yes, but I'm afraid it was not intended to instigate mass terror and therefore it is not terrorism
I don't know how it is in your neck of the woods, but here people often combine runs in phone numbers to make double or treble when said aloud. Things like "Oh, Eight Thousand" for the toll-free 0800 area code are also common.
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Do you always code alone?
That aside, a computer as an audience is deterministic, discrete and fully knowable in operation. Can that be said for the entity that is a body of people?
Yet, in fact, laws are often written a lot like code; formally and in great detail. There is scope for them to be much more complicated because they (only partially) govern a far more complex system.
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I still don't see how this departs from the basic ideas of evolution.
A new predator was introduced, altering the environment in which the lizard operates. Suddenly running away is less effective than climbing trees, so lizards with the tools and inclination to climb trees survive at a better rate in the new environment. Perhaps a naive observer might read some "decision" on the part of the lizards into this, but it looks like pretty simple natural selection to me. The instincts and behavioural patterns of animals are as much subject to natural selection as their physical makeups (particularly at the level of these little fellows, learning by imitation has been shown to be something even apes struggle almost impossibly with, so their instincts are all the lizards really have to guide them), so I'm still at a loss as to how the fact that in a highly pressured evolutionary situation both evolve in tandem is somehow novel or suprising.
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The texting champion seems to be using multiple keypresses per letter. Does anyone seriously do this anymore? I can type using predictive text about as fast as I can type at a querty keyboard. Occasionally you have to flick to a different word (but you quickly learn which common ones collide and the extra keypress becomes part of the muscle memory for the word), but on the other hand there are far few keys which is a big advantage. Admittedly I'm not a proper touch typist, but I do use all my fingers, so it's hardly slow...
Anyway, the comparison seems a bit bogus to me as we already have a system many times faster than the one they are comparing to.
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The seek arm may be light, but it experiences extreme changes in velocity. Anyone measured power use idle spun up against in use?
Their time would be better spent on improving Free Software instead of trying to plug holes of closed-source software. Microsoft does not appreciate help like this.
They don't expect MS to appreciate this, if anything they probably want to embarrass them. They are trying to help the customers who have been abandoned by MS. Of course the value of that is also debatable, but if you RTFA they are concerned about the effects such exploits have on the general Internet populance in terms of SPAM, worm traffic, DDOS oppertunities and so on, which has implications for those who are not infected as well as those who are.
eg: You use $1.20 of electricity to charge your electric-only car up. Gas costs $2.40/gal. You have bought the equivalent of 1/2 gal of gas. You drive 100 miles before recharging, thus you've reached the equivalent of 200MPG.
Surely, given the reasons for moving to these cars in the first place it should be the environmental cost in terms of pollutants released to travel the distance which we use for the comparison? After all, if people gave the slightest fuck about the cost of running the vehicle* then >99% wouldn't drive gas guzzling tanks like they do, no?
Economic cost is relatively unomportant, we are well aware the destroying the planet is cheap in short term economic terms...
*. Aside from as an excuse not to move to something more environmentally friendly...
lol! I'd say Windows itself could be considered the aggregate result of serious errors in design. ;)
So, innovation is money. Intellectual and cultural innovation was clearly not the thrust of your point, which was placed misleadingly...
Yeah, you stay right where you are, Europe will be just fine.
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I support the original point that the copying often promotes sales. I swap copied CDs as recommendations among my group of friends, we always end up shelling out for anything worth listening to. I would save a lot of money (and temptation) by not listening to those recommendations!
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Goodger doesn't appear to have read any of the blogs he's commenting on, so why should we? :P
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If that point is reached in a class then the teaching can become much more engaging and rewarding for the students in most cases (barring truely bad teachers) because it's not a constant battle.
Just an observation, it's not such a long time since I was in school that I can't remember and I still have sisters in school now.
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PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
I started the road with a copy of a UNIX primer my dad gave me from his time at university, others stumble over the first step in many different ways, but no one was born knowing it and it sure as hell isn't presented as standard after the log in prompt!
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So programming doesn't involve languages?
On the contrary. While most programming languages (within a given paradigm) are pretty similar really, the shift from natural to formal language troubles a lot of people.
I see programming as describing a solution or procedure, and that is language based.
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Is this because my domain is regulated by Nominet UK?
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Um, no.
You just wouldn't be able to make a recording of their actual broadcast if they set the flag. It doesn't grant them any rights to the material they are broadcasting or the order of broadcast, it just stops you recording that particular instance.
The problem comes when the only source of the songs / shows you want to mix / timeshift sets the flag. Bye bye fair use and timeshifting...
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Aargh! This is the worst thing about the whole individual download system, it has the potential to destroy the album as a coherent document.
Thankfully, the musicians I listen to are good enough to be able to put together an album rather than a couple of overplayed singles and some filler, but there is a real danger that artists will have to concentrate on making one song which appeals to the lowest common denominator in order to make the sales. That would be a great loss to those who actually enjoy music as opposed to those who just listen to the odd bit now and again (at whom the individual d/ls are aimed).
If you are annoyed about the amount of filler on your albums then ask yourself why you bought them and if there aren't real artists out there who could make a proper job of it.
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Yes, look at open source bugzillas, they have them as well. That category is for bug reports which aren't really bugs in the eyes of the maintainer.
I'm not saying that MS might not throw a lot of remote root vulnerabilities in that category too, I don't have access to their bug db!
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OK, before anyone else pounces on this, it's Oh Eight Hundred, unless the next number is a zero as well (which it often is).
Must read preview properly!
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I don't know how it is in your neck of the woods, but here people often combine runs in phone numbers to make double or treble when said aloud. Things like "Oh, Eight Thousand" for the toll-free 0800 area code are also common.
As for the "Yeah" button, it's a song, yeah?
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