Earlier today my colleague and I were talking about kung fu movies at work, just talk, no googling, and a few minutes later I got an ad for kung fu training from facebook. That is the first kung fu ad I have seen ever. After that we have been talking about buying an Audi car, and are awaiting the ads, just to be sure that they are listening in... But of course that must have been a coincidence, since I'm using Linux, and I know when the microphone on my computer is turned on. I do, however, have an Android phone which I have given all permissions, so if google and facebook cooperate, that could explain this very strange coincidence.
I had an Amstrad CPC464, a little less advanced than the 6128. It had 64Kb of RAM instead of 128 and a built in cassette recorder for storage instead of a built in disk drive. I was 12 when I got it, and I learned programming (and improved my English exponentially) from the manual. I'm still amazed with myself when I remember that I had programmed my first working shoot-em-up game 3 weeks after I got it. Most of my friends had Commodore 64s of course, and I rememember being frustrated when my point that the Amstrad's Z80 processor was 4 times faster than the 1MHz MOS 6510 didn't seem to impress them at all.
Yes, org-mode is definetly the best solution for organizing information that I have found. It's extremely simple and flexible. It makes it possible for me to do almost everything in Emacs. I use vm for email, ledger for accounting, I write most of my documents in org-mode and export to pdf through latex.
Of course org-mode and the other text and emacs related solutions doesn't take care of all my information processing needs, but almost. For photos, videos and music I use the old fashioned descriptive file name in a good directory strycture method. My hand written notes, however, are more difficult to take care of. I have a drawer (physical one) for them, but I wouldn't call that coping with the information.
Irregardless is a word irregardless of what you may think now. Since irregardelss of the absence of use of the word irregardless in the past, if enough people use the term irregardless enough times and in enough contexts, irregardless of the proper use, I'm sure it will find its place in the dictionaries in the future irregardless of the fact that it is a very presumtious word. Disclaimer: IANANES (I Am Not A Native English Speaker).
When it comes to the filesystems: ext3, slow on Windows, but works (I think, I don't use windows, so I must confess I haven't tried it), ntfs, a bit slow in Linux, but works (I have tried it), you don't use the kernel driver, but the FUSE ntfs-3g driver. File system driver in kernel or user space, you don't want to care.
Modernised to a small analog note book with one or two pages for each project. It beats the hundreds of hours I've tried and searched for, and started to program solutions that involve computers. Of course, if you want to manage more than simple things, I'd go for a medium note book.
I'm not saying it makes sense. And I'm not saying they don't lose most of the time, and that their playing isn't irrational, and believe me, there has been tales of woe. But I know people who has won big several times, each time more than they'll ever spend. Winning like that one time should happen just once every 1000 years. And I know, winning twice should then happen every 2000 years, so that's almost the same degree of impossible. But I would still call it some quite concentrated luck.
In that light, I see the best strategy of winning when gambling is to bet as little as possible where the possibility of the biggest win is. Since the only way of winning is to have luck, and if you have it you'll win with little effor, and if you don't have luck, you'll lose a lot, even though you sometimes win a little.
There is one and only one way of winning in gamling. Luck. Don't laugh. I know lucky people, and I'm not one of them. The people I know have gambled a lot their whole life, with quite a profit. Not horse racing or anything where guessing is possible. If you know your math, you'll know that's very very improbalble without luck. Plain luck.
On topic: I wouldn't hire you if I knew you considered taking the job but refrained to do it because you thought it might hurt your chances of getting other jobs. That is a very questionable moral and hypocritical. Please choose what you want to do with your life based on your own moral judgement.
I'm quite sure, when people realise that digital content is free as air, and anyone trying to make a business out of charging for making personal copies of or sharing music, video, whatever that doesn't cost anything to reproduce, are either stupid or evil. Artificially limiting the spread of cultural expression is huge obstacle to public creativity, and laws that encourage such absurdities will only be abided in countries with totalitarian governments. This will all be old news in, lets say, five years. Then, when this is realised, you will not stream or download, you will have a lot of music on your phone, and when you miss something you will stream it from your own home server, or from wherever else. There might even be live feeds you like to pay to listen to live, or listen to it later for free.
There are many more asian people in Poland than black people. I heard that many years ago Poland had a kind of common poitical platform with a large asian country. Still, this stupid mistake doesn't say that Microsoft is racist, or their marketing department, but it says that they think the people in Poland are. I don't think that's a better message to send.
I just decide that the breath I exhale should be my property, and therefore anyone using it after me should pay as much as I decide it's worth. There's just one catch.. First I must become the most powerful nation on earth, so I can force all other nations to see the fairness in this rule. I'm sure the only reason Britain hasn't yet asked for royalties on the world wide use of the English language, is that they're not the most powerful nation. -- Asking people to pay for something that is free to reproduce is something that will only work in a totalitarian regime. Go and find better business models, that's the only solution for the future.
They are artists, creative people. They should be in the forefront of the development of human culture. Then they base their business model on certain technological limitations. That is bad in the first place, but then, when the limitations are overcome, they try to force the limitations back, just so they won't have to adapt to a new reality. That's not very artistic. With that kind of attitude, I'm not sure I want their stuff, for free or not. Then again, I hope very few actual artists think in this way. I guess it is the industry people, who are very rich and conservative, and want to stay rich and conservative.
Yes, that's right. Almost every Linux desktop means one less Windows desktop, with a license or not. I have at least five XP licenses that I don't use, and have never used, and I use about 5 different Linux desktops.
So go ahead and credit God if you want to. I won't tell you that you're explanation is necessarily wrong. Just please don't do so in a scientific context.
I agree with you. But there is sad tendency for people who regard themselves as not religious or spiritual, who might have very little or a lot of scientific knowledge, to disregard ideas that don't lend themselves to scientific investigation as untrue or stupid. If an idea is unscientific, science can't say anything about the validity of the thought, and nothing about whether it's interesting or not. My opinion is that it isn't useless to wonder about the things we can never know. Science might some day find all the answers about the world which lies within its scope, every possible theory that can be tested empirically might some day have been proved or disproved, to great advancement of our comfort and self esteem. But we will still have great questions we can ask, and even more answers to them that makes our imaginations tremble. We will still wonder about our existence, we will speculate about what is right and wrong, and we will pretend to know which is which, and go to war on those convictions, caring little about if it is scientific or not. We might be right and we might be wrong.
If it's more complicated than devanagari, yes. A lot more complicated. Then you have hundreds of combinations of letters creating different glyphs in different circumstances. There are words that can't have spaces between them, since the last sound of the first word and the first sound of the second word for one single glyph. Still, as long as someone will create all the glyphs, it wouldn't be very hard to implement.
And if all people in the world would pee into the ocean all the time, I'm sure some climate panel would come up with a theory that this could be the cause of the smell of fish.
Getting to the point here: It's easy to predict from the timing of the buyout of TPB, RMS playing sqash, the stars deciding the timing of Easter and the fact that if you take the first letter of every 777th word written in comments on Slashdot since the start, it spells out the Bible backwards, mirrored around the point where Lot runs away from Sodoma, and this comment adds the last letter, that sometime in the early afternoon of the 12th of april, Christ will come back from space in his Maria Mother Spaceship, and once again will earth come under the GAH (Good Alien Hegemony) where evil will become illegal (Bhutan has got early messages from the vessel, and has already made it illegal to be unhappy).
I think this discussion about Finnish started with Linus Torvalds. Just a small note to say that I think I remember that Linus Torvalds belongs to the small minority (5.5%) in Finland that speaks Swedish which is a Germanic language, a lot closer to English than Finnsih. I'm sure Linus also speaks Finnish perfectly, but since his first language is Swedish, it would have been easier for him to learn Engish than it is for other Finns, Chinese, Turkish or Arabs with mother tounges outside of the Indo-European (or even Germanic or Latin) language group.
Probably because Asus isn't using the term 'netbook' in their advertisement of the Eee. Of course I'm not sure of this, but I haven't seen 'netbook' anywhere on the Asus site.
Since this article was posted I've talked with several "normal" people. They all got quite seceptical about letting google have the ability to automatically tag any face on any image they have in their archive. They thought that was quite scary. Then, when I told them it didn't stop there, they actually got outraged. I told them that there's nothing stopping google from using the data from the picasa archive to automatically tag people walking past a surveilance camera. There is no way to control the way google uses this data. They can give it to any government or any organisation. This is not overblown, and not an over reaction. This data collection will become a very precious tool for any government which for any reason is interested in controlling the movement of people. There is no question about if this will be misused. It's not even a question about when. Millions of surveilance cameras even in "democratic" countries are sure signs of most government's interest in being in control of people's whereabouts.
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Earlier today my colleague and I were talking about kung fu movies at work, just talk, no googling, and a few minutes later I got an ad for kung fu training from facebook. That is the first kung fu ad I have seen ever. After that we have been talking about buying an Audi car, and are awaiting the ads, just to be sure that they are listening in... But of course that must have been a coincidence, since I'm using Linux, and I know when the microphone on my computer is turned on. I do, however, have an Android phone which I have given all permissions, so if google and facebook cooperate, that could explain this very strange coincidence.
I had an Amstrad CPC464, a little less advanced than the 6128. It had 64Kb of RAM instead of 128 and a built in cassette recorder for storage instead of a built in disk drive. I was 12 when I got it, and I learned programming (and improved my English exponentially) from the manual. I'm still amazed with myself when I remember that I had programmed my first working shoot-em-up game 3 weeks after I got it. Most of my friends had Commodore 64s of course, and I rememember being frustrated when my point that the Amstrad's Z80 processor was 4 times faster than the 1MHz MOS 6510 didn't seem to impress them at all.
Still there are some ignorant deniers who don't accept the unanimous scientific proof that the heat death of the universe is human made.
Yes, and then they figured they also want some terrorist mafia action in their life.
Yes, org-mode is definetly the best solution for organizing information that I have found. It's extremely simple and flexible. It makes it possible for me to do almost everything in Emacs. I use vm for email, ledger for accounting, I write most of my documents in org-mode and export to pdf through latex.
Of course org-mode and the other text and emacs related solutions doesn't take care of all my information processing needs, but almost. For photos, videos and music I use the old fashioned descriptive file name in a good directory strycture method. My hand written notes, however, are more difficult to take care of. I have a drawer (physical one) for them, but I wouldn't call that coping with the information.
Yes, my understanding of English is quite good enough that I was able to see your point. I was just tempted to add to it, by examplifying...
Irregardless is a word irregardless of what you may think now. Since irregardelss of the absence of use of the word irregardless in the past, if enough people use the term irregardless enough times and in enough contexts, irregardless of the proper use, I'm sure it will find its place in the dictionaries in the future irregardless of the fact that it is a very presumtious word.
Disclaimer: IANANES (I Am Not A Native English Speaker).
When it comes to the filesystems: ext3, slow on Windows, but works (I think, I don't use windows, so I must confess I haven't tried it), ntfs, a bit slow in Linux, but works (I have tried it), you don't use the kernel driver, but the FUSE ntfs-3g driver. File system driver in kernel or user space, you don't want to care.
Modernised to a small analog note book with one or two pages for each project. It beats the hundreds of hours I've tried and searched for, and started to program solutions that involve computers. Of course, if you want to manage more than simple things, I'd go for a medium note book.
I'm not saying it makes sense. And I'm not saying they don't lose most of the time, and that their playing isn't irrational, and believe me, there has been tales of woe.
But I know people who has won big several times, each time more than they'll ever spend. Winning like that one time should happen just once every 1000 years. And I know, winning twice should then happen every 2000 years, so that's almost the same degree of impossible. But I would still call it some quite concentrated luck.
In that light, I see the best strategy of winning when gambling is to bet as little as possible where the possibility of the biggest win is. Since the only way of winning is to have luck, and if you have it you'll win with little effor, and if you don't have luck, you'll lose a lot, even though you sometimes win a little.
There is one and only one way of winning in gamling. Luck.
Don't laugh. I know lucky people, and I'm not one of them.
The people I know have gambled a lot their whole life, with quite a profit. Not horse racing or anything where guessing is possible. If you know your math, you'll know that's very very improbalble without luck. Plain luck.
On topic:
I wouldn't hire you if I knew you considered taking the job but refrained to do it because you thought it might hurt your chances of getting other jobs. That is a very questionable moral and hypocritical. Please choose what you want to do with your life based on your own moral judgement.
I'm quite sure, when people realise that digital content is free as air, and anyone trying to make a business out of charging for making personal copies of or sharing music, video, whatever that doesn't cost anything to reproduce, are either stupid or evil. Artificially limiting the spread of cultural expression is huge obstacle to public creativity, and laws that encourage such absurdities will only be abided in countries with totalitarian governments. This will all be old news in, lets say, five years.
Then, when this is realised, you will not stream or download, you will have a lot of music on your phone, and when you miss something you will stream it from your own home server, or from wherever else. There might even be live feeds you like to pay to listen to live, or listen to it later for free.
There are many more asian people in Poland than black people. I heard that many years ago Poland had a kind of common poitical platform with a large asian country.
Still, this stupid mistake doesn't say that Microsoft is racist, or their marketing department, but it says that they think the people in Poland are. I don't think that's a better message to send.
I just decide that the breath I exhale should be my property, and therefore anyone using it after me should pay as much as I decide it's worth. There's just one catch.. First I must become the most powerful nation on earth, so I can force all other nations to see the fairness in this rule.
I'm sure the only reason Britain hasn't yet asked for royalties on the world wide use of the English language, is that they're not the most powerful nation.
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Asking people to pay for something that is free to reproduce is something that will only work in a totalitarian regime. Go and find better business models, that's the only solution for the future.
They are artists, creative people. They should be in the forefront of the development of human culture. Then they base their business model on certain technological limitations. That is bad in the first place, but then, when the limitations are overcome, they try to force the limitations back, just so they won't have to adapt to a new reality. That's not very artistic. With that kind of attitude, I'm not sure I want their stuff, for free or not. Then again, I hope very few actual artists think in this way. I guess it is the industry people, who are very rich and conservative, and want to stay rich and conservative.
Actually, if you read the decimals of pi backwards, you'll get all the primes after each other.
Yes, that's right. Almost every Linux desktop means one less Windows desktop, with a license or not. I have at least five XP licenses that I don't use, and have never used, and I use about 5 different Linux desktops.
So go ahead and credit God if you want to. I won't tell you that you're explanation is necessarily wrong. Just please don't do so in a scientific context.
I agree with you. But there is sad tendency for people who regard themselves as not religious or spiritual, who might have very little or a lot of scientific knowledge, to disregard ideas that don't lend themselves to scientific investigation as untrue or stupid. If an idea is unscientific, science can't say anything about the validity of the thought, and nothing about whether it's interesting or not. My opinion is that it isn't useless to wonder about the things we can never know. Science might some day find all the answers about the world which lies within its scope, every possible theory that can be tested empirically might some day have been proved or disproved, to great advancement of our comfort and self esteem. But we will still have great questions we can ask, and even more answers to them that makes our imaginations tremble. We will still wonder about our existence, we will speculate about what is right and wrong, and we will pretend to know which is which, and go to war on those convictions, caring little about if it is scientific or not. We might be right and we might be wrong.
If it's more complicated than devanagari, yes. A lot more complicated. Then you have hundreds of combinations of letters creating different glyphs in different circumstances. There are words that can't have spaces between them, since the last sound of the first word and the first sound of the second word for one single glyph.
Still, as long as someone will create all the glyphs, it wouldn't be very hard to implement.
And if all people in the world would pee into the ocean all the time, I'm sure some climate panel would come up with a theory that this could be the cause of the smell of fish.
I'm disappointed, I had really hoped they would go for the second choice. The 10 digit calculator upside-down format. OB'LLBEGOO
Getting to the point here: It's easy to predict from the timing of the buyout of TPB, RMS playing sqash, the stars deciding the timing of Easter and the fact that if you take the first letter of every 777th word written in comments on Slashdot since the start, it spells out the Bible backwards, mirrored around the point where Lot runs away from Sodoma, and this comment adds the last letter, that sometime in the early afternoon of the 12th of april, Christ will come back from space in his Maria Mother Spaceship, and once again will earth come under the GAH (Good Alien Hegemony) where evil will become illegal (Bhutan has got early messages from the vessel, and has already made it illegal to be unhappy).
I think this discussion about Finnish started with Linus Torvalds. Just a small note to say that I think I remember that Linus Torvalds belongs to the small minority (5.5%) in Finland that speaks Swedish which is a Germanic language, a lot closer to English than Finnsih. I'm sure Linus also speaks Finnish perfectly, but since his first language is Swedish, it would have been easier for him to learn Engish than it is for other Finns, Chinese, Turkish or Arabs with mother tounges outside of the Indo-European (or even Germanic or Latin) language group.
Probably because Asus isn't using the term 'netbook' in their advertisement of the Eee. Of course I'm not sure of this, but I haven't seen 'netbook' anywhere on the Asus site.
Since this article was posted I've talked with several "normal" people. They all got quite seceptical about letting google have the ability to automatically tag any face on any image they have in their archive. They thought that was quite scary.
Then, when I told them it didn't stop there, they actually got outraged. I told them that there's nothing stopping google from using the data from the picasa archive to automatically tag people walking past a surveilance camera. There is no way to control the way google uses this data. They can give it to any government or any organisation.
This is not overblown, and not an over reaction. This data collection will become a very precious tool for any government which for any reason is interested in controlling the movement of people. There is no question about if this will be misused. It's not even a question about when. Millions of surveilance cameras even in "democratic" countries are sure signs of most government's interest in being in control of people's whereabouts.
Just think how handy that'll be if someone gets kidnapped or goes missing. :D
Just think how handy that'll be if you plan to kidnap someone or make someone go missing.