> The whole "kids are more violent and less respectful now" theme has probably been going on for as long as there have been children.
Correct. I have read a _lot_ of old books and no matter what time they are from, the ones before were always barely able to think, the ones who come after will live in a dystopia and today's children are the harbinger of mankind's downfall.
The problem is that this isn't just a matter of personal choice. Our consumption has a real, long-term effect on the environment. It is reasonable for vegetarians to advocate their case, since at least part of their argument is that we could reduce our environmental impact (an argument that affects all of us).
While I agree that most animal products are inherently more expensive than plan products in terms of ecological cost, it's not as black and white as most vegetarians I talked to make it seem. Some points worth considering:
* Today's vegetarians have a _lot_ more protein-rich, highly-processed and tasty plant products available to them. This is a luxury that simply did not exist a few years back. * Insects are animals. Locally sourced worms are probably better for the environment at large than the hip, yuppie fruit drink made frown stuff flown across half the world in half a dozen different planes. Extreme examples, yes. But it gets the point across. * Sheep/goat meat is a lot more viable than meat from cows. Pigs are somewhere in between. When we talk about how "meat" is bad for the environment, we really mean "beef". Cows are horrible in pretty much every regard. They don't bite off grass, they rip it out with the roots. They need tons of water directly and indirectly. They take up a _lot_ of space for their food sources. They produce methane like no tomorrow. * Zealots are always bad. The discussion here is mostly nice, but same as I will mentally block out a meat-eating zealot, I will mentally block out a vegi-eating zealot.
I guess my main point is that if you take the enviromental stance, the problem is beef, not meat per se. If your main point is morals, you are free to do whatever you want within the usual restraints society needs.
There is this surveillance tape in the intarwebs where a few people tried to rob a restaurant. Next door, about 100 bikers had their club meeting and rushed out, armed with chairs and other things they could grab.
I am not saying X is the best there ist, but different design goals may account for this.
X was made to be interoperable and leverage remote resources.
Windows was made to sell as many licences (i.e. make money) as possible.
Also, from the general stability and amount of basic changes in software technology over the years, I would say that MS engineers were not exactly planning for the future. The fact that no modern Unix for PCs is forced to maintain binary compability over roughly 15 years may have helped, too.
For a long time Apache has been kicking Microsoft's butt on the server side, and believe it or not, a large part of it is not just Apache's lesser system requirements, but the ability to easily administer it.
To be fair, you have to pay to use Windows and IIS; you can use Linux & Apache for free. That might have helped, too.
I have about half a dozen shells open as I write this. At work, I easily reach two dozen. I pipe stuff around like crazy, to automate & save effort.
But to imply that KDE & Gnome go against UNIX philosphy is just mixing apples with oranges. Why would I want to pipe a flac of a song I am listening to to some other application? I want to search, select, queue and listen in one program. You are not (easily) able to pipe stuff into irssi, either. Vim does not lend itself to having STDOUT piped to anywhere.
Some applications are meant to be intermediate stations for your data. Others are not.
And even though STDIN, STDOUT & STDERR are awesome, let's not pretend as if they were perfect. I could easily use several of each in a lot of circumstances, but mux/demux capabilities on CLI are sorely lacking. Sure, there are tricks, but meh. And I have to admit that I envy PowerShell users for the object oriented goodness they can use if they want to. Giving a program the ability to automagically _know_ what kind of data I am feeding it at the moment would be extremely convient, sometimes. Kind of like overloading shell commands.
Software supporters include Adobe, Sorensen and Skype while the hardware supporters include AMD, ARM, Broadcom, Freescale, Logitech, Marvell, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. The Ogg Theora foundation is listed as a supporter.
Google is licensing its intellectual property, which includes On2 technologies IP assets, under an open source license which is only revocable if a licensee files a patent infringement lawsuit against the VP8 code as released by Google.
The software is open sourced under a BSD-style licence, and is optimised for the web with a "low computational footprint" for hand held and other portable internet devices.
Early builds of browsers supporting WebM include Chromium and Mozilla nightly builds, with an Opera Beta coming soon, and a Google Chrome early access release available on May 24th.
Google have already begun converting videos on YouTube.
I assume they did in fact try a _lot_ of combinations. Testing all of them is probably impossible due to the complexity of even the "basic" system they sent flying in 1977, but I assume they went though this stuff _carefully_.
What I find more amazing than locating the actual problem is that they can reset the thing over all that distance and be reasonably certain that it will come back to life.
Sorry, I glitched a line and thought you replied to my comment that Palm/HP has a patent on slotting a mobile phone into other hardware to use the phone as a modem.
Still, for all intents and purposes, software patents are still very much alive in the EU. And the EU Patent Office is working hard to bypass any and all parliaments with their new EU patent court. Yes, including the EU parliament. So that fight is not over and software patents still need to be considered valid and enforceable. Anything else opens you up to a lot of potential pain.
Jimmy Wales personally removing some pornographic material from its servers
Did OP see the images? I looked at every single one directly after Sanger went to Faux News and while _some_ of them were definitely sexual in content and _some_ of them depicted adults forcing themselves onto children, they were not pornographic. We are talking age-old black-and-white prints. The best approximation I could come up with is http://www.gedichte-lyrik-poesie.de/Busch_Das_Bad_am_Samstagabend/Wilhelm_Busch_Bad_am_Samstagabend.gif (I forgot the name of the artist who did the images in question). Linked pic actually shows bare skin and is a _lot_ more detailed and refined than the works in question, though. Go figure.
then giving up his special editing privileges under pressure
Wrong again. Wales removed some special rights from the Founder group which he has anyway by means of being a Steward. The Founder group has one member and was created after Wales left the board proper. Go figure.
So yah, the "Wikimedia Confusion" does exist, at least in the mind of OP. Instead of posting, he should have read up on the matter, though. And please stop calling those images porn. They are not. And by talking about 'porn' unopposed, Sanger, Faux and the other people with a personal agenda win by default.
PS: Even though the Wikimedia Foundation is based in the USA, the world is not and can not be bound by US conservative morals. Laws yes, morals no.
Did you not even read the links in the discussion? After minimal research, there are about two dozen more countries in which those patents apply. Including all major EU countries and several Asian ones. Oups.
No, but the geek acknowledges that there are different fields of battle. Just because H.264 is a done deal for Blu-Ray does not mean that all is lost for the web.
The medium which is the most open, which changes at the fastest pace, which is able to influence all others is... The web.
And once VP8 gets hardware decoding support because smartphones need to do it to display web content properly, the same hardware schematics can easily make it into other hardware players.
Not saying this is bound to happen, but it's better than just roliing over, playing dead and hoping the MPEG LA or its associates will never try to leverage H.264 against FLOSS.
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> The whole "kids are more violent and less respectful now" theme has probably been going on for as long as there have been children.
Correct. I have read a _lot_ of old books and no matter what time they are from, the ones before were always barely able to think, the ones who come after will live in a dystopia and today's children are the harbinger of mankind's downfall.
Humans are funny that way.
By "complain" you mean "get hit by the OOM killer", of course.
I would rather ctrl-alt-f1 to a tty and fix things than have them dying randomly.
Keeping the time intact is either very cool or very vain, I can't decide :p
In any case, bsdgames comes with rot13 and pretty much every programming language has a library to do rot13, as well.
Don't you dare touching my banana!
The problem is that this isn't just a matter of personal choice. Our consumption has a real, long-term effect on the environment. It is reasonable for vegetarians to advocate their case, since at least part of their argument is that we could reduce our environmental impact (an argument that affects all of us).
While I agree that most animal products are inherently more expensive than plan products in terms of ecological cost, it's not as black and white as most vegetarians I talked to make it seem. Some points worth considering:
* Today's vegetarians have a _lot_ more protein-rich, highly-processed and tasty plant products available to them. This is a luxury that simply did not exist a few years back.
* Insects are animals. Locally sourced worms are probably better for the environment at large than the hip, yuppie fruit drink made frown stuff flown across half the world in half a dozen different planes. Extreme examples, yes. But it gets the point across.
* Sheep/goat meat is a lot more viable than meat from cows. Pigs are somewhere in between. When we talk about how "meat" is bad for the environment, we really mean "beef". Cows are horrible in pretty much every regard. They don't bite off grass, they rip it out with the roots. They need tons of water directly and indirectly. They take up a _lot_ of space for their food sources. They produce methane like no tomorrow.
* Zealots are always bad. The discussion here is mostly nice, but same as I will mentally block out a meat-eating zealot, I will mentally block out a vegi-eating zealot.
I guess my main point is that if you take the enviromental stance, the problem is beef, not meat per se.
If your main point is morals, you are free to do whatever you want within the usual restraints society needs.
here you are using the Internet, without really using the Internet.
I need to remember that one.
There is this surveillance tape in the intarwebs where a few people tried to rob a restaurant. Next door, about 100 bikers had their club meeting and rushed out, armed with chairs and other things they could grab.
Couldn't find it, though...
I am not saying X is the best there ist, but different design goals may account for this.
X was made to be interoperable and leverage remote resources.
Windows was made to sell as many licences (i.e. make money) as possible.
Also, from the general stability and amount of basic changes in software technology over the years, I would say that MS engineers were not exactly planning for the future. The fact that no modern Unix for PCs is forced to maintain binary compability over roughly 15 years may have helped, too.
For a long time Apache has been kicking Microsoft's butt on the server side, and believe it or not, a large part of it is not just Apache's lesser system requirements, but the ability to easily administer it.
To be fair, you have to pay to use Windows and IIS; you can use Linux & Apache for free. That might have helped, too.
I have about half a dozen shells open as I write this. At work, I easily reach two dozen. I pipe stuff around like crazy, to automate & save effort.
But to imply that KDE & Gnome go against UNIX philosphy is just mixing apples with oranges. Why would I want to pipe a flac of a song I am listening to to some other application? I want to search, select, queue and listen in one program.
You are not (easily) able to pipe stuff into irssi, either. Vim does not lend itself to having STDOUT piped to anywhere.
Some applications are meant to be intermediate stations for your data. Others are not.
And even though STDIN, STDOUT & STDERR are awesome, let's not pretend as if they were perfect. I could easily use several of each in a lot of circumstances, but mux/demux capabilities on CLI are sorely lacking. Sure, there are tricks, but meh.
And I have to admit that I envy PowerShell users for the object oriented goodness they can use if they want to. Giving a program the ability to automagically _know_ what kind of data I am feeding it at the moment would be extremely convient, sometimes. Kind of like overloading shell commands.
PS: For the lazy, quotes from [1]
Software supporters include Adobe, Sorensen and Skype while the hardware supporters include AMD, ARM, Broadcom, Freescale, Logitech, Marvell, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. The Ogg Theora foundation is listed as a supporter.
Google is licensing its intellectual property, which includes On2 technologies IP assets, under an open source license which is only revocable if a licensee files a patent infringement lawsuit against the VP8 code as released by Google.
The software is open sourced under a BSD-style licence, and is optimised for the web with a "low computational footprint" for hand held and other portable internet devices.
Early builds of browsers supporting WebM include Chromium and Mozilla nightly builds, with an Opera Beta coming soon, and a Google Chrome early access release available on May 24th.
Google have already begun converting videos on YouTube.
Weeeeeeee!!!!
[1] http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-open-source-VP8-as-part-of-the-WebM-Project-1003772.html
And... as predicted:
http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/webm-open-video-playback-html5.html
http://openvideoalliance.org/2010/05/google-frees-vp8-codec-for-html5-the-webm-project/?l=en
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-open-source-VP8-as-part-of-the-WebM-Project-1003772.html
Wildfox? Stupid.
I assume they did in fact try a _lot_ of combinations. Testing all of them is probably impossible due to the complexity of even the "basic" system they sent flying in 1977, but I assume they went though this stuff _carefully_.
What I find more amazing than locating the actual problem is that they can reset the thing over all that distance and be reasonably certain that it will come back to life.
You post that article and yet, you are unwilling to say "fuck" due to some weird morality; emphasizing the word in the process.
The news about this galaxy is interesting. Really, it is.
But isn't "cannibal galaxy the biggest" a perfect example of a tautology? Basic gravity and a few billion years make this obvious.
The same empathy that makes us enjoy stories, fear horror movies and cringe when think about pulling fingernails with pliers works with VR. Shocking ;)
Sorry, I glitched a line and thought you replied to my comment that Palm/HP has a patent on slotting a mobile phone into other hardware to use the phone as a modem.
Still, for all intents and purposes, software patents are still very much alive in the EU. And the EU Patent Office is working hard to bypass any and all parliaments with their new EU patent court. Yes, including the EU parliament. So that fight is not over and software patents still need to be considered valid and enforceable. Anything else opens you up to a lot of potential pain.
Jimmy Wales personally removing some pornographic material from its servers
Did OP see the images? I looked at every single one directly after Sanger went to Faux News and while _some_ of them were definitely sexual in content and _some_ of them depicted adults forcing themselves onto children, they were not pornographic. We are talking age-old black-and-white prints. The best approximation I could come up with is http://www.gedichte-lyrik-poesie.de/Busch_Das_Bad_am_Samstagabend/Wilhelm_Busch_Bad_am_Samstagabend.gif (I forgot the name of the artist who did the images in question). Linked pic actually shows bare skin and is a _lot_ more detailed and refined than the works in question, though. Go figure.
then giving up his special editing privileges under pressure
Wrong again. Wales removed some special rights from the Founder group which he has anyway by means of being a Steward. The Founder group has one member and was created after Wales left the board proper. Go figure.
So yah, the "Wikimedia Confusion" does exist, at least in the mind of OP. Instead of posting, he should have read up on the matter, though. And please stop calling those images porn. They are not. And by talking about 'porn' unopposed, Sanger, Faux and the other people with a personal agenda win by default.
PS: Even though the Wikimedia Foundation is based in the USA, the world is not and can not be bound by US conservative morals. Laws yes, morals no.
PPS: I hope they move to Iceland.
a) They apply. Live with it.
b) SOFTWARE patents? How are they relevant? We are talking hardware, here.
Palm^WHP has a patent on it which is about 10-15 years old.
Nice, didn't know that. Will google around unless you beat me with a link to sources. Thanks :)
At ~30% adaption in the EU, which is the largest regional ratio world-wide, I question your definition of a monopoly.
Did you not even read the links in the discussion? After minimal research, there are about two dozen more countries in which those patents apply. Including all major EU countries and several Asian ones. Oups.
No, but the geek acknowledges that there are different fields of battle. Just because H.264 is a done deal for Blu-Ray does not mean that all is lost for the web.
The medium which is the most open, which changes at the fastest pace, which is able to influence all others is... The web.
And once VP8 gets hardware decoding support because smartphones need to do it to display web content properly, the same hardware schematics can easily make it into other hardware players.
Not saying this is bound to happen, but it's better than just roliing over, playing dead and hoping the MPEG LA or its associates will never try to leverage H.264 against FLOSS.
Proper licensing is impossible in FLOSS context, easy as that.