My bet is that posts deriding this new feature AOL is providing, and perhaps this entire./ thread, are attempts by the NSA, CIA or most likely FBI to dissuade The People from establishing a nationwide network of free, open, hi-speed Internet access. Not to mention the pigopolist corporations said agencies are complicit with to restrict the information highway and exact ever more tolls.
Being a vegan and using a bicycle as a primary means of transport, I probably contribute *vastly* less to CO2 emissions than you do. Please don't tell me what kind of lighting I can/cannot use. Hypocrite. Please take your dips__t feel-good facist legislation and shove it.
I cannot more agree with what you said. One thing I absolutely hated about going to school - which made it in fact tortuous - was being forced to sit under those damned flourescent lights day in and day out. What a hideous way to torture children and invoke in them a negative disposition towards society right at the outset.
As for facist laws telling me that I must use sources of illumination which make me sick - I'd love to see these hypocritical governments enact some really progressive environmental legislation then like requiring everyone to be vegan. The positive environmental impact from that would be immense compared to mandated CFLs. But of course outlawing flagrant waste and murder would go against their hypocritical, grandstanding ways.
Interesting what people say here, because I have found that the discussions around controversial subjects are precisely one thing that Wikipedia has which makes it more useful than standard encyclopedias and other reference sources. They add a whole new meta level so that you can see not only information about a topic, but how that information itself can itself become interpreted as being politicized or prone to distortions and influences.
Not only do you get information about a topic, it can take you into a whole other sociological dimension about a subject.
One other thing I would add here, is that it was not until only very recently that I myself registered with Wikipedia in order to be able to make minor edits and cleanups of web pages, after seeing some with bad edits, vandalism, or minor typos which annoyed me enough to want to fix them. Now that Wikipedia has been around for a while it may take time for "late adopters" like myself who have begun to rely on Wikipedia a lot to become motivated to the point where they bother to register and learn some basic wiki markup. Maybe the snowball still has a long way to roll.
In fact cancer is a prominent cause of death among mice. A friend of mine had a pet mouse which she loved and it was very sad when it had to be taken to a vet and put out of misery because of a large tumor. It would be nice if the above statement were true, unfortunately I think that despite the barbaric activity that is done to mice there is little or no intention to create cures for them.
And you know what? The lack of recycling in California is appalling. Try to raise the issue of mandated recycling or fines for non-recyclable solid waste on forums like Craigslist and you'll get called a Nazi and have your post flagged. But every day I see massive amounts of recyclables getting thrown out with solid waste - in stark contrast to Germany, where I lived for a year and never in the entire time saw a garbage can or waste receptacle. Everything is recyclable and everything is recycled, no exceptions.
But of course can we expect jackass politicians who allowed the state to get ripped off to the tune of tens of billions to do something that would be sensible, effective, and appropriate?
Time for me to chime in on this too. CFL's and all fluorescent lights are absolutely hideous and should be banned. The spectrum of light they output is ghastly and probably bad for us phsiologically in ways that have not yet been measured.
If you want to save the planet, go vegan. There are so many obvious things that people can do which will have a vast impact, that to subject oneself and others to ghastly fluorescent light for the sake of environmental concern in order to gain a few peanuts just seems ridiculous to me.
I'm sure amputating are arms would also have some postive environmental effect too, but I'm not about to do that. We need to have light and if we are going to have it, I prefer quality light - that is light with a decent spectrum that is pleasant to have illuminating.
Man, I thought there was actually consensus among progressive people that fluorescent lights in institutional settings and other places was terrible, and now all of a sudden everyone's rushing rabidly to destroy quality illumination in their ambient surroundings.
I hope it will be useful too. As far as some of the critical comments above, I don't quite understand where they are coming from. By saying that some languages are so fundamentally different that there can't be some kind of easy reference on doing tasks between them - I would take that fact and draw the exact opposite conclusion. It is exactly because they are different not just in surface ways that such a site would be very useful.
I can think of a lot of little tasks that it would be nice to have a cross-language reference for:
- Do something recursively to every file (or onlhy certain matching files) in a directory - Perform some task over all elements of an array - Execute a command on a remote system - Ask for input, if input matches (or doesn't match) some answer, do something, otherwise do something else - Perform operations like concatenation of file names based on patterns in the name - Check if argument supplied (or not), then do something
These are just a few basic things that someone would want to do which would be helpful to see how they are done in another language. The fact that the whole structure for implementing these things could be radically different in different languages to me calls for such a site, not the opposite.
I have several points to make about this sighting, and the facts and peculiarities seem to actually lend support to the idea that it was an extraterrestrial ship when considered:
Perhaps their' hovering over a busy airport in fact seemed to be the most safe and appropriate thing to do. If they needed to take their ship into a state of idle for a few minutes - perhaps to do some maintenance - an airport - a place designated by the indigenous life forms for airborne craft - would seem appropriate.
Second, more than likely, according to their advanced technology, such a thing would probably not even seem to be risky or pose a safety threat. According to their standards.
Finally, I take issue with idiots claiming things like "What a waste to go all that way and then leave." That is just plain ignorance. There is absolutely not a shred of evidence to make any sort of inference that they came and left our planet, just because of their behavior at one location. Obviously it was just people trying to be smartassess.
Anyone with a rational mind should find this story troubling (not necessarily in a negative troubling sense but in a sense of unsettling) - especially when you read about the extreme reactions some of the observers exhibited after the experience. This was no hoax, and no mere illusion experienced by one person.
There is life throughout the universe, and no doubt throughout our galaxy. Only a blink of an eye ago we were crawling around in the muck, wiping our asses with leaves or whatever. We've barely had time to take a survey of what's going on around us. We haven't had nearly enough experience to be able to draw conclusions about something like this, or to be able to smugly discount it as not being possible.
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I don't know where in the midst of all these disjointed tangental subthreads to put this. This seemed as good a place as any.
I just thought of something.
You're piloting a spaceship on a foreign planet which you don't know much about. Maybe you need to go into "idle" mode for a short while while some technicians repair something. So you need to hover somewhere for a bit. Where to do it is the question.
Well think about this a minute. If you don't know otherwise, in the middle of a busy airport is a perfectly logical place to do it. There are already all sorts of other air ships coming and going. It must be appropriate to have an airship in this area because this is where they all seem to be. According to our navigational systems there's absolutely no hazard for us to descend there and hover.
Notice how this line of thinking, which is a likely line of thinking that the pilot(s) of such a vessel would take, goes against many of the assumptions made in other places in this discussion:
Within the purview of thier exceedingly advanced navigational systems, there would not be any idea/perception that this would somehow violate "safety"
An airport would in fact be a *very* logical place to hover. Its the place that is appropriate for airships to be. That's exactly how it would seem to them.
You know, thinking about it this way, all the peculiarities of this case in fact do in some ways seem to make it more likely that in fact it was an extraterrestrial craft. They're hovering in the middle of an airport may have been their attempt to be "correct" or to somehow respect our "ways".
"Microsoft's thawing toward Linux is now easier to understand when faced with such data - even as Windows continues to grow as the other main server platform of choice."
Possibly for the first time ever, computer design is being dictated not by
electronic design rules, physical layout requirements, and thermal issues, but
by the wishes of the content industry. Apart from the massive headache that
this poses to device manufacturers, it also imposes additional increased costs
beyond the ones incurred simply by having to lay out board designs in a
suboptimal manner.
Everything
has to be custom-designed and laid out so that there are no unnecessary
accessible signal links on the board. This means that a low-cost card isn't
just a high-cost card with components omitted, and conversely a high-cost card
isn't just a low-cost card with additional discretionary components added,
each one has to be a completely custom design created to ensure that no signal
on the board is accessible.
This extends beyond simple board design all the way down to chip design.
Instead of adding an external DVI chip, it now has to be integrated into the
graphics chip, along with any other functionality normally supplied by an
external chip. So instead of varying video card cost based on optional
components, the chipset vendor now has to integrate everything into a one-
size-fits-all premium-featured graphics chip, even if all the user wants is a
budget card for their kid's PC.
Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system
performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and
software cost. These issues affect not
only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the
protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever
come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for
example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server).
...the spec requires that the operational details of
the device be kept confidential. Obviously anyone who knows enough about the
workings of a device to operate it and to write a third-party driver for it
(for example one for an open-source OS, or in general just any non-Windows OS)
will also know enough to fake the HFS process. The only way to protect the
HFS process therefore is to not release any technical details on the device
beyond a minimum required for web site reviews and comparison with other
products....the spec requires that the operational details of
the device be kept confidential. Obviously anyone who knows enough about the
workings of a device to operate it and to write a third-party driver for it
(for example one for an open-source OS, or in general just any non-Windows OS)
will also know enough to fake the HFS process. The only way to protect the
HFS process therefore is to not release any technical details on the device
beyond a minimum required for web site reviews and comparison with other
products.
No matter how good a medical imaging specialist Peter Gutmann happens to be, I think I'm going to wait for some security experts to weigh in on Vista issues before I jump to any conclusions.
The next time I have an MRI, no matter how good security experts they happen to be, I think I'm going to insist on some medical experts to weighing in on the issue before I jump to any conclusions.
Vegetables are not slaughtered. They are harvested.
If you are somehow attempting here to attack or invalidate the position of practicing a way of life that minimizes harm to other beings to the greatest extent possible and the wisdom of doing so you have totally failed. Your judgement may be occluded due to past conditioning and be preventing you from seeing clearly, but reducing harm to others as much as possible right now at this moment of your life is the most logical and ethical thing you can do.
Well I'm supremely glad I'm gifted to have this opportunity to be a human in which I have the higher volition to actualize a world in which the sanctity of things is accorded the respect it deserves, and not just respond reactively to stimulii in order to satiate base cravings. I think I'll go celebrate by having an organic vegan feast.
Considering that these are scientists and not high school biology students gone wild, I tend to believe that they would be working in a more orderly and methodical manner.
You should read about the experiments done to develop genetically modified crops. Sure, we all hear about the wonderful successes of the technology, such as Roundup Ready soy or cotton which are supposed to save the world, but we never hear about the dozens of horrific failures it took to get the results they wanted. Cotton whose heads would just turn brown and fall off for no reason, or plants with grotesque malformations or other characteristics. If people knew about these grotesque monstrosities they would understand better the nature of the technology used to generate these crops. But consumers only hear the propaganda and think is some very highly precise, innocuous technology and will trust it because of that. This isn't to say that the scientists slopping around with shark's brains used methodologies just as imprecise, but certainly just because they're "scientists" doesn't really stand for much.
Sure I'll elaborate: think of all the experimentation it took to figure this out. How many times did the sickos cut open the skulls of sentient beings and mess around with their brains to get the results they wanted? How many failed experiments were there? How many grotesque atrocities were perpetrated in the operating room? Its not too hard to visualize the animal laying there on an operating table with its skull cut open and blood and brains everywhere while these "researchers" slopped about. Its absolutely horrific.
And sorry, because a shark is a (very well-designed) predator that sometimes (but only rarely overall) attacks humans in no way excuses such ghastly abuse of other living organisms nor violation of their fundamental sanctity as beings.
From the article:
Atema was able to use electrical stimulation of a sharks brain, mimicking odor, to guide the shark around a large tank.
This is one of the most hideous, ghastly things I have read. Not only should any "scientist" who engages in such ghastly experiments lose all his credentials, he and everyone in the chain above him should be criminally prosecuted.
Such a horrific, sickening abuse of life is appalling.
...and the greater market share may make it profitable for someone to figure out why the sound on my Ubuntu box is about half as loud as it should be...
But I think you already miss an important point of the Open Source community and why it already blows other models away: you can go right now on the ALSA mailing list or join an IRC chat room and be able to correspond directly with developers involved in the project and find answers to your questions. You are focusing too much on the "what" rather than seeing the massive beauty that is already there in the "how".
Just because there are not free alternatives for everything, yet, or that some people will choose to give up their freedoms for extra features does NOT mean that the FSF fighting for freedom or trying to inform people isn't a worthy cause.
No, but I think the general gist of the threads above is that, with this new site at least, the FSF isn't doing a good job of informing people and, inasmuch as it's linking to sites which are full of empty, mostly speculative BS it doesn't really help the cause.
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My bet is that posts deriding this new feature AOL is providing, and perhaps this entire ./ thread, are attempts by the NSA, CIA or most likely FBI to dissuade The People from establishing a nationwide network of free, open, hi-speed Internet access. Not to mention the pigopolist corporations said agencies are complicit with to restrict the information highway and exact ever more tolls.
If its not an acronym and is derived from a word then it could also mean any of the following:
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How? Seriously, I've never heard about this before.
How?
Being a vegan and using a bicycle as a primary means of transport, I probably contribute *vastly* less to CO2 emissions than you do. Please don't tell me what kind of lighting I can/cannot use. Hypocrite. Please take your dips__t feel-good facist legislation and shove it.
I cannot more agree with what you said. One thing I absolutely hated about going to school - which made it in fact tortuous - was being forced to sit under those damned flourescent lights day in and day out. What a hideous way to torture children and invoke in them a negative disposition towards society right at the outset.
As for facist laws telling me that I must use sources of illumination which make me sick - I'd love to see these hypocritical governments enact some really progressive environmental legislation then like requiring everyone to be vegan. The positive environmental impact from that would be immense compared to mandated CFLs. But of course outlawing flagrant waste and murder would go against their hypocritical, grandstanding ways.
Interesting what people say here, because I have found that the discussions around controversial subjects are precisely one thing that Wikipedia has which makes it more useful than standard encyclopedias and other reference sources. They add a whole new meta level so that you can see not only information about a topic, but how that information itself can itself become interpreted as being politicized or prone to distortions and influences.
Not only do you get information about a topic, it can take you into a whole other sociological dimension about a subject.
One other thing I would add here, is that it was not until only very recently that I myself registered with Wikipedia in order to be able to make minor edits and cleanups of web pages, after seeing some with bad edits, vandalism, or minor typos which annoyed me enough to want to fix them. Now that Wikipedia has been around for a while it may take time for "late adopters" like myself who have begun to rely on Wikipedia a lot to become motivated to the point where they bother to register and learn some basic wiki markup. Maybe the snowball still has a long way to roll.
Damnit. I've been reading the past 45 minutes and NOW you say this!?
Damnit.
Its nice to see some decent-quality literature once in a while.
In fact cancer is a prominent cause of death among mice. A friend of mine had a pet mouse which she loved and it was very sad when it had to be taken to a vet and put out of misery because of a large tumor. It would be nice if the above statement were true, unfortunately I think that despite the barbaric activity that is done to mice there is little or no intention to create cures for them.
And you know what? The lack of recycling in California is appalling. Try to raise the issue of mandated recycling or fines for non-recyclable solid waste on forums like Craigslist and you'll get called a Nazi and have your post flagged. But every day I see massive amounts of recyclables getting thrown out with solid waste - in stark contrast to Germany, where I lived for a year and never in the entire time saw a garbage can or waste receptacle. Everything is recyclable and everything is recycled, no exceptions.
But of course can we expect jackass politicians who allowed the state to get ripped off to the tune of tens of billions to do something that would be sensible, effective, and appropriate?
Time for me to chime in on this too. CFL's and all fluorescent lights are absolutely hideous and should be banned. The spectrum of light they output is ghastly and probably bad for us phsiologically in ways that have not yet been measured.
If you want to save the planet, go vegan. There are so many obvious things that people can do which will have a vast impact, that to subject oneself and others to ghastly fluorescent light for the sake of environmental concern in order to gain a few peanuts just seems ridiculous to me.
I'm sure amputating are arms would also have some postive environmental effect too, but I'm not about to do that. We need to have light and if we are going to have it, I prefer quality light - that is light with a decent spectrum that is pleasant to have illuminating.
Man, I thought there was actually consensus among progressive people that fluorescent lights in institutional settings and other places was terrible, and now all of a sudden everyone's rushing rabidly to destroy quality illumination in their ambient surroundings.
I hope it will be useful too. As far as some of the critical comments above, I don't quite understand where they are coming from. By saying that some languages are so fundamentally different that there can't be some kind of easy reference on doing tasks between them - I would take that fact and draw the exact opposite conclusion. It is exactly because they are different not just in surface ways that such a site would be very useful.
I can think of a lot of little tasks that it would be nice to have a cross-language reference for:
- Do something recursively to every file (or onlhy certain matching files) in a directory
- Perform some task over all elements of an array
- Execute a command on a remote system
- Ask for input, if input matches (or doesn't match) some answer, do something, otherwise do something else
- Perform operations like concatenation of file names based on patterns in the name
- Check if argument supplied (or not), then do something
These are just a few basic things that someone would want to do which would be helpful to see how they are done in another language. The fact that the whole structure for implementing these things could be radically different in different languages to me calls for such a site, not the opposite.
Gee thanks for posting the information a week late
I have several points to make about this sighting, and the facts and peculiarities seem to actually lend support to the idea that it was an extraterrestrial ship when considered:
Perhaps their' hovering over a busy airport in fact seemed to be the most safe and appropriate thing to do. If they needed to take their ship into a state of idle for a few minutes - perhaps to do some maintenance - an airport - a place designated by the indigenous life forms for airborne craft - would seem appropriate.
Second, more than likely, according to their advanced technology, such a thing would probably not even seem to be risky or pose a safety threat. According to their standards.
Finally, I take issue with idiots claiming things like "What a waste to go all that way and then leave." That is just plain ignorance. There is absolutely not a shred of evidence to make any sort of inference that they came and left our planet, just because of their behavior at one location. Obviously it was just people trying to be smartassess.
Anyone with a rational mind should find this story troubling (not necessarily in a negative troubling sense but in a sense of unsettling) - especially when you read about the extreme reactions some of the observers exhibited after the experience. This was no hoax, and no mere illusion experienced by one person.
There is life throughout the universe, and no doubt throughout our galaxy. Only a blink of an eye ago we were crawling around in the muck, wiping our asses with leaves or whatever. We've barely had time to take a survey of what's going on around us. We haven't had nearly enough experience to be able to draw conclusions about something like this, or to be able to smugly discount it as not being possible.
I just thought of something.
You're piloting a spaceship on a foreign planet which you don't know much about. Maybe you need to go into "idle" mode for a short while while some technicians repair something. So you need to hover somewhere for a bit. Where to do it is the question.
Well think about this a minute. If you don't know otherwise, in the middle of a busy airport is a perfectly logical place to do it. There are already all sorts of other air ships coming and going. It must be appropriate to have an airship in this area because this is where they all seem to be. According to our navigational systems there's absolutely no hazard for us to descend there and hover.
Notice how this line of thinking, which is a likely line of thinking that the pilot(s) of such a vessel would take, goes against many of the assumptions made in other places in this discussion:
You know, thinking about it this way, all the peculiarities of this case in fact do in some ways seem to make it more likely that in fact it was an extraterrestrial craft. They're hovering in the middle of an airport may have been their attempt to be "correct" or to somehow respect our "ways".
"Microsoft's thawing toward Linux is now easier to understand when faced with such data - even as Windows continues to grow as the other main server platform of choice."
And some quotes from the recent paper "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection":
Possibly for the first time ever, computer design is being dictated not by electronic design rules, physical layout requirements, and thermal issues, but by the wishes of the content industry. Apart from the massive headache that this poses to device manufacturers, it also imposes additional increased costs beyond the ones incurred simply by having to lay out board designs in a suboptimal manner.
Everything has to be custom-designed and laid out so that there are no unnecessary accessible signal links on the board. This means that a low-cost card isn't just a high-cost card with components omitted, and conversely a high-cost card isn't just a low-cost card with additional discretionary components added, each one has to be a completely custom design created to ensure that no signal on the board is accessible. This extends beyond simple board design all the way down to chip design. Instead of adding an external DVI chip, it now has to be integrated into the graphics chip, along with any other functionality normally supplied by an external chip. So instead of varying video card cost based on optional components, the chipset vendor now has to integrate everything into a one- size-fits-all premium-featured graphics chip, even if all the user wants is a budget card for their kid's PC.
Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server).
...the spec requires that the operational details of the device be kept confidential. Obviously anyone who knows enough about the workings of a device to operate it and to write a third-party driver for it (for example one for an open-source OS, or in general just any non-Windows OS) will also know enough to fake the HFS process. The only way to protect the HFS process therefore is to not release any technical details on the device beyond a minimum required for web site reviews and comparison with other products....the spec requires that the operational details of the device be kept confidential. Obviously anyone who knows enough about the workings of a device to operate it and to write a third-party driver for it (for example one for an open-source OS, or in general just any non-Windows OS) will also know enough to fake the HFS process. The only way to protect the HFS process therefore is to not release any technical details on the device beyond a minimum required for web site reviews and comparison with other products.
And now some quotes from the Slashdot article where this was discussed, translating this stuff a bit more into layman's terms:
>I don't know why Microsoft is bending over for the media companies. They're not. Microsoft has a monopoly. They can tell anyone to get lost. But "compliance" with "requirements" of the RIAA and MPAA is perfect cover for their real game plan, which is to eliminate Open Source (Linux, etc). If Microsoft simply pressured hardware manufacturers (video cards etc) never to release specs, an
The next time I have an MRI, no matter how good security experts they happen to be, I think I'm going to insist on some medical experts to weighing in on the issue before I jump to any conclusions.
Vegetables are not slaughtered. They are harvested.
If you are somehow attempting here to attack or invalidate the position of practicing a way of life that minimizes harm to other beings to the greatest extent possible and the wisdom of doing so you have totally failed. Your judgement may be occluded due to past conditioning and be preventing you from seeing clearly, but reducing harm to others as much as possible right now at this moment of your life is the most logical and ethical thing you can do.
Well I'm supremely glad I'm gifted to have this opportunity to be a human in which I have the higher volition to actualize a world in which the sanctity of things is accorded the respect it deserves, and not just respond reactively to stimulii in order to satiate base cravings. I think I'll go celebrate by having an organic vegan feast.
You should read about the experiments done to develop genetically modified crops. Sure, we all hear about the wonderful successes of the technology, such as Roundup Ready soy or cotton which are supposed to save the world, but we never hear about the dozens of horrific failures it took to get the results they wanted. Cotton whose heads would just turn brown and fall off for no reason, or plants with grotesque malformations or other characteristics. If people knew about these grotesque monstrosities they would understand better the nature of the technology used to generate these crops. But consumers only hear the propaganda and think is some very highly precise, innocuous technology and will trust it because of that. This isn't to say that the scientists slopping around with shark's brains used methodologies just as imprecise, but certainly just because they're "scientists" doesn't really stand for much.
Sure I'll elaborate: think of all the experimentation it took to figure this out. How many times did the sickos cut open the skulls of sentient beings and mess around with their brains to get the results they wanted? How many failed experiments were there? How many grotesque atrocities were perpetrated in the operating room? Its not too hard to visualize the animal laying there on an operating table with its skull cut open and blood and brains everywhere while these "researchers" slopped about. Its absolutely horrific.
And sorry, because a shark is a (very well-designed) predator that sometimes (but only rarely overall) attacks humans in no way excuses such ghastly abuse of other living organisms nor violation of their fundamental sanctity as beings.
This is one of the most hideous, ghastly things I have read. Not only should any "scientist" who engages in such ghastly experiments lose all his credentials, he and everyone in the chain above him should be criminally prosecuted.
Such a horrific, sickening abuse of life is appalling.
But I think you already miss an important point of the Open Source community and why it already blows other models away: you can go right now on the ALSA mailing list or join an IRC chat room and be able to correspond directly with developers involved in the project and find answers to your questions. You are focusing too much on the "what" rather than seeing the massive beauty that is already there in the "how".
No, but I think the general gist of the threads above is that, with this new site at least, the FSF isn't doing a good job of informing people and, inasmuch as it's linking to sites which are full of empty, mostly speculative BS it doesn't really help the cause.