isn't a new RSS reader but a new RSS syncing standard. Google Reader let people use several different viewers and they would all stay in sync: what was marked read here was marked read over there too. (OPML lets you import and export a list of subscriptions, but not a list of read items.) Clearly, relying on a single company to provide that service was a mistake. Can we come up with an open-source standard system that won't go poof at the whim of a single website, so that people can use multiple reading platforms easily?
What is gonna happen if you're upset by Google? Are you gonna stop using their products? The money doesn't come from any of their free services, it's the advertisers. You'll be disappointed if you expected nothing else from a free product than to be disappointed when it doesn't bring any more money.
Time to add Google Ads to your Adblock filter (if you haven't already):)
And in many cases, just being pulled over is enough punishment: you lose time, you're embarrassed, and you have to be nice to somebody. When you pull out after that stop, you're probably going to drive pretty close to the speed limit for the rest of the trip and maybe for a few weeks after.
I refuse to read ads. I refuse to click on ads. People trying to manipulate me piss me off, and now I'm reading your site and I'm pissed off. Ads are computer viruses for the mind (trying to rewrite the software to their own ends); if a website came to me and said "Don't install antivirus software because malware pays for our bandwidth" I would laugh in their faces and I hope you would too.
I'd be happy to load the ads if I didn't have to look at them. Perhaps I could have a special sandboxed browser where you type in all of your favorite sites, and it loads them up with the ads in the background every day (at 3am when I don't care about bandwidth).
But the real sin to advertisers isn't blocking the ads, it's ignoring them, right?
How about being pissed off that private corporations aren't offering the pensions that used to be standard? If somebody has something good that you don't, is your first impulse always "take that away from them!" instead of "how can I get that too?"
I believe the OP is saying that they have a lot more to lose if Google decides to kill off their account due to inane policies, and I agree. If Facebook kills off my account, no big deal, I don't use it for much anyway. If Google killed off my account, I would lose Gmail, my presence on Youtube, search history, etc etc.
"This process is repeated several times to build up accurate statistics." If I'm reading this right, this means that you need multiple identical copies of the photon, and it's impossible to duplicate the quantum state of an object without knowing its exact state. You can't repeat the process on the same photon because that strong measurement destroys the photon's original state. This would work if your source was producing a number of identical photons, but it wouldn't be very useful in, for example, breaking quantum cryptography.
I was in quantum information theory two decades ago so my knowledge is out of date, but nothing about this sounds theoretically surprising; I suspect it is the experimental technique that is the key.
Regarding #1, the costs of copyediting should be pushed onto the author: if you can't write proper English, hire someone to do it for you. And if a referee thinks a paper is poorly written, they reject it immediately with a note to that effect.
I like the idea of releasing all papers after 5-10 years. I also don't see the advantage of having these essential parts of the scientific method in the hands of for-profit corporations with little accountability.
I haven't run the numbers, but the electoral college favors less populous states by guaranteeing a minimum of 3 electoral votes.
Mathematically interesting, but not functionally effective. The only votes that really matter in U.S. elections are those in "battleground" states. Politicians will fight over Ohio, but a vote in California is as irrelevant as a vote in Alaska.
Well not exactly: right now each party starts out with a certain number of "safe" electoral votes, and the difference between that number and 270 determines *how many* swing states they need to win. If California was bumped up to 65 electoral votes from 55 (I think) then the Democratic candidate would have 10 fewer EVs they would have to win somewhere else, so maybe they don't need to win Wisconsin or Michigan now.
The *individual* votes in California or Alaska are meaningless, but the total number of electoral votes assigned to those states really does matter.
I haven't run the numbers, but the electoral college favors less populous states by guaranteeing a minimum of 3 electoral votes. California has 66 times the population of Wyoming but only 18 times the number of electoral votes. My initial guess would be that the voters in rural Western states (Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, etc) would lose clout in this scheme, and those are all Republican strongholds.
However, the 10 least populous states (+DC) are Wyoming (R), Vermont (D), DC (D), North Dakota (R), Alaska (R), South Dakota (R), Delaware (D), Montana (R), Rhode Island (D), and New Hampshire (swing) So that's a 50-50 split pretty much: both parties benefit from the electoral college.
The top 10 states are California (D), Texas (R), New York (D), Florida (swing), Illinois (D), Pennsylvania (swing), Ohio (swing), Georgia (R), Michigan (D?), and North Carolina (swing?). So 4 D, 2 R, and 4 swing states (depending on how you define them): so maybe the Dems suffer a bit from the electoral college at this end of the spectrum.
The hard question is what happens when you split these states up: Atlanta freed from the rest of Georgia goes blue, but the middle of Pennsylvania goes red without Philly and Pittsburgh, etc. So maybe the article is right that when you run the numbers it disadvantages Democrats, but I'd be interested to see the analysis because I don't understand how you come to the conclusion that this favors Republicans without it.
(I know this isn't a serious proposal so apologies for geeking out over it.:)
I've taught physics for almost a decade, and I have kept a website for most of it; recently I've started taking notes on an electronic whiteboard and posting it and class audio to the website as well. What I've found is that the only way I can keep the website up-to-date is if I make updating it as dead-simple as possible. The more clicking and typing I have to do, the easier it is for me to say "Oh, I'll do it later." (Perhaps I'm just a lazy person, granted.) My current homegrown system lets me dump files I want to post to the website into a webDAV folder, and they show up automatically on my CGI-generated website in the appropriate place.
Unfortunately, last time I checked Blackboard (the leading course management software) was nowhere near as simple. No capacity for automation, and much too much clicking and typing required to post anything. If I were stuck using Blackboard I'm not sure I'd bother either.
1) Why is the common base unit of mass the KILOgram? Rename the kilogram so that you can attach metric prefixes to it properly: kilokilogram doesn't cut it. 2) 1 g of water = 1 cm^3 = 1 mL? Can't we come up with units of length, volume, and mass that agree with one another? 3) The names are cumbersome: kilometers vs miles, etc. Prefixes should be one syllable long so that the words can be shorter.
#1 and #2 could be fixed by defining the unit length to be 1 decimeter (about 4 inches): 1 cubic decimeter is 1 liter, and 1 liter of water weighs (roughly) 1 kilogram (which would get a new, better name as per #1).
And oh yes, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day? What the heck? Decimal time, all the way. (We're stuck with 365.25 days in a year, but portions of a day are under our control.)
I suppose the argument against all of this is that people are used to the metric system the way it is.
This book is unusual in its focus on a single line of code, an extremely concise BASIC program that is simply called 10 PRINT throughout. Studies of individual, unique works abound in the humanities. Roland Barthes’s S/Z, Samuel Beckett’s Proust, Rudolf Arnheim’s Genesis of a Painting: Picasso’s Guernica, Stuart Hall et al.’s Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman, and Michel Foucault’s Ceci n’est pas une pipe all exemplify the sort of close readings that deepen our understanding of cultural production, cultural phenomena, and the Western cultural tradition. While such literary texts, paintings, and consumer electronics may seem significantly more complex than a one-line BASIC program, undertaking a close study of 10 PRINT as a cultural artifact can be as fruitful as close readings of other telling cultural artifacts have been.
In short, this is not a programming book, but it appears to be a book of cultural anthropology about programming. Or perhaps a meditation which starts with one simple starting point and branching out in many different directions. Criticizing the program "10 PRINT" as trivial rather misses the point, I should think.
"I'm considering making a $1, $10 and $25 version available from Amazon as a way for folks to donate money to me"
The author's asking for donations, not charging a mandatory fee. I've seen this model with concerts at churches etc, where they'll sponsor a free concert, but with a "suggested free-will offering".
So the reason the newspapers don't use robots.txt isn't that they want Google to stop showing news from *their* websites, they want Google to stop showing news from their *competitors'* websites, right? They want to get rid of a la carte news.
I for one will be glad when monochrome is passé; I'm surprised Google still has its multicolor logo, for all its embraced this trend. Vive les couleurs!
Facebook is rather complicated, but I think Twitter would be easier to replace due to its very public nature. Everyone sets up their own RSS feed (on whatever server they like) with an interface that makes it very easy to add to, and then your Twitter feed is simply an RSS aggregator which sorts entries chronologically and displays them inline.
It probably will take time for men to accept it, maybe a new generation. I wonder how many women were squicked out by the Pill when it first came out? (Not counting the women who were opposed to it on moral grounds.)
When Apple closes the gate on the walled garden, we'll all skip that OS update, or leave for another OS. Until then, Macs remain nicely useable even for people who write their own programs and generally don't want to play inside the garden.
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I wonder if you could consider adding DRM to be "creating a derivative work", since it no longer functions in the same way as the author intended?
isn't a new RSS reader but a new RSS syncing standard. Google Reader let people use several different viewers and they would all stay in sync: what was marked read here was marked read over there too. (OPML lets you import and export a list of subscriptions, but not a list of read items.) Clearly, relying on a single company to provide that service was a mistake. Can we come up with an open-source standard system that won't go poof at the whim of a single website, so that people can use multiple reading platforms easily?
Yes, why DOES Feedly need an extension to work? I can see where an extension might make it more *useful*, but the basic functionality doesn't need it.
What is gonna happen if you're upset by Google? Are you gonna stop using their products? The money doesn't come from any of their free services, it's the advertisers. You'll be disappointed if you expected nothing else from a free product than to be disappointed when it doesn't bring any more money.
Time to add Google Ads to your Adblock filter (if you haven't already) :)
And in many cases, just being pulled over is enough punishment: you lose time, you're embarrassed, and you have to be nice to somebody. When you pull out after that stop, you're probably going to drive pretty close to the speed limit for the rest of the trip and maybe for a few weeks after.
I refuse to read ads. I refuse to click on ads. People trying to manipulate me piss me off, and now I'm reading your site and I'm pissed off. Ads are computer viruses for the mind (trying to rewrite the software to their own ends); if a website came to me and said "Don't install antivirus software because malware pays for our bandwidth" I would laugh in their faces and I hope you would too.
I'd be happy to load the ads if I didn't have to look at them. Perhaps I could have a special sandboxed browser where you type in all of your favorite sites, and it loads them up with the ads in the background every day (at 3am when I don't care about bandwidth).
But the real sin to advertisers isn't blocking the ads, it's ignoring them, right?
How about being pissed off that private corporations aren't offering the pensions that used to be standard? If somebody has something good that you don't, is your first impulse always "take that away from them!" instead of "how can I get that too?"
I believe the OP is saying that they have a lot more to lose if Google decides to kill off their account due to inane policies, and I agree. If Facebook kills off my account, no big deal, I don't use it for much anyway. If Google killed off my account, I would lose Gmail, my presence on Youtube, search history, etc etc.
"This process is repeated several times to build up accurate statistics." If I'm reading this right, this means that you need multiple identical copies of the photon, and it's impossible to duplicate the quantum state of an object without knowing its exact state. You can't repeat the process on the same photon because that strong measurement destroys the photon's original state. This would work if your source was producing a number of identical photons, but it wouldn't be very useful in, for example, breaking quantum cryptography.
I was in quantum information theory two decades ago so my knowledge is out of date, but nothing about this sounds theoretically surprising; I suspect it is the experimental technique that is the key.
Regarding #1, the costs of copyediting should be pushed onto the author: if you can't write proper English, hire someone to do it for you. And if a referee thinks a paper is poorly written, they reject it immediately with a note to that effect.
I like the idea of releasing all papers after 5-10 years. I also don't see the advantage of having these essential parts of the scientific method in the hands of for-profit corporations with little accountability.
Mathematically interesting, but not functionally effective. The only votes that really matter in U.S. elections are those in "battleground" states. Politicians will fight over Ohio, but a vote in California is as irrelevant as a vote in Alaska.
Well not exactly: right now each party starts out with a certain number of "safe" electoral votes, and the difference between that number and 270 determines *how many* swing states they need to win. If California was bumped up to 65 electoral votes from 55 (I think) then the Democratic candidate would have 10 fewer EVs they would have to win somewhere else, so maybe they don't need to win Wisconsin or Michigan now.
The *individual* votes in California or Alaska are meaningless, but the total number of electoral votes assigned to those states really does matter.
Burgled just sounds too cute, like something a baby does when she's happy. "Oh did my wittle sweetums burgle a house? Yes he did!"
I haven't run the numbers, but the electoral college favors less populous states by guaranteeing a minimum of 3 electoral votes. California has 66 times the population of Wyoming but only 18 times the number of electoral votes. My initial guess would be that the voters in rural Western states (Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, etc) would lose clout in this scheme, and those are all Republican strongholds.
However, the 10 least populous states (+DC) are Wyoming (R), Vermont (D), DC (D), North Dakota (R), Alaska (R),
South Dakota (R), Delaware (D), Montana (R), Rhode Island (D), and New Hampshire (swing)
So that's a 50-50 split pretty much: both parties benefit from the electoral college.
The top 10 states are California (D), Texas (R), New York (D), Florida (swing), Illinois (D), Pennsylvania (swing), Ohio (swing), Georgia (R), Michigan (D?), and North Carolina (swing?). So 4 D, 2 R, and 4 swing states (depending on how you define them): so maybe the Dems suffer a bit from the electoral college at this end of the spectrum.
The hard question is what happens when you split these states up: Atlanta freed from the rest of Georgia goes blue, but the middle of Pennsylvania goes red without Philly and Pittsburgh, etc. So maybe the article is right that when you run the numbers it disadvantages Democrats, but I'd be interested to see the analysis because I don't understand how you come to the conclusion that this favors Republicans without it.
(I know this isn't a serious proposal so apologies for geeking out over it. :)
I've taught physics for almost a decade, and I have kept a website for most of it; recently I've started taking notes on an electronic whiteboard and posting it and class audio to the website as well. What I've found is that the only way I can keep the website up-to-date is if I make updating it as dead-simple as possible. The more clicking and typing I have to do, the easier it is for me to say "Oh, I'll do it later." (Perhaps I'm just a lazy person, granted.) My current homegrown system lets me dump files I want to post to the website into a webDAV folder, and they show up automatically on my CGI-generated website in the appropriate place.
Unfortunately, last time I checked Blackboard (the leading course management software) was nowhere near as simple. No capacity for automation, and much too much clicking and typing required to post anything. If I were stuck using Blackboard I'm not sure I'd bother either.
1) Why is the common base unit of mass the KILOgram? Rename the kilogram so that you can attach metric prefixes to it properly: kilokilogram doesn't cut it.
2) 1 g of water = 1 cm^3 = 1 mL? Can't we come up with units of length, volume, and mass that agree with one another?
3) The names are cumbersome: kilometers vs miles, etc. Prefixes should be one syllable long so that the words can be shorter.
#1 and #2 could be fixed by defining the unit length to be 1 decimeter (about 4 inches): 1 cubic decimeter is 1 liter, and 1 liter of water weighs (roughly) 1 kilogram (which would get a new, better name as per #1).
And oh yes, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day? What the heck? Decimal time, all the way. (We're stuck with 365.25 days in a year, but portions of a day are under our control.)
I suppose the argument against all of this is that people are used to the metric system the way it is.
I hate that cellphone-only rule; if people are going to be talking on their cellphones, I want to be able to put on my headphones to tune them out.
From page 4 of the book:
In short, this is not a programming book, but it appears to be a book of cultural anthropology about programming. Or perhaps a meditation which starts with one simple starting point and branching out in many different directions. Criticizing the program "10 PRINT" as trivial rather misses the point, I should think.
What if they start building the Kinect technology directly into cable boxes, or televisions?
"I'm considering making a $1, $10 and $25 version available from Amazon as a way for folks to donate money to me"
The author's asking for donations, not charging a mandatory fee. I've seen this model with concerts at churches etc, where they'll sponsor a free concert, but with a "suggested free-will offering".
So the reason the newspapers don't use robots.txt isn't that they want Google to stop showing news from *their* websites, they want Google to stop showing news from their *competitors'* websites, right? They want to get rid of a la carte news.
I for one will be glad when monochrome is passé; I'm surprised Google still has its multicolor logo, for all its embraced this trend. Vive les couleurs!
Facebook is rather complicated, but I think Twitter would be easier to replace due to its very public nature. Everyone sets up their own RSS feed (on whatever server they like) with an interface that makes it very easy to add to, and then your Twitter feed is simply an RSS aggregator which sorts entries chronologically and displays them inline.
So isn't the world wide web also a public venue? The politicians appear to be saying "yes".
Which is like saying that because Harry Potter is a publicly published book series, reading a Harry Potter book in bed is a public act.
It probably will take time for men to accept it, maybe a new generation. I wonder how many women were squicked out by the Pill when it first came out? (Not counting the women who were opposed to it on moral grounds.)
When Apple closes the gate on the walled garden, we'll all skip that OS update, or leave for another OS. Until then, Macs remain nicely useable even for people who write their own programs and generally don't want to play inside the garden.