Yeah I know its RMS, so ideology wins over practicality. But I'd think AAC would be ok, and then it could be played with iTunes or whatever.
And this my friends, is why OSX is not, and never will be a true *nix system. Under the hood, everything may seem the same, but when you look at who's in the driving seat, you're never looking at a *nix geek. A true *nix geek would never accept a music player that couldn't play near every music file under the sun. And Apple geek will never accept a player that plays anything other than mp3 and AAC.
But a large proportion of the teenage population doesn't yet have the maturity to deal with these things.
Or at least that's what everyone thinks. Whether it is true or not is another question.
I don't claim to have been a complete adult at the time, but when I was twelve, I knew the difference between right and wrong. More to the point I knew where the line was between messing around with someone and seriously offending them. Sure I would crack a joke or two, but if someone came in with a gigantic pimple on their face, or was overweight, I knew that to make a joke out of that would seriously offend them and would forever reflect poorly on me.
One morning when I was about fourteen, someone began gleefully telling a group of us that so-and-so was with his girlfriend and had apparently suffered from erectile dysfunction. Even at the time I was dubious, but when you're fourteen, you simply assume that most people around you are having "sexual relations"(it was at about that time), so I considered it plausable that somehow this guy had got wind of an actual event. I told the guy flat out that it was completely unacceptable for him to be spreading those kinds of rumours. Not in a deadly serious way mind you. In the teen speak of the day my exact words were probably along the lines of; "You _can't_ be goin' around saying things like that. That's _not_ on. Etc, etc...".
It was early in the morning, and we could have been the first group he spoke to. I think my chastisement, such as it was, probably did stop the rumor from propagating. The incident came to mind recently when I read about just such a malicious rumor being spread about another teenager, only this time it was being done very publicly over the internet. It brought back the event and I thought about how much the victim could have been spared if just someone, not neccessarily anyone who knew him, had said to those spreading the rumors that, "It is unacceptable for you to do this."
I don't pretend to be anyone special, because I'm not. It's my firm opinion that all teenagers do have the ability to tell right from wrong. The hormones that make your pubic hair grow do not affect your ability to understand the effects of your actions. And there aren't very many people who have a genetic predisposition, or cognitive disorder, or whatever other pseudoscientific replacement for demonic possession is doing the rounds, that prevents them from telling right from wrong. There are however a lot of people who choose not to voice their opinion, to go with the flow and even to join in the spreading of such malicious rumors.
I hold that the vast, vast majority of teenagers, and adults, that participate in the spreading of rumors a) are mature enough to know what they are doing is wrong and b) consciously choose to ignore that fact. There's the myth of the hormone crazed teen, but that, like the teenager itself, is a recent invention, concocted to explain the unrest among people who are now (young)adults, but are still being treated like children. They're not children. They're not crazed. They're quite mature. They've got the maturity to understand all this. But do their guardians have the maturity to understand that?
And why should the government be paying for your education?
Because his future salary will repay them in taxes. There's a reason that countries that introduce free education go on to become wealthier a few years later.
Liberal Democracy isn't the only ideology still remaining after the fall of the Soviet system. Neo-Facism and the cult of the leader in Russia. The One Party State in China. Theocracies in the Middle East. Tin Pot dictators ruling their roosts all across the third world. Even the "liberated" countries of eastern europe are falling back into authoritarianism.
And faced with this, what are liberal democratic societies doing? They're evolving into not-so-liberal democracies with human rights taking second place to "security" and profit. Once again, the US leads the way and the rest of the western world follows. I'd like to be more optimistic, but somedays I truely feel that the great democratic experiment is doomed to be a slow and ignominious failure.
Apathy is not the cause of democracy's downfall. The sad reality is that a great many people simply to not agree with our free society, with our rule of law or with our casteless social structure. These people are your friends, your neighbours and coworkers, and secretly they support presidents like Putin, and laws that ban street rallies and protests. They're simply waiting for the time when it becomes acceptable to voice those opinions once more. That time may be closer than you think.
And will it be able to recognised and latexify handwriten mathematics. The world and it's mother can do OCR, but I've yet to an honest attempt at making writing mathematics papers easier.
While the majority of rural Chinese live in property, it will not take too many more decades of double-digit GDP growth to correct this.
I live in Ireland. It took one decade of single digit growth to turn this country from a second world laughing stock to a first world economy (though truth be told the economy could be ais to still be a laughing stock). So how come it's going to take several decade for China to do the same? Interia? Give me a break.
The difference is that in 1990, Ireland was a democracy. In 1990, China was still sweeping Tiannamen Square under the carpet. 17 years later, although our public services still suck, Ireland is a properous country overall. In China, 800m+ people have benefited only minimally from those double digit growth figures.
The reality is, even with single digit growth, if China was a democracy, its society would have rocketed forward in the last ten years. Instead, even with double digit growth, the Imperial Court^D^DCommunist Party is holding the entire nation back.
China was once the most advanced country in the world, but successive authoritarian and incompetant emperors lead to its decline. The communist party is simply continuing that long tradition.
Don't WoW players have the option of "soulbinding" their gold and other items, so that only their own character can use them? This would seem to be the easiest fix for the problem of account hacking.
Firefox never seems to gobble up memory for me, but things do become noticeably slower after a while, with errors occassionally breaking in. I'd suspect they have some kind of memory fragmentation issues moreso than anything else. But that is just a wild assed guess on my part.
Get over your god damn self. You have a keyboard and an opinion not necessarily a degree and a practice sense of professionalism.
You know what the real difference between Bloggers and Journalists is?
Journalists have patrons.
Unlike Bloggers, "real" journalists get paid for their opinions and writing. This of course means that they have to write what their patron/employer/publisher wants, or they won't get paid at all. 99 times out of 100, this means that a "real" journalists is simply a shill. A mouthpiece for someone else.
Modern journalism is a long standing joke. There is no fourth estate. Journalists have essentially taken up the baton of the second estate from an outdated clergy. Like clerics before them, the function of journalists is to stand on the pulpit and preach their master's creed to the masses. They are paid handsomely for this service.
At least Bloggers, mostly, don't get directly paid by vested interests. With the state of the modern media as it is, frankly, I'll trust the opinion of some random jackanape with a weblog before I trust a newspaper column or TV anchor. At least on average, I'm more likely to hit upon the truth with a jackanape.
Well, for the hermaphrodite twin, the implications are "corrective" gential surgury, followed by lifelong hormone therapy. Whether this is needed or even works at all is largely a secondary issue. You should read up about the expieriences of people born with ambiguous genitalia and the sufferring they have to endure at the hands of modern medicine and psychiatry.
Who do you expect us to trust? Some Wikipedia article, or years of solid TV and movie dramatisations of space exploration?
I for one would fully expect, nay demand, that even the most microscopic of punctures in the suits skin must quickly lead to blood curdling screams followed by the astronaught either gratuitiously exploding within their suit, or the suit itself rupturing and spraying copious amounts of gore in all directions. Furthermore, the screams and sounds of exploding organs should carry across the vacuum.
We spend millions on our space programs. The public should demand nothing less.
There may be a moral responsibility to disobey the unconstitutional law, but there is at least technically a legal responsibility to obey it.
Not really. If the law is unconstitutional to begin with, there's no onus on anyone to obey it. It's the government is acting illegally here, not you. Don't be so quick to kow-tow to imperial officials waving official orders about. You'll set a bad example.
I like to think of it as a little more. A pointer, in reality, contains only one address in memory. But the pointer itself is designnated as pointing to a specific type of data. So when it points to the start address of a block of data, there's also additional things about that pointer that tell you how to find all the rest of the data type.
It's like mass biscuit templates. D you know the ones that are segmented into different biscuit shapes. You roll the dough flat and press the template into it to cut out the different shaped sough pieces for cooking the biscuits. But obviously, by placing down the template to cut only one biscuit, you automatically determine all the rest of the biscuits.
Pointers are like those biscuit templates. And memory is like the dough. The address is the location of just one biscuit, and once placed into the dough(memory) all the rest of the data pieces(biscuits) are determined. Think of the dough as containing raisins, etc, peppered all over the place, to represent non homogeneous data in memory.
Programmers shouldn't need to know about big-O notation(90% is just mathematical sophistry anyway). Programmers should simply be able to grok what algorithims are more or less efficient and in what circumstances, and mor or less why. Proving some rookies hack had was O(n!) is not a practical job requirement. You should just be able to look at his code, go "Uuuhhh!!!", and change it to something that's O(n^2), or O(nlog(n)) if you have time.
At no point is it required that you know exactly what order your algorithim is. You should just have a good feel for how good its doing. Use code profilers, etc to help with this. But in the end, just like novel writers have to read lots of other books, programmers have to read lots of code so they know what's good and what's not almost instictivly. It's a skill that can be learned.
In my day we had Yoko Ono, five cats, a chainsaw, and tube of K-Y Jelly.
Well, La de da Mr. Performance Patron. I'm sure you enjoyed your hobnobbing at the theatre.
Unlike some, the rest of us had to make do with making our own music. And none of your fancy analogue devices for us, no sir! We used MIDI! Wrote the control programs ourselves, in assembly, on punchcards. Had to haul 'em fifteen miles to the nearest mainframe, in the snow, uphill, both ways. And we liked it!!
Changing genetic code can turn proteins into poison (not all proteins are digestible). Now, such a thing is unlikely-
Unlikely?! DNA is the initial condition for just about the most chaotic processes known. If you go changing large sequences, you can expect large emergent differences in the final organism by default.
Another genius idea from people who know absolutely nothing about how computers or the internet functions. Ports are for protocols, not content. The "content" is just a paticular arrangement of data sent over that protcol.
What these guys really want is to mandate that all IPv6 packets have a TOTC(Think of the children) bit. Defaulted to 1, for "unsafe content". They then pass legislation banning ISPs from handling anything with a TOTC bit of 1. The only way to get a TOTC bit of zero, without breaking the law, is to apply for an extremely expensive licence and audit, available to only the largest corporations.
Entirely coincidentally, the Chinese government's UFTP(Unsafe for the People) bit will occupy exactly the same position in their altered version of the IPv6 protocol, ensuring that the new, saer net will be fully interoperable.
Farfetched? Well, which is more likely? This or competant government that's for the people?
Slashdot Mirror
And this my friends, is why OSX is not, and never will be a true *nix system. Under the hood, everything may seem the same, but when you look at who's in the driving seat, you're never looking at a *nix geek. A true *nix geek would never accept a music player that couldn't play near every music file under the sun. And Apple geek will never accept a player that plays anything other than mp3 and AAC.
I'd cut out my accuser's lying tounge. I would consider it a fair exchange(that includes the second sentence).
Or at least that's what everyone thinks. Whether it is true or not is another question.
I don't claim to have been a complete adult at the time, but when I was twelve, I knew the difference between right and wrong. More to the point I knew where the line was between messing around with someone and seriously offending them. Sure I would crack a joke or two, but if someone came in with a gigantic pimple on their face, or was overweight, I knew that to make a joke out of that would seriously offend them and would forever reflect poorly on me.
One morning when I was about fourteen, someone began gleefully telling a group of us that so-and-so was with his girlfriend and had apparently suffered from erectile dysfunction. Even at the time I was dubious, but when you're fourteen, you simply assume that most people around you are having "sexual relations"(it was at about that time), so I considered it plausable that somehow this guy had got wind of an actual event. I told the guy flat out that it was completely unacceptable for him to be spreading those kinds of rumours. Not in a deadly serious way mind you. In the teen speak of the day my exact words were probably along the lines of; "You _can't_ be goin' around saying things like that. That's _not_ on. Etc, etc...".
It was early in the morning, and we could have been the first group he spoke to. I think my chastisement, such as it was, probably did stop the rumor from propagating. The incident came to mind recently when I read about just such a malicious rumor being spread about another teenager, only this time it was being done very publicly over the internet. It brought back the event and I thought about how much the victim could have been spared if just someone, not neccessarily anyone who knew him, had said to those spreading the rumors that, "It is unacceptable for you to do this."
I don't pretend to be anyone special, because I'm not. It's my firm opinion that all teenagers do have the ability to tell right from wrong. The hormones that make your pubic hair grow do not affect your ability to understand the effects of your actions. And there aren't very many people who have a genetic predisposition, or cognitive disorder, or whatever other pseudoscientific replacement for demonic possession is doing the rounds, that prevents them from telling right from wrong. There are however a lot of people who choose not to voice their opinion, to go with the flow and even to join in the spreading of such malicious rumors.
I hold that the vast, vast majority of teenagers, and adults, that participate in the spreading of rumors a) are mature enough to know what they are doing is wrong and b) consciously choose to ignore that fact. There's the myth of the hormone crazed teen, but that, like the teenager itself, is a recent invention, concocted to explain the unrest among people who are now (young)adults, but are still being treated like children. They're not children. They're not crazed. They're quite mature. They've got the maturity to understand all this. But do their guardians have the maturity to understand that?
Have you posted here before?
Because his future salary will repay them in taxes. There's a reason that countries that introduce free education go on to become wealthier a few years later.
Francis Fukuyama was wrong. So wrong.
Liberal Democracy isn't the only ideology still remaining after the fall of the Soviet system. Neo-Facism and the cult of the leader in Russia. The One Party State in China. Theocracies in the Middle East. Tin Pot dictators ruling their roosts all across the third world. Even the "liberated" countries of eastern europe are falling back into authoritarianism.
And faced with this, what are liberal democratic societies doing? They're evolving into not-so-liberal democracies with human rights taking second place to "security" and profit. Once again, the US leads the way and the rest of the western world follows. I'd like to be more optimistic, but somedays I truely feel that the great democratic experiment is doomed to be a slow and ignominious failure.
Apathy is not the cause of democracy's downfall. The sad reality is that a great many people simply to not agree with our free society, with our rule of law or with our casteless social structure. These people are your friends, your neighbours and coworkers, and secretly they support presidents like Putin, and laws that ban street rallies and protests. They're simply waiting for the time when it becomes acceptable to voice those opinions once more. That time may be closer than you think.
And will it be able to recognised and latexify handwriten mathematics. The world and it's mother can do OCR, but I've yet to an honest attempt at making writing mathematics papers easier.
It'll play. You just need the right tool for the job.
Three words.
Deep Packet Inspection.
I live in Ireland. It took one decade of single digit growth to turn this country from a second world laughing stock to a first world economy (though truth be told the economy could be ais to still be a laughing stock). So how come it's going to take several decade for China to do the same? Interia? Give me a break.
The difference is that in 1990, Ireland was a democracy. In 1990, China was still sweeping Tiannamen Square under the carpet. 17 years later, although our public services still suck, Ireland is a properous country overall. In China, 800m+ people have benefited only minimally from those double digit growth figures.
The reality is, even with single digit growth, if China was a democracy, its society would have rocketed forward in the last ten years. Instead, even with double digit growth, the Imperial Court^D^DCommunist Party is holding the entire nation back.
China was once the most advanced country in the world, but successive authoritarian and incompetant emperors lead to its decline. The communist party is simply continuing that long tradition.
Don't WoW players have the option of "soulbinding" their gold and other items, so that only their own character can use them? This would seem to be the easiest fix for the problem of account hacking.
Thinkgeek.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG [CC]
Firefox never seems to gobble up memory for me, but things do become noticeably slower after a while, with errors occassionally breaking in. I'd suspect they have some kind of memory fragmentation issues moreso than anything else. But that is just a wild assed guess on my part.
You know what the real difference between Bloggers and Journalists is?
Journalists have patrons.
Unlike Bloggers, "real" journalists get paid for their opinions and writing. This of course means that they have to write what their patron/employer/publisher wants, or they won't get paid at all. 99 times out of 100, this means that a "real" journalists is simply a shill. A mouthpiece for someone else.
Modern journalism is a long standing joke. There is no fourth estate. Journalists have essentially taken up the baton of the second estate from an outdated clergy. Like clerics before them, the function of journalists is to stand on the pulpit and preach their master's creed to the masses. They are paid handsomely for this service.
At least Bloggers, mostly, don't get directly paid by vested interests. With the state of the modern media as it is, frankly, I'll trust the opinion of some random jackanape with a weblog before I trust a newspaper column or TV anchor. At least on average, I'm more likely to hit upon the truth with a jackanape.
Well, for the hermaphrodite twin, the implications are "corrective" gential surgury, followed by lifelong hormone therapy. Whether this is needed or even works at all is largely a secondary issue. You should read up about the expieriences of people born with ambiguous genitalia and the sufferring they have to endure at the hands of modern medicine and psychiatry.
Try South Africa. The right to private communication is enshired in their constitution.
Who do you expect us to trust? Some Wikipedia article, or years of solid TV and movie dramatisations of space exploration?
I for one would fully expect, nay demand, that even the most microscopic of punctures in the suits skin must quickly lead to blood curdling screams followed by the astronaught either gratuitiously exploding within their suit, or the suit itself rupturing and spraying copious amounts of gore in all directions. Furthermore, the screams and sounds of exploding organs should carry across the vacuum.
We spend millions on our space programs. The public should demand nothing less.
Not really. If the law is unconstitutional to begin with, there's no onus on anyone to obey it. It's the government is acting illegally here, not you. Don't be so quick to kow-tow to imperial officials waving official orders about. You'll set a bad example.
I like to think of it as a little more. A pointer, in reality, contains only one address in memory. But the pointer itself is designnated as pointing to a specific type of data. So when it points to the start address of a block of data, there's also additional things about that pointer that tell you how to find all the rest of the data type.
It's like mass biscuit templates. D you know the ones that are segmented into different biscuit shapes. You roll the dough flat and press the template into it to cut out the different shaped sough pieces for cooking the biscuits. But obviously, by placing down the template to cut only one biscuit, you automatically determine all the rest of the biscuits.
Pointers are like those biscuit templates. And memory is like the dough. The address is the location of just one biscuit, and once placed into the dough(memory) all the rest of the data pieces(biscuits) are determined. Think of the dough as containing raisins, etc, peppered all over the place, to represent non homogeneous data in memory.
I wonder if this means that we'll finally find out what happened to SHADO?
Programmers shouldn't need to know about big-O notation(90% is just mathematical sophistry anyway). Programmers should simply be able to grok what algorithims are more or less efficient and in what circumstances, and mor or less why. Proving some rookies hack had was O(n!) is not a practical job requirement. You should just be able to look at his code, go "Uuuhhh!!!", and change it to something that's O(n^2), or O(nlog(n)) if you have time.
At no point is it required that you know exactly what order your algorithim is. You should just have a good feel for how good its doing. Use code profilers, etc to help with this. But in the end, just like novel writers have to read lots of other books, programmers have to read lots of code so they know what's good and what's not almost instictivly. It's a skill that can be learned.
Well, La de da Mr. Performance Patron. I'm sure you enjoyed your hobnobbing at the theatre.
Unlike some, the rest of us had to make do with making our own music. And none of your fancy analogue devices for us, no sir! We used MIDI! Wrote the control programs ourselves, in assembly, on punchcards. Had to haul 'em fifteen miles to the nearest mainframe, in the snow, uphill, both ways. And we liked it!!
Don't be so influagrous!
Unlikely?! DNA is the initial condition for just about the most chaotic processes known. If you go changing large sequences, you can expect large emergent differences in the final organism by default.
Another genius idea from people who know absolutely nothing about how computers or the internet functions. Ports are for protocols, not content. The "content" is just a paticular arrangement of data sent over that protcol.
What these guys really want is to mandate that all IPv6 packets have a TOTC(Think of the children) bit. Defaulted to 1, for "unsafe content". They then pass legislation banning ISPs from handling anything with a TOTC bit of 1. The only way to get a TOTC bit of zero, without breaking the law, is to apply for an extremely expensive licence and audit, available to only the largest corporations.
Entirely coincidentally, the Chinese government's UFTP(Unsafe for the People) bit will occupy exactly the same position in their altered version of the IPv6 protocol, ensuring that the new, saer net will be fully interoperable.
Farfetched? Well, which is more likely? This or competant government that's for the people?