"Because I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to see that definition if she suddenly takes an interest in my disgust at the primary returns."
Well I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to be exposed to the repulsive, hate filled views Rick Santorum espouses and which Dan Savage was responding to with the 'redefinition' campaign, but since I don't get to stop Rick from spewing vile hatred, I'd rather my daughter discover that she lives in a society where a lot of people find Rick's attitudes reprehensible, even if it leads to a couple of awkward questions about sex.
Reminds me of a front page headline from a small town in Western Australia in the 1920s: "Half the town council are idiots!" When threatened with a libel lawsuit, the editor agreed to an equally prominent retraction, and sure enough published an equally prominent front page headline the next day: "Half the town council are not idiots!" Genius..
"without due process of law". The due process of law has been followed, now the judge is ordering her to obey the (flawed, stupid) law. Just because it's insane doesn't make it unconstitutional.
He wasn't arrested, he was 'detained'. You know, that handy status we've invented to get around constitutional niceties about arrest and due process.
On another note "shall in all cases, except.. breach of the peace" - the TSA could argue he was breaching the peace by refusing to adhere to their security theatre.
The Christian bible also commands people to lynch their neighbors for certain crimes. And lynchings certainly still occur in Christian-majority nations such as the United States over acts that are often considered prohibited by the bible, although legal under national law, such as being a gay male - see the Matthew Shepard case for example. Further, lynchings - ie extrajudicial punishments or murder - usually occur when the population committing the lynching knows full well that the state will not punish the 'crime' being committed. The KKK knew that the state would not punish or execute black Americans for being 'uppity' even in the South in the 50s, hence the extradjudicial lynchings and hangings. The young men who dragged Matthew Shepard behind a pickup knew the state would not punish or kill Matthew Shepard for being gay. There's nothing unique about Muslim lynch mobs either - like anywhere, they occur when people know full well that the regular state apparatus will not punish the 'crime' for them - either due to lack of ability (resources etc) or lack of willingness (the law does not actually consider the person or their acts to be criminal).
True. But it's nice to be able to have one gadget not two (still need the calendar, contacts etc from the original phone - I'm usually in London for conferences or other work) and even nicer to be able to give people a number to reach you on before you're there.
I hope they keep it up afterwards. It'd be nice to be able to use google voice / skype / other VOIP solutions on my smartphone instead of paying obscene international roaming charges or screwing around jailbreaking and getting local sim cards.
For a given definition of efficient. The cathedral model can be extraordinarily good at reaching difficult but definable goals, such as landing on the moon or developing the atomic bomb. But it's pretty hopeless when it comes to reaching hard to define goals - I can't imagine a Kennedy 'go to the moon' speech with the contemporary internet as the end result, for example - the contemporary internet is something that developed through bazaar-style accretion and the outcomes of putting all these random bits and pieces together keeps producing 'end results' that few people anticipate when they developed their little bits of it.
The other efficiency problem with the cathedral is it frequently comes up with really expensive solutions. A cathedral approach certainly got to the moon *first*, but resulted a grand total of 12 people walking on the moon, and you'll notice no-one has stepped onto the moon in nearly 40 years. On the other hand, sometime in the next 40 years you'll almost certainly see people walk on the moon again courtesy of spacecraft developed through the kind of bazaar-like processes that have brought the price of air travel within reach of a lot of humanity - lots of companies and individuals all tweaking on various parts of the process in search of cheaper and better ways of doing things over long periods of time.
Seriously. I don't think we're that far away from a 'phone' which gives you a touchscreen gui oriented towards phone/mobile use when unplugged but a desktop gui when plugged into a cradle with a monitor & keyboard attached.
"Let's compare switching tasks in GNOME 2 and 3. In GNOME 3 I can move my mouse over to the hot corner just as quickly, if not more quickly, than I can move my eyes there."
Yeah, lets - Ctrl-Alt-Arrow vs take hand from keyboard, reach to mouse, mouse up to a corner. Or Alt-Tab to switch between apps vs more mouse crap. I do like gnome 3's Alt-tab to switch between windows opened by the same app (something I miss from os x), but dear God, the sudden amount of mouse-for-everything shit gnome 3 requires is a wrist-numbing productivity killer.
Steve Jobs went to three public schools prior to Prop 13's crippling effects on public school funding in California. Good luck getting into a decent school in California these days if your parents aren't quite well off. Without that investment in Jobs' early education he never would have gone on to do the things he did.
Which works great until you're in Dubai and are trying to login to facebook to get a phone number of a local friend so you can catch up and facebook plays the 'pictures of your friends' guessing game and half your friends have random images for profile pics, or have changed their picture to a black square in protest of something or whatever and you're locked out. Nice idea; fails badly fairly often given the way people use their profile pictures.
This. I stuck with 10.04 for ages (so my laptop duplicated versions of everything on a server I was doing a lot of work on); finally decided to upgrade to 11.10 so I could make use of some major upgrades to some GIS software I use without getting bogged in dependency problems. I'd heard all the whining about Unity but figured it was the usual complaining about change. Didn't like it at first, but decided it was just my muscle memory etc was all wrong and I'd get used to it.
But after a month, I finally gave up - the dock and search box are usable for software you use every day, but for all those programs you use once a month or so and can't remember exactly what they're called, it's close to useless. Every now and again I need to stick some scans of maps together. I remember I have a program installed that does this wonderfully, but can't remember what it's called. Using Gnome2, I'd just click applications -> graphics, and "oh yeah, Hugin!". Using Unity, half the time I'd end up on google trying to remember the name of the damn thing. I ended up switching to Mint, to get the benefit of recent versions of the software I use without having the window manager slow down my work.
I think Shuttleworth is missing the point - it's not power users who hate Unity, it's people who are using their computers to actually do work, and want the window manager to impede that as little as possible who find Unity a PITA.
That list describes addictive potential. It's saying that it's physiologically harder to quit nicotine than heroin. Neither of them have withdrawal symptoms which can kill you, despite what the movies might suggest (alcohol is another thing however - quitting that can kill you). Withdrawal aside, both nicotine and heroin have an LD50 (a dose at which it will kill 50 people in 100) - nicotine has an LD50 of around 0.5-10 mg/kg; morphine has an LD50 of around 400mg/kg (heroin metabolizes into morphine in the bloodstream within about 2 minutes - they're functionally equivalent from this perspective). Probably more importantly, nicotine kills around 1 in 2 of long term users (http://www.who.int/tobacco/health_priority/en/), heroin kills around 1 in 13 (eg http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.1999.9422216.x/abstract). If someone tols me I had to start using heroin or tobacco tomorrow, if all I cared about was length of life I'd choose heroin.
You know you can opt out of the naked body scanner, right? I've been in the wrong queue and hit it three times in the last six months; each time I said politely I'd like to opt out. The TSA people equally politely said "no problem".... And I got the pat-down instead. Which is at least as bad from a privacy point of view and at least as pointless from a security point of view.
On a completely different note, I catch amtrak from LA to San Diego about once a week; I've seen sniffer dogs twice in the last 2 years and have never seen anyone be searched anywhere for any reason. Not that I'll be wildly surprised if it starts abruptly (and I'll definitely tell them to go screw themselves if it happens as I get *off* the train). So you might still be ok doing the Vancouver -> San Diego trip.
Driving is *so* much more dangerous than flying that the number of deaths due to people choosing to drive rather than fly, either because of fear of terrorism or annoyance at the TSA lunacy, that you can easily show the number of deaths caused by it. By now it's probably in excess of the number of people killed on 9/11.
That too. Although people in California with type I have been given prescriptions for syringes ever since syringe possession without a prescription was made illegal in the 50s or 60s; pharmacies have always been able to sell them syringes. Ironically, if you have type I diabetes, every time you change jobs in the US unless your employer happens to use the same insurance company as your last employer you get denied coverage for 6 months for having a 'pre-existing condition'. While syringe costs aren't much beside insulin costs, I've seen plenty of diabetics at syringe exchanges to get free syringes due to a change of job. The same people who oppose syringe exchanges tend to oppose the Obama health reforms, which include a provision preventing insurance companies from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
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"Because I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to see that definition if she suddenly takes an interest in my disgust at the primary returns."
Well I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to be exposed to the repulsive, hate filled views Rick Santorum espouses and which Dan Savage was responding to with the 'redefinition' campaign, but since I don't get to stop Rick from spewing vile hatred, I'd rather my daughter discover that she lives in a society where a lot of people find Rick's attitudes reprehensible, even if it leads to a couple of awkward questions about sex.
Reminds me of a front page headline from a small town in Western Australia in the 1920s: "Half the town council are idiots!" When threatened with a libel lawsuit, the editor agreed to an equally prominent retraction, and sure enough published an equally prominent front page headline the next day: "Half the town council are not idiots!" Genius..
"without due process of law". The due process of law has been followed, now the judge is ordering her to obey the (flawed, stupid) law. Just because it's insane doesn't make it unconstitutional.
Err.. You already can. Alt-F2, then:
mail user@host.tld file.txt
if you want a subject line,
mail -s "Here's he file" user@host.tld file.txt
He wasn't arrested, he was 'detained'. You know, that handy status we've invented to get around constitutional niceties about arrest and due process.
On another note "shall in all cases, except .. breach of the peace" - the TSA could argue he was breaching the peace by refusing to adhere to their security theatre.
The Christian bible also commands people to lynch their neighbors for certain crimes. And lynchings certainly still occur in Christian-majority nations such as the United States over acts that are often considered prohibited by the bible, although legal under national law, such as being a gay male - see the Matthew Shepard case for example. Further, lynchings - ie extrajudicial punishments or murder - usually occur when the population committing the lynching knows full well that the state will not punish the 'crime' being committed. The KKK knew that the state would not punish or execute black Americans for being 'uppity' even in the South in the 50s, hence the extradjudicial lynchings and hangings. The young men who dragged Matthew Shepard behind a pickup knew the state would not punish or kill Matthew Shepard for being gay. There's nothing unique about Muslim lynch mobs either - like anywhere, they occur when people know full well that the regular state apparatus will not punish the 'crime' for them - either due to lack of ability (resources etc) or lack of willingness (the law does not actually consider the person or their acts to be criminal).
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True. But it's nice to be able to have one gadget not two (still need the calendar, contacts etc from the original phone - I'm usually in London for conferences or other work) and even nicer to be able to give people a number to reach you on before you're there.
My work bought it. And stop shouting at me. :)
I hope they keep it up afterwards. It'd be nice to be able to use google voice / skype / other VOIP solutions on my smartphone instead of paying obscene international roaming charges or screwing around jailbreaking and getting local sim cards.
For a given definition of efficient. The cathedral model can be extraordinarily good at reaching difficult but definable goals, such as landing on the moon or developing the atomic bomb. But it's pretty hopeless when it comes to reaching hard to define goals - I can't imagine a Kennedy 'go to the moon' speech with the contemporary internet as the end result, for example - the contemporary internet is something that developed through bazaar-style accretion and the outcomes of putting all these random bits and pieces together keeps producing 'end results' that few people anticipate when they developed their little bits of it.
The other efficiency problem with the cathedral is it frequently comes up with really expensive solutions. A cathedral approach certainly got to the moon *first*, but resulted a grand total of 12 people walking on the moon, and you'll notice no-one has stepped onto the moon in nearly 40 years. On the other hand, sometime in the next 40 years you'll almost certainly see people walk on the moon again courtesy of spacecraft developed through the kind of bazaar-like processes that have brought the price of air travel within reach of a lot of humanity - lots of companies and individuals all tweaking on various parts of the process in search of cheaper and better ways of doing things over long periods of time.
Seriously. I don't think we're that far away from a 'phone' which gives you a touchscreen gui oriented towards phone/mobile use when unplugged but a desktop gui when plugged into a cradle with a monitor & keyboard attached.
Except in China. Hu Jintao was trained as a hydraulic engineer, and 8 of the top 9 government officials were trained as engineers.
"Let's compare switching tasks in GNOME 2 and 3. In GNOME 3 I can move my mouse over to the hot corner just as quickly, if not more quickly, than I can move my eyes there."
Yeah, lets - Ctrl-Alt-Arrow vs take hand from keyboard, reach to mouse, mouse up to a corner. Or Alt-Tab to switch between apps vs more mouse crap. I do like gnome 3's Alt-tab to switch between windows opened by the same app (something I miss from os x), but dear God, the sudden amount of mouse-for-everything shit gnome 3 requires is a wrist-numbing productivity killer.
Steve Jobs went to three public schools prior to Prop 13's crippling effects on public school funding in California. Good luck getting into a decent school in California these days if your parents aren't quite well off. Without that investment in Jobs' early education he never would have gone on to do the things he did.
Sounds like they've at least improved it since last time I bumped into it (over a year ago) - at that point it was profile images only.
Which works great until you're in Dubai and are trying to login to facebook to get a phone number of a local friend so you can catch up and facebook plays the 'pictures of your friends' guessing game and half your friends have random images for profile pics, or have changed their picture to a black square in protest of something or whatever and you're locked out. Nice idea; fails badly fairly often given the way people use their profile pictures.
This. I stuck with 10.04 for ages (so my laptop duplicated versions of everything on a server I was doing a lot of work on); finally decided to upgrade to 11.10 so I could make use of some major upgrades to some GIS software I use without getting bogged in dependency problems. I'd heard all the whining about Unity but figured it was the usual complaining about change. Didn't like it at first, but decided it was just my muscle memory etc was all wrong and I'd get used to it.
But after a month, I finally gave up - the dock and search box are usable for software you use every day, but for all those programs you use once a month or so and can't remember exactly what they're called, it's close to useless. Every now and again I need to stick some scans of maps together. I remember I have a program installed that does this wonderfully, but can't remember what it's called. Using Gnome2, I'd just click applications -> graphics, and "oh yeah, Hugin!". Using Unity, half the time I'd end up on google trying to remember the name of the damn thing. I ended up switching to Mint, to get the benefit of recent versions of the software I use without having the window manager slow down my work.
I think Shuttleworth is missing the point - it's not power users who hate Unity, it's people who are using their computers to actually do work, and want the window manager to impede that as little as possible who find Unity a PITA.
That list describes addictive potential. It's saying that it's physiologically harder to quit nicotine than heroin. Neither of them have withdrawal symptoms which can kill you, despite what the movies might suggest (alcohol is another thing however - quitting that can kill you). Withdrawal aside, both nicotine and heroin have an LD50 (a dose at which it will kill 50 people in 100) - nicotine has an LD50 of around 0.5-10 mg/kg; morphine has an LD50 of around 400mg/kg (heroin metabolizes into morphine in the bloodstream within about 2 minutes - they're functionally equivalent from this perspective). Probably more importantly, nicotine kills around 1 in 2 of long term users (http://www.who.int/tobacco/health_priority/en/), heroin kills around 1 in 13 (eg http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.1999.9422216.x/abstract). If someone tols me I had to start using heroin or tobacco tomorrow, if all I cared about was length of life I'd choose heroin.
You know you can opt out of the naked body scanner, right? I've been in the wrong queue and hit it three times in the last six months; each time I said politely I'd like to opt out. The TSA people equally politely said "no problem". ... And I got the pat-down instead. Which is at least as bad from a privacy point of view and at least as pointless from a security point of view.
On a completely different note, I catch amtrak from LA to San Diego about once a week; I've seen sniffer dogs twice in the last 2 years and have never seen anyone be searched anywhere for any reason. Not that I'll be wildly surprised if it starts abruptly (and I'll definitely tell them to go screw themselves if it happens as I get *off* the train). So you might still be ok doing the Vancouver -> San Diego trip.
2,170 deaths nationwide due to choosing driving instead of flying between 9/11/2001 and 12/2005: http://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty_sites/gb78/wp/fatalities_120505.pdf
Driving is *so* much more dangerous than flying that the number of deaths due to people choosing to drive rather than fly, either because of fear of terrorism or annoyance at the TSA lunacy, that you can easily show the number of deaths caused by it. By now it's probably in excess of the number of people killed on 9/11.
Oh wow, you're right:
http://www.wikilang.com/English/Spanish/streetwalker/lumia/1320206
That's hilarious..
In the United States, it's called 'government services', and 'making it suck' seems to be the current SOP of the GOP..
If you're silly enough to use windows, maybe it does matter what browser you use..
That too. Although people in California with type I have been given prescriptions for syringes ever since syringe possession without a prescription was made illegal in the 50s or 60s; pharmacies have always been able to sell them syringes. Ironically, if you have type I diabetes, every time you change jobs in the US unless your employer happens to use the same insurance company as your last employer you get denied coverage for 6 months for having a 'pre-existing condition'. While syringe costs aren't much beside insulin costs, I've seen plenty of diabetics at syringe exchanges to get free syringes due to a change of job. The same people who oppose syringe exchanges tend to oppose the Obama health reforms, which include a provision preventing insurance companies from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.