The most depressing thing about Drupal is that http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ , a website devoted to discussing the latest in programming languages research, is a drupal site. How on earth can a site that decries the unsoundess of C code, and can discuss the relationships of monads to any of three different effects calculi use PHP to run their site? Mind boggling.
If Japan *did* become the 51st state, the State of Japan would get more than twice as many electoral votes as California, and would thus quickly come to dominate all presidential elections, as well as the House of Representatives. Demagogues like Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara and incompetents like Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Yoshiro Mori would become major US political figures.
Right, but if they become 47 states, they will dominate the senate by adding 94 new senators. I don't think that solves the problem.
That's a total fallacy. If no one innovates anything, there's nothing to scoop up. Innovating always yields at least short term advantage. Everyone will develop their own solutions and guard them jealously. There has never been an industry where no one innovates. You can't fight human nature.
So what you're saying is that without patents your company wouldn't bother to develop new techniques? Wouldn't you be left in the dust by those that did? It seems like the "insider" scenario could easily be mitigated by background checks and the like. It works for the Intelligence community.
Don't you see? This is a brilliant strategy. By coming out in favor of ACTA, the Republicans now have to rail against ACTA for destroying America's freedom. Then Obama can "concede to political pressures" on the issue and ACTA is withdrawn, thus protecting America from this crap for another 4 years. It's pure genius.
I wonder how many of the technical objections are workarounds for where the "obvious" choice is already covered by software patents. One of ogg's selling points is that it isn't covered by any patents, and we know there are a lot of lame software patents out there.
Maya, for example, often gives different results between versions. It's also been owned by 5 companies in 6 years. What do you figure the odds of your work rendering correctly in 50 years? On the other hand, blender supposedly is still able to open first edition.blend files, but my point is you won't be there to spot check the consistency.
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I agree. I've been less than thrilled with Microsoft's behavior pretty much since windows 98, but this software patent nonsense needs to be reigned in. To me it seems like they should just abandon the Eastern Texas market. Without Word, either the court will cease to function or maybe they'll adopt Open Office, learn about Free Software, and cease being patent troll heaven. Oh wait, I suppose I should wake up now.
Maybe the baby boomers, but I don't know anyone in the 20-35 age group that pays for cable unless they want to watch sports. We all have internet access, hulu, and netflix.
Why do people always discuss National Energy Independence, when the oil is just going to be harvested by a multinational energy corporation and sold at whatever the market will bear?
I'm replying to this post since I tried to mod it insightful and the system chose redundant instead. Replying should blow away the previous mod. I miss the old system with an actual submit button for moderation.
I suppose you don't use cd's or dvds for archival data or just plain sneakernet style data transfer? The number of DVDs I've burned that included video data combined with the number of cds I've burned containing music is dwarfed by the amount of data cds I've burned by at least an order of magnitude. Why should I have to pay a levy on my data because YOU don't want to deal with the copyright storm troopers?
XML::LibXML is where it's at, it is a) quite a bit faster and b) has a sensible interfce rather than giving you useless empty hashrefs in the middle of a tree.
before I ever started doign that I'd have told him he was a frickin' moron.
So now linux is easy enough to install and administer it can be done by firckin' morons? Whoohoo! And all those anti-Linux folks said it was too complicated...
Wow, you have one heck of a reverse nostalgia filter going on. I mean how long has it been since you watched the series? I think it's still very enjoyable and it has som of the best monologues of any series. I mean firefly was a great premise, but it looks like that idea will never be allowed to flower. B5 on the other hand got to deliver it's creator's complete vision. It's rare to find that these days.
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The most depressing thing about Drupal is that http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ , a website devoted to discussing the latest in programming languages research, is a drupal site. How on earth can a site that decries the unsoundess of C code, and can discuss the relationships of monads to any of three different effects calculi use PHP to run their site? Mind boggling.
As an emacs user I'm looking forward to a new level of complicated chording commands. I won't have to use my nose to hit keys anymore!
If Japan *did* become the 51st state, the State of Japan would get more than twice as many electoral votes as California, and would thus quickly come to dominate all presidential elections, as well as the House of Representatives. Demagogues like Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara and incompetents like Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Yoshiro Mori would become major US political figures.
Right, but if they become 47 states, they will dominate the senate by adding 94 new senators. I don't think that solves the problem.
VCD is still popular in international markets. VCD just never made it here in the States.
That's a total fallacy. If no one innovates anything, there's nothing to scoop up. Innovating always yields at least short term advantage. Everyone will develop their own solutions and guard them jealously. There has never been an industry where no one innovates. You can't fight human nature.
So what you're saying is that without patents your company wouldn't bother to develop new techniques? Wouldn't you be left in the dust by those that did? It seems like the "insider" scenario could easily be mitigated by background checks and the like. It works for the Intelligence community.
Don't you see? This is a brilliant strategy. By coming out in favor of ACTA, the Republicans now have to rail against ACTA for destroying America's freedom. Then Obama can "concede to political pressures" on the issue and ACTA is withdrawn, thus protecting America from this crap for another 4 years. It's pure genius.
I wonder how many of the technical objections are workarounds for where the "obvious" choice is already covered by software patents. One of ogg's selling points is that it isn't covered by any patents, and we know there are a lot of lame software patents out there.
I would've gone with PCLOADLIVER, but I think on saw that a few years ago last time slashdot talked about this technology.
This is awesome! Now I don't have to sort through all the FoxNews crap in search results.
Maya, for example, often gives different results between versions. It's also been owned by 5 companies in 6 years. What do you figure the odds of your work rendering correctly in 50 years? On the other hand, blender supposedly is still able to open first edition .blend files, but my point is you won't be there to spot check the consistency.
But remember, on numerous occasions Joel has stated how much he disagreed with the plan to rewrite mozilla from scratch. For example: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
I agree. I've been less than thrilled with Microsoft's behavior pretty much since windows 98, but this software patent nonsense needs to be reigned in. To me it seems like they should just abandon the Eastern Texas market. Without Word, either the court will cease to function or maybe they'll adopt Open Office, learn about Free Software, and cease being patent troll heaven. Oh wait, I suppose I should wake up now.
Maybe the baby boomers, but I don't know anyone in the 20-35 age group that pays for cable unless they want to watch sports. We all have internet access, hulu, and netflix.
Why do people always discuss National Energy Independence, when the oil is just going to be harvested by a multinational energy corporation and sold at whatever the market will bear?
I'm replying to this post since I tried to mod it insightful and the system chose redundant instead. Replying should blow away the previous mod. I miss the old system with an actual submit button for moderation.
I suppose you don't use cd's or dvds for archival data or just plain sneakernet style data transfer? The number of DVDs I've burned that included video data combined with the number of cds I've burned containing music is dwarfed by the amount of data cds I've burned by at least an order of magnitude. Why should I have to pay a levy on my data because YOU don't want to deal with the copyright storm troopers?
That's flat out false. The VFX Studio I work at (600+ artists) is all KDE. We're a SUSE shop.
XML::LibXML is where it's at, it is a) quite a bit faster and b) has a sensible interfce rather than giving you useless empty hashrefs in the middle of a tree.
So collisions in snowflake based hashing algorithms would be instances of a SnowCrash?
before I ever started doign that I'd have told him he was a frickin' moron.
So now linux is easy enough to install and administer it can be done by firckin' morons? Whoohoo! And all those anti-Linux folks said it was too complicated...
Wow, you have one heck of a reverse nostalgia filter going on. I mean how long has it been since you watched the series? I think it's still very enjoyable and it has som of the best monologues of any series. I mean firefly was a great premise, but it looks like that idea will never be allowed to flower. B5 on the other hand got to deliver it's creator's complete vision. It's rare to find that these days.
I can't think of any other industry that would say a 7.9% growth rate is killing them...
What about tombstone carvers?
Dude, you're really bumming me out, man.
Your grasp of humor and modern colliquialisms seems truly lacking, AC.