How many countries exist in which the government would have no problem with a significant chunk of the country deciding to just split off and become their own government?
For example, there was Czechoslovakia. You're welcome. I can hear the no true Scotsman fallacy from here, but I don't care. By the way, Canada / Québec, UK / Scotland are also candidates.
But then why don't the taxi drivers actually compete in the market? Offer better quality service, make apps that allow the same convenience as with uber, improve the condition of the cars, etc.
Since when did we decide that it's OK for computers to make those type of decisions--and not allow human beings to reverse it?
They didn't say "computer" but "algorithm".
In fact, I can give you a sample of the algorithm actually used :
When following conditions are met : - entity A gives you $$$$$$$ for URL X - URL X currently belongs to entity B - entity B gives you nothing for URL X
Then give URL X to entity A.
If entity B complains more than THRESHOLD, give it $ to shut up. (I wanted the cent sign, but even ¢ isn't accepted by slashcode)
It's actually the old Microsoft logo. The new one is basically like the stained glass window, without the window frame. And if you "want" the logos to obscure the text, you just have to narrow your window width to a size of 950 pixels or less:)
I suspect that there are less of us around here on Saturdays and Sundays, and what you're seeing is concerted shilling by some conservative group outnumbering us. Well, that's for the nonsense. I didn't see the racist posts, they're probably by ACs and probably have been modded down by now, as they ought to be.
The ITU-R has outlined 4 methods for the future of UTC
Only method A1(*) proposes to redefine UTC. All other methods are keeping UTC just as it is.
To sum up the methods : A1: No more leap seconds, UTC will drift from UT1. A2: Come up with a new name for "UTC without leap seconds" as the broadcast universal time, UTC becomes legacy. B: Keep UTC as it is, also broadcast a TAI-based reference time on an equal basis. C1: Keep UTC as it is, also broadcast a delta between UTC and TAI. C2: Same as C1, with more verbose recommendations. D: Keep UTC as it is.
(*) With A2, UTC is not broadcasted anymore, so it has the same implications as A1, but mbone was going with the definition of UTC, so there's room for nitpicking:)
Plutonium-238 is simply no longer available - nobody makes it anymore.
That's pretty much what's in the article. The summary is inflammatory (on Slashdot ? Who would have guessed ?). The meat of the argument is this:
All previous deep space probes have used RTGs [Radio-isotope Thermoelectric Generator], but the ESA has not developed RTG technology. They couldn’t get it from NASA (who wouldn’t provide it) or Roscosmos (which would violate the ITAR treaty).
We are literally running out of our Pu-238 supply for deep space missions. We are no longer making more, although we could be easily doing so for scientific purposes. It just costs a little bit of money.
So : side effects of nuclear regulations, and lack of material. By the way, weight was not a reason, RTG weighting about the same as solar panels (12kg).
The human species' most dangerous trait is its ability to rationalize nearly any belief or behavior.
Not a specifically human trait. It's just that we're unable to hear and understand other species' own rationalizations, hence why we think we're the most intelligent.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
Yep, there are a few transformative angles you can take.
First thing to note, is that it is unlikely that Richard Prince would sue. I guess that for the price tag, each print is unique. Why would he print twice the same thing when it takes him all of 10 minutes to find a decent image, screenshot it, print it and sign it (apparently for the Instagram copies, his comment is the signature, he doesn't even bother to sign) ? There is no loss of sales for him, and he's able to find suckers for his "unique" prints. Why would he risk losing a case ?
But in the hypothetical case... the courts say that an use is transformative (Firefox's spell checker doesn't like that word...) when it is "altering the original with new expression, meaning, or message".
About the expression, given that Suicide Girls have the original image, they could "reinterpret" the print by enhancing it with the original quality instead of the screenshot quality, and argue how it's adding depth, or adding contrast with the surrounding low-res text or whatever.
Or if it is about the context changing its meaning, at first it was an Instagram post, then it was a part of an art exhibition, then it is a re-appropriation for a charity. Hence I'm arguing that Mark Meyer's comment on how "While Prince’s use of Mooney’s photos adds new and significant context, Mooney is simply selling copies of Prince’s work with no additional contextual commentary" is wrong. In the end, the "context" is only about your capacity to convince that, really, "it isn't what it looks like". And Richard Prince is much more seasoned at that game than Mooney ever will.
About the message, I was thinking along the same line as you did. Something like, this is the actual message (the $90,000 / $90 poster), and the sold prints are only parts of the overall artwork, as so many parts of the message. With both Prince and Mooney, it's the same relation between the individual print and the "meaningful context" (art exhibition / re-appropriation for a charity).
However, I agree with Mark Meyer on that point, the "we added the "suicide girl true art" message" is probably not going to cut it.
Actually, it doesn't do exactly the same thing. :x writes only if the file has been modified (only the file's access time is updated). :wq writes unconditionnally (creates an empty file if it didn't exist, updates the file's modification time).
I can do IPv6 from my ISP since last November. My issues so far have been:
The ISP ADSL router hasn't been extensively tested for IPv6. Its caching DNS server tends to die after approximately 10 days, and the IPv6 connection itself is at times unavailable (probably not an up-link issue as rebooting the ADSL router fixes the issue. Temporarily.)
Some web sites have registered a DNS entry for IPv6, but don't have a properly configured IPv6 HTTP server. I could ask the DNS resolver to try IPv4 first, but then when would I actually be using IPv6 ?
I can't even experience the non-NAT'ed network, as I don't have IPv6 access from the work place.
On the other hand, IPv6 was doing fine 12 years ago, on the IPv6 backbone from the university.
The most common one is ignorance: most people don't know how tabs are supposed to be used as indentation and indentation ONLY, and how to set up an editor appropriately (and the shell, by the way) (see the other responses to your comment for proof).
The second is lazyness / non-confrontational behaviour: If you settle on tabs, you will have to educate all users about the correct usage, and have to bear with people that just insist on using tabs differently (see point 1). If you settle on space usage, that's about it.
The third reason is that some editors are stupid, because the implementation doesn't know that tabs are supposed to be used as indentation and indentation ONLY, and will (for example) insist on aligning multi-line arguments to a function just after the parenthesis using a liberal amount of tabs.
And then there are some language requirements that like to mess things up, like Makefile requiring tabs and other scripting languages pursuing a vendetta against tabs (like Python).
That being said, I will gladly educate people about tab usage, their ignorance is no excuse for using inferior solutions.
FYI, this is pretty bad. It does exactly the same as: hungHi = word >> 16; It is not safe if for some reason word is signed (compiler bug on an exotic platform or some programmer resolving some signed/unsigned warning by doing the wrong thing): ((unsigned)0x80000000) >> 16 = 0x00008000 ((signed)0x80000000) >> 16 = 0xFFFF8000 Instead, you should use: hungHi = (word >> 16) & 0xFFFF;
can tell fads from technologies that actually endure
And are therefore defined in hindsight.
Critical thinking, not buying anything some software vendor is willing to sell you, is one thing, and betting on the right horse every time is quite another. At some point, you can't miss the latter by being conservative and only adopting "new" technologies when they're already mature (now, if you had some sort of almanac...). Also to note, "better" does not always mean "successful".
"Well, do you actually take on board the concerns of system administrators and enterprise users?" - what do you class RHEL as?
FTFA:
So we started writing Systemd, and Red Hat didn’t like it at all. Red Hat management said: no, we’re going for Upstart, don’t work on that. So I said, OK, I’ll work on it in my free time.
At least that one is right And Frenchs don't have a word for "entrepreneur", while you're at it. Maybe you should have chosen better exemples.
English has mostly celtic, german and latin roots, while French has mostly latin and celtic roots, so obviously they share a lots of similar words that Icelandic doesn't, as it's a North-Germanic language, which doesn't mean that Icelandic "borrows" from Norwegian, instead they share common roots.
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How many countries exist in which the government would have no problem with a significant chunk of the country deciding to just split off and become their own government?
For example, there was Czechoslovakia. You're welcome.
I can hear the no true Scotsman fallacy from here, but I don't care.
By the way, Canada / Québec, UK / Scotland are also candidates.
But then why don't the taxi drivers actually compete in the market? Offer better quality service, make apps that allow the same convenience as with uber, improve the condition of the cars, etc.
Why do you think they don't ?
France would likely be forced to rename their "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries".
Ici, nous les appelons simplement "frites", ou parfois "pommes de terre frites". Et certains prétendent même qu'elles seraient d'origine belge.
Since when did we decide that it's OK for computers to make those type of decisions--and not allow human beings to reverse it?
They didn't say "computer" but "algorithm".
In fact, I can give you a sample of the algorithm actually used :
When following conditions are met :
- entity A gives you $$$$$$$ for URL X
- URL X currently belongs to entity B
- entity B gives you nothing for URL X
Then give URL X to entity A.
If entity B complains more than THRESHOLD, give it $ to shut up. (I wanted the cent sign, but even ¢ isn't accepted by slashcode)
It's actually the old Microsoft logo. The new one is basically like the stained glass window, without the window frame. :)
And if you "want" the logos to obscure the text, you just have to narrow your window width to a size of 950 pixels or less
Have faith in Slashdoters ! ;)
I suspect that there are less of us around here on Saturdays and Sundays, and what you're seeing is concerted shilling by some conservative group outnumbering us.
Well, that's for the nonsense. I didn't see the racist posts, they're probably by ACs and probably have been modded down by now, as they ought to be.
The ITU-R has outlined 4 methods for the future of UTC
Only method A1(*) proposes to redefine UTC. All other methods are keeping UTC just as it is.
To sum up the methods :
A1: No more leap seconds, UTC will drift from UT1.
A2: Come up with a new name for "UTC without leap seconds" as the broadcast universal time, UTC becomes legacy.
B: Keep UTC as it is, also broadcast a TAI-based reference time on an equal basis.
C1: Keep UTC as it is, also broadcast a delta between UTC and TAI.
C2: Same as C1, with more verbose recommendations.
D: Keep UTC as it is.
(*) With A2, UTC is not broadcasted anymore, so it has the same implications as A1, but mbone was going with the definition of UTC, so there's room for nitpicking :)
Plutonium-238 is simply no longer available - nobody makes it anymore.
That's pretty much what's in the article. The summary is inflammatory (on Slashdot ? Who would have guessed ?). :
The meat of the argument is this
So : side effects of nuclear regulations, and lack of material.
By the way, weight was not a reason, RTG weighting about the same as solar panels (12kg).
The BND did the spying, and the NSA legally got from them everything they cared about. That's completely different :)
The human species' most dangerous trait is its ability to rationalize nearly any belief or behavior.
Not a specifically human trait. It's just that we're unable to hear and understand other species' own rationalizations, hence why we think we're the most intelligent.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
Yep, there are a few transformative angles you can take.
First thing to note, is that it is unlikely that Richard Prince would sue. I guess that for the price tag, each print is unique. Why would he print twice the same thing when it takes him all of 10 minutes to find a decent image, screenshot it, print it and sign it (apparently for the Instagram copies, his comment is the signature, he doesn't even bother to sign) ? There is no loss of sales for him, and he's able to find suckers for his "unique" prints. Why would he risk losing a case ?
But in the hypothetical case... the courts say that an use is transformative (Firefox's spell checker doesn't like that word...) when it is "altering the original with new expression, meaning, or message".
About the expression, given that Suicide Girls have the original image, they could "reinterpret" the print by enhancing it with the original quality instead of the screenshot quality, and argue how it's adding depth, or adding contrast with the surrounding low-res text or whatever.
Or if it is about the context changing its meaning, at first it was an Instagram post, then it was a part of an art exhibition, then it is a re-appropriation for a charity. Hence I'm arguing that Mark Meyer's comment on how "While Prince’s use of Mooney’s photos adds new and significant context, Mooney is simply selling copies of Prince’s work with no additional contextual commentary" is wrong. In the end, the "context" is only about your capacity to convince that, really, "it isn't what it looks like". And Richard Prince is much more seasoned at that game than Mooney ever will.
About the message, I was thinking along the same line as you did. Something like, this is the actual message (the $90,000 / $90 poster), and the sold prints are only parts of the overall artwork, as so many parts of the message. With both Prince and Mooney, it's the same relation between the individual print and the "meaningful context" (art exhibition / re-appropriation for a charity).
However, I agree with Mark Meyer on that point, the "we added the "suicide girl true art" message" is probably not going to cut it.
Actually, it doesn't do exactly the same thing.
:x writes only if the file has been modified (only the file's access time is updated).
:wq writes unconditionnally (creates an empty file if it didn't exist, updates the file's modification time).
Oh no !
Web browsers allow for remote code execution through Javascript ! (and Flash and Java applets, if you feel adventurous)
We're all doomed !
I can do IPv6 from my ISP since last November. My issues so far have been:
On the other hand, IPv6 was doing fine 12 years ago, on the IPv6 backbone from the university.
I guess that there are multiple reasons.
The most common one is ignorance: most people don't know how tabs are supposed to be used as indentation and indentation ONLY, and how to set up an editor appropriately (and the shell, by the way) (see the other responses to your comment for proof).
The second is lazyness / non-confrontational behaviour: If you settle on tabs, you will have to educate all users about the correct usage, and have to bear with people that just insist on using tabs differently (see point 1). If you settle on space usage, that's about it.
The third reason is that some editors are stupid, because the implementation doesn't know that tabs are supposed to be used as indentation and indentation ONLY, and will (for example) insist on aligning multi-line arguments to a function just after the parenthesis using a liberal amount of tabs.
And then there are some language requirements that like to mess things up, like Makefile requiring tabs and other scripting languages pursuing a vendetta against tabs (like Python).
That being said, I will gladly educate people about tab usage, their ignorance is no excuse for using inferior solutions.
If you're going to make a Star*-themed April 1st, that's fine by me, but at least try to get some sense of chronology.
hungHi = (word & 0xFFFF0000) >> 16;
FYI, this is pretty bad. It does exactly the same as:
hungHi = word >> 16;
It is not safe if for some reason word is signed (compiler bug on an exotic platform or some programmer resolving some signed/unsigned warning by doing the wrong thing):
((unsigned)0x80000000) >> 16 = 0x00008000
((signed)0x80000000) >> 16 = 0xFFFF8000
Instead, you should use:
hungHi = (word >> 16) & 0xFFFF;
You have ZERO environmental control in a crawlspace.
Plus, he's going to put windows in that crawlspace, like it's going to help !
I'm rooting for "Internet 365". Internet... on the Cloud !
we're not suggesting that Microsoft should do anything silly like try to integrate Excel support into Minecraft
TOO LATE !
On an online credit card purchase you get a OTP token generated for that transaction? How is it implemented?
My bank (in France) sends me an SMS with the OTP.
It's amazing just how fast it runs on a five-year-old i7 950 PC with 16GB of RAM.
Yep, almost as fast as the original's code on a i386 with 4MB of RAM. Impressive.
can tell fads from technologies that actually endure
And are therefore defined in hindsight.
Critical thinking, not buying anything some software vendor is willing to sell you, is one thing, and betting on the right horse every time is quite another.
At some point, you can't miss the latter by being conservative and only adopting "new" technologies when they're already mature (now, if you had some sort of almanac...). Also to note, "better" does not always mean "successful".
"Well, do you actually take on board the concerns of system administrators and enterprise users?" - what do you class RHEL as?
FTFA:
So we started writing Systemd, and Red Hat didn’t like it at all. Red Hat management said: no, we’re going for Upstart, don’t work on that. So I said, OK, I’ll work on it in my free time.
I class RHEL as "not listened to".
Television is télévision.
Borrowing from French télévision, coined by a Rusian scientist.
Telephone is téléphone.
From French téléphone.
Electricity is électricité.
At least that one is right
And Frenchs don't have a word for "entrepreneur", while you're at it.
Maybe you should have chosen better exemples.
English has mostly celtic, german and latin roots, while French has mostly latin and celtic roots, so obviously they share a lots of similar words that Icelandic doesn't, as it's a North-Germanic language, which doesn't mean that Icelandic "borrows" from Norwegian, instead they share common roots.