Upload your.deb or.rpm or.msi or whatever to your own web space? Anonymous if must be? Set up your own repository, with blackjack and hookers? Only on slashdot people believe the distributors pipe dream that non-default or not-in-the-official-repository software is a dead end. Tt still is the default in 90% of the consumer IT world, concerning PC software to browse the net and click on setup.exe or package.msi.
Good software does not need app stores or approval of some provider or any "official" stamp. It is the developers and maintainers job to make it easy to install and update it's software, which is (Ubuntu example) done by providing one box asking to be allowed to add a repository. Of course, the users have to trust you. Well then, be trustworthy! Provide documentation and tell the user what your software is doing. Like the authors of ubuntu-tweak or paint.net.
As bender would put it: Stop behaving like pussies and just write usable software! Arrrh.
...to remember the unbridled software-building activity and creativity of 10 to 12 years ago. Now, patent-fighting dominates it all. 'tis sad....
That's not true. I for one and a whole lot of other (open source) developers just ignore all this kerfuffle and go on with our unbridled software-building activities. Everything and it's grandmother is patented nowadays, I guess just by touching the mouse and clicking a button in my own software I violate at least 20 patents plus 20 more because it's "on the internet". Add 40 to this if it's also "on a mobile device". Pffh.
I have not the slightest idea. But don't believe these horror stories, 200 a meg, lol. In Europe it's like 2€ an hour, capped at 200-500megs for a prepaid phone without a contract. It's the same rate there is for smartphones and tablets, it's GSM traffic. And in case you have more inquiries to make I kindly suggest you to have a look at the current hype, these fancy new internet phenomenons which label themselves as "search engines".
AFAIK you can sign the JAR yourself (untrusted) and this must be supported. As for file:, I don't know. I used to pop the files on some web space and installed it via http: (did cost me some pennies for the data transfer to the phone), because the phones I worked with wouldn't know what a filesystem is;)
OTOH I once had a Motorola, the predecessor of the razr, and on this phone you couldn't install anything not signed by the provider. But then again, it just used J2ME but wasn't certified (no Java logos on the box).
Well, if your phone is a certified J[2]ME phone, it must support installing MIDlets via a URL pointing to the descriptor file. But a) most phones are not certified and b) I don't know how much has changed since Oracle got hold of Java.
I'm curious of this too. Who in the world is actually interested in candidates, politicians, presidents or government's texts, tweets and facebook blobs? Except journalists that then write about and then say "look, he/ she is in mobile/ social/ internet", but still nobody gives a rat's ass?
It's 300 bucks, it was produced by a committee financed by tax payer's money, it's a pdf, not even a printed book. It's an open standard and will be needed by a lot of developers who want or must write standard compliant code. This is EXACTLY the thing RMS means when he is shouting his song.
I've read your post again and again, all I could gather is that you react hypoallergenic to gluten. What does this have to do with what I wrote or with genetically engineered food? Seriously, with GM it could be possible to disable the molecular receptors or keys in gluten so it won't cause allergic reactions and also be even cheaper than current wheat. Why is that bad again?
Disproving your argument: Humans were designed by evolution. "Design" does not mean what you think it means. Have a look and notice the occurrence of the words "plan, purpose, function" etc in every definition except "Decorative Pattern". So no, nothing, not even humans or archaea were designed by evolution. Because evolution, deep breath, has no purpose. It's not even a thing or a process with relevant starting configurations or something that needs believing in.
It's just what happens when things replicate. Even the condition that the replicas must not be exact copies is not an axiom or even a real condition. When things replicate without any error, none of the two outcomes are in any way relevant to evolution: either every bit of matter is converted to replicas or all replicas are gone.
Deep breath again...We can explain the variety of life and all we know about our planet and even further without needing the hypothesis of god.
Sucking all that meaning out of the GPs little remark, combined with multiple occurrences of "asshole" and the like points me to the conclusion that you're the zealot here.
The reason for the growing number of food allergies is quite clear. It comes from badly and wrongly trained immune systems, which is just a symptom for living in a sterile world. Studies en masse have shown that people living in rural areas are not affected by this growing numbers. As tough as it sounds, it's a small flux that nature will sort out, one way or the other.
And about cancer, it has yet to be proven that the increasing numbers are not a mere artifact of better detection methods. If that's not the case, I'm sure that pollution and a general unhealthy lifestyle contribute far more to it than "something in the water".
Also, selective perception plays a huge role when one is personally hit by this illness. I'm not saying the industry isn't at fault, it IS, because they produce sterile stuff with additions for years and keep telling you it's as healthy as a carrot picked from your grandfathers field. But GM is the least of our problems concerning allergies, if not the opposite. You know, peanuts that won't cause allergies and all that.
Why on earth was this modded down? We weren't designed. And we are certainly capable of digesting GM food, we do it all the time. Everything natural we eat is full of micro organisms which shuffle their genes (and not only theirs) around like there is no tomorrow. Across all domains of life, randomly. They even do it now, inside your body, a billion times per day. And so they do inside pigs, cows, and everything else we eat. Hell, 1/ 3 of our human DNA is of that origin.
But that's humans for you, nature does this and other (far more "dangerous") gene stuff for billions of years, but once the humans do a tiny bit of it, we all dream of global catastrophe. It's sad, because GM could lead to more resistant plants and crops that would need far less water and have no problem with mono culture. Would be a god's end for starving billions. But no, can't have that. Because, you know, we already steal most of your crop areas because the western worlds just loves soy and corn. There would be no point in trying to solve your crisis, you see.
Too bad most people having an opinion about micro organisms and bacteria wouldn't even know what horizontal gene transfer is. Some truths about life:
- Bacteria/ Archaea vastly outnumber any other living thing, there are much more of them than of anything else combined.
- We only know details about ~1% of them, because the rest can't be cultured.
- Horizontal gene transfer is the norm with bacteria/ archaea. Viruses are one type of vehicle used to transfer DNA portions.
- Pathogens among bacteria/ archaea are very uncommon. The successful evolutionary strategy for them is to NOT be pathogenic, otherwise there would be no multi cellular organisms.
- Only 10% of the human body is actually ours and derived from human DNA. The other 90% are micro organisms.
- At least one third (1/ 3) of the human DNA comes from horizontal gene transfer, it's mostly virus genes
Intelligence does not require motive. It's not even clear if it requires self-awareness. Awareness yes, but not self-awareness. That is only required for the observer in order to recognize intelligence. An entity can be intelligent and not be aware of it's self. The distinction is crucial: being aware of it's self != being aware of itself.
What intelligence does require is a constant, unchanging function to serve and the possibility of fatality. Every intelligent or seemingly intelligent entity we know of is a living being in the biological sense, thus fulfilling the requirements: keeping the organism in chemical balance in order to sustain the organism's operations in a given environment (homeostasis). The feedback loop involved in this is crucial: sensing the current state (inner perception) and changing it according to current environmental properties (outer perception).
It may not be intentional, but damn. I hate it when people think they're so smart and think it's OK to go above prescription. Instructions are often there for good reason, if its not cutting the problem, its better to go to the physician again.
There is only one way to solve the problem: educate the patients. When I was in hospital and got a lot of painkillers, the nurse handing them out to me was frustrated that the people just swallow everything the physician prescribes. So she told me what kind of drugs it is, how it works and what would be dangerous about it. It has NOTHING to do with stupidity. Even a stupid person can understand how drugs work on a generic level.
For example:
As far as I know, usually what happens is that while the drug is strong, it's not effective in treating chronic pain because the effectiveness is erratic.
The patient will then take more of the drug, because they think that their dose is too low since it's not being effective, thus ending up overdosing themselves.
The GP's information really should be given to patients. It's easy to understand and will most certainly save lives. The problem is that politics is working hard to give the general public the feeling they are stupid and they have to trust their lives to the people "in the know", because everything is rocket science. Trust the public a bit more, INFORM THEM BETTER and let themselves decide whether they can handle the information or not.
I've been having the exact opposite experience. I don't have a kindle, but I use their app on my phone, and have for quite a while now. But in the last year, every time I go to buy a Kindle book, it's ~$15, and the hardcover version is $3.99 shipped. Or it's not available on the Kindle at all. Most recently, this was the case with three Iain M. Banks novels-- two shipped from the UK, and they were still only a couple dollars apiece, in hardcover.
While I agree with you, could you tell me where to get Iain Banks hardcovers for a couple of dollars apiece? Amazon?
Hell are americans whiny babies. Coffee HAS to be nearly cooking. That warm colored water you normaly[sic] drink is NO coffee...
Emphasis mine. That was the whole point of the suit. The mixture that lady was given was cooking, it's temperature was above 100C. That's the difference between a laminar scar and a fucking burning.
Before you ask, that's how you get water boiling without it making bubbles: fill water into fresh paper cup, put some freeze-dried coffee into same cup, put cup into microwave oven, wait 3 minutes. No bubbles until you put a spoon into the cup or spill it, which will result in a >120C explosion. And that was exactly how McDonald's and lots of others served "coffee". That has changed since the suit though.
You are wrong. It wasn't about the coffee being hot. It was about the coffee being able to BURN skin like a fire does, which it must not. The reason for this is that McDonald's uses some chemical excuse for coffee that NEEDS these temperatures to taste like coffee.
It was a completely valid suit. The woman expected to feel pain when spilling coffee, she didn't expect being BURNED and needing expensive treatment.
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Finally some evidence that I am a zombie. Always wanted to be a zombie, didn't know it was the browser!
brb, somethings' urgently requiring my attention. Looks like brains, smells like tasty.
Upload your .deb or .rpm or .msi or whatever to your own web space? Anonymous if must be? Set up your own repository, with blackjack and hookers? Only on slashdot people believe the distributors pipe dream that non-default or not-in-the-official-repository software is a dead end. Tt still is the default in 90% of the consumer IT world, concerning PC software to browse the net and click on setup.exe or package.msi.
Good software does not need app stores or approval of some provider or any "official" stamp. It is the developers and maintainers job to make it easy to install and update it's software, which is (Ubuntu example) done by providing one box asking to be allowed to add a repository. Of course, the users have to trust you. Well then, be trustworthy! Provide documentation and tell the user what your software is doing. Like the authors of ubuntu-tweak or paint.net.
As bender would put it: Stop behaving like pussies and just write usable software! Arrrh.
...to remember the unbridled software-building activity and creativity of 10 to 12 years ago. Now, patent-fighting dominates it all. 'tis sad....
That's not true. I for one and a whole lot of other (open source) developers just ignore all this kerfuffle and go on with our unbridled software-building activities. Everything and it's grandmother is patented nowadays, I guess just by touching the mouse and clicking a button in my own software I violate at least 20 patents plus 20 more because it's "on the internet". Add 40 to this if it's also "on a mobile device". Pffh.
I have not the slightest idea. But don't believe these horror stories, 200 a meg, lol. In Europe it's like 2€ an hour, capped at 200-500megs for a prepaid phone without a contract. It's the same rate there is for smartphones and tablets, it's GSM traffic. And in case you have more inquiries to make I kindly suggest you to have a look at the current hype, these fancy new internet phenomenons which label themselves as "search engines".
AFAIK you can sign the JAR yourself (untrusted) and this must be supported. As for file:, I don't know. I used to pop the files on some web space and installed it via http: (did cost me some pennies for the data transfer to the phone), because the phones I worked with wouldn't know what a filesystem is ;)
OTOH I once had a Motorola, the predecessor of the razr, and on this phone you couldn't install anything not signed by the provider. But then again, it just used J2ME but wasn't certified (no Java logos on the box).
Well, if your phone is a certified J[2]ME phone, it must support installing MIDlets via a URL pointing to the descriptor file. But a) most phones are not certified and b) I don't know how much has changed since Oracle got hold of Java.
I'm curious of this too. Who in the world is actually interested in candidates, politicians, presidents or government's texts, tweets and facebook blobs? Except journalists that then write about and then say "look, he/ she is in mobile/ social/ internet", but still nobody gives a rat's ass?
In some countries (Germany for example) law forbids to store the plain password.
It's 300 bucks, it was produced by a committee financed by tax payer's money, it's a pdf, not even a printed book. It's an open standard and will be needed by a lot of developers who want or must write standard compliant code. This is EXACTLY the thing RMS means when he is shouting his song.
Grab the original file from here.
You can't write an OS kernel in standard C anyway. It's in some ways inherently lower level stuff.
What would be the obstacle to writing an OS kernel in C99? What would one need the extensions for?
I've read your post again and again, all I could gather is that you react hypoallergenic to gluten. What does this have to do with what I wrote or with genetically engineered food? Seriously, with GM it could be possible to disable the molecular receptors or keys in gluten so it won't cause allergic reactions and also be even cheaper than current wheat. Why is that bad again?
Disproving your argument: Humans were designed by evolution. "Design" does not mean what you think it means. Have a look and notice the occurrence of the words "plan, purpose, function" etc in every definition except "Decorative Pattern". So no, nothing, not even humans or archaea were designed by evolution. Because evolution, deep breath, has no purpose. It's not even a thing or a process with relevant starting configurations or something that needs believing in.
It's just what happens when things replicate. Even the condition that the replicas must not be exact copies is not an axiom or even a real condition. When things replicate without any error, none of the two outcomes are in any way relevant to evolution: either every bit of matter is converted to replicas or all replicas are gone.
Deep breath again...We can explain the variety of life and all we know about our planet and even further without needing the hypothesis of god.
Sucking all that meaning out of the GPs little remark, combined with multiple occurrences of "asshole" and the like points me to the conclusion that you're the zealot here.
The reason for the growing number of food allergies is quite clear. It comes from badly and wrongly trained immune systems, which is just a symptom for living in a sterile world. Studies en masse have shown that people living in rural areas are not affected by this growing numbers. As tough as it sounds, it's a small flux that nature will sort out, one way or the other.
And about cancer, it has yet to be proven that the increasing numbers are not a mere artifact of better detection methods. If that's not the case, I'm sure that pollution and a general unhealthy lifestyle contribute far more to it than "something in the water".
Also, selective perception plays a huge role when one is personally hit by this illness. I'm not saying the industry isn't at fault, it IS, because they produce sterile stuff with additions for years and keep telling you it's as healthy as a carrot picked from your grandfathers field. But GM is the least of our problems concerning allergies, if not the opposite. You know, peanuts that won't cause allergies and all that.
Why on earth was this modded down? We weren't designed. And we are certainly capable of digesting GM food, we do it all the time. Everything natural we eat is full of micro organisms which shuffle their genes (and not only theirs) around like there is no tomorrow. Across all domains of life, randomly. They even do it now, inside your body, a billion times per day. And so they do inside pigs, cows, and everything else we eat. Hell, 1/ 3 of our human DNA is of that origin.
But that's humans for you, nature does this and other (far more "dangerous") gene stuff for billions of years, but once the humans do a tiny bit of it, we all dream of global catastrophe. It's sad, because GM could lead to more resistant plants and crops that would need far less water and have no problem with mono culture. Would be a god's end for starving billions. But no, can't have that. Because, you know, we already steal most of your crop areas because the western worlds just loves soy and corn. There would be no point in trying to solve your crisis, you see.
Too bad most people having an opinion about micro organisms and bacteria wouldn't even know what horizontal gene transfer is. Some truths about life:
- Bacteria/ Archaea vastly outnumber any other living thing, there are much more of them than of anything else combined.
- We only know details about ~1% of them, because the rest can't be cultured.
- Horizontal gene transfer is the norm with bacteria/ archaea. Viruses are one type of vehicle used to transfer DNA portions.
- Pathogens among bacteria/ archaea are very uncommon. The successful evolutionary strategy for them is to NOT be pathogenic, otherwise there would be no multi cellular organisms.
- Only 10% of the human body is actually ours and derived from human DNA. The other 90% are micro organisms.
- At least one third (1/ 3) of the human DNA comes from horizontal gene transfer, it's mostly virus genes
Well, "Allister Fiddlesticks NacMac Figgleblob IV." IS a somewhat strange name.
Feeling cynical? Either you are just cynical or you know too much. Nietzsche has yet to be proven wrong, even on this one.
Intelligence does not require motive. It's not even clear if it requires self-awareness. Awareness yes, but not self-awareness. That is only required for the observer in order to recognize intelligence. An entity can be intelligent and not be aware of it's self. The distinction is crucial: being aware of it's self != being aware of itself.
What intelligence does require is a constant, unchanging function to serve and the possibility of fatality. Every intelligent or seemingly intelligent entity we know of is a living being in the biological sense, thus fulfilling the requirements: keeping the organism in chemical balance in order to sustain the organism's operations in a given environment (homeostasis). The feedback loop involved in this is crucial: sensing the current state (inner perception) and changing it according to current environmental properties (outer perception).
Artificial Intelligence does not exist. As of now, nothing except humans can pass the Turing test.
It may not be intentional, but damn. I hate it when people think they're so smart and think it's OK to go above prescription. Instructions are often there for good reason, if its not cutting the problem, its better to go to the physician again.
There is only one way to solve the problem: educate the patients. When I was in hospital and got a lot of painkillers, the nurse handing them out to me was frustrated that the people just swallow everything the physician prescribes. So she told me what kind of drugs it is, how it works and what would be dangerous about it. It has NOTHING to do with stupidity. Even a stupid person can understand how drugs work on a generic level.
For example:
As far as I know, usually what happens is that while the drug is strong, it's not effective in treating chronic pain because the effectiveness is erratic. The patient will then take more of the drug, because they think that their dose is too low since it's not being effective, thus ending up overdosing themselves.
The GP's information really should be given to patients. It's easy to understand and will most certainly save lives. The problem is that politics is working hard to give the general public the feeling they are stupid and they have to trust their lives to the people "in the know", because everything is rocket science. Trust the public a bit more, INFORM THEM BETTER and let themselves decide whether they can handle the information or not.
I've been having the exact opposite experience. I don't have a kindle, but I use their app on my phone, and have for quite a while now. But in the last year, every time I go to buy a Kindle book, it's ~$15, and the hardcover version is $3.99 shipped. Or it's not available on the Kindle at all. Most recently, this was the case with three Iain M. Banks novels-- two shipped from the UK, and they were still only a couple dollars apiece, in hardcover.
While I agree with you, could you tell me where to get Iain Banks hardcovers for a couple of dollars apiece? Amazon?
Hell are americans whiny babies. Coffee HAS to be nearly cooking. That warm colored water you normaly[sic] drink is NO coffee...
Emphasis mine. That was the whole point of the suit. The mixture that lady was given was cooking, it's temperature was above 100C. That's the difference between a laminar scar and a fucking burning.
Before you ask, that's how you get water boiling without it making bubbles: fill water into fresh paper cup, put some freeze-dried coffee into same cup, put cup into microwave oven, wait 3 minutes. No bubbles until you put a spoon into the cup or spill it, which will result in a >120C explosion. And that was exactly how McDonald's and lots of others served "coffee". That has changed since the suit though.
You are wrong. It wasn't about the coffee being hot. It was about the coffee being able to BURN skin like a fire does, which it must not. The reason for this is that McDonald's uses some chemical excuse for coffee that NEEDS these temperatures to taste like coffee.
It was a completely valid suit. The woman expected to feel pain when spilling coffee, she didn't expect being BURNED and needing expensive treatment.
Indeed you don't.
Facebook really IS the new AOL.