vim is more orthagonal than any random also-ran programmer's editor like UltraEdit. That someone couldn't show you stuff you couldn't do just means they weren't very creative, or don't use Vim for very advanced editing tasks.
Vim also has a much higher barrier to get started. Design and engineering are full of trade offs.
So when are they changing the firmware so that deletes always require a user-interface confirmation?
It's the right fix. It still allows refunds, the user just has to manually acquiesce to the deletion on the kindle itself. It's not like this changes amazon's ability to be sure the delete happened. The firmware would be just as secure or insecure with the change.
This write-up is only accurate at the level of the loosest possible charicature. How typical of Orson Scott Card to focus on details yet fundamentally fail to understand the things he writes about.
It depends heavily on the surface area of the company products, and their exposure to problems from suits.
The balance will be judged differently in each case. For many companies, if you sue them for patent infringment, they may succesfully countersue you for tons of patent infringement, as the parent stated. This really does happen. In the i4i case they were (apparently) very well focused, and it turned out their target was very poorly positioned to weather the suit. The whole deliberate flouting of i4i didn't really help.
There's sufficient counter-examples of companies who have batted down legitimate patent claims by bringing a host of countersuit claims to the table. If you require people to find them for you, this is possible.
Certainly the i4i suit shows that the patent system *can* help a smaller corporation from being pillaged. It doesn't really show that that's the general result.
This is kind of a simplistic view of the world. There are a variety of pressures that make people choose the path they do. Swords are only one of these pressures.
It certainly is true though, as you suggest, that the pressures that bind national governements to cooperate are not currently nearly so strong as to provide a guarantee or near-guarantee.
The health problems of zerog aren't really about muscular decrease. That's a problem, but not the big one.
The most obvious problem is the weakening of bones. It seems that the process of replacing bone matter is affected by the presence (or absence) of gravity.
There are probably other health problems. I'm less familiar with.
The body is designed for gravity. Some weights strapped to your legs aren't gravity.
A spinning ship with apparent centrefugal force is probably good enough though, as is (probably) the lesser gravity of Mars. The moon is a lot less.. and seems more likely to produce gravity-related health problems for long term residents.
Also there's that whole.. vaccuum and temperature problem.
I think tech support is a kind of weak argument, but it hints at a strong argument -- if you can't DESCRIBE how to use the interface, you probably can't FIGURE OUT how to use it either.
See above, it was never normal. It was just *done*.
Normality is a form of nonsense. "Other people do it, therefore it is acceptable."
I sincerely doubt that any current officials would need to feel *personal* guilt or responsibility in order to accept, publically, past wrongdoings of the organization to which they belong.
No one is suggesting that *specific* government officials accept or declare responsibility for the action. Some are suggesting that the organization as a whole make it clear that such a tragedy will be allowed to happen. Maybe we can learn from this and avoid oppressing the next minority group that comes along.
I'm not a huge fan of the government apology system. However, making such specious rebuttals is kind of silly.
Oh, I'm well aware that people "classified" homosexuality that way. However, Alan Turing was quite clear and collected in his view of the situation. To insist on the bullshit, as you rightly classify it, is not doing the right thing at all. it's quite clearly a form of oppression, and would have been clearly so at the time.
When the police manhandle a homeless person on the street for no reason, some look away. I ask the officers what seems to be the problem in hopes of embarassing them into reducing their damage to a fellow human. Everyone on the street knows it's wrong, even if they let it happen.
As long as clients are sending correctly formatted multipart emails to allow plain text readers the chance to read as well, HTML email is a good thing.
Lemmy, this treads a bit dangerously close to the idea that the profit made from goods is somehow fixed. (all costs are passed to the customer, and so on). I know you didn't mean that, but I have a particular dislike of that canard.
It sounds like you're saying that all such moral judgments are dogmatic, and therefore based on no evidence, and therefore hasty. Is that correct?
Nope.
I'm saying that a lot of judgements of homosexuality are grounded in prejudice, as they are formed out of fear of the unknown/unfamiliar. Some of them are also dogmatic. I'm not sure how hasty gets into it. I have no knowledge of how rapidly their ignorance influences their position.
Not to over-complicate things, but your claim that "personal experience frequently reverses their position" makes the discussion stickier, I think.
First, they might have changed their position about gays deserving to be shunned. But that's a somewhat separate issue than changing their position that practicing homosexuality is morally wrong. Obviously the two issues are related, but they're not identical.
Okay, but it's usually the reversal on morally wrong. I don't hang out in islamic countries, the Amish, or similar societies much, so I'm not familiar with the regular practice of shunning.
But typically they have no evidence at all. That fits your definition of "before sufficient evidence" quite nicely. Of course they are *also* dogmatic, which shines through after the evidence is presented, but personal experience frequently reverses their position, suggesting that the key factor is often prejudice.
But the thing is the very idea that our own morals are NOT the ones that are important when we work for a communal entity is the very mechanism by which such acts get perpetrated. Sure I hate it too, and your point stands that this mental model is essentially amoral. However, it is the mental model which will continue. If we can recognize *at least* that that larger entity two whom you cede your morality is *also* held to moral standards, that will be a step foward.
I can see the point in saying guilt should't be hereditary, although the UK government is not a single person.
However, claiming injecting people with "hormonal treatments" was normal is like claiming that waterboarding is normal now. They all knew what they were doing was wrong then, just like we all know what we are doing is wrong now. We just make a pretense that it isn't.
It's a religion that has existed longer since you've been alive. They come up quite regularly in popular entertainment as the most respectable group who believe in "faith healing" and avoid surgery etc.
Independently from their oddities, they've published a very highly regarded news source called the Christian Science Monitor for many decades. They are respected for their independent voice, accurate reportage, and even handed investigation.
This is all common knowledge. Read about something that isn't a computer sometime?
from the sale, I can't believe it would cost more than 40$.
But sure, 300 is the top end of the useful price range for the ps3 right now. 340 wouldn't cut it. 300 is still more than I want to spend on a system. I'm just not that enthused about games these days, so something that goes out of style in a few years is meh.
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vim is more orthagonal than any random also-ran programmer's editor like UltraEdit. That someone couldn't show you stuff you couldn't do just means they weren't very creative, or don't use Vim for very advanced editing tasks.
Vim also has a much higher barrier to get started. Design and engineering are full of trade offs.
And moreover, they can say it all they want, but if there's DRM involved, it's a lie.
So when are they changing the firmware so that deletes always require a user-interface confirmation?
It's the right fix. It still allows refunds, the user just has to manually acquiesce to the deletion on the kindle itself.
It's not like this changes amazon's ability to be sure the delete happened.
The firmware would be just as secure or insecure with the change.
Goddamn stop-a. Who invented that? It's so easy to push accidentally.
When I had a sun on my desk, I accessed it via the Linux box I installed myself next to it.
This write-up is only accurate at the level of the loosest possible charicature. How typical of Orson Scott Card to focus on details yet fundamentally fail to understand the things he writes about.
It depends heavily on the surface area of the company products, and their exposure to problems from suits.
The balance will be judged differently in each case. For many companies, if you sue them for patent infringment, they may succesfully countersue you for tons of patent infringement, as the parent stated. This really does happen. In the i4i case they were (apparently) very well focused, and it turned out their target was very poorly positioned to weather the suit. The whole deliberate flouting of i4i didn't really help.
There's sufficient counter-examples of companies who have batted down legitimate patent claims by bringing a host of countersuit claims to the table. If you require people to find them for you, this is possible.
Certainly the i4i suit shows that the patent system *can* help a smaller corporation from being pillaged. It doesn't really show that that's the general result.
This is kind of a simplistic view of the world. There are a variety of pressures that make people choose the path they do. Swords are only one of these pressures.
It certainly is true though, as you suggest, that the pressures that bind national governements to cooperate are not currently nearly so strong as to provide a guarantee or near-guarantee.
The health problems of zerog aren't really about muscular decrease. That's a problem, but not the big one.
The most obvious problem is the weakening of bones. It seems that the process of replacing bone matter is affected by the presence (or absence) of gravity.
There are probably other health problems. I'm less familiar with.
The body is designed for gravity. Some weights strapped to your legs aren't gravity.
A spinning ship with apparent centrefugal force is probably good enough though, as is (probably) the lesser gravity of Mars. The moon is a lot less.. and seems more likely to produce gravity-related health problems for long term residents.
Also there's that whole .. vaccuum and temperature problem.
I think tech support is a kind of weak argument, but it hints at a strong argument -- if you can't DESCRIBE how to use the interface, you probably can't FIGURE OUT how to use it either.
I like stop as a separate button, so that I can remove it.
I never click it and I don't ever want to see it. I press escape to stop.
See above, it was never normal. It was just *done*.
Normality is a form of nonsense. "Other people do it, therefore it is acceptable."
I sincerely doubt that any current officials would need to feel *personal* guilt or responsibility in order to accept, publically, past wrongdoings of the organization to which they belong.
No one is suggesting that *specific* government officials accept or declare responsibility for the action. Some are suggesting that the organization as a whole make it clear that such a tragedy will be allowed to happen. Maybe we can learn from this and avoid oppressing the next minority group that comes along.
I'm not a huge fan of the government apology system. However, making such specious rebuttals is kind of silly.
Oh, I'm well aware that people "classified" homosexuality that way. However, Alan Turing was quite clear and collected in his view of the situation. To insist on the bullshit, as you rightly classify it, is not doing the right thing at all. it's quite clearly a form of oppression, and would have been clearly so at the time.
When the police manhandle a homeless person on the street for no reason, some look away. I ask the officers what seems to be the problem in hopes of embarassing them into reducing their damage to a fellow human. Everyone on the street knows it's wrong, even if they let it happen.
So slavery and chemical castration are ... examples of victimless crimes?
Are you free associating or simply insane?
As long as clients are sending correctly formatted multipart emails to allow plain text readers the chance to read as well, HTML email is a good thing.
Sorry that mail client was cancelled.
Lemmy, this treads a bit dangerously close to the idea that the profit made from goods is somehow fixed. (all costs are passed to the customer, and so on). I know you didn't mean that, but I have a particular dislike of that canard.
But typically they have no evidence at all.
It sounds like you're saying that all such moral judgments are dogmatic, and therefore based on no evidence, and therefore hasty. Is that correct?
Nope.
I'm saying that a lot of judgements of homosexuality are grounded in prejudice, as they are formed out of fear of the unknown/unfamiliar. Some of them are also dogmatic. I'm not sure how hasty gets into it. I have no knowledge of how rapidly their ignorance influences their position.
Not to over-complicate things, but your claim that "personal experience frequently reverses their position" makes the discussion stickier, I think.
First, they might have changed their position about gays deserving to be shunned. But that's a somewhat separate issue than changing their position that practicing homosexuality is morally wrong. Obviously the two issues are related, but they're not identical.
Okay, but it's usually the reversal on morally wrong. I don't hang out in islamic countries, the Amish, or similar societies much, so I'm not familiar with the regular practice of shunning.
But typically they have no evidence at all. That fits your definition of "before sufficient evidence" quite nicely. Of course they are *also* dogmatic, which shines through after the evidence is presented, but personal experience frequently reverses their position, suggesting that the key factor is often prejudice.
Yeah, but cotton-polyester isn't marxist ;-)
1 - I guess slavery was fine too, because it was legal at the time.
2 - An apology is one mechanism for encouraging (as you say) for it to never happen again.
It's typically prejudice anyway.
- He's gay, and gay is bad.
- How do you know gay is bad?
- Well... it is!
Prejudice. Such people are pretty much never familiar with the issue at first hand.
But the thing is the very idea that our own morals are NOT the ones that are important when we work for a communal entity is the very mechanism by which such acts get perpetrated. Sure I hate it too, and your point stands that this mental model is essentially amoral. However, it is the mental model which will continue. If we can recognize *at least* that that larger entity two whom you cede your morality is *also* held to moral standards, that will be a step foward.
I can see the point in saying guilt should't be hereditary, although the UK government is not a single person.
However, claiming injecting people with "hormonal treatments" was normal is like claiming that waterboarding is normal now. They all knew what they were doing was wrong then, just like we all know what we are doing is wrong now. We just make a pretense that it isn't.
It's a religion that has existed longer since you've been alive. They come up quite regularly in popular entertainment as the most respectable group who believe in "faith healing" and avoid surgery etc.
Independently from their oddities, they've published a very highly regarded news source called the Christian Science Monitor for many decades. They are respected for their independent voice, accurate reportage, and even handed investigation.
This is all common knowledge. Read about something that isn't a computer sometime?
I see ps2 slims on sale for 70. If you pull out:
- shipping
- packaging
- power supply
- optical drive
- overhead
from the sale, I can't believe it would cost more than 40$.
But sure, 300 is the top end of the useful price range for the ps3 right now. 340 wouldn't cut it. 300 is still more than I want to spend on a system. I'm just not that enthused about games these days, so something that goes out of style in a few years is meh.
Really? Boot from linux cd/thumb drive, mount the filesystems, game over.
Or are we discussing people who actually do encryption? Do you know of real production examples of people doing that?