The point is not that the language is "too hard", but that the low level language creates an order of magnitude more clutter and errors which get in the way of creating a reasonable, reliable program. They also obstruct creating a reliable efficient program.
The point is NOT that every person reads the code, but rather that it is available for inspection and review. Trust flows more easily from the knowledge that the system can be readily inspected and analyzed and that the author has done what he or she can to enable that, than it does from nothing at all.
Sure a very clever person might be able to hide malignant behavior rather effectively in a nest of source, but a whole class of human activity and anlysis tools can be employed to vet source code which are difficult to use without it.
I understand and concord with the vast bulk of your post. You are speaking about your faith, really, the set of spiritual principles bound together in your religion which guide your life. On this level, religion is something that enriches life, science, etc. and is additional, not exclusionary.
Howver, for many people, religion is exclusive, rule-setting, and absolute. I'm sure you realize that the majority of posters (here) are attacking this small-minded common version of religion, whether or not they realize another form exists. I entreat you to learn to perceive such attacks as simply not applying to you, since they do not, if you have not already done so.
The point I strongly disagree with is that atheistic humanism is a religion. It is not. It is a faith, in the sense that it is a set of ideas that can bouy the individual, and to some extent some people believe in simply from a perspective of personal conviction. However, this is as far as it goes. The properties and actions of humans are something most of us have more experience with than any other aspect of life or the universe, and thus having beliefs about it is a far cry from beliefs in extra-human entities such as gods, souls, higher powers, forces, spirits, and the like, all of which we _do not_ have any personal experience of. Further, humanism lacks a creed, a gospel, a central text, a single view, a church (or any equivalent organization), a mythology, and any fixed set of requirements of belonging/non-belonging. Many of these things are not strictly necessary to be considered a religion, but the complete lack of them all should give you a hint. It is very much a philosophy which is not a religion, and for some people forms a guiding faith.
Well, no. Typically 4k intros programmed the vga card directly. DOS was indeed used to get the executable into memory, but that's about it. Graphics and sound programming was done "directly".
Now, these things generally used all 640k of lower memory (if not more with hacks) and so comparing them to 32k RAM machines is kinda misguided.
Perhaps you mean the same thing, but I think your words suggest otherwise.
The real history of course was that Sun and their partner (forget?) positioned NeWS as a special value their UNIX held over other UNIXes, and thus enjoined a competition of a proprietary closed sysetem over the more open dvelopment and deployment of X.
Thus X was omnipresent, and also more open, torpedoing NeWS.
Sadly, testing and unstable have _no_ security updates.
Unstable is handled by basically updating to whatever the upstream developer produces, which usually includes the security fix, but getting those fixes into testing is not in any way reliably prioritized. It can be weeks to months before serious open currently exploited bugs get fixed in testing.
I really love a lot of things about debian, but the security policies are rather incomplete.
This has happened with startling regularity in Oakland, California, in which I live. Sure, each incident makes the news, but it isn't discussed for weeks, and hasn't sparked any sort of riot.
The overall TREND has certainly earned the Oakland police department a terrible reputation, and has caused some changes including the castigation of the "Riders", causing most of them to no longer be employed by the police department. However, each incident has not become a public focus for weeks.
Bruce Perens is repeating all the same things with this "User Linux" idea he tried years ago with his "Linux Standard Base" idea. A standard distribution that should be the generic linux choice, based on Debian, using gnome not KDE, etc. etc.
Bruce Prens, no one liked your vision then, why do you think they will like it now? Or, is it in fact a different vision? If so, you need to try harder to make that clear, because right now it looks like you're just going to push the same ideas harder this time.
Gas tax does not pay for road maintenance. To cover state funded road maintenance, gas would need to be taxed at rates over $4 a gallon. And that's _just the tax_.
Yes except of course as everyone has pointed out, there IS _no_ "windows" trademark. It's not a trademarkable set of letters because it's a common english word. Microsoft has no trademark on the word "Windows" and if it did it would be legally unsustainable.
You're quite right of course, but as a side note: your experiment is hardly a good one. XMMS makes all kinds of assumptions about files based on their extension. I wouldn't at all be surprised it assumed that.ogg was a vorbis file. I've actually had to recompile xmms more than once to convince it to play files it already could.
My suggestion is you have to let people log in in some fashion in order for people to use the keyboard and mouse attached to the computer. Perhaps this is not specifically the Guest account but rather another account created for the purpose, but there is no real difference between those two scenarios.
The site offers no guarantees that the tires will have any shock absorption properties that are as good as pneumatic tires. This is the reason that pneumatic tires exist. Superior rolling resistance could be had from solid metal.
1 - simply thicker tires eliminate 90% of road bike flats. I've had 2-4 flats in the lifetime of my hybrid bike which i've ridden for four years.
2 - Fenders work fine. You must have poorly installed or lousy ones. Get a full fender installed correctly.
3 - Folding bikes already exist. Some get smaller than a suitcase. The really small ones aren't very efficient though when in bike form.
4 - For brakes to work well in the rain, you can try to have a dry surface (adds massive complexity) or you can try to use breaking pads that bite more heavily into the rim (damaging them, and working much more poorly in the dry). Innovation that solved this differently woudld be nice I guess. In practice, I can lock my wheels in dry weather and stop fast enough to be safe in the rain, but I do have to treat them differently.
Helmets should be 40$ or so for just fine ones. The super-light frame deal is because biking innovation is driven by racing, and racing requires no modification to geometry, so materials is the main innovation axis.
Fine, hate the helmets. Someone's gotta donate organs when other people have helmet problems. There's plenty of research that demonstrates that helmet wearing will save your life in around 6% of crashes, and will save you serious head injury in something like 20%. it might do very little for you in the other 80%, but I guess I don't like being retarded.
I don't mean when you can hear the siren a mile away (rare), but rather when it's a block from you and you aren't sure if it's coming down your street or the turning left instead.
The level of tardiness people employ getting out of the way frequently results in them pulling aside RIGHT as the emergency vehicle is approaching, that is, yards of distance. Thus the emergency vehicle has to dodge their 10mph ass as they pull aside, possibly getting to the destination even slower than if they just kept driving normally.
Blinking, slowing, pulilng out of the line of traffic is NOT a traffic hazard.
Besides, what people actually do of course is slow down IN THE LANE and while continuing forward while looking BEHIND them to see if the siren is coming their way. Brilliant.
It was not the employees of this world that began to sabotage the working relationship of employer/employee. Additionally, fundamentally the employer is in the assymetrically powerful position. Trying to suggest it's similar in both seats is just misleading.
Most of those safe-delete programs do not work, because they attempt to overwrite the entire file at once, and modern filesystem often allocate the file at a new location on the physical disk in such an event. So usually you're overwriting some other old data multiple times, or several bits of old data once each, instead of actually overwriting your own data.
To be safe, a safe-delete has to have cooperation with the disk-space allocation semantics of the file system and block device driver. Sometimes this means placing kernel-level assist code into the picture.
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The point is not that the language is "too hard", but that the low level language creates an order of magnitude more clutter and errors which get in the way of creating a reasonable, reliable program. They also obstruct creating a reliable efficient program.
The old chestnut.
The point is NOT that every person reads the code, but rather that it is available for inspection and review. Trust flows more easily from the knowledge that the system can be readily inspected and analyzed and that the author has done what he or she can to enable that, than it does from nothing at all.
Sure a very clever person might be able to hide malignant behavior rather effectively in a nest of source, but a whole class of human activity and anlysis tools can be employed to vet source code which are difficult to use without it.
I understand and concord with the vast bulk of your post. You are speaking about your faith, really, the set of spiritual principles bound together in your religion which guide your life. On this level, religion is something that enriches life, science, etc. and is additional, not exclusionary.
Howver, for many people, religion is exclusive, rule-setting, and absolute. I'm sure you realize that the majority of posters (here) are attacking this small-minded common version of religion, whether or not they realize another form exists. I entreat you to learn to perceive such attacks as simply not applying to you, since they do not, if you have not already done so.
The point I strongly disagree with is that atheistic humanism is a religion. It is not. It is a faith, in the sense that it is a set of ideas that can bouy the individual, and to some extent some people believe in simply from a perspective of personal conviction. However, this is as far as it goes. The properties and actions of humans are something most of us have more experience with than any other aspect of life or the universe, and thus having beliefs about it is a far cry from beliefs in extra-human entities such as gods, souls, higher powers, forces, spirits, and the like, all of which we _do not_ have any personal experience of. Further, humanism lacks a creed, a gospel, a central text, a single view, a church (or any equivalent organization), a mythology, and any fixed set of requirements of belonging/non-belonging. Many of these things are not strictly necessary to be considered a religion, but the complete lack of them all should give you a hint. It is very much a philosophy which is not a religion, and for some people forms a guiding faith.
Well, no. Typically 4k intros programmed the vga card directly. DOS was indeed used to get the executable into memory, but that's about it. Graphics and sound programming was done "directly".
Now, these things generally used all 640k of lower memory (if not more with hacks) and so comparing them to 32k RAM machines is kinda misguided.
Perhaps you mean the same thing, but I think your words suggest otherwise.
The real history of course was that Sun and their partner (forget?) positioned NeWS as a special value their UNIX held over other UNIXes, and thus enjoined a competition of a proprietary closed sysetem over the more open dvelopment and deployment of X.
Thus X was omnipresent, and also more open, torpedoing NeWS.
For Octavia Butler: try her collection of short stories Bloodchild, or perhaps Kindred.
I haven't read Dawn and cannot comment.
I feel her celebrated Parable of the Sower is a mixed bag.
Sadly, testing and unstable have _no_ security updates.
Unstable is handled by basically updating to whatever the upstream developer produces, which usually includes the security fix, but getting those fixes into testing is not in any way reliably prioritized. It can be weeks to months before serious open currently exploited bugs get fixed in testing.
I really love a lot of things about debian, but the security policies are rather incomplete.
I dunno, i think it's fair game for schadenfruede. Whether that itself is acceptable is up for debate.
This has happened with startling regularity in Oakland, California, in which I live. Sure, each incident makes the news, but it isn't discussed for weeks, and hasn't sparked any sort of riot.
The overall TREND has certainly earned the Oakland police department a terrible reputation, and has caused some changes including the castigation of the "Riders", causing most of them to no longer be employed by the police department. However, each incident has not become a public focus for weeks.
Bruce Perens is repeating all the same things with this "User Linux" idea he tried years ago with his "Linux Standard Base" idea. A standard distribution that should be the generic linux choice, based on Debian, using gnome not KDE, etc. etc.
Bruce Prens, no one liked your vision then, why do you think they will like it now? Or, is it in fact a different vision? If so, you need to try harder to make that clear, because right now it looks like you're just going to push the same ideas harder this time.
Gas tax does not pay for road maintenance. To cover state funded road maintenance, gas would need to be taxed at rates over $4 a gallon. And that's _just the tax_.
Yes except of course as everyone has pointed out, there IS _no_ "windows" trademark. It's not a trademarkable set of letters because it's a common english word. Microsoft has no trademark on the word "Windows" and if it did it would be legally unsustainable.
You're quite right of course, but as a side note: your experiment is hardly a good one. XMMS makes all kinds of assumptions about files based on their extension. I wouldn't at all be surprised it assumed that .ogg was a vorbis file. I've actually had to recompile xmms more than once to convince it to play files it already could.
My suggestion is you have to let people log in in some fashion in order for people to use the keyboard and mouse attached to the computer. Perhaps this is not specifically the Guest account but rather another account created for the purpose, but there is no real difference between those two scenarios.
Spring seats significantly damage efficiency, which is important on a low-power system like a bicycle.
For a 5$ a month service, WineX supports very few games fully. A new release after some six months and .. three new games?
This just isn't very impressive.
At least you can effectively buy WineX for a small fee and skip out on the upgrades.
So, about those computers in the library.....
The site offers no guarantees that the tires will have any shock absorption properties that are as good as pneumatic tires. This is the reason that pneumatic tires exist. Superior rolling resistance could be had from solid metal.
1 - simply thicker tires eliminate 90% of road bike flats. I've had 2-4 flats in the lifetime of my hybrid bike which i've ridden for four years.
2 - Fenders work fine. You must have poorly installed or lousy ones. Get a full fender installed correctly.
3 - Folding bikes already exist. Some get smaller than a suitcase. The really small ones aren't very efficient though when in bike form.
4 - For brakes to work well in the rain, you can try to have a dry surface (adds massive complexity) or you can try to use breaking pads that bite more heavily into the rim (damaging them, and working much more poorly in the dry). Innovation that solved this differently woudld be nice I guess. In practice, I can lock my wheels in dry weather and stop fast enough to be safe in the rain, but I do have to treat them differently.
Helmets should be 40$ or so for just fine ones. The super-light frame deal is because biking innovation is driven by racing, and racing requires no modification to geometry, so materials is the main innovation axis.
Fine, hate the helmets. Someone's gotta donate organs when other people have helmet problems. There's plenty of research that demonstrates that helmet wearing will save your life in around 6% of crashes, and will save you serious head injury in something like 20%. it might do very little for you in the other 80%, but I guess I don't like being retarded.
Snow is soft. Pavement is hard.
I don't mean when you can hear the siren a mile away (rare), but rather when it's a block from you and you aren't sure if it's coming down your street or the turning left instead.
The level of tardiness people employ getting out of the way frequently results in them pulling aside RIGHT as the emergency vehicle is approaching, that is, yards of distance. Thus the emergency vehicle has to dodge their 10mph ass as they pull aside, possibly getting to the destination even slower than if they just kept driving normally.
Blinking, slowing, pulilng out of the line of traffic is NOT a traffic hazard.
Besides, what people actually do of course is slow down IN THE LANE and while continuing forward while looking BEHIND them to see if the siren is coming their way. Brilliant.
Scrubbing the surface works pretty well.
Cutting the platter into pieces is also a good start.
Anything short of measures like this is pretty much defeatable (at significant expense).
And have I done any of these things?
Have I?
Thanks for playing.
Sorry guy.
It was not the employees of this world that began to sabotage the working relationship of employer/employee. Additionally, fundamentally the employer is in the assymetrically powerful position. Trying to suggest it's similar in both seats is just misleading.
You might be surprised.
Most of those safe-delete programs do not work, because they attempt to overwrite the entire file at once, and modern filesystem often allocate the file at a new location on the physical disk in such an event. So usually you're overwriting some other old data multiple times, or several bits of old data once each, instead of actually overwriting your own data.
To be safe, a safe-delete has to have cooperation with the disk-space allocation semantics of the file system and block device driver. Sometimes this means placing kernel-level assist code into the picture.