I'd say you are. His first statement wasn't a logically fallacy, he was just pointing out this argument has been going on for a long time.
You made a good point about portability, but I think that was your only point. And its easily shot down byt the fact that its just as easy to port a standard C/C++ API to a new environment as it is to port Java/.NET to a new environment.
He made an excellent point about many new graduates not knowing how the CPU actually works and you replied with: "It's about algorithms. Computers just happen to be the most convienent means for trying them.." ??? What the hell does that mean? Handwaving indeed.
His main point was that VM's are always slower compiled machine code. Even if computers are doubling in speed every 18 months or whatever, native machine code will still be faster than virtual machine code.
With the trend towards VM's and virtualization, that "hypothetical" computer comes ever closer.
Right there you have just proven yourself to be an academic. Trends do not make reality. Besides that, what about gcj? If VMs were so great, why would anyone want to compile java to native code? In the real world, people care about performance. Academics are satisfied that a problem has a solution. In the real world we need to be able to get a solution in the minimum amount of time. VMs always take more time.
Isn't that kinda what he's saying? The extra DNS means that a mutation results in an altered species that may or may not be viable. If it weren't for the extra DNA the result would be dead offspring, which doesn't help evolution any. Mutations are random, which means they can be good (opposable thumb), bad (various genetic problems) or ugly (superfluous nipples). What makes a mutation ugly is subjective. What makes a mutation good or bad is decided by natural selection. Most mutations will fall into the bad and ugly categories, so yeah it seems like mutation is a bad thing. But a mutation is sometimes just enough to avoid extinction.
Yeah, I thought the exact same thing. But opendns has apparently changed. I'm guessing the old openDNS went out of business and some guys just bought the name since on the site it says they started in 2005, and the old openDNS was older than that I think.
But this is not the solution. The anti-phishing stuff will be good. The typo stuff seems interesting, but their business model seems to benefit more by not finding the typo. But no different from IE redirecting people to MSN, I guess.
But the extra large cache is going to be a problem. If I'm using DNS to distrbute load its going to screw things up. What if I simply want to change a website to a different server? What if my primary connection goes down so I have point the DNS to a differnt IP?
If you cache stuff too long it makes problems. Anyway, I don't think it takes that long to do a dns lookup anyway, does it?
What we really need is a DNS system that can return multiple IP addresses and a code to indicate how to use them (ie, randomly select one or use the first unless it fails then fallback to the next one). And maybe have some "root" servers which contain only changes, so that servers could check them periodically and know what needs to be updated, and use the cache for everything else. Then we can have load balancing, and DNS servers could safely keep stuff cached for longer periods of time.
Of course, this would require everyone to change their DNS servers and their browsers, so it isn't likely we'll see DNS imrpoved anytime soon.
You're missing the point. As a consumer, I don't care what they do to their movies, as long as it doesn't affect the movies I watch. But if I ever made a movie? They damn well better not butcher what I worked hard to make.
There are convenient little ratings on the side of the box. There are plenty of G rated movies out there for you to watch. They don't need to mess up someone else's creation to get entertainment. If you want to watch R-rated movies, you're gonna have to watch some things that you may find difficult to watch. You can't have it both ways.
Just for example, there is a scene in Syriana where George Clooney's character is tortured. I felt very uncomfortable watching that. But if they cut that scene out it would have weakened the movie. See, even though it was a very difficult scene to watch, it was also a very powerful scene. I didn't enjoy that scene, but I wasn't supposed to enjoy it. It was there to make an impact. Take out that scene and it makes for a more enjoyable movie, but at the cost of making it a weaker movie.
The director sometimes mixes enjoyable scenes with difficult scenes. You earn the enjoyable scenes by watching the difficult scenes. By cutting out the difficult scenes, you are stealing the enjoyable scenes.
Its immoral because you are defacing a work of art. Legally it's copyright infringement. If you aren't trolling, you might want to reasess your values. You're working so hard at avoiding the immorality, that your methods have become immoral themselves.
Well maybe they could give you an activation code when you license the software. So basically you download the software, go to the website and put in your credit card number and the serial number from your dollar and get an activation code. You get charged for the software and your serial number is stored in a database at the company at the same time. The activation code could be some kind of hash based on your serial number or whatever, depending on how paranoid the software company is.
Then when its time for a BSA audit or whatever, you show them your dollar, they check the database and verify that you own a license. The dollar is legal tender and has security measures to prevent counterfeiting so its reasonably safe.
You could make up a number when registering, but then when you get audited you have no proof you own the software, so its kinda going against your own interests.
The main weakness is when the intern trades your license for thousands of dollars of software for a coke.
How naive you are... They want Saddam to be executed so he can't spill the beans on Rumsfeld and his buddies. Why do you think they aren't trying him for "gassing his own people"? No, try him for a crime he committed before the US started supplying him with chemical weapons and execute him for that. Put him in jail, then someone might later on start asking him some questions about the things he did with the full support of the US. We don't want that now do we?
Osama bin Laden is even trickier. The Kurds are willing to let it slide that Saddam won't be tried for the atrocities he commited against them in exchange for their own (defacto) state. But everyone is going to demand bin Laden be tried for 9/11, the embassy bombings, and everything else the US has claimed he's responsible for. Bin Laden had the full support of the US from the very beginning up to... well we aren't exactly sure when the US stopped supporting bin Laden, now are we? Put him on trial in New York and we will find out everything. And that is why you won't see bin Laden on trial.
And I'm sure bin Laden would quite enjoy living a normal western life. There really isn't much difference between hardcore christians and hardcore muslims. Unless you forbid him from practising his religion. And even then, he likely isn't all that religious, most people who want power portray an image of being pious to gain followers. Many people in positions of power use religion as a recruitung tool but are quite pragmatic about it privately.
people from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia who actually show some faith in the ability of arabs to govern themselves
Faith in the ability to govern themselves under the watchful eye of the US? You really think a parliament full of corrupt politicians is a godd substitute for independence?
So, when you hear that the US is updating plans for the use of nuclear bunker-busting bombs in Iran, it doesn't mean that anybody expects to use them at all.
The fact that you hear about it and its not kept super duper top secret black classified, says a lot more than the fact that they have a plan. We all know that they have a plan for this stuff, but when they start talking about these plans out loud it can mean one of a few possibilites. Most likely it just means they're rattling the sabre at Iran. But there is the possibility that they are preparing the American people for the day they actually do it. Or maybe they just want to see the reaction to it to see if they can get away with doing it.
The most rational explanation for this being made public is that its just sabre rattling. But this administration has been extremely irrational. Iraq will go down in history as one of the greatest strategic blunders. Its really scary to have that level of incompetence with that much power. Really anything is possible.
maybe you should heed your own advice. The reality is that tyrants rule only with the permission of their subjects. Passive resistance helped put an end to the British Empire, while violence only leads to more violence.
Exactly. How hard is it to have a table of the products and what OS's they support. The dude doesn't have to subscribe to the LKML, just know where to look up the information.
And the GP is being silly. Sometimes a network card gets fried and you need to replace it right away. And you might not be able to go on the internet to do research, because, ummm... your network card is broken. Now, I have yet to run accross a NIC that doesn't work under linux (the people who do the NIC drivers for linux do great work) but hey, its not a bad idea to ask to be sure.
If the guy just said "I don't know", you would think he was lazy. To answer "linux is like NT" just makes him look like an idiot.
Its the Reform Party's dirty little secret, so its not easy to find records the relationship between reform and Heritage Front. Check the records on who handled security for the Reform Party in the early days, and go from there.
Many current members of the Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party were around when the Reform party was a politcal wing of the Heritage Front, the Canadian version of the KKK. Do your research. Once a racist, always a racist.
Right now they have a minority government, which means they are going to spend all their time on "think of the children" issues. Quite literally, lately. All to prove to the suckers that they aren't so bad, so maybe next time they can get a majority. If that happens... look out. This Conservative party could make the American Republican party look like hippies. Stephen Harper desperately wants to be George Bush, and he will be if we give him the chance.
Maybe they've got you fooled, but I'm not going to trust a party that was originally formed by racists. Especially while those original members are the ones still running things.
I've worked on literacy projects in the third world, and the biggest problem is this: as soon as you start teaching kids to read, the government stops. You spend a million dollars on education, the government transfers a million out of education and into other things. So really, you might as well cut out the middle man and transfer the money directly to the governments.
And about USAID... Most of the money doesn't actually go to the third world, but to various contractors and consulting agencies around DC. I remember working on a USAID project and one time we identified a need for better accounting at various non-profits. Our idea was to hire a local accountant part time to work with the various organisations. What we got was a three day seminar from an American consultant for the same price it would have costed to pay an accounant for 2 years.
The sole purpose of USAID is for the US to control foreign governments. And it does succeed at that. Any third world country steps out of line, even a little, the US threatens to cut all USAID funding. I've seen it happen.
Anyways, what is the solution? Well, I don't know really. Before anything real can happen, we need people to pull their heads out the sand and realise that some horrible things are happening so that they can have their luxuries and live in the little bubble we call the developed world. Not even 9/11 woke people up to the realities of the world, so I'm not sure what it will take. But as long as consumers keep consuming and corporations keep maximising profits while remaining willfully ignorant to how they're getting stuff so cheap, things like slavery will never end.
The problem is that its not a competitive market, just a bunch of regional monopolies. The the debate is between regulated monopolies and unregulated monopolies.
The page you linked to says nothing about a starcraft MMOG. Just Starcraft, Brood War and Ghost. Oddly enough blizzard.com/ghost just redirescts to blizzard.com, so there isn't any information on it, which could mean its been cancelled, which wouldn't surprise me. It could also mean they are reworking ghost into a MMOG of some sort, but that's just speculation.
Doug: In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a [the three nerds chuckle] magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder. June: Uh, well, uh... Homer: I'll field that one. Let me ask you a question. Why would a man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show? Doug: [embarrassed pause] I withdraw my question. [starts eating a candy bar]
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I'd say you are. His first statement wasn't a logically fallacy, he was just pointing out this argument has been going on for a long time.
You made a good point about portability, but I think that was your only point. And its easily shot down byt the fact that its just as easy to port a standard C/C++ API to a new environment as it is to port Java/.NET to a new environment.
He made an excellent point about many new graduates not knowing how the CPU actually works and you replied with: "It's about algorithms. Computers just happen to be the most convienent means for trying them.." ??? What the hell does that mean? Handwaving indeed.
His main point was that VM's are always slower compiled machine code. Even if computers are doubling in speed every 18 months or whatever, native machine code will still be faster than virtual machine code.
Right there you have just proven yourself to be an academic. Trends do not make reality. Besides that, what about gcj? If VMs were so great, why would anyone want to compile java to native code? In the real world, people care about performance. Academics are satisfied that a problem has a solution. In the real world we need to be able to get a solution in the minimum amount of time. VMs always take more time.
Now you may continue your handwaving.
Isn't that kinda what he's saying? The extra DNS means that a mutation results in an altered species that may or may not be viable. If it weren't for the extra DNA the result would be dead offspring, which doesn't help evolution any. Mutations are random, which means they can be good (opposable thumb), bad (various genetic problems) or ugly (superfluous nipples). What makes a mutation ugly is subjective. What makes a mutation good or bad is decided by natural selection. Most mutations will fall into the bad and ugly categories, so yeah it seems like mutation is a bad thing. But a mutation is sometimes just enough to avoid extinction.
Yeah, I thought the exact same thing. But opendns has apparently changed. I'm guessing the old openDNS went out of business and some guys just bought the name since on the site it says they started in 2005, and the old openDNS was older than that I think.
But the extra large cache is going to be a problem. If I'm using DNS to distrbute load its going to screw things up. What if I simply want to change a website to a different server? What if my primary connection goes down so I have point the DNS to a differnt IP?
If you cache stuff too long it makes problems. Anyway, I don't think it takes that long to do a dns lookup anyway, does it?
What we really need is a DNS system that can return multiple IP addresses and a code to indicate how to use them (ie, randomly select one or use the first unless it fails then fallback to the next one). And maybe have some "root" servers which contain only changes, so that servers could check them periodically and know what needs to be updated, and use the cache for everything else. Then we can have load balancing, and DNS servers could safely keep stuff cached for longer periods of time.
Of course, this would require everyone to change their DNS servers and their browsers, so it isn't likely we'll see DNS imrpoved anytime soon.
You're missing the point. As a consumer, I don't care what they do to their movies, as long as it doesn't affect the movies I watch. But if I ever made a movie? They damn well better not butcher what I worked hard to make.
There are convenient little ratings on the side of the box. There are plenty of G rated movies out there for you to watch. They don't need to mess up someone else's creation to get entertainment. If you want to watch R-rated movies, you're gonna have to watch some things that you may find difficult to watch. You can't have it both ways.
Just for example, there is a scene in Syriana where George Clooney's character is tortured. I felt very uncomfortable watching that. But if they cut that scene out it would have weakened the movie. See, even though it was a very difficult scene to watch, it was also a very powerful scene. I didn't enjoy that scene, but I wasn't supposed to enjoy it. It was there to make an impact. Take out that scene and it makes for a more enjoyable movie, but at the cost of making it a weaker movie.
The director sometimes mixes enjoyable scenes with difficult scenes. You earn the enjoyable scenes by watching the difficult scenes. By cutting out the difficult scenes, you are stealing the enjoyable scenes.
Its immoral because you are defacing a work of art. Legally it's copyright infringement. If you aren't trolling, you might want to reasess your values. You're working so hard at avoiding the immorality, that your methods have become immoral themselves.
Well maybe they could give you an activation code when you license the software. So basically you download the software, go to the website and put in your credit card number and the serial number from your dollar and get an activation code. You get charged for the software and your serial number is stored in a database at the company at the same time. The activation code could be some kind of hash based on your serial number or whatever, depending on how paranoid the software company is.
Then when its time for a BSA audit or whatever, you show them your dollar, they check the database and verify that you own a license. The dollar is legal tender and has security measures to prevent counterfeiting so its reasonably safe.
You could make up a number when registering, but then when you get audited you have no proof you own the software, so its kinda going against your own interests.
The main weakness is when the intern trades your license for thousands of dollars of software for a coke.
No, but they can leap over tall coops in a single bound.
How naive you are... They want Saddam to be executed so he can't spill the beans on Rumsfeld and his buddies. Why do you think they aren't trying him for "gassing his own people"? No, try him for a crime he committed before the US started supplying him with chemical weapons and execute him for that. Put him in jail, then someone might later on start asking him some questions about the things he did with the full support of the US. We don't want that now do we?
Osama bin Laden is even trickier. The Kurds are willing to let it slide that Saddam won't be tried for the atrocities he commited against them in exchange for their own (defacto) state. But everyone is going to demand bin Laden be tried for 9/11, the embassy bombings, and everything else the US has claimed he's responsible for. Bin Laden had the full support of the US from the very beginning up to... well we aren't exactly sure when the US stopped supporting bin Laden, now are we? Put him on trial in New York and we will find out everything. And that is why you won't see bin Laden on trial.
And I'm sure bin Laden would quite enjoy living a normal western life. There really isn't much difference between hardcore christians and hardcore muslims. Unless you forbid him from practising his religion. And even then, he likely isn't all that religious, most people who want power portray an image of being pious to gain followers. Many people in positions of power use religion as a recruitung tool but are quite pragmatic about it privately.
so... fight for net neutrality by killing search neutrality?
Faith in the ability to govern themselves under the watchful eye of the US? You really think a parliament full of corrupt politicians is a godd substitute for independence?
Yeah, especially Cuba. I wonder if he is aware that one of its neighbours has sent insurgents into Cuba in the past.
The fact that you hear about it and its not kept super duper top secret black classified, says a lot more than the fact that they have a plan. We all know that they have a plan for this stuff, but when they start talking about these plans out loud it can mean one of a few possibilites. Most likely it just means they're rattling the sabre at Iran. But there is the possibility that they are preparing the American people for the day they actually do it. Or maybe they just want to see the reaction to it to see if they can get away with doing it.
The most rational explanation for this being made public is that its just sabre rattling. But this administration has been extremely irrational. Iraq will go down in history as one of the greatest strategic blunders. Its really scary to have that level of incompetence with that much power. Really anything is possible.
Dude, there's still unexploded ordinance from WWI in France.
Only the losers get prosecuted for war crimes.
maybe you should heed your own advice. The reality is that tyrants rule only with the permission of their subjects. Passive resistance helped put an end to the British Empire, while violence only leads to more violence.
Because its a national security issue, citzen. And hey look, gays want to get married... doesn't that make you angry?
Exactly. How hard is it to have a table of the products and what OS's they support. The dude doesn't have to subscribe to the LKML, just know where to look up the information.
And the GP is being silly. Sometimes a network card gets fried and you need to replace it right away. And you might not be able to go on the internet to do research, because, ummm... your network card is broken. Now, I have yet to run accross a NIC that doesn't work under linux (the people who do the NIC drivers for linux do great work) but hey, its not a bad idea to ask to be sure.
If the guy just said "I don't know", you would think he was lazy. To answer "linux is like NT" just makes him look like an idiot.
Its the Reform Party's dirty little secret, so its not easy to find records the relationship between reform and Heritage Front. Check the records on who handled security for the Reform Party in the early days, and go from there.
He said "mesh network". How well a mesh network will work is debateable, but his idea is plausible.
Many current members of the Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party were around when the Reform party was a politcal wing of the Heritage Front, the Canadian version of the KKK. Do your research. Once a racist, always a racist.
Right now they have a minority government, which means they are going to spend all their time on "think of the children" issues. Quite literally, lately. All to prove to the suckers that they aren't so bad, so maybe next time they can get a majority. If that happens... look out. This Conservative party could make the American Republican party look like hippies. Stephen Harper desperately wants to be George Bush, and he will be if we give him the chance.
Maybe they've got you fooled, but I'm not going to trust a party that was originally formed by racists. Especially while those original members are the ones still running things.
And about USAID... Most of the money doesn't actually go to the third world, but to various contractors and consulting agencies around DC. I remember working on a USAID project and one time we identified a need for better accounting at various non-profits. Our idea was to hire a local accountant part time to work with the various organisations. What we got was a three day seminar from an American consultant for the same price it would have costed to pay an accounant for 2 years.
The sole purpose of USAID is for the US to control foreign governments. And it does succeed at that. Any third world country steps out of line, even a little, the US threatens to cut all USAID funding. I've seen it happen.
Anyways, what is the solution? Well, I don't know really. Before anything real can happen, we need people to pull their heads out the sand and realise that some horrible things are happening so that they can have their luxuries and live in the little bubble we call the developed world. Not even 9/11 woke people up to the realities of the world, so I'm not sure what it will take. But as long as consumers keep consuming and corporations keep maximising profits while remaining willfully ignorant to how they're getting stuff so cheap, things like slavery will never end.
The problem is that its not a competitive market, just a bunch of regional monopolies. The the debate is between regulated monopolies and unregulated monopolies.
The page you linked to says nothing about a starcraft MMOG. Just Starcraft, Brood War and Ghost. Oddly enough blizzard.com/ghost just redirescts to blizzard.com, so there isn't any information on it, which could mean its been cancelled, which wouldn't surprise me. It could also mean they are reworking ghost into a MMOG of some sort, but that's just speculation.
Doug: In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a
xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he
produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to
believe, that this is some sort of a [the three nerds chuckle]
magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got
fired for that blunder.
June: Uh, well, uh...
Homer: I'll field that one. Let me ask you a question. Why would a
man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time
watching a children's cartoon show?
Doug: [embarrassed pause] I withdraw my question. [starts eating a
candy bar]
Yeah its really time to pull the feeding tube out of those jokes.