If you searched for this particular identity, you would probably fine hundreds of posts (including many on slashdot) some of them truthful, some of them fake, with various opinions of topics.
Lier. This was clearly one of your fake posts. 8-)
An OS should make resources available, not use them up!
But modern OSs are really bundles of a lot of software, some of which could really use some parallelizing. I don't think this requires a fundamental redesign, but what do I know?
This probably wouldn't work as a change to Digg or reddit because it changes the whole idea. Currently, I rank on digg after I've seen a story from selected category and/or popularity, selected by headline. So I rate after I've (partially) used the ratings of the other users, whereas with the presented idea, either I rate random stories or I see (but cannot rate) highly-ranking stories. Different principle, really.
You're thinking Arizona, but forgetting Nevada - seems to be bigger and emptier. Or better yet, just cover the whole of Utah. And then there are other places in the world, like the Sahara, and we know Africa's economies could use abundance of cheap power (think refrigeration available everywhere, for instance).
Once sales drop AND p2p downloads ALSO drop, the labels will get the idea that the product they push is crap and need to change in order to make it worthwhile. They would have to, since both revenue streams (via sales and litigation) would dry up.
That's of course if you consider their product crap. I know I enjoy Metallica (as an example here). I'm certainly glad they (labels) do promotion because I don't value music that much as to try and find my favourites. I'm sure there are bands that I'd enjoy more than Metallica in the same genre, but Metallica is good enough.
But I don't value music at $12/CD, or $1/song. I'd be inclined to pay RIAA some low monthly fee for being allowed to listen to their music. I might even consider paying a low yearly fee to some specific bands.
For me, my music collection serves almost like a good selection of radio stations, and in fact radio is what I'm listening to most, when that's possible. I don't mind the occasional advertisement, in fact recently there was an ad that was useful to me.
It's the price in face of globalization that I object to by pirating the music, not that RIAA holds copyright. Because as soon as enough bands find out it's easy to sell their music online, RIAA will not hold such a proportion of music copyright any more.
To Slashdot: can we get moderation -1 immature comment? I'd apply that a lot today on this story... Bashing Bill Gates as +1 informative where there's little information in there, and a lot of other crap got +4 or +5 today.
Will the broadcasters show any videos provided by the candidates (within their time limits), or just videos made in their studios for tax yens? Because if you allow any video provided by the candidate (as is the case if you allow YouTube), the candidate with more money will have nicer videos, and that's, I believe, against the spirit of the system there.
My theory is also supported by your statement that the flyers are funded by tax yens.
So the problem with YouTube may be that it allows money to play a role (above the initial 3e6 yen).
What safeguards are in place to prevent some corrupt government bureaucrat from doling them out to political cronies, black marketeers or any other undeserving party (for financial gain or not) and then just claiming that they have turned up missing or that they never got them and that they need more?
In short: the sheer number of the laptops.
Say a government buys 100,000 of these laptops. How many cronies and other undeserving parties will want one, especially if it's basically a smart toy? I don't think there would be many cases of somebody hoarding thousands of these laptops, which could really make a dent, so even if you give one to all members of your very extended family and friends, 90% of them will still end up with deserving children.
That's my theory, that is.
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Good reasons, thanks. I switched from Vim to Eclipse for Java development, not because of typing advantages (I miss Vim), but because of refactoring support and java warnings in editor and support for todos and easy navigation between multiple classes etc. I know various environments may have advantages for various tasks, but for editing anything but Java, I still use Vim. The description of TextMate absolutely looks like it's aimed at helping Emacs people (and we know they need help 8-) ), and integration in MacOSX is also a good point.
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If someone can't learnt to type with fewers typos, they will have to rely on tools for that, true. I don't believe I implied that he'd be a bad programmer, just inefficient. And I don't believe I said TextMate was a bad editor because it helps bad typists. I just said that the original poster might want to improve his typing and be generally better off.
I guess when you get used to how exactly the snippets work, even as a fast typist you might be faster with them than without. But there is a problem with snippets - if you have the piece of code in mind, you'll type it down, character by character, which is what fast typists can do fast. Some people will automatically close every opening parenthesis/bracket and then move back, add spaces/lines, move back again, start typing the inner part - for me this would be serious disturbance in the flow. Snippets will help them by doing a lot of this automatically, but still they break the flow of characters, which is what one has to get used to.
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... didn't think so.
And what's with the GNU Emacs ("Emacs") thing?
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The snippets, IMHO, are the best thing ever. Honestly, my productivity has shot through the roof because creating simple things like for loops takes about 8-12 key hits to get all the infrastructure done, and with all the proper brackets and semicolons all perfectly placed and formatted. I shit you not when I say that this has eliminated 90% of my debug problems.
Have you ever stopped to consider that if 90% of your "debug problems", as you'd call it, are in such simple syntactical structures like for loops, you might want to learn to type?
For many people iPod was the first digital music player - that'd be those who thought "now this is a player I like". But most people (at least here in Europe) already have cellphones, so getting a new one might be a bigger barrier than getting the first one when the right one comes out.
What's it going to take for mathematicians to get some mainstream coverage? A sex scandal?
If you guys ever applied your results, and didn't leave that to the physicists, computer scientists, economists etc., you might get some recognition. Heck, give me a good usable logics framework, I'll apply it to the Semantic Web and I'll mention your name in every interview when I'm famous for making SemWeb work.
It's wireless, that means it's radio. You can find a radio transmitter, especially if it keeps transmitting. I expect it's doable, by the strength of the signal, possibly by the direction from which it comes (with a directional antenna), add triangulation. Surely the feds could do it if they care.
There should be some ammendments to some crucial constitutions to guarantee that there should be no laws (and therefore state action) against anonymous and encrypted communication.
I wouldn't say that the problem with software patents is that the product is trivial to copy or distribute. The problem is that most of the patents are obvious solutions to their problems. A patent is about a clever solution to a problem. How to change oil to movement? Engine - patentable. How to quickly sort an array of items? qsort, should be patentable. How to compress data well? LZW was patented. These are not trivial algorithms. How to make it more convenient for users to shop? One-click. Fucking obvious.
A solution should be patentable if it couldn't be produced by a moderately skilled programmer in a reasonable time, given a description of the problem. Students and hobbyists and OSS volunteers are likely to infringe on patents not because software patents are evil, but because so many of them are obvious solutions that get replicated without thinking.
Also, the evolution of software is so fast that I'd reduce the term of patent monopoly, but I'd still grant software patents.
The problem is, expansion is driven by population pressure.
Ah, that's right, that's why Columbus sailed to America, leading to its popularization and colonization. Except he did it for the riches of establishing a faster trade route with Asia.
Expansion follows exploration, which is done for many reasons, riches and adventures being at the top. When someplace is explored and the riches are discovered, more people will follow and colonize.
Such projects as Citizendium could start by taking Wikipedia content, marking it as "unapproved", and having a swarm of editors go through them. And they can then go through new edits and approve those. I can totally see traditional encyclopaedias doing this - publish a subset that is approved by the editors, and charge money for it. I expect that the GNU Free Documentation License allows this.
And one of these "edited Wikipedia" projects could have editors selected by reputation, sure, and it would sure be a useful experiment at least.
For most people who've never been in jail, jailtime will be a big deterrent. As opposed to a fine that's less than the profits, and even public humiliation - in today's society, we don't only forget the heroes, we also forget the villains fast, giving everybody their 15 mins of fame, maybe, and that's it.
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Lier. This was clearly one of your fake posts. 8-)
An OS should make resources available, not use them up!
But modern OSs are really bundles of a lot of software, some of which could really use some parallelizing. I don't think this requires a fundamental redesign, but what do I know?
This probably wouldn't work as a change to Digg or reddit because it changes the whole idea. Currently, I rank on digg after I've seen a story from selected category and/or popularity, selected by headline. So I rate after I've (partially) used the ratings of the other users, whereas with the presented idea, either I rate random stories or I see (but cannot rate) highly-ranking stories. Different principle, really.
You're thinking Arizona, but forgetting Nevada - seems to be bigger and emptier. Or better yet, just cover the whole of Utah. And then there are other places in the world, like the Sahara, and we know Africa's economies could use abundance of cheap power (think refrigeration available everywhere, for instance).
That's of course if you consider their product crap. I know I enjoy Metallica (as an example here). I'm certainly glad they (labels) do promotion because I don't value music that much as to try and find my favourites. I'm sure there are bands that I'd enjoy more than Metallica in the same genre, but Metallica is good enough.
But I don't value music at $12/CD, or $1/song. I'd be inclined to pay RIAA some low monthly fee for being allowed to listen to their music. I might even consider paying a low yearly fee to some specific bands.
For me, my music collection serves almost like a good selection of radio stations, and in fact radio is what I'm listening to most, when that's possible. I don't mind the occasional advertisement, in fact recently there was an ad that was useful to me.
It's the price in face of globalization that I object to by pirating the music, not that RIAA holds copyright. Because as soon as enough bands find out it's easy to sell their music online, RIAA will not hold such a proportion of music copyright any more.
To Slashdot: can we get moderation -1 immature comment? I'd apply that a lot today on this story... Bashing Bill Gates as +1 informative where there's little information in there, and a lot of other crap got +4 or +5 today.
You say "environmentally-friendly" is not the same as "less environmentally damaging".
Well, remember that middle-school bully, when he didn't hit you and instead just said "jerk off"? Well, that seemed almost friendly, didn't it? 8-)
'nuff said.
Will the broadcasters show any videos provided by the candidates (within their time limits), or just videos made in their studios for tax yens? Because if you allow any video provided by the candidate (as is the case if you allow YouTube), the candidate with more money will have nicer videos, and that's, I believe, against the spirit of the system there.
My theory is also supported by your statement that the flyers are funded by tax yens.
So the problem with YouTube may be that it allows money to play a role (above the initial 3e6 yen).
In short: the sheer number of the laptops.
Say a government buys 100,000 of these laptops. How many cronies and other undeserving parties will want one, especially if it's basically a smart toy? I don't think there would be many cases of somebody hoarding thousands of these laptops, which could really make a dent, so even if you give one to all members of your very extended family and friends, 90% of them will still end up with deserving children.
That's my theory, that is.
Good reasons, thanks. I switched from Vim to Eclipse for Java development, not because of typing advantages (I miss Vim), but because of refactoring support and java warnings in editor and support for todos and easy navigation between multiple classes etc. I know various environments may have advantages for various tasks, but for editing anything but Java, I still use Vim. The description of TextMate absolutely looks like it's aimed at helping Emacs people (and we know they need help 8-) ), and integration in MacOSX is also a good point.
If someone can't learnt to type with fewers typos, they will have to rely on tools for that, true. I don't believe I implied that he'd be a bad programmer, just inefficient. And I don't believe I said TextMate was a bad editor because it helps bad typists. I just said that the original poster might want to improve his typing and be generally better off.
I guess when you get used to how exactly the snippets work, even as a fast typist you might be faster with them than without. But there is a problem with snippets - if you have the piece of code in mind, you'll type it down, character by character, which is what fast typists can do fast. Some people will automatically close every opening parenthesis/bracket and then move back, add spaces/lines, move back again, start typing the inner part - for me this would be serious disturbance in the flow. Snippets will help them by doing a lot of this automatically, but still they break the flow of characters, which is what one has to get used to.
... didn't think so.
And what's with the GNU Emacs ("Emacs") thing?
Have you ever stopped to consider that if 90% of your "debug problems", as you'd call it, are in such simple syntactical structures like for loops, you might want to learn to type?
For many people iPod was the first digital music player - that'd be those who thought "now this is a player I like". But most people (at least here in Europe) already have cellphones, so getting a new one might be a bigger barrier than getting the first one when the right one comes out.
It's wireless, that means it's radio. You can find a radio transmitter, especially if it keeps transmitting. I expect it's doable, by the strength of the signal, possibly by the direction from which it comes (with a directional antenna), add triangulation. Surely the feds could do it if they care.
There should be some ammendments to some crucial constitutions to guarantee that there should be no laws (and therefore state action) against anonymous and encrypted communication.
I wouldn't say that the problem with software patents is that the product is trivial to copy or distribute. The problem is that most of the patents are obvious solutions to their problems. A patent is about a clever solution to a problem. How to change oil to movement? Engine - patentable. How to quickly sort an array of items? qsort, should be patentable. How to compress data well? LZW was patented. These are not trivial algorithms. How to make it more convenient for users to shop? One-click. Fucking obvious.
A solution should be patentable if it couldn't be produced by a moderately skilled programmer in a reasonable time, given a description of the problem. Students and hobbyists and OSS volunteers are likely to infringe on patents not because software patents are evil, but because so many of them are obvious solutions that get replicated without thinking.
Also, the evolution of software is so fast that I'd reduce the term of patent monopoly, but I'd still grant software patents.
Any plans for this company to set up shop in the old Europe?
Ah, that's right, that's why Columbus sailed to America, leading to its popularization and colonization. Except he did it for the riches of establishing a faster trade route with Asia.
Expansion follows exploration, which is done for many reasons, riches and adventures being at the top. When someplace is explored and the riches are discovered, more people will follow and colonize.
You mean something like slashdot.org?
I for one will welcome our new food-bearing viking overlords.
Such projects as Citizendium could start by taking Wikipedia content, marking it as "unapproved", and having a swarm of editors go through them. And they can then go through new edits and approve those. I can totally see traditional encyclopaedias doing this - publish a subset that is approved by the editors, and charge money for it. I expect that the GNU Free Documentation License allows this.
And one of these "edited Wikipedia" projects could have editors selected by reputation, sure, and it would sure be a useful experiment at least.
For most people who've never been in jail, jailtime will be a big deterrent. As opposed to a fine that's less than the profits, and even public humiliation - in today's society, we don't only forget the heroes, we also forget the villains fast, giving everybody their 15 mins of fame, maybe, and that's it.