Firstly, let me say that I don't think it's your job to coerce your child.
Anyway, I got into programming when I was around 13 because I was a leader of a "clan" for the game Delta Force 2 and I wanted us to have a webpage. Now I'm a software engineer and I work for NASA. But, I'd have never gotten into if my parents didn't take the parental restrictions off of my AOL account so that I could play online.
but I feel pretty confident Microsoft Internet Explorer's is worse. I recall reading the EULAs of Windows Media Player 10 and 11 were particularly harrowing experiences.
In any case, if you are concerned about your privacy or don't like advertisements, install privoxy.
Otherwise, enjoy your Chrome experience! It is significantly and quantifiably better than the competition.
A vector/polygon-based file format with a respective interpreter could store this image in a significantly smaller file than a jpg or gif if it were only composed of, in this case, 50 tuples, i.e.:
poly1(color, transparency, x1y1, x2y2,..., xnyn)
poly2(color, transparency, x1y1, x2y2,..., xnyn)
...
So, yes. You'd need an interpreter or rendering program for the file type, but the data set would be much smaller in size than that of a.gif or.jpg. Though, to reach the quality of the original, at some point I'm sure you'd be better off with a standard format.
This also might be a fun encryption method.
The problem with the Microsoft monopoly is that Microsoft IS the personal computer. The personal computer paradigm was brought about by Microsoft. For the last 15 odd years (light years in terms of computing technology), we have been conditioned into using interfaces designed by Microsoft. The average PC user doesn't want anything else. They don't want to learn how to use Linuxes and Apple and Sun (even though, fundamentally, their interfaces are a complete knockoff of Microsoft's) because Windows just feels native to them.
PCs seem to be a social norm in which you can observe facets relative to sociology's "culture", "counterculture", and "contraculture". You can't find a PC user who doesn't know how to use Windows. However, you can find many PC users who will have no idea how to use Mandrake or OSX. Use of Windows is fundamental. OSX is counterculture. It seems to me its goals are to be pretty and easy and "artistic" and cool; everything Windows is not. Linux, etc, seems to be contraculture. It seems to be on the cutting edge of technology and--as we've seen in the many ideas borrowed by Microsoft from open source developments such as Firefox and Beryl--has a hand in determining where PC interfacing is going.
Crime history depicts both the advancement in technology developed to commit crime and that developed to prevent it.
Ignorance toward preventative measures usually results in victimization or a greater likelihood of it. There is no epidemic here. Crime will occur on every medium available-one must simply defend themselves from it. Given, a criminal can be smart enough (or determined enough) to commit an illegal act and this is bound to happen. That is why we have executive and judicial branches of the government-to apprehend and serve justice to those who succeed in breaking the law.
The internet is in its nascent form (and I dare say almost anarchistic), but it is no less a system effected by (human?-)entropy.
Music has hardly ever been about art. It's always been about leeching much from sponsors. Usually they were rich nobles, merchants, or priests.
Music has always been about art. Those who have chosen music as a profession do so with hopes that their music will provide an income sufficient for survival. As with any art form, especially the entertaining arts (dance, music, jest), the performer will most likely struggle to survive. Such has been the case with minstrels, jesters, painters, play writers, etc since their nascence. As with any employee, one needs a benefactor.
The only reason that you think music is an art...
Uhhh.
...is because of the centuries hold that they've had over impressing into the minds of the rich that to be cultured that you need to be able to play or identify "classical" music. My culture is different than that. Slashdot and webcomics are part of my culture. Music is part of my culture as being in the background of video games and what's on the radio on the way home.
"Classical" music is something to be appreciated. If one cannot appreciate it, oh well, their loss. To condescend toward one, or to be condescended upon by a social class for not knowing a classical piece... perhaps this is you drawing a stereotype? If you feel oppressed because of your lack of musical knowledge, that's really a shame but I can't figure out what that has to do with this. I'm sure there is music in the background of your video games, perhaps to provide a feel to the game or whatever. But to claim it is merely some ambient garble that really has no meaning is nonsense. It was created. It was composed by a musician--an artist--who has chosen video game music to be his medium.
As for "what's on the radio on the way home". That's fine. Music isn't for everyone, much the same as Celtic dance isn't for everyone. Certainly the former (more specifically "pop music") sports much higher exposure, but had it been the latter, one who is not interested would find it blasé and really have little appreciation for it. Personally I feel that the majority of music that makes it to the radio are awful, simple, anesthetized, pathetic, factory-line created, template garbage that's purpose is sale not creativity (with exceptions, of course). I'll stick to NPR.
What century did you walk out of?
The same one you did, where not everyone has the same scope of culture that you have.
Music is not a commodity, it is an art. It is not meant to be sold, it is meant to be heard and played. It is meant to be shared and it will be. Try as it may, the corporate music industry cannot stop this movement. I look forward to its rapture.
and turning C02 + H20 + energy -> CH4 then burning the CH4 to get C02 + energy is just a nice way of wasting energy.
Well, burning methane would produce CO2 + H20 and energy. It's a nice way of wasting energy if you have to produce the methane, but it's already there. So, it's a good source of energy (which could be stored or used) but also a good source of water (which is kind of a necessity for terraforming and/or human survival).
So, if you ask me, I think the large, renewable supply of methane on mars is really an exciting thing that opens many possibilities for survival and inhabitance of the red planet.
That's nonsense. I'm entitled to my opinion as much as you are. Nowhere do I claim my opinion to be factual and when I do state my opinion, the reader is clearly aware that it is my opinion.
I could care less if you agree with me, but bashing me for having an opinion is idiotic. You don't even proffer a different one. Kindly troll elsewhere.
C. Milankovitch cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles explain: "The eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit vary in several patterns, resulting in 100,000 year ice age cycles of the Quaternary glaciation over the last few million years."
D. Earth's climate graph shows no distinct pattern. Earth's glacial coverage has gone from historic minimum to maximum in the period of 100 years. It is nonsense to claim that our temperature will continue to rise or even fall for that matter. It is a flip of a coin.
I do not concur with human-caused global warming. I feel it is hysteric, unfounded, and egocentric. I also do not bother watching media hype movies starring washed up politicians who claim they are making a documentary while ignoring an entire side of the debate.
A. The earth's orbit is elliptical. Not only is it an ellipse but the eccentricity, or variance from being circular, is not constant.
B. The earth's orbit and the earth's axial rotation when in this orbit begins to resemble a spirograph http://physics.indstate.edu/west/zoorings/ThreeD%2 0Images/Spirograph%203D.JPG, which has a cycle of approximately 26,000 years.
C. Milankovitch cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles explain: "The eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit vary in several patterns, resulting in 100,000 year ice age cycles of the Quaternary glaciation over the last few million years."
D. Earth's climate graph shows no distinct pattern. Earth's glacial coverage has gone from historic minimum to maximum in the period of 100 years. It is nonsense to claim that our temperature will continue to rise or even fall for that matter. It is a flip of a coin.
I do not concur with human-caused global warming. I feel it is hysteric, unfounded, and egocentric. I also do not bother watching media hype movies starring washed up politicians who claim they are making a documentary while ignoring an entire side of the debate.
A. How on earth could you possibly know if (and what) judgment a person is passing on you?
B. How could you know if someone is treating you differently based on this possibility of judgment?
C. Perhaps this person is simply being their self? Regardless of whether or not they are judging you, it is still your choice to accept how they treat you and take heed to it based on your own self respect.
D. Even if someone does treat you like an asshole would, who cares? Their loss. I wouldn't sit there and grumble over it because, honestly, who cares what they think?
E. You sound really insecure. Stop thinking and start being.
I enjoy tangible companionship. In fact, I don't feel as though I'm in company in any other way. Television sucks. The internet sucks. I want to touch somebody, physically. I want to punch my pals in the shoulder once in a while. I want to kiss my girlfriend once in a while. I want eye contact. I want sound waves from vocal chords, not speakers. I want to smell your body odor.
Jesus, what kind of pathetic existence am I living if I supplement these things with their cyber knock-offs?
Slashdot Mirror
Firstly, let me say that I don't think it's your job to coerce your child.
Anyway, I got into programming when I was around 13 because I was a leader of a "clan" for the game Delta Force 2 and I wanted us to have a webpage. Now I'm a software engineer and I work for NASA. But, I'd have never gotten into if my parents didn't take the parental restrictions off of my AOL account so that I could play online.
Cheers
but I feel pretty confident Microsoft Internet Explorer's is worse. I recall reading the EULAs of Windows Media Player 10 and 11 were particularly harrowing experiences.
In any case, if you are concerned about your privacy or don't like advertisements, install privoxy.
Otherwise, enjoy your Chrome experience! It is significantly and quantifiably better than the competition.
A vector/polygon-based file format with a respective interpreter could store this image in a significantly smaller file than a jpg or gif if it were only composed of, in this case, 50 tuples, i.e.: ..., xnyn)
..., xnyn)
.gif or .jpg. Though, to reach the quality of the original, at some point I'm sure you'd be better off with a standard format.
This also might be a fun encryption method.
poly1(color, transparency, x1y1, x2y2,
poly2(color, transparency, x1y1, x2y2,
...
So, yes. You'd need an interpreter or rendering program for the file type, but the data set would be much smaller in size than that of a
One step closer to a zombie invasion. Fire up the flame thrower, honey, it's gonna be a long night!
are we any closer to having a real lightsaber?
The problem with the Microsoft monopoly is that Microsoft IS the personal computer. The personal computer paradigm was brought about by Microsoft. For the last 15 odd years (light years in terms of computing technology), we have been conditioned into using interfaces designed by Microsoft. The average PC user doesn't want anything else. They don't want to learn how to use Linuxes and Apple and Sun (even though, fundamentally, their interfaces are a complete knockoff of Microsoft's) because Windows just feels native to them.
PCs seem to be a social norm in which you can observe facets relative to sociology's "culture", "counterculture", and "contraculture". You can't find a PC user who doesn't know how to use Windows. However, you can find many PC users who will have no idea how to use Mandrake or OSX. Use of Windows is fundamental. OSX is counterculture. It seems to me its goals are to be pretty and easy and "artistic" and cool; everything Windows is not. Linux, etc, seems to be contraculture. It seems to be on the cutting edge of technology and--as we've seen in the many ideas borrowed by Microsoft from open source developments such as Firefox and Beryl--has a hand in determining where PC interfacing is going.
Great, now hackers are going to need degrees in quantum physics just to steal porn.
Microsoft patented the Operating System.
Crime history depicts both the advancement in technology developed to commit crime and that developed to prevent it.
Ignorance toward preventative measures usually results in victimization or a greater likelihood of it. There is no epidemic here. Crime will occur on every medium available-one must simply defend themselves from it. Given, a criminal can be smart enough (or determined enough) to commit an illegal act and this is bound to happen. That is why we have executive and judicial branches of the government-to apprehend and serve justice to those who succeed in breaking the law.
The internet is in its nascent form (and I dare say almost anarchistic), but it is no less a system effected by (human?-)entropy.
...when this happens.
The US declares all space (vacuum or otherwise) perpendicular to their borders a part of their territory.
People wreck their own lives.
Why cut back? What's the worst they'll do? Cut your service? And lose a valuable customer? Oh, well. Maybe you'll have to find a new ISP.
Uhhh. "Classical" music is something to be appreciated. If one cannot appreciate it, oh well, their loss. To condescend toward one, or to be condescended upon by a social class for not knowing a classical piece... perhaps this is you drawing a stereotype? If you feel oppressed because of your lack of musical knowledge, that's really a shame but I can't figure out what that has to do with this. I'm sure there is music in the background of your video games, perhaps to provide a feel to the game or whatever. But to claim it is merely some ambient garble that really has no meaning is nonsense. It was created. It was composed by a musician--an artist--who has chosen video game music to be his medium.
As for "what's on the radio on the way home". That's fine. Music isn't for everyone, much the same as Celtic dance isn't for everyone. Certainly the former (more specifically "pop music") sports much higher exposure, but had it been the latter, one who is not interested would find it blasé and really have little appreciation for it. Personally I feel that the majority of music that makes it to the radio are awful, simple, anesthetized, pathetic, factory-line created, template garbage that's purpose is sale not creativity (with exceptions, of course). I'll stick to NPR.
The same one you did, where not everyone has the same scope of culture that you have.
Since when do they go hand-in-hand?
Music is not a commodity, it is an art. It is not meant to be sold, it is meant to be heard and played. It is meant to be shared and it will be. Try as it may, the corporate music industry cannot stop this movement. I look forward to its rapture.
On the subject of pseudopods, check out this amazing and beautiful video of two slugs mating:
Slugs mating
So, if you ask me, I think the large, renewable supply of methane on mars is really an exciting thing that opens many possibilities for survival and inhabitance of the red planet.
10 bucks says it has feathers when it's cloned.
That's nonsense. I'm entitled to my opinion as much as you are. Nowhere do I claim my opinion to be factual and when I do state my opinion, the reader is clearly aware that it is my opinion.
I could care less if you agree with me, but bashing me for having an opinion is idiotic. You don't even proffer a different one. Kindly troll elsewhere.
A. The earth's orbit is elliptical. Not only is it an ellipse but the eccentricity, or variance from being circular, is not constant.
2 0Images/Spirograph%203D.JPG, which has a cycle of approximately 26,000 years.
B. The earth's orbit and the earth's axial rotation when in this orbit begins to resemble a spirograph http://physics.indstate.edu/west/zoorings/ThreeD%
C. Milankovitch cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles explain: "The eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit vary in several patterns, resulting in 100,000 year ice age cycles of the Quaternary glaciation over the last few million years."
D. Earth's climate graph shows no distinct pattern. Earth's glacial coverage has gone from historic minimum to maximum in the period of 100 years. It is nonsense to claim that our temperature will continue to rise or even fall for that matter. It is a flip of a coin.
I do not concur with human-caused global warming. I feel it is hysteric, unfounded, and egocentric. I also do not bother watching media hype movies starring washed up politicians who claim they are making a documentary while ignoring an entire side of the debate.
A. The earth's orbit is elliptical. Not only is it an ellipse but the eccentricity, or variance from being circular, is not constant. B. The earth's orbit and the earth's axial rotation when in this orbit begins to resemble a spirograph http://physics.indstate.edu/west/zoorings/ThreeD%2 0Images/Spirograph%203D.JPG, which has a cycle of approximately 26,000 years.
C. Milankovitch cycles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles explain: "The eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit vary in several patterns, resulting in 100,000 year ice age cycles of the Quaternary glaciation over the last few million years."
D. Earth's climate graph shows no distinct pattern. Earth's glacial coverage has gone from historic minimum to maximum in the period of 100 years. It is nonsense to claim that our temperature will continue to rise or even fall for that matter. It is a flip of a coin.
I do not concur with human-caused global warming. I feel it is hysteric, unfounded, and egocentric. I also do not bother watching media hype movies starring washed up politicians who claim they are making a documentary while ignoring an entire side of the debate.
A. How on earth could you possibly know if (and what) judgment a person is passing on you?
B. How could you know if someone is treating you differently based on this possibility of judgment?
C. Perhaps this person is simply being their self? Regardless of whether or not they are judging you, it is still your choice to accept how they treat you and take heed to it based on your own self respect.
D. Even if someone does treat you like an asshole would, who cares? Their loss. I wouldn't sit there and grumble over it because, honestly, who cares what they think?
E. You sound really insecure. Stop thinking and start being.
I enjoy tangible companionship. In fact, I don't feel as though I'm in company in any other way. Television sucks. The internet sucks. I want to touch somebody, physically. I want to punch my pals in the shoulder once in a while. I want to kiss my girlfriend once in a while. I want eye contact. I want sound waves from vocal chords, not speakers. I want to smell your body odor.
Jesus, what kind of pathetic existence am I living if I supplement these things with their cyber knock-offs?
No, thank you.
I think that probe was running into the ground.
What were they running before?
*fear*