When I discovered Google calendar will SMS you appointments for free, my usage of my unlimited plan went way up, and I'm much better organized now.
I also use SMS to text people who don't always answer their phone (for a variety of reasons), but will, I know, eventually respond to texts. I.e. brief, non-urgent info ("I'm on my way home, honey.")
Not to mention an instant message! If AIM (which I use via Pidgin) took a minute to deliver my instant message, it would be completely worthless and would never have taken off. And although both services occasionally drop messages, at least AIM usually tells me when it happens. SMS never does.
I use SMS every day (I have an unlimited plan), but the margins they receive on it are way, way out of proportion with any measure of the quality of the service.
I've experienced exactly the same thing you have. I listen to my podcasts almost every time I drive by myself in the vehicle. I'm rewinding a lot because I miss so much when I'm driving. The driving keeps happening just fine, it's the listening that I drop. This is also the case even when it's a human being in the car with me and not a recorded voice.. I often have to ask the passenger to repeat themselves when I'm trying to navigate turns or merges.
Well, I don't like the price. Books aren't very expensive, but readers are. How about charging about the same price as a book?
Second, I like real books because the pages are easy to turn and have extremely high resolution. So the first thing I would do is take that silly screen off of it and put in some nice tangible paper pages.
So yeah. Replace the electronic parts with paper, and charge the same as a book. You might want to put some cover art on there too, to attract my attention.
Doesn't work. Such companies are still subject to *US* law if they operate here.
Gets pretty convoluted though; I'm in favor of penalizing companies for helping to antagonize human rights, even to the point of saying they have to pull their business out of China, but there's a huge Law of Unintended Consequences probability here.
Just drag your taskbar over to the right or left-hand side of the screen. You can see more buttons, and get more icons into the taskbar (quick launch on windows, whatever gnome calls it in ubuntu). It squares off your desktop nicely and is actually easier to access things quickly, for me.
And then stop bitching about it. People watch movies on their laptops; these are the customers the laptop companies are looking out for. Even other developers, myself included, prefer a wide desktop to a narrow one, so that lines never wrap. You do NOT have your finger on the pulse of consumer demand in this one, buddy.
Simple. All they would have had to do is give the car the mass of a tiny black hole, and let it fall to the center of the earth, and voila, thousands of miles with no fuel expended whatsoever. They couldn't allow this kind of cheating.
The only hard part would have been putting the chair on it for the 50kg driver.
I don't think this was an accident or bad strategy by the authoring committee of this part of the Bible. They literally wanted people to believe that knowing things was bad, and people are happier when they know nothing.
Most of those people couldn't even read the Bible; someone who knew things had to tell them what was in it. Of course it was the tree of knowledge.
This is why I write open source software; after thousands of years of people telling the human race not to know things, it's my little way of giving away the fruit and playing the Devil's advocate.
Whoops, funny math. I guess that's 40 cents per thousand. That seems a bit low.
Anyway, I've always said $0.25 per song, and no damn DRM, is my sweet spot. Apple's $1 per track can blow me.. that's basically what I was paying the music industry for albums, back when I gave a shit about buying music.
GP actually does seem to be saying.04 cents i.e. $0.0004, because he oddly seems to be advocating a pay-per-play model. $4 for a track I play 1000 times sounds about right to me too, but I certainly dont' want to get the printed paper bill for THAT service.
Ironically enough, Freenet users on Slashdot have shown unlimited willingness to use moderation to silence opposing points of view. On the contrary. This is slashdot.. those comments aren't silenced, they've simply been driven underground, into the darknet, where presumably other freenet users can read them.
It's not useless. It just shows that things are improving at the OS level. I'm not surprised by this.. XP SP2 was a pretty substantial step in this direction, and OS X has made substantial strides as well (not that anybody's noticing). Seems like Vista did in fact improve in this area as well. So yes, if you're talking about the kernel and the stock OS, it's getting harder to compare security, because they are all much more secure than they ever were before.
So the game has changed. The contest rules here have also changed, to reflect the new game. They built in the day-3 rule changes so that more exploits would be possible, to keep the contest interesting, knowing in advance that hacking the stock OS would be pretty hard.
It's not just the stock OS security that matters, it's the security of the entire stack, and the software ecosystem it lives in. Give Microsoft and Apple credit for improving their cores, but you can still say Ubuntu has a better stack and ecosystem, and point to the same reasons why: open source, community testing, heterogeneity.
Yes, so it's a good thing Barack is talking to smart people and getting feedback from the well-informed about the meaning and impact of these kinds of sites and this new kind of network. He knows what he's doing, which is to say, he admits he doesn't know what he's doing and gets smart people to inform him.
Bush did this too, or at least claimed to. His downfalling was that he never listened to any of the smart people, and eventually just intimidated them into telling him what he already thought. Obama, I believe, won't make that mistake. His understanding of technology is already high; witness the overwhelming success of his emailed fundraising campaigns. With the help of people who understand this stuff, he can filter it to its core.
No president should be subject to the daily whims of the mob politic. No president should be ignorant of the influence of corporate and politic powers attempting to skew the will of the people toward a particular end. And "Web 2.0" doesn't change any of that. Both too much or too little input from the people weakens government's idealized purpose, which is to strive to do what is best for the governed. And taking any input at all from the governed, in any form, would be a massive improvement over what is happening now.
The clause says "Congress shall make no law..". It doesn't say "Network Solutions can't be a bunch of idiots and kick people off their web servers for publishing unpopular content." No, but a lawsuit can say that. I expect one any minute now. Censorship is not NetSol's job either.
I remember seeing plans for Python 3.1 that included using those annotations to do just-in-time compiling and other performance-type stuffs. However, I'll admit I'm too lazy to go find the reference.
At its utmost core, advertising is doing a very important job - connecting people who would like to buy something, with the sellers who are offering something for sale. Like it or not, but advertising, in whatever form, is an integral part of a market economy. The fact that advertising is obtrusive and annoying, is not any more an inherent property of advertising, than killing innocent people is an inherent property of a sword (I was going to say "gun", but realized where I was). Yes...
If anything, you should be PRAISING Google for furthering the idea that advertising can be profitable WITHOUT being intrusive, and disruptive. As opposed to spamming you with images or sounds hawking products you're not interested in, Google politely shows you products that their software thinks you might be interested in (to the best of their ability to determine this). Yes...
Only communist-pipe-dream hippie would think something wrong of such an approach, or would think it shameful to work at such a company. Ultimately, everything is relative, and I'd rather have Google than many of its competitors. Wait, what? Can't you just make your argument without saying stupid shit like this? I was nodding along until you went all ad hominem to make this terrible point. There are very good reasons not to want Google to do this, and even a rootin' tootin' gun-toting libertarian swashbuckler should be able to see what they are. Do we constantly have to advance the collection of our private reading habits into massive online databases? Do we constantly have to push the boundaries of what people are willing to let advertisers have, until advertisers have everything? There is a danger here, and although I think Google's ad model, up to now, has been a great thing for the Internet, that doesn't mean we should dismiss as fringe the people who want to put the brakes on and examine why we're letting this happen.
Actually, if you consider Python to be the opposite of Java (and I very nearly do), just the opposite is happening. Because Javascript is changing into Python, and this makes me happy.
There are indeed many Java-y features being added, such as "use unit" and classes, but these are also Python features. The one feature I saw from the article that looked distinctly Java-ish was static type checking at compile time, and Python will have something similar by the time JS 2.0 is generally usable (i.e. both are optional).
Features in nearer-term versions of JS are even more obviously Pythonic, though. Generators and tuple unpacking, for example.
I'll lay my cards on the table and say that I think Java makes programming laborious and unpleasant, and Python does just the opposite. These features don't seem to make JS any more programmer-unfriendly, and they add a lot, so I'm looking forward to Pythonic JS 2.0.
I know you meant this to be a joke, and you got the +5 Funny mod to prove it, but I'd like to share that it really doesn't work like that.
The representation of information doesn't use any matter whatsoever. The concrete representation may be any reliable organization of the matter it relies on, to as many possible permutations as that matter is capable of being configured into. It should be obvious that you can represent 10^80 things without 10^80 elementary particles.. for example, you just did, when you typed "10^80".:-) Our brains are another perfect example: between 50bil-150bil cells, a relatively small number (the transistors in a CPU are slowly approaching that point), capable of representing a virtually limitless interlocking, overlapping arrangement of information.
This is good, but can't we put the responsibility on the system where it *really* belongs? Viruses, not Firefox, should inform the AV system when malicious code is about to executed.
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When I discovered Google calendar will SMS you appointments for free, my usage of my unlimited plan went way up, and I'm much better organized now.
I also use SMS to text people who don't always answer their phone (for a variety of reasons), but will, I know, eventually respond to texts. I.e. brief, non-urgent info ("I'm on my way home, honey.")
Not to mention an instant message! If AIM (which I use via Pidgin) took a minute to deliver my instant message, it would be completely worthless and would never have taken off. And although both services occasionally drop messages, at least AIM usually tells me when it happens. SMS never does.
I use SMS every day (I have an unlimited plan), but the margins they receive on it are way, way out of proportion with any measure of the quality of the service.
I've experienced exactly the same thing you have. I listen to my podcasts almost every time I drive by myself in the vehicle. I'm rewinding a lot because I miss so much when I'm driving. The driving keeps happening just fine, it's the listening that I drop. This is also the case even when it's a human being in the car with me and not a recorded voice.. I often have to ask the passenger to repeat themselves when I'm trying to navigate turns or merges.
I dunno. How about if it were mounted on a black brushed metal plate with a slivery skull-and-crossbones watermark? That'd be pretty sweet.
Well, I don't like the price. Books aren't very expensive, but readers are. How about charging about the same price as a book?
Second, I like real books because the pages are easy to turn and have extremely high resolution. So the first thing I would do is take that silly screen off of it and put in some nice tangible paper pages.
So yeah. Replace the electronic parts with paper, and charge the same as a book. You might want to put some cover art on there too, to attract my attention.
Doesn't work. Such companies are still subject to *US* law if they operate here.
Gets pretty convoluted though; I'm in favor of penalizing companies for helping to antagonize human rights, even to the point of saying they have to pull their business out of China, but there's a huge Law of Unintended Consequences probability here.
And check out Zed's new book:
http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/6313/rails-is-bullshit/
Just drag your taskbar over to the right or left-hand side of the screen. You can see more buttons, and get more icons into the taskbar (quick launch on windows, whatever gnome calls it in ubuntu). It squares off your desktop nicely and is actually easier to access things quickly, for me.
And then stop bitching about it. People watch movies on their laptops; these are the customers the laptop companies are looking out for. Even other developers, myself included, prefer a wide desktop to a narrow one, so that lines never wrap. You do NOT have your finger on the pulse of consumer demand in this one, buddy.
Yes, it's the time-honored strategy of "doing things voters hate during an election year". Its strategic value has never been accurately estimated.
Simple. All they would have had to do is give the car the mass of a tiny black hole, and let it fall to the center of the earth, and voila, thousands of miles with no fuel expended whatsoever. They couldn't allow this kind of cheating.
The only hard part would have been putting the chair on it for the 50kg driver.
the tree of knowledge, of all things
I don't think this was an accident or bad strategy by the authoring committee of this part of the Bible. They literally wanted people to believe that knowing things was bad, and people are happier when they know nothing.
Most of those people couldn't even read the Bible; someone who knew things had to tell them what was in it. Of course it was the tree of knowledge.
This is why I write open source software; after thousands of years of people telling the human race not to know things, it's my little way of giving away the fruit and playing the Devil's advocate.
I have a feeling I'm about to start a creation vs. evolution flamewar. Creationists will be creationists, but everyone else just think for a second:
There, fixed that for you.
Whoops, funny math. I guess that's 40 cents per thousand. That seems a bit low.
Anyway, I've always said $0.25 per song, and no damn DRM, is my sweet spot. Apple's $1 per track can blow me.. that's basically what I was paying the music industry for albums, back when I gave a shit about buying music.
GP actually does seem to be saying .04 cents i.e. $0.0004, because he oddly seems to be advocating a pay-per-play model. $4 for a track I play 1000 times sounds about right to me too, but I certainly dont' want to get the printed paper bill for THAT service.
To a venture capitalist, this algorithm IS porn. I suggest you start writing a proposal before 6 other slashdotters do.
I call Shenanigans. What kind of bootsie-assed second-rate law enforcement unit has to wait to get buzzed in?
It's not useless. It just shows that things are improving at the OS level. I'm not surprised by this.. XP SP2 was a pretty substantial step in this direction, and OS X has made substantial strides as well (not that anybody's noticing). Seems like Vista did in fact improve in this area as well. So yes, if you're talking about the kernel and the stock OS, it's getting harder to compare security, because they are all much more secure than they ever were before.
So the game has changed. The contest rules here have also changed, to reflect the new game. They built in the day-3 rule changes so that more exploits would be possible, to keep the contest interesting, knowing in advance that hacking the stock OS would be pretty hard.
It's not just the stock OS security that matters, it's the security of the entire stack, and the software ecosystem it lives in. Give Microsoft and Apple credit for improving their cores, but you can still say Ubuntu has a better stack and ecosystem, and point to the same reasons why: open source, community testing, heterogeneity.
Yes, so it's a good thing Barack is talking to smart people and getting feedback from the well-informed about the meaning and impact of these kinds of sites and this new kind of network. He knows what he's doing, which is to say, he admits he doesn't know what he's doing and gets smart people to inform him.
Bush did this too, or at least claimed to. His downfalling was that he never listened to any of the smart people, and eventually just intimidated them into telling him what he already thought. Obama, I believe, won't make that mistake. His understanding of technology is already high; witness the overwhelming success of his emailed fundraising campaigns. With the help of people who understand this stuff, he can filter it to its core.
No president should be subject to the daily whims of the mob politic. No president should be ignorant of the influence of corporate and politic powers attempting to skew the will of the people toward a particular end. And "Web 2.0" doesn't change any of that. Both too much or too little input from the people weakens government's idealized purpose, which is to strive to do what is best for the governed. And taking any input at all from the governed, in any form, would be a massive improvement over what is happening now.
I remember seeing plans for Python 3.1 that included using those annotations to do just-in-time compiling and other performance-type stuffs. However, I'll admit I'm too lazy to go find the reference.
Actually, if you consider Python to be the opposite of Java (and I very nearly do), just the opposite is happening. Because Javascript is changing into Python, and this makes me happy.
There are indeed many Java-y features being added, such as "use unit" and classes, but these are also Python features. The one feature I saw from the article that looked distinctly Java-ish was static type checking at compile time, and Python will have something similar by the time JS 2.0 is generally usable (i.e. both are optional).
Features in nearer-term versions of JS are even more obviously Pythonic, though. Generators and tuple unpacking, for example.
I'll lay my cards on the table and say that I think Java makes programming laborious and unpleasant, and Python does just the opposite. These features don't seem to make JS any more programmer-unfriendly, and they add a lot, so I'm looking forward to Pythonic JS 2.0.
I know you meant this to be a joke, and you got the +5 Funny mod to prove it, but I'd like to share that it really doesn't work like that.
:-) Our brains are another perfect example: between 50bil-150bil cells, a relatively small number (the transistors in a CPU are slowly approaching that point), capable of representing a virtually limitless interlocking, overlapping arrangement of information.
The representation of information doesn't use any matter whatsoever. The concrete representation may be any reliable organization of the matter it relies on, to as many possible permutations as that matter is capable of being configured into. It should be obvious that you can represent 10^80 things without 10^80 elementary particles.. for example, you just did, when you typed "10^80".
This is good, but can't we put the responsibility on the system where it *really* belongs? Viruses, not Firefox, should inform the AV system when malicious code is about to executed.