WTF is it with this cell phone use. Of course its 'dangerous' and can cause disease. So can sunlight. Just try to limit your exposure. For instance, I try not to carry my cell phone in my front pants pocket (just in case of testicular cancer spontaneously generating.)
But that's not a sixteen year old girls' worry is it? If you want a sixteen year old girl to lay off the cellular, tell her it causes acne.
You can make a case for the radiation stimulating the oil glands and the body being unable to repair the constant damage after a certain amount of exposure.
Point to their fellow creatures and ask them to pick out all the ones with a cell phone plastered to their hair. Notice all the number of 'pizza faces'?
And yes, I do think abortion is an alternative to facing an unwanted kid, years later, armed with a hand gun and needing my wallet cause his mama's too broke to pay for his $99 sneakers.
No as good as contraception, but thats' what the demographics have shown us. If you can't take care of them, they grow up to be really nasty and pissed off about it.
Its open source. Its got loads of examples. In runs in every environment (I've got it for Mac in a.dmg, Windows in a.zip & Linux [lots of download options] and it works fine.)
Mac OS X is a small fraction of the market and Linux doesn't even show up on a home 'consumer' radar.
How much choice do you have?
If it wasn't for Office I'd say Microsoft was vulnerable but with people abusing stuff (like using Excell as a database,) and just using small slices of product functionality, Microsoft is it, until OpenOffice, FireFox and ThunderBird get more widely used.
We are stuck with Microsoft until someone comes up with an integrated Excel killer (and one that lets you create a database from a spread sheet easily, to reverse the damage done by managers who don't see the problem they are causing in the future, until its too late,) and an Access killer which can work with a variety of open source databases.
I totally agree. You can write an absolutely tiny Forth interpreter and define the rest in Forth words.
I don't think we need to get too fancy and, it could even support multiple machine architectures, since once the interpreter is loaded, you're running in Forth.
Primarily because of the cross-OS copy-cut&paste capabilities. (Heck, if they wanted to assure some sales where I work, they just have to make sure that connection to an IBM 3x0 mainframe will work.)
And they can be glad they can. We'll just use Mac OS X because we can.
And dual/multi-booting is a PITA option. Nobody's going to copy from one program, wait for a reboot and paste (only to discover that the clipboard didn't carry over [without a special clipboard manager.])
Look for Apple to provide VM software, that works, while Microsoft misses the boat on this one.
And why not? Everybody knows they're so big now that they don't worry about things like copyrights or patents or pre-existing businesses. They can afford to pay for any damage. They never have to say they're sorry.
Apple has to handle all those calls, get everybody's information, and send the software updates. The key phrase in there was 'get everybody's information'.
If they don't know you, 'cause you didn't register the CPU ID when and where you bought the CPU (at an Apple store, of course), then... no update for you.
OS X is based on and leverages the importance of the 'net. A stand-alone computer is of no interest to anybody, nor is it a threat to anybody.
Since everybody 'calls home' once a week, they keep track of who's calling, when and where from.
If I go to Mars to kick ass and drink beer, I don't think it matters what brand of beer it would be. In fact if I was a smart advertiser, I'd make sure it was the competition's ads.
This bullshit of placing ads is likely to backfire and people will stay away in droves.
If the Union pushes this Telus could be in deep shit with the government agencies that regulates them to the point of dissolution of their board of governance.
Telus is going to have 'interesting times'...
RAM is really the crucial thing.
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I'm on a recent model G5 iMac and I bought 2gigs or RAM to slip into the poor beast because I never want to have a system that thrashes.
Nothing is more detrimental to the health of my machine than suddenly going from running at RAM speed to crawling at disk speed.
Seriously, Macs have always been under chipped in this respect.
exclusive laws and mutually inclusive patents that it no longer matters.
At some point in the commission of *any* act, you are either infringing (and somebody gets something unearned) or breaking a law (and somebody gets a cease and desist to stop you.)
At times like these, when only the criminal don't have to watch their steps, people head for the hills and watch in awe as civilization collapses into a festering dung heap.
then accepted the job with Google. I'm sure it could have been a *wink wink* question of timing.
He should have checked what he could have got fired for, picked something that wouldn't land him in jail, (That nullifies existing agreements unless it specifically stated that the NDA/NC agreement would exyend his employment regardless of the reason for termination.)
Even then, once in China, and away from the US, where the laws would apply, he could go and work for whoever he wished.
NEVER QUIT A JOB. NEVER!
Its better to get fired than to quit. Just pick something that won't land you in jail and you're laughing. Health benefits get extended to/for you. Unemployment benefits don't get stopped as they do if you quit.
he was the first one who 'applied a few principles ruthlessly' to implement Smalltalk.
We see far because we stand on the shoulders of giants. Alan Kay was standing very tall indeed.
Smalltalk was demonstrably a failure. It never approached its stated goal of empowering children (the 'small' in Smaltalk) to control computers (the 'talk' in Smalltalk.)
Despite this it is a great language. But now, with the failure recognized, it should be renamed.
It was the first language that came up with the class #MetaCclass which allowed everything to be described in Smalltalk terms. The syntax of Smalltalk barely covers two pages of EBNF but it describes EVERYTHING a computer can do.
It is also at the heart of all of the code libraries out there. The best of which comes from Object Technologies International (OTI) which is at the heart of IBMs' Smalltalk.
I believe that the failure of Smalltalk, apart from the name, to deal with Relationships as first class objects, is what ultimately led to its stagnation in the marketplace.
(I blame von Neumann and his failure to recognize what the hardware was REALLY doing, in parallel, for the current lamentable state of programming. BTW Smalltalk is PERFECT for programming a Beowolf cluster.)
I've worked on two applications (whose names I won't mention. Oh all right, GFDM [Global Financial Data Model] and LoanIQ) which were composed of about 750 objects [GFDM] and 450 objects mapped onto 750 objects [LoandIQ, they didn't understand about objects with states!])
The interesting thing is that these databases represented about 1,200 relationships between these objects. (Note the difference in scale. There were two to three times as many relationships as there were objects. And they NEVER understood what they were dealing with. Relationships and extremely simple to implement, but you have to see that that bricks and mortar [the objects] do not a wall make [the relationships].)
Now, how do you visualize 750 objects at once?
It certainly doesn't fit on a flat sheet of paper. ERWin just doesn't cut it.
You have to use 3D (I did it with VRML) then topologically sort the objects and the relationships and then array the whole thing on the 'surface' of nested spheres. (The 'depth' of the sphere depends on the relationships that are being followed. GFDM was eight levels deep. 'Real world' objects were modeled on the outermost sphere.)
Each object was linked to a page describing the object and the lines represented the relationships and were linked to a page describing the relationships.
I was really PROUD of coming up with the visualization scheme and with the grunt work I had to do to come up with the bizzare quaternion math for arraying the objects on the nested spheres and for aligning the relationships.
The relationships were conceptually easier, (though if I had prettied them up to follow traces and arcs it would have been a test of the 4-colour map theorem.:-)
3D enabled me to be the ONLY person to understand ALL of the objects and their relationships. I had ALL the meta-data available at the click of my mouse.
This could have been extended to have interfaces to manipulate (edit) the objects and the relationships themselves.
I did none of this for the 'cool' factor, but because it was the only possible way to handle that much meta-data.
Its part of the Bush plan to reform social security.
It''l bne fun. There'll no more old folks bitchin' about how it was better 'way back when.' And no more payments to make upon retirement. Nobody will be retiring.
And the technology to do it all will be a little injector you carry around inplanted in your palm. It will be able to shock and inject all sorts of things.
Eventualy, you'll get to screw a young Farrah Fawcett look-alike, except the girls, unless they want to, and get to know a young guy, everybody left will be young, name of Logan.
For a fucking cable company, and when I used to be able to receive/download (send/upload always sucked) huge files.
But this is on par with dial up.
I am NOT spending $60USD/month for this. If it wasn't too late to get in touch with a human being, I'd let them know that dollar for dollar, they aren't worth it and they CAN be replaced.
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It certainly DOESN'T bother the people who write viri, worms and other nasty persiflage.
"These OSes are closed systems where no new software can be introduced without the blessing of the distro maintainers."
Then why is there a billion dollar industry trying to prevent it.
Get real
in conecting all the time. That's why there are millions of iPods.
Everybody wants their own piece and they don't want everybody else's pieces clutering up their lives.
I use it to dry my hair.
WTF is it with this cell phone use. Of course its 'dangerous' and can cause disease. So can sunlight. Just try to limit your exposure. For instance, I try not to carry my cell phone in my front pants pocket (just in case of testicular cancer spontaneously generating.)
But that's not a sixteen year old girls' worry is it? If you want a sixteen year old girl to lay off the cellular, tell her it causes acne.
You can make a case for the radiation stimulating the oil glands and the body being unable to repair the constant damage after a certain amount of exposure.
Point to their fellow creatures and ask them to pick out all the ones with a cell phone plastered to their hair. Notice all the number of 'pizza faces'?
"Feed Us A Fetus" was a great song.
And yes, I do think abortion is an alternative to facing an unwanted kid, years later, armed with a hand gun and needing my wallet cause his mama's too broke to pay for his $99 sneakers.
No as good as contraception, but thats' what the demographics have shown us. If you can't take care of them, they grow up to be really nasty and pissed off about it.
If these people do any kind of statistical analysis or modeling, they would love the R Project software.
.dmg, Windows in a .zip & Linux [lots of download options] and it works fine.)
http://www.r-project.org/
Its open source. Its got loads of examples. In runs in every environment (I've got it for Mac in a
Mac OS X is a small fraction of the market and Linux doesn't even show up on a home 'consumer' radar.
How much choice do you have?
If it wasn't for Office I'd say Microsoft was vulnerable but with people abusing stuff (like using Excell as a database,) and just using small slices of product functionality, Microsoft is it, until OpenOffice, FireFox and ThunderBird get more widely used.
We are stuck with Microsoft until someone comes up with an integrated Excel killer (and one that lets you create a database from a spread sheet easily, to reverse the damage done by managers who don't see the problem they are causing in the future, until its too late,) and an Access killer which can work with a variety of open source databases.
Right now, we don't have enough usable options.
Landings can be killers too.
I totally agree. You can write an absolutely tiny Forth interpreter and define the rest in Forth words.
I don't think we need to get too fancy and, it could even support multiple machine architectures, since once the interpreter is loaded, you're running in Forth.
Primarily because of the cross-OS copy-cut&paste capabilities. (Heck, if they wanted to assure some sales where I work, they just have to make sure that connection to an IBM 3x0 mainframe will work.)
And they can be glad they can. We'll just use Mac OS X because we can.
And dual/multi-booting is a PITA option. Nobody's going to copy from one program, wait for a reboot and paste (only to discover that the clipboard didn't carry over [without a special clipboard manager.])
Look for Apple to provide VM software, that works, while Microsoft misses the boat on this one.
And why not? Everybody knows they're so big now that they don't worry about things like copyrights or patents or pre-existing businesses. They can afford to pay for any damage. They never have to say they're sorry.
I fail to see what all the excitement's about.
... no update for you.
Apple has to handle all those calls, get everybody's information, and send the software updates. The key phrase in there was 'get everybody's information'.
If they don't know you, 'cause you didn't register the CPU ID when and where you bought the CPU (at an Apple store, of course), then
OS X is based on and leverages the importance of the 'net. A stand-alone computer is of no interest to anybody, nor is it a threat to anybody.
Since everybody 'calls home' once a week, they keep track of who's calling, when and where from.
It's probably short out Duluth.
The problem is that you're assuming you'll get caught. "Doing what, officer? We've been here playing cards all evening"
The question is: Can you live with the consequences?
If I go to Mars to kick ass and drink beer, I don't think it matters what brand of beer it would be. In fact if I was a smart advertiser, I'd make sure it was the competition's ads.
This bullshit of placing ads is likely to backfire and people will stay away in droves.
If the Union pushes this Telus could be in deep shit with the government agencies that regulates them to the point of dissolution of their board of governance.
Telus is going to have 'interesting times'...
I'm on a recent model G5 iMac and I bought 2gigs or RAM to slip into the poor beast because I never want to have a system that thrashes.
Nothing is more detrimental to the health of my machine than suddenly going from running at RAM speed to crawling at disk speed.
Seriously, Macs have always been under chipped in this respect.
The patent covers digitizing of images, at some point they are static, from perception through transmission to their reconstitution.
Can anybody say 'Microsoft now has a patent on video conferencing.'
exclusive laws and mutually inclusive patents that it no longer matters.
At some point in the commission of *any* act, you are either infringing (and somebody gets something unearned) or breaking a law (and somebody gets a cease and desist to stop you.)
At times like these, when only the criminal don't have to watch their steps, people head for the hills and watch in awe as civilization collapses into a festering dung heap.
Couldn't help myself. ("snort" :-)
then accepted the job with Google. I'm sure it could have been a *wink wink* question of timing.
He should have checked what he could have got fired for, picked something that wouldn't land him in jail, (That nullifies existing agreements unless it specifically stated that the NDA/NC agreement would exyend his employment regardless of the reason for termination.)
Even then, once in China, and away from the US, where the laws would apply, he could go and work for whoever he wished.
NEVER QUIT A JOB. NEVER!
Its better to get fired than to quit. Just pick something that won't land you in jail and you're laughing. Health benefits get extended to/for you. Unemployment benefits don't get stopped as they do if you quit.
Sad to say but HR really has screwed things up.
it doesn't breakdown to tracking work delivered into lines of code delivered.
A good Smalltalk programmer refactors code to actually deliver fewer lines of code doing more and more varied kinds of work.
How do you pay somebody to deliver fewer lines of code?
Dynamic typing is only one of the tools available to a Smalltalk programmer; polymorphism is another great one.
he was the first one who 'applied a few principles ruthlessly' to implement Smalltalk.
We see far because we stand on the shoulders of giants. Alan Kay was standing very tall indeed.
Smalltalk was demonstrably a failure. It never approached its stated goal of empowering children (the 'small' in Smaltalk) to control computers (the 'talk' in Smalltalk.)
Despite this it is a great language. But now, with the failure recognized, it should be renamed.
It was the first language that came up with the class #MetaCclass which allowed everything to be described in Smalltalk terms. The syntax of Smalltalk barely covers two pages of EBNF but it describes EVERYTHING a computer can do.
It is also at the heart of all of the code libraries out there. The best of which comes from Object Technologies International (OTI) which is at the heart of IBMs' Smalltalk.
I believe that the failure of Smalltalk, apart from the name, to deal with Relationships as first class objects, is what ultimately led to its stagnation in the marketplace.
(I blame von Neumann and his failure to recognize what the hardware was REALLY doing, in parallel, for the current lamentable state of programming. BTW Smalltalk is PERFECT for programming a Beowolf cluster.)
I've worked on two applications (whose names I won't mention. Oh all right, GFDM [Global Financial Data Model] and LoanIQ) which were composed of about 750 objects [GFDM] and 450 objects mapped onto 750 objects [LoandIQ, they didn't understand about objects with states!])
:-)
The interesting thing is that these databases represented about 1,200 relationships between these objects. (Note the difference in scale. There were two to three times as many relationships as there were objects. And they NEVER understood what they were dealing with. Relationships and extremely simple to implement, but you have to see that that bricks and mortar [the objects] do not a wall make [the relationships].)
Now, how do you visualize 750 objects at once?
It certainly doesn't fit on a flat sheet of paper. ERWin just doesn't cut it.
You have to use 3D (I did it with VRML) then topologically sort the objects and the relationships and then array the whole thing on the 'surface' of nested spheres. (The 'depth' of the sphere depends on the relationships that are being followed. GFDM was eight levels deep. 'Real world' objects were modeled on the outermost sphere.)
Each object was linked to a page describing the object and the lines represented the relationships and were linked to a page describing the relationships.
I was really PROUD of coming up with the visualization scheme and with the grunt work I had to do to come up with the bizzare quaternion math for arraying the objects on the nested spheres and for aligning the relationships.
The relationships were conceptually easier, (though if I had prettied them up to follow traces and arcs it would have been a test of the 4-colour map theorem.
3D enabled me to be the ONLY person to understand ALL of the objects and their relationships. I had ALL the meta-data available at the click of my mouse.
This could have been extended to have interfaces to manipulate (edit) the objects and the relationships themselves.
I did none of this for the 'cool' factor, but because it was the only possible way to handle that much meta-data.
In fact they'll be compulsary.
Its part of the Bush plan to reform social security.
It''l bne fun. There'll no more old folks bitchin' about how it was better 'way back when.' And no more payments to make upon retirement. Nobody will be retiring.
And the technology to do it all will be a little injector you carry around inplanted in your palm. It will be able to shock and inject all sorts of things.
Eventualy, you'll get to screw a young Farrah Fawcett look-alike, except the girls, unless they want to, and get to know a young guy, everybody left will be young, name of Logan.
For a fucking cable company, and when I used to be able to receive/download (send/upload always sucked) huge files.
But this is on par with dial up.
I am NOT spending $60USD/month for this. If it wasn't too late to get in touch with a human being, I'd let them know that dollar for dollar, they aren't worth it and they CAN be replaced.