Its great that people are at last forcing/levering/coaxing the issue of the organization of information from the hands of geeks who pride them selves on never forgetting anything (but couldn't tell you what any of it means if you put a gun to their temple.)
Remember these are the same folks who insisted on 8.3 file names and who only recently discovered desktop search.
These are the same people who insist on interning references instead of describing relationships between data objects as exactly that,relationships between data objects. (Too complicated. It'll lead to slow retrieval. [It doesn't.] That will never work! [It does.] It'll break referential integrity! [Like you turn it ON for your database!] Retrieval will get too complicated. [Not if you use your schema properly and create wiews.]
Once somebody collects there and starts a meta meta project with the data, I think we'll actually get somewhere.
The quality of software is appaling. The quality of OS is marginally better (or worse depending on what you use.)
The reason for this is very simple but to fix it requires people to open their eyes.
It starts with computers being deaf, dumb and blind, gets worse with how we think of information modeling (ask your DBA to model a wall. Its a simple and straight forward request. Bricks & mortar do NOT make a wall.) then we compound this with security that isn't in the least bit secure and it absolutely fall down from there.
I CAN'T {expletive deleted] use it on my Mac. (I'm not a geek, just anti-monopoly. I am just appalled Microsoft & Gates lack of respect for other people's IP [who came up with windows FIRST?]:-)
OO for Mac doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I want a.dmg installer and screw X11 and that crap. So now I just don't use my Mac for office tasks. And that's a shame since I use it for everything else.
And surely you mean le Corbusier, the Bahaus and Mies van der Rohe. (Well. Mies was okay but his followers were talentless hacks.)
Not to mention all the posers who wrote those ridiculous manifestoes. Might as well have been Tristan Tzara "demanding the right to piss in rainbows!"
Frank Lloyd Wright may have been a trifle excentric and a womanizer (shocking for his time,) but he was infinitely better suited to the American landscape than the "Princes" who descended on us, after being thrown out of Europe, and ruined the landscape for a couple of generations.
They were out to reform Europe. And thank fully they failed.
Have you ever SEEN a French "worker housing" apartment building? They're all terrible on virtually any scale you care to measure them by.
How about Brazilia? Le Corbusier's efforts at city planning were so successful that the nicest and costliest housing after its completion was the sheds and shacks used to house the workers who were bussed into the construction sites.
How about the massive construction projects that were planned in Nazi Germany? Pure excess without soul. Places where you weren't meant to live, just exist for the pleasure of the state.
Frank Lloyd Wright has "Howard Roarke" compared to the slew of "Francons" and "Keatings" of the day.
The business computing environment is one of centralized servers and distributed idiots (using PCs)
Banks, the bloated behemoth of finance, are NOT happy with that situation. Setting up blade servers and maintaining total control over the configuration is the way they're going.
They have programmers in Bangalot India, working via a recycled piece of trash PC, (that they wrote off as tax deductions, set up a company to move 'em there and sold 'em off at a profit,) on servers back here in the 'States.
They don't really care what happens to the VPN client but they keep draconian config control over the thing to insure that nobody sniffs enough packets to break encryption. That means no spyware.
Microsoft is going to end up being used by a shrinking minority of idiots and fools. (Small business and home owners who were 'advanced' enough to try out the latest thing, [the bleeding edge,] and are about to become 'retro' because the 'intelligent appliance' market is going to pass 'em by.)
Unless you meant to imply that we are SUPPOSED to be mindless robots who follow hours of sitting in front of the tube with gathering at malls consuming crap.
TV is far less of a participatory (McLuhan's cool-to-hot [print-to-television]) medium than the internet (including downloading P0rn!)
In McLuhanistic terms, web browsing on/. is "media on fire".
That's how they get away with that "all natural' shit.
The word doesn't mean what you and everybody else but some lawyers thinks it means. Its definition in the dictionary is one thing but legally, it means something else. Namely NOTHING!
Now ALL natural means that it must contain a certain %age of a natural product. Since everything is natural, (unless you're selling extra-dimensional FudgeCicles or something, stuff that the FDA, FBI, CIA, MI6, KGB etc. would want to talk to you about), you're covered. You could be selling ALL natural nuclear sludge shampoo.
Look at her hair glow! Its not the shine the gets from her shampoo, its its glow in the dark. Safe for a week. Then we sell it as a baldness cure.
You can bake cakes containing all natural arsenic and wash them down with all natural hemlock.
The only thing worse is buying "organic" this, that or the other at a grocery store. THAT usually means it came from a warehouse filled with seconds (don't ask,) poor quality control, lousy atmospherics and was tossed onto the truck from at least six feet away.
I've been saying "hold the companies being advertised liable for the actions of the company doing the "promotion" for years.
Follow the money, honey and squeeze where it stops.
If there are no takers for Spam, there won't be any Spam. Market forces will work to make Spammers go and do something else.
If you know that buying an ad over the internet will suddenly go from costing you peanuts to costing you $50k per email sent, payable to the local police force, I don't think you're going to be interested. "Viagrea" is not that profitable.
The political machines do NOT want informed citizens. They don't want them here and now any more that Lenin wanted thinkers in the beginning of the Soviet Union.
An informed populace is a THREAT to any political machines.
The people are supposed to think what they're told to think and no more. (Watch what happens to 'informed consent' laws now on the books. You're already losing your right to go bankrupt, your right to sue and your right to opt out of anything. Soon you'll be naked before your maker, pinned by a solid steering column through your chest.)
They have the right to kow-tow the politicians, pay their taxes, unless they're rich, go to wars they didn't know about in places they'd never thought about and to die.
Nor of anybody. Try taking a camera down the New York City subway and you'll probably get a tap on the shoulder the first time and a club to the head if you give them any 'lip.'
Your freedom to take pictures is at stake (and vanishing fast.)
Look for set building outfits to make a lot of money as the movie industry is forced off the streets.
Like my friend said, before they took him away and hung him, "What a brave new world!"
The problems are that while they are covering you and yours, because they can, they aren't doing a thing about the other 6 billion people on this planet (who hate the guts of the few million on this side of the hemisphese who are keeping tabs on everybody in the USA.)
The fallicy of all this is that you're actually going to be safe. Soon its going to be illegal to report the ones that get through.
SciFi series writers are hacks. They would make Othello be about two black people and have them living happily ever after on planet Rawndesia.
What can you expect. You start with a fairly decent book and by the time the accountants are through with product placement you have something that you can only wipe your butt with.
The days of Rod Serling or Harlan Ellison are 'way' over.
The 'popular perception' of the whole hacker (code geeks)/cracker (crypto geeks) myth is a kind of hopelessly unwinnable argument about angels on pins.
Considering the alternatives, I've just invented a new name for myself and left the waste of time up to those poor souls who care.
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The hardware is available (iSight) and so's the software (iChat AV)
What's happened over the years (and years, and years,) makes me glad I'm getting the fsck out.
Its not really a profession I can actually recommend to any friend. Others, sure. I don't really know them.
Wait until you get a girl/boy'friend'. Then write to us about the studs in your wall...
Its great that people are at last forcing/levering/coaxing the issue of the organization of information from the hands of geeks who pride them selves on never forgetting anything (but couldn't tell you what any of it means if you put a gun to their temple.)
Remember these are the same folks who insisted on 8.3 file names and who only recently discovered desktop search.
These are the same people who insist on interning references instead of describing relationships between data objects as exactly that,relationships between data objects. (Too complicated. It'll lead to slow retrieval. [It doesn't.] That will never work! [It does.] It'll break referential integrity! [Like you turn it ON for your database!] Retrieval will get too complicated. [Not if you use your schema properly and create wiews.]
Once somebody collects there and starts a meta meta project with the data, I think we'll actually get somewhere.
The quality of software is appaling. The quality of OS is marginally better (or worse depending on what you use.)
The reason for this is very simple but to fix it requires people to open their eyes.
It starts with computers being deaf, dumb and blind, gets worse with how we think of information modeling (ask your DBA to model a wall. Its a simple and straight forward request. Bricks & mortar do NOT make a wall.) then we compound this with security that isn't in the least bit secure and it absolutely fall down from there.
Put on the THINK! sign people.
I CAN'T {expletive deleted] use it on my Mac. (I'm not a geek, just anti-monopoly. I am just appalled Microsoft & Gates lack of respect for other people's IP [who came up with windows FIRST?] :-)
.dmg installer and screw X11 and that crap. So now I just don't use my Mac for office tasks. And that's a shame since I use it for everything else.
OO for Mac doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I want a
You don't live in "The Village" do you?
And surely you mean le Corbusier, the Bahaus and Mies van der Rohe. (Well. Mies was okay but his followers were talentless hacks.)
Not to mention all the posers who wrote those ridiculous manifestoes. Might as well have been Tristan Tzara "demanding the right to piss in rainbows!"
Frank Lloyd Wright may have been a trifle excentric and a womanizer (shocking for his time,) but he was infinitely better suited to the American landscape than the "Princes" who descended on us, after being thrown out of Europe, and ruined the landscape for a couple of generations.
They were out to reform Europe. And thank fully they failed.
Have you ever SEEN a French "worker housing" apartment building? They're all terrible on virtually any scale you care to measure them by.
How about Brazilia? Le Corbusier's efforts at city planning were so successful that the nicest and costliest housing after its completion was the sheds and shacks used to house the workers who were bussed into the construction sites.
How about the massive construction projects that were planned in Nazi Germany? Pure excess without soul. Places where you weren't meant to live, just exist for the pleasure of the state.
Frank Lloyd Wright has "Howard Roarke" compared to the slew of "Francons" and "Keatings" of the day.
The business computing environment is one of centralized servers and distributed idiots (using PCs)
Banks, the bloated behemoth of finance, are NOT happy with that situation. Setting up blade servers and maintaining total control over the configuration is the way they're going.
They have programmers in Bangalot India, working via a recycled piece of trash PC, (that they wrote off as tax deductions, set up a company to move 'em there and sold 'em off at a profit,) on servers back here in the 'States.
They don't really care what happens to the VPN client but they keep draconian config control over the thing to insure that nobody sniffs enough packets to break encryption. That means no spyware.
Microsoft is going to end up being used by a shrinking minority of idiots and fools. (Small business and home owners who were 'advanced' enough to try out the latest thing, [the bleeding edge,] and are about to become 'retro' because the 'intelligent appliance' market is going to pass 'em by.)
I threw out my TV back in 1997 when I found myself watching the Cuttlery Show of a Friday night because it was the best thing on.
Now I use the internet to communicate (like this!) and I gained a life, my own.
Unless you meant to imply that we are SUPPOSED to be mindless robots who follow hours of sitting in front of the tube with gathering at malls consuming crap.
/. is "media on fire".
TV is far less of a participatory (McLuhan's cool-to-hot [print-to-television]) medium than the internet (including downloading P0rn!)
In McLuhanistic terms, web browsing on
And the turbine powered race cars that were the bane of Nascar in the seventies?
That showed that you could build a FAST car that basically ran on anything.
Nothing new here.
Patents and copyright are very low on the totem pole of the things they care about. (Always have been.)
There was a solar wind collecting sattelite that had the explosive bolts on the re-entry portion put in *backwards*.
End result was a smashed saucer embedded in the desert.
ALL my friends have huge ear tumors and suppurating pustules down their cheeks.
We're all in ONE N-dimentional universe.
That's how they get away with that "all natural' shit.
The word doesn't mean what you and everybody else but some lawyers thinks it means. Its definition in the dictionary is one thing but legally, it means something else. Namely NOTHING!
Now ALL natural means that it must contain a certain %age of a natural product. Since everything is natural, (unless you're selling extra-dimensional FudgeCicles or something, stuff that the FDA, FBI, CIA, MI6, KGB etc. would want to talk to you about), you're covered. You could be selling ALL natural nuclear sludge shampoo.
Look at her hair glow! Its not the shine the gets from her shampoo, its its glow in the dark. Safe for a week. Then we sell it as a baldness cure.
You can bake cakes containing all natural arsenic and wash them down with all natural hemlock.
The only thing worse is buying "organic" this, that or the other at a grocery store. THAT usually means it came from a warehouse filled with seconds (don't ask,) poor quality control, lousy atmospherics and was tossed onto the truck from at least six feet away.
Prêt à tout pour avoir le mot de la fin, depuis 1977.
Shouldn't that read:
Prêt à tout pour avoir le dernier mot, depuis 1977.
Try it again. Just Google translated it doesn't mean its correct.
I've been saying "hold the companies being advertised liable for the actions of the company doing the "promotion" for years.
Follow the money, honey and squeeze where it stops.
If there are no takers for Spam, there won't be any Spam. Market forces will work to make Spammers go and do something else.
If you know that buying an ad over the internet will suddenly go from costing you peanuts to costing you $50k per email sent, payable to the local police force, I don't think you're going to be interested. "Viagrea" is not that profitable.
I wonder how long it will take for us to get to a holographic (graceful degradation of bytes if a bit goes bad,) type storage.
Instant (well light speed through a solid critalline medium) retrieval would be just what the newest DB2 database would need.
I smell copyright agreements in the wind.
The political machines do NOT want informed citizens. They don't want them here and now any more that Lenin wanted thinkers in the beginning of the Soviet Union.
An informed populace is a THREAT to any political machines.
The people are supposed to think what they're told to think and no more. (Watch what happens to 'informed consent' laws now on the books. You're already losing your right to go bankrupt, your right to sue and your right to opt out of anything. Soon you'll be naked before your maker, pinned by a solid steering column through your chest.)
They have the right to kow-tow the politicians, pay their taxes, unless they're rich, go to wars they didn't know about in places they'd never thought about and to die.
I'm not impressed.
Nor of anybody. Try taking a camera down the New York City subway and you'll probably get a tap on the shoulder the first time and a club to the head if you give them any 'lip.'
Your freedom to take pictures is at stake (and vanishing fast.)
Look for set building outfits to make a lot of money as the movie industry is forced off the streets.
Like my friend said, before they took him away and hung him, "What a brave new world!"
The problems are that while they are covering you and yours, because they can, they aren't doing a thing about the other 6 billion people on this planet (who hate the guts of the few million on this side of the hemisphese who are keeping tabs on everybody in the USA.)
The fallicy of all this is that you're actually going to be safe. Soon its going to be illegal to report the ones that get through.
And all of us over here are being screw-tenized.
SciFi series writers are hacks. They would make Othello be about two black people and have them living happily ever after on planet Rawndesia.
What can you expect. You start with a fairly decent book and by the time the accountants are through with product placement you have something that you can only wipe your butt with.
The days of Rod Serling or Harlan Ellison are 'way' over.
I'm calling myself a white hat code wizard.
The 'popular perception' of the whole hacker (code geeks)/cracker (crypto geeks) myth is a kind of hopelessly unwinnable argument about angels on pins.
Considering the alternatives, I've just invented a new name for myself and left the waste of time up to those poor souls who care.
I've just given the hell up.
because of a stupid file incomplete load which was trashing the login window software.
:-(
I lost alot of my data when it wiped out the user area. (It wouldn't re-install properly.
I'm glad they got over that...