SALT of the earth. And yet even with the great exodus of skills some dedicated people still pull stuff like this off:
http://www.salt.ac.za/fileadmin/files/talks/DoDInLights.avi
I love SA but I'm not going back, not before changes happen that would be unlikely in my lifetime.
I've been using Unity now at home for the last month or so. Its Gnome 2 at work on the Fedora 13 development machines. Unity excels as a "consumerist" interface. The traditional windows paradigm that wastes screen space irks me no end - when I wanna code I want Netbeans/Eclipse to use every pixel. The test app can be switched in and out as needed - the docs are on the other screen.
I've tried using Ubuntu 11.04 at home for coding but Netbeans hates the default look and feel and does not seem to completely honor look & feel settings, and why TF should I change my whole env just to please NB ?
I guess you get what you pay for - and Ubuntu is one hell of a bargain, but I would like Canonical to spend a bit of time on dev workflow and make sure the popular modern dev tools (Eclipse & Netbeans) works well in Ubuntu - I understand its not their beef. But at the same time: Developers, Developers, Developers !
All in all I like Unity, I'm keeping it. And haters please keep the entertaining hate'n on - all progress depends on the unreasonable man. But keep it real - you can't be a l33t libertarian unfettered atheist and weep into to your designer microbrew every time somebody moves a close button and be taken seriously at the same time.
Why don't they move (temporarily) to a place that has decent education without the bill ? South Africa and Australia comes to mind. You can get a internationally accepted engineering degree from a South African university for less that $20k...
Consider a world in which every big corp invested as much energy and money into "shit that matters", like google does. Or not even that, in stead of fighting like rabid starved pigs for a slice of the cake, try to bake a bigger cake. I'm certainly a Google fanboi, and I think I have good reason to be.
Just imagine being a Junior programmer for 60 years.... Maybe I'll grock c++ then.... Junior pay for 60 years would suck though. On the other hand, living of oreos and coke for more than 30 years would probably reduce your lifespan significantly.
This. And why with all that head start is Ubuntu more popular today than Fedora ? [1].
I'm all for tribalism, it keeps us honest, and focussed on the things that matter to us, given of course that you know what your core values are. RH the big red gorilla is out-shined by a 1/10 company started by some dude from Africa with a thing for Kalahari brown. And haters run to defend the behemoth - where have I seen this before ?
Maybe I would be less bitter if I didn't have to fight with CenTOS5.4 all day long...
[1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=fedora,ubuntu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Only thing I would be worried about is (if this hits a free market and consumers can buy the products for this) that people interested in diagnosing their own conditions would attempt self diagnosis.
I do not need a priest to pray to God, I do not need a mechanic to service my car, I do not need a programmer to write my code and I do not need a doctor to diagnose my condition. In fact, if I could get rid of the doctor completely why wouldn't I - a well trained expert system running on a modern phone aught to out-diagnose any doctor, and if it can't today it won't be long until it can.
No. Wait. He's dead. He doesn't care at all what you do to his bones.
You know this ? For a fact ? The care bit I mean, I think we all agree on the dead bit, the bones thing kind of give that away. Christians maintain that all men are immortal, that includes you. I do not think I would care about my bones, or ashes, for that matter. Would you ?
Africa's problem is the quality of the human capital. Not natural resources. China is busy stripping the Congo of hardwood, they own an enormous amount of mines and agricultural land in Africa. When China is good and done there won't be much left... In 20 years time the Children of Africa will be building huts with old iPhone3G's and Xbox360's.
Tens of millions, hundreds of millions, of cell phones, web cams and camcorders generating H.264 video every minute of every day.
Which are then uploaded to you tube, which Google then converts to V08, and streams right back at them. H.264 silicon will die and replaced by V08 silicon and the problem will go away. Is battery life on cellphones Google's problem ? Maybe on the Android based ones yes, and those will have V08 silicon for free within months.
Are you really putting forward the argument that everyone wants an iphone, but not everyone can get one, so enter android? Seriously?
Well, for me it was just the opposite. When the nexus one was released early on I eagerly clicked the "buy" button on the Google site. "The Nexus is not available in South Africa" so I bought an iphone.
I'm an African, a white one that is. My progenitor arrived in the Cape of Good hope in 1697, the latest family register counts the member of white descendent of my family close to 6k, the number of brown/black descendants are unknown, those that kept the original family name and are classified "coloured*" are a 1000 or so, but I digress. Africa is indeed fucked up, this is primarily due to Africans, not Europeans or "Colonialists" but africans themselves. Africans are not simply less fortunate white people with black skin. They have fundamentally different world views and cognitive abilities. I cannot compete with a black African digging a ditch, he can keep at it for hours and hours, the last 30 years has seen most of the Olympic track and field go to black Africans. The average black African cannot plan or appreciate cause and effect to the degree that another member of the species would find to be "common sense". I believe this to be a wetware problem, not simply due to culture or lack of education or opportunities. This, of course makes me a racist, or at best, or a white supremacists. I have grown comfortable with that label. I'd rather be that than delusional.
I've also realised that most non african whites simply have no clue or opinions worth considering when it comes to race related matters. You have no clue, have no real experience dealing with people significantly more different than yourselves. Come to South Africa for the Soccer World Cup, you will gain what you lack. You might not like what you may become.
* Americans note: Your president is "coloured", not black, regardless of what he claims to be. If Africa had 10% of the calibre of Obama's the continent would be a unstoppable superpower. But be not alarmed, barring a mind-enhancing super virile pandemic mind-enhancing air-borne virus, infecting every african, your position is save.
Thanks for the attitude adjustment o mister executive sir, a humble code monkey needs firm correction from his betters ever so often, yes certainly sir. O sir, please bend over while I stuff my 1482 page TIJ up your pompous condescending executive ass.
Uh-hu,
At all three Pretoria (Gateng, South-Africa) based companies I worked in the last 6 years a Squid proxy was deployed on-site. So not only does South African ISP's deploy caches, most companies (these are small ones by the way, 4-20 people) consider it IT normal practice.
I assumed it was common practice worldwide...
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You have no reasonable expectation that I would have paid for your book if I couldn't copy it. If I couldn't I wouldn't have it. So you lost nothing.
Obligatory Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
SALT of the earth. And yet even with the great exodus of skills some dedicated people still pull stuff like this off: http://www.salt.ac.za/fileadmin/files/talks/DoDInLights.avi I love SA but I'm not going back, not before changes happen that would be unlikely in my lifetime.
You have proof of this ?
A precious entry for my revered wordsmith.txt file. I salute you, Sir.
I've been using Unity now at home for the last month or so. Its Gnome 2 at work on the Fedora 13 development machines. Unity excels as a "consumerist" interface. The traditional windows paradigm that wastes screen space irks me no end - when I wanna code I want Netbeans/Eclipse to use every pixel. The test app can be switched in and out as needed - the docs are on the other screen. I've tried using Ubuntu 11.04 at home for coding but Netbeans hates the default look and feel and does not seem to completely honor look & feel settings, and why TF should I change my whole env just to please NB ? I guess you get what you pay for - and Ubuntu is one hell of a bargain, but I would like Canonical to spend a bit of time on dev workflow and make sure the popular modern dev tools (Eclipse & Netbeans) works well in Ubuntu - I understand its not their beef. But at the same time: Developers, Developers, Developers ! All in all I like Unity, I'm keeping it. And haters please keep the entertaining hate'n on - all progress depends on the unreasonable man. But keep it real - you can't be a l33t libertarian unfettered atheist and weep into to your designer microbrew every time somebody moves a close button and be taken seriously at the same time.
Why don't they move (temporarily) to a place that has decent education without the bill ? South Africa and Australia comes to mind. You can get a internationally accepted engineering degree from a South African university for less that $20k...
http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://makezine.com/ http://www.instructables.com/ http://www.arduino.cc/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ And many many more, but those are my favorites.
Consider a world in which every big corp invested as much energy and money into "shit that matters", like google does. Or not even that, in stead of fighting like rabid starved pigs for a slice of the cake, try to bake a bigger cake. I'm certainly a Google fanboi, and I think I have good reason to be.
Just imagine being a Junior programmer for 60 years.... Maybe I'll grock c++ then.... Junior pay for 60 years would suck though. On the other hand, living of oreos and coke for more than 30 years would probably reduce your lifespan significantly.
SASOL has been doing it for decades. Oil may not be available, coal may be.
I watched more p0nr as a kid...
This. And why with all that head start is Ubuntu more popular today than Fedora ? [1]. I'm all for tribalism, it keeps us honest, and focussed on the things that matter to us, given of course that you know what your core values are. RH the big red gorilla is out-shined by a 1/10 company started by some dude from Africa with a thing for Kalahari brown. And haters run to defend the behemoth - where have I seen this before ? Maybe I would be less bitter if I didn't have to fight with CenTOS5.4 all day long... [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=fedora,ubuntu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Too long. Did not read.
Only thing I would be worried about is (if this hits a free market and consumers can buy the products for this) that people interested in diagnosing their own conditions would attempt self diagnosis.
I do not need a priest to pray to God, I do not need a mechanic to service my car, I do not need a programmer to write my code and I do not need a doctor to diagnose my condition. In fact, if I could get rid of the doctor completely why wouldn't I - a well trained expert system running on a modern phone aught to out-diagnose any doctor, and if it can't today it won't be long until it can.
Toxoplasmosis negatively affects intelligence and makes you a jock. Assuming I'm right, how do I get cured ?
No. Wait. He's dead. He doesn't care at all what you do to his bones.
You know this ? For a fact ? The care bit I mean, I think we all agree on the dead bit, the bones thing kind of give that away. Christians maintain that all men are immortal, that includes you. I do not think I would care about my bones, or ashes, for that matter. Would you ?
Since heaven is a fantasy
That sound like a falsifiable statement to me. Please propose your experiment so that we may finally put this heaven thing to rest.
Africa's problem is the quality of the human capital. Not natural resources. China is busy stripping the Congo of hardwood, they own an enormous amount of mines and agricultural land in Africa. When China is good and done there won't be much left... In 20 years time the Children of Africa will be building huts with old iPhone3G's and Xbox360's.
Tens of millions, hundreds of millions, of cell phones, web cams and camcorders generating H.264 video every minute of every day.
Which are then uploaded to you tube, which Google then converts to V08, and streams right back at them. H.264 silicon will die and replaced by V08 silicon and the problem will go away. Is battery life on cellphones Google's problem ? Maybe on the Android based ones yes, and those will have V08 silicon for free within months.
Are you really putting forward the argument that everyone wants an iphone, but not everyone can get one, so enter android? Seriously?
Well, for me it was just the opposite. When the nexus one was released early on I eagerly clicked the "buy" button on the Google site. "The Nexus is not available in South Africa" so I bought an iphone.
I'm an African, a white one that is. My progenitor arrived in the Cape of Good hope in 1697, the latest family register counts the member of white descendent of my family close to 6k, the number of brown/black descendants are unknown, those that kept the original family name and are classified "coloured*" are a 1000 or so, but I digress. Africa is indeed fucked up, this is primarily due to Africans, not Europeans or "Colonialists" but africans themselves. Africans are not simply less fortunate white people with black skin. They have fundamentally different world views and cognitive abilities. I cannot compete with a black African digging a ditch, he can keep at it for hours and hours, the last 30 years has seen most of the Olympic track and field go to black Africans. The average black African cannot plan or appreciate cause and effect to the degree that another member of the species would find to be "common sense". I believe this to be a wetware problem, not simply due to culture or lack of education or opportunities. This, of course makes me a racist, or at best, or a white supremacists. I have grown comfortable with that label. I'd rather be that than delusional.
I've also realised that most non african whites simply have no clue or opinions worth considering when it comes to race related matters. You have no clue, have no real experience dealing with people significantly more different than yourselves. Come to South Africa for the Soccer World Cup, you will gain what you lack. You might not like what you may become.
* Americans note: Your president is "coloured", not black, regardless of what he claims to be. If Africa had 10% of the calibre of Obama's the continent would be a unstoppable superpower. But be not alarmed, barring a mind-enhancing super virile pandemic mind-enhancing air-borne virus, infecting every african, your position is save.
Amen ! preach it brother, preach it.
Thanks for the attitude adjustment o mister executive sir, a humble code monkey needs firm correction from his betters ever so often, yes certainly sir. O sir, please bend over while I stuff my 1482 page TIJ up your pompous condescending executive ass.
Uh-hu, At all three Pretoria (Gateng, South-Africa) based companies I worked in the last 6 years a Squid proxy was deployed on-site. So not only does South African ISP's deploy caches, most companies (these are small ones by the way, 4-20 people) consider it IT normal practice. I assumed it was common practice worldwide...