Why not be upfront about it? I mean if you are going to invest millions of dollars into something like this, then you keep it secret to the public that means you are going to spend even more money to keep it under wraps. Only to have to make it public after you arrest a few people from it, because you need to use it as evidence, thus will get out publicly.
The bigger the conspiracy the harder it will be to kept under wraps, I mean if you need to hire hundreds or thousand people to keep up an infrastructure of a top secrete organization the bigger it is and the longer it will take the harder and more expensive it will become.
Really every API you are stuck to the app that your interfacing with. Yes you can adjust an open source app. But really are you going to maintain a fork for a minor to moderate change. For the most part you use the parents software API and you deal with it. If the upgrade breaks what you have your gonna choose to stay with the old version or upgrade and fix your code. Really this is just a rant from open source zealots to exaggerate minor trade offs of the models of software.
46% not paying taxes is a HUGE percentage and a huge problem. Yes the poor pay a smaller percentage tax then the rich. However with 46% not paying tax combined with the fact that they are also recipients of extra services is a problem. I am not some raving republican stating that we should remove welfare, because we need it, without it the poor will do whatever it takes to survive and whatever it takes will be highly criminal. However if close to half the population isn't paying their share for services then there is a larger problem. I am sure the problem isn't just a simple cause I can see many factors going on to cause this.
1. Decline of work ethic and rise of the "Evil Corporation": These are part of the same problem that is creating a chain reaction. I will flip a coin to choose who started it. Heads Work Ethic, Tails bad Corporate ethics... I got Heads. A small but large enough to be a problem portion of employees have a bad work ethic. Now they are too large to just flat out fire, or under union laws or other labor laws where they couldn't just fire them. So the company wants to get them to quit or work harder, so they oppose new rules to try to get them to do one or the other. These new rules demotivate the honest workers so their performance goes down so more rules go into place. So the company has created an Environment that it difficult for anyone to succeed, but that is countered with the fact most the remaining employees have no real motivation to succeed. Some of the big growth companies have employees who are motivated and want to do a good job, because they do a good job on the whole these companies treat their employees better.
2. Education in Math and Science: "Math is hard" or so says the general population, us geeks actually like that phrase said by others because it makes us feel smarter then the others... However Math and Science are Core skills towards problem solving. Now with computers that can do the daily grudge work with need people skilled in problem solving not just doing what they are told.
3. Education in Arts: Reading Writing and Arithmetic seems to be the key focus on educations. However Arts teaches people how to think for themselves look at problems and solutions differently, and find their way of doing things. Unfortunately Art education has dropped in popularity as something you want to avoid your kid from getting too interested in because that could mean they want to major in Art just to be a starving artist. Art Education is very important to the needs of todays economy however the education systems has been manipulated in a way to say if you major in Art then you need to be an Artist.
4. Polarized government: The GOP no government and the Democrats more services ideas are stupid. What we need are smart services to meet today's infrastructure. Today we need Cheap Cell service and Cheap High Speed Internet, we didn't need this 20 years ago, today we do. Too much business requires Cell and High Speed internet for its daily operations. People need such devices for themselves too. Roughly 1200 a year for every citizen goes to these services and we are stuck to a corporate carrier who finds new ways to nickle and dime us. Communication is now a key infrastructure requirement that we need to adapt to. We also need services to help people find jobs and get training. We don't need short term jobs we need career jobs. We need the Public and Private sector to work together. There are some things public sector can do better then the Private, and some things Private and do better then the Public we need both.
5. Government Consistency: People don't like change. Even though our President got elected with the promise of change we really don't want it. For good reasons too, For most of us we got use to the system and know how to work with it. If the system is always changing you can't plan for the future. Will my taxes go up or down? Even if I can afford it I had plans for the money, if it goes down will the service that I need get hindered in any way and do I need to plan for this...
My Boss didn't like my idea during a brain storming session, but it would work, on the iPAD you setup an iPAD compatible web app (you can remove all the UI components and you superglue a piece of plastic over the Home button.
Perhaps we can get down to the user friendlyness of the Old Dos. You install an App by copying all the files in a folder. You find a.EXE.COM or.BAT file and type the name and the program runs.
In many ways I miss the bare bones OS like DOS. Hardware manufactures had an intensive to make sure their hardware was compliment. Epson compatible Printers, Hayes Compatible Modems, CGA, EGA, VGA comparability. Computer programs could use all the Computer Resources...
Then the OS's gotten more complicated with Drivers that allowed the Hardware companies to make their own breed of devices and just as long as they made the driver for the OS they were fine, the abstraction away from the hardware meant the OS needed to be updated and shared libraries or DLLs in were made to try to increase the performance of common calls to the OS, which caused problems with OS updates...
Heck the Old Apple ][ days had the ultimate UI interface. You have a program you want to run. Put it in your floppy and turn on the computer. When you are done turn the computer off, if only during those days they would put the power button in front where you could reach it it would have been golden.
Rock/Rap are variants that have stemmed from minalist music. Their appeal musically (when you ignore the words) is a more primal emotion. Clasical period music was designed to express more complex set of emotions. Teens in general are just full of primal emotions so they are attracted by rock and rap, when they get older and their primal forces cool down they start to enjoy classical music as it begins to reach them emotionally. Now when kids are exposed to the music it gets their brain working as it exercises those emotions that are not much in practice. So they will leave as some how the exersize is too much for them to handle, or they will try to embrace it and giving more work to the brain and temporary quelling those primal urges.
Then why don't you just go to the movies. If the point of the game is to slug thru levels just so you can advance the plot, you are just putting yourself under stress just to watch the next chapter, you are not enjoying the game, you are using the stress of the game so you can enjoy the next cut scene. If that is the case. Perhaps the next time you rent a movie you setup a timer for every 15 minutes. Watch 15 minutes of the movie when the timer goes off. Walk a mile on a treadmill then go back and watch an other 15 minutes, you will get the same effect.
Well some games like Final Fantasy the strong story is really a key component to the game and the game play. However I think the issue is that there is an attempt to put a story around all the games where your main goal is to kill whatever moves.
What I really miss are the Old Sierra Quest games. The non-action adventure game. However if I want to play an action game I really don't need a story to make me want to kill all the guys in the game, just as long as you give me points per guy I have a motive.
If you use adBlock to get rid of the abusive adds that is great, it is basically making a point that those adds are slowing things down for me. However if you are going to go overboard and use Add Block to keep your browsing ad free you are going to be spending a fair amount of time just blocking adds in that process you will be looking at the adds before you block them.
However the adage is I pay for my internet connection so all the content should be free isn't really that good of one. It is akin to paying tools on a road and expecting free food and gas at the rest stops there. You are paying for the connection. The people putting content isn't free for them either, it is not like the ISP pay every website for every page their user views.
Sites shouldn't kick off people who have ad block turned on. However Ad Blockers shouldn't go on the war to end all ads, in an ad free content is free internet.
Applications are the main issue here. The reason why there isn't much of a difference, a higher resolution in most OS's will just make everything smaller... I myself love having more space... However for most people they just complain that everything is too small. So for the most part the past decade in a half displays have been staying at the same DPI. The only reason why they increased in resolution is the fact that we have bigger displays. Back in 1997 a 14" CRT at 1024x768 was a good monitor. If you had a 17" CRT you had a big screen, if you had a 19" or 21" you were like the uber geek with the Huge display. Today I have a 17" on my laptop and a 21" as a secondary display. And now that is just a normal second monitor.
Censoring isn't putting something lower in a search order.
Google should be more responsible for these type of things when you search for a politician by name you really should get their official page first then further down the line the unofficial or pages critical of the person. Being that the average age of a democrat is less then a member of the GOP means that they will probably be doing more internet posting then the GOP will. Then if the GOP wins because they use non-internet approach to get the majority of their supporters all the young kids will hop up and down saying the election was rigged because the Internet says they are disliked.
Well after apple released the iPhone 4 with its "Retna" Display only a fool would think the next version of the iPad would have one too. Having reached a persons physical limit in viewing is a good thing, because it will allow screen technology/resolution to finally get static in place, and making newer apps run faster. A lot of the issue why it doesn't seem your new PC isn't that much faster then your old one is basically because your new video card can handle higher resolutions and you attach larger resolution screens to it, and the new software and OS are going to use that new screen resolution. Hitting a physical limit will mean improvements in graphic processing will be more noticeable as they are not trying to just keep with with more pixels.
I think the high IO throughput, is one of the few things the old Mainframe people hold onto as to not have to relearn a new system. It is one of those trade offs from going from a Mainframe Mind Set to a Distributed Computing mind set. Having worked and still working on mainframes I find that they are a mixed blessing, even old ones can handle amazing load much better then a Distributed System can. However there are a lot more processes that need to be ran as batch processing and not as much real time (In the terms you request for a small/medium amount of data and you get a response back in a few seconds or less) information. As we move to more distributed models we are getting better at making programs that work with the lower IO throughput by doing more processing per system and giving more discrete answers back.
Or anywhere in the world. General rule of thumb when traveling is to always travel light and poor. The more valuable things you bring with you the more liability that you are lugging around, which may be stolen, confiscated, or make you prime bate to be kidnapped. Sure you may be street smart enough in your area to see the difference between a criminal and an honest folk, but in a different culture you are green all over again, and prime bate. Even if you are going across the US. In the country and need assistance often you can get help from those guys walking down the street with large riffles in hand (as they are probably just hunting) for those who live in the country these people are not threatening they are just out having a good time. In the City you should avoid the guy walking down the street with a riffle. Or up in the Northeast, People usually go straight to business with less pleasantries, down south there is more talk and gentlemen behavior. For a Northern folk if someone comes up to you and starts talking all friendly like, you get warning bells that this guys is trying to distract you. If down south someone gets straight to business this guy is just being rude and hiding information so you shouldn't trust him.
Software development is a form of art where Math/Logic/Science/Engineering are our mediums to work with. Being an art form the software developer feels the need to express themselves in their program, in one way or an other. However much like real artists in order to make a living they need to do a buch of commissioned work where you need to make what the boss wants and your personal style is limited. And as you get more artists on a project you need a style guide to make sure the project is consistent. GNU projects often lose a good UI compared to their closed source counterpart because each artist is making their own statement in the program. I find that the GIMP does this. Now this isn't a flaw in the GNU but a good GNU project needs the same oversite and rules a good closed source solution needs, and often much earlier in the process because open source you get a lot of people doing a little bit of code, while closed source you get a few people doing the bulk.
Composit video did have some neat hacks that is more difficult to produce today. There are emulators still trying to match the composit look. First the low DPI of the tv made low resolution less pixelated all the pixels had round corners making low res images look softer. Another cool hack was using particular color offset combinations to create colors beyond what the video card can support.
Because NASA has lost support from the Left. While NASA is a highly political organization. It was one of those that never really sided with the Left or Right. The Right liked it because it was part of the military. The Left liked it because they did some real science. And was really a symbol of Peaceful American Power.
However the left sees is as an expendable area to cut. As it really isn't solving any problems that we are facing right now. So if NASA can do some Green Fuel side effects even from failure may lead to advances.
And that is a reason why we cannot optimize the use of our resources. For the most part wasted food when decaid will just produce carbon back into the atmosphere anyways why not get some energy out of it first.
Not really upstate NY near Saratoga has a Global Foundry (AMD) chip facility that is expected to revitalize the area around NY capital (Albany). It is just as likely that New York State did the lawsuit just to get rid of the competition.
Like all energy sources nuclear has its share of trade offs. Wind/Solar still don't quite give the same output that Nuclear or Coal can, Hydroelectric can only be used in particular locations and then there are people complaining about the fishes that get shredded. Coal has a lot of pollution. Nuclear energy when well maintained is a relativity good energy source. Its pollution for good or for bad is highly concentrated meaning the good means it can be captured and moved to a safer location, the bad is if a little bit leaks out it could be very deadly, and difficult to pick up again. However right now our pollution problem is in extra carbon. Nuclear energy can help reduce our carbon dependence, the combined risk of continued use of Coal even when treated well is worse then nuclear energy being properly respected and governed.
I have issues of those Open Source Zealots who accuse everyone who made a conscious decision to drop Open Source and go with Widows as believing the FUD. The way a product is licensed has little if anything to do with its product quality. Linux is a great OS. But it isn't perfect Windows is better then Linux in a lot of Areas... Also Linux is better then Windows in a lot of areas.
Why Windows? 1. Office comparability... Oddly enough when you are working with other businesses they prefer to get Office Compatible documents. LibreOffice does a great job at office compatibility however it is 99% compatible, so 3 times a year you have an issue and you need to look like your company is to cheap to buy software that the rest of the industry uses.
2. Human Resources... You can find a lot of people who are Skilled in Windows and Open Source Tools, You can find people skilled in Windows only, and you can find people skilled in Open Source Only... However there are a lot more windows skilled people so if they are hiring they want to get a wider market to choose from.
3. Third Party Software... Often Business will buy those expensive enterprise systems that every employee hates. However they do do their job and make the business runs more effetiently. They have been tested to work in Windows and there are not to many Open Source tools that do that. The debate of if these Enterprise Systems are more valuable then if you get a custom program is an other debate.
By easy to use, in modern terms means there is a way to accomplish the tasks you are trying to do without having to know how to do it beforehand, or searching for answers in books or Google or asking someone else.
cc was the c compiler... dd could that be a d compiler? data dup (like a copy command)? default directory that brings you to your home directory? duplex device.... disk defrag what what I originality though that command was for when I saw it in/usr/bin. It was a good thing I knew about the man command before I ran it.
But the man command itself is kinda confusing. man short for manual. but other systems had commands like help which was more useful.
Then the programmers will just change how they comment their code. When I was doing consulting I got dinged because as part of my time breakdown I put Bug Fixes as a line item. After I got dinged for that (Because they didn't want to pay for faulty coding) I changed bug fixes to specification changes. They were happy with that. For the most part good employees what to be honest about their work, however if you make a system where honesty is punished, then people will start stretching the truth.
No one has really found a good way to evaluate a programmers efficiency, mostly because if they do their job right they are not doing the same thing every day so their output will very. There were attempts of measurements like Lines of code which meant programmers started to write more verbose code and doing more copy and paste and less objects and procedures. Then they try to measure by number of projects or sub projects they produced, so the experience developers will jump on and take up the quick and easy projects leaving the ones that require more work to the newbies. Then there reporting by bugs tracked later on, now this had the problem where the developers would take so much time to make sure there weren't any bugs reported that the product never left the shelf or put try and catches that jumped over errors cases and hid the fact the bug happened only to appear in someone else section of code.
Software Developers/Programmers do the job that computers cannot do. So it is difficult to use computers to monitor their performance just because their work is a lot less calculated.
The problem is Schools/Governments really ignore the normal distribution of students. The average Grade for the students should be a C or a 75% mastery in taught information. However school systems make the C grade considered the Underachiever Passing grade. While what should really be happening Most of the students have D-B Grades, and only a much smaller few would have Fs and As
When judging your school systems Large amount of As or Fs means trouble.
To many As means your course work is too easy for the students. To many Fs means the students it is too difficult. But if you find that the normal grades fit in the Normal Distribution Curve then that means you will relativity on par.
Collages need to start thinking like that when they do acceptances So the Harvard out there who get the best of the best will find where they were use to getting the A student that after the adjustment that they will be more use to getting the A- or B+ student. And the colleges that are not so selective will need to realize that a C- student may still be collage worthy.
Back in them Old BBS days we Had RIPScript and RIPScript 2 There was also a Graphical BBS Engine called Roboboard and its upgrade Roboboard/FX There were systems like Prodigy, and AOL which had images...
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Why not be upfront about it?
I mean if you are going to invest millions of dollars into something like this, then you keep it secret to the public that means you are going to spend even more money to keep it under wraps. Only to have to make it public after you arrest a few people from it, because you need to use it as evidence, thus will get out publicly.
The bigger the conspiracy the harder it will be to kept under wraps, I mean if you need to hire hundreds or thousand people to keep up an infrastructure of a top secrete organization the bigger it is and the longer it will take the harder and more expensive it will become.
Really every API you are stuck to the app that your interfacing with.
Yes you can adjust an open source app. But really are you going to maintain a fork for a minor to moderate change. For the most part you use the parents software API and you deal with it. If the upgrade breaks what you have your gonna choose to stay with the old version or upgrade and fix your code.
Really this is just a rant from open source zealots to exaggerate minor trade offs of the models of software.
46% not paying taxes is a HUGE percentage and a huge problem.
Yes the poor pay a smaller percentage tax then the rich. However with 46% not paying tax combined with the fact that they are also recipients of extra services is a problem.
I am not some raving republican stating that we should remove welfare, because we need it, without it the poor will do whatever it takes to survive and whatever it takes will be highly criminal. However if close to half the population isn't paying their share for services then there is a larger problem. I am sure the problem isn't just a simple cause I can see many factors going on to cause this.
1. Decline of work ethic and rise of the "Evil Corporation": These are part of the same problem that is creating a chain reaction. I will flip a coin to choose who started it. Heads Work Ethic, Tails bad Corporate ethics... I got Heads. A small but large enough to be a problem portion of employees have a bad work ethic. Now they are too large to just flat out fire, or under union laws or other labor laws where they couldn't just fire them. So the company wants to get them to quit or work harder, so they oppose new rules to try to get them to do one or the other. These new rules demotivate the honest workers so their performance goes down so more rules go into place. So the company has created an Environment that it difficult for anyone to succeed, but that is countered with the fact most the remaining employees have no real motivation to succeed. Some of the big growth companies have employees who are motivated and want to do a good job, because they do a good job on the whole these companies treat their employees better.
2. Education in Math and Science: "Math is hard" or so says the general population, us geeks actually like that phrase said by others because it makes us feel smarter then the others... However Math and Science are Core skills towards problem solving. Now with computers that can do the daily grudge work with need people skilled in problem solving not just doing what they are told.
3. Education in Arts: Reading Writing and Arithmetic seems to be the key focus on educations. However Arts teaches people how to think for themselves look at problems and solutions differently, and find their way of doing things. Unfortunately Art education has dropped in popularity as something you want to avoid your kid from getting too interested in because that could mean they want to major in Art just to be a starving artist. Art Education is very important to the needs of todays economy however the education systems has been manipulated in a way to say if you major in Art then you need to be an Artist.
4. Polarized government: The GOP no government and the Democrats more services ideas are stupid. What we need are smart services to meet today's infrastructure. Today we need Cheap Cell service and Cheap High Speed Internet, we didn't need this 20 years ago, today we do. Too much business requires Cell and High Speed internet for its daily operations. People need such devices for themselves too. Roughly 1200 a year for every citizen goes to these services and we are stuck to a corporate carrier who finds new ways to nickle and dime us. Communication is now a key infrastructure requirement that we need to adapt to. We also need services to help people find jobs and get training. We don't need short term jobs we need career jobs. We need the Public and Private sector to work together. There are some things public sector can do better then the Private, and some things Private and do better then the Public we need both.
5. Government Consistency: People don't like change. Even though our President got elected with the promise of change we really don't want it. For good reasons too, For most of us we got use to the system and know how to work with it. If the system is always changing you can't plan for the future. Will my taxes go up or down? Even if I can afford it I had plans for the money, if it goes down will the service that I need get hindered in any way and do I need to plan for this...
My Boss didn't like my idea during a brain storming session, but it would work, on the iPAD you setup an iPAD compatible web app (you can remove all the UI components and you superglue a piece of plastic over the Home button.
Perhaps we can get down to the user friendlyness of the Old Dos. .EXE .COM or .BAT file and type the name and the program runs.
You install an App by copying all the files in a folder. You find a
In many ways I miss the bare bones OS like DOS. Hardware manufactures had an intensive to make sure their hardware was compliment. Epson compatible Printers, Hayes Compatible Modems, CGA, EGA, VGA comparability. Computer programs could use all the Computer Resources...
Then the OS's gotten more complicated with Drivers that allowed the Hardware companies to make their own breed of devices and just as long as they made the driver for the OS they were fine, the abstraction away from the hardware meant the OS needed to be updated and shared libraries or DLLs in were made to try to increase the performance of common calls to the OS, which caused problems with OS updates...
Heck the Old Apple ][ days had the ultimate UI interface. You have a program you want to run. Put it in your floppy and turn on the computer. When you are done turn the computer off, if only during those days they would put the power button in front where you could reach it it would have been golden.
Rock/Rap are variants that have stemmed from minalist music. Their appeal musically (when you ignore the words) is a more primal emotion. Clasical period music was designed to express more complex set of emotions.
Teens in general are just full of primal emotions so they are attracted by rock and rap, when they get older and their primal forces cool down they start to enjoy classical music as it begins to reach them emotionally.
Now when kids are exposed to the music it gets their brain working as it exercises those emotions that are not much in practice. So they will leave as some how the exersize is too much for them to handle, or they will try to embrace it and giving more work to the brain and temporary quelling those primal urges.
Then why don't you just go to the movies. If the point of the game is to slug thru levels just so you can advance the plot, you are just putting yourself under stress just to watch the next chapter, you are not enjoying the game, you are using the stress of the game so you can enjoy the next cut scene.
If that is the case. Perhaps the next time you rent a movie you setup a timer for every 15 minutes. Watch 15 minutes of the movie when the timer goes off. Walk a mile on a treadmill then go back and watch an other 15 minutes, you will get the same effect.
Well some games like Final Fantasy the strong story is really a key component to the game and the game play. However I think the issue is that there is an attempt to put a story around all the games where your main goal is to kill whatever moves.
What I really miss are the Old Sierra Quest games. The non-action adventure game. However if I want to play an action game I really don't need a story to make me want to kill all the guys in the game, just as long as you give me points per guy I have a motive.
Or it is too much of a hassle.
If you use adBlock to get rid of the abusive adds that is great, it is basically making a point that those adds are slowing things down for me. However if you are going to go overboard and use Add Block to keep your browsing ad free you are going to be spending a fair amount of time just blocking adds in that process you will be looking at the adds before you block them.
However the adage is I pay for my internet connection so all the content should be free isn't really that good of one. It is akin to paying tools on a road and expecting free food and gas at the rest stops there. You are paying for the connection. The people putting content isn't free for them either, it is not like the ISP pay every website for every page their user views.
Sites shouldn't kick off people who have ad block turned on. However Ad Blockers shouldn't go on the war to end all ads, in an ad free content is free internet.
Applications are the main issue here.
The reason why there isn't much of a difference, a higher resolution in most OS's will just make everything smaller... I myself love having more space... However for most people they just complain that everything is too small. So for the most part the past decade in a half displays have been staying at the same DPI. The only reason why they increased in resolution is the fact that we have bigger displays.
Back in 1997 a 14" CRT at 1024x768 was a good monitor. If you had a 17" CRT you had a big screen, if you had a 19" or 21" you were like the uber geek with the Huge display.
Today I have a 17" on my laptop and a 21" as a secondary display. And now that is just a normal second monitor.
Censoring isn't putting something lower in a search order.
Google should be more responsible for these type of things when you search for a politician by name you really should get their official page first then further down the line the unofficial or pages critical of the person.
Being that the average age of a democrat is less then a member of the GOP means that they will probably be doing more internet posting then the GOP will.
Then if the GOP wins because they use non-internet approach to get the majority of their supporters all the young kids will hop up and down saying the election was rigged because the Internet says they are disliked.
Well after apple released the iPhone 4 with its "Retna" Display only a fool would think the next version of the iPad would have one too. Having reached a persons physical limit in viewing is a good thing, because it will allow screen technology/resolution to finally get static in place, and making newer apps run faster. A lot of the issue why it doesn't seem your new PC isn't that much faster then your old one is basically because your new video card can handle higher resolutions and you attach larger resolution screens to it, and the new software and OS are going to use that new screen resolution. Hitting a physical limit will mean improvements in graphic processing will be more noticeable as they are not trying to just keep with with more pixels.
I think the high IO throughput, is one of the few things the old Mainframe people hold onto as to not have to relearn a new system.
It is one of those trade offs from going from a Mainframe Mind Set to a Distributed Computing mind set. Having worked and still working on mainframes I find that they are a mixed blessing, even old ones can handle amazing load much better then a Distributed System can. However there are a lot more processes that need to be ran as batch processing and not as much real time (In the terms you request for a small/medium amount of data and you get a response back in a few seconds or less) information.
As we move to more distributed models we are getting better at making programs that work with the lower IO throughput by doing more processing per system and giving more discrete answers back.
Or anywhere in the world.
General rule of thumb when traveling is to always travel light and poor. The more valuable things you bring with you the more liability that you are lugging around, which may be stolen, confiscated, or make you prime bate to be kidnapped.
Sure you may be street smart enough in your area to see the difference between a criminal and an honest folk, but in a different culture you are green all over again, and prime bate. Even if you are going across the US. In the country and need assistance often you can get help from those guys walking down the street with large riffles in hand (as they are probably just hunting) for those who live in the country these people are not threatening they are just out having a good time. In the City you should avoid the guy walking down the street with a riffle.
Or up in the Northeast, People usually go straight to business with less pleasantries, down south there is more talk and gentlemen behavior. For a Northern folk if someone comes up to you and starts talking all friendly like, you get warning bells that this guys is trying to distract you. If down south someone gets straight to business this guy is just being rude and hiding information so you shouldn't trust him.
Software development is a form of art where Math/Logic/Science/Engineering are our mediums to work with. Being an art form the software developer feels the need to express themselves in their program, in one way or an other.
However much like real artists in order to make a living they need to do a buch of commissioned work where you need to make what the boss wants and your personal style is limited. And as you get more artists on a project you need a style guide to make sure the project is consistent.
GNU projects often lose a good UI compared to their closed source counterpart because each artist is making their own statement in the program. I find that the GIMP does this. Now this isn't a flaw in the GNU but a good GNU project needs the same oversite and rules a good closed source solution needs, and often much earlier in the process because open source you get a lot of people doing a little bit of code, while closed source you get a few people doing the bulk.
Composit video did have some neat hacks that is more difficult to produce today. There are emulators still trying to match the composit look.
First the low DPI of the tv made low resolution less pixelated all the pixels had round corners making low res images look softer.
Another cool hack was using particular color offset combinations to create colors beyond what the video card can support.
Because NASA has lost support from the Left.
While NASA is a highly political organization. It was one of those that never really sided with the Left or Right.
The Right liked it because it was part of the military.
The Left liked it because they did some real science.
And was really a symbol of Peaceful American Power.
However the left sees is as an expendable area to cut. As it really isn't solving any problems that we are facing right now. So if NASA can do some Green Fuel side effects even from failure may lead to advances.
And that is a reason why we cannot optimize the use of our resources. For the most part wasted food when decaid will just produce carbon back into the atmosphere anyways why not get some energy out of it first.
Not really upstate NY near Saratoga has a Global Foundry (AMD) chip facility that is expected to revitalize the area around NY capital (Albany). It is just as likely that New York State did the lawsuit just to get rid of the competition.
Like all energy sources nuclear has its share of trade offs. Wind/Solar still don't quite give the same output that Nuclear or Coal can, Hydroelectric can only be used in particular locations and then there are people complaining about the fishes that get shredded. Coal has a lot of pollution.
Nuclear energy when well maintained is a relativity good energy source. Its pollution for good or for bad is highly concentrated meaning the good means it can be captured and moved to a safer location, the bad is if a little bit leaks out it could be very deadly, and difficult to pick up again. However right now our pollution problem is in extra carbon. Nuclear energy can help reduce our carbon dependence, the combined risk of continued use of Coal even when treated well is worse then nuclear energy being properly respected and governed.
I have issues of those Open Source Zealots who accuse everyone who made a conscious decision to drop Open Source and go with Widows as believing the FUD. The way a product is licensed has little if anything to do with its product quality. Linux is a great OS. But it isn't perfect Windows is better then Linux in a lot of Areas... Also Linux is better then Windows in a lot of areas.
Why Windows?
1. Office comparability... Oddly enough when you are working with other businesses they prefer to get Office Compatible documents. LibreOffice does a great job at office compatibility however it is 99% compatible, so 3 times a year you have an issue and you need to look like your company is to cheap to buy software that the rest of the industry uses.
2. Human Resources... You can find a lot of people who are Skilled in Windows and Open Source Tools, You can find people skilled in Windows only, and you can find people skilled in Open Source Only... However there are a lot more windows skilled people so if they are hiring they want to get a wider market to choose from.
3. Third Party Software... Often Business will buy those expensive enterprise systems that every employee hates. However they do do their job and make the business runs more effetiently. They have been tested to work in Windows and there are not to many Open Source tools that do that. The debate of if these Enterprise Systems are more valuable then if you get a custom program is an other debate.
By easy to use, in modern terms means there is a way to accomplish the tasks you are trying to do without having to know how to do it beforehand, or searching for answers in books or Google or asking someone else.
/usr/bin. It was a good thing I knew about the man command before I ran it.
cc was the c compiler... dd could that be a d compiler? data dup (like a copy command)? default directory that brings you to your home directory?
duplex device.... disk defrag what what I originality though that command was for when I saw it in
But the man command itself is kinda confusing. man short for manual. but other systems had commands like help which was more useful.
Then the programmers will just change how they comment their code.
When I was doing consulting I got dinged because as part of my time breakdown I put Bug Fixes as a line item. After I got dinged for that (Because they didn't want to pay for faulty coding) I changed bug fixes to specification changes. They were happy with that. For the most part good employees what to be honest about their work, however if you make a system where honesty is punished, then people will start stretching the truth.
No one has really found a good way to evaluate a programmers efficiency, mostly because if they do their job right they are not doing the same thing every day so their output will very. There were attempts of measurements like Lines of code which meant programmers started to write more verbose code and doing more copy and paste and less objects and procedures. Then they try to measure by number of projects or sub projects they produced, so the experience developers will jump on and take up the quick and easy projects leaving the ones that require more work to the newbies. Then there reporting by bugs tracked later on, now this had the problem where the developers would take so much time to make sure there weren't any bugs reported that the product never left the shelf or put try and catches that jumped over errors cases and hid the fact the bug happened only to appear in someone else section of code.
Software Developers/Programmers do the job that computers cannot do. So it is difficult to use computers to monitor their performance just because their work is a lot less calculated.
The problem is Schools/Governments really ignore the normal distribution of students. The average Grade for the students should be a C or a 75% mastery in taught information. However school systems make the C grade considered the Underachiever Passing grade. While what should really be happening Most of the students have D-B Grades, and only a much smaller few would have Fs and As
When judging your school systems Large amount of As or Fs means trouble.
To many As means your course work is too easy for the students. To many Fs means the students it is too difficult. But if you find that the normal grades fit in the Normal Distribution Curve then that means you will relativity on par.
Collages need to start thinking like that when they do acceptances So the Harvard out there who get the best of the best will find where they were use to getting the A student that after the adjustment that they will be more use to getting the A- or B+ student. And the colleges that are not so selective will need to realize that a C- student may still be collage worthy.
Back in them Old BBS days we Had RIPScript and RIPScript 2
There was also a Graphical BBS Engine called Roboboard and its upgrade Roboboard/FX
There were systems like Prodigy, and AOL which had images...