Right on point. If just enough idiots fall for this, they validate the business model for Phishers and then, the chances are higher that one day one of us will receive a notice from a bank where we DO have an account.
If you have been in the job market in the last ten years, you know that IBM has gone from being a great place to work to a huge source of off shoring. They really do not hire any Americans in significant numbers. And, duh, where do you thing a large number of open-source enterprise apps would come from? The United States. So, they have themselves to blame for his mess.
If you want to harvest the fruits, you have to plant seeds.
The last remaining benefit of American culture is our tendency to foster creativity in our kids. In the US, we build things, we have junk drawers, we make tree forts when we are kids. These habits of creation then aid our imaginations and we take those imaginations with us when we enter the IT field.
Hard as it may be for the Indian workforce to accept, their culture does not work the same way. I cannot explain it but over the last several years I have yet to see an Indian developer who was trully creative and innovative. They are just not raised in a culture that fosters it. I do not want to sound like a racist--this is not a racial thing--it's a cultural thing.
That's the explanation! Bush had his friends rig the election! That bastards. There was no way Bush was actually popular enough in 2004 to win cleanly. Another anti-Democratic move by Karl Rove, the pusbag.
How many thousands of times have you received emails from Nigerian Princes and banks you have never heard of? Enough, right, to know that you're an idiot to click on them. Then, add in lazy, persistent, digitally-amplified slackers trolling for information, and you have The Perfect Storm. These lazy phishers are making money because Joe Sixpack and Mary Hausfrau are so utterly stupid. We're doomed.
Sure, I get it. China feels like it is getting a black eye. So they think they can put makeup on that black eye by suddenly opening access. We're not fooled. They are a censoring country and they're going to stay that way. The Leopard can't change his spots and China is not going to change what they're doing.
Nate,
I'll address your comments point by point:
"I convinced my employer at great expense..."--no, my employer (a former DBA VP came up with the idea. We did a POC and had nearly all the kinks ironed out before we changed the team.
"I would run the open version of Eclipse but it sucks..."--no idea. I've used WebSphere Studio App Developer, Visual Cafe (true crap), JBuilder, JDeveloper and MyEclipse. Never used raw Eclipse so I have no idea if it sucks.
"I then claim my experience leads me to believe open source is better than closed."--since I have experience with both, I must follow my experience. I prefer open source and it has seemed to make my developer life easier.
"Proprietary software is supported by people who have to make it a success or they don't get paid and can't eat..."--now I see where you're coming from. You used to sell proprietary software but open source ate your company's lunch and you're bitter. Suffer and like it--that's called me marketplace.
As for the comment about JBoss, I had to work on a Single Sign On project and so I was deep in the source of JBoss and Tomcat. Wrong again, Mister sour grapes.
JBoss and Hibernate are buggy pieces of shit? WebSphere Studio AD was horrible and it cost $8K for the Integration Edition. For the expense, it was not worth it.
So, nice try, you carry no points and reveal your bitterness. Loser.
I just got hired in Manhattan by a new company and they have all expected lots of OpenSource technology knowledge. In fact, I recently worked for Barnes & Noble and one of my victories was convincing them to dump JRun for JBoss. Eclipse is everywhere and that is free. (I use MyEclipse, though, for $30 a pop). So, this is bourne out by my experience. The fact is, proprietary software is only supported by the company. Open Source is supported by the masses. And you know which ends up being better--the masses. I remember putting a note in JRun's forums and it went unanswered for a year. Nobody uses those forums. JBoss and Hibernate are teeming with activity. Open Source is "King" (sorry Gavin).
This is another example of the Bush Administration using its power to block anything at all that might take dollar 1 out of the hands of their oil industry buddies. That was a despicable act. They do not want solar to catch on.
My point was not about the copper used for simple electrical connectivity. I was referring to copper being used to tranfer information. THAT is where fiber is used. Verizon, for example, has been deploying fiber everywhere. In years past that would have been copper. Now it's fiber. It amuses me how Slashdot readers would argue even the most obvious points...
True enough--but consider the volume of copper needed to travel miles versus millimeters inside an integrated circuit. If you eliminate the bulk transfer of electrons via copper wire, you free up vast quantities of copper.
Though the point of the article is well taken, I think worrying about copper is unnecessary. As we replace copper wire with glass fiber, that will free up lots of the stuff.
Having studied this for about twenty years, I think you're mistaken. Though you may cite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, I have seen an immense consistency. But you have the right to your beliefs.
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An AI system must at its heart understand the two hemispheres of the human brain and how they process information differently. Though, for example, both hemispheres receive inputs from both eyes, how they process information is radically different. The right brain is looking first at the outline of an object. Then, as that outline has been sketched out, it feeds that information up the column and more specificity is gained. The left hemisphere--being used to process information in a linear sequential manner--looks at individual items inside the image and tries to name them. These two separate processes are then passing information constantly across the corpus callosum and that is how we get our consciousness. An AI system must do this cross pollination.
I have been working on various aspects of this idea for years in the Godwhale Project.
The first stop on anyone's journey to write this code is no one else than Dr. Roger Sperry. [Nobel Prize 1980].
This is a classic case of what's good for 88% of the population being exported to all people. In fact, if you are right-handed (88% of us) then your left-hemisphere is dominant and you do not benefit from multitasking. However, if you are left-handed (12% of humans), then your right-hemisphere (the image side) is dominant and it is perfectly acceptable for you to multitask.
Why? The left hemisphere of the brain (the language side) is optimized to process linear sequential information. In right-handed individuals, the linear side is dominant. The left side is optimized to do one thing at a time. If a right-handed person is in the middle of a task and they break that off to do something else, they must return to the beginning when they resume the interrupted task.
In left-handed people, the right-hemisphere (the image side) is dominant. That hemisphere is optimized to process visual-simultaneous information. Breaking off one task while in the middle of another task is possible. The left-handed/right-brained individual can resume where they left off, thereby making multitasking efficient.
This is why, for example, we see left-handed people way over-represented in the presidential contests. Currently, both Barack Obama and John McCain are left handed.
So, while I'm sure this article is statistically accurate, it glosses over some complexities that have only come to light in past few years.
Expensive tools are dead. You will never see IBM charging $4,000 for a copy of WSAD. But if they are asking for a lot less, it's still possible. MyEclipse is just such an example. It makes my other free tools work better together. I pay the $30 year after year without compliant.
I bought one of these in 1980 and it still works perfectly. What made it so amazing was that it had the BASIC programming language included with the ablity to create sound, a modem and other goodies.
The OS for this device was reputed to have been the last piece of software that Bill Gates himself wrote. The user's manual was incredibly badly written--with page references to non-existent sections, etc. The manual was also reputed to be Bill's first book.
Recall a few years ago when Steve Ballmer was pooh-poohing the threat of open source? How delicious it is to see the ogre admit what everybody knew was true. Open source is killing them.
Also,.NET has really withered on the vine. Though you will always be able to find shops that use.NET, the general consensus that I've heard is that.NET is dying.
Why would we believe these guys in Redmond again? They have sold us vaporware for decades. They promised the cool new file system in Vista and it was scrapped early in. They are going in the right direction--abandoning the hamstring of backwards compatibility--but who has any faith in Microsoft's ability to execute?
I think I know the reason too. Microsoft has always selected the highest rated developers. Well, ratings may judge raw intelligence but not creativity. And it is the latter thing that is in short supply. Microsoft just does not attract creative rule benders. Instead, it attracts go alongs--people who followed the rules and did the right thing all along--which leaves them with high scores on standardized tests but bereft of any creative initiative. This has been my experience, at least.
What you have done is parsed the comments and taken them out of the real world. In the real world, nearly all pasta is NOT "whole grain". Your carefully worded statement about "whole grain" pasta was technically true but it ignores the reality that nearly all commercially sold pasta is NOT whole grain and so my criticism does apply. Surely, you can find examples of expensive whole grain pasta but that is not what most people are going to eat. And you correctly state that carbs are broken down into sugar and that SOME of that is sent to the cells for energy. However, MOST of the type of carbs that people eat create much more sugar than the cells can use and so the EXCESS is converted into fat. Again, you avoided that fact by careful wording. You concur that simple carbs do indeed break down quickly into sugars. So, you agree with me there.
You say that some fruits, "whole grain" bread and "whole grain" pasta do not have this problem of turning into sugar quickly. However, once again, you use careful wording to focus on the edge case of whole-grain. In fact, nearly 90% of the bread and 90% of the pasta sold ARE NOT "whole grain" and so my criticisms are 90% valid.
So, in short, your criticism stems from your focus on the absence of "critical nutrients" that are missed when one does not eat pasta and bread. Balderdash. The health effects of being obese FAR OUT WEIGH the alleged deficits that arise from not eating these carbs.
No, your last paragraph revealed that you just like carbs and are loathe to stop eating them.
As I wrote, I eat meat, vegetables and fruit. And I have lost a ton of weight and have tons of energy and feel great. I do not think you have provided any credible reason against what I do.
Please provide some specifics to a comment like that. As you may know, there are lots of companies that are directly harmed by the business they lost to Atkins. If you read on the net, you will see all kinds of unsubstantiated horror stories. In fact, the damage you're doing to your body by being FAT is much worse than any alleged damage done by being on the Atkins diet. Your body does not need carbs. Look on any food label. Try and find the daily requirements for carbs... You won't because the body does not need any carbs. The type of complex carbs that we now eat were not eaten by our ancestors. They did not evolve to eat carbs.
So, unless you can back up your statement with specifics, I will lump you in with all the other people who have alternative diet plans that are getting killed by Atkins.
The fact is, results count. I have lost A TON of weight and have never felt healthier.
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Right on point. If just enough idiots fall for this, they validate the business model for Phishers and then, the chances are higher that one day one of us will receive a notice from a bank where we DO have an account.
If you have been in the job market in the last ten years, you know that IBM has gone from being a great place to work to a huge source of off shoring. They really do not hire any Americans in significant numbers. And, duh, where do you thing a large number of open-source enterprise apps would come from? The United States. So, they have themselves to blame for his mess. If you want to harvest the fruits, you have to plant seeds. The last remaining benefit of American culture is our tendency to foster creativity in our kids. In the US, we build things, we have junk drawers, we make tree forts when we are kids. These habits of creation then aid our imaginations and we take those imaginations with us when we enter the IT field. Hard as it may be for the Indian workforce to accept, their culture does not work the same way. I cannot explain it but over the last several years I have yet to see an Indian developer who was trully creative and innovative. They are just not raised in a culture that fosters it. I do not want to sound like a racist--this is not a racial thing--it's a cultural thing.
Isn't that what it's all about? Fuck that--I'm going to make it work. I needed that right about now.
That's the explanation! Bush had his friends rig the election! That bastards. There was no way Bush was actually popular enough in 2004 to win cleanly. Another anti-Democratic move by Karl Rove, the pusbag.
How many thousands of times have you received emails from Nigerian Princes and banks you have never heard of? Enough, right, to know that you're an idiot to click on them. Then, add in lazy, persistent, digitally-amplified slackers trolling for information, and you have The Perfect Storm. These lazy phishers are making money because Joe Sixpack and Mary Hausfrau are so utterly stupid. We're doomed.
As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig but still nobody is going to want to kiss it. So goes with Vista.
Sure, I get it. China feels like it is getting a black eye. So they think they can put makeup on that black eye by suddenly opening access. We're not fooled. They are a censoring country and they're going to stay that way. The Leopard can't change his spots and China is not going to change what they're doing.
Nate, I'll address your comments point by point: "I convinced my employer at great expense..."--no, my employer (a former DBA VP came up with the idea. We did a POC and had nearly all the kinks ironed out before we changed the team. "I would run the open version of Eclipse but it sucks..."--no idea. I've used WebSphere Studio App Developer, Visual Cafe (true crap), JBuilder, JDeveloper and MyEclipse. Never used raw Eclipse so I have no idea if it sucks. "I then claim my experience leads me to believe open source is better than closed."--since I have experience with both, I must follow my experience. I prefer open source and it has seemed to make my developer life easier. "Proprietary software is supported by people who have to make it a success or they don't get paid and can't eat..."--now I see where you're coming from. You used to sell proprietary software but open source ate your company's lunch and you're bitter. Suffer and like it--that's called me marketplace. As for the comment about JBoss, I had to work on a Single Sign On project and so I was deep in the source of JBoss and Tomcat. Wrong again, Mister sour grapes. JBoss and Hibernate are buggy pieces of shit? WebSphere Studio AD was horrible and it cost $8K for the Integration Edition. For the expense, it was not worth it. So, nice try, you carry no points and reveal your bitterness. Loser.
I just got hired in Manhattan by a new company and they have all expected lots of OpenSource technology knowledge. In fact, I recently worked for Barnes & Noble and one of my victories was convincing them to dump JRun for JBoss. Eclipse is everywhere and that is free. (I use MyEclipse, though, for $30 a pop). So, this is bourne out by my experience. The fact is, proprietary software is only supported by the company. Open Source is supported by the masses. And you know which ends up being better--the masses. I remember putting a note in JRun's forums and it went unanswered for a year. Nobody uses those forums. JBoss and Hibernate are teeming with activity. Open Source is "King" (sorry Gavin).
This is another example of the Bush Administration using its power to block anything at all that might take dollar 1 out of the hands of their oil industry buddies. That was a despicable act. They do not want solar to catch on.
My point was not about the copper used for simple electrical connectivity. I was referring to copper being used to tranfer information. THAT is where fiber is used. Verizon, for example, has been deploying fiber everywhere. In years past that would have been copper. Now it's fiber. It amuses me how Slashdot readers would argue even the most obvious points...
The amount of copper running miles is certainly less than the amount needed to power a laser.
There is a ton of copper already in use. Removing it from telephone wires alone will free up a bunch.
True enough--but consider the volume of copper needed to travel miles versus millimeters inside an integrated circuit. If you eliminate the bulk transfer of electrons via copper wire, you free up vast quantities of copper.
Though the point of the article is well taken, I think worrying about copper is unnecessary. As we replace copper wire with glass fiber, that will free up lots of the stuff.
Having studied this for about twenty years, I think you're mistaken. Though you may cite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, I have seen an immense consistency. But you have the right to your beliefs.
An AI system must at its heart understand the two hemispheres of the human brain and how they process information differently. Though, for example, both hemispheres receive inputs from both eyes, how they process information is radically different. The right brain is looking first at the outline of an object. Then, as that outline has been sketched out, it feeds that information up the column and more specificity is gained. The left hemisphere--being used to process information in a linear sequential manner--looks at individual items inside the image and tries to name them. These two separate processes are then passing information constantly across the corpus callosum and that is how we get our consciousness. An AI system must do this cross pollination. I have been working on various aspects of this idea for years in the Godwhale Project. The first stop on anyone's journey to write this code is no one else than Dr. Roger Sperry. [Nobel Prize 1980].
This is a classic case of what's good for 88% of the population being exported to all people. In fact, if you are right-handed (88% of us) then your left-hemisphere is dominant and you do not benefit from multitasking. However, if you are left-handed (12% of humans), then your right-hemisphere (the image side) is dominant and it is perfectly acceptable for you to multitask. Why? The left hemisphere of the brain (the language side) is optimized to process linear sequential information. In right-handed individuals, the linear side is dominant. The left side is optimized to do one thing at a time. If a right-handed person is in the middle of a task and they break that off to do something else, they must return to the beginning when they resume the interrupted task. In left-handed people, the right-hemisphere (the image side) is dominant. That hemisphere is optimized to process visual-simultaneous information. Breaking off one task while in the middle of another task is possible. The left-handed/right-brained individual can resume where they left off, thereby making multitasking efficient. This is why, for example, we see left-handed people way over-represented in the presidential contests. Currently, both Barack Obama and John McCain are left handed. So, while I'm sure this article is statistically accurate, it glosses over some complexities that have only come to light in past few years.
Expensive tools are dead. You will never see IBM charging $4,000 for a copy of WSAD. But if they are asking for a lot less, it's still possible. MyEclipse is just such an example. It makes my other free tools work better together. I pay the $30 year after year without compliant.
I bought one of these in 1980 and it still works perfectly. What made it so amazing was that it had the BASIC programming language included with the ablity to create sound, a modem and other goodies. The OS for this device was reputed to have been the last piece of software that Bill Gates himself wrote. The user's manual was incredibly badly written--with page references to non-existent sections, etc. The manual was also reputed to be Bill's first book.
Recall a few years ago when Steve Ballmer was pooh-poohing the threat of open source? How delicious it is to see the ogre admit what everybody knew was true. Open source is killing them.
Also, .NET has really withered on the vine. Though you will always be able to find shops that use .NET, the general consensus that I've heard is that .NET is dying.
Why would we believe these guys in Redmond again? They have sold us vaporware for decades. They promised the cool new file system in Vista and it was scrapped early in. They are going in the right direction--abandoning the hamstring of backwards compatibility--but who has any faith in Microsoft's ability to execute? I think I know the reason too. Microsoft has always selected the highest rated developers. Well, ratings may judge raw intelligence but not creativity. And it is the latter thing that is in short supply. Microsoft just does not attract creative rule benders. Instead, it attracts go alongs--people who followed the rules and did the right thing all along--which leaves them with high scores on standardized tests but bereft of any creative initiative. This has been my experience, at least.
What you have done is parsed the comments and taken them out of the real world. In the real world, nearly all pasta is NOT "whole grain". Your carefully worded statement about "whole grain" pasta was technically true but it ignores the reality that nearly all commercially sold pasta is NOT whole grain and so my criticism does apply. Surely, you can find examples of expensive whole grain pasta but that is not what most people are going to eat. And you correctly state that carbs are broken down into sugar and that SOME of that is sent to the cells for energy. However, MOST of the type of carbs that people eat create much more sugar than the cells can use and so the EXCESS is converted into fat. Again, you avoided that fact by careful wording. You concur that simple carbs do indeed break down quickly into sugars. So, you agree with me there. You say that some fruits, "whole grain" bread and "whole grain" pasta do not have this problem of turning into sugar quickly. However, once again, you use careful wording to focus on the edge case of whole-grain. In fact, nearly 90% of the bread and 90% of the pasta sold ARE NOT "whole grain" and so my criticisms are 90% valid. So, in short, your criticism stems from your focus on the absence of "critical nutrients" that are missed when one does not eat pasta and bread. Balderdash. The health effects of being obese FAR OUT WEIGH the alleged deficits that arise from not eating these carbs. No, your last paragraph revealed that you just like carbs and are loathe to stop eating them. As I wrote, I eat meat, vegetables and fruit. And I have lost a ton of weight and have tons of energy and feel great. I do not think you have provided any credible reason against what I do.
Please provide some specifics to a comment like that. As you may know, there are lots of companies that are directly harmed by the business they lost to Atkins. If you read on the net, you will see all kinds of unsubstantiated horror stories. In fact, the damage you're doing to your body by being FAT is much worse than any alleged damage done by being on the Atkins diet. Your body does not need carbs. Look on any food label. Try and find the daily requirements for carbs... You won't because the body does not need any carbs. The type of complex carbs that we now eat were not eaten by our ancestors. They did not evolve to eat carbs. So, unless you can back up your statement with specifics, I will lump you in with all the other people who have alternative diet plans that are getting killed by Atkins. The fact is, results count. I have lost A TON of weight and have never felt healthier.