Reminds me of the old fable. Sometimes all it takes is someone who isn't deeply immersed in a subject to come along and point out what has been under your nose all along (see also "wood for the trees")
In that fable does the expert say to the guy who came along, "Hey I think all these trees might be part of a larger structure. Here's a test I've derived to find out, now, build me the machine in these blueprints and let's see!", then the kid goes off and does the grunt work, and puts his name on the machine, and when it's found out that there really is proof of a forest, the press picks up the story and credits the mechanic kid who got his name on the machine, and the expert lets it fly because he's also the kid's dad? No? Because that's what happened here.
Of course when someone does it to you and you're supposed to the "expert" a lot of people get all huffy and defensive as if it's a personal insult.
Which isn't what happened here at all. The experts are letting the press run with the story that the coder who wrote the code to test the hypothesis they came up with (check dwarf galaxy distribution) actually ran the test it was told to run, and detected something. Now, if the kid's dad had assigned some other project for him to code, he might have discovered that jacks shit. The kid didn't come up with an idea thinking, "Hey, I wonder how dwarf galaxies are distributed, I think I'll learn the math and how to write code just to find out, because I'm so damn inquisitive." They don't get to say, "Look what I found that you old geezers weren't even looking for, it was right under your nose!", because the old geezers did, in fact, tell him what to look at and how.
Let's face it. At the end of the day you've sometimes got to do your blue sky thinking inside the box:)
Let's face it. At the end of the day this was a trumped up "feel good" story for nostalgic nerds, but the Alpha nerds have seen right through the charade. Good for the kid, maybe he'll be even more interested in coding and/or science. No need to whip out the clichés, especially not without a car analogy among them... FTFY.
I remember one "scientist" postulate that the only thing that doesn't spin is the universe itself because nobody has found any evidence to indicate a "universal" spin.
I'd have called that "scientist" a moron. Conservation of angular momentum is why planets spin round their star, and why stars spin, and why galaxies rotate... It seems to me that if the Universe itself hadn't "spun" in at least a small way then things would have been much different than they are... Indeed, sit on your swivel chair and spin, now put your arms out and you spin more slowly, but notice the forces applied to your arms: They're being pulled outwards by centrifugal force. From your arm's perspective the body isn't spinning, yet there's a force pulling on the arms.
Now, dark energy is a force we can't yet explain. It's accelerating everything away from the center of the Universe -- Why it's almost like the Universe is in a centrifuge, and though the relative motion of everything seems not to be spinning, there's this strange force accelerating things outwards. If everything inside the water is wet, then the water itself is wet. If everything inside the Universe is spinning, then the Universe itself is spinning...
"...and the judge, under Delaware's reasonable 'conceivability' standard," fucked them real good.
Impregnated with justice, the shareholders expect tiny lawyers to spring from their chests any day now. Such is the life cycle of the North American Tailless Serpent.
If you delete, and need to check it with version control you are adding time, effort and complexity of actions. And then instead of going back to do a cross reference you are going to introduce new bugs that can grow into weeds and cause this cycle of rewriting again.
Spoken as a fool who doesn't use Git. Seriously, get a grip man. Version control works. I use commits as my "save" feature, I branch a codebase 2 or three times per day. I keep merges (mostly) sequential. Here's how I switch back and forth between two different branches right in the same source directory, so that I can test old "deleted" code vs the new re-write:
$ checkout old-version-name
Now I can make an out of source build of the old version... Then make a new branch in the same source directory. $ checkout -b new-version-name
Now I can make an out of source bulid of the new version... make some changes, and then save them. $ git add . && git commit -m "Frobbed foo to make bar comply with baz"
Need to make a change in the old version, or look at some code?
$ checkout old-version-name
It's better than SVN or Mercurial because you don't have to manage a bunch of folders of different branches, the files change automagically when you switch between your local branches. My IDE alerts me if the file's I'm about to edit were changed out from under it and need to be reloaded, so if the files need reloading then that's what I do. I use the diff viewer if I need to reference the old code while editing the new, or make another clone of my working repository with the old branch if I'll be doing that a lot. Seriously, you need to learn about distributed version control -- I don't need to worry about not committing something that's not perfect yet for everyone to see, I just commit it locally, and rebase all the ugly changes so only pretty gets seen in public -- all these commits and branches are on my local machine, so I can actually USE the version control rather than be its slave.
Oh what's that? You use CVS or SVN and so you don't have a choice? BULLSHIT. Init a Git repo within the SVN checkout. Set git to ignore.svn folders and SVN to ignore.git. Make a git branch for "master" be the SVN branch you submit to the centralized repository, then you can branch your heart out and clone like there's no tomorrow, and merge into master, then make an SVN commit when you've got shit sorted. Accept that you've been a moron about version control all your life, and actually learn to use it. The Truth Shall Set You Free!
In two years from now when it is upgraded and running at maximum levels will anyone think to warn Gordan Freeman???:)
I agree with your sentiment, but you've nothing to fear. You must have hopped dimensions: In this universe his name is Morgan Freeman, and I'd say he's pretty much on top of such things...
Sorry for the double reply, but I'm getting really annoyed by people who make the distinction between "apps" and "programs". There's no difference at all.
Remember Java Applets? They were smaller programs (typically, because bandwidth wasn't / isn't as plentiful as drive space), I called mine 'Java Apps' for short vs Java Programs or 'Enterprise Java Solutions', for... short... in Java terms. One could argue that "Apps" could be a shortened form of "Web Apps", a term I used long before Apple's "App Store" was created. "Web Apps" is shortened form (in my case) of "Java Web Site Applets" -- Applet itself inferring a smaller application, in the same sense that cigarette does in relation to cigar. Thus depending on who you're conversing with (in this case, me) "apps" and "programs" would mean different things -- The latter are typically smaller / less resource intensive than full applications, in my vernacular.
Language changes over time. I think it would be understandable if the commonly understood term for "app" ends up meaning a typically lighter-weight version of a program due to apps typically running in environments with less resources -- gee, just like the damned Applet, or "app" for short, eh? -- It's too bad Sun dropped the ball and didn't make Java Applets use a lean mean VM to save us from the cluster fsck that is HTML(5) + JS or Flash web apps.
I understand your frustration. We all know what you mean. It's just like when folks say "Our security got hacked by a hacker", but they mean their security was cracked by a cracker, who may or may not be a hacker... Life's too short to be "getting really annoyed" at anything. Besides all of that is, just like, your opinion, man.
a system with a truly negative temperature in absolute terms on the Kelvin scale is hotter than any system with a positive temperature. If a negative-temperature system and a positive-temperature system come in contact, heat will flow from the negative- to the positive-temperature system.
That a system at negative temperature is hotter than any system at positive temperature is paradoxical if absolute temperature is interpreted as an average internal energy of the system. The paradox is resolved by understanding temperature through its more rigorous definition as the tradeoff between energy and entropy, with the reciprocal of the temperature, thermodynamic beta, as the more fundamental quantity. Systems with positive temperature increase in entropy as one adds energy to the system. Systems with negative temperature decrease in entropy as one adds energy to the system.
You add more energy, but the entropy doesn't increase. Gods damn that moronic blogger and his useless "tricks" metaphor. You don't "trick" shit you stupid fuck. You wouldn't say gunpowder "tricks" a lead projectile to scurry from the gun barrel if you were explaining a gun. We're not idiots, we just need to have the terms defined because some of us hadn't heard the term before in relation to absolute zero.
Protip: Next time you want to submit or vote up a "follow-up" fucking read the damn thing, and compare it to the wiki. Unless it's significantly more useful than the damn wikipedia article, don't fucking submit or vote it up.
Drunk driving is not a "mistake". You chose to get drunk. You chose to drive. You know it's wrong. You know it's dangerous. You know you may kill someone. You choose to do it anyway. That's not a "mistake", that's wilful culpable recklessness.
So you're saying it's not a mistake to decide to drive drunk? You are aware that being intoxicated affects decision making capabilities... right? Wait, let's look this term up for clarity:
mistake
- Noun
An action or judgment that is misguided or wrong: "coming here was a mistake".
- Verb
Be wrong about.
It's perfectly fine to say that past decisions you've made were mistakes in judgment. You're confusing "accident" with mistake. Mistakes can lead to accidents, but not all accidents are caused by mistakes. Driving while mentally impaired, i.e., irrationally angered, after taking NyQuil or other cold medicine, tired, distracted by screaming kids, intoxicated, tripping on shrooms, etc. all increase the chances of an accident. It's a mistake to drive while mentally impaired, yet people do so all the time. Unless you're advocating that everyone who's caused a wreck by spilling a drink in their lap, sneezing due to hay-fever or cold, or while shouting at their kids should be found willfully culpable... In that case, arrest the world you prick, everyone's endangering EVERYONE!
Imagine it man, Kids running around nude in Africa have more knowledge about real life than your sheltered children. They know how babies are made because they got the water from the stream and helped out with some other birth, rather than some nurse. They know of the finality and consequence of death and respect danger because they've gutted animals to help their parents cook, or even killed beasts themselves. Hell, these 3rd world kids will be giving back to their community while yours will be throwing tantrums about not getting some worthless toy -- And you're worried about censorship? Damn, seek professional help or chill, the actual fuck, out.
You didn't turn out all fucked up despite knowing so much more about computers than your parents, and seeing the things you did that your parents wouldn't have approved of. Your parents didn't even inform you about masturbation! Why are you raising your children to be so damn ignorant about the world? Look, I don't really care why. Thing is, you're a parent now, time to man up and delete the damn movies if you don't want your kid to see them, and you can't be troubled to actually learn how to fucking USE *nix file system permissions or set up accounts on a damn multi-user OS. I mean, you come HERE? Asking US?! "What would Slashdot have me do?" Well, first off I'd have you neutered, you ignorant son of a bitch (that's right, I just called your mom a bitch -- it's for not being OK with what you wanted to watch when you were a kid), then secondly I'd ship your kid to a 3rd world country where they may die, but at least they won't be brain damaged by the likes of a lamer like you!
Didn't we have this story a week or so ago? Then NASA wasn't actually commenting on the plan... Is the news now that they actually are considering the plan? Or is it that we're talking ion thruster now rather than Atlas-v?
According to a report prepared by NASA and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists, an, 'asteroid capture capsule' would be attached to an old Atlas V rocket and directed towards the asteroid between the earth and the moon. Once close, the asteroid capsule would release a 50ft diameter bag that would wrap around the spinning rock using drawstrings. The craft would then turn on its thrusters, using an estimated 300kg of propellant, to stop the asteroid in its tracks and tow it into a gravitationally neutral spot. From here space explorers would have a stationary base from which to launch trips deeper into space. Though NASA declined to comment on the project, it is believed that technology would make it possible within 10-12 years.
Nerds that don't remember their news are doomed to repeat the stuff that matters.
It requires that if I make changes to your software and use them on any public-facing website, I have to make my private changes available. So now you know my database schema and other information that by any legitimate security standards should be kept private.
Protip: Your eyeballs are inside out, unlike a superior cephalopod's, your eyes have veins running across the TOP of your retina, and thus have blind spots... Humans have back problems due to having erect spines that were never meant for that orientation, and nerves running under their feet! Your intelligent designer was a MORON! Long Live C'thulhu!
They are littered with people who have schizophrenia and other mental illness, but cannot be compelled to take their meds. This dude isn't hearing voices, and he doesn't seem to be self-treating his "illness" with alcohol or heroin.
Have you ever been homeless? I suspect not because that's a load of bullish. I have been homeless. The streets are littered with unfortunate souls who for one reason or another wound up on the streets and either can't get a foothold back into modern civilisation. There are the deranged, lazy, addicts, etc who won't work, but these are a SMALL portion of the homeless population. I guess you think "all niggers are lazy thieves"? No, of course not, that's racist? Then why the fuck would you think in much the same way about homeless people?
I couldn't get along with my abusive step dad. Out on the streets at 17, despite having been running a software business since age 15 (selling my wares on Compuserve and other online services), I found it near impossible to get a job doing ANYTHING, even cleaning toilets. Homeless are thought to be thieves, murderers, rapists, etc -- They must be really horrible people if they have no place to live, they did something to deserve that life -- WRONG. Maybe some have, but it's not the majority. The majority I've encountered made bad financial decisions, or specialized in a field that became obsolete, simply had a home foreclosure while being laid-off and unable to find work. Entire families may seek help from other relatives, even giving legal guardianship of their kids to relatives until they themselves are homeless. Sometimes they have no one to turn to, the shelter is full of folks like this. What did I do to deserve homelessness? What dysfunction caused me to live on the streets? I provoked an abusive man to keep him from abusing my two younger brothers. My mother finally wised up when he started abusing them, originally thinking that I was just an ungrateful problem child, and thus was the black sheep of the family. My other relatives thought it would be better for me to live on the streets and learn "tough love" than to give me refuge.
In short: Get bent you ignorant prick, you're pulling shit out of your arse, typical slashdot armchair sociologist, you're worse than any homeless person I've ever met.
Really? How many software developers (not companies, individual developers) have been sued for patent infringement?
Why make this distinction? Independent software devs, like "Notch" of Mojang, have their companies sued as soon as they achieve any success; And this is for a bullshit game. In business software it's even worse. Here: When Patents Attack - This American Life. The fucking apocalypse is NOW you fool.
. It may even be true (although essentially impossible to prove) that software patents are a net drain on the industry. But it is clearly not the case that software patents are crippling developers or causing everyone to get sued.
So, wait, what you're saying is that it's "essentially impossible to prove that software patents" are beneficial to the software industry. So, PROVE to me why we should have these damn laws if we can't prove they're beneficial!? You're suggesting we continue operating under an unproven and untested hypothesis?! FUCK YOU, you're a moron!
Your claim is baseless. "It revolutionized digital music distribution", on what do you base this? I put it to you that it was the ability to transmit data digitally and world wide that revolutionized digital music distribution. Any form of Fast Fourier Transform based compression would have served the same, it was not MP3 itself that drove this revolution. In fact, I'll put it to you that the MP3 format's ridiculous exclusion of any lossless data encoding is designed to ensure that anyone who uses the format be subject to patent licensing, and has thus hindered not only independent software production but has also degraded the quality of music world wide.
I have no use for pointless social exercises. I set my sights on a prise and I go for it, battling off whatever impediments that keep me from my prey. Once my conquest is achieved I relax, but irrationally fend off others who seek attain the same goals by proving myself the better.
My asked me: "You're such a bright kid, you always get an A+ on the tests and your class work is great, but why are you sabotaging your grade by not doing home work?" My reply was, "I taught myself computer programming in elementary school, and now I'm working in my spare at my career as software developer (at age 15, sold my software via Compuserve). I have proven to you that I can do the work in class, I make the highest scores on tests out of any of your students, so you know I'm not cheating. Why would you hold me back by making me do useless practice for things we both know I have already mastered? Shouldn't the grade reflect how well I know the subject, not how many times I practice it?!" Then the teacher went on about how everyone had to do the home work whether they liked it or not, and some crap about preparing us for the real world (in which I was already participating as much as they were, helping to pay bills even). I had this conversation with all my teachers, only my english lit, sociology, and geography teachers agreed that school wasn't really for me, and secretly let me skip homework, but not my Mathematics teacher -- Strange since I was demonstrating my mastery over applied mathematics, and even surpassing my math teacher's knowledge by furthering my study independently, e.g., they taught fractions and ratios, while I was learning statistical calculus at the library.
I dropped out of school and got a GED as soon as it was legally possible, school was a severe waste of my time. Would that I could have afforded college and to support myself at 18 I might have attended college, but by the time I could afford it I had learned enough that college would teach me little and be predominantly an expensive waste of time. As I entered the "real world" I realized that what my teachers said was true: You'll be required to do a bunch of useless shit at times that only hinders progress, just like homework. Where she was wrong is that not everyone has to do this crap. If you play your cards right you can pay other people to put up with the mundane crap like taxes and accounting or generating TPS Reports.
School in it's current form is a social circle jerk that leaves students ill prepared to perform any real job. In my experience, many girls have an affinity for being back-stabbing socialites, more so than the guys I've met, at least at school age; I'm sure it's genetic. Imagine as it once was: A gaggle of girls being mated by one or two studs, vying for attention and playing social (mind) games amongst themselves; The alpha males having truces with each other after brief skirmishes; The weaker betas being bred out of the gene pool, or settling for less socially desirable "outcasts". I'm only a sexist in that I believe in the study of sex and our evolution's effect on our current behaviors -- Any development after breeding age is pointless genetically, so it's that ripe age of sexual maturity and what comes before that's most affected by evolution. I don't mean to say things should still be like the cave-man days, but we're foolish to ignore those primal instincts and wave them away as "sexist" sentiments. Only when you understand yourself can you be your own master... School is a prime illustration of the above primal drives at work in the allowedly less civilized, and more cruel young people. Of course girls do better in the environment they were bred to do well in. For fuck's sake! Literally!
Today's schools do not teach kids how to learn. It forces kids that refuse to learn to stay in school, and holds back the "smart" kids that absorb and apply information like scrubbing sponges do water. In reality, those "dumb" kids aren't any worse or better off than the smart ones:
[snip: thinly veiled slashdot as government proposal].
Cue the group-think that down-mods shit they're uncomfortable with even if right, and promotes pandering statements they like even if they're wrong. E.g.: Your post.
I've got a better idea: Why don't we just draft bills and propose them in the standard way rather than taking the fruitless petition route? After all, both are only designed to give you the illusion of empowerment and promote complacency.
Note to the clueless: You don't answer rhetorical questions; The answer is tho point I'm making.
TL;DR: Big shot "idea man" makes the most common rookie mistake by trying to make some huge MMO as his first project. These always fail, no big surprise.
They should have made some smaller less financially risky games first to get some experience, but since he already had money he was able to make it further than most 1st time game devs with stars in their eyes do. You wouldn't believe how common it is to see this same "idea-man" BS anywhere newbie game devs gather: "Guys, I have this amazing idea for my 1st game, it's going to be a MMORPG that blah blah blah" The most common response is: "Can you make a match 3 game yet? Block dropping game? How about a Chase-Maze game? A pixelated platformer? If not, do those first. Put the huge game on the back burner kid until you know how much work that's going to be."
What's ridiculous is that EVERYONE in the game industry but newbs knows that doing something as big as a MMO or Tactical FPS as your first project is folly. Seems to me the Rhode Island investors didn't ask ANYONE with experience in games if they thought it was a good idea to invest. That's the point about "Crony-ism" I'd be driving home. Protip: Don't fund a Kickstarter made by folks with no prototype to show -- a working demo if it's their 1st game; Famous folks are a different story, but only if they got famous doing the kinds of things they want you to fund.
I mean, if you work at Google in the anti-malware devision you've probably got a good idea about the types of exploits coming down the line. Now, if someone like that is acquiring skills they'd only really need if life as we know it were blasted back to the iron age...
Hey, it's a real service to some of us webmasters. We can now add a little routine to our servers that scans everything send, looks for these URLs, and when it finds them, changes them to a random item from a list of URLs.
Sure, while you're doing that I've already emailed the news-site admins a.htaccess that checks the HTTP-REFERER and redirects deep-links to the main page if the referring domain does't match. I mean, shit, we fixed this in the 90s to stop "hot-linking" or "bandwidth leaches". A lawsuit? For fuck's sake, that's clueless. It's either a ploy to get more links and increase their search ranking (guerrilla marketing), and/or their management are incompetent and didn't run this by the IT guys (or IT is severely incompetent). I sent them my standard tech-service contract so they could have me on-call (retainer) to run technology related shit by me before they make further fools of themselves... Though I strongly suspect a guerrilla marketing campaign. (Interview with media strategist Ryan Holiday, author of Trust Me I'm Lying, about how easy it is to manipulate mass media.)
I hope the paper dutifully publishes the names of the armed guards they hired.
Jokes on you. They already did via the previously published list... Wait, I wonder if the joke's not actually on the Newspaper? I can see the headline now...
Newspaper Employs Gun-Owners to Carry out Death Threats Against Its Editors to Avoids Severance Pay.
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Reminds me of the old fable. Sometimes all it takes is someone who isn't deeply immersed in a subject to come along and point out what has been under your nose all along (see also "wood for the trees")
In that fable does the expert say to the guy who came along, "Hey I think all these trees might be part of a larger structure. Here's a test I've derived to find out, now, build me the machine in these blueprints and let's see!", then the kid goes off and does the grunt work, and puts his name on the machine, and when it's found out that there really is proof of a forest, the press picks up the story and credits the mechanic kid who got his name on the machine, and the expert lets it fly because he's also the kid's dad? No? Because that's what happened here.
Of course when someone does it to you and you're supposed to the "expert" a lot of people get all huffy and defensive as if it's a personal insult.
Which isn't what happened here at all. The experts are letting the press run with the story that the coder who wrote the code to test the hypothesis they came up with (check dwarf galaxy distribution) actually ran the test it was told to run, and detected something. Now, if the kid's dad had assigned some other project for him to code, he might have discovered that jacks shit. The kid didn't come up with an idea thinking, "Hey, I wonder how dwarf galaxies are distributed, I think I'll learn the math and how to write code just to find out, because I'm so damn inquisitive." They don't get to say, "Look what I found that you old geezers weren't even looking for, it was right under your nose!", because the old geezers did, in fact, tell him what to look at and how.
Let's face it. At the end of the day you've sometimes got to do your blue sky thinking inside the box :)
Let's face it. At the end of the day this was a trumped up "feel good" story for nostalgic nerds, but the Alpha nerds have seen right through the charade. Good for the kid, maybe he'll be even more interested in coding and/or science. No need to whip out the clichés, especially not without a car analogy among them... FTFY.
I remember one "scientist" postulate that the only thing that doesn't spin is the universe itself because nobody has found any evidence to indicate a "universal" spin.
I'd have called that "scientist" a moron. Conservation of angular momentum is why planets spin round their star, and why stars spin, and why galaxies rotate... It seems to me that if the Universe itself hadn't "spun" in at least a small way then things would have been much different than they are... Indeed, sit on your swivel chair and spin, now put your arms out and you spin more slowly, but notice the forces applied to your arms: They're being pulled outwards by centrifugal force. From your arm's perspective the body isn't spinning, yet there's a force pulling on the arms.
Now, dark energy is a force we can't yet explain. It's accelerating everything away from the center of the Universe -- Why it's almost like the Universe is in a centrifuge, and though the relative motion of everything seems not to be spinning, there's this strange force accelerating things outwards. If everything inside the water is wet, then the water itself is wet. If everything inside the Universe is spinning, then the Universe itself is spinning...
"...and the judge, under Delaware's reasonable 'conceivability' standard," fucked them real good.
Impregnated with justice, the shareholders expect tiny lawyers to spring from their chests any day now. Such is the life cycle of the North American Tailless Serpent.
If you delete, and need to check it with version control you are adding time, effort and complexity of actions. And then instead of going back to do a cross reference you are going to introduce new bugs that can grow into weeds and cause this cycle of rewriting again.
Spoken as a fool who doesn't use Git. Seriously, get a grip man. Version control works. I use commits as my "save" feature, I branch a codebase 2 or three times per day. I keep merges (mostly) sequential. Here's how I switch back and forth between two different branches right in the same source directory, so that I can test old "deleted" code vs the new re-write:
$ checkout old-version-name
Now I can make an out of source build of the old version... Then make a new branch in the same source directory.
$ checkout -b new-version-name
Now I can make an out of source bulid of the new version... make some changes, and then save them.
$ git add . && git commit -m "Frobbed foo to make bar comply with baz"
Need to make a change in the old version, or look at some code? $ checkout old-version-name
It's better than SVN or Mercurial because you don't have to manage a bunch of folders of different branches, the files change automagically when you switch between your local branches. My IDE alerts me if the file's I'm about to edit were changed out from under it and need to be reloaded, so if the files need reloading then that's what I do. I use the diff viewer if I need to reference the old code while editing the new, or make another clone of my working repository with the old branch if I'll be doing that a lot. Seriously, you need to learn about distributed version control -- I don't need to worry about not committing something that's not perfect yet for everyone to see, I just commit it locally, and rebase all the ugly changes so only pretty gets seen in public -- all these commits and branches are on my local machine, so I can actually USE the version control rather than be its slave.
Oh what's that? You use CVS or SVN and so you don't have a choice? BULLSHIT. Init a Git repo within the SVN checkout. Set git to ignore .svn folders and SVN to ignore .git. Make a git branch for "master" be the SVN branch you submit to the centralized repository, then you can branch your heart out and clone like there's no tomorrow, and merge into master, then make an SVN commit when you've got shit sorted. Accept that you've been a moron about version control all your life, and actually learn to use it. The Truth Shall Set You Free!
In two years from now when it is upgraded and running at maximum levels will anyone think to warn Gordan Freeman??? :)
I agree with your sentiment, but you've nothing to fear. You must have hopped dimensions: In this universe his name is Morgan Freeman, and I'd say he's pretty much on top of such things...
But perhaps they did accidentally create 10**12 new universes from the one we used to have (I doubt that this one is it).
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Sorry for the double reply, but I'm getting really annoyed by people who make the distinction between "apps" and "programs". There's no difference at all.
Remember Java Applets? They were smaller programs (typically, because bandwidth wasn't / isn't as plentiful as drive space), I called mine 'Java Apps' for short vs Java Programs or 'Enterprise Java Solutions', for... short... in Java terms. One could argue that "Apps" could be a shortened form of "Web Apps", a term I used long before Apple's "App Store" was created. "Web Apps" is shortened form (in my case) of "Java Web Site Applets" -- Applet itself inferring a smaller application, in the same sense that cigarette does in relation to cigar. Thus depending on who you're conversing with (in this case, me) "apps" and "programs" would mean different things -- The latter are typically smaller / less resource intensive than full applications, in my vernacular.
Language changes over time. I think it would be understandable if the commonly understood term for "app" ends up meaning a typically lighter-weight version of a program due to apps typically running in environments with less resources -- gee, just like the damned Applet, or "app" for short, eh? -- It's too bad Sun dropped the ball and didn't make Java Applets use a lean mean VM to save us from the cluster fsck that is HTML(5) + JS or Flash web apps.
I understand your frustration. We all know what you mean. It's just like when folks say "Our security got hacked by a hacker", but they mean their security was cracked by a cracker, who may or may not be a hacker... Life's too short to be "getting really annoyed" at anything. Besides all of that is, just like, your opinion, man.
Here!
a system with a truly negative temperature in absolute terms on the Kelvin scale is hotter than any system with a positive temperature. If a negative-temperature system and a positive-temperature system come in contact, heat will flow from the negative- to the positive-temperature system.
That a system at negative temperature is hotter than any system at positive temperature is paradoxical if absolute temperature is interpreted as an average internal energy of the system. The paradox is resolved by understanding temperature through its more rigorous definition as the tradeoff between energy and entropy, with the reciprocal of the temperature, thermodynamic beta, as the more fundamental quantity. Systems with positive temperature increase in entropy as one adds energy to the system. Systems with negative temperature decrease in entropy as one adds energy to the system.
You add more energy, but the entropy doesn't increase. Gods damn that moronic blogger and his useless "tricks" metaphor. You don't "trick" shit you stupid fuck. You wouldn't say gunpowder "tricks" a lead projectile to scurry from the gun barrel if you were explaining a gun. We're not idiots, we just need to have the terms defined because some of us hadn't heard the term before in relation to absolute zero.
Protip: Next time you want to submit or vote up a "follow-up" fucking read the damn thing, and compare it to the wiki. Unless it's significantly more useful than the damn wikipedia article, don't fucking submit or vote it up.
Now people can stop bitching about how "free" a driver is and just concentrate on how well it works.
Or just use an OS that actually works with modern hardware
Or just buy hardware from manufacturers that release open source drivers, so your OS choice isn't limited by your hardware choices.
It's called learning from mistakes.
Drunk driving is not a "mistake". You chose to get drunk. You chose to drive. You know it's wrong. You know it's dangerous. You know you may kill someone. You choose to do it anyway. That's not a "mistake", that's wilful culpable recklessness.
So you're saying it's not a mistake to decide to drive drunk? You are aware that being intoxicated affects decision making capabilities... right? Wait, let's look this term up for clarity:
It's perfectly fine to say that past decisions you've made were mistakes in judgment. You're confusing "accident" with mistake. Mistakes can lead to accidents, but not all accidents are caused by mistakes. Driving while mentally impaired, i.e., irrationally angered, after taking NyQuil or other cold medicine, tired, distracted by screaming kids, intoxicated, tripping on shrooms, etc. all increase the chances of an accident. It's a mistake to drive while mentally impaired, yet people do so all the time. Unless you're advocating that everyone who's caused a wreck by spilling a drink in their lap, sneezing due to hay-fever or cold, or while shouting at their kids should be found willfully culpable... In that case, arrest the world you prick, everyone's endangering EVERYONE!
Imagine it man, Kids running around nude in Africa have more knowledge about real life than your sheltered children. They know how babies are made because they got the water from the stream and helped out with some other birth, rather than some nurse. They know of the finality and consequence of death and respect danger because they've gutted animals to help their parents cook, or even killed beasts themselves. Hell, these 3rd world kids will be giving back to their community while yours will be throwing tantrums about not getting some worthless toy -- And you're worried about censorship? Damn, seek professional help or chill, the actual fuck, out.
You didn't turn out all fucked up despite knowing so much more about computers than your parents, and seeing the things you did that your parents wouldn't have approved of. Your parents didn't even inform you about masturbation! Why are you raising your children to be so damn ignorant about the world? Look, I don't really care why. Thing is, you're a parent now, time to man up and delete the damn movies if you don't want your kid to see them, and you can't be troubled to actually learn how to fucking USE *nix file system permissions or set up accounts on a damn multi-user OS. I mean, you come HERE? Asking US?! "What would Slashdot have me do?" Well, first off I'd have you neutered, you ignorant son of a bitch (that's right, I just called your mom a bitch -- it's for not being OK with what you wanted to watch when you were a kid), then secondly I'd ship your kid to a 3rd world country where they may die, but at least they won't be brain damaged by the likes of a lamer like you!
Didn't we have this story a week or so ago? Then NASA wasn't actually commenting on the plan... Is the news now that they actually are considering the plan? Or is it that we're talking ion thruster now rather than Atlas-v?
FTFOA:
Nerds that don't remember their news are doomed to repeat the stuff that matters.
It requires that if I make changes to your software and use them on any public-facing website, I have to make my private changes available. So now you know my database schema and other information that by any legitimate security standards should be kept private.
FYI, This is FUD.
Four legs good, two legs bad
All Hail the Eight Legged Master Race!
Protip: Your eyeballs are inside out, unlike a superior cephalopod's, your eyes have veins running across the TOP of your retina, and thus have blind spots... Humans have back problems due to having erect spines that were never meant for that orientation, and nerves running under their feet! Your intelligent designer was a MORON! Long Live C'thulhu!
They are littered with people who have schizophrenia and other mental illness, but cannot be compelled to take their meds. This dude isn't hearing voices, and he doesn't seem to be self-treating his "illness" with alcohol or heroin.
Have you ever been homeless? I suspect not because that's a load of bullish. I have been homeless. The streets are littered with unfortunate souls who for one reason or another wound up on the streets and either can't get a foothold back into modern civilisation. There are the deranged, lazy, addicts, etc who won't work, but these are a SMALL portion of the homeless population. I guess you think "all niggers are lazy thieves"? No, of course not, that's racist? Then why the fuck would you think in much the same way about homeless people?
I couldn't get along with my abusive step dad. Out on the streets at 17, despite having been running a software business since age 15 (selling my wares on Compuserve and other online services), I found it near impossible to get a job doing ANYTHING, even cleaning toilets. Homeless are thought to be thieves, murderers, rapists, etc -- They must be really horrible people if they have no place to live, they did something to deserve that life -- WRONG. Maybe some have, but it's not the majority. The majority I've encountered made bad financial decisions, or specialized in a field that became obsolete, simply had a home foreclosure while being laid-off and unable to find work. Entire families may seek help from other relatives, even giving legal guardianship of their kids to relatives until they themselves are homeless. Sometimes they have no one to turn to, the shelter is full of folks like this. What did I do to deserve homelessness? What dysfunction caused me to live on the streets? I provoked an abusive man to keep him from abusing my two younger brothers. My mother finally wised up when he started abusing them, originally thinking that I was just an ungrateful problem child, and thus was the black sheep of the family. My other relatives thought it would be better for me to live on the streets and learn "tough love" than to give me refuge.
In short: Get bent you ignorant prick, you're pulling shit out of your arse, typical slashdot armchair sociologist, you're worse than any homeless person I've ever met.
Really? How many software developers (not companies, individual developers) have been sued for patent infringement?
Why make this distinction? Independent software devs, like "Notch" of Mojang, have their companies sued as soon as they achieve any success; And this is for a bullshit game. In business software it's even worse. Here: When Patents Attack - This American Life. The fucking apocalypse is NOW you fool.
. It may even be true (although essentially impossible to prove) that software patents are a net drain on the industry. But it is clearly not the case that software patents are crippling developers or causing everyone to get sued.
So, wait, what you're saying is that it's "essentially impossible to prove that software patents" are beneficial to the software industry. So, PROVE to me why we should have these damn laws if we can't prove they're beneficial!? You're suggesting we continue operating under an unproven and untested hypothesis?! FUCK YOU, you're a moron!
Your claim is baseless. "It revolutionized digital music distribution", on what do you base this? I put it to you that it was the ability to transmit data digitally and world wide that revolutionized digital music distribution. Any form of Fast Fourier Transform based compression would have served the same, it was not MP3 itself that drove this revolution. In fact, I'll put it to you that the MP3 format's ridiculous exclusion of any lossless data encoding is designed to ensure that anyone who uses the format be subject to patent licensing, and has thus hindered not only independent software production but has also degraded the quality of music world wide.
I have no use for pointless social exercises. I set my sights on a prise and I go for it, battling off whatever impediments that keep me from my prey. Once my conquest is achieved I relax, but irrationally fend off others who seek attain the same goals by proving myself the better.
My asked me: "You're such a bright kid, you always get an A+ on the tests and your class work is great, but why are you sabotaging your grade by not doing home work?" My reply was, "I taught myself computer programming in elementary school, and now I'm working in my spare at my career as software developer (at age 15, sold my software via Compuserve). I have proven to you that I can do the work in class, I make the highest scores on tests out of any of your students, so you know I'm not cheating. Why would you hold me back by making me do useless practice for things we both know I have already mastered? Shouldn't the grade reflect how well I know the subject, not how many times I practice it?!" Then the teacher went on about how everyone had to do the home work whether they liked it or not, and some crap about preparing us for the real world (in which I was already participating as much as they were, helping to pay bills even). I had this conversation with all my teachers, only my english lit, sociology, and geography teachers agreed that school wasn't really for me, and secretly let me skip homework, but not my Mathematics teacher -- Strange since I was demonstrating my mastery over applied mathematics, and even surpassing my math teacher's knowledge by furthering my study independently, e.g., they taught fractions and ratios, while I was learning statistical calculus at the library.
I dropped out of school and got a GED as soon as it was legally possible, school was a severe waste of my time. Would that I could have afforded college and to support myself at 18 I might have attended college, but by the time I could afford it I had learned enough that college would teach me little and be predominantly an expensive waste of time. As I entered the "real world" I realized that what my teachers said was true: You'll be required to do a bunch of useless shit at times that only hinders progress, just like homework. Where she was wrong is that not everyone has to do this crap. If you play your cards right you can pay other people to put up with the mundane crap like taxes and accounting or generating TPS Reports.
School in it's current form is a social circle jerk that leaves students ill prepared to perform any real job. In my experience, many girls have an affinity for being back-stabbing socialites, more so than the guys I've met, at least at school age; I'm sure it's genetic. Imagine as it once was: A gaggle of girls being mated by one or two studs, vying for attention and playing social (mind) games amongst themselves; The alpha males having truces with each other after brief skirmishes; The weaker betas being bred out of the gene pool, or settling for less socially desirable "outcasts". I'm only a sexist in that I believe in the study of sex and our evolution's effect on our current behaviors -- Any development after breeding age is pointless genetically, so it's that ripe age of sexual maturity and what comes before that's most affected by evolution. I don't mean to say things should still be like the cave-man days, but we're foolish to ignore those primal instincts and wave them away as "sexist" sentiments. Only when you understand yourself can you be your own master... School is a prime illustration of the above primal drives at work in the allowedly less civilized, and more cruel young people. Of course girls do better in the environment they were bred to do well in. For fuck's sake! Literally!
Today's schools do not teach kids how to learn. It forces kids that refuse to learn to stay in school, and holds back the "smart" kids that absorb and apply information like scrubbing sponges do water. In reality, those "dumb" kids aren't any worse or better off than the smart ones:
[snip: thinly veiled slashdot as government proposal].
Cue the group-think that down-mods shit they're uncomfortable with even if right, and promotes pandering statements they like even if they're wrong. E.g.: Your post.
I've got a better idea: Why don't we just draft bills and propose them in the standard way rather than taking the fruitless petition route? After all, both are only designed to give you the illusion of empowerment and promote complacency.
Note to the clueless: You don't answer rhetorical questions; The answer is tho point I'm making.
There's a reason why he's a seasoned programmer and still has a job. Think about it. Who else can maintain that cluster fsck? No one, that's who.
If Bad Code did not exist it would be necessary for Good Coders to create it.
TL;DR: job security
TL;DR: Big shot "idea man" makes the most common rookie mistake by trying to make some huge MMO as his first project. These always fail, no big surprise.
They should have made some smaller less financially risky games first to get some experience, but since he already had money he was able to make it further than most 1st time game devs with stars in their eyes do. You wouldn't believe how common it is to see this same "idea-man" BS anywhere newbie game devs gather: "Guys, I have this amazing idea for my 1st game, it's going to be a MMORPG that blah blah blah" The most common response is: "Can you make a match 3 game yet? Block dropping game? How about a Chase-Maze game? A pixelated platformer? If not, do those first. Put the huge game on the back burner kid until you know how much work that's going to be."
What's ridiculous is that EVERYONE in the game industry but newbs knows that doing something as big as a MMO or Tactical FPS as your first project is folly. Seems to me the Rhode Island investors didn't ask ANYONE with experience in games if they thought it was a good idea to invest. That's the point about "Crony-ism" I'd be driving home. Protip: Don't fund a Kickstarter made by folks with no prototype to show -- a working demo if it's their 1st game; Famous folks are a different story, but only if they got famous doing the kinds of things they want you to fund.
I mean, if you work at Google in the anti-malware devision you've probably got a good idea about the types of exploits coming down the line. Now, if someone like that is acquiring skills they'd only really need if life as we know it were blasted back to the iron age...
Why are you posting links to these jackasses?
Hey, it's a real service to some of us webmasters. We can now add a little routine to our servers that scans everything send, looks for these URLs, and when it finds them, changes them to a random item from a list of URLs.
Sure, while you're doing that I've already emailed the news-site admins a .htaccess that checks the HTTP-REFERER and redirects deep-links to the main page if the referring domain does't match. I mean, shit, we fixed this in the 90s to stop "hot-linking" or "bandwidth leaches". A lawsuit? For fuck's sake, that's clueless. It's either a ploy to get more links and increase their search ranking (guerrilla marketing), and/or their management are incompetent and didn't run this by the IT guys (or IT is severely incompetent). I sent them my standard tech-service contract so they could have me on-call (retainer) to run technology related shit by me before they make further fools of themselves... Though I strongly suspect a guerrilla marketing campaign. (Interview with media strategist Ryan Holiday, author of Trust Me I'm Lying, about how easy it is to manipulate mass media.)
I hope the paper dutifully publishes the names of the armed guards they hired.
Jokes on you. They already did via the previously published list... Wait, I wonder if the joke's not actually on the Newspaper?
I can see the headline now...
Newspaper Employs Gun-Owners to Carry out Death Threats Against Its Editors to Avoids Severance Pay.