You really do need to learn what 'you're' and 'your' mean before you start making such retarded statements about 'you are version of politics' and a rooting belonging to someone ? ( Root is Australian slang for sex, so maybe you've got Debbie Does Dallas on repeat in the background ? )
Please get a fucking clue and stop being such an uneducated, ignorant moron.
and remember kids, when you're throwing unnecessary vitriol and vain assumptions of your own prowess at strangers on the Internet, always tick the 'I am a coward' box.
(c) 2010 The better parents shout 'stupid stupid' association.
24x7 is also just one usage scenario. For intensive rendering being able to hire a small army of processors for just long enough is infinitely preferable to waiting for months for a few local machines to complete, and buying the same capacity and having it idle a lot just isn't possible for me.
But let's view it from the other direction. You're one of the big fish, making decisions that affect the outcomes of wars, millions of dollars, lives and deaths. This academic network or whatever has suddenly given the people of the world an ability to communicate with each other, swap files, it's grown incredibly fast and it has no centralised power with which to negotiate.
You're used to being in a position where the majority of information disseminated to the public is informed by you, and has repercussions should it displease you. People have cameras and can publish to a medium which never forgets from their pocket, and finding the likeminded has never been easier.
The old rules are of control. As a big fish your need is to control this, it threatens position, and your career and life is position.
How ? Take it on as a problem, it's worldwide but you have infinite resources and must appear to be doing it *for* the people ? How do you stop that one person in a basement somewhere finding a chink and telling others ( and what does increased fear and control do to the chances that someone would try ) ? How do you stop the Internet encrypting itself almost overnight ( what happens if the top twenty free Internet apps suddenly include tor by default ) ? Elegantly designed to withstand the destruction of a large part of the Earth's surface by nuclear attack is pretty toughened.
The Internet used to be C90 cassette tapes in my jacket pocket, and now I can get 500Gb in there.
A lack of Net Neutrality on the other hand, places a still growing communications phenomenon in the hands of for-profit companies who, as is their want, will charge as much as possible for the lowest acceptable quality of service while attempting to gain control over as much of the market as possible.
Many people connected to the Internet do so through an effective geographic monopoly, so at this stage there are no market pressures to prevent them charging what they see fit, and never improve the situation.
The post office in England at least offers a variety of services, from well-we'll-give-it-a-go-maybe-Tuesday-next to 9-am-sharp-sir-what-colour-stamp-would-you-like so your example to me would be closer to the Internet in a non Neutral state. To physically get a parcel to the other end of the country I have the option of several competing companies and a selection of services between them.
We're currently in a situation where differing, competing people own different roads along the way, under Network Neutrality they all have to play nicely and pass every parcel along, and without they are free to slow / lose / change my parcel as it passes through their hands, and have every incentive to do so. ( Apologies for the mangled metaphor. )
I'm lucky enough to be in an area with a choice of ISP, and I already choose to pay more for a faster service.
There is no natural minimum price for the transfer of an amount of data, someone who's more efficient can undercut, and keeping that mechanism working for as long as possible seems to guarantee the best for the network and the end user of what is already a near utility.
The 'I hate London it's full of shandy drinking poofs and wrong uns' attitude seems to start roughly as you get to the south of 'God's Own County', and gets progressively more vitriolic as you go North, most often from people who've never been there.
The current Labour party is much more center than the Labour party of my youth. The Conservatives party that ran the country before them privatised most of the infrastructure for seeming personal gain and to the detriment of the services.
What's been tested is how much money you can take out of a system to encourage high risk takers and earners, destroying the blue collar work that the majority of the country specialises in, and providing very little education to those most in need of it.
These are not liberal acts, they are the continuation of the class system.
Britain is not a complete shithole. London is one of my very favourite cities.
As a/. reader, I'm super happy that several ( presumably very capable ) people did the math, using slightly different techniques, and came to similar answers, it assures me that these are pretty good numbers given the sources, and I love that this would be the answer to someone casually proclaiming a 'millions' figure.
It's a shame that this is diluted by oversensitive bitchiness, but thank you anyway.
I'm pretty sure being on call requires being somewhere other than work, and unless you're within staggering distance or have excellent 24/7 public transport then that means no drinking just in case.
Check that it's not an optional move, if it is, then smile, accept and start using those can't-really-sleep-can't-really-go-anywhere-can't-drink hours to look for another job where they hopefully won't do this to you. They should have explained already if they have any respect for you and what you do.
The step to management is barbed, it's very hard to go back once you've stepped out of the firing line for very long.
So eating honey is definitely exploiting bees. And eating an apple is possibly exploiting bees ?
a / Eats honey. Eats apples. Exploits bees.
b / No honey. Eats apples. Possibly exploits bees.
c / No honey. No apples. Doesn't exploit bees.
I think there's a good argument for the middle ( your son's ) option, the amount of bee exploitation is reduced greatly, people who professionally exploit bees receive less blood money for their efforts and no guaranteed harm is done to bees. Should everyone adhere to his standards bee exploitation would probably disappear almost completely ( maybe along with bees, but that's even further off topic. )
People are rarely so pure in their intentions as to not appear hypocritical at some scale... I think your son should be congratulated and encouraged for considering the consequences of what he consumes.
Demanding absolute commitment to protecting bees is something you've introduced to the argument, possibly with the idea that it will become impossible for him and he'll follow your wishes and restart eating honey.
No, you made a horrible generalisation about German people, badly propagated an already tired meme and invoked Godwin's to ensure you automatically lose.
Not being the worst is no reason for celebration. These freedoms and benefits have been incredibly hard won, and should be just as vigorously defended.
The educational system's not great, either ( my careers advisor gave me the choice of manual work or skilled manual work ). Nor is the chance to vote between the similar flavours of the ruling class. There's a growing section of below working class society, our economy has been forcefully centred around the money markets of the capital and the majority of the rest of the county's work ethic has been derided and left to rot. The government is responding to this by increased monitoring and control, whilst previously hardworking areas become represented by neo nazi's. The country has become involved in power grab wars against the general will of the people...
There are a lot of things to be grateful to the UK for, and these things were won by people not sitting back and deeming the current situation ok because someone else has it worse. I feel it's more pragmatic to compare ourselves against the best, and as such the UK is a mess.
I like the weather though. Autumn is the finest, I think.
Yup, those damn books, creating virtual worlds and stopping peopl... I think you might just be surprised ( shocked, even ) at some of the things that 'the younger folks' try these days. Things that you've only experienced virtually...
The younger people I know are skipping around the world easily, trying many, many things in many places before they even think about 'settling down', their life experiences are more and faster than most of the older people I know.
How much experimentation did you do when the old folks were around, how much did you tell the old folks about ? Could this explain the difference in your eyes ?
Do the search on a known subset of data ( including samples of everything you need to detect ) on your local machine overnight, iterate, perfect, throw it at the large set of data ?
I did four and a half years of degree level computer science. Fun times...
Translation :
I don't know the answer either, in fact, I understand but a very small part of the problem and that viewed from an appreciable distance.
I'm pretty sure that it's got something to do with those damn design kids with their fancy degrees, and that my cursory glance at the subject has pinpointed the fundamental flaw which these incredibly clever people who are actually running worlds allowing thousands of people to interact have somehow missed.
Insightful ? The people doing the networking / server code on Eve & Wow & Etc. are game designers ? My God.
Not so much anymore, and I think going the other way. For ActionScript I'm not touching the IDE at all ( Eclipse/FDT ), and there are better ways than flash of creating most content other than timeline vector animations, which are now difficult to work with in AS3. Flash development is now ( for me ) mainly bitmap/video oriented, ( the player is now generally much faster with raster information than vector ) so with assets being created in whatever suits.
( Sorry, I don't know about the smaller ad based stuff, they may still use the IDE for everything ? )
So in general you need someone who's capable of writing an OO mvc-alike structure against an idiosyncratic ActionScript + libraries ( which may include 3d, physics, Etc. ), a slow datastore and several APIs to services beyond your control ( all of which may or may not respond ). With a playback mechanism that's likely to grind to a halt if you ask it to do a reasonable amount of work.
It's not rocket science, but it's at a very similar level to which I'd expect from a Javascript/SVG developer. ( They're quite similar skill sets ).
For me, I'll go with whichever ( Html5 / AS ) is going to be best for a given job, a large factor in that decision is player penetration, and a large factor is 'can it do everything I need for this project'. There are lots of tools for content creation already, and handling.swf content is unlikely to factor largely in my decision unless it's a flash-aesthetic based site.
Thank you. This was more in response to fredklein's idea of giving everyone at least 6 months military boot camp training at age eighteen. To give a purpose and a knowledge of weaponry and strategy, followed by six months more of law and police based urban weaponry, all of which I think is a perfectly horrible idea. ( Six months of law might not be such a bad idea. )
No thank you, there's little enough time to get through all the things I want to learn, investigate and use without wasting two years learning ( through routine degradation ) how to effectively kill other human beings without questioning the reason and/or be the instrument of a system I can see the need for but don't always agree with the letter of.
In practice this is likely to continue a jock culture for another two years of what's already a painful experience for the generally more sensitive/intelligent members of a society, and training 1.5 million young adults to kill effectively almost guarantees the shit will hit the fan regularly. Your army is big enough to fight the entire world already.
I'm sorry citizen. 'If you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide' is a rule we made for the hoi-polloi, we've been very careful to include exemptions for the ruling classes, now, please place a dna sample in the cup provided and move right along.
Flippantly aside, for some good examples of what ( has been allowed to be published about what ) goes on in the name of the people, a 'history' of MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5. Counter Intelligence and Security in the UK. ) has just been published, yesterday I think. Regnum Defende / Defence of the Realm.
Slashdot Mirror
You really do need to learn what 'you're' and 'your' mean before you start making such retarded statements about 'you are version of politics' and a rooting belonging to someone ? ( Root is Australian slang for sex, so maybe you've got Debbie Does Dallas on repeat in the background ? )
Please get a fucking clue and stop being such an uneducated, ignorant moron.
and remember kids, when you're throwing unnecessary vitriol and vain assumptions of your own prowess at strangers on the Internet, always tick the 'I am a coward' box.
(c) 2010 The better parents shout 'stupid stupid' association.
24x7 is also just one usage scenario. For intensive rendering being able to hire a small army of processors for just long enough is infinitely preferable to waiting for months for a few local machines to complete, and buying the same capacity and having it idle a lot just isn't possible for me.
But let's view it from the other direction. You're one of the big fish, making decisions that affect the outcomes of wars, millions of dollars, lives and deaths. This academic network or whatever has suddenly given the people of the world an ability to communicate with each other, swap files, it's grown incredibly fast and it has no centralised power with which to negotiate.
You're used to being in a position where the majority of information disseminated to the public is informed by you, and has repercussions should it displease you. People have cameras and can publish to a medium which never forgets from their pocket, and finding the likeminded has never been easier.
The old rules are of control. As a big fish your need is to control this, it threatens position, and your career and life is position.
How ? Take it on as a problem, it's worldwide but you have infinite resources and must appear to be doing it *for* the people ? How do you stop that one person in a basement somewhere finding a chink and telling others ( and what does increased fear and control do to the chances that someone would try ) ? How do you stop the Internet encrypting itself almost overnight ( what happens if the top twenty free Internet apps suddenly include tor by default ) ? Elegantly designed to withstand the destruction of a large part of the Earth's surface by nuclear attack is pretty toughened.
The Internet used to be C90 cassette tapes in my jacket pocket, and now I can get 500Gb in there.
A lack of Net Neutrality on the other hand, places a still growing communications phenomenon in the hands of for-profit companies who, as is their want, will charge as much as possible for the lowest acceptable quality of service while attempting to gain control over as much of the market as possible.
Many people connected to the Internet do so through an effective geographic monopoly, so at this stage there are no market pressures to prevent them charging what they see fit, and never improve the situation.
The post office in England at least offers a variety of services, from well-we'll-give-it-a-go-maybe-Tuesday-next to 9-am-sharp-sir-what-colour-stamp-would-you-like so your example to me would be closer to the Internet in a non Neutral state. To physically get a parcel to the other end of the country I have the option of several competing companies and a selection of services between them.
We're currently in a situation where differing, competing people own different roads along the way, under Network Neutrality they all have to play nicely and pass every parcel along, and without they are free to slow / lose / change my parcel as it passes through their hands, and have every incentive to do so. ( Apologies for the mangled metaphor. )
I'm lucky enough to be in an area with a choice of ISP, and I already choose to pay more for a faster service.
There is no natural minimum price for the transfer of an amount of data, someone who's more efficient can undercut, and keeping that mechanism working for as long as possible seems to guarantee the best for the network and the end user of what is already a near utility.
* Sweeney Todd, The Musical
The 'I hate London it's full of shandy drinking poofs and wrong uns' attitude seems to start roughly as you get to the south of 'God's Own County', and gets progressively more vitriolic as you go North, most often from people who've never been there.
The current Labour party is much more center than the Labour party of my youth. The Conservatives party that ran the country before them privatised most of the infrastructure for seeming personal gain and to the detriment of the services.
What's been tested is how much money you can take out of a system to encourage high risk takers and earners, destroying the blue collar work that the majority of the country specialises in, and providing very little education to those most in need of it.
These are not liberal acts, they are the continuation of the class system.
Britain is not a complete shithole. London is one of my very favourite cities.
It's an indirect tax on people who'll pay a small amount for the almost tangible dream of having their money problems sorted instantly. The poor.
As a /. reader, I'm super happy that several ( presumably very capable ) people did the math, using slightly different techniques, and came to similar answers, it assures me that these are pretty good numbers given the sources, and I love that this would be the answer to someone casually proclaiming a 'millions' figure.
It's a shame that this is diluted by oversensitive bitchiness, but thank you anyway.
"It's intelligent design for the IQ 140 people." - Mitch Kapor on Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity.
What does the acronym RTFA mean ? I read the freaking article, but that didn't explain either ?
What's a correct vocabulary ?
I'm pretty sure being on call requires being somewhere other than work, and unless you're within staggering distance or have excellent 24/7 public transport then that means no drinking just in case.
Check that it's not an optional move, if it is, then smile, accept and start using those can't-really-sleep-can't-really-go-anywhere-can't-drink hours to look for another job where they hopefully won't do this to you. They should have explained already if they have any respect for you and what you do.
The step to management is barbed, it's very hard to go back once you've stepped out of the firing line for very long.
So eating honey is definitely exploiting bees. And eating an apple is possibly exploiting bees ?
a / Eats honey. Eats apples. Exploits bees.
b / No honey. Eats apples. Possibly exploits bees.
c / No honey. No apples. Doesn't exploit bees.
I think there's a good argument for the middle ( your son's ) option, the amount of bee exploitation is reduced greatly, people who professionally exploit bees receive less blood money for their efforts and no guaranteed harm is done to bees. Should everyone adhere to his standards bee exploitation would probably disappear almost completely ( maybe along with bees, but that's even further off topic. )
People are rarely so pure in their intentions as to not appear hypocritical at some scale... I think your son should be congratulated and encouraged for considering the consequences of what he consumes.
Demanding absolute commitment to protecting bees is something you've introduced to the argument, possibly with the idea that it will become impossible for him and he'll follow your wishes and restart eating honey.
He doesn't eat honey because it hurts bees.
No, you made a horrible generalisation about German people, badly propagated an already tired meme and invoked Godwin's to ensure you automatically lose.
Not being the worst is no reason for celebration. These freedoms and benefits have been incredibly hard won, and should be just as vigorously defended.
...
The educational system's not great, either ( my careers advisor gave me the choice of manual work or skilled manual work ). Nor is the chance to vote between the similar flavours of the ruling class. There's a growing section of below working class society, our economy has been forcefully centred around the money markets of the capital and the majority of the rest of the county's work ethic has been derided and left to rot. The government is responding to this by increased monitoring and control, whilst previously hardworking areas become represented by neo nazi's. The country has become involved in power grab wars against the general will of the people
There are a lot of things to be grateful to the UK for, and these things were won by people not sitting back and deeming the current situation ok because someone else has it worse. I feel it's more pragmatic to compare ourselves against the best, and as such the UK is a mess.
I like the weather though. Autumn is the finest, I think.
Yup, those damn books, creating virtual worlds and stopping peopl... I think you might just be surprised ( shocked, even ) at some of the things that 'the younger folks' try these days. Things that you've only experienced virtually ...
The younger people I know are skipping around the world easily, trying many, many things in many places before they even think about 'settling down', their life experiences are more and faster than most of the older people I know.
How much experimentation did you do when the old folks were around, how much did you tell the old folks about ? Could this explain the difference in your eyes ?
Do the search on a known subset of data ( including samples of everything you need to detect ) on your local machine overnight, iterate, perfect, throw it at the large set of data ?
...
I did four and a half years of degree level computer science. Fun times
Translation :
I don't know the answer either, in fact, I understand but a very small part of the problem and that viewed from an appreciable distance.
I'm pretty sure that it's got something to do with those damn design kids with their fancy degrees, and that my cursory glance at the subject has pinpointed the fundamental flaw which these incredibly clever people who are actually running worlds allowing thousands of people to interact have somehow missed.
Insightful ? The people doing the networking / server code on Eve & Wow & Etc. are game designers ? My God.
Not so much anymore, and I think going the other way. For ActionScript I'm not touching the IDE at all ( Eclipse/FDT ), and there are better ways than flash of creating most content other than timeline vector animations, which are now difficult to work with in AS3. Flash development is now ( for me ) mainly bitmap/video oriented, ( the player is now generally much faster with raster information than vector ) so with assets being created in whatever suits.
.swf content is unlikely to factor largely in my decision unless it's a flash-aesthetic based site.
( Sorry, I don't know about the smaller ad based stuff, they may still use the IDE for everything ? )
So in general you need someone who's capable of writing an OO mvc-alike structure against an idiosyncratic ActionScript + libraries ( which may include 3d, physics, Etc. ), a slow datastore and several APIs to services beyond your control ( all of which may or may not respond ). With a playback mechanism that's likely to grind to a halt if you ask it to do a reasonable amount of work.
It's not rocket science, but it's at a very similar level to which I'd expect from a Javascript/SVG developer. ( They're quite similar skill sets ).
For me, I'll go with whichever ( Html5 / AS ) is going to be best for a given job, a large factor in that decision is player penetration, and a large factor is 'can it do everything I need for this project'. There are lots of tools for content creation already, and handling
Thank you. This was more in response to fredklein's idea of giving everyone at least 6 months military boot camp training at age eighteen. To give a purpose and a knowledge of weaponry and strategy, followed by six months more of law and police based urban weaponry, all of which I think is a perfectly horrible idea. ( Six months of law might not be such a bad idea. )
My apologies for lack of clarity.
No thank you, there's little enough time to get through all the things I want to learn, investigate and use without wasting two years learning ( through routine degradation ) how to effectively kill other human beings without questioning the reason and/or be the instrument of a system I can see the need for but don't always agree with the letter of.
In practice this is likely to continue a jock culture for another two years of what's already a painful experience for the generally more sensitive/intelligent members of a society, and training 1.5 million young adults to kill effectively almost guarantees the shit will hit the fan regularly. Your army is big enough to fight the entire world already.
I'm sorry citizen. 'If you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide' is a rule we made for the hoi-polloi, we've been very careful to include exemptions for the ruling classes, now, please place a dna sample in the cup provided and move right along.
Flippantly aside, for some good examples of what ( has been allowed to be published about what ) goes on in the name of the people, a 'history' of MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5. Counter Intelligence and Security in the UK. ) has just been published, yesterday I think. Regnum Defende / Defence of the Realm.
There are some BBC articles about it from here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8289962.stm
Smoke. Mirror. I'm looking forward to picking it up.
" There's an asteroid heading towards the planet ! Quick, retrain everyone to be astrophysicists "