You joke, but I used to work with a woman that learned Unix when ed was state of the art. She complained that ex (let alone vi, vim, emacs, etc.) just didn't come off her fingers like ed.
She also had her own source license, and for a mere $50,000 (1990 dollars) could have updated it to the modern distribution, so that gave her seeming craziness a bit more cred than the emacs bigots who couldn't even mark a section except by deleting and restoring it.
Thats not a government blocking your right to publish, self publish, talk, comment, quote someone, give an interview, show a picture, quote a historical document.
My argument is we will never be able to desalinate enough water to meet even CAs needs. If we had the capability, we would be building huge plants to do so right now.
Why would CA build desalination plants when they can just drain the Colorado, the Columbia, and any other water source that they can manage? If they ever DID build desalination plants, how do they justify their rape of the (water of the) West so as to water and fertilize movie and TV stars' lawns?
And this leads to the question, why do we need so many people?
And whom do you wish to eliminate in your "wise and moral" fashion?
BTW, fertile Iraq was wrecked by the Mongols, not population. It was the subsequent lack of population that meant that they could do without the artificial oasis system that the invaders ruined.
The anti-vaxxers will eliminate themselves. Hard on the children who must die that their parents' stupidity genes or memes be eliminated from the appropriate pools, but inevitable.
They are also trivial, except that some are in the media spotlights, and so seem significant for reasons other than having appeared in Playboy.
Personally, I'm not sympathetic to Silicon Valley's "I invented a new technology, now the laws in place have to change to accommodate me" attitude.
Well, the laws DID change to accommodate them, sort of.:-)
they get a certain amount of heavily subsidized electricity.
And there is the problem. It would be just as bad if an aluminum plant moved in. Or another Oak Ridge. Or anything else that required lots of cheap power to be economical.
All this does is replace the Stasi with computers. Given that the Stasi employed a large fraction of the DDR, this will probably increase unemployment in the PRC until the aperatchiks band together, overthrow the system, and re-institute a HUMAN secret police force.
And Xi's "colleagues" not killing him, like the Russians did with Lavrenti Beria when HE wanted to take the top job, is the "walked, ran, danced into the flames."
"The modus operandi of ANY GOVERNMENT is to service and protect itself first and foremost. All other objectives (and people) are expendable in that pursuit."
I don't know. That certainly wasn't true for the Weimar Republic. Nor Buchannon's presidency in the USA.
You think NHL network would cost the same in the offseason? Heck, they'll probably give it to you for free.
Actually, if they had any brains, off-season they would pay YOU, just like QVC, HSN, JWL TV, etc. pay your local cable company to include them for pretty much everyone. That way, even if you don't actually watch it, you stay a subscriber; since it stays on the line-up, you at least remind yourself about it, so that when the pre-season starts up you will be watching, as opposed to having to remember to re-subscribe.
Judging from previous Slashdot articles, some of the non-voters are convinced that unless they are the vote that tips the scale, they cannot be bothered.
There is a Classical Greek word for those who do not vote if physically able. It is "idiot"
Where do people get this idea that company directors are bound by law to make as much profit as possible?
Henry Ford once increased the pay of his line workers, reducing shareholder returns, because, he said publicly, he felt that the workers deserved the money more than the shareholders. The shareholders sued, and Henry Ford lost. The court said that he could increase the wages to improve worker productivity, reduce turnover, reduce the chances of union strikes or violence, etc., but not just because he liked the workers more.
In short, if you cannot justify something to increase shareholder returns (and increasing long-term by screwing over short-term investors is alright), then you are open to shareholder lawsuits. OTOH, saying that Uber is trying to increase market share, losing money while improving processes, etc., in the expectation of better returns in the future, would probably be enough to escape any lawsuit (especially if the majority of the shares agree, and I think that I read that management had structured matters so that would be true, regardless).
And paid for their labor, with competitions between work crews.
OneHundredAndTen, quit parroting lies told to wealthy Romans by Egyptian priests (tour guides, really) over two thousand years after the events occurred. Next, you'll be claiming that the Egyptians really won at the Battle of Kadesh.
Why? We pay the workers just as they did when they were built. Obviously, less beer, and at higher nominal rates (although it might be sinteresting if you convert prices and wages back to ounces of silver).
Hell, call it re-enacting, just like Europeans reenact Napoleonic and 17th Century battles, the Egyptians can reenact Pyramid construction.
No, that is fusion power. AI is nebulously only 5 or 10 years off, and always will be, because once some piece is reduced to an algorithm, it isn't AI anymore and everything else that wasn't being worked on gets called the "real" AI, as opposed to the crap that we wasted our time with before "now" (for varying nows) and is so simple.
So you think that they should have remained in their jobs, and maybe screwed up something MORE?
Granted, the best solution might be to restore Imperial Roman Law and then have the Chairman Of The Board command them to commit suicide, but that isn't going to happen. Alternately, since the CIO majored in Russian. treat them like the GRU supposedly handled one traitor, dropping him into an oven while still alive, and making a movie for new recruits to watch, but again, unlikely even in modern Russia, unless Putin's personal info was leaked.
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Unfair to emacs, which can also edit binary files.
And the possessive of "it" is "its" -- no apostrophe.
Old school Messy-Dos programmers (said the ex-TOPS-20 programmer).
You joke, but I used to work with a woman that learned Unix when ed was state of the art. She complained that ex (let alone vi, vim, emacs, etc.) just didn't come off her fingers like ed.
She also had her own source license, and for a mere $50,000 (1990 dollars) could have updated it to the modern distribution, so that gave her seeming craziness a bit more cred than the emacs bigots who couldn't even mark a section except by deleting and restoring it.
Thats not a government blocking your right to publish, self publish, talk, comment, quote someone, give an interview, show a picture, quote a historical document.
What is it then, natural law?
So, engineering, instead?
You assume that he would find that unfortunate. Clearly, AC wants us to remain at the hunter gatherer stage. Perhaps he would accept gardener stage.
My argument is we will never be able to desalinate enough water to meet even CAs needs. If we had the capability, we would be building huge plants to do so right now.
Why would CA build desalination plants when they can just drain the Colorado, the Columbia, and any other water source that they can manage? If they ever DID build desalination plants, how do they justify their rape of the (water of the) West so as to water and fertilize movie and TV stars' lawns?
And this leads to the question, why do we need so many people?
And whom do you wish to eliminate in your "wise and moral" fashion?
BTW, fertile Iraq was wrecked by the Mongols, not population. It was the subsequent lack of population that meant that they could do without the artificial oasis system that the invaders ruined.
The anti-vaxxers will eliminate themselves. Hard on the children who must die that their parents' stupidity genes or memes be eliminated from the appropriate pools, but inevitable.
They are also trivial, except that some are in the media spotlights, and so seem significant for reasons other than having appeared in Playboy.
Do not reply to ACs (unless they make cogent comments). Secret history/conspiracy nuts like your parent (article-wise) should definitely be ignored.
Personally, I'm not sympathetic to Silicon Valley's "I invented a new technology, now the laws in place have to change to accommodate me" attitude.
Well, the laws DID change to accommodate them, sort of. :-)
they get a certain amount of heavily subsidized electricity.
And there is the problem. It would be just as bad if an aluminum plant moved in. Or another Oak Ridge. Or anything else that required lots of cheap power to be economical.
All this does is replace the Stasi with computers. Given that the Stasi employed a large fraction of the DDR, this will probably increase unemployment in the PRC until the aperatchiks band together, overthrow the system, and re-institute a HUMAN secret police force.
And Xi's "colleagues" not killing him, like the Russians did with Lavrenti Beria when HE wanted to take the top job, is the "walked, ran, danced into the flames."
Do you mean that there might actually be a "due process" in the PRC? That would be a problem, I suppose.
"The modus operandi of ANY GOVERNMENT is to service and protect itself first and foremost. All other objectives (and people) are expendable in that pursuit."
I don't know. That certainly wasn't true for the Weimar Republic. Nor Buchannon's presidency in the USA.
You are surprised? So, what part of "Communist Dictatorship" did you not understand?
You think NHL network would cost the same in the offseason? Heck, they'll probably give it to you for free.
Actually, if they had any brains, off-season they would pay YOU, just like QVC, HSN, JWL TV, etc. pay your local cable company to include them for pretty much everyone. That way, even if you don't actually watch it, you stay a subscriber; since it stays on the line-up, you at least remind yourself about it, so that when the pre-season starts up you will be watching, as opposed to having to remember to re-subscribe.
Judging from previous Slashdot articles, some of the non-voters are convinced that unless they are the vote that tips the scale, they cannot be bothered.
There is a Classical Greek word for those who do not vote if physically able. It is "idiot"
Where do people get this idea that company directors are bound by law to make as much profit as possible?
Henry Ford once increased the pay of his line workers, reducing shareholder returns, because, he said publicly, he felt that the workers deserved the money more than the shareholders. The shareholders sued, and Henry Ford lost. The court said that he could increase the wages to improve worker productivity, reduce turnover, reduce the chances of union strikes or violence, etc., but not just because he liked the workers more.
In short, if you cannot justify something to increase shareholder returns (and increasing long-term by screwing over short-term investors is alright), then you are open to shareholder lawsuits. OTOH, saying that Uber is trying to increase market share, losing money while improving processes, etc., in the expectation of better returns in the future, would probably be enough to escape any lawsuit (especially if the majority of the shares agree, and I think that I read that management had structured matters so that would be true, regardless).
Nowadays, you cannot see a film, as all the movies are sent out on disk or electronically.
And I would ask you English caravan types how many outriders you use per ten wagons, when you go on the Silk Road?
There is no such thing as "American English", "British English", "Indian English" etc.
There is English, and incorrect, bastardised versions of English.
Then meet it would be, if thou didest use it.
Alas, poor William S., Ben Jonson, and James the King(s), we hardly knew ye.
And paid for their labor, with competitions between work crews.
OneHundredAndTen, quit parroting lies told to wealthy Romans by Egyptian priests (tour guides, really) over two thousand years after the events occurred. Next, you'll be claiming that the Egyptians really won at the Battle of Kadesh.
Why? We pay the workers just as they did when they were built. Obviously, less beer, and at higher nominal rates (although it might be sinteresting if you convert prices and wages back to ounces of silver).
Hell, call it re-enacting, just like Europeans reenact Napoleonic and 17th Century battles, the Egyptians can reenact Pyramid construction.
But then, I am a big Zelazny fan.
What? There aren't enough RV dealers?
No, that is fusion power. AI is nebulously only 5 or 10 years off, and always will be, because once some piece is reduced to an algorithm, it isn't AI anymore and everything else that wasn't being worked on gets called the "real" AI, as opposed to the crap that we wasted our time with before "now" (for varying nows) and is so simple.
So you think that they should have remained in their jobs, and maybe screwed up something MORE?
Granted, the best solution might be to restore Imperial Roman Law and then have the Chairman Of The Board command them to commit suicide, but that isn't going to happen. Alternately, since the CIO majored in Russian. treat them like the GRU supposedly handled one traitor, dropping him into an oven while still alive, and making a movie for new recruits to watch, but again, unlikely even in modern Russia, unless Putin's personal info was leaked.