With a quick look at Wikipedia, I find this:
"According to both fossil and DNA evidence, the polar bear diverged from the brown bear, Ursus arctos, roughly 200 thousand years ago. The oldest known polar bear fossil is less than 100 thousand years old. Fossils show that between 10 and 20 thousand years ago, the polar bear's molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear."
The key there is that glacial periods last 90ky and the inter-glacial periods, like we've been in for the last 12ky are about 100ky apart.
Apparently they are an evolutionary experiment that branched off from brown bears during the last glacial period as an adaptation to all the ice.
They were screwed as soon as the current inter-glacial period started. If they can hang in there until the next glacial period starts and we go back to ice-age conditions, which should be soon, they may make it, but otherwise, as a species, they were a bad idea.
Suppose a blob of jelly in another galaxy built a spaceship and flew to Earth. When the door opens, we look in and say, "The ship is just a drone; nothing inside but a blob of jelly with no ears or mouth".
Do you think the blob would pass the Turing test?
"AI" people have never had a clue what "I" is. How can they reproduce it?
I used to be in DEC SW services. Some of their SW products were good, but the Alpha was outstanding. HP can go to hell and suck donkey ass for destroying it and other DEC products in favor of Fucktanium and their own horseshit.
A list of fashionable languages is about as stupid as cars that honk their horns when you lock the doors.
All it says is that, as usual, operating systems, languages, drivers, and other serious software are still written in C, and all the silly-ass shit is written in whatever the kids find exciting this week.
If more silly-ass shit is being written than operating systems, then C moves down the list. So what?
Would you want an operating system written in Ruby? What is Ruby written in? (Hint: the answer starts with the letter 'C'".)
I suppose it could have gone without saying: "fuck fuckrosoft and the fucktards that use their shitware". That's always been true.
But what a lot of this talk seems to be leading to is fuck the ISO.
WTF!? It's like Santa Claus. I used to think they were real.
If they can't get a clue and switch to Linux then they get what they deserve.
And where is this PDF/Adobe flaw actually; is XPDF affected as well?
Text is good, but what's wrong with adopting the open source philosophy and sending the source: *.tex, or at least *.dvi.
Last but not least, why did all the numbnuts of the world switch to PDF anyway? What was wrong with ps?
Even though having been a professional programmer since 1977, I was very fortunate that I never had to use f*ckrosoft untill the mid 90's when the company I worked for got cheap, dumped their X terminals, and gave us laptops upon which we then ran an X server.
Then I found out how the other half lived. Okay, granny and junior, but why did professionals put up with that sh!t?
Since then, I've said that anyone who uses S*ckrosh!t gets what they deserve.
At first Network Solutions seemed to be doing something unethical, until I read A Meathead's post about how he used NS for the search then went to Cheap Charlie for the purchase.
Now I see why NS does it, and it seems a perfectly reasonable business practice.
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With a quick look at Wikipedia, I find this: "According to both fossil and DNA evidence, the polar bear diverged from the brown bear, Ursus arctos, roughly 200 thousand years ago. The oldest known polar bear fossil is less than 100 thousand years old. Fossils show that between 10 and 20 thousand years ago, the polar bear's molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear." The key there is that glacial periods last 90ky and the inter-glacial periods, like we've been in for the last 12ky are about 100ky apart. Apparently they are an evolutionary experiment that branched off from brown bears during the last glacial period as an adaptation to all the ice. They were screwed as soon as the current inter-glacial period started. If they can hang in there until the next glacial period starts and we go back to ice-age conditions, which should be soon, they may make it, but otherwise, as a species, they were a bad idea.
IP address, username, and password please?
Suppose a blob of jelly in another galaxy built a spaceship and flew to Earth. When the door opens, we look in and say, "The ship is just a drone; nothing inside but a blob of jelly with no ears or mouth". Do you think the blob would pass the Turing test? "AI" people have never had a clue what "I" is. How can they reproduce it?
Forgot to mention: 1) VMS is also outstanding. A VMS cluster apparently holds the record for "uptime"; over 10 years: http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=06/01/08/4531954 2) Did I mention Carly Fiorina sucks ass
I used to be in DEC SW services. Some of their SW products were good, but the Alpha was outstanding. HP can go to hell and suck donkey ass for destroying it and other DEC products in favor of Fucktanium and their own horseshit.
Best post I've ever seen here.
A list of fashionable languages is about as stupid as cars that honk their horns when you lock the doors.
All it says is that, as usual, operating systems, languages, drivers, and other serious software are still written in C, and all the silly-ass shit is written in whatever the kids find exciting this week.
If more silly-ass shit is being written than operating systems, then C moves down the list. So what?
Would you want an operating system written in Ruby? What is Ruby written in? (Hint: the answer starts with the letter 'C'".)
They can suck my hard drive.
I suppose it could have gone without saying: "fuck fuckrosoft and the fucktards that use their shitware". That's always been true. But what a lot of this talk seems to be leading to is fuck the ISO. WTF!? It's like Santa Claus. I used to think they were real.
Boo hoo
If they can't get a clue and switch to Linux then they get what they deserve. And where is this PDF/Adobe flaw actually; is XPDF affected as well? Text is good, but what's wrong with adopting the open source philosophy and sending the source: *.tex, or at least *.dvi. Last but not least, why did all the numbnuts of the world switch to PDF anyway? What was wrong with ps?
According to http://www.top500.org/stats/list/30/os when the linux is identified, most are suse.
Even though having been a professional programmer since 1977, I was very fortunate that I never had to use f*ckrosoft untill the mid 90's when the company I worked for got cheap, dumped their X terminals, and gave us laptops upon which we then ran an X server.
Then I found out how the other half lived. Okay, granny and junior, but why did professionals put up with that sh!t?
Since then, I've said that anyone who uses S*ckrosh!t gets what they deserve.
At first Network Solutions seemed to be doing something unethical, until I read A Meathead's post about how he used NS for the search then went to Cheap Charlie for the purchase.
Now I see why NS does it, and it seems a perfectly reasonable business practice.
I've always said that if you use Microsucks shitware, you get what you deserve.