Microsoft, realizing that they are losing their developers to other software platforms, attempts to close the crack in the dam by shoveling sand into it. We go live to Lance Thruster on the scene.
Yes, Jim, 5 years after the dam began to crack, someone at Microsoft realized that the whole construction could be swept downstream at any moment. That's when this repair crew...
panning shot of Microsoft Open Source Evangelists at work shovelling sand
...began their labors. Unfortunately, it seems that this effort may be too little too late...
shot of developers spilling out of the Microsoft dam and into the PHP, Perl, Python, Java and Ruby streams
...I do have an unconfirmed report that Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer himself is on the way to the dam break with several truck-loads of chairs he will use in an attempt to help.
For Action Eyewitness OnTheSpot First News, I'm Lance Thruster reporting from the Microsoft dam.
You're just uninformed... unless you are a very GOOD troll!
You are simply spoiled by all the soooper hi-res photos of space thingys that are viewable on the webz. Unless you pay close attention to such stuff, it's easy to get the impression that photos of space thingys should always be razor-sharp and colorful. The fantastic images provided by Hubble haven't helped that situation. Unless you care, you probably haven't bothered to notice that even space-telescope pictures, taken without Earth's blurry atmosphere in the way, are often false color or enhanced color, highly-processed images that sum thousands of individual shots into one soooper view.
To get a high-magnification image from the ground the photographer not only has to fight the atmosphere (imagine taking portraits from the bottom of a filled swimming pool - it's a lot like that) but is doing battle with the laws of optics that say (more high-magnification) == (dimmer)+(blurrier).
This particular shot of the ISS from a 9cm scope is "amazing" because it shows a lot of detail for a picture of a 100-meter-wide object at 350 km.
What's also "amazing" is that he was tracking the ISS by hand. (!!) If you've ever tried to track a high-magnification view of the freaking moon by hand, you're impressed.
No, the picture is not "amazing" if you compare it with automated-tracking 3-meter-aperture-scope shots that have been imaged processed to death but it is amazing for a picture that sums the frames from a webcam view through a 9cm scope that was hand-tracked. Webcam. Sheesh.
Given identical (ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL, down to the quanta) inputs, you will behave in the exact same way.
I am replying to your message because I read it. So, given the EXACT same inputs (your post) I will ALWAYS reply. Yes?
Unfortunately for what you are saying, what is an "input" and what is an "output" depends on your reference frame (just like C++). Whether I am replying to you due to the input of your post or you are replying to me due to the input of my post depends on where the observer is and how she is moving.
So, unless you are willing to impose a GOD reference frame for the universe, the unassailable castle of determinism blows up in a shrieking maelstrom of chaos and a cloud of blood-red mist sending all the helpless...
Ok, so here's my plot: They, like, scoop immortal UV resistant clone bacteria from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and, get this, it EATS radiation and so if you...
It has?? When?? Oh.
Ok, so how bout this: So, like, this plane crashes on an island and the survivors run into a giant killer mutant iguana from the Badassic era but Ron Perlman shows up with this HUGE rail gun...
Hey! I'm a Tartar, you insensitive clod and we don't eat fried anything!!
We keep our mammoth steaks under our saddles for a week until they're tender and then eat them washed down with fermented mammoth milk while listening to the lamentations of their women.
First off, I thought the way they laid the store out was irritating. Everything was "my" this and "my" that and very confusing. They stuck games in a "MyGames" section that was hidden behind the "MyTools" section which you couldn't even see was there unless you walked through all the "MySystem" displays.
I was also disturbed by the number of sleazy, if not down right criminal, people that Microsoft let get into the store. It looked like a dangerous place to take my kids.
The kicker for me, however, was what they called their "Blue Light Special". Right in the middle of walking through the "MyRegistry" area looking for a stack of TCPs, all the store lights turned blue and we were hustled out of the store onto the sidewalk outside. We had to stand there for 5 minutes before they would let us back in.
I found the shopping experience at the Apple Store much more enjoyable.
They even gave me a really big iPod to put under my bed.
I work at the MegaMegaCorporation in IT and we were "tasked" to "implement" a "departmental solution". I.E. we were told to write an app for a small bunch o' end users. The app we came up with used Java, Hibernate, Guice (for DI), Spring (for JMS) and Apache. Since we were in the Java world we had a huge range of OSS thingys we could plug into our app that did a whole bunch o' kewel things easily.
+1 for Java - all the widely available thingys
Then, as is usual at the MegaMegaCorporation, an upper management shuffle brought a new MegaMegaCorporateTard into the VP slot overseeing our little hive of worker bees. The new MMCT was demo-ed the 85% complete app we were developing and decided that it was was way too kewel to limit to just one departement; he wanted to make it "enterprise".
We don't have scope creep around here, we have scope explosions.
Anyway, we hit the brakes, wasted a full 2 months on corporate-nonsense design documentation and, in the end, decided to refactor the app into a full stack J2EE app. After I got over the desire to hang myself, I started the work with the rest of the team and found, much to my surprise, that scaling our little departmental app into a MegaMegaClusteredEnterpriseWideApp was, while not easy, at least doable.
+2 for java - it scales - no, really, it does!
My score is Java 3 - everything else I've ever worked with 0.
I'm too stupid to understand the whole Service Oriented Architecture thing. We now (finally) have freakin supercomputers sitting on our desks/laps and They want to move our applications out to The Cloud??
I, a little know scientist, have invented a method to reverse global warming. Computer simulations suggest that it can reduce global temperatures by 2 - 3 degrees C in only 10 years.
If everybody would just stand in south China, then the accumulated weight of all those people will change the Earth's axis to point up and down making sunlight never hit the poles making them real real cold.
And this is my idea, which is mine, and I call it "My Idea".
I have another idea. I call it "My Second Idea". And it's mine.
Give a disease enough time to find the right combination and it may end up with a lethality high enough to keep the remaining humans so far apart that the possibility of procreation may be very low.
That's not the way it works. Not in the messy real world anyway. In the messy real world evolution takes over.
Think about it. What is the incentive for a disease predator to kill off so many humans that it no longer has a food supply? Only people are that stupid. Any bacterium/virus, even a man-made one, once loosed into the real world has three choices:
1)become less lethal over time (measles/chicken pox)
2)establish a stable relationship with another host (influenza/plague)
3)or die off.
The scenario makes for kewel fiction but even in fiction Andromeda evolved.
And even by tribal warfare standards, it sounds as an atrocity.
Actually, by tribal warfare standards, hell, by chimpanzee warfare standards, this is SOP. Tribal warfare usually emphasized macho posturing and ritual killing of an enemy semi-equal to boost one's status in the community (a good historical example of this is the story of Crazy Horse).
But every now and then things would get serious and a mass killing/destroying/burn-it-all-down raid against an enemy will occur. What's *fascinating* is that chimps exhibit exactly the same behaviors (oh, look it up ferchrissakes - Goodall/Wrangham). Well, it's fascinating to me anyway.
You don't take the time to smash someone's fingers _after_ they're already stone dead. Doing that to women and children? Oooer.
I think you missed the point of those injuries. The broken fingers and wrists are defensive injuries that occurred when the victims were attempting to ward off the blows that killed them. The woman who had a spear point lodged in one of her vertebrae was probably running for her life.
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Microsoft, realizing that they are losing their developers to other software platforms, attempts to close the crack in the dam by shoveling sand into it. We go live to Lance Thruster on the scene.
...began their labors. Unfortunately, it seems that this effort may be too little too late...
...I do have an unconfirmed report that Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer himself is on the way to the dam break with several truck-loads of chairs he will use in an attempt to help.
Yes, Jim, 5 years after the dam began to crack, someone at Microsoft realized that the whole construction could be swept downstream at any moment. That's when this repair crew...
panning shot of Microsoft Open Source Evangelists at work shovelling sand
shot of developers spilling out of the Microsoft dam and into the PHP, Perl, Python, Java and Ruby streams
For Action Eyewitness OnTheSpot First News, I'm Lance Thruster reporting from the Microsoft dam.
Am I troll? Or just uninformed?
... unless you are a very GOOD troll!
You're just uninformed
You are simply spoiled by all the soooper hi-res photos of space thingys that are viewable on the webz. Unless you pay close attention to such stuff, it's easy to get the impression that photos of space thingys should always be razor-sharp and colorful. The fantastic images provided by Hubble haven't helped that situation. Unless you care, you probably haven't bothered to notice that even space-telescope pictures, taken without Earth's blurry atmosphere in the way, are often false color or enhanced color, highly-processed images that sum thousands of individual shots into one soooper view.
To get a high-magnification image from the ground the photographer not only has to fight the atmosphere (imagine taking portraits from the bottom of a filled swimming pool - it's a lot like that) but is doing battle with the laws of optics that say (more high-magnification) == (dimmer)+(blurrier).
This particular shot of the ISS from a 9cm scope is "amazing" because it shows a lot of detail for a picture of a 100-meter-wide object at 350 km. What's also "amazing" is that he was tracking the ISS by hand. (!!) If you've ever tried to track a high-magnification view of the freaking moon by hand, you're impressed.
No, the picture is not "amazing" if you compare it with automated-tracking 3-meter-aperture-scope shots that have been imaged processed to death but it is amazing for a picture that sums the frames from a webcam view through a 9cm scope that was hand-tracked. Webcam. Sheesh.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
"Do all the Cylons look like you? Yeah, yeah, sure. God's plan whatever. C'mover here baby. I'll make your spine glow."
Look, tard, I see "evolution" on Slashdot & I'm looking forward to a 1000-post rant-fest good time.
I DON'T need some killjoy summing up the whole bruhaha - and really, all of Slashdot - in one post.
Get off my lawn.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/police_ad/
Ach! I never have mod points when I want them!
+1 LOL
I, for one, welcome our suddenly-wealthy Spanish fisherman overlords.
whoosh!
Given identical (ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL, down to the quanta) inputs, you will behave in the exact same way.
I am replying to your message because I read it. So, given the EXACT same inputs (your post) I will ALWAYS reply. Yes?
Unfortunately for what you are saying, what is an "input" and what is an "output" depends on your reference frame (just like C++). Whether I am replying to you due to the input of your post or you are replying to me due to the input of my post depends on where the observer is and how she is moving.
So, unless you are willing to impose a GOD reference frame for the universe, the unassailable castle of determinism blows up in a shrieking maelstrom of chaos and a cloud of blood-red mist sending all the helpless ...
I seem to have wandered a bit. Sorry.
Ok, so here's my plot: They, like, scoop immortal UV resistant clone bacteria from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and, get this, it EATS radiation and so if you ...
It has?? When?? Oh.
Ok, so how bout this: So, like, this plane crashes on an island and the survivors run into a giant killer mutant iguana from the Badassic era but Ron Perlman shows up with this HUGE rail gun ...
Hey! I'm a Tartar, you insensitive clod and we don't eat fried anything!!
We keep our mammoth steaks under our saddles for a week until they're tender and then eat them washed down with fermented mammoth milk while listening to the lamentations of their women.
I believe the first Replicators were built to be toys too.
Uh-huh
First off, I thought the way they laid the store out was irritating. Everything was "my" this and "my" that and very confusing. They stuck games in a "MyGames" section that was hidden behind the "MyTools" section which you couldn't even see was there unless you walked through all the "MySystem" displays.
I was also disturbed by the number of sleazy, if not down right criminal, people that Microsoft let get into the store. It looked like a dangerous place to take my kids.
The kicker for me, however, was what they called their "Blue Light Special". Right in the middle of walking through the "MyRegistry" area looking for a stack of TCPs, all the store lights turned blue and we were hustled out of the store onto the sidewalk outside. We had to stand there for 5 minutes before they would let us back in.
I found the shopping experience at the Apple Store much more enjoyable. They even gave me a really big iPod to put under my bed.
And worth exactly what you paid for it.
I work at the MegaMegaCorporation in IT and we were "tasked" to "implement" a "departmental solution". I.E. we were told to write an app for a small bunch o' end users. The app we came up with used Java, Hibernate, Guice (for DI), Spring (for JMS) and Apache. Since we were in the Java world we had a huge range of OSS thingys we could plug into our app that did a whole bunch o' kewel things easily.
+1 for Java - all the widely available thingys
Then, as is usual at the MegaMegaCorporation, an upper management shuffle brought a new MegaMegaCorporateTard into the VP slot overseeing our little hive of worker bees. The new MMCT was demo-ed the 85% complete app we were developing and decided that it was was way too kewel to limit to just one departement; he wanted to make it "enterprise".
We don't have scope creep around here, we have scope explosions.
Anyway, we hit the brakes, wasted a full 2 months on corporate-nonsense design documentation and, in the end, decided to refactor the app into a full stack J2EE app. After I got over the desire to hang myself, I started the work with the rest of the team and found, much to my surprise, that scaling our little departmental app into a MegaMegaClusteredEnterpriseWideApp was, while not easy, at least doable.
+2 for java - it scales - no, really, it does!
My score is Java 3 - everything else I've ever worked with 0.
I'm too stupid to understand the whole Service Oriented Architecture thing. We now (finally) have freakin supercomputers sitting on our desks/laps and They want to move our applications out to The Cloud??
And this makes sense? How?? What am I missing?
I was most gratified to read in the art
Will you two SHUT UP?? I'm trying to type here!
NO YOU CAN'T! Now shut up!
I was most gratified to read in the article that auditory hallucinations are not unusual.
Splinter!
I know that the prophecy is that it will end "in fire" but it will actually end in bilateral negotiations.
BORING bilateral negotiations.
I read "even buildings" in the summary and the first thing I thought of was Python's "El Mystico (and Janet)" who erected buildings by hypnosis.
Now why was that the first thing that occurred to me?
Oh, I remember. I'm a total dork.
I, a little know scientist, have invented a method to reverse global warming. Computer simulations suggest that it can reduce global temperatures by 2 - 3 degrees C in only 10 years.
If everybody would just stand in south China, then the accumulated weight of all those people will change the Earth's axis to point up and down making sunlight never hit the poles making them real real cold.
And this is my idea, which is mine, and I call it "My Idea".
I have another idea. I call it "My Second Idea". And it's mine.
Give a disease enough time to find the right combination and it may end up with a lethality high enough to keep the remaining humans so far apart that the possibility of procreation may be very low.
That's not the way it works. Not in the messy real world anyway. In the messy real world evolution takes over.
Think about it. What is the incentive for a disease predator to kill off so many humans that it no longer has a food supply? Only people are that stupid. Any bacterium/virus, even a man-made one, once loosed into the real world has three choices:
1)become less lethal over time (measles/chicken pox)
2)establish a stable relationship with another host (influenza/plague)
3)or die off.
The scenario makes for kewel fiction but even in fiction Andromeda evolved.
Another brain-damaged gaggle of entertainment industry parasites have rehashed an old idea in the hopes of inflicting it on a witless populace.
The Day The Earth Stood Still?
King Kong?
Star Wars XI:A New Source Of Revenue?
No, Battlestar Galactica: The Prequel.
pfft.
http://accidentaltechnologist.com/general/dilbert-goes-agile/
And even by tribal warfare standards, it sounds as an atrocity.
Actually, by tribal warfare standards, hell, by chimpanzee warfare standards, this is SOP. Tribal warfare usually emphasized macho posturing and ritual killing of an enemy semi-equal to boost one's status in the community (a good historical example of this is the story of Crazy Horse).
But every now and then things would get serious and a mass killing/destroying/burn-it-all-down raid against an enemy will occur. What's *fascinating* is that chimps exhibit exactly the same behaviors (oh, look it up ferchrissakes - Goodall/Wrangham). Well, it's fascinating to me anyway.
You don't take the time to smash someone's fingers _after_ they're already stone dead. Doing that to women and children? Oooer.
I think you missed the point of those injuries. The broken fingers and wrists are defensive injuries that occurred when the victims were attempting to ward off the blows that killed them. The woman who had a spear point lodged in one of her vertebrae was probably running for her life.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/13/canadian-sues-microsoft-billion