Yeah, nothing like it. Compiling on a computer that sits on your desk is totally different than compiling on a computer that sits in your pocket or on a computer that straps to your arm. Even if those computers are architecturally similar if not identical. The key take away here is the shape and location of your compute is vitally important to this definition of what makes Java and JIT distinctive.
It is my understanding there is no set size to the number of people a publicly trade company has on their board of directors. There are examples with 3, and I guess replacing one of those members with a woman is feasible, or possibly even adding a 4th member, although an odd number may be desirable for some boards to bread ties so we may see some 3 person boards expand to 5 person by adding two women.
But what if a publicly traded company has 1 member, it's possibly a weird situation and I can't think of any real examples. But it might be allowed by federal laws. What is perhaps more common are boards with 2 people where a publicly traded company started off as a partnership and the minimum ownership requirements of the company bylaws makes practical for only the original founders to still retain a board. This is perhaps more common with older companies that have passed on through a family.
We don't have to sit around and let our education system continue to go to hell.
I've been hearing this since the 80's and 90's, back when I was in school. The problem I see is people don't want to accidentally pay for some stranger's kid to get a free education. America is a material girl, Living in a material world.
We just need more funding for education in low-income communities.
I had hoped that the information age would improve literacy, and it has somewhat. But I think we've leveled off and can't expect much else to happen without effort (and money). As long as people are OK living in a gated community and can avoid interaction with the lower classes, we won't be too motivated to address our social problems. The problems of poverty and education of the poor have been with us for pretty much all of the 20th century, to one degree or another.
Perhaps, but to be fair a significant number of them were able to fill out their voter registration and absorb fake news memes on Facebook. Trump supporters are at least somewhat literate, even if their bullshit detector is malfunctioning.
It's pretty simple. We won't see any improvement in smart phone and computer usage without advances in technology that cater to the needs of an increasingly illiterate or sub-literate population.
Philips CD-i brought interactive videos to the masses in the 1990's. And our reaction was: meh.
Sega CD games like Night Trap were novel in that it's terribleness at least could be interpreted as an amusing cult movie / video game.
(in the 80's there were several arcade systems that were basically interactive videos - Sega's Astro Belt, Cinematronic's Dragon's Lair & Space Ace, Stern Pinball's Cliff Hanger. These aged better than CD-i, probably because of their significantly higher production values)
by idiot sheeple lusers too stupid to properly admin their own machines.
I've not met these elitist Linux users you're talking about, but they seem like my kind of crowd.
[...] de.dust in CS?
You're supposed to play CS as a 6 hour session with de_dust2 as the only map on the server list. I don't make the rules, that's just how the game is played.
Or the guys who brag about the games they buy for 5 bucks on Steam that they never get around to playing.
I have soooo many games from Steam summer sales over the last several years. Some of them I've actually played. Most of those are trash though.
Console gamers focus on the games, they don't go around calling PC gamers peasants or "welfare gamers" or using other slurs.
Because it wouldn't make sense to call someone with a sweet rig a "welfare gamer". They stick to other slurs, or to erratic behavior.
Besides, when Yahtzee created the "Master Race" thing, he was being sarcastic and calling out PC gamers on their elitism!
Sarcastic? No way. Really? I wonder if I come off as sarcastic too. Do you? Does anyone?
Yup, we're still together, and currently house shopping. You can always email me for support (orange@ should work) or on FreeNode (OrangeTide).
I took a bunch of the old accounts people used and disabled them. When we had trouble with the UID assignments when restoring back-ups, I restored all the old accounts (merged/etc/passwd basically) without home directories. Today I'll go through and disable all the old accounts completely for safety's sake.
I re-enabled your account with a fresh home dir. If you need a restore from back-up that is possible but it may take me several days to find it. I'm kind of a terrible sysadmin and I have a tar inside a tar inside a tar inside a tar. Hopefully it's not one in the backups on DAT72, for a drive that doesn't boot in my new PC.(EFI/BIOS hangs during detection)
Every cohort is called lazy and selfish when they are 15-25. Gen-X have earned, rightly or wrongly, a reputation for being cynical and not as politically active as Baby Boomers once were.
But these broad generalizations are more amusing than useful.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
— Socrates
Kids these days!... and I guess also kids in 5th century BC Greece.
I believe strongly that a company is only as good as its executive management. Once positions have been swapped out a few times, a company's culture and business strategy changes pretty dramatically. Tying your business's fate to another when you have no crystal ball is a real gamble in my opinion. It's fine to use a vendor like IBM, they provide an excellent product in this case (I'm slightly familiar with z/System, z/OS and z/Linux). But a backup plan so that one failed company doesn't take several others with it seems prudent to me.
My point stands - there are no other vendors to choose from.
In house development exists, but it's terribly inefficient. I worked at a few that do that. And even dabbled a bit with some third party compilers on z. Maybe it won't matter, and IBM will last another 100 years. I really don't have any way of knowing.
Pyst was a gag that was more fun to read about than to play. It would have gotten rave reviews if it were a free bundle to promote a magazine subscription. Most people who paid full price for it felt kind of cheated.
But more seriously if you look at the ages, say some was 20 when they started programming COBOL in 1978. They'd be 60 now. In 5 years They'd be 65. Maybe they'd retire and spend time with your grandkids, maybe you'd work until they're 70 or even 75. What I don't find reasonable is the sustainability of an industry based on a population of 80 year old programmers.
Now here's where my argument falls apart. It assumes people aren't learning COBOL. If you look at data from university computer science programs, you'd believe that not enough college graduates are bothering to learn it to sustain the industry. What is harder to factor in is that a lot of the old timers were self-taught computer operators and techs that transitioned to programming. There may be some significant number of people outside of the computer science industry. I don't have that data, but I would not estimate it to be a huge number.
The way COBOL programs are structured I think you had to have been programming in the 1970's to really understand the idioms and work flow. That means you may have been on the job for 40+ years already, putting you pretty close to retirement age if you were one of the younger folks to pick up COBOL in the late 1970's.
We're going to hit a brick wall in about 5 years on this, and some businesses will have to learn an expensive lesson about the sunk cost fallacy.
I believe mosquitoes are one of the few insects that also use an XX/XY sex-determination system, so yours is a pretty reasonable concern. But passing the modified gene along wouldn't likely cause infertility in humans through the same mechanism. It could do nothing, or it could cause congenital disorders like blindness.
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Yeah, nothing like it. Compiling on a computer that sits on your desk is totally different than compiling on a computer that sits in your pocket or on a computer that straps to your arm. Even if those computers are architecturally similar if not identical. The key take away here is the shape and location of your compute is vitally important to this definition of what makes Java and JIT distinctive.
It is my understanding there is no set size to the number of people a publicly trade company has on their board of directors. There are examples with 3, and I guess replacing one of those members with a woman is feasible, or possibly even adding a 4th member, although an odd number may be desirable for some boards to bread ties so we may see some 3 person boards expand to 5 person by adding two women.
But what if a publicly traded company has 1 member, it's possibly a weird situation and I can't think of any real examples. But it might be allowed by federal laws. What is perhaps more common are boards with 2 people where a publicly traded company started off as a partnership and the minimum ownership requirements of the company bylaws makes practical for only the original founders to still retain a board. This is perhaps more common with older companies that have passed on through a family.
We don't have to sit around and let our education system continue to go to hell.
I've been hearing this since the 80's and 90's, back when I was in school. The problem I see is people don't want to accidentally pay for some stranger's kid to get a free education. America is a material girl, Living in a material world.
We just need more funding for education in low-income communities.
I had hoped that the information age would improve literacy, and it has somewhat. But I think we've leveled off and can't expect much else to happen without effort (and money). As long as people are OK living in a gated community and can avoid interaction with the lower classes, we won't be too motivated to address our social problems. The problems of poverty and education of the poor have been with us for pretty much all of the 20th century, to one degree or another.
So, pretty much Trump supporters then?
Perhaps, but to be fair a significant number of them were able to fill out their voter registration and absorb fake news memes on Facebook. Trump supporters are at least somewhat literate, even if their bullshit detector is malfunctioning.
It's pretty simple. We won't see any improvement in smart phone and computer usage without advances in technology that cater to the needs of an increasingly illiterate or sub-literate population.
Philips CD-i brought interactive videos to the masses in the 1990's. And our reaction was: meh.
Sega CD games like Night Trap were novel in that it's terribleness at least could be interpreted as an amusing cult movie / video game.
(in the 80's there were several arcade systems that were basically interactive videos - Sega's Astro Belt, Cinematronic's Dragon's Lair & Space Ace, Stern Pinball's Cliff Hanger. These aged better than CD-i, probably because of their significantly higher production values)
Can't be worse than letting Adam Sandler write a series.
We're all cousins, some of us may be 10th cousins though.
by idiot sheeple lusers too stupid to properly admin their own machines.
I've not met these elitist Linux users you're talking about, but they seem like my kind of crowd.
[...] de.dust in CS?
You're supposed to play CS as a 6 hour session with de_dust2 as the only map on the server list. I don't make the rules, that's just how the game is played.
Or the guys who brag about the games they buy for 5 bucks on Steam that they never get around to playing.
I have soooo many games from Steam summer sales over the last several years. Some of them I've actually played. Most of those are trash though.
Console gamers focus on the games, they don't go around calling PC gamers peasants or "welfare gamers" or using other slurs.
Because it wouldn't make sense to call someone with a sweet rig a "welfare gamer". They stick to other slurs, or to erratic behavior.
Besides, when Yahtzee created the "Master Race" thing, he was being sarcastic and calling out PC gamers on their elitism!
Sarcastic? No way. Really? I wonder if I come off as sarcastic too. Do you? Does anyone?
It's the supposed PC Master race that's the riff raff,
And I'm sure PS4 users believe that. ;-)
Yup, we're still together, and currently house shopping. You can always email me for support (orange@ should work) or on FreeNode (OrangeTide).
I took a bunch of the old accounts people used and disabled them. When we had trouble with the UID assignments when restoring back-ups, I restored all the old accounts (merged /etc/passwd basically) without home directories. Today I'll go through and disable all the old accounts completely for safety's sake.
I re-enabled your account with a fresh home dir. If you need a restore from back-up that is possible but it may take me several days to find it. I'm kind of a terrible sysadmin and I have a tar inside a tar inside a tar inside a tar. Hopefully it's not one in the backups on DAT72, for a drive that doesn't boot in my new PC.(EFI/BIOS hangs during detection)
Now I have to play games with PS4 users?
Bring back the walled gardens, especially the ones that keep the riff-raff trapped inside.
Every cohort is called lazy and selfish when they are 15-25. Gen-X have earned, rightly or wrongly, a reputation for being cynical and not as politically active as Baby Boomers once were.
But these broad generalizations are more amusing than useful.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
— Socrates
Kids these days! ... and I guess also kids in 5th century BC Greece.
Gen-X here. Nobody ever gave a shit about us, not even other gen-x'ers.
I've protected myself in a thick scratchy blanket of cynicism.
I believe strongly that a company is only as good as its executive management. Once positions have been swapped out a few times, a company's culture and business strategy changes pretty dramatically. Tying your business's fate to another when you have no crystal ball is a real gamble in my opinion. It's fine to use a vendor like IBM, they provide an excellent product in this case (I'm slightly familiar with z/System, z/OS and z/Linux). But a backup plan so that one failed company doesn't take several others with it seems prudent to me.
My point stands - there are no other vendors to choose from.
In house development exists, but it's terribly inefficient. I worked at a few that do that. And even dabbled a bit with some third party compilers on z. Maybe it won't matter, and IBM will last another 100 years. I really don't have any way of knowing.
Agreed. IBM will be around forever. There never has been a highly profitable business that failed due to mismanagement.
Yup. relying on the continued support from a single vendor is always a good plan.
Pyst was a gag that was more fun to read about than to play. It would have gotten rave reviews if it were a free bundle to promote a magazine subscription. Most people who paid full price for it felt kind of cheated.
Maybe they'd retire and spend time with your grandkids
oops, that turned unexpectedly creepy. substitute the appropriate pronounce.
One of these 5 year periods I'll get it right.
But more seriously if you look at the ages, say some was 20 when they started programming COBOL in 1978. They'd be 60 now. In 5 years They'd be 65. Maybe they'd retire and spend time with your grandkids, maybe you'd work until they're 70 or even 75. What I don't find reasonable is the sustainability of an industry based on a population of 80 year old programmers.
Now here's where my argument falls apart. It assumes people aren't learning COBOL. If you look at data from university computer science programs, you'd believe that not enough college graduates are bothering to learn it to sustain the industry. What is harder to factor in is that a lot of the old timers were self-taught computer operators and techs that transitioned to programming. There may be some significant number of people outside of the computer science industry. I don't have that data, but I would not estimate it to be a huge number.
Indian jobs are getting outsourced to Poland, Romania, Brazil, China, Philippines, and Michigan.
The way COBOL programs are structured I think you had to have been programming in the 1970's to really understand the idioms and work flow. That means you may have been on the job for 40+ years already, putting you pretty close to retirement age if you were one of the younger folks to pick up COBOL in the late 1970's.
We're going to hit a brick wall in about 5 years on this, and some businesses will have to learn an expensive lesson about the sunk cost fallacy.
I believe mosquitoes are one of the few insects that also use an XX/XY sex-determination system, so yours is a pretty reasonable concern. But passing the modified gene along wouldn't likely cause infertility in humans through the same mechanism. It could do nothing, or it could cause congenital disorders like blindness.
There isn't money in selling operating systems anymore (or really for the last 20 years). It's all about the bundling deals with partners.