Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Apologies to Nick Diamos. So the proposed FCC rule was not enacted. At least M$ was leaning forward on something.
I'm not normally a negative individual but, OMG! Little wonder it came from an AC; I sure wouldn't want my name associated with such a blatant attempt to build FUD over censorship.
Others have already addressed the utter lack of statistical significance of the suspect sample group.
If anything, this article made me more tolerant of censorship, particularly if it prevents baseless FUD like this article.
I've always thought of M$ as a collection of smart, but arrogant yahoos. Now they can bully their way into buying the domain name that fits them best. [flame off]
This is an employment program! Think about it: 2M CCTV cameras @ X screens per watcher = 2M/X jobs x 3 shifts. Multiply that by the bureaucratic overhead factor of 2.5 (watchers of watchers and their watchers) and you have some serious job creation. That doesn't even consider the manufacturing and maintenance job creation to support the infrastructure.
Now consider how many lawyers will be needed to operate the pro forma oversight litigation process. OK, maybe only 2-3 in China.
The point of the aphorism is to express that, in my experience, programmers tend to be intelligent, creative, less structured souls. They are not your average office worker and should not be managed in the same vein.
Motivation, for example, may have to be different. I used models of a tractor and a Corvette. The tractor went each week to the desk of the person with the clumsiest|ugliest working code produced. The Corvette went to the coolest idea|algorithm of the week. Some times they ended up on the same desk for the same project. Monday morning was when the models moved. We had no attendance problems on Mondays.
Seriously, I follow the advice of one particular grey-beard from my past, "Software ain't hardware and programmers ain't people." Programmers tend to be different: from secretaries, from accountants and from each other. The hardest part of successful coding or successful support is integrating whom you have into the best structure (or lack thereof) that you can establish to get the work done. Done well, it's a joy to behold. Done poorly, it's the Army.
Collaboration depends on the collaborators. Some people collaborate better than others. Yet some shouldn't share the room with other humans. The answer is, it depends.
There seems to be a tacit assumption in posts thus far that unmanned craft will be flying willy-nilly through the commercial lanes. That's just not the case. UAVs have pilots controlling them through encrypted datalinks. The few that have or are proposed to have "autonomous operation" will do so at altitudes that are far above normal flight levels or in restricted zones. Even during autonomous operations, monitoring is continuous and a crew is standing by to take over flight operations. As far as Air Traffic Control is concerned, UAV in-flight emergencies will be handled just like piloted craft in-flight emergencies. Airspace will be cleared around the disabled or uncontrolled craft.
I'm much more concerned over the modernization of our air traffic control systems, than the impact of UAVs.
There is a good reason that these odd experiences seem to you to be overly anthropomorphic. We are anthropomorphic creatures. We relate or describe things that are completely outside our experience with terms we can understand. We, reasonably, compare the strange and unusual with things that are within our experience, philisophy or religion. Hence, "little green men" vice.8 to.9 meter tall, semi-translucent green exterior membrane, bilaterally symmetric organisms.
Read the Revelation of John and count the times you read "like" or "as" in the descriptions. Think of what terms someone of that era might employ to describe a helicopter or a tank.
Does this speak to communist conditioning or is it simply another poorly worded slashdot headline? I'd wager that most Americans would answer similarly, thinking "managed or controlled" were managerial terms vice sinister terms. As to the government doing the controlling, isn't that how communist governments train their people to think?
With Lebanon falling apart next door (Google Hamas and Lebanon), may the Syrian government have valid reasons for a crack down? One wonders exactly what he wrote on these "opposition sites" to earn the wrath of the government.
On the bright side, his sentence was commuted to only three years. He may survive that, depending on where the sentence is to be served.
According to Russian Space Web, the USSR attempted four Mars landings with only two actually reaching the planet. Of those two, only one failed upon landing.
to make the Hubble look relatively inexpensive. Space research is expensive and no "apples to asteroids (~TM)" comparisons will change that. Compare the annual cost of supporting Hubble to the annual expenditures on dog food in the US and it will look like a tremendous bargain.
Space exploration will never garner adequate support because it's cheaper than the sum of all SMS plans. It will gain support by demonstrating its value: both scientific and in public relations. IMHO, Hubble.org has done more to advance the cause of space than any asinine comparison, such as this.
I really wanted to see this baby in action! Maybe when I get home. I have a copy of Flight Simulator for Mac on over 25 floppies that are ready to fly!
I would argue that it's good for a government to take time to study complex issues to make sensible, deliberate decisions. Inefficiency merely slows that process and creates the appearance of deliberation to mask debilitation.
The US government is based on an evolutionary process of change. It's not designed to make fundamental changes quickly or capriciously.
Earmarks notwithstanding. Just who's looking at their ears anyway?
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Apologies to Nick Diamos. So the proposed FCC rule was not enacted. At least M$ was leaning forward on something.
I'm not normally a negative individual but, OMG! Little wonder it came from an AC; I sure wouldn't want my name associated with such a blatant attempt to build FUD over censorship. Others have already addressed the utter lack of statistical significance of the suspect sample group.
If anything, this article made me more tolerant of censorship, particularly if it prevents baseless FUD like this article.
I've always thought of M$ as a collection of smart, but arrogant yahoos. Now they can bully their way into buying the domain name that fits them best. [flame off]
If hydrazine is cheaper, maybe we should all drive rocket powered cars! Tailgaters beware!
This is an employment program! Think about it: 2M CCTV cameras @ X screens per watcher = 2M/X jobs x 3 shifts. Multiply that by the bureaucratic overhead factor of 2.5 (watchers of watchers and their watchers) and you have some serious job creation. That doesn't even consider the manufacturing and maintenance job creation to support the infrastructure.
Now consider how many lawyers will be needed to operate the pro forma oversight litigation process. OK, maybe only 2-3 in China.
The point of the aphorism is to express that, in my experience, programmers tend to be intelligent, creative, less structured souls. They are not your average office worker and should not be managed in the same vein.
Motivation, for example, may have to be different. I used models of a tractor and a Corvette. The tractor went each week to the desk of the person with the clumsiest|ugliest working code produced. The Corvette went to the coolest idea|algorithm of the week. Some times they ended up on the same desk for the same project. Monday morning was when the models moved. We had no attendance problems on Mondays.
No thanks to us, apparently.
I love the line about "10,000 nearby galaxies." If they're so close, why don't we visit more often?
For monastic orders with vows of silence and problem monks.
Doesn't that negate your cool handle?
Seriously, I follow the advice of one particular grey-beard from my past, "Software ain't hardware and programmers ain't people." Programmers tend to be different: from secretaries, from accountants and from each other. The hardest part of successful coding or successful support is integrating whom you have into the best structure (or lack thereof) that you can establish to get the work done. Done well, it's a joy to behold. Done poorly, it's the Army.
I wonder if there will be a quality review of the code and comments before they declare a winner?
Collaboration depends on the collaborators. Some people collaborate better than others. Yet some shouldn't share the room with other humans. The answer is, it depends.
Is Linux ready for the average windows user?
Shallow Radar? Sounds like something found in women who frequent bars. And all along, I thought it was spelled charade.
He is the god of war after all. I'd imagine that tends to make one cold and hard over the millenia.
There seems to be a tacit assumption in posts thus far that unmanned craft will be flying willy-nilly through the commercial lanes. That's just not the case. UAVs have pilots controlling them through encrypted datalinks. The few that have or are proposed to have "autonomous operation" will do so at altitudes that are far above normal flight levels or in restricted zones. Even during autonomous operations, monitoring is continuous and a crew is standing by to take over flight operations. As far as Air Traffic Control is concerned, UAV in-flight emergencies will be handled just like piloted craft in-flight emergencies. Airspace will be cleared around the disabled or uncontrolled craft.
I'm much more concerned over the modernization of our air traffic control systems, than the impact of UAVs.
There is a good reason that these odd experiences seem to you to be overly anthropomorphic. We are anthropomorphic creatures. We relate or describe things that are completely outside our experience with terms we can understand. We, reasonably, compare the strange and unusual with things that are within our experience, philisophy or religion. Hence, "little green men" vice .8 to .9 meter tall, semi-translucent green exterior membrane, bilaterally symmetric organisms.
Read the Revelation of John and count the times you read "like" or "as" in the descriptions. Think of what terms someone of that era might employ to describe a helicopter or a tank.
Does this speak to communist conditioning or is it simply another poorly worded slashdot headline? I'd wager that most Americans would answer similarly, thinking "managed or controlled" were managerial terms vice sinister terms. As to the government doing the controlling, isn't that how communist governments train their people to think?
With Lebanon falling apart next door (Google Hamas and Lebanon), may the Syrian government have valid reasons for a crack down? One wonders exactly what he wrote on these "opposition sites" to earn the wrath of the government.
On the bright side, his sentence was commuted to only three years. He may survive that, depending on where the sentence is to be served.
It's quite easy, if you freeze the water into the shape of a wheel and put the sharp stick through the middle.
"What do they teach in the schools these days?"According to Russian Space Web, the USSR attempted four Mars landings with only two actually reaching the planet. Of those two, only one failed upon landing.
to make the Hubble look relatively inexpensive. Space research is expensive and no "apples to asteroids (~TM)" comparisons will change that. Compare the annual cost of supporting Hubble to the annual expenditures on dog food in the US and it will look like a tremendous bargain.
Space exploration will never garner adequate support because it's cheaper than the sum of all SMS plans. It will gain support by demonstrating its value: both scientific and in public relations. IMHO, Hubble.org has done more to advance the cause of space than any asinine comparison, such as this.
I really wanted to see this baby in action! Maybe when I get home. I have a copy of Flight Simulator for Mac on over 25 floppies that are ready to fly!
Why don't you host a VT52 terminal emulator for them and provide their text e-mail interface. They can surf mobile sites for their internet access.
If it worked at 300 baud...I would argue that it's good for a government to take time to study complex issues to make sensible, deliberate decisions. Inefficiency merely slows that process and creates the appearance of deliberation to mask debilitation.
The US government is based on an evolutionary process of change. It's not designed to make fundamental changes quickly or capriciously.
Earmarks notwithstanding. Just who's looking at their ears anyway?
If it keeps them off my phone line, then I'm all for it!
I hear voices, but they *usually* belong to people.