Or, alternatively, it could be that the US dollar should be massively devalued relative it's current state and it's only the frozen credit markets and the need to build reserves that is keeping it propped up. The dollar would be the new peso by now if it wasn't for that.
Well, Socrates was often very rude, because rudeness promoted discourse and challenged established ideas. His teaching style was rude and aggressive, he equated those who sold access to their wisdom (sophists) with whores. Plato referred to Socrates as the "gadfly" of the state for this reason, stinging the state into action as a gadfly would sting a horse.
Then again, Socrates was executed, so that's not to say being rude doesn't get you into trouble.
So everything humans do or interpret is flawed because humans are flawed? That's a logical fallacy. There are plenty of mathematical systems that have been constructed that have been proved fundamentally correct, are they some how invalidated because humans are impure vessels?
Come to think of it, if there is a God and he created humans with flaws, is he not flawed himself? Otherwise they are intentional characteristics and are not flaws but "intelligent design".
Well, given the vast majority of TVs don't support the polarization needed for the effect in any way shape or form, that might be where a "massively higher cost" comes in. There are a few displays that can do it though.
The real reason government projects can be more expensive is that the greater accountability and transparency required in government leads to costs that would be externalized by private industry to be internal to the government.
Of course, if private industry was doing it, the government would still probably have to pick up the external cost anyway. Or the problem would be ignored and get worse and worse until...
The whole point of stimulus is that the spending isn't happening currently (because people are scared of spending). As Keynes pointed out, in the long term, we are all dead.
Most languages have "fluff" that makes it terribly convenient to work with "data". Perl's fluff helps it deal with string data, for example. You really have to be a bit more specific.
The need for *stellar* technical ability in real-world situations is minimal, but the desirability is another matter. The "stellar" people are the ones who give you a product people want to buy and an architecture that will give the application you write a good future. You don't need every team member to be stellar (although it helps), but you do need at least some stellar people.
People with the ability to code and design are a dime-a-dozen, people with the ability to code and even more design well are not. Good communication is simple the base requirement. The people who are in the top 10% have both good communications skills and stellar technical ability.
Well, a good coder often gets things done more quickly by having a better design that has less code (especially less boiler-point) making it easier to maintain, bug fix and change in general.
More statements would encourage something even worse than more lines; copying and pasting code to handle everything, as opposed to producing good general solutions. Copying and pasting the sort function every time you need to sort something.
Or as an alternative, working on a commercial game and releasing the engine code as Open Source (like id software does).
You don't actually need the games to be completely free to users. But if the code is available for Open Source developers to port to Linux with the existing art (that costs money), then Linux still gets a boost. Of course, porting a Direct X game to OpenGL is a pain in the behind that is going to make the release lag a little.
But a lot of people here only claim to have Windows installed to play games.
Require Open Source Artists. Art assets are very important to games and most programmer art just doesn't cut it.
That's the real challenge, because while many coders will happily knock up a game engine for their own amusement, handling stuff like artistic direction to get a consistent "look" and generating inane brick textures is not something that many people do for "amusement". Of course, that could change if people got passionate about it, but it's much easier to focus as an artist when working on something like a Source Engine mod, where a lot of the inane brick textures already exist and you can concentrate on building cool character models (etc).
A unified non-volatile RAM/storage system will displace DDR/SSD/Platter based storage in one blow at around the same time, meaning a drastically new OS model is needed. This will probably be race-track memory or something similar.
Microsoft will leverage.NET and their investment in Singularity/Midori will pay off as better memory management technologies (improved garbage collection/region inference) come along and make performance stable. Code will be shipped in a managed form, verified with a proof system statically at install time and then compiled to native processor code into a locked install area. This will be a new system and will run almost entirely in ring 0 without memory protection, apart from legacy Windows applications running through a Wine like Windows API shim. The difference this time will be that the managed code system will be an ISO standard.
Apple, like they were caught out by a lack of memory protection and proper multi-tasking, will be caught out by a combination of this, Steve Jobs dying/retiring and the inevitable swing of fashion against them.
Linux will adapt much quicker and will adopt a lot of it's own revolutionary changes, overtaking Mac OSX as the alternative OS of choice. Sensing their time coming again, Novell will use their improved fortunes to fork the Linux kernel and start integrating improving/mono to the point where they actually release a system capable of running Midori applications natively. Google will contribute heavily to the project and release their own version.
Intel will poop their pants as x86 becomes redundant as every application gets shipped in managed code. Managed code becomes a defacto web standard and native applications/the web blur together as a capability based security system allows the code to execute safely. A plethora of processor platforms based on creative ideas take off.
Games consoles become redundant as powerful stream processing units on centralized PCs become more than games can actually utilize fully, online distribution becomes a reality and TVs can be connected wirelessly to your PC.
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Unless of course it's an application that's meant for administrators ;-).
I'll have a bajillion dollars thanks!
Or, alternatively, it could be that the US dollar should be massively devalued relative it's current state and it's only the frozen credit markets and the need to build reserves that is keeping it propped up. The dollar would be the new peso by now if it wasn't for that.
No, iluvcapra was having a stroke.
Well, Socrates was often very rude, because rudeness promoted discourse and challenged established ideas. His teaching style was rude and aggressive, he equated those who sold access to their wisdom (sophists) with whores. Plato referred to Socrates as the "gadfly" of the state for this reason, stinging the state into action as a gadfly would sting a horse.
Then again, Socrates was executed, so that's not to say being rude doesn't get you into trouble.
Socrates impolitely disagrees!
So everything humans do or interpret is flawed because humans are flawed? That's a logical fallacy. There are plenty of mathematical systems that have been constructed that have been proved fundamentally correct, are they some how invalidated because humans are impure vessels?
Come to think of it, if there is a God and he created humans with flaws, is he not flawed himself? Otherwise they are intentional characteristics and are not flaws but "intelligent design".
Personally I'm agnostic.
Well, given the vast majority of TVs don't support the polarization needed for the effect in any way shape or form, that might be where a "massively higher cost" comes in. There are a few displays that can do it though.
Not to mention type out the complete works of Shakespeare!
The real reason government projects can be more expensive is that the greater accountability and transparency required in government leads to costs that would be externalized by private industry to be internal to the government.
Of course, if private industry was doing it, the government would still probably have to pick up the external cost anyway. Or the problem would be ignored and get worse and worse until...
Then again, there were some years of stupid growth again under FDR prior to WW2 and he did something... but not enough.
The whole point of stimulus is that the spending isn't happening currently (because people are scared of spending). As Keynes pointed out, in the long term, we are all dead.
Most languages have "fluff" that makes it terribly convenient to work with "data". Perl's fluff helps it deal with string data, for example. You really have to be a bit more specific.
And with code like that, the poster should stay the hell away from computer science too!
Many Linux users find that's something they have in common with these women!
The need for *stellar* technical ability in real-world situations is minimal, but the desirability is another matter. The "stellar" people are the ones who give you a product people want to buy and an architecture that will give the application you write a good future. You don't need every team member to be stellar (although it helps), but you do need at least some stellar people.
People with the ability to code and design are a dime-a-dozen, people with the ability to code and even more design well are not. Good communication is simple the base requirement. The people who are in the top 10% have both good communications skills and stellar technical ability.
Well, a good coder often gets things done more quickly by having a better design that has less code (especially less boiler-point) making it easier to maintain, bug fix and change in general.
More statements would encourage something even worse than more lines; copying and pasting code to handle everything, as opposed to producing good general solutions. Copying and pasting the sort function every time you need to sort something.
... the Woz will put it through it's paces and point out any errata or caveats the emulator author has missed.
Ugh, plane, I suck.
They really shouldn't have smoked a bong on the plain though, they should've waited til they got to Amsterdam!
Are one of those crazy hobos holding up the "end is nigh" sign? How did you get on the internet!
Or as an alternative, working on a commercial game and releasing the engine code as Open Source (like id software does).
You don't actually need the games to be completely free to users. But if the code is available for Open Source developers to port to Linux with the existing art (that costs money), then Linux still gets a boost. Of course, porting a Direct X game to OpenGL is a pain in the behind that is going to make the release lag a little.
But a lot of people here only claim to have Windows installed to play games.
Require Open Source Artists. Art assets are very important to games and most programmer art just doesn't cut it.
That's the real challenge, because while many coders will happily knock up a game engine for their own amusement, handling stuff like artistic direction to get a consistent "look" and generating inane brick textures is not something that many people do for "amusement". Of course, that could change if people got passionate about it, but it's much easier to focus as an artist when working on something like a Source Engine mod, where a lot of the inane brick textures already exist and you can concentrate on building cool character models (etc).
Actually, in much of the rest of the Western world, there are two Christmas holidays; Christmas and Boxing Day.
A unified non-volatile RAM/storage system will displace DDR/SSD/Platter based storage in one blow at around the same time, meaning a drastically new OS model is needed. This will probably be race-track memory or something similar.
Microsoft will leverage .NET and their investment in Singularity/Midori will pay off as better memory management technologies (improved garbage collection/region inference) come along and make performance stable. Code will be shipped in a managed form, verified with a proof system statically at install time and then compiled to native processor code into a locked install area. This will be a new system and will run almost entirely in ring 0 without memory protection, apart from legacy Windows applications running through a Wine like Windows API shim. The difference this time will be that the managed code system will be an ISO standard.
Apple, like they were caught out by a lack of memory protection and proper multi-tasking, will be caught out by a combination of this, Steve Jobs dying/retiring and the inevitable swing of fashion against them.
Linux will adapt much quicker and will adopt a lot of it's own revolutionary changes, overtaking Mac OSX as the alternative OS of choice. Sensing their time coming again, Novell will use their improved fortunes to fork the Linux kernel and start integrating improving/mono to the point where they actually release a system capable of running Midori applications natively. Google will contribute heavily to the project and release their own version.
Intel will poop their pants as x86 becomes redundant as every application gets shipped in managed code. Managed code becomes a defacto web standard and native applications/the web blur together as a capability based security system allows the code to execute safely. A plethora of processor platforms based on creative ideas take off.
Games consoles become redundant as powerful stream processing units on centralized PCs become more than games can actually utilize fully, online distribution becomes a reality and TVs can be connected wirelessly to your PC.
Slashdot memes continue.