The USPTO can (and does) award patents for almost anything.
. . . so I'm thinking of filing a patent titled, "A Method and Process of Doing Stuff with Things." Then I will open it up for free in the public domain.
That should end this patent mess that has evolved.
I sat at lunch, at Princeton, while you were still still swimming around in your dad's balls . . . the folks at the lunch were physicists and philosophers, and they were fighting about the "Arrow of Time", which is is much beyond anything than your can comprehend
You, Sir, are a totally idiot! Post your credentials . . . maybe a local community college in New Jersey . . ..?
Hi, just this comment, as a pre-Christmas gift! In a project that I worked with, oh, yes, it was for a company the also produced mainframes, if anyone here knows what that means . . . a quality assurance manger monitored the the defects and the lines of code changed with each defect fixed. This meant that the developer had to appear in a manager meeting, and explain why this defect needed to be fixed.
The developers soon determined that the quality assurance manager's script was just looking for semi-colons in the source code. So they programmed some XEDIT scripts to automatically add or remove semi-colons in the code, to keep the number constant.
When the shit hit the fan, the executives were amused, and the quality assurance manager got early retirement.
Now, why anyone would want to program in PL/S is beyond me anyway . . . .
I've noticed a disturbing trend from one of those "three letter" IT providers: their folks have titles in their email trailers, declaring themselves as "Certified Scrum Masters". For me, this is a warning sign that the person has no actual experience or knowledge of software development. I'm guessing that the company involved has some kind of policy that gives them points for getting "Certifications".
When I recruit folks for projects, I don't care about any certifications . . . for me it is more important what they have done in the past. Most great programmers that I interview are incredibly self-deprecating. When I ask them what they could have done better in hindsight after a project, you get a cornucopia of ideas. That person is hired!
In my experience, developers don't like "processes" that are forced on them from higher management, but they are willing to embrace anything that makes their job easier. A case in point: a while back, a programmer who was working for me on a large development project suggested that we use a Continuous Integration system named Hudson. I took a look at it, and was impressed, but wanted to show it to the other developers first. I warned them, that this system, will give them an email, when a change that they committed caused a unit test to break. They liked it! It caused much less "fuss" about whose change broke something, and they loved getting to work in the morning, and saying, "My commits were all clean!"
To recap, just to adopt the latest "fashionable" process or technology will not make your software development more productive. Find something that the developers like!
Not the point.
Point: it's never changed this fast, and it's our fault.
Denier doesn't get it, news at 11:05.
True science needs deniers:
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. - - Jacob Bronowski
The "Science" of Physics was "settled" back in the time of Issac Newton. Oops, then came Einstein along! Our views on global climate change are based on we *think* is right, based on the facts that we have today. In another 100 years, things might look very differently. Hey, using blood-sucking leeches to treat sick folks seemed like a good idea a while back! The gag is, blood-sucking leeches are back in fashion in modern medicine: it turns out that they are very useful in restoring blood flow to skin transplants.
Even Einstein himself, probably one of the most gifted minds that ever walked on this planet, had problems with that newfangled Quantum Theory:
Einstein: "God does not play dice!"
Niels Bohr: "Stop telling God what to do!"
Erwin Schrödinger: "So, is like, my cat dead or alive . . . ?"
Einstein: "If I had my way, all those cats would be dead! They pee on my furniture, and shit in my shoes!"
I don't know how many Syrian and Iraqi civilians died in the past year,
Syrians are voting with their feet. They are undertaking horrendous and dangerous journeys to get to Europe . . . all which is better than living under a Muslim ruled country.
If Islam is so great, how come so many people are trying to get away from it? It seems that the only folks who want to go to the Islamic state are teenage boys, who like the idea of buying teenage girls sex slaves.
Islam is worse than Nazis . . . and until we acknowledge that, the West will suffer wherever we offer Muslims refuge.
Those terrorists do not represent all Muslims in the world.
Bullshit! I live in a country that has a high percentage of Muslims , , , why do you want to commit the crimes of Muslims on innocent Protestants= - - -- ?
Do you have a head? Can you get it out of your ass? Um, these were not Methodists from Ohio doing terrorist tactics in Frances . . ... they had a rag on their head!
Well, listening to CNN right now . . . I heard the story of a guy who dragged out a bloodied teenage girl out of the concert . . . is this what Islam is all about!? Any Muslims are encouraged to answer!
Curious, have any EU anti-immigrant groups actually attacked Muslim immigrants yet?
Yes, some neo-nazis have firebombed Syrian refugee shelters in Germany. Mainstream Islamists need to distance themselves from these folks. Otherwise, this will get really ugly, really soon . . .
I would really like to see a parade of Islamists, who are saying "we aren't supporting terrorists!"
But I am afraid, I will have to wait a long time for that . . .
Us geeks, we generally are better off with a clear head.
In Putinist Amerika, clear head betters you!
Or are we still reminiscing the alleged positive effects of LSD on UNIX?
I had, involuntarily, a couple of "guests", recently who were tripping their balls off on LSD. They were generally incoherent and annoying, and one of them wanted to incite sexual relations with a large poster that I have hanging on the wall from the film, "Metropolis". When I watch documentaries about the 60's, folks who are tripping seem to speak some mumbo-jumbo about love. I guess the LSD these days is different.
Don't think Ken and Dennis did drugs.
No, not in goddamned New Jersey, Murray Hill . . . drugs did them.
This is obviously Man-Made Space Climate Hanky Panky. If you study this in "2001: A Space Odessey", the first of many of famed film director's Stanly Kubrick faked Moon Landings produced at Area 51, everything with the Space Climate was working fine, between the monkey-boy critters on the Earth, and the concrete slab delivery boys from outer space. Then, the concrete slab delivery boys mistakenly delivered a slab that sung some freaked out Hungarian music, which instructed the Earth Monkey Boys to smach small around skulls, with bones. This wasn't a problem, until one of the Monkey Boys tossed a bone into the air, and it transformed into a space shuttle, which in turn, knocked another space shuttle out of it's path, and got the whole world caught up in an Alien Mexican Standoff.
It appears to me sometimes, that a lot of CEOs spend their entire tenure as CEO . . . as NOT being the CEO. Instead, they spend all of their time doing interviews on CNBC and conference calls with with Wall Street analysts.
"Dark Snow" is not caused by anything climate related. This is the result of allegations that Silicon Valley and Greenland do not have enough diversity. Activists in the US for more diversity charged that Greenland had way to much white snow, and Silicon Valley didn't have enough dark Computer Scientists working there.
So Greenland, for their part, introduced the "Dark Snow". A noble an politically correct to do. We'll see what Silicon Valley comes up with . . .
That's not the important question. The interesting question is, "Where is it going . . . ?" I don't think HP's senior management can answer that question.
Does everyone fail to see the hilarious irony here? TFS stated that they deliver "natural pesticides". Not only that, but the pesticides are delivered by "natural drones." You just can't get any more environmentally friendly than that.
Although who knows what the US military is planning for natural drones . . . bumblebees are definitely way cheaper than Predator drones . . .
The Economist once quipped that taxation is like plucking a live goose for feathers for a pillow: You want to get the maximum amount of feathers, with the minimal amount of fuss. This is why there is no point in taxing the rich . . . they will just park their cash in the Cayman Islands or wherever. When I read the story about Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus, I actually thought that this was a scene from rich international corporations to hide their profits there.
Anyway, I think the "Monty Python" crew summed it up best with their sketch that suggested, "I think that we should tax foreigners living abroad!"
Everyone loves a tax that the think someone else is going to end up paying for.
And they all love "free" benefits and entitlements that they think cost nothing to nobody.
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The USPTO can (and does) award patents for almost anything.
. . . so I'm thinking of filing a patent titled, "A Method and Process of Doing Stuff with Things." Then I will open it up for free in the public domain.
That should end this patent mess that has evolved.
I sat at lunch, at Princeton, while you were still still swimming around in your dad's balls . . . the folks at the lunch were physicists and philosophers, and they were fighting about the "Arrow of Time", which is is much beyond anything than your can comprehend
You, Sir, are a totally idiot! Post your credentials . . . maybe a local community college in New Jersey . . . .?
The "Science" of Physics was "settled" back in the time of Issac Newton.
It still is! Newton's laws work just fine for explaining pretty much anything a human can put their hands on
. . . so . . . either you are not human . . . or you don't have a cell phone with GPS . . .
. . . or you have no fucking clue, whatsoever, which is probably the case . . . S T U . . . P I D . . . how did you do on your SAT?!
Hi, just this comment, as a pre-Christmas gift! In a project that I worked with, oh, yes, it was for a company the also produced mainframes, if anyone here knows what that means . . . a quality assurance manger monitored the the defects and the lines of code changed with each defect fixed. This meant that the developer had to appear in a manager meeting, and explain why this defect needed to be fixed.
The developers soon determined that the quality assurance manager's script was just looking for semi-colons in the source code. So they programmed some XEDIT scripts to automatically add or remove semi-colons in the code, to keep the number constant.
When the shit hit the fan, the executives were amused, and the quality assurance manager got early retirement.
Now, why anyone would want to program in PL/S is beyond me anyway . . . .
I've noticed a disturbing trend from one of those "three letter" IT providers: their folks have titles in their email trailers, declaring themselves as "Certified Scrum Masters". For me, this is a warning sign that the person has no actual experience or knowledge of software development. I'm guessing that the company involved has some kind of policy that gives them points for getting "Certifications".
When I recruit folks for projects, I don't care about any certifications . . . for me it is more important what they have done in the past. Most great programmers that I interview are incredibly self-deprecating. When I ask them what they could have done better in hindsight after a project, you get a cornucopia of ideas. That person is hired!
In my experience, developers don't like "processes" that are forced on them from higher management, but they are willing to embrace anything that makes their job easier. A case in point: a while back, a programmer who was working for me on a large development project suggested that we use a Continuous Integration system named Hudson. I took a look at it, and was impressed, but wanted to show it to the other developers first. I warned them, that this system, will give them an email, when a change that they committed caused a unit test to break. They liked it! It caused much less "fuss" about whose change broke something, and they loved getting to work in the morning, and saying, "My commits were all clean!"
To recap, just to adopt the latest "fashionable" process or technology will not make your software development more productive. Find something that the developers like!
This reminds me of an old advertisement from the 70's, from an investment house named Smith Barney: the aristocratic actor John Houseman announced:
"At Smith Barney, we make money the old fashioned way . . . we earn it!"
In these Halcyon days of Internet bubbles and fortunes, it seems even more poignant.
Not the point. Point: it's never changed this fast, and it's our fault. Denier doesn't get it, news at 11:05.
True science needs deniers:
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. - - Jacob Bronowski
The "Science" of Physics was "settled" back in the time of Issac Newton. Oops, then came Einstein along! Our views on global climate change are based on we *think* is right, based on the facts that we have today. In another 100 years, things might look very differently. Hey, using blood-sucking leeches to treat sick folks seemed like a good idea a while back! The gag is, blood-sucking leeches are back in fashion in modern medicine: it turns out that they are very useful in restoring blood flow to skin transplants.
Even Einstein himself, probably one of the most gifted minds that ever walked on this planet, had problems with that newfangled Quantum Theory:
Einstein: "God does not play dice!"
Niels Bohr: "Stop telling God what to do!"
Erwin Schrödinger: "So, is like, my cat dead or alive . . . ?"
Einstein: "If I had my way, all those cats would be dead! They pee on my furniture, and shit in my shoes!"
I gather, you fear that any Christians lurking about are secretly planning Spanish Inquisition 2.0 too.
Well, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition, until they showed up at my door, mumbling something about "the rack" and the "comfy chair" . . . .
I don't know how many Syrian and Iraqi civilians died in the past year,
Syrians are voting with their feet. They are undertaking horrendous and dangerous journeys to get to Europe . . . all which is better than living under a Muslim ruled country.
If Islam is so great, how come so many people are trying to get away from it? It seems that the only folks who want to go to the Islamic state are teenage boys, who like the idea of buying teenage girls sex slaves.
Islam is worse than Nazis . . . and until we acknowledge that, the West will suffer wherever we offer Muslims refuge.
Those terrorists do not represent all Muslims in the world.
Bullshit! I live in a country that has a high percentage of Muslims , , , why do you want to commit the crimes of Muslims on innocent Protestants= - - -- ?
Do you have a head? Can you get it out of your ass? Um, these were not Methodists from Ohio doing terrorist tactics in Frances . . . .. they had a rag on their head!
Should all Christians be lumped in with Anders Breivik.
All true Christians (and I am not one!) would disassociate themselves with whacky Christians . . . but do the Muslims do that . . . I think not!
Well, listening to CNN right now . . . I heard the story of a guy who dragged out a bloodied teenage girl out of the concert . . . is this what Islam is all about!? Any Muslims are encouraged to answer!
Curious, have any EU anti-immigrant groups actually attacked Muslim immigrants yet?
Yes, some neo-nazis have firebombed Syrian refugee shelters in Germany. Mainstream Islamists need to distance themselves from these folks. Otherwise, this will get really ugly, really soon . . .
I would really like to see a parade of Islamists, who are saying "we aren't supporting terrorists!"
But I am afraid, I will have to wait a long time for that . . .
Us geeks, we generally are better off with a clear head.
In Putinist Amerika, clear head betters you!
Or are we still reminiscing the alleged positive effects of LSD on UNIX?
I had, involuntarily, a couple of "guests", recently who were tripping their balls off on LSD. They were generally incoherent and annoying, and one of them wanted to incite sexual relations with a large poster that I have hanging on the wall from the film, "Metropolis". When I watch documentaries about the 60's, folks who are tripping seem to speak some mumbo-jumbo about love. I guess the LSD these days is different.
Don't think Ken and Dennis did drugs.
No, not in goddamned New Jersey, Murray Hill . . . drugs did them.
Halley's comet is simply one of the few that beat the odds.
. . . so if we could just figure out how Halley's comet would bet on Fantasy Football . . . we'd be all set for life!
Martin Luthor King didn't say "I have a plan", he said "I have a dream".
I think it wasn't a dream, but a nightmare, and the difference was that it was going on while Martin "Lex" Luthor was awake, and not sleeping.
Later, Martin "Lex" Luthor King was shot by James Earl Ray Jones, who later went on to star with Lou Ferrigno in the film "Conan, The Librarian"
or Space Climate?
This is obviously Man-Made Space Climate Hanky Panky. If you study this in "2001: A Space Odessey", the first of many of famed film director's Stanly Kubrick faked Moon Landings produced at Area 51, everything with the Space Climate was working fine, between the monkey-boy critters on the Earth, and the concrete slab delivery boys from outer space. Then, the concrete slab delivery boys mistakenly delivered a slab that sung some freaked out Hungarian music, which instructed the Earth Monkey Boys to smach small around skulls, with bones. This wasn't a problem, until one of the Monkey Boys tossed a bone into the air, and it transformed into a space shuttle, which in turn, knocked another space shuttle out of it's path, and got the whole world caught up in an Alien Mexican Standoff.
I'll bet if you ask them about the status of their "plan", they will answer, "we are currently implementing plans to size the effort."
It appears to me sometimes, that a lot of CEOs spend their entire tenure as CEO . . . as NOT being the CEO. Instead, they spend all of their time doing interviews on CNBC and conference calls with with Wall Street analysts.
"Dark Snow" is not caused by anything climate related. This is the result of allegations that Silicon Valley and Greenland do not have enough diversity. Activists in the US for more diversity charged that Greenland had way to much white snow, and Silicon Valley didn't have enough dark Computer Scientists working there.
So Greenland, for their part, introduced the "Dark Snow". A noble an politically correct to do. We'll see what Silicon Valley comes up with . . .
That's not the important question. The interesting question is, "Where is it going . . . ?" I don't think HP's senior management can answer that question.
Absolutely true. I can still point out the house in our neighborhood that in 1973 (and only for one year) gave out full-size chocolate bars.
Of course, this feat is a lot easier, if you are still living in your mom's basement in your old neighborhood . . .
Does everyone fail to see the hilarious irony here? TFS stated that they deliver "natural pesticides". Not only that, but the pesticides are delivered by "natural drones." You just can't get any more environmentally friendly than that.
Although who knows what the US military is planning for natural drones . . . bumblebees are definitely way cheaper than Predator drones . . .
Murder and taxation are quite different things.
The Economist once quipped that taxation is like plucking a live goose for feathers for a pillow: You want to get the maximum amount of feathers, with the minimal amount of fuss. This is why there is no point in taxing the rich . . . they will just park their cash in the Cayman Islands or wherever. When I read the story about Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus, I actually thought that this was a scene from rich international corporations to hide their profits there.
Anyway, I think the "Monty Python" crew summed it up best with their sketch that suggested, "I think that we should tax foreigners living abroad!"
Everyone loves a tax that the think someone else is going to end up paying for.
And they all love "free" benefits and entitlements that they think cost nothing to nobody.