Just to give an example of pre-WWII science job market: Feynman's first job was as a plastic chemist, and he spent some time as basically a mechanical engineer (albeit a high-powered one) before he got into the Manhattan project. The point is, only for the past 50 years has there been much money at all for "basic unapplied" research.
Remember that right before WWII was the Great Depression. What you say may be right, but the fact of the Depression means that this particular cite isn't very compelling evidence.
Of course, Einstein came up with a lot of good stuff while working as a clerk in the patent office, and that was way before the Depression, so maybe you're right after all.
CodeWarrior has several advantages over Xcode, mainly speed, stability, and a better UI. I don't personally use it, because I'm poor and Xcode works fine for me, but a large proportion of the professional developers I hang out with on IRC like CodeWarrior a lot, so I would hardly call it a joke. If it does become a joke, it won't be Apple's fault. Xcode is good but it leaves plenty of room for competition, even expensive competition.
With OS-X being basically BSD, Their wouldn't be much work to do so.
Why do clueless people continue to state this idiotic premise? I'm not even going to correct it, I just want to say how displeased I am to see it showing up every time Apple is mentioned. To people who will comment in the next Apple article: get a clue, and don't post this stupid thing again!
You're right. The wave of the future is being forced to decide between giving your hard work away for free or working for a gigantic, faceless multinational. It's so much better that way.
And not nearly as much care about compatibility. e.g. how many OSX programs broke with the OSX 1.2 and 1.3 updates?
Roughly zero. Apple is very good about not breaking apps, and they basically never break apps that don't rely on undocumented behavior.
If you go to http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/missile20.html, you'll find a Mac clone of Missile Command that was written for the original 1984 Macintosh. I just downloaded it and tried it out for kicks; it works perfectly in Classic on OS X 10.3.
how'd you like to be a Mac-only calendar/email application developer the day after iCal and Mail came out? or MetroWerks' Mac team after Xcode?
Mail shipped with the OS since the beginning, so that one doesn't make a lot of sense. (And what is Outlook Express, chopped liver?) I'm totally unfamiliar with Mac calendar apps, so I can't comment on that. But the CodeWarrior thing I can comment on, namely that CodeWarrior's Mac version is still being sold and still going strong. I haven't heard of any sackings, plans to cancel the product, or any other lamentations from them.
Of course, Microsoft's tactics of using legal and illegal bundling to kill all competition in various application spaces e.g. browsers is no problem at all.
The Esperanto FAQ claims that Esperanto is spoken by roughly the same number of people as Latvian or Hebrew, i.e. enough people to fill a smallish middle-eastern or eastern-european country. Klingon is probably way behind. It's not exactly an impartial source, though.
I agree, but that doesn't mean that there won't be any Google hits. Normally there is a set system for representing a language that uses a different alphabet in the Roman alphabet. I don't know squat about Japanese, but I'm not completely clueless about Chinese. Every word that Chinese borrowed from English that I can think of (which is about four) comes up with Google hits, and the right hits too. (E.g. searching for 'zhijiage' gets you pages talking about Chicago, 'kelindun' goes to pages talking about our illustrious former president, and so on.) So if "sukaisukure" is a real word, people should have used it on web pages and it should show up on Google. Of course, it's possible that the OP just misspelled it, but given the rest of his post, it's more likely that he's talking out of his ass.
I'll go from less confident to more confident here, in terms of how much I know and how confident I am about what I'm saying.
First, there were lots of Tokugawas, but they all seem to have ruled before Japan began to really industrialize.
Second, don't you think this policy of popular oppression might have had something to do with Japan provoking a couple of major wars, killing tens of millions of other countries' citizens, and generally acting like a total jackass in the first half of the 20th century? Maybe it wasn't such a good idea. Plenty of other countries managed to become nicely industrialized and technologically advanced without provoking idiotic wars and going on murderous rampages.
Third, the Great Wall is in China. Japan didn't own the part of China where it resides until the 20th century, and almost by definition, Japan was industrialized before it conquered large chunks of China. Also, it runs east-to-west. Maybe you're referring to some other structure here, perhaps one in Japan.
Fourth, every reference I've found mentions that the first Japanese skyscraper was buit in 1968. Given that this was fully 27 years after Japan posed enough of a threat to a certain other country's well-being (if not its existence) as to be bombed flat and conquered, I think this is comfortably after the industrialization and technological rise of Japan.
Last, a google search for "sukaisukure" turns up no hits, so I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's not a real word.
The easiest and best way to fix charset handling would be to make everything use UTF-8. It's easy, completely backwards compatible, requires no changes to the server as long as they don't mess up 8-bit characters, and can represent basically every language on the planet. What's not to like?
Compare the space shuttles to your car. Sure, they probably cost more in maintenance than your car, but they were engineered in the 70s, and with a couple of exceptions, they're still operational.
I'd just like to point out that those "couple of exceptions" are actually 40% of the fleet, and that their removal from service resulted in the sudden and violent death of everybody inside.
They do have an escape pod. When a new crew comes up in a Soyuz module, they keep the Soyuz attached to the station. When it's time to leave, they ride it back down. If something bad happens before it's time to leave, they can hop in and get back to earth in a hurry. The lack of a replacement emergency return vehicle is the reason why the permanent crew was limited to 3, because Soyuz can only hold 3 people and there's some reason they can't keep two of them at the station all the time.
Everybody in the country has broken a law. I'm sure you have broken a law. I'm sure I have broken a law. There are too many, and they are too complicated, to avoid it. Until and unless we get some serious legislative reform, selective enforcement is going to be a way of life.
The simple fact is that piracy exists. It is a fact of life, like the water and the air. Police activity and raids may decrease it, may drive people farther underground, but it will never go away. Anybody involved in the creation of intellectual property has to take this into account, just like a construction company has to think about the weather. Can you imagine a construction company saying something like, "I'm sorry we're six months late and four million dollars over budget, but this winter thing came out of left field and really screwed up our operations; we couldn't even dig, the ground was frozen solid!" That is effectively what media companies are saying when they say, "Product X would have made a lot more money if it weren't for the pirates."
How lame. Even assuming an average of two meters per person, stacking 747 people is not even 1,500 meters. I've been way higher than that in an airplane.
People in the middle of the Roman Empire weren't any dumber than we were. If we saw a woman get pregnant and she claimed to be a virgin, nobody would believe her. Nobody would go around saying "those evil scientists did it", much less "God did it", they'd say something like "the mailman did it". They'd say the same thing in ancient Rome. "Oh, she was hanging around with that Centurion an awful lot, you know."
Sigh. If they would spend more time making a movie that didn't suck and less time on this self-important drivel like this, maybe the movies wouldn't have turned into such a schlockfest. Although I doubt it.
I've never heard anybody say that they prefer news source X because it agrees with them even though it's not as accurate as the traditional media.
Rather, people prefer news sources that agree with them because they think that makes them more accurate than traditional sources. And the politically polarized news organizations reinforce this fact by continually claiming a large, corrupting bias (liberal or conservative, depending on who you listen to) in the traditional media.
James Watt (the Reagan interior secretary, not the steam engine guy) disciples will inevitably say, "This is great! We can pollute as much as we want, appease those Satan-worshipping environmentalist wackos, and make more money in the process."
Environmentalist luddites will inevitably say, "This technology sucks, it isn't effective and will just give those Satan-worshipping James Watt disciples a way to look good in the public eye while further destroying our planet."
Fortunately, most people, including most executives of large companies, lie in between these extremes. Mining companies are as concerned with public relations as any other company, and they'll realize that this can be used to save money and look good in the public eye, and they'll also realize that using it as an excuse to further pollute will simply bring down the hammer of public opinion and media attention.
And this is why people who natter on about floating currencies and how things were so much better when money was backed by gold which has "intrinsic value" are completely bonkers.
You can make the same argument about any cleanup technology. It doesn't make any sense. Technology that lets you clean up pollution is a good thing. You might as well say, "Next time there's a big oil spill, we'll just leave it, because that way there won't be any more excuses."
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Just to give an example of pre-WWII science job market: Feynman's first job was as a plastic chemist, and he spent some time as basically a mechanical engineer (albeit a high-powered one) before he got into the Manhattan project. The point is, only for the past 50 years has there been much money at all for "basic unapplied" research.
Remember that right before WWII was the Great Depression. What you say may be right, but the fact of the Depression means that this particular cite isn't very compelling evidence.
Of course, Einstein came up with a lot of good stuff while working as a clerk in the patent office, and that was way before the Depression, so maybe you're right after all.
CodeWarrior has several advantages over Xcode, mainly speed, stability, and a better UI. I don't personally use it, because I'm poor and Xcode works fine for me, but a large proportion of the professional developers I hang out with on IRC like CodeWarrior a lot, so I would hardly call it a joke. If it does become a joke, it won't be Apple's fault. Xcode is good but it leaves plenty of room for competition, even expensive competition.
With OS-X being basically BSD, Their wouldn't be much work to do so.
Why do clueless people continue to state this idiotic premise? I'm not even going to correct it, I just want to say how displeased I am to see it showing up every time Apple is mentioned. To people who will comment in the next Apple article: get a clue, and don't post this stupid thing again!
You're right. The wave of the future is being forced to decide between giving your hard work away for free or working for a gigantic, faceless multinational. It's so much better that way.
And not nearly as much care about compatibility. e.g. how many OSX programs broke with the OSX 1.2 and 1.3 updates?
l , you'll find a Mac clone of Missile Command that was written for the original 1984 Macintosh. I just downloaded it and tried it out for kicks; it works perfectly in Classic on OS X 10.3.
Roughly zero. Apple is very good about not breaking apps, and they basically never break apps that don't rely on undocumented behavior.
If you go to http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/missile20.htm
how'd you like to be a Mac-only calendar/email application developer the day after iCal and Mail came out? or MetroWerks' Mac team after Xcode?
Mail shipped with the OS since the beginning, so that one doesn't make a lot of sense. (And what is Outlook Express, chopped liver?) I'm totally unfamiliar with Mac calendar apps, so I can't comment on that. But the CodeWarrior thing I can comment on, namely that CodeWarrior's Mac version is still being sold and still going strong. I haven't heard of any sackings, plans to cancel the product, or any other lamentations from them.
Of course, Microsoft's tactics of using legal and illegal bundling to kill all competition in various application spaces e.g. browsers is no problem at all.
The Esperanto FAQ claims that Esperanto is spoken by roughly the same number of people as Latvian or Hebrew, i.e. enough people to fill a smallish middle-eastern or eastern-european country. Klingon is probably way behind. It's not exactly an impartial source, though.
I agree, but that doesn't mean that there won't be any Google hits. Normally there is a set system for representing a language that uses a different alphabet in the Roman alphabet. I don't know squat about Japanese, but I'm not completely clueless about Chinese. Every word that Chinese borrowed from English that I can think of (which is about four) comes up with Google hits, and the right hits too. (E.g. searching for 'zhijiage' gets you pages talking about Chicago, 'kelindun' goes to pages talking about our illustrious former president, and so on.) So if "sukaisukure" is a real word, people should have used it on web pages and it should show up on Google. Of course, it's possible that the OP just misspelled it, but given the rest of his post, it's more likely that he's talking out of his ass.
I call shenanigans.
I'll go from less confident to more confident here, in terms of how much I know and how confident I am about what I'm saying.
First, there were lots of Tokugawas, but they all seem to have ruled before Japan began to really industrialize.
Second, don't you think this policy of popular oppression might have had something to do with Japan provoking a couple of major wars, killing tens of millions of other countries' citizens, and generally acting like a total jackass in the first half of the 20th century? Maybe it wasn't such a good idea. Plenty of other countries managed to become nicely industrialized and technologically advanced without provoking idiotic wars and going on murderous rampages.
Third, the Great Wall is in China. Japan didn't own the part of China where it resides until the 20th century, and almost by definition, Japan was industrialized before it conquered large chunks of China. Also, it runs east-to-west. Maybe you're referring to some other structure here, perhaps one in Japan.
Fourth, every reference I've found mentions that the first Japanese skyscraper was buit in 1968. Given that this was fully 27 years after Japan posed enough of a threat to a certain other country's well-being (if not its existence) as to be bombed flat and conquered, I think this is comfortably after the industrialization and technological rise of Japan.
Last, a google search for "sukaisukure" turns up no hits, so I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's not a real word.
The easiest and best way to fix charset handling would be to make everything use UTF-8. It's easy, completely backwards compatible, requires no changes to the server as long as they don't mess up 8-bit characters, and can represent basically every language on the planet. What's not to like?
Hey genius. If you want to get notified of new products at Wal-Mart, go cruise walmart.com. Otherwise, screw off.
If you have lots of flexibility and varied experience that you want to demonstrate, I recommend modeling your resume after this college entrance essay: http://www.meyerweb.com/other/humor/application.ht ml
Time to buy stock in SCO.
D'oh!
Any legitimate paranoid will consider the very obvious possibility that the military will lie.
Compare the space shuttles to your car. Sure, they probably cost more in maintenance than your car, but they were engineered in the 70s, and with a couple of exceptions, they're still operational.
I'd just like to point out that those "couple of exceptions" are actually 40% of the fleet, and that their removal from service resulted in the sudden and violent death of everybody inside.
They do have an escape pod. When a new crew comes up in a Soyuz module, they keep the Soyuz attached to the station. When it's time to leave, they ride it back down. If something bad happens before it's time to leave, they can hop in and get back to earth in a hurry. The lack of a replacement emergency return vehicle is the reason why the permanent crew was limited to 3, because Soyuz can only hold 3 people and there's some reason they can't keep two of them at the station all the time.
Everybody in the country has broken a law. I'm sure you have broken a law. I'm sure I have broken a law. There are too many, and they are too complicated, to avoid it. Until and unless we get some serious legislative reform, selective enforcement is going to be a way of life.
It's not bad or arrogant, it's realistic.
The simple fact is that piracy exists. It is a fact of life, like the water and the air. Police activity and raids may decrease it, may drive people farther underground, but it will never go away. Anybody involved in the creation of intellectual property has to take this into account, just like a construction company has to think about the weather. Can you imagine a construction company saying something like, "I'm sorry we're six months late and four million dollars over budget, but this winter thing came out of left field and really screwed up our operations; we couldn't even dig, the ground was frozen solid!" That is effectively what media companies are saying when they say, "Product X would have made a lot more money if it weren't for the pirates."
How lame. Even assuming an average of two meters per person, stacking 747 people is not even 1,500 meters. I've been way higher than that in an airplane.
People in the middle of the Roman Empire weren't any dumber than we were. If we saw a woman get pregnant and she claimed to be a virgin, nobody would believe her. Nobody would go around saying "those evil scientists did it", much less "God did it", they'd say something like "the mailman did it". They'd say the same thing in ancient Rome. "Oh, she was hanging around with that Centurion an awful lot, you know."
Sigh. If they would spend more time making a movie that didn't suck and less time on this self-important drivel like this, maybe the movies wouldn't have turned into such a schlockfest. Although I doubt it.
I've never heard anybody say that they prefer news source X because it agrees with them even though it's not as accurate as the traditional media.
Rather, people prefer news sources that agree with them because they think that makes them more accurate than traditional sources. And the politically polarized news organizations reinforce this fact by continually claiming a large, corrupting bias (liberal or conservative, depending on who you listen to) in the traditional media.
You run into this everywhere.
James Watt (the Reagan interior secretary, not the steam engine guy) disciples will inevitably say, "This is great! We can pollute as much as we want, appease those Satan-worshipping environmentalist wackos, and make more money in the process."
Environmentalist luddites will inevitably say, "This technology sucks, it isn't effective and will just give those Satan-worshipping James Watt disciples a way to look good in the public eye while further destroying our planet."
Fortunately, most people, including most executives of large companies, lie in between these extremes. Mining companies are as concerned with public relations as any other company, and they'll realize that this can be used to save money and look good in the public eye, and they'll also realize that using it as an excuse to further pollute will simply bring down the hammer of public opinion and media attention.
And this is why people who natter on about floating currencies and how things were so much better when money was backed by gold which has "intrinsic value" are completely bonkers.
You can make the same argument about any cleanup technology. It doesn't make any sense. Technology that lets you clean up pollution is a good thing. You might as well say, "Next time there's a big oil spill, we'll just leave it, because that way there won't be any more excuses."
Somebody should do a study of the psychopathologies of noncognizant slashdot posters.