I don't know what you should call these people, but they are not "the US". They are certainly not me and I resent the implication that they represent me. At the risk of Godwinning a thread, now I know how Germans feel when they say, "Germany did...". No. The nazis did. How about "the RepublicRats". "RepublicRats want sanctions". Works for me.
Can you move the box further away? I'm thinking that I'd like my mailbox moved into the industrial side of town. Now bear with me, I'll explain why. What's on the industrial side of town? Recycling centers. So? Virtually all of my mail goes into the recycling bin. I have a few pieces of real business that come in the mail. I could tell those companies to send it to a PO Box on Broadway (there is a street by that name here lined with shops, it's a nice walk). The rest of the mail would go to the box on the industrial side of town.
Now you're probably still thinking this idea is crazy. I'd still have to go across town, right? Nope. I could just tell the recyclers to get it, or... better yet, the USPS could offer "hole in the box" service.
They just lease a building next to the recycling center, cut a hole in the back of my box, and shove it all the way through. Problem solved.
The problem with that is when I said, "Why can't we just put C on web pages?" all the people who make the decisions laughed at me.
You, me, and a bunch of other people would be quite happy with a sandboxed general-purpose VM in the browser, which we could target with anything, including C. We would have been VERY happy with a shell account and a compiler on our web server back in the day.
We didn't make the decision though. Collectively a decision was made to make JavaScript and Perl widely available on those platforms. On the server, they eventually moved away from Perl; but the original decision to keep C out of our hands remained intact. The initial excuse of "they'll run wild and consume resources and/or access some forbidden APIs" was never really valid for a properly run *NIX system, and is even less valid now.
Nevertheless, these decisions have been made. It's out of our control, at least for now. Even if it's technically possible; it's still socially impossible. They'll just laugh at you for generating web pages in C. You can do it yourself as a hobby. On your own server... if your ISP doesn't shut you down for running a server. More stuff that's out of your control.
How do they compare to pollen? Are they full of spiky little projectiles that want to burrow into my nasal cavities and cross-polinate with my mucus membranes to create a giant mutant dandelion in my head? No? Then I'm not... ahh, ahhhhh, AH-CHOO!, sniff. worried.
I think Win8 slowed PC sales. It's just anecdotal; but you hear people say they were at the store and didn't want to buy a machine unless it came with Win7. Otherwise, they're waiting to see if MS can get rid of the New Coke OS and replace it with Classic.
The market only had room for one iPad-like device with App Store lock-in. In order to upset the Apple cart (heheh) you had to be fantastically superlative in some way. That didn't happen.
"I think he has committed crimes in effect by violating agreements given the position he had," he continued. "I think it's one of the worst occasions in my memory of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to the national security interests of the United States."
The best thing to do with the Cheney quote is forget Cheney said it about Snowden. Re-read the quote, and imagine somebody else said it about Cheney. Which version rings more true?
Congress cut off a large amount of water in this state how? Did they use the GWB weather machine to make it stop raining?
I think your question is rhetorical; but they diverted water from agricultural use into the Delta. This had two purposes. 1. Fish habitat restoration. 2. Prevention of salt-water intrusion into the Delta, which is part of the water supply for East Bay counties.
Or do you mean that the Central Valley used to be green due to public engineering creating a non-native abundance of water, and now the area is returning to its native state of how it used to used to be 200 years ago?
On the one hand, fraud is bad. On the other, student government is usually a joke that deserves to be pranked. At the college level it is, AFAIK, not much better than HS. Our Class President gave a friggin' 15 minute speech at commencement. Holy Crap! That was the only real debacle at graduation. I'll never forget it. That's all I remember about the class president.
Anyone who seeks power over others should be culled from the gene pool.
Cut to scene of two guys on a couch, pizza boxes piled high in the corner, a haze of smoke in the air.
1: Hey check it out, they just offed the last controller. 2: Wow, now the guy who offed him is offing himself. 1: That was one ethical dude
2: You wanna watch something else?
1: Are you trying to tell me what to do?
2: No! No, just chill.
1: I find that highly offensive, and I'd strangle you if I cared.
The UN is a bunch of people overseas telling us what to do. We were founded to avoid that kind of thing. Furthermore, if it were ever to become an effectively governing body, it would be a monopoly. Where would a guy like Snowden run if there were universal agreement? Mars?
Holy Crap! It's wholly crap. My eyes glazed over from the first paragraph. It was literally painful to do anything other than skim the first sentence of a paragraph.
If you compare MSFT to the S&P 500 during Balmer's reign it's essentially the same. During the same time period, AAPL soared. Charting back further is interesting. On most comparisons (including the S&P) MSFT is soaring and everything else is flat at the bottom. The transition occurs right around 2000. It's easy to blame that on the economy except... the one company that doesn't look like a pancake next to MSFT during this period is AAPL. After 2000, AAPL takes off and makes up for lost time, almost equaling an investment in MSFT. Having 20/20 hindsight we see that the killer play was to buy MSFT in 1990 and then trade it all for AAPL in 2000. OTOH, charting vs. HPQ makes Ballmer look like a genius. So. He's no Gates or Jobs, but I'll give him this: he's not a Carly.
It all happened on his watch. The buck has to stop somewhere--at the top. That's how it works. If some VP was causing problems, it was his responsibility to get rid of that VP. If it was a particularly bad market for tech, that's not his fault; but it wasn't a particularly bad market. Other companies innovated and grew. They didn't. The whole strategy became, "let's make lame Apple clones that will piss off people who prefer the traditional Windows way, and won't convert people who prefer the Apple way".
I just don't see how the man at the top can escape responsibility for all that.
I have a fantastic plan to sell little electronic fingers that you put in your ears. They have speakers in them and play, "La-la-la-la-la...". What? Not a sound business model? I can't hear you.
BSEE here, never engineered a circuit professionally in my entire life. I probably never will.
As others have noted, we often become developers. That was my path, between long phases of un or under-employment. On the one hand, I lacked knowledge of some algorithms that CS majors might have had. On the other, I think I may have been more attuned to low-level issues. There were some CS courses in our curriculum. Most of my programming was taken up "on the side" though. Strangely, my parents said that I'd have to attend a local community college if I wanted to major in CS. They were usually not heavy-handed about things like that. It was an unusual exception most likely brought about by the story that the son of a friend graduated and made $50k/yr right away (1980s, consider inflation). Later when I asked about this they said, "you could have switched majors". I'm not sure if I could have done that without them finding out. I always figured EE wouldn't hurt me. When I graduated, there were a lot of very traditional companies interviewing us--companies that might have mentored EEs; but it became obvious at the time that I wouldn't fit the mold.
LOL, yeah. I'm going to work for the power company??? At an aerospace plant??? Not happening. The strangest interview was with a tobacco company. Apparently they had a fairly sophisticated system for blending tobacco and making cigarettes. Very sophisticated electro-mechanical automation, probably computer controlled. I came away thinking "I drive myself crazy the past 4 years to come up with a slightly more efficient way of poisoning people". I think they wanted the guy with the master's degree anyway. It was a small group interview actually. There were 3 of us in one room hearing the guy talk about these "hoppers" full of tobacco, and how good the benefits would be if we were hired. Funny the things your remember.
The point is that offsite backup (or even on-site backup) and application functionality are two separate things. You shouldn't have to give up one function to get another.
I think it's been ten years or more since I've said it; but everything you need to know about why "the cloud" sucks can be summed up in one line:
"I can't use my word processor. The network is down".
I think I may have started saying this to people back when Sun (remember them?) had a slogan about "the network is the computer". Sheesh... whenever somebody is trying to tell you that one thing is another, a big red warning light and a siren ought to go off. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm tired. I've been freedoming over a hot stove all day.
You're just replacing pilots with software engineers. Good job. Software engineers make many less bugs than pilots, right?
Ooopsie! I think what we may end up learning from these kinds of accidents is that there's an optimal level of automation. If fully automated landings are routine, then what kind of reaction will you get from the pilot during that 1 in a thousand landing where the autopilot is screwing up or isn't available? OTOH, if pilots land manually as standard procedure; but have an autopilot that can step in and put the hand on the wheel for them, that might really enhance safety. It that autopilot screws up, the pilot is already in an enhanced state of awareness due to flying the plane. They are much more likely to react in time. JMHO of course. Over the course of many more years, professionals should reach a consensus.
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I don't know what you should call these people, but they are not "the US". They are certainly not me and I resent the implication that they represent me. At the risk of Godwinning a thread, now I know how Germans feel when they say, "Germany did...". No. The nazis did. How about "the RepublicRats". "RepublicRats want sanctions". Works for me.
Can you move the box further away? I'm thinking that I'd like my mailbox moved into the industrial side of town. Now bear with me, I'll explain why. What's on the industrial side of town? Recycling centers. So? Virtually all of my mail goes into the recycling bin. I have a few pieces of real business that come in the mail. I could tell those companies to send it to a PO Box on Broadway (there is a street by that name here lined with shops, it's a nice walk). The rest of the mail would go to the box on the industrial side of town.
Now you're probably still thinking this idea is crazy. I'd still have to go across town, right? Nope. I could just tell the recyclers to get it, or... better yet, the USPS could offer "hole in the box" service.
They just lease a building next to the recycling center, cut a hole in the back of my box, and shove it all the way through. Problem solved.
The problem with that is when I said, "Why can't we just put C on web pages?" all the people who make the decisions laughed at me.
You, me, and a bunch of other people would be quite happy with a sandboxed general-purpose VM in the browser, which we could target with anything, including C. We would have been VERY happy with a shell account and a compiler on our web server back in the day.
We didn't make the decision though. Collectively a decision was made to make JavaScript and Perl widely available on those platforms. On the server, they eventually moved away from Perl; but the original decision to keep C out of our hands remained intact. The initial excuse of "they'll run wild and consume resources and/or access some forbidden APIs" was never really valid for a properly run *NIX system, and is even less valid now.
Nevertheless, these decisions have been made. It's out of our control, at least for now. Even if it's technically possible; it's still socially impossible. They'll just laugh at you for generating web pages in C. You can do it yourself as a hobby. On your own server... if your ISP doesn't shut you down for running a server. More stuff that's out of your control.
How do they compare to pollen? Are they full of spiky little projectiles that want to burrow into my nasal cavities and cross-polinate with my mucus membranes to create a giant mutant dandelion in my head? No? Then I'm not... ahh, ahhhhh, AH-CHOO!, sniff. worried.
I think Win8 slowed PC sales. It's just anecdotal; but you hear people say they were at the store and didn't want to buy a machine unless it came with Win7. Otherwise, they're waiting to see if MS can get rid of the New Coke OS and replace it with Classic.
The market only had room for one iPad-like device with App Store lock-in. In order to upset the Apple cart (heheh) you had to be fantastically superlative in some way. That didn't happen.
From the article you cited:
The best thing to do with the Cheney quote is forget Cheney said it about Snowden. Re-read the quote, and imagine somebody else said it about Cheney. Which version rings more true?
Congress cut off a large amount of water in this state how? Did they use the GWB weather machine to make it stop raining?
I think your question is rhetorical; but they diverted water from agricultural use into the Delta. This had two purposes. 1. Fish habitat restoration. 2. Prevention of salt-water intrusion into the Delta, which is part of the water supply for East Bay counties.
Or do you mean that the Central Valley used to be green due to public engineering creating a non-native abundance of water, and now the area is returning to its native state of how it used to used to be 200 years ago?
If anything, the Valley was wetter 200 years ago.
On the one hand, fraud is bad. On the other, student government is usually a joke that deserves to be pranked. At the college level it is, AFAIK, not much better than HS. Our Class President gave a friggin' 15 minute speech at commencement. Holy Crap! That was the only real debacle at graduation. I'll never forget it. That's all I remember about the class president.
copy.apple.badly.
Anyone who seeks power over others should be culled from the gene pool.
Cut to scene of two guys on a couch, pizza boxes piled high in the corner, a haze of smoke in the air.
1: Hey check it out, they just offed the last controller.
2: Wow, now the guy who offed him is offing himself.
1: That was one ethical dude
2: You wanna watch something else?
1: Are you trying to tell me what to do?
2: No! No, just chill.
1: I find that highly offensive, and I'd strangle you if I cared.
The UN is a bunch of people overseas telling us what to do. We were founded to avoid that kind of thing. Furthermore, if it were ever to become an effectively governing body, it would be a monopoly. Where would a guy like Snowden run if there were universal agreement? Mars?
Holy Crap! It's wholly crap. My eyes glazed over from the first paragraph. It was literally painful to do anything other than skim the first sentence of a paragraph.
From SPACE!!! Alienado. I'm not just going to sit here and write about it. I'm going to throw bombs into space.
If you compare MSFT to the S&P 500 during Balmer's reign it's essentially the same. During the same time period, AAPL soared. Charting back further is interesting. On most comparisons (including the S&P) MSFT is soaring and everything else is flat at the bottom. The transition occurs right around 2000. It's easy to blame that on the economy except... the one company that doesn't look like a pancake next to MSFT during this period is AAPL. After 2000, AAPL takes off and makes up for lost time, almost equaling an investment in MSFT. Having 20/20 hindsight we see that the killer play was to buy MSFT in 1990 and then trade it all for AAPL in 2000. OTOH, charting vs. HPQ makes Ballmer look like a genius. So. He's no Gates or Jobs, but I'll give him this: he's not a Carly.
It all happened on his watch. The buck has to stop somewhere--at the top. That's how it works. If some VP was causing problems, it was his responsibility to get rid of that VP. If it was a particularly bad market for tech, that's not his fault; but it wasn't a particularly bad market. Other companies innovated and grew. They didn't. The whole strategy became, "let's make lame Apple clones that will piss off people who prefer the traditional Windows way, and won't convert people who prefer the Apple way".
I just don't see how the man at the top can escape responsibility for all that.
Infinity Imaginary mod points to you sir.
Who do you think you are? Ben Bernanke?
I have a fantastic plan to sell little electronic fingers that you put in your ears. They have speakers in them and play, "La-la-la-la-la...". What? Not a sound business model? I can't hear you.
BSEE here, never engineered a circuit professionally in my entire life. I probably never will.
As others have noted, we often become developers. That was my path, between long phases of un or under-employment. On the one hand, I lacked knowledge of some algorithms that CS majors might have had. On the other, I think I may have been more attuned to low-level issues. There were some CS courses in our curriculum. Most of my programming was taken up "on the side" though. Strangely, my parents said that I'd have to attend a local community college if I wanted to major in CS. They were usually not heavy-handed about things like that. It was an unusual exception most likely brought about by the story that the son of a friend graduated and made $50k/yr right away (1980s, consider inflation). Later when I asked about this they said, "you could have switched majors". I'm not sure if I could have done that without them finding out. I always figured EE wouldn't hurt me. When I graduated, there were a lot of very traditional companies interviewing us--companies that might have mentored EEs; but it became obvious at the time that I wouldn't fit the mold.
LOL, yeah. I'm going to work for the power company??? At an aerospace plant??? Not happening. The strangest interview was with a tobacco company. Apparently they had a fairly sophisticated system for blending tobacco and making cigarettes. Very sophisticated electro-mechanical automation, probably computer controlled. I came away thinking "I drive myself crazy the past 4 years to come up with a slightly more efficient way of poisoning people". I think they wanted the guy with the master's degree anyway. It was a small group interview actually. There were 3 of us in one room hearing the guy talk about these "hoppers" full of tobacco, and how good the benefits would be if we were hired. Funny the things your remember.
Yes, but is it NP hard? If so, then maybe we can just give up on it.
The point is that offsite backup (or even on-site backup) and application functionality are two separate things. You shouldn't have to give up one function to get another.
Yes it is. We've been feeding cats for thousands of years.
I think it's been ten years or more since I've said it; but everything you need to know about why "the cloud" sucks can be summed up in one line:
"I can't use my word processor. The network is down".
I think I may have started saying this to people back when Sun (remember them?) had a slogan about "the network is the computer". Sheesh... whenever somebody is trying to tell you that one thing is another, a big red warning light and a siren ought to go off. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm tired. I've been freedoming over a hot stove all day.
You're just replacing pilots with software engineers. Good job. Software engineers make many less bugs than pilots, right?
Ooopsie! I think what we may end up learning from these kinds of accidents is that there's an optimal level of automation. If fully automated landings are routine, then what kind of reaction will you get from the pilot during that 1 in a thousand landing where the autopilot is screwing up or isn't available? OTOH, if pilots land manually as standard procedure; but have an autopilot that can step in and put the hand on the wheel for them, that might really enhance safety. It that autopilot screws up, the pilot is already in an enhanced state of awareness due to flying the plane. They are much more likely to react in time. JMHO of course. Over the course of many more years, professionals should reach a consensus.
Mod parent up. I can't think of a better ZZ parody for this, and I'm usually pretty good at that kind of thing...