The gun has two purposes, according to the researchers: At its most basic, this gun could be used in libraries and other quiet spaces to stop people from speaking â"
Which is perhaps the single weirdest sentence I've ever read on Slashdot.
And they know how their friends got rich and it didn't involve obeying the law.
It's not that rich people are naturally disinclined to honor the law; it's that breaking the law is a necessary component to getting rich. Ask the Kennedy family (bootlegging) or J P Morgan or Microsoft or just anyone whose made their fortune on Wall Street lately.
As Leona Helmsley put it- taxes (laws) are for little people.
Why isn't Wall Street in jail? Why does 1% of the population own 50% of the wealth? Because we live in a corrupt plutocracy where the control of first lawmaking, tax policies and regulation, but failing those goals, of law enforcement itself, are the first and second priorities of the rich.
The rich are less likely to obey the law? Only to the extent that they're not already making it.
All of us inherit a world which is in a state of continually becoming . What that means is even people who are born today exist in a world of off line auction houses just as people who were born 30 years ago were. Offline auction houses are no more a property of the people who were born thirty years ago than they are of people born today. Neither generation invented them.
Old people don't get the internet but that's because they're not interested. They don't get a lot of other non-internet things also. Don't forget, a lot of human activity and interest has as its unspoken ulterior motive getting laid....
This is the same argument used by people who said that the internet was going to change the form of the literary novel entirely. Maybe something new and impossible pre-internet will happen (has it not already ? ) in the literary world but mere words being read in a linear fashion are still the fastest and richest way to mainline an arbitrary story into someone's head.
So some people are now younger than the internet. Meh. From this, nothing follows. TVs been arond since the 50s but it still took until 2004-5 for it to consistently have anything good on it....
The lesson here is these types of people are unconsciously aware of what they are; they know, at some level, what they are doing.
If you beat your wife and then you run around calling other wife beaters, it's because it's on your mind in the first place- because you do it.
deniers know they're deniers. They also know that their denial is putting the United States and in fact everyone else also in harms way; a harm so great the denier can never live it down.
Sorry to go Freudian here but this is classic classic denial and projection.
From Reagan tearing the solar panels off the White House to the conservative assault on the scientific veracity of human caused global warming, conservatives are single-handedly responsible for the looming destruction of civilization itself.
This is not the type fo thing any political movement survives. Not only is it going to take down "conservatism" and have human garbage like Rick Santorum and that 25% of the US population that thinks he's being "raised up by God to lead us" covering their tracks and denying they were every deniers in 20 years time, it's going to also destroy once and for all the anti-regulatory / "free market" / "small government" mantra that started with Reagan in "modern times" .
It's all over for conservatives and religion and crap like Citizen's United and the human garbage that spawned all that , all over but for the screaming.
Everyone thought it was amusing or at best a little sad when a huge part of the US population decided to "find Jesus" and go all evangelical - fundamentalist and mainstream crap like evolution denialism and "young earth science" and Intelligent Design.
But that's exactly what laid the foundation for global warming denialism.
OK here's what perhaps people are missing about this scheme and what's really insidious
Researchers know that paying someone money to learn (or the reverse of this, fining them for not learning) has the effect of making learning uninteresting to the learner unless money is involved as an incentive / disincentive.
This of course perfectly describes the mind set known as "greedy" where all expenditure of mental effort is evaluated first and foremost on a transactional basis and is never its own reward.
The people who most fit the above description are of course just those billionaires funding these schemes.
So these schools become narcissistic projections of the funder's own egos and value systems.
But these personalities don't invent, they aren't creative, they aren't the source of technological progress.
Rather they're the specific personalities that fill the role of monopolist winners within a system that is guaranteed to produce such winners in any event. Given our system of deregulatory capitalism and pliable legislators and courts, someone was going to be Bill Gates and someone was going to be Larry Ellison. They're not unique in that sense.
Ellison himself characterized the early buggy database as a "roach motel for for information- data goes in, but it never comes out..." which is not surprising since he invented none of it and barely understood E F Codd's relational model to begin with. Nevertheless he's a business winner.
Gates famously invented nothing of note; he was good in his capacity as a narcissistic leader and good at surrounding himself with co-dependents who could be relied on to fiercely buy into the cult of personality and do actual work.
This is in marked contrast to the mindset of the lowly researcher who actually invents new technology and makes actual discoveries. This type of person is curious for curiosity's sake and feels wonder at things that motivates her towards knowledge for knowledge's sake. Some of them become entrepreneurs it's true but they're two different personality types- one is mercantile and transactional and fundamentally disinterested in anything that won't make her money and the other is more likely to seek out a position in life which will let her pursue her interests and be comfortable. All of academia is built on this basic fact.
Seriously does anyone know if they considered it at all and if they did why they chose not to? Sun and Google seems to me to have been a natural pairing. Certainly all the absolutely first rate R and D that went on at Sun would have fit into Google's culture. So why didn't they?
Java2D is and JOGL or Java3D are full blown first quality graphics libraries upon which Swing is built. The Swing widget library- the boxes you refer to- are so people don't have to re-create commonly used widgets over and over again. You're free to ignore them and go straight for the drawing library creating literally anything you want.
Either you're going to use a widget library or you're gong to be drawing freehand. If you want to draw freehand then Java2D and JOGL or Java3D are the way to go . I have used these many times to great effect. There are tons of libraries out there for scene graphs for instance if you want to go that way to graphing packages to number crunching to text processing all active all first rate.
Where does over aggressive language faddishness come from? "Java is a bloated and slow.. Swing is dead... " stuff like that?
IMO it comes ultimately from consultants who are always looking to have rare expertise they can charge a lot for. They make a boat load of money when they're one of the first 25, 50, 100 consultants who know about "New Breakthrough Technology Which Is Where Everyone Is Going To Go" and can charge 250-500 an hour consulting to companies who buy into The Dream.
Every language has its place and every language is interesting and worthy in its own right and is perhaps the best language for a particular task. Languages get nicer to use *in some ways for some uses* over time but they also lack things like a wide range proven libraries and tool support which makes for huge productivity boosts.
i am not dissing anyone's choice of language here. I just have to note the misconception embedded in the OP's characterization of Swing and Java and how or why he may have acquired it. It can't be first hand or he wold know that he can use Java for interfaces and not use Swing, and this gets me thinking about why language wars even exist at all in the form that they do with the FUD, the bashing, the wide dissemination of plainly false characterizations etc etc .
Tell us something new. This is how they caught Kaczinsky the Unibomber. Analysis of word choice word frequency sentence structure can and will identify you And? Identifying a single person from their many anonymous messages online leads you to back to anonymous.
Aside from that it's easy enough to alter your writing to fool the analysis if you want to. Please tell us something new that every single person on Slashdot doesn't already know.
You need to get on your hands and knees and fucking suck it, biotch. It's called being in the public eye and you have exactly ZERO legal recourse towards the people who exposing what scum you are using the memos because you're a PUBLIC entity in the PUBLIC eye and your ability to sue people for talking about what a bunch of fucking scum sucking mass homicide planning sub human degenerate predator animals you are is exactly ZERO.
Holy fuckin' shit it's fuckin' the first annual national DRAW fuckin' Heritage fuckin' Foundation day!!!!
I am short my crayons just now but picture Paul Weyrich with his dick up Edwin Feulner ass while he's being sucked off by Joseph Coors whose micro-phallic situation is on full display.
and Paul is saying to Edwin "say, let's wipe out half of human civilization and start this whole damn thing over with me an' you at the helm.."
and Edwin replies
Oh JESUS FUCK yeah , the ol' fuckin' Pol Pot Zero Day approach.. I fuckin' love it! Just start civilization over and make it go the RIGHT way this time HAW HAW HAW HAW...Kill the intellectuals and scientists first !!!! If it wears glasses and can read, it's a lefty! Kill em all! "
And then Joseph Coors pipes in "see my little dicklet? This is why I have to buy whores because no woman on the face of the earth would fuck me unless I paid her".
Fucking people talking about you online is going to be the LEAST of your problems. After the 114th US Congress passes the National SuperCrimes Bill of 2020 and the Torture Prohibition Repeal Act of 2020 designating any crime that effects millions of people a SuperCrime and permitting torture be used as a form of punishment, you'll be lucky if everyone who ever funded you and everyone in your organization from the President down to the fucking copyboy of your shithole lying cesspool "think tank" isn't last seen being reduced at the hands of the US Government to a reddened mass of flesh in some fucking DOD Dungeon crawling along the stone floor dragging 15 feet of your best intestines behind you and begging, pleading, squealing like a fucking pig not for mercy, but for the release death would bring.
This interface with it's point and click and wait shit is terrible. Breaking away from it is just the thing to do but you have to have enough power to bring people along or you don't get the network effects and Google has that power.
In all seriousness, the web sucks as a UI. I shouldn't need to even defend that statement.
You can "be" a company, i.e. a "corporate person" and your "citizenship" then becomes whatever nation you incorporated in. Just b/c you're an American doesn't mean your corporation is American.
Register as a corp in a suitable jurisdiction. Buy a server in Canada. It's hard to be a Canadian corporation b/c you have to actually be located there and maintain an office there (our company lokked into it).
The solution you're looking for is corporate personhood in some other nation. I can't advise on what nation and be careful there are tons of scams surrounding this having to do with income tax evasion which you would NEVER attempt in any way unless you're a certified idiot, greedhead or a Republican.
I love it when people try to be two different people in a thread. It's so transparent.
You're not a scientist. That's the bottom line. The process of science is the process you're attempting to engage in - the process of posing alternative theories, evaluating hypotheses and rejecting them.
The thing you can't accept, because you either aren't going to are haven't yet grown out of your fundamental narcissism which leads you to believe you can adjudicate this matter meaningfully, is that you're fundamentally incapable of determining truth in this technical matter and yet, it will impact your life enormously.
That's how it is. You don't get to decide what happens in the larger part of your life.
Being an adult means coming to terms with that fact and accepting that it's not just true, but also proper and moral. It means giving up just so stories- "alternative explanations" in this case- which are just fairy tales and projections of what you wish were true, and instead facing facts, including the fact of your own limitations to understand things.
Intel is a chronically abusive corporation ; abusive towards the market, abusive towards its employees and abusive towards its customers. We NEVER buy Intel processors no matter what the deal or how hard we have to work to get an AMD system
Anyone who doesn't know about Intel's anti-competitive practices is asleep at the wheel. Their "forced ranking" where every tenth employee is fired every year - in Roman times this was called "decimation" and was considered barbaric back then, creates a work atmosphere of pure political backstabbing where the only real goal is to ensure sure you're not the one who is selected to die. In that environment, work product quality counts for one chip and sucking up and undermining others counts for ten.
Anyone who cares at all about either the free market or a fair workplace has exactly zero reason to buy a chip from Intel.
You need to report to your local mental health facility and tell them you want to be committed.
Tell them what you told me- that the Rockefeller's are trying to depopulate the world and AGW is their plan.
They are joined in this conspiracy by the world's leading scientists who are engaged in a world wide conspiracy to systematically fake data about the climate. It's all a big plan to take over the world and impose a fascist regime. Tell them only you and people who read the same web pages you do understand this evil world wide conspiracy.
They'll know how many CCs of what drug to give you to calm you down before they can schedule your ECT treatment.
Yeah you're a paranoid delusional whose snorted so much right wing demagogue coke up his nose you're brains been splattered all over the inside of your skull.
Newsflash asshole, FDR did not implement fascist policies.
Newsflash asshole, Hitler and the Italian fascists went after liberals and socialists who opposed them.
Newsflash asshole , the world's scientists are all in agreement about AGW only right wing mass murderers like Limbaugh and the Coked Up Brothers and the Heartland Institute are against saving the planet and humanity.
Newsflash asshole, read history. If you can't talk it out then either you vote it out or the shooting starts, but one thing is for certain, delusional insane frothy human garbage is never permitted to drive the rest of humanity over a cliff. Read history to see what happens to people like you. You can either comply nicely or you can comply unhappily or you can taste the unrestrained wrath of your neighbors and countrymen. The US has a pretty good record of killing fascists who want to enslave people both here and abroad and if you force our hand then your suffering will be pretty much unlimited.
You have no choice because reality is giving you no choice and before reality gets to you, we will . That's how we deal with insane mass murderers in the final analysis if nothing else works. You really don't want to go down that path.
First you rewrite US history when the facts are that the conservative congress opposed FDRs attempts to enter the war earlier and also opposed hi attempts to support the allies prior to our entrance into the war.
Then you rewrite US history to vilify the socialists.
Now you finally give voice to your belief that AGW is a gigantic conspiracy to take away your "fwweedoms".
The only thing that is going to take away your "fweedoms" is your own actions. Call it a self fulfilling prophesy or whatever, the fact is if we do nothing about AGW because deniers continue to put up resistance to reality then much more than your "fweedoms" is going to be taken away from you
This is what a large part of the right wants- the final show down between Jesus and evil. You have to hear them go on and on with a sparkle in their eye about how the blood in the Final Battle will be "as high as a horse's reigns" to finally understand that they lust after world changing conflict and will take it in any form they can get it.
Deniers are universal terrorists. They need to be dealt with like the terrorists they are . The great re-ordering of society which they themselves are forcing on the world is not going to be along the lines of Christian conservatism and corporate power, it's going to be along the lines government regulation and a reduction in the power of both religion- which is a disease that needs to be cured- and unaccountable, independent corporate power, which is what spawned and funded the denialist memes were all spending time fighting now.
If you turn yourself into criminals waging a campaign of mass death against the larger society, then that society will pursue you like criminals and create laws to protect itself in the future from the exact methods you used to achieve your criminal and genocidal ends. Have no doubt about it. You're writing you last will and testament yourself, no one else is doing it to you.
It's not just open APIs this is true of, it's open source itself, of code reuse itself.
The dream is sweet, - "don't write all that code! Save yourself all that work and just hook into THIS code base. The problem is , sure you hooked into that code base and got all that stuff for free but what happens when there's a bug? Does the community fix it right away? Maybe, but only maybe... what if they don't and what if the code base requires a huge effort to understand? Now you're screwed and to the exact same extent that you thought you were being given a free ride, except your customers are clammering for a fix and it's all YOUR fault from their POV.
If the sheer mass of code to be considered is big enough and the concepts unfamiliar enough, it's a real barrier to fixing anything. If the owners or acknowledged top dogs of that code base are unfriendly or aloof then so will the user's group be and that's a barrier to comprehension also. If the code base is undocuemnted, then that's something else to think about. We're going through this right now- the company has an open source code base but they're unfriendly, curt, non-responders and so is the UG. Do we decide "meh, we have the source, how bad can it get even with zero assistance ?" or do we decide that it's just not worth the risk and hassle and look elsewhere?
There's a sweet spot to be had between not reinventing the wheel and not being crushed by it.
" the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists"
WoofyGoofy said:
Look, you're a fucking idiot, OK? Socialism and fascism are two very different movements...So believing that Germany persecuted leftists , socialists and communists is now a form of indoctrination.
now Curinir Wolf says:
I never made such a claim
What's your claim now, that your rebuttal to me applied to my whole post but nothing in particular in that post? My post which consists of nothing but particular statements about particular subjects?.
I rest my case. Deniers are sociopathic liars and clowns of the Glenn Beck variety, determined to set off their climate bomb. Their proven tactic is to waste as much time and tying up as many resources as possible by offering up an endless stream of insincere arguments and staging faux melodramas in which they star as reasonable yet persecuted minorities who are put upon by their fellow countrymen.
The time is now, government, the time is now, Mr President..
" the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists"
WoofyGoofy said:
Look, you're a fucking idiot, OK? Socialism and fascism are two very different movements and that's why Italy and Germany went after the socialists in WWII along with the Jews and the homosexuals and the gypsies. This is the most basic stuff you shoudl have learned in school:
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany [wikipedia.org]
The Gestapo (secret state police) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the liberal, socialist, and communist opposition and persecuted the Jews. The party took control of the courts, local government, and all civic organizations except the Protestant and Catholic churches.[3]
and Curinir Wolf replied:
Wow I see you've been thoroughly indoctrinated.
So believing that Germany persecuted leftists , socialists and communists is now a form of indoctrination. Now the most basic, verifiable and proven facts of history- which are still alive in some witnesses' minds -are something in dispute along with AGW
This is what deniers are; mindlessly and pointlessly combative, ego dysfunctional, partisan, intransigent, power seeking idiots with an unlimited capacity for self-deception whose self esteem is so low that the possibility of admitting error simply does not exist, regardless of how basic the fact are that they've maligned.
And this set of people is going to come to their senses, although they haven't yet despite the wealth of evidence available to them, at some point in the future.
This is what Forbes Magazine and the WSJ and the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute and FoxNews and the Koch's and Limbaugh have bred into existence and are they going to now clean up the mess? Are they going to undo somehow the damage they've done to everyone on this planet by creating a army of zombified know-nothings ready to go to the barriers in defense of their shared unreality? And is that description not the common precursor to almost every war we've fought this century?
Who is going to stop the zombie army? Who is going to defuse the bomb? You and I are, that's who. And at what cost to our nation and how much blood is going to be spilled this time to disabuse the conservatives of the notion that living within the dictates of reality is some form of oppression upon them and their freedoms ?
Clear and present danger. This is what it was like before the Civil War. This is what the South was composed of. You're kidding yourself if you think it can't happen again. Wake the fuck up, government. Wake the fuck up.
Curinir Wolf said: " the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists"
Look, you're a fucking idiot, OK? Socialism and fascism are two very different movements and that's why Italy and Germany went after the socialists in WWII along with the Jews and the homosexuals and the gypsies. This is the most basic stuff you shoudl have learned in school:
The Gestapo (secret state police) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the liberal, socialist, and communist opposition and persecuted the Jews. The party took control of the courts, local government, and all civic organizations except the Protestant and Catholic churches.[3]
But you didn't learn it, like you didn't learn science like you didn't learn anything else about anything which is why you are so gullible and such a tool for the Kochs and Goldberg and the rest of the liars. You're ignorant and ignorant of the fact that you're ignorant. You can be sold on absolutely any idea so long as it comes out of Fox news or Rush Limbaugh or Jonah Goldberg or has the words "freedom" attached to it.
You're in a world in which you want desperately to be considered an autonomous expert on the affairs of the day, but in reality those affairs are too complex and too technical for you to have any gasp on them. So you gravitate towards the people who are telling you your ignorance makes you "real" and "authentic" in opposition to those "elites" in their universities who spew climate change babble and try to fool you with their little bag of tricks! .
And how do you see through their charade?? Well it's not because you actually did the the requisite work at school to have the earned authority accorded to a legitimate expert, now is it? No you haven't earned a PhD and then spent your professional life painstakingly investigating and publishing on some aspect of climate science.
Yet you want so much to assume the mantle of authority and be given the respect you see the people who have earned that authority are given!
So you've found a fast workaround to *all that* by listening closely to and mimicking internet memes and believing people who stroke your ego by telling you you don't need any of THAT STUFF to understand the details of atmospheric physics and chemistry!
Wow you sure are onto the climate conspiracy! No one is going to get anything past you!
The only problem with your witty riposte is it's merely a unthinking reflexive reaction to the appearance of the word Nazi. In fact for the issues addressed - the prosecution of generational-ocidal mass murderers who are relying on a legalistic tactic to evade prosecution by society, there IS no more relevant comparison.
The fact that this issue is of urgent national security concerns is indisputable by anyone who is not functionally insane:
I can draw further analogies, all apropo, about how a significant part of the US polity was FOR Nazi Germany and fascism , and how that part of the demographic was nearly the same crowd as the deniers today- conservative Catholics (Father Conklin et al "the one good thing Hitler is doing is killing the Jews..." ) and the conservative isolationists and xenophobes which are today's Tea Party.
McCain, Palin, Gingrich Romney all have gone on record as saying AGW is real and needs to be addressed urgently. Other Republican luminaries such as Dick Lugar of (IN), perennial Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Prsidential candidate John Huntsmann, Fred Upton (Mich.) and others to numerous to mention have all recently changed their minds on this topic not becuase of new evidence but because of political expediency.
I'll tell you this. Either our leaders will step up to this issue and lead- take all measures necessary to effect a change in the attitudes of this part of the
electorate- or this nation will slide into another real civil war. What is coming at us is not going to go away. It is not a matter of differing opinions amenable to a compromise solution. If the people and institutions behind the machinery of denialism are permitted to continue to frame this as a matter of debate or as a fraud and they continue to be successful in manipulating the American populace into doing nothing, this nation will devolve into a hot civil war. The two sides will be the reality based segment of society who is not going to back down any more than a person seeing a truck bearing down on them can be convinced to stand there and do nothing and the victims of the Koch brothers and Fox News and Forbes Magazine and these think tanks distortions and lies and provocations .
This is not hyperbole at all. This is what happens when leaders are too afraid to lead but would rather just collect their checks and shuffle along into tax-payer funded retirements.
If we don't act, there will inevitably come a time when no one on this board is thinking about anything other than global warming and bearing the consequences of our society's inaction. You won't be playing Quake. You won't be updating your profile on Facebook. You won't be do anything or thinking anything about anything that is not directly related to global warming, including waiting for your food and water rations and watching people die in the streets of America like it was Somolia and hoping it doesn't come to your neighborhood.
There is one reality, not many. We all share in that reality.
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The gun has two purposes, according to the researchers: At its most basic, this gun could be used in libraries and other quiet spaces to stop people from speaking â"
Which is perhaps the single weirdest sentence I've ever read on Slashdot.
And they know how their friends got rich and it didn't involve obeying the law.
It's not that rich people are naturally disinclined to honor the law; it's that breaking the law is a necessary component to getting rich. Ask the Kennedy family (bootlegging) or J P Morgan or Microsoft or just anyone whose made their fortune on Wall Street lately.
As Leona Helmsley put it- taxes (laws) are for little people.
Why isn't Wall Street in jail? Why does 1% of the population own 50% of the wealth? Because we live in a corrupt plutocracy where the control of first lawmaking, tax policies and regulation, but failing those goals, of law enforcement itself, are the first and second priorities of the rich.
The rich are less likely to obey the law? Only to the extent that they're not already making it.
All of us inherit a world which is in a state of continually becoming . What that means is even people who are born today exist in a world of off line auction houses just as people who were born 30 years ago were. Offline auction houses are no more a property of the people who were born thirty years ago than they are of people born today. Neither generation invented them.
Old people don't get the internet but that's because they're not interested. They don't get a lot of other non-internet things also. Don't forget, a lot of human activity and interest has as its unspoken ulterior motive getting laid....
This is the same argument used by people who said that the internet was going to change the form of the literary novel entirely. Maybe something new and impossible pre-internet will happen (has it not already ? ) in the literary world but mere words being read in a linear fashion are still the fastest and richest way to mainline an arbitrary story into someone's head.
So some people are now younger than the internet. Meh. From this, nothing follows. TVs been arond since the 50s but it still took until 2004-5 for it to consistently have anything good on it....
The lesson here is these types of people are unconsciously aware of what they are; they know, at some level, what they are doing.
If you beat your wife and then you run around calling other wife beaters, it's because it's on your mind in the first place- because you do it.
deniers know they're deniers. They also know that their denial is putting the United States and in fact everyone else also in harms way; a harm so great the denier can never live it down.
Sorry to go Freudian here but this is classic classic denial and projection.
From Reagan tearing the solar panels off the White House to the conservative assault on the scientific veracity of human caused global warming, conservatives are single-handedly responsible for the looming destruction of civilization itself.
This is not the type fo thing any political movement survives. Not only is it going to take down "conservatism" and have human garbage like Rick Santorum and that 25% of the US population that thinks he's being "raised up by God to lead us" covering their tracks and denying they were every deniers in 20 years time, it's going to also destroy once and for all the anti-regulatory / "free market" / "small government" mantra that started with Reagan in "modern times" .
It's all over for conservatives and religion and crap like Citizen's United and the human garbage that spawned all that , all over but for the screaming.
Everyone thought it was amusing or at best a little sad when a huge part of the US population decided to "find Jesus" and go all evangelical - fundamentalist and mainstream crap like evolution denialism and "young earth science" and Intelligent Design.
But that's exactly what laid the foundation for global warming denialism.
Not so funny now is it?
OK here's what perhaps people are missing about this scheme and what's really insidious
Researchers know that paying someone money to learn (or the reverse of this, fining them for not learning) has the effect of making learning uninteresting to the learner unless money is involved as an incentive / disincentive.
http://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V72N6/0401_feature1.html
This of course perfectly describes the mind set known as "greedy" where all expenditure of mental effort is evaluated first and foremost on a transactional basis and is never its own reward.
The people who most fit the above description are of course just those billionaires funding these schemes.
So these schools become narcissistic projections of the funder's own egos and value systems.
But these personalities don't invent, they aren't creative, they aren't the source of technological progress.
Rather they're the specific personalities that fill the role of monopolist winners within a system that is guaranteed to produce such winners in any event. Given our system of deregulatory capitalism and pliable legislators and courts, someone was going to be Bill Gates and someone was going to be Larry Ellison. They're not unique in that sense.
Ellison himself characterized the early buggy database as a "roach motel for for information- data goes in, but it never comes out..." which is not surprising since he invented none of it and barely understood E F Codd's relational model to begin with. Nevertheless he's a business winner.
Gates famously invented nothing of note; he was good in his capacity as a narcissistic leader and good at surrounding himself with co-dependents who could be relied on to fiercely buy into the cult of personality and do actual work.
This is in marked contrast to the mindset of the lowly researcher who actually invents new technology and makes actual discoveries. This type of person is curious for curiosity's sake and feels wonder at things that motivates her towards knowledge for knowledge's sake. Some of them become entrepreneurs it's true but they're two different personality types- one is mercantile and transactional and fundamentally disinterested in anything that won't make her money and the other is more likely to seek out a position in life which will let her pursue her interests and be comfortable. All of academia is built on this basic fact.
Seriously does anyone know if they considered it at all and if they did why they chose not to? Sun and Google seems to me to have been a natural pairing. Certainly all the absolutely first rate R and D that went on at Sun would have fit into Google's culture. So why didn't they?
Java2D is and JOGL or Java3D are full blown first quality graphics libraries upon which Swing is built. The Swing widget library- the boxes you refer to- are so people don't have to re-create commonly used widgets over and over again. You're free to ignore them and go straight for the drawing library creating literally anything you want.
Either you're going to use a widget library or you're gong to be drawing freehand. If you want to draw freehand then Java2D and JOGL or Java3D are the way to go . I have used these many times to great effect. There are tons of libraries out there for scene graphs for instance if you want to go that way to graphing packages to number crunching to text processing all active all first rate.
Where does over aggressive language faddishness come from? "Java is a bloated and slow .. Swing is dead... " stuff like that?
IMO it comes ultimately from consultants who are always looking to have rare expertise they can charge a lot for. They make a boat load of money when they're one of the first 25, 50, 100 consultants who know about "New Breakthrough Technology Which Is Where Everyone Is Going To Go" and can charge 250-500 an hour consulting to companies who buy into The Dream.
Every language has its place and every language is interesting and worthy in its own right and is perhaps the best language for a particular task. Languages get nicer to use *in some ways for some uses* over time but they also lack things like a wide range proven libraries and tool support which makes for huge productivity boosts.
i am not dissing anyone's choice of language here. I just have to note the misconception embedded in the OP's characterization of Swing and Java and how or why he may have acquired it. It can't be first hand or he wold know that he can use Java for interfaces and not use Swing, and this gets me thinking about why language wars even exist at all in the form that they do with the FUD, the bashing, the wide dissemination of plainly false characterizations etc etc .
Tell us something new. This is how they caught Kaczinsky the Unibomber. Analysis of word choice word frequency sentence structure can and will identify you And? Identifying a single person from their many anonymous messages online leads you to back to anonymous.
Aside from that it's easy enough to alter your writing to fool the analysis if you want to. Please tell us something new that every single person on Slashdot doesn't already know.
You need to get on your hands and knees and fucking suck it, biotch. It's called being in the public eye and you have exactly ZERO legal recourse towards the people who exposing what scum you are using the memos because you're a PUBLIC entity in the PUBLIC eye and your ability to sue people for talking about what a bunch of fucking scum sucking mass homicide planning sub human degenerate predator animals you are is exactly ZERO.
Holy fuckin' shit it's fuckin' the first annual national DRAW fuckin' Heritage fuckin' Foundation day!!!!
I am short my crayons just now but picture Paul Weyrich with his dick up Edwin Feulner ass while he's being sucked off by Joseph Coors whose micro-phallic situation is on full display.
and Paul is saying to Edwin "say, let's wipe out half of human civilization and start this whole damn thing over with me an' you at the helm.."
and Edwin replies
Oh JESUS FUCK yeah , the ol' fuckin' Pol Pot Zero Day approach .. I fuckin' love it! Just start civilization over and make it go the RIGHT way this time HAW HAW HAW HAW...Kill the intellectuals and scientists first !!!! If it wears glasses and can read, it's a lefty! Kill em all! "
And then Joseph Coors pipes in "see my little dicklet? This is why I have to buy whores because no woman on the face of the earth would fuck me unless I paid her".
Fucking people talking about you online is going to be the LEAST of your problems. After the 114th US Congress passes the National SuperCrimes Bill of 2020 and the Torture Prohibition Repeal Act of 2020 designating any crime that effects millions of people a SuperCrime and permitting torture be used as a form of punishment, you'll be lucky if everyone who ever funded you and everyone in your organization from the President down to the fucking copyboy of your shithole lying cesspool "think tank" isn't last seen being reduced at the hands of the US Government to a reddened mass of flesh in some fucking DOD Dungeon crawling along the stone floor dragging 15 feet of your best intestines behind you and begging, pleading, squealing like a fucking pig not for mercy, but for the release death would bring.
Suck it bitch. Suck it.
My god!!!... my p0rn history.. Google knows everything !!! Now I can never apply to work there...
This interface with it's point and click and wait shit is terrible. Breaking away from it is just the thing to do but you have to have enough power to bring people along or you don't get the network effects and Google has that power.
In all seriousness, the web sucks as a UI. I shouldn't need to even defend that statement.
I have a stalker situation and any company that couldn't respect that would be immediately "fired".
You can "be" a company, i.e. a "corporate person" and your "citizenship" then becomes whatever nation you incorporated in. Just b/c you're an American doesn't mean your corporation is American.
Register as a corp in a suitable jurisdiction. Buy a server in Canada. It's hard to be a Canadian corporation b/c you have to actually be located there and maintain an office there (our company lokked into it).
The solution you're looking for is corporate personhood in some other nation. I can't advise on what nation and be careful there are tons of scams surrounding this having to do with income tax evasion which you would NEVER attempt in any way unless you're a certified idiot, greedhead or a Republican.
Brilliant. Exactly. Waiter.. whatever this man is drinking!
I love it when people try to be two different people in a thread. It's so transparent.
You're not a scientist. That's the bottom line. The process of science is the process you're attempting to engage in - the process of posing alternative theories, evaluating hypotheses and rejecting them.
The thing you can't accept, because you either aren't going to are haven't yet grown out of your fundamental narcissism which leads you to believe you can adjudicate this matter meaningfully, is that you're fundamentally incapable of determining truth in this technical matter and yet, it will impact your life enormously.
That's how it is. You don't get to decide what happens in the larger part of your life.
Being an adult means coming to terms with that fact and accepting that it's not just true, but also proper and moral. It means giving up just so stories- "alternative explanations" in this case- which are just fairy tales and projections of what you wish were true, and instead facing facts, including the fact of your own limitations to understand things.
Intel is a chronically abusive corporation ; abusive towards the market, abusive towards its employees and abusive towards its customers. We NEVER buy Intel processors no matter what the deal or how hard we have to work to get an AMD system
Anyone who doesn't know about Intel's anti-competitive practices is asleep at the wheel. Their "forced ranking" where every tenth employee is fired every year - in Roman times this was called "decimation" and was considered barbaric back then, creates a work atmosphere of pure political backstabbing where the only real goal is to ensure sure you're not the one who is selected to die. In that environment, work product quality counts for one chip and sucking up and undermining others counts for ten.
Anyone who cares at all about either the free market or a fair workplace has exactly zero reason to buy a chip from Intel.
Here's what you need to do.
You need to report to your local mental health facility and tell them you want to be committed.
Tell them what you told me- that the Rockefeller's are trying to depopulate the world and AGW is their plan.
They are joined in this conspiracy by the world's leading scientists who are engaged in a world wide conspiracy to systematically fake data about the climate. It's all a big plan to take over the world and impose a fascist regime. Tell them only you and people who read the same web pages you do understand this evil world wide conspiracy.
They'll know how many CCs of what drug to give you to calm you down before they can schedule your ECT treatment.
Do this now. It's in your own best interest.
Hoping you recover soon.
Yeah you're a paranoid delusional whose snorted so much right wing demagogue coke up his nose you're brains been splattered all over the inside of your skull.
Newsflash asshole, FDR did not implement fascist policies.
Newsflash asshole, Hitler and the Italian fascists went after liberals and socialists who opposed them.
Newsflash asshole , the world's scientists are all in agreement about AGW only right wing mass murderers like Limbaugh and the Coked Up Brothers and the Heartland Institute are against saving the planet and humanity.
Newsflash asshole, read history. If you can't talk it out then either you vote it out or the shooting starts, but one thing is for certain, delusional insane frothy human garbage is never permitted to drive the rest of humanity over a cliff. Read history to see what happens to people like you. You can either comply nicely or you can comply unhappily or you can taste the unrestrained wrath of your neighbors and countrymen. The US has a pretty good record of killing fascists who want to enslave people both here and abroad and if you force our hand then your suffering will be pretty much unlimited.
You have no choice because reality is giving you no choice and before reality gets to you, we will . That's how we deal with insane mass murderers in the final analysis if nothing else works. You really don't want to go down that path.
Denial = mass murderer.
First you rewrite US history when the facts are that the conservative congress opposed FDRs attempts to enter the war earlier and also opposed hi attempts to support the allies prior to our entrance into the war.
Then you rewrite US history to vilify the socialists.
Now you finally give voice to your belief that AGW is a gigantic conspiracy to take away your "fwweedoms".
The only thing that is going to take away your "fweedoms" is your own actions. Call it a self fulfilling prophesy or whatever, the fact is if we do nothing about AGW because deniers continue to put up resistance to reality then much more than your "fweedoms" is going to be taken away from you
This is what a large part of the right wants- the final show down between Jesus and evil. You have to hear them go on and on with a sparkle in their eye about how the blood in the Final Battle will be "as high as a horse's reigns" to finally understand that they lust after world changing conflict and will take it in any form they can get it.
Deniers are universal terrorists. They need to be dealt with like the terrorists they are . The great re-ordering of society which they themselves are forcing on the world is not going to be along the lines of Christian conservatism and corporate power, it's going to be along the lines government regulation and a reduction in the power of both religion- which is a disease that needs to be cured- and unaccountable, independent corporate power, which is what spawned and funded the denialist memes were all spending time fighting now.
If you turn yourself into criminals waging a campaign of mass death against the larger society, then that society will pursue you like criminals and create laws to protect itself in the future from the exact methods you used to achieve your criminal and genocidal ends. Have no doubt about it. You're writing you last will and testament yourself, no one else is doing it to you.
It's not just open APIs this is true of, it's open source itself, of code reuse itself.
The dream is sweet, - "don't write all that code! Save yourself all that work and just hook into THIS code base. The problem is , sure you hooked into that code base and got all that stuff for free but what happens when there's a bug? Does the community fix it right away? Maybe, but only maybe. .. what if they don't and what if the code base requires a huge effort to understand? Now you're screwed and to the exact same extent that you thought you were being given a free ride, except your customers are clammering for a fix and it's all YOUR fault from their POV.
If the sheer mass of code to be considered is big enough and the concepts unfamiliar enough, it's a real barrier to fixing anything. If the owners or acknowledged top dogs of that code base are unfriendly or aloof then so will the user's group be and that's a barrier to comprehension also. If the code base is undocuemnted, then that's something else to think about. We're going through this right now- the company has an open source code base but they're unfriendly, curt, non-responders and so is the UG. Do we decide "meh, we have the source, how bad can it get even with zero assistance ?" or do we decide that it's just not worth the risk and hassle and look elsewhere?
There's a sweet spot to be had between not reinventing the wheel and not being crushed by it.
Curinir Wolf said:
" the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists"
WoofyGoofy said:
Look, you're a fucking idiot, OK? Socialism and fascism are two very different movements ...So believing that Germany persecuted leftists , socialists and communists is now a form of indoctrination.
now Curinir Wolf says :
I never made such a claim
What's your claim now, that your rebuttal to me applied to my whole post but nothing in particular in that post? My post which consists of nothing but particular statements about particular subjects?.
I rest my case. Deniers are sociopathic liars and clowns of the Glenn Beck variety, determined to set off their climate bomb. Their proven tactic is to waste as much time and tying up as many resources as possible by offering up an endless stream of insincere arguments and staging faux melodramas in which they star as reasonable yet persecuted minorities who are put upon by their fellow countrymen.
The time is now, government, the time is now, Mr President..
Curinir Wolf said:
" the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists"
WoofyGoofy said:
Look, you're a fucking idiot, OK? Socialism and fascism are two very different movements and that's why Italy and Germany went after the socialists in WWII along with the Jews and the homosexuals and the gypsies. This is the most basic stuff you shoudl have learned in school: From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany [wikipedia.org]
The Gestapo (secret state police) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the liberal, socialist, and communist opposition and persecuted the Jews. The party took control of the courts, local government, and all civic organizations except the Protestant and Catholic churches.[3]
and Curinir Wolf replied:
Wow I see you've been thoroughly indoctrinated.
So believing that Germany persecuted leftists , socialists and communists is now a form of indoctrination. Now the most basic, verifiable and proven facts of history- which are still alive in some witnesses' minds -are something in dispute along with AGW
This is what deniers are; mindlessly and pointlessly combative, ego dysfunctional, partisan, intransigent, power seeking idiots with an unlimited capacity for self-deception whose self esteem is so low that the possibility of admitting error simply does not exist, regardless of how basic the fact are that they've maligned.
And this set of people is going to come to their senses, although they haven't yet despite the wealth of evidence available to them, at some point in the future.
This is what Forbes Magazine and the WSJ and the Heritage Foundation and the CATO Institute and FoxNews and the Koch's and Limbaugh have bred into existence and are they going to now clean up the mess? Are they going to undo somehow the damage they've done to everyone on this planet by creating a army of zombified know-nothings ready to go to the barriers in defense of their shared unreality? And is that description not the common precursor to almost every war we've fought this century?
Who is going to stop the zombie army? Who is going to defuse the bomb? You and I are, that's who. And at what cost to our nation and how much blood is going to be spilled this time to disabuse the conservatives of the notion that living within the dictates of reality is some form of oppression upon them and their freedoms ?
Clear and present danger. This is what it was like before the Civil War. This is what the South was composed of. You're kidding yourself if you think it can't happen again. Wake the fuck up, government. Wake the fuck up.
CurnirWof said:
I am a crackpot
On your quote above, I think we're all agreed.
Curinir Wolf said: " the biggest and most important players within the fascist movement came from the socialists"
Look, you're a fucking idiot, OK? Socialism and fascism are two very different movements and that's why Italy and Germany went after the socialists in WWII along with the Jews and the homosexuals and the gypsies. This is the most basic stuff you shoudl have learned in school:
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
The Gestapo (secret state police) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the liberal, socialist, and communist opposition and persecuted the Jews. The party took control of the courts, local government, and all civic organizations except the Protestant and Catholic churches.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
But you didn't learn it, like you didn't learn science like you didn't learn anything else about anything which is why you are so gullible and such a tool for the Kochs and Goldberg and the rest of the liars. You're ignorant and ignorant of the fact that you're ignorant. You can be sold on absolutely any idea so long as it comes out of Fox news or Rush Limbaugh or Jonah Goldberg or has the words "freedom" attached to it.
You're in a world in which you want desperately to be considered an autonomous expert on the affairs of the day, but in reality those affairs are too complex and too technical for you to have any gasp on them. So you gravitate towards the people who are telling you your ignorance makes you "real" and "authentic" in opposition to those "elites" in their universities who spew climate change babble and try to fool you with their little bag of tricks! .
And how do you see through their charade?? Well it's not because you actually did the the requisite work at school to have the earned authority accorded to a legitimate expert, now is it? No you haven't earned a PhD and then spent your professional life painstakingly investigating and publishing on some aspect of climate science.
Yet you want so much to assume the mantle of authority and be given the respect you see the people who have earned that authority are given!
So you've found a fast workaround to *all that* by listening closely to and mimicking internet memes and believing people who stroke your ego by telling you you don't need any of THAT STUFF to understand the details of atmospheric physics and chemistry!
Wow you sure are onto the climate conspiracy! No one is going to get anything past you!
The only problem with your witty riposte is it's merely a unthinking reflexive reaction to the appearance of the word Nazi. In fact for the issues addressed - the prosecution of generational-ocidal mass murderers who are relying on a legalistic tactic to evade prosecution by society, there IS no more relevant comparison.
The fact that this issue is of urgent national security concerns is indisputable by anyone who is not functionally insane:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?pagewanted=all
I can draw further analogies, all apropo, about how a significant part of the US polity was FOR Nazi Germany and fascism , and how that part of the demographic was nearly the same crowd as the deniers today- conservative Catholics (Father Conklin et al "the one good thing Hitler is doing is killing the Jews..." ) and the conservative isolationists and xenophobes which are today's Tea Party.
McCain, Palin, Gingrich Romney all have gone on record as saying AGW is real and needs to be addressed urgently. Other Republican luminaries such as Dick Lugar of (IN), perennial Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Prsidential candidate John Huntsmann, Fred Upton (Mich.) and others to numerous to mention have all recently changed their minds on this topic not becuase of new evidence but because of political expediency.
I'll tell you this. Either our leaders will step up to this issue and lead- take all measures necessary to effect a change in the attitudes of this part of the electorate- or this nation will slide into another real civil war. What is coming at us is not going to go away. It is not a matter of differing opinions amenable to a compromise solution. If the people and institutions behind the machinery of denialism are permitted to continue to frame this as a matter of debate or as a fraud and they continue to be successful in manipulating the American populace into doing nothing, this nation will devolve into a hot civil war. The two sides will be the reality based segment of society who is not going to back down any more than a person seeing a truck bearing down on them can be convinced to stand there and do nothing and the victims of the Koch brothers and Fox News and Forbes Magazine and these think tanks distortions and lies and provocations .
This is not hyperbole at all. This is what happens when leaders are too afraid to lead but would rather just collect their checks and shuffle along into tax-payer funded retirements.
If we don't act, there will inevitably come a time when no one on this board is thinking about anything other than global warming and bearing the consequences of our society's inaction. You won't be playing Quake. You won't be updating your profile on Facebook. You won't be do anything or thinking anything about anything that is not directly related to global warming, including waiting for your food and water rations and watching people die in the streets of America like it was Somolia and hoping it doesn't come to your neighborhood.
There is one reality, not many. We all share in that reality.