A false sense of achievement ("Hey I EARNED that sword of infinity plus one!") is the need filled by the "grind". Just like slot-machines, really. Actually, I think there was an article way back putting this on more of a scientific footing...
Yep, Wine is the coolest thing since Linux. You know it's there, and you know it's geeky and patchy, and you could just buy Windows and avoid all the bother, but sooner or later - BAMM it will be the obvious choice. (I write this from a Mac, but I still say that Linux + GNU + any good package manager is the obvious choice for an operating system - I just like my iLife, MS Office, and TextMate; and I like pretending to be a member of an oppressed minority).
For a lot of projects I would be skeptical of the value of Python 3 (as Python 2.6 has those cool multiprocessing and json modules); but Python 3 really fixes a lot of Unicode warts. In a web framework, I guess that's pretty important.
Nope, it's already registered. And it's a porn site, so it would go too. I guess every domain name morphs into a porn site with an asymptotic probability of 1.0: non-porn sites can morph into porn sites (with a finite probability), but porn sites tend to stay porn forever. QED.
Have you read about the Stanford Prison Experiment? Normal people like you and me can do atrocious things, if we feel justified. Police take a lot of training and talent to *not* act like thugs. Government officials don't have this sort of training.
Unless Solaris wins. Or maybe that weird BeOS clone. BSD seems to be the eternal bridesmaid of operating systems (not that I wouldn't mind giving it a try).
So they kick a family off the plane for "security" reasons, then refuse to follow FBI instructions? At least they have some integrity and consistency...
They are also going to fuck people's sense of achievement. I read in Predictably Irrational (or Freakanomics, I forget which) that as soon as money is put on the table, people consider it a financial transaction, and disregard any intrinsic motivators (which is why it's really bad to tell your date how much the dinner cost, unless they would not be offended if a stranger offered them that amount of money for any favors you were expecting). Formally putting a price on XP will tell gamers what their time was worth, and lots of them will be pissed off that the price was too low.
It's a dupe, anyway. Radiohead did it (sorta kinda). People will just say that Sir Paul has such a fanatical fan base (those crazy, crazy baby boomers) that they will throw money at him just to feel good. It's like those wacky Apple fanboys who download a Hackintosh image, then buy a retail OS.
Brainfuck is fine. It's Turing complete, right, and the only thing to programming is learning rules, and learning to type.
The real question is, what are you trying to teach? Programming and algorithms would be easy to teach in Python (or a lisp), user interface design would be good in Java or.net (vb or c#), web technologies would be good in Ruby, and systems programming would be good in C.
Are you trying to teach software development? What other things can you get students to memorize (or "learn", as fashionable people like to say - there is not much difference since education is in a controlled environment - yes I know that good teaching can make a difference). The stages of software development? The rules of XP? Scrum terminology? How about svn?
There are a number of characteristics of good managers (risk taking, the ability to give negative feedback, and the drive to leverage other peoples work) that sociopaths are pretty good at. That's not to say that only sociopaths are good managers, but they are better managers than the average Joe.
Can you imagine getting the average programmer to bang out Fizzbuzz in Haskell or Erlang? These guys are flat out finding the "PrintIfFizzbuzz" method on IntegerWithFizzbuzz class in the.Java IDE. Let alone grappling with functional concepts. I'm just saying...
But, Postmodernism was just an art project, with lots of unwitting participants (for example, most of the academics involved), and the instigators failed to inform anyone...
WTF, Flamebait? Seriously, look at a Toyota supra next to a Ford Mondeo. Toyota has a lot more slant on the headlights. Ford used to have round or square lights, and only changed because it makes them look more like Toyota.
Was this the same XP that would brick laptops by downing a firmware update while the mains was unplugged, forcing a reboot when the power was about to fail, which tried to update the firmware with 0.5% battery? Or was that Vista? I don't remember - I have a Mac. Not that I'm smug about it.
It probably doesn't help that the Megahertz race is no longer relevant, and savvy customers can no longer divide the MHz by the price, and find out which system gives you the most e-penis for your buck. Customers no longer have a clue, so everyone just shrugs and goes with the biggest brand name.
Kieth Windshuttle has plenty of credibility. You don't have to agree with his interpretations, but he got the facts right. The reason he is so deeply unpopular with mainstream Australian historians is that he actually checked the facts, and found that most historians had gotten them wrong. He wasn't gracious about it either. I guess a lot of historians these days value a "correct" interpretation, over "correct" facts though.
They aint that clever. The justification is to keep the policy people happy. Companies upgrade because the head of IT is bored, and they don't let them play with Lego in the office.
Here is a better idea. Get a degree in something useful (i.e. a degree with lots of chicks, so you can build up the skills that are uncommon in the IT world), and use that AND your ninja sysadmin skills to actually do something useful. An money guy with no IT is useless. An IT guy with no money (or other) skills is useless. A money guy with IT skills is called the CIO, and gets the best toys and pay because she is WORTH IT. Remember what Douglas Adams said: if you are in the best 25% of 2 categories, you are in the top 1% of the combined category, and that is what makes you useful (i.e. highly paid).
Not a great idea. A lot of US agriculture industries have a lot of "government relations" clout. See Why Does a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?. Then we can talk about McDonalds, KFC, and Coca Cola.
But you don't understand. It's important that kids are brainwashed into knowing what the social context of the Bunsen burner is, and how it has led to a repressive, patriarchal, hetro-normative society. Learning chemical reactions would only exacerbate this problematic situation.
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A false sense of achievement ("Hey I EARNED that sword of infinity plus one!") is the need filled by the "grind". Just like slot-machines, really. Actually, I think there was an article way back putting this on more of a scientific footing...
Yep, Wine is the coolest thing since Linux. You know it's there, and you know it's geeky and patchy, and you could just buy Windows and avoid all the bother, but sooner or later - BAMM it will be the obvious choice. (I write this from a Mac, but I still say that Linux + GNU + any good package manager is the obvious choice for an operating system - I just like my iLife, MS Office, and TextMate; and I like pretending to be a member of an oppressed minority).
For a lot of projects I would be skeptical of the value of Python 3 (as Python 2.6 has those cool multiprocessing and json modules); but Python 3 really fixes a lot of Unicode warts. In a web framework, I guess that's pretty important.
Nope, it's already registered. And it's a porn site, so it would go too. I guess every domain name morphs into a porn site with an asymptotic probability of 1.0: non-porn sites can morph into porn sites (with a finite probability), but porn sites tend to stay porn forever. QED.
Have you read about the Stanford Prison Experiment? Normal people like you and me can do atrocious things, if we feel justified. Police take a lot of training and talent to *not* act like thugs. Government officials don't have this sort of training.
Unless Solaris wins. Or maybe that weird BeOS clone. BSD seems to be the eternal bridesmaid of operating systems (not that I wouldn't mind giving it a try).
So they kick a family off the plane for "security" reasons, then refuse to follow FBI instructions? At least they have some integrity and consistency ...
They are also going to fuck people's sense of achievement. I read in Predictably Irrational (or Freakanomics, I forget which) that as soon as money is put on the table, people consider it a financial transaction, and disregard any intrinsic motivators (which is why it's really bad to tell your date how much the dinner cost, unless they would not be offended if a stranger offered them that amount of money for any favors you were expecting). Formally putting a price on XP will tell gamers what their time was worth, and lots of them will be pissed off that the price was too low.
It's a dupe, anyway. Radiohead did it (sorta kinda). People will just say that Sir Paul has such a fanatical fan base (those crazy, crazy baby boomers) that they will throw money at him just to feel good. It's like those wacky Apple fanboys who download a Hackintosh image, then buy a retail OS.
Brainfuck is fine. It's Turing complete, right, and the only thing to programming is learning rules, and learning to type.
The real question is, what are you trying to teach? Programming and algorithms would be easy to teach in Python (or a lisp), user interface design would be good in Java or .net (vb or c#), web technologies would be good in Ruby, and systems programming would be good in C.
Are you trying to teach software development? What other things can you get students to memorize (or "learn", as fashionable people like to say - there is not much difference since education is in a controlled environment - yes I know that good teaching can make a difference). The stages of software development? The rules of XP? Scrum terminology? How about svn?
There are a number of characteristics of good managers (risk taking, the ability to give negative feedback, and the drive to leverage other peoples work) that sociopaths are pretty good at. That's not to say that only sociopaths are good managers, but they are better managers than the average Joe.
Can you imagine getting the average programmer to bang out Fizzbuzz in Haskell or Erlang? These guys are flat out finding the "PrintIfFizzbuzz" method on IntegerWithFizzbuzz class in the .Java IDE. Let alone grappling with functional concepts. I'm just saying ...
But, Postmodernism was just an art project, with lots of unwitting participants (for example, most of the academics involved), and the instigators failed to inform anyone...
All hail Xenu!
WTF, Flamebait? Seriously, look at a Toyota supra next to a Ford Mondeo. Toyota has a lot more slant on the headlights. Ford used to have round or square lights, and only changed because it makes them look more like Toyota.
Was this the same XP that would brick laptops by downing a firmware update while the mains was unplugged, forcing a reboot when the power was about to fail, which tried to update the firmware with 0.5% battery? Or was that Vista? I don't remember - I have a Mac. Not that I'm smug about it.
I think Steve Ballmer has a cunning plan to prevent this :D
It probably doesn't help that the Megahertz race is no longer relevant, and savvy customers can no longer divide the MHz by the price, and find out which system gives you the most e-penis for your buck. Customers no longer have a clue, so everyone just shrugs and goes with the biggest brand name.
You also notice that Toyota and Hyundai cars have slanted lights, most unlike Ford and GM?
Kieth Windshuttle has plenty of credibility. You don't have to agree with his interpretations, but he got the facts right. The reason he is so deeply unpopular with mainstream Australian historians is that he actually checked the facts, and found that most historians had gotten them wrong. He wasn't gracious about it either. I guess a lot of historians these days value a "correct" interpretation, over "correct" facts though.
Or maybe the squirrels had banked them in citi?
They aint that clever. The justification is to keep the policy people happy. Companies upgrade because the head of IT is bored, and they don't let them play with Lego in the office.
Here is a better idea. Get a degree in something useful (i.e. a degree with lots of chicks, so you can build up the skills that are uncommon in the IT world), and use that AND your ninja sysadmin skills to actually do something useful. An money guy with no IT is useless. An IT guy with no money (or other) skills is useless. A money guy with IT skills is called the CIO, and gets the best toys and pay because she is WORTH IT. Remember what Douglas Adams said: if you are in the best 25% of 2 categories, you are in the top 1% of the combined category, and that is what makes you useful (i.e. highly paid).
Not a great idea. A lot of US agriculture industries have a lot of "government relations" clout. See Why Does a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?. Then we can talk about McDonalds, KFC, and Coca Cola.
But you don't understand. It's important that kids are brainwashed into knowing what the social context of the Bunsen burner is, and how it has led to a repressive, patriarchal, hetro-normative society. Learning chemical reactions would only exacerbate this problematic situation.