Coder is a really good analogy. Think back to the days when you needed to punch your fortran code into cards to send an email (and yes I know this is technically wrong). This benefits the coders who work the system, the sysadmins (who are also coders) who run the system, and the OS designers who developed the system (who are also coders). It's a nice legal monopoly, but it is far from user friendly. Of course, it's easier to buy a new computer than to migrate to a new country, so IT been a more efficient market driven system.
Now consider the fact that the lawyers are paid to the work the system, the judges (who are also lawyers) administer the sytem, and politicians and legal advisers (many of whom are lawyers, especially the ones that draft legislation) are also lawyers. It's a nice little piece of white-collar union thuggery, but you can't get away from it without leaving the country, so market forces don't make it more friendly.
Another issue is that the TSA agent was able to move all that shit without getting detected. Good thing he was taking cameras out, not putting bombs in, because the security was obviously pretty lax on the inside.
"I had this idea, and I did a small little experiment to see if it was worth anything. Maybe it is."
If you just had an idea, and you did a small little experiment you would get knocked back for "methodological issues". You are better having an idea, then using a big simulation output and datamining (with a boutique distance metric) to try and bluster your the readers into thinking you had done something original. Just testing ideas with experimentation is soooo 1950s. Besides, it blows the budget and doesn't attract funding.
Anyone who says that Linux is technologically light years ahead of Windows is... wrong. Stuff like OLE, the Com interface, the Jet database (which does the job of SQLite, not the other ones), data sharing API's and so on are much better in Windows that Linux. Yes, I have heard of Wine, and Mono. They are not the main point of of the open source software ecosystem, which has different goals to Microsoft; both technologically and from a business point of view..
Of course, you could say that Linux (and OSX) has a better design, or that more free software works better on Linux, both of which are clear advantages. No argument there.
Or that consumers (non-programmers) need more killer apps to show them the power of plain text (which is the underlying point of Linux), as opposed to embedded applications and 'rich' (ugly) API and data formats.
Also, the FDA is able to rush out treatments for "compassionate" reasons, so they can treat some patients during the testing phases. This first happened with AZT (the first HIV med). The fact is, this robot just speeds up the treatment a bit, it's not some holy grail to cure cancer. It might help in the long run, but rushing out a buggy beta just isn't worth it.
The urban legend is that a lot of people who spoke to Eliza thought that she was real. The question is did Eliza pass the Turing test, or did the interviews fail? It scares me that these people vote.
But then you couldn't call a cab. Unless it was set to call a cab in the event of you failing, and used the GPS to guide the driver to your designated crash pad.
*sigh*, Python is a lot of things, but it is NOT well defined. Maybe Python is OK compared to the other open source source scripting languages like Perl and Ruby. C is a well defined language (except for the bits that are explicitly left undefined), Pascal is really well defined, and Lua is pretty damn good.
I expect that Perl is left out because a lot of its strengths are in Unix scripting, database libraries, bioinformatics applications and other goodies, which rely on C code and a Unix platform. Ruby Gems and *cough* easy_install just aren't the treasure troves of CPAN, and CPAN can't be easily ported to.net.
Mirror Pirate Bay, and maybe a few other popular torrent sites. I'm not sure how many billion they would hit you with, but it would probably be enough to bail out a small financial institution. Oh, and end world poverty, but that's not so important now, right?
"when are you going to end this war on the middle east?"
Our soldiers are doing a great job, and I'm proud of them, but we will continue to fight evil wherever it may lurk.
"What are you personally going to do to fix healthcare?"
Privatizing profits and socializing losses will keep our health industry the one of the healthiest in the world!
"How are you going to help address corruption in Capitol hill?"
The first rule of Capitol hill is you don't talk about corruption in Capitol hill.
"What is your position on Medical Marijuana? Why?"
My position on Medical Marijuana is a safe one. For me to continue to hold this safe position, I can't tell you what it is. Sorry.
"What are you going to do to restore the constitution and amercian rights?"
Americans have lots of rights. If you happened to miss out, perhaps there was a certain $1000 dinner you forgot to go to?
"So Governor Palin, what is your favorite pizza topping?" "Well, I may not answer the question the way you want me to, but Obama has voted to raise taxes on 94 times. Baby."
And anyone who has experience of both IE and Firefox will tell you that IE is better thought out, has a more consistant design, has cleaner easier to use interface, scales better, performs better and is altogether a much nicer environment to surf in.
This is why Bobby Fisher invented a chess game where the pieces are randomized. It doesn't stop massive computers from brute forcing the game (in theory), but it does make it better for human players who want the challenge to be the game, not the preparation.
Or you can suggest to the PHB to give the old junk away to the employee of the month. Nothing motivates workers like getting first dibs rummaging through the trash!
You forgot the Wii, which is vastly inferior to the Xbox 360, and PS3, but sells like hotcakes. Man I wish they made a Wii portable, with headphones, LCD sunglasses, and wristwatch sized accelerometers. Then nobody could see you were wearing it as you thrashed around on a bus. It would be so Neal Stephenson.
I would say that most of these are so vague that they are 'research areas', rather than 'questions'. Sort of like 'develop a mathematically consistent model for the motions of heavenly bodies'. They do sound fun though.
Have a look at the history of the PDA. Apple came in with the Newton (in 1994), which failed to capture a sustainable market. Lots of competitors also dived in, but it wasn't until the technologically inferior Palm Pilot came along (in 1997) that the market took off. Palm Pilot made the four main use cases (address book, memo, date, and todo) easy to use. No more, and no less. It used inferior technology, but superior design. The X01 is good enough, hardware wise, but it is an educational tool, not a netbook. We haven't seen a netbook yet, but an iPhone style browser, google maps, an office system that is usable on a small machine, and a communications system (texts, rss, email, etc) with appropriate hardware support (possibly specialized controls, though apples trackpad is pretty cool) would establish the new design of what netbooks are meant to be. Sorry, was I rambling?
You can't get the fed buying google, only losses get socialized! In the meantime, if you want the government to produce useful data, don't insist that they standardize. Government employees are not particularly good at standardization, and if publishing requirements slow them down, then they just won't release data. Free, standard, and available are all possible, as long as you only want 2.
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Coder is a really good analogy. Think back to the days when you needed to punch your fortran code into cards to send an email (and yes I know this is technically wrong). This benefits the coders who work the system, the sysadmins (who are also coders) who run the system, and the OS designers who developed the system (who are also coders). It's a nice legal monopoly, but it is far from user friendly. Of course, it's easier to buy a new computer than to migrate to a new country, so IT been a more efficient market driven system.
Now consider the fact that the lawyers are paid to the work the system, the judges (who are also lawyers) administer the sytem, and politicians and legal advisers (many of whom are lawyers, especially the ones that draft legislation) are also lawyers. It's a nice little piece of white-collar union thuggery, but you can't get away from it without leaving the country, so market forces don't make it more friendly.
Another issue is that the TSA agent was able to move all that shit without getting detected. Good thing he was taking cameras out, not putting bombs in, because the security was obviously pretty lax on the inside.
"I had this idea, and I did a small little experiment to see if it was worth anything. Maybe it is."
If you just had an idea, and you did a small little experiment you would get knocked back for "methodological issues". You are better having an idea, then using a big simulation output and datamining (with a boutique distance metric) to try and bluster your the readers into thinking you had done something original. Just testing ideas with experimentation is soooo 1950s. Besides, it blows the budget and doesn't attract funding.
Anyone who says that Linux is technologically light years ahead of Windows is ... wrong. Stuff like OLE, the Com interface, the Jet database (which does the job of SQLite, not the other ones), data sharing API's and so on are much better in Windows that Linux. Yes, I have heard of Wine, and Mono. They are not the main point of of the open source software ecosystem, which has different goals to Microsoft; both technologically and from a business point of view..
Of course, you could say that Linux (and OSX) has a better design, or that more free software works better on Linux, both of which are clear advantages. No argument there.
Or that consumers (non-programmers) need more killer apps to show them the power of plain text (which is the underlying point of Linux), as opposed to embedded applications and 'rich' (ugly) API and data formats.
So will they mind if some of the 'prototypes' have an eerie resemblance to 40k minitures?
Also, the FDA is able to rush out treatments for "compassionate" reasons, so they can treat some patients during the testing phases. This first happened with AZT (the first HIV med). The fact is, this robot just speeds up the treatment a bit, it's not some holy grail to cure cancer. It might help in the long run, but rushing out a buggy beta just isn't worth it.
The urban legend is that a lot of people who spoke to Eliza thought that she was real. The question is did Eliza pass the Turing test, or did the interviews fail? It scares me that these people vote.
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They could implement some sort of karma, moderation, and meta-moderation system, which would be even better than peer review, right?
But then you couldn't call a cab. Unless it was set to call a cab in the event of you failing, and used the GPS to guide the driver to your designated crash pad.
*sigh*, Python is a lot of things, but it is NOT well defined. Maybe Python is OK compared to the other open source source scripting languages like Perl and Ruby. C is a well defined language (except for the bits that are explicitly left undefined), Pascal is really well defined, and Lua is pretty damn good.
I expect that Perl is left out because a lot of its strengths are in Unix scripting, database libraries, bioinformatics applications and other goodies, which rely on C code and a Unix platform. Ruby Gems and *cough* easy_install just aren't the treasure troves of CPAN, and CPAN can't be easily ported to .net.
Mirror Pirate Bay, and maybe a few other popular torrent sites. I'm not sure how many billion they would hit you with, but it would probably be enough to bail out a small financial institution. Oh, and end world poverty, but that's not so important now, right?
<p>OK, have a look at a HTML cheatsheet.</p>
<p>Notice how you can use <p> to start a paragraph, and </p> to end a paragraph? Slashdot formatting works the same way. </p>
<p>I'm just saying.. </p>
Happy now?
"So Governor Palin, what is your favorite pizza topping?" "Well, I may not answer the question the way you want me to, but Obama has voted to raise taxes on 94 times. Baby."
And anyone who has experience of both IE and Firefox will tell you that IE is better thought out, has a more consistant design, has cleaner easier to use interface, scales better, performs better and is altogether a much nicer environment to surf in.
This is why Bobby Fisher invented a chess game where the pieces are randomized. It doesn't stop massive computers from brute forcing the game (in theory), but it does make it better for human players who want the challenge to be the game, not the preparation.
Microsoft's response to "Mac vs PC" just got a hell of a lot sicker.
Or you can suggest to the PHB to give the old junk away to the employee of the month. Nothing motivates workers like getting first dibs rummaging through the trash!
Only after they wipe the keys, and remove the pubes from the stolen laptop. Ugh.
Don't be so sure. iPhone v3 may have a link to a blacklist of web addresses, as well as a blacklist of apps.
You forgot the Wii, which is vastly inferior to the Xbox 360, and PS3, but sells like hotcakes. Man I wish they made a Wii portable, with headphones, LCD sunglasses, and wristwatch sized accelerometers. Then nobody could see you were wearing it as you thrashed around on a bus. It would be so Neal Stephenson.
I would say that most of these are so vague that they are 'research areas', rather than 'questions'. Sort of like 'develop a mathematically consistent model for the motions of heavenly bodies'. They do sound fun though.
Have a look at the history of the PDA. Apple came in with the Newton (in 1994), which failed to capture a sustainable market. Lots of competitors also dived in, but it wasn't until the technologically inferior Palm Pilot came along (in 1997) that the market took off. Palm Pilot made the four main use cases (address book, memo, date, and todo) easy to use. No more, and no less. It used inferior technology, but superior design.
The X01 is good enough, hardware wise, but it is an educational tool, not a netbook. We haven't seen a netbook yet, but an iPhone style browser, google maps, an office system that is usable on a small machine, and a communications system (texts, rss, email, etc) with appropriate hardware support (possibly specialized controls, though apples trackpad is pretty cool) would establish the new design of what netbooks are meant to be. Sorry, was I rambling?
You can't get the fed buying google, only losses get socialized!
In the meantime, if you want the government to produce useful data, don't insist that they standardize. Government employees are not particularly good at standardization, and if publishing requirements slow them down, then they just won't release data. Free, standard, and available are all possible, as long as you only want 2.