"It is slightly better to be simple than correct."
and
"Completeness can be sacrificed in favor of any other quality."
These two of the four characteristics most directly confute Nelson, who has always loved theory over practice. That is to say, he is an expert on all of the characteristics and conditions for doing work - without having actually worked himself.
Run your whole public cloud infrastructure and application fabric on the same technology platform as you use to manage your internal data centre.
This is a better by far option than Microsoft - who's idea is to land an Azure container at your doorstep. And it scales from the tiny to the gigantic.
The heart of this stack seems to be gold old Tomcat. The path to an application layer that is aware of on-demand elasticity seems very good.
Facebookâ(TM)s New Realtime Analytics System: HBase to Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
Via: High Scalability: The need for such a high powered analytics system is driven by Facebook's brilliant plan for world wide web domination via the viral propagation of social plugins, all tying the non-Facebook web back into Facebook and the Facebook web back into the non-Facebook web. Basically anything that people can do is captured and fed back through Facebook and anything done on Facebook can be displayed on your website, building closer relations between the two.
The Word Press devs promoting integration with Facebook is like handing Sweeney Todd the razor and saying "Shave away, whatever you like."
It starts with FB managing the identities and next, the discussion threads, and slowly creeps throughout - until WP is a hollow frame on which to drape FB parts.
Drupal 7 changes themeing, almost entirely. 6 still had elements like "Left Column" and "Right Column" - whereas these are now numbered regions, which can be dynamically rearranged, without saddling publishing location of a block to a spatial location.
Just because a rogue, joint-operation of the US and Pakistani intelligence agencies has a catastrophic effect on New York, does not mean that there are actual "terrorists".
Clearly, for anyone who has been paying attention, the NYT has been the Pravda of the US State Dept., vs. the Washington Post's Izvestia which is an organ for the "defense" and intelligence establishment. This has been the case since, at least, the Eisenhower/Kennedy period.
Mistakes, incompetence and mis-applied prosecutorial incentives are just a few of the reasons that this development should be viewed with prejudiced outrage.
The recent case of an innocent man, narrowly escaping capital execution on the basis of deliberate prosecution dishonesty and evidence manipulation should be enough to dissuade anyone who is burdened wit the notion that this "evidence" is just another publicly disclosed fact, that will be judiciously examined on objective merits.
In fact, the US Supreme Court overturned the judgement in favour of the Defendant in this case - effectively saying that collateral damage is an expected outcome in the Executive pursuit of law enforcement.
I am again reminded of the case of Harry Buttle, in the movie Brazil.
When I got back home I found a message on the door Sweet Regina's gone to China crosslegged on the floor Of a burning jet that's smoothly flying: Burning airlines give you so much more.
How does she intend to live when she's in far Cathay? I somehow can't imagine her just planting rice all day. Maybe she will do a bit of spying With microcameras hidden in her hair.
I guess Regina's on the plane, a Newsweek on her knees While miles below her the curlews call from strangely stunted trees. The painted sage sits just as though he's flying; Regina's jet disturbs his wispy beard.
When you reach Kyoto send a postcard if you can, And please convey my fond regards to Chih-Hao's girl Yu-Lan. I heard a rumour they were getting married But someone left the papers in Japan.
"If a link is found, a small alarm sounds, Mr. Browne said."
I enjoy Mr. Browne's rhetorical use of a diminutive conditional adjective. A "small alarm" really isn't such an obstacle to the path of civil liberty? No?
The whole matter is hardly one over which to raise a concern. In fact, I'm surprised that the topic is newsworthy - really. Why such subtle psyops in the pages of the New York Times?
I don't want to be leaving records of where I've been for years...
Why? Isn't there a statute of limitations?:-)
Seriously, the right to conduct oneself privately is the foundation of all civil liberties. This is is why the 4th amendment to the US Constitution specifically prohibits unreasonable search and seizure.
"Unreasonable" has become the elastic operative through which the courts and executive have made impotent, the entire function of that amendment.
The role of the ubiquitous camera in conjunction with the compulsory license plate is just an abstraction of "Show me your papers, please" internal checkpointing - beloved of Inspector Jabert and Heinrich Himmler.
So, yes. The cameras themselves are indeed bad - the fact that you fail to perceive them as such? Just a sign of how irredeemable the loss of basic rights has become in your country.
Slashdot Mirror
Parse?
My head bursteth asunder!
"Half a wrong chmod"
What DOES that EVEN MEAN!?
Have they made any interface changes for this new Gimp branch? I'm looking for something powerful and intuitively accessible, like Blender.
Ted, and the thread, I refer you once again to the Rise of Worse is Better by Richard Gabriel. Repeat, all together now:
"It is slightly better to be simple than correct."
and
"Completeness can be sacrificed in favor of any other quality."
These two of the four characteristics most directly confute Nelson, who has always loved theory over practice. That is to say, he is an expert on all of the characteristics and conditions for doing work - without having actually worked himself.
Run your whole public cloud infrastructure and application fabric on the same technology platform as you use to manage your internal data centre.
This is a better by far option than Microsoft - who's idea is to land an Azure container at your doorstep. And it scales from the tiny to the gigantic.
The heart of this stack seems to be gold old Tomcat. The path to an application layer that is aware of on-demand elasticity seems very good.
Facebookâ(TM)s New Realtime Analytics System: HBase to Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
Via: High Scalability:
The need for such a high powered analytics system is driven by Facebook's brilliant plan for world wide web domination via the viral propagation of social plugins, all tying the non-Facebook web back into Facebook and the Facebook web back into the non-Facebook web. Basically anything that people can do is captured and fed back through Facebook and anything done on Facebook can be displayed on your website, building closer relations between the two.
The Word Press devs promoting integration with Facebook is like handing Sweeney Todd the razor and saying "Shave away, whatever you like."
It starts with FB managing the identities and next, the discussion threads, and slowly creeps throughout - until WP is a hollow frame on which to drape FB parts.
Eviler than Google. And that's saying a lot.
Drupal 7 changes themeing, almost entirely. 6 still had elements like "Left Column" and "Right Column" - whereas these are now numbered regions, which can be dynamically rearranged, without saddling publishing location of a block to a spatial location.
Theme Drupal 6? This was timely in 2009.
Microsoft can now report if you are active in the "Five Minutes Hate".
Any new film, based on any part of the "Star Trek" franchises. :-)
Producers, get this one thing straight: "It's dead, Jim."
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
I like you better, when you post under your OTHER other account.
But you know, there are agencies that now pay people 'turf the way you do, for big industry and finance.
A month ago, I told you so.
Commenters treated me like a troll, or chicken-little.
Oh well. Goodbye, sushi...
Or welcome the self-cooking variety.
I'd watch out for where the wasabi is cultivated.
Anecdotal and irrelevant as data. :-)
Besides that:
Just because a rogue, joint-operation of the US and Pakistani intelligence agencies has a catastrophic effect on New York, does not mean that there are actual "terrorists".
Clearly, for anyone who has been paying attention, the NYT has been the Pravda of the US State Dept., vs. the Washington Post's Izvestia which is an organ for the "defense" and intelligence establishment. This has been the case since, at least, the Eisenhower/Kennedy period.
Mistakes, incompetence and mis-applied prosecutorial incentives are just a few of the reasons that this development should be viewed with prejudiced outrage.
The recent case of an innocent man, narrowly escaping capital execution on the basis of deliberate prosecution dishonesty and evidence manipulation should be enough to dissuade anyone who is burdened wit the notion that this "evidence" is just another publicly disclosed fact, that will be judiciously examined on objective merits.
In fact, the US Supreme Court overturned the judgement in favour of the Defendant in this case - effectively saying that collateral damage is an expected outcome in the Executive pursuit of law enforcement.
I am again reminded of the case of Harry Buttle, in the movie Brazil.
The existence of a "New York Times" is itself, a "psyop". ;-)
Lisa, I want to buy your rock!
When I got back home I found a message on the door
Sweet Regina's gone to China crosslegged on the floor
Of a burning jet that's smoothly flying:
Burning airlines give you so much more.
How does she intend to live when she's in far Cathay?
I somehow can't imagine her just planting rice all day.
Maybe she will do a bit of spying
With microcameras hidden in her hair.
I guess Regina's on the plane, a Newsweek on her knees
While miles below her the curlews call from strangely stunted trees.
The painted sage sits just as though he's flying;
Regina's jet disturbs his wispy beard.
When you reach Kyoto send a postcard if you can,
And please convey my fond regards to Chih-Hao's girl Yu-Lan.
I heard a rumour they were getting married
But someone left the papers in Japan.
"If a link is found, a small alarm sounds, Mr. Browne said."
I enjoy Mr. Browne's rhetorical use of a diminutive conditional adjective. A "small alarm" really isn't such an obstacle to the path of civil liberty? No?
The whole matter is hardly one over which to raise a concern. In fact, I'm surprised that the topic is newsworthy - really. Why such subtle psyops in the pages of the New York Times?
Inspector Javert
Why? Isn't there a statute of limitations? :-)
Seriously, the right to conduct oneself privately is the foundation of all civil liberties. This is is why the 4th amendment to the US Constitution specifically prohibits unreasonable search and seizure.
"Unreasonable" has become the elastic operative through which the courts and executive have made impotent, the entire function of that amendment.
The role of the ubiquitous camera in conjunction with the compulsory license plate is just an abstraction of "Show me your papers, please" internal checkpointing - beloved of Inspector Jabert and Heinrich Himmler.
So, yes. The cameras themselves are indeed bad - the fact that you fail to perceive them as such? Just a sign of how irredeemable the loss of basic rights has become in your country.
Especially when, statistically, terrorists are non-existent.
The container is smaller than the contained.
Yes. Biased. Biased towards God, and not what people repute about the thing beyond everything.