He pitches his idea of "literate programming" which I must admit I've never heard of
I'm shocked to discover that Knuth is taking an opportunity to push literate programming, given that he's been pushing literate programming at every opportunity for at least 25 years.
Now, I've no problem with literate programming, but given that even semi-literate practices like "write good comments" hasn't caught on in many places, I think Don is flogging a dead horse by suggesting that code should be entirely documentation driven.
Unsolicited packages are gifts, as long as you're the intended recipient (and yes "The Occupier" counts). (Unsolicited Goods Act, Consumer Protection [Distance Selling] Act).
I would say "I can't believe the US doesn't have similar laws", but I can, because I recognise a country where Corporations have a massively disproportionate sway on legislators.
That's not a trilogy. Godfather, Godfather Pt II. That's all they made. There is no terrible, ill-conceived third Godfather film. Didn't happen. And there's certainly no implausibly-plotted, badly written, third film with Frances Coppola's immediate family stinking up the acting joint. Not listening. Na-na-na-na-na-can't-hear-you.
Interesting that the Bush Administration's interest in protecting the environment begins and ends at the point where it enables them to destroy evidence, though. I'm sure the CIA didn't really mean to shred those documents either, but they needed some organic mulch for their sustainable vegetable patch.
The conservative/capitalists idea is the "your money, your responsibility" philosophy.
Really? If I robbed George Bush/Warren Buffet/Bill Gates/Michelle Malkin/George Steinbrenner's home while they were out, and don't think the reaction would be "Gee, I guess I should've taken more care with my money. Oh, well, so goes capitalism. I'd think they'd ask the police to help them get their stuff back."
If you think someone can "Mandate" something that even the summary acknowledges to be optional, then you simply don't know what "Mandate" means. What they've mandated is a choice, and choice is good.
Schools shouldn't be required to provide unmoderated internet access anymore than school libraries should be required to stock "Big Juggs" magazine in the name of "Free Speech".
Being obliged to surrender your encryption key to police with a court order == fascism eh? Do you know what a search warrant is? The fact you have to let the police into your house if they've gone through the right channels? You know you can go to prison for destroying evidence, especially if its been subpoenad? Again, if they get the warrants they can intercept your mail and listen to your phone calls.
That's how police work functions. If they jump through the hoops that legal oversight requires, and you have to follow their requests. You can certainly claim you don't have the key, and you get the presumption of innocence, but if the other evidence suggests otherwise, the jury would be quite right not to believe you.
If you think that's fascism, you really, really, really don't understand what fascism is. And since you seem to believe that WW2 was so long ago that all its veterans are dead, I'm not surprised you make other completely moronic statements.
You're showing your youth now. In the days when raw computers were regularly attached to the internet, www.domain.com could be a DNS alias for whatever machine at domain.com (inevitably either frodo.domain.com or bilbo.domain.com) had been configured to have the NCSA web server on it. No-one would consider redirecting any port 80 traffic to a dedicated web server. Thus www.foo.com became the default, easy-to-remember name for "the webserver at foo.com".
An nslookup on "domain.com" would frequently not even return a valid IP address -- and why should it, that's a domain not a machine, and domains got IP ranges, while individual IP addresses were allocated to machines.
In China, the legacy of 100 years of pre-Communist misrule, followed by 60 years of even worse criminally-insane Communist misrule so badly broke the economy that they've barely now recovered. I would not rule out China being a scientific, as well as industrial powerhouse in the next 25 years.
The irony being that in the US the space program considered too important to trust to the free market. If President Kennedy had vowed that private enterprise would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, we'd still be waiting. In fact the space program was a spectacularly expensive project, motivated by being beaten by Gargarin, whose PR benefits greatly outweighed its scientific merits (which were many).
A massively expensive state/military-run propaganda exercise -- Stalin would've approved.
Really? Stalin's Soviet Union launched the first satellite, and put the first man in space. Under Stalin's rule, Cerenkov and Tamm won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics, as did Landau in 1962 for work carried out under Stalin, and Basov and Prokhorov in 1964.
Stalin was an evil murdering bastard, but to suggest that Soviet physical scientists were prevented from doing good work under his reign is just claptrap. Even under Stalin, scientific free thought was encouraged, it was economic and political free thought that was curtailed. You'll notice they didn't win many Nobel prizes for Economics over that time, and their most notable literary laureate (Pasternak) turned it down out of fear of his government.
Communists have dogma that infringes artistic and economic thought, but it requires a fundamentalist theist to have dogma that infringes scientific thought.
The thief also took the master copies of "Godfather III" and that appalling schmaltzfest section of "New York Stories". Movie lovers are presently in negotiation for those not to be returned.
Or.... like every other user in the world - just turn, clippy, off.
You completely miss the point. When Clippy first appeared, you couldn't turn it off. The option to disable the little bastard came some time later -- as a a patch -- after months of clamour by users. Meeks is point is that with Open Source that clamour would've been unecessary -- someone would've simply fixed it within days (hours, probably).
Google are going to find out what websites are popular. That's information that they simply couldn't otherwise find out unless they... oooh... operated the world's most popular search engine.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, I've no problem with literate programming, but given that even semi-literate practices like "write good comments" hasn't caught on in many places, I think Don is flogging a dead horse by suggesting that code should be entirely documentation driven.
I prefer the bit where he tries to get himself subscribed into the first internet dating service. MMMMMM classy.
Unsolicited packages are gifts, as long as you're the intended recipient (and yes "The Occupier" counts). (Unsolicited Goods Act, Consumer Protection [Distance Selling] Act).
I would say "I can't believe the US doesn't have similar laws", but I can, because I recognise a country where Corporations have a massively disproportionate sway on legislators.
That's not a trilogy. Godfather, Godfather Pt II. That's all they made. There is no terrible, ill-conceived third Godfather film. Didn't happen. And there's certainly no implausibly-plotted, badly written, third film with Frances Coppola's immediate family stinking up the acting joint. Not listening. Na-na-na-na-na-can't-hear-you.
Interesting that the Bush Administration's interest in protecting the environment begins and ends at the point where it enables them to destroy evidence, though. I'm sure the CIA didn't really mean to shred those documents either, but they needed some organic mulch for their sustainable vegetable patch.
You missed one. You could also get 7" EPs, which played at 33 1/3.
Well, yes. But scamming someone in Second Life is also unethical and immoral. Which was kinda my point.
Yes. And while we're at it, why not let little old ladies be weak, and let the much stronger muggers take their money.
I mean, if they deserved that money, they'd be strong enough to still have it, right?
If the smart should be allowed to scam the stupid, why shouldn't the strong be allowed to steal from the the weak?
If you think someone can "Mandate" something that even the summary acknowledges to be optional, then you simply don't know what "Mandate" means. What they've mandated is a choice, and choice is good.
Schools shouldn't be required to provide unmoderated internet access anymore than school libraries should be required to stock "Big Juggs" magazine in the name of "Free Speech".
They're not authorised by the copyright holder.
Fortunately, you don't need their authorisation, so that's OK.
How the last ten years cards were visually stunning but really badly written?
Internet Sociologist? That's not a real job.
Being obliged to surrender your encryption key to police with a court order == fascism eh?
Do you know what a search warrant is? The fact you have to let the police into your house if they've gone through the right channels? You know you can go to prison for destroying evidence, especially if its been subpoenad? Again, if they get the warrants they can intercept your mail and listen to your phone calls.
That's how police work functions. If they jump through the hoops that legal oversight requires, and you have to follow their requests. You can certainly claim you don't have the key, and you get the presumption of innocence, but if the other evidence suggests otherwise, the jury would be quite right not to believe you.
If you think that's fascism, you really, really, really don't understand what fascism is. And since you seem to believe that WW2 was so long ago that all its veterans are dead, I'm not surprised you make other completely moronic statements.
Interviewing Hans Reiser about the Hans Resier murder, eh? Clever.
How about interviewing Harry Buttle about that known terrorist Harry Tuttle?
And since you're clearly a moron, I'm guessing you're not a Crown/Military official who's been asked to sign the OSA.
You're showing your youth now. In the days when raw computers were regularly attached to the internet, www.domain.com could be a DNS alias for whatever machine at domain.com (inevitably either frodo.domain.com or bilbo.domain.com) had been configured to have the NCSA web server on it. No-one would consider redirecting any port 80 traffic to a dedicated web server. Thus www.foo.com became the default, easy-to-remember name for "the webserver at foo.com".
An nslookup on "domain.com" would frequently not even return a valid IP address -- and why should it, that's a domain not a machine, and domains got IP ranges, while individual IP addresses were allocated to machines.
Nobel Prizes are not awarded in the year the work happened...
In China, the legacy of 100 years of pre-Communist misrule, followed by 60 years of even worse criminally-insane Communist misrule so badly broke the economy that they've barely now recovered. I would not rule out China being a scientific, as well as industrial powerhouse in the next 25 years.
The irony being that in the US the space program considered too important to trust to the free market. If President Kennedy had vowed that private enterprise would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, we'd still be waiting. In fact the space program was a spectacularly expensive project, motivated by being beaten by Gargarin, whose PR benefits greatly outweighed its scientific merits (which were many).
A massively expensive state/military-run propaganda exercise -- Stalin would've approved.
Really? Stalin's Soviet Union launched the first satellite, and put the first man in space. Under Stalin's rule, Cerenkov and Tamm won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics, as did Landau in 1962 for work carried out under Stalin, and Basov and Prokhorov in 1964.
Stalin was an evil murdering bastard, but to suggest that Soviet physical scientists were prevented from doing good work under his reign is just claptrap. Even under Stalin, scientific free thought was encouraged, it was economic and political free thought that was curtailed. You'll notice they didn't win many Nobel prizes for Economics over that time, and their most notable literary laureate (Pasternak) turned it down out of fear of his government.
Communists have dogma that infringes artistic and economic thought, but it requires a fundamentalist theist to have dogma that infringes scientific thought.
The thief also took the master copies of "Godfather III" and that appalling schmaltzfest section of "New York Stories". Movie lovers are presently in negotiation for those not to be returned.
Google are going to find out what websites are popular. That's information that they simply couldn't otherwise find out unless they ... oooh ... operated the world's most popular search engine.
Everybody panic!