...because i picked up some blades and then tossed them in my wife's cart. Then I headed for the car. My wife did the checkout thing. Next time I went to the store, I was dragged down to the gaol and anally searched.
> Support of binary files is very bad (yes it exists, but it is very crude and almost worthless)
Is not.
> It is very inefficient on the server side.
Insignificant.
> It has a steep learning curve.
All of these objections seem laughable to me, but this one really takes the cake. You need 3 commands in order to do all that any developer (not a CVS maintainer) should ever need to do:
A self-extracting installer can be produced for every platform. Unless your application needs to become a part of the platform, it should be isolable, and installation should be as simple as expanding a self-expanding archive. Such archives can be produced for every popular platform. Using dependency=tracking packages is not feasible if you require that your installation model be cross-platform, but that's really no big loss: by including all of the dependencies for each application within the applications own directory, dependency conflicts are effectively eliminated.
Or you can do it all in Java, and it doesn't matter what your platform is. Webstart rocks these days.
Nobody ever has billions at their disposal. Not even governments. You might be able to get/give/spend/hold a hundred million or so, tops, but not multiple billions. It's not paper anymore, it's bits. When you have a billion in the bank (nobody does), you don't have a billion on paper, you have an entry on a hard drive reading 0x0017 0x4876 0xe800.
Now it might be feasible to convert this to some high-value commodity, such as crocus stamens, or van goghs, but i don't think that really qualifies as an ability to spend, since what you get is no less artificially valued than that pattern of bits.
Obviously, he didn't want that. Traditionally, the history of the patriarchs is attributed to the hand of Moses. This same Moses experienced God's relenting in the face of petition repeatedly and very directly, so it's quite consistent that he should report similar experience on the part of Abraham. But there's nothing about the process of petition and revision of intent which is logically inconsistent with omniscience. The inconsistency is merely cognitive/emotional, and resides entirely in your mind. That mind is quite inadequate to apprehend truth unfiltered. You're thinking with training wheels on, and watching movies of God popping wheelies on his Norton Commando. Then you say to yourself "how can he do that? The training wheels would surely prevent Him from catching so much air -- it must be a special effects job." But in fact, He's not even using a stunt double.
> people will leave the US for cheaper places to live
Easier said than done. Every country in the world is clamping down on immigration. The goal is to insure that everyone lives in such a state of crushing poverty that they can't rebel against the small cabal of the superwealthy. That way, when the population has to be thinned, they can't defend themselves against the Zyklon-B.
The car example is interesting, in that 1 worker will take much much longer than 10 days to make a car, although 10 workers can easily make a car in 1 day, because no one worker has the easy facility with all 10 of the distinct production roles in producing a car. This is counter to the argument of the skeptic of parallelism who claims that Amdahl's law makes parallel computation inherently inefficient, and points to what may be the single most appealling aspect of the "Grid" paradigm for distributed computing, to wit:
As opposed to clustering or even p2p, "Grid" is (albeit in a vague and unfocussed manner) begining to amalgamate diverse and disparate resources which can be used to construct productive pipelines in which each contributing system's peculiar strengths are more efficiently utilized than is possible in a homogenous system, where the imbalance in the resource uses of a particular application almost *never* matches the imbalance in the resource supply: The Grid is subsetted so that the global system implementing a production pipeline is efficiently utilized, or, to flip the coin, the intrinsic underutilization of an inefficient pipeline construction does nothing to harm the grid -- it only means that the remaining unutilized capacity is available to other dynamic subsets, to be utilized in other production pipelines.
Chameleons happily sacrifice their tails. Program mobility means that Skynet wasn't dependent on any of those specific computers, and hence all were dispensable. It's not a hole, it's a tunnel to your destination.
Http and browsers were insignificant in the popularization of the Internet in comparison to the transcendence of the 640k memory limit.
Similarly, the "Grid" is insignificant in the populatization of distributed computing in comparison to a forthcoming change in the mode of operation of the individual computer.
What, tail fins? What use are those? Hula hoops? Coon skin hats? Rocking chairs that operate bellows to cool the rocker? The PUSH web? Digital cash? Grid computing? DIVX disks? DataPlay?
Most innovation is crap. A lot of good innovation is treated like crap.
They laughed at Einstein, yes, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Salary and benefits are only a part of the cost of an employee. Closing down an office building, for example, saves beaucoup de dinero. Shutting down an HR wing and a cafeteria, dropping all those fedex charges, etc...
Surgeons are outsourced every day. Canadians go to the U.S. to get treatment that their socialized medical system won't provide, and westerners of every nation go to Malaysia and Thailand to get surgery + vacation for half the cost of surgery alone in their home country. I get all of my medications by mail order from India. I pay pennies on the dollar for drugs, and the prescription is free. Compare a U.S. M.D. who will charge $70 just to say "no".
I dare say the Cherokee would have strongly objected to the importation of European and African laborers if they had the foresight to understand the eventual outcome.
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I think we've had enough government by Likudniks
for one lifetime. Another such government could
utterly destroy the United States.
...because i picked up some blades and then tossed
them in my wife's cart. Then I headed for the car.
My wife did the checkout thing. Next time I went to
the store, I was dragged down to the gaol and anally
searched.
> You cannot rename files or directories.
Can too.
> You cannot move files or directories.
Can too.
> Support of binary files is very bad (yes it exists, but it is very crude and almost worthless)
Is not.
> It is very inefficient on the server side.
Insignificant.
> It has a steep learning curve.
All of these objections seem laughable to me, but
this one really takes the cake. You need 3 commands
in order to do all that any developer (not a CVS
maintainer) should ever need to do:
cvs checkout REPOSITORY
cvs update -P -d WORKSPACE
cvs commit -m COMMENT FILELIST
Oh, and being able to use the -r option in update
is useful if you need to work on branches.
Howard Dean's campaign manager works for AIPAC.
scalable? .NET? This is a troll, right?
> They seem to take multi-megawat radar pulses...
From a hefty distance. Pop a cap to the tune of
a megawatt or so instantaneous *inside* the metal
can, and methinks the story changes quite rapidly.
A self-extracting installer can be produced for every platform. Unless your application needs to become a part of the platform, it should be isolable, and installation should be as simple as expanding a self-expanding archive. Such archives can be produced for every popular platform. Using dependency=tracking packages is not feasible if you require that your installation model be cross-platform, but that's really no big loss: by including all of the dependencies for each application within the applications own directory, dependency conflicts are effectively eliminated.
Or you can do it all in Java, and it doesn't matter what your platform is. Webstart rocks these days.
Nobody ever has billions at their disposal.
Not even governments. You might be able
to get/give/spend/hold a hundred million or
so, tops, but not multiple billions.
It's not paper anymore, it's bits. When you
have a billion in the bank (nobody does),
you don't have a billion on paper, you have
an entry on a hard drive reading
0x0017 0x4876 0xe800.
Now it might be feasible to convert this to
some high-value commodity, such as crocus
stamens, or van goghs, but i don't think
that really qualifies as an ability to spend,
since what you get is no less artificially
valued than that pattern of bits.
this article suggests to me that a fun way to kill a planeload
of people would be an emp pulse.
Obviously, he didn't want that. Traditionally, the history of
the patriarchs is attributed to the hand of Moses. This
same Moses experienced God's relenting in the face of
petition repeatedly and very directly, so it's quite consistent
that he should report similar experience on the part of
Abraham. But there's nothing about the process of
petition and revision of intent which is logically
inconsistent with omniscience. The inconsistency is
merely cognitive/emotional, and resides entirely in your
mind. That mind is quite inadequate to apprehend truth
unfiltered. You're thinking with training wheels on, and
watching movies of God popping wheelies on his Norton
Commando. Then you say to yourself "how can he do that?
The training wheels would surely prevent Him from
catching so much air -- it must be a special effects job."
But in fact, He's not even using a stunt double.
> people will leave the US for cheaper places to live
Easier said than done. Every country in the world is
clamping down on immigration. The goal is to
insure that everyone lives in such a state of
crushing poverty that they can't rebel against the
small cabal of the superwealthy. That way, when
the population has to be thinned, they can't defend
themselves against the Zyklon-B.
Man is optional.
The car example is interesting, in that 1 worker will take
much much longer than 10 days to make a car, although
10 workers can easily make a car in 1 day, because no
one worker has the easy facility with all 10 of the distinct
production roles in producing a car. This is counter to
the argument of the skeptic of parallelism who claims that
Amdahl's law makes parallel computation inherently
inefficient, and points to what may be the single most
appealling aspect of the "Grid" paradigm for distributed
computing, to wit:
As opposed to clustering or even p2p, "Grid" is (albeit in a
vague and unfocussed manner) begining to amalgamate
diverse and disparate resources which can be used to
construct productive pipelines in which each contributing
system's peculiar strengths are more efficiently utilized
than is possible in a homogenous system, where the
imbalance in the resource uses of a particular application
almost *never* matches the imbalance in the resource
supply: The Grid is subsetted so that the global system
implementing a production pipeline is efficiently utilized,
or, to flip the coin, the intrinsic underutilization of
an inefficient pipeline construction does nothing to
harm the grid -- it only means that the remaining
unutilized capacity is available to other dynamic subsets,
to be utilized in other production pipelines.
Without a WSDL interface definition, certainly.
The lack of a WSDL definition does not make a
thing undefined, or bereft of definition.
Chameleons happily sacrifice their tails.
Program mobility means that Skynet wasn't
dependent on any of those specific computers,
and hence all were dispensable. It's not a hole,
it's a tunnel to your destination.
Http and browsers were insignificant in the popularization
of the Internet in comparison to the transcendence of the
640k memory limit.
Similarly, the "Grid" is insignificant in the populatization
of distributed computing in comparison to a forthcoming
change in the mode of operation of the individual computer.
What, tail fins? What use are those? Hula hoops? Coon
skin hats? Rocking chairs that operate bellows to cool the
rocker? The PUSH web? Digital cash? Grid computing?
DIVX disks? DataPlay?
Most innovation is crap. A lot of good innovation is
treated like crap.
They laughed at Einstein, yes, but they also laughed
at Bozo the Clown.
Well, um, it's a *Miltonian* ontology.
That's a cute way to avoid a debate you might lose.
Howerver, it's a bit bald-faced:
Even WSDL 1.1 hasn't been adopted by the overwheleming
majority of web services, Monkey-boy's malapropisms
notwithstanding.
...to implement a blocking API on top of a non-blocking API...
Well, you can't use HTTP then. It's pure request-response.
(Unless you do things that are frankly impractical.)
If you implement RPC over REST, you're implementing
a blocking protocol over a non-blocking protocol over
a blocking protocol. Frankly, stupid.
But then RPCs always were stupid. There are no "calls"
in reality, only events.
If you can do with basic parsing, the nanoxml and picoxml libraries will put everything else to shame.
The emphasis is on genome propagation. Marketing myself
as a mate is merely instrumental. The goal is to
reproduce early and often.
Salary and benefits are only a part of the cost of an employee. Closing down an office building, for example,
saves beaucoup de dinero. Shutting down an HR wing
and a cafeteria, dropping all those fedex charges, etc...
Surgeons are outsourced every day. Canadians go to the
U.S. to get treatment that their socialized medical system
won't provide, and westerners of every nation go to
Malaysia and Thailand to get surgery + vacation for
half the cost of surgery alone in their home country.
I get all of my medications by mail order from India.
I pay pennies on the dollar for drugs, and the prescription
is free. Compare a U.S. M.D. who will charge $70 just
to say "no".
I dare say the Cherokee would have strongly objected
to the importation of European and African laborers
if they had the foresight to understand the eventual
outcome.