Given a choice, I'd rather paint a Goodyear tire salesman any day. Every Ford mechanic I've ever known would cold-cock you if you touched him with a wet paint brush. But hey, whatever works for you.
It is common practice in government contracting to write a specification so that no one else can conform to it, and then pass it to the government which issues it as an RFP, upon which you subsequently bid. The government even has designated shill bidders who made bids that are doomed to fail, to create the appearance of competitive process. OOXML is a lot like that. Parts are sufficiently ill-defined as to admit incompatible implementations. Other parts are defined in contradictory terms, so that reinterpretation of the terms is required to construct a consistent implementation, which is very unlikely to be interoperable with another self-consistent implementation which uses a different self-consistent reinterpretation scheme.
Yes, there is a solution. Lear the open source equivalent software instead. When asked if you can do the job, say "Yes" with confidence. Proceed to use the open source equivalent on the job, rather than wasting time learning to use an expensive proprietary interface which you won't be able to use at your next job anyhow.
I think you're vastly underestimating the problem with the admins. It's actually doing a great service to the editors and unregistered users, when you try to out the corruption of the admins.
I think you're underselling the problem. Wikipedia is rife with propaganda, and suffers not just from the empowerment of a few zealots to squat on vast tracts of intellectual space by conspiracy, but also from a serious issue of lowest-common-denominator consensus worldview bias. It's nothing than an open, accountable reputation system couldn't fix, but I can't see that happening as long as Jimbo is drunk on the blood of his enemies.
The solution then is to fork the content, but it would take someone with the kind of drive and vision of Jimbo to pull it off -- and against the entrenched competitive position of Wikipedia, it would be harder than Jimbo's very righteous accomplishment. If my other gigs pay off big enough, I might take it on, but not now, not until I'm independently funded.
This is called limited hang-out. By labelling this incident as "fake news", they have defined everything else as "real news", despite the fact that it is constructed by establishment operatives for propaganda purposes, to control the populace, and contains much more disinformation and psychological conditioning than actual reportage. See Carl Bernstein's excellent, if limited, work on the CIA's Operation Mockingbird for a starting point on this.
During the final invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. Army killed more journalists per day than any army in history. If you weren't "embedded", you were deemed to be an "enemy combatant" -- and since you weren't in uniform, an unlawful one. The US has Pultizer prize-winning Associated Press photographers, Reuter's correspondents, etc., in various Iraqi and secret prisons around the world today, because of the Army policy of "full-spectrum dominance", which includes "information dominance" as well as traditional notions of force dominance.
Similar doctrines are being applied within the territorial boundaries of the United States. Journalists who expose criminal operations of the intelligence community, for example, are frequently found to have committed suicide, or die in airline accidents. Another group being disproportionately targeted for summary execution is microbiologists. Next to journalism, microbiology is one of the most dangerous professions on earth. This is because microbiology is a threat to the plan for global depopulation using racially targetted microbial agents. Another very dangerous profession is U.S. soldier. Lots of "suicides" there. About 120 per week for the last three years. For example, Ciara Durkin, who was found with a bullet in her head in a secured area of Bagram air base, and called her family the week before to warn them that something might happen to her. She was a procurement officer. Many thousands of "suicided" soldiers every year.
Firstly, I question your notion of "act of war". The laws of nations are slow to change, and while I am certainly no expert in the area, I doubt very much whether there is an unequivocal case to the effect that mere packet transmissions can consitute an act of war.
Secondly, if it were an "act of war", this would only be a practical impediment to nations which had a credible deterrent threat imposed upon them.
Thirdly, it is not at all unheard of for military exercises to involve provocations at widely varying scales, including firing on military emplacements in foreign territory across borders or during a territorial incursion, often disclaimed as accidental.
I understand the feeling of contempt that one may feel when the glaring flaws in your correspondent's position seem evident, while their strengths and your own weaknesses may be less apparent to you at the moment, but I've found that it is not to my own benefit, nor to the support of my position in a public forum, if I allow that feeling to tempt me into sneering insults. Usually, thinking through the issues to the point where one is making a truly supportable point requires enough qualification and nuance so that the brutal impulse is largely wasted before 'post' is pressed. Some people are truly idiots, but usually their position is beneath contempt. The great danger is that you will behave with contempt because you face a truly contemptible adversary, and thus grant victory to the contemptible position.
1.5 million books? Ok, maybe my tastes are a bit more focussed on mathematics, physics, programming, economics, and linguistics than would be the CMU library, but I just burned 3 DVDs worth of math books alone, 12GB of PDF, at roughly 8MB/title, for 1500 titles. And that was just one week's worth of crap filtering for one man. Methinks CMU isn't really trying.
It sounds like you need to learn to make a distinction between the wet dreams of litigous barristers and real world pragmatics before you look very silly. Oops too late./me sees samkass approached by Alan Dershowitz as porno music plays./me pokes mind's eye out with a fork.
Gee, it's a dilemma: You could (1) talk to the guy about it, or (2) wave it over the global press under a pseudonym pretending that no one will guess who you are.
> You get pulled in by the police, if you're really not guilty, the only smart thing to do is cooperate.
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard this week, and I've been watching youtube links from reddit since Tuesday.
You get pulled in by the police, it doesn't matter if you're "guilty" or not. Their job is to bust your ass, or use you as a tool to bust someone else's ass. They live to fuck people up. That's all there is to it. If you think fucking people up is smart, cooperate. I'll enjoy the smell of your burning flesh in hell. Actually, since they'll probably just use your "cooperation" as a means of putting you in prison (a bird in the hand being worth two in the bush, after all), I doubt you'll ever merit the intervention of divine retribution. Your cellmate Bubba will do the job of Satan very nicely.
I've heard that before. Such as? Name a "better way" that (1) he didn't already try and (2) wouldn't involve turning over sensitive data of another nation to spooks of a potentially adversarial power.
So we have to route around Google's efforts to route around Sun's GPL restriction. Sigh. Unfortunately Google didn't just write an incompatible byte-code translator, which we could have dealt with in a simple way, say with a JVM-to-Dalvik translator. They also wrote incompatible class libraries. Really this is just Java in syntagma. Calling it Java is misleading.
When I read "reveal a rocky planet", was I the only one who imagined a population of Sylvester Stallone clones bumping into each other and saying, "yo, Adrian" ?
There might be some merit in your observations if corporations were unitary rational actors. However, they are not. They are aggregations of persons who behave in only a vaguely approximately rational fashion, and usually in their own interests when they do behave rationally -- only accidentally do they behave rationally in the corporate interest. He probably pissed someone off. Most people I've seen get fired were fired because they pissed someone off. I can't think of a single instance of anyone getting fired for being dead weight, except when the company was on its last legs -- and I've seen a LOT of dead weight, believe you me. Especially at the CxO level. The alternative is that he was caught red-handed in a criminal act.
> We had better hope those kids exercise better judgment than we have and pay that number down.
That would be incredibly stupid. Why should I pay your debts for you? As far as I'm concerned, you can take them to the grave with you.
Anyhow, the US$ is starting to inflate like so much Wiemar toilet paper already. I wouldn't expect it to last another 3 years before there is a re-valuation. That's what you get for tolerating lawlessness in high office: The massive theft of the entire wealth of the nation in one swell foop.
Joe McCarthy didn't perform summary executions of American citizens, send innocent people to Syria to be tortured for months, or imprison thousands without access to meaningful legal process for periods of 6 or more years. Joe McCarthy didn't kill a million people and poison a billion hectares with radioactive waste which will take billions of years to decay. Joe McCarthy didn't import tons of cocaine. Joe McCarthy was another freaking Ghandi compared to the Cheney administration.
While there are shades of grey, the distinction between freedom and slavery is not illusory, nor even difficult to draw. The practical application is also not overly complex: Americans used to be free, but now they are slaves.
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Say what you will, but assigning Ogg Theora support to a NOK employee is pretty damning.
Given a choice, I'd rather paint a Goodyear tire salesman any day. Every Ford mechanic I've ever known would cold-cock you if you touched him with a wet paint brush. But hey, whatever works for you.
It is common practice in government contracting to write a specification so that no one else can conform to it, and then pass it to the government which issues it as an RFP, upon which you subsequently bid. The government even has designated shill bidders who made bids that are doomed to fail, to create the appearance of competitive process. OOXML is a lot like that. Parts are sufficiently ill-defined as to admit incompatible implementations. Other parts are defined in contradictory terms, so that reinterpretation of the terms is required to construct a consistent implementation, which is very unlikely to be interoperable with another self-consistent implementation which uses a different self-consistent reinterpretation scheme.
Yes, there is a solution. Lear the open source equivalent software instead. When asked if you can do the job, say "Yes" with confidence. Proceed to use the open source equivalent on the job, rather than wasting time learning to use an expensive proprietary interface which you won't be able to use at your next job anyhow.
Any result that uses a closed proprietary algorithm is intrinsically and inherently irreproducible. It's a hand-waving step.
To the illiterate, everthing looks like an illegible.
I think you're vastly underestimating the problem with the admins. It's actually doing a great service to the editors and unregistered users, when you try to out the corruption of the admins.
I think you're underselling the problem. Wikipedia is rife with propaganda, and suffers not just from the empowerment of a few zealots to squat on vast tracts of intellectual space by conspiracy, but also from a serious issue of lowest-common-denominator consensus worldview bias. It's nothing than an open, accountable reputation system couldn't fix, but I can't see that happening as long as Jimbo is drunk on the blood of his enemies.
The solution then is to fork the content, but it would take someone with the kind of drive and vision of Jimbo to pull it off -- and against the entrenched competitive position of Wikipedia, it would be harder than Jimbo's very righteous accomplishment. If my other gigs pay off big enough, I might take it on, but not now, not until I'm independently funded.
This is called limited hang-out. By labelling this incident as "fake news", they have defined everything else as "real news", despite the fact that it is constructed by establishment operatives for propaganda purposes, to control the populace, and contains much more disinformation and psychological conditioning than actual reportage. See Carl Bernstein's excellent, if limited, work on the CIA's Operation Mockingbird for a starting point on this.
During the final invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. Army killed more journalists per day than any army in history. If you weren't "embedded", you were deemed to be an "enemy combatant" -- and since you weren't in uniform, an unlawful one. The US has Pultizer prize-winning Associated Press photographers, Reuter's correspondents, etc., in various Iraqi and secret prisons around the world today, because of the Army policy of "full-spectrum dominance", which includes "information dominance" as well as traditional notions of force dominance.
Similar doctrines are being applied within the territorial boundaries of the United States. Journalists who expose criminal operations of the intelligence community, for example, are frequently found to have committed suicide, or die in airline accidents. Another group being disproportionately targeted for summary execution is microbiologists. Next to journalism, microbiology is one of the most dangerous professions on earth. This is because microbiology is a threat to the plan for global depopulation using racially targetted microbial agents. Another very dangerous profession is U.S. soldier. Lots of "suicides" there. About 120 per week for the last three years. For example, Ciara Durkin, who was found with a bullet in her head in a secured area of Bagram air base, and called her family the week before to warn them that something might happen to her. She was a procurement officer. Many thousands of "suicided" soldiers every year.
Don't believe me. Look it up.
Firstly, I question your notion of "act of war". The laws of nations are slow to change, and while I am certainly no expert in the area, I doubt very much whether there is an unequivocal case to the effect that mere packet transmissions can consitute an act of war.
Secondly, if it were an "act of war", this would only be a practical impediment to nations which had a credible deterrent threat imposed upon them.
Thirdly, it is not at all unheard of for military exercises to involve provocations at widely varying scales, including firing on military emplacements in foreign territory across borders or during a territorial incursion, often disclaimed as accidental.
I understand the feeling of contempt that one may feel when the glaring flaws in your correspondent's position seem evident, while their strengths and your own weaknesses may be less apparent to you at the moment, but I've found that it is not to my own benefit, nor to the support of my position in a public forum, if I allow that feeling to tempt me into sneering insults. Usually, thinking through the issues to the point where one is making a truly supportable point requires enough qualification and nuance so that the brutal impulse is largely wasted before 'post' is pressed. Some people are truly idiots, but usually their position is beneath contempt. The great danger is that you will behave with contempt because you face a truly contemptible adversary, and thus grant victory to the contemptible position.
1.5 million books? Ok, maybe my tastes are a bit more focussed on mathematics, physics, programming, economics, and linguistics than would be the CMU library, but I just burned 3 DVDs worth of math books alone, 12GB of PDF, at roughly 8MB/title, for 1500 titles. And that was just one week's worth of crap filtering for one man. Methinks CMU isn't really trying.
It sounds like you need to learn to make a distinction between the wet dreams of litigous barristers and real world pragmatics before you look very silly. Oops too late. /me sees samkass approached by Alan Dershowitz as porno music plays. /me pokes mind's eye out with a fork.
> So does fraud, burglery and worse but it doesn't mean it's legal.
So does snarkiness, arrogance and misspellyng, but that doesn't make it illegal.
Gee, it's a dilemma: You could (1) talk to the guy about it, or (2) wave it over the global press under a pseudonym pretending that no one will guess who you are.
Let me think about this for a minute...
"potential energy" is a fiction, an accounting device.
> You get pulled in by the police, if you're really not guilty, the only smart thing to do is cooperate.
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard this week, and I've been watching youtube links from reddit since Tuesday.
You get pulled in by the police, it doesn't matter if you're "guilty" or not. Their job is to bust your ass, or use you as a tool to bust someone else's ass. They live to fuck people up. That's all there is to it. If you think fucking people up is smart, cooperate. I'll enjoy the smell of your burning flesh in hell. Actually, since they'll probably just use your "cooperation" as a means of putting you in prison (a bird in the hand being worth two in the bush, after all), I doubt you'll ever merit the intervention of divine retribution. Your cellmate Bubba will do the job of Satan very nicely.
> there are better ways of doing it.
I've heard that before. Such as? Name a "better way" that (1) he didn't already try and (2) wouldn't involve turning over sensitive data of another nation to spooks of a potentially adversarial power.
It's also what's so stupid about the slashdot article.
So we have to route around Google's efforts to route around Sun's GPL restriction. Sigh. Unfortunately Google didn't just write an incompatible byte-code translator, which we could have dealt with in a simple way, say with a JVM-to-Dalvik translator. They also wrote incompatible class libraries. Really this is just Java in syntagma. Calling it Java is misleading.
When I read "reveal a rocky planet", was I the only one who imagined a population of Sylvester Stallone clones bumping into each other and saying, "yo, Adrian" ?
There might be some merit in your observations if corporations were unitary rational actors. However, they are not. They are aggregations of persons who behave in only a vaguely approximately rational fashion, and usually in their own interests when they do behave rationally -- only accidentally do they behave rationally in the corporate interest. He probably pissed someone off. Most people I've seen get fired were fired because they pissed someone off. I can't think of a single instance of anyone getting fired for being dead weight, except when the company was on its last legs -- and I've seen a LOT of dead weight, believe you me. Especially at the CxO level. The alternative is that he was caught red-handed in a criminal act.
If it makes them both more productive, I can't see how it could be considered misappropriation.
> We had better hope those kids exercise better judgment than we have and pay that number down.
That would be incredibly stupid. Why should I pay your debts for you? As far as I'm concerned, you can take them to the grave with you.
Anyhow, the US$ is starting to inflate like so much Wiemar toilet paper already. I wouldn't expect it to last another 3 years before there is a re-valuation. That's what you get for tolerating lawlessness in high office: The massive theft of the entire wealth of the nation in one swell foop.
Joe McCarthy didn't perform summary executions of American citizens, send innocent people to Syria to be tortured for months, or imprison thousands without access to meaningful legal process for periods of 6 or more years. Joe McCarthy didn't kill a million people and poison a billion hectares with radioactive waste which will take billions of years to decay. Joe McCarthy didn't import tons of cocaine. Joe McCarthy was another freaking Ghandi compared to the Cheney administration.
While there are shades of grey, the distinction between freedom and slavery is not illusory, nor even difficult to draw. The practical application is also not overly complex: Americans used to be free, but now they are slaves.