Yes, I remember SLS. Slackware came from that. I loved it then and still do today. Recently I needed to add a Linux guest OS on my laptop. I tried 4 or 5 different distros, not all would run, Ubuntu installed okay, but seemed foreign to me. Additionally, I had to tweak a few things, and it would take me too long to get it where I wanted it. Instead, I installed Slackware, and instantly felt transported back. In addition, it all just worked (doesn't someone use this slogan already?). Sweet. Only FreeBSD makes me feel this way.
2000, heh? I've got a release 4 of Trans-Ameritech "For UNIX users...Linux plus BSD" distribution on CD right in front of me, it its original shrinkwrap (bought two, kept one as a souvenir all these years). Those were the days. None of the sissy GUI installs. None of the silly pissing matches about which distro was the best. Just having Linux on CD was something. Web? Heh. Anybody still remember UUCP?
There is more to it than being "good". Certain types of jobs are affected more during recessions than others. Departments seen as cost centers will be the last to regain reqs.
What, will they outlaw aluminum sheets? Those bastards!
No. They will probably outlaw that particular application of aluminium foil. Plenty of such examples today. I'm sure it will have a smart sounding clause, something about impeding lawful functioning of RFID locators, or somesuch.
Just because you pull fiber to someone's home and claim it is capable of 1Gbps, it doesn't mean you will get a useful 1Gbps. At some point all those strands of fiber are going to meet in a Central Office. How much bandwidth will they have on the backbone? What about their connection to other offices? How much bandwidth will the long-haul links have?
We throw people in jail to "serve their time" once they get out there is still a mark that they were a convicted felon. Preventing them from getting good jobs and turning themselves around. So what do they do go back to crime and try not to get caught again.
This analogy doesn't work. I was not talking about people down on their luck, mugging someone in a park. I was talking about people with superb jobs - politicians. You don't have to turn them around by giving them a chance in a society. They've had all the chances one can get. If they fail that, they can go back to private sector and work for a living.
We really need some reward system for companies and government who follow good ethics [...] Right now we only punish bad behavior so it makes it a case of lets not get caught. By putting a reward system in place then we can have people going out of their way to be good (and proving it)
Keeping your job and getting the paycheck is the reward. If we really took punishing poor ethics seriously, we wouldn't have the problem. How can you seriously enforce that, though, when you have foxes guarding the henhouse? Can you seriously say you would trust the Congresscritters to be the guardians of good governmental ethics? Therefore, it is really up to us, the voters, and judging by who we send to the Capitol Hill, we're not up to the job.
First, I recommend everyone get a plan with free SMS.
Hell no. I am not paying so that a bunch of lowlifes can drown a few important SMSes I may get in their crap for free.
As for the penalty, there is no redeeming value to spammer's life, none. 9mm cartridges are plentiful and cheap from military surplus (US $0.12 per round when purchased in large lots).
And that applies to email spammers as well. I will volunteer for the first few.
I am deeply convinced (a euphemism for "I have no proof") that most of this nonsense is driven by the fact that a lot of today's management does not understand the subject matter of what they manage; therefore, they cannot appropriately interview candidates. Instead, they engage in meaningless "personality tests" and other psychobabble, which is mostly what they learn during ever-popular "management" (read, "I-have-no-aptitude-for-science") studies.
Both are much less common than looking at badly-formatted code that it takes a bit to mentally parse which brace-delineated languages have.
There is nothing that prevents an organization from instituting coding standards, just like Technical Publications and Marcomm groups have their own Writing Standards (Guides). It is up to the management to punish non-adherence. However, breaking the program by design because someone missed the number of spaces or copied & pasted a few lines of code just rubs me the wrong way.
While the DRY philosophy may be quite useful in large programs, in small utilities, particularly if they do not necessarily run on the same system, attempting to "librarize" or "functionize" everything may not be practical, and may in fact defeat the readability of your code (of which Python is proud), and also introduce unnecessary bloat.
Just the fact that you have to fear copy & paste is an indicator of bad design to me.
at which point we realize that the braces are basically useless, since the code is unreadable without the whitespace.
No, it means the code is hard to read, but it still works. You can reformat that block, or you can change the spaces (tabs, number of spaces), and it will still work. In Python, it may look okay, and be readable, but it won't work.
I guess it is a matter of priorities.
BTW, I like Python (and have almost given up on Perl 6), but the white space thing drives me crazy.
So, let me understand this... A group with inferior earning potential (1) will teach a group with superior earning potential (2) how to be more like (1)? Yes, that makes a lot of sense...
It only takes the first hard disk backup or recovery to understand how frustratingly slow USB 2.0 really is. If USB 3.0 arrives soon, and if it delivers on its promise, it could also mean an untimely demise of eSATA, just as those devices started to show up.
I have had to perform laptop drive recovery a couple of times in the field, and having a way to do it without losing half the night before an important presentation would be a huge win. In fact, it will be a since qua non condition for my next laptop purchase.
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Yes, I remember SLS. Slackware came from that. I loved it then and still do today. Recently I needed to add a Linux guest OS on my laptop. I tried 4 or 5 different distros, not all would run, Ubuntu installed okay, but seemed foreign to me. Additionally, I had to tweak a few things, and it would take me too long to get it where I wanted it. Instead, I installed Slackware, and instantly felt transported back. In addition, it all just worked (doesn't someone use this slogan already?). Sweet. Only FreeBSD makes me feel this way.
Perhaps I should have mentioned for the young ones, the year was 1994.
2000, heh? I've got a release 4 of Trans-Ameritech "For UNIX users...Linux plus BSD" distribution on CD right in front of me, it its original shrinkwrap (bought two, kept one as a souvenir all these years). Those were the days. None of the sissy GUI installs. None of the silly pissing matches about which distro was the best. Just having Linux on CD was something. Web? Heh. Anybody still remember UUCP?
Ah, good ol' days.
Are we witnessing new John Dvorak being born?
There is more to it than being "good". Certain types of jobs are affected more during recessions than others. Departments seen as cost centers will be the last to regain reqs.
No. They will probably outlaw that particular application of aluminium foil. Plenty of such examples today. I'm sure it will have a smart sounding clause, something about impeding lawful functioning of RFID locators, or somesuch.
In a brave new world of the future those will probably be outlawed...
Take a lesson from London video cameras and spread the RFID readers at each intersection, and now you can track everyone in the city remotely.
And let us sell Pontiacs to each other. Oh, wait, is that a new "Chinese Curse"?
Just because you pull fiber to someone's home and claim it is capable of 1Gbps, it doesn't mean you will get a useful 1Gbps. At some point all those strands of fiber are going to meet in a Central Office. How much bandwidth will they have on the backbone? What about their connection to other offices? How much bandwidth will the long-haul links have?
Are scientists at the LHC attempting to model US Federal spending?
This analogy doesn't work. I was not talking about people down on their luck, mugging someone in a park. I was talking about people with superb jobs - politicians. You don't have to turn them around by giving them a chance in a society. They've had all the chances one can get. If they fail that, they can go back to private sector and work for a living.
Keeping your job and getting the paycheck is the reward. If we really took punishing poor ethics seriously, we wouldn't have the problem. How can you seriously enforce that, though, when you have foxes guarding the henhouse? Can you seriously say you would trust the Congresscritters to be the guardians of good governmental ethics? Therefore, it is really up to us, the voters, and judging by who we send to the Capitol Hill, we're not up to the job.
They just heard that Blagojevich was coming over on a State business, and they want to cash in.
First, I recommend everyone get a plan with free SMS.
Hell no. I am not paying so that a bunch of lowlifes can drown a few important SMSes I may get in their crap for free.
As for the penalty, there is no redeeming value to spammer's life, none. 9mm cartridges are plentiful and cheap from military surplus (US $0.12 per round when purchased in large lots).
And that applies to email spammers as well. I will volunteer for the first few.
Someone mod up this anonymous coward (parent), for he knows what he's talking about.
I am deeply convinced (a euphemism for "I have no proof") that most of this nonsense is driven by the fact that a lot of today's management does not understand the subject matter of what they manage; therefore, they cannot appropriately interview candidates. Instead, they engage in meaningless "personality tests" and other psychobabble, which is mostly what they learn during ever-popular "management" (read, "I-have-no-aptitude-for-science") studies.
Besides, this is getting seriously off-topic, so I will continue it (if you wish) when a more suitable thread arises.
Huh? I think you've read into my post what you wanted, not what it said.
Both are much less common than looking at badly-formatted code that it takes a bit to mentally parse which brace-delineated languages have.
There is nothing that prevents an organization from instituting coding standards, just like Technical Publications and Marcomm groups have their own Writing Standards (Guides). It is up to the management to punish non-adherence. However, breaking the program by design because someone missed the number of spaces or copied & pasted a few lines of code just rubs me the wrong way.
YRMV, of course.
While the DRY philosophy may be quite useful in large programs, in small utilities, particularly if they do not necessarily run on the same system, attempting to "librarize" or "functionize" everything may not be practical, and may in fact defeat the readability of your code (of which Python is proud), and also introduce unnecessary bloat.
Just the fact that you have to fear copy & paste is an indicator of bad design to me.
at which point we realize that the braces are basically useless, since the code is unreadable without the whitespace.
No, it means the code is hard to read, but it still works. You can reformat that block, or you can change the spaces (tabs, number of spaces), and it will still work. In Python, it may look okay, and be readable, but it won't work.
I guess it is a matter of priorities.
BTW, I like Python (and have almost given up on Perl 6), but the white space thing drives me crazy.
So, let me understand this... A group with inferior earning potential (1) will teach a group with superior earning potential (2) how to be more like (1)? Yes, that makes a lot of sense...
It only takes the first hard disk backup or recovery to understand how frustratingly slow USB 2.0 really is. If USB 3.0 arrives soon, and if it delivers on its promise, it could also mean an untimely demise of eSATA, just as those devices started to show up.
I have had to perform laptop drive recovery a couple of times in the field, and having a way to do it without losing half the night before an important presentation would be a huge win. In fact, it will be a since qua non condition for my next laptop purchase.
How do you do that? It would drive me insane.
Did I claim sanity anywhere in my post? ;)