You treat teachers like shit? Given the Union Busting (they don't call it that, still might upset the voters) going on in places like Wisconsin and Idaho (probably more that I don't know about) and the general 'teachers are the ones costing us all the money' attitude root of the current propaganda going out from every mouth, the chances of eventually having more engineers seem very slim indeed. Even in the bad old days of one school house for all grades per section, we respected the ones doing the 'hard' work. Might have begrudged the lack of an additional hand or two, but that wasn't the teachers fault. And at harvest time everyone was on call anyway. Now? Now we have idiots who complain about 3 month vacations and having easy jobs, and...and... The ignorance of the public would be no problem if it weren't for the ignorance of the politicians (who are not only ignorant, but stupid enough to think what they are doing will somehow make thing better) Think about this (for those old enough) at one point the typical grade school had two people whose job was not full time teaching. The Principle and his secretary. And in most cases the Principle taught a class or two. These days even a grade school has an enormous pyramid of time and money wasting 'Administrators' at the top. Are they at risk? Of course not---they are busy bad-mouthing the teachers and supporting the politicians who are the real problem. More engineers? Pigs will fly bearing ice-water before that happens again in this country.
They listen because his ideas and opinions while contentious as hell have affected the world we all live in for the better. He has made numerous contributions both philosophical as well as material. You on the other hand haven't done a god-damn thing. Gee---tough choice listen to Richard or you...
To damn bad Microsoft didn't pay attention to you when they cloned _________ (fill in the blank on the product of your choice) obviously all of these were failures. Your abysmal ignorance of the history of software evolution over the last 3 decades is rather remarkable----definitely worthy of the +5insightful, oh yes indeedy!
In reality we went the way we did because Ted's way was too hard. Not because the way chosen was better. You also sound as though he just arrived on the scene--- he didn't; read the damn article and look the guy up on Google before you demonstrate what a blithering idiot you are. You might also look at your own damn sig line and think of it as a mirror...
Guys in black gave John Campbell editor of Analog magazine a friendly visit over an editorial he wrote predicting the technology--- were made to go away happy when he showed the existing public information that he had gotten the info from--- just saying...
In order for this to happen, "...Steve Ballmer and crew are a long way from completely erasing their poor reputation in Linux and open source circles." Steve and crew would have to be in the same universe with the open source community--- not going to happen. His philosophy (or what passes for one) and that of the community are completely, COMPLETELY, antithetical to each other. Don't know if there is a 'law', but a compromise between assholes and good people can only result in the good people becoming less good...
Will when the time comes--- there by gaining the time to scrape together some funds as I am likewise broke. Hit both the age ceiling and the experience ceiling so have been unemployed for some time now. At the moment words are all I have...
I wrote Senator Wyden even though he is not mine--- I live in orange county north, i.e. Idaho. Here is what I said:
I believe that your recent letter to John Morton and Eric Holder represents a "still small voice" of resistance in a dangerous slide to corporatism. When former President Eisenhower warned against the military-industrial complex no one listened--- and perhaps rightfully so since the attack on our rights comes not from Northrup and Boeing, but from Hollywood and Walt Disney. It is still an attack designed to eliminate precious rights that all citizens need preserved even if they don't clearly under stand them. I salute your efforts and would like to know how I might help in your efforts.
I don't particularly expect a response and have no idea of what I could do, other than to voice my support. Still as the events of the last month or so have shown, great change comes from critical mass and critical mass is acquired incrementally...
Not being up to speed on current open source that might prevent premature wheel re-invention my answer would be 'No'. That said, I don't see any particular trouble with the project itself. If I understand correctly, you've bare bones bibliographic information that you want to create an on-line index of. The notion of PHP and MySql seems sound although I suspect that Perl would work as well if not better, depending on the knowledge of your volunteer talent. I expose my bias here when I point out that text analysis is a particular strength of Perl. I'm currently involved with a project that does an enormous amount of semantic analysis which might be used to create key words on the fly for instance. Now that I think of it, there is no particular reason that the work couldn't be multi-lingual for that matter, leveraging the programmer base at your disposal. Continuing to think about it, I'd love to help--- reply to me at gmail.com if you are interested...
Well what he said is this "I will vomit so hard it comes out my eye sockets if I see another CS department with M.C. Escher, rainbow-colored 3d plots, or fucking fractal art pieces. These look SHITTY and show no A) imagination nor B) taste." So at best this is ambiguous. I parsed it as M.C. Escher art piece shows no imagination and no taste. He certainly didn't say anything about 'hanging'. Maybe he meant that, but he didn't say that.
You pontificate that M.C. Escher is neither imaginative or tasteful. Unlike your vocabulary I suppose. As for the graphics of chaos theory--- you no doubt know it to be a useless dead end. What a maroon...
Ray, the trouble with hiding your light under a bushel basket is that the damn baskets burn! Yours and PJ's are necessary reading for me each and every day despite what they do for my blood pressure. I suspect that it is a labor of love for you, but if there is anyway that I can help you roll that stone to the top of the hill, just ask...
If you are talking about the B2 you might want to recheck, since it was neither over budget, nor late and certainly does work right. Would the reason you are a former worker bee is that you were fired?
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You treat teachers like shit? Given the Union Busting (they don't call it that, still might upset the voters) going on in places like Wisconsin and Idaho (probably more that I don't know about) and the general 'teachers are the ones costing us all the money' attitude root of the current propaganda going out from every mouth, the chances of eventually having more engineers seem very slim indeed. Even in the bad old days of one school house for all grades per section, we respected the ones doing the 'hard' work. Might have begrudged the lack of an additional hand or two, but that wasn't the teachers fault. And at harvest time everyone was on call anyway. Now? Now we have idiots who complain about 3 month vacations and having easy jobs, and...and... The ignorance of the public would be no problem if it weren't for the ignorance of the politicians (who are not only ignorant, but stupid enough to think what they are doing will somehow make thing better) Think about this (for those old enough) at one point the typical grade school had two people whose job was not full time teaching. The Principle and his secretary. And in most cases the Principle taught a class or two. These days even a grade school has an enormous pyramid of time and money wasting 'Administrators' at the top. Are they at risk? Of course not---they are busy bad-mouthing the teachers and supporting the politicians who are the real problem. More engineers? Pigs will fly bearing ice-water before that happens again in this country.
They listen because his ideas and opinions while contentious as hell have affected the world we all live in for the better. He has made numerous contributions both philosophical as well as material. You on the other hand haven't done a god-damn thing. Gee---tough choice listen to Richard or you...
To damn bad Microsoft didn't pay attention to you when they cloned _________ (fill in the blank on the product of your choice) obviously all of these were failures. Your abysmal ignorance of the history of software evolution over the last 3 decades is rather remarkable----definitely worthy of the +5insightful, oh yes indeedy!
Oh the data is perfectly safe; you aren't though...
In reality we went the way we did because Ted's way was too hard. Not because the way chosen was better. You also sound as though he just arrived on the scene--- he didn't; read the damn article and look the guy up on Google before you demonstrate what a blithering idiot you are. You might also look at your own damn sig line and think of it as a mirror...
I keep telling people with a cough that if they would just stop breathing, the problem would go away--- but they never listen!
Breathing is a crime punishable by death. You breath and at some point you die--- without benefit of judge, jury or trial...
Guys in black gave John Campbell editor of Analog magazine a friendly visit over an editorial he wrote predicting the technology--- were made to go away happy when he showed the existing public information that he had gotten the info from--- just saying...
In order for this to happen, "...Steve Ballmer and crew are a long way from completely erasing their poor reputation in Linux and open source circles." Steve and crew would have to be in the same universe with the open source community--- not going to happen. His philosophy (or what passes for one) and that of the community are completely, COMPLETELY, antithetical to each other. Don't know if there is a 'law', but a compromise between assholes and good people can only result in the good people becoming less good...
Citation please--- show me where Northrup has done anything that can be construed as an attack on freedom of speech.
Will when the time comes--- there by gaining the time to scrape together some funds as I am likewise broke. Hit both the age ceiling and the experience ceiling so have been unemployed for some time now. At the moment words are all I have...
I wrote Senator Wyden even though he is not mine--- I live in orange county north, i.e. Idaho. Here is what I said:
I believe that your recent letter to John Morton and Eric Holder represents a "still small voice" of resistance in a dangerous slide to corporatism. When former President Eisenhower warned against the military-industrial complex no one listened--- and perhaps rightfully so since the attack on our rights comes not from Northrup and Boeing, but from Hollywood and Walt Disney. It is still an attack designed to eliminate precious rights that all citizens need preserved even if they don't clearly under stand them. I salute your efforts and would like to know how I might help in your efforts.
I don't particularly expect a response and have no idea of what I could do, other than to voice my support. Still as the events of the last month or so have shown, great change comes from critical mass and critical mass is acquired incrementally...
Odd, when I look at it there are three images. None boring...
I'm sure as hell not a lawyer but I don't think it can be both an 'order' and a subpoena--- the type 'd' issued was part of an order I think...
Just noticed an thread on Hacker News on http://www.gotapi.com/html which might be of interest...
Not being up to speed on current open source that might prevent premature wheel re-invention my answer would be 'No'. That said, I don't see any particular trouble with the project itself. If I understand correctly, you've bare bones bibliographic information that you want to create an on-line index of. The notion of PHP and MySql seems sound although I suspect that Perl would work as well if not better, depending on the knowledge of your volunteer talent. I expose my bias here when I point out that text analysis is a particular strength of Perl. I'm currently involved with a project that does an enormous amount of semantic analysis which might be used to create key words on the fly for instance. Now that I think of it, there is no particular reason that the work couldn't be multi-lingual for that matter, leveraging the programmer base at your disposal. Continuing to think about it, I'd love to help--- reply to me at gmail.com if you are interested...
Well what he said is this "I will vomit so hard it comes out my eye sockets if I see another CS department with M.C. Escher, rainbow-colored 3d plots, or fucking fractal art pieces. These look SHITTY and show no A) imagination nor B) taste." So at best this is ambiguous. I parsed it as M.C. Escher art piece shows no imagination and no taste. He certainly didn't say anything about 'hanging'. Maybe he meant that, but he didn't say that.
You pontificate that M.C. Escher is neither imaginative or tasteful. Unlike your vocabulary I suppose. As for the graphics of chaos theory--- you no doubt know it to be a useless dead end. What a maroon...
Ray, the trouble with hiding your light under a bushel basket is that the damn baskets burn! Yours and PJ's are necessary reading for me each and every day despite what they do for my blood pressure. I suspect that it is a labor of love for you, but if there is anyway that I can help you roll that stone to the top of the hill, just ask...
--hsm
Already exists: http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
err... that would be 'or on it' where's that can of jolt (and why is there dust on it?)?
Then we will dig up the 300 spartan programmers and fend COBOL off at the pass. Remember, come home with your pocket protector on on it!
--hsm
Thousands? Try million+ if new legislation slips through...
Not quite "Enough said." You forgot the "Gartner is crap." part...
If you are talking about the B2 you might want to recheck, since it was neither over budget, nor late and certainly does work right. Would the reason you are a former worker bee is that you were fired?
--hsm