In poorer countries, the elderly also have the good grace to die early, allowing a tight knit family to accumulate wealth. In the West people live longer and get lingering lifestyle diseases, which not only erase their stored capital, but drag on the accumulation of wealth by their children. It's a downward spiral. Want things to get better? Lower life expectancy.
The point was NOT to create a secure, interoperable radio network. The purpose of the plan was to create legions of (somehow) "successful" project managers and government hangers-on with quasi-governmental authority, and pump money into those organizations in return for future favors. Whether or not it produced anything was irrelevant. Around 9/11 there's so much fearmongering that nobody will say no.
This is nothing more than 500M people watching cable. The number of people who actually take an IP address and _produce_ anything with it is small. I'm not talking Web 2.0 lusers who use Chinified Facebook - I'm talking independent nodes on the global network.
This is a quote from a friend's mother, shortly after 9/11, in response to the absurd increase in airport security procedures. As long as people are willing to trade freedom for security, DHS and its ilk will prosper.
A simple WM that gives you a textfile.rc configuration, and the ability to launch a terminal when you want is all you really need. Need firefox? try "firefox &". Who needs a file manager? Why have a goofball hardware applet when you could run xload? (Again, from one of several terminals you have open).
Are we that much more productive compared with running TWM 20 years ago because we have accelerated transparent windows, or a recycle bin, or themable windows title bars?
Great, so we just need metric tons of gallium and indium, facilities to make it into a special alloy, then redesign all the circuit boards out there to be self-healing. Brilliant!
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In poorer countries, the elderly also have the good grace to die early, allowing a tight knit family to accumulate wealth. In the West people live longer and get lingering lifestyle diseases, which not only erase their stored capital, but drag on the accumulation of wealth by their children. It's a downward spiral. Want things to get better? Lower life expectancy.
Ethanol from seaweed is about as close to carbon neutral as you're going to get.
So you're saying closed source, only-validate-functionality, stale code has security holes?
As soon as they do this, expect a surge in cheap converter cable production coming from the Far East.
The more you tighten your grip, etc. etc.
The point was NOT to create a secure, interoperable radio network. The purpose of the plan was to create legions of (somehow) "successful" project managers and government hangers-on with quasi-governmental authority, and pump money into those organizations in return for future favors. Whether or not it produced anything was irrelevant. Around 9/11 there's so much fearmongering that nobody will say no.
WAS THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
Wait, are we caring?
Maybe we're not all Euro-douches who snark on and on about "reasonableness" of various products.
Are those some kind of funny color money like Monopoly?
It's called a PC.
This is nothing more than 500M people watching cable. The number of people who actually take an IP address and _produce_ anything with it is small. I'm not talking Web 2.0 lusers who use Chinified Facebook - I'm talking independent nodes on the global network.
To paraphrase Syndrome:
"When everyone is an Enterprise Architect, no one will be."
I'm sick of this grade-inflation/feel-good mentality where everyone is somehow an "Architect".
Replace FreeBSD with Debian, and PC-BSD with Ubuntu. Lets hope the PC-BSD people don't get on some wacked out tablet interface failtrain.
This is a quote from a friend's mother, shortly after 9/11, in response to the absurd increase in airport security procedures. As long as people are willing to trade freedom for security, DHS and its ilk will prosper.
So no big loss then.
How is this AW remotely relevant?
Win.
Anyone have that graph handy?
Only hipsters and "connected" douchebags feel the need to scan a QR code with their smartphone. Who cares if they get some malware because of it?
A simple WM that gives you a textfile .rc configuration, and the ability to launch a terminal when you want is all you really need. Need firefox? try "firefox &". Who needs a file manager? Why have a goofball hardware applet when you could run xload? (Again, from one of several terminals you have open).
Are we that much more productive compared with running TWM 20 years ago because we have accelerated transparent windows, or a recycle bin, or themable windows title bars?
Great, so we just need metric tons of gallium and indium, facilities to make it into a special alloy, then redesign all the circuit boards out there to be self-healing. Brilliant!
Mod parent up. Low power x86 = win.
Why would anyone spoof an email from you?
Doesn't the Shuttle have a horrible track record? 2 out of 135 flights blew up? Who would roll those dice anyway?
"If it compiles, ship it. If it sells, patch it."
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
THAT is the software sales model. That, and having people who know braindead CTOs who buy from their golf buddies, creating a giant naked Emperor.