Mark my words though, that probably won't happen until there is federal action to take away our guns.
Sorry, too late for that. So we citizens have a few guns. Or even a lot of guns. Have you seen how the police and national guard are overarmed and dressed in riot gear to protect the government from even peaceful protests? Those Second Amendment toting gun nuts have been distracted from the real issue... half of being armed is making sure the potential tyranny ("the gummint") isn't better armed. So. Too late.
We didn't offer habeus corpus to German POWs during WWII, either.
And as long as the Geneva Conventions apply (as they did in WWII) I have no problem with that. Treating these prisoners the same way we treated German POWs would be a step forward from current dangerous policies.
Okay, that was funny. Close to the bone. Really, too much. Al, if your ever listening? I'm going to buy the song right now because I saw this on slashdot. And it probably wouldn't have been on slashdot if it hadn't leaked (guerrilla? don't care if it is). Nerdy enough for today?
Slashvertisements are a little different, however, as they are articles posted by the editors.
Comments however... I've often followed many a friendly recommendation around here, sometimes a post that slags off the whatever the article's about and suggest a better way... seem pretty honest, people say when it's their product in general but who really knows?
Heck, make -j can use all 32 CPUs on our big release box without any difficulties.
Hey, thanks! Got a duo-duo machine for scientific computing last week. Task is nicely parallel so it's already 4x faster (clocked and confirmed), but just tried make -j (I'm a scientist not a programmer dammit I don't know all these tricks) and it's 4x, too. Whups, just finished, back to it. Less compile-time slashdot reading. Thanks I think.
And what is the answer for someone who does not wish fame, but does wish to contribute, and so begins to gather fame for eschewing fame?
I'm not saying he did the wrong thing, or did it cynically, or didn't do it out of love for the work. I'm just saying each year's award winners tend to be a nine-days wonder or less, while this story makes the wonder last longer... probably worth 500 slashdot comments instead of merely 50:).
If you ask me, Salinger is more famous for being a recluse... hiding in plain sight probably works better.
Fame? Would he have gotten an article in the New Yorker by quietly accepting? Not that he's purposefully trying to build a mystique of genius, but if he were, this is the way he'd do it.
You need to be able to enjoy a $500 meal before the show and an expensive bottle of wine after.
Dude, have you seen the prices of big-name rock concerts these days? And the price of the drugs you need to get sorted and tell your friends you enjoyed it?
Startups are inherently unstable and prone to failure. Quite often they can't afford to pay what stable companies can pay, and might be missing things like 401k's, wil require longer hours, can't afford to pay for training, etc.
I've worked for two startups that failed and one that succeeded (not in that order). I know the risks. I expect people to be interested in the total compensation package. But I also expect to hire people who don't list winning the options lottery as "the only reason a job is interesting."
I chose my jobs based on interest in the work, while also expecting a compensation package in-line with the company's status. Ultimately, though, interest in the work. At the "suceeded" IPO, the employees that "didn't pay too much attention" to options were good and intelligent coworkers, and there was a distinct correlation between poor work and people who based whether to work there solely on the stock price.
Anyone who doesn't see that someone solely focused on the stock price would make a poor coworker is either an idiot or an MBA, and I'm usually hard-pressed to tell the difference.
Since XP (2000, really), DOS has been a kludge on top of the Win2K kernel.
uh...yeah, I know...but Windows still feels like a kludge. It's kinda like preferring the Millenium Falcon to the Next Generation Enterprise (all those slick seamless touch sreens, I just bet that was Jobs' doing. Holodeck probably all DRMs and everything).
I use windows and have used macs, I prefer windows...
I've hated macs since I saw that little smiley face come up in 1984.
Then, I didn't want to pry my fingers away from my Apple II. Now, it's from windows. I never minded windows or Xwindows, because I always got the feeling they were kludges built on top of that (DOS | *nix) command prompt. That command prompt was my friend. It was my comfort food. It was behind everything when I needed it. With cygwin, it's even useable in Microsoft.
Now my wife bought OS X. I tried it. I hoped for the best ("smooth interface and the *nix command prompt. yay."). But you know, it feels like the command prompt is the kludge, and the apps are so slick as to be invulnerable to tinkering, that little smiling computer still mocks me.
I don't see why this is so impressive, I mean, it's a nice paper mod and all, but macaroni is more l33t, if water-cooled it can be overclocked up to al dente, and you can do unicorns with macaroni and Moses would have liked it too.
Howard Tayler (author of Schlock Mercenary and a practicing Mormon) had a nice little
blog entry on the subject a while back. It's worth a read, quite encouraged me in these seemingly dark days (context: I'm a biologist, studied evolutionary, and as a consequence about as much as an rabid on the subject as one can get).
a parachute attached to the pieces in chess doesn't make any sense.
Does it make sense, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It does not. And so I urge you to acquit the king of this checkmate, because it doesn't make sense.
I mean, what will happen when the implant is turned on and the neuroscientist becomes self-aware?
I'm sure he'll put a control cutoff switch in a convenient to reach place on his body and I'm sure it won't, won't be broken by the first lab accident that comes along...
That is not Your first computer. That is the first one you used.
Heh, maybe. Our junior high taught a computer class on a few terminals on their PDP-11/34 (same machine that did the payrolls). I quietly re-invented the login spoofer.
I heard google is in talks to create their own universe.
"That's why your company is still alive. This universe was created for you, so the Total Stock Price Perspective Vortex predicts a target price of $800. In the real universe, the market would have corrected you out of existence."
Even with material that is accessed online, there's a good chance that once the library stops paying for access, the patrons lose access to that materials- something that never happened with print journals.
When I was in high-school, I could do research, as a member of the public, by walking into the local university library and getting the journals (and photocopying them if I wanted). Now, my daughter can't do that as a "member of the public", she has to log on using my faculty access to get the same material, and someone without those connections just can't. (Not true of all journals, but true of many and constantly more).
Their position on the fact that libraries are being penalized by this is that "we may have to concede your right to use it, but we won't help you get it."
And they shouldn't have to help. Let's say I self-publish a book. I print paper copies, and put a copy in an encrypted filesystem on my computer, and send encrypted copies along with the encryption keys to people who pay me. When copyright expires, anyone can take the paper copy and make more, but why should I be required to supply encryption keys to anyone who asks?
And since they bought the DMCA, it's illegal for a library to try to work around it.
This is the real point. If I don't give out my keys, out of copyright others should be allowed to try and break it.
people who have to deal with something all the time will develop both a language to discuss the nuances of the subject matter and a perception that allows to notice them.
I grew up in L.A., and (no joke!) I have 18 words for smog.
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Sorry, too late for that. So we citizens have a few guns. Or even a lot of guns. Have you seen how the police and national guard are overarmed and dressed in riot gear to protect the government from even peaceful protests? Those Second Amendment toting gun nuts have been distracted from the real issue... half of being armed is making sure the potential tyranny ("the gummint") isn't better armed. So. Too late.
And as long as the Geneva Conventions apply (as they did in WWII) I have no problem with that. Treating these prisoners the same way we treated German POWs would be a step forward from current dangerous policies.
Okay, that was funny. Close to the bone. Really, too much. Al, if your ever listening? I'm going to buy the song right now because I saw this on slashdot. And it probably wouldn't have been on slashdot if it hadn't leaked (guerrilla? don't care if it is). Nerdy enough for today?
Comments however... I've often followed many a friendly recommendation around here, sometimes a post that slags off the whatever the article's about and suggest a better way... seem pretty honest, people say when it's their product in general but who really knows?
Hey, thanks! Got a duo-duo machine for scientific computing last week. Task is nicely parallel so it's already 4x faster (clocked and confirmed), but just tried make -j (I'm a scientist not a programmer dammit I don't know all these tricks) and it's 4x, too. Whups, just finished, back to it. Less compile-time slashdot reading. Thanks I think.
Difference is, I don't have any decision power over his parliamentary procedure but he has decsion power over my technology.
I'm not saying he did the wrong thing, or did it cynically, or didn't do it out of love for the work. I'm just saying each year's award winners tend to be a nine-days wonder or less, while this story makes the wonder last longer... probably worth 500 slashdot comments instead of merely 50 :).
If you ask me, Salinger is more famous for being a recluse... hiding in plain sight probably works better.
Fame? Would he have gotten an article in the New Yorker by quietly accepting? Not that he's purposefully trying to build a mystique of genius, but if he were, this is the way he'd do it.
Dude, have you seen the prices of big-name rock concerts these days? And the price of the drugs you need to get sorted and tell your friends you enjoyed it?
Or they may be just slightly silly, but only in one leg.
I've worked for two startups that failed and one that succeeded (not in that order). I know the risks. I expect people to be interested in the total compensation package. But I also expect to hire people who don't list winning the options lottery as "the only reason a job is interesting."
I chose my jobs based on interest in the work, while also expecting a compensation package in-line with the company's status. Ultimately, though, interest in the work. At the "suceeded" IPO, the employees that "didn't pay too much attention" to options were good and intelligent coworkers, and there was a distinct correlation between poor work and people who based whether to work there solely on the stock price.
Anyone who doesn't see that someone solely focused on the stock price would make a poor coworker is either an idiot or an MBA, and I'm usually hard-pressed to tell the difference.
One of the main rules of interview teams within startups I've been a part of... if their big draw to work with us is the option riches, reject.
uh...yeah, I know...but Windows still feels like a kludge. It's kinda like preferring the Millenium Falcon to the Next Generation Enterprise (all those slick seamless touch sreens, I just bet that was Jobs' doing. Holodeck probably all DRMs and everything).
I've hated macs since I saw that little smiley face come up in 1984.
Then, I didn't want to pry my fingers away from my Apple II. Now, it's from windows. I never minded windows or Xwindows, because I always got the feeling they were kludges built on top of that (DOS | *nix) command prompt. That command prompt was my friend. It was my comfort food. It was behind everything when I needed it. With cygwin, it's even useable in Microsoft.
Now my wife bought OS X. I tried it. I hoped for the best ("smooth interface and the *nix command prompt. yay."). But you know, it feels like the command prompt is the kludge, and the apps are so slick as to be invulnerable to tinkering, that little smiling computer still mocks me.
I hate macs.
... I had more counterexamples in my last meeting than were probably in their whole study.
I don't see why this is so impressive, I mean, it's a nice paper mod and all, but macaroni is more l33t, if water-cooled it can be overclocked up to al dente, and you can do unicorns with macaroni and Moses would have liked it too.
Howard Tayler (author of Schlock Mercenary and a practicing Mormon) had a nice little blog entry on the subject a while back. It's worth a read, quite encouraged me in these seemingly dark days (context: I'm a biologist, studied evolutionary, and as a consequence about as much as an rabid on the subject as one can get).
Does it make sense, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. It does not. And so I urge you to acquit the king of this checkmate, because it doesn't make sense.
(Back on topic here) And we for you, you silly Amerrrrican Ki-niggits.
I'm sure he'll put a control cutoff switch in a convenient to reach place on his body and I'm sure it won't, won't be broken by the first lab accident that comes along...
Heh, maybe. Our junior high taught a computer class on a few terminals on their PDP-11/34 (same machine that did the payrolls). I quietly re-invented the login spoofer.
Halfway through the year that computer was mine.
"That's why your company is still alive. This universe was created for you, so the Total Stock Price Perspective Vortex predicts a target price of $800. In the real universe, the market would have corrected you out of existence."
"Whoa.... Is that fairy cake?"
When I was in high-school, I could do research, as a member of the public, by walking into the local university library and getting the journals (and photocopying them if I wanted). Now, my daughter can't do that as a "member of the public", she has to log on using my faculty access to get the same material, and someone without those connections just can't. (Not true of all journals, but true of many and constantly more).
And they shouldn't have to help. Let's say I self-publish a book. I print paper copies, and put a copy in an encrypted filesystem on my computer, and send encrypted copies along with the encryption keys to people who pay me. When copyright expires, anyone can take the paper copy and make more, but why should I be required to supply encryption keys to anyone who asks?
And since they bought the DMCA, it's illegal for a library to try to work around it.
This is the real point. If I don't give out my keys, out of copyright others should be allowed to try and break it.
I grew up in L.A., and (no joke!) I have 18 words for smog.