My thought exactly. Unless they expect their console access needs to explode soon and the current system cannot scale,
Agreed. Standardization should decrease complexity (of maintenance), not increase it. Keep the tools as simple as possible, and as close to vendor standard as possible. It's like admins who customize root. If you leave it generic, then every admin knows what to expect.
Republicans hate science because knowledge is power and they want to keep people as powerless as possible.
A huge push over the first two hundred years of this country was education for all. We were proud of our scientists and scholars, our discoveries and achievements. We are being overtaken by India and China, and within a couple of generations will be nothing more than a nation of ignorant but well armed barbarians. Hopefully Europe and Japan can survive without making the same mistakes.
Considering that we have 10 carriers, our NATO allies have 8 more, and all countries that could plausibly be considered "enemies" have a total of two, this seems like a reasonable place to cut spending.
According to Wiki we have 3 new ones under construction. So the number is going UP, not down.
This is something I've never understood about the military: anyone bright enough to achieve more than a grunt rank will know that the military hasn't been engaged in mere defense for decades, so why exactly did they join up?
For college money. The government has made sure that the majority of people can no longer afford their education.
Ender's Game is the quintessential classic military sci-fi book.
I have to disagree with that quote. Ender's Game is an anti-war book. If you want the quintessential classic military sci-fi book, read Starship Troopers.
And we all know how that movie turned out. Or Puppet Masters, an even more dreadful adaptation. Hollywood has no interest in making any of these books into movies. They want to make the same old movie, but use the book's name recognition to jump start the marketing. Read any of the comments by the poor script writers who try to faithfully adapt a book.
But America wants to believe that scientific discovery is gnosis (inspiration from on-high), and not due to intelligence, intense education, and a lot of hard work. Why fund scientists when a child can do their work? Science is HARD. Science takes long years of dedication. Science takes resources/funding.
Nothing here makes sense. If they were developing the plane, they would do it in secret and fly it in secret, just like the U2 and the SR71. Is this some kind of distraction for the real plane? Or some PR for a money grab? Whatever it is, this is NOT the military's new spy plane.
Fleeing robbers? In the movies maybe, but how often does that happen in real life? No, this is just another way to track common folks that they want to spy on. There are about a 500 million of those in the US right now.
Marshall needs to retire; he's damned old, but the group's purpose is still relevant.
Like more things in Washington, this is probably just more BS. We'll find out that the only reason he was on the payroll was because he's a 33rd degree freemason and no one had to heart to fire him. Seriously, do you the Pentagon would ever admit to their projects or people involved in them? It sounds like he was more a mascot than anything else.
Apples behavior is pretty much expected, I doubt few if any companies would ever let people use their resources to organize action against them. It seems Lessig is going a little over the top in his reaction to this. It can hardly come as a shock to him.
Apple equals eyeballs, whether it is here or someone's blog. Dell, Microsoft, HP? Boring. Apple? Adrenaline. People just need to chill sometimes.
The day that coders don't believe that they are something special is the day that hell freezes over. Sorry folks, coding is a skill like any other. Maybe it's time to stop belittling the auto mechanics and brick layers out there, and accept that you are comrades in labor. You just don't have to get as dirty.
I think the real problem is that scientists aren't lending any prestige to reproducing experiments so nobody bothers. Journals want to publish new results, not confirmation. Advisors discourage students from reproducing experiments, which makes sense since they won't be published.
Which is sad, because that's the exact kind of study that any graduate student should have for a first project. Only after you've proven your abilities should you be given the resources for original work.
Motorcycle helmets actually offer good protection, while bicycle helmets don't. For any impact over about 10 mph, they are not going to signifcantly reduce the peak accelerations your brain experiences (it's your brain sloshing that does the damage).
Bullshit. I went over my handlebars going downhill about 30MPH after the front wheel came off. (My fault for clipping it on wrong.) I went head first into the pavement, and hit so hard that I thought I must have been seriously injured. When I got up, there was no neck injury, no head injury, and one huge dent in the helmet where the foam compressed just like it should. I was scraped all to hell, but that helmet saved my life.
As a cyclist, I'd like to weigh in that it's the cyclists' fault.
There's your danger.
Nicely modded up by all the anti-bicycle people. Well done.
The truth of the matter is that most dangers to bicyclists are drivers who other do not understand the laws when it comes to bicycles, or flagrantly disregard them out of spite. (Notice how this is the exact opposite of what you said. Fancy that.) I'll give an example.
Drivers refuse to share space designated for bike lanes. Often at a stop or a turn, the bike lane merges with the regular lane, or else cars are allowed to turn right using the bike lane, etc. Many drivers get frustrated and angry if there is a bike in the way. In many cases, it is safer for the bicyclist to ignore the designated lane, and just "wing it."
Similarly, I have seen drivers go out of their way to get weave as close as possible to a bicycle that they are passing, which is safely to the side of the road. The best part is when a bicyclist tries to complain to the police about such motorists. The bicyclist is blushed off, since police couldn't care less. They view bicyclists as an annoyance.
Seriously, the way to make it safer for bicyclists is to force the police to care, force fines on people who disregard the bike lanes, and jail the idiots that go out of their way to scare the cyclists.
I don't know who the fuck made the conclusions but 24% is a friggin big portion.
Oblig. Python:
Host (Michael Palin): Good evening. Tonight 'Spectrum' looks at one of the major problems in the world today - the whole vexed question of what is going on. Is there still time to confront it, let alone solve it, or is it too late? What are the figures, what are the facts, what do people mean when they talk about things? Alexander Hardacre of the Economic Affairs Bureau. (Cut to equally intense pundit in front of a graph with three different coloured columns with percentages at the top. He talks with great authority) Hardacre (Graham Chapman): In this graph, this column represents 23% of the population. This column represents 28% of the population, and this column represents 43% of the population. (Cut back to presenter.) Host: Telling figures indeed, but what do they mean to you, what do they mean to me, what do they mean to the average man in the street? With me now is Professor Tiddles of Leeds University. (Pull out to reveal bearded professor sitting next to presenter.) Host: Professor, you've spent many years researching into things, what do you think? Professor (John Cleese): I think it's too early to tell.
This had absolutely jack to do with bad code, that wasn't the problem. The problem was a failure to adhere to best practices that would have prevented the bad code from ever seeing production to begin with. The lack of a process for the distribution of code to production made a failure for bad code inevitable.
This was sheer incompetence of the highest magnitude and should have been readily caught in the lab. This is what happens when cowboys run the show and ITIL is considered a four letter word. Take your younger staff, the wannabe cowboys and make them read this report. Let them learn at others incompetence. As for getting your management to read this, that's an entirely different story.
After working in the early days of computer trading, I can tell you that every minute that the new code is not in place they are "losing money, and IT is to blame." If there's a glitch like this one, then they "lost money, and IT is to blame." Do you see a pattern. The managers and traders are never to blame.
The plots on the original series were more about cultural & human phenomenons that Roddenberry wanted to point out as things we need to overcome as a species. Later inclusions became more about the "gee whiz, rocket ships and 'splosions!" Perhaps you were expecting more the latter with none of the former?
Exactly. A lot of what we think of as original Star Trek was implied. These days every last detail has to be spelled out in the name of characterization. The cultural references shouldn't be glossed over either. The Klingons are the Russians. They are NOT bumpy headed violent killing machines. They are just the other guys out there who we compete with idiologically. In other words, it's best to ignore TNG et al, since they depart drastically from TOS.
More or less he dismissed the premise that there was a problem in the first place, and any issues that are left could be handled with a better editor UI. Now, I do think the Wikimedia editor needs work, but Jimmy is kidding himself. Maybe he'll get a new rush of editors when they release the new UI, but I'm not convinced they'll stay.
I pose that his priority is a successful web site. That does not mean accurate well-written articles. It means getting articles that people want to read. Veracity is tertiary, not even secondary.
These are the same fuckers who insisted that I was dead because someone had mistyped a social security number. Therefore they rejected all credit requests (I was trying to get financing on a car) until I could prove that I was still alive. That's right. If they make a mistake, the victim, errr, customer, has to correct it.
This is all bullshit. The one reason to articulated bogies, which is all we're talking about, is that you can cram more seats on each car, which means saving money. Please ignore the weird PR spin.
There's no reason that the game has to use the character designs of the original. They are using the Mario name to gain attention. Of course they are going to be sued.
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My thought exactly. Unless they expect their console access needs to explode soon and the current system cannot scale,
Agreed. Standardization should decrease complexity (of maintenance), not increase it. Keep the tools as simple as possible, and as close to vendor standard as possible. It's like admins who customize root. If you leave it generic, then every admin knows what to expect.
Republicans hate science because knowledge is power and they want to keep people as powerless as possible.
A huge push over the first two hundred years of this country was education for all. We were proud of our scientists and scholars, our discoveries and achievements. We are being overtaken by India and China, and within a couple of generations will be nothing more than a nation of ignorant but well armed barbarians. Hopefully Europe and Japan can survive without making the same mistakes.
Considering that we have 10 carriers, our NATO allies have 8 more, and all countries that could plausibly be considered "enemies" have a total of two, this seems like a reasonable place to cut spending.
According to Wiki we have 3 new ones under construction. So the number is going UP, not down.
This is something I've never understood about the military: anyone bright enough to achieve more than a grunt rank will know that the military hasn't been engaged in mere defense for decades, so why exactly did they join up?
For college money. The government has made sure that the majority of people can no longer afford their education.
Ender's Game is the quintessential classic military sci-fi book.
I have to disagree with that quote. Ender's Game is an anti-war book. If you want the quintessential classic military sci-fi book, read Starship Troopers.
And we all know how that movie turned out. Or Puppet Masters, an even more dreadful adaptation. Hollywood has no interest in making any of these books into movies. They want to make the same old movie, but use the book's name recognition to jump start the marketing. Read any of the comments by the poor script writers who try to faithfully adapt a book.
10-year-old boy gets credit for it.
But America wants to believe that scientific discovery is gnosis (inspiration from on-high), and not due to intelligence, intense education, and a lot of hard work. Why fund scientists when a child can do their work? Science is HARD. Science takes long years of dedication. Science takes resources/funding.
Nothing here makes sense. If they were developing the plane, they would do it in secret and fly it in secret, just like the U2 and the SR71. Is this some kind of distraction for the real plane? Or some PR for a money grab? Whatever it is, this is NOT the military's new spy plane.
Fleeing robbers? In the movies maybe, but how often does that happen in real life? No, this is just another way to track common folks that they want to spy on. There are about a 500 million of those in the US right now.
Marshall needs to retire; he's damned old, but the group's purpose is still relevant.
Like more things in Washington, this is probably just more BS. We'll find out that the only reason he was on the payroll was because he's a 33rd degree freemason and no one had to heart to fire him. Seriously, do you the Pentagon would ever admit to their projects or people involved in them? It sounds like he was more a mascot than anything else.
Not a bad track record.
Oh brother. Tell us the thousand things he predicted that didn't come true. Anyone can guess right 1% of the time.
Applies to the guy who owns the press.
Apples behavior is pretty much expected, I doubt few if any companies would ever let people use their resources to organize action against them. It seems Lessig is going a little over the top in his reaction to this. It can hardly come as a shock to him.
Apple equals eyeballs, whether it is here or someone's blog. Dell, Microsoft, HP? Boring. Apple? Adrenaline. People just need to chill sometimes.
The day that coders don't believe that they are something special is the day that hell freezes over. Sorry folks, coding is a skill like any other. Maybe it's time to stop belittling the auto mechanics and brick layers out there, and accept that you are comrades in labor. You just don't have to get as dirty.
I think the real problem is that scientists aren't lending any prestige to reproducing experiments so nobody bothers. Journals want to publish new results, not confirmation. Advisors discourage students from reproducing experiments, which makes sense since they won't be published.
Which is sad, because that's the exact kind of study that any graduate student should have for a first project. Only after you've proven your abilities should you be given the resources for original work.
"use anti-virus software"
Just come out and say it. Don't use Windows.
Motorcycle helmets actually offer good protection, while bicycle helmets don't. For any impact over about 10 mph, they are not going to signifcantly reduce the peak accelerations your brain experiences (it's your brain sloshing that does the damage).
Bullshit. I went over my handlebars going downhill about 30MPH after the front wheel came off. (My fault for clipping it on wrong.) I went head first into the pavement, and hit so hard that I thought I must have been seriously injured. When I got up, there was no neck injury, no head injury, and one huge dent in the helmet where the foam compressed just like it should. I was scraped all to hell, but that helmet saved my life.
As a cyclist, I'd like to weigh in that it's the cyclists' fault.
There's your danger.
Nicely modded up by all the anti-bicycle people. Well done.
The truth of the matter is that most dangers to bicyclists are drivers who other do not understand the laws when it comes to bicycles, or flagrantly disregard them out of spite. (Notice how this is the exact opposite of what you said. Fancy that.) I'll give an example.
Drivers refuse to share space designated for bike lanes. Often at a stop or a turn, the bike lane merges with the regular lane, or else cars are allowed to turn right using the bike lane, etc. Many drivers get frustrated and angry if there is a bike in the way. In many cases, it is safer for the bicyclist to ignore the designated lane, and just "wing it."
Similarly, I have seen drivers go out of their way to get weave as close as possible to a bicycle that they are passing, which is safely to the side of the road. The best part is when a bicyclist tries to complain to the police about such motorists. The bicyclist is blushed off, since police couldn't care less. They view bicyclists as an annoyance.
Seriously, the way to make it safer for bicyclists is to force the police to care, force fines on people who disregard the bike lanes, and jail the idiots that go out of their way to scare the cyclists.
I don't know who the fuck made the conclusions but 24% is a friggin big portion.
Oblig. Python:
Host (Michael Palin): Good evening. Tonight 'Spectrum' looks at one of the major problems in the world today - the whole vexed question of what is going on. Is there still time to confront it, let alone solve it, or is it too late? What are the figures, what are the facts, what do people mean when they talk about things? Alexander Hardacre of the Economic Affairs Bureau.
(Cut to equally intense pundit in front of a graph with three different coloured columns with percentages at the top. He talks with great authority)
Hardacre (Graham Chapman): In this graph, this column represents 23% of the population. This column represents 28% of the population, and this column represents 43% of the population.
(Cut back to presenter.)
Host: Telling figures indeed, but what do they mean to you, what do they mean to me, what do they mean to the average man in the street? With me now is Professor Tiddles of Leeds University.
(Pull out to reveal bearded professor sitting next to presenter.)
Host: Professor, you've spent many years researching into things, what do you think?
Professor (John Cleese): I think it's too early to tell.
This had absolutely jack to do with bad code, that wasn't the problem. The problem was a failure to adhere to best practices that would have prevented the bad code from ever seeing production to begin with. The lack of a process for the distribution of code to production made a failure for bad code inevitable.
This was sheer incompetence of the highest magnitude and should have been readily caught in the lab. This is what happens when cowboys run the show and ITIL is considered a four letter word. Take your younger staff, the wannabe cowboys and make them read this report. Let them learn at others incompetence. As for getting your management to read this, that's an entirely different story.
After working in the early days of computer trading, I can tell you that every minute that the new code is not in place they are "losing money, and IT is to blame." If there's a glitch like this one, then they "lost money, and IT is to blame." Do you see a pattern. The managers and traders are never to blame.
Didn't The Animated Series finish off the last two years of the five year mission? With the original cast and everything.
The Animated Series is more of a crossover with Larry Niven's Known Space universe, Kzinti et al., than a continuation.
The plots on the original series were more about cultural & human phenomenons that Roddenberry wanted to point out as things we need to overcome as a species. Later inclusions became more about the "gee whiz, rocket ships and 'splosions!" Perhaps you were expecting more the latter with none of the former?
Exactly. A lot of what we think of as original Star Trek was implied. These days every last detail has to be spelled out in the name of characterization. The cultural references shouldn't be glossed over either. The Klingons are the Russians. They are NOT bumpy headed violent killing machines. They are just the other guys out there who we compete with idiologically. In other words, it's best to ignore TNG et al, since they depart drastically from TOS.
More or less he dismissed the premise that there was a problem in the first place, and any issues that are left could be handled with a better editor UI. Now, I do think the Wikimedia editor needs work, but Jimmy is kidding himself. Maybe he'll get a new rush of editors when they release the new UI, but I'm not convinced they'll stay.
I pose that his priority is a successful web site. That does not mean accurate well-written articles. It means getting articles that people want to read. Veracity is tertiary, not even secondary.
Is there anything to that statistic beyond the slowing of new content since it's a mature product? That's a good thing, right?
These are the same fuckers who insisted that I was dead because someone had mistyped a social security number. Therefore they rejected all credit requests (I was trying to get financing on a car) until I could prove that I was still alive. That's right. If they make a mistake, the victim, errr, customer, has to correct it.
This is all bullshit. The one reason to articulated bogies, which is all we're talking about, is that you can cram more seats on each car, which means saving money. Please ignore the weird PR spin.
There's no reason that the game has to use the character designs of the original. They are using the Mario name to gain attention. Of course they are going to be sued.