We just discussed it this weekend: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/28/1119203/IBM-Images-a-Single-Molecule
If that's not great science, I don't know what is. Admittedly, it's in Switzerland, but I've never heard of the Great and Wonderful Microsoft, supposedly this generation's IBM, doing anything whatsoever to add to mankind's knowledge.
When I started programming computers in the 1970's there were fad books then too, which all the managers where reading. The idea of getting more code out of the cheapest people has always been the goal.
Managers! I suggest this one:
Manual of Computer Programming for Astrologers
The United States is, by far, the largest producer of corn in the world. Corn is grown on over 400,000 U.S. farms. In 2000, the U.S. produced almost ten billion bushels of the world's total 23 billion bushel crop. Corn grown for grain accounts for almost one quarter of the harvested crop acres in this country. Corn grown for silage accounts for about two percent of the total harvested cropland or about 6 million acres. The amount of land dedicated to corn silage production varies based on growing conditions. In years that produce weather unfavorable to high corn grain yields, corn can be "salvaged" by harvesting the entire plant as silage.
According to the National Corn Growers Association, about eighty percent of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by domestic and overseas livestock, poultry, and fish production. The crop is fed as ground grain, silage, high-moisture, and high-oil corn. About 12% of the U.S. corn crop ends up in foods that are either consumed directly (e.g. corn chips) or indirectly (e.g. high fructose corn syrup). It also has a wide array of industrial uses including ethanol, a popular oxygenate in cleaner burning auto fuels.
Perhaps we are not looking at the details. Note the peaks in roughly 1870 and 1940, and the trough in between. But only on the temperature and sunspot lines; the CO2 line possibly shows slight peaks there, but perhaps in response, rather than as a cause.
Look also at the far right of the graph. Note that temperature has leveled off and is apparently falling (according to more recent data) as sunspot intensity falls. But not CO2 which continues to rise.
Someone said correlation is not causation. Apparently, as far as CO2, there is not even correlation.
Al Gore seems to have been barking up the wrong tree. This chart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Temp-sunspot-co2.svg) shows a much better correlation between sunspots and temperature, than between CO2 and termperature.
I tried to mod you insightful, but for some fucking reason changing the moderation selection box doesn't do anything anymore. I think it's one of the Firefux addons that I've installed but who knows.
Excellent point, thanks for the reminder. Except...
Every desktop and server computer that I ever use day to day, is Linux, BSD, or Solaris, but on not a single one of them, even on the server computers, does there exist the (1960's again) situation of people "write"ing, "finger"ing, "w"ing, or emailing, based on the localhost's username.
Again, good point, but I haven't been in an environment like that for 20 years.
Why does no one realize that we seem to be stuck in the 1960's; what's this dichotomy of "user name" and "password", in which we now type the first in plain text, but the second is shown as asterisks.
As if the former is common knowledge, but the latter is super double secret. What kind of retards are in charge of this shit?
Why aren't both secret; why aren't both in asterisks.
Or, how about we don't let people look over our shoulder.
The common sense solution, from TFA, is simply horseshit. Every idea that the so called experts come up with exacerbates the problem: mixed case, numerics, frequent changes: they all contribute to no one knowing their own passwords for the many systems that they have to log in to. Simply choosing a password that isn't in the dictionary and isn't based on something personal such as your child's name, and keeping it, and don't let someone look over your shoulder, is all that's necessary, and far better.
PS: do you notice how sign up forms don't give a crap if you type anything else incorrectly, but force you to enter your email twice. That's all they want. Thanks; here, have some spam.
It may very well be an acceptable compromise. However I do not agree with your argument because, a lot of Google Apps' potential clients do, in fact have backup systems, can sysadmin Microsoft, or even real "enterprise" apps, and can already log in on multiple machines to access their data.
But a lot of people see this as a way to break their lock in to Microsoft, and to save money.
I'll give up my ability to mod in this thread to point out that you are a fucking idiot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H do not have enough information on this subject to form an opinion.
There is a cornucopia of beneficial chemicals in plants which help us live longer and healthier, and many of them are yet to be identified, but just consider flavinoids in grape skins, blue berries, and black berries.
The cows and whatever other animals you like to eat are using those beneficial chemicals themselves, and when you eat them, you receive merely the protein and vitamins, minus the other important healthy ingredients that you could have had if you had eaten the plant yourself.
I say fortunate because there was nothing in the way; no distractions like GUIs to dilute the experience. Just BASIC on the command line.
It doesn't really matter whether the youngster uses BASIC, Pascal, or XYZ. It should just be a simple language so the concept of logic and process flow is what is learned, rather than getting bogged down in arcane concepts of the language itself (or some pig of a GUI, like "Visual" this, or "Visual" that).
PS. The environment was an interactive "command line" and BASIC interpreter that actually was running as a batch job on an IBM 360 mainframe.
Typical: one publication writes a shitty article, another publication does a shitty job of summarizing it, then a/. submitter does a shitty job of summarizing the shitty summary of the shitty article, then hundreds of posters babble about the cost of postage.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you mean hire a "cracker"?
software patents 'fueled the explosive growth of open source software development
I guess we know which side IBM is on. Too bad.
"Get fucked you whiney assholes."
We just discussed it this weekend: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/28/1119203/IBM-Images-a-Single-Molecule
If that's not great science, I don't know what is. Admittedly, it's in Switzerland, but I've never heard of the Great and Wonderful Microsoft, supposedly this generation's IBM, doing anything whatsoever to add to mankind's knowledge.
When I started programming computers in the 1970's there were fad books then too, which all the managers where reading. The idea of getting more code out of the cheapest people has always been the goal.
Managers! I suggest this one: Manual of Computer Programming for Astrologers
The United States is, by far, the largest producer of corn in the world. Corn is grown on over 400,000 U.S. farms. In 2000, the U.S. produced almost ten billion bushels of the world's total 23 billion bushel crop. Corn grown for grain accounts for almost one quarter of the harvested crop acres in this country. Corn grown for silage accounts for about two percent of the total harvested cropland or about 6 million acres. The amount of land dedicated to corn silage production varies based on growing conditions. In years that produce weather unfavorable to high corn grain yields, corn can be "salvaged" by harvesting the entire plant as silage. According to the National Corn Growers Association, about eighty percent of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by domestic and overseas livestock, poultry, and fish production. The crop is fed as ground grain, silage, high-moisture, and high-oil corn. About 12% of the U.S. corn crop ends up in foods that are either consumed directly (e.g. corn chips) or indirectly (e.g. high fructose corn syrup). It also has a wide array of industrial uses including ethanol, a popular oxygenate in cleaner burning auto fuels.
http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/cropmajor.html
Perhaps we are not looking at the details. Note the peaks in roughly 1870 and 1940, and the trough in between. But only on the temperature and sunspot lines; the CO2 line possibly shows slight peaks there, but perhaps in response, rather than as a cause.
Look also at the far right of the graph. Note that temperature has leveled off and is apparently falling (according to more recent data) as sunspot intensity falls. But not CO2 which continues to rise.
Someone said correlation is not causation. Apparently, as far as CO2, there is not even correlation.
Mean global temperatures have been rising throughout the 2000s
Not according to NASA's satellites: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/74019.html
Al Gore seems to have been barking up the wrong tree. This chart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Temp-sunspot-co2.svg) shows a much better correlation between sunspots and temperature, than between CO2 and termperature.
Off topic!? Didn't you see the "fuck the Swiss".
So anyway, fuck the Swiss.
Photographers call transparencies "trannys", car people call transmissions "trannys", now here's yet another one.
Every desktop and server computer that I ever use day to day, is Linux, BSD, or Solaris, but on not a single one of them, even on the server computers, does there exist the (1960's again) situation of people "write"ing, "finger"ing, "w"ing, or emailing, based on the localhost's username.
Again, good point, but I haven't been in an environment like that for 20 years.
Why does no one realize that we seem to be stuck in the 1960's; what's this dichotomy of "user name" and "password", in which we now type the first in plain text, but the second is shown as asterisks.
As if the former is common knowledge, but the latter is super double secret. What kind of retards are in charge of this shit?
Why aren't both secret; why aren't both in asterisks.
Or, how about we don't let people look over our shoulder.
The common sense solution, from TFA, is simply horseshit. Every idea that the so called experts come up with exacerbates the problem: mixed case, numerics, frequent changes: they all contribute to no one knowing their own passwords for the many systems that they have to log in to. Simply choosing a password that isn't in the dictionary and isn't based on something personal such as your child's name, and keeping it, and don't let someone look over your shoulder, is all that's necessary, and far better.
PS: do you notice how sign up forms don't give a crap if you type anything else incorrectly, but force you to enter your email twice. That's all they want. Thanks; here, have some spam.
Everything is whatever marketing says it is.
It may very well be an acceptable compromise. However I do not agree with your argument because, a lot of Google Apps' potential clients do, in fact have backup systems, can sysadmin Microsoft, or even real "enterprise" apps, and can already log in on multiple machines to access their data.
But a lot of people see this as a way to break their lock in to Microsoft, and to save money.
I'll give up my ability to mod in this thread to point out that you are a fucking idiot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H do not have enough information on this subject to form an opinion.
There is a cornucopia of beneficial chemicals in plants which help us live longer and healthier, and many of them are yet to be identified, but just consider flavinoids in grape skins, blue berries, and black berries.
The cows and whatever other animals you like to eat are using those beneficial chemicals themselves, and when you eat them, you receive merely the protein and vitamins, minus the other important healthy ingredients that you could have had if you had eaten the plant yourself.
The Earth will eventually be wiped out, obviously. We can't get lucky forever.
We'd better spread outselves out.
(or skype). Nah, every man for himself.
If you're dumb enough to use them, you deserve what you get.
I say fortunate because there was nothing in the way; no distractions like GUIs to dilute the experience. Just BASIC on the command line.
It doesn't really matter whether the youngster uses BASIC, Pascal, or XYZ. It should just be a simple language so the concept of logic and process flow is what is learned, rather than getting bogged down in arcane concepts of the language itself (or some pig of a GUI, like "Visual" this, or "Visual" that).
PS. The environment was an interactive "command line" and BASIC interpreter that actually was running as a batch job on an IBM 360 mainframe.
Typical: one publication writes a shitty article, another publication does a shitty job of summarizing it, then a /. submitter does a shitty job of summarizing the shitty summary of the shitty article, then hundreds of posters babble about the cost of postage.
Are you trying to learn computer science, or are you trying to learn a trade?
Isn't that redundant?
It's discouraging that you were modded insightful for the simple reason that you always said "I liked" instead of "I watched".
When someone produces a movie, they make it available for a fee that is charged when you watch it. If you didn't like it, tough shit.
Also, if you are not willing to pay the fee to watch it (or listen to it), you are not entitled to. Get fucked.