usually about 13-15 yo, when they should be sent away from home to some sort of boarding school/military school/vocational school
But weren't we concerned about not teaching them to be corporate slaves? Now you're proposing that we send them to military school so they can learn how to be obedient soldiers/hamburger.
Maybe instead, we need a period of time where kids decide on a group of topics they want to study in depth. Or perhaps we ask students to select a project of interest which will involve many different disciplines and have them create something. (rockets, model airplanes, RC whatever, computer operating system - the possibilities are endless and often more would be learned by working on some project than could be learned in a classroom).
The Pragmatic Programmers seem to be doing a great job with their new publishing efforts. They're able to get new titles out much more quickly than some of the more established publishers by following their own advice about automation and applying it to publishing. I recall reading on one of their blogs that they were able to go from idea to actual book in under six months.
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Oakland may get a bad press but I have friends there who I stay with sometimes. It's actually kinda cool, Lake Merrit's a nice place to go for a walk and is pretty close to downtown, and the place is full of artistic and bohemian people that spill over from Berkeley.
Yeah, I hear it's been changing in recent years so I shouldn't call it a 'slum'.
Actually, the way you describe it (artistic and bohemian people) it's probably a lot more interesting than the endless sameness of the San Jose/Santa Clara/Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley) suburbia.
Next up: The East Palo Alto chipset
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So now that they've named a chipset after Alviso, the next logical name for them to use is 'East PaloAlto', followed by 'Oakland'.
They were naming things after rivers, now they're using slum towns of California.
...also, didn't they have trouble with flooding in Alviso every few years?
Why would they name anything after Alviso?
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Alviso is in the extreme north part of San Jose up against the southernmost part of SanFrancisco Bay.
It is often referred to as the 'armpit of the Bay'. I haven't been there in 10 years, but back then it was a very slummy area. There was a good Mexican Restaurant there that we used to visit occassionally, though.
It's a whole lot better than an interview with four softball questions. Would you have preferred:
So what color is the carpet in your cubicle?
We know that you're trying as hard as you can to make Windows more secure, would it be easier if there were no hackers trying to break it?
A lot of people claim that OS X is much more secure than Windows, but back in April there was a trojan horse found that can cause problems on OS X, can you comment?
What's your favorite movie so far this year?
It's actually good to see the press holding Micrsoft's feet to the fire for once. They especially deserve it when it comes to the topic of security (or lack thereof).
The article doesn't really explain why the growth was better on the artificial reefs. Is it due to the electric current somehow stimulating coral growth?
Or perhaps it's due to the fact that these structures are very open and allow a lot of water flow throughout the structure of the reef (thus allowing greater nutrient flow to the corals).
The attachement argument alone doesn't seem to be the only explanation: I use super-glue to attach corals in my aquarium and that works very quickly.
Perhaps similar effects could be acheived by slight electrical stimulation of already existing reefs? More experimentation needs to be done.
I hope that they're right, however, in their observations. It would be great if we could save some reefs. Coral reefs are among the most beautiful and diverse eco systems on the planet. It would be a shame to lose them because of our carelessness.
A few years back I read an article where they were doing this to create structures that could then be moved onto land and used for building. It seems that they've adapted the technology to helping the reefs.
Perhaps, but how fast can corals adapt by forming these new symbiotic relationships? The empirical evidence seems to suggest that these adaptations are still pretty rare... We may not have enough time for these adaptations to take place.
Many corals have symbiotic algea that live in their soft tissues that provide food to the coral (this is why they require bright light). Corals are already colonial organisms (each polyp is a different animal) so this makes for a fairly complex system.
The other question that still needs to be answered is do the new symbiants do as good a job as the old ones in sustaining the coral colony.
Actually, it's symbiotic algae that many corals absolutely need.
I'm a bit sceptical that corals can easily change their symbiotic algae prior to dieing off. These are relationships that have been established over the eons.
I really want to vote for Nader. I just wish there were a 3rd party (4th party?) candidate on the right siphoning votes from Bush as well. Then there would be less complaining about Ralph being a spoiler. (what is a spoiler anyway? Couldn't Kerry be a spoiler for Nader?)
I went to the local Nader nominating convention here in Portland. It was a 3 ring circus. There were Rupublicans there who wanted Nader on the ballot. There were Democrats there filling the seats and refusing to sign the petition because they wanted to keep him off of the ballot (they were unfortunately successful). And then there were those of us who thought that it would be nice to have Nader on he ballot so we could have a real choice if we decide in November that we can't go with Kerry.
Amazingly, at the end, Nader took questions from the audience. Unfiltered questions. Some of the questions were form angry Democrats. One question was from a guy that was not mentally all there (and Nader was quite gracious with him, I thought). I was so impressed by this Q&A session. Not that the questions were all that great, but that Nader opened himself up to questions like that and handled then well. It would have been unimaginable at a Bush or Kerry rally.
In today's episode of "Adventures in missing the point" we find little George W. Bush, freshman at Harvard...
Teacher: George, is your book report on Walden finished?
GWB: Yes ma'am. Here it is: Thoreau was a looser. His parent's said "get a job you bum", kicked him out of the house, and hoped he'd act like a derned grownup for a change. Instead, he went and built a shack 2 miles away near a lake and did a little writing about how great he was. What a joke.
Teacher: Err...., uhh...
GWB: Remember, my daddy's got a lot of money and influence.
work your tail off right now, focus on your job and move up in the company until you achieve a management position
In other words, sell your soul. Yeah, that'll really make you want to work on personal projects.
That won't burn you out on programming, so you'll be fresh enough to do personal projects.
It'll just burn you out on life. Wasn't it Henry David Thoreau in Walden who said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation? This corporate management plan sounds like a great way to lead a life of quiet desperation.
So those pictures of Bill and Bill playing golf were just for show?
Yes & no. Bill G. doesn't have to play golf with GW since he knows he's already got him in his pocket. At least with Bill C. he had to work at it a little bit.
So if I vote for Kerry I might see at least a bit more attention, wow that seems worth it...
Well it's not the only reason to vote Bush out, but it was one of the first (the immediate lightening of the punishment on M$) things I noticed when he took office that made me think I probably wouldn't vote for the guy again (yeah, I made the mistake of voting for Bush in 2000, won't happen again. My apologies.)
Of course there are lots of other reasons to vote Bush out not the least of which is his idiotic war in Iraq that has supposedly been a major part of his war on terrorism.
using the argument that we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen.
Your boss: "No lights, heat, water, toilet paper for you - if you were dedicated you would provide them yourself. That computer on your desk - well, it isn't there anymore so you'd better go out and buy yourself another one.
Oh and furthermore, from now on you have to pay for your own broadband at work too, but of course the dedicated won't mind that."
When it comes to a breakfast of eggs and bacon, the chicken is committed, but the pig is dedicated. It sounds like your boss is considering you to be the latter.
Okay, how small is Ruby in comparision with Perl and Python...
Ruby is quite a bit smaller (in MBs) than Perl. The whole sourcecode to Ruby is less than 1MB - (well, now that they've added several packages and extensions in 1.8.1 it's closer to 2MB, but that includes GUI toolkit bindings, web server modules, etc. - lots of useful stuff.)
Last I checked Perl's sourcecode was in the >5MB range, but that was a while ago.
I included the ruby executable and a few libraries on a CD recently (it was used for installing packages from the CD) and it took up less than 3MB total including the ruby scripts written for installation and C extention that I wrote (a shared library).
So, Ruby's footprint is relatively small compared to Perl's. I don't know about Python's footprint, though.
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usually about 13-15 yo, when they should be sent away from home to some sort of boarding school/military school/vocational school
But weren't we concerned about not teaching them to be corporate slaves? Now you're proposing that we send them to military school so they can learn how to be obedient soldiers/hamburger.
Maybe instead, we need a period of time where kids decide on a group of topics they want to study in depth. Or perhaps we ask students to select a project of interest which will involve many different disciplines and have them create something. (rockets, model airplanes, RC whatever, computer operating system - the possibilities are endless and often more would be learned by working on some project than could be learned in a classroom).
The Pragmatic Programmers seem to be doing a great job with their new publishing efforts. They're able to get new titles out much more quickly than some of the more established publishers by following their own advice about automation and applying it to publishing. I recall reading on one of their blogs that they were able to go from idea to actual book in under six months.
I can't wait for their upcoming Ruby book.
Oakland may get a bad press but I have friends there who I stay with sometimes. It's actually kinda cool, Lake Merrit's a nice place to go for a walk and is pretty close to downtown, and the place is full of artistic and bohemian people that spill over from Berkeley.
Yeah, I hear it's been changing in recent years so I shouldn't call it a 'slum'.
Actually, the way you describe it (artistic and bohemian people) it's probably a lot more interesting than the endless sameness of the San Jose/Santa Clara/Sunnyvale (Silicon Valley) suburbia.
So now that they've named a chipset after Alviso, the next logical name for them to use is 'East PaloAlto', followed by 'Oakland'.
They were naming things after rivers, now they're using slum towns of California.
...also, didn't they have trouble with flooding in Alviso every few years?
Alviso is in the extreme north part of San Jose up against the southernmost part of SanFrancisco Bay.
It is often referred to as the 'armpit of the Bay'. I haven't been there in 10 years, but back then it was a very slummy area. There was a good Mexican Restaurant there that we used to visit occassionally, though.
It's a whole lot better than an interview with four softball questions. Would you have preferred:
So what color is the carpet in your cubicle?
We know that you're trying as hard as you can to make Windows more secure, would it be easier if there were no hackers trying to break it?
A lot of people claim that OS X is much more secure than Windows, but back in April there was a trojan horse found that can cause problems on OS X, can you comment?
What's your favorite movie so far this year?
It's actually good to see the press holding Micrsoft's feet to the fire for once. They especially deserve it when it comes to the topic of security (or lack thereof).
The article doesn't really explain why the growth was better on the artificial reefs. Is it due to the electric current somehow stimulating coral growth?
Or perhaps it's due to the fact that these structures are very open and allow a lot of water flow throughout the structure of the reef (thus allowing greater nutrient flow to the corals).
The attachement argument alone doesn't seem to be the only explanation: I use super-glue to attach corals in my aquarium and that works very quickly.
Perhaps similar effects could be acheived by slight electrical stimulation of already existing reefs? More experimentation needs to be done.
I hope that they're right, however, in their observations. It would be great if we could save some reefs. Coral reefs are among the most beautiful and diverse eco systems on the planet. It would be a shame to lose them because of our carelessness.
A few years back I read an article where they were doing this to create structures that could then be moved onto land and used for building. It seems that they've adapted the technology to helping the reefs.
Perhaps, but how fast can corals adapt by forming these new symbiotic relationships? The empirical evidence seems to suggest that these adaptations are still pretty rare... We may not have enough time for these adaptations to take place.
Many corals have symbiotic algea that live in their soft tissues that provide food to the coral (this is why they require bright light). Corals are already colonial organisms (each polyp is a different animal) so this makes for a fairly complex system.
The other question that still needs to be answered is do the new symbiants do as good a job as the old ones in sustaining the coral colony.
symbiotic bacteria that made up corals
Actually, it's symbiotic algae that many corals absolutely need.
I'm a bit sceptical that corals can easily change their symbiotic algae prior to dieing off. These are relationships that have been established over the eons.
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I really want to vote for Nader. I just wish there were a 3rd party (4th party?) candidate on the right siphoning votes from Bush as well. Then there would be less complaining about Ralph being a spoiler. (what is a spoiler anyway? Couldn't Kerry be a spoiler for Nader?)
I went to the local Nader nominating convention here in Portland. It was a 3 ring circus. There were Rupublicans there who wanted Nader on the ballot. There were Democrats there filling the seats and refusing to sign the petition because they wanted to keep him off of the ballot (they were unfortunately successful). And then there were those of us who thought that it would be nice to have Nader on he ballot so we could have a real choice if we decide in November that we can't go with Kerry.
Amazingly, at the end, Nader took questions from the audience. Unfiltered questions. Some of the questions were form angry Democrats. One question was from a guy that was not mentally all there (and Nader was quite gracious with him, I thought). I was so impressed by this Q&A session. Not that the questions were all that great, but that Nader opened himself up to questions like that and handled then well. It would have been unimaginable at a Bush or Kerry rally.
I guess I disagree with the Money == Evil school of thought. I see money as a tool, it can be used for Evil purposes, and can twist your world view.
Sure, money itself isn't evil. It's the love of money that is the root of all evil, not money itself.
Problem is that in our culture it can be quite difficult to seperate the two notions.
In today's episode of "Adventures in missing the point" we find little George W. Bush, freshman at Harvard...
Teacher: George, is your book report on Walden finished?
GWB: Yes ma'am. Here it is:
Thoreau was a looser. His parent's said "get a job you bum", kicked him out of the house, and hoped he'd act like a derned grownup for a change. Instead, he went and built a shack 2 miles away near a lake and did a little writing about how great he was. What a joke.
Teacher: Err...., uhh...
GWB: Remember, my daddy's got a lot of money and influence.
work your tail off right now, focus on your job and move up in the company until you achieve a management position
In other words, sell your soul. Yeah, that'll really make you want to work on personal projects.
That won't burn you out on programming, so you'll be fresh enough to do personal projects.
It'll just burn you out on life. Wasn't it Henry David Thoreau in Walden who said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation? This corporate management plan sounds like a great way to lead a life of quiet desperation.
Huh?
The headline for the story was:
"US Government Keeping a Close eye on Longhorn"
At first I read it as:
"US Government keeping a closed eye on Longhorn"
I thought it was funny.
Get a sense of humor moderators! You'd think you were a bunch of M$ employees or something.
So those pictures of Bill and Bill playing golf were just for show?
Yes & no.
Bill G. doesn't have to play golf with GW since he knows he's already got him in his pocket. At least with Bill C. he had to work at it a little bit.
So if I vote for Kerry I might see at least a bit more attention, wow that seems worth it...
Well it's not the only reason to vote Bush out, but it was one of the first (the immediate lightening of the punishment on M$) things I noticed when he took office that made me think I probably wouldn't vote for the guy again (yeah, I made the mistake of voting for Bush in 2000, won't happen again. My apologies.)
Of course there are lots of other reasons to vote Bush out not the least of which is his idiotic war in Iraq that has supposedly been a major part of his war on terrorism.
Do you feel safer than you did four years ago?
That's what the headline should read.
I wonder how discerning their eye will be considering past decisions and lax enforcement.
Well, if the Republicans win the house/senate/whitehouse again, you can bet this won't go anywhere.
However if the Democrats win at least some of those (esp. the Whitehous) you might see at least a bit more attention from the Justice dept.
You'll recall that after the Bush admin took over the settlement between the govmt and M$ was pretty much turned into a slap on the wrist.
using the argument that we should be dedicated staff who desire to be responsive and should do what it takes to make that happen.
Your boss:
"No lights, heat, water, toilet paper for you - if you were dedicated you would provide them yourself. That computer on your desk - well, it isn't there anymore so you'd better go out and buy yourself another one.
Oh and furthermore, from now on you have to pay for your own broadband at work too, but of course the dedicated won't mind that."
When it comes to a breakfast of eggs and bacon, the chicken is committed, but the pig is dedicated. It sounds like your boss is considering you to be the latter.
I will be sending my four-year-old laptop to a school in Uganda this fall
Dear Sir,
I am Umbumbo Bumbalilo of Uganda. PLease send your Laptop.
Thank you.
Umbumbo Bumbalilo
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No mention of virtual desktops in Tiger, so for now we have to assume it isn't going to get them.
Seems like a no-brainer to at least include an option for virtual desktops if you would like to use them.
Oh well, at least there's Desktop manager. Still it would be great if this were built-in.
Okay, how small is Ruby in comparision with Perl and Python...
Ruby is quite a bit smaller (in MBs) than Perl. The whole sourcecode to Ruby is less than 1MB - (well, now that they've added several packages and extensions in 1.8.1 it's closer to 2MB, but that includes GUI toolkit bindings, web server modules, etc. - lots of useful stuff.)
Last I checked Perl's sourcecode was in the >5MB range, but that was a while ago.
I included the ruby executable and a few libraries on a CD recently (it was used for installing packages from the CD) and it took up less than 3MB total including the ruby scripts written for installation and C extention that I wrote (a shared library).
So, Ruby's footprint is relatively small compared to Perl's. I don't know about Python's footprint, though.