When a project evolves into that state where developers and users get along an coexist peacefully, then you have an environment that benefits both groups. It seems like a simple social skill, but actually this is rather rare. I have been in a couple of projects, one where the users and developers have something of an acid relationship and have a confrontational nature. Little gets done, and nobody is happy. But in the other one, users, developers, and other contributors (I18N, addons, builds, examples, etc) all get along harmoniously and produce a wonderful product. The producer/consumer model does not work in open source projects. Mutual respect and courtesy are the key to getting the job done. This also includes upstream library developers, distro managers, etc.
I know that the Internet is usually against government power. But people, in this case, you WANT the FCC to trump local laws. For decades now, the FCC has has the sole power to regulate antennas, emitted power, signal purity, etc. And for decades, it has done this in a positive manner, as an enabler rather than as a restriction.
Up until now, the FCC's power has trumped the petty Napoleons in your local government. For example, your HOA might rule about the obtrusiveness of your antenna. Whether it is tall, reaches over your fence, or is conspicuous. But they cannot forbid you from having one that works. That power does not belong to them.
Believe me, the status quo on the FCC's power is fine. Even though big government might be evil, in this one circumstance, you need them.
Put those cows on land that also has windmills or solar, and you start to benefit from bigger efficiencies. But what they are talking about is using manure that is already being created now that might be wasted or used inefficiently otherwise. You're going to have the dairies and feed lots anyway, why not put it all to use?
Actually, years ago I worked at one of the NASA offices that hosted one of the servers into which he hacked. It was (if I recall correctly) a server hosting a browsable space image library. Breaking into that box? No big deal, really. It wasn't connected to anything sensitive. None of their webservers are.
I have also worked on DoD projects with systems holding highly valuable and sensitive information. If he broke into one of those, then some damage might have been done. But of course he didn't, because they are not on the Internet!
But if your office fails to cleanly separate internal servers from Internet-facing webservers, then it is just as much your (manager, admin, etc) fault as the hacker. Webservers should be considered 'throwaway,' meaning that if they get hacked or damaged, then all you should need is failover and reprovisioning.
In the future you might give the poster the benefit of a doubt.:-)
Its entire purpose is to fit into the producer/consumer model, and provide yet another carbon-based audience member to Big Media. Why else would Rupert Murdoch love it? The PC will remain as a more populist, creative device.
What irritates me is that Hollywood is scripting story after story based on his writings, to the almost total abandonment of the rest of the science fiction field. I would -love- to see something by Theodore Sturgeon or Ursula K LeGuin. (note the 'K')
Also, Mr. Dick's dystopian futures fit too well into the "dark" theme that seems to rule at the box office. Everything must be dark, hopeless and brooding. And it's a fake, forced emotion. Too comic book-like. Enough, already!
There seems to be this angry pushback from a core of dedicated SQL programmers, acting as if someone had insulted their tin god and wanted to invalidate their lives' work. Not at all. All that has been developing is the realization that RDBMS's are not the best fit for all applications, and that other storage schemes might have a better impedance match with the needs of a particular design. RDBMS's are still robust and reliable and useful for (maybe most) applications. Only some apps' data does not fit nicely into rows and columns. And you should design your code around the data, not try to morph the data to your software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar That was an excellent example of private industry dropping the ball without a guaranteed flow of money from the government. Yes, I can see private industry handling low earth orbit. But the moon or Mars? There is no way that they will pay so much risk money ahead of time without promise of near-term profits. American corporations have forgotten how to invest in the future and only concern themselves with quarterly reports. Lockheed wouldn't even fund its share of 50%, or even a single year of development.
Use these -first- to get the design at least partially congealed in your mind. Only when you have a clear idea what it's supposed to do, and what it's supposed to look like, should you move ahead into code.
If you are doing still shots or landscape, then that is more than sufficient. I have a collection somewhere of a bunch of stereo pairs I took during a vacation that way. They seem to be as good as any more expensive method. And if the 3d-ness isn't what you had hoped for, then you still have two shots.
The Slashdot title might be wrong, but the original author is perfectly clear that it is a model of a model train. That's two meta-levels, and can be as removed from the original as it needs. obj = model(model(train)).
True, but this is for Alan Turing personally. This statement should not be diluted to be more generally applicable. Let this one be for him alone, since he was the victim in this particular instance. Rather, if another public statement is required, then work toward that.
Common sense is your searchable database of experience. It is basically meta-knowledge about what you have learned in the past. Like when your reasoning is: "Should I try to run this red light? I don't see any policeman," and your meta-knowledge is "Last time I used that reasoning, I received a citation." Thus the true but unfair observation that children lack common sense.
> Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence
Just who are these people? If you read articles by Minsky or Kurzweil, you would think that AI progress has stalled completely. General AI seems to have stagnated in the 80's. Ask an industry marketer, he will use the same buzzwords that have been brandished since the early 90's. Self-initiation of reasoning and logic are still very far away.
Admit it! A summer week at Asilomar Beach is more than enough reason to proclaim some headline-grabbing topic.
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When a project evolves into that state where developers and users get along an coexist peacefully, then you have an environment that benefits both groups. It seems like a simple social skill, but actually this is rather rare. I have been in a couple of projects, one where the users and developers have something of an acid relationship and have a confrontational nature. Little gets done, and nobody is happy. But in the other one, users, developers, and other contributors (I18N, addons, builds, examples, etc) all get along harmoniously and produce a wonderful product. The producer/consumer model does not work in open source projects. Mutual respect and courtesy are the key to getting the job done. This also includes upstream library developers, distro managers, etc.
In more ways than one.
I know that the Internet is usually against government power. But people, in this case, you WANT the FCC to trump local laws. For decades now, the FCC has has the sole power to regulate antennas, emitted power, signal purity, etc. And for decades, it has done this in a positive manner, as an enabler rather than as a restriction.
Up until now, the FCC's power has trumped the petty Napoleons in your local government. For example, your HOA might rule about the obtrusiveness of your antenna. Whether it is tall, reaches over your fence, or is conspicuous. But they cannot forbid you from having one that works. That power does not belong to them.
Believe me, the status quo on the FCC's power is fine. Even though big government might be evil, in this one circumstance, you need them.
When it gets to the top.
http://www.dyesol.com/ . It's not often that you see a tech announcement that is realized so soon, but this seems to be real.
Put those cows on land that also has windmills or solar, and you start to benefit from bigger efficiencies.
But what they are talking about is using manure that is already being created now that might be wasted or used inefficiently otherwise. You're going to have the dairies and feed lots anyway, why not put it all to use?
Actually, years ago I worked at one of the NASA offices that hosted one of the servers into which he hacked. It was (if I recall correctly) a server hosting a browsable space image library. Breaking into that box? No big deal, really. It wasn't connected to anything sensitive. None of their webservers are.
I have also worked on DoD projects with systems holding highly valuable and sensitive information. If he broke into one of those, then some damage might have been done. But of course he didn't, because they are not on the Internet!
But if your office fails to cleanly separate internal servers from Internet-facing webservers, then it is just as much your (manager, admin, etc) fault as the hacker. Webservers should be considered 'throwaway,' meaning that if they get hacked or damaged, then all you should need is failover and reprovisioning.
In the future you might give the poster the benefit of a doubt. :-)
That was so long ago. And he never hacked into any important or valuable computers, only webservers.
Its entire purpose is to fit into the producer/consumer model, and provide yet another carbon-based audience member to Big Media. Why else would Rupert Murdoch love it? The PC will remain as a more populist, creative device.
What irritates me is that Hollywood is scripting story after story based on his writings, to the almost total abandonment of the rest of the science fiction field. I would -love- to see something by Theodore Sturgeon or Ursula K LeGuin. (note the 'K')
Also, Mr. Dick's dystopian futures fit too well into the "dark" theme that seems to rule at the box office. Everything must be dark, hopeless and brooding. And it's a fake, forced emotion. Too comic book-like. Enough, already!
This means that there will be a JDK 1.6u20 out soon.
"Watts arrested for resistance"
There seems to be this angry pushback from a core of dedicated SQL programmers, acting as if someone had insulted their tin god and wanted to invalidate their lives' work. Not at all. All that has been developing is the realization that RDBMS's are not the best fit for all applications, and that other storage schemes might have a better impedance match with the needs of a particular design. RDBMS's are still robust and reliable and useful for (maybe most) applications. Only some apps' data does not fit nicely into rows and columns. And you should design your code around the data, not try to morph the data to your software.
Does the country really need yet another list like this? How much more of the shun/banish behaviour must we exhibit in our increasingly shrill nation?
But they can't eat you. That's illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar That was an excellent example of private industry dropping the ball without a guaranteed flow of money from the government. Yes, I can see private industry handling low earth orbit. But the moon or Mars? There is no way that they will pay so much risk money ahead of time without promise of near-term profits. American corporations have forgotten how to invest in the future and only concern themselves with quarterly reports. Lockheed wouldn't even fund its share of 50%, or even a single year of development.
Use these -first- to get the design at least partially congealed in your mind. Only when you have a clear idea what it's supposed to do, and what it's supposed to look like, should you move ahead into code.
If you are doing still shots or landscape, then that is more than sufficient. I have a collection somewhere of a bunch of stereo pairs I took during a vacation that way. They seem to be as good as any more expensive method. And if the 3d-ness isn't what you had hoped for, then you still have two shots.
Nobody is going to say "No" to Apple in California.
The Slashdot title might be wrong, but the original author is perfectly clear that it is a model of a model train. That's two meta-levels, and can be as removed from the original as it needs. obj = model(model(train)).
But if you take this as "a victory for LGBT" and not let this be for his memory alone, then you have robbed and victimized him yet again.
True, but this is for Alan Turing personally. This statement should not be diluted to be more generally applicable. Let this one be for him alone, since he was the victim in this particular instance. Rather, if another public statement is required, then work toward that.
I would suspect that unforeseen developments, such as big advances in 3d circuit design, would alter this schedule a lot. This is simply daydreaming.
Common sense is your searchable database of experience. It is basically meta-knowledge about what you have learned in the past. Like when your reasoning is: "Should I try to run this red light? I don't see any policeman," and your meta-knowledge is "Last time I used that reasoning, I received a citation." Thus the true but unfair observation that children lack common sense.
> Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence
Just who are these people? If you read articles by Minsky or Kurzweil, you would think that AI progress has stalled completely. General AI seems to have stagnated in the 80's. Ask an industry marketer, he will use the same buzzwords that have been brandished since the early 90's. Self-initiation of reasoning and logic are still very far away.
Admit it! A summer week at Asilomar Beach is more than enough reason to proclaim some headline-grabbing topic.