Actually, is the dying one being Emacs, instead? That would be sad - but I wonder how younger generations do appreciate Emacs which is quite tricky to get used to - while so convenient and still unequaled in 2014 when it comes to some features (hyper customization thanks to (e)Lisp, M-x features with completion, intra-shell/processes, apropos, ^x-( ), languages modes...). It seems the major IDE or text editors did not even try to reproduce the main features of Emacs - do they ignore the Emacs logic because they have no knowledge of it, or do they simply feel those features are obsolete? For once, nobody reinvents the wheel, which is going to die eventually. Sad, really.
What google does is not ethical game. Deontology in nowadays big companies is long gone. Basically, the big groups as of today are money machines - their performance assessment is basically the result of the equation Revenue - Charges. Fairness is not involved, Compliance with the law is, because lawsuits are the only thing companies are afraid of, nowadays, i.e. losing a lawsuit = inflate the "Charges" account. Google does what the law allows them to do - they own a large team full of people looking for ways to save money, legally.
Indeed. Reading "geoscientists had forecast a quake around the year 2000, plus or minus 20 years" renders the title "Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength" so misleading, and hopeless. If that article wouldn't have been on/., it'd looked like a joke;-)
Not all the cards. China is - in some ways - like the uncontrolled and empowering Germany of the early XXth. They're the young new world superpower which doesn't have a superpower-history long enough to feel how dangerous it can be to lack diplomacy and look for trouble every other week. That obnoxious behavior is particularly strong and obvious since a couple of years ago - which is worrying. China is powerful thanks to its economic and commercial ties with most of the rest of the world. Unless there is an international comercial/economic consensus to return China to reason, China will keep growing until it is out of reach.
Every "developer" who has no idea of what the complexity of a program/algorithm is - and there are a lot - should be counted in the 'Hobbyists' league.
Like... an iPad? You may have notice the keyboard is digital, and therefore you may use the split keyboard feature for instance, and offer bigger keys to your daddy. Not mentioning other apps available...
Kind of, but it's interesting to see how progress was generated before from wars, and nowadays progress comes from the financial world. This is were power is, now.
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Actually, is the dying one being Emacs, instead? That would be sad - but I wonder how younger generations do appreciate Emacs which is quite tricky to get used to - while so convenient and still unequaled in 2014 when it comes to some features (hyper customization thanks to (e)Lisp, M-x features with completion, intra-shell/processes, apropos, ^x-( ), languages modes ...). It seems the major IDE or text editors did not even try to reproduce the main features of Emacs - do they ignore the Emacs logic because they have no knowledge of it, or do they simply feel those features are obsolete? For once, nobody reinvents the wheel, which is going to die eventually. Sad, really.
M-x move-from-bzr-to-github
I wonder what kind of Xmas Bonuses the IT team can expect
what google does is not fair game
What google does is not ethical game. Deontology in nowadays big companies is long gone. Basically, the big groups as of today are money machines - their performance assessment is basically the result of the equation Revenue - Charges. Fairness is not involved, Compliance with the law is, because lawsuits are the only thing companies are afraid of, nowadays, i.e. losing a lawsuit = inflate the "Charges" account. Google does what the law allows them to do - they own a large team full of people looking for ways to save money, legally.
Indeed. Reading "geoscientists had forecast a quake around the year 2000, plus or minus 20 years" renders the title "Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength" so misleading, and hopeless. /., it'd looked like a joke ;-)
If that article wouldn't have been on
He was shot dead?
If only a post "preview" was available..
China holds all the cards
Not all the cards. China is - in some ways - like the uncontrolled and empowering Germany of the early XXth. They're the young new world superpower which doesn't have a superpower-history long enough to feel how dangerous it can be to lack diplomacy and look for trouble every other week. That obnoxious behavior is particularly strong and obvious since a couple of years ago - which is worrying. China is powerful thanks to its economic and commercial ties with most of the rest of the world. Unless there is an international comercial/economic consensus to return China to reason, China will keep growing until it is out of reach.
that this guy the other day selling me the Moon was for real?
Every "developer" who has no idea of what the complexity of a program/algorithm is - and there are a lot - should be counted in the 'Hobbyists' league.
++1. Too bad I run out of mod points.
And of course, still funny
Buy lots of cheap stuff at Walmart
Well, according to the first picture of the link, probe from rover, they seem to have bought their camera at Walmart, and it was cheap.
You can also vote for your favorite submissions instead of complaining ;-)
Scientists have discovered huge freshwater reserves beneath the seabed on continental shelves off the coast of Australia, North America...
Low salinity water: good. But near North America they better check for radioactivity as well... nobody knows how deep are the Fukushima [1,3] cores..
Like... an iPad? You may have notice the keyboard is digital, and therefore you may use the split keyboard feature for instance, and offer bigger keys to your daddy. Not mentioning other apps available...
Who cares anyway... that's in England.
"Peter Higgs, the physicist who laid the groundwork for the discovery of the Higgs boson and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics"
Actually he shared the price with François Englert who (at least) equally worked on the boson.
Your company is Sony?
The car went into flames. The passengers were probably killed thanks to the fire, not the shock.
managers at NASA were poo-pooing Elon saying rockets are hard and noobs shouldn't try
maybe because that's definitely rocket science...
Summary of that long post for /. readers:
car with no safety eqt == C
car with safety equipt == PHP
Kind of, but it's interesting to see how progress was generated before from wars, and nowadays progress comes from the financial world. This is were power is, now.
JFK? Gorbachev and Berlin wall? 9/11? Irak & MDW? ...
I hope it's when the previous pope (Ben #16) was pictured as Master Yoda in Wikipedia.. missed that :-)