What annoys me is seeing folks call for "Regime Change" in Venezuela and Iran while they ignore China
China is a superpower. America is responsible to a large extent for what is happening in Venezuela and has long been the driving force in regime change in Iran, often through extremely direct intervention. We can't fix China (although we could stop enabling them so much) but we are responsible for much of the mess in the other countries you mentioned.
It's really glaring when people write these things and totally fail to acknowledge the stunning success story that is the profit motive.
The service contract for the Third Reich's concentration camp management computers was paid directly to Armonk, NY. What was that about profit motive again?
It's because of assholes like you that this is the exact direction the software industry is headed. Software as a rental.. I can't just buy Photoshop anymore..
Don't be daft. Adobe would have gone that reason regardless just to get the people who don't need the new features to give them more money anyway.
Now, we have locks on our front doors because we have to to keep people from stealing things. Now, the police have to encrypt their radio systems otherwise some [negative word of your choice] people will not only use scanners, but will also use their radios on the police networks and create nuisances of themselves at best,
We have to have unencrypted police radio because if we don't, [a subset of] the police will use the radio system to facilitate crimes against The People.
They, a longtime Unix vendor, didn't know. But of course you're here to tell them.
They named it to jerk off the ignorant in hopes of a resurgence of interest in their OS. It didn't work, because their hardware support was piss-poor. Now we have ZFS on Linux, so nothing of value was lost.
The only one they ever had was the original Mini. All the other ones were huge pains in the ass, or just garbage like Performas. Mac II series had cases that were works of art, especially the IIci. Performas had nasty cheap sharp metal like a budget PC. And of course, later minis have been castrated, yet not cheaper. All iMacs are torturous to service...
They have such a PC already, I believe it is called a Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro is grossly overpriced, had an outdated CPU even at launch and never did have a current one, and some parts are extremely nonstandard. The last time they had a Mac Pro with all standard parts and a competitive CPU, it was PowerPC-based. Of course, that was horribly overpriced as well, and some of them came with a defective cooling system...
You're obfuscating your reply with trivia. Why did they add the word Open to Solaris if it was already standards-based? Care to guess?
Because they didn't understand that Open meant standards-based, because the meaning had been deliberately obfuscated by douchenozzles with delusions of grandeur.
Once upon a time, you could just buy a scanner and listen in on what the police are up to. They didn't like that, so they went to encrypted radios, and they give access to the system to cherry-picked journalists that won't hold their feet to the fire. The whole reason they even have radios that need updating is to keep us from keeping tabs on their misdeeds.
OpenSolaris wasn't any closer to standards than Solaris.
Correct, since Solaris was already standards-based. Solaris 1.x/SunOS4 is BSD and X11 for Sun, plus NIS and Openlook. Solaris 2.x/SunOS5 is SVR4 for Sun, plus NIS+ and CDE, as well as the assorted BSD command-line utilities [optionally but typically] placed in/usr/ucb for back-compatibility with shell scripts designed for SunOS4. Bill Joy said in 1985 that Unix would eventually be dominated by an Open Source Code model, and Open Systems was a common marketing term meaning "standards-based" which dates from the 1980s.
Even if came down to the point where you could literally book a flight it'd probably look like "T/R Moon, Tranquility Bay: $10 million. Hotel: SpaceX Plaza, Tranquility Bay: $100k/night." with prices that make seven star hotels look cheap. The only people who can afford that are those who make millions on stocks while they sleep.
That's a bummer for non-wealthy would-be space tourists, but it's also a boon in that separating wealthy people from the money they have just lying around in tax havens and putting it to work is absolutely necessary for the economy to work. It's called currency because it moves, not because it lies still.
There's plenty to hate the regime (and the man) for without resorting to hysterics. Every time I hear about how bad he is for killing family members I wonder what those family members would have been like if they were in charge of NK, and how long he would have lived if he didn't target them. But keeping their people in poverty, on the other hand, is inexcusable.
AS/400 based system are some of the most reliable systems money can buy. They can handle insane amounts of workloads and can scale from small systems to complete mainframes.
AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris might be heroes at getting lots of transactions done on a 100 MHz processor, yay for Big Blue, HP and SunSoft, but if I care about actual absolute throughput, just nope.
Sunsoft was a true hero of optimization, they got Spy Hunter running on the NES.
More seriously, though, AS/400 systems didn't stand still. System i used POWER with a translation layer on top to produce classic AS/400 binary compatibility and modern performance in the same box. Now AS/400 and RS/6000 (System p) have been merged into something called IBM Power Systems, whatever that means. It's still POWER-based.
HTML et al is fine for CRUD, unless you want it to be fancy-pantsy. Then you have to use too much JS.
I have to disagree. For one, it lacks common GUI idioms such as tabbed panels, a decent multi-selection (Ctrl-click is awkward), a combo-box (optional pull-down), collapsible trees*, drop-down menus, editable data grids, and others. You can emulate these with JS/DOM/CSS, but that creates the JS-reliance problems I talked about.
Tabbed panels? Let the browser handle that, by opening more "windows" and forcing them to tabs. Do multi-select with checkboxes. Those other features do require JS/DOM, but they are simple features, do not require any heavy JS, and with the exception of the last one, can degrade gracefully if JS is disabled.
using JS, you can do smart form validation before submitting, saving the trouble of making irrelevant round-trips to the server.
The problem is you have to duplicate the validation logic on both client and server then because JS validation can be bypassed.
That's not a problem. You can autogenerate the client-side validation from the same data used for the server-side. The only point is to reduce traffic.
My rule of thumb is to do easy validation or common validation on the client side also, but if it has complex logic and is relatively rare, then just have it on the server. Don't waste duplicate code on rare things.
You probably shouldn't be hand-authoring the validation code for either, instead writing a validation engine and using the same data to autogenerate both... at least, for any projects where complexity is significant — which is what we're talking about, right.
Social credit offenses range from not paying individual taxes or fines to spreading false information and taking drugs.
Seeing how we use actual prison for #1 and #3, and are working on it for #2, maybe they aren't as harsh as they sound with this...
Except China has literally executed people for cheating on their taxes (at least that's the pretext) and has imprisoned people for openly worshipping Jebus. So no. This social credit thing is for minor offenders. They still have labor camps, they still have death vans.
Mind you, the state of "justice" in the USA is poor, but don't imagine that it's better in China.
In fact I'm absolutely sure it come with absolutely no due process whatsoever. Kinda like Guantanamo or the no fly list.
There are no similarities with Guantanamo, that's only for foreign nationals who were caught engaging in terrorist activities or on the field of battle.
The lack of due process is a distinct similarity. If the people in gitmo have committed crimes, why don't we charge them? If due process is a right, why don't these people have that right?
For chrissake, global warming is about mean temperatures. And when an entire continent sees temperature shifts, no that's not fucking weather.
When climate shifts, so does weather... so it's both. Which is why it's so sad when people say "it's not climate, it's weather"... Saying it's weather doesn't rule out it being climate as well in any way.
My understanding that you have to unlock fast travel which at the minimum requires you to have visited that location before and completed enough of the campaign.
Most games only let you fast travel to places you've visited before, but most games also put new objectives near to old ones. It's much less common to make you unlock fast travel at all, but it's not unheard of.
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What annoys me is seeing folks call for "Regime Change" in Venezuela and Iran while they ignore China
China is a superpower. America is responsible to a large extent for what is happening in Venezuela and has long been the driving force in regime change in Iran, often through extremely direct intervention. We can't fix China (although we could stop enabling them so much) but we are responsible for much of the mess in the other countries you mentioned.
It's really glaring when people write these things and totally fail to acknowledge the stunning success story that is the profit motive.
The service contract for the Third Reich's concentration camp management computers was paid directly to Armonk, NY. What was that about profit motive again?
It's because of assholes like you that this is the exact direction the software industry is headed. Software as a rental.. I can't just buy Photoshop anymore..
Don't be daft. Adobe would have gone that reason regardless just to get the people who don't need the new features to give them more money anyway.
Not just that, but the department should be able to load their own certs, or program their own frequencies.
Now, we have locks on our front doors because we have to to keep people from stealing things. Now, the police have to encrypt their radio systems otherwise some [negative word of your choice] people will not only use scanners, but will also use their radios on the police networks and create nuisances of themselves at best,
We have to have unencrypted police radio because if we don't, [a subset of] the police will use the radio system to facilitate crimes against The People.
We are still using 1940's wiley coyote rocket technology to get into orbit.
It works. When we can build a space elevator, we should do that. Until then, rockets are what we've got.
They, a longtime Unix vendor, didn't know. But of course you're here to tell them.
They named it to jerk off the ignorant in hopes of a resurgence of interest in their OS. It didn't work, because their hardware support was piss-poor. Now we have ZFS on Linux, so nothing of value was lost.
No viable affordable low end models anymore.
The only one they ever had was the original Mini. All the other ones were huge pains in the ass, or just garbage like Performas. Mac II series had cases that were works of art, especially the IIci. Performas had nasty cheap sharp metal like a budget PC. And of course, later minis have been castrated, yet not cheaper. All iMacs are torturous to service...
They have such a PC already, I believe it is called a Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro is grossly overpriced, had an outdated CPU even at launch and never did have a current one, and some parts are extremely nonstandard. The last time they had a Mac Pro with all standard parts and a competitive CPU, it was PowerPC-based. Of course, that was horribly overpriced as well, and some of them came with a defective cooling system...
You're obfuscating your reply with trivia. Why did they add the word Open to Solaris if it was already standards-based? Care to guess?
Because they didn't understand that Open meant standards-based, because the meaning had been deliberately obfuscated by douchenozzles with delusions of grandeur.
Once upon a time, you could just buy a scanner and listen in on what the police are up to. They didn't like that, so they went to encrypted radios, and they give access to the system to cherry-picked journalists that won't hold their feet to the fire. The whole reason they even have radios that need updating is to keep us from keeping tabs on their misdeeds.
OpenSolaris wasn't any closer to standards than Solaris.
Correct, since Solaris was already standards-based. Solaris 1.x/SunOS4 is BSD and X11 for Sun, plus NIS and Openlook. Solaris 2.x/SunOS5 is SVR4 for Sun, plus NIS+ and CDE, as well as the assorted BSD command-line utilities [optionally but typically] placed in /usr/ucb for back-compatibility with shell scripts designed for SunOS4. Bill Joy said in 1985 that Unix would eventually be dominated by an Open Source Code model, and Open Systems was a common marketing term meaning "standards-based" which dates from the 1980s.
Even if came down to the point where you could literally book a flight it'd probably look like "T/R Moon, Tranquility Bay: $10 million. Hotel: SpaceX Plaza, Tranquility Bay: $100k/night." with prices that make seven star hotels look cheap. The only people who can afford that are those who make millions on stocks while they sleep.
That's a bummer for non-wealthy would-be space tourists, but it's also a boon in that separating wealthy people from the money they have just lying around in tax havens and putting it to work is absolutely necessary for the economy to work. It's called currency because it moves, not because it lies still.
Open means you don't get to control what other people do.
Open means standards-based. That's the sense in which it was used by every Unix vendor everywhere.
There's plenty to hate the regime (and the man) for without resorting to hysterics. Every time I hear about how bad he is for killing family members I wonder what those family members would have been like if they were in charge of NK, and how long he would have lived if he didn't target them. But keeping their people in poverty, on the other hand, is inexcusable.
As much as they charge, they should just work on a product that will blow me.
AS/400 based system are some of the most reliable systems money can buy. They can handle insane amounts of workloads and can scale from small systems to complete mainframes.
AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris might be heroes at getting lots of transactions done on a 100 MHz processor, yay for Big Blue, HP and SunSoft, but if I care about actual absolute throughput, just nope.
Sunsoft was a true hero of optimization, they got Spy Hunter running on the NES.
More seriously, though, AS/400 systems didn't stand still. System i used POWER with a translation layer on top to produce classic AS/400 binary compatibility and modern performance in the same box. Now AS/400 and RS/6000 (System p) have been merged into something called IBM Power Systems, whatever that means. It's still POWER-based.
HTML et al is fine for CRUD, unless you want it to be fancy-pantsy. Then you have to use too much JS.
I have to disagree. For one, it lacks common GUI idioms such as tabbed panels, a decent multi-selection (Ctrl-click is awkward), a combo-box (optional pull-down), collapsible trees*, drop-down menus, editable data grids, and others. You can emulate these with JS/DOM/CSS, but that creates the JS-reliance problems I talked about.
Tabbed panels? Let the browser handle that, by opening more "windows" and forcing them to tabs. Do multi-select with checkboxes. Those other features do require JS/DOM, but they are simple features, do not require any heavy JS, and with the exception of the last one, can degrade gracefully if JS is disabled.
using JS, you can do smart form validation before submitting, saving the trouble of making irrelevant round-trips to the server.
The problem is you have to duplicate the validation logic on both client and server then because JS validation can be bypassed.
That's not a problem. You can autogenerate the client-side validation from the same data used for the server-side. The only point is to reduce traffic.
My rule of thumb is to do easy validation or common validation on the client side also, but if it has complex logic and is relatively rare, then just have it on the server. Don't waste duplicate code on rare things.
You probably shouldn't be hand-authoring the validation code for either, instead writing a validation engine and using the same data to autogenerate both... at least, for any projects where complexity is significant — which is what we're talking about, right.
Over-complicated, failure prone vehicle.
ICEs are baroque collections of parts whirling around one another. EVs aren't. Which one is over-complicated?
I wondered that. How can we prevent the extra salt from travelling over land and adjusting the chemical composition of farm land.
Do it out in the middle of the ocean.
Social credit offenses range from not paying individual taxes or fines to spreading false information and taking drugs.
Seeing how we use actual prison for #1 and #3, and are working on it for #2, maybe they aren't as harsh as they sound with this ...
Except China has literally executed people for cheating on their taxes (at least that's the pretext) and has imprisoned people for openly worshipping Jebus. So no. This social credit thing is for minor offenders. They still have labor camps, they still have death vans.
Mind you, the state of "justice" in the USA is poor, but don't imagine that it's better in China.
In fact I'm absolutely sure it come with absolutely no due process whatsoever. Kinda like Guantanamo or the no fly list.
There are no similarities with Guantanamo, that's only for foreign nationals who were caught engaging in terrorist activities or on the field of battle.
The lack of due process is a distinct similarity. If the people in gitmo have committed crimes, why don't we charge them? If due process is a right, why don't these people have that right?
For chrissake, global warming is about mean temperatures. And when an entire continent sees temperature shifts, no that's not fucking weather.
When climate shifts, so does weather... so it's both. Which is why it's so sad when people say "it's not climate, it's weather" ... Saying it's weather doesn't rule out it being climate as well in any way.
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Elsevier has been scum since always. Their primary businesses are fraud and predation. Anyone who publishes in one of their journals is funding abuse.
My understanding that you have to unlock fast travel which at the minimum requires you to have visited that location before and completed enough of the campaign.
Most games only let you fast travel to places you've visited before, but most games also put new objectives near to old ones. It's much less common to make you unlock fast travel at all, but it's not unheard of.