That's far too simplistic a statement. It depends on your task. If all you want to do is serve up web pages, what PHP was primarily created for, then yes, PHP is easier to work with. But if you want to sequence DNA, Perl is the tool for the job. With Perl, you can get a lot more done with far fewer lines of code to tackle hard-core programming problems.
If you had a patent on a guaranteed method for persuade Bill Gates to drop his drawers and let you fuck him up the ass with a jack hammer, you'd be the next Bill Gates.
Capitalism is too damn efficient. This is precisely what happens with Chinese suppliers and Wal-Mart. The suppliers are forced to operate on razor thin margins and even a loss because Wal-Mart demands it. Of course, it's the Chinese workers who ultimately get the giant shaft, toiling for pennies 15 hours a day every day of the week in order to eek out a subsistance living. Fuck it, right? If you don't see it happening, it probably doesn't exist.
First, what I wrote was a joke. My point was that saying shit like "I hope you die a slow and painful death," while probably not to be taken literally, shows you feel a lot of anger and resentment in your life at something. Take a chill pill.
I'm not qualified to judge based on the technical information given in the story, but because it's a press release and likely just hype, I'd say 10 to 15 years.
Government is here to make people happy, right?
Well, people are happy when they have money.
People only have money if the economy is good.
The economy is only good when people are buying.
People only buy things when they want something want.
People generally don't need things they want and soon forget about those things.
Ads remind people of those things.
Thus, advertising on a government web site is a community service.
So what's the moral of this story? I guess it's that politicians are irresponsible/afraid enough to listen to the anti-tax zealots to do the wrong thing.
Just trying to think how a secret bug could be introduced. Maybe it would go down something like this?
Lead Programmer at Major Defense Contractor: Hey, can you install this patch by the that new Pakastani contributor for our missile control module?
New programmer: Yeah, I looked at it. There was some weird code in there that I couldn't quite figure out. There was some one line Perl code with about 10,000 characters. Shouldn't we look at it? What does it do, exactly?
Lead Programmer: Naw. I don't think it really matters. I don't want to look stupid because I sure can't figure Perl out. Let's just go with the release early and often policy. We'll let the users report the bugs back to us.
If I had a patent on a guaranteed way to persuade Bill Gates to drop his drawers and let you fuck him up the ass with a pipe wrench, I'd be a millionaire.
It's called corporate control of the media. My bet is that Newsweek has some kind of relationship with some big music company that has a big stake in iTunes. Hence, you get your bullshit news story and us talking about it like fucking idiots so we can buy! buy! buy! and make lots of executives trick us into making them rich.
Figures that Thomas Sowell is a conservative, right winger. The conservatives, with their "common sense" approach to everything, may appeal to our longing for the simple life, but it just isn't practical. The world is complex. Dumbing things down may win you votes, but it certainly doesn't grapple with real world problems.
I agree. The "nirvana" the poster speak of shouldn't come from the feeling of control over the work, it should come from the very work itself. If you are work on something you truly believe in (and not because you need to suck your boss' or shareholders dick), everything will organize itself. The passion you have will be the force that moves you forward and helps you get things accomplished.
On the other hand, there is always some drudge work that's incidental to the primary task at hand, and it couldn't hurt to establish a methodology to help you slog through it.
Got a device that can kill people dead? No problem, you've got a powerful lobby to defend your right to own it.
But if you've a network that could cause financial loss to a corporation, your right to use it is in jeopardy. And who's going to stop it? The all-powerful geek lobby??? Time for geeks to take a cue from the NRA and fork some money over to the EFF.
The article fails to mention that France would also "consider" Microsoft if the company counteroffered with a 75% discount. I think this is merely a bargaining ploy on the part of the French government. It's a smart thing to do, though, and anything that sucks cash out of Microsoft's warchest has to be a good thing.
So an operating system/kernel that grew organically and spontaneously from a community of hard core programmers has generated all kinds of myths about itself while Microsoft, a huge corporation with billions of dollars at stake, is here to churn out the real truth for us. Riiiight.
This blinding faith in the free market is so obnoxious. Deregulation shall save us! Set the corporations decide! The free market is all knowing!
This eagerness to loosen all reins on corporations is just plain fucking stupid. I'll gladly take a bureaucratic institution over a mindless, souless corporation any day of the week. The FCC has to listen to and abide by the philosophical concerns of Presidents, Legislators, the Courts, and the People. By contrast, all corporations have to listen to is the sound of the cash register. As long as they hear it, they could give a flying fuck about what the rest of society thinks.
This is a no brainer. Just look at what happnened with the deregulation of the electric grid. Do we really want to do the same thing wiht telecommunication so AT&T can become the next Enron?
Congratulations, you've come full cirlce. But it appears you've only made yourself dizzy.
How about if instead of "show me the money muthafucka" record companies said "Hey, I need you, you need me. Let's work out a deal, OK?" Or does that middle road not map out in the universe you've so neatly imagined for yourself?
Yes, let's not be so quick to judge. He might not be greedy...but he's definitely a whore. Probably a high-priced one, too. But, really, is any amount of money enough to take edge off of being Bill Gates' bitch?
Let's not forget the overarching logic (or lack thereof) behind our copyright laws, or any law for that matter. The dirty secret is that they are all completely contrived. There is no property, there is no ownership. We have merely thrust these social contrivances on a universe that is amoral and lawless. The only true law that exists is the law of power, which says that he with all the power can do whatever the fuck he wants.
People who argue that corporations have certain "rights," just don't understand how the world works. You have consumers, who are trying to get as much content as possible for as little money, and you have media conglomerates, who are trying to give away as little content as possible for as much money as they can get. From this built-in confrontation we've created a social contract in the form of laws to settle disputes and smooth the way for transactions which makes most people happy.
Problems arise, however, when one side gets too much power. And that's exactly what's happening in the content distribution business. If the law doesn't suit the needs of media outlets, they can change it. If the economic playing field isn't in their favor, they will work to tilt it. In short, media giants are abandoning the symbiotic social contract they once had with consumers. They are basically saying "fuck you" to consumers. "We have the power to have absolute control over our content so we will," they say in so many words. Of course, consumers also pretty much said "fuck you" to the media corporations when they started downloading, copying, and distributing content when the power to do so became available. But my goal here is not to try to point blame.
My real point is that the media companies have much more power than consumers to change laws in this age of technological disruptions. Consumers are just too divided and powerless to compete in the political world where all these decisions are made and will come out holding a very short end of the stick. This isn't good for me and it isn't good for you, unless you are Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner.
So now that you know how it all works, go out and organize and "Fight the Power" and always remember which side you are on.
Seems to me that one of the largest concerns is that plant life will be receiving less light which would obviously decrease the amount photosyntesis that occurs. That would mean less oxygen and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And where is the tipping point be between less photosynthesis and a massive dying off of plants and trees? Scary to think about.
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Which? Lawyers that defend assholes like this?
That's far too simplistic a statement. It depends on your task. If all you want to do is serve up web pages, what PHP was primarily created for, then yes, PHP is easier to work with. But if you want to sequence DNA, Perl is the tool for the job. With Perl, you can get a lot more done with far fewer lines of code to tackle hard-core programming problems.
5th. You overlooked Java.
If you had a patent on a guaranteed method for persuade Bill Gates to drop his drawers and let you fuck him up the ass with a jack hammer, you'd be the next Bill Gates.
Capitalism is too damn efficient. This is precisely what happens with Chinese suppliers and Wal-Mart. The suppliers are forced to operate on razor thin margins and even a loss because Wal-Mart demands it. Of course, it's the Chinese workers who ultimately get the giant shaft, toiling for pennies 15 hours a day every day of the week in order to eek out a subsistance living. Fuck it, right? If you don't see it happening, it probably doesn't exist.
First, what I wrote was a joke. My point was that saying shit like "I hope you die a slow and painful death," while probably not to be taken literally, shows you feel a lot of anger and resentment in your life at something. Take a chill pill.
People like you need to die slowly and painfully.
Sounds like you've been exposed to quite a bit of violence on television. The surgeon general recommends you begin reading books.
I'm not qualified to judge based on the technical information given in the story, but because it's a press release and likely just hype, I'd say 10 to 15 years.
So what's the moral of this story? I guess it's that politicians are irresponsible/afraid enough to listen to the anti-tax zealots to do the wrong thing.
Lead Programmer at Major Defense Contractor: Hey, can you install this patch by the that new Pakastani contributor for our missile control module?
New programmer: Yeah, I looked at it. There was some weird code in there that I couldn't quite figure out. There was some one line Perl code with about 10,000 characters. Shouldn't we look at it? What does it do, exactly?
Lead Programmer: Naw. I don't think it really matters. I don't want to look stupid because I sure can't figure Perl out. Let's just go with the release early and often policy. We'll let the users report the bugs back to us.
If I had a patent on a guaranteed way to persuade Bill Gates to drop his drawers and let you fuck him up the ass with a pipe wrench, I'd be a millionaire.
It's called corporate control of the media. My bet is that Newsweek has some kind of relationship with some big music company that has a big stake in iTunes. Hence, you get your bullshit news story and us talking about it like fucking idiots so we can buy! buy! buy! and make lots of executives trick us into making them rich.
Figures that Thomas Sowell is a conservative, right winger. The conservatives, with their "common sense" approach to everything, may appeal to our longing for the simple life, but it just isn't practical. The world is complex. Dumbing things down may win you votes, but it certainly doesn't grapple with real world problems.
From: Merriam-Webster
Gee, I don't see any mention of government in there, do you?
Yes, and everyone should read this eye-opening article, as well. Sorry, New York Times reg req'd: Antiwar Group Says Its Ad Is Rejected
I can: read his website.
On the other hand, there is always some drudge work that's incidental to the primary task at hand, and it couldn't hurt to establish a methodology to help you slog through it.
But if you've a network that could cause financial loss to a corporation, your right to use it is in jeopardy. And who's going to stop it? The all-powerful geek lobby??? Time for geeks to take a cue from the NRA and fork some money over to the EFF.
The article fails to mention that France would also "consider" Microsoft if the company counteroffered with a 75% discount. I think this is merely a bargaining ploy on the part of the French government. It's a smart thing to do, though, and anything that sucks cash out of Microsoft's warchest has to be a good thing.
So an operating system/kernel that grew organically and spontaneously from a community of hard core programmers has generated all kinds of myths about itself while Microsoft, a huge corporation with billions of dollars at stake, is here to churn out the real truth for us. Riiiight.
This blinding faith in the free market is so obnoxious. Deregulation shall save us! Set the corporations decide! The free market is all knowing!
This eagerness to loosen all reins on corporations is just plain fucking stupid. I'll gladly take a bureaucratic institution over a mindless, souless corporation any day of the week. The FCC has to listen to and abide by the philosophical concerns of Presidents, Legislators, the Courts, and the People. By contrast, all corporations have to listen to is the sound of the cash register. As long as they hear it, they could give a flying fuck about what the rest of society thinks.
This is a no brainer. Just look at what happnened with the deregulation of the electric grid. Do we really want to do the same thing wiht telecommunication so AT&T can become the next Enron?
How about if instead of "show me the money muthafucka" record companies said "Hey, I need you, you need me. Let's work out a deal, OK?" Or does that middle road not map out in the universe you've so neatly imagined for yourself?
Yes, let's not be so quick to judge. He might not be greedy...but he's definitely a whore. Probably a high-priced one, too. But, really, is any amount of money enough to take edge off of being Bill Gates' bitch?
People who argue that corporations have certain "rights," just don't understand how the world works. You have consumers, who are trying to get as much content as possible for as little money, and you have media conglomerates, who are trying to give away as little content as possible for as much money as they can get. From this built-in confrontation we've created a social contract in the form of laws to settle disputes and smooth the way for transactions which makes most people happy.
Problems arise, however, when one side gets too much power. And that's exactly what's happening in the content distribution business. If the law doesn't suit the needs of media outlets, they can change it. If the economic playing field isn't in their favor, they will work to tilt it. In short, media giants are abandoning the symbiotic social contract they once had with consumers. They are basically saying "fuck you" to consumers. "We have the power to have absolute control over our content so we will," they say in so many words. Of course, consumers also pretty much said "fuck you" to the media corporations when they started downloading, copying, and distributing content when the power to do so became available. But my goal here is not to try to point blame.
My real point is that the media companies have much more power than consumers to change laws in this age of technological disruptions. Consumers are just too divided and powerless to compete in the political world where all these decisions are made and will come out holding a very short end of the stick. This isn't good for me and it isn't good for you, unless you are Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner.
So now that you know how it all works, go out and organize and "Fight the Power" and always remember which side you are on.
Seems to me that one of the largest concerns is that plant life will be receiving less light which would obviously decrease the amount photosyntesis that occurs. That would mean less oxygen and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And where is the tipping point be between less photosynthesis and a massive dying off of plants and trees? Scary to think about.