Honestly, if you want a fast, dynamically typed, interpreted scripting language, then look no further than JS.
Honestly? Well, honestly, the more code I write/debug in dynamically-typed interpreted languages, the more I like statically-typed compiled languages (and it has nothing to do with execution speed)
Also, from the article, the idea of a second monitor being a "perk", comparable to a free lunch, is stupid. A second monitor is a tool to do work that directly affects productivity. A free lunch is just another way to get paid. The two are completely unrelated.
Money is fungible... Mgmt wouldn't buy me more/bigger monitors, so I just bought them myself. The way I see it, if I could have one of two different jobs, one with adequate monitors (which I could keep when I left the company) and one that paid $300 extra salary (but only the first year) I'd be much happier in the first job. So I turned the second into the first.
You can get a USB video card (USB in, VGA/DVI out) for about $50. Performance isn't as good as a "real" video card, but it's perfectly adequate for most anything short of gaming. And being USB means you don't have to crack the case open.
Half the posts say "of course he has porn, most men have porn, no big deal, really" and the other half say "the gov't says he has porn, therefore he must NOT have porn". The fact that no one seems to see the pathology of this situation is fascinating. Truly an interesting window into the minds of the technorati. And not a flattering window at that.
I only believe the government is lying when it has a vested interested in it, like what we have here to keep the war machine running smoothly... And to keep us from rioting when it steals our pensions to feed Goldman Sachs... That mirror might work on you also.. see yourself swallow a whole kielbasa.. you might be impressed
See, that's the point... does the gov't lie about certain things? Of course it does... I'm not for a second suggesting it doesn't. But the fact that the gov't has a vested interest in lying does NOT mean it's actually lying! Sometimes reality aligns with gov't interests, and there's no need to lie... and sometime it doesn't, and the temptation to lie grows. You seemed to imply that the gov't ALWAYS lies:
If the government says so, yes, that's what you're supposed to believe.
If the government says so, yes, that's what you're supposed to believe. Slashdot stoops so low to print every little thing that the government puts out, verified or not. I would expect better, but the feeding frenzy must go on. Of course most everybody is going to believe it. You people are sick.. I wish I knew the name for this pathological bullshit.. But make no mistake, you people are illin'
Wait, you're saying that because the gov't says something is true, it must NOT be true? Talk about pathological illin! You should look at a mirror some time.
Absolutely right - stupid people will always find a way to get themselves infected.
So, by my amazing powers of deductive reasoning, I conclude that we need to find a way to help people NOT be stupid! Now we could just tell them not to be stupid, but that's not going to help much (but apparently it makes you feel all superior, so that's a plus I guess). We could send them to class to learn all about rootkits and system files and malware and phishing and whatnot... but most people wouldn't go, and the few that did probably wouldn't remember most of it. So probably the best we can do is try to make it clear what's potentially harmful, and what's not.
Sadly, though, MS is terrible about this - there are too many easy ways to get infected ("would you like to install this codec?") and too many things that are perfectly harmless yet still pop up scary-looking warnings (ever tried opening an XML file in IE?). MS apparently thinks that if they pop up warnings everywhere, then whatever happens they can just blame the user.
...and I bet you thought you'd never agree with MS on anything!
"Look, if it was really possible to power a car with water (or even get the infamous "100 MPG" you hear about occasionally"
Someone doesn't pay attention to SAE supermileage events where high school kids and university students build cars that drop 1,000 MPG (Yes THOUSAND) on a *REGULAR* basis.
OK, I'll believe that sight-unseen if you can answer one question: Why hasn't ANY actual car company built a production car that gets even a fraction of your 1000MPG? OK, maybe the American car companies are being paid off by "Big Oil"... but the Japanese car companies? And the Korean companies? And the German, French, Italian, and Swedish car companies?
Look, new car companies appear all the time... they'd give anything to get an edge on the competition... and a (practical) car that got even 80 MPG would be a HUGE advantage - especially with gas pushing $4 / gallon (actually, a lot more in many places)... if it's so easy that high school kids can do it, why doesn't a real car company do it?
No matter what WE do to the planet, maybe... but the GP was referring to the sun going nova... at which point it will grow to be approximately the size of earth's orbit (yes, you read that right - mercury and venus will be completely swallowed, and earth will be burned to a crisp at the very least)... I don't think ANY tech will let us survive that one, except the tech to get the hell out of here and go somewhere else.
Seems to me like we're doing a pretty good job of living here on Earth. Most of us don't have to think about survival, we're multiplying like hell and we spend most of our time worrying about unimportant issues like what we think our overlord humans should do with our "money".
Seems to me like we're going a pretty BAD job of living here on Earth. Most of us have no idea what it takes to survive, we're overpopulating the planet like hell, and we spend most of our time worrying about American Idol.
The fact that we're interested in what our "overlord humans" do with the substantial fraction of our labors that they lay claim to is the only ray of hope.
I remember here in Australia back in the 80's a man made a car that ran on water was on the 6 o'clock news, a week later he was found dead. Nothing more was said.
Oh please... really?
Maybe he died of terminal stupidity... or embarassment at having pulled off such a scam (though it's the news people who really ought to be embarassed)
Look, if it was really possible to power a car with water (or even get the infamous "100 MPG" you hear about occasionally) the auto companies would do it. Everyone seems to forget that even if the oil companies were all in cahoots to suppress such technology, the CAR companies (in a couple dozen countries all over the world) wouldn't give a damn what the oil companies wanted... they'd jump on such technologies in a heartbeat.
Now if you had a headline like "Toyota announces new 100MPG car that runs on water; all Toyota employees found dead the next day" maybe I'd be interested.
You must have been living under a rock for the last year.
Too bad there's not a "-1 Snarky" moderator option.
Yes, your post is very informative. But you might also find it informative to know that not everyone owns a PS3 (I've never owned a sony console in my life), not everyone wants to run linux on everything from their car to their toaster, and not everyone follows stories like this in any detail whatsoever. Still, when an interesting event occurs (like a judge ruling that sony must pay people actual cash for screwing with their functionality via firmware updates), people may be intrigued by it - not so much so they can hop in a time machine, buy a PS3, come back to the present, and cash in, but rather because of the implications a precedent like this sets for other companies and products.
Also not in the news is the fact that the sea level used to be a LOT higher than it is now and it used to be a LOT lower than it is now. Things change. That's life. None of it had anything to do with humans.
It always seemed to me that the whole "are humans causing global warming or is it natural?" debate totally misses the point. Who cares if we're causing it??? The important questions are: is it real? Can we reduce it? At what cost? Is it better to live with it, or try to avoid it?
Whether or not it would have happened without industrialization is completely irrelevant!
Did you even read my post? I'm not terribly concerned about paying a few cents more - but I am concerned about the cost of the vendors having to comply with thousands of different sets of rules. This poses a huge burden on small start-up businesses - idie games, for example.
If the seller is in more than one city? I'm sure our fine legislators can choose one: the place where the corp HQ is located, or the place where the warehouse is located, or the place where the web server is located. It's about having a single set of rules, not which set that might be.
If we just forced the companies to collect tax for the state that the product is shipped to, the tax that is already in place will be enforced.
No one wants to pay more taxes, but in the interest of "a level playing field" I could almost get behind charging the appropriate sales tax for the state (and/or city, whatever) the SELLER is located in - that's a single set of rules that the seller is undoubtedly already familiar with. But charging based on the BUYER's location subjects the seller to hundreds (if not thousands) of different rules for different jurisdictions and even different products within jurisdictions (example: here in Georgia there's no sales tax on food), which are constantly changing (example: they're thinking of re-instating the food tax here) and subject to a certain amount of interpretation (frozen beef is food - but what about, say, miracle fruit?).
The overhead involved in getting hundreds of thousands of sellers to charge thousands of different rates would be enormous. Yes, third-party companies would spring up to help manage the confusion, but that effort (and expense) would be 100% wasted from an overall-society point of view.
The best argument against charging based on the seller's location is that the sellers would all move to low-tax states. That sounds OK to me - it would save me money on the things I buy online, and it would encourage states to "compete" on tax rates (among many other factors) in attracting.com sellers.
Linux users have a better common sense then the rest.
True enough, but that doesn't say anything about the security of linux... it merely says that people who are smart enough to get linux to work for them are also smart enough (on average) to avoid all the crap that idiot windows users fall for.
That would imply that American ballistic missile program would have also went ahead of Soviet one. Which, I suspect, would mean some glowing rubble in place of Moscow and some other major Soviet cities.
OK, so logically the fact that the soviet ballistic missile program was ahead of the american program means that you suspect some glowing rubble in place of New York and some other major american cities?
Got it!
If only there were some way that a nuclear power plant could generate electricity, then external power failures wouldn't be a problem... nah, that could never work... oh well, it was a nice thought. Maybe some day....
And while we're comparing outdated crappy tech, good old fashioned Chernobyl makes huge ares uninhabitable for generations. Now can we return to comparing modern nuclear to modern coal?
Modern coal: in 2004, coal mining killed 6027 people in china and 28 in the US. And shortens the lives of 24,000 people in just the US, EVERY YEAR (including 2800 cancers - wonder how many were poor people?)
Looks to me like even outdated crappy nuclear reactors are far less dangerous than modern coal mining.
It helps the rich get richer.
Population control.
You sell more cancer treatments
Are you not paying attention at all??? Not even a little bit???
Mining and burning good old fashioned coal puts FAR more radiation into the atmo than nuclear. Not soot, but actual "glow in the dark" radiation. This, and other dangers of fossil fuels, mean that they kill and injure (including cancer) many times more people every year than nuclear power.
But they've been around for a while, so we've gotten used to it.
Oh, and non-nuclear options don't give fucktards like you an opportunity to show off your trendy populist street cred by claiming that they're a way for rich people to kill poor people.
Slashdot Mirror
Wait, how does that compare to the speed of a falling library of congress? They need to give us units we can understand!
It's not the size of your uid that counts - it's how you use it.
Honestly, if you want a fast, dynamically typed, interpreted scripting language, then look no further than JS.
Honestly? Well, honestly, the more code I write/debug in dynamically-typed interpreted languages, the more I like statically-typed compiled languages (and it has nothing to do with execution speed)
Also, from the article, the idea of a second monitor being a "perk", comparable to a free lunch, is stupid. A second monitor is a tool to do work that directly affects productivity. A free lunch is just another way to get paid. The two are completely unrelated.
Money is fungible... Mgmt wouldn't buy me more/bigger monitors, so I just bought them myself. The way I see it, if I could have one of two different jobs, one with adequate monitors (which I could keep when I left the company) and one that paid $300 extra salary (but only the first year) I'd be much happier in the first job. So I turned the second into the first.
You can get a USB video card (USB in, VGA/DVI out) for about $50. Performance isn't as good as a "real" video card, but it's perfectly adequate for most anything short of gaming. And being USB means you don't have to crack the case open.
Propaganda. Learn to identify it.
Reality... learn to identify it.
Half the posts say "of course he has porn, most men have porn, no big deal, really" and the other half say "the gov't says he has porn, therefore he must NOT have porn". The fact that no one seems to see the pathology of this situation is fascinating. Truly an interesting window into the minds of the technorati. And not a flattering window at that.
I only believe the government is lying when it has a vested interested in it, like what we have here to keep the war machine running smoothly... And to keep us from rioting when it steals our pensions to feed Goldman Sachs... That mirror might work on you also.. see yourself swallow a whole kielbasa.. you might be impressed
See, that's the point... does the gov't lie about certain things? Of course it does... I'm not for a second suggesting it doesn't. But the fact that the gov't has a vested interest in lying does NOT mean it's actually lying! Sometimes reality aligns with gov't interests, and there's no need to lie... and sometime it doesn't, and the temptation to lie grows. You seemed to imply that the gov't ALWAYS lies:
If the government says so, yes, that's what you're supposed to believe.
If the government says so, yes, that's what you're supposed to believe. Slashdot stoops so low to print every little thing that the government puts out, verified or not. I would expect better, but the feeding frenzy must go on. Of course most everybody is going to believe it. You people are sick.. I wish I knew the name for this pathological bullshit.. But make no mistake, you people are illin'
Wait, you're saying that because the gov't says something is true, it must NOT be true? Talk about pathological illin! You should look at a mirror some time.
Absolutely right - stupid people will always find a way to get themselves infected.
...and I bet you thought you'd never agree with MS on anything!
So, by my amazing powers of deductive reasoning, I conclude that we need to find a way to help people NOT be stupid! Now we could just tell them not to be stupid, but that's not going to help much (but apparently it makes you feel all superior, so that's a plus I guess). We could send them to class to learn all about rootkits and system files and malware and phishing and whatnot... but most people wouldn't go, and the few that did probably wouldn't remember most of it. So probably the best we can do is try to make it clear what's potentially harmful, and what's not.
Sadly, though, MS is terrible about this - there are too many easy ways to get infected ("would you like to install this codec?") and too many things that are perfectly harmless yet still pop up scary-looking warnings (ever tried opening an XML file in IE?). MS apparently thinks that if they pop up warnings everywhere, then whatever happens they can just blame the user.
It used to be that man would migrate if his surroundings became inhospitable. Now they just try and control nature.
They??? Are you not one of us? If not, WTF are you?
"Look, if it was really possible to power a car with water (or even get the infamous "100 MPG" you hear about occasionally"
Someone doesn't pay attention to SAE supermileage events where high school kids and university students build cars that drop 1,000 MPG (Yes THOUSAND) on a *REGULAR* basis.
OK, I'll believe that sight-unseen if you can answer one question: Why hasn't ANY actual car company built a production car that gets even a fraction of your 1000MPG? OK, maybe the American car companies are being paid off by "Big Oil"... but the Japanese car companies? And the Korean companies? And the German, French, Italian, and Swedish car companies?
Look, new car companies appear all the time... they'd give anything to get an edge on the competition... and a (practical) car that got even 80 MPG would be a HUGE advantage - especially with gas pushing $4 / gallon (actually, a lot more in many places)... if it's so easy that high school kids can do it, why doesn't a real car company do it?
No matter what WE do to the planet, maybe... but the GP was referring to the sun going nova... at which point it will grow to be approximately the size of earth's orbit (yes, you read that right - mercury and venus will be completely swallowed, and earth will be burned to a crisp at the very least)... I don't think ANY tech will let us survive that one, except the tech to get the hell out of here and go somewhere else.
Seems to me like we're doing a pretty good job of living here on Earth. Most of us don't have to think about survival, we're multiplying like hell and we spend most of our time worrying about unimportant issues like what we think our overlord humans should do with our "money".
Seems to me like we're going a pretty BAD job of living here on Earth. Most of us have no idea what it takes to survive, we're overpopulating the planet like hell, and we spend most of our time worrying about American Idol.
The fact that we're interested in what our "overlord humans" do with the substantial fraction of our labors that they lay claim to is the only ray of hope.
Going to the moon or other planets does nothing to prevent it.
No. But developing the technology to go to other planets gives some chance of surviving it.
OK, so the moon itself won't help much... but the tech to live on the moon might be helpful for living on other planets.
He will be buried in a flimsy plastic case that will crack if you look at it wrong.
No, that's not his worst sin.... not making room for the friggin song titles is!
Seriously: you've got 700MB to play with, and you can't find room for song titles that are less than 1K total?
That's CRIMINALLY stupid... Frankly, I'm glad the guy's dead... this way I won't be tempted to hunt him down and kill him.
Now if only I could use a time machine to go back and kill Benjamin Franklin before he invented Daylight Savings time... stupidest invention ever.
I remember here in Australia back in the 80's a man made a car that ran on water was on the 6 o'clock news, a week later he was found dead. Nothing more was said.
Oh please... really?
Maybe he died of terminal stupidity... or embarassment at having pulled off such a scam (though it's the news people who really ought to be embarassed)
Look, if it was really possible to power a car with water (or even get the infamous "100 MPG" you hear about occasionally) the auto companies would do it. Everyone seems to forget that even if the oil companies were all in cahoots to suppress such technology, the CAR companies (in a couple dozen countries all over the world) wouldn't give a damn what the oil companies wanted... they'd jump on such technologies in a heartbeat.
Now if you had a headline like "Toyota announces new 100MPG car that runs on water; all Toyota employees found dead the next day" maybe I'd be interested.
You must have been living under a rock for the last year.
Too bad there's not a "-1 Snarky" moderator option.
Yes, your post is very informative. But you might also find it informative to know that not everyone owns a PS3 (I've never owned a sony console in my life), not everyone wants to run linux on everything from their car to their toaster, and not everyone follows stories like this in any detail whatsoever. Still, when an interesting event occurs (like a judge ruling that sony must pay people actual cash for screwing with their functionality via firmware updates), people may be intrigued by it - not so much so they can hop in a time machine, buy a PS3, come back to the present, and cash in, but rather because of the implications a precedent like this sets for other companies and products.
Also not in the news is the fact that the sea level used to be a LOT higher than it is now and it used to be a LOT lower than it is now. Things change. That's life. None of it had anything to do with humans.
It always seemed to me that the whole "are humans causing global warming or is it natural?" debate totally misses the point. Who cares if we're causing it??? The important questions are: is it real? Can we reduce it? At what cost? Is it better to live with it, or try to avoid it?
Whether or not it would have happened without industrialization is completely irrelevant!
Did you even read my post? I'm not terribly concerned about paying a few cents more - but I am concerned about the cost of the vendors having to comply with thousands of different sets of rules. This poses a huge burden on small start-up businesses - idie games, for example.
If the seller is in more than one city? I'm sure our fine legislators can choose one: the place where the corp HQ is located, or the place where the warehouse is located, or the place where the web server is located. It's about having a single set of rules, not which set that might be.
If we just forced the companies to collect tax for the state that the product is shipped to, the tax that is already in place will be enforced.
No one wants to pay more taxes, but in the interest of "a level playing field" I could almost get behind charging the appropriate sales tax for the state (and/or city, whatever) the SELLER is located in - that's a single set of rules that the seller is undoubtedly already familiar with. But charging based on the BUYER's location subjects the seller to hundreds (if not thousands) of different rules for different jurisdictions and even different products within jurisdictions (example: here in Georgia there's no sales tax on food), which are constantly changing (example: they're thinking of re-instating the food tax here) and subject to a certain amount of interpretation (frozen beef is food - but what about, say, miracle fruit?).
.com sellers.
The overhead involved in getting hundreds of thousands of sellers to charge thousands of different rates would be enormous. Yes, third-party companies would spring up to help manage the confusion, but that effort (and expense) would be 100% wasted from an overall-society point of view.
The best argument against charging based on the seller's location is that the sellers would all move to low-tax states. That sounds OK to me - it would save me money on the things I buy online, and it would encourage states to "compete" on tax rates (among many other factors) in attracting
Linux users have a better common sense then the rest.
True enough, but that doesn't say anything about the security of linux... it merely says that people who are smart enough to get linux to work for them are also smart enough (on average) to avoid all the crap that idiot windows users fall for.
That would imply that American ballistic missile program would have also went ahead of Soviet one. Which, I suspect, would mean some glowing rubble in place of Moscow and some other major Soviet cities.
OK, so logically the fact that the soviet ballistic missile program was ahead of the american program means that you suspect some glowing rubble in place of New York and some other major american cities?
Got it!
If only there were some way that a nuclear power plant could generate electricity, then external power failures wouldn't be a problem... nah, that could never work... oh well, it was a nice thought. Maybe some day....
And while we're comparing outdated crappy tech, good old fashioned Chernobyl makes huge ares uninhabitable for generations. Now can we return to comparing modern nuclear to modern coal?
Modern coal: in 2004, coal mining killed 6027 people in china and 28 in the US. And shortens the lives of 24,000 people in just the US, EVERY YEAR (including 2800 cancers - wonder how many were poor people?)
Looks to me like even outdated crappy nuclear reactors are far less dangerous than modern coal mining.
It helps the rich get richer. Population control. You sell more cancer treatments
Are you not paying attention at all??? Not even a little bit???
Mining and burning good old fashioned coal puts FAR more radiation into the atmo than nuclear. Not soot, but actual "glow in the dark" radiation. This, and other dangers of fossil fuels, mean that they kill and injure (including cancer) many times more people every year than nuclear power.
But they've been around for a while, so we've gotten used to it.
Oh, and non-nuclear options don't give fucktards like you an opportunity to show off your trendy populist street cred by claiming that they're a way for rich people to kill poor people.