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How do I eliminate all the Python VMs and libraries from my system to instead run the Python scripts against only my single Perl installation? Even if I have to install a bunch of Perl modules to do it.
But to really do waht I want, I'd need to actually compile those Python scripts in with the Perl executables, which I thought was too hard with autoloading and other dynamic runtime execution.
The Perl scripts can stay interpreted. They've never caused me any version trouble yet. Though I wish every CPAN download were available through APT in a.deb package, instead of (perl -MCPAN) .
Last year, both Ubuntu upgrades (from 0610 to 0704 and then to 0710) each sent me into Python version mishmash/compatibility hell. But at least they could be mixed together a little, to bootstrap back to a working installation.
I wish these scripting languages were really just APIs, and could all be compiled to binary code instead of depending on different versions of different interpreters. The script source is just too transient without needing to be when working under the hood.
We're talking about the transition. Hotmail's suckage was all because MS failed, and then belabored, the conversion of Hotmail to Windows. Its recent performance doesn't mean much.
Because Yahoo is a lot more than just email like Hotmail was. So once again MS will fail to convert it properly, trashing it in the process. MS will survive, as its core monopoly won'y be threatened and it can afford to burn $44.6B on Yahoo without producing profits. So eventually Yahoo will return to adequacy, too. By which time Google's continued improvement and increased market share at Yahoo's expense will make MS/Yahoo look like Hotmail today: "Is that all?"
The fact that they pulled it off is really just showing that they have good people in their upper tech tier who only come out when they need the Big Guns, IMHO.
What it shows is that if you're Microsoft, you can afford to leave the Unix/Linux servers running for another year or so making you look bad while you redesign the OS from the inside to eventually at least claim you replaced them with Windows.
Which shows that if you're anyone else, you can't afford to do it - as if you could revise Windows' proprietary code to work anyway.
And which shows me that since it's already too late to revise Vista, or even "Windows 7" whatver that will be, by testing it on Yahoo, the whole adventure will be a catastrophe. Which will be spun as a win for MSN. And therefore will be.
But will really be a win for Google. Because Google still won't actually suck, and will spend its time and money growing instead of collapsing along with a mutual competitor.
Maybe they were cut on purpose, but maybe not (only) for installing tapping equipment:
People should know how to use the Internet because people who download music and films are going to affect businesses who have more important things to do.
That argument will absolutely certainly be brought by the US telcos (especially AT&T) now demanding to set up gear that violates Network Neutrality, and that polices Internet content for "piracy". They'll claim it's only for an emergency like this one, when they must filter content to prioritize essential traffic.
And then they'll find those emergencies happen all the time, so they can demand more subsidies to expand bandwidth. It's a neverending downward spiral with these corporate welfare monopolists.
If MS is allowed to buy Yahoo to compete with Google, they will screw up Yahoo as badly as they screwed up Hotmail when they bought that attempt to compete with AOL.
Except this time Google is actually a strong, smart company, not just a stock play built on a mountain of email addresses. So Google will find it easier to compete with both Microsoft and Yahoo.
This merger is a terrible move towards monopoly. Even if this time it's not a Microsoft monopoly growing, but rather Microsoft thinning out competition to move a competitor closer to monopoly when Microsoft loses.
This pope was not just a Nazi while his neighbors were fleeing to the hills rather than be Nazis.
He was also the head of the current office of the Inquisition for 25 years. In which he denounced homosexuality as an affront to human dignity. And in which he hid homosexual child rapist priests.
This hypocritical old man has nothing to teach us about "human dignity". Even when he's right he's wrong.
$100B spent on improving US broadband infrastructure would have instant payback in the US economy. First, most of the labor would be Americans, so the expense would create jobs. Second, the US still has most of the industry making most of the profits on the kind of broadband equipment we're talking about. There's no reason that the purchases couldn't prioritize vendors which keep more of the money paid them inside the US.
And that labor and equipment expense would make US labor and equipment compete to get it, and improve their quality offering, which makes them more competitive overall. It would jerk lots of talent and productivity away from lots of less productive efforts, like pursuing BS defense and "homeland security" contracts that wind up sending lots of profits overseas, lots sunk into rich pockets that pay either little/no taxes (especially the corporations), or even ship those profits offshore.
And it would boost America's workforce of exactly the kind of skills and products the rest of the world is looking for now. That are already associated with the "America" brand, since everyone still remembers we invented the Internet.
And then of course we'd have all the economic value of actually using that broadband infrastructure to produce even more, to make even more money with it (including designing and deploying the next $100B in broadband buildout).
It's as if the US invested $billions in the auto industry back during the Great Depression. Which is exactly what we did, by joining WWII which demanded $billions in cars, trucks, tanks, planes, and ships. But this time we're not going to send them all out to be destroyed, and to destroy the territory we'd capture when we win. Instead we'd increasing the value of everything we got to buy with our increasing profits, and bringing the world together instead of blowing it apart.
Congress is about to pretend to stimulate the economy with about $65B sent out in little $600 checks to every taxpayer. Who will mostly spend it on gas and Chinese-made TVs and crap. If they were really visionary, and really wanted to boost the economy, they'd make local governments and corporations match that expense only 1:2, and actually rebuild this country as the 21st Century is so clearly begging us to do.
Lego has brains, called Mindstorms. I'd love to see a Mindstorms app that uses a camera to examine itself, then replicate itself by grabbing from a box of Lego (Mindstorms) and snapping its twin together.
Then watch as it builds an army. Which attacks a toystore and builds a bigger army. Which fights another self-assembling army, wins, and cannibalizes the enemy to rebuild its own wounded ranks to double size. And they build two friends. And so on.
Well, at least the old "iron maidens" (that we still use in NYC) have inner mechanisms that can be examined for rigging. And can't be "upgraded" after voting is counted by a secret command that erases the old mechanism. Also, the iron maidens produce a count on the single machine that is unsealed, opened and read by reps of each party on the ballot together, instead of these unsupervised, digital, trailless central tabulators. At least the rigging of those counts requires some real sophisticated social engineering, which at least hints the rigger can govern with more social engineering.
I was really pointing out that the legitimate outcry over these newfangled untrustworthy machines is largely a function of their flimsy packaging, not any public understanding of the essential security problems in secret mechanisms, secretly upgradeable code, and secret tabulation, all without physical evidence that's hard to tamper with after the fact.
But even if they were secure, and I knew it, I'd still feel better pulling that big red handle to commit. Kind of ominous, inarguably irrevocable. And sometimes it even feels like I'm pulling the guillotine on someone who isn't getting that office.
So the "technical fault" was the designer who allowed the failure bottleneck, or more likely the executive who "cut costs" by eliminating the reliable redundancy.
Who wants to bet which one will get fired? It'll be the hapless guy on duty when the system finally, inevitably, went down.
I wonder whether there's a specific herb that's bad for that part of the brain, either eaten, drunk or smoked. Could be a good way to get through life's many best-forgotten moments.
Or, for those living the dream, maybe there's some herb that's good for that part of the brain.
I know I'd prefer that to going under the knife or taking a pill with some synthetic stuff no one ever tried before.
If they just put the same untrustworthy electronic voting machines into big, heavy metal cabinets, with metal pull-levers for voting and a big red handle that commits the votes while it opens the curtain (just like we've used in NY for generations), no one would complain. And those freaks who did complain because the actual votes are counted by an untrustworthy device buried inside it would be treated like freaks.
Especially if the metal cabinets were aged in the factory with a little rust and scrapes...
But the vendors are used to scoring sales by just keeping the purchase procedure as closed as the IP in their opaque devices. The user themself doesn't figure into their business model at all, whether they're casting a vote or reading about the purchase on their behalf in their newspaper.
But still, what is the dimension of the Library of Congress? It's not just a quantity of books. It's multidimensional. The real joke is reducing the Library of Congress to a quantity of bytes, which is itself inappropriate to a (largely) analog, complex physical object.
So? Real competitors compete. I understand that Microsoft isn't used to real competitors, so doesn't recognize one when it sees one.
But until Microsoft can complain about evidence that IBM is competing with Microsoft illegally, or even actually unethically (as Microsoft has routinely been demonstrated to do), this just shows that Microsoft can't compete on a level playing field. Which of course is exactly why Microsoft needs to get OOXML installed, before it's too late.
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TrollMods are precisely the people Microsoft counts on to peddle terrible software and business landscapes against everyone's interests but Microsoft's.
How do I eliminate all the Python VMs and libraries from my system to instead run the Python scripts against only my single Perl installation? Even if I have to install a bunch of Perl modules to do it.
.deb package, instead of (perl -MCPAN) .
But to really do waht I want, I'd need to actually compile those Python scripts in with the Perl executables, which I thought was too hard with autoloading and other dynamic runtime execution.
The Perl scripts can stay interpreted. They've never caused me any version trouble yet. Though I wish every CPAN download were available through APT in a
Last year, both Ubuntu upgrades (from 0610 to 0704 and then to 0710) each sent me into Python version mishmash/compatibility hell. But at least they could be mixed together a little, to bootstrap back to a working installation.
I wish these scripting languages were really just APIs, and could all be compiled to binary code instead of depending on different versions of different interpreters. The script source is just too transient without needing to be when working under the hood.
We're talking about the transition. Hotmail's suckage was all because MS failed, and then belabored, the conversion of Hotmail to Windows. Its recent performance doesn't mean much.
Because Yahoo is a lot more than just email like Hotmail was. So once again MS will fail to convert it properly, trashing it in the process. MS will survive, as its core monopoly won'y be threatened and it can afford to burn $44.6B on Yahoo without producing profits. So eventually Yahoo will return to adequacy, too. By which time Google's continued improvement and increased market share at Yahoo's expense will make MS/Yahoo look like Hotmail today: "Is that all?"
What it shows is that if you're Microsoft, you can afford to leave the Unix/Linux servers running for another year or so making you look bad while you redesign the OS from the inside to eventually at least claim you replaced them with Windows.
Which shows that if you're anyone else, you can't afford to do it - as if you could revise Windows' proprietary code to work anyway.
And which shows me that since it's already too late to revise Vista, or even "Windows 7" whatver that will be, by testing it on Yahoo, the whole adventure will be a catastrophe. Which will be spun as a win for MSN. And therefore will be.
But will really be a win for Google. Because Google still won't actually suck, and will spend its time and money growing instead of collapsing along with a mutual competitor.
That argument will absolutely certainly be brought by the US telcos (especially AT&T) now demanding to set up gear that violates Network Neutrality, and that polices Internet content for "piracy". They'll claim it's only for an emergency like this one, when they must filter content to prioritize essential traffic.
And then they'll find those emergencies happen all the time, so they can demand more subsidies to expand bandwidth. It's a neverending downward spiral with these corporate welfare monopolists.
If MS is allowed to buy Yahoo to compete with Google, they will screw up Yahoo as badly as they screwed up Hotmail when they bought that attempt to compete with AOL.
Except this time Google is actually a strong, smart company, not just a stock play built on a mountain of email addresses. So Google will find it easier to compete with both Microsoft and Yahoo.
This merger is a terrible move towards monopoly. Even if this time it's not a Microsoft monopoly growing, but rather Microsoft thinning out competition to move a competitor closer to monopoly when Microsoft loses.
Oh, come on. How could they have stolen it from Star Trek, when Star Trek is 300 years in the future?
Unless NASA really just invented time travel, and has been cherrypicking the future for "inventions" ever since...
This pope was not just a Nazi while his neighbors were fleeing to the hills rather than be Nazis.
He was also the head of the current office of the Inquisition for 25 years. In which he denounced homosexuality as an affront to human dignity. And in which he hid homosexual child rapist priests.
This hypocritical old man has nothing to teach us about "human dignity". Even when he's right he's wrong.
Through half a century, and quadrillions of miles served, the NASA logo is still cool.
With enough Lego Mindstorms to work with, no engineering problem is impossible.
Your concept of argument is evidently nothing. Your concepts of reality and history are probably less.
$100B spent on improving US broadband infrastructure would have instant payback in the US economy. First, most of the labor would be Americans, so the expense would create jobs. Second, the US still has most of the industry making most of the profits on the kind of broadband equipment we're talking about. There's no reason that the purchases couldn't prioritize vendors which keep more of the money paid them inside the US.
And that labor and equipment expense would make US labor and equipment compete to get it, and improve their quality offering, which makes them more competitive overall. It would jerk lots of talent and productivity away from lots of less productive efforts, like pursuing BS defense and "homeland security" contracts that wind up sending lots of profits overseas, lots sunk into rich pockets that pay either little/no taxes (especially the corporations), or even ship those profits offshore.
And it would boost America's workforce of exactly the kind of skills and products the rest of the world is looking for now. That are already associated with the "America" brand, since everyone still remembers we invented the Internet.
And then of course we'd have all the economic value of actually using that broadband infrastructure to produce even more, to make even more money with it (including designing and deploying the next $100B in broadband buildout).
It's as if the US invested $billions in the auto industry back during the Great Depression. Which is exactly what we did, by joining WWII which demanded $billions in cars, trucks, tanks, planes, and ships. But this time we're not going to send them all out to be destroyed, and to destroy the territory we'd capture when we win. Instead we'd increasing the value of everything we got to buy with our increasing profits, and bringing the world together instead of blowing it apart.
Congress is about to pretend to stimulate the economy with about $65B sent out in little $600 checks to every taxpayer. Who will mostly spend it on gas and Chinese-made TVs and crap. If they were really visionary, and really wanted to boost the economy, they'd make local governments and corporations match that expense only 1:2, and actually rebuild this country as the 21st Century is so clearly begging us to do.
Lego has brains, called Mindstorms. I'd love to see a Mindstorms app that uses a camera to examine itself, then replicate itself by grabbing from a box of Lego (Mindstorms) and snapping its twin together.
Then watch as it builds an army. Which attacks a toystore and builds a bigger army. Which fights another self-assembling army, wins, and cannibalizes the enemy to rebuild its own wounded ranks to double size. And they build two friends. And so on.
Legoworld reduced to a chunky Grey Goo.
Herbs have been tested (and engineered) for thousands of years. You go ahead and use the FDA "testing". I'll watch to see how well you fare.
Well, at least the old "iron maidens" (that we still use in NYC) have inner mechanisms that can be examined for rigging. And can't be "upgraded" after voting is counted by a secret command that erases the old mechanism. Also, the iron maidens produce a count on the single machine that is unsealed, opened and read by reps of each party on the ballot together, instead of these unsupervised, digital, trailless central tabulators. At least the rigging of those counts requires some real sophisticated social engineering, which at least hints the rigger can govern with more social engineering.
I was really pointing out that the legitimate outcry over these newfangled untrustworthy machines is largely a function of their flimsy packaging, not any public understanding of the essential security problems in secret mechanisms, secretly upgradeable code, and secret tabulation, all without physical evidence that's hard to tamper with after the fact.
But even if they were secure, and I knew it, I'd still feel better pulling that big red handle to commit. Kind of ominous, inarguably irrevocable. And sometimes it even feels like I'm pulling the guillotine on someone who isn't getting that office.
Is there a pill to live 1528 more years? Probably an herb.
So the "technical fault" was the designer who allowed the failure bottleneck, or more likely the executive who "cut costs" by eliminating the reliable redundancy.
Who wants to bet which one will get fired? It'll be the hapless guy on duty when the system finally, inevitably, went down.
I wonder whether there's a specific herb that's bad for that part of the brain, either eaten, drunk or smoked. Could be a good way to get through life's many best-forgotten moments.
Or, for those living the dream, maybe there's some herb that's good for that part of the brain.
I know I'd prefer that to going under the knife or taking a pill with some synthetic stuff no one ever tried before.
If they just put the same untrustworthy electronic voting machines into big, heavy metal cabinets, with metal pull-levers for voting and a big red handle that commits the votes while it opens the curtain (just like we've used in NY for generations), no one would complain. And those freaks who did complain because the actual votes are counted by an untrustworthy device buried inside it would be treated like freaks.
Especially if the metal cabinets were aged in the factory with a little rust and scrapes...
But the vendors are used to scoring sales by just keeping the purchase procedure as closed as the IP in their opaque devices. The user themself doesn't figure into their business model at all, whether they're casting a vote or reading about the purchase on their behalf in their newspaper.
Actually, the irrelevancy is the entire point.
But still, what is the dimension of the Library of Congress? It's not just a quantity of books. It's multidimensional. The real joke is reducing the Library of Congress to a quantity of bytes, which is itself inappropriate to a (largely) analog, complex physical object.
There was only one comment that even referenced the metric system, and it didn't make my joke, when I posted.
How many LoC would you need to gain a sense of humor? 110%?
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What kind of retard could be inflamed by that innocuous joke?
So? Real competitors compete. I understand that Microsoft isn't used to real competitors, so doesn't recognize one when it sees one.
But until Microsoft can complain about evidence that IBM is competing with Microsoft illegally, or even actually unethically (as Microsoft has routinely been demonstrated to do), this just shows that Microsoft can't compete on a level playing field. Which of course is exactly why Microsoft needs to get OOXML installed, before it's too late.