"Why would you care where people give their earned money?"
Actually, this is a great point and helps illustrate the difference between Scientology and religions. In other religions, you give money freely because you think it will help the church/society/causes, etc. In Scientology, you are presented with a "self help" system that is designed to help you with vague problems ("Do you ever have negative thoughts?"), and the teachings are VERY EXPENSIVE. HOWEVER, you are generally not asked to pony up 100% of the cost. The rest is loaned to you interest-free for as long as you're a part of the church. You can rack up millions of dollars of "debt" to the church through their normal course of training. Which is irrelevant as long as you never leave the church, but if you ever do, millions of dollars of loans come due and you've destroyed your life.
And that's just the economic side of things. When they send a private investigator to your town and tell your neighbors that you're an accused child molester, call the news and tell them that you're being investigated for terrorism, and follow you around day and night, it starts to get old.
Um, you made my point, thanks. Why do people focus on guns with respect to the 2nd amendment? We might as well claim the right to carry around live hand-grenades. Or have an atom bomb in every home.
Not to feed your flamefest, but $600/mo is a pretty reasonable price for a 2br apartment here in Pittsburgh. You won't be soaking in a hot tub or anything, but you'll have some space to call your own in the "most livable city" in the US.
As for the $600 Dell system, I think the poster was talking about its ability to play games. You can certainly buy a $600 Dell that will play the latest games (perhaps not with every option maxed) at reasonable framerates. But I agree-- Getting a $500-600 Blu-Ray player is the real selling point of a PS3, IMHO.
We use Perforce at work and I'm loving it. (They want us to move to ClearCase to integrate with the rest of our (huge) company, which scares me.) Perforce also integrates really well with our Bugzilla system, in that I can attach the resolution of a bug to a Perforce changelist directly, so when I look up the source code changes later I can immediately see which bugs that checkin fixed. Handy.
At my last company we used StarTeam, and although it sucked badly as a version control system, it had a nice tie-in with the bug and build systems. We could mark a bug "fixed in next build", then when the build system fired off, it would tag the build and update the bug database to read "fixed in build XXXX". It made tying together regression testing, functional testing, and bugfixing really easy. But lack of cross-branch integrates or atomic commits made it painful for VCS.
Agreed... this is the same problem that Babylon 5 suffered from. If they had either decided up-front that it would end early, or wouldn't, they could have properly paced the last two seasons. As it was, the last season was essentially useless.
I say end it and start a new series/plotline if they're willing to keep funding it. It worked pretty well for ST:DSN.
"Nothing new, see the 2nd amendment and the 20,000+ laws on the books regarding firearm restrictions at all levels - Fed, state, county, city, even Home Owners Association"
Just so we're on the same page, the 2nd amendment is the one that doesn't actually mention the word "guns" or "firearms", but does use the phrase "well-regulated", right?
I haven't actually put a commercial CD into a drive in a year or more, and all the ones I still own are long since ripped. I was thinking about selling all my CDs, but then my ripped copies would be illegal, and I'm one of those weirdoes who actually likes to pay fairly for what they have. So what do I do if I don't want the clutter? Throw them all into a landfill?
It seems like the days of the used CD store are almost gone anyway. Despite the DRM politics, it's awfully convenient to buy online. And with CDs so easy to rip and resell, used CD stores are little more than rent-to-steal shops these days.
Quick, someone register ba.kn! It's already in a nice Caribbean island. Or you could register "ba" in Bosnia/Herzegovina and fool people with URLs like bankofamerica.bank. There is no "foolproof" method... you'll always be able to convince people to make a mistake.
I like the idea of the one-time authentication RSA fobs better.
I've used the "it's more fun than watching TV" argument a lot for a lot of the "little" development projects I've done. But for the big stuff one person sitting with a laptop on a couch instead of watching TV doesn't cut it so much.
Incidentally, I suspect open source and "side projects" are going to get a whole lot more hours devoted to them now that Scrubs is ending. And maybe we should all thank the networks for not picking up Firefly.
Of course there are gray areas in "freedom of speech". For example, the United States has often equated giving money to a candidate as "speech". I personally disagree that the right to give arbitrary money to a candidate is equal to the right of free expression or even association, but it's certainly debatable. There's also the question of intent-- you may be free to say anything and not be locked up for the speech, but be locked up because the speech implied intent or guilt in another matter entirely. Depending on how silly and "thought-crime"esque other laws are, it may seem like it's speech itself that is being impinged.
Anyway, nothing is black and white, and especially not something as rich as speech.
In any case, in case this article leads anyone to any undue optimism, you can go read ABC news' editorial on the matter to bring you back down again (or to make your blood boil, depending on your temperament).
It doesn't really matter... NASA will find some way of having this glove cost $365M per glove to manufacture, and utilize subcontractors from the district of every Congressman in any committee that approves their budget.
If you think that/us/ supporting Silverlight is really what will tilt the balance in the Flash/Silverlight/Ajax universe you are giving us way more credit than we deserve. You might want to revisit your assumptions.
On the contrary, Mono is the reason that my company chose a.NET solution for a major framework, and it's been a pain in the ass ever since. Had Mono never existed, they probably would have gone with Java and we'd have been a lot better off. I suspect there will be a lot of projects out there in a similar vein with Silverlight. Mono is just good enough for Microsoft to point to it to encourage people to use.NET in the face of vendor lock-in, but not good enough to actually deploy much on it, so folks end up locked in to Windows anyway.
... seriously, though, the opportunity for a good gravity-assist trajectory was there now, and since Pluto is hurtling away from the sun quickly, if we don't visit it now it'll be a lot less active until our great-grandchildren get the next opportunity.
The people who whine about ObjC are the ones who learned C++ and Java in school and don't want to change, ever, for anything.
Um, no. They're people like me that know half a dozen languages and can pick a new one up quickly, but don't want to deal with vendor lock-in anymore. Objective-C is the single biggest hurdle to Apple getting more widespread developer and enterprise adoption, in my opinion. I would prefer Apple adopt and license Mono lock, stock, and barrel rather than wasting more effort on Objective-C. Or Java. Anything other than the proprietary, "not invented here" lock-in you get dealing with Objective-C.
To bring this back on-topic, this is exactly why a proprietary Apple AMD processor makes absolutely no sense. There is value in interoperability, shared knowledge, and widespread usage. Open source gets a lot of power from it, and anything Apple does to make themselves less proprietary without losing functionality is a win. (And moving to C# or Java would, for most developers, probably be a dramatic gain in functionality).
Yes, but I was talking about what Apple *should* do, not what they're likely to do. They most definitely should *not* buy AMD, but if they bought Sun there would definitely be some major advantages (along with a lot of baggage, of course).
Apple's Time Machine isn't just a *file* backup system. It's a *record* recovery system. Neither MS Shadow Copies nor this provides an API for software to search records back through time and pull a single record back to the present (ie. a single address book entry or photo). It's frustrating having people equate them so closely when it misses half the point of Time Machine.
Agreed. This has to be one of the most boneheaded ideas ever. Apple JUST MANAGED to dig themselves out of two decades of proprietary/alternative CPU infrastructure, and now someone wants them to dive back in the hole? It buys them nothing. They already use the fastest, best desktop and laptop CPUs on the market-- they'd be spending a lot of money to make their products worse by buying and using AMD.
It would make a lot more sense for Apple to focus on software. Adobe Systems, for instance, has a total valuation that's only twice Apple's cash-on-hand, and that could make a pretty formidable corporation. If they really want some hardware/software combo, Sun Microsystems is only valued a little above Apple's cash-on-hand, and they'd get a CPU family as well as one of the most successful programming languages ever (and Lord knows Apple needs some way forward beyond Objective-C).
Of course they have. Mono is just legitimate enough for Microsoft to say "and if you need cross-platform support, there's Mono out there, so go with.NET". But just unsupported enough so that when companies ACTUALLY go with.NET, Microsoft can say "you don't REALLY want to move off of Windows because Mono is unsupported and potentially flaky, and who knows whether we'll sue them someday."
Ironically, the commercial and military software development industries have recently been heavily promoting a methodology that could enable this sort of specification without requiring a central authority. Software Product Lines is a formalization of hundreds of "good practices" of encapsulation and interoperability into a single methodology that is transforming the way some software is written. I see this as the next step in software development evolution, and one that the open source community might get more benefit from than others.
Isn't carbon fiber that's microscopic in one dimension but macroscopic in the other the whole reason asbestos and other mesothelioma-causing "breathable" carbon structures banned? Is this just a way to manufacture lung cancer, or is there something about nanotubes that makes it not do the same thing asbestos does to the lungs?
A [laser] with such perfect accuracy would allow some crazy person to sit a mile away popping little cauterized holes through people's heads with ease.
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"Why would you care where people give their earned money?"
Actually, this is a great point and helps illustrate the difference between Scientology and religions. In other religions, you give money freely because you think it will help the church/society/causes, etc. In Scientology, you are presented with a "self help" system that is designed to help you with vague problems ("Do you ever have negative thoughts?"), and the teachings are VERY EXPENSIVE. HOWEVER, you are generally not asked to pony up 100% of the cost. The rest is loaned to you interest-free for as long as you're a part of the church. You can rack up millions of dollars of "debt" to the church through their normal course of training. Which is irrelevant as long as you never leave the church, but if you ever do, millions of dollars of loans come due and you've destroyed your life.
And that's just the economic side of things. When they send a private investigator to your town and tell your neighbors that you're an accused child molester, call the news and tell them that you're being investigated for terrorism, and follow you around day and night, it starts to get old.
Um, you made my point, thanks. Why do people focus on guns with respect to the 2nd amendment? We might as well claim the right to carry around live hand-grenades. Or have an atom bomb in every home.
Not to feed your flamefest, but $600/mo is a pretty reasonable price for a 2br apartment here in Pittsburgh. You won't be soaking in a hot tub or anything, but you'll have some space to call your own in the "most livable city" in the US.
As for the $600 Dell system, I think the poster was talking about its ability to play games. You can certainly buy a $600 Dell that will play the latest games (perhaps not with every option maxed) at reasonable framerates. But I agree-- Getting a $500-600 Blu-Ray player is the real selling point of a PS3, IMHO.
We use Perforce at work and I'm loving it. (They want us to move to ClearCase to integrate with the rest of our (huge) company, which scares me.) Perforce also integrates really well with our Bugzilla system, in that I can attach the resolution of a bug to a Perforce changelist directly, so when I look up the source code changes later I can immediately see which bugs that checkin fixed. Handy.
At my last company we used StarTeam, and although it sucked badly as a version control system, it had a nice tie-in with the bug and build systems. We could mark a bug "fixed in next build", then when the build system fired off, it would tag the build and update the bug database to read "fixed in build XXXX". It made tying together regression testing, functional testing, and bugfixing really easy. But lack of cross-branch integrates or atomic commits made it painful for VCS.
Agreed... this is the same problem that Babylon 5 suffered from. If they had either decided up-front that it would end early, or wouldn't, they could have properly paced the last two seasons. As it was, the last season was essentially useless.
I say end it and start a new series/plotline if they're willing to keep funding it. It worked pretty well for ST:DSN.
Just like a democracy is a government of the people, in a capitalist system "the business world" is the people.
"Nothing new, see the 2nd amendment and the 20,000+ laws on the books regarding firearm restrictions at all levels - Fed, state, county, city, even Home Owners Association"
Just so we're on the same page, the 2nd amendment is the one that doesn't actually mention the word "guns" or "firearms", but does use the phrase "well-regulated", right?
I haven't actually put a commercial CD into a drive in a year or more, and all the ones I still own are long since ripped. I was thinking about selling all my CDs, but then my ripped copies would be illegal, and I'm one of those weirdoes who actually likes to pay fairly for what they have. So what do I do if I don't want the clutter? Throw them all into a landfill?
It seems like the days of the used CD store are almost gone anyway. Despite the DRM politics, it's awfully convenient to buy online. And with CDs so easy to rip and resell, used CD stores are little more than rent-to-steal shops these days.
Quick, someone register ba.kn! It's already in a nice Caribbean island. Or you could register "ba" in Bosnia/Herzegovina and fool people with URLs like bankofamerica.bank. There is no "foolproof" method... you'll always be able to convince people to make a mistake.
I like the idea of the one-time authentication RSA fobs better.
I've used the "it's more fun than watching TV" argument a lot for a lot of the "little" development projects I've done. But for the big stuff one person sitting with a laptop on a couch instead of watching TV doesn't cut it so much.
Incidentally, I suspect open source and "side projects" are going to get a whole lot more hours devoted to them now that Scrubs is ending. And maybe we should all thank the networks for not picking up Firefly.
Of course there are gray areas in "freedom of speech". For example, the United States has often equated giving money to a candidate as "speech". I personally disagree that the right to give arbitrary money to a candidate is equal to the right of free expression or even association, but it's certainly debatable. There's also the question of intent-- you may be free to say anything and not be locked up for the speech, but be locked up because the speech implied intent or guilt in another matter entirely. Depending on how silly and "thought-crime"esque other laws are, it may seem like it's speech itself that is being impinged.
Anyway, nothing is black and white, and especially not something as rich as speech.
In any case, in case this article leads anyone to any undue optimism, you can go read ABC news' editorial on the matter to bring you back down again (or to make your blood boil, depending on your temperament).
This article seems to equate "open source" with the GPL. BSD and Apache licenses would have much less problem with lack of copyright.
It doesn't really matter... NASA will find some way of having this glove cost $365M per glove to manufacture, and utilize subcontractors from the district of every Congressman in any committee that approves their budget.
If you think that /us/ supporting Silverlight is really what will tilt the balance in the Flash/Silverlight/Ajax universe you are giving us way more credit than we deserve. You might want to revisit your assumptions.
.NET solution for a major framework, and it's been a pain in the ass ever since. Had Mono never existed, they probably would have gone with Java and we'd have been a lot better off. I suspect there will be a lot of projects out there in a similar vein with Silverlight. Mono is just good enough for Microsoft to point to it to encourage people to use .NET in the face of vendor lock-in, but not good enough to actually deploy much on it, so folks end up locked in to Windows anyway.
On the contrary, Mono is the reason that my company chose a
... seriously, though, the opportunity for a good gravity-assist trajectory was there now, and since Pluto is hurtling away from the sun quickly, if we don't visit it now it'll be a lot less active until our great-grandchildren get the next opportunity.
The people who whine about ObjC are the ones who learned C++ and Java in school and don't want to change, ever, for anything.
Um, no. They're people like me that know half a dozen languages and can pick a new one up quickly, but don't want to deal with vendor lock-in anymore. Objective-C is the single biggest hurdle to Apple getting more widespread developer and enterprise adoption, in my opinion. I would prefer Apple adopt and license Mono lock, stock, and barrel rather than wasting more effort on Objective-C. Or Java. Anything other than the proprietary, "not invented here" lock-in you get dealing with Objective-C.
To bring this back on-topic, this is exactly why a proprietary Apple AMD processor makes absolutely no sense. There is value in interoperability, shared knowledge, and widespread usage. Open source gets a lot of power from it, and anything Apple does to make themselves less proprietary without losing functionality is a win. (And moving to C# or Java would, for most developers, probably be a dramatic gain in functionality).
Yes, but I was talking about what Apple *should* do, not what they're likely to do. They most definitely should *not* buy AMD, but if they bought Sun there would definitely be some major advantages (along with a lot of baggage, of course).
Apple's Time Machine isn't just a *file* backup system. It's a *record* recovery system. Neither MS Shadow Copies nor this provides an API for software to search records back through time and pull a single record back to the present (ie. a single address book entry or photo). It's frustrating having people equate them so closely when it misses half the point of Time Machine.
Agreed. This has to be one of the most boneheaded ideas ever. Apple JUST MANAGED to dig themselves out of two decades of proprietary/alternative CPU infrastructure, and now someone wants them to dive back in the hole? It buys them nothing. They already use the fastest, best desktop and laptop CPUs on the market-- they'd be spending a lot of money to make their products worse by buying and using AMD.
It would make a lot more sense for Apple to focus on software. Adobe Systems, for instance, has a total valuation that's only twice Apple's cash-on-hand, and that could make a pretty formidable corporation. If they really want some hardware/software combo, Sun Microsystems is only valued a little above Apple's cash-on-hand, and they'd get a CPU family as well as one of the most successful programming languages ever (and Lord knows Apple needs some way forward beyond Objective-C).
Of course they have. Mono is just legitimate enough for Microsoft to say "and if you need cross-platform support, there's Mono out there, so go with .NET". But just unsupported enough so that when companies ACTUALLY go with .NET, Microsoft can say "you don't REALLY want to move off of Windows because Mono is unsupported and potentially flaky, and who knows whether we'll sue them someday."
It's ironic that your opinion is being read over the Internet.
Ironically, the commercial and military software development industries have recently been heavily promoting a methodology that could enable this sort of specification without requiring a central authority. Software Product Lines is a formalization of hundreds of "good practices" of encapsulation and interoperability into a single methodology that is transforming the way some software is written. I see this as the next step in software development evolution, and one that the open source community might get more benefit from than others.
Isn't carbon fiber that's microscopic in one dimension but macroscopic in the other the whole reason asbestos and other mesothelioma-causing "breathable" carbon structures banned? Is this just a way to manufacture lung cancer, or is there something about nanotubes that makes it not do the same thing asbestos does to the lungs?
The 1980's called and want their Japan-can-do-no-wrong attitude back.
A [laser] with such perfect accuracy would allow some crazy person to sit a mile away popping little cauterized holes through people's heads with ease.
Not if I'm wearing my tin-foil hat!!!