Maybe he was secretly trying to downplay the Internet to keep the powers that be from seeing the internet as a threat and thus letting it grown and develop without interference?
When you are weak, appear strong. When strong, appear weak. You know...
I think a lot of people underestimate how important not breaking backward compatibility has been to Java's success. It makes managers and people who pay to have code written feel more confident that they won't experience the kind of code rot and upgrade hassles that have plagued other platforms.
Obviously you have to use debit at an ATM, but at gas stations i use credit, even with my debit card, because once they have your pin they can get cash out of your account and not just do a credit card charge. The crooks would much rather have the greenbacks than having to buy crap with your stolen card and fence it.
Because the Chinese don't think Europe and the Anglo-Americans run the world. Seriously, whenever you hear the word "global" or "international" that really means Europe (Specifically the EU leaders), the Anglo Countries (spearheaded by British and American think tanks), any third world countries they can bribe or intimidate into going along with them and NOT China or Russia (and occasionally Brazil and India will opt out too).
I have a domain name that I do mail forwarding for. Some botnet owner decided it was worth finding emails to spam to on this domain. So now every single day, 24/7 365 days a year, once or twice a minute I get an attempt to send an email to fsdfs34@mydomain.com where fsdfs34 gets replaced with every possible email conceivable. At first I decided to add an ip blocker for anyone who spammed me, but it soon slowed down my mail server so much that I had to take it out once the list grew into the 10s of thousands of ips.
Now I just greylist and tightly check EHELOs which seems to keep any of the spam from getting anywhere. Nevertheless, the attempts come relentlessly and continuously like clockwork form ips all over the world.
The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.’ - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, 1970
They've got everything else in place, they're just working on the "instantaneous retrieval by the authorities" part.
FYI, Zbigniew Brzezinski was carter's national security advisor and co-founder of the trilateral commission.
Article VI, paragraph 2 actually stipulates on the issue: "...all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution [of any State] or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. [Emphasis added.]"
China is not an autocratic system. It's an oligarchy or if your want to flatter them, an aristocracy. The communist party is basically a private club that runs the country by electing officials from within its own ranks to committees that perform various governance functions. The most powerful committee is the central committee but it is by no means autocratic. BTW, all of China's central committee members have engineering backgrounds.
China's strategy for regaining it's hegemonic strategy is pretty simple and utilizes a basic weakness in American democracy.
U.S Corporate lobbyists command massive influence politics in the united states.
U.S lobbyists are controlled by U.S corporations.
China can easily exert influence over U.S corporations by giving them preferential or non-preferential treatment with their China operations. They can even tell them to get their lobbyists to tell the politicians in Washington to do what China wants.
Therefore China can easily exert influence on Washington.
Maybe we could pay for the mission with carbon credits?! Seriously, it's almost like the Russians, who are big-time global warming deniers, are throwing the whole global mission to save the earth at any cost canard right back at the west, except this time all the money from the global government arrangement goes to Russian space research.
The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.’
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, 1970
FYI, Zbigniew Brzezinski is one of America's most influential foreign policy strategists.
I have Amazon Prime so I get free two day shipping on everything and $3.99 overnight shipping. You would be amazed at how heavy an item I can get shipped overnight for $3.99. 2-day and overnight shipping anywhere else seems like a complete ripoff.
This is why being a Microsoft developer sucks. You learn one shiny knew complicated kludgy technology and then they throw it all away when the next shiny new version of windows comes out. The new shiny new kludge has pretty much the same function and api but everything's named differently and it has a whole slew up different quirks and gotchas to work around.
I was about to say the same thing. Unlike poker, the rules of the games are altered based on the current knowledge about the state of the game. This means that as soon as someone proclaims "We know the rules of Economics!", someone else is going to look at those rules and either game them to their benefit, or rewrite them to better suit their own purpose.
So really economics is best modeled as mutating finite automata, with the economist being an actor in the simulation. Maybe Steven Wolfram was onto something with his rantings about finite automata describing the natural world much better than equations.
I wonder if they have an enemies list to complement the buddies list. Tactical systems are funny like that. You have users of the application -- the enemy combatants -- who don't really want to be users of your application.
In order to be a good programmer, one has to have a very good memory for trivia. Why do you think Ken Jennings, a programmer, was the best Jeopardy contestant of all time? Computer systems and APIs are so complicated that if one cannot remember a good chunk of the APIs and how trivia about how parts of the systems work, it can be difficult to get anything done.
Having a good memory for trivia makes it easy to see all kinds of connections among things in non-programming life, namely in culture, or in day-to-day life in general. This usually leads to a special kind of creativity in which one brings together one's own set of personal behaviors from tying things together instead of just following a template that society provides for us. For instance, instead of trying to imitate the confident corporate person they see on TV, a programmer will choose their outfit based on utility and comfort, pulling together shoes, pants, gadgets, etc, based on utility and comfort.
Also, it is not certain whether Heim theory would be able to accommodate the existence of the Higgs boson, the only undiscovered particle expected in the Standard Model, and one which has not been predicted by the published versions of the Heim mass formula. Heim theory is said to be a Higgs-less theory as it is not dependent on the Higgs mechanism for the concept of mass. The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are likely to discover the Higgs boson in the next several years, if it exists.
Sounds like someone is trying to introduce the "Culture War" Anti-Pattern into the FOSS Community:
Read more here:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3484376.html
(FYI, this is not a perfect article, and explains things in terms of contemporary American politics, not the FOSS community, but does give a good description of the anti-pattern nonetheless.)
Anyone remember a software product called QEMM back in the DOS days? It was a tool to deal with this horrid thing known as "high-mem" back in the bad old days before Windows 95, allowing one to have more memory to run Win 3.1. It was written by a company called Quarterdeck Office Systems and it built their business. Microsoft came out with a tool that did the same thing called memmaker that worked well enough and did the same thing and they bundled it with DOS 5.0 (I think it was 5.0). Though, not as efficient as QEMM it was good enough and ultimately led to the demise of Quarterdeck (along with a bunch of other dumb mistakes).
It seems that more and more everything in American Capitalism and it's "light" version : Canadian Capitalism is a game. There's the credit card game, the investing game, the phone bill game, the health care game, the tax system game. Everywhere there are these ridiculously complex games that are used to confuse and bilk people out of all their money. Mainly it hurts people who don't have the time, don't have the wits-- or in the case of the super complicated games like the tax game-- don't have the money to hire professional game players (lawyers, accountants) to help them win.
There is accumulating evidence that certain viruses may cause obesity, in essence making obesity contagious, according to Leah D. Whigham, the lead researcher in a new study, "Adipogenic potential of multiple human adenoviruses in vivo and in vitro in animals," in the January issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology published by the American Physiological Society.
The study, by Whigham, Barbara A. Israel and Richard L. Atkinson, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that the human adenovirus Ad-37 causes obesity in chickens. This finding builds on studies that two related viruses, Ad-36 and Ad-5, also cause obesity in animals.
Moreover, Ad-36 has been associated with human obesity, leading researchers to suspect that Ad-37 also may be implicated in human obesity. Whigham said more research is needed to find out if Ad-37 causes obesity in humans. One study was inconclusive, because only a handful of people showed evidence of infection with Ad-37 -- not enough people to draw any conclusions, she said. Ad-37, Ad-36 and Ad-5 are part of a family of approximately 50 viruses known as human adenoviruses.
I just finished reading Programming In Scala. Yes, it's a big language. There is a lot going on for sure. Extractors, Case Classes, Pattern Matching, Implicit Functions, just to name a few. Reading about scala can be a bit overwhelming. I had to really get my hands dirty with a small project before I really was able to understand and appreciate all the features and how they work together. The fun thing about Scala though is that one can start out programming in a Java style and slowly incorporate its more advanced features. While working on a toy web app in the excellent Lift web framework, I found that as I applied Scala features my code kept getting smaller and smaller. It was kind of fun to see how small I could get it as I piled on more language features. I actually found myself quite amused at the power of the language.
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Maybe he was secretly trying to downplay the Internet to keep the powers that be from seeing the internet as a threat and thus letting it grown and develop without interference?
When you are weak, appear strong. When strong, appear weak. You know...
I think a lot of people underestimate how important not breaking backward compatibility has been to Java's success. It makes managers and people who pay to have code written feel more confident that they won't experience the kind of code rot and upgrade hassles that have plagued other platforms.
Obviously you have to use debit at an ATM, but at gas stations i use credit, even with my debit card, because once they have your pin they can get cash out of your account and not just do a credit card charge. The crooks would much rather have the greenbacks than having to buy crap with your stolen card and fence it.
Because the Chinese don't think Europe and the Anglo-Americans run the world. Seriously, whenever you hear the word "global" or "international" that really means Europe (Specifically the EU leaders), the Anglo Countries (spearheaded by British and American think tanks), any third world countries they can bribe or intimidate into going along with them and NOT China or Russia (and occasionally Brazil and India will opt out too).
I wouldn't be surprised if the rootkit authors were at work on a patch for this BSOD. They will of course send it out via auto-update.
I have a domain name that I do mail forwarding for. Some botnet owner decided it was worth finding emails to spam to on this domain. So now every single day, 24/7 365 days a year, once or twice a minute I get an attempt to send an email to fsdfs34@mydomain.com where fsdfs34 gets replaced with every possible email conceivable. At first I decided to add an ip blocker for anyone who spammed me, but it soon slowed down my mail server so much that I had to take it out once the list grew into the 10s of thousands of ips.
Now I just greylist and tightly check EHELOs which seems to keep any of the spam from getting anywhere. Nevertheless, the attempts come relentlessly and continuously like clockwork form ips all over the world.
They've got everything else in place, they're just working on the "instantaneous retrieval by the authorities" part.
FYI, Zbigniew Brzezinski was carter's national security advisor and co-founder of the trilateral commission.
Treaties are really awful, they are the big loophole in the constitution by which tyranny can be introduced.
http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/article4.html
Article VI, paragraph 2 actually stipulates on the issue: "...all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution [of any State] or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. [Emphasis added.]"
China is not an autocratic system. It's an oligarchy or if your want to flatter them, an aristocracy. The communist party is basically a private club that runs the country by electing officials from within its own ranks to committees that perform various governance functions. The most powerful committee is the central committee but it is by no means autocratic. BTW, all of China's central committee members have engineering backgrounds.
China's strategy for regaining it's hegemonic strategy is pretty simple and utilizes a basic weakness in American democracy.
U.S Corporate lobbyists command massive influence politics in the united states.
U.S lobbyists are controlled by U.S corporations.
China can easily exert influence over U.S corporations by giving them preferential or non-preferential treatment with their China operations. They can even tell them to get their lobbyists to tell the politicians in Washington to do what China wants.
Therefore China can easily exert influence on Washington.
Maybe we could pay for the mission with carbon credits?! Seriously, it's almost like the Russians, who are big-time global warming deniers, are throwing the whole global mission to save the earth at any cost canard right back at the west, except this time all the money from the global government arrangement goes to Russian space research.
Welcome to the Technetronic era!
FYI, Zbigniew Brzezinski is one of America's most influential foreign policy strategists.
I have Amazon Prime so I get free two day shipping on everything and $3.99 overnight shipping. You would be amazed at how heavy an item I can get shipped overnight for $3.99. 2-day and overnight shipping anywhere else seems like a complete ripoff.
This is why being a Microsoft developer sucks. You learn one shiny knew complicated kludgy technology and then they throw it all away when the next shiny new version of windows comes out. The new shiny new kludge has pretty much the same function and api but everything's named differently and it has a whole slew up different quirks and gotchas to work around.
I wonder when this thing will be included in a kit with a tendon stapler (of Johnny Mnemoic fame).
So really economics is best modeled as mutating finite automata, with the economist being an actor in the simulation. Maybe Steven Wolfram was onto something with his rantings about finite automata describing the natural world much better than equations.
Some photos from around Treese:
Chat
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579757
Cave Ins
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3579725
I wonder if they have an enemies list to complement the buddies list. Tactical systems are funny like that. You have users of the application -- the enemy combatants -- who don't really want to be users of your application.
In order to be a good programmer, one has to have a very good memory for trivia. Why do you think Ken Jennings, a programmer, was the best Jeopardy contestant of all time? Computer systems and APIs are so complicated that if one cannot remember a good chunk of the APIs and how trivia about how parts of the systems work, it can be difficult to get anything done.
Having a good memory for trivia makes it easy to see all kinds of connections among things in non-programming life, namely in culture, or in day-to-day life in general. This usually leads to a special kind of creativity in which one brings together one's own set of personal behaviors from tying things together instead of just following a template that society provides for us. For instance, instead of trying to imitate the confident corporate person they see on TV, a programmer will choose their outfit based on utility and comfort, pulling together shoes, pants, gadgets, etc, based on utility and comfort.
Sounds like someone is trying to introduce the "Culture War" Anti-Pattern into the FOSS Community:
Read more here: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3484376.html
(FYI, this is not a perfect article, and explains things in terms of contemporary American politics, not the FOSS community, but does give a good description of the anti-pattern nonetheless.)
Anyone remember a software product called QEMM back in the DOS days? It was a tool to deal with this horrid thing known as "high-mem" back in the bad old days before Windows 95, allowing one to have more memory to run Win 3.1. It was written by a company called Quarterdeck Office Systems and it built their business. Microsoft came out with a tool that did the same thing called memmaker that worked well enough and did the same thing and they bundled it with DOS 5.0 (I think it was 5.0). Though, not as efficient as QEMM it was good enough and ultimately led to the demise of Quarterdeck (along with a bunch of other dumb mistakes).
It seems that more and more everything in American Capitalism and it's "light" version : Canadian Capitalism is a game. There's the credit card game, the investing game, the phone bill game, the health care game, the tax system game. Everywhere there are these ridiculously complex games that are used to confuse and bilk people out of all their money. Mainly it hurts people who don't have the time, don't have the wits-- or in the case of the super complicated games like the tax game-- don't have the money to hire professional game players (lawyers, accountants) to help them win.
I just finished reading Programming In Scala. Yes, it's a big language. There is a lot going on for sure. Extractors, Case Classes, Pattern Matching, Implicit Functions, just to name a few. Reading about scala can be a bit overwhelming. I had to really get my hands dirty with a small project before I really was able to understand and appreciate all the features and how they work together. The fun thing about Scala though is that one can start out programming in a Java style and slowly incorporate its more advanced features. While working on a toy web app in the excellent Lift web framework, I found that as I applied Scala features my code kept getting smaller and smaller. It was kind of fun to see how small I could get it as I piled on more language features. I actually found myself quite amused at the power of the language.