1998 - Banking on the internet 2006 - Banking on a phone 2017 - Banking on a blockchain 2025 - Banking on a quantum computer 2040 - Banking in your brain 2100 - Banking on non-electronic pieces of paper. using non-electronic ink writing devices
Before Science, discoveries where kept private as secret property for power and profit.
That was called Alchemy. As "Intellectual property" monopolies continue to expand, we will naturally continue to regress towards a similar state of stagnation relative to our potential.
Do you see the contradiction with these two statements?
"Android is an open source (mostly) operating system that has to be neutral to all parties."
"They have to convince Google to allow that innovation to be surfaced to other applications via the appropriate API. That can take YEARS."
If Android was operating as open source (by Google and Samsung), then the development of new interfaces could be done directly by Samsung, then contributed back. rather than just waiting for Google.
In reality, Samsung does not understand open source, and they would not normally contribute back. But Samsung does understand the cost of forking without contributing, so they just work with the existing framework. And Google does not really encourage or want an open development model. They want to develop the core framework entirely at Google.
Btw, what specifically is missing from the camera framework?
The Founding Fathers insistence on the president being a “natural born citizens” was based on a fear that foreigners may be disloyal.
Aiming to have more leaders (in government and companies) that are natural born citizens to maintain "civic society" loyal to the country is not necessarily unreasonable.
you can find previews on youtube. It's just some guy playing minecraft, and just talking. The person just needs to be a few years older than the target teenage audience to have to right level of language cool factor.... or...
the alternative movie is a legos movie, substituting lego blocks with minecraft blockiness.
Especially cool would be combining lego blocks morphed to minecraft blockiness and some-guy-talking. This is sure to be an instant hit, and a worthy competitor to Star Wars.
"Every gasoline car on the road has a subsidy, and the right way to address that is with a carbon tax. Politicians take the easy path of providing subsidies to electric vehicles, which aren't equal to the applied subsidies of gasoline vehicles. It weakens the economic forcing function to transition to sustainable transport and energy."
The "right way" is to eliminate all the subsidies, then only have taxes based on the known effect on the environment, based on current scientific understanding. Note that all known energy sources come with some cost to the environment. Gasoline, Diesel, Coal, Solar (from panel manufacturing), Wind (manufacturing), Nuclear, Electric/Battery (Battery rare materials, energy source (Coal, Nuclear, Solar ?). Though I am not sure we would get the answer we think we want.
While we are on subsidies, what about the roads themselves? If we reduced the public money spent on roads, perhaps other forms of transportation could compete (trains, high speed trains, PRT, autonomous-only-roads, bicycles/bikeways, walking (walkable cities), none (telecommute)). The place where the taxes are focus is the world we are creating. Currently, the US seems to like roads a lot. Other countries like trains and high speed trains. Though there are more possibilities than just cars and trains.
I'm guessing that "butt dialing" is more for girls or others who wear skinny jeans or those who enjoy sitting on the phone. I am also guessing that skinny jeans and "butt"-dialing does not usually apply to slashdot users.
The United States could safely eject several organizations which do not represent the interests the general public:
Department of Agriculture Chamber of Commerce Department of Justice
and probably several more
will never happen. Instead we will nominate more czar's of random things, then that person turns into a department... That's how we grow government, and no party has real desire to reverse it.
It is chosen because it is divisible by 1,2,3 and 4.
You want also divisible by 5. 60. There are reasons why 12 and 60 have been common for time and measurements. So you can describe fractions of something without fractions (or decimal).
10, on the other hand, is less interesting, except that you can count to ten easily on your fingers. (The reason why it was chosen).
1. If possible, do not write new code. If there is open source that does something close use that, and update for your needs.
2. Use a language that fits the problem. It could be nodejs for certain complex http state machines. It could be python for high level applications. It could be C or assembly for low level performance requirements.
3. Don't limit to one language. Sufficiently large applications are usually implemented in several languages. Not purely for programer preference. But because it fits. If you write 1000 lines of C++ for a task that could be done in 20 lines of python or nodejs, then you are doing something wrong. Solving the same problem twice (in multiple languages), will often help in design but also in revealing the optimal choice.
4. Keep code modular, so you can easily replace an implementation( with a new language or new design). Modular, meaning split at a library/executable/networking boundary, not "Object oriented", which does not necessarily aide with any software engineering principal.
I assume they just grew tired of the uniformed C++ masses saying. "JS is not 'real' OO, `cause it has no classes".
Classes are not required for objects, obviously. JS always had objects with properties and methods. And while using objects as prototypes for creating other objects is different than a Class based system, objects are still objects.
They just caved, and added class syntax sugar. You can still use JS the original/correct way, and ignore the class syntax.
I guess the class syntax does help those C++ programmers, who in the past insisted on creating ugly class wrappers in JS. At least their c++'ized code will be slightly less ugly.
Slashdot Mirror
bank patents:
1998 - Banking on the internet
2006 - Banking on a phone
2017 - Banking on a blockchain
2025 - Banking on a quantum computer
2040 - Banking in your brain
2100 - Banking on non-electronic pieces of paper. using non-electronic ink writing devices
Before Science, discoveries where kept private as secret property for power and profit.
That was called Alchemy. As "Intellectual property" monopolies continue to expand, we will naturally continue to regress towards a similar state of stagnation relative to our potential.
Do you see the contradiction with these two statements?
"Android is an open source (mostly) operating system that has to be neutral to all parties."
"They have to convince Google to allow that innovation to be surfaced to other applications via the appropriate API. That can take YEARS."
If Android was operating as open source (by Google and Samsung), then the development of new interfaces could be done directly by Samsung, then contributed back. rather than just waiting for Google.
In reality, Samsung does not understand open source, and they would not normally contribute back. But Samsung does understand the cost of forking without contributing, so they just work with the existing framework. And Google does not really encourage or want an open development model. They want to develop the core framework entirely at Google.
Btw, what specifically is missing from the camera framework?
Agreed.
Take the union of fox news and CNN.
The result is the news.
Sometimes the result is the empty set.
from amazon's new policy:
"enable the infringement of or unauthorized access to digital media or other protected content"
This does not mention captain hook or somali pirates.
> which is supposedly the future of the desktops. It sounds interesting on paper but I remain skeptical.
Who supposed that? Employees of VMware? You will likely to consider other options for virtualization or containerization.
The Founding Fathers insistence on the president being a “natural born citizens” was based on a fear that foreigners may be disloyal.
Aiming to have more leaders (in government and companies) that are natural born citizens to maintain "civic society" loyal to the country is not necessarily unreasonable.
"Apples" is the new parent company. .. ...
Subsidiaries are:
"Idared" - products: I-Phone, I-PAD,
"Macintosh" - Mac products.
Rather than pay $3000,
Can I just download the plans for this open source farmbot and build it?
If not, which parts are open source, and which are not?
you can find previews on youtube. It's just some guy playing minecraft, and just talking. The person just needs to be a few years older than the target teenage audience to have to right level of language cool factor. ... or ...
the alternative movie is a legos movie, substituting lego blocks with minecraft blockiness.
Especially cool would be combining lego blocks morphed to minecraft blockiness and some-guy-talking. This is sure to be an instant hit, and a worthy competitor to Star Wars.
saran wrap?
Do people really seek a specific brand of plastic wrap?
The best brand of plastic wrap, of course, is Cling-On brand plastic wrap.
"Every gasoline car on the road has a subsidy, and the right way to address that is with a carbon tax. Politicians take the easy path of providing subsidies to electric vehicles, which aren't equal to the applied subsidies of gasoline vehicles. It weakens the economic forcing function to transition to sustainable transport and energy."
The "right way" is to eliminate all the subsidies, then only have taxes based on the known effect on the environment, based on current scientific understanding.
Note that all known energy sources come with some cost to the environment. Gasoline, Diesel, Coal, Solar (from panel manufacturing), Wind (manufacturing), Nuclear, Electric/Battery (Battery rare materials, energy source (Coal, Nuclear, Solar ?). Though I am not sure we would get the answer we think we want.
While we are on subsidies, what about the roads themselves? If we reduced the public money spent on roads, perhaps other forms of transportation could compete (trains, high speed trains, PRT, autonomous-only-roads, bicycles/bikeways, walking (walkable cities), none (telecommute)). The place where the taxes are focus is the world we are creating. Currently, the US seems to like roads a lot. Other countries like trains and high speed trains. Though there are more possibilities than just cars and trains.
btw, that movie ending was terrible. Iron man, really? The book had it right.
I thought the generic term is pocket dial.
I'm guessing that "butt dialing" is more for girls or others who wear skinny jeans or those who enjoy sitting on the phone.
I am also guessing that skinny jeans and "butt"-dialing does not usually apply to slashdot users.
> 3) Do either of them save as .DOCX or .DOC, since that seems to be what most employers and recruiters insist on sending/receiving?
Since you mentioned employers/recruiters, I assume you are talking about a resume?
If so, use PDF for resumes. Sending resume as and .doc/.docx is not professional.
The United States could safely eject several organizations which do not represent the interests the general public:
Department of Agriculture
Chamber of Commerce
Department of Justice
and probably several more
will never happen. ... That's how we grow government, and no party has real desire to reverse it.
Instead we will nominate more czar's of random things, then that person turns into a department
is apple ever going to give up on 4x3, or will they eventually try to revive the 4x3 TV, by changing all of the monitors to 4x3 as well?
If editors would support elastic tabstops, then we would not be limited to fixed width fonts for code.
> Base 12 is arbitrary
Not really.
It is chosen because it is divisible by 1,2,3 and 4.
You want also divisible by 5. 60. There are reasons why 12 and 60 have been common for time and measurements. So you can describe fractions of something without fractions (or decimal).
10, on the other hand, is less interesting, except that you can count to ten easily on your fingers. (The reason why it was chosen).
To be clear, Microsoft never bought Nokia.
They bought the Nokia phone business, which was dying due to a switch to use Windows.
Even with free public transit, the government spends far more providing roads (for free) to private/individual cars.
If all roads were toll roads, would you still drive.
If the budget for private/individual transportation was equal to the budget for public transit, which would be preferred?
A few suggestions:
1. If possible, do not write new code.
If there is open source that does something close use that, and update for your needs.
2. Use a language that fits the problem.
It could be nodejs for certain complex http state machines. It could be python for high level applications. It could be C or assembly for low level performance requirements.
3. Don't limit to one language. Sufficiently large applications are usually implemented in several languages. Not purely for programer preference. But because it fits. If you write 1000 lines of C++ for a task that could be done in 20 lines of python or nodejs, then you are doing something wrong.
Solving the same problem twice (in multiple languages), will often help in design but also in revealing the optimal choice.
4. Keep code modular, so you can easily replace an implementation( with a new language or new design). Modular, meaning split at a library/executable/networking boundary, not "Object oriented", which does not necessarily aide with any software engineering principal.
I assume they just grew tired of the uniformed C++ masses saying. "JS is not 'real' OO, `cause it has no classes".
Classes are not required for objects, obviously. JS always had objects with properties and methods. And while using objects as prototypes for creating other objects is different than a Class based system, objects are still objects.
They just caved, and added class syntax sugar. You can still use JS the original/correct way, and ignore the class syntax.
I guess the class syntax does help those C++ programmers, who in the past insisted on creating ugly class wrappers in JS. At least their c++'ized code will be slightly less ugly.
I am a skeptical.
Will Mint really fork Ubuntu? And keep an Upstart optional system?
An easier path, is perhaps have two paths (as Mint currently has).
An Ubuntu based system, which would have SystemD,
And a Devuan based system, which would offer other init systems. (The Devuan system would replace the Debian derived Mint).
In the past, I would install the release of Ubuntu a month before it was officially released.
Now, I'm sticking with 14.04, and will likely next try Devuan when released.