I don't think developers want access either- if something goes wrong, do you want to be responsible?
In my experience, it's often the developers held responsible rather the ones that install and maintain it, at least with non-shrinkwrap software. The administrators usually don't know how to diagnose and fix something outside the OS, filesystem, network, and maybe application server, so the developers are hauled in and told "OMG fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it". Over time this becomes practice rather than an exception.
I'd much prefer to stay out of production, myself, but businesses generally hold results above ideals, and as the developer I'm generally better at "making it go" than the one in charge of keeping the system alive.
I'd just like to point out that without the government's help the RIAA couldn't exist. If copyright regulation were not being grossly warped by the government then there would be no way that the RIAA could wield the power that it does.
The RIAA existed long before they got this kind of power through the DMCA. Copyright laws were warped because the RIAA already had power. The DMCA being passed at all demonstrates the power that lobbyists have in Congress.
Odds are, they're getting a hell of a lot more exposure to ionizing radiation from the cell phones they have jammed into the sides of their pretty little heads that from some roof-mounted WAP that's fifty or sixty feet away.
Since neither produces ionizing radiation, your statement seems inaccurate.
If it uses the same wattage how is there less heat? All light eventually becomes heat.
Not sure why this is listed as insightful. The light emitted doesn't necessarily become heat if it's used in a photosynthetic reaction to build the plant.
The light emitted isn't the issue with heat, it's the waste heat that's emitted along with the light. Around 90% of an incandescent bulb's power input is emitted as heat, but that's nowhere near the case with LED lamps.
So they'll either need to change their logo if they change their mission statement, or ensure that it's worded in such a way that they retain the same hash.
What happens when Congress pushes through a bill without a single business day for public review? A bill introduced on Saturday afternoon is voted on at 1 AM Sunday morning. That's not too open now, it is?
You are one of those armchair quarterbacks.
The vote you're complaining about, 385, was a cloture vote on an amendment (SA 3276) to an amendment (SA 2786) to the health care bill (HR 3590). (Incidentally, that amendment itself had an amendment.)
SA 3276 was introduced on 12/19 and passed on 12/22, three days later. SA 2786 was introduced on 11/21 and passed on 12/23, over a month later. HR 3590 was received by the Senate from the House on 10/8, was discussed ad nauseum for almost three months, and passed on 12/24.
All of this, each version of each of the amendments and bills, is printed in the Congressional Record and is available via THOMAS.
By and large, Illegal immigrants are coming here because there's work for them ("they're stealing our jobs!") and there are more opportunities here than where they came from. How does this not apply to the employers who illegally employ them?
This reminds me of a tool I used back in the day called "Revelation". You loaded it up, clicked on the "target" icon, then clicked on a password field that was blocked with asterisks instead of displaying the password. The "hidden" password would appear in the "Revelation" box, allowing you to see what it was.
In that version of Windows, a password edit control just had a password style set on it and you could effectively disable that with some simple Windows API calls. Worse, you could just WM_GETTEXT and get the password out in plaintext without changing the style.
That is exactly the problem in Government right now. These HUGE bills that no one knows what they contain.
Only because they don't appear to know how to use THOMAS, where activity up to floor actions from the day before are available. It's the web version of the Congressional Record and has been around since the Clinton Administration. If you want things before they even leave the committees, you may have to look somewhere else, but everything else is available there.
One of the main problems in our federal government right now is that we have millions of armchair quarterbacks who don't properly understand the rules of the game.
You must be the most pretentious asshole programmer in the world. Not only do you think the greatest minds in your discipline have nothing to teach you, but you are actively engaged in trying NOT to learn new things.
Great life you have ahead of you...
In my experience, he actually may. He'll bop from well-paying contract to well-paying contract, consequence-free, producing crap that other folks will end up having to clean up.
May be pointing in the wrong direction. That's the sticky bit about correlation vs. causation, you can't automatically tell the latter based on the former in either direction.
... then you make sure that person is the one to get hurt, and it has to be the kind of pain and humiliation that will make them fear you forever. If they don't respect you, make them fear you.
In my experience, this doesn't take much for most bullies. They're used to getting their own way due to fear and often don't know what to do when someone pushes back.
Once a bully pushed me a little too far in a graphics arts class in middle school and got a left hook to the jaw for his trouble. I found out shortly after, after I'd stopped shaking, that it had been my fist, apparently acting on its own sense of justice. Admiring classmates that were suddenly emboldened by a bully being put in his place told me all about it when I wanted to sit and figure out what happened. I'm sure the teacher saw it, but he didn't do anything about either the bullying or the unexpected reprisal. The bully ended up crying with a bleeding lip, which I expect was doubly damaging to his macho self-image.
The only thing I heard from him after that was him shouting insults at me from two baseball fields away. I spontaneously laughed at him loudly because it was so ludicrous, but I guess now that was the right response anyway.
Near as I can tell, "Al Qaeda" loosely translates to "angry brown people". I mean maybe there really is some sort of global conspiracy, but every time an armed group of Muslims shows up it seems like it's immediately labeled Al Qaeda.
Except, of course, in this case the group in question allied itself with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization. It may not use Al Qaeda in the name, but they purport to have similar cause and purpose, so using the name Al Qaeda is far from being a shorthand for "angry brown people".
We dropped the ball on Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, put it on the back burner, and instead went for war in Iraq to further defense contractor profit enhancement and gain another neocon agenda rallying point.
In any apcalyptic scenario you can be sure there would be people who actively tried to destroy old knowledge.
I don't think those people consider it "old knowledge", they probably actively disbelieve it and want to Educate the washed, deluded Masses about the Truth, at least as they see it.
There seems to be an equivalent to Newton's Third Law applying to belief. For all the multitudes that happen to calmly, rationally believe something, there's usually someone (or many someones) who disbelieve it with the heat of a thousand suns. Perhaps belief can't stand up without an opposing belief to bookend it on the other side.
He puts the crew's lives at stake several times by blithely ignoring the reality of his "strategies". He repeatedly refuses his genius mechanic's requests to buy a "nothing part" and a few months later, the ship explodes, dooming everyone [...] He unquestioningly takes a job for a murderous mob boss; betrays him based on pure emotional response [...] Risks the lives of his crew playing mercenary for a backwater settlement in exchange for trinkets. Risks the lives of his crew defending a whorehouse for no practical reason, [...]
Except of course for the obvious, continuing trope in the series that they were constantly dead broke and had to take whatever jobs they could get. A person often make poor choices when they don't have the leeway to make better ones; this does not make the person an idiot.
and on top of this gratuitously kills one of his defenseless henchmen
Who were only defenseless because they had just been disabled and disarmed after trying to kill the crew. The one who was killed had just threatened to continue the killing at the first opportunity and for as long as it took; killing him could be argued to be self-defense, though somewhat pre-emptive and heavy-handed. Observe that the other defenseless henchmen took the returned money and walked away unscathed.
I owe my succes [sic] and productivity to working harder than I have to, and spending less than I make.
Ignoring the entire structure of society around you doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Are you saying you never used a public school, or were supported by someone who used a public school? Police, fire departments, libraries, roads, traffic signals, fresh water, sewers, national defense? Those kinds of things played no part at all in helping you reach where you are now?
We live in a society and the commons should not be taken for granted so.
There are plenty of ways that one can aquire an immunodeficiency syndrome. They were all AIDS until some wiseass redefined AIDS to exclude everything except the most common situation.
Cite?
The other immunodeficiency disorders out there appear to be caused by congenital defects, chemotherapy, and so on. AIDS was the moniker given to the transmittable immunodeficiency disorder that was observed spreading in the early 1980s. It's since been pretty conclusively linked with HIV.
[...] there was never a robot 'menace', or robots running around murdering people.
Aside from the "Zeroth Law" mentioned by others, "Little Lost Robot", part of the I, Robot collection, features a robot trying to kill a human because of some unintended consequences surrounding that robot's unique modification of the First Law.
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I don't think developers want access either- if something goes wrong, do you want to be responsible?
In my experience, it's often the developers held responsible rather the ones that install and maintain it, at least with non-shrinkwrap software. The administrators usually don't know how to diagnose and fix something outside the OS, filesystem, network, and maybe application server, so the developers are hauled in and told "OMG fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it". Over time this becomes practice rather than an exception.
I'd much prefer to stay out of production, myself, but businesses generally hold results above ideals, and as the developer I'm generally better at "making it go" than the one in charge of keeping the system alive.
Alien AI may choose to linger at galactic centres, where matter and energy are plentiful.
If something like Vinge's Zones of Thought hold, that would be exactly the wrong direction to look.
I'd just like to point out that without the government's help the RIAA couldn't exist. If copyright regulation were not being grossly warped by the government then there would be no way that the RIAA could wield the power that it does.
The RIAA existed long before they got this kind of power through the DMCA. Copyright laws were warped because the RIAA already had power. The DMCA being passed at all demonstrates the power that lobbyists have in Congress.
Odds are, they're getting a hell of a lot more exposure to ionizing radiation from the cell phones they have jammed into the sides of their pretty little heads that from some roof-mounted WAP that's fifty or sixty feet away.
Since neither produces ionizing radiation, your statement seems inaccurate.
If it uses the same wattage how is there less heat? All light eventually becomes heat.
Not sure why this is listed as insightful. The light emitted doesn't necessarily become heat if it's used in a photosynthetic reaction to build the plant.
The light emitted isn't the issue with heat, it's the waste heat that's emitted along with the light. Around 90% of an incandescent bulb's power input is emitted as heat, but that's nowhere near the case with LED lamps.
So they'll either need to change their logo if they change their mission statement, or ensure that it's worded in such a way that they retain the same hash.
What happens when Congress pushes through a bill without a single business day for public review? A bill introduced on Saturday afternoon is voted on at 1 AM Sunday morning. That's not too open now, it is?
You are one of those armchair quarterbacks.
The vote you're complaining about, 385, was a cloture vote on an amendment (SA 3276) to an amendment (SA 2786) to the health care bill (HR 3590). (Incidentally, that amendment itself had an amendment.)
SA 3276 was introduced on 12/19 and passed on 12/22, three days later.
SA 2786 was introduced on 11/21 and passed on 12/23, over a month later.
HR 3590 was received by the Senate from the House on 10/8, was discussed ad nauseum for almost three months, and passed on 12/24.
All of this, each version of each of the amendments and bills, is printed in the Congressional Record and is available via THOMAS.
Go and read some of it, please.
By and large, Illegal immigrants are coming here because there's work for them ("they're stealing our jobs!") and there are more opportunities here than where they came from. How does this not apply to the employers who illegally employ them?
This reminds me of a tool I used back in the day called "Revelation". You loaded it up, clicked on the "target" icon, then clicked on a password field that was blocked with asterisks instead of displaying the password. The "hidden" password would appear in the "Revelation" box, allowing you to see what it was.
In that version of Windows, a password edit control just had a password style set on it and you could effectively disable that with some simple Windows API calls. Worse, you could just WM_GETTEXT and get the password out in plaintext without changing the style.
That is exactly the problem in Government right now. These HUGE bills that no one knows what they contain.
Only because they don't appear to know how to use THOMAS, where activity up to floor actions from the day before are available. It's the web version of the Congressional Record and has been around since the Clinton Administration. If you want things before they even leave the committees, you may have to look somewhere else, but everything else is available there.
One of the main problems in our federal government right now is that we have millions of armchair quarterbacks who don't properly understand the rules of the game.
You must be the most pretentious asshole programmer in the world. Not only do you think the greatest minds in your discipline have nothing to teach you, but you are actively engaged in trying NOT to learn new things.
Great life you have ahead of you...
In my experience, he actually may. He'll bop from well-paying contract to well-paying contract, consequence-free, producing crap that other folks will end up having to clean up.
The perfect tattoo: in a single 72-point font, the last digit of Pi.
There is not "last digit". There is, however, a small raster image of a circle built into the digits in base 11 a ways into the sequence...
May be pointing in the wrong direction. That's the sticky bit about correlation vs. causation, you can't automatically tell the latter based on the former in either direction.
... then you make sure that person is the one to get hurt, and it has to be the kind of pain and humiliation that will make them fear you forever. If they don't respect you, make them fear you.
In my experience, this doesn't take much for most bullies. They're used to getting their own way due to fear and often don't know what to do when someone pushes back.
Once a bully pushed me a little too far in a graphics arts class in middle school and got a left hook to the jaw for his trouble. I found out shortly after, after I'd stopped shaking, that it had been my fist, apparently acting on its own sense of justice. Admiring classmates that were suddenly emboldened by a bully being put in his place told me all about it when I wanted to sit and figure out what happened. I'm sure the teacher saw it, but he didn't do anything about either the bullying or the unexpected reprisal. The bully ended up crying with a bleeding lip, which I expect was doubly damaging to his macho self-image.
The only thing I heard from him after that was him shouting insults at me from two baseball fields away. I spontaneously laughed at him loudly because it was so ludicrous, but I guess now that was the right response anyway.
You forgot bringing Al Qaeda to Iraq.
Near as I can tell, "Al Qaeda" loosely translates to "angry brown people". I mean maybe there really is some sort of global conspiracy, but every time an armed group of Muslims shows up it seems like it's immediately labeled Al Qaeda.
Except, of course, in this case the group in question allied itself with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization. It may not use Al Qaeda in the name, but they purport to have similar cause and purpose, so using the name Al Qaeda is far from being a shorthand for "angry brown people".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq
We dropped the ball on Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, put it on the back burner, and instead went for war in Iraq to further defense contractor profit enhancement and gain another neocon agenda rallying point.
You forgot bringing Al Qaeda to Iraq.
In any apcalyptic scenario you can be sure there would be people who actively tried to destroy old knowledge.
I don't think those people consider it "old knowledge", they probably actively disbelieve it and want to Educate the washed, deluded Masses about the Truth, at least as they see it.
There seems to be an equivalent to Newton's Third Law applying to belief. For all the multitudes that happen to calmly, rationally believe something, there's usually someone (or many someones) who disbelieve it with the heat of a thousand suns. Perhaps belief can't stand up without an opposing belief to bookend it on the other side.
How is it that we managed to create such a large market for putting things into space, and yet have such a lack of the means to take things back down?
The same thing could be asked for undersea oil wells, I think, and probably share the same answer.
He puts the crew's lives at stake several times by blithely ignoring the reality of his "strategies". He repeatedly refuses his genius mechanic's requests to buy a "nothing part" and a few months later, the ship explodes, dooming everyone [...] He unquestioningly takes a job for a murderous mob boss; betrays him based on pure emotional response [...] Risks the lives of his crew playing mercenary for a backwater settlement in exchange for trinkets. Risks the lives of his crew defending a whorehouse for no practical reason, [...]
Except of course for the obvious, continuing trope in the series that they were constantly dead broke and had to take whatever jobs they could get. A person often make poor choices when they don't have the leeway to make better ones; this does not make the person an idiot.
and on top of this gratuitously kills one of his defenseless henchmen
Who were only defenseless because they had just been disabled and disarmed after trying to kill the crew. The one who was killed had just threatened to continue the killing at the first opportunity and for as long as it took; killing him could be argued to be self-defense, though somewhat pre-emptive and heavy-handed. Observe that the other defenseless henchmen took the returned money and walked away unscathed.
Now if only we could stream instantly to a Linux PC without having to resort to a VM running Windows...
I owe my succes [sic] and productivity to working harder than I have to, and spending less than I make.
Ignoring the entire structure of society around you doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Are you saying you never used a public school, or were supported by someone who used a public school? Police, fire departments, libraries, roads, traffic signals, fresh water, sewers, national defense? Those kinds of things played no part at all in helping you reach where you are now?
We live in a society and the commons should not be taken for granted so.
There are plenty of ways that one can aquire an immunodeficiency syndrome. They were all AIDS until some wiseass redefined AIDS to exclude everything except the most common situation.
Cite?
The other immunodeficiency disorders out there appear to be caused by congenital defects, chemotherapy, and so on. AIDS was the moniker given to the transmittable immunodeficiency disorder that was observed spreading in the early 1980s. It's since been pretty conclusively linked with HIV.
It's "CMS". Somehow the Ms overlap or something.
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
[...] there was never a robot 'menace', or robots running around murdering people.
Aside from the "Zeroth Law" mentioned by others, "Little Lost Robot", part of the I, Robot collection, features a robot trying to kill a human because of some unintended consequences surrounding that robot's unique modification of the First Law.
For those who may have never seen it, c.f. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/