Angry developers, seeing this as little more than a back-door raid on their precious computing resources, are banding together in newly-formed TCP Parties, determined to resist meddling compiler makers and nebulous language specification agencies answerable to no one....
No doubt simpler....but whatever the CIA is trying to airlift out in those circumstances probably needs to get itself gone in a hurry....and not require the plane flying around several times to be shot at by whatever angry folks are in pursuit....
Sorta "middle" as in "between heaven and hell", with less a theological slant and more of a "where men lead their lives, between the worlds of the rest of the universe". If you know Norse mythology at all, think of Midgard (the "middle world", home of plain ol' humanity) vs. Jotunheim, Alfheim, Asgard, etc.
Fair enough...but all attempts of which appear on the transcript from said institution. And if it will actually let you do that...I haven't seen a re-take policy yet that didn't have some set of conditions on it (need to have failed the previous attempt, needed to have withdrawn the previous attempt, can't retake if you're majoring in the topic, etc., etc.)
And you do actually have to re-take the course, in any event... not just re-take a test, submit it, and, hey presto!, your grade and credit appear.
For all the admittedly-powerful enabling and access online education gives people, I think it's fair and reasonable to critique grade, result and transcript control, especially if these institutions are serious about presenting themselves as offering meaningful higher ed.
I'm not sure even the worst community college stats class lets you re-submit your final until you get the grade you desire, per the end of his write-up.
And thus does iPhone auto correct precipitate a tragic, needless intergalactic conflict....
(Duly noted and thank you for the correction. Too bad I do not have a Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator with which to alter the original post...)
....and my experience, sadly, mirrors what you're hearing. Not so much buggy (although I've bumped into a few), but feature-incomplete, compared to the 1.0 series. Very little visible progress on the beta.
Whatever his other reasons for open-sourcing the code, I agree with the endgame... this is a polite way of saying he's bitten off way more than he can chew and is throwing himself on the mercy of the development community to help move things forward.
Too bad, I've enjoyed using it, but we're clearly not going to see 2.0 anytime soon and it's really starting to show its age (no full-screen editing?). Time to take that in-depth eval of Sublime and GVim.
Garden-variety angst, nihilism: pretty much anything by Cyril Kornbluth. Plus points (if that's the appropriate expression) for The Marching Morons and The Little Black Bag.
On a metaphysical level: Stanislaw Lem.... thousands of pages of highly distinctive prose pointing out, no matter our tech or aspirations, how our natures are our own limits.
At some point Peter Jackson will have enough money to dig up Tolkien, reanimate his corpse, and get the rest of the right signed over.
Well, at least Jackson will know where to find a good Necromancer to do the re-animating....
There wasn't a lot of intention to make it all canonical and publish it.
Given the volume of drafts/notes/whatnot left behind, and the timeline on them (some of the stuff going back into the 1920's), I seriously doubt this was just a "hobby" shared amongst the language faculty.
Oh, not to worry. AC left so much training data behind, at least one of those $55MM TCO quasi-Big Data-sorta-esque-y products being prominently shill.....er, "profiled"... in SlashBI will just slurp it up and start churning out new content, indistinguishable from it's meatspace authorship origins, in no time at all!
Fellow Slashdotters, say goodbye to Anonymous Coward.... and hello to his/her/it's new and improved replacement, Virtual Coward! Isn't technology grand?
And move to.... what exactly? His own private internet, where there's no dependencies on anyone else for DNS/ domain registration and management / etc. ?
Or is there a killer opportunity involving stone tablets he should switch his business model to?
I'm taking it you missed the (well-documented) Holmes legal commentary re: "yelling fire in a crowded theater." Or you can search for "Schenck".
There are, and have been for some time, legally recognized limits on speech. I don't envy the jurists who have to engage in that taffy pull vis a vis the First Amendment...but they do, they have for some time, and will continue to do so.
Whether or not that infringes on *your* definition of free speech is of limited import.
Have used them for a variety of shared and VPS deployments over the past decade. Reasonably priced, root shell access, responsive support. Only thing they don't offer is KVM, but they offer most of the standard distros in barebone images, which you can then customize as you wish. They've worked well for me.
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....we just don't know.
Rebecca, it's not polite to comment on your own article...
Angry developers, seeing this as little more than a back-door raid on their precious computing resources, are banding together in newly-formed TCP Parties, determined to resist meddling compiler makers and nebulous language specification agencies answerable to no one....
....giant squid. And if there's any justice in this world, Dave Gibbons will be the lead visual designer on them.
But to someone who does believe, you are every bit the theophobe. Your perspective is as irrelevant to their assessment as theirs is to yours.
To let the (sizeable) theophobic subpopulation of Slashdot members have an opportunity for a rant, perhaps?
Miguel deciding that there's nothing wrong with Finder that "a few hacks couldn't take care of", here and there.....
No doubt simpler....but whatever the CIA is trying to airlift out in those circumstances probably needs to get itself gone in a hurry....and not require the plane flying around several times to be shot at by whatever angry folks are in pursuit....
And just imagine what they'd get for the Arkenstone....
Sorta "middle" as in "between heaven and hell", with less a theological slant and more of a "where men lead their lives, between the worlds of the rest of the universe". If you know Norse mythology at all, think of Midgard (the "middle world", home of plain ol' humanity) vs. Jotunheim, Alfheim, Asgard, etc.
Fair enough...but all attempts of which appear on the transcript from said institution. And if it will actually let you do that...I haven't seen a re-take policy yet that didn't have some set of conditions on it (need to have failed the previous attempt, needed to have withdrawn the previous attempt, can't retake if you're majoring in the topic, etc., etc.)
And you do actually have to re-take the course, in any event ... not just re-take a test, submit it, and, hey presto!, your grade and credit appear.
For all the admittedly-powerful enabling and access online education gives people, I think it's fair and reasonable to critique grade, result and transcript control, especially if these institutions are serious about presenting themselves as offering meaningful higher ed.
I'm not sure even the worst community college stats class lets you re-submit your final until you get the grade you desire, per the end of his write-up.
And thus does iPhone auto correct precipitate a tragic, needless intergalactic conflict....
(Duly noted and thank you for the correction. Too bad I do not have a Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator with which to alter the original post...)
There was supposed to be an EARTH-SHATTERING BOOM!!!
....and my experience, sadly, mirrors what you're hearing. Not so much buggy (although I've bumped into a few), but feature-incomplete, compared to the 1.0 series. Very little visible progress on the beta.
Whatever his other reasons for open-sourcing the code, I agree with the endgame... this is a polite way of saying he's bitten off way more than he can chew and is throwing himself on the mercy of the development community to help move things forward.
Too bad, I've enjoyed using it, but we're clearly not going to see 2.0 anytime soon and it's really starting to show its age (no full-screen editing?). Time to take that in-depth eval of Sublime and GVim.
Wish I'd seen you before I posted on Lem...would have modded you up. Absolutely agreed, particularly on Solaris, simultaneously brilliant and tragic.
Garden-variety angst, nihilism: pretty much anything by Cyril Kornbluth. Plus points (if that's the appropriate expression) for The Marching Morons and The Little Black Bag.
On a metaphysical level: Stanislaw Lem .... thousands of pages of highly distinctive prose pointing out, no matter our tech or aspirations, how our natures are our own limits.
....but can't come up with 35 - 45 minutes to do a decent version of the scouring of the Shire. Grumble.
Hoping against hope the bulk of the additions don't involve a previously-unknown love interest for Thorin.
Well, at least Jackson will know where to find a good Necromancer to do the re-animating....
Given the volume of drafts/notes/whatnot left behind, and the timeline on them (some of the stuff going back into the 1920's), I seriously doubt this was just a "hobby" shared amongst the language faculty.
They can have it back. After we transplant Austin somewhere else first, of course....
I'm guessing you were out sick from class the day the "compare/contrast basic & applied science" syllabus topic was discussed.
Oh, not to worry. AC left so much training data behind, at least one of those $55MM TCO quasi-Big Data-sorta-esque-y products being prominently shill.....er, "profiled"... in SlashBI will just slurp it up and start churning out new content, indistinguishable from it's meatspace authorship origins, in no time at all!
Fellow Slashdotters, say goodbye to Anonymous Coward .... and hello to his/her/it's new and improved replacement, Virtual Coward! Isn't technology grand?
Fabulous idea!
And move to .... what exactly? His own private internet, where there's no dependencies on anyone else for DNS/ domain registration and management / etc. ?
Or is there a killer opportunity involving stone tablets he should switch his business model to?
I'm taking it you missed the (well-documented) Holmes legal commentary re: "yelling fire in a crowded theater." Or you can search for "Schenck".
There are, and have been for some time, legally recognized limits on speech. I don't envy the jurists who have to engage in that taffy pull vis a vis the First Amendment...but they do, they have for some time, and will continue to do so.
Whether or not that infringes on *your* definition of free speech is of limited import.
Have used them for a variety of shared and VPS deployments over the past decade. Reasonably priced, root shell access, responsive support. Only thing they don't offer is KVM, but they offer most of the standard distros in barebone images, which you can then customize as you wish. They've worked well for me.