TFS says that it will set the sail 1 million kilometers off course. I have no idea if that's a lot or a little. Don't switch units (from AU to km) mid paragraph (it's a smelly hint of wool coming over eyes).
I beg you please don't just put big numbers without context or feel for what they mean.
\begin{rant} I especially hate it when the government publishes such big numbers. Is a pork barrel item of $1,000,000 big or small. \end{rant}
Alan J. Perlis said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing". (personally I would remove the 'about programming' bit).
I think the same applies to a first programming language. It has to expand the learner's view of the universe. Getting a language which panders to the learner's universe does not do them any good.
The problem with the US health system is that there is no negative feedback of any sort to control costs. Places like Massachusetts actually made it worse because the state has become the policeman for the insurance industry. I have heard comparisons of health insurance and car insurance. A car is optional. Health is only optional if you are dead.
Another point people are confusing is health *care* and health insurance. They are completely different beasts (even though they overlap a bit).
I believe most people (in congress) who preach free markets have no idea that a free market system should have some negative feedback somewhere in the loop. The few proposals which have cost controls will not make it anywhere (sigh).
I have a hard time seeing how the arguments convince anyone other than Americans that it is a good idea. It is a self praising article on how good the US is written by an American in an American magazine.
If the US did not have control of DNS then would the arguments convince anyone to hand the control to the US? No.
You could preach all you want on how Linux makes a better business plan than Windows.
But the sad fact is that, because you are preaching from a Western pedestal, Africa will not listen. Go and read up on the AfriCar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africar) and learn from the mistakes made there.
The Africans want to be treated as full human beings capable of making their own mistakes (and hopefully learning from them).
Also you have to answer several things: 1. If Linux is so great then why is the vast majority of the western world using Windows? (It's not an easy one to answer, trust me!) 2. Suppose Linux is great, and we build wonderful apps on it, then who can we sell those apps to if the buyers are running Windows?
The patronizing attitude will not win friends and influence people.
There are (at least) two types of metadata, the mutable and immutable variety. The immutable variety (data dependent data) includes information like file size, creation date, etc... The mutable variety (things you can change without changing the underlying data) are things like file name, location etc...
My position is that file type is immutable data. 99% of the time you want to change a file type you do some sort of magic to it, be it compiling, converting to PDF etc.. I can't think of a case where changing the filename should change how the file is processed. You could rename a jpeg file all you want but it's still a jpeg file (a rose by any other name...)
Yes the filename is metadata. So what? It's the mutable variety, a reminder to yourself what the file is.
1. It's to easy to rewrite history. Because articles are (generally) on one website they can be changed. This is unlike a newspaper archive where it would be costly to destroy all copies of the paper.
2. The web is biased. If aliens connect to the internet they would think all the human race ever does is porn and bashing MS (maybe not exactly that, but you get the idea)
3. The web becomes unreadable faster than paper archives. Protocol changes and what-not.
4. The web is too easy to control. A private company can censor the web via lawsuits. . . . I'm tired
In my experience the print-on-demand books are very low quality. It hurts me when I pay over US$100 for a book and get a print-on-demand (Springer.... I'm looking at you). If only they were upfront about it.
I find it very curious how addiction studies focus mainly on male dominated activities. I am sure if females did it it would not be called an addiction.
Shoe fetishism is rarely called an addiction but I have seen women who spend their whole selves looking for the ugliest shoes.
1. Star Wars game in OpenOffice 2. Wanda the fish in Ubuntu 3. Gegls from outer space in Ubuntu 4. "No Easter Eggs here" in Debian 5. Firefox robots 6. telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl (not really easter egg?) 7. Tetris in Emacs (easter egg???) 8. firefox: about:mozilla 9. ddate in Linux 10. pipes screensaver in chrome 11. apt-get moo in Debian.
There. I Read The Fantastic Article (rtFa) for you.
Did he give a time range or just a specific day? The mayor might have had the information badly digested for him by his minions, in which case it's a case of miscommunication. If he claimed to the day as the article suggests then it's his fault, he should have been more careful.
Also how often do they get false predictions? (broken clock right twice a day etc....)
Slashdot Mirror
TFS says that it will set the sail 1 million kilometers off course. I have no idea if that's a lot or a little. Don't switch units (from AU to km) mid paragraph (it's a smelly hint of wool coming over eyes).
I beg you please don't just put big numbers without context or feel for what they mean.
\begin{rant}
I especially hate it when the government publishes such big numbers. Is a pork barrel item of $1,000,000 big or small.
\end{rant}
I am personally waiting for it to reach 3294199.
(For those of you mathematically illiterate that number is pi*(2^20).)
Wake me up when we get there.
So we aim to be number one in everything:
healthcare costs
shortest vacations
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Alan J. Perlis said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing". (personally I would remove the 'about programming' bit).
I think the same applies to a first programming language. It has to expand the learner's view of the universe. Getting a language which panders to the learner's universe does not do them any good.
Can they also use GSM to tame marauding leprechauns in Ireland?
Perhaps the genome is being optimized by design patterns instead of procedural programing.
The problem with the US health system is that there is no negative feedback of any sort to control costs. Places like Massachusetts actually made it worse because the state has become the policeman for the insurance industry. I have heard comparisons of health insurance and car insurance. A car is optional. Health is only optional if you are dead.
Another point people are confusing is health *care* and health insurance. They are completely different beasts (even though they overlap a bit).
I believe most people (in congress) who preach free markets have no idea that a free market system should have some negative feedback somewhere in the loop. The few proposals which have cost controls will not make it anywhere (sigh).
I think whoever thought the name up was a twit. The name sounds like someone barfing (which is what it usually is).
Don't get me started on twit^W tweet.
I have a hard time seeing how the arguments convince anyone other than Americans that it is a good idea. It is a self praising article on how good the US is written by an American in an American magazine.
If the US did not have control of DNS then would the arguments convince anyone to hand the control to the US? No.
Why do administrations always set timetables beyond their terms? Remember Bush's "man on Mars"?
There has been some progress:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/08/1243244
Even though it was a biggish machine.
You could preach all you want on how Linux makes a better business plan than Windows.
But the sad fact is that, because you are preaching from a Western pedestal, Africa will not listen. Go and read up on the AfriCar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africar) and learn from the mistakes made there.
The Africans want to be treated as full human beings capable of making their own mistakes (and hopefully learning from them).
Also you have to answer several things:
1. If Linux is so great then why is the vast majority of the western world using Windows? (It's not an easy one to answer, trust me!)
2. Suppose Linux is great, and we build wonderful apps on it, then who can we sell those apps to if the buyers are running Windows?
The patronizing attitude will not win friends and influence people.
Do people just look for big numbers to sound impressive??
The important number is the relative speed between Hubble and the shuttle. From my very precise calculation it was zero.
what is the status of 10.6 on the PowerPC G5?
I have no idea who modded this insightful.
There are (at least) two types of metadata, the mutable and immutable variety. The immutable variety (data dependent data) includes information like file size, creation date, etc... The mutable variety (things you can change without changing the underlying data) are things like file name, location etc...
My position is that file type is immutable data. 99% of the time you want to change a file type you do some sort of magic to it, be it compiling, converting to PDF etc.. I can't think of a case where changing the filename should change how the file is processed. You could rename a jpeg file all you want but it's still a jpeg file (a rose by any other name ...)
Yes the filename is metadata. So what? It's the mutable variety, a reminder to yourself what the file is.
The filename should not contain any metadata. The date is not included in the filename, so why is the filetype in there?
The web fails in so many ways.
1. It's to easy to rewrite history. Because articles are (generally) on one website they can be changed. This is unlike a newspaper archive where it would be costly to destroy all copies of the paper.
2. The web is biased. If aliens connect to the internet they would think all the human race ever does is porn and bashing MS (maybe not exactly that, but you get the idea)
3. The web becomes unreadable faster than paper archives. Protocol changes and what-not.
4. The web is too easy to control. A private company can censor the web via lawsuits.
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I'm tired
but you should probably realize that prescribe and proscribe are almost antonyms.
What's an antonym?
If you are humor-debilitated ignore this comment. You need to convalesce.
In my experience the print-on-demand books are very low quality. It hurts me when I pay over US$100 for a book and get a print-on-demand (Springer.... I'm looking at you). If only they were upfront about it.
I don't know the specifics, but can't IBM make a counter offer?
I find it very curious how addiction studies focus mainly on male dominated activities. I am sure if females did it it would not be called an addiction.
Shoe fetishism is rarely called an addiction but I have seen women who spend their whole selves looking for the ugliest shoes.
If you live in your parents's basement you will have a crappy mood.
I managed to finally figure out their world domination plan!
It's definitely not the Bilderberger group otherwise it would have been called boldorborgor. Naah, too borgish.
1. Star Wars game in OpenOffice
2. Wanda the fish in Ubuntu
3. Gegls from outer space in Ubuntu
4. "No Easter Eggs here" in Debian
5. Firefox robots
6. telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl (not really easter egg?)
7. Tetris in Emacs (easter egg???)
8. firefox: about:mozilla
9. ddate in Linux
10. pipes screensaver in chrome
11. apt-get moo in Debian.
There. I Read The Fantastic Article (rtFa) for you.
Quite frankly I think they are all dumb.
Did he give a time range or just a specific day? The mayor might have had the information badly digested for him by his minions, in which case it's a case of miscommunication. If he claimed to the day as the article suggests then it's his fault, he should have been more careful.
Also how often do they get false predictions? (broken clock right twice a day etc....)