The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know. http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/
the operating system or other suitable components maintain a repository of emergency data such that emergency type information can be aggregated and displayed in one place
Sounds like an n-tier solution to me, but I may have picked the wrong week to stop <verb> <noun>.
I dont consider a company important just because it forces its competitors to compete. Thats how the system is suposed to work.
class Feedback_loop_company {};
Feedback_loop_company Google = new Feedback_loop_company();
Yeah, if we didn't have this instance, we'd have to make a new one. The fact that it's here, and taking the tortise approach to world domination, as opposed to the hare, makes Google at least interesting, if not important.
You know that the thought of their own OS distribution has to have crossed their minds...
While clu[tt]ering that desktop with the most annoying collection collection of little word bubbles this side of a Teen Titans [TT] comic book... (grrrr)
Re:Not being trollish, but...
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Opera 8 Released
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Believe it or not, there are some people who like the idea of using non-MS products, and also like to pay a set amount of money up front, to establish a market.
Opera needs an ad campaign featuring a giant viking woman in a horned helm and bullet-proof brassiere, surfing that internet cloud from slide #17 on a winged horse.
The mist parts. Below, a large herd of "e" creatures on a hillside.
She swoops down, and waves her axe. A large black rectangle appears on the ground adjacent the herd of "e"s. The upper left corner of the box has a grey "c:\welcome\to\troll\tuesday" printed. She waves the axe in a sweeping backhand, and the "e" creatures are flung into the black abyss. She hurls the axe at the X in the upper right corner of the grey rectangle. She smiles.
(can anyone identify the powdery residue at the bottom of my coffee cup?)
C2 lays it out.
School is about learning the terminology and trying to get the most egregious errors out of the way, so that, after graduation, real work can commence.
Jews refers to the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve rolling out of Egypt.
The concept of being chosen by God refers to Abram (later, Abraham) rolling out of Mesopotamia and being given everything he could see from the top of Mount... and knowing that through his seed, all nations should be blest.
Moses on Sinai comes later, after Egypt, and the organizational behavior lesson that real change takes two generations.
Centurion : What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian : It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion : No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian : Er, "Romanus"!
Centurion : Goes like?
Brian : Annus.
Centurion : Vocative plural of "Annus" is?
Brian : Er, er, annus, anni, anno, annum, anno, anni... "Romani"!
Centurion : (Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti) "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian : Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion : So, "eunt" is... ?
Brian : Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion : But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use... ?
(He twists Brian's ear)
Brian : Aaagh ! The imperative !
Centurion : Which is... ?
Brian : Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
Centurion : How many Romans?
Brian : Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
Centurion : (Writes "ite") "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it?
Brian : Dative !
(the Centurion holds a sword to his throat)
Brian : Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "ad domum" !
Centurion : But "Domus" takes the locative, which is... ?
Brian : Er, "Domum" !
Centurion : (Writes "Domum") Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian : Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion : Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
You need to read The Power Game. Hedrick Smith (no relation) gives you the play-by-play.
Now, you might think it dated, because the play-by-play is of the Reagan era, but the ink is depressingly fresh.
In particular, the chapter entitled "Pentagon Games", where he walks you through the procurement morass, is especially enlightening.
You are definitely right; not all Civil Servants are dumb/bad/incompetent; many sincerely try to do the best they can. As in software, so in bureaucracies: complexity sucks.
Ah, but how often is the 'cure' worse than the 'disease'?
Maybe you had a bad experience with it - sorry, but that doesn't make the system intrinsically bad.
I'll go on a limb and posit that we actually have a great deal of common ground on requirements; this argument is about implementation.
The government cannot and should not be in the position of dictating social mores. Yet this is exactly what people require. Young men need to know that manhood is about keeping your genetic material to yourself until prepared for fatherhood; sex isn't a video game. Yet the government isn't capable of pursuing effective cures for problems. Indeed, perpetuating problems helps a bureaucracy grow, don't you know?
I have met some Civil Servants worth their salt, BTW. However, living near DC has bred in me that the difference between the Government and La Cosa Nostra isn't as sharp as it could be, and less government could lead to more of the self-sufficient, independent viewpoint on which this country was actually founded.
SS is only a part of the system. It doesn't dictate the way the whole government works in the way you seem to think it does.
Overall, my life observation is that people don't scale well. Blamesmanship and careerism affect all organizations, sacred and profane. Size == bad. Less == more. Delegation == good. Individual responsibility == good. Bureaucracy == bad. My detailed knowledge of American history == bad.
In an information age, would a rolling back of the clock to pre-New Deal days recycle a lot of the old problems, to at least some degree? Likely. But would such a risk be worth it? Oh, as long as you're not on the receiving end of the injustice...
Anyway, thanks for the post, as it's given me fresh cause to consider my assertions.
The idea of Social Security came about with the *New* Deal, ~70 years ago.
Income tax dates to WWII.
Had the Founding Fathers seen these feats of cranial rectalitis, they may have balked at signing the Declaration of Independence.
Because Apple is a first and foremost a hardware company. An x86 version of OSX excites Jobs as much as an x86 Solaris excites McNealy. Both are about selling boxes, and the OS is a means to that end, not an end unto itself.
Apple tends to target the higher end of the market, (though these Mac Minis are increasingly tempting). Lowering OSX standards to mix with such common ruffians as AMD and Intel products would be like having a widower son marry an old, disapproved lover, don't you know...
Slashdot Mirror
If the stones are rolling, you could end up a knight...
Are you a MySQL founder?s p
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1788062,00.a
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/
Great link!
I admit I was distracted by the present progressive in my thinking.
English grammar--here to make Perl look consistent...
class Feedback_loop_company {};
Feedback_loop_company Google = new Feedback_loop_company();
Yeah, if we didn't have this instance, we'd have to make a new one. The fact that it's here, and taking the tortise approach to world domination, as opposed to the hare, makes Google at least interesting, if not important.
You know that the thought of their own OS distribution has to have crossed their minds...
Desktop search is an ad-fad.
While clu[tt]ering that desktop with the most annoying collection collection of little word bubbles this side of a Teen Titans [TT] comic book... (grrrr)
How does this affect me?
Believe it or not, there are some people who like the idea of using non-MS products, and also like to pay a set amount of money up front, to establish a market.
Opera needs an ad campaign featuring a giant viking woman in a horned helm and bullet-proof brassiere, surfing that internet cloud from slide #17 on a winged horse.
The mist parts. Below, a large herd of "e" creatures on a hillside.
She swoops down, and waves her axe. A large black rectangle appears on the ground adjacent the herd of "e"s. The upper left corner of the box has a grey "c:\welcome\to\troll\tuesday" printed. She waves the axe in a sweeping backhand, and the "e" creatures are flung into the black abyss. She hurls the axe at the X in the upper right corner of the grey rectangle. She smiles.
(can anyone identify the powdery residue at the bottom of my coffee cup?)
C2 lays it out.
School is about learning the terminology and trying to get the most egregious errors out of the way, so that, after graduation, real work can commence.
Jews refers to the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve rolling out of Egypt. ... and knowing that through his seed, all nations should be blest.
The concept of being chosen by God refers to Abram (later, Abraham) rolling out of Mesopotamia and being given everything he could see from the top of Mount
Moses on Sinai comes later, after Egypt, and the organizational behavior lesson that real change takes two generations.
I liked Eco's book (in English), but I thought that the Illuminatus Trilogy was mo' betta.
Centurion : What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian : It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion : No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian : Er, "Romanus"!
Centurion : Goes like?
Brian : Annus.
Centurion : Vocative plural of "Annus" is?
Brian : Er, er, annus, anni, anno, annum, anno, anni... "Romani"!
Centurion : (Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti) "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian : Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion : So, "eunt" is... ?
Brian : Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion : But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use... ?
(He twists Brian's ear)
Brian : Aaagh ! The imperative !
Centurion : Which is... ?
Brian : Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
Centurion : How many Romans?
Brian : Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
Centurion : (Writes "ite") "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it?
Brian : Dative !
(the Centurion holds a sword to his throat)
Brian : Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "ad domum" !
Centurion : But "Domus" takes the locative, which is... ?
Brian : Er, "Domum" !
Centurion : (Writes "Domum") Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian : Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion : Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
Sure. Even the Hebrews, to read the Song of Solomon.
Where is your argument?
You can progam Perl in it, for example...
"One seeking elected office"
Infidel!
Plato was an Emacs user!
<dons asbestos boxers>
You need to read The Power Game.
Hedrick Smith (no relation) gives you the play-by-play.
Now, you might think it dated, because the play-by-play is of the Reagan era, but the ink is depressingly fresh.
In particular, the chapter entitled "Pentagon Games", where he walks you through the procurement morass, is especially enlightening.
You are definitely right; not all Civil Servants are dumb/bad/incompetent; many sincerely try to do the best they can. As in software, so in bureaucracies: complexity sucks.
Yeah, I guess /etc is more...coagulated than designed.
Furthermore, some XML in there might actually be useful...
IOW, as humble as the wee BIOS, no?
The government cannot and should not be in the position of dictating social mores. Yet this is exactly what people require. Young men need to know that manhood is about keeping your genetic material to yourself until prepared for fatherhood; sex isn't a video game. Yet the government isn't capable of pursuing effective cures for problems. Indeed, perpetuating problems helps a bureaucracy grow, don't you know?
I have met some Civil Servants worth their salt, BTW. However, living near DC has bred in me that the difference between the Government and La Cosa Nostra isn't as sharp as it could be, and less government could lead to more of the self-sufficient, independent viewpoint on which this country was actually founded. Overall, my life observation is that people don't scale well. Blamesmanship and careerism affect all organizations, sacred and profane. Size == bad. Less == more. Delegation == good. Individual responsibility == good. Bureaucracy == bad. My detailed knowledge of American history == bad.
In an information age, would a rolling back of the clock to pre-New Deal days recycle a lot of the old problems, to at least some degree? Likely. But would such a risk be worth it? Oh, as long as you're not on the receiving end of the injustice...
Anyway, thanks for the post, as it's given me fresh cause to consider my assertions.
The idea of Social Security came about with the *New* Deal, ~70 years ago.
Income tax dates to WWII.
Had the Founding Fathers seen these feats of cranial rectalitis, they may have balked at signing the Declaration of Independence.
Because Apple is a first and foremost a hardware company. An x86 version of OSX excites Jobs as much as an x86 Solaris excites McNealy. Both are about selling boxes, and the OS is a means to that end, not an end unto itself.
Apple tends to target the higher end of the market, (though these Mac Minis are increasingly tempting). Lowering OSX standards to mix with such common ruffians as AMD and Intel products would be like having a widower son marry an old, disapproved lover, don't you know...