Yet another news article that continues the bombardment of the uninformed public trying to change the definition of words to fit their needs.
Are you missing a prepositional phrase between public and trying?
s/public trying/public, by irritating marketing departments trying
However, there is no version control system for language, other than ignoring these little boys who cry 'wolf'.
Similar flatus occurs when the legal system is used for advertising puproses. See: Paris Hilton...then again, don't.
I lust after a gadget that can disable those car stereos 'what got bump'.
Actually, that problem could be corrected by an acoustic sensor/camera combination that would detect these idiots on the road and mail them a ticket.
If they insist on flaunting their stupidity, they should pay dearly for the privilege.
Re:Old school hackers vs. new school hackers.
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Good Bad Attitude
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Truly. Nothing more boring than seeing people blame the tool, not the user. See gun control, abortion.
Yes and no.
Why not ship a 'lite' version that gives you 'some' Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPuke, to extend the reach and diminish the attractiveness of FOSS, and then have your 'full on' version with Access and the other goodies?
It's a little hair of the dog, and may blunt some GPL competition.
You, sir, are not machiavellian enough.
Look at Mono?
I figure that the whole point of standardizing.Net and getting Mono out there is to port Office to C# and, suddenly, when the big rock goes through Windows, you see a platform-agnostic Office release. Yes, you can run it on OSX, 'Doze, or Linux, no, you don't get no source code. Maybe sans Access.
In other words, I think Mr. Softy has had the baleful eye on the wall for some time now, and steps are well underway to protect the soft, white underbelly.
In other words failure to use a break; statement in a C switch construct has a qualitatively similar effect to the act of writing a rather longish sentence while omitting punctuation of any sort upon a human reader.
If publication is forbidden, what is the effect upon 'prior art'?
Now I pour years into my (supposedly) new variation on the theme of moving information in a binary sort of way, and someone pulls something from their colostomy-bag of tricks?
Or is this another one of those new 'security' things I keep hearing about?
Well, that was less than helpful.
My point is that, in going to/from a graph to a set of tables, either the packing or the unpacking is going to be slow, not that the model cannot support the operation.
And I've got a couple of Joe Celko books. I've read and understood them. Whether or not this constitutes retardation is left as an exercise for the reader. <grabs for bag of lead paint chips>
Trouble is, problems have their set-theoretical aspects, their procedural aspects, their object-oriented aspects, and their graph aspects.
Consider the pleasure needing to do something with a hierarchy, and store the nodes and edges in tables. Either the INSERT or the SELECT is going to suck, or, if you've got a link to something that can map between tables and a graph very simply, please share.
Dude, this election is a wash
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Ask Neal Stephenson
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How can we coax intelligent, thinking types like yourself and Lessig onto the ticket?
What about the build system? Looking around, make has the entrenchment of CVS, and you can go MinGW, but then there is the licensing. Boost.Jam looks like it could be a ticket to ride, and is almost required to do Boost.Python, but the documentation isn't quite there yet. What do people think of SCons? How can Python be wrong?
I, for one, lust after the idea of running emacs on a Kyocera smartphone. Emacs' general indifference towards screen hardware and input devices, beyond a keyboard, would make it the primo application to run on a PalmOS device. Granted, you need a memory expansion chip to hold the all of the files and executables and such, but, hey...
Interesting thought. Let me see if I can tap the essence without harming it too badly:
Could we alter the political party landscape (which, IIRC, has no mention in the Constitution) towards a parliamentary-style arrangement (repeat: darn little of the apparatus currently used actually exists within the Constitution).
What would we require for such, and what, besides consciousness and intellect, would be required of the electorate to implement substantial change?
One of the things that is delightfully unambiguous is the naval tradition.
If the ship trades paint with anything, it's the Commanding Officer's fault. Yeah, some shrapnel may works its way down the organization chart, but the glory and the gory both rest on one neck...
Would that less time were spent on blamesmanship in our decadent, modern day...
Hey, dude, the very TCP/IP internet you're now enjoying, not to mention the interstate system on which you're driving, are direct products of this government you're myopically sending down a very progress-retarding policy path.
At a high enough level of abstraction, the government functions as a power supply for progress, albeit a corrupted and frequently brain-dead one.
But that's more a function of the ballot box feedback than anything else.
Maybe we should all write in Lessig in November...
Wow. Great link.
Even assuming no Trojans in the compiler source, what if there is a prophylactic patch to an executable, applied later?
Time to stock up on tinfoil hats...
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I'm sure that TCP is someone's intellectual property...
s/public trying/public, by irritating marketing departments trying
However, there is no version control system for language, other than ignoring these little boys who cry 'wolf'.
Similar flatus occurs when the legal system is used for advertising puproses. See: Paris Hilton...then again, don't.
you could compile emacs for this.
That's what I'm talkin' about!
I lust after a gadget that can disable those car stereos 'what got bump'.
Actually, that problem could be corrected by an acoustic sensor/camera combination that would detect these idiots on the road and mail them a ticket.
If they insist on flaunting their stupidity, they should pay dearly for the privilege.
Truly. Nothing more boring than seeing people blame the tool, not the user. See gun control, abortion.
Yes and no.
Why not ship a 'lite' version that gives you 'some' Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPuke, to extend the reach and diminish the attractiveness of FOSS, and then have your 'full on' version with Access and the other goodies?
It's a little hair of the dog, and may blunt some GPL competition.
You, sir, are not machiavellian enough.
Look at Mono? .Net and getting Mono out there is to port Office to C# and, suddenly, when the big rock goes through Windows, you see a platform-agnostic Office release. Yes, you can run it on OSX, 'Doze, or Linux, no, you don't get no source code. Maybe sans Access.
I figure that the whole point of standardizing
In other words, I think Mr. Softy has had the baleful eye on the wall for some time now, and steps are well underway to protect the soft, white underbelly.
In other words failure to use a break; statement in a C switch construct has a qualitatively similar effect to the act of writing a rather longish sentence while omitting punctuation of any sort upon a human reader.
boost::python
Uhh, while the parser/runtime might be the tip of the iceberg, wouldn't there be a lot of library below the waterline you'd have to magically port?
What Whitman said of the government is trivially extended to the legal system.
You are warned.
If publication is forbidden, what is the effect upon 'prior art'?
Now I pour years into my (supposedly) new variation on the theme of moving information in a binary sort of way, and someone pulls something from their colostomy-bag of tricks?
Or is this another one of those new 'security' things I keep hearing about?
Well, that was less than helpful.
My point is that, in going to/from a graph to a set of tables, either the packing or the unpacking is going to be slow, not that the model cannot support the operation.
And I've got a couple of Joe Celko books. I've read and understood them. Whether or not this constitutes retardation is left as an exercise for the reader.
<grabs for bag of lead paint chips>
Trouble is, problems have their set-theoretical aspects, their procedural aspects, their object-oriented aspects, and their graph aspects.
Consider the pleasure needing to do something with a hierarchy, and store the nodes and edges in tables.
Either the INSERT or the SELECT is going to suck, or, if you've got a link to something that can map between tables and a graph very simply, please share.
How can we coax intelligent, thinking types like yourself and Lessig onto the ticket?
What about the build system?
Looking around, make has the entrenchment of CVS, and you can go MinGW, but then there is the licensing.
Boost.Jam looks like it could be a ticket to ride, and is almost required to do Boost.Python, but the documentation isn't quite there yet.
What do people think of SCons? How can Python be wrong?
I, for one, lust after the idea of running emacs on a Kyocera smartphone.
Emacs' general indifference towards screen hardware and input devices, beyond a keyboard, would make it the primo application to run on a PalmOS device.
Granted, you need a memory expansion chip to hold the all of the files and executables and such, but, hey...
Interesting thought. Let me see if I can tap the essence without harming it too badly:
Could we alter the political party landscape (which, IIRC, has no mention in the Constitution) towards a parliamentary-style arrangement (repeat: darn little of the apparatus currently used actually exists within the Constitution).
What would we require for such, and what, besides consciousness and intellect, would be required of the electorate to implement substantial change?
Not just brass balls; titanium testicles...
One of the things that is delightfully unambiguous is the naval tradition.
If the ship trades paint with anything, it's the Commanding Officer's fault. Yeah, some shrapnel may works its way down the organization chart, but the glory and the gory both rest on one neck...
Would that less time were spent on blamesmanship in our decadent, modern day...
Hey, dude, the very TCP/IP internet you're now enjoying, not to mention the interstate system on which you're driving, are direct products of this government you're myopically sending down a very progress-retarding policy path.
At a high enough level of abstraction, the government functions as a power supply for progress, albeit a corrupted and frequently brain-dead one.
But that's more a function of the ballot box feedback than anything else.
Maybe we should all write in Lessig in November...
Milk
But I think their 'Ballad of Michael Hutchens' off Bigger Than The Devil was the absolute best.
Wow. Great link.
Even assuming no Trojans in the compiler source, what if there is a prophylactic patch to an executable, applied later?
Time to stock up on tinfoil hats...