Well, even the best of us have to put Robert Jordan down at some point so that we can return to frittering away our lives on/.
There should be a law in front of congress, though, requiring him to finish the series in a book or two, or at least put notes on how the thing is supposed to end in escrow, just in case he meets some untimely demise.
His rights as an artist are simply trivial in comparison with the public need to know how this thing ends.
Books I read until I had a splitting headache...
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include Gerrold's Chtorr series. This is a cool site. Clicking on the 'Books' hotspot, amusingly, says that volume 5 will be out in 2002.
This site, however, contradicts the first link.
Gerrold's non-command of calendars has no negative effect on his writing.
The first four books are full-on page-turners. We're given something of an anti-hero in a situation that continues to worsen throughout the series, depicting an ecological invasion of earth in some truly graphic imagery.
Rumors to the effect that the Chtorr are merely a WMD project from Iraq that got a little out of hand are categorically denied by Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, as you may not find surprising.
Thought there were some developers underground in the District of Columbia. Given the disaster that is the tax code, I don't want the bureaucrats touching any source...
Is a phone that cares not a fig for this CDMA/GSM question.
How impossible can it be to engineer such a Philospher's Phone that will turn these leaden gadgets to gold?
Is there some other remedy whereby companies can protect themselves from employees suddenly departing?
Bad enough to lose critical people at any time, a double whammy when they go to a competitor and turn their mad skillz on you, lifting half the customer base at the same time.
Clearly, if everyone is treated fairly, such a nightmare scenario won't happen.
Now, who decides 'fairly'?
Then you have the government case. Flag officer departs the Pentagon, goes to work for Raytheon or Lock-Mart. Knows all the details and phone numbers. Do you think that's a Good Thing?
Maybe arbitration is a good way to get some kind of objective look at it. You agree at hire-time that the company can require binding arbitration upon departure and re-hire...
The only losers in that scenario are the sharks...
Have you had difficulty getting credit as a result of this fandango?
I have seen credit denied for $13 on a closed credit card account for which, when called, the credit card company was unable to bill, because the debt was purged from their system. Just a data point in a credit reporting agency database.
Holy orphan record, Batman!
You might be doing digital forensics. It could well be your job to poke about at the lowest level. Part of a lawsuit, for example.
You may have a hard performance or space requirement, and need to dig just a little deeper...
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Mr. Softy obviously read the libretto that came with Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa.
Zappa explores the doctrine of Total Criminalization, where they make enough laws that everbody violates something. A Visionary, yet not impervious to prostate cancer, alas.
-1 Offtopic.
Re:I think the argument can be made
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Wasn't the intent.
It's a segmented market. The genius of Gates is that he targeted the low end, a counter-intuitive thing for the geek in the crowd.
The last thing I'd do is call myself 31337.
At some point, there will be a neurological basis for saying some people abastract well, and get off on visualizing the chain of events occuring during a complex process, whereas others couldn't give a flying French fornication about all that detail, and prefer copious eye candy.
My remark is descriptive, not condescending.
I think the argument can be made
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in response to
Windows - developer friendly. Linux - developer hostile.
that open source requires more skill on the part of the developer to get through the learning curve.
A greater amount of knowledge about what is happening at all levels is mandatory to make that GNU\Linux system happen.
Whether this is a but or feature probably depends on your current location on the learning curve. The more I interact with open source, the more I like the fact that there are relatively fewer secrets about what is occuring, a feature that seems lost by the time you reach the West Coast...
...starts by modeling the neurons of the brain dircetly as cells (implying a thorough understanding of the proteomics involved) instead of as a neural-net or some other high-level abstraction, perhaps the results will be more interesting.
Such a model is years off, though, AFAIK.
What are 'good' dead-tree references for the following categories: FNG--Fscking New Guy
-Terminology, broad-brush concepts, checklists, good reference list Suit
-Management concerns, planning Expert
-Detail, performance considerations
Categories are arbitrary; others will segment the market differently. Mainly seeking recommended authors/titles. Full-on reviews too space consumptive.
Perhaps one should pay more attention to Wall Street. Tomorrow.
Clearly, over time, money given to BeelzeBill is money not spent elsewhere. However, in a land where near-term is the next quarterly statement, and long-term the next election, who can expect courage from the leadership?
Both have a zero-zum view of the world. And about zero compassion for the right to an opposing viewpoint. To which non-empathy you appear attuned...
You seem to be one of the RMS extremists...
A moderate position might be that business should prefer a platform-agnostic approach to the greatest possible extent.
BillG and RMS are both bent on world domination, starting from different ends.
I thoroughly enjoy using free software. I haven't yet developed sufficient skill to contribute to a project (couldn't figure out how to link libraries in KDevelop, couldn't make sense of autoconf/automake until I found autoproject), and I've only contributed financially through the bookstore. Apparently, www.gnu.org is doing well enough.
I don't think that the walls against free software can ever go up again. The US can try to buttress the Monopoly Show ( or MS can expand its butt rest from the DOJ to the rest of the gubmint ) but the world at large is facing Redmond and yawning. How will, say, scientists doing genomics research collaborate if they can't use free tools, but spend their time dealing with the various exploits and incompatibilities?
No, paying an optional tax to a shadow government in Redmond will continue to lose appeal.
Of course, if everyone dumped MSFT, how far south would the NASDAQ go? In all honesty, concern over economic turbulence has got to be running through some senior heads...
The free software community needs to do a couple of things:
convince them that there is money to be made by either producing a client or
that, given a published API, that a sourceforge project can make a working client.
there may even be a code-for-play-time business model here: free software game, contributors play at will, non-contributors cough up a few quid...
I've never played one of these MUD things, but this could coax me out. Are they going to make it immersive, and do a lot of dwarvish and elvish, or are the copyright owners going to interfere?
OTOH, if snubbed, the free software community could respond by approaching Robert Jordan for a WOT MUD...
This then is the meaning of the/. Bill Gates==Borg icon? The company and its product, all wired for sound?
Look at things like Perl and databases and tell me again that things aren't interoperable.
The GNU/Linux vs. Linux argument is about as meaningful as arguing "adhesive strips" over "band-aids".
Discerning people understand who RMS is, what the FSF is, and the importance of it all.
Let's not be a bunch of Baptists and Presbyterians arguing over infant baptism. I cite this as an example of a marginal discussion, the details of which would bore the lay person, even cared they to invest the time to understand them.
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Well, even the best of us have to put Robert Jordan down at some point so that we can return to frittering away our lives on /.
There should be a law in front of congress, though, requiring him to finish the series in a book or two, or at least put notes on how the thing is supposed to end in escrow, just in case he meets some untimely demise.
His rights as an artist are simply trivial in comparison with the public need to know how this thing ends.
include Gerrold's Chtorr series.
This is a cool site. Clicking on the 'Books' hotspot, amusingly, says that volume 5 will be out in 2002.
This site, however, contradicts the first link.
Gerrold's non-command of calendars has no negative effect on his writing.
The first four books are full-on page-turners. We're given something of an anti-hero in a situation that continues to worsen throughout the series, depicting an ecological invasion of earth in some truly graphic imagery.
Rumors to the effect that the Chtorr are merely a WMD project from Iraq that got a little out of hand are categorically denied by Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, as you may not find surprising.
Thought there were some developers underground in the District of Columbia. Given the disaster that is the tax code, I don't want the bureaucrats touching any source...
Language, spoken or otherwise.
Is a phone that cares not a fig for this CDMA/GSM question.
How impossible can it be to engineer such a Philospher's Phone that will turn these leaden gadgets to gold?
Is there some other remedy whereby companies can protect themselves from employees suddenly departing?
Bad enough to lose critical people at any time, a double whammy when they go to a competitor and turn their mad skillz on you, lifting half the customer base at the same time.
Clearly, if everyone is treated fairly, such a nightmare scenario won't happen.
Now, who decides 'fairly'?
Then you have the government case. Flag officer departs the Pentagon, goes to work for Raytheon or Lock-Mart. Knows all the details and phone numbers. Do you think that's a Good Thing?
Maybe arbitration is a good way to get some kind of objective look at it. You agree at hire-time that the company can require binding arbitration upon departure and re-hire...
The only losers in that scenario are the sharks...
Have you had difficulty getting credit as a result of this fandango?
I have seen credit denied for $13 on a closed credit card account for which, when called, the credit card company was unable to bill, because the debt was purged from their system. Just a data point in a credit reporting agency database.
Holy orphan record, Batman!
You might be doing digital forensics. It could well be your job to poke about at the lowest level. Part of a lawsuit, for example.
You may have a hard performance or space requirement, and need to dig just a little deeper...
Mr. Softy obviously read the libretto that came with Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa.
Zappa explores the doctrine of Total Criminalization, where they make enough laws that everbody violates something. A Visionary, yet not impervious to prostate cancer, alas. -1 Offtopic.
Wasn't the intent.
It's a segmented market. The genius of Gates is that he targeted the low end, a counter-intuitive thing for the geek in the crowd.
The last thing I'd do is call myself 31337.
At some point, there will be a neurological basis for saying some people abastract well, and get off on visualizing the chain of events occuring during a complex process, whereas others couldn't give a flying French fornication about all that detail, and prefer copious eye candy.
My remark is descriptive, not condescending.
Duh. The next version is X001.
that open source requires more skill on the part of the developer to get through the learning curve.
A greater amount of knowledge about what is happening at all levels is mandatory to make that GNU\Linux system happen.
Whether this is a but or feature probably depends on your current location on the learning curve. The more I interact with open source, the more I like the fact that there are relatively fewer secrets about what is occuring, a feature that seems lost by the time you reach the West Coast...
Macerated vaporware.
Atomized scatalogical software coming to you in particle form.
Go, Mr. Softy!
...starts by modeling the neurons of the brain dircetly as cells (implying a thorough understanding of the proteomics involved) instead of as a neural-net or some other high-level abstraction, perhaps the results will be more interesting.
Such a model is years off, though, AFAIK.
What are 'good' dead-tree references for the following categories:
FNG--Fscking New Guy
-Terminology, broad-brush concepts, checklists, good reference list
Suit
-Management concerns, planning
Expert
-Detail, performance considerations
Categories are arbitrary; others will segment the market differently. Mainly seeking recommended authors/titles. Full-on reviews too space consumptive.
I simply don't follow your argument. Request elaboration.
Perhaps one should pay more attention to Wall Street. Tomorrow.
Clearly, over time, money given to BeelzeBill is money not spent elsewhere. However, in a land where near-term is the next quarterly statement, and long-term the next election, who can expect courage from the leadership?
Both have a zero-zum view of the world. And about zero compassion for the right to an opposing viewpoint. To which non-empathy you appear attuned...
You seem to be one of the RMS extremists...
A moderate position might be that business should prefer a platform-agnostic approach to the greatest possible extent.
BillG and RMS are both bent on world domination, starting from different ends.
I thoroughly enjoy using free software. I haven't yet developed sufficient skill to contribute to a project (couldn't figure out how to link libraries in KDevelop, couldn't make sense of autoconf/automake until I found autoproject), and I've only contributed financially through the bookstore. Apparently, www.gnu.org is doing well enough.
I don't think that the walls against free software can ever go up again. The US can try to buttress the Monopoly Show ( or MS can expand its butt rest from the DOJ to the rest of the gubmint ) but the world at large is facing Redmond and yawning. How will, say, scientists doing genomics research collaborate if they can't use free tools, but spend their time dealing with the various exploits and incompatibilities?
No, paying an optional tax to a shadow government in Redmond will continue to lose appeal.
Of course, if everyone dumped MSFT, how far south would the NASDAQ go? In all honesty, concern over economic turbulence has got to be running through some senior heads...
The free software community needs to do a couple of things:
convince them that there is money to be made by either producing a client or
that, given a published API, that a sourceforge project can make a working client.
there may even be a code-for-play-time business model here: free software game, contributors play at will, non-contributors cough up a few quid...
I've never played one of these MUD things, but this could coax me out. Are they going to make it immersive, and do a lot of dwarvish and elvish, or are the copyright owners going to interfere?
OTOH, if snubbed, the free software community could respond by approaching Robert Jordan for a WOT MUD...
A beowulf of tablets vs. a beowulf of XBoxes.
Imagine a cluster of such, in a parallel data-crunch-off...
It's technology, how can it be bad?
is better than
News for nerds, stuff that matters.
You go, boss.
This then is the meaning of the
Look at things like Perl and databases and tell me again that things aren't interoperable.
the entire Civilization series. Stiff neck, too. Some transcript damage, PTSD from threat of academic failure.
The GNU/Linux vs. Linux argument is about as meaningful as arguing "adhesive strips" over "band-aids".
Discerning people understand who RMS is, what the FSF is, and the importance of it all.
Let's not be a bunch of Baptists and Presbyterians arguing over infant baptism. I cite this as an example of a marginal discussion, the details of which would bore the lay person, even cared they to invest the time to understand them.