Actually, based on the fact that it whas code-named "Cairo", I'd say it's some stealth-Christian symbolism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho
However, alluding to Christ doesn't redeem it.
Nah, didn't want to screw up the Burma Shave post with an aside on the Happy Days reference. The double entendre actually occured to me after submitting.
I'm concerned about the return to numerical versioning.
They went from 3.11, to year-based (98), to cheesy acronyms (ME), to acronyms containing the Mighty Letter "X" (XP), to the vaguely multi-cultural (Vista). Now they're going back to whole numbers. All the joy of 3.11, half the perfomance.
They haven't really cribbed Apple's Roman Numeral approach, so let's work with that.
Vista...VII-STA...VII: Something To Avoid.
An excellent link. My thanks. The ACLU is one of those outfits that really can irritate, but work like this shows why the US with an ACLU is far better than a US without the ACLU.
Splendid reply.
I was, in fact, alive at the time, but not old enough to remember.
At that age, I watched *M*A*S*H* and actually thought it was set in Vietnam, and couldn't grasp why Alan Alda was laughing and everyone in reality was pissed off.
People don't scale. Organizations are hell. Centralized power, while tactically helpful, can lead to strategic woes.
The fact that Watergate a) is not an isolated behavior pattern, and b) takes a long time to expose should be an important input into the political debate.
Strikingly, the anti-big-government candidates seem to be doing poorly in the primaries.
Possibly the federalist argument is not what the electorate cares to hear, but one wonders...
Which was the point of my comment.
But, since your user ID beats mine by something like two orders of magnitude, I am clearly the one who is new here.;)
The answer to both of these questions was provided long ago by Wheeler: "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection."
This wisdom befits TFA, as well.
Then again, maybe it is getting exactly the attention it deserves.
It's kind of hard to tell at this point whether the allegations of the existence of a file by a whistleblower amount to Watergate or Haditha.
If we swapped the media for the government, could we tell the difference on either end?
If they just restore the site from backup, without patching the SQL injection vulnerability, then the RIAA is RIAAlly st00p3d.
Now, parking a whole bunch of Scientology materials on their server would be quite funny.
After all, who wants to waste precious clock cycles swapping out to refresh some widget?
Nah, CPU/RAM/Video card improvements render this point moot.
The real question is: Who wants to deal with vast amounts of UI library, tons of little form files, and intricate event models for managing all of the user state?
It's the 20% of the app taking 80% of the time, in addition to making all of that sweet logic you wrote kinda hard to use on multiple platforms.
UI stuff, while certainly important, can be some of the least fun parts of a project to work on. What's worse? Printing?
I wish Perl 6 had been the 'shortsighted' approval of perhaps a quarter or a third of the RFCs, rolled out within a year or two. Maybe Perl 7 could have continued this stupid trajectory it's on to irrelevance. More importantly, the volunteer development and donations would be much higher because people would actually CARE about the progress and the features.
We're awash in projects that took a more pragmatic, tactical approach.
Larry, while falling short of a Stallman-esque non-approach to getting a release out, has certainly let the project wander along towards a greater conceptual maturity than most projects achieve.
The whole Pugs effort seems to have saved the day. What an odd couple, Haskell and Perl. Dogs and cats living together.
I'll admit to having blown off Perl5 and studied Python while waiting for Perl6 to arrive.
Political parties should be abolished, and the judicial decisions that equate corporations as persons AND those that equate spending to speech should be reversed. Then you'll have a beginning. Dream on.:-)
Parties exist due to a requirement to aggregate power. If you haven't articulated a replacement that shows how we dispassionately aggregate power across the population, I fear that you haven't said much.
Obviously the internet provides some infrastructure, but the whole trust management question, which is central to whatever you do, is not a strictly technical question.
I really dislike Ron Paul - for a number of reasons. But if elections were "free and fair", it's pretty clear he'd be the next President of the United States. But He's not been to the Bilderberger meetings. He's not a part of the CFR / Round Table cabal. He's not an agent for private banks. He'll never get as far as Ross Perot.
I'm no' so sure. I've seen a lot of Ron Paul posters and bumper stickers and such, but some of his ideas are far out. I voted for Perot in '92, I'll admit, and I'm not certain that he would have done much more than constipate the Congress, much like the airlines were no' so regular last Summer.
By the way, I'm not exactly a government apologist here. Concentrated government power generates bureaucratic singularities that could out-suck a black hole.
Less is more.
The chief point I want to make is that there are copious smart, dedicated individuals in the government, who, though arguably misguided, are making a sincere best effort. The task of the electorate is to have the courage to vote in some wiser leadership.
If justice as persons is not universal, it is a fiction.
Sweet, sweet bumper sticker.
Beyond the theological point, in reality, the difference between this theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory.
Who gets to define symbols like 'justice', 'universal', and 'fiction' is one powerful bloke.
Would that one could set an eternal champignon such as yourself up as POTUS, just to get your reaction to the negative feedback of even the simplest acts.;)
We need some novelists, educators, engineers, and coders to recast the old trivium and quadrivium as games so that kids can do something valuable like "learn" without doing something boring like "learn".
It wasn't the driving itself so much as managing the four screaming kids, three cell phones, two GPS and the latte which triggered the impromptu rendition of "When the Touaregs Broke Free"
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Actually, based on the fact that it whas code-named "Cairo", I'd say it's some stealth-Christian symbolism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho
However, alluding to Christ doesn't redeem it.
Nah, didn't want to screw up the Burma Shave post with an aside on the Happy Days reference. The double entendre actually occured to me after submitting.
Once again, humor wilts in the face of pedantry. Work with me, man!
I'm concerned about the return to numerical versioning.
They went from 3.11, to year-based (98), to cheesy acronyms (ME), to acronyms containing the Mighty Letter "X" (XP), to the vaguely multi-cultural (Vista). Now they're going back to whole numbers. All the joy of 3.11, half the perfomance.
They haven't really cribbed Apple's Roman Numeral approach, so let's work with that.
Vista...VII-STA...VII: Something To Avoid.
"Service mark"
Means "jumped the shark".
Gone with you then,
Cyber-highwayman
Burma Shave
Virtualization
Sweeps the nation
But can it cure
Follicle frustraion?
Burma Shave
An excellent link. My thanks. The ACLU is one of those outfits that really can irritate, but work like this shows why the US with an ACLU is far better than a US without the ACLU.
Splendid reply.
I was, in fact, alive at the time, but not old enough to remember.
At that age, I watched *M*A*S*H* and actually thought it was set in Vietnam, and couldn't grasp why Alan Alda was laughing and everyone in reality was pissed off.
People don't scale. Organizations are hell. Centralized power, while tactically helpful, can lead to strategic woes.
The fact that Watergate a) is not an isolated behavior pattern, and b) takes a long time to expose should be an important input into the political debate.
Strikingly, the anti-big-government candidates seem to be doing poorly in the primaries.
Possibly the federalist argument is not what the electorate cares to hear, but one wonders...
Which was the point of my comment. ;)
But, since your user ID beats mine by something like two orders of magnitude, I am clearly the one who is new here.
"caching"
Oh state, you evil seductress, who offers improved performance in exchange for the occasional bout of madness...
s/who really DOES read the article/who must be new here/
The answer to both of these questions was provided long ago by Wheeler: "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection."
This wisdom befits TFA, as well.
Then again, maybe it is getting exactly the attention it deserves.
It's kind of hard to tell at this point whether the allegations of the existence of a file by a whistleblower amount to Watergate or Haditha.
If we swapped the media for the government, could we tell the difference on either end?
Right on. The hint that the US is capable of doing something is as important as the doing itself, and possibly a better deterrent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
If they just restore the site from backup, without patching the SQL injection vulnerability, then the RIAA is RIAAlly st00p3d.
Now, parking a whole bunch of Scientology materials on their server would be quite funny.
Irongnick?
The real question is: Who wants to deal with vast amounts of UI library, tons of little form files, and intricate event models for managing all of the user state?
It's the 20% of the app taking 80% of the time, in addition to making all of that sweet logic you wrote kinda hard to use on multiple platforms.
UI stuff, while certainly important, can be some of the least fun parts of a project to work on. What's worse? Printing?
Larry, while falling short of a Stallman-esque non-approach to getting a release out, has certainly let the project wander along towards a greater conceptual maturity than most projects achieve.
The whole Pugs effort seems to have saved the day. What an odd couple, Haskell and Perl. Dogs and cats living together.
I'll admit to having blown off Perl5 and studied Python while waiting for Perl6 to arrive.
Obviously the internet provides some infrastructure, but the whole trust management question, which is central to whatever you do, is not a strictly technical question. I'm no' so sure. I've seen a lot of Ron Paul posters and bumper stickers and such, but some of his ideas are far out. I voted for Perot in '92, I'll admit, and I'm not certain that he would have done much more than constipate the Congress, much like the airlines were no' so regular last Summer.
Oh, I thought that the editing job was intended as a sample of the non-command of English that this legislation would help correct.
By the way, I'm not exactly a government apologist here. Concentrated government power generates bureaucratic singularities that could out-suck a black hole.
Less is more.
The chief point I want to make is that there are copious smart, dedicated individuals in the government, who, though arguably misguided, are making a sincere best effort. The task of the electorate is to have the courage to vote in some wiser leadership.
Beyond the theological point, in reality, the difference between this theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory.
Who gets to define symbols like 'justice', 'universal', and 'fiction' is one powerful bloke.
Would that one could set an eternal champignon such as yourself up as POTUS, just to get your reaction to the negative feedback of even the simplest acts.
We need some novelists, educators, engineers, and coders to recast the old trivium and quadrivium as games so that kids can do something valuable like "learn" without doing something boring like "learn".
It wasn't the driving itself so much as managing the four screaming kids, three cell phones, two GPS and the latte which triggered the impromptu rendition of "When the Touaregs Broke Free"
(apologies to Roger Waters)