Dude: I thugged the basic text here http://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/gen006.htm and cruised it a couple times in modern wise-ass mode.
OK, I've read the Bible enough to know right where to look...
Does it? Write some more code: you'll appreciate having quoted strings close when they are done. In other words, this rule is false.
As for 'congresscritter', one should actually refer to congressman or congresswoman. Having decided to go cute and call him a critter, there doesn't seem to be much point in dividing the non-word.
Finally, it would have been more impressive if you'd not gone anonymous.
Thanks for playing.
PyPy is a straight-up compiler, replacing CPython, is it not?
My understanding is that the value of Parrot is that you can mix and match code derived from any compiler that targets it. You could have some Python, some Perl, and some Scheme code (eventually) executing together.
There was a joke sig here on/. some while back.
"Under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under communism, it's the other way around."
Or, as Rush put it:
"The more that things change/The more they stay the same."
I, for one, read the Book of Ecclesiastes through occasionally, just to keep the perspective focused.
Technology is a variable, the human spirit is a constant.
Your argument certainly holds true if the creator is required to be contained and constrained within the creation, and maybe I'm guilty of not being more explicit about asserting the opposite case.
"in other words" is not spelled "another words".
Grammar on a final examination is as important as grammar in a letter to your congresscritter.
May your professor mod up your exam score.
There is no reason that (networks of) humans can not be 'social engineered' (in fact society is, IMHO); equally, in a network of small enough nodes that rely on each others resources, feedback must emerge if not pre-designed.
This is interesting, but I think there may be some fundamental disagreement between us on the nature of the human spirit.
I've read about half of http://www.amazon.com/Amish-Society-John-Hostetler/dp/0801844428/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198024702&sr=1-3 which is about the best example of self-social-engineering I can think of. I suppose monestaries would also count, for all they tend to lack any organic reproduction capability. You can talk about the military (I have a few years of active duty to my credit), but it's a relatively superficial experience compared to being Amish or a monk.
Having said all that, my experience has been that there is an "entropy of the human soul" that is intrinsic, and requires significant control effort to repress. The Amish are born into a relatively inflexible social order; monks meditate their way out of it. The military takes a relatively thin slice of life and has varying degrees of success.
Scalability is an issue. Monestaries and the Amish, scaled up to the size of the US military, would shake apart--people just don't scale.
Hence the fairly universal historical (AFAIK) case that Communist governments have decayed into authoritarian systems and frequently collapsed--these utopian visions don't model the human spirit effectively.
Where there is success (monestaries and the Amish) they are small, and have an overarching religious component.
Wasn't trying to say that government is the oldest profession.
Rather, it's the oldest business.
Once government got going, and regulated the tiger killing, members of the oldest profession decided that organizing == power, and the first bordello happened.
The government, departing the bordello, thought the idea so good, they went ahead and built Congress, and stuff.
Do you believe that?
There is quite a bit of infrastructure involved in turning the information encoded on a hunk of DNA into a working protein, but compared to a modern processor? I'm not sure which would win. I'm not even sure how you would go about comparing - how many transistors equals one protein?
This is in the direction of my point. Sequencing DNA is one of those 'necessary but not sufficient' sorts of things. You've got the parsing done; now what of the lexical analysis?
This is additionally why when people go on about 'junk DNA', I scoff. That folding you mention, the vast three-dimensionality of the whole process, is such a big deal that people really don't know jack and need to quit sounding authoritative about it. There will likely turn out to be some purely useless noise, but nature is nothing if not economical.
The other little problem that is underreported is the size of the whole endeavor.
Cells like a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemeare hugely affected by a lone atom, man.
<prediction>I predict we'll eventually discover that the power of the Creator really shows up on the small scale, where we, to our chagrin, simply can't retrace the series of quantum accidents that led to life as we 'know' it.</prediction>
Thank you for a thoughtful response.
While I can imagine a more altruistic world through a religious eye, the problem I have with frequently with entities implementing 'social impact' is that their focus is stated in acute terms; "Gotta offer hurricane relief", but quickly shifts focus to chronic; "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"
Bureaucratic systems, unlike well engineered physical ones, tend to lack good negative feedback loops, as too many people discover power within inefficiency.
Subjective opinion:
Compensating systems with the goal of equilibrium at all costs can stifle what I'll call the human spirit. The US Constitution seems more bent on avoiding tyrrany, which, while appearing to work these 230+ years, may or may not be optimal.
Your running kernel is the output product.
The DNA codebase would be better compared to the git source, comments and all, for that is the state of how the kernel got there.
However, the Von Neuman machine executing the kernel code is a straight-up tinkertoy compared to the cell neucleus, that hard-real-time, 3D chemical wonder.
Counting bytes and basepairs, while not totally irrelevant, is the tip of the iceberg.
My credentials include getting stomped in a biochem course at GWU, so I feel in touch with my ignorance.
40 days and 40 nights? What do I look like, a government contractor?
The actual procedure was to to copy the appropriate chapter from the Book of Genesis, and spend, maybe, two minutes sexing it up, another two putting in the HTML, and then, of course, the required 20 second delay to Submit.
As noted earlier, this was in pursuit of a First Post, and you'll note it was, in fact the 'tooth' post, which is a sizeable deadline.
Concur. Repeating mis-information is too common today.
Missed a <br> tag and a plural in my haste to get a first post.
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA TROLL TUESDAY
5 And the ISPs saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, swapping copyrighted music, filching pre-release movies, placing phone calls all about the earth as if information were a mere fluid, like the sea.
6 And it repented the ISP that Oscar winner, Nobel laureate, and all around handsome fellow Al Gore, Junior, had made man to surf on the Internet, and it grieved them at their heart.
7 And the ISPs said, we will destroy the neutral face of the Internet, (which we have implemented from the primordial swellness of Gore) from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth us that we have made them to access information in an inexpensive and convenient way.
8 But NOAA found grace in the eyes of the ISPs.
9 These are the generations of NOAA: NOAA was a tidy little bureaucracy, and perfect in its generations, and NOAA walked with the ISPs.
10 And NOAA begat three acronyms: SHEM, HAM, and JAPHETH, which are not relevant to this jape at the moment, but will be cleverly decoded later for humorous effect if need be.
11 The Internet also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with sex and violence, because it was just another show, like the news.
12 And the ISPs looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto NOAA, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth with a bolt from my wand of bogus legislation.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. If ye know not the length of the cubit, check http://www.wikipedia.org/ but make haste, because Moby Dick shall be sent to devour Jimmy Wales shortly after this post self-destructs.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And though shalt part one mother of a datacenter therein; such that yea, even Marc Andreesen shall be made to blush at the smoking bandwidth thereof.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring an exaflood of data upon the earth, to destroy all data, wherein is the breath of binary life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall crash like Internet Explorer.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy acronyms, and thy support contractor, and thy acronyms' support contractors with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all data, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be stored at RAID99.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive, but they only need, say, RAID5.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them: plenty of frozen pizza and jolt.
22 Thus did NOAA; according to all that God commanded him, so did they, once they got the budget plus-up.
The real world isn't like that - there's a tiny minority that regards playing nice as a sign of weakness
In terms of the overall model, I think that playing nice is the more strategic approach.
Decision-making happens in a more tactical mode.
I submit that a good approach is to broadcast nice and expect to receive the opposite; you're right, or you're pleasantly surprised.
I forged no special linkage.
Nationalism and the OOXML/ODF imbroglio are simply aspects of organizational behavior.
This revelation seems to have taken you aback.
Slashdot Mirror
Dude: I thugged the basic text here http://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/gen006.htm and cruised it a couple times in modern wise-ass mode.
OK, I've read the Bible enough to know right where to look...
You'd know better than I, sir. If I'm not going to research a claim, I like to take a minimal approach.
As for 'congresscritter', one should actually refer to congressman or congresswoman. Having decided to go cute and call him a critter, there doesn't seem to be much point in dividing the non-word.
Finally, it would have been more impressive if you'd not gone anonymous.
Thanks for playing.
PyPy is a straight-up compiler, replacing CPython, is it not?
My understanding is that the value of Parrot is that you can mix and match code derived from any compiler that targets it. You could have some Python, some Perl, and some Scheme code (eventually) executing together.
There was a joke sig here on /. some while back.
"Under capitalism, man oppresses man. Under communism, it's the other way around."
Or, as Rush put it:
"The more that things change/The more they stay the same."
I, for one, read the Book of Ecclesiastes through occasionally, just to keep the perspective focused.
Technology is a variable, the human spirit is a constant.
Your argument certainly holds true if the creator is required to be contained and constrained within the creation, and maybe I'm guilty of not being more explicit about asserting the opposite case.
I heard it was Costco customers sucking up all the frozen Enchiladas.
My spy network is teh sux.
Glad you liked it.
"in other words" is not spelled "another words".
Grammar on a final examination is as important as grammar in a letter to your congresscritter.
May your professor mod up your exam score.
Life is short. Why be a sphincter?
I've read about half of http://www.amazon.com/Amish-Society-John-Hostetler/dp/0801844428/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198024702&sr=1-3 which is about the best example of self-social-engineering I can think of. I suppose monestaries would also count, for all they tend to lack any organic reproduction capability. You can talk about the military (I have a few years of active duty to my credit), but it's a relatively superficial experience compared to being Amish or a monk.
Having said all that, my experience has been that there is an "entropy of the human soul" that is intrinsic, and requires significant control effort to repress. The Amish are born into a relatively inflexible social order; monks meditate their way out of it. The military takes a relatively thin slice of life and has varying degrees of success.
Scalability is an issue. Monestaries and the Amish, scaled up to the size of the US military, would shake apart--people just don't scale.
Hence the fairly universal historical (AFAIK) case that Communist governments have decayed into authoritarian systems and frequently collapsed--these utopian visions don't model the human spirit effectively.
Where there is success (monestaries and the Amish) they are small, and have an overarching religious component.
Wasn't trying to say that government is the oldest profession.
Rather, it's the oldest business.
Once government got going, and regulated the tiger killing, members of the oldest profession decided that organizing == power, and the first bordello happened.
The government, departing the bordello, thought the idea so good, they went ahead and built Congress, and stuff.
Do you believe that?
This is additionally why when people go on about 'junk DNA', I scoff. That folding you mention, the vast three-dimensionality of the whole process, is such a big deal that people really don't know jack and need to quit sounding authoritative about it. There will likely turn out to be some purely useless noise, but nature is nothing if not economical.
The other little problem that is underreported is the size of the whole endeavor.
Cells like a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemeare hugely affected by a lone atom, man.
<prediction>I predict we'll eventually discover that the power of the Creator really shows up on the small scale, where we, to our chagrin, simply can't retrace the series of quantum accidents that led to life as we 'know' it.</prediction>
Thank you for a thoughtful response.
While I can imagine a more altruistic world through a religious eye, the problem I have with frequently with entities implementing 'social impact' is that their focus is stated in acute terms; "Gotta offer hurricane relief", but quickly shifts focus to chronic; "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"
Bureaucratic systems, unlike well engineered physical ones, tend to lack good negative feedback loops, as too many people discover power within inefficiency.
Subjective opinion:
Compensating systems with the goal of equilibrium at all costs can stifle what I'll call the human spirit. The US Constitution seems more bent on avoiding tyrrany, which, while appearing to work these 230+ years, may or may not be optimal.
Your running kernel is the output product.
The DNA codebase would be better compared to the git source, comments and all, for that is the state of how the kernel got there.
However, the Von Neuman machine executing the kernel code is a straight-up tinkertoy compared to the cell neucleus, that hard-real-time, 3D chemical wonder.
Counting bytes and basepairs, while not totally irrelevant, is the tip of the iceberg.
My credentials include getting stomped in a biochem course at GWU, so I feel in touch with my ignorance.
40 days and 40 nights? What do I look like, a government contractor?
The actual procedure was to to copy the appropriate chapter from the Book of Genesis, and spend, maybe, two minutes sexing it up, another two putting in the HTML, and then, of course, the required 20 second delay to Submit.
As noted earlier, this was in pursuit of a First Post, and you'll note it was, in fact the 'tooth' post, which is a sizeable deadline.
I think the pun may have meant to use a catamaran, but the real flaws in the plan have already been explored...
Indeed, the Holy Hand Grenade would have been an excellent reference.
But I did manage to work Jane's Addiction into verse 11.
Concur. Repeating mis-information is too common today.
Missed a <br> tag and a plural in my haste to get a first post.
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA TROLL TUESDAY
5 And the ISPs saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, swapping copyrighted music, filching pre-release movies, placing phone calls all about the earth as if information were a mere fluid, like the sea.
6 And it repented the ISP that Oscar winner, Nobel laureate, and all around handsome fellow Al Gore, Junior, had made man to surf on the Internet, and it grieved them at their heart.
7 And the ISPs said, we will destroy the neutral face of the Internet, (which we have implemented from the primordial swellness of Gore) from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth us that we have made them to access information in an inexpensive and convenient way.
8 But NOAA found grace in the eyes of the ISPs.
9 These are the generations of NOAA: NOAA was a tidy little bureaucracy, and perfect in its generations, and NOAA walked with the ISPs.
10 And NOAA begat three acronyms: SHEM, HAM, and JAPHETH, which are not relevant to this jape at the moment, but will be cleverly decoded later for humorous effect if need be.
11 The Internet also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with sex and violence, because it was just another show, like the news.
12 And the ISPs looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto NOAA, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth with a bolt from my wand of bogus legislation. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. If ye know not the length of the cubit, check http://www.wikipedia.org/ but make haste, because Moby Dick shall be sent to devour Jimmy Wales shortly after this post self-destructs.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And though shalt part one mother of a datacenter therein; such that yea, even Marc Andreesen shall be made to blush at the smoking bandwidth thereof.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring an exaflood of data upon the earth, to destroy all data, wherein is the breath of binary life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall crash like Internet Explorer.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy acronyms, and thy support contractor, and thy acronyms' support contractors with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all data, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be stored at RAID99.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive, but they only need, say, RAID5.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them: plenty of frozen pizza and jolt.
22 Thus did NOAA; according to all that God commanded him, so did they, once they got the budget plus-up.
Fiber channel
In ye olde patch panel
Beats fiber thin
On your chinny-chin-chin
Burma Shave
Decision-making happens in a more tactical mode.
I submit that a good approach is to broadcast nice and expect to receive the opposite; you're right, or you're pleasantly surprised.
Nationalism and the OOXML/ODF imbroglio are simply aspects of organizational behavior.
This revelation seems to have taken you aback.