You can look at, say, the linux kernel code.
The DNA code is orders of magnitude more complicated.
If I figure out how to give people super powers
The debugging involved in granting super-powers, while keeping the product stable over a full natural life, is going to provide the stuff of horror movies for decades to come.
I don't doubt the power of the human mind to get us there, I'm just saying that we'll be getting there in second gear as opposed to fifth, and with much more mess than the dreamers really want.
You'd think the "who's got the biggest cock" race would be over by now.
"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon"--Napoleon
I submit that Napoleon may have had a better grasp of human nature.
Your question could be recast as: "If ODF is there and all, why OOXML?"
You seem to imply that 'social impact' may be superior to 'wealth-creation' among the list of possible motives.
If that's the implication, could you lay out an objective proof as to why?
This is a sincere question.
...that the people should have the right to collect information, especially when it
a) involves them personally, and
b) the outcome of conflict resulting from the situation at hand can have big, big effects on life.
Yet it would seem that one of the requirements that will only be realized later is that you need to protect the government itself from denial-of-service attacks brought on by cunning thugs.
Look, it's all part of Information Age convergence: politics, the military, the legal system, the news/entertainment industry...
An abstract "Venn diagram" of such apparantly disparate things as Middle Eastern policy, global warming, and the UN Law of the Sea Convention would show tremendous overlap.
The irony, if any, is that some just don't grasp that Wikipedia, like war, is merely politics by other means.
Or, don't let your internal idealism (which is a Good Thing) cloud your model of human nature.
Or to completely underload it, as in Ion Summary of Ion features
* Tiled workspaces with tabbed frames, as discussed above.
* Designed to be primarily used from the keyboard.
* Fully documented configuration and scripting interface on top of the lightweight Lua extension language.
* Modular design. The main binary implements only basic window manager functionality. Additional modules implement extra features and window management policies.
* The query module implements a line editor similar to mini buffers in many text editors. It is used to implement many different queries with tab-completion support: show manual page, run program, open SSH session, view file, goto named client window or workspace, etc. Menus are also displayed as queries.
* A statusbar that adapts to the tilings, taking only the space it really needs, modulo constraints of the layout. The statusbar can also be configured to swallow other (small) windows, and does so automatically for Window Maker protocol dockapps, and KDE-protocol system tray icons.
* Full screen client windows are seen as workspaces on their own. It is possible to switch to a normal workspace while keeping several client windows in full screen state and also switch clients that do not themselves support full screen mode to this state.
* The scratchpad module provides a conveniently toggleable area for random tasks, akin to the consoles of many FPS games.
* To run those particularly badly behaving programs, Ion also supports floating windows of the PWM flavour. These can be had as separate workspaces without an underlying tiling, or floating on top of a tiling. Tiled windows can be detached to float, and reattached.
* It is not a project of the self-proclaimed "free" or open-source software movement, and does not suffer from popular fads among it, such as Xft/fontconfig and autoconf.
No, but, in subjective cases
like that god-awful meeting
with the infinite list of slides
full of acronyms that come dangerously near meaning
yet somehow collapse into a cunning heap of mis-direction
just in time for the next annoying, distracting transition
delivered by a prozac-addled nitwit
who has repeated his farce to the point of belief
time has been seen to crawl
like a drunken slug.
No, you simply trade flavors of problem, as the food-fight moves to the medically correct definition of "(proper) French".
The only real advantage I see is that the French have a government entity empowered to define "French", non?
No, my example was derived from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=love
But the point you raise, standardizing the reference for the English language, would be a jolly food-fight, indeed.
The memo I seemed to miss is that "word", in the written language context, now accepts embedded numerals.
Maybe we can solve the overload problem by suffixing a word with a non-pronounced number pointing to the definition intended by the writer, e.g. love2: "a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend", instead of love3: "sexual passion or desire".
Of course, many careers are founded upon the existing ambiguity...
Sir, I support and defend your right to do what you want with your software, as long as you a) respect my right to retain my ignorance, and b) don't leave any evidence on me.
On the other hand, one could view this more overt statement of fascist control as an improvement in the transparency of the dialog.
Get with the narrative, son: it feels better that way.
In the beginning, there was client server.
Then, there was n-tier with the thin client.
Now, the client seems past the bout of anorexia, we've gone back to client/server, and AJAX has fattened it right up.
Next (mis)step? N-tier, repackaged as "federated", with an emphasis on thin, mobile clients. But you knew that. The real question is, what will AJAX for the hand-held be called? I say: BORAXO.
I will confess some guilt that this has not been reduced to a Burma Shave troll, but I'm still slightly under the weather.
Slashdot's coolness is based upon the users.
The fact that its freshness jumped the shark right around the first MicroSoft ad, while indeed tragic, is also peripheral.
Can't fault CdrTaco & Co. for making a buck--slashdot is not a vow of poverty, after all, but if the site is uncool, that's our problem.
I really don't, though I haven't read that much of the contemporary stuff. Martin's experience in Hollywood and horror, I think, informed his plotting style uniquely. Must admit I've only read the first three; I decided to blow off the 4th until I can have a 5th with it (of the non-hydraulic kind).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_in_Slavery
I had been going to link to the YouTube video directly, but it's rather extreme for my "boring" taste--didn't make it past halfway.
The track, though, does bring back memories of failing my Electrical Engineering exams at Sing-Sing on the Severn.
The stories start becoming very complex, very mature.
The stories tended to have dangle threads, like the golem in the book with the bowl. Pretty ugly killing machine, but what happened to it? Did it not use Energizers?
Then there was the aside with the dude and the lab trying to re-invent steam power...
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The DNA code is orders of magnitude more complicated.
The debugging involved in granting super-powers, while keeping the product stable over a full natural life, is going to provide the stuff of horror movies for decades to come.
I don't doubt the power of the human mind to get us there, I'm just saying that we'll be getting there in second gear as opposed to fifth, and with much more mess than the dreamers really want.
I submit that Napoleon may have had a better grasp of human nature.
Your question could be recast as: "If ODF is there and all, why OOXML?"
You seem to imply that 'social impact' may be superior to 'wealth-creation' among the list of possible motives.
If that's the implication, could you lay out an objective proof as to why?
This is a sincere question.
...that the people should have the right to collect information, especially when it
a) involves them personally, and
b) the outcome of conflict resulting from the situation at hand can have big, big effects on life.
Yet it would seem that one of the requirements that will only be realized later is that you need to protect the government itself from denial-of-service attacks brought on by cunning thugs.
Look, it's all part of Information Age convergence: politics, the military, the legal system, the news/entertainment industry...
An abstract "Venn diagram" of such apparantly disparate things as Middle Eastern policy, global warming, and the UN Law of the Sea Convention would show tremendous overlap.
The irony, if any, is that some just don't grasp that Wikipedia, like war, is merely politics by other means.
Or, don't let your internal idealism (which is a Good Thing) cloud your model of human nature.
Assuming fat pipe, of course, which is an increasingly good assumption.
I have mine in the HeadOn/Dilbert configuration: 'Apply the Forehead Directly thereto'.
Even more abstractly, there is information, and there is state, and everything else is a variation on the theme of 'how do we manage this stuff?'
Or to completely underload it, as in Ion
Summary of Ion features
* Tiled workspaces with tabbed frames, as discussed above.
* Designed to be primarily used from the keyboard.
* Fully documented configuration and scripting interface on top of the lightweight Lua extension language.
* Modular design. The main binary implements only basic window manager functionality. Additional modules implement extra features and window management policies.
* The query module implements a line editor similar to mini buffers in many text editors. It is used to implement many different queries with tab-completion support: show manual page, run program, open SSH session, view file, goto named client window or workspace, etc. Menus are also displayed as queries.
* A statusbar that adapts to the tilings, taking only the space it really needs, modulo constraints of the layout. The statusbar can also be configured to swallow other (small) windows, and does so automatically for Window Maker protocol dockapps, and KDE-protocol system tray icons.
* Full screen client windows are seen as workspaces on their own. It is possible to switch to a normal workspace while keeping several client windows in full screen state and also switch clients that do not themselves support full screen mode to this state.
* The scratchpad module provides a conveniently toggleable area for random tasks, akin to the consoles of many FPS games.
* To run those particularly badly behaving programs, Ion also supports floating windows of the PWM flavour. These can be had as separate workspaces without an underlying tiling, or floating on top of a tiling. Tiled windows can be detached to float, and reattached.
* It is not a project of the self-proclaimed "free" or open-source software movement, and does not suffer from popular fads among it, such as Xft/fontconfig and autoconf.
No, but, in subjective cases
like that god-awful meeting
with the infinite list of slides
full of acronyms that come dangerously near meaning
yet somehow collapse into a cunning heap of mis-direction
just in time for the next annoying, distracting transition
delivered by a prozac-addled nitwit
who has repeated his farce to the point of belief
time has been seen to crawl
like a drunken slug.
Look under your coffee cup roughly ten years ago.
No, you simply trade flavors of problem, as the food-fight moves to the medically correct definition of "(proper) French".
The only real advantage I see is that the French have a government entity empowered to define "French", non?
No, my example was derived from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=love
But the point you raise, standardizing the reference for the English language, would be a jolly food-fight, indeed.
I submit that we already have such. The merry confusion stems from our non-grasp of reality.
The memo I seemed to miss is that "word", in the written language context, now accepts embedded numerals.
Maybe we can solve the overload problem by suffixing a word with a non-pronounced number pointing to the definition intended by the writer, e.g. love2: "a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend", instead of love3: "sexual passion or desire".
Of course, many careers are founded upon the existing ambiguity...
Sir, I support and defend your right to do what you want with your software, as long as you a) respect my right to retain my ignorance, and b) don't leave any evidence on me.
On the other hand, one could view this more overt statement of fascist control as an improvement in the transparency of the dialog.
Get with the narrative, son: it feels better that way.
I'll venture, given the fractal nature of reality, that this is just the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly writ large.
Yeah, but I was beginning around the introduction of HTTP. Otherwise, we really need to go back to Babbage or so.
In the beginning, there was client server.
Then, there was n-tier with the thin client.
Now, the client seems past the bout of anorexia, we've gone back to client/server, and AJAX has fattened it right up.
Next (mis)step? N-tier, repackaged as "federated", with an emphasis on thin, mobile clients. But you knew that. The real question is, what will AJAX for the hand-held be called? I say: BORAXO.
I will confess some guilt that this has not been reduced to a Burma Shave troll, but I'm still slightly under the weather.
Slashdot's coolness is based upon the users.
The fact that its freshness jumped the shark right around the first MicroSoft ad, while indeed tragic, is also peripheral.
Can't fault CdrTaco & Co. for making a buck--slashdot is not a vow of poverty, after all, but if the site is uncool, that's our problem.
Rant on, troll
In foul tones brave
Humanity never shall
Be your mutated slave
Unless that memory fall:
Burma Shave
I really don't, though I haven't read that much of the contemporary stuff. Martin's experience in Hollywood and horror, I think, informed his plotting style uniquely. Must admit I've only read the first three; I decided to blow off the 4th until I can have a 5th with it (of the non-hydraulic kind).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_in_Slavery
I had been going to link to the YouTube video directly, but it's rather extreme for my "boring" taste--didn't make it past halfway.
The track, though, does bring back memories of failing my Electrical Engineering exams at Sing-Sing on the Severn.
Then there was the aside with the dude and the lab trying to re-invent steam power...