awww, come on, electricity is only 4 times more expensive per Joule when compared to gas(over here in Holland anyway), I mean, that's peanuts, right?:P
The concept state Heinlein presented in Starship Troopers where everyone is considered equal *but* the right to vote has to be earned by dedicating a certain amount of time and effort the "the common good" always appealed to me. Then again, such a system would still be highly vulnerable to corruption, not to mention the various ways "the common good" could be redefined by the wrong people. Still, the idea of restricting voting privileges to people that have shown themselves capable of actually giving a damn does make sense in a way.
yah, that makes a lot of sense. I suppose said life form also deliberately makes us pass through a number of "past forms" while in the womb just to confuse the heck out of us, right?;-) "Oooh, let's make it look like a lizard when they're 3 weeks old! That oughtta keep 'm occupied for a couple of decades figuring it out!". Face it, human genetics strongly resemble software that's already had a few update and patching cycles, in that there's still huge chunks of legacy code floating around, some of which hasn't been quite entirely commented out yet.
I distinctly recall reading a very dark Batman comic(don't ask which one or by who, it's a long time ago) where he does take a couple of shots on the chest which bounce straight off after which he makes a remark along the lines of "why do you think i carry a big sign on my chest in the first place?"
Most people don't need the speed that they have in their PC, but it was a selling point. It's like the Suzuki Hayabusa. It will do 186mph. How many people need to go that fast? Okay, now how many people bought the bike because it can go that fast? I bet the second number is much higher than the first.
There is one minor flaw to your analogy here, which is that the engine of said bike is single-threaded, single-process. It does only one thing, which is to go forward. Whereas even Joe Sixpack will be reading his email, doing some form of IM, listening to a bit of music and burning a DVD at the same time, all the while having to share CPU time with the antivirus and the firewall. Joe doesn't *need* that speed, but it does make the computing experience more enjoyable.
BUT, I work in a small IT department- and we spend about 1/2 of our weekly meeting talking about how 'stupid' these users are.
My personal guideline is as follows: any IT specialist, whatever his or her expertise may be, that cannot differentiate between "being stupid" and "not knowing much about computers" needs to be kept as far away from actual users as possible.
I don't know why, but for some reason IT workers consider themselves as really special, as opposed to what they really are, the people that provide the tools for others to do their work with. Yes, a blacksmith that makes good hammers so a carpenter can build houses might be a skilled craftsman, but so is said carpenter. Someone who writes and maintains an applicatian to control finances isn't any more special than the accountant who uses it to actually control said finances.
Even if the code was semantically "correct" and good, it would still be ugly and painful to write because of all the $@->.
What, my($object, $thingy, @args) = @_; is too complicated for you? Just because Perl *allows* one to use very short symbols for a lot of things doesn't mean you have to. So unless you're actually willing to argue that choice = a bad thing...
as someone who's working with those damn threads right now, I can't help but agree. I positively love Perl, but threading needs work. I don't see where the "every time you spawn a thread, a whole new interpreter is spawned" comes from though...
omg, are you nuts? all it takes is one marketing drone reading your post and next thing you know all cd's on the market will have bloody advertisements inbetween the songs...
but because the people making the decision hated pages with banner ads.
And there you have it. Right now, the folks making the decisions are folks that think like us. Google still has a really geeky aura surrouding it. Who knows, some day the marketing droids might take over and it's back to the drawing board, but until then...
that helped me in some real, tangible, immediate way. My IRC fserve efficiency went up an order of magnitude after that. Porn is a more powerful motivator than you can ever imagine. Especially for 15 year old boys with a lot of time on their hands.
a real *tangible* immediate way eh? sure it was *time* you had on your hands? either you intended those puns or you have a hidden talent for wordgames you need to use more(inbetween the pr0n surfing anyway);-)
Nah, mr Bush was here only last week doing his usual thing, so we're still all buddy buddy. We too got a moron in charge blabbering about morals and values and families being the cornerstone of society and all that.
As someone who actually has Asperger I've always vehemently opposed casual use of medication. Yes, one suffers from irrational fears that make it terribly difficult to function normally in society and yes, there are tons of akward moments(dunno about the rest of 'm, but I for one remember every last one of them, yuck) but unfortunately the only real way to deal with those fears is figure out where they come from and then somehow confront them. Suppressing them with meds only delays the inevitable. Unfortunately the experts seem to think otherwise, and build nice cosy houses in the middle of nowhere so a couple of authists can spend their days getting on each other's nerves without being in the company of "normal people"(a very relative concept, I know) to actually learn social skills from. Not counting the staff, tis not as though those act normally under any circumstances;-)
hmmm. that statement is true...right now. who knows how far OSS penetration into the workplace will be once these kids finish their tertiary education and enter the job market?
don't know how long phonenumbers are where you live, but around here, they're 10 digits, the first of which is always a 0 for national calls. the next digit would be a 6 for a mobile phone, or 2 or 3 or even 4 digits for an area code. How hard is it to memorize a couple of lousy digits?
1. Sometimes you can't take a call but you wanna talk (you know, cause you have a job) "I'm in a meeting right now. What do you wanna do for lunch?"
Sounds to me as though tinkering around with your phone during meetings is a sure way of solving the whole "can't talk now because I have a job" problem...
at some point young children will have to face up to the concept of death. whether that happens after having seen a movie or when granny/uncle/the hamster dies. and yes, bambi was awful indeed:/
Oooooh, will we have that in a the next edition of Simcity? The Federal Prison, aka the greatest BANANA of them all. Think of all the lousy jokes one could make in the New City Courier:P
But that doesn't stop there as that's not the only thing they've paid for. For example, why should they let you use their toilets crapping out food you didn't buy in their caffeteria? It's their plumbing after all, right? If you want to crap out the competitors food you can do it on your own damn time, using your own damn toilet! Doesn't sound so reasonable anymore, does it?
Good god, what a load of bull(literally). Going to the bathroom is something every human being needs to do now and then, and isn't something that can be postponed like reading your private email.
As for the company breaking into your desk, if they had a valid reason to suspect you had something in there you were not allowed to have(a gun, an illegal substance, whatever) you bet they'll break it down.
As for the folder marked private on the company network, it is *their* network. I'd love to see the law that prohibits the company, and more specifically those individuals within the company that have access rights to that section of the network, from looking what's in it.
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awww, come on, electricity is only 4 times more expensive per Joule when compared to gas(over here in Holland anyway), I mean, that's peanuts, right? :P
The concept state Heinlein presented in Starship Troopers where everyone is considered equal *but* the right to vote has to be earned by dedicating a certain amount of time and effort the "the common good" always appealed to me. Then again, such a system would still be highly vulnerable to corruption, not to mention the various ways "the common good" could be redefined by the wrong people. Still, the idea of restricting voting privileges to people that have shown themselves capable of actually giving a damn does make sense in a way.
yah, that makes a lot of sense. I suppose said life form also deliberately makes us pass through a number of "past forms" while in the womb just to confuse the heck out of us, right? ;-) "Oooh, let's make it look like a lizard when they're 3 weeks old! That oughtta keep 'm occupied for a couple of decades figuring it out!". Face it, human genetics strongly resemble software that's already had a few update and patching cycles, in that there's still huge chunks of legacy code floating around, some of which hasn't been quite entirely commented out yet.
I distinctly recall reading a very dark Batman comic(don't ask which one or by who, it's a long time ago) where he does take a couple of shots on the chest which bounce straight off after which he makes a remark along the lines of "why do you think i carry a big sign on my chest in the first place?"
Most people don't need the speed that they have in their PC, but it was a selling point. It's like the Suzuki Hayabusa. It will do 186mph. How many people need to go that fast? Okay, now how many people bought the bike because it can go that fast? I bet the second number is much higher than the first.
There is one minor flaw to your analogy here, which is that the engine of said bike is single-threaded, single-process. It does only one thing, which is to go forward. Whereas even Joe Sixpack will be reading his email, doing some form of IM, listening to a bit of music and burning a DVD at the same time, all the while having to share CPU time with the antivirus and the firewall. Joe doesn't *need* that speed, but it does make the computing experience more enjoyable.
BUT, I work in a small IT department- and we spend about 1/2 of our weekly meeting talking about how 'stupid' these users are.
My personal guideline is as follows: any IT specialist, whatever his or her expertise may be, that cannot differentiate between "being stupid" and "not knowing much about computers" needs to be kept as far away from actual users as possible.
I don't know why, but for some reason IT workers consider themselves as really special, as opposed to what they really are, the people that provide the tools for others to do their work with. Yes, a blacksmith that makes good hammers so a carpenter can build houses might be a skilled craftsman, but so is said carpenter. Someone who writes and maintains an applicatian to control finances isn't any more special than the accountant who uses it to actually control said finances.
Even if the code was semantically "correct" and good, it would still be ugly and painful to write because of all the $@->.
What, my($object, $thingy, @args) = @_; is too complicated for you? Just because Perl *allows* one to use very short symbols for a lot of things doesn't mean you have to. So unless you're actually willing to argue that choice = a bad thing...
as someone who's working with those damn threads right now, I can't help but agree. I positively love Perl, but threading needs work. I don't see where the "every time you spawn a thread, a whole new interpreter is spawned" comes from though...
Quite literally, there's no compelling argument to recommend buying a 512MB board at this point unless you just have to have the best of the best.
I'd say that's a pretty decisive not. Then again, that was the last page of the article...
omg, are you nuts? all it takes is one marketing drone reading your post and next thing you know all cd's on the market will have bloody advertisements inbetween the songs...
ehmm, never. left-handed mice/input devices don't make a profit and making a profit is what companies are all about.
but because the people making the decision hated pages with banner ads.
And there you have it. Right now, the folks making the decisions are folks that think like us. Google still has a really geeky aura surrouding it. Who knows, some day the marketing droids might take over and it's back to the drawing board, but until then...
that helped me in some real, tangible, immediate way. My IRC fserve efficiency went up an order of magnitude after that. Porn is a more powerful motivator than you can ever imagine. Especially for 15 year old boys with a lot of time on their hands.
;-)
a real *tangible* immediate way eh? sure it was *time* you had on your hands? either you intended those puns or you have a hidden talent for wordgames you need to use more(inbetween the pr0n surfing anyway)
Nah, mr Bush was here only last week doing his usual thing, so we're still all buddy buddy. We too got a moron in charge blabbering about morals and values and families being the cornerstone of society and all that.
* You will give me all your money and then jump into this pit *
:/
* I will give you all my money and then jump into this pit *
* Yes, let's jump in the pit, we'll be down faster *
Kinda pathetic when even a crappy computer game is funnier than the movies it's based on
As someone who actually has Asperger I've always vehemently opposed casual use of medication. Yes, one suffers from irrational fears that make it terribly difficult to function normally in society and yes, there are tons of akward moments(dunno about the rest of 'm, but I for one remember every last one of them, yuck) but unfortunately the only real way to deal with those fears is figure out where they come from and then somehow confront them. Suppressing them with meds only delays the inevitable. Unfortunately the experts seem to think otherwise, and build nice cosy houses in the middle of nowhere so a couple of authists can spend their days getting on each other's nerves without being in the company of "normal people"(a very relative concept, I know) to actually learn social skills from. Not counting the staff, tis not as though those act normally under any circumstances ;-)
Holland: close to 20 eurocents/kWh.
hmmm. that statement is true...right now. who knows how far OSS penetration into the workplace will be once these kids finish their tertiary education and enter the job market?
don't know how long phonenumbers are where you live, but around here, they're 10 digits, the first of which is always a 0 for national calls. the next digit would be a 6 for a mobile phone, or 2 or 3 or even 4 digits for an area code. How hard is it to memorize a couple of lousy digits?
1. Sometimes you can't take a call but you wanna talk (you know, cause you have a job) "I'm in a meeting right now. What do you wanna do for lunch?"
Sounds to me as though tinkering around with your phone during meetings is a sure way of solving the whole "can't talk now because I have a job" problem...
at some point young children will have to face up to the concept of death. whether that happens after having seen a movie or when granny/uncle/the hamster dies. and yes, bambi was awful indeed :/
Oooooh, will we have that in a the next edition of Simcity? The Federal Prison, aka the greatest BANANA of them all. Think of all the lousy jokes one could make in the New City Courier :P
But that doesn't stop there as that's not the only thing they've paid for. For example, why should they let you use their toilets crapping out food you didn't buy in their caffeteria? It's their plumbing after all, right? If you want to crap out the competitors food you can do it on your own damn time, using your own damn toilet! Doesn't sound so reasonable anymore, does it?
Good god, what a load of bull(literally). Going to the bathroom is something every human being needs to do now and then, and isn't something that can be postponed like reading your private email.
As for the company breaking into your desk, if they had a valid reason to suspect you had something in there you were not allowed to have(a gun, an illegal substance, whatever) you bet they'll break it down.
As for the folder marked private on the company network, it is *their* network. I'd love to see the law that prohibits the company, and more specifically those individuals within the company that have access rights to that section of the network, from looking what's in it.
the light at the end of the tunnel?
* insert Philip K. Dick reference here *