'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire is now nearing its completion.
He used the word "satire" here, but I think that was not the word he waslooking for. I can't exactly place it myself. The word he should use needs to convey "humorless pile", "miserable failure", "gargantuan waste of funding", things like that. Any suggestions?
Fortunately, I think it's fair to say that you're the kind of guy who'll never run into this problem. Unfortunately, you'll keep posting ridiculous "solutions" like this as a result.
When presented powerfully, as we've seen with the latest round of Hollywood-ized fantasy flicks, it's virtually impossible for anyone to ignore the attraction of these kinds of work.
However, when presented by skinny, awkward guys wearing awful costumes and feebly battling one another outside of the local comic convention, I can almost understand why the mainstream would disregard fantasy and/or comicbook fiction as a viable means of entertainment.
Human language is necessarily compact, because spoken communication can be time-consuming if it becomes long-winded. We tend to rely heavily on context.
Context is always a useful thing, but I see no reason why a computer "universal language" couldn't relax context requirements, and use a bit more information to represent the various grammatical constructs that make up a sentence. Rather than "hot dog" or "food", a more complex object could be used, including perhaps visual and historical information (whatever information the computer deterministically decides is both pertinent and possibly ambiguous).
Anyway, point being, a computer is not limited to (short) strings, so I'm sure that could be a benefit.
With technology like this, we could probably compress the Internet into about 200 or so unique sites!
We might even arrive conclusively at the twenty or so keywords that compromise 99% of Slashdot posts. Oh heck, I'll even give it a partial headstart: "Linux, Linus, MPAA, RIAA, SCO, RTFA, Gates, Lucas, outrage, Rings, Rockets, RMS"
You could just as well use starpower because people only understand that one number is bigger than the other. By contrast most people can tangibly tell what a frame is, and what FPS will really do for you.
Apparently that's not really true, based on the number of comments that graphics threads tend to accumulate about how "the human eye can't see more than 28 frames per second", which is completely false with regard to the CRT displays we know and love.
I have an idea. Post this in every thread that's vaguely related to Star Wars, and proceed to roll in the karma. Apparently mods love this sort of thing.
If I leave for work at 8:00 in the morning and get home at 6:00 at night, how exactly am I supposed to focus on educating my children in the time available to me?
And, much like ESR, anthropologists and sociologists are rarely as impartial as they might like to be (and in some cases, claim to be).
Explaining the behavior of a circuitboard is really much easier than explaining the behavior of humanity. ESR is doing a little of both, and whatever his stance may be, I doubt that he ever claims to be unbiased.
I can only hope that AdAware is not running on my system. I have never installed or even downloaded it. In fact, the only things I have installed lately are Halo and Morrowind: Bloodmoon. If one of those screwed up my IP stack, then I want a refund:P
I'm on Bellsouth.Net dial-up, and it's been a couple of weeks now since I've been able to correctly get to google.com. I ultimately had to ask a friend of mine to give me the correct IP address, and have had to bookmark that. I noticed that in the first few days the browser was unable to locate any page on that address, but the space has since been "colonized", I guess by some opportunist.
I presume this hassle is because of the various problems caused by these idiotic modifications to the foundations of the Internet, and I wish hellfire and brimstone upon the PHB's responsible for them.
I'm completely shocked that the people-in-command who are opting to outsource seem to expect strong company loyalty out of employees at the lowest levels of the chain, but are in effect showing an utter lack of loyalty in return. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to think that these "captains of industry" are totally oblivious to their own hypocrisy. However, it's something that people over the last 10 or 20 years might have seen coming, watching corporations develop a marked tendency towards hiring business school graduates to fill leadership positions rather than attempting to promote from within. Anyone who's *met* business majors on the university campus probably knows that money is frequently the be-all-end-all for these folks, and everything else that happens to lead to money is a peripheral concern. When they get hired into some company, they *don't care* what the product of the company is, and they typically don't care about the type of customer buying it. To them, it's an academic exercise in maximizing profits and minimizing costs, all other ethical or human factors be damned. This is the mentality that allows CEO's to be traded like baseball cards between companies, and it should be no surprise that these people would be willing to run a company into the ground if it means improving their portfolio in some roundabout way.
The interesting thing about these guys who'll outsource every possible outsourceable job type is that their jobs will be the last to go. Their salaries will remain high until the company goes flounders and goes under. Given that the economic foundations of the United States seem to follow this general model nowadays, eventually the entire economy will follow suit. People with technical aspirations will have moved elsewhere. All the real money will be made in other countries. And these bigwigs will be at the helm until there are NO MORE companies existing to employ them, having singlehandedly done the most damage to the nation as a whole, while somehow maintaining the highest levels of job security and income.
Developers in these countries work cheap because they're typically not very good. It's also a typical management mishap to not understand the complexity of developing decent software.
As they get more income and thus more wealth, they'll overall be able to build strong educational systems, and thus have a strong base of skilled workers.
Do you think they'll want to work cheap anymore? I doubt it.
As for China... I don't foresee that country becoming a hotbed of top-tier technological innovation or production. It's not a place where original thought is valued.
Monitors have finally gotten to the point where programmers can stand to stare at them all day, and now the popularity of embedded devices means we get to stare at 3-inch screens half the time anyway.
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'Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning', a very fascinating feature-length Finnish Star Trek satire is now nearing its completion.
He used the word "satire" here, but I think that was not the word he waslooking for. I can't exactly place it myself. The word he should use needs to convey "humorless pile", "miserable failure", "gargantuan waste of funding", things like that. Any suggestions?
What a damp towel.
Fortunately, I think it's fair to say that you're the kind of guy who'll never run into this problem. Unfortunately, you'll keep posting ridiculous "solutions" like this as a result.
When presented powerfully, as we've seen with the latest round of Hollywood-ized fantasy flicks, it's virtually impossible for anyone to ignore the attraction of these kinds of work.
However, when presented by skinny, awkward guys wearing awful costumes and feebly battling one another outside of the local comic convention, I can almost understand why the mainstream would disregard fantasy and/or comicbook fiction as a viable means of entertainment.
Human language is necessarily compact, because spoken communication can be time-consuming if it becomes long-winded. We tend to rely heavily on context.
Context is always a useful thing, but I see no reason why a computer "universal language" couldn't relax context requirements, and use a bit more information to represent the various grammatical constructs that make up a sentence. Rather than "hot dog" or "food", a more complex object could be used, including perhaps visual and historical information (whatever information the computer deterministically decides is both pertinent and possibly ambiguous).
Anyway, point being, a computer is not limited to (short) strings, so I'm sure that could be a benefit.
With technology like this, we could probably compress the Internet into about 200 or so unique sites!
We might even arrive conclusively at the twenty or so keywords that compromise 99% of Slashdot posts. Oh heck, I'll even give it a partial headstart: "Linux, Linus, MPAA, RIAA, SCO, RTFA, Gates, Lucas, outrage, Rings, Rockets, RMS"
And if it's *too* good, then it'll realize that 99% of *legitimate* term papers are unwitting rehashes anyway...
With yet another mistake, does anyone still trust closed-source electronic voting?
Isn't this what they call... "FUD"?
Um... "we"?
You are aware that plenty of extremely low-end video cards have Linux drivers, right?
You could just as well use starpower because people only understand that one number is bigger than the other. By contrast most people can tangibly tell what a frame is, and what FPS will really do for you.
Apparently that's not really true, based on the number of comments that graphics threads tend to accumulate about how "the human eye can't see more than 28 frames per second", which is completely false with regard to the CRT displays we know and love.
I have an idea. Post this in every thread that's vaguely related to Star Wars, and proceed to roll in the karma. Apparently mods love this sort of thing.
I often see the failure of Linux-based companies blamed on "bad management". Loki Games?
If I leave for work at 8:00 in the morning and get home at 6:00 at night, how exactly am I supposed to focus on educating my children in the time available to me?
...a hammer does the trick with much less time and effort.
And, much like ESR, anthropologists and sociologists are rarely as impartial as they might like to be (and in some cases, claim to be).
Explaining the behavior of a circuitboard is really much easier than explaining the behavior of humanity. ESR is doing a little of both, and whatever his stance may be, I doubt that he ever claims to be unbiased.
I may be ignorant on the issue, but why, exactly, is nationalized health care a "criminal act"?
Yes, it was just used as a basis for comparison with the majority of other posts in this thread.
Why can't we just make gigantic tubes, suck the air out of them, and propel magnetically-levitated trains through the vacuum at mach 10?
At the very least, the catastrophic accidents would be a blast when caught on videotape!
I can only hope that AdAware is not running on my system. I have never installed or even downloaded it. In fact, the only things I have installed lately are Halo and Morrowind: Bloodmoon. If one of those screwed up my IP stack, then I want a refund :P
I'm on Bellsouth.Net dial-up, and it's been a couple of weeks now since I've been able to correctly get to google.com. I ultimately had to ask a friend of mine to give me the correct IP address, and have had to bookmark that. I noticed that in the first few days the browser was unable to locate any page on that address, but the space has since been "colonized", I guess by some opportunist.
I presume this hassle is because of the various problems caused by these idiotic modifications to the foundations of the Internet, and I wish hellfire and brimstone upon the PHB's responsible for them.
Apparently, you would prefer a benchmarking application that spits out mysterious numbers but claims to generate these numbers in a fair way.
There are a limited number of applications that are popular across platforms. Quake III and Word represent two of them.
What other real-world applications would you recommend that we could use as a basis for comparison?
I'm completely shocked that the people-in-command who are opting to outsource seem to expect strong company loyalty out of employees at the lowest levels of the chain, but are in effect showing an utter lack of loyalty in return. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to think that these "captains of industry" are totally oblivious to their own hypocrisy. However, it's something that people over the last 10 or 20 years might have seen coming, watching corporations develop a marked tendency towards hiring business school graduates to fill leadership positions rather than attempting to promote from within. Anyone who's *met* business majors on the university campus probably knows that money is frequently the be-all-end-all for these folks, and everything else that happens to lead to money is a peripheral concern. When they get hired into some company, they *don't care* what the product of the company is, and they typically don't care about the type of customer buying it. To them, it's an academic exercise in maximizing profits and minimizing costs, all other ethical or human factors be damned. This is the mentality that allows CEO's to be traded like baseball cards between companies, and it should be no surprise that these people would be willing to run a company into the ground if it means improving their portfolio in some roundabout way.
The interesting thing about these guys who'll outsource every possible outsourceable job type is that their jobs will be the last to go. Their salaries will remain high until the company goes flounders and goes under. Given that the economic foundations of the United States seem to follow this general model nowadays, eventually the entire economy will follow suit. People with technical aspirations will have moved elsewhere. All the real money will be made in other countries. And these bigwigs will be at the helm until there are NO MORE companies existing to employ them, having singlehandedly done the most damage to the nation as a whole, while somehow maintaining the highest levels of job security and income.
Developers in these countries work cheap because they're typically not very good. It's also a typical management mishap to not understand the complexity of developing decent software.
As they get more income and thus more wealth, they'll overall be able to build strong educational systems, and thus have a strong base of skilled workers.
Do you think they'll want to work cheap anymore? I doubt it.
As for China... I don't foresee that country becoming a hotbed of top-tier technological innovation or production. It's not a place where original thought is valued.
Monitors have finally gotten to the point where programmers can stand to stare at them all day, and now the popularity of embedded devices means we get to stare at 3-inch screens half the time anyway.
So wrong.
Ah. I guess the comment "ganked his last noob and assumed room temperature" must've thrown me off.