After several years trying to convince my brother to embrace Linux ( he provides technical support for many small companies ) this last time he was truly shocked at how good Linux has got.
And he got it: save money and hassle to his clients.
The Freedom of our IT infrastructure will be gained one person at the time presenting the cold facts, not using the same bullshiting marketing tactics, that are so descredited now adays anyway (and as this saga shows, for very good reasons)...
If you are 2m tall you may need more water than somebody 1.50m tall, men may need more water than similarly sized women, unless you are a lactating woman in which case you need more water for obvious reasons.
Sport practitioners may require far more than what you are suggesting.
It is bloddy unhelpful to be giving blanket recommendations when in reality it all depends. People should listen to their bodies and as a rule of thumb, drink only when, horrors of horrors, one feels thirsty. When thirst comes drink mostly water and you will be perfectly fine.
Gallons of water is the preserve of anorexic models and people practicing some extenuating sport.
For goodness sake, the goverments are putting limits to what we can think and discuss, If I want to think and put my thoughts in wirting (which is what software programming is) I should not be impeded to do so by applying patents to something that should not be patentable: human thought.
We are royally screwed when there are people out there that consider that it is reasonable to impose limits on free thinking and sharing of ideas.
Under which rock do you live? Which planet in the Galaxy do you call home?
I write a little program that does something (anything, I wont tell you what because then I run the risk you or others may patent my idea), then once the program is popular one of thos vulture companies with an "IP portfolio" sues me. Or Microsoft. Or Oracle. Or Sun.
ANd they have more money, I can't pay a lawyer. I am broke. I can't use the program I wrote.
You surely are as stupid as the people that voted today....
Atheists do not think that science can replace religion, don't be dense.
Atheists reason or believe that a superior being in the form of a deity does not exist. Atheists do not worship science, and actually one can be an atheist and lack any scientific understanding (like many new age types that attribute powers to stones or magnetic fields using techno babble).
The fact that many scientists are atheists should not guide you to such ridiculous conclusion as the one you ejaculated...
I am sick and tired of people that make the claims that Linux is just a passing fad.
Look pal, get over it, Linux is here to stay not because it is hip (which it is) but because addresses many pressing problems with the IT industry.
Firstly, MS does not do many things silly and ridiculous, in the contrary, they are a company convicted of abusing its monoploic position and punished (wrist slapped) in both the US and the EU, so do not dare to ask me to have any synpathy for such an entity.
It is tremendously telling tha the only hope of the IT industry of getting any sembalnce of competition and innovation is for individuals to compete for free against such mamooth, misbehaved companies.
It is not hip to be anti MS, it is a need if you want to have any kind of control in your own computing infrastructure in the future.
I use Linux, all what I need is normally there after a fresh installation.
And then I don't re-install for years unitl I get a new machine (honestly, I have installed Linux ony 3 or 4 times since 1996, each installation paried to the purchase of a new computer).
Christians that have understood anything about their religion are tolerant and although preach the virtues of their religion (as perceived by then) would never force or encourage conversion. That is a perversion of the religion since nowhere iit is demanded to gain access to Paradise.
I am an atheist btw. but was raised as a Christian in a havy Christian environment...
I know nobody that works with computers at this level (configuring routing, email servers, DNS records and servers, etc.) that does not have at least some rudimentary knowledge of English.
I have worked in 3 different continents in as many as 10 countries (only one had English as a main language), so I believe I know what I am talking about.
Is it reasonable that descendants benefit for generations from the work of a distant ancestor? No, I don't think so.
Is it reasonable that companies don't fullfill their social responsibility by releasing into the public domain works they produced generations ago?
Is it fair that companies buy laws to extend and extend and yet again extend the length a copyright is valid?
Without knowing the context the holier than thou approach you advocate would appear reasonable. Once you know the context your reasoning looks pretty naive to the level of almost stupidity.
Computer code is the way we request that a computer performs a task.
We don't do it in plain English (or Spanish, Russian, Mongolian or whatever) because we lack the technology (still) to do so.
If in the future it is possible to program a computer or any other machine with a normal conversation then how the hell are all the ridiculous copyright and patent laws are going to be applied?
As things stand computer languages are a necessary nuisance to allow people express in a succint and understandable manner their own ideas about how ro solve problems.
This is perhaps one of the purest forms of speech, which should be mantained unecumbered of patents and covered by fair copyright laws.
Honestly, at home I have around 5 machines plus other devices, naming is not an eccentricity but a very simple way of remembering which machine is which....
I was discouraged by so many people (even my own Uni!) when I went into IT 125 years ago that it was not funny. All of them were wrong of course.
Look, doom scenarios are normaly wrong, what you read here is mostly innacurate tosh, specially when it comes to outsourcing and levels of unemployment.
Only the bitter and unemployed have the time to rant, all the others are too busy making a living.
Success is combined with a lot of luck, of which you have no control.
So study whatever you want, enjoy it, and drop the idea that what you learn will somehow 100% influence what you earn.
There are people with no education whatsoever who became millionares for having one good idea or for being in the right place at the right time.
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But you need to persevere.
After several years trying to convince my brother to embrace Linux ( he provides technical support for many small companies ) this last time he was truly shocked at how good Linux has got.
And he got it: save money and hassle to his clients.
The Freedom of our IT infrastructure will be gained one person at the time presenting the cold facts, not using the same bullshiting marketing tactics, that are so descredited now adays anyway (and as this saga shows, for very good reasons)...
If you are 2m tall you may need more water than somebody 1.50m tall, men may need more water than similarly sized women, unless you are a lactating woman in which case you need more water for obvious reasons.
Sport practitioners may require far more than what you are suggesting.
It is bloddy unhelpful to be giving blanket recommendations when in reality it all depends. People should listen to their bodies and as a rule of thumb, drink only when, horrors of horrors, one feels thirsty. When thirst comes drink mostly water and you will be perfectly fine.
Gallons of water is the preserve of anorexic models and people practicing some extenuating sport.
Caffeine is not an addictive substance. People confuse the vocabulary of addiction when talking about caffeine.
I always find amusing that IT people, as part of the idotic stereotype, are assumed to be heavy coffee drinkers.
I don't drink coffee at all, never had, I dislike the flavour. And many of my friends don't as well.
So hold on there, you are in a silent but sizeable minority in the realms of geekdom.
.... was a Jew. Just so you weigh again your previous comment....
For goodness sake, the goverments are putting limits to what we can think and discuss, If I want to think and put my thoughts in wirting (which is what software programming is) I should not be impeded to do so by applying patents to something that should not be patentable: human thought.
We are royally screwed when there are people out there that consider that it is reasonable to impose limits on free thinking and sharing of ideas.
Under which rock do you live?
Which planet in the Galaxy do you call home?
I write a little program that does something (anything, I wont tell you what because then I run the risk you or others may patent my idea), then once the program is popular one of thos vulture companies with an "IP portfolio" sues me. Or Microsoft. Or Oracle. Or Sun.
ANd they have more money, I can't pay a lawyer. I am broke. I can't use the program I wrote.
You surely are as stupid as the people that voted today....
How wrong can somebody be about this?
Atheists do not think that science can replace religion, don't be dense.
Atheists reason or believe that a superior being in the form of a deity does not exist. Atheists do not worship science, and actually one can be an atheist and lack any scientific understanding (like many new age types that attribute powers to stones or magnetic fields using techno babble).
The fact that many scientists are atheists should not guide you to such ridiculous conclusion as the one you ejaculated...
I am sick and tired of people that make the claims that Linux is just a passing fad.
Look pal, get over it, Linux is here to stay not because it is hip (which it is) but because addresses many pressing problems with the IT industry.
Firstly, MS does not do many things silly and ridiculous, in the contrary, they are a company convicted of abusing its monoploic position and punished (wrist slapped) in both the US and the EU, so do not dare to ask me to have any synpathy for such an entity.
It is tremendously telling tha the only hope of the IT industry of getting any sembalnce of competition and innovation is for individuals to compete for free against such mamooth, misbehaved companies.
It is not hip to be anti MS, it is a need if you want to have any kind of control in your own computing infrastructure in the future.
Hip, my a@@!
Blame the victim, typical MS group think....
I use Linux, all what I need is normally there after a fresh installation.
And then I don't re-install for years unitl I get a new machine (honestly, I have installed Linux ony 3 or 4 times since 1996, each installation paried to the purchase of a new computer).
The aim of the excellent article was to put to rest any rational hope any person may have that the Ark history has any shed of truth.
The few "gafs" (as you see them) are immaterial and do little to undermine the main point of the article.
Good to see that religious fundmanetalists are cornered to semantics to defend the indefensible...
.... you have no idea about Christianity.
No offense intended but that was a load of tosh.
Christians that have understood anything about their religion are tolerant and although preach the virtues of their religion (as perceived by then) would never force or encourage conversion. That is a perversion of the religion since nowhere iit is demanded to gain access to Paradise.
I am an atheist btw. but was raised as a Christian in a havy Christian environment...
....of Private Eye Magazine in the UK.
There are people basically asking for money with whatever bizarre excuse and leaving their bank account details. I wonder....
.... once the forging method is known the knowledge to use it expands like a wild fire.
Like if every person affected by SPAM (even technologically competent) could implement all the giberish you are suggesting.
I know nobody that works with computers at this level (configuring routing, email servers, DNS records and servers, etc.) that does not have at least some rudimentary knowledge of English.
I have worked in 3 different continents in as many as 10 countries (only one had English as a main language), so I believe I know what I am talking about.
.... if we had reasonable copyright laws.
Is it reasonable that descendants benefit for generations from the work of a distant ancestor? No, I don't think so.
Is it reasonable that companies don't fullfill their social responsibility by releasing into the public domain works they produced generations ago?
Is it fair that companies buy laws to extend and extend and yet again extend the length a copyright is valid?
Without knowing the context the holier than thou approach you advocate would appear reasonable. Once you know the context your reasoning looks pretty naive to the level of almost stupidity.
Computer code is the way we request that a computer performs a task.
We don't do it in plain English (or Spanish, Russian, Mongolian or whatever) because we lack the technology (still) to do so.
If in the future it is possible to program a computer or any other machine with a normal conversation then how the hell are all the ridiculous copyright and patent laws are going to be applied?
As things stand computer languages are a necessary nuisance to allow people express in a succint and understandable manner their own ideas about how ro solve problems.
This is perhaps one of the purest forms of speech, which should be mantained unecumbered of patents and covered by fair copyright laws.
But most people are not stinking socialites that can afford the price and lack of freedom.
... I can't distribute without permission.
Honestly, at home I have around 5 machines plus other devices, naming is not an eccentricity but a very simple way of remembering which machine is which....
.... my row of choice was always first.
Later on I learned thet classmates thought I was showing of to impress the teachers, bleh.
I was discouraged by so many people (even my own Uni!) when I went into IT 125 years ago that it was not funny. All of them were wrong of course.
Look, doom scenarios are normaly wrong, what you read here is mostly innacurate tosh, specially when it comes to outsourcing and levels of unemployment.
Only the bitter and unemployed have the time to rant, all the others are too busy making a living.
Success is combined with a lot of luck, of which you have no control.
So study whatever you want, enjoy it, and drop the idea that what you learn will somehow 100% influence what you earn.
There are people with no education whatsoever who became millionares for having one good idea or for being in the right place at the right time.