Just give the Office Source code to any organisation to examine, and you will never hear anything from them again, due to overload. Actually that's the best Microsoft could have done to get rid of those bugging gouvernemnts...
Why does does the absence of Free Will render Morality and Law useless? Because when there is no such thing as free will, there is no such thing as responsibility and no such thing as guilt. Every action you do, is done, because it is the only way you could have acted at that moment. Arguing, that there were other choices is futile, because you acted this way, and no other way.
So probably one should start thinking about laws that are not based on responisbility of the action and individual guilt.
So many philosphers for so many centuries (starting with Descartes going on with Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and I probably left some out) refuted the concept of free will on a permanent basis. And Nietzsche also said, the only reason people don't accept it, is because it would render all morality and all law void.
So this is not really big news. We just find more and more convincing proofs for that. Earth turning around the sun was also no big news. But it took Sputnik to take off for the Church to accept it officially.
Will geeks eventually build up muscle? That cannot be! That device has to be stopped! Just imagine a worldwide invasion of pale skinned bespectacled beefed up awkwardly speaking gruntingly giggling Weirdos. And all stalking Natalie Portman!
There are still severalcitier in Germany that have to be evacuated entirely or in parts every few months because soem construction worker found some 250kg or 500kg bomb again. That's just part of life and a small note int tha traffic radio.
now having a 1400t bomb in the middle of Berlin, that would be something. But actually we had that around 60 years ago in several German towns, sort of, so no big news either.
<i>Once you accept that fact and admit that it’s actually the right way to go, the design falls out, simply by stripping away legacy stuff that isn’t needed any more.</i>
This is actually the hardest thing to do. Todays Computer systems ar still mostly based on the concepts of 30 and more years ago. So many things that got hacked in into Unix and/or Windows in the last decades could be unified in the way it is accessed. Plan9 is actually a nice step in this direction.
From a garbage can several (wild) crows always took exactly as many sausages at once as they had siblings in their nest. So a crow with two open mouths at home took two, a crow with 3 took 3 etc...
Well, I had it more than once, that the engineer/coder simply doesn't get enough or accurate information, despite asking again and again. And after a few weeks, when slowly the information dripples in, the whole base design, implemented on insufficient information becomes unsuited and cripples the rest of the development. Yet, it is almost impossible to tell your "higher up" managers, that actually distribute the funds, to start over again. It's useless telling them it will be cheaper in the long run. It's useless to tell then, noone would be willing to take responsibility when you have to build on that flawed initial design. Well, projects lead by this kind of management deserve to fail.
Surprisingly, in my current job, I'm the key technichal communicator in the team. And even more surprisingly, most of my communicaton is with women. Phone conferences taking hours and hours, several times a week. Granted, we have results at the end most of the time. But when I have calls with males on similar problems, the issue is set after a few minutes. Sometimes I get the feeling those women actually ENJOY talking to me for hours. Hell, I want to code, and be productive.
Imagine we all would adapt to a communications stayle more pleasing to women. When the hell we would actually talking about real technichal problems then? Where would the main strength of open source development, the straight to point, no bullshit communication (I'm not talking about slashdot now) be left? The strength of open source is, that we don't have to care about personal vanities of managers or women and get straight to the point. And flame over it, short and brutal and efficiant (with notable exceptions like vi-emacs). And then get over with it.
I can't recoun't the ressources. But some advanced googling might bring them up.
There was this case of a 8 years old boy and a 10 years old girld being raised by wolves in India. Every attempt to make them eat anything else but raw meat and plants, to make them wear clothes, or even to wash or sleep in houses failed.
Except for the girl, when puberty kicked in. She started dressing, even demanding shoes (!), looking in mirrors, combing her hair.
The boy never changed, although he probably wasn't that long among wolves, and being younge should be more adabtable.
There are different trends in behaviour and interst for the different genders. Welcome the exceptions, but never try to force anything.
Nothing wrong with enterprises heavily based on one person...As long as the person properly takes care of successors.
While the biggest flaw in democracy is that the inept cripple the apted (the efficiency of the whole system is the product of the efficiency of it's parts...and noone can tell me there is no null in any parlament), the biggest flaw in single leadership is that is was most of the time more or less chance that the people getting the job were capable of it. A monarchy, when the crown is given to one descendent, is very prone to giving it to an inept. It was no coincidence, that the roman Empire started to diminish, when passing the title to a close relative became the custom. Before that the Emperor most of the time adopted some givted child and educated and trained it carefully to be the successor, Marc Aurelius being a most notable example. The rise of Prussia was the result of an incredible strain of luck of having 4-5 very different, but very able kings in succession.
But well, we are talking about companies, so probably I'm talking nonsense.
heard of a complex corporate software project, which development was distributed in many different locations, and that succeeded? I mean all this communicational friction and losses, especially if non-technichal people are responsible for the communication and the decisions. Such projects, IMHO, are doomed to fail from the beginning. IBM OS/400 stuff was developed centralized. Microsoft, say what you want, but they have/had centralized development with short communication. The reason open source projects work decentralized is, that noone with no clue is in the middle, communication is direct without having to take care of manager ego and corporate agenda.
Well, there are different approaches to storing data. One is a hierarchical. That is great in letting the one looking for information browse to where he wants to and leads them to it step by step. It lets you group very different kinds of data logically belonging together in one place. It also avoids namespace pollution, since there are arbitrarily many levels of naming. The problem with those is, it is nearly impossible to avoid redundancy, even when you have a well designed an maintained hierarchy. The other approach is the relational. It lets you define distinct data type, group them in records and store them more or less centralized. The downgrade is, to access or manipulate the data, you either need a highly specialized application, that retrieves the data for you, or you need to know SQL or a similar language. So the real challenge, IMHO, is to develop an interface, that lets also the half educated user do the easy/basic stuff on an relational database. I mean everyone can (double)click on a file to open it. But managing permissions on an NTFS with Active Directory is hell. It is hell on an SQL database too, but there it is also hell to find any information without exactly knowing what you are looking for and/or exactly knwowing how to do queries.
After all, why is it neccessary to be a high level character to have fun in an MMORPG? I mean, it is essential to an RPG that higher level characters can do things low level characters cannot do. But who put up the rule that all a newbie could do is "killing rats on a field" and wait for some fun? Maybe you could be able to become a squire or a disciple to a higher level character who teaches you the ropes and improves your survival chances as well. Of course, for this a squire needs to offer something as well...
Well, by that rule many nations, probably mankind, wouldn't exist anymore. Not only that it was the rule almost anywhere at any time to marry 11-16 years old girls to 30-40 years old men. Also in several exceptional situation, like post WWII Germany, where there simply were no young lads around, since they were all lying spread all over Europe.
Well, my opinion on this is just, someone with "daddy issues" or self-worth issues won't loose them just by waiting a few years. That means emotional mental maturity and/or health (I hate that word mental health) won't be there by then too, so sex is not allowed. By those standards some complete nut like Mariah Carey never should have sex too, but well this is something worth discussing;)
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Just give the Office Source code to any organisation to examine, and you will never hear anything from them again, due to overload. Actually that's the best Microsoft could have done to get rid of those bugging gouvernemnts...
Just be careful not to cut yourself when playing your platformers on your phone.
The best thievery protection is worthlessness. Noone steals crap.
My crappy bike was missing later though. I found out the janitor put it in the junk.
No, not chose. Just ignoring, because "we" cannot do anything else.
Why does does the absence of Free Will render Morality and Law useless? Because when there is no such thing as free will, there is no such thing as responsibility and no such thing as guilt. Every action you do, is done, because it is the only way you could have acted at that moment. Arguing, that there were other choices is futile, because you acted this way, and no other way.
So probably one should start thinking about laws that are not based on responisbility of the action and individual guilt.
So many philosphers for so many centuries (starting with Descartes going on with Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and I probably left some out) refuted the concept of free will on a permanent basis. And Nietzsche also said, the only reason people don't accept it, is because it would render all morality and all law void.
So this is not really big news. We just find more and more convincing proofs for that. Earth turning around the sun was also no big news. But it took Sputnik to take off for the Church to accept it officially.
Will geeks eventually build up muscle? That cannot be! That device has to be stopped! Just imagine a worldwide invasion of pale skinned bespectacled beefed up awkwardly speaking gruntingly giggling Weirdos. And all stalking Natalie Portman!
There are still severalcitier in Germany that have to be evacuated entirely or in parts every few months because soem construction worker found some 250kg or 500kg bomb again. That's just part of life and a small note int tha traffic radio.
now having a 1400t bomb in the middle of Berlin, that would be something. But actually we had that around 60 years ago in several German towns, sort of, so no big news either.
From the Article:
<i>Once you accept that fact and admit that
it’s actually the right way to go, the design falls out, simply by
stripping away legacy stuff that isn’t needed any more.</i>
This is actually the hardest thing to do. Todays Computer systems ar still mostly based on the concepts of 30 and more years ago. So many things that got hacked in into Unix and/or Windows in the last decades could be unified in the way it is accessed. Plan9 is actually a nice step in this direction.
Heard of another interesting finding.
From a garbage can several (wild) crows always took exactly as many sausages at once as they had siblings in their nest. So a crow with two open mouths at home took two, a crow with 3 took 3 etc...
Well, I had it more than once, that the engineer/coder simply doesn't get enough or accurate information, despite asking again and again. And after a few weeks, when slowly the information dripples in, the whole base design, implemented on insufficient information becomes unsuited and cripples the rest of the development. Yet, it is almost impossible to tell your "higher up" managers, that actually distribute the funds, to start over again. It's useless telling them it will be cheaper in the long run. It's useless to tell then, noone would be willing to take responsibility when you have to build on that flawed initial design. Well, projects lead by this kind of management deserve to fail.
Surprisingly, in my current job, I'm the key technichal communicator in the team. And even more surprisingly, most of my communicaton is with women. Phone conferences taking hours and hours, several times a week. Granted, we have results at the end most of the time. But when I have calls with males on similar problems, the issue is set after a few minutes. Sometimes I get the feeling those women actually ENJOY talking to me for hours. Hell, I want to code, and be productive.
Yup, hackers are vain. But at least they are not vain enough to draw decisions in areas they have no clue.
Hmmmmm...must have disco outfit..must have blingbling...must resist hairless strangers.
Imagine we all would adapt to a communications stayle more pleasing to women.
When the hell we would actually talking about real technichal problems then? Where would the main strength of open source development, the straight to point, no bullshit communication (I'm not talking about slashdot now) be left? The strength of open source is, that we don't have to care about personal vanities of managers or women and get straight to the point. And flame over it, short and brutal and efficiant (with notable exceptions like vi-emacs). And then get over with it.
I can't recoun't the ressources. But some advanced googling might bring them up.
There was this case of a 8 years old boy and a 10 years old girld being raised by wolves in India. Every attempt to make them eat anything else but raw meat and plants, to make them wear clothes, or even to wash or sleep in houses failed.
Except for the girl, when puberty kicked in. She started dressing, even demanding shoes (!), looking in mirrors, combing her hair.
The boy never changed, although he probably wasn't that long among wolves, and being younge should be more adabtable.
There are different trends in behaviour and interst for the different genders. Welcome the exceptions, but never try to force anything.
Nothing wrong with enterprises heavily based on one person...As long as the person properly takes care of successors.
While the biggest flaw in democracy is that the inept cripple the apted (the efficiency of the whole system is the product of the efficiency of it's parts...and noone can tell me there is no null in any parlament), the biggest flaw in single leadership is that is was most of the time more or less chance that the people getting the job were capable of it. A monarchy, when the crown is given to one descendent, is very prone to giving it to an inept. It was no coincidence, that the roman Empire started to diminish, when passing the title to a close relative became the custom. Before that the Emperor most of the time adopted some givted child and educated and trained it carefully to be the successor, Marc Aurelius being a most notable example. The rise of Prussia was the result of an incredible strain of luck of having 4-5 very different, but very able kings in succession.
But well, we are talking about companies, so probably I'm talking nonsense.
Well, yes, maintaining borders is the function of all gouvernment.
Just a little comparison.
Eastern Germany was a bad orwellian Tyranny. About 200 people died on it's borders in the 28 years of the wall and the Iron curtain was up.
Well, that's about the number of people dying on the American-Mexican border every month.
heard of a complex corporate software project, which development was distributed in many different locations, and that succeeded? I mean all this communicational friction and losses, especially if non-technichal people are responsible for the communication and the decisions. Such projects, IMHO, are doomed to fail from the beginning.
IBM OS/400 stuff was developed centralized. Microsoft, say what you want, but they have/had centralized development with short communication.
The reason open source projects work decentralized is, that noone with no clue is in the middle, communication is direct without having to take care of manager ego and corporate agenda.
Well, there are different approaches to storing data. One is a hierarchical. That is great in letting the one looking for information browse to where he wants to and leads them to it step by step. It lets you group very different kinds of data logically belonging together in one place. It also avoids namespace pollution, since there are arbitrarily many levels of naming. The problem with those is, it is nearly impossible to avoid redundancy, even when you have a well designed an maintained hierarchy.
The other approach is the relational. It lets you define distinct data type, group them in records and store them more or less centralized. The downgrade is, to access or manipulate the data, you either need a highly specialized application, that retrieves the data for you, or you need to know SQL or a similar language.
So the real challenge, IMHO, is to develop an interface, that lets also the half educated user do the easy/basic stuff on an relational database. I mean everyone can (double)click on a file to open it. But managing permissions on an NTFS with Active Directory is hell. It is hell on an SQL database too, but there it is also hell to find any information without exactly knowing what you are looking for and/or exactly knwowing how to do queries.
What about loopback mounts? Compress them, encrypt them, do whatever you want with them.
After all, why is it neccessary to be a high level character to have fun in an MMORPG? I mean, it is essential to an RPG that higher level characters can do things low level characters cannot do. But who put up the rule that all a newbie could do is "killing rats on a field" and wait for some fun? Maybe you could be able to become a squire or a disciple to a higher level character who teaches you the ropes and improves your survival chances as well. Of course, for this a squire needs to offer something as well...
Who says removing a Windows install isn't a good thing?
Well, by that rule many nations, probably mankind, wouldn't exist anymore. Not only that it was the rule almost anywhere at any time to marry 11-16 years old girls to 30-40 years old men. Also in several exceptional situation, like post WWII Germany, where there simply were no young lads around, since they were all lying spread all over Europe.
Well, my opinion on this is just, someone with "daddy issues" or self-worth issues won't loose them just by waiting a few years. That means emotional mental maturity and/or health (I hate that word mental health) won't be there by then too, so sex is not allowed. By those standards some complete nut like Mariah Carey never should have sex too, but well this is something worth discussing ;)