It's simple chauvinism. We're the winners of a "wonderfulness" contest for which we are the judges. We engage in the "Four F's" like all the other animals: fleeing, feeding, fighting and reproductive behavior. Pterosaurs lasted 140 million years. we've been around for maybe a million. A few thousand years ago we were worshipping trees and howling at the moon. Then we congregated, made the water go bad and had to drink booze to kill the bacteria until about 500 years ago. We got tea and coffee from some more sophisticated folks and sobered up. Newton got all jacked up on caffeine and we started thinking, Now we have extracted some gene from a jellyfish and made rabbits that glow in the dark. We're the real "The Crown of Creation". Death scares the bejeezus out of us. We need to distance ourselves from the animal kingdom as much as possible. There'll be a global extinction eventually and everything will start over again. Ending everything right after Stalin, Hitler and Mao would have been poetic justice. But as Elliot says, we'll go out with a whimper not a bang.
Long enough that I have no teeth, no hair, can't talk or understand anything, can't walk, control my bladder or bowels, I drool my food, lay there naked and cry a lot. I want to leave the same way I came in. My grandchildren can have "before and after" photos over the fireplace.
People have been listening to tapes at night for years and learning nothing. Somebody suddenly gets a Pavlovian response and the promise of a PhD while you snore leaps into some journalistic mind. Please, there are far more advances in anti-gravity and time travel that make more interesting reading.
Their selection of streaming movies sucks. Films listed under 'recently acquired' have been there for a year or more. They used to have agreat selection of documentaries but I've seen most of them. A few good foreign films get in. The point is that they spend as little as possible licensing movies rather than paying more for good ones and attracting more viewers. They're penny wise and pound foolish. Lots of businesses make this mistake and most go down the tubes.
Licensing is the big issue. Imagine a service able to stream every movie ever made in every language. Storage is nothing. Bandwidth would give ISPs seizures. But licensing? Negotiating those would be a nightmare no one would want to face.
Did anyone see "Catch Me If You Can"? True story. The FBI hired a master conterfeiter and con-man. Trust? Both the CIA and the FBI have vetted guys and moved them to high posts while they were working for the KGB. With a hacker you know what you're getting. They have to decide whether they want to protect their country from enemies, foreign and domestic. Don't expect them to jump on board with massive personal intrusion, expect them to go after bad guys. They have to accept that they are going to watched, tapped, bugged, whatever, as part of the job.
By the way, polygraph tests are a joke. Aldrich Ames had to take a ploygraph test. His KGB handlers told him not to worry, get a good night's sleep and be friendly with the testers. He passed of course. Anyone can beat it and with some mild drugs they might as well be giving the test to a corpse. Read "Telling Lies" and "Lie Spotting" and you'll be able to do a better job.
Carnegie-Mellon has dropped OOP from their CS requirements because they felt that the OOP model was not appropriate for modern needs. Linus Torvalds says "C++ is a horrible language." In the January issue of IEEE Computer there is an article "The Java Tree Withers - The java report card: infrastructure gets a D, code reuse gets an F".
Programming languages drive devices. I'm doing heterogenous parallel processing in C and CUDA. Multicore and massivelly parallel concurrency is absolutely the future and if you think it's easy, you haven't done it. There is a new compiler that will mix x86 and Fermi but it is definitely suboptimal. Only a human can do the cost/benefit analysis required for parallelization and only a human is creative. At this point anyway. Multicore consurrency is here to stay. I see no reason why heterogeneous processing (multiple architecture machines)should go away either.
Also, while Cray dropped the use of FPGAs, the are getting easier and easier to program, they are lightning fast, they can be reprogrammed in a millisecond and... and... while software patents are a can of of worms, an FPGA program/algorithm can be patented as a circuit. And there is massive legal precedence in enforcing circuit patents.
Every limey will be required to insert a camera into his rectum to monitor for internal hanky-panky. Reportedly it is so accurate that it can read lips from the other end.
That's nothing. Every time the director mentions a project, the manager moves it to #1. I like going to a staff meeting first thing in the morning to find out what the project requirements are today. I remember Paul Newman in the film "Hombre". After wounding a guy he tells the guy to quit moving around so he can do better. It's hard to lead a target moving in an infinite number of dimensions.
Beating a polygraph test is piece of cake. Aldrich Ames was worried about man an upcoming polygraph and his Russian handlers told him to get a good nights sleep and be friendly to the people administering the test. You can practice relaxing with biofeedback equipment which is essentially the same as a polygraph. You can take drugs like beta-blockers and tranquilizers that will make you dead to stress which is the mechanism of the polygraph. There are people on whom a polygraph doesn't work. My God, google "how to beat a polygraph".
Because if they're not, they're really weird. Average people are really weird. The average person is really stupid. Half of the of the population are dumber than they are. Find me a normal person and I'll show you someone really strange.
A million children a day die from diseases related to a lack of safe water. Can we engineers design cheap, maintainable safe water systems? Tell me Vasimir is worth the life of one child.
It made me feel sorry for the poor, dumb bastard. However, he can still kiss my ass.
Obama keeps reminding everyone that Bush is still president so they remember that he has nothing to do with with anything the administration does until he assumes office.
Let's be fair. If they can use my computer resources without my permission then the reverse must be true also. And altering their web site to state my opinion is freedom of speech. Blasting their mail system with 10,000 messages/hour is freedom of speach also. After all, how often I say something is irrelevent. Let's have little equity here.
You've developed a reputation as the evil empire. Are you so strapped for cash that you can't hire someone to get you out of this mire? How hard can it be? One would think you like being universally loathed. It has nothing to do with what your browser does or doesn't do. It has to do with how you treat your user community. How people see you. I would have to say the consumate failure of Microsoft is in public relations. Microsoft is it's own worst enemy. Microsoft will probably commit suicide within the next few years.
1. It is not easier: I can provide examples of the same application in OODBMS and RDBMS and the OOP version takes almost twice as much code.
2. Your examples of corporate use of OODBMS: The revenues of the entire OODBMS industry is less than the advertising budget of any one of the major RDBMS vendors.
3. You don't need a query language: Yeah, the system just knows what you want and it jumps out.
OODBMS are NOT:
easier to implement
easier to maintain
easier to understand
cheaper
faster
better in any way
O.K. They taught you OOP in college. Now you can't think any other way. That doesn't make it better.
Like that won't happen soon? The residents of SF are tightening up their sphincters so much they're starting to act like the residents of Paris.
1. Chill out SF. Take a pill.
2. Big blue has turned 180 and realized who's buttering the bread.
3. They probably hired an SF ad company to do the campaign. It sounds like the work of SF School of Art grads.
You can put lien on a building or something. They (or their creditors) won't be able to sell the asset without paying you off. Then you can negotiate for a percentage. Threaten to go to court to fight for more.
I've left the Mac world and work in UNIX mostly these days. My Fiance uses a Mac daily for graphics and art. I remember when there were thousands of HyperCard stacks for almost everything on BBs. One of the big strengths of the Mac was that it came out of the box with an easy to use way of programming it. Then Apple decided to stop giving HyperCard away and the development of stacks dried up. So did sales. One of Apples biggest mistakes ever.
In my opinion, Visual Basic is a rippoff of HyperCard. There is an executable for each object (field, button, etc.) - it's not organized as nicely, but it's the same idea. Window, Card, what's the diff? The script is Basic because it's what Bill used to start MS.
Things for free? That's communism! If God had wanted things to be free we'd've been born broke, jobless and without a credit card. The American way isn't helping each other out! It's not working together for a better world! It's the lifelong attempt to vacuum the wallets of as many of your fellow human beings as possible.
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When they graduate we give them citizenship, a driver's license, a car, a visa card and cut em loose.
It's simple chauvinism. We're the winners of a "wonderfulness" contest for which we are the judges. We engage in the "Four F's" like all the other animals: fleeing, feeding, fighting and reproductive behavior. Pterosaurs lasted 140 million years. we've been around for maybe a million. A few thousand years ago we were worshipping trees and howling at the moon. Then we congregated, made the water go bad and had to drink booze to kill the bacteria until about 500 years ago. We got tea and coffee from some more sophisticated folks and sobered up. Newton got all jacked up on caffeine and we started thinking, Now we have extracted some gene from a jellyfish and made rabbits that glow in the dark. We're the real "The Crown of Creation". Death scares the bejeezus out of us. We need to distance ourselves from the animal kingdom as much as possible. There'll be a global extinction eventually and everything will start over again. Ending everything right after Stalin, Hitler and Mao would have been poetic justice. But as Elliot says, we'll go out with a whimper not a bang.
Long enough that I have no teeth, no hair, can't talk or understand anything, can't walk, control my bladder or bowels, I drool my food, lay there naked and cry a lot. I want to leave the same way I came in. My grandchildren can have "before and after" photos over the fireplace.
People have been listening to tapes at night for years and learning nothing. Somebody suddenly gets a Pavlovian response and the promise of a PhD while you snore leaps into some journalistic mind. Please, there are far more advances in anti-gravity and time travel that make more interesting reading.
Their selection of streaming movies sucks. Films listed under 'recently acquired' have been there for a year or more. They used to have agreat selection of documentaries but I've seen most of them. A few good foreign films get in. The point is that they spend as little as possible licensing movies rather than paying more for good ones and attracting more viewers. They're penny wise and pound foolish. Lots of businesses make this mistake and most go down the tubes.
Licensing is the big issue. Imagine a service able to stream every movie ever made in every language. Storage is nothing. Bandwidth would give ISPs seizures. But licensing? Negotiating those would be a nightmare no one would want to face.
Did anyone see "Catch Me If You Can"? True story. The FBI hired a master conterfeiter and con-man. Trust? Both the CIA and the FBI have vetted guys and moved them to high posts while they were working for the KGB. With a hacker you know what you're getting. They have to decide whether they want to protect their country from enemies, foreign and domestic. Don't expect them to jump on board with massive personal intrusion, expect them to go after bad guys. They have to accept that they are going to watched, tapped, bugged, whatever, as part of the job.
By the way, polygraph tests are a joke. Aldrich Ames had to take a ploygraph test. His KGB handlers told him not to worry, get a good night's sleep and be friendly with the testers. He passed of course. Anyone can beat it and with some mild drugs they might as well be giving the test to a corpse. Read "Telling Lies" and "Lie Spotting" and you'll be able to do a better job.
Carnegie-Mellon has dropped OOP from their CS requirements because they felt that the OOP model was not appropriate for modern needs. Linus Torvalds says "C++ is a horrible language." In the January issue of IEEE Computer there is an article "The Java Tree Withers - The java report card: infrastructure gets a D, code reuse gets an F".
Programming languages drive devices. I'm doing heterogenous parallel processing in C and CUDA. Multicore and massivelly parallel concurrency is absolutely the future and if you think it's easy, you haven't done it. There is a new compiler that will mix x86 and Fermi but it is definitely suboptimal. Only a human can do the cost/benefit analysis required for parallelization and only a human is creative. At this point anyway. Multicore consurrency is here to stay. I see no reason why heterogeneous processing (multiple architecture machines)should go away either.
Also, while Cray dropped the use of FPGAs, the are getting easier and easier to program, they are lightning fast, they can be reprogrammed in a millisecond and... and... while software patents are a can of of worms, an FPGA program/algorithm can be patented as a circuit. And there is massive legal precedence in enforcing circuit patents.
Every limey will be required to insert a camera into his rectum to monitor for internal hanky-panky. Reportedly it is so accurate that it can read lips from the other end.
That's nothing. Every time the director mentions a project, the manager moves it to #1. I like going to a staff meeting first thing in the morning to find out what the project requirements are today. I remember Paul Newman in the film "Hombre". After wounding a guy he tells the guy to quit moving around so he can do better. It's hard to lead a target moving in an infinite number of dimensions.
Beating a polygraph test is piece of cake. Aldrich Ames was worried about man an upcoming polygraph and his Russian handlers told him to get a good nights sleep and be friendly to the people administering the test. You can practice relaxing with biofeedback equipment which is essentially the same as a polygraph. You can take drugs like beta-blockers and tranquilizers that will make you dead to stress which is the mechanism of the polygraph. There are people on whom a polygraph doesn't work. My God, google "how to beat a polygraph".
Because if they're not, they're really weird. Average people are really weird. The average person is really stupid. Half of the of the population are dumber than they are. Find me a normal person and I'll show you someone really strange.
A million children a day die from diseases related to a lack of safe water. Can we engineers design cheap, maintainable safe water systems? Tell me Vasimir is worth the life of one child.
It made me feel sorry for the poor, dumb bastard. However, he can still kiss my ass.
Obama keeps reminding everyone that Bush is still president so they remember that he has nothing to do with with anything the administration does until he assumes office.
Do you mean since the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984?
I work for a Russian company and mostly Russian and Ukranian native co-workers. They say that the U.S. becomes more like the Soviet Union every day.
My dog is a physicist.
Oops! Wrong discussion. See Senator supports SPAM.
Let's be fair. If they can use my computer resources without my permission then the reverse must be true also. And altering their web site to state my opinion is freedom of speech. Blasting their mail system with 10,000 messages/hour is freedom of speach also. After all, how often I say something is irrelevent. Let's have little equity here.
You've developed a reputation as the evil empire. Are you so strapped for cash that you can't hire someone to get you out of this mire? How hard can it be? One would think you like being universally loathed. It has nothing to do with what your browser does or doesn't do. It has to do with how you treat your user community. How people see you. I would have to say the consumate failure of Microsoft is in public relations. Microsoft is it's own worst enemy. Microsoft will probably commit suicide within the next few years.
1. It is not easier: I can provide examples of the same application in OODBMS and RDBMS and the OOP version takes almost twice as much code. 2. Your examples of corporate use of OODBMS: The revenues of the entire OODBMS industry is less than the advertising budget of any one of the major RDBMS vendors. 3. You don't need a query language: Yeah, the system just knows what you want and it jumps out. OODBMS are NOT: easier to implement easier to maintain easier to understand cheaper faster better in any way O.K. They taught you OOP in college. Now you can't think any other way. That doesn't make it better.
Like that won't happen soon? The residents of SF are tightening up their sphincters so much they're starting to act like the residents of Paris. 1. Chill out SF. Take a pill. 2. Big blue has turned 180 and realized who's buttering the bread. 3. They probably hired an SF ad company to do the campaign. It sounds like the work of SF School of Art grads.
You can put lien on a building or something. They (or their creditors) won't be able to sell the asset without paying you off. Then you can negotiate for a percentage. Threaten to go to court to fight for more.
I've left the Mac world and work in UNIX mostly these days. My Fiance uses a Mac daily for graphics and art. I remember when there were thousands of HyperCard stacks for almost everything on BBs. One of the big strengths of the Mac was that it came out of the box with an easy to use way of programming it. Then Apple decided to stop giving HyperCard away and the development of stacks dried up. So did sales. One of Apples biggest mistakes ever. In my opinion, Visual Basic is a rippoff of HyperCard. There is an executable for each object (field, button, etc.) - it's not organized as nicely, but it's the same idea. Window, Card, what's the diff? The script is Basic because it's what Bill used to start MS.
Things for free? That's communism! If God had wanted things to be free we'd've been born broke, jobless and without a credit card. The American way isn't helping each other out! It's not working together for a better world! It's the lifelong attempt to vacuum the wallets of as many of your fellow human beings as possible.
Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, ... The list goes on!