Somehow I remain convinced that a unified, semantically-based solution, using a mix of folksonomy and taxonomy, is the Graal of tagging
Tags are random stuff about what people are thinking of at any given time.
So if I tag something as #anyhoo #whatever and #squork -- that's what I felt like tagging it as, and in the process I might want to make tags which aren't there or make up new ones.
If tags are meant to be a measure of the zeitgeist and what people are thinking, they're not going to do is according to some taxonomy.
Besides, some bastard will just want to come along and monetize tags and be the canonical source -- #screwem #taxonomyneednotapply
Having a "unified, semantically-based solution, using a mix of folksonomy and taxonomy" is someone trying to impose structure on something which is inherently not structured, and people will never conform to it.
I can see why in corporate contexts you'd want a taxonomy, but for the rest of the world this sounds like a solution in search of a problem. The world isn't something for librarians and archivists to tell us how we should categorize things.
What is says is that monogamy hasn't evolved in other species because they don't practice infanticide.
Except that other primates and animals do practice infanticide -- in fact it's quite common.
That humans generally don't do this is different enough to be worth noting.
As to if monogamy "evolved to" prevent infanticide -- well, I'm more inclined to think the two happened in parallel. Evolution happened, and it changed our behavior -- but it's not like nature said "hmmm, how do we stop them from killing their young?"
But let's not pretend that "monogamy hasn't evolved in other species because they don't practice infanticide" -- because that's not the case at all.
You'd probably liquefy the pumpkin before it got airborne.
You're gonna need something fairly rugged to get launched out of this thing.
That being said, I really really want to see video of things like pumpkins being fired out of this... that would be awesome... the pumpkin rail gun.;-)
hope they put in crater to keep neighbors out of harms way
What is 'out of harms way' for something which can put an object into space with a purely ballistic trajectory?
My understanding is you could fling objects half-way around the world quite readily with something like this.
Putting it into a hole limits the flight angles so it has to go more up, but something coming out at those speeds is going to make a hell of a mess of anything it hits.
Anything that can launch stuff into orbit can probably also be tweaked to drop stuff literally anywhere in the world.
I don't think there's any probably to it... if you can get something into space, you can get it pretty much anywhere you like if you can figure out the flight mechanics of it. Which is why when people do any rocket testing, people are paying close attention since a rocket and an ICBM are pretty similar -- if you can do one you can do the other.
At those speeds, even a few kilos of mass is going to hit anything with some pretty serious force.
It also applies to Open Source software. And, what if you're not a reseller -- "you buy Windows, and I'll install and configure it".
Sadly, I'm just going to assume there will be all sorts of problems here -- because most of the time when lawmakers try to pass laws relating to technology, they fail miserably in their understanding of said technology and make a bigger mess of things.
There is no reason to retest the same drivers over and over again
If you're rolling out changes to the OS, you have to test, no? So I'm pretty sure that if they do have any updates, they do need to do testing. The drivers may have been written 8 years ago, but the other changes they're making are new and still need to work.
You are just leasing the right to operate it.
That is exactly Oracle's business model these days. They locked down even the documentation unless you have a support contract.
Oracle will only sell you something with a ridiculous support contract, and they won't give you anything for Solaris without one.
There's a reason I was once told by an Oracle consultant that it stands for "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison".
We just fell over ourselves loving win7 because we had to deal with vista ( which, in truth, wasn't all that horrible after the service packs. Never quite achieved the performance of 7 though ).
LOL, when I bought my current Vista box I knew that Microsoft loves lots of resources, so I bought a damned beefy box in 2009 just for Vista.
On an 8GB quad core machine with 2TB of disk (6TB now), it's been pretty sweet.
Throw enough resources at it from the start, and Vista wasn't all that bad, actually.
I could understand the mistake of the doors remaining locked from the outside, but shouldn't some of the doors already have a release from the inside
By law, absolutely... there's supposed to be a push bar which unlocks it. It's fire code.
Whatever fucking idiot designed it, when all of the power dropped, the door did not open. Don't know what the mechanism was.
In this case there was no fire, and we could find our way through a dark hallway to another door (after several minutes of fumbling) -- but I spent several weeks trying to explain to HR and the building owners that they basically had a death trap on their hands. They were just too stupid to understand what I was telling them.
It's not like Elop didn't know this would be a colossal clusterfsck.
The sad thing is, he probably didn't.
It's often amazing how business decisions get made that everyone else is saying "that sounds bad", but the business is trumpeting it as the most awesome thing ever. It's hard to tell if they genuinely didn't see it coming, or if they just wanted to get their executive bonuses paid before the company went under.
So now they've dumped their own OS, put out 10 (!) different smartphones this year, and are watching their sales dwindle on a platform nobody is interested in.
While it has done all it can to evolve the platform, it needs Microsoft to step up and begin innovating
If your company future depends on Microsoft innovating on your behalf... you're already screwed.
I'm hard pressed to think of anything really innovative Microsoft has done in years -- mostly they look at what others are doing and copy it (or buy it).
If they're going to put out the Windows Phone platform and then wait around until people buy it to take it seriously, nobody is ever going to take it seriously.
If he can get in. Windows update broke the security system, and now the door won't open from the outside.
Unrelated to developers and admins... a bunch of years ago we had a major power outage in our building (OK, it was a good chunk of North America, got some news coverage, you might have heard of it).
Some idiot had decided that in the case of a power outage you wouldn't want to have the security doors open. So when the power dropped, the doors on some of the exits essentially locked down and simply could not be opened -- inside or out.
So here's a whole bunch of people streaming down the stairwell, only to find themselves at a door which wouldn't open from the inside -- if it had been a real emergency with fire, people would have died.
Some failure conditions in doors can be catastrophic.
It took me several weeks to get it through HR and the building owners that emergency doors which lock you inside in the event of a power loss are safety hazards. Eventually the light-bulb went off and they suddenly grasped that I was telling them something they needed to act on.
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Tags are random stuff about what people are thinking of at any given time.
So if I tag something as #anyhoo #whatever and #squork -- that's what I felt like tagging it as, and in the process I might want to make tags which aren't there or make up new ones.
If tags are meant to be a measure of the zeitgeist and what people are thinking, they're not going to do is according to some taxonomy.
Besides, some bastard will just want to come along and monetize tags and be the canonical source -- #screwem #taxonomyneednotapply
Having a "unified, semantically-based solution, using a mix of folksonomy and taxonomy" is someone trying to impose structure on something which is inherently not structured, and people will never conform to it.
I can see why in corporate contexts you'd want a taxonomy, but for the rest of the world this sounds like a solution in search of a problem. The world isn't something for librarians and archivists to tell us how we should categorize things.
Except that other primates and animals do practice infanticide -- in fact it's quite common.
That humans generally don't do this is different enough to be worth noting.
As to if monogamy "evolved to" prevent infanticide -- well, I'm more inclined to think the two happened in parallel. Evolution happened, and it changed our behavior -- but it's not like nature said "hmmm, how do we stop them from killing their young?"
But let's not pretend that "monogamy hasn't evolved in other species because they don't practice infanticide" -- because that's not the case at all.
And has steadfastly failed to do so for years -- not exactly news.
Fuck that. Fuck your censorship. Fuck YOU.
The entire world doesn't need to be made safe for children.
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits.
Absolutely correct ... but I have no idea what the limits on a ballistic trajectory are when you're trying to go halfway around the world.
Intuitively, it's "just ballistics", but in practice unless you're involved in it, it's not something you know for certain.
Yeah, that was about what I expected. I assumed the mechanics were long since solved, but I've never been involved in artillery so I wasn't sure. :-P
You'd probably liquefy the pumpkin before it got airborne.
You're gonna need something fairly rugged to get launched out of this thing.
That being said, I really really want to see video of things like pumpkins being fired out of this ... that would be awesome ... the pumpkin rail gun. ;-)
What is 'out of harms way' for something which can put an object into space with a purely ballistic trajectory?
My understanding is you could fling objects half-way around the world quite readily with something like this.
Putting it into a hole limits the flight angles so it has to go more up, but something coming out at those speeds is going to make a hell of a mess of anything it hits.
I don't think there's any probably to it ... if you can get something into space, you can get it pretty much anywhere you like if you can figure out the flight mechanics of it. Which is why when people do any rocket testing, people are paying close attention since a rocket and an ICBM are pretty similar -- if you can do one you can do the other.
At those speeds, even a few kilos of mass is going to hit anything with some pretty serious force.
Yeah, but if you can put a cargo payload into space using this, you can make it much easier to put things into orbit.
For humans I think we'll be limited to rockets for a while. But if you can fire a small satellite into space like this, it might be easier.
Of course, you're also half way to a rail-gun type thing you can lob projectiles long distances.
So we're going with the Wile E Coyote school of engineering then?
Awesome!!
Might be sure your payload doesn't get any sudden G-forces it's not built for, but it sounds interesting.
It also applies to Open Source software. And, what if you're not a reseller -- "you buy Windows, and I'll install and configure it".
Sadly, I'm just going to assume there will be all sorts of problems here -- because most of the time when lawmakers try to pass laws relating to technology, they fail miserably in their understanding of said technology and make a bigger mess of things.
Well, let's start with the primer, and once you've mastered the basics we'll move on to lesson #2. ;-)
If you're rolling out changes to the OS, you have to test, no? So I'm pretty sure that if they do have any updates, they do need to do testing. The drivers may have been written 8 years ago, but the other changes they're making are new and still need to work.
That is exactly Oracle's business model these days. They locked down even the documentation unless you have a support contract.
Oracle will only sell you something with a ridiculous support contract, and they won't give you anything for Solaris without one.
There's a reason I was once told by an Oracle consultant that it stands for "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison".
LOL, when I bought my current Vista box I knew that Microsoft loves lots of resources, so I bought a damned beefy box in 2009 just for Vista.
On an 8GB quad core machine with 2TB of disk (6TB now), it's been pretty sweet.
Throw enough resources at it from the start, and Vista wasn't all that bad, actually.
And I'd get this why? Have we reached an age where we're expected to get microchip implants so people can monitor what we do?
Fuck that.
By law, absolutely ... there's supposed to be a push bar which unlocks it. It's fire code.
Whatever fucking idiot designed it, when all of the power dropped, the door did not open. Don't know what the mechanism was.
In this case there was no fire, and we could find our way through a dark hallway to another door (after several minutes of fumbling) -- but I spent several weeks trying to explain to HR and the building owners that they basically had a death trap on their hands. They were just too stupid to understand what I was telling them.
The sad thing is, he probably didn't.
It's often amazing how business decisions get made that everyone else is saying "that sounds bad", but the business is trumpeting it as the most awesome thing ever. It's hard to tell if they genuinely didn't see it coming, or if they just wanted to get their executive bonuses paid before the company went under.
So now they've dumped their own OS, put out 10 (!) different smartphones this year, and are watching their sales dwindle on a platform nobody is interested in.
Do they give Darwin awards to companies?
If your company future depends on Microsoft innovating on your behalf ... you're already screwed.
I'm hard pressed to think of anything really innovative Microsoft has done in years -- mostly they look at what others are doing and copy it (or buy it).
If they're going to put out the Windows Phone platform and then wait around until people buy it to take it seriously, nobody is ever going to take it seriously.
Unrelated to developers and admins ... a bunch of years ago we had a major power outage in our building (OK, it was a good chunk of North America, got some news coverage, you might have heard of it).
Some idiot had decided that in the case of a power outage you wouldn't want to have the security doors open. So when the power dropped, the doors on some of the exits essentially locked down and simply could not be opened -- inside or out.
So here's a whole bunch of people streaming down the stairwell, only to find themselves at a door which wouldn't open from the inside -- if it had been a real emergency with fire, people would have died.
Some failure conditions in doors can be catastrophic.
It took me several weeks to get it through HR and the building owners that emergency doors which lock you inside in the event of a power loss are safety hazards. Eventually the light-bulb went off and they suddenly grasped that I was telling them something they needed to act on.
I think you have it backwards ... that was my plan for the developers.
I won't tell you what I'm doing to sales, because I don't want to spoil the surprise. ;-)
If I'd known, I wouldn't have shaved. But it sounds like I have the rest covered ... well, I went out of the box, and the t-shirt is brown today.
It can be challenging, but don't let anyone else tell you what your limitations are.
Oh, did you mean the users? ;-)
Challenge accepted ... oh, and did I mention my assistant will be testing the sprinklers in your office today??
First I'm going to delete your inbox.
Then I'm going to switch your phone extension with Larry in facilities management.
And I think this afternoon I will take the Production environment down for a little while.