Granted, both the article and the study point to a trend in employers becoming more flexible, but to state that the old system "is over" is, as usual, overstating the significance of the trend. The majority of working Americans work a full time job, and believe it or not, are NOT in the tech industry. Information technology is a powerful tool, and will continue to gain importance, but it's not the only game in town. Next time, Jon, after you read the latest "trend" showing anything about the industry, take a deep breath, step back, and get a little perspective. You're starting to sound like Chicken Little.
Rather than the dissolution of nation states, it seems more likely that the result of "borderless" transactions will be increased cooperation between governments to create a system of rules and regulations to insure mutual survival (one could argue that the WTO is one of the first steps in this direction), to the exclusion of those nation-states who choose not to participate, and therefore risk economic isolation and collapse (e.g. Cuba).
I'm left-handed, and the jog-dial location doesn't look too friendly for us "sinister" users. Does anyone know if they're making lefty versions, or am i being hopelessly naive?
I'm not clear on why people are so upset that the RIAA has taken legal action to prevent illegal appropriation of copyrighted materials. Granted, Napster could be described as a file sharing system, but it ONLY exists to share MP3 files, a good portion of which are protected by copyright. If Napster is able to protect copyrighted materials from being shared and chooses not to, then that could constitute neglect. If you don't like the laws, get them changed; laws are part of the social contract, and you can't obey them selectively. I would suggest reading Locke's Second Treatise for more eloquent discussion about this, as i can hardly do it justice.
" I wonder if they expect any benefits (besides marketing) from the "upgrade"? "
They're probably doing it for the same reasons that all the top automobile companies have racing programs: the best way to make sure you have a good product is to put it under the greatest amount of stress, with the whole world watching.
I think most of the vitriol spent on the privacy issues has more to do with the potential for abuse of any accountablility system, and less to do with people not wanting it at all.
This seems like an interesting combination; one company that for all intents and purposes controls the domain name registration system (i know, there are others, but NSI gets the most business), and Verisign controls the software certificate world. Who keeps these guys in line? Why should i trust a piece of software just because verisign tells me so?
I've been using the Kinesis Classic (programmable one) for about 6 months, and i can't say enough good things about it. I was using the MS Natural keyboard prior to that, but it doesn't compare to this. Not only is it comfortable, but i finally got to put the CTRL and ALT keys where they belong, and i'm not even sure where my caps lock key is mapped to anymore, and i don't care. Anyway, it was about 200 bucks, but worth every penny, considering how much time i spend using it.
Main Entry: meme Pronunciation: 'mEm Function: noun Etymology: alteration of mimeme, from mim- (as in mimesis) + -eme Date: 1976 : an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture
In other words, a trend. This whole "memetics" thing is bullshit, if you ask me.
I'd rather new than malloc (which i can do anyway). C++ gives you both "under the hood" functionality, and the flexibility to change what goes on under the hood.
I don't consider myself a fan of Microsoft by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel that VC++ 6 is probably the best program I've ever used. If only they would port it to Linux.
Einstein predicted (and was later proven) that time (or the rate at which things change) changes relative to the gravitational field you're in. If that's not a concrete proof of the existence of time, what is?
I was poking around SGI's OSS page, and saw that they were porting STL to Linux. I haven't done much dev work on Linux, mostly Win stuff, and i was a little surprised to see this. Is this the first such effort, or has someone else already done it too? I'm asking because I've been using STL extensively, and assumed it would have been available on Linux sooner.
I believe that AOL publicly released the protocol, ostensibly to be used on platforms which they didn't want to write for themselves. They later pulled the protocol.
You're correct about the bottleneck; however, there's not much of a difference between reviving an extinct species, and restoring one that's almost extinct (in the case of the California Condor). Either way, the bottleneck exists. Your second point about the premature aging of the sheep is explained thusly: there is a strand of DNA called a telomere which dictates the cell age; it shortens each time the cell divides. The reason Dolly seems older is because she began life with pre-shortened telomeres in her DNA. However, any offspring that she, or any other similarly cloned animal, were to have would have normal-length telomeres (assuming a "natural" birth).
A couple things i might point out about NT: David Cutler is the guy who created VMS and went to work on NT; however, they based NT on the Mach kernel, not on VMS, and everything else was written from scratch.
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Granted, both the article and the study point to a trend in employers becoming more flexible, but to state that the old system "is over" is, as usual, overstating the significance of the trend. The majority of working Americans work a full time job, and believe it or not, are NOT in the tech industry. Information technology is a powerful tool, and will continue to gain importance, but it's not the only game in town. Next time, Jon, after you read the latest "trend" showing anything about the industry, take a deep breath, step back, and get a little perspective. You're starting to sound like Chicken Little.
Rather than the dissolution of nation states, it seems more likely that the result of "borderless" transactions will be increased cooperation between governments to create a system of rules and regulations to insure mutual survival (one could argue that the WTO is one of the first steps in this direction), to the exclusion of those nation-states who choose not to participate, and therefore risk economic isolation and collapse (e.g. Cuba).
They'll get sued by Starbucks & Juan Valdez for violation of copyright protection under the DMCA
I'm left-handed, and the jog-dial location doesn't look too friendly for us "sinister" users. Does anyone know if they're making lefty versions, or am i being hopelessly naive?
(optical connection to disks, faster than light BUSes, etc.)
Faster than light, huh? So the data is there before you start writing it, i guess.
Actually, I believe they now use cyclotrons to separate U235 from U238, Oak Ridge notwithstanding
I'm not clear on why people are so upset that the RIAA has taken legal action to prevent illegal appropriation of copyrighted materials. Granted, Napster could be described as a file sharing system, but it ONLY exists to share MP3 files, a good portion of which are protected by copyright. If Napster is able to protect copyrighted materials from being shared and chooses not to, then that could constitute neglect. If you don't like the laws, get them changed; laws are part of the social contract, and you can't obey them selectively. I would suggest reading Locke's Second Treatise for more eloquent discussion about this, as i can hardly do it justice.
" I wonder if they expect any benefits (besides marketing) from the "upgrade"? "
They're probably doing it for the same reasons that all the top automobile companies have racing programs: the best way to make sure you have a good product is to put it under the greatest amount of stress, with the whole world watching.
Like your .sig; I was going to use the same one (almost): this statement has no proof
Been reading math books recently?
I think most of the vitriol spent on the privacy issues has more to do with the potential for abuse of any accountablility system, and less to do with people not wanting it at all.
This seems like an interesting combination; one company that for all intents and purposes controls the domain name registration system (i know, there are others, but NSI gets the most business), and Verisign controls the software certificate world. Who keeps these guys in line? Why should i trust a piece of software just because verisign tells me so?
>>I'm no chip designer, but why are we sill using >>transisters?
>>Any research being done on the possible use of >>lasers in chips?
No. That's why you're not a chip designer.
I've been using the Kinesis Classic (programmable one) for about 6 months, and i can't say enough good things about it. I was using the MS Natural keyboard prior to that, but it doesn't compare to this. Not only is it comfortable, but i finally got to put the CTRL and ALT keys where they belong, and i'm not even sure where my caps lock key is mapped to anymore, and i don't care. Anyway, it was about 200 bucks, but worth every penny, considering how much time i spend using it.
Taken from Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: meme
Pronunciation: 'mEm
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of mimeme, from mim- (as in mimesis) + -eme
Date: 1976
: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture
In other words, a trend. This whole "memetics" thing is bullshit, if you ask me.
I'm pretty sure this guy was joking. Lighten up.
I'd rather new than malloc (which i can do anyway). C++ gives you both "under the hood" functionality, and the flexibility to change what goes on under the hood.
I don't consider myself a fan of Microsoft by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel that VC++ 6 is probably the best program I've ever used. If only they would port it to Linux.
If Katz were to take his own advice and ask people about the things he writes about, maybe he wouldn't get flamed so "mercilessly" all the time.
Einstein predicted (and was later proven) that time (or the rate at which things change) changes relative to the gravitational field you're in. If that's not a concrete proof of the existence of time, what is?
Dude, you wrote secret twice.
>>So, they can have calculators, but not computers.
Actually, my parents just bought a beautiful new oak table from some Amish furniture makers, who use CAD/CAM systems in their workshops.
I was poking around SGI's OSS page, and saw that they were porting STL to Linux. I haven't done much dev work on Linux, mostly Win stuff, and i was a little surprised to see this. Is this the first such effort, or has someone else already done it too? I'm asking because I've been using STL extensively, and assumed it would have been available on Linux sooner.
I believe that AOL publicly released the protocol, ostensibly to be used on platforms which they didn't want to write for themselves. They later pulled the protocol.
You're correct about the bottleneck; however, there's not much of a difference between reviving an extinct species, and restoring one that's almost extinct (in the case of the California Condor). Either way, the bottleneck exists. Your second point about the premature aging of the sheep is explained thusly: there is a strand of DNA called a telomere which dictates the cell age; it shortens each time the cell divides. The reason Dolly seems older is because she began life with pre-shortened telomeres in her DNA. However, any offspring that she, or any other similarly cloned animal, were to have would have normal-length telomeres (assuming a "natural" birth).
A couple things i might point out about NT:
David Cutler is the guy who created VMS and went to work on NT; however, they based NT on the Mach kernel, not on VMS, and everything else was written from scratch.