Think of all the talent locked up in someone who has done language A for 10 years but is totally useless to you because your project uses language B? The concepts are the same, yet people's knowledge is arbitrarily walled off in this development environment or that environment. How can this be considered good?
Innovation doesn't mean re-inventing the wheel.
Sounds like inexperienced programmers. The first 10 languages you learn are challenging, after that it's all syntax and frameworks.
Now then, some languages are bundled with extremely baroque and quirky frameworks which can suck up most of your development time. But this language is actually doing it right - by being Java-compatible on the JVM, the programmer can recycle his Java Library knowledge. Parrot is another similar approach, where Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. programmers will be able to trade libraries.
The bigger problem list is probably:
JDK, CPAN, Gems, STL, PyPi, etc.
These might be worse - they're largely duplication of labor, whereas the languages are at least trying to do something different.
That would also kill Intel's high-end consumer products. Most high-end Intel CPUs are sold to gamers, who aren't going to be gaming on some crappy Intel integrated graphics chip.
Can you quantify the gamer CPU market sales vs. the chipset sales currently held by nVidia?
If you eliminate income tax, sales tax will have to increase considerably. Probably around 10-15 percent.
No. I'm a resident of New Hampshire. We have no* income or sales tax. Our property taxes are considered 'high' but less than many states that have all three.
It's a spending problem, not a taxing problem.
* individual salaries, there are taxes on business revenue and dividends
The more I look into this kind of issues, the harder it becomes to not consider them like a bug in the capitalist/free trade system. I am not sure this makes me a communist but hey.. It is hard to think about copyright as something that helps spread and disseminate culture anymore
Copyright is the opposite of free trade. It's a direct affront to real property rights - an attempt at social engineering by creating non-tangible property under Law.
That's a form of socialism, so it's hard to imagine your being a communist for opposing creeping socialism.
Point being, it's not particularly OSHA that's the problem: they're trying to stop people poisoning themselves. The issue is manufacturing processes with unanticipated problems, and production workers who find ways to overcome the problems without realizing that they're endangering themselves.
You know this and I know this, so isn't it safe to say that OSHA knows this? And that they're spending effort not really solving any problems?
I know, how many bureaucrats does it take to say, "pfft, there's nothing we can really do that will help here."
Gosh, tax-payer funded research going to be held against taxpayers, software patents, corporate subsidies, NASA budgets - what could possibly go wrong?
It's not split, but the mechanical switches in the ABS M1 (USB) have nice rebound. I was happy with it at $70 but have seen it as low as $20 on Newegg. As a bonus, people on the phone can hear it so they know when I'm doing terminal work and they don't keep interrupting. It reminds me very much of the Apple Extended Keyboard II, for those for whom that means something.
Make sure your hand/arm positions and wrist rest are configured properly first before going looking for exotic keyboards, though. I've had friends with RSI who practically type with their wrists at a 90 degree angle.
Typing teachers must not slap wrists the way piano teachers do. Keep your tendons straight, or "wrists up"!
Everyone seems to think that the networks don't know what they're doing
If they really knew what they were doing, they would have staggered this among the networks so their anti-competitive collusion wouldn't be quite so obvious.
Yes, it does. I was very pleasantly surprised by this the other day on my Mythdora box. I had formatted my storage disk as ext4 when I upgraded it last time, hadn't noticed before, but an 'rm' returned almost right away on a really big video file. Yay.
So ti's not hysteria to think he might be moving towards a completely locked down system. It doesn't mean they are or aren't moving that way.
And it's possible that they have a large engineering team working on just this, but as market conditions develop it may never see the light of day. That happens in most businesses, Apple included.
I wouldn't bet against it. In fact, I bet on it, switching to Fedora a year and a half ago, when I concluded the Mac was winding down.
No, make no mistake about it -- if Apple wants control of a product space, they *will* make sure they get it, whether that means acquiring, ripping off, or otherwise replacing the existing solutions, they will find a way to do it.
And guess what Cornell's application updater/downloader/launcher system is called? Yup, "LaunchPad". Since 1993.
Nobody knows how or anything else much yet. The 'why' would seem to be so that a given type of universe can be simulated at lower cost without giving up much accuracy.
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Yes.
Really, though, on a Mac, it should have a mode that makes it noop unless it's a Microsoft Office app running.
Try explaining that to hiring managers and the HR folks.
It's OK, I think - the companies who are smart enough to avoid these pitfalls get the good programmers. Seems like a Darwinian advantage.
Think of all the talent locked up in someone who has done language A for 10 years but is totally useless to you because your project uses language B? The concepts are the same, yet people's knowledge is arbitrarily walled off in this development environment or that environment. How can this be considered good?
Innovation doesn't mean re-inventing the wheel.
Sounds like inexperienced programmers. The first 10 languages you learn are challenging, after that it's all syntax and frameworks.
Now then, some languages are bundled with extremely baroque and quirky frameworks which can suck up most of your development time. But this language is actually doing it right - by being Java-compatible on the JVM, the programmer can recycle his Java Library knowledge. Parrot is another similar approach, where Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. programmers will be able to trade libraries.
The bigger problem list is probably:
JDK,
CPAN,
Gems,
STL,
PyPi,
etc.
These might be worse - they're largely duplication of labor, whereas the languages are at least trying to do something different.
one of which is actually probably the best movie experience in town - beer + pizza+ $3 movies = awesome
yeah? Do you have a link? Something like that could go over well here, but the logistics seems difficult.
That would also kill Intel's high-end consumer products. Most high-end Intel CPUs are sold to gamers, who aren't going to be gaming on some crappy Intel integrated graphics chip.
Can you quantify the gamer CPU market sales vs. the chipset sales currently held by nVidia?
If you eliminate income tax, sales tax will have to increase considerably. Probably around 10-15 percent.
No. I'm a resident of New Hampshire. We have no* income or sales tax. Our property taxes are considered 'high' but less than many states that have all three.
It's a spending problem, not a taxing problem.
* individual salaries, there are taxes on business revenue and dividends
When do we get to the part where Axel Braun gets sued for using the trademarked name Batman for a porn movie?
10 seconds after a summons is issued to a Warner Brothers exec who didn't really understand Bittorrent.
The reason porn can be sold at all is be cause it is protected by the First Amendment. If it was not protected, then it couldn't be sold to anyone.
Of course it could, you just might expect to suffer a violence from an oppressive government for doing so.
It's important not to be euphemistic when talking about rights.
The more I look into this kind of issues, the harder it becomes to not consider them like a bug in the capitalist/free trade system. I am not sure this makes me a communist but hey.. It is hard to think about copyright as something that helps spread and disseminate culture anymore
Copyright is the opposite of free trade. It's a direct affront to real property rights - an attempt at social engineering by creating non-tangible property under Law.
That's a form of socialism, so it's hard to imagine your being a communist for opposing creeping socialism.
Did that scene make sense in a book or something?
see also: history.
If it can be packetized, it can be repeated and routed. Look for DisplayPort over IPv6 before it's dead.
We'll expect a full refund.
Point being, it's not particularly OSHA that's the problem: they're trying to stop people poisoning themselves. The issue is manufacturing processes with unanticipated problems, and production workers who find ways to overcome the problems without realizing that they're endangering themselves.
You know this and I know this, so isn't it safe to say that OSHA knows this? And that they're spending effort not really solving any problems?
I know, how many bureaucrats does it take to say, "pfft, there's nothing we can really do that will help here."
The Neanderthals were clearly all Dark Prince rock gods. Oh to live in times such as those...
I thought I saw lighters on the walls at Lascaux.
Gosh, tax-payer funded research going to be held against taxpayers, software patents, corporate subsidies, NASA budgets - what could possibly go wrong?
I think they wanted Sun's patent portfolio. How long did they own it before they filed a lawsuit against Google?
It was a one-two punch. They needed Sun's hardware to make their outdated database scale for a few more years.
They need Google's patents to get their database beyond that. Sun's patent arsenal provides the leverage to get that.
All the software is effectively useless, though MySQL was probably a plum to own the Sleepycat->MySQL->Oracle categories.
It's not split, but the mechanical switches in the ABS M1 (USB) have nice rebound. I was happy with it at $70 but have seen it as low as $20 on Newegg. As a bonus, people on the phone can hear it so they know when I'm doing terminal work and they don't keep interrupting. It reminds me very much of the Apple Extended Keyboard II, for those for whom that means something.
Make sure your hand/arm positions and wrist rest are configured properly first before going looking for exotic keyboards, though. I've had friends with RSI who practically type with their wrists at a 90 degree angle.
Typing teachers must not slap wrists the way piano teachers do. Keep your tendons straight, or "wrists up"!
Everyone seems to think that the networks don't know what they're doing
If they really knew what they were doing, they would have staggered this among the networks so their anti-competitive collusion wouldn't be quite so obvious.
I believe a pure sustained fusion rocket might be capable of reaching Centauri stars
The fusion drive is probably the easy part. What to do about hitting a grain of sand at .5c seems to be the harder one.
ext4 should fix the issue.
Yes, it does. I was very pleasantly surprised by this the other day on my Mythdora box. I had formatted my storage disk as ext4 when I upgraded it last time, hadn't noticed before, but an 'rm' returned almost right away on a really big video file. Yay.
So I suspect Macs are NOT at 20% share. Not even close.
Apple has to admit to one of two things then:
1) it has a much smaller market share
2) 75% of its users are motivated to replace the web browser they're so proud of.
I'd go with 1) if I were them - 2) is a terrible indictment of their ability to make software their users value.
I had that problem before discovering the BarTab extension. It fits my usage pattern well.
So ti's not hysteria to think he might be moving towards a completely locked down system. It doesn't mean they are or aren't moving that way.
And it's possible that they have a large engineering team working on just this, but as market conditions develop it may never see the light of day. That happens in most businesses, Apple included.
I wouldn't bet against it. In fact, I bet on it, switching to Fedora a year and a half ago, when I concluded the Mac was winding down.
No, make no mistake about it -- if Apple wants control of a product space, they *will* make sure they get it, whether that means acquiring, ripping off, or otherwise replacing the existing solutions, they will find a way to do it.
And guess what Cornell's application updater/downloader/launcher system is called? Yup, "LaunchPad". Since 1993.
Does this help?
Nobody knows how or anything else much yet. The 'why' would seem to be so that a given type of universe can be simulated at lower cost without giving up much accuracy.