And why shouldn't have a moratorium and review ESPECIALLY in regards to what has come to light about how fucked the internet is in just the last year?
Why proceed blindly with a protocol that comes from Google, who gladly works hand in hand with the NSA and is a Corporation whose core focus to track and monitor every single person and thing online?
What? Just proceed with something that addresses NONE of the present mass surveillance issues, and possibly could make us less secure than we are now just because we don't have a fall back lined up?
Or how about we take this time to step back and reevaluate what HTTP2.0 needs to be -- such as changing to a focus on security and privacy.
I think that the problem they are trying to avoid is that most people have a preconceived ideas as to what "Suspended Animation" should be
From Websters: suspended animationnoun: a state in which the processes of the body (such as blood circulation) stop or become very slow for a period of time while a person or animal is unconscious
Websters et al create definition of words and phrases based upon what the common consensus of their meaning is. The Scientists are just making an arrogant attempt to pre-empt the inevitable media hype that will happen regardless of how they try to spin it.
Arrogant? Yes, because it shows a condescending and cynical attitude towards laymen. But doesn't matter -- we aren't all fucking morons as these Scientists think and we will call it Suspended Animation, because that is actually what it is.
I mean, nothing beats violently wasting on the digital avatars of my fellow players AND MAKING THEM DIE VIOLENTLY in order to relieve some stress after a frustrating day.
Healthy release or psychopathic tendencies? The media driven Psychoanalytic Jury is still out, but our sources say that they are leaning to full blown psychosis, more at 11.
We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction... we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation.
Someone needs to remind these guys that something is only Science Fiction until it becomes Science Fact. Nothing wrong with calling it Suspended Animation if that's EXACTLY what it is.
The worst of it was that he broke what is at the heart of the franchise: that it's a story that attempts to envision what a utopian society might look like
No, the entire Next Generation era of shows broke that. Or maybe you think a society of people dressed in onesies, with no culture, no music (until billy bob country singer was thawed out) and nothing but sanitary, regulated "living" where everyone looks and acts the same as a "Utopia"
I thought the world portrayed by the Next Generation was a depiction of a dystopian hell.
Better propulsion methods? Considering we've been devising all sorts of propulsion methods for the last 50 years, what exactly should we expect from "propulsion"?
Frankly, I think "propulsion" is a dead end, we need to start figuring out physics to the point where we can either teleport physical items long distances, create wormholes or warp space. Propulsion will not get us out of this solar system and propulsion will not make travel within the solar system economically viable. We need to be able to get to Mars within hours or days not months if we hope to colonize it beyond token outposts akin to what we have in Antarctica. Hell, at the rate our space technology is going, the Antarctic Ice Sheets will have melted and made Antarctica habitable before we have Orbital Shipyards, asteroid mining or Mars colonization going on.
... It will be a haphazard mumbo-jumbo of bullshit.
SQL DB's should stick to being SQL and noSQL should do the same for their market. Mixing/Mashing makes no sense, you can't take a SQL DB and just up and convert it to be noSQL without double standards and weirdness.
So instead of putting on a silly disguise and trying to pretend to be who you aren't, how about addressing the issues about who you are such as low write limits and slow transaction speeds? But hey -- maybe I don't know WTF I'm talking about.
After living in SF for 10 years as an Independent Contractor, I realized that paying $3,100/month rent (house in the Presidio etc) was keeping me from doing anything productive other than working night and day on client projects or hunting for more projects when the work was done, I'd have ideas for apps and the like, but I'd be lucky to get two weeks into something only to get sucked into a project for a month or three, by which time, I'd be lucky to have another week or two to pick it up again, and by then had already forgotten where I was at and lost all momentum.
So I said fuck it, have been living out of a monthly hotel room billed as a "efficiency studio" (it has a full bath and kitchen), first in Sac and now in Fairfield, paying only $1,000/month including utils and housekeeping and have been making excellent progress creating some underlying frameworks and services that will be powering my app ideas. Yes, I still have to take clients and put down my personal projects, but now I take smaller projects for weeks at a time, not months at a a time and now my ambitions are really starting to come together, with my first round of OSS frameworks and services in reach. And while some people have looked down on me as trash for living out of a hotel instead of renting a house or apartment, fuck them. It's my life, ambition and goals, not theirs. Once I'm done, I plan on leaving the Bay Area, and hope to expat from the US and legally renounce my citizenship since I no longer view this as a Free Country under a Government that recognizes it's own Constitution, hence the desire to be as unencumbered as possible.
That's a possibility, but on the other hand, NodeJS has several advantages that RoR doesn't have -- Clusters across Cores -- Extremely light footprint -- Can be quickly downloaded, installed and deployed across a variety of devices -- Can write a full-stack in a single language -- Multiple form factors: create shell scripts and services with equal ease -- No webserver dependency, allowing a single instance to create an HTTP Service and a Socket service with Socket.io in a single app layer
I'm not saying it's not possible for another language to fit the bill, but off-hand, I cant think of any other browser based language other than Java (which runs in a VM via a plugin preventing mobile browser usage) from even coming close.
No, but in 5 years NodeJS will likely be the most prevalent platform for WebApps -- why develop the backend in Ruby, Python, PHP or Java when you can create your whole stack with Javascript?
I hated the choice of ECMAScript 3.1 (now called ECMAScript 5) over ECMAScript 4 which had things like static typing, classes, modules and the like, but the ECMAScript 4 proposal is alive as Harmony which is slated to be dubbed ECMAScript 6 with it's draft finalized by EOY 2014, but who knows when or if it will ever be adopted by the major browsers.
Alternatively, are you telling me that we have zero rights because the NSA is allowed to spy on everyone doing anything at any time for no reason at all?
Well since you ask... what "rights" do you really have in a Government that ignores it's own Constitution, drafts laws to allow it's lawbreaking after it gets caught, and who's local Law Enforcement routinely twists and misapplies laws against citizenry?
Seems your "rights" are entirely subjective and likely to change at a moments notice.
Afterwards his record should be sealed and he should be told that should he commit these actions again he will end up in real prison.
Where's the justice in that? He needs to be charged with as many Felonies as possible and be made virtually unemployable for the rest of his life, with the hopes this keeps him in poverty and all the more likely to be picked up on trumped-up BS petty charges or resorts to crime, so that we can keep him in the "Correctional System"
That's gone away somewhat with in-network calling, and honestly since then I can't remember the last time I hit, much less exceeded my peak-minute allowance.
Maybe we should plant some "lost" Gospels on the Moon, maybe on golden tablets which are nice and shiny and prevents carbon dating etc. If I know my fellow Americans, setting up a permanent base the Moon will be made America's Priority number 1 with every Cletus and Bubba in the Bible Belt demanding the right to colonize and claim moon property.
Yes, 2-way HD Video Chat on Desktop Browsers and Native Apps with Adobe Air. In a couple years real time video communication will be fulfilled in Browser with WebRTC, but WebRTC is not ready and only supported on a couple browsers. Until then the only reliable method to get 2-way HD Video Conferences in both the Browser and Native Apps is with Adobe Flex streaming to a Media Server such as FMS or Wowza.
Being self-employed, my biggest issue is the near TRIPLING of my insurance costs. Most people, having their insurance paid for by their employer don't see this, and don't care.
However, my biggest gripe about the "Affordable Care Act" is just how UNAFFORDABLE it has made my health care, and how I am now paying nearly as much for a SHIT TIER BRONZE PLAN as I was for what would be comparable to a Gold Plan.
The only upside is I claim that added insurance cost -- oh but wait, that will certainly put me over the $5,000/year write-off limit on my 1040SE, so I have to fill out additional paperwork for my end of the year tax write-offs. BONUS!
Frankly, ObamaCare is the Worst of All Worlds and I will be surprised if it hasn't turned into a complete Consumer Raping within 10 years a la the California Free Energy Market.
As a kid in early 80's, I remember the unprecedented media onslaught around E.T., which was a harbinger for things to come. They had cross over promotions for everything from Reese's Pieces, McDonald's Happy Meals, Breakfast Cereals, Lunch Boxes and Underoos. While watching Scooby-Doo and other afternoon cartoons, then it seemed nearly every other ad on TV was either a tailer for ET or ET related.
And then... the big day came, the Movie came out and with bated breath I waited in one of the longest lines ever at the theatre for what was surely the greatest movie ever made. Only to find myself half asleep in a dark movie theatre waiting desperately for the most boring piece of sappy ass garbage to end so I could go home.
And that day in 1982, a 10 year old boy became jaded and cynical. It was truly a "Drink your Ovaltine" moment.
It might be a planet. What I mean is, it may have formed around a star like a planet does, then got ejected by gravitational interactions with other planets
So now not only aren't Planets really Planets, Stars aren't really Stars. The IAU and their new speak seriously needs to fuck off.
What this card carrying member of the IAU **SHOULD** have said is "This likely was a member of a BINARY system that got ejected by gravitational interactions".
But no... he has to go goose-stepping with his IAU speak and call a star a fucking planet.
Seems this day and age of super-cheap gadgetry has made many forget that technology is not merely pulled out of some engineer's ass. Of course it needs to come down in price, and it will in about 10 years from now after they are refined, able to be cheaply made and useful enough to everyday people to attract substantial sales volumes.
Over my course of 13 years in IT Consulting, one of the most often repeated compliments is that I am a "genius" for being able to get up to speed on business requirements and advance a narrow feature set that was more value-added to their user base all over a single conversation.
While I've always seen my ability to understand "C-Level Speak", "Marketing Logic" and business principals as tangible assets that should define the software, I never thought I was anything but slightly more adept than other developers, since it was to me at least a given that all developers account for the business principals we are developing against -- I see now that perhaps I am a rarified quantity.
However, this has prevented me from using services such as O-Desk which focus on having customers spy on screen shots and key strokes of your "clocked in time", as I am all too aware that my most meaningful work is done while having a beer or 3 while I chill-intensify while mulling over the business aspects gleaned during that conversation and deriving user-flows and architectural concepts, which are then presented for approval and adoption. No keystrokes can be logged during that interval, which is really the most value-added and happens throughout the dev cycle as features are added and I work with the stake holders to really hone in on a core feature-set, since the reqs at that stage will change as they work to attract more stake holders. Instead, ODesk and their ilk think I am merely a shit shoveler who's time is merely spent writing code, good or bad.
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And why shouldn't have a moratorium and review ESPECIALLY in regards to what has come to light about how fucked the internet is in just the last year?
Why proceed blindly with a protocol that comes from Google, who gladly works hand in hand with the NSA and is a Corporation whose core focus to track and monitor every single person and thing online?
What? Just proceed with something that addresses NONE of the present mass surveillance issues, and possibly could make us less secure than we are now just because we don't have a fall back lined up?
Or how about we take this time to step back and reevaluate what HTTP2.0 needs to be -- such as changing to a focus on security and privacy.
I think that the problem they are trying to avoid is that most people have a preconceived ideas as to what "Suspended Animation" should be
From Websters:
suspended animation noun: a state in which the processes of the body (such as blood circulation) stop or become very slow for a period of time while a person or animal is unconscious
Websters et al create definition of words and phrases based upon what the common consensus of their meaning is. The Scientists are just making an arrogant attempt to pre-empt the inevitable media hype that will happen regardless of how they try to spin it.
Arrogant? Yes, because it shows a condescending and cynical attitude towards laymen. But doesn't matter -- we aren't all fucking morons as these Scientists think and we will call it Suspended Animation, because that is actually what it is.
I mean, nothing beats violently wasting on the digital avatars of my fellow players AND MAKING THEM DIE VIOLENTLY in order to relieve some stress after a frustrating day.
Healthy release or psychopathic tendencies? The media driven Psychoanalytic Jury is still out, but our sources say that they are leaning to full blown psychosis, more at 11.
We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction... we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation.
Someone needs to remind these guys that something is only Science Fiction until it becomes Science Fact.
Nothing wrong with calling it Suspended Animation if that's EXACTLY what it is.
Because then they wouldn't have a shiny vehicle to send on world tour as a money making exhibit
The worst of it was that he broke what is at the heart of the franchise: that it's a story that attempts to envision what a utopian society might look like
No, the entire Next Generation era of shows broke that. Or maybe you think a society of people dressed in onesies, with no culture, no music (until billy bob country singer was thawed out) and nothing but sanitary, regulated "living" where everyone looks and acts the same as a "Utopia"
I thought the world portrayed by the Next Generation was a depiction of a dystopian hell.
Better propulsion methods? Considering we've been devising all sorts of propulsion methods for the last 50 years, what exactly should we expect from "propulsion"?
Frankly, I think "propulsion" is a dead end, we need to start figuring out physics to the point where we can either teleport physical items long distances, create wormholes or warp space. Propulsion will not get us out of this solar system and propulsion will not make travel within the solar system economically viable. We need to be able to get to Mars within hours or days not months if we hope to colonize it beyond token outposts akin to what we have in Antarctica. Hell, at the rate our space technology is going, the Antarctic Ice Sheets will have melted and made Antarctica habitable before we have Orbital Shipyards, asteroid mining or Mars colonization going on.
It must be a miracle! Just like Climate Change and Magnets!
... It will be a haphazard mumbo-jumbo of bullshit.
SQL DB's should stick to being SQL and noSQL should do the same for their market.
Mixing/Mashing makes no sense, you can't take a SQL DB and just up and convert it to be noSQL without double standards and weirdness.
So instead of putting on a silly disguise and trying to pretend to be who you aren't, how about addressing the issues about who you are such as low write limits and slow transaction speeds? But hey -- maybe I don't know WTF I'm talking about.
After living in SF for 10 years as an Independent Contractor, I realized that paying $3,100/month rent (house in the Presidio etc) was keeping me from doing anything productive other than working night and day on client projects or hunting for more projects when the work was done, I'd have ideas for apps and the like, but I'd be lucky to get two weeks into something only to get sucked into a project for a month or three, by which time, I'd be lucky to have another week or two to pick it up again, and by then had already forgotten where I was at and lost all momentum.
So I said fuck it, have been living out of a monthly hotel room billed as a "efficiency studio" (it has a full bath and kitchen), first in Sac and now in Fairfield, paying only $1,000/month including utils and housekeeping and have been making excellent progress creating some underlying frameworks and services that will be powering my app ideas. Yes, I still have to take clients and put down my personal projects, but now I take smaller projects for weeks at a time, not months at a a time and now my ambitions are really starting to come together, with my first round of OSS frameworks and services in reach. And while some people have looked down on me as trash for living out of a hotel instead of renting a house or apartment, fuck them. It's my life, ambition and goals, not theirs. Once I'm done, I plan on leaving the Bay Area, and hope to expat from the US and legally renounce my citizenship since I no longer view this as a Free Country under a Government that recognizes it's own Constitution, hence the desire to be as unencumbered as possible.
Putting ignorance and stupidity on a podium is a sign of lunacy.
All well and good, but rather than being violent about it and destroying them, why not just send them back home to the moon?
That's a possibility, but on the other hand, NodeJS has several advantages that RoR doesn't have
-- Clusters across Cores
-- Extremely light footprint
-- Can be quickly downloaded, installed and deployed across a variety of devices
-- Can write a full-stack in a single language
-- Multiple form factors: create shell scripts and services with equal ease
-- No webserver dependency, allowing a single instance to create an HTTP Service and a Socket service with Socket.io in a single app layer
I'm not saying it's not possible for another language to fit the bill, but off-hand, I cant think of any other browser based language other than Java (which runs in a VM via a plugin preventing mobile browser usage) from even coming close.
No, but in 5 years NodeJS will likely be the most prevalent platform for WebApps -- why develop the backend in Ruby, Python, PHP or Java when you can create your whole stack with Javascript?
I hated the choice of ECMAScript 3.1 (now called ECMAScript 5) over ECMAScript 4 which had things like static typing, classes, modules and the like, but the ECMAScript 4 proposal is alive as Harmony which is slated to be dubbed ECMAScript 6 with it's draft finalized by EOY 2014, but who knows when or if it will ever be adopted by the major browsers.
Alternatively, are you telling me that we have zero rights because the NSA is allowed to spy on everyone doing anything at any time for no reason at all?
Well since you ask... what "rights" do you really have in a Government that ignores it's own Constitution, drafts laws to allow it's lawbreaking after it gets caught, and who's local Law Enforcement routinely twists and misapplies laws against citizenry?
Seems your "rights" are entirely subjective and likely to change at a moments notice.
Afterwards his record should be sealed and he should be told that should he commit these actions again he will end up in real prison.
Where's the justice in that? He needs to be charged with as many Felonies as possible and be made virtually unemployable for the rest of his life, with the hopes this keeps him in poverty and all the more likely to be picked up on trumped-up BS petty charges or resorts to crime, so that we can keep him in the "Correctional System"
That's gone away somewhat with in-network calling, and honestly since then I can't remember the last time I hit, much less exceeded my peak-minute allowance.
Considering Obi Wan gives props to the precision of Stormtrooper marksmanship, one has to assume they actually had damn good aim.
Maybe we should plant some "lost" Gospels on the Moon, maybe on golden tablets which are nice and shiny and prevents carbon dating etc.
If I know my fellow Americans, setting up a permanent base the Moon will be made America's Priority number 1 with every Cletus and Bubba in the Bible Belt demanding the right to colonize and claim moon property.
Yes, 2-way HD Video Chat on Desktop Browsers and Native Apps with Adobe Air. In a couple years real time video communication will be fulfilled in Browser with WebRTC, but WebRTC is not ready and only supported on a couple browsers. Until then the only reliable method to get 2-way HD Video Conferences in both the Browser and Native Apps is with Adobe Flex streaming to a Media Server such as FMS or Wowza.
Being self-employed, my biggest issue is the near TRIPLING of my insurance costs.
Most people, having their insurance paid for by their employer don't see this, and don't care.
However, my biggest gripe about the "Affordable Care Act" is just how UNAFFORDABLE it has made my health care, and how I am now paying nearly as much for a SHIT TIER BRONZE PLAN as I was for what would be comparable to a Gold Plan.
The only upside is I claim that added insurance cost -- oh but wait, that will certainly put me over the $5,000/year write-off limit on my 1040SE, so I have to fill out additional paperwork for my end of the year tax write-offs. BONUS!
Frankly, ObamaCare is the Worst of All Worlds and I will be surprised if it hasn't turned into a complete Consumer Raping within 10 years a la the California Free Energy Market.
As a kid in early 80's, I remember the unprecedented media onslaught around E.T., which was a harbinger for things to come.
They had cross over promotions for everything from Reese's Pieces, McDonald's Happy Meals, Breakfast Cereals, Lunch Boxes and Underoos.
While watching Scooby-Doo and other afternoon cartoons, then it seemed nearly every other ad on TV was either a tailer for ET or ET related.
And then... the big day came, the Movie came out and with bated breath I waited in one of the longest lines ever at the theatre for what was surely the greatest movie ever made. Only to find myself half asleep in a dark movie theatre waiting desperately for the most boring piece of sappy ass garbage to end so I could go home.
And that day in 1982, a 10 year old boy became jaded and cynical.
It was truly a "Drink your Ovaltine" moment.
It might be a planet. What I mean is, it may have formed around a star like a planet does, then got ejected by gravitational interactions with other planets
So now not only aren't Planets really Planets, Stars aren't really Stars.
The IAU and their new speak seriously needs to fuck off.
What this card carrying member of the IAU **SHOULD** have said is "This likely was a member of a BINARY system that got ejected by gravitational interactions".
But no... he has to go goose-stepping with his IAU speak and call a star a fucking planet.
Seems this day and age of super-cheap gadgetry has made many forget that technology is not merely pulled out of some engineer's ass.
Of course it needs to come down in price, and it will in about 10 years from now after they are refined, able to be cheaply made and useful enough to everyday people to attract substantial sales volumes.
Why should we not have a general warrant?
Isn't everyone a criminal that hasn't been convicted yet?
Over my course of 13 years in IT Consulting, one of the most often repeated compliments is that I am a "genius" for being able to get up to speed on business requirements and advance a narrow feature set that was more value-added to their user base all over a single conversation.
While I've always seen my ability to understand "C-Level Speak", "Marketing Logic" and business principals as tangible assets that should define the software, I never thought I was anything but slightly more adept than other developers, since it was to me at least a given that all developers account for the business principals we are developing against -- I see now that perhaps I am a rarified quantity.
However, this has prevented me from using services such as O-Desk which focus on having customers spy on screen shots and key strokes of your "clocked in time", as I am all too aware that my most meaningful work is done while having a beer or 3 while I chill-intensify while mulling over the business aspects gleaned during that conversation and deriving user-flows and architectural concepts, which are then presented for approval and adoption. No keystrokes can be logged during that interval, which is really the most value-added and happens throughout the dev cycle as features are added and I work with the stake holders to really hone in on a core feature-set, since the reqs at that stage will change as they work to attract more stake holders. Instead, ODesk and their ilk think I am merely a shit shoveler who's time is merely spent writing code, good or bad.