Isn't that really an effect of the whole industry moving away from the command line and into IDEs, like XCode but also like Eclipse? I've personally never liked IDEs, the ones I've used were always an incredible amount of overhead for the same capability as a couple of xterms/command windows/terminal windows with the command line tools.
The extra functionality of say Eclipse I've used so seldom that it is really a waste, and can be detrimental, if Eclipse happens to break while doing its thing. Fewer functions per tool means fewer things can go wrong, but I'm afraid that the "emacs" school is winning over the "vi" school, which means you'll soon have development environments that are more complicated than the OS's they're running on.
Not for nothing did they call emacs "the text editor that wants to be an operating system."
In a few centuries time there may be people killing each other in the name of Dr. Seuss. Or the Star Warriors and Star Trekkers will finally have their ultimate war, with the Bablyon 5'ers waiting in the wings.
People will fight and kill in the name of something, no matter how good or bad that something is. That is the nature of Man, and unless you change what Man is, it will be ever thus.
Apollo 1 was not a simulator, it was going to be the first one launched, but it was the only thing they could do a full rehearsal in. I was 8 when it happened.
How about this: a "mobile device" is one that you actually use while in motion. I use a phone or tablet while moving around, but almost never use a laptop while moving around.
"The rest is simply wrong." I take it you're a bureaucrat or related to one. I've lived in Metro DC for nearly 30 years, and have worked for Federal and Defense contractors the whole time, I've seen the Breaucratic State in action, I've seen how it works, I've been friends with the lowest-level bureaucrats and seen what they do, and dealt with mid-level management in different Agencies. If you claim that makes me "ignorant", well I'll take that as a compliment, since you're the one who's far more ignorant. "There are none so blind" etc. etc. Of course, you may be too young to know what it was like before the Bureaucratic State grew this large, so you don't know what to compare it to.
More specifically the Bureaucratic State, the web of agencies and regulators that exists from Administration to Administration, constantly growing either more or less slowly. It's purportedly led by the Cabinet Secretaries, but in reality the policies are made at lower levels by people appointed or promoted to implement the specifics of whatever broad general requirements are passed into law
"Clean up the air and water" becomes ten thousand pages of regulations in the Federal Registry, many of them giving passes to certain groups and punishing others, based on their ability to lobby the Bureaucratic State's purported overseers, Congress, or more specifically, the Congressional Staff.
The Bureaucratic State has one overall mandate, and that is to increase its power by assuming it must do more and more every year, and creating new problems to solve once their original problems have been managed or solved.
Unless that mandate is challenged, and the size of the Bureaucratic State reduced, we will lose more and more freedom of action to the controlling whims of the State. I don't see any political party willing to challenge that power, especially since the supposed "overseers" of the State are exempt from the State's control, and never see the problem of loss of freedom.
Speaking as someone who was born and spent the first 5 or so years of my life when everyone was setting off megaton atomic warheads ABOVE GROUND and living with more fallout than you can shake a geiger tube at, all I can say to both sides is: SHUT UP. Your worst experiences are nowhere near the reality that used to be, and isn't liable to be again.
Shove the nukeFUD, shove the "your pollution is worse than my pollution", shove the "GMO are going to kill us all", drag all the fear of science and technology back into your little dark holes and hide out while the rest of us get on with the future.
Not directed specifically at any poster, just in general.
We haven't had a Federal budget in 1200 days, so why should there be a worry about multi-year budgets being unconstitutional? We're 4 years into unconstitutionality already...
That's outmoded 18th Century thinking, we're so much more evolved now, and our Living Constitution needs to be rethought in this new age, with so many more smart people in government. Why, the intellectual capacity of 500+ Legislators, not to mention the tens of thousands of bureaucrats, is surely wiser than the handful of technologically ignorant Founders...
Basically it's the left side of the aisle getting revenge for not getting unlimited Federal support for embryonic stem cell research. If they're not allowed to harvest fetuses for stem cells, they won't make it easy to use adult stem cells.
No, the "capital" that most of the world counts didn't exist to begin with, it was all leveraged from the existing wealth into hyperinflated real estate value and leveraged buyouts. The actual value of the world's assets is just barely starting to come into line with its real value, as the debt and investment in debt and investment in those investments get cleared out. It will mean a lot of pain, because it means the money and "prosperity" that we assumed was there really wasn't, and that we're all poorer than we thought.
What needs to happen is a short, sharp shock, like the 1987 Stock Market crash but on a global scale. It needs to let the "too big to fail" companies and banks and countries fail, so that we can start from a baseline of real value everywhere. "Letting the air out of the balloon" of the economy is like taking just enough painkiller and chemotherapy to hold the cancer in check, instead of going ahead and having the surgery to remove it. The suffering and damage will continue, but some won't feel as much pain as they should.
Aristotle could never imagine a lever as large as the world's bubble economy, and no one building it cared that the average person was the fulcrum. And we know what happens to overloaded fulcra.
There are programs that I actually want to watch, but I get caught up in doing other things, mostly net-related, and I forget. I don't have a DVR and refuse to use the one Comcast "provides", plus I would forget to watch things that got recorded anyway, so I end up watching on Hulu or iTunes or YouTube. Watching TV is a habit, and like other habits I've kind of gotten out of it, not deliberately but just because other habits took its place.
So, I don't watch TV, not because I'm a TV snob, but because I'm a TV slob...
Isn't that what the US did to the USSR in the Cold War? Make the Soviets (with their Potempkin economy) spend everywhere trying to keep up with DARPA and the rest of the DoD?
Good point, I forgot about disconnection, although compared to being threatened with death it's not as severe it is still a good marker. I'm thinking of some way that a group can be identified as harmful, regardless of whether they call themselves a "religion" . "Cult" was a short-hand word like "porn" which most people can recognize in obvious examples but which lack a very good definition legally. Since I'm not a lawyer my definition is just as good (and just as bad) as any definition of "porn", but I thought I'd give it a go.
Actually the word we came up with was "sporgery", for "spam forgery". I was a victim until I learned how to use PGP to sign my postings. What the $cienos did was to hoover up thousands of postings from white power, neonazi and other hate newsgroups per day, strip the headers and repost them with headers from legitimate critics' posts, so as to make it look like we were spamming the group with racist rants. Most of us learned to filter them out by not replying to them, and only looking at posts that had a PGP signature. Of course, they tried to "sporge" those too, but they didn't work (for obvious reasons).
They were also big at one time on teams of Usenet posters all using the same name (kind of the opposite of sock puppets). It was easy to figure out that 4 or 5 different people were using the same account to post from, given wildly different posting styles and differing levels of English capability, usually on the same day.
It was an interesting time, and I (virtually) met some interesting people.
I ran into that one time, almost literally. I was going to a party for a co-worker who happened to live on a small cul-de-sac off a small side road. I had never been there, and I had one of the big map books for Northern Virginia, so I found where the side road was supposed to be. Except when I got to the vicinity, the turn-off didn't exist to get to the side road.
I wandered around for about half an hour, and finally gave up. This was in the days before GPS and before cell phones, so I couldn't even call for directions. Then I read later that the map company that printed the books was well-known for making "mistakes" like that for copyright purposes. Very irritating.
I just wonder if any of the GPS companies are doctoring their data the same way...
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Isn't that really an effect of the whole industry moving away from the command line and into IDEs, like XCode but also like Eclipse? I've personally never liked IDEs, the ones I've used were always an incredible amount of overhead for the same capability as a couple of xterms/command windows/terminal windows with the command line tools.
The extra functionality of say Eclipse I've used so seldom that it is really a waste, and can be detrimental, if Eclipse happens to break while doing its thing. Fewer functions per tool means fewer things can go wrong, but I'm afraid that the "emacs" school is winning over the "vi" school, which means you'll soon have development environments that are more complicated than the OS's they're running on.
Not for nothing did they call emacs "the text editor that wants to be an operating system."
In a few centuries time there may be people killing each other in the name of Dr. Seuss. Or the Star Warriors and Star Trekkers will finally have their ultimate war, with the Bablyon 5'ers waiting in the wings.
People will fight and kill in the name of something, no matter how good or bad that something is. That is the nature of Man, and unless you change what Man is, it will be ever thus.
Apollo 1 was not a simulator, it was going to be the first one launched, but it was the only thing they could do a full rehearsal in. I was 8 when it happened.
You know, I knew someone would lawyer this up. I had defined "in motion" but had deleted the sentence as too obvious. I see I was wrong.
By "moving around" I mean standing, walking, running, climbing, moving one's body from one physical location to another under one's physical power.
Please don't make me define "standing", "walking", "running", "climbing", "moving", "body", "physical", "location", or "power." I don't have time.
How about this: a "mobile device" is one that you actually use while in motion. I use a phone or tablet while moving around, but almost never use a laptop while moving around.
"The rest is simply wrong." I take it you're a bureaucrat or related to one. I've lived in Metro DC for nearly 30 years, and have worked for Federal and Defense contractors the whole time, I've seen the Breaucratic State in action, I've seen how it works, I've been friends with the lowest-level bureaucrats and seen what they do, and dealt with mid-level management in different Agencies. If you claim that makes me "ignorant", well I'll take that as a compliment, since you're the one who's far more ignorant. "There are none so blind" etc. etc. Of course, you may be too young to know what it was like before the Bureaucratic State grew this large, so you don't know what to compare it to.
More specifically the Bureaucratic State, the web of agencies and regulators that exists from Administration to Administration, constantly growing either more or less slowly. It's purportedly led by the Cabinet Secretaries, but in reality the policies are made at lower levels by people appointed or promoted to implement the specifics of whatever broad general requirements are passed into law
"Clean up the air and water" becomes ten thousand pages of regulations in the Federal Registry, many of them giving passes to certain groups and punishing others, based on their ability to lobby the Bureaucratic State's purported overseers, Congress, or more specifically, the Congressional Staff.
The Bureaucratic State has one overall mandate, and that is to increase its power by assuming it must do more and more every year, and creating new problems to solve once their original problems have been managed or solved.
Unless that mandate is challenged, and the size of the Bureaucratic State reduced, we will lose more and more freedom of action to the controlling whims of the State. I don't see any political party willing to challenge that power, especially since the supposed "overseers" of the State are exempt from the State's control, and never see the problem of loss of freedom.
Speaking as someone who was born and spent the first 5 or so years of my life when everyone was setting off megaton atomic warheads ABOVE GROUND and living with more fallout than you can shake a geiger tube at, all I can say to both sides is: SHUT UP. Your worst experiences are nowhere near the reality that used to be, and isn't liable to be again. Shove the nukeFUD, shove the "your pollution is worse than my pollution", shove the "GMO are going to kill us all", drag all the fear of science and technology back into your little dark holes and hide out while the rest of us get on with the future. Not directed specifically at any poster, just in general.
He probably had an enormous schwanstucker...
Heck with the Foundation, I want to join the Second Foundation...
We haven't had a Federal budget in 1200 days, so why should there be a worry about multi-year budgets being unconstitutional? We're 4 years into unconstitutionality already...
And we all know, weather is climate when it's hot, and not climate when it's cold.
As an old guy I'd be willing to give it a shot, just as a social experiment, mind. We need data points.
That's outmoded 18th Century thinking, we're so much more evolved now, and our Living Constitution needs to be rethought in this new age, with so many more smart people in government. Why, the intellectual capacity of 500+ Legislators, not to mention the tens of thousands of bureaucrats, is surely wiser than the handful of technologically ignorant Founders...
Basically it's the left side of the aisle getting revenge for not getting unlimited Federal support for embryonic stem cell research. If they're not allowed to harvest fetuses for stem cells, they won't make it easy to use adult stem cells.
Quid, meet pro quo.
No, the "capital" that most of the world counts didn't exist to begin with, it was all leveraged from the existing wealth into hyperinflated real estate value and leveraged buyouts. The actual value of the world's assets is just barely starting to come into line with its real value, as the debt and investment in debt and investment in those investments get cleared out. It will mean a lot of pain, because it means the money and "prosperity" that we assumed was there really wasn't, and that we're all poorer than we thought.
What needs to happen is a short, sharp shock, like the 1987 Stock Market crash but on a global scale. It needs to let the "too big to fail" companies and banks and countries fail, so that we can start from a baseline of real value everywhere. "Letting the air out of the balloon" of the economy is like taking just enough painkiller and chemotherapy to hold the cancer in check, instead of going ahead and having the surgery to remove it. The suffering and damage will continue, but some won't feel as much pain as they should.
Aristotle could never imagine a lever as large as the world's bubble economy, and no one building it cared that the average person was the fulcrum. And we know what happens to overloaded fulcra.
There are programs that I actually want to watch, but I get caught up in doing other things, mostly net-related, and I forget. I don't have a DVR and refuse to use the one Comcast "provides", plus I would forget to watch things that got recorded anyway, so I end up watching on Hulu or iTunes or YouTube. Watching TV is a habit, and like other habits I've kind of gotten out of it, not deliberately but just because other habits took its place.
So, I don't watch TV, not because I'm a TV snob, but because I'm a TV slob...
Did the families of the Challenger and Columbia crew sue NASA? I wasn't aware of that.
Isn't that what the US did to the USSR in the Cold War? Make the Soviets (with their Potempkin economy) spend everywhere trying to keep up with DARPA and the rest of the DoD?
Good point, I forgot about disconnection, although compared to being threatened with death it's not as severe it is still a good marker. I'm thinking of some way that a group can be identified as harmful, regardless of whether they call themselves a "religion" . "Cult" was a short-hand word like "porn" which most people can recognize in obvious examples but which lack a very good definition legally. Since I'm not a lawyer my definition is just as good (and just as bad) as any definition of "porn", but I thought I'd give it a go.
Actually the word we came up with was "sporgery", for "spam forgery". I was a victim until I learned how to use PGP to sign my postings. What the $cienos did was to hoover up thousands of postings from white power, neonazi and other hate newsgroups per day, strip the headers and repost them with headers from legitimate critics' posts, so as to make it look like we were spamming the group with racist rants. Most of us learned to filter them out by not replying to them, and only looking at posts that had a PGP signature. Of course, they tried to "sporge" those too, but they didn't work (for obvious reasons).
They were also big at one time on teams of Usenet posters all using the same name (kind of the opposite of sock puppets). It was easy to figure out that 4 or 5 different people were using the same account to post from, given wildly different posting styles and differing levels of English capability, usually on the same day.
It was an interesting time, and I (virtually) met some interesting people.
Utterly false.
I was thinking about this yesterday, and I think I've boiled it down to one definition:
If you are allowed to leave it without fear of physical, legal, or financial consequences, it's a religion. Otherwise it's a cult.
Obviously other things come into play, but those are the big ones as far as I'm concerned.
I ran into that one time, almost literally. I was going to a party for a co-worker who happened to live on a small cul-de-sac off a small side road. I had never been there, and I had one of the big map books for Northern Virginia, so I found where the side road was supposed to be. Except when I got to the vicinity, the turn-off didn't exist to get to the side road.
I wandered around for about half an hour, and finally gave up. This was in the days before GPS and before cell phones, so I couldn't even call for directions. Then I read later that the map company that printed the books was well-known for making "mistakes" like that for copyright purposes. Very irritating.
I just wonder if any of the GPS companies are doctoring their data the same way...