She explains why she feels Linux will overtake Windows as the number one operating system within the next three years.
Nice out-of-context hyperbole. She was referring to shipments of new boxes in the server market. In terms of desktop market share, she says that mere parity would take "a long time", and she's looking forward to a modest 10% share (essentially changing from a "fringe" player to a commonly-supported niche player) as a significant milestone.
For prostate, I'd think blue would be worse than brown.
Heh. My dad once told me about a prank played by University of Michigan students back in his college days. They'd put a certain (supposedly harmless) chemical in someone's food (Michigan State students were a preferred subject) which would react and filter out through their kidneys into their urine, causing them to "Go Blue!"
Of course those poor chaps may be the ones most in need of a viral prostate exam.
I wonder if this exact or sort of treatment could be used to treat nerve damage?
That's an order of magnitude larger and more complex. This article is talking about working on the molecular/celluar level to halt damage, which is why they only talk about "the earliest stages"; actually repairing damage at the tissue level (i.e. late enough in the progression that the damage is causing noticeable harm) would be substantially more difficult. That would require the kinds of construction nanobots seen in scifi, which would be substantially harder to design and build. Stem cells (which nature has kindly already engineered for us) are far more promising in that area.
That computer had damn well be running a stable version of Linux if it is operating on/near/in my colon!
While your prostate is in the general neighborhood of your colon, you might want to be more concerned about certain other organs and glands that are more directly connected to it. I'd be less worried about a colonic BSOD, than with an inability to boot, or a poorly-timed abnormal termination.
You know, you didn't have to use numbers. Say for example, this would compile fine:
"Compile"? In BASIC's heyday, it was almost always interpretted. The line numbers were essential because programs were usually typed interactively, line by line. Need to insert a command between lines 50 and 60? Simply type "55 PRINT NAME$" (or whatever) and the new command is inserted.
By the way, some BASIC systems (I don't recall which of the several I used... TRS-80, Atari, DEC, GW-BASIC) had the ability to renumber your lines for you, in case you ran out of integers in a particular range.
It's a bad analogy because Jack's basic arguments is that the law needs to be applied uniformly to everyone.
No he's not. He's not saying that the law has to be applied uniformly, but that it has to be written such that the outcome is uniform: everyone buys a TV with DRM built into it, regardless of whether they could build one themselves.
It should be legal for everyone even though only a very very few would want to do it.
JV: Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Why, that would be like writing laws that allow Orthodox Jews to do that stuff they do in their religion, when there are 284 million people in this country!
OK, the numbers are off, and the analogy isn't perfect, but he's basically falling back on the old "minority groups' rights don't count because all that matters is the majority" school of thought.
We're not all morons. {smile} I'm no Leonardo, but according to every test I've taken and the opinions of most friends, instructors, and co-workers who know me well, "genius" isn't far from the mark. I just spread it around.
But even if I happen to be deluded on that point regarding myself, the fact still remains that someone you might dismiss as a "jack of all trades" can really be more of a "renaissance man" and that quality can be valuable enough to make it the right choice. Heck, just look at MS Office: there certainly are (or at least were) better word processors, spreadsheets, presentation tools, etc. out there, but it's the does-it-all-well-enough package that dominates the market.
OK, so universities don't always live up to their potential, and you in particular found it not to your liking. Some people do flounder outside of their speciality and for them highly focused programs are better. Fair enough. Just spare me the (to be quite blunt) hysterical ranting about how evil the encouragement of general education is simply because it's not what You feel you need. Obviously there is demand for it (e.g. employers see value in hiring coders who also know how to write, and grasp economics, and can interact with other people), otherwise it wouldn't exist.
You know what they say...
"Jack of all trades... Master of none"
Yeah, that Leondardo fella from Vinci... what a loser!
Sometimes a generalist is exactly what the job calls for. Large corporations don't have much use for them, but a small organization can benefit dramatically from someone who not only knows how to code, but can crimp RJ45s, do staff training, and lay out marketing materials. The generalist may not be as experienced at any one of these things as a specialist... but not everyone can afford a bunch of specialists, or make full use of their skills. Sometimes "good enough" really is good enough. And a generalist is also more likely to adapt better to changing needs. As an OS generalist, I wouldn't be fazed if my employer said we were replacing the Win2K boxes with Linux, or the Linux boxes with Xserves; an OS specialist probably would..
The bottom line is whether the person can fill the employer's needs effectively. And sometimes the employer really just needs a good swiss army knife.
According to that sermon^H^H^H^H^H^Hargument, we should be putting kids to work as soon as they're able to handle the tools, and let them just learn things as they need them. On the other hand, creating environments (like schools and even universities) where people can focus solely on learning and exploring, rather than constantly being distracted by the need to support themselves and the pressure to focus their learning only on the immediate need at hand, seems to produce happier people. Call it "pinko commie" if you must, but I think that allowing time for "unproductive" learning (like about the arts or philosophy) is a Good Thing. A more mercantilist approach to education like you describe might make better workers, but I don't think it'd create better people.
Financial aid may be harder to come by and less helpful than during boom periods, but it's still available... especially if you're just getting by on lousy pay. Community colleges can be a good way to get some of those degree requirements at an affordable cost. It's not easy, but I've been doing it myself, so I know it's possible.
Would it be worth it to get a degree in MIS or CS?
If you don't have a degree, and you can't seem to get anything better than entry-level and dead-end jobs, going to college would probably be a good idea. The degree alone won't solve your problems, but not having a degree gives the overworked HR drone sorting resumes an easy way to categorize yours... as a NO. Which could explain the lack of any interviews. (By the way, picking up a book on resume-writing might be a good idea as well.)
Furthermore, if you're going to go to college, the best time for that is during a weak economy (like now). You don't want to spend that occasional window of 4-5 years when everyone else is making money, by sitting in classes and paying money instead.
You're right that "M" as a modifier stands for "mega", not "milli". But "metre"/"meter" is abbreviated as m (lowercase). "M" as a unit stands for "moles".
So what we're talking about with "50MM" is 50 megamoles (50*Avogadro's number) of dollars, or in excess of $3.01*10^25! That's over $30 septillion (US nomenclature), or 30 Yottadollars.
I name my computers, but that's largely because I find it easier to access them on the network as CLARK, BRUCE, DIANA, HAL, BARRY, OLIVER, ARTHUR, etc. rather than as 192.168.13.1, 192.168.13.2, 192.168.13.3, 192.168.13.4, etc.
People don't use the same computer necessarily out of "loyalty". Observe students selecting seats in a classroom (i.e. no computers), and you'll see them go to the same ones every time. Even if the friends that they originally chose to sit with aren't there, they'll usually continue sitting in the same place. It's more a matter of habit and the comfort of familiarity with one's environment, than an emotional attachment to the things themselves.
Of course when you introduce computers (or any kind of equipment) into the equation, something resembling "loyalty" can come into it, but even then it's often simply a matter of "I know this machine works"/"I like the theme that's installed on this one"/"I saved my files on this hard drive".
You see, at a university, you will not get the level of recognition, monetary or academic, that you deserve, unless you're part of the teaching staff and have a high academic qualification.
In the business world, while you might (or might not) get monetary "recognition", you still won't get the respect you might deserve, unless you're part of management and/or have a degree in Business Administration. If it's the business world's money you want, go for it, but don't mistake that for respect.
Sorry, I sometimes forget that most science programs don't require a basic philosophy course.
Go out and start boning...
That's a good example of what I was talking about, actually. Contrary to what Sister Edna may have told you in school, sex doesn't necessarily have to be about making babies. It can be about something else entirely... like building a relationship, or just having fun. So can life itself.
Now if you'll excuse me, it's a Saturday night, and I have some purely recreational boning planned.
I see a typical associate's and bachelor's degree in, say, Comp Sci, to be roughly equivalent... except the former student didn't take any philosophy, art, writing, etc. classes, and didn't go through the joys and ordeals of dorm life. I know that's stereotyping a bit, but I've knocked around the various local colleges a bit (as both a student and an employee), and I'd definitely recommend residential, full-time, 4-year college as the ideal option for learning, growing, and also enjoying it.
Also, based on my experience going back for a second degree in my 30's, those dorky PSAs between commercials when you're watching cartoons are right: it's much harder to go back to school (including college) than to do it while you're still young.
I, on the other hand, am a devout Existentialist, and my reason for being is... to be. It's up to each of us to create our own meaning for our existence. For many that's reproduction, for others it's creating some other lasting legacy, for others it's living for each moment, etc. The key is to figure out what you want out of life, and pursue that wholeheartedly.
For what it's worth, I bought myself a 10GB iPod for Xmas, just before Apple bumped the "base" iPod to 15GB (at the same price) and introduced the miniPod. While I naturally grumbled about the "lost" 5GB, I've since transferred most of my CD collection to it (the LPs... will have to wait), and I also use it for portable storage of my Photoshop and Flash projects, between school, work, and home... with room to spare. I'm sure I could fill it up if I really wanted to, but y'know... I really don't need to carry that much data around with me. I bought the iPod in part because I could also use it for portable storage of non-audio data; if not, 10GB would definitely be overkill. (Of course I could be an atypical case, because most of the music I have was acquired through royalty-paying channels.)
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Nice out-of-context hyperbole. She was referring to shipments of new boxes in the server market. In terms of desktop market share, she says that mere parity would take "a long time", and she's looking forward to a modest 10% share (essentially changing from a "fringe" player to a commonly-supported niche player) as a significant milestone.
But don't those both run on the same IBM chips?
Heh. My dad once told me about a prank played by University of Michigan students back in his college days. They'd put a certain (supposedly harmless) chemical in someone's food (Michigan State students were a preferred subject) which would react and filter out through their kidneys into their urine, causing them to "Go Blue!"
Of course those poor chaps may be the ones most in need of a viral prostate exam.
That's an order of magnitude larger and more complex. This article is talking about working on the molecular/celluar level to halt damage, which is why they only talk about "the earliest stages"; actually repairing damage at the tissue level (i.e. late enough in the progression that the damage is causing noticeable harm) would be substantially more difficult. That would require the kinds of construction nanobots seen in scifi, which would be substantially harder to design and build. Stem cells (which nature has kindly already engineered for us) are far more promising in that area.
While your prostate is in the general neighborhood of your colon, you might want to be more concerned about certain other organs and glands that are more directly connected to it. I'd be less worried about a colonic BSOD, than with an inability to boot, or a poorly-timed abnormal termination.
"Compile"? In BASIC's heyday, it was almost always interpretted. The line numbers were essential because programs were usually typed interactively, line by line. Need to insert a command between lines 50 and 60? Simply type "55 PRINT NAME$" (or whatever) and the new command is inserted.
By the way, some BASIC systems (I don't recall which of the several I used... TRS-80, Atari, DEC, GW-BASIC) had the ability to renumber your lines for you, in case you ran out of integers in a particular range.
No he's not. He's not saying that the law has to be applied uniformly, but that it has to be written such that the outcome is uniform: everyone buys a TV with DRM built into it, regardless of whether they could build one themselves.
It should be legal for everyone even though only a very very few would want to do it.
Exactly. That's the position Valenti is opposing.
Why, that would be like writing laws that allow Orthodox Jews to do that stuff they do in their religion, when there are 284 million people in this country!
OK, the numbers are off, and the analogy isn't perfect, but he's basically falling back on the old "minority groups' rights don't count because all that matters is the majority" school of thought.
But even if I happen to be deluded on that point regarding myself, the fact still remains that someone you might dismiss as a "jack of all trades" can really be more of a "renaissance man" and that quality can be valuable enough to make it the right choice. Heck, just look at MS Office: there certainly are (or at least were) better word processors, spreadsheets, presentation tools, etc. out there, but it's the does-it-all-well-enough package that dominates the market.
OK, so universities don't always live up to their potential, and you in particular found it not to your liking. Some people do flounder outside of their speciality and for them highly focused programs are better. Fair enough. Just spare me the (to be quite blunt) hysterical ranting about how evil the encouragement of general education is simply because it's not what You feel you need. Obviously there is demand for it (e.g. employers see value in hiring coders who also know how to write, and grasp economics, and can interact with other people), otherwise it wouldn't exist.
Yeah, that Leondardo fella from Vinci... what a loser!
Sometimes a generalist is exactly what the job calls for. Large corporations don't have much use for them, but a small organization can benefit dramatically from someone who not only knows how to code, but can crimp RJ45s, do staff training, and lay out marketing materials. The generalist may not be as experienced at any one of these things as a specialist... but not everyone can afford a bunch of specialists, or make full use of their skills. Sometimes "good enough" really is good enough. And a generalist is also more likely to adapt better to changing needs. As an OS generalist, I wouldn't be fazed if my employer said we were replacing the Win2K boxes with Linux, or the Linux boxes with Xserves; an OS specialist probably would..
The bottom line is whether the person can fill the employer's needs effectively. And sometimes the employer really just needs a good swiss army knife.
According to that sermon^H^H^H^H^H^Hargument, we should be putting kids to work as soon as they're able to handle the tools, and let them just learn things as they need them. On the other hand, creating environments (like schools and even universities) where people can focus solely on learning and exploring, rather than constantly being distracted by the need to support themselves and the pressure to focus their learning only on the immediate need at hand, seems to produce happier people. Call it "pinko commie" if you must, but I think that allowing time for "unproductive" learning (like about the arts or philosophy) is a Good Thing. A more mercantilist approach to education like you describe might make better workers, but I don't think it'd create better people.
Financial aid may be harder to come by and less helpful than during boom periods, but it's still available... especially if you're just getting by on lousy pay. Community colleges can be a good way to get some of those degree requirements at an affordable cost. It's not easy, but I've been doing it myself, so I know it's possible.
If you don't have a degree, and you can't seem to get anything better than entry-level and dead-end jobs, going to college would probably be a good idea. The degree alone won't solve your problems, but not having a degree gives the overworked HR drone sorting resumes an easy way to categorize yours... as a NO. Which could explain the lack of any interviews. (By the way, picking up a book on resume-writing might be a good idea as well.)
Furthermore, if you're going to go to college, the best time for that is during a weak economy (like now). You don't want to spend that occasional window of 4-5 years when everyone else is making money, by sitting in classes and paying money instead.
You're right that "M" as a modifier stands for "mega", not "milli". But "metre"/"meter" is abbreviated as m (lowercase). "M" as a unit stands for "moles".
So what we're talking about with "50MM" is 50 megamoles (50*Avogadro's number) of dollars, or in excess of $3.01*10^25! That's over $30 septillion (US nomenclature), or 30 Yottadollars.
Sorry, but I named it after Barry Allen, civilian identity of The Flash, the fastest man alive. Oh, wait! Now I remember you! {smile}
I name my computers, but that's largely because I find it easier to access them on the network as CLARK, BRUCE, DIANA, HAL, BARRY, OLIVER, ARTHUR, etc. rather than as 192.168.13.1, 192.168.13.2, 192.168.13.3, 192.168.13.4, etc.
Of course when you introduce computers (or any kind of equipment) into the equation, something resembling "loyalty" can come into it, but even then it's often simply a matter of "I know this machine works"/"I like the theme that's installed on this one"/"I saved my files on this hard drive".
In the business world, while you might (or might not) get monetary "recognition", you still won't get the respect you might deserve, unless you're part of management and/or have a degree in Business Administration. If it's the business world's money you want, go for it, but don't mistake that for respect.
Sorry, I sometimes forget that most science programs don't require a basic philosophy course.
Go out and start boning...
That's a good example of what I was talking about, actually. Contrary to what Sister Edna may have told you in school, sex doesn't necessarily have to be about making babies. It can be about something else entirely... like building a relationship, or just having fun. So can life itself.
Now if you'll excuse me, it's a Saturday night, and I have some purely recreational boning planned.
Also, based on my experience going back for a second degree in my 30's, those dorky PSAs between commercials when you're watching cartoons are right: it's much harder to go back to school (including college) than to do it while you're still young.
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Naw, individual bottles will do just fine.
Remember the first corollary to the old saw: "What doesn't make me stronger, kills me."
If you're an Evolutionist. Or maybe a Mormon.
I, on the other hand, am a devout Existentialist, and my reason for being is... to be. It's up to each of us to create our own meaning for our existence. For many that's reproduction, for others it's creating some other lasting legacy, for others it's living for each moment, etc. The key is to figure out what you want out of life, and pursue that wholeheartedly.
For what it's worth, I bought myself a 10GB iPod for Xmas, just before Apple bumped the "base" iPod to 15GB (at the same price) and introduced the miniPod. While I naturally grumbled about the "lost" 5GB, I've since transferred most of my CD collection to it (the LPs... will have to wait), and I also use it for portable storage of my Photoshop and Flash projects, between school, work, and home... with room to spare. I'm sure I could fill it up if I really wanted to, but y'know... I really don't need to carry that much data around with me. I bought the iPod in part because I could also use it for portable storage of non-audio data; if not, 10GB would definitely be overkill. (Of course I could be an atypical case, because most of the music I have was acquired through royalty-paying channels.)