i don't suppose you're willing to make this mental stretch, but pretty much all a computer language is, is an expression of the of design patterns that the language designer thought were most valuable at the time.
if you can think up a new language that is design-pattern-neutral without drowning the user in parentheses, you may be onto something.
One approach would be to have the default as-shipped v-chip settings be more conservative, so that people have to go into a setup menu to specifically request more violence, more nudity, more adult language. Given that, networks should then be free to mark their broadcasts appropriately (regardless of time of day) and not worry about who will be offended. Anyone offendable won't be able to watch the broadcast without changing their TV settings to allow it.
IOW, why have both the FCC and V-chips. One should be enough as far as content goes.
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The value of pi can be precisely expressed as 1.0 (in base pi).
My guess is that the guy that quit was actually kind of a superstar-level developer and was doing the amount of work you'd normally get from 3+ people. So your expectations are now so high that you can't find anyone that can slot into your expectations. That's *your* problem not PHP's or slashcode's or anybody else.
If the business is making money and needs to get things done, they will just have to pony up for 3 or more people to do the job this one guy was doing before. They won't all have the exact skill set you're looking for but maybe they will have overlapping 1/2 or 1/3 of the skills each and if you actually manage the project instead of playing office politics all day you can get things whipped into shape with their help.
Also, you can change your habits so that you no longer need a burger or fries.
For example, you can go to a completely different restaurant where the food is free, and if you don't like what's offered, you can have whatever you want because because all the recipes and ingredients are listed right on the menu and the cook doesn't mind if you go into the kitchen and whip up whatever you like.
IMHO microsoft execs are simply jealous of google's high stock market valuation. Since that's where the money is flowing, they want to be in that "space" regardless of how inappropriate their technlogy or expertise is. Greed is always appropriate.
(a) the cost of transit to/from the moon per pound is so high that only the lightest, skinniest people like paris hilton will be allowed in space. in fact they should be required to be sent into space.
(b) the moon has no oceans, therefore 100% of land area is available for condominiums, hotels, highrises, and shopping districts. Unlike the earth which of which only 20% or so is habitable land. Ideally we would launch the most habitable parts, like Washington DC, to the moon in their entirety to take full advantage of the economy of scale, then convert what was underneath Washington DC into higher value land, like a swamp.
(c) as you could see from last wednesdays lunar eclipse, the educational value of viewing the lunar eclipse from the moon would have been greater than viewing it from earth. No child left behind and all that.
Further, I suspect if you set it up on the far side of the moon, you'll get zero interference from earth at all. Maybe some 60 hz hum...but kilohertz and above should be clean.
1. It's not linux's goal to deliver features or be marketable. My dog doesn't find me the best deals on travel or rental cars, but that's not what he's here for.
2. Developers can choose to implement features interesting to them. Historically there has been significant overlap between what people in general want and what developers are willing to do for free.
3. Since linux is free as in beer, many people can live without certain features in return for the low price.
4. Many features in a commercial OS are actually misfeatures. DRM, teletubby GUI, UAC, bloatware, crapware, susceptibility to malware. I value their absence far more than the original cost of the OS.
The environmentally friendly thing to do would be to have NO disc at all. Just point people at a download site and let them get the disk image from the tubes using zero plastics, chemicals, landfill, or other resources in the process.
Is there a way to set up a network so that the people who have used the least bandwidth get highest priority?
say i download linux distro iso's all month. i use up 99% of my ISP's capacity, then one day my neighbor starts up a VPN and telnets in. Since he's used hardly any bandwidth, his packets get top priority. my bittorrent client slows down a little bit then goes back up when he's done.
that's a fair way to do unlimited service.
it just seems like any throttling back beyond prioritization is just a waste of installed capacity.
1. When a corporation goes into bankruptcy, the shareholders and managers cannot simply walk away. Share values of corporations should go negative in bankruptcy and funds owed to creditors should be recovered in proportion to ownership from shareholders. Managers who hold stock or options are on the hook for their share too. Recent bonuses and income are taken back. The current situtation encourages corporations to act irresponsibly since everyone involved can walk away and keep their bonuses and dividends.
2. Criminal acts of any kind committed by or for the corporation should be prosecuted and every manager up the chain of command for the crime should be sent to prison. You can't just say my boss ordered it, or an underling was acting w/o authority. They all are responsible.
3. Corporations are responsible for paying for depletion of resources. You cut down lumber from a forest, you have to pay to plant and feed a replacement tree. You pull coal or oil out of the ground, you pay down the mineral rights you have used. You contribute to global warming, you have to buy (real) carbon offsets or contribute to a remediation fund. No more using up natural resources w/o realistic funding of their replacement.
4. All flow of capital in/out of mutual funds, hedge funds, 401(k)'s, large private funds, corporate loans, tranches, equity instruments, derivatives should be publicly tracked. These are the instruments of financial disasters, from the LTCM fiasco to Enron to the current subprime mortgage problems. All financial shenanigans need to be in the light so they can be analyzed and identified before they destroy an economic sector.
gravity *waves* cannot escape the event horizon, so presumably something like a starquake of the singularity cannot be detected. however, the gravitational field around the black hole is/was established before stuff falls in so as far as the rest of the universe is concerned the black hole has normal gravity. there's some weird effects like frame dragging though. check wikipedia for some explanations. IANAP.
I dunno, if an island is too remote for insects to get there, then it seems unlikely that any dinosaurs (which are far less portable) would be there either. That being said, there have been dinosaur bones found on south pacific islands and antarctica. So things get around.
Crocodiles may simply have more resistance to various insects. They had more evolutionary time exposed to water-borne bugs (likely precusors to mosquitos), aslo thicker scales, higher protein diet, nearby insect-eating fish, and perhaps just plain luck of the genetic dice.
Also the presence of birds today implies that some dinosaur-related species survived. It would be difficult to tell whether the physiology to fight insect infection was present before the split from birds or whether it developed in birds later.
>> It seems very unlikely that a whole planet of dinosaurs were killed by insects.
Just because something seems unlikely doesn't mean it is unlikely. Relativity, quantum mechanics, and in it's day, Copernican orbits all seemed unlikely. It wasn't that long ago that the idea of an asteroid impact killing the dinosaurs was deemed ridiculous.
>> It is actually very difficult for insects to cover an entire continent
Current-day insects cover entire continents. They are limited more by climate than geography, and one suspects that any climate good for dinosaurs would be just fine for mosquitoes and ticks.
>> In current times, insects stowaway on ships and planes to travel large >> distances and between continents.
Yes, but they also stow away on air currents, driftwood, icebergs, birds, marine life, and floating corpses all of which are plausible back then. The continents were somewhat closer together back then too. Even in current times, Europe, Africa, India, and Asia are all connected by land, as are North and South America. The bering straight has a land bridge that appears when the water level is low, connecting Asia and North America. So over the long term every continent but Antarctica has been reachable by ground travel. Insects also have the advantage that their eggs are extremely portable and can piggyback on almost any creature or object that moves.
>> Also, if this were true regarding reptiles, what about crocodiles?
I don't think anyone claimed that all reptiles died out. TFA was about dinosaurs in particular. Just because your generalization is false doesn't mean their specific theory is false.
My personal opinion (not fact) is that there were multiple compounding causes: asteroid impact, ice age, changes in available flora, competition from smaller but possibly faster and smarter mammals. The dinosaurs might have surived one of these, but their population probably shrunk with each new challenge. Who knows there might have been a couple of other major contributing events that have yet to be discovered.
>> Stacie is perfectly free to buy one of those [zunes]
That's the point. Apple doesn't have a monopoly: there are viable cost-effective alternatives in the marketplace that people can choose if for some bizarre reason they wish to play DRM'd WMA files.
Fair enough. But why the download part of their site? Downloads are typically one of the simplest areas of most sites. Just select what to download by clicking on it and then it...downloads. How much value can silverlight add to that?
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i don't suppose you're willing to make this mental stretch, but pretty much all a computer language is, is an expression of the of design patterns that the language designer thought were most valuable at the time.
if you can think up a new language that is design-pattern-neutral without drowning the user in parentheses, you may be onto something.
depends how you feel about an HP-UX set top box.
me, personally, i'm all for it.
others may disagree, and I respect that.
One approach would be to have the default as-shipped v-chip settings be more conservative, so that people have to go into a setup menu to specifically request more violence, more nudity, more adult language. Given that, networks should then be free to mark their broadcasts appropriately (regardless of time of day) and not worry about who will be offended. Anyone offendable won't be able to watch the broadcast without changing their TV settings to allow it.
IOW, why have both the FCC and V-chips. One should be enough as far as content goes.
The value of pi can be precisely expressed as 1.0 (in base pi).
how nice of microsoft to help train the next generation of google engineers.
My guess is that the guy that quit was actually kind of a superstar-level developer and was doing the amount of work you'd normally get from 3+ people. So your expectations are now so high that you can't find anyone that can slot into your expectations. That's *your* problem not PHP's or slashcode's or anybody else.
If the business is making money and needs to get things done, they will just have to pony up for 3 or more people to do the job this one guy was doing before. They won't all have the exact skill set you're looking for but maybe they will have overlapping 1/2 or 1/3 of the skills each and if you actually manage the project instead of playing office politics all day you can get things whipped into shape with their help.
Also, you can change your habits so that you no longer need a burger or fries.
For example, you can go to a completely different restaurant where the food is free, and if you don't like what's offered, you can have whatever you want because because all the recipes and ingredients are listed right on the menu and the cook doesn't mind if you go into the kitchen and whip up whatever you like.
IMHO microsoft execs are simply jealous of google's high stock market valuation. Since that's where the money is flowing, they want to be in that "space" regardless of how inappropriate their technlogy or expertise is. Greed is always appropriate.
Especially the female researchers. I'd love to spray my Higgs particles all over their lovely Bosons.
(a) the cost of transit to/from the moon per pound is so high that only the lightest, skinniest people like paris hilton will be allowed in space. in fact they should be required to be sent into space.
(b) the moon has no oceans, therefore 100% of land area is available for condominiums, hotels, highrises, and shopping districts. Unlike the earth which of which only 20% or so is habitable land. Ideally we would launch the most habitable parts, like Washington DC, to the moon in their entirety to take full advantage of the economy of scale, then convert what was underneath Washington DC into higher value land, like a swamp.
(c) as you could see from last wednesdays lunar eclipse, the educational value of viewing the lunar eclipse from the moon would have been greater than viewing it from earth. No child left behind and all that.
What was the question?
and i almost said dark side of the moon...i knew the peanut gallery would have jumped on me for that one.
>> little radio interference from the earth
Further, I suspect if you set it up on the far side of the moon, you'll get zero interference from earth at all. Maybe some 60 hz hum...but kilohertz and above should be clean.
Hey, did you know that "Ling" is the chinese word for half a panda.
Tivo still uses linux under the hood. And the series 3 has all the HD goodies.
Okay, it's not a full-blown PC but sometimes less is more.
i got no mod points, but damn that was insightful.
True on its face, but on a more subtle level:
1. It's not linux's goal to deliver features or be marketable. My dog doesn't find me the best deals on travel or rental cars, but that's not what he's here for.
2. Developers can choose to implement features interesting to them. Historically there has been significant overlap between what people in general want and what developers are willing to do for free.
3. Since linux is free as in beer, many people can live without certain features in return for the low price.
4. Many features in a commercial OS are actually misfeatures. DRM, teletubby GUI, UAC, bloatware, crapware, susceptibility to malware. I value their absence far more than the original cost of the OS.
The environmentally friendly thing to do would be to have NO disc at all. Just point people at a download site and let them get the disk image from the tubes using zero plastics, chemicals, landfill, or other resources in the process.
Is there a way to set up a network so that the people who have used the least bandwidth get highest priority?
say i download linux distro iso's all month. i use up 99% of my ISP's capacity, then one day my neighbor starts up a VPN and telnets in. Since he's used hardly any bandwidth, his packets get top priority. my bittorrent client slows down a little bit then goes back up when he's done.
that's a fair way to do unlimited service.
it just seems like any throttling back beyond prioritization is just a waste of installed capacity.
Regarding corporations, changes I'd make are:
1. When a corporation goes into bankruptcy, the shareholders and managers cannot simply walk away. Share values of corporations should go negative in bankruptcy and funds owed to creditors should be recovered in proportion to ownership from shareholders. Managers who hold stock or options are on the hook for their share too. Recent bonuses and income are taken back. The current situtation encourages corporations to act irresponsibly since everyone involved can walk away and keep their bonuses and dividends.
2. Criminal acts of any kind committed by or for the corporation should be prosecuted and every manager up the chain of command for the crime should be sent to prison. You can't just say my boss ordered it, or an underling was acting w/o authority. They all are responsible.
3. Corporations are responsible for paying for depletion of resources. You cut down lumber from a forest, you have to pay to plant and feed a replacement tree. You pull coal or oil out of the ground, you pay down the mineral rights you have used. You contribute to global warming, you have to buy (real) carbon offsets or contribute to a remediation fund. No more using up natural resources w/o realistic funding of their replacement.
4. All flow of capital in/out of mutual funds, hedge funds, 401(k)'s, large private funds, corporate loans, tranches, equity instruments, derivatives should be publicly tracked. These are the instruments of financial disasters, from the LTCM fiasco to Enron to the current subprime mortgage problems. All financial shenanigans need to be in the light so they can be analyzed and identified before they destroy an economic sector.
gravity *waves* cannot escape the event horizon, so presumably something like a starquake of the singularity cannot be detected. however, the gravitational field around the black hole is/was established before stuff falls in so as far as the rest of the universe is concerned the black hole has normal gravity. there's some weird effects like frame dragging though. check wikipedia for some explanations. IANAP.
I dunno, if an island is too remote for insects to get there, then it seems unlikely that any dinosaurs (which are far less portable) would be there either. That being said, there have been dinosaur bones found on south pacific islands and antarctica. So things get around.
Crocodiles may simply have more resistance to various insects. They had more evolutionary time exposed to water-borne bugs (likely precusors to mosquitos), aslo thicker scales, higher protein diet, nearby insect-eating fish, and perhaps just plain luck of the genetic dice.
Also the presence of birds today implies that some dinosaur-related species survived. It would be difficult to tell whether the physiology to fight insect infection was present before the split from birds or whether it developed in birds later.
>> It seems very unlikely that a whole planet of dinosaurs were killed by insects.
Just because something seems unlikely doesn't mean it is unlikely. Relativity, quantum mechanics, and in it's day, Copernican orbits all seemed unlikely. It wasn't that long ago that the idea of an asteroid impact killing the dinosaurs was deemed ridiculous.
>> It is actually very difficult for insects to cover an entire continent
Current-day insects cover entire continents. They are limited more by climate than geography, and one suspects that any climate good for dinosaurs would be just fine for mosquitoes and ticks.
>> In current times, insects stowaway on ships and planes to travel large
>> distances and between continents.
Yes, but they also stow away on air currents, driftwood, icebergs, birds, marine life, and floating corpses all of which are plausible back then. The continents were somewhat closer together back then too. Even in current times, Europe, Africa, India, and Asia are all connected by land, as are North and South America. The bering straight has a land bridge that appears when the water level is low, connecting Asia and North America. So over the long term every continent but Antarctica has been reachable by ground travel. Insects also have the advantage that their eggs are extremely portable and can piggyback on almost any creature or object that moves.
>> Also, if this were true regarding reptiles, what about crocodiles?
I don't think anyone claimed that all reptiles died out. TFA was about dinosaurs in particular. Just because your generalization is false doesn't mean their specific theory is false.
My personal opinion (not fact) is that there were multiple compounding causes: asteroid impact, ice age, changes in available flora, competition from smaller but possibly faster and smarter mammals. The dinosaurs might have surived one of these, but their population probably shrunk with each new challenge. Who knows there might have been a couple of other major contributing events that have yet to be discovered.
>> Stacie is perfectly free to buy one of those [zunes]
That's the point. Apple doesn't have a monopoly: there are viable cost-effective alternatives in the marketplace that people can choose if for some bizarre reason they wish to play DRM'd WMA files.
Fair enough. But why the download part of their site? Downloads are typically one of the simplest areas of most sites. Just select what to download by clicking on it and then it...downloads. How much value can silverlight add to that?
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