I believe you. The article treats the drop in the employed programmers like a bad thing I mean, the western states have outsourced the rest of their industry from making shoes and hats to steel foundries and ships. Why should progamming be any different?
But if we the lower classes - and I use the term loosely - can't be entrusted with producing goods - what is there left for us to do? The wealth producers are at the bottom of the tree, not the top. If the west thinks it can get away with just being the middle-to-senior management of the world, then they've got another think coming...particularly when a numerically, tecnologically and resource superior chinese armed force appears on the horizon...
Well, we did invent the panopticon. http://users.rcn.com/mackey/thesis/pa nopticon.html
Good old Jeremy, whose stuffed corpse is still on display in in one of the institutes in London. He also wanted everyone - well, everyone except the well-to-do - to have the equivalent of bar codes on their foreheads. A man before his time, obviously.
The ironic thing is that these cameras have had little or no effect on behaviour or the crime rate. Mind you, there was no systematic monitoring to test the crime-reduction effects of cameras in the first place. Just a wild hysteria which amounted to "put those cameras up or they'll kill all our children."
A "business decision" by a monopoly which is doing all it can to retain it's monopoly. Then it comes less of a business decision than a decision of State.
Interesting. To have encapsulated - or to systematize it to the extent that it enters common usage - that emotion has, I think, to be experienced a lot. I think what I'm saying, it must be awfully scary to be Japanese in that case...
I've tried this but I could never get the login to work - I always get a login failure whereas, with the google app that seemed To Work First Time, same name and password.
It's interesting how many definitions include non-violence. But, importantly, some don't. "civil disobedience" could well include smashing up Diebold machines. I think it should: it's a legitimate protest.
1. MS will bundle their search engine with their desktop, then *claim* victory because, oh, 97% of all people will be using it because...people will use it to search the desktop. Doesn't matter. The usage figures for the desktop will be rolled in with the usage figures for the internet. Feed to tame journos and voila: you'll have most of the market share. They'll tweak the market figures rather than the technology.
So far, MS have only cloned the search/news function. Their "innovation" will be to "integrate" it with the current desk-top - only the frontend will change. A first-year CS student will do what they're about to do, and they'll patent it to the hilt.
It's all smoke, mirrors, bullshit and the farts coming out of Balmer's face. They should have been looking at yet another investigation as soon as those sorry words came out his mouth.
Hey, it's "Back To The Fifties"*! A show for all family! In this week's episode, it's Sunday and the Ambersons go to church and boy scouts salute the flag.
But all isn't well. Little Jimmy, played by Jimmy Glowacki, is about to sign up for the Marines, and he gives his True Love, Sheila, played by Blanchard Ryan, an eternity ring. Next stop Baghdad where he wants to hunt Al Qaeda down like the dogs they are. She looks at him starry eyed and *really* doesn't want that job in the city with her best friend Annie (cheekily played by Ann Hecht). Instead, Sheila waits at home reading articles about cleaning fridges in the "Perfect Home".
Debs Amberson, played by Alicia Silverstone, is the tomboy of the family who wants a motorbike, always in trouble pulling the pigtails of the other girls. Silly thing. In this week's episode she falls in love with Andy Amos, who shows her what a real girl wants.
Rock Hudson plays the father, Chet Amberson, who likes an occasional drop of whisky and playing with the boys in the park.
Doris Day is the mother, Wendy Amberson, who always has a little something for the boys around her back door on a Saturday morning.
h.**
* Coming from Fox real soon now, your GOP-suckup channel. ** Yes, I realise this is a literary skit - unlikely to get anywhere in Slashdot. Oh hum.
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"openness" as a fig leaf. Blech.
Open Standard == Competition
one of the few things that Dave Winer has said that I wholeheartedly agree. For example, any govt that believes in competition should use Open Standards for any software that it uses. That means across the board, from the military to the medical. In this country that means rejecting arsehole corps like EDS who indulge in contracts which lose *billions* of tax pounds/euros. The UK passport debacle is one of theirs.
In fact, IBM in the UK are amongst the most notorious syphons at the tax pound well, particularly with their Health Service contracts.
I look forward to the UK govt in particular adopting open standards so that it saves some of my tax money.
All vendees should *insist* that vendors adopt open standards. It's in their interests as it *saves money*. Of course, it screws MS, which is all to the good. Which is where I started. Vendees should use their muscle to ensure that.NET follows an Open Standard.
I look forward to a snowball surviving in a volcano.
"good practice" and "legal duty" are two different things - sometimes the two coincide, sometimes not.
If you require Broadcasters to keep digital copies this does force good practice on you, with the side effect that you have an historical record, but the burden should always be on the accuser. That's a clear point of law even to laypeople. It seems to me that by requiring the TV companies to keep records, then the burden of proof is swayed in a dangerous direction.
what's wrong with this picture? Nobody has mentioned the, uh, developers (developers, developers....ad nauseum). The build team at the firm where I work welcomed the X, but it came with it's costs and we had to work hard to upgrade our X-platforms frameworks for this baby.
Switch to Xbox 2: the people who developed for 1 will have to port their games to 2...unless there's been some pretty shit-hot foot-work with the API - not something that these guys have proven since they've adopted the slash-and-burn strategy within MS - this is a clean slate for titles. Unless I'm much mistaken?
The man runs(?) a business that charges for hosting weblogs. On that evidence, I'd say it was a business. Userland certainly wasn't - and isn't - a charity but DW, in order to proselytise weblogs one presumes, offered, through Userland, to host weblogs at zero charge.
Further, I'd argue that Userland produces software and hasn't the depth of expertise or pocket to extend it's core competence into other areas, unlike others I could mention. In a business sense, the whole Userland thing is beginning to smell a bit. I do hope they have an exit plan because on current showing, it's a bit of a Heath-Robinson operation.
consideration - but also goodwill. Business runs a lot on goodwill - i.e. can I pay this bill later? sure, we know and trust you - that sort of thing. In this case, Dave had 2 choices: give a warning or nuk'em. With a warning, he may have gained customers. He would still have lost some good will but by going nuclear, and with some shabby *audio* instructions, he's lost a whole lot more goodwill, gained lots of hostile reviews etc. This isn't good business - but isn't this joker some kind of half-arsed academic these days?
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But if we the lower classes - and I use the term loosely - can't be entrusted with producing goods - what is there left for us to do? The wealth producers are at the bottom of the tree, not the top. If the west thinks it can get away with just being the middle-to-senior management of the world, then they've got another think coming...particularly when a numerically, tecnologically and resource superior chinese armed force appears on the horizon...
h.
...the death of Intel, the rise of AMD, film at whatever
h.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18341
umm - maybe they could merge, provide pool-cleaning facilities, say.
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Well, we did invent the panopticon.a nopticon.html
http://users.rcn.com/mackey/thesis/p
Good old Jeremy, whose stuffed corpse is still on display in in one of the institutes in London. He also wanted everyone - well, everyone except the well-to-do - to have the equivalent of bar codes on their foreheads. A man before his time, obviously.
The ironic thing is that these cameras have had little or no effect on behaviour or the crime rate. Mind you, there was no systematic monitoring to test the crime-reduction effects of cameras in the first place. Just a wild hysteria which amounted to "put those cameras up or they'll kill all our children."
h
You can have him. Take him. Please. Now. I'll pay you. Anything. Go ransom his guide dog. Anything to stop the miserable little1928x343nx- nm
A "business decision" by a monopoly which is doing all it can to retain it's monopoly. Then it comes less of a business decision than a decision of State.
Interesting. To have encapsulated - or to systematize it to the extent that it enters common usage - that emotion has, I think, to be experienced a lot. I think what I'm saying, it must be awfully scary to be Japanese in that case...
h
well, they id employ the guy who invented wikis, IIRC.
But hang on, isn't that old tech? Hasn't IBM got a load of patents in this area? *shivers* in anticipation....
I've tried this but I could never get the login to work - I always get a login failure whereas, with the google app that seemed To Work First Time, same name and password.
h
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oi =defmore&q=define:Civil+disobedience
It's interesting how many definitions include non-violence. But, importantly, some don't. "civil disobedience" could well include smashing up Diebold machines. I think it should: it's a legitimate protest.
h.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17627
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and
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/
If you join the dots, you might see a survival strategy if the Big Bad Wolf comes a hunting.
h.
Beware geeks bearing gifts...
1. MS will bundle their search engine with their desktop, then *claim* victory because, oh, 97% of all people will be using it because...people will use it to search the desktop. Doesn't matter. The usage figures for the desktop will be rolled in with the usage figures for the internet. Feed to tame journos and voila: you'll have most of the market share. They'll tweak the market figures rather than the technology.
So far, MS have only cloned the search/news function. Their "innovation" will be to "integrate" it with the current desk-top - only the frontend will change. A first-year CS student will do what they're about to do, and they'll patent it to the hilt.
It's all smoke, mirrors, bullshit and the farts coming out of Balmer's face. They should have been looking at yet another investigation as soon as those sorry words came out his mouth.
h.
Has anyone implemented a Google File System outside of google?
h
Hey, it's "Back To The Fifties"*! A show for all family! In this week's episode, it's Sunday and the Ambersons go to church and boy scouts salute the flag.
But all isn't well. Little Jimmy, played by Jimmy Glowacki, is about to sign up for the Marines, and he gives his True Love, Sheila, played by Blanchard Ryan, an eternity ring. Next stop Baghdad where he wants to hunt Al Qaeda down like the dogs they are. She looks at him starry eyed and *really* doesn't want that job in the city with her best friend Annie (cheekily played by Ann Hecht). Instead, Sheila waits at home reading articles about cleaning fridges in the "Perfect Home".
Debs Amberson, played by Alicia Silverstone, is the tomboy of the family who wants a motorbike, always in trouble pulling the pigtails of the other girls. Silly thing. In this week's episode she falls in love with Andy Amos, who shows her what a real girl wants.
Rock Hudson plays the father, Chet Amberson, who likes an occasional drop of whisky and playing with the boys in the park.
Doris Day is the mother, Wendy Amberson, who always has a little something for the boys around her back door on a Saturday morning.
h.**
* Coming from Fox real soon now, your GOP-suckup channel.
** Yes, I realise this is a literary skit - unlikely to get anywhere in Slashdot. Oh hum.
Does someone destroy the older recordings?
h
"openness" as a fig leaf. Blech.
.NET follows an Open Standard.
Open Standard == Competition
one of the few things that Dave Winer has said that I wholeheartedly agree. For example, any govt that believes in competition should use Open Standards for any software that it uses. That means across the board, from the military to the medical. In this country that means rejecting arsehole corps like EDS who indulge in contracts which lose *billions* of tax pounds/euros. The UK passport debacle is one of theirs.
In fact, IBM in the UK are amongst the most notorious syphons at the tax pound well, particularly with their Health Service contracts.
I look forward to the UK govt in particular adopting open standards so that it saves some of my tax money.
All vendees should *insist* that vendors adopt open standards. It's in their interests as it *saves money*. Of course, it screws MS, which is all to the good. Which is where I started. Vendees should use their muscle to ensure that
I look forward to a snowball surviving in a volcano.
h.
"good practice" and "legal duty" are two different things - sometimes the two coincide, sometimes not.
If you require Broadcasters to keep digital copies this does force good practice on you, with the side effect that you have an historical record, but the burden should always be on the accuser. That's a clear point of law even to laypeople. It seems to me that by requiring the TV companies to keep records, then the burden of proof is swayed in a dangerous direction.
h
what's wrong with this picture? Nobody has mentioned the, uh, developers (developers, developers....ad nauseum). The build team at the firm where I work welcomed the X, but it came with it's costs and we had to work hard to upgrade our X-platforms frameworks for this baby.
Switch to Xbox 2: the people who developed for 1 will have to port their games to 2...unless there's been some pretty shit-hot foot-work with the API - not something that these guys have proven since they've adopted the slash-and-burn strategy within MS - this is a clean slate for titles. Unless I'm much mistaken?
h
spooks
or political spin meisters
or marketeers...
will be over this like fleas on a dog, a veritable feeding frenzy of drones - unless they've been there already
Warp factor 10, tin foil hats set to maximum...
h
The man runs(?) a business that charges for hosting weblogs. On that evidence, I'd say it was a business. Userland certainly wasn't - and isn't - a charity but DW, in order to proselytise weblogs one presumes, offered, through Userland, to host weblogs at zero charge.
Further, I'd argue that Userland produces software and hasn't the depth of expertise or pocket to extend it's core competence into other areas, unlike others I could mention. In a business sense, the whole Userland thing is beginning to smell a bit. I do hope they have an exit plan because on current showing, it's a bit of a Heath-Robinson operation.
h
consideration - but also goodwill. Business runs a lot on goodwill - i.e. can I pay this bill later? sure, we know and trust you - that sort of thing. In this case, Dave had 2 choices: give a warning or nuk'em. With a warning, he may have gained customers. He would still have lost some good will but by going nuclear, and with some shabby *audio* instructions, he's lost a whole lot more goodwill, gained lots of hostile reviews etc. This isn't good business - but isn't this joker some kind of half-arsed academic these days?
the only integration you need is cut'n'paste - the rest os moonshine. Bah. Grumps.
(This could either be considered "troll" or "insightful". Ooh. Tight corner, mods.)
Still, at least they're using something akin to a decent license. I hope to see these things integrated *into the shell* in due course.
h.
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
Oscar Wilde
So bloody true.