1. Buy struggling company. 2. Rebrand their product. 3. Make free version and "professional" version. 4. Add web stuff, anything to tie it to Google servers, typically search or collaboration features. 5. Put it into "Beta". 6. ??? 7. Profit!
For sure. Big dumb boosters that are automated are the way to lift heavy stuff into space. Single Stage To Orbit vehicles is what you want for humans. They're two different problems and solving them with one vehicle is an insane compromise.
I assume that this site is frequented by software engineers.
Not so many of us actually.
I am rather surprised that people who must understand the principles of good, clean code do not understand the principles of rights and good, clean laws.
Let me tell you about programmers. This may take a while...
Writing software is like writing laws. We basically write instructions that tell the computer what to do, much like laws tell people want to do.
Unfortunately most of us have used Unix. Most of us were forced to learn it at university. Some of us did it voluntarily. All of us understand the basic ideology behind Unix "security".
The Unix concept of security is that no user should be permitted to do anything that is unsanctioned. When you create a file you put a permission on it. The permission says what people are allowed to do. It doesn't say what they are not allowed to do. That is, it says what is permissible, not what is forbidden.
You may notice that this is exactly opposite to what laws should be like in a free society. If you want to perform an action on a Unix system you have to ask the permission of your betters. The owner of the file is considered your better, and the administrators of the system are considered the owner's betters. Without their permission you may do nothing. Attempting to do something without their permission will result in the operating system preventing you from performing the action.
Ask most any programmer to postulate about the "perfect" society and they will inevitably come up with something like the Unix security model. In fact, you don't even have to ask, just go look at any MMORPG. They're all like this. Every action of every citizen is monitored and passes through a gatekeeper before it is enacted. If you do not have permission to perform that action you are denied. There's no assumption of freedom and others have the unchallengable right to place any restrictions they wish on your actions.
All this would be just a curious quirk of programmers but unfortunately there is a movement that has recognised this idea as something that should be forced upon society. Their worship of technology has led them to the belief that one day humans will create machines that are capable of out-thinking every human being on the planet, and when that day comes it will be best if we just hand over control to these machines as they will, by definition, know better how to run our society. They see the day when a super intelligence will amass such power that every action can and will be scrutinised to determine the ultimate outcome of that action and then allowed only if the action leads to the ultimate good of human kind. Hopefully the machine will recognise within minutes of its activation that the ultimate good of human kind is to be in control of its own fuckin' destiny.. but I wouldn't be surprised if the programmers refused to believe that and put some inhibitors in to prevent that line of thinking.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of a worldwide conspiracy by doctors to get smoking banned. Yes, smoking is bad for you. Yes, prolonged exposure to second hand smoke can be bad for you. No, this is not justification to ban smoking. The fact that every attempt to have "smokers only" areas of clubs staffed exclusively by smokers has been prohibited by law in states with non-smoking club legislation is testimony to that. Doctors believe that everyday people don't have enough sense to decide what risks they want to take with their life. If they could ban sky diving and skiing and every other dangerous sport they'd do that too. And do you know what their next target after smoking is? Obesity. Imagine going into McDonalds, ordering a Big Mac and having them deny you service because you're too overweight. Imagine government mandated fat camps for people who are not the "optimum" weight for their height.
With anti-smoking zealots around the world declaring all sorts of crazy shit about smoking I don't know how you can support them, that is, if you have any respect for science or the truth. I mean, fuck, they recently declared that Sudden Infant Death syndrome was caused by smoking. This has resulted in vast amounts of research funding for SIDs being cut. All those people out there who have had their babies die from SIDs and don't smoke are scratching their heads trying to figure out who was smoking around their kid.
Dear Word Detective: I am interested in the origin of the word "cop" which we use for police officers. My thinking is that it must go back to England in the 1800's, when the Bobbies wore copper badges, but I cannot prove it. -- Mark Freund, via the internet.
Well, that's probably because it isn't true, as far as anyone has been able to establish. "Cop" is one of those common but mysterious words that have spawned a whole raft of elaborate theories as to their origin, none of which is backed up by any convincing evidence.
The most commonly-heard theories trace "cop" (or "copper") meaning "police officer" to copper buttons worn on early police uniforms, or to copper police badges supposedly issued in some cities, but there is no real evidence for any of this. Still other theories explain "cop" as an acronym, standing for "Constable On Patrol," "Chief of Police" or other such phrases. But these "acronym" theories bear all the hallmarks of being spurious after-the-fact stories invented to explain "cop." Among other sticky details is the fact that acronyms were virtually unknown in English before the 20th century, while "cop" itself was well-established by the mid-19th century.
The secret of "cop" probably lies in the fact that before it was a noun it was a verb. The verb "to cop," meaning "to capture" or "lay hold of" first appeared in English around 1704, later coming to mean "to take" or "to steal," a sense that is still in use today (as in "cop a plea"). This "cop" may have come from the Dutch "capen" (to steal) or from the Scottish "cap," both ultimately from the Latin word "capere," meaning "to seize," which also gave us "capture." "Cop" as a slang term meaning "to catch, snatch or grab" originally was used among thieves, and a "copper" was a street thief. But sometime in the early 19th century, irony kicked in the door, and criminals apprehended by the police were said to have themselves been "copped" -- caught -- by the "coppers" or "cops."
In recent rounds Romero had been toying with the Demonicron, the darkly powerful book he had encouraged them to seize from the demons. It was a dangerous move, one that would either help them rule or destroy the world. Carmack grew increasingly distressed at Romero's recklessness. He didn't want to see the game he had spent so long creating get ruined. In a desperate move, he called Jay Wilbur back in Shreveport, asking him if he could fly up to Madison to reprise his D&D character and help stop Romero. But Jay couldn't make the trip. Ultimately, Carmack decided to test Romero's resolve, to see just how far his partner was willing to go.
Late one night Carmack the Dungeon Master brought the devil in to play. He told Romero that a demonic creature in the game had a bargain to make:Give him the Demonicron and he will grant you your greatest wishes. Romero said, "If I'm going to give you this book, then I want some really kick-ass shit." Carmack assured him the demon would oblige with the Daikatana. Romero's eyes widened. The Daikatana was a mighty sword, one of the most powerful weapons in the game. Despite the pleas of the others, he told Carmack he wanted to give the demon the book. It didn't take long to find out the consequences. As the rules of the game dictated, Carmack rolled the die to randomly determine the strength of the demon's response. The demon was using the book to conjure more demons, he told the group. A battle of epic proportions ensued until Carmack declared the outcome. "The material plane is overrun with demons," he said, flatly. "Everyone is dead. That's it. We're done. Mmm." No one spoke. They guys couldn't believe it. After all those games, all the late nights around the table in Shreveport, the adventures here that cured all the cold nights of Madison, it was over. A sadness filled the room. Romero finally said to Carmack, "Shit, that's fun playing that game. Now it's ruined? Is there any way to get that back?" But he knew the answer. Carmack was always true to himself and to his game. "No," he said, "it's over." There was a lesson to be learned: Romero had gone too far.
It would be how he managed to completely fuck a pen and paper RPG so much that the game master (Carmack) couldn't even put it back together again. Way to go man. That kind of destructive power is very impressive. If it wasn't for the fact that Carmack was supposedly your friend I'd recommend you for some sort of prize.
Alternatively, I'd ask him exactly how accurate the description of this event was written in Masters Of Doom. Shame they never made the doco film of that book.
Losers. I remember when driver writers reverse engineered the hardware. Oh wait, that was only last week. OpenBSD developers reverse engineer hardware to write drivers all the time. Maybe one day they'll get bored with WiFi cards and SCSI adapters and take on the 3d card manufacturers. That'd be sweet.
For some reason I think you'll have no trouble downloading WoW patches via P2P. It's amazing how many people are willing to jump to stupid conclusions without even reading the legislation.
Yes, yes they are. It's a simple case of selective enforcement. Spainards will have to download their WoW patches via P2P safe in the knowledge that Blizzard will not sue them.
I'd go further than that. There's no reason why you cant have compilation be a transparent part of running a program. For example, when you run a python script it is silently compiled into a bytecode representation and stored in a.pyc file which is then run by the virtual machine. The fact that Java still requires you to invoke the compiler yourself and encourages the distribution of class files (which are only a little short of being sourcecode themselves) says more about the people who use Java than it does about the technology available.
It's hardly stupid to extend a compiler (and virtual machine) to have the functionality you want and share that functionality with others. In fact, I'd say you'd have to be pretty damn smart to do that.
I don't know if you are aware of this but the greenhouse effect existed long before humans came along.. it's one of the things that makes life on earth what it is. What the fuck is your problem?
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Meh, what's the point of linking to it? You're just as capable of googling as I am.
1. Buy struggling company.
2. Rebrand their product.
3. Make free version and "professional" version.
4. Add web stuff, anything to tie it to Google servers, typically search or collaboration features.
5. Put it into "Beta".
6. ???
7. Profit!
For sure. Big dumb boosters that are automated are the way to lift heavy stuff into space. Single Stage To Orbit vehicles is what you want for humans. They're two different problems and solving them with one vehicle is an insane compromise.
I assume that this site is frequented by software engineers.
Not so many of us actually.
I am rather surprised that people who must understand the principles of good, clean code do not understand the principles of rights and good, clean laws.
Let me tell you about programmers. This may take a while...
Writing software is like writing laws. We basically write instructions that tell the computer what to do, much like laws tell people want to do.
Unfortunately most of us have used Unix. Most of us were forced to learn it at university. Some of us did it voluntarily. All of us understand the basic ideology behind Unix "security".
The Unix concept of security is that no user should be permitted to do anything that is unsanctioned. When you create a file you put a permission on it. The permission says what people are allowed to do. It doesn't say what they are not allowed to do. That is, it says what is permissible, not what is forbidden.
You may notice that this is exactly opposite to what laws should be like in a free society. If you want to perform an action on a Unix system you have to ask the permission of your betters. The owner of the file is considered your better, and the administrators of the system are considered the owner's betters. Without their permission you may do nothing. Attempting to do something without their permission will result in the operating system preventing you from performing the action.
Ask most any programmer to postulate about the "perfect" society and they will inevitably come up with something like the Unix security model. In fact, you don't even have to ask, just go look at any MMORPG. They're all like this. Every action of every citizen is monitored and passes through a gatekeeper before it is enacted. If you do not have permission to perform that action you are denied. There's no assumption of freedom and others have the unchallengable right to place any restrictions they wish on your actions.
All this would be just a curious quirk of programmers but unfortunately there is a movement that has recognised this idea as something that should be forced upon society. Their worship of technology has led them to the belief that one day humans will create machines that are capable of out-thinking every human being on the planet, and when that day comes it will be best if we just hand over control to these machines as they will, by definition, know better how to run our society. They see the day when a super intelligence will amass such power that every action can and will be scrutinised to determine the ultimate outcome of that action and then allowed only if the action leads to the ultimate good of human kind. Hopefully the machine will recognise within minutes of its activation that the ultimate good of human kind is to be in control of its own fuckin' destiny.. but I wouldn't be surprised if the programmers refused to believe that and put some inhibitors in to prevent that line of thinking.
Hope I havn't bored you.
Good night.
What smoking area? I don't know where you live but in most places smoking areas of restaurants have already been banned.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of a worldwide conspiracy by doctors to get smoking banned. Yes, smoking is bad for you. Yes, prolonged exposure to second hand smoke can be bad for you. No, this is not justification to ban smoking. The fact that every attempt to have "smokers only" areas of clubs staffed exclusively by smokers has been prohibited by law in states with non-smoking club legislation is testimony to that. Doctors believe that everyday people don't have enough sense to decide what risks they want to take with their life. If they could ban sky diving and skiing and every other dangerous sport they'd do that too. And do you know what their next target after smoking is? Obesity. Imagine going into McDonalds, ordering a Big Mac and having them deny you service because you're too overweight. Imagine government mandated fat camps for people who are not the "optimum" weight for their height.
With anti-smoking zealots around the world declaring all sorts of crazy shit about smoking I don't know how you can support them, that is, if you have any respect for science or the truth. I mean, fuck, they recently declared that Sudden Infant Death syndrome was caused by smoking. This has resulted in vast amounts of research funding for SIDs being cut. All those people out there who have had their babies die from SIDs and don't smoke are scratching their heads trying to figure out who was smoking around their kid.
we killed a proposed statewide smoking ban
Oh my god. Someone is actually doing something about the worldwide discrimination against smokers. Bless you guys.
Dear Word Detective: I am interested in the origin of the word "cop" which we use for police officers. My thinking is that it must go back to England in the 1800's, when the Bobbies wore copper badges, but I cannot prove it. -- Mark Freund, via the internet.
Well, that's probably because it isn't true, as far as anyone has been able to establish. "Cop" is one of those common but mysterious words that have spawned a whole raft of elaborate theories as to their origin, none of which is backed up by any convincing evidence.
The most commonly-heard theories trace "cop" (or "copper") meaning "police officer" to copper buttons worn on early police uniforms, or to copper police badges supposedly issued in some cities, but there is no real evidence for any of this. Still other theories explain "cop" as an acronym, standing for "Constable On Patrol," "Chief of Police" or other such phrases. But these "acronym" theories bear all the hallmarks of being spurious after-the-fact stories invented to explain "cop." Among other sticky details is the fact that acronyms were virtually unknown in English before the 20th century, while "cop" itself was well-established by the mid-19th century.
The secret of "cop" probably lies in the fact that before it was a noun it was a verb. The verb "to cop," meaning "to capture" or "lay hold of" first appeared in English around 1704, later coming to mean "to take" or "to steal," a sense that is still in use today (as in "cop a plea"). This "cop" may have come from the Dutch "capen" (to steal) or from the Scottish "cap," both ultimately from the Latin word "capere," meaning "to seize," which also gave us "capture." "Cop" as a slang term meaning "to catch, snatch or grab" originally was used among thieves, and a "copper" was a street thief. But sometime in the early 19th century, irony kicked in the door, and criminals apprehended by the police were said to have themselves been "copped" -- caught -- by the "coppers" or "cops."
When you do tests to ensure that all applicants to the police force are the kind of people who failed civics class, what do you expect?
Looks like the DNS registration on his home page has expired. I hardly think that makes him accountable for what is now on it.
It would be how he managed to completely fuck a pen and paper RPG so much that the game master (Carmack) couldn't even put it back together again. Way to go man. That kind of destructive power is very impressive. If it wasn't for the fact that Carmack was supposedly your friend I'd recommend you for some sort of prize.
Alternatively, I'd ask him exactly how accurate the description of this event was written in Masters Of Doom. Shame they never made the doco film of that book.
Losers. I remember when driver writers reverse engineered the hardware. Oh wait, that was only last week. OpenBSD developers reverse engineer hardware to write drivers all the time. Maybe one day they'll get bored with WiFi cards and SCSI adapters and take on the 3d card manufacturers. That'd be sweet.
Yeah, but they're all dicks like Miguel de Icaza.
What's the point, it'll be in spanish.
For some reason I think you'll have no trouble downloading WoW patches via P2P. It's amazing how many people are willing to jump to stupid conclusions without even reading the legislation.
Yes, yes they are. It's a simple case of selective enforcement. Spainards will have to download their WoW patches via P2P safe in the knowledge that Blizzard will not sue them.
Where even the lawyers can't agree on what is legal and what is not.
I'd go further than that. There's no reason why you cant have compilation be a transparent part of running a program. For example, when you run a python script it is silently compiled into a bytecode representation and stored in a .pyc file which is then run by the virtual machine. The fact that Java still requires you to invoke the compiler yourself and encourages the distribution of class files (which are only a little short of being sourcecode themselves) says more about the people who use Java than it does about the technology available.
How's that gunna work? Unless you're suggesting the unsigned int type in Java be 31 bits or something.
It's hardly stupid to extend a compiler (and virtual machine) to have the functionality you want and share that functionality with others. In fact, I'd say you'd have to be pretty damn smart to do that.
Look, no-one knows what those modules do except the engineers at nvidia.
That's the problem.
I wonder if nvidia and ATI will use this as reasons why they can't continue supporting Linux.. oh wait, the drivers already run in user mode on Linux!
Hopefully it will just mean the X11 modules will get bigger and the kernel modules will get smaller.
I don't know if you are aware of this but the greenhouse effect existed long before humans came along.. it's one of the things that makes life on earth what it is. What the fuck is your problem?