Re:No. The next boom will be automation.
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The New Boom
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Hear me out on this. The new boom will be automation.
Not if energy and oil trends continue. I am not banking on anything depending on growing industry until those change. And really, those landfills full of disposable plastic machines look ridiculous already.
The president makes the laws. Therefore, anything he deems to be legal is legal.
If that was what folks believed on this continent, this country would not, I repeat would not exist. I truly hope that you were describing the mindset you see, not your own, because a great autocrat ruling a servile population is precisely what the colonies revolted against, and took great pains to thwart the appearance of here in the USA.
The fact that people have this mindset shows that people in the USA have more flags waving than they have clues about the principles they're supposed to stand for.
Pretending to lack a bias is utter hypocrisy, not to mention unattainable and hence useless. A good professor will encourage thought and dialogue not by bland neutrality but by respect. That said, Andrew Jones' tactics recall the tactics of the most totalitarian governments, and his methods say a lot about his true understanding or regard for freedom.
That said, I've had self-described Constitutionalist conservatives and John Birchers for teachers and professors, and I've yet to see anything like them in academia for idealogical intolerance. The curious and fair-minded are probably not going to call blasphemy at the opposition.
Just one question
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Will Perl 6 finally end the sheer madness of allowing a function to use loop control statements like next and last to meddle with the loops in their calling functions?
Some of us have predecessor's code to use and maintain that do the darnedest things, you know. A bit of protection from the madness of others, that's all I'm asking for.
I'm betting that our scifi fetish for warp speed won't pan out in a way that living passengers can survive.
What I think we can realistically achieve is longevity research, or hibernation, or biological and medicinal work by which we can learn to live in space for long periods of time. I don't think the voyage to the stars is a matter of FTL. I think it's a matter of patience.
Not so sexy, but making the transition would do a lot to assure our species' long-term survival.
Don't just go through a top display and decide KDE is hogging memory. If you use a properly configured KDE desktop you'll notice that despite the big numbers, everything seems to be running smooth. That's because the reality is that KDE is sharing memory very effectively, and people who just look at top without investigating further have been going off half-cocked about KDE for years.
Get the real story on this here and here, because KDE's code reuse is awesome, not bloated.
Porn? Porn is, as far as I'm concerned, defined as gratuitious sexual references in whatever format designed to titilate... The closest you have to any kind of graphic sexuality is the story of Onan, but the story was about how he was disobedient; it wasn't a pornographic story in any way, shape, or form.
I think there's a whole darn book, and arguably a couple chapters of Ezekiel too that might mess with that statement.
For the more low and chauvinist of taste, there's also the commandment to spare just the virgin girls, and kill the rest (Numbers 31, Deuteronomy) - sounds exciting, right? I wonder how they checked up on the girls' claims before making unwilling tarts of them.
Of course, allowing her a month to mourn before you claim her spoils the mood a bit, but that's just the price of being civilized.
I think the christian connection is quite visible in the series. Come now, "Son of Adam", what is that but an obvious allusion to the myths of the Abrahamic faiths, the christian interpretation particularly? You see it elsewhere in the series, particularly the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader where Aslan says he is present in the human world, in The Magician's Nephew where the theme of downfall parallels the Eden myth, and in The Last Battle where the "very elect" are deceived in a play parallel to common interpretations of the book of Revelations.
I'm not bashing either the books or the movie on this basis. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first novel I ever read on my own. I love it and its following series of novels.
I could go further and point out that there is definitely some material you could see as bigoted later on, as the Calormenes are very obviously retouched Arabs, it is far from malignant. If you can accept that C.S. Lewis is going to assume that his faith and his God is *the* right one anyway - as most Western religionists do - his idea that people of other faiths do good deeds that are accepted by God as seen in The Last Battle is actually well ahead of many thinkers from the christian world, and shows a measure of compassion and respect. Like other authors going back into the depth of time, he shows his cultural bias, but he shows a more gentle and inclusive spirituality than many.
So I'm quite happy to have C.S. Lewis' christian faith visible on the big screen, and I think the best of all religions should be similarly celebrated. Further, as an agnostic, I would sooner read Narnia to my kids in their impressionable years than a number of passages from the Old Testament, and teach them that it's okay to enjoy stories that you are inspired by rather than take them for gospel. I say relax, and enjoy.
Considering how many coral reefs will die from temperature changes, or the dependencies of co-evolved species especially plants and migratory insects, and other such things, I would contend that we know more than enough to conclude it will be much worse for the biosphere.
The other main argument against KDE is that it is too much of a Windows clone.
I really have to wonder how many people really tried other settings besides Windows while in the KDE setup wizard. The environment is almost too darn configurable for its own good. At least the integration means that if you stick to KDE and Qt programs, your preferences carry over very consistently.
I think that a lot of the discussions suffer from myopia. It's almost a shame that emissions are getting so much talk when they're only a part of a wider problem. I don't think we can consider emissions alone. We're also destroying the world's carbon sinks at a scary pace, both the healthy forests and the oceans. I'm willing to bet that has a much greater effect than increased emissions alone.
It's caused a positive feedback loop. If you're sitting next to your aunt who is absolutely freaked out by the sight of blood and your leaking digit causes her to whack your hand away, it gets worse, no?
Completely different development shops are not obligated to use the same revision control systems. Apple has since changed their contributions to suit KDE developers better. I think that's good responsiveness, whatever drama Slashdot got out of it.
I would consider most of your response purely subjective, though I've seen labs full of Macs that ran reliably for years, and happily use an iPod and iBook. However:
All of which is wrong. Apple doesn't really contribute that much to "open source projects". In fact, the only substantive contribution that Apple has made was made accidentally. The Smalltalk folk went to work and produced "Squeak" while working at Apple. They are now at Disney, so the credit may have to be shared. Anything else? Something on the order of... Self (SUN, used for Newton), Object Pascal, original Mac OS or toolbox, reference implementation of AppleTalk, or other networking protocols, AppleCard, Math Solver... you know, something real? Not just some BSD kernel hacks, or browser hacks.
Darwin, launchd, and KHTML improvements are pretty significant, don't you think?
You know, Apple doesn't tie up large sections of the industry in backwards, proprietary technology. They're cutting edge. They give back to open source projects. If they do something wrong, you can find other replacements and not feel starved for support. So what if they want to tweak the capabilities of their product line?
See, that's not so bad. You've allowed other axes of freedom, there. But I tell you that my best programming work that gets things done happens after the 9-5 face time is over, and usually in one continuous burn.
You've got to let a thinking mind have some freedom, and what's killed my productivity - speaking in real life terms here, not making this up - has been management that automatically considers a program wherein a function calls another function "spaghetti code", that thinks using anything other than global variables is a waste of time, sees no difference between loop or function calls and goto statements, and basically don't get anything from structured programming onward, let alone object-oriented or other schools of programming. It's disheartening to see years of professional experience and education get discarded and stomped on because someone doesn't want to read past the first few chapters of some "Perl in 21 Days" rip-off.
Compared to that, 9-5 is small potatoes, but I'd hate to be cut off in the middle of the productive time that I have after that while trying to solve problems in an organized matter under severe constraints.
Good programming isn't something that can be mass-produced on a strict schedule. Meetings are necessary, yes - to get the planning done. But if there was a way to get good program design and code down on a strict schedule with lots of face time at the office, mass-produced like other things suits like, they'd have figured it out by now.
There are *reasons* geeks don't trust suits, and this is one of them. They have a fundemental lack of understanding of our mindset, and will go for the guy with the face and MBA over the brains, generally speaking - and next thing you know, they've hired more VP's than programmers and they're a bust.
You know, I find that the gtk-qt theme goes a long way to solving this. GTK applications start to look a lot more like KDE applications. It's not complete but it helps.
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Wouldn't mail accounts on any server under US jurisdiction be subject to subpoena? This isn't exactly a Google vs. Pine issue.
Clearly, too many of them were being eaten.
Hear me out on this. The new boom will be automation.
Not if energy and oil trends continue. I am not banking on anything depending on growing industry until those change. And really, those landfills full of disposable plastic machines look ridiculous already.
The president makes the laws. Therefore, anything he deems to be legal is legal.
If that was what folks believed on this continent, this country would not, I repeat would not exist. I truly hope that you were describing the mindset you see, not your own, because a great autocrat ruling a servile population is precisely what the colonies revolted against, and took great pains to thwart the appearance of here in the USA.
The fact that people have this mindset shows that people in the USA have more flags waving than they have clues about the principles they're supposed to stand for.
Pretending to lack a bias is utter hypocrisy, not to mention unattainable and hence useless. A good professor will encourage thought and dialogue not by bland neutrality but by respect. That said, Andrew Jones' tactics recall the tactics of the most totalitarian governments, and his methods say a lot about his true understanding or regard for freedom.
That said, I've had self-described Constitutionalist conservatives and John Birchers for teachers and professors, and I've yet to see anything like them in academia for idealogical intolerance. The curious and fair-minded are probably not going to call blasphemy at the opposition.
Will Perl 6 finally end the sheer madness of allowing a function to use loop control statements like next and last to meddle with the loops in their calling functions?
Some of us have predecessor's code to use and maintain that do the darnedest things, you know. A bit of protection from the madness of others, that's all I'm asking for.
I'm betting that our scifi fetish for warp speed won't pan out in a way that living passengers can survive.
What I think we can realistically achieve is longevity research, or hibernation, or biological and medicinal work by which we can learn to live in space for long periods of time. I don't think the voyage to the stars is a matter of FTL. I think it's a matter of patience.
Not so sexy, but making the transition would do a lot to assure our species' long-term survival.
Don't just go through a top display and decide KDE is hogging memory. If you use a properly configured KDE desktop you'll notice that despite the big numbers, everything seems to be running smooth. That's because the reality is that KDE is sharing memory very effectively, and people who just look at top without investigating further have been going off half-cocked about KDE for years.
Get the real story on this here and here, because KDE's code reuse is awesome, not bloated.
Porn? Porn is, as far as I'm concerned, defined as gratuitious sexual references in whatever format designed to titilate... The closest you have to any kind of graphic sexuality is the story of Onan, but the story was about how he was disobedient; it wasn't a pornographic story in any way, shape, or form.
I think there's a whole darn book, and arguably a couple chapters of Ezekiel too that might mess with that statement.
For the more low and chauvinist of taste, there's also the commandment to spare just the virgin girls, and kill the rest (Numbers 31, Deuteronomy) - sounds exciting, right? I wonder how they checked up on the girls' claims before making unwilling tarts of them.
Of course, allowing her a month to mourn before you claim her spoils the mood a bit, but that's just the price of being civilized.
E - for when you need to make multiple terminals on the screen look as sharp as possible!
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I think the christian connection is quite visible in the series. Come now, "Son of Adam", what is that but an obvious allusion to the myths of the Abrahamic faiths, the christian interpretation particularly? You see it elsewhere in the series, particularly the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader where Aslan says he is present in the human world, in The Magician's Nephew where the theme of downfall parallels the Eden myth, and in The Last Battle where the "very elect" are deceived in a play parallel to common interpretations of the book of Revelations.
I'm not bashing either the books or the movie on this basis. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first novel I ever read on my own. I love it and its following series of novels.
I could go further and point out that there is definitely some material you could see as bigoted later on, as the Calormenes are very obviously retouched Arabs, it is far from malignant. If you can accept that C.S. Lewis is going to assume that his faith and his God is *the* right one anyway - as most Western religionists do - his idea that people of other faiths do good deeds that are accepted by God as seen in The Last Battle is actually well ahead of many thinkers from the christian world, and shows a measure of compassion and respect. Like other authors going back into the depth of time, he shows his cultural bias, but he shows a more gentle and inclusive spirituality than many.
So I'm quite happy to have C.S. Lewis' christian faith visible on the big screen, and I think the best of all religions should be similarly celebrated. Further, as an agnostic, I would sooner read Narnia to my kids in their impressionable years than a number of passages from the Old Testament, and teach them that it's okay to enjoy stories that you are inspired by rather than take them for gospel. I say relax, and enjoy.
...and then I'll start to notice.
Considering how many coral reefs will die from temperature changes, or the dependencies of co-evolved species especially plants and migratory insects, and other such things, I would contend that we know more than enough to conclude it will be much worse for the biosphere.
The other main argument against KDE is that it is too much of a Windows clone.
I really have to wonder how many people really tried other settings besides Windows while in the KDE setup wizard. The environment is almost too darn configurable for its own good. At least the integration means that if you stick to KDE and Qt programs, your preferences carry over very consistently.
I think that a lot of the discussions suffer from myopia. It's almost a shame that emissions are getting so much talk when they're only a part of a wider problem. I don't think we can consider emissions alone. We're also destroying the world's carbon sinks at a scary pace, both the healthy forests and the oceans. I'm willing to bet that has a much greater effect than increased emissions alone.
It's caused a positive feedback loop. If you're sitting next to your aunt who is absolutely freaked out by the sight of blood and your leaking digit causes her to whack your hand away, it gets worse, no?
Completely different development shops are not obligated to use the same revision control systems. Apple has since changed their contributions to suit KDE developers better. I think that's good responsiveness, whatever drama Slashdot got out of it.
I would consider most of your response purely subjective, though I've seen labs full of Macs that ran reliably for years, and happily use an iPod and iBook. However:
All of which is wrong. Apple doesn't really contribute that much to "open source projects". In fact, the only substantive contribution that Apple has made was made accidentally. The Smalltalk folk went to work and produced "Squeak" while working at Apple. They are now at Disney, so the credit may have to be shared. Anything else? Something on the order of... Self (SUN, used for Newton), Object Pascal, original Mac OS or toolbox, reference implementation of AppleTalk, or other networking protocols, AppleCard, Math Solver... you know, something real? Not just some BSD kernel hacks, or browser hacks.
Darwin, launchd, and KHTML improvements are pretty significant, don't you think?
You know, Apple doesn't tie up large sections of the industry in backwards, proprietary technology. They're cutting edge. They give back to open source projects. If they do something wrong, you can find other replacements and not feel starved for support. So what if they want to tweak the capabilities of their product line?
Apple and MS just don't remotely equate.
"Note to self: remove that Clapper from boat's ignition."
See, that's not so bad. You've allowed other axes of freedom, there. But I tell you that my best programming work that gets things done happens after the 9-5 face time is over, and usually in one continuous burn.
You've got to let a thinking mind have some freedom, and what's killed my productivity - speaking in real life terms here, not making this up - has been management that automatically considers a program wherein a function calls another function "spaghetti code", that thinks using anything other than global variables is a waste of time, sees no difference between loop or function calls and goto statements, and basically don't get anything from structured programming onward, let alone object-oriented or other schools of programming. It's disheartening to see years of professional experience and education get discarded and stomped on because someone doesn't want to read past the first few chapters of some "Perl in 21 Days" rip-off.
Compared to that, 9-5 is small potatoes, but I'd hate to be cut off in the middle of the productive time that I have after that while trying to solve problems in an organized matter under severe constraints.
And you know, I will never, ever work for you.
Good programming isn't something that can be mass-produced on a strict schedule. Meetings are necessary, yes - to get the planning done. But if there was a way to get good program design and code down on a strict schedule with lots of face time at the office, mass-produced like other things suits like, they'd have figured it out by now.
There are *reasons* geeks don't trust suits, and this is one of them. They have a fundemental lack of understanding of our mindset, and will go for the guy with the face and MBA over the brains, generally speaking - and next thing you know, they've hired more VP's than programmers and they're a bust.
You know, I find that the gtk-qt theme goes a long way to solving this. GTK applications start to look a lot more like KDE applications. It's not complete but it helps.
"The tighter you clench your first, the more star systems will slip between your fingers."