Multitasking is just switching between tasks fast enough to create a reasonable approximation of simultaneous processing. The goal of multi-tasking isn't simulation of multi-processing, it's timely completion of tasks.
In this world of ideas, you don't get paid for having an idea, you get paid for acting like you have an idea.
This is because eating is more important than R&D. An idea lasts for a minute, your children last a lifetime. If you're lucky.
That's democracy for ya.
They're harder to get out than to get in, aren't they?
The thing we gotta realise is that we're voting them in. Well, I haven't been keeping track of everyone's votes - you know what I mean. Populations have been voting right-wing governments in all over, then getting surprised when those governments stop listening to them (but that's the less interesting bit. I think the first thing we need to address is why we vote for these people in the first place).
The problem is that the Holocaust is taught as truth, despite the lack of evidence. So are God and the number 1. And things like words.
You are, of course, free decide if the Holocaust is true but please base your decision on evidence.
When making your decision, please take into account the fact that evidence based on words or numbers may not be true due to the fact that nobody has ever seen these objects (only representations of them, at best). People talk about them but that doesn't mean they're real.
Greying-out the sky sort-of undermines the progress made with solar panels, tho.
I'm not being pessimistic, just suggesting that we have to be very creative;-)
How can we run out?
Where does Oil come from?
"The ground", I hear.
How did it get there?
Some of it came from above (carbon-based life forms, stars), some of it came from below (planetary material, material created by Earth's nuclear reactor, carbon-based life recycled through geological processes).
Where is it going?
Anywhere it'll fit.
Seems to me that unless we find a way of collecting solid Carbon again, we will eventually end up with an atmosphere like Mars or Venus.
Biology and geology had a nice thing going before we came along.
We should send these bacteria to replace the ones that are currently creating a Methane bubble the size of the USA in Siberia and Alaska. Liquid HydroCarbons are easier to store than gaseous ones.
I think you're saying that the problem with BitTorrent is that people don't know how to use it.
This puts the onus on the authors of BitTorrent clients to build reasonable defaults in. Maybe something could be done with the protocol, too?
Seems to me that it's possible that a lot of people haven't got their heads around the concept of sharing yet; they aren't thinking about what happens to stuff after they download it. It's a bit like litter;-)
First off, I'm very disappointed: I've been using Browser Sync along with Bookmark Duplicate Detector, "Add Bookmark Here" and Tab Mix Plus' extensions to do what I want with my bookmarks for the first time ever.
Weave had better be good.
I got thinking - why do none of the suggested alternatives use a P2P protocol to share bookmarks between client machines?
I can see it fitting in to the scenario quite nicely in the "always-on" world (and a bookmark-sharing thread need not be associated with the browser thread, it can be run as a service).
And if you want to store your stuff in a central server too, just allow it onto your network;-)
Is it already out there?
Have you paid attention to their quarterly reports and notice the ridiculous amount of profit they turn While we're at it, why are traded companies compelled to turn in ridiculous amounts of profit? Surely reasonable profit or breaking even is healthy - ridiculous profit is a sign that something is wrong. In spite of what people say, companies do not exist solely to profit (people use abstraction as justification all the time, for lots of things): profit is simply part of what keeps them alive.
I regard a company that repeatedly turns in huge profits - as is required of traded companies these days - as unhealthy. If it were a person, it would have a hormone problem or cancer. It's a parasite on the economy, living beyond its means. Well, in my opinion;-)
the ability to catch the potential NPE:s already at compile-time
Do more null checks in your code;-) Well, I really mean, check for them explicitly and handle them meaningfully. This is probably the opposite of what you wanted to hear but read on...
When checking for nulls, always have the null on the left-hand-side of the equation, i.e. check for "null==x", not "x==null". This helps to uncover null assignment ("x=null") bugs at compile-time. If you can trust yourself to do this all the time, you get much more comfortable using null objects (by which I mean: you can derive meaning from an object being null in your code and not view it as a potential bug)
When comparing Strings, put the "known" one first, if there is one (i.e. use '"fred".equals(x)', not 'x.equals("fred")'). It doesn't look nice (but looks better if "fred" is an application constant, i.e. FRED.equals(x)). Anyway, looks aren't everything;-) This works cos a String can be null but a null String doesn't have an "equals" method. This isn't a tip for catching nulls at compile-time - it's a programming trick that implicitly handles nulls, so makes code more efficient an no extra cost, tho...
I mean, Cartman was the cameraman on the catamaran - he called himself "catamite" cos he's camera-shy.
I don't know what "catamite" is, didn't get your post, thought it was a question.
Is there nothing else that Microsoft can do with $40 billion? It's not their $40 billion. Well, only ~$20bn is. The rest of the cash is going to come from loans, remember?
Who's going to lend MS $20bn to buy a Web company?
Who's going to lend them $20bn to buy an advertising company in a recession?
I've never seen that type of situation with all the unpaid OT... You'd be surprised at the number of IT workers that find themselves in that situation. A starter without much experience requires time to build:
- the understanding required to realise that they are being exploited (either through over-work, lack of training or a deliberately inefficient workflow being implemented in their workplace)
- the knowledge that will make another company want to hire them or allow them to work as an independent consultant
I noticed that you said that you will never work for free again, which suggests that you have been through some similar experience, as I have also (even as a contractor). I have always been willing to pay myself back time worked late on subsequent days (via shorter work days, longer breaks, etc. - nobody has given me grief doing it yet:-) but am aware that, in total, I have worked more hours than I have been paid. I'm getting better at avoiding the long days in the first place but, ironically, the only way you can guarantee this is to become familiar with code and practices in your workplace, which takes time in the first place;-)
In programming work, the most important point-of-failure is in your head: if you can't understand a problem, you can't fix it, so can't reasonably expect to be paid. I haven't grudged an employer hours I have spent educating myself, only hours spent trying to understand bad code that would not have existed if the employer knew what they wanted in the first place (some poor sod had to code features before a design - or even proper requirements - were supplied, which leads to spaghetti code, copy-n-paste errors, etc., then I come along and I have to fix it in the process of adding another feature).
if you knew you were going to be locked in a basement and regularly abused for a few years, would you make the same choice? I'd say that the only thing that was keeping that poor girl alive was the fact that she had children. Twisted stuff.
I do hope you agree it's a form of torture. Absolutely. I was hoping people would infer that from what I was saying about "the buzz".
Isn't it bizarre - everybody dies, yet most societies (and their sub-groups: religions, families) have an unhealthy attitude to death which rubs off on individuals (denial: my favourite line in Team America is "I promise I will never die":-)
Slashdot Mirror
I fear to think what theory an AI would come up with based on all the "information" that's on the Internet
Whoever modded that "Offtopic" has no sense of humour.
Offtopic.
In this world of ideas, you don't get paid for having an idea, you get paid for acting like you have an idea.
This is because eating is more important than R&D. An idea lasts for a minute, your children last a lifetime. If you're lucky.
That's democracy for ya.
They're harder to get out than to get in, aren't they?
The thing we gotta realise is that we're voting them in. Well, I haven't been keeping track of everyone's votes - you know what I mean. Populations have been voting right-wing governments in all over, then getting surprised when those governments stop listening to them (but that's the less interesting bit. I think the first thing we need to address is why we vote for these people in the first place).
You are, of course, free decide if the Holocaust is true but please base your decision on evidence.
When making your decision, please take into account the fact that evidence based on words or numbers may not be true due to the fact that nobody has ever seen these objects (only representations of them, at best). People talk about them but that doesn't mean they're real.
The volume of useless code will increase as coders worry about people attaching some extra meaning to comments, etc!
Greying-out the sky sort-of undermines the progress made with solar panels, tho. ;-)
I'm not being pessimistic, just suggesting that we have to be very creative
How can we run out?
Where does Oil come from?
"The ground", I hear.
How did it get there?
Some of it came from above (carbon-based life forms, stars), some of it came from below (planetary material, material created by Earth's nuclear reactor, carbon-based life recycled through geological processes).
Where is it going?
Anywhere it'll fit.
Seems to me that unless we find a way of collecting solid Carbon again, we will eventually end up with an atmosphere like Mars or Venus.
Biology and geology had a nice thing going before we came along.
We should send these bacteria to replace the ones that are currently creating a Methane bubble the size of the USA in Siberia and Alaska. Liquid HydroCarbons are easier to store than gaseous ones.
Unnatural Gas
Wow. Brilliant!
Answer below ;-)
Hmmm. An Airbus might get into a low-pressure situation. I presume they know about this?
I think you're saying that the problem with BitTorrent is that people don't know how to use it. ;-)
This puts the onus on the authors of BitTorrent clients to build reasonable defaults in. Maybe something could be done with the protocol, too?
Seems to me that it's possible that a lot of people haven't got their heads around the concept of sharing yet; they aren't thinking about what happens to stuff after they download it. It's a bit like litter
First off, I'm very disappointed: I've been using Browser Sync along with Bookmark Duplicate Detector, "Add Bookmark Here" and Tab Mix Plus' extensions to do what I want with my bookmarks for the first time ever.
;-)
Weave had better be good.
I got thinking - why do none of the suggested alternatives use a P2P protocol to share bookmarks between client machines?
I can see it fitting in to the scenario quite nicely in the "always-on" world (and a bookmark-sharing thread need not be associated with the browser thread, it can be run as a service).
And if you want to store your stuff in a central server too, just allow it onto your network
Is it already out there?
I regard a company that repeatedly turns in huge profits - as is required of traded companies these days - as unhealthy. If it were a person, it would have a hormone problem or cancer. It's a parasite on the economy, living beyond its means. Well, in my opinion
Why do we need these huge profits again?
I mean, Cartman was the cameraman on the catamaran - he called himself "catamite" cos he's camera-shy.
I don't know what "catamite" is, didn't get your post, thought it was a question.
Cartman, of course :-)
Rice Patent (the story behind the second led me to this interesting brief.
Who's going to lend MS $20bn to buy a Web company?
Who's going to lend them $20bn to buy an advertising company in a recession?
- the understanding required to realise that they are being exploited (either through over-work, lack of training or a deliberately inefficient workflow being implemented in their workplace)
- the knowledge that will make another company want to hire them or allow them to work as an independent consultant
I noticed that you said that you will never work for free again, which suggests that you have been through some similar experience, as I have also (even as a contractor). I have always been willing to pay myself back time worked late on subsequent days (via shorter work days, longer breaks, etc. - nobody has given me grief doing it yet
In programming work, the most important point-of-failure is in your head: if you can't understand a problem, you can't fix it, so can't reasonably expect to be paid. I haven't grudged an employer hours I have spent educating myself, only hours spent trying to understand bad code that would not have existed if the employer knew what they wanted in the first place (some poor sod had to code features before a design - or even proper requirements - were supplied, which leads to spaghetti code, copy-n-paste errors, etc., then I come along and I have to fix it in the process of adding another feature).
Here's a link..
I've just realised we're way off-topic: this story was about Freenet!
Isn't it bizarre - everybody dies, yet most societies (and their sub-groups: religions, families) have an unhealthy attitude to death which rubs off on individuals (denial: my favourite line in Team America is "I promise I will never die"