"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" - Chico Marx dressed up as Groucho in "Duck Soup" (context information serves as anti-pedantry device).
Welchia is the only worm any computer of mine has ever had (I've had 0 viruses on my stuff, either).
Made my laptop unusable on the Internet (I was trying to work via dial-up modem)
It's also the only thing that rebooted my computer without asking me - until Windows XP Updates:-(
No thanks.
you would think that they, of all the news sites, might not report stuff like that , but they are. They're thinking ahead;-)
Douglas Adams reference, please:
it isn't like we'd be depriving someone of a meal. You are correct: it isn't like depriving someone of a meal, it's actually doing it.
But that's all right cos they hate the West anyway ;-)
Tell the PHB's that the code you write will be human-comprehensible (suggesting maintanability), then create code with tags like <obfus:rangeScopingUpperOrLowerBoundDefiningIntermediateParameterIndex> so that only you (or someone with a few weeks to train in) can maintain your code
Tell the PHB's that your code is interoperable while omitting the fact that it may take more logic to transform your XML so that it can "interoperate" than to generate it in the first place. More work for everyone!
Perform the same type of magic as DBAs: "the information you want is in there, you just need to know how to get it out"
More libraries = more bugs to work-around or fix
In spite of the above, I don't have an objection to XML as a data exchange format! It's particularly useful for wrapping data from a relational database.
I also do not object to the use of XML in config files. Done right, it's a good idea. Spring's pretty good. The handy thing about XML config files is that by validating the XML document, you are also validating the data in it, to a certain extent.
I can think of cool things to do with things like Apache Digester and XSLT (things that might reduce volumes of code created. The "Spring" influence again;-)
XML within a stand-alone application is useful for debug purposes (I'm thinking of the CAD example you gave): leaving it there smacks of laziness or time constraints;-)
XML over the Internet is obscene. How many servers have to copy vast Strings around in order to transfer a few bytes from point a to point b?
Seriously, someone should attempt to calculate how much energy is required to transport all those pointless extra characters around. I don't have the knowledge (and have time constraints;-) but recall a "scare" news report recently about how "non-green" the Internet is. I don't know if the study included calculations for AJAX or Web Services.
I started to read TFA. The logo wasn't a good omen but there was a chance that the article would be useful because there are some brilliant people working there.
I scanned the introduction and no point leapt out at me. Once I found that the first section, "Oneiromancy" began with a cheap swipe at Sun, I quit. Not out of any loyalty to Sun but because I then knew that the document was likely to be merely propoganda and marketing-speak. In other words, more bloat...
...how how gullible (desperate) the market is. They couldn't try SCO's stunts with their own stock but they will have noticed that simply making noise pumps stock price. There's good money in it, if you don't eventually have to pay legal fees;-)
I find it hard to believe that nobody in MS would allow this purchase to go ahead without pointing out that it's crazy - and probably impossible, legally. Therefore I cannot believe they are sincere about this plan.
MS can now spend a year reminding desperate traders about their grand plan.
Cleverest thing MS did: say that they would borrow most of the money for the purchase. If MS are borrowing money, then a company has enough faith in them - in the medium-to-long term - to lend it: an implied vote of confidence from a third party.
The role of government is not to line their citizens up to be ass-raped by business. Someone should have told them that a long time ago - that's what businesses think government is for;-)
There was a (brief) time when government regarded big business as a way of providing stable employment for citizens; those days are long gone. Corporations' function is once again maximum profit, disguised by the fact that this profit is promised to citizens in the form of pensions.
Corporations are now pretty much obliged to seek the cheapest staff in order to maximise profit, thus providing justification for oursourcing and short- or no-term employment contracts for citizens.
So the citizens are working longer hours with less job security and for less money.
Where's all the profit going? Pension funds - for the elite minority who have a pensionable job or can afford to keep up pension contributions out of their own pocket.
Products may not be a shareholder's best source of income, short-term (think SCO as an extreme example, Internet Explorer as a lesser one): in fact, customers are inconvenient because "free will" can allow them to purchase alternative products if they have the choice. Bulk orders and contracts are preferable.
Another example: Intellectual Property - very hard to keep in the hands of citizens, thanks to laws government currently supports.
I read the Wikipedia link:-)
If I understand it correctly, the most important thing about baby talk is the tone of voice and atmosphere.
I've heard stories of parents who used alternative vocabulary for baby talk: things like books, sports results, newspapers.
It's still gibberish to baby but allows the parent to multitask;-)
There are lots of things these scientsts don't know. Lots that they would admitthey don't know.
Realistically, they only way they're going to find out, with present levels of knowledge, what these things develop into is to let them grow.
They destroyed them after 6 days.
Not ready yet.
Actually, that's a definition for technology, isn't it? Something that isn't finished?
I know it's not a simple problem, that's why I suggested it. A voting system that is trustworthy over the Internet can surely be implemented over another topology, if required (and it might not be, from the technological standpoint, since these days you can bring the Internet to wherever you want, e.g. a central voting location).
...but no government aid in collection of fines. Let them spend all their money on lawyers trying to sue almost the entire population for more money than exists on Planet Earth. The music will still be there after they're gone.
$1.5M per home-made compilation is CD is a measure of how scared the suits who hired the RIAA are.
Thanks for the interestinglinks!
You're right, the article was misrepresented: the researchers were claiming to have experimental evidence that traits that survive tend to survive, basing this claim on a statistical analysis done with samples of what the nematode systems they studied had learnt over time;-)
Wonder how the final version will read? Hope they fix the typo.
He has been nicknamed "the fifth member" of the band. And I'm not getting them mixed-up with The Beatles;-)
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"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" - Chico Marx dressed up as Groucho in "Duck Soup" (context information serves as anti-pedantry device).
Welchia is the only worm any computer of mine has ever had (I've had 0 viruses on my stuff, either). :-(
Made my laptop unusable on the Internet (I was trying to work via dial-up modem)
It's also the only thing that rebooted my computer without asking me - until Windows XP Updates
No thanks.
Douglas Adams reference, please:
It's a big BBQ!
And you got FROSTY PISS - lucky you!
But that's all right cos they hate the West anyway
- Tell the PHB's that the code you write will be human-comprehensible (suggesting maintanability), then create code with tags like <obfus:rangeScopingUpperOrLowerBoundDefiningIntermediateParameterIndex> so that only you (or someone with a few weeks to train in) can maintain your code
- Tell the PHB's that your code is interoperable while omitting the fact that it may take more logic to transform your XML so that it can "interoperate" than to generate it in the first place. More work for everyone!
- Perform the same type of magic as DBAs: "the information you want is in there, you just need to know how to get it out"
- More libraries = more bugs to work-around or fix
In spite of the above, I don't have an objection to XML as a data exchange format! It's particularly useful for wrapping data from a relational database.I also do not object to the use of XML in config files. Done right, it's a good idea. Spring's pretty good. The handy thing about XML config files is that by validating the XML document, you are also validating the data in it, to a certain extent.
I can think of cool things to do with things like Apache Digester and XSLT (things that might reduce volumes of code created. The "Spring" influence again
XML within a stand-alone application is useful for debug purposes (I'm thinking of the CAD example you gave): leaving it there smacks of laziness or time constraints
XML over the Internet is obscene. How many servers have to copy vast Strings around in order to transfer a few bytes from point a to point b?
Seriously, someone should attempt to calculate how much energy is required to transport all those pointless extra characters around. I don't have the knowledge (and have time constraints
I started to read TFA. The logo wasn't a good omen but there was a chance that the article would be useful because there are some brilliant people working there.
I scanned the introduction and no point leapt out at me. Once I found that the first section, "Oneiromancy" began with a cheap swipe at Sun, I quit. Not out of any loyalty to Sun but because I then knew that the document was likely to be merely propoganda and marketing-speak. In other words, more bloat...
...how how gullible (desperate) the market is. They couldn't try SCO's stunts with their own stock but they will have noticed that simply making noise pumps stock price. There's good money in it, if you don't eventually have to pay legal fees ;-)
I find it hard to believe that nobody in MS would allow this purchase to go ahead without pointing out that it's crazy - and probably impossible, legally. Therefore I cannot believe they are sincere about this plan.
MS can now spend a year reminding desperate traders about their grand plan.
Cleverest thing MS did: say that they would borrow most of the money for the purchase. If MS are borrowing money, then a company has enough faith in them - in the medium-to-long term - to lend it: an implied vote of confidence from a third party.
There was a (brief) time when government regarded big business as a way of providing stable employment for citizens; those days are long gone. Corporations' function is once again maximum profit, disguised by the fact that this profit is promised to citizens in the form of pensions.
Corporations are now pretty much obliged to seek the cheapest staff in order to maximise profit, thus providing justification for oursourcing and short- or no-term employment contracts for citizens.
So the citizens are working longer hours with less job security and for less money.
Where's all the profit going? Pension funds - for the elite minority who have a pensionable job or can afford to keep up pension contributions out of their own pocket.
Products may not be a shareholder's best source of income, short-term (think SCO as an extreme example, Internet Explorer as a lesser one): in fact, customers are inconvenient because "free will" can allow them to purchase alternative products if they have the choice. Bulk orders and contracts are preferable.
Another example: Intellectual Property - very hard to keep in the hands of citizens, thanks to laws government currently supports.
Oh, sorry - this isn't the 90's ;-)
I read the Wikipedia link :-)
;-)
If I understand it correctly, the most important thing about baby talk is the tone of voice and atmosphere.
I've heard stories of parents who used alternative vocabulary for baby talk: things like books, sports results, newspapers.
It's still gibberish to baby but allows the parent to multitask
Funny, Insightful, whatever - c'mon, something positive for parent please :-)
There are lots of things these scientsts don't know. Lots that they would admit they don't know.
Realistically, they only way they're going to find out, with present levels of knowledge, what these things develop into is to let them grow.
They destroyed them after 6 days.
Not ready yet.
Actually, that's a definition for technology, isn't it? Something that isn't finished?
...other peoples' money ;-)
...only the other way around :-)
I know it's not a simple problem, that's why I suggested it. A voting system that is trustworthy over the Internet can surely be implemented over another topology, if required (and it might not be, from the technological standpoint, since these days you can bring the Internet to wherever you want, e.g. a central voting location).
...but no government aid in collection of fines. Let them spend all their money on lawyers trying to sue almost the entire population for more money than exists on Planet Earth. The music will still be there after they're gone.
$1.5M per home-made compilation is CD is a measure of how scared the suits who hired the RIAA are.
...until they can do it over the Internet.
... just not nerdy enough to get into the main list on this site.
Perfect case for a tag, no?
Thanks for the interesting links! ;-)
You're right, the article was misrepresented: the researchers were claiming to have experimental evidence that traits that survive tend to survive, basing this claim on a statistical analysis done with samples of what the nematode systems they studied had learnt over time
And, hot off the presses (well, I saw the headline on TV about 8 hours ago): jump-start your memory.
Slashdot story to follow in 2 hrs...
Wonder how the final version will read? ;-)
Hope they fix the typo.
He has been nicknamed "the fifth member" of the band. And I'm not getting them mixed-up with The Beatles
Hmmm. Are media studies statistics on the rise?