There is an interesting article in the current issue of The Atlantic (sorry, the actual article is not freely available online) that details the gun trade around the world. Quite interesting to see how insurgents and terrorists around the world are armed by legal, high volume gun purchases in small-time US gun shops (illegally exported, though). It's just really, really easy to buy guns in the US. Weapons like the sniper's Bushmaster were designed, of course, just for that market.
that's because open requires the -a option to indicate the name of the application to launch. do man open. Two comments: you don't need the full path to the application, and it's best practice to use single quotes for urls (in general):
This reminds me something I read a long time ago: Knowledge Crash. Science progresses. It takes more and more time to reach the bleeding edge of science and improve on it. In the beginning of the century, you could write Nobel-prize class papers at 20. Now, you need to be a little bit older. Eventually, to improve on science, you will need a life-long study.
Now, now, now. Einsteins are born, not made through study. Vannevar Bush shared your concern, though
Khun disputes the very idea that science makes progress. Real advancements - the paradigm shifts - are most often stimulated by the young, because of their youth and naivete, not in spite of it. Knowledge has very little to do with it. In 1905, Universities were full of quite brilliant and far more knowledgeable people than Einstein. Nobody knows what creativity really is and where scientific magicians get their inspiration. It's certainly not mountains of books.
yeah, a niche, but there still is potential for nearly everyone to use it, on contrast to, say, a niche like cemetery management software.
by the way, my personal opinion of speech recognition is that for the rest of us (beside people like the writer in question) its usefulness is limited to STOP!... but on the other hand, the idea of scripting my computer with a tape recorder (of speech commands) is just... way too cool to contemplate.
Nothing beats a well orchestrated and well executed plan - i.e., a written and documented plan. If software specifications are not worth formalizing on paper - it isn't worth creating.
LOL!
Just for the record, I've seen several times when the world changed more than once during the specification/requirements process. Result: the wrong thing gets built, or nothing gets built since it is too late. Sometimes timing is everything, and when that's the case, the only thing that matters is working software - and it really doesn't matter how you get there. If it's your small company on the line, it's a matter of survival. Good luck!
No, that's what billg really looks like ever since the pie incident... notice he looks a bit fatter in recent years - that's the makeup fx covering it all up.
No, no, no... cost is not the issue. Control is the real issue. There should not be any doubt that Linux or some other open source OS will run many "business desktops" ---- eventually (key word.. could be a long time). No doubt whatsoever. What critical features, in all honesty, will Office 2020 bring us? Nothing. Zero. Will anyone, anywhere have a really damn good open source alternative? Duh. Duh. Duh. Microsoft is dead and they know it. Their only weapon now is legal and political (look for lots of "innovation" in this area). This is why they are doing DRM and all the control-oriented stuff. It's not about fighting warez and whatnot. They need to keep people addicted to Windows. They need to find a way to force people to upgrade. Or they die. That's the trouble with having 95% marketshare - you can really only go down.
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Yeah. Mere coders shouldn't be reading books like this, lest they risk being distracted by a glimpse the big picture.
What I'm saying is, why bother with advances toward photorealism such as hair simulation and advanced underwater effects if every one of your characters is designed to look like a stuffed animal or 3d rendering of a Disney character?
Yeah. And those voices and sound effects - they sound so realistic, juxtaposed to the obviously computer generated stuffed animals...
There will be a different background for every different position from which you view the object.
Yep. But picture this: the tank is rolling by. It's got a camo pattern on it. But the pattern appears to be staying still as the tank moves forward, making it harder to discern. how? the nanotech paint changes the position of the pattern according to the speed at which the tank is moving. I think that's about as close to "invisibility" as one could get.
I heard they just implemented a quantum NOT operation. That puts quantum computing at what, 1940? Maybe by 2010 they'll have quantum drum storage. Anyone know if Mel is still around?
We all tried that in the late nineties. Unfortunately, now is not the time for revolution.
One of the points of the article, though, is what works is what works, regardless of theory, opinion, ideology. Postmodernism is postideology. Perl, as given by example, is a collection of what didn't suck in other languages (maybe kinda like one of those "best of" martial arts in suburban strip malls) rather than an expression of a single point of view or theory, like LISP or SmallTalk. SmallTalk, for example, says Everything Is An Object, even Classes. And you can imagine Alan Kay thinking - hmm, if objects are instances of classes, and classes are objects, what are classes instances of? And wringing his hands until one day he bumps his head and says metaclasses! Dude! like, totally Modern!
So the bottom line is, I have no advice for you. But if they move your desk into the basement, burn down the building.
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There is an interesting article in the current issue of The Atlantic (sorry, the actual article is not freely available online) that details the gun trade around the world. Quite interesting to see how insurgents and terrorists around the world are armed by legal, high volume gun purchases in small-time US gun shops (illegally exported, though). It's just really, really easy to buy guns in the US. Weapons like the sniper's Bushmaster were designed, of course, just for that market.
hooray! more ads!
And they won't be impressed. they'll ask: what's snow?
when I started college, all we had were labs full of z29 and wyse terminals. and we liked it. so there.
open -a Mozilla.app 'http://apple.slashdot.org/'
Yes, it will be a great propoganda tool. I wonder now what microsoft.kids.us will be like.
Now, now, now. Einsteins are born, not made through study. Vannevar Bush shared your concern, though Khun disputes the very idea that science makes progress. Real advancements - the paradigm shifts - are most often stimulated by the young, because of their youth and naivete, not in spite of it. Knowledge has very little to do with it. In 1905, Universities were full of quite brilliant and far more knowledgeable people than Einstein. Nobody knows what creativity really is and where scientific magicians get their inspiration. It's certainly not mountains of books.
by the way, my personal opinion of speech recognition is that for the rest of us (beside people like the writer in question) its usefulness is limited to STOP!... but on the other hand, the idea of scripting my computer with a tape recorder (of speech commands) is just... way too cool to contemplate.
No, it's the lack of cheese in their diet
Nothing beats a well orchestrated and well executed plan - i.e., a written and documented plan. If software specifications are not worth formalizing on paper - it isn't worth creating.
LOL!
Just for the record, I've seen several times when the world changed more than once during the specification/requirements process. Result: the wrong thing gets built, or nothing gets built since it is too late. Sometimes timing is everything, and when that's the case, the only thing that matters is working software - and it really doesn't matter how you get there. If it's your small company on the line, it's a matter of survival. Good luck!
Seeing that at MIT is fine - seeing that in the mall is another story. And I'll take technozombies over warmongering any day.
No, that's what billg really looks like ever since the pie incident... notice he looks a bit fatter in recent years - that's the makeup fx covering it all up.
No, no, no... cost is not the issue. Control is the real issue. There should not be any doubt that Linux or some other open source OS will run many "business desktops" ---- eventually (key word.. could be a long time). No doubt whatsoever. What critical features, in all honesty, will Office 2020 bring us? Nothing. Zero. Will anyone, anywhere have a really damn good open source alternative? Duh. Duh. Duh. Microsoft is dead and they know it. Their only weapon now is legal and political (look for lots of "innovation" in this area). This is why they are doing DRM and all the control-oriented stuff. It's not about fighting warez and whatnot. They need to keep people addicted to Windows. They need to find a way to force people to upgrade. Or they die. That's the trouble with having 95% marketshare - you can really only go down.
Yeah. Mere coders shouldn't be reading books like this, lest they risk being distracted by a glimpse the big picture.
I've this or another comment like it posted a lot recently.
Yeah. And those voices and sound effects - they sound so realistic, juxtaposed to the obviously computer generated stuffed animals...
I think I have order-of-operation bugs in my house. They are best avoided, that's for certain.
Perl || die
Yep. But picture this: the tank is rolling by. It's got a camo pattern on it. But the pattern appears to be staying still as the tank moves forward, making it harder to discern. how? the nanotech paint changes the position of the pattern according to the speed at which the tank is moving. I think that's about as close to "invisibility" as one could get.
Really? Y'know, ever since Apple broke their "Apple II Forever" promise, I guess anything could happen.
A merger brings the dream closer?
Credit unions often use commercial credit-union-in-a-box software. The big banks write it all from scratch. So it ain't necessarily so.
I heard they just implemented a quantum NOT operation. That puts quantum computing at what, 1940? Maybe by 2010 they'll have quantum drum storage. Anyone know if Mel is still around?
We all tried that in the late nineties. Unfortunately, now is not the time for revolution.
One of the points of the article, though, is what works is what works, regardless of theory, opinion, ideology. Postmodernism is postideology. Perl, as given by example, is a collection of what didn't suck in other languages (maybe kinda like one of those "best of" martial arts in suburban strip malls) rather than an expression of a single point of view or theory, like LISP or SmallTalk. SmallTalk, for example, says Everything Is An Object, even Classes. And you can imagine Alan Kay thinking - hmm, if objects are instances of classes, and classes are objects, what are classes instances of? And wringing his hands until one day he bumps his head and says metaclasses! Dude! like, totally Modern!
So the bottom line is, I have no advice for you. But if they move your desk into the basement, burn down the building.
In the current global political climate, pre-modern computing techniques may come in handy one day...