We probably have one of the most targeted networks on the internet today, and we take full advantage of that. Do you think that we let the type of data that we're able to collect and log just go to waste? I don't;-)
It seems to me that if you hacker folk want this guy to fail you should just ignore him. Otherwise he'll be able to continue feeding off your anger. He can only benefit from being labeled, "the most hated figure in the hacker community."
Interesting story. But the end was the best. You're just reading along about frivolous stuff, the WHAM, moral commentary. That was a great "reel 'em in then sucker punch 'em" routine to get his message out...
I can't believe this troll has been moderated up, to "Interesting" no less!
His argument is:
1) The world changes, so Java will become obsolete,
and
2) Java changes, so your code will become obsolete.
These two statements don't just apply to Java, but to all programming languages! Show me a programming language that does not have these qualities...
And the last two paragraphs are pure arrogance. "...you should check the content of your skull for contamination by animal defecation"? What an "Interesting" statement.
With XML you can create a page with the content, then create style sheets (XSL) that display the content differently for different platforms. A site created with XML could adjust to new regulations merely by adding or modifying one file...
Using Hubble's visible-light and infrared cameras to penetrate deep into the cores of the galaxies, astronomers were able to untangle the stars' true colors -- a measure of age -- from their apparent colors, which are made redder by interstellar dust.
What ever happened to the red shift? I thought distant stellar objects appeared redder because they were speeding away from us at a speed siginificantly near the speed of light. What gives?
Before you dismiss the issues in this article as "pop-science" I suggest you do a little reading. Did you know that there is current research on a genetic marker for Autism? Hardly pseudo science.
The interesting thing about genetic disorders is that they can be present in degrees. These degrees are often not clear cut. Say a disorder is caused by the presence of five genes, the combination of all creating the disorder. If someone only possess some of the five genes that person may display all of the symptoms, (to a lesser degree) some of the symptoms, none of them (a carrier) or some state in between. Speculation in this vein concerning autism (and Asperger's Syndrome) is not pseudo science. It is well within the realm of possibility.
Granted, the dangers you state are valid, and our society is going to have to face them as we delve more deeply into our genetic structure. But to ignore the science just because it's potentially dangerous is like putting your head in the sand. It's not going away just because you don't like it.
konstant, why don't you read the "Shadow Syndromes" book before you say it's bullshit? It's your geekly duty to be _informed_ before trashing a concept... Besides, it's an excellent book (yes, I've read it) and contains many insights into other behaviors, not just geekliness.
That may be how _you_ operate as contractor (writing code that is just "good enough"), but that's not how all contractors work. I'm a contractor, and I always try to make my code maintainable and clean. You don't have to be an employee to have integrity.
...when I blew up the pic to use it as my wallpaper. Check out the middle right edge of the shadow. There's what appears to be a perfect circle that's got to be hundereds of miles in diameter. What the heck is it? Or is it just an artifact of the pic? (It would be a strange artifact if it were.)
It looks like I'll be able to get into space eventually. At the rate things were going I thought I'd be well into heart attack age before cheap space travel came about. Happy, happy, Happy! Joy, joy, joy!
> Archetypes are the bad ideas generally recycled > by third rate intellectuals
Well then I guess you'd have to put George Lucas into that category. Lucas follows Joseph Campbell and Campbell followed Carl Jung. (inventor of the term "archetype") Now, you can call Jung (or Campbell, for that matter) a "third rate intellectual," but I'd like to see you back that one up...
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Oops. Can I say "I only read half of the story and posted like a dumbshit?" I knew I could!:-)
So I look at the comments that are rated as a 2 or higher (10 of them at the moment) and 6 of them are about the GPL license! Can we say "moderate on topic?" I knew you could!
"I wonder if there is a coorelation between that phenomena and open source? Would bands of programmers push an implementation/solution if it promised more exposure or jobs even though it was a faulty solution?"
I find the article you cite hard to swallow, especially the idea that we process data at the rate of two bits per second. I memorized the sentence "Visual, verbal, musical, or whatever--two bits per second" in about a second, and that's WAY more than two bits in any reasonable encoding scheme...
I find the article you cire hard to swallow, especially the idea that we process data at the rate of two bits per second. I memorized the sentence "Visual, verbal, musical, or whatever--two bits per second" in about a second, and that's WAY more than two bits in any reasonable encoding scheme...
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We probably have one of the most targeted networks
on the internet today, and we take full advantage of that. Do you think that we let the type of data that we're able to collect and log
just go to waste? I don't
It seems to me that if you hacker folk want this guy to fail you should just ignore him. Otherwise he'll be able to continue feeding off your anger. He can only benefit from being labeled, "the most hated figure in the hacker community."
Interesting story. But the end was the best. You're just reading along about frivolous stuff, the WHAM, moral commentary. That was a great "reel 'em in then sucker punch 'em" routine to get his message out...
I can't believe this troll has been moderated up, to "Interesting" no less!
His argument is:
1) The world changes, so Java will become obsolete,
and
2) Java changes, so your code will become obsolete.
These two statements don't just apply to Java, but to all programming languages! Show me a programming language that does not have these qualities...
And the last two paragraphs are pure arrogance. "...you should check the content of your skull for contamination by animal defecation"? What an "Interesting" statement.
With XML you can create a page with the content, then create style sheets (XSL) that display the content differently for different platforms. A site created with XML could adjust to new regulations merely by adding or modifying one file...
Check out Janine M. Benyus' book _Biomimicry_ for more info on this kind of stuff.
Using Hubble's visible-light and infrared cameras to penetrate deep into the cores of the galaxies, astronomers were able to untangle the stars' true colors -- a measure of age -- from their apparent colors, which are made redder by interstellar dust.
What ever happened to the red shift? I thought distant stellar objects appeared redder because they were speeding away from us at a speed siginificantly near the speed of light. What gives?
Before you dismiss the issues in this article as "pop-science" I suggest you do a little reading. Did you know that there is current research on a genetic marker for Autism? Hardly pseudo science.
The interesting thing about genetic disorders is that they can be present in degrees. These degrees are often not clear cut. Say a disorder is caused by the presence of five genes, the combination of all creating the disorder. If someone only possess some of the five genes that person may display all of the symptoms, (to a lesser degree) some of the symptoms, none of them (a carrier) or some state in between. Speculation in this vein concerning autism (and Asperger's Syndrome) is not pseudo science. It is well within the realm of possibility.
Granted, the dangers you state are valid, and our society is going to have to face them as we delve more deeply into our genetic structure. But to ignore the science just because it's potentially dangerous is like putting your head in the sand. It's not going away just because you don't like it.
konstant, why don't you read the "Shadow Syndromes" book before you say it's bullshit? It's your geekly duty to be _informed_ before trashing a concept... Besides, it's an excellent book (yes, I've read it) and contains many insights into other behaviors, not just geekliness.
That may be how _you_ operate as contractor (writing code that is just "good enough"), but that's not how all contractors work. I'm a contractor, and I always try to make my code maintainable and clean. You don't have to be an employee to have integrity.
...when I blew up the pic to use it as my wallpaper. Check out the middle right edge of the shadow. There's what appears to be a perfect circle that's got to be hundereds of miles in diameter. What the heck is it? Or is it just an artifact of the pic? (It would be a strange artifact if it were.)
The people at Future Focus (http://www.futurefocus.org/) should be able to answer many questions...
It looks like I'll be able to get into space eventually. At the rate things were going I thought I'd be well into heart attack age before cheap space travel came about. Happy, happy, Happy! Joy, joy, joy!
What the original poster is talking about is a massive sky hook, I think, which isn't a loop. Check out the link.
Heck, the transfer rate is 8x the size of my first hard drive!
Well, it's a good thing I'd already started on that FORTH port for Be! :-)
It's easy to inherit the earth. Say you're making a parallel worlds program:
public class Earth extends Planet{}
public class DC_Comics_Earth extends Earth {}
public class Marvel_Comics_Earth extends Earth {}
So, if you inherit the earth, that automatically makes you a geek!
Well, I'll be. Someone who had more time to spare than I did!
Perfect Score in Gauntlet? Probably not possible. Tho' I tried... Eight hours on one quarter, once. Ah, to be 11 during the summer again...
> Archetypes are the bad ideas generally recycled
> by third rate intellectuals
Well then I guess you'd have to put George Lucas into that category. Lucas follows Joseph Campbell and Campbell followed Carl Jung. (inventor of the term "archetype") Now, you can call Jung (or Campbell, for that matter) a "third rate intellectual," but I'd like to see you back that one up...
Oops. Can I say "I only read half of the story and posted like a dumbshit?" I knew I could! :-)
Removing comments is EASY, ac. Brush up on your regular expressions...
So I look at the comments that are rated as a 2 or higher (10 of them at the moment) and 6 of them are about the GPL license! Can we say "moderate on topic?" I knew you could!
"I wonder if there is a coorelation between that phenomena and open source? Would bands of programmers push an implementation/solution if it promised more exposure or jobs even though it was a faulty solution?"
$ounds $trangely like Micro$oft...
I find the article you cite hard to swallow, especially the idea that we process data at the rate of two bits per second. I memorized the sentence "Visual, verbal, musical, or whatever--two bits per second" in about a second, and that's WAY more than two bits in any reasonable encoding scheme...
I find the article you cire hard to swallow, especially the idea that we process data at the rate of two bits per second. I memorized the sentence "Visual, verbal, musical, or whatever--two bits per second" in about a second, and that's WAY more than two bits in any reasonable encoding scheme...