https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is dead, sorry. But he is a very powerful magician, so he might not be, something like Schrodinger's Cat but with Satanism instead of Quantum. They both end with 'm', so there are sympathetic vibrations.
Thank you, you are so right. Programming is fun, not just for some notional neckbearded priesthood. Yes, if one needs to do something 'serious' (avionics, billing SCADA) the approach must be more rigorous (looking at recent electric grid exploits, apparently that's not true of SCADA, in fact), but kids don't normally do that. It's a 'way in'.
Do not be ashamed! Spent a lot of time in the late 1970's/early '80s with a Teletype 33 copying out 'Hunt the Wumpus' into a Honeywell-Bull Level 64 mainframe.
It made me the person I am today, living alone in a basement, no friends, paint-stripper breath, three days beard and a very annoying pedantic way of talking. What, exactly, is not to like? We need to form a club, except that I don't get out very much.
Yes, please do, we can do without Modelez, Goldman Sachs (et al.), Monsanto, KFC, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Spire Health, Dollar Financial Group (payday loans) and the NFL. Close the door on your way out, thank you.
We effete Europeans have found the solution, don't travel to the USA. This is not criticism of the 'people' who are usually generous and friendly (though a little weaponised for our wimpy UK tastes) but government and big business really need fixing. Perhaps we could put on our red coats and invade? Then swap all these guns, paranoia etc. for cucumber sandwiches, with the crusts cut off and a little pepper and vinegar. Cricket is good, too.
For older people who do know this song and young'uns who need to become acquainted with it, and, indeed, the whole of his canon: https://youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A Happy Whatever.
I'm not sure why this has been modded 'troll'? Perhaps by hard core Objectivists, are you there Ayn?
Taxes repair the roads that Apple et al. use, the schools that educate Apple's future employees, the police that protect shiny Apple stores from being looted, the hospitals (in Europe, until TTIP imposed anyway) etc. etc. So hard code tax avoidance is an economic externality for society. Warren Buffett said that, pretty much and I agree.
I've some sympathy with the conflict between fiduciary duty to 'maximise shareholder value' and this, but, for example Facebook paid about £4k last year in the UK on profits of zillions. Starbucks (that purveyor of expensive brown shit-juice) made a 'voluntary' payment of £20m, nice if we could make 'voluntary' payments. Cadbury and Nestle, no better.
The provisional solution is name, shame and boycott. I don't use Facebook, Amazon (just a little), Cadburys (chocolate is now foul USA-style soap after Mondelez takeover, anyway) and I don't see why anyone would pay £2.50 and up for brown slop in Starbucks.
This isn't anti-USA BTW, but US corporations are in the forefront of bad behaviour in this area.
Nope, wish it was, but it's part of the original university but for mature students (that will let you guess, begins with B). I offered to do a couple of talks, read through the syllabus (to make sure I wasn't duplicating) and was disappointed/appalled. Same thing for (admittedly, sample of one) MSc guy I talked to, not masters level 'stuff'. I expect/hope UCL etc. is a lot better.
Yes, in the UK, the big suppliers are elbowing their way into this, too. I am a volunteer and, as such, attended a Google education presentation where 'everything is free and stored in the cloud'. Then the BBC, which should be independent are cooperating with Microsoft on the abysmal 'micro-bit', who have also shoehorned a version of Windows 10 in the newest Pi.
Actual computer science is giving way to 'pseudo certification' even in the part of London university where I am studying. Ironically, though I'm a student in another department, I'm about to give some extra-curricular talks to try and balance things. The trouble is 'coding' is now a hysterical trend for politicians who don't have much idea what it is, so it's being subverted by the 'usual suspects' who are also big government suppliers. Ah, bliss!
The intertubes has become the haunted goldfish bowl. Personally, I think we should 'leave' port 80/443 and start somewhere else, but how long before that gets filled up with pictures of cats and Donald Trump too? Oh, despair...
Yes, that both the blessing and the curse at the same time. I have an Android TV stick that I can SSH into from my phone, but I hate all the 'Androidiness' + unknown bits that 'may' steal date. Currently I have a PI attached to my TV, web server, xrdp available in the house and that's fine. However I would like to see a pre-packaged, easy to use Linux stick or mini-PC.
Absolutely. I'm in my 60's now, and remember that IBM had a grip on the mainframe market renting expensive extra memory for each bit of bloated software (sound familiar?). All the manufacturers were mutually incompatible too until Amdahl and the plug-compatibles arrived, this and the IBM anti-trust finished the game.
Second, (I believe) they invented functional pricing, something that was enthusiastically adopted by ICL (the British manufacturer), a 300 line per minute printer is the same hardware-wise as a 600 lpm, except for one resistor (say) and the rental price.
So Gates had some good teachers, as do Apple (incompatibility and difficulty of repair, but oh-so-shiny), Android (what use are 'apps', except for customer/data capture?) etc. etc. Linux, BSD are pieces of serious 'liberation', it would be well to appreciate that. Happy whatever.
Yes, thanks, La Corneuve is a long way from the Mairie de Montreuil. This is my old department, le neuf-trois, an epicentre of fun and disorder. Not surprised that the populace are being subjected to something that wouldn't be acceptable in 75016 or 75008 for example.
More to the point, Montreuil is full of poor people, some of them communists (it used to have a communist mairie, as I recall?), so they can **** off.
I would guess the people in work are probably on shifts as well, so they won't want the rattle of AC and possibly standby generators. However 'industry' usually wins these things now, as in the UK and aircraft noise. If it's 'growth' we now no longer care about quality of life. Sad that this attitude has come to France, but it's on the edge of Paris, not really 'la France profonde'.
Yes agree. Been using since early 2000s, now on Linux Mint.
Now back in university and Libre Office has trashed my footnotes because they want essays in 'Word format'. This is the kind of thing that slows/stops adoption, confusion with 'Microsoft' and 'standard'. That and, to be fair, I still use Windows for music projects.
Meanwhile my desktop runs sweetly on an ancient clunker with about £80 and I'm 'thinking about' changing it this year. No upgrades etc. this, in itself, gives a much better eco-footprint, No, it's far from perfect, but it's pretty good. The 'innovation' is [hopefully] the shift in attitudes.
Actually, to be clear, that's a valid use-case and I don't mind otherwise I'll emulate Hilary and run my own mail server. My concern is requests [for example, low value on-line shopping] that do not need it, yet ask for it. In general things that go let's see how much personal data we can get from this idiot.
Agree. I've been around computing since 1976 and the intertubes since it moved steadily out of academia into the 'world'. I've proposed a couple of times, half seriously, that we just choose another couple of ports and 'leave' the 2015 web to Coca-Cola, Facebook [of which many people believe that IS the web] etc. etc.
I've noticed that every commercial web 'strategy' tries to maximise supplied user information. For example, I don't want to reveal my mobile number [it's usually switched off or in the kitchen drawer anyway, I'm old] so I put 99999 etc. in that field, unless I feel it's really necessary. I tick/untick the 'supply information to third parties and receive offers from third parties boxes'. I am on the mail preference list and telephone preference list in the UK, very little or no junk mail or robocalls. I'm with a cooperative that supplies telephone and broadband, not one of the big commercials. I've started using a lot of cash again, just to annoy anything that's datamining my shopping habits.
I'm aware that all this is somewhat quixotic and minimal, but it's better than inaction.
One last thing join where something = something-else is a powerful enemy, phone number, email address etc. and we don't really know who's doing that, on which set of databases and where. But 'they' [I don't necessarily mean NSA, could be Walmart, ASDA in the UK] are doing it. Maximise shareholder value baby and fuck your bratty whiny protests about 'privacy'.
Google which dominates the search/ad market can do this by itself, without my help.
Also, looking at the analysis here: http://www.cnet.com/news/world...
Open source is simply part of its strategy for distributing software that will help it sell more advertising
This is part of a general trend that I call 'open season', basically big companies persuading naive people to do their work for nothing, under the banner 'open source'.
I'm one of the people that made [immediately ignored, of course] submissions to the smart meter survey in the UK. In it, I suggested that they supply a 'customer side' data feed, probably the most 'obvious' would be RJ45 and ethernet, USB + Wifi probably fine as well. That would permit some useful modeling/analysis etc. to take place for the benefit of the consumer, rather than Telefonica [et al.] snarfing up the data and using it to gamble on energy futures/sell it to other people.
There are a set of other 'dangers' too, predatory on-demand pricing, immediate sanction for non payment, privacy breaches and police monitoring. Conclusion smart meters are not for 'us', they are for 'them'.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is dead, sorry. But he is a very powerful magician, so he might not be, something like Schrodinger's Cat but with Satanism instead of Quantum. They both end with 'm', so there are sympathetic vibrations.
Thank you, you are so right. Programming is fun, not just for some notional neckbearded priesthood. Yes, if one needs to do something 'serious' (avionics, billing SCADA) the approach must be more rigorous (looking at recent electric grid exploits, apparently that's not true of SCADA, in fact), but kids don't normally do that. It's a 'way in'.
Do not be ashamed! Spent a lot of time in the late 1970's/early '80s with a Teletype 33 copying out 'Hunt the Wumpus' into a Honeywell-Bull Level 64 mainframe.
It made me the person I am today, living alone in a basement, no friends, paint-stripper breath, three days beard and a very annoying pedantic way of talking. What, exactly, is not to like? We need to form a club, except that I don't get out very much.
Yes, please do, we can do without Modelez, Goldman Sachs (et al.), Monsanto, KFC, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Spire Health, Dollar Financial Group (payday loans) and the NFL. Close the door on your way out, thank you.
My pleasure. My family loved him, great singer/writer and excellent maths guy as well.
We effete Europeans have found the solution, don't travel to the USA. This is not criticism of the 'people' who are usually generous and friendly (though a little weaponised for our wimpy UK tastes) but government and big business really need fixing. Perhaps we could put on our red coats and invade? Then swap all these guns, paranoia etc. for cucumber sandwiches, with the crusts cut off and a little pepper and vinegar. Cricket is good, too.
For older people who do know this song and young'uns who need to become acquainted with it, and, indeed, the whole of his canon: https://youtu.be/gXlfXirQF3A Happy Whatever.
I'm not sure why this has been modded 'troll'? Perhaps by hard core Objectivists, are you there Ayn?
Taxes repair the roads that Apple et al. use, the schools that educate Apple's future employees, the police that protect shiny Apple stores from being looted, the hospitals (in Europe, until TTIP imposed anyway) etc. etc. So hard code tax avoidance is an economic externality for society. Warren Buffett said that, pretty much and I agree.
I've some sympathy with the conflict between fiduciary duty to 'maximise shareholder value' and this, but, for example Facebook paid about £4k last year in the UK on profits of zillions. Starbucks (that purveyor of expensive brown shit-juice) made a 'voluntary' payment of £20m, nice if we could make 'voluntary' payments. Cadbury and Nestle, no better.
The provisional solution is name, shame and boycott. I don't use Facebook, Amazon (just a little), Cadburys (chocolate is now foul USA-style soap after Mondelez takeover, anyway) and I don't see why anyone would pay £2.50 and up for brown slop in Starbucks.
This isn't anti-USA BTW, but US corporations are in the forefront of bad behaviour in this area.
Nope, wish it was, but it's part of the original university but for mature students (that will let you guess, begins with B). I offered to do a couple of talks, read through the syllabus (to make sure I wasn't duplicating) and was disappointed/appalled. Same thing for (admittedly, sample of one) MSc guy I talked to, not masters level 'stuff'. I expect/hope UCL etc. is a lot better.
Yes, in the UK, the big suppliers are elbowing their way into this, too. I am a volunteer and, as such, attended a Google education presentation where 'everything is free and stored in the cloud'. Then the BBC, which should be independent are cooperating with Microsoft on the abysmal 'micro-bit', who have also shoehorned a version of Windows 10 in the newest Pi.
Actual computer science is giving way to 'pseudo certification' even in the part of London university where I am studying. Ironically, though I'm a student in another department, I'm about to give some extra-curricular talks to try and balance things. The trouble is 'coding' is now a hysterical trend for politicians who don't have much idea what it is, so it's being subverted by the 'usual suspects' who are also big government suppliers. Ah, bliss!
At its current strength. Thank you.
Sorry, only just saw this, it was tractor fed from the mid 70s probably into the 80s. ICL branded.
The intertubes has become the haunted goldfish bowl. Personally, I think we should 'leave' port 80/443 and start somewhere else, but how long before that gets filled up with pictures of cats and Donald Trump too? Oh, despair...
Yes, that both the blessing and the curse at the same time. I have an Android TV stick that I can SSH into from my phone, but I hate all the 'Androidiness' + unknown bits that 'may' steal date. Currently I have a PI attached to my TV, web server, xrdp available in the house and that's fine. However I would like to see a pre-packaged, easy to use Linux stick or mini-PC.
Absolutely. I'm in my 60's now, and remember that IBM had a grip on the mainframe market renting expensive extra memory for each bit of bloated software (sound familiar?). All the manufacturers were mutually incompatible too until Amdahl and the plug-compatibles arrived, this and the IBM anti-trust finished the game.
Second, (I believe) they invented functional pricing, something that was enthusiastically adopted by ICL (the British manufacturer), a 300 line per minute printer is the same hardware-wise as a 600 lpm, except for one resistor (say) and the rental price.
So Gates had some good teachers, as do Apple (incompatibility and difficulty of repair, but oh-so-shiny), Android (what use are 'apps', except for customer/data capture?) etc. etc. Linux, BSD are pieces of serious 'liberation', it would be well to appreciate that. Happy whatever.
Yes, thanks, La Corneuve is a long way from the Mairie de Montreuil. This is my old department, le neuf-trois, an epicentre of fun and disorder. Not surprised that the populace are being subjected to something that wouldn't be acceptable in 75016 or 75008 for example.
More to the point, Montreuil is full of poor people, some of them communists (it used to have a communist mairie, as I recall?), so they can **** off.
I would guess the people in work are probably on shifts as well, so they won't want the rattle of AC and possibly standby generators. However 'industry' usually wins these things now, as in the UK and aircraft noise. If it's 'growth' we now no longer care about quality of life. Sad that this attitude has come to France, but it's on the edge of Paris, not really 'la France profonde'.
Yes agree. Been using since early 2000s, now on Linux Mint.
Now back in university and Libre Office has trashed my footnotes because they want essays in 'Word format'. This is the kind of thing that slows/stops adoption, confusion with 'Microsoft' and 'standard'. That and, to be fair, I still use Windows for music projects.
Meanwhile my desktop runs sweetly on an ancient clunker with about £80 and I'm 'thinking about' changing it this year. No upgrades etc. this, in itself, gives a much better eco-footprint, No, it's far from perfect, but it's pretty good. The 'innovation' is [hopefully] the shift in attitudes.
I'm expecting a few cans of baked beans or sweet corn, if I spend a certain amount on storage and VMs each month.
Attempts to find Meaning in 40 Years of UK Political Debate. Good luck with that. The answer isn't even 42, it's probably 'Punch and Judy'.
Actually, to be clear, that's a valid use-case and I don't mind otherwise I'll emulate Hilary and run my own mail server. My concern is requests [for example, low value on-line shopping] that do not need it, yet ask for it. In general things that go let's see how much personal data we can get from this idiot.
Agree. I've been around computing since 1976 and the intertubes since it moved steadily out of academia into the 'world'. I've proposed a couple of times, half seriously, that we just choose another couple of ports and 'leave' the 2015 web to Coca-Cola, Facebook [of which many people believe that IS the web] etc. etc.
I've noticed that every commercial web 'strategy' tries to maximise supplied user information. For example, I don't want to reveal my mobile number [it's usually switched off or in the kitchen drawer anyway, I'm old] so I put 99999 etc. in that field, unless I feel it's really necessary. I tick/untick the 'supply information to third parties and receive offers from third parties boxes'. I am on the mail preference list and telephone preference list in the UK, very little or no junk mail or robocalls. I'm with a cooperative that supplies telephone and broadband, not one of the big commercials. I've started using a lot of cash again, just to annoy anything that's datamining my shopping habits.
I'm aware that all this is somewhat quixotic and minimal, but it's better than inaction.
One last thing join where something = something-else is a powerful enemy, phone number, email address etc. and we don't really know who's doing that, on which set of databases and where. But 'they' [I don't necessarily mean NSA, could be Walmart, ASDA in the UK] are doing it. Maximise shareholder value baby and fuck your bratty whiny protests about 'privacy'.
This is part of a general trend that I call 'open season', basically big companies persuading naive people to do their work for nothing, under the banner 'open source'.
ODR sounds very like overlays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... used in the 1970s on mainframes. Back to the future.
I'm one of the people that made [immediately ignored, of course] submissions to the smart meter survey in the UK. In it, I suggested that they supply a 'customer side' data feed, probably the most 'obvious' would be RJ45 and ethernet, USB + Wifi probably fine as well. That would permit some useful modeling/analysis etc. to take place for the benefit of the consumer, rather than Telefonica [et al.] snarfing up the data and using it to gamble on energy futures/sell it to other people.
There are a set of other 'dangers' too, predatory on-demand pricing, immediate sanction for non payment, privacy breaches and police monitoring. Conclusion smart meters are not for 'us', they are for 'them'.