I hope so. I love things like the X prize and millionaires buying space rides with the Russians. When we let the wealthy buy fancy expensive things, eventually the costs come down and then we get to have them, too. Like cruises, golf courses, television, and computers.
I think I agree with something the President said. Now, if we can guarantee property rights for those companies in space, too, this'd be amazing! Maybe Mr. Obama read Robert Heinlein when he was a kid and hasn't told anyone yet.
Hopefully it will drive a little more to quick keyboard shortcuts. I used ion3, and my favorite feature was going quickly from screen to screen with ALT+1, ALT+2, etc. The Opera browser uses similar quick-shortcuts with 1 to move left a tab, 2 to move right a tab. Fast.
Now, the documentation to set up ion3 was rough, but for a work computer I liked it a lot.
A non-story. This is a choice between a co-worker who does work and one who only creates work for other people. "Jerk" and "nice" aren't what people are voting on at all.
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I'm having trouble deciding if you're a troll or not.
You've decided that the coders who don't test their own code against itself or the spec (untested code) aren't at fault. So now it's in the lap of QA (who as often as not works for development), the GUI designers, or the product managers, and maybe marketing.
So since you've 1) Identified the problem (large/slow/buggy code, cruddy GUIs), and 2) Identified the source (clueless people not in development), when are you going to 3) List possible solutions and 4) Implement the solution?
You've labeled the problem as systematic, so to fix the problem you need to be part of the system. Your available choices are to 1) Go into management / decision making and change the brokenness, or 2) Write good code yourself, mentor your cube neighbors, and live in peace by ignoring the rest.
Actually, it's more like saying "Because I live within walking distance to work and walk to work, no one needs a car. Unless it's an Emacs extension. Ever."
For grins I went to Radio Shack to check out ham radios. Not a one in the store, and the salesman was confused over why he'd even carry them. He was willing to sell me a CB, but I would have gone to a truck stop if I wanted one of those.
We had a sysadmin who had been to Germany and brought back a road atlas. Our boxen were named after German cities. It was good, except for the people whose computers went over the 15 character netbios character limit . . .
In the mountain time zone work does start at 8 AM and earlier, to match Eastern work cycles. I don't think I'd like rush hour to start at 5 AM. 6 AM is early enough.
Hmm, that would even make it impossible for the early-side shifts to take public transportation, since the buses don't always start that early. Definitely a win for the environment!
Alaska / ANWR isn't usually given as the end-all answer for domestic US oil production. Mostly it's used as an example because if you can't get permission to drill for oil where no-one goes, you can't take legislatures or eco-lobbists word that they'll let you drill anywhere else.
With the huge influx of CFL bulbs, even using a small amount of mercury will cause a large increase in the use of mercury. Less mercury will be available for other electronics. How much will this impact other technology we like?
Much of the problem with this type of legislation is it ignores second and third order effects. Good economics requires looking past the right now. Economics in One Lesson has been around for half a century, and it's still a mystery to too many people.
The lesson:
the art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Households have no requirements for properly disposing of CFL bulbs. You just throw 'em in the garbage. So, they all just go to the landfill with all the other trash. (Businesses have different requirements.)
In other news, some users violate silly IT polices. I've seen passwords that had to be 8 characters or more, have at least two numbers, two capital letters, and two special characters. Rotate your passwords every 45 days, and no repeating. No real words in your password. Now, have close to a dozen accounts, and no two passwords can be the same. How many people do you think didn't write down their passwords?
I can't get over what a terrible idea this is. I finally RTFA, and this is nothing more than a "screw the new guy" game. From the article: "I would suggest a panel of four or five scientists who specialize in a range of disciplines from microbiology and medicine to the composition of the earths atmosphere." Yeah, that's cool. Assemble a panel of experts who have spent their whole lives investigating specialized topics, then quiz laymen on it. They could end every question with "and have you stopped beating your wife?"
Yeah, you might get some chuckles trying to get candidates to remember the steps to the scientific process, showing how to use a slide rule, remembering when T. Rex lived, or why DDT is safe to use in homes, but you might as well have them recite the pros and cons for python vs. ruby. This debate idea is nothing more than yet-another trivia contest. This isn't an election for lead scientist, but for president. These people are lawyers, not scietists. (OK, Ron Paul is a medical doctor. Make the debate about birthing techniques, it'd be as useful as a science debate.)
If you want a debate that'd be useful, how about one on constitutional law? "Name one example where an existing law does not fit under the current broad umbrella of the commerce clause and providing for the general welfare." Or an economic debate? "Many candidates have proposed various public-private partnerships with corporations. How does this functionally differ from economic fascism, which is public-private partnerships?" "Name one federal government welfare program, individual or corporate, that you would eliminate." "Name any failure criteria for the war on [poverty|drugs] that would make you believe that we should reduce or eliminate spending, rather than expand it."
I'd rather see them recreate the vi vs. emacs paintball war.
The majority of techies I've run into are very much more totalitarian than libertarian. They're smart, understand how things work, and make great decisions. That's why they're so sure they can run your life, too.
My Windows Genuine Advantage must be broken. I tried to download powershell from the Microsoft site, but it said I needed to first validate my copy of windows. Maybe after I install powershell windows will remember one of the last two dozen times I validated my windows copy?
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
I like calling speeding tickets a randomly assigned tax. Almost everyone speeds, and you hardly ever get a ticket. So, if it happens to be your day, you have to pay the tax.
Unfortunately PyGTK is slow and buggy (crashes) on Windows, as the good folks over at http://www.gajim.org/ have discovered. It makes it less useful cross platform, though on linux it runs well.
The M2 mail client needs S/MIME support. I love the filters for mail (that's where gmail got their labels). The idea of "mailstore as database" is great. Not having S/MIME support is antiquarian. Opera mail M2 has many advanced features, like TLS client authentication, which outlook doesn't have. Not having S/MIME support is just silly.
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I hope so. I love things like the X prize and millionaires buying space rides with the Russians. When we let the wealthy buy fancy expensive things, eventually the costs come down and then we get to have them, too. Like cruises, golf courses, television, and computers.
I think I agree with something the President said. Now, if we can guarantee property rights for those companies in space, too, this'd be amazing! Maybe Mr. Obama read Robert Heinlein when he was a kid and hasn't told anyone yet.
Hopefully it will drive a little more to quick keyboard shortcuts. I used ion3, and my favorite feature was going quickly from screen to screen with ALT+1, ALT+2, etc. The Opera browser uses similar quick-shortcuts with 1 to move left a tab, 2 to move right a tab. Fast.
Now, the documentation to set up ion3 was rough, but for a work computer I liked it a lot.
A non-story. This is a choice between a co-worker who does work and one who only creates work for other people. "Jerk" and "nice" aren't what people are voting on at all.
I'm having trouble deciding if you're a troll or not.
You've decided that the coders who don't test their own code against itself or the spec (untested code) aren't at fault. So now it's in the lap of QA (who as often as not works for development), the GUI designers, or the product managers, and maybe marketing.
So since you've 1) Identified the problem (large/slow/buggy code, cruddy GUIs), and 2) Identified the source (clueless people not in development), when are you going to 3) List possible solutions and 4) Implement the solution?
You've labeled the problem as systematic, so to fix the problem you need to be part of the system. Your available choices are to 1) Go into management / decision making and change the brokenness, or 2) Write good code yourself, mentor your cube neighbors, and live in peace by ignoring the rest.
"Show this experiment to your boss the next time you are selecting a programming language for a project at work."J
What would the boss do? Maybe he'd come to the conclusion that Java and C# are for professionals while Python and Ruby are for hobbyists?
I think it's that Java and C# make more sense when the drinking starts, but Python and Ruby make less.
Actually, it's more like saying "Because I live within walking distance to work and walk to work, no one needs a car. Unless it's an Emacs extension. Ever."
For grins I went to Radio Shack to check out ham radios. Not a one in the store, and the salesman was confused over why he'd even carry them. He was willing to sell me a CB, but I would have gone to a truck stop if I wanted one of those.
We had a sysadmin who had been to Germany and brought back a road atlas. Our boxen were named after German cities. It was good, except for the people whose computers went over the 15 character netbios character limit . . .
A company I worked for used NES. I think developer licenses ran about $10k each. Add the annual support and maintenance, and that was some real cash.
So we switched to something cheaper. Looks like we weren't the only ones!
In the mountain time zone work does start at 8 AM and earlier, to match Eastern work cycles. I don't think I'd like rush hour to start at 5 AM. 6 AM is early enough. Hmm, that would even make it impossible for the early-side shifts to take public transportation, since the buses don't always start that early. Definitely a win for the environment!
I verified the interweb today, and lynx says that no sites infringe on this patent. Go about your business.
Much of the problem with this type of legislation is it ignores second and third order effects. Good economics requires looking past the right now. Economics in One Lesson has been around for half a century, and it's still a mystery to too many people.
The lesson:
Households have no requirements for properly disposing of CFL bulbs. You just throw 'em in the garbage. So, they all just go to the landfill with all the other trash. (Businesses have different requirements.)
With what has been spent on the Iraq war, the US could have funded PhD's in economics for everyone in Congress. Now that would have been useful.
In other news, some users violate silly IT polices. I've seen passwords that had to be 8 characters or more, have at least two numbers, two capital letters, and two special characters. Rotate your passwords every 45 days, and no repeating. No real words in your password. Now, have close to a dozen accounts, and no two passwords can be the same. How many people do you think didn't write down their passwords?
I can't get over what a terrible idea this is. I finally RTFA, and this is nothing more than a "screw the new guy" game. From the article: "I would suggest a panel of four or five scientists who specialize in a range of disciplines from microbiology and medicine to the composition of the earths atmosphere." Yeah, that's cool. Assemble a panel of experts who have spent their whole lives investigating specialized topics, then quiz laymen on it. They could end every question with "and have you stopped beating your wife?"
If you want a debate that'd be useful, how about one on constitutional law? "Name one example where an existing law does not fit under the current broad umbrella of the commerce clause and providing for the general welfare." Or an economic debate? "Many candidates have proposed various public-private partnerships with corporations. How does this functionally differ from economic fascism, which is public-private partnerships?" "Name one federal government welfare program, individual or corporate, that you would eliminate." "Name any failure criteria for the war on [poverty|drugs] that would make you believe that we should reduce or eliminate spending, rather than expand it."
I'd rather see them recreate the vi vs. emacs paintball war.
The majority of techies I've run into are very much more totalitarian than libertarian. They're smart, understand how things work, and make great decisions. That's why they're so sure they can run your life, too.
My Windows Genuine Advantage must be broken. I tried to download powershell from the Microsoft site, but it said I needed to first validate my copy of windows. Maybe after I install powershell windows will remember one of the last two dozen times I validated my windows copy?
I like calling speeding tickets a randomly assigned tax. Almost everyone speeds, and you hardly ever get a ticket. So, if it happens to be your day, you have to pay the tax.
Unfortunately PyGTK is slow and buggy (crashes) on Windows, as the good folks over at http://www.gajim.org/ have discovered. It makes it less useful cross platform, though on linux it runs well.
The M2 mail client needs S/MIME support. I love the filters for mail (that's where gmail got their labels). The idea of "mailstore as database" is great. Not having S/MIME support is antiquarian. Opera mail M2 has many advanced features, like TLS client authentication, which outlook doesn't have. Not having S/MIME support is just silly.