Simmer down, Dude. I hear what you're saying. Come HTML5, more or less here already, there is no compelling, practical reason to write an "app," unless what you really want to do is hack into the phone. These days, apps are little more than an already passing fad.
This, of course, is only true if the APIs accessible from the web page can get the data you need, such as GPS data, voice, camera functionality, etc. Could be a big if.
Oh yes, yes, of course! Terribly important to know a politician's "position" on "current political topics" or better yet, on the ever so important "issues." Not what lobbyists are paying them to do, nobody gives a crap about that. We care deeply and passionately, and discuss interminably, politicians' "positions" on "issues." Must be why our body politic, society, and economy are so advanced, prosperous, and are examples to the world.
I can only assume you are either trolling for laughs or are a dyed-in-the-wool kool-aid-chugging Microsoft True Believer.
The "is GNU/Linux supported" question is a red herring. Google runs on GNU/Linux. Akamai runs on GNU/Linux. Big companies with vast empires of CPUs crunching data and hosting clouds run on GNU/Linux or some other Unix variant. Most websites on the planet run on either GNU/Linux or BSD. Windows is the commercial OS that comes with consumer PCs. Sure, that market share is huge, but it is heavily skewed towards the naive "I just want it to be easy regardless of whether it's crappy or expensive" crowd. This makes them extremely visible to people, but Microsoft does not supply the world's heavy duty industrial quality software. They never have and most likely never will. They provide everyday software for consumers, and take as much money from them as they can.
You want to get some serious computing done, you get GNU/Linux.
they should just admit that they fucked up with Silverlight and hung the devoted developer community that exists out to dry
There was no fuck up. They're marketing a new generation of products. To you. They're trying to make a few bucks. From you. Sure there's going to be a lot of needless busy work and reinventing the wheel for about the fifth time. By you. I don't really see any issues here. Except for you.
... and COM/DCOM, VB Basic the Elder, etc. This is the way it works with MS. If they don't switch you out to completely new products every 6 or 7 years, then where's the profit?
It is tempting to chalk this down to colossal stupidity and cluelessness, but that would be a mistake. Such a library can only have been designed by people who never go to libraries. However, as with most governmental or institutional actions that seem carried out by imbeciles, corruption is a far better explanation. Instead of allowing users to browse the stacks directly, examining book after book with related (or even serendipitously unrelated) information, you can now only get the exact book you asked for and will likely have to do it again and again with needless waiting and hit or miss results. This is something that should have been specifically prevented in the design, but then far less than $81 million would have changed hands. This backward and gratuitous use of completely inappropriate, overly elaborate and enormously expensive technology was done not for library users, but by the designers and builders to scam the customer.
It was funny, but in today's conspiracy-theory-heavy public media you never know. I would bet money that there are plenty of people out there who seriously believe in the existence of zombies and vampires, not to mention the imminence of rapture and the end of the world this year or the next.
I would conjecture that this will be an excellent example of something that sounds great hypothetically, but cannot be made to work acceptably in practice. Far better to capture energy from the kinetics outside of the body rather than its interior. From the standpoint of FDA approval alone, external attachments will be far easier to pass than anything that has to be implanted due to the possibilities of infection, toxicity, blood clots, leaks, inconvenient maintenance, etc.
They won't pay attention. They're like birthers: they are always right and everyone else is always wrong, no matter what.
The article is ambiguous as to whether the molten fuel is still in the vessel or has escaped, partially or totally. The possibility of a blob of molten nuclear fuel in a full blown fission reaction melting its way through the subsoil and into groundwater, contaminating everything in its path and blowing a very dirty plume of steam into the atmosphere is not welcome news.
It's not such a narrow perspective. The ways we use the gadgets are massively adopted. Most people will use smartphones in generally similar ways, overall. We are buying into a massively distributed robot army largely without realizing it.
It's amazing that so few people realize this. They prefer to arbitrarily believe some pseudo-capitalistic mumbo-jumbo bullshit equating education with consumerism. We're evidently in self-destruct mode at this point.
That's not the case here. You are taking an extremely shallow view of education. It is as valuable to individuals as it is to society and our economy for everyone to get as much education and/or training as possible. Charging a higher fee for highly desirable major is not like charging a higher price for a better pair of shoes. It is a disincentive, and its market effect will be to keep people who can't pay the higher price from studying it. This is a stupid disincentive for society. We should be doing the opposite: making it easier for more people to be able to pay for such studies. You just got conned by pseudo-capitalistic bullshit, one of America's favorite superstitious belief systems. By the tenets of capitalism, you would want to make STEM careers cheap, free, or even pay people to study them, and charge people more for the less useful or desirable majors in order for market forces to guide people's decisions. This is the exact opposite of what is being proposed. Beware of knee-jerk reactions.
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You mean his Twit Feed? He's a politician, after all.
Actually, it's a collection of RSS feeds from his lobbyists. 100% hands-free operation.
Simmer down, Dude. I hear what you're saying. Come HTML5, more or less here already, there is no compelling, practical reason to write an "app," unless what you really want to do is hack into the phone. These days, apps are little more than an already passing fad.
This, of course, is only true if the APIs accessible from the web page can get the data you need, such as GPS data, voice, camera functionality, etc. Could be a big if.
Oh yes, yes, of course! Terribly important to know a politician's "position" on "current political topics" or better yet, on the ever so important "issues." Not what lobbyists are paying them to do, nobody gives a crap about that. We care deeply and passionately, and discuss interminably, politicians' "positions" on "issues." Must be why our body politic, society, and economy are so advanced, prosperous, and are examples to the world.
You had to have some balls to install Yggdrasil. It was challenging.
I can only assume you are either trolling for laughs or are a dyed-in-the-wool kool-aid-chugging Microsoft True Believer.
The "is GNU/Linux supported" question is a red herring. Google runs on GNU/Linux. Akamai runs on GNU/Linux. Big companies with vast empires of CPUs crunching data and hosting clouds run on GNU/Linux or some other Unix variant. Most websites on the planet run on either GNU/Linux or BSD. Windows is the commercial OS that comes with consumer PCs. Sure, that market share is huge, but it is heavily skewed towards the naive "I just want it to be easy regardless of whether it's crappy or expensive" crowd. This makes them extremely visible to people, but Microsoft does not supply the world's heavy duty industrial quality software. They never have and most likely never will. They provide everyday software for consumers, and take as much money from them as they can.
You want to get some serious computing done, you get GNU/Linux.
In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce
I like the implicit converse.
I think he means it will most likely work from one Windows version to the next, although even that appears to be unrealistic.
they should just admit that they fucked up with Silverlight and hung the devoted developer community that exists out to dry
There was no fuck up. They're marketing a new generation of products. To you. They're trying to make a few bucks. From you. Sure there's going to be a lot of needless busy work and reinventing the wheel for about the fifth time. By you. I don't really see any issues here. Except for you.
More Kool-Aid?
They're loving it. They're just that kind of folks. Big fans of Kool-Aid.
... and COM/DCOM, VB Basic the Elder, etc. This is the way it works with MS. If they don't switch you out to completely new products every 6 or 7 years, then where's the profit?
Or just a card file.
I'm well into the liberal side of things, but I have to admit that was a funny gaffe.
Give three concrete, credibly documented examples. I keep seeing conservatives make these claims, but never see them cough up the data.
Hint: Student loans are 1) guaranteed by the government, and 2) securitized. Sound familiar?
It is tempting to chalk this down to colossal stupidity and cluelessness, but that would be a mistake. Such a library can only have been designed by people who never go to libraries. However, as with most governmental or institutional actions that seem carried out by imbeciles, corruption is a far better explanation. Instead of allowing users to browse the stacks directly, examining book after book with related (or even serendipitously unrelated) information, you can now only get the exact book you asked for and will likely have to do it again and again with needless waiting and hit or miss results. This is something that should have been specifically prevented in the design, but then far less than $81 million would have changed hands. This backward and gratuitous use of completely inappropriate, overly elaborate and enormously expensive technology was done not for library users, but by the designers and builders to scam the customer.
All that glitters is not gold.
How is this litigable in a US court?
It was funny, but in today's conspiracy-theory-heavy public media you never know. I would bet money that there are plenty of people out there who seriously believe in the existence of zombies and vampires, not to mention the imminence of rapture and the end of the world this year or the next.
The Zombie Apocalypse is a metaphor.
The pacemaker doesn't power the heart, it just maintains its rhythm. The heart burns calories from food, so there is no chicken and egg issue here.
I would conjecture that this will be an excellent example of something that sounds great hypothetically, but cannot be made to work acceptably in practice. Far better to capture energy from the kinetics outside of the body rather than its interior. From the standpoint of FDA approval alone, external attachments will be far easier to pass than anything that has to be implanted due to the possibilities of infection, toxicity, blood clots, leaks, inconvenient maintenance, etc.
They won't pay attention. They're like birthers: they are always right and everyone else is always wrong, no matter what.
The article is ambiguous as to whether the molten fuel is still in the vessel or has escaped, partially or totally. The possibility of a blob of molten nuclear fuel in a full blown fission reaction melting its way through the subsoil and into groundwater, contaminating everything in its path and blowing a very dirty plume of steam into the atmosphere is not welcome news.
It's not such a narrow perspective. The ways we use the gadgets are massively adopted. Most people will use smartphones in generally similar ways, overall. We are buying into a massively distributed robot army largely without realizing it.
It's amazing that so few people realize this. They prefer to arbitrarily believe some pseudo-capitalistic mumbo-jumbo bullshit equating education with consumerism. We're evidently in self-destruct mode at this point.
That's not the case here. You are taking an extremely shallow view of education. It is as valuable to individuals as it is to society and our economy for everyone to get as much education and/or training as possible. Charging a higher fee for highly desirable major is not like charging a higher price for a better pair of shoes. It is a disincentive, and its market effect will be to keep people who can't pay the higher price from studying it. This is a stupid disincentive for society. We should be doing the opposite: making it easier for more people to be able to pay for such studies. You just got conned by pseudo-capitalistic bullshit, one of America's favorite superstitious belief systems. By the tenets of capitalism, you would want to make STEM careers cheap, free, or even pay people to study them, and charge people more for the less useful or desirable majors in order for market forces to guide people's decisions. This is the exact opposite of what is being proposed. Beware of knee-jerk reactions.