Frankly it sounds like a good bill, and just because MS is supporting it doesnt mean you shouldnt.
Do you want the laws to lead down a path where your ISP is financially liable for your actions? Because that road goes to the place where your ISP turns over audited logs of everything you've done to avoid liabilities.
It's the media that adds the "this killed the dinosaurs" hype to it. They merely find evidence of collisions, but it's near impossible to accurately date them.
If they could date a crater with reasonable accuracy, then they could say more concretely that "This crater was formed by a meteor at about the same time dinosaurs went extinct, and the impact could have been sufficient to cause their extinction"
Many of the craters probably predate all life on earth. Maybe one of em is the one that split off the big chunk of rock that we call the Moon now.
But anyone who's saying matter-of-factly what happened, isn't acting like a scientist.
I think there's still ample room for another low-budget breakthrough like a Tetris or whatnot. I think if a game is good enough, it can get away with less eye candy.
Even in the film world it happens. Look at the first Blair Witch Project. It cost them like a few thousand to make, and grossed tens of millions.
I agree that the amount of government support for the airlines was a tad outrageous, but it was prudent for them to keep them afloat. They're part of the infrastructure that keeps the economy moving. Personally I'd rather have seen more of the money diverted to the freight carriers, and not the screw-your-customers passenger lines (because as you pointed out, JetBlue et al can step up and replace them).
I don't want to see the country revert to a state where it takes a month to move goods from LA to New York.
Same with the internet, phone system, postal service, roadways, power grid, waterways. That stuff needs to work or business in general doesnt work.
The economy doesnt need the sequel to Black and White, or the uber-cool new quake clone that some propellerhead is dreaming about. That would be socialism.
The government has no responsibility to make sure your business stays afloat, that's the businesses business or something.
You know what? The government should pay for everything. The government should own every business, keep them all running, and equally distribute the communal nations wealth to each citizen.
Then instead of a country where you succeed or fail based on your own skills, quality of product, and business mode, it would be like a one giant commune.
I think I'll invent a name for my new style of government based on a commune of shared wealth. I'll call it, umm, "the bus that couldnt slow down."
Yeah, my email I can check 2 or 3 times a day. But when the phone rings, I have to anwer it. And when my boss walks in, I have to (pretend to) pay attention.
No, I'm not a tech support person, I'm a developer. I spend my day writing new code, and only fix older code when it's broken. So if it's an actual software bug, it gets kicked up to me. If it's an "I'm a dipshit user and deleted all of my admin records" I say hard cheese.
So I'm not required to be watching my e-mail all day. Generally, I only check it maybe twice a day when I have time, or when I know somethings coming, like if I'm having someone send me some requirements.
We have this problem all the time. The boss wants to be copied on everything, so every time something is emailed that results in even the slightest code change (like changing the caption on a text box from 'Phone No' to simply 'Phone') he wastes half a day with a design meeting about it.
It aggravates everything because he was a programmer in the 70s, so his concept of an application is completely obsolete in an object-oriented event driven world.
email (like anything) can go both ways
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Where I work, the guy in the office next to me (about 10 feet away) would be the 'primary support' contact. Every once in awhile he'd get a bug report or something that would need to go to me. He'd email it to me. I dont check my email every 30 seconds, so it would basically go unnoticed for hours, maybe even a day or so. If he'd even speak in a normal voice and say "hey, check your email", then I'd know.
He's been since shit-canned, but it was still endlessly annoying to find out about a problem later than it was reported.
However, with our clients, email is the only way I want to handle everything. It provides a written audit trail of everything that happens, and it's come in handy many times.
One client in particular is becoming infamous around here for talking to techies like me on the phone, saying "oh there's nothing wrong, everything is going fine, just a couple really minor issues", and as soon as the phone is hung up, she's talking to the tech director pulling a chicken little act and telling him that the sky is falling and us lazy computer nerds arent saving the day. Luckily he's not enough of a pointy-haired boss to realize she's full of shit.
So, when she calls, I say "put every issue you have in an email". She has no room to lie and tell the boss she reported problem X or Y.
I can understand some obscurity in lower level languages, like C, or as low as ASM itself. But a higher level scripting language should be as close to english (or another human language) as possible.
I dont see the inherent advantage in desinging a language thats hard to read. Frankly I'd rather see scripts written in VBScript than perl.
Or drop linux entirely since they'd own UNIX outright.
The whole IBM-on-Linux-bandwagon thing is about AIX licensing.
The business world doesnt give a shit if the code on their servers is Open Source. They care if it works, and if it'll be supported in case it doesnt work. They'll buy whatever IBM is selling.
Esp if they only want to compute something once. Like a manufacturing company wanting to simulate a crash test or something like that.
It'd be much more cost effective to lease CPU time on a bunch of PCs than build a whole new office complex to house, power and administrate a local cluster that they only planned on using once.
I have 5 PC's on all the time (though not at 100% utilization). Even at 100% they wouldnt suck more than about 100 watts each.
I also have a bearded dragon, whos home has two 150 watt basking lamps, and 60 watts of flourescent lighting. I'm also not a fanatic about turning off the lights when I leave the room. I'm notorious for leaving the bathroom light on all day (60 watts times 4 bulbs)
I disagree WRT Blade Runner. I think it was an incredible movie, even though it was altogether different from the book.
A good book is always going to be more cerebral than any movie made out of it. I prefer when a director/scriptwriter is inspired by the story and translates it into a good film, rather than trying to recreate the book page for page.
Kubricks "The Shining" is another good example. The movie tells an altogether different story than the novel, but both are excellent.
I prefer the grouping on the task bar, it just makes everything on the desktop more consistent. I also like the 3rd party pop-up blocker I use in IE (PopUp Cop) better than Mozillas. It integrates right into the toolbar and works just the way I want it to.
Personally, I'd rather not see this stuff integrated into the browser. If you dont use it it's just more code bloat. I only run my popup blocker when I'm about to browse sites that I know will be full of popups.
For my dollar, I'd bet on the IE replacement that's faster than IE. I got sick of waiting for Mozilla to load. So out the door it went. All the tabs and mouse gestures in the world couldnt have changed my mind.
So long as IE is the default browser on the most ubiquitous desktop OS, it's not going to die.
IMO, most of the 'innovations' in other browsers come off somewhat gimmicky. I mean mouse gestures are just another way to select 'next' or 'forward', tabbing is just another way of opening windows (collapsing them in the task bar a la XP accomplishes pretty much the same thing).
None of the other browsers have come up with some killer new feature that would make people need to change.
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Frankly it sounds like a good bill, and just because MS is supporting it doesnt mean you shouldnt.
Do you want the laws to lead down a path where your ISP is financially liable for your actions? Because that road goes to the place where your ISP turns over audited logs of everything you've done to avoid liabilities.
Sure it will.
.Net on Linux servers.
MS is slipping in the Server OS market, so they're smart enough to get in on the server application market.
MS couldnt sell the OS to Mac users, so it sells them the application suite instead. MS Office on OSX.
It'll happen.
It's the media that adds the "this killed the dinosaurs" hype to it. They merely find evidence of collisions, but it's near impossible to accurately date them.
If they could date a crater with reasonable accuracy, then they could say more concretely that "This crater was formed by a meteor at about the same time dinosaurs went extinct, and the impact could have been sufficient to cause their extinction"
Many of the craters probably predate all life on earth. Maybe one of em is the one that split off the big chunk of rock that we call the Moon now.
But anyone who's saying matter-of-factly what happened, isn't acting like a scientist.
They want to work, and perhaps dont have the same knee-jerk reaction to the governments initiative that you do?
Not everyone shares the same ideals. Every chef in the country isnt going to quit because some PETA activists think it's wrong to eat.
Ideals dont pay the mortgage or buy food and clothing for your kids.
When you're out of school and no longer one of mom and dads dependants, you see how quickly idealism is replaced by the reality of life.
I think there's still ample room for another low-budget breakthrough like a Tetris or whatnot. I think if a game is good enough, it can get away with less eye candy.
Even in the film world it happens. Look at the first Blair Witch Project. It cost them like a few thousand to make, and grossed tens of millions.
I agree that the amount of government support for the airlines was a tad outrageous, but it was prudent for them to keep them afloat. They're part of the infrastructure that keeps the economy moving. Personally I'd rather have seen more of the money diverted to the freight carriers, and not the screw-your-customers passenger lines (because as you pointed out, JetBlue et al can step up and replace them).
I don't want to see the country revert to a state where it takes a month to move goods from LA to New York.
Same with the internet, phone system, postal service, roadways, power grid, waterways. That stuff needs to work or business in general doesnt work.
The economy doesnt need the sequel to Black and White, or the uber-cool new quake clone that some propellerhead is dreaming about. That would be socialism.
The government has no responsibility to make sure your business stays afloat, that's the businesses business or something.
You know what? The government should pay for everything. The government should own every business, keep them all running, and equally distribute the communal nations wealth to each citizen.
Then instead of a country where you succeed or fail based on your own skills, quality of product, and business mode, it would be like a one giant commune.
I think I'll invent a name for my new style of government based on a commune of shared wealth. I'll call it, umm, "the bus that couldnt slow down."
Yeah, my email I can check 2 or 3 times a day. But when the phone rings, I have to anwer it. And when my boss walks in, I have to (pretend to) pay attention.
michael is that you?
how do you like it?
how dare you
thems fightin words
No, I'm not a tech support person, I'm a developer. I spend my day writing new code, and only fix older code when it's broken. So if it's an actual software bug, it gets kicked up to me. If it's an "I'm a dipshit user and deleted all of my admin records" I say hard cheese.
So I'm not required to be watching my e-mail all day. Generally, I only check it maybe twice a day when I have time, or when I know somethings coming, like if I'm having someone send me some requirements.
We have this problem all the time. The boss wants to be copied on everything, so every time something is emailed that results in even the slightest code change (like changing the caption on a text box from 'Phone No' to simply 'Phone') he wastes half a day with a design meeting about it.
It aggravates everything because he was a programmer in the 70s, so his concept of an application is completely obsolete in an object-oriented event driven world.
Where I work, the guy in the office next to me (about 10 feet away) would be the 'primary support' contact. Every once in awhile he'd get a bug report or something that would need to go to me. He'd email it to me. I dont check my email every 30 seconds, so it would basically go unnoticed for hours, maybe even a day or so. If he'd even speak in a normal voice and say "hey, check your email", then I'd know.
He's been since shit-canned, but it was still endlessly annoying to find out about a problem later than it was reported.
However, with our clients, email is the only way I want to handle everything. It provides a written audit trail of everything that happens, and it's come in handy many times.
One client in particular is becoming infamous around here for talking to techies like me on the phone, saying "oh there's nothing wrong, everything is going fine, just a couple really minor issues", and as soon as the phone is hung up, she's talking to the tech director pulling a chicken little act and telling him that the sky is falling and us lazy computer nerds arent saving the day. Luckily he's not enough of a pointy-haired boss to realize she's full of shit.
So, when she calls, I say "put every issue you have in an email". She has no room to lie and tell the boss she reported problem X or Y.
SysV IPC? Semaphores, shared memory segments and queues?
Has a bunches to do with SMP if that's how you apply it.
If the people he worked with jumped off a bridge, would he?
Seriously. Did they ask for the 'people he works with's opinion? No.
Think for yourself man! Dont live through others.
Form an independant thought!
Oh wait, patrairch of the Linux community. Nevermind, just copy everyone else then.
This is why perl will disappear.
I can understand some obscurity in lower level languages, like C, or as low as ASM itself. But a higher level scripting language should be as close to english (or another human language) as possible.
I dont see the inherent advantage in desinging a language thats hard to read. Frankly I'd rather see scripts written in VBScript than perl.
Pfft. You cant grow pot under incandescent lamps. A setup to personally supply a chronic smoker would be at least a 400 watt HPS lamp.
Bah, if they're gonna buy a distrib based on naming, it should be Slackware.
I'd pay for a box that says I B Mack-ware.
Sure.
Or drop linux entirely since they'd own UNIX outright.
The whole IBM-on-Linux-bandwagon thing is about AIX licensing.
The business world doesnt give a shit if the code on their servers is Open Source. They care if it works, and if it'll be supported in case it doesnt work. They'll buy whatever IBM is selling.
Esp if they only want to compute something once. Like a manufacturing company wanting to simulate a crash test or something like that.
It'd be much more cost effective to lease CPU time on a bunch of PCs than build a whole new office complex to house, power and administrate a local cluster that they only planned on using once.
Damn you pay a lot for electricity.
I have 5 PC's on all the time (though not at 100% utilization). Even at 100% they wouldnt suck more than about 100 watts each.
I also have a bearded dragon, whos home has two 150 watt basking lamps, and 60 watts of flourescent lighting. I'm also not a fanatic about turning off the lights when I leave the room. I'm notorious for leaving the bathroom light on all day (60 watts times 4 bulbs)
My bill is only around 100 a month.
>> they can fleece you later on with the same movie on DVD that has *EXTRA FEATURES*
How is that fleecing you? You don't need to buy the Special Edition, the Collectors Edition, and the Boxed Set when it's released.
I don't get the whole "how dare they think of offering a product that I dont need" attitude.
You dont want it? Dont buy it. What's the rub?
Hmmm...
HALO: $46.88
Ringworld $6.99
What's a poor mans who now?
I disagree WRT Blade Runner. I think it was an incredible movie, even though it was altogether different from the book.
A good book is always going to be more cerebral than any movie made out of it. I prefer when a director/scriptwriter is inspired by the story and translates it into a good film, rather than trying to recreate the book page for page.
Kubricks "The Shining" is another good example. The movie tells an altogether different story than the novel, but both are excellent.
I prefer the grouping on the task bar, it just makes everything on the desktop more consistent. I also like the 3rd party pop-up blocker I use in IE (PopUp Cop) better than Mozillas. It integrates right into the toolbar and works just the way I want it to.
Personally, I'd rather not see this stuff integrated into the browser. If you dont use it it's just more code bloat. I only run my popup blocker when I'm about to browse sites that I know will be full of popups.
For my dollar, I'd bet on the IE replacement that's faster than IE. I got sick of waiting for Mozilla to load. So out the door it went. All the tabs and mouse gestures in the world couldnt have changed my mind.
So long as IE is the default browser on the most ubiquitous desktop OS, it's not going to die.
IMO, most of the 'innovations' in other browsers come off somewhat gimmicky. I mean mouse gestures are just another way to select 'next' or 'forward', tabbing is just another way of opening windows (collapsing them in the task bar a la XP accomplishes pretty much the same thing).
None of the other browsers have come up with some killer new feature that would make people need to change.