If "[t]he statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455", then the statistical risk of humans having been wiped out in the last 100,000 years is 88.9%.
So it's almost certain that none of us are here. You're not reading this. Cockroachs are the dominant species on earth.
> It's strange that your boss has so many
> requirements for the language but yet he didn't
> want chose the language himself.
> You have the difficult choice to buy a car in
> any color, provided the color is black.
No, it needs to be both black and blue... and that's what you'll be after the boss finishes shredding what ever impossible choice you make: black and blue.
The article gives Network Solutions (the ex-monoply domain name registrars) as an example of a dot-com hated by government contractors:
Daniels says he once went to an international conference as a Network Solutions representative, and began what he thought was a friendly conversation with the chairman of one of the largest companies in the world. Daniels says the executive suddenly looked at him and said: "You guys have never produced anything real." Daniels says he realized then how deep the ill will ran. He thinks it'll be a tough slog ahead for those who want to cross over to the government side.
That's not ill will between the dot-com side and the government side. That's ill will between Network Solutions and the entire rest of the world. No?
Since they've been using 'nix with thin clients since 1992, I think we can be pretty confident that the picture will remain the same in a year or two:
Networks and thin clients are not new to Largo (motto: "City of Progress"). The city started down this path in 1992 with SCO (now Caldera) Unixware and its Motif-based IXI desktop that, Dave says, "looked a lot like Windows 3.1." Later they started using KDE 1 on both OpenServer and Unixware, and finally, in July 2001, made the switch to Red Hat Linux 7.1 and KDE 2.1.1, a change Dave says "has gone really well."
Makes it less startling, but part of the point is that here is a stable model other medium-sized organizations might consider emulating.
> statements not a tautology or emperically > verifyable are meaningless
... to which the classical rejoinder is that since "statements not a tautology or emperically verifyable are meaningless" is neither a tautology nor emperically verifyable, it can't be true (for then it would be meaningless).
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If "[t]he statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455", then the statistical risk of humans having been wiped out in the last 100,000 years is 88.9%.
So it's almost certain that none of us are here. You're not reading this. Cockroachs are the dominant species on earth.
> It's strange that your boss has so many
> requirements for the language but yet he didn't
> want chose the language himself.
> You have the difficult choice to buy a car in
> any color, provided the color is black.
No, it needs to be both black and blue... and that's what you'll be after the boss finishes shredding what ever impossible choice you make: black and blue.
That's not ill will between the dot-com side and the government side. That's ill will between Network Solutions and the entire rest of the world. No?
Makes it less startling, but part of the point is that here is a stable model other medium-sized organizations might consider emulating.
> statements not a tautology or emperically
> verifyable are meaningless
... to which the classical rejoinder is that since "statements not a tautology or emperically verifyable are meaningless" is neither a tautology nor emperically verifyable, it can't be true (for then it would be meaningless).