The documentation looks nifty. I think it needs some more 'peripherals' to take it to the next level.;-)
There was an Infocom game back in the 80s, A Mind Forever Voyaging, which had something called a joybooth in it. People were addicted to the things, wanting to spend all their time in the joybooth. I can imagine the VR system as being described morphing into something like a joybooth. With the right peripherals, of course.
I actually agree when we are talking about a typical random sample poll done at a point in time, but you might want to look at the methodology of the one poll that was calling it correctly the whole cycle: the 2016 USC Dornsife/LAT poll. They also called 2012 correctly - or at least much more correctly then the regular newspaper polls, but under the name of the Rand Corporation Continuous Election Poll. You might not remember this, but Romney was slightly ahead in several polls rolling into Election Day. Not in the Rand one, though - they had shown Romney considerably behind the whole cycle, essentially.
Their methodology was to stick with the same group of people for the whole election cycle (~6000) and get metrics on them periodically. If you watch their trend, you can see the key moments - Comey letting Hillary off the hook, Hillary collapse, pussy grab, late Comey letters.
I'd recommend reading elsewhere. Most of the social media news is highly slanted and mostly inaccurate. Like today, I had someone on my mother-in-law's FB account saying that the wildfires in Montana were just as bad as hurricanes in Texas based on some slanted post someone wrote there. It turns out the wildfire season is about average taken overall across the country this year, and the amount of people affected is far less than the Texas or putative Florida hurricane will impact. This is a fairly tame example.
More seriously, the only way to gauge news today is to read a wide variety of sources and ignore the slanted ones. Deduce the slant from the verbiage, such as god-like pronouncements or emotional hot button words. It's not that hard.
It's interesting, though, that reading historical documents, one is struck by the use of emotional language in such places as Victorian-era memoirs and diaries, and in Soviet government documents. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I find that Korean to English translations also have this feature. How much we have changed. That same style of verbiage in modern English reportage would be disbelieved prima facie.
The Mozilla codebase has proven difficult to maintain - see Pale Moon. So just forking it is problematic. The Google and Apple submissions are under corporate control and therefore are anti-user and more importantly, can't be forked. Opera just has never been very good.
We haven't been using anything resembling the original technology for at least 40 years in my neck of the woods. First, there was color TV. Cable TV followed. Then we had Plasma and LCD sets. Then there was DTV. The mode of transmission and display bears no resemblance to the original. But then again, we could say the same about telephony. The work of the pioneers was still interesting.
I'm pretty sure Philo T. Farnsworth wasn't the guy who invented TV, though.
Another Communist. Same as the Nazis, just different logo. One thing I have to hand to Nazis, they had no problem with being openly evil, but the Commies like to lie about it, to pull the wool over the eyes of the stupid.
You're going to hold up universities as an example of free speech? Only if you're not right wing. Or the wrong race. Or the wrong gender. These vary, of course. Of course, any of those qualifications makes the speech unfree by default. Only what the state allows, is what you mean.
OPM is run by the USG itself. (should be) a big difference. What Boeing, Northrop Grumman or General Dynamics do is one thing...and not very good. What the USG does itself is quite another.
No argument with the criminal negligence involved in the OPM leak.
You just summarized politics itself. Here are the actual facts on the ground:
1) No one cares about this breach except the usual paranoids in the USG. They can up the tall tales of threat all they want, there's a certain limit to how much people with actual power will buy it.
2) This issue is irrelevant from a mass media perspective. The common person doesn't care, so that angle is covered.
So, therefore, from a contracting perspective, this is a non-issue. The auditors will bitch and moan but business will go on as usual. You have to show an actual impact to get anything done at this level.
Read it. Understand that the US has always been easily penetrated at this level. We have no real security worth the name at the private sector contractor level.
That's why all the media lies, stories that sound juicy at first and then are revealed to be bullshit later.
I don't know anyone who agrees with the great-grandparent AC. I wouldn't know anyone who agrees with that. Hell, my great-grandfather didn't agree with the AC either, and he was born in 1897. True, he called black people by the usual colloquial name of the age, but he thought them hard workers in the 1910s and 1920s when he had a canal boat full of people working for him in Florida, dredging the east coast canals.
The behavior of the executives was expected. We could have predicted it based on at least the gilded age, if not before that, in terms of executive performance.
The behavior of the unions was also predictable. Their job is to pad the total benefit package of the current employees of the firm. They don't have a real interest in the survival of an industry, and in general can't think in those terms.
That makes unions a bad idea. At least if you aren't an autarkic society. If you can do without foreign competition, then certainly, have unions. But that's not reality in this age of the world. The last significant states to try to pull this off were apartheid South Africa (not entirely by choice...) Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and that didn't turn out that well in any case noted.
Java is disappearing from military and corporate requirements. US Army mandate to write all new code in Java ended a few years ago.
It's going away. Really. It's time to learn a new language, for those who can. Unless you like being in dead-end support jobs for the next 20-30 years. Ask your COBOL forebears how much they liked that.
It's already pretty much dead. Running a system without a JVM is entirely possible today - i've done so for years.
I would never consider writing any software that depended on a JVM. Under any circumstances. Having had to support that kind of thing for the last 20+ years, i'd never willingly subject others to it.
The name is poison and it's dying its well-deserved death in just about every space you could mention. Even the military is divesting itself of Java, bit by bit.
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The documentation looks nifty. I think it needs some more 'peripherals' to take it to the next level. ;-)
There was an Infocom game back in the 80s, A Mind Forever Voyaging, which had something called a joybooth in it. People were addicted to the things, wanting to spend all their time in the joybooth. I can imagine the VR system as being described morphing into something like a joybooth. With the right peripherals, of course.
Eventually people get fed up with exciting headlines with no actual news associated with them. So it's a self-defeating game they are playing. Silly.
Why this puff piece? I would hope there was more meat to the original paper.
Parent poster, i.e. a Leftist asshole.
Crack that nut (ha-ha) and you have your compelling reason.
I actually agree when we are talking about a typical random sample poll done at a point in time, but you might want to look at the methodology of the one poll that was calling it correctly the whole cycle: the 2016 USC Dornsife/LAT poll. They also called 2012 correctly - or at least much more correctly then the regular newspaper polls, but under the name of the Rand Corporation Continuous Election Poll. You might not remember this, but Romney was slightly ahead in several polls rolling into Election Day. Not in the Rand one, though - they had shown Romney considerably behind the whole cycle, essentially.
Their methodology was to stick with the same group of people for the whole election cycle (~6000) and get metrics on them periodically. If you watch their trend, you can see the key moments - Comey letting Hillary off the hook, Hillary collapse, pussy grab, late Comey letters.
I'd recommend reading elsewhere. Most of the social media news is highly slanted and mostly inaccurate. Like today, I had someone on my mother-in-law's FB account saying that the wildfires in Montana were just as bad as hurricanes in Texas based on some slanted post someone wrote there. It turns out the wildfire season is about average taken overall across the country this year, and the amount of people affected is far less than the Texas or putative Florida hurricane will impact. This is a fairly tame example.
At least, the garbage polls for 2016 that had Hillary in the lead by 8-10 points.
I imagine the other 28% probably can't read.
More seriously, the only way to gauge news today is to read a wide variety of sources and ignore the slanted ones. Deduce the slant from the verbiage, such as god-like pronouncements or emotional hot button words. It's not that hard.
It's interesting, though, that reading historical documents, one is struck by the use of emotional language in such places as Victorian-era memoirs and diaries, and in Soviet government documents. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I find that Korean to English translations also have this feature. How much we have changed. That same style of verbiage in modern English reportage would be disbelieved prima facie.
I really don't want to use a python interpreter in my web browser.
The Mozilla codebase has proven difficult to maintain - see Pale Moon. So just forking it is problematic.
The Google and Apple submissions are under corporate control and therefore are anti-user and more importantly, can't be forked.
Opera just has never been very good.
Konqueror or Links2 perhaps?
We haven't been using anything resembling the original technology for at least 40 years in my neck of the woods. First, there was color TV. Cable TV followed. Then we had Plasma and LCD sets. Then there was DTV. The mode of transmission and display bears no resemblance to the original. But then again, we could say the same about telephony. The work of the pioneers was still interesting.
I'm pretty sure Philo T. Farnsworth wasn't the guy who invented TV, though.
How much this site sucks now. The threads were so much better then.
Another Communist. Same as the Nazis, just different logo. One thing I have to hand to Nazis, they had no problem with being openly evil, but the Commies like to lie about it, to pull the wool over the eyes of the stupid.
You're going to hold up universities as an example of free speech? Only if you're not right wing. Or the wrong race. Or the wrong gender. These vary, of course. Of course, any of those qualifications makes the speech unfree by default. Only what the state allows, is what you mean.
I suppose this explains why the Ganges is full of really interesting bacteriophages.
OPM is run by the USG itself. (should be) a big difference. What Boeing, Northrop Grumman or General Dynamics do is one thing...and not very good. What the USG does itself is quite another.
No argument with the criminal negligence involved in the OPM leak.
What is the difference between this and stealing another team's signs, which happens -all the time-?
It's been happening for over a century, in fact.
I'm just illustrating the point of view of the powers that be. Understanding it doesn't signal agreement.
You just summarized politics itself. Here are the actual facts on the ground:
1) No one cares about this breach except the usual paranoids in the USG. They can up the tall tales of threat all they want, there's a certain limit to how much people with actual power will buy it.
2) This issue is irrelevant from a mass media perspective. The common person doesn't care, so that angle is covered.
So, therefore, from a contracting perspective, this is a non-issue. The auditors will bitch and moan but business will go on as usual. You have to show an actual impact to get anything done at this level.
Read it. Understand that the US has always been easily penetrated at this level. We have no real security worth the name at the private sector contractor level.
That's why all the media lies, stories that sound juicy at first and then are revealed to be bullshit later.
I don't know anyone who agrees with the great-grandparent AC. I wouldn't know anyone who agrees with that. Hell, my great-grandfather didn't agree with the AC either, and he was born in 1897. True, he called black people by the usual colloquial name of the age, but he thought them hard workers in the 1910s and 1920s when he had a canal boat full of people working for him in Florida, dredging the east coast canals.
The behavior of the executives was expected. We could have predicted it based on at least the gilded age, if not before that, in terms of executive performance.
The behavior of the unions was also predictable. Their job is to pad the total benefit package of the current employees of the firm. They don't have a real interest in the survival of an industry, and in general can't think in those terms.
That makes unions a bad idea. At least if you aren't an autarkic society. If you can do without foreign competition, then certainly, have unions. But that's not reality in this age of the world. The last significant states to try to pull this off were apartheid South Africa (not entirely by choice...) Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and that didn't turn out that well in any case noted.
If you want to do new, cool stuff, you're not doing it in Java.
Java is disappearing from military and corporate requirements.
US Army mandate to write all new code in Java ended a few years ago.
It's going away. Really. It's time to learn a new language, for those who can. Unless you like being in dead-end support jobs for the next 20-30 years. Ask your COBOL forebears how much they liked that.
It's already pretty much dead. Running a system without a JVM is entirely possible today - i've done so for years.
I would never consider writing any software that depended on a JVM. Under any circumstances. Having had to support that kind of thing for the last 20+ years, i'd never willingly subject others to it.
The name is poison and it's dying its well-deserved death in just about every space you could mention. Even the military is divesting itself of Java, bit by bit.