It doesn't matter if you have facts to back up an assertion like that, you're still going to pay a price in suffering that makes it far better to just shut the hell up.
It took them three years to get from 2.17 to 2.18? At a rate of 0.0333 releases per year, it must have taken them sixty-five years just to get to 2.17. That means they've been developing BugZilla since just after the start of World War II...
If you accept that the rate of bug discovery is constant.
This is a hotly debated issue. For example, some Creationists assert that the rate of bug discovery has accelerated with time, and that BugZilla development began five to six thousand years ago.
Now that I can tightly link my business and marketing with a new semantic oriented paradigm shift that's horizontally compatible with my vertical integration, I can finally think outside the box and my dynamicism will be prolific!
Nuh-uh. Your dynamicism is gonna be about the same, dude.
Unless, of course, you buy the optional "My Dynamicism" module from Rational....
Actually, we spend most of our money being Socialists. Only when you remove all of the social programs from the budget do the military line items come to the fore.
Socialism for the rich, laissez-faire for the poor.
Most important feature of the PC - filters for the intake fans...
Right. And keep your PC off the floor, that's where the dust is. Keep the PC on a desk, in a cupboard, etc. Better yet, keep the PC in a separate closet.
The difference between artwork and code is the same as the difference between architecture and civil engineering -- they're both creative and contribute to the final work (the game or the building), but one is art and the other isn't.
Your code is "art" in the old sense of a word, but that's because programmers are artisans, not artists. It is not, however "art" in the sense of "exhibit your source code in a museum so that people can be emotionally moved by it."
I prefer to use "art" in the classical sense of the word -- that is, everything imagined in the mind of man, and created by the hand of man. Poetry, sculpture, engineering, architecture -- everything.
My wife, a sculptor, vehemently disagrees with me. In her view, "art" is made by "artists", who are always painters, sculptors, other types of visual artists -- but never coders, architects, etc.
In my view, her view is elitism: "We are artists, we know art when we see it." Similarly, she and her fellow artists make a big deal out of "art versus craft", "outsider art versus (real) art", etc. I have no time for these petty limitations: what the mind imagines and the hand makes, that is art to me.
All other factors aside, the reason that Y2K would have been the problem that some alleged is that all the failures would happen at the same time. If something fails, even something major like a powerplant, it's a problem not a catastrophe. It would only be a catastrophe if lots of tem, or worse yet all of them, failed at the same time.
Tin Whiskers are less like Y2K, more like Mad Cow -- an insidious, slow-growing disease that consumes our neural infrastructure.
If pot, etc, is legalized, you'll see an enormous tax placed on it almost overnight and your imported drugs will still be illegal under the guise of safety or defeating terrorism or something like that.
Agreed.
In the case of pot, if it were legal, everyone who had a mind could grow their own for approximately free. Growing enough pot to keep oneself stoned for a years takes only a modicum of space and effort. Many people wouldn't, of course -- they're just buy a pack at the liquor store. (Who grows their own tobacco any more?)
In the case of cocaine, I suppose users (talking US/Canada/Euro citizens here, not Quechua indians) could grow their own, but I think (not sure about this) you need a lot of land and a lot of plants to get a little bit of toot. It's definitely not a project you build into a closet.
Same again for opiates -- lotsa plants for a bit of goo.
Then there are synthetics -- no citizen is going to brew his own Prozac, or whatever.
If the easily-cultivated (see "sativa") plant-based drugs were legalized, I predict a rise in synthetic, hard-to-manufacture drugs; along with the suppression of harder-to-grow imports.
Aye, there's the rub. You live in Canada, lucky dog. Me, I live in Minnesota -- the last, sad, tattered remnant of what used to be a liberal state in the Land of the Free.
I see the Bill Gates, Carnegies, Rockefellers and other criminal monopolists as an excellent analogy to whats going on here. They are trying to crush competition !
Agreed.
Similarly, I see homo sapiens as the problem here -- killing and eating Neanderthal man to extinction.
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It doesn't matter if you have facts to back up an assertion like that, you're still going to pay a price in suffering that makes it far better to just shut the hell up.
Married life teaches this very lesson.
-kgj
When you want to remove the rat robots from the patient, just flip them over and sprinkle a bit of parmesan around their anus and wait a few minutes.
...! Dude, I did not need to imagine that scenario! Color my brain 'defiled' ....
Ewwwww
-kgj
It took them three years to get from 2.17 to 2.18? At a rate of 0.0333 releases per year, it must have taken them sixty-five years just to get to 2.17. That means they've been developing BugZilla since just after the start of World War II ...
If you accept that the rate of bug discovery is constant.
This is a hotly debated issue. For example, some Creationists assert that the rate of bug discovery has accelerated with time, and that BugZilla development began five to six thousand years ago.
But the world is full of criminals who want to run your life.
Sadly, most of them are people we elected.
"What you mean 'we', white man?"
- Tonto
Privacy? What privacy?
Do you want criminals running your life?
Of course not!
But the world is full of criminals who want to run your life.
What you need is police, to protect you from criminals. Then there's the problem of police protecting themselves from criminals -- or not, as the case may be -- but that's another story.
-kgj
what happens in prison showers isn't actually breeding
...!
Ewwww
-kgj
In an all male prison population, it's pretty much guaranteed nobody's breeding.
... dude, I did not need the image implied by your observation ....
Ewww
-kgj
Now we can fill up our jails with even more people who are as dangerous as marijuana smokers...
....
Oh, that's fuckin' great -- IP violaters and pot smokers, cheek to jowl in the showers.
God only knows what kind of criminal masterminds are breeding in those prisons
-kgj
Now that I can tightly link my business and marketing with a new semantic oriented paradigm shift that's horizontally compatible with my vertical integration, I can finally think outside the box and my dynamicism will be prolific!
....
Nuh-uh. Your dynamicism is gonna be about the same, dude.
Unless, of course, you buy the optional "My Dynamicism" module from Rational
-kgj
Actually, we spend most of our money being Socialists. Only when you remove all of the social programs from the budget do the military line items come to the fore.
Socialism for the rich, laissez-faire for the poor.
-kgj
I do realize that there are plenty of other uses for the money, but is it right to only spend money on humanitarian efforts?
Fortunately, the US doesn't "only spend money on humanitarian efforts" -- in fact, most of our money is spent on:
A. Preparing for war;
B. Waging war;
C. Paying interest on debt incurred from waging war.
Sure, let's preserve our space-race heritage; but let's not pretend that we're spending much money on humanitarian efforts in the first place.
-kgj
If John Edward stops hosting Crossing Over, I know where they can get a new host.
Please God -- let there never be another John Edward.
Crossing Over must die, and never again be channeled to the living!
-kgj
In the typical woodworking shop the kind of sawdust that will kill electronics is produced at high velocity approximately 36 inches off the ground.
You're quite right. I hadn't thought through the shop/sawdust aspect -- I was thinking of office environments.
-kgj
Most important feature of the PC - filters for the intake fans ...
Right. And keep your PC off the floor, that's where the dust is. Keep the PC on a desk, in a cupboard, etc. Better yet, keep the PC in a separate closet.
-kgj
The difference between artwork and code is the same as the difference between architecture and civil engineering -- they're both creative and contribute to the final work (the game or the building), but one is art and the other isn't.
Your code is "art" in the old sense of a word, but that's because programmers are artisans, not artists. It is not, however "art" in the sense of "exhibit your source code in a museum so that people can be emotionally moved by it."
I prefer to use "art" in the classical sense of the word -- that is, everything imagined in the mind of man, and created by the hand of man. Poetry, sculpture, engineering, architecture -- everything.
My wife, a sculptor, vehemently disagrees with me. In her view, "art" is made by "artists", who are always painters, sculptors, other types of visual artists -- but never coders, architects, etc.
In my view, her view is elitism: "We are artists, we know art when we see it." Similarly, she and her fellow artists make a big deal out of "art versus craft", "outsider art versus (real) art", etc. I have no time for these petty limitations: what the mind imagines and the hand makes, that is art to me.
-kgj
I don't know Stallman's view on the matter.
But if I had to guess, I'd say: That's purely hypothetical, mind you -- I have no idea where RMS stands on the matter.
In any case, code is art, in my opinion -- code, painting, music, architecture, literature -- it's all art, art, art.
-kgj
Made me laugh!
-kgj
All other factors aside, the reason that Y2K would have been the problem that some alleged is that all the failures would happen at the same time. If something fails, even something major like a powerplant, it's a problem not a catastrophe. It would only be a catastrophe if lots of tem, or worse yet all of them, failed at the same time.
Tin Whiskers are less like Y2K, more like Mad Cow -- an insidious, slow-growing disease that consumes our neural infrastructure.
-kgj
Loyalty used to mean something in this country. I guess loyalty has gone the same way as traditional family values and faith in God.
Yup. Sadly, man has a long history of betraying his benefactors.
Example: colonists who owed everything to king and country -- yet they threw all that tea in Boston Harbor. And what followed was worse. Ingrates!
-kgj
Late 70's ... you could buy a small country with $30, we know. Then inflation happened and you couldn't anymore.
....
Now, only the CIA can afford a small country. Grrr
-kgj
I thought in the beginning was the "punch card".
In the begining was Stonehenge, etc.
-kgj
If pot, etc, is legalized, you'll see an enormous tax placed on it almost overnight and your imported drugs will still be illegal under the guise of safety or defeating terrorism or something like that.
Agreed.
In the case of pot, if it were legal, everyone who had a mind could grow their own for approximately free. Growing enough pot to keep oneself stoned for a years takes only a modicum of space and effort. Many people wouldn't, of course -- they're just buy a pack at the liquor store. (Who grows their own tobacco any more?)
In the case of cocaine, I suppose users (talking US/Canada/Euro citizens here, not Quechua indians) could grow their own, but I think (not sure about this) you need a lot of land and a lot of plants to get a little bit of toot. It's definitely not a project you build into a closet.
Same again for opiates -- lotsa plants for a bit of goo.
Then there are synthetics -- no citizen is going to brew his own Prozac, or whatever.
If the easily-cultivated (see "sativa") plant-based drugs were legalized, I predict a rise in synthetic, hard-to-manufacture drugs; along with the suppression of harder-to-grow imports.
-kgj
If it were legal, it would just be another white powder stimulant, like sugar.
Too bad Coca-Cola switched to high fructose corn syrup.
Remove the water from that high-fructose corn syrup, and I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the remaining solids are white, and easily powdered.
-kgj
Here in Canada ...
Aye, there's the rub. You live in Canada, lucky dog. Me, I live in Minnesota -- the last, sad, tattered remnant of what used to be a liberal state in the Land of the Free.
-kgj
I see the Bill Gates, Carnegies, Rockefellers and other criminal monopolists as an excellent analogy to whats going on here. They are trying to crush competition !
Agreed.
Similarly, I see homo sapiens as the problem here -- killing and eating Neanderthal man to extinction.
-kgj