I've always been fascinated by people who keep dangerous pets or work with them. They often seem to hold the belief that their relationship with these creatures transcends their instinctive nature to kill. And for a time it seems that they are right. But you only have to piss off a grizzly bear one time, and all of a sudden you're on the latest episode of "People Who Domesticated Animals Which Shouldn't Have Been Domesticated."
I should like to see that show - what time and channel is it on?
Perhaps the lesson is to be a bit more careful about your privacy, so that what you do on the internet remains between you and the professionals at the NSA.
I know you're being snarky, Slashdot, but I'd trust the professionals at the NSA over middle management any day of the week. The NSA doesn't ruin your life if it goes through your google history and finds a few keywords. It doesn't assume the worst. The NSA gathers up the data, forwards it to a team of analysts, and, seeing this kind of thing every day, make an informed and reasoned decision to either forward it up the chain, or bin it.
And, they've never caught a single terrorist. Pretty impressive results.
I don't buy that as being universally true. We all thought our band teacher was an asshole (and we were right) but we also understood that there was a direct correlation between his attitude and our winning (as in - first place) all but one competition in my first year in marching band. No way would we have let him be fired. I can point to other such teachers, also.
I don't think the issue here is right wing vs left wing, it is that he accepts myths over observable fact.
Really? Like the left wingers in siphonphores post "who's antipathy toward free enterprise and economic globalism lead to more human suffering around the world than that of a global warming denier"? They also accept myths over observable facts. Maybe it's just myths that you also happen to believe?
"free market capitalism" is your first hint that you're dealing with a cluefuck. "free markets" and "capitalism" are separate ideas that often work well together.
The banking industry doesn't work like it used to. In the old days, people saved money in banks and banks loaned that money out to others at a fairly high interest rate. I remember people having mortgages with 17% interest rates. The bank then shared some of that interest with the savers. When I was a kid we got 5.25% annual interest on a savings account.
Nowadays the fed lends to banks at a really low rate, around 1%, and the banks use that to back the mortgages and such. It's possible right now to get a mortgage of around 3% or less. So, saving money no longer makes any sense as banks can't pay interest. So they make it up in fees.
Take my bank as an example. They give me 1.5% interest on my checking account, but it's not interest. I have to use my debit card 3 times in a month, use the bill pay, etc. All of these activities generate fees for the bank, and they give me some of those fees back as "interest". Very different scenario.
It would be difficult to go back to the "old" way of doing things, but would be better for our economy.
Precisely, I'm curious as to how they explain all the people that give up on the IT sector because they can't get a job due to the ridiculously narrow job requirements that even entry level positions have.
Well, they'll give up and go work in a grocery store or something. At that point, it will no longer affect them.
A lot of folks like yourself - typically without a strong CS background - don't really "get" Ruby and, by proxy, Rails. I understand that and, honestly, it's not a problem. Stick with PHP, the best you could do in Rails is lower the average IQ of Rails programmers.
With the new Laravel PHP framework winning RoRs and CodeIgnitor converts by the thousands...
CodeIgnitor? Maybe. RoR? Um, no. Or, perhaps, in your dreams.
As an RoR developer who left PHP years ago I assure you - we aren't just waiting for a really good PHP framework that's an RoR knockoff. Part of the greatness of Rails is Ruby, and looking through the Laravel docs just confirms that. It looks like Laravel is about as nice as you can get on PHP, but ultimately it's still PHP underneath (and on top).
Rails is a meta-language built on top of Ruby. Just can't do that in PHP.
And that's not even getting into the ugliness of PHP's cruft that's been built up over the years.
And even if it wasn't, the Patriot Act has plenty of blatantly anti-Constitutional provisions which no federal worker has an excuse for using (unless we want to make some post-mortem apologies at Nuremburg).
Good point. But it's a PITA when converting from that to hex, where the machine code is irrelevant and just some immediate values matter. Thankfully most of them were all 1s so it didn't matter.
On another note, the TMS9900 also had an extremely simple instruction format similar to the PDP-11 but with 16 registers, so the register # was a nybble and hex made sense.
This CPU is an excellent 16-bit CISC CPU, and it's the forerunner to not only the VAX-11 architecture, but also the Motorola 68000 series and the TMS9900 series. My only gripe with the assembly language was that it required octal instead of hex. The CPU had a lot of addressing modes, 8 registers (6 GP) and even floating point capabilities.
My first actual programming job was in 1988, making minimum wage, working for a physics professor - translating a PDP-11 assembly library that provided a programming interface to a Grinnell graphics processor into VAX-11 assembly. Part of that was turning the various IO calls on the PDP-11 into QIO calls on the VAX.
The Grinnell was incredibly capable for the time. It produced a 512x512 display with the capability for either 8-bit monochrome or 24-bit color. It also had a monochrome camera attached to it. The display had 5 memory "planes", so you could configure red, green, and blue to whichever planes. Writing an image to a plane took a few seconds. Reading an image from a plane took around a minute. It also had hardware 2D graphics commands for lines and squares which were hella-fast for the time.
The professor had just upgraded from a PDP-11 to a MicroVAX II (not sure it was an upgrade) and had 1800 fortran programs that used this library to do various graphics things. A lot of them were throw-aways written by students, but he had some cool stuff for the time to do histogram stretches, change contrast, etc. Yeah, stuff we do with a slider in photoshop now, but then we would run the program and wait for a couple of minutes.
The Constitution is remarkably easy to read and understand - it's illegal. Period. I don't even think anybody's even trying to say it's legal - just that we can't do anything to stop them.
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Why are the Republicans shittier? I've not seen it.
I've always been fascinated by people who keep dangerous pets or work with them. They often seem to hold the belief that their relationship with these creatures transcends their instinctive nature to kill. And for a time it seems that they are right. But you only have to piss off a grizzly bear one time, and all of a sudden you're on the latest episode of "People Who Domesticated Animals Which Shouldn't Have Been Domesticated."
I should like to see that show - what time and channel is it on?
Perhaps the lesson is to be a bit more careful about your privacy, so that what you do on the internet remains between you and the professionals at the NSA.
I know you're being snarky, Slashdot, but I'd trust the professionals at the NSA over middle management any day of the week. The NSA doesn't ruin your life if it goes through your google history and finds a few keywords. It doesn't assume the worst. The NSA gathers up the data, forwards it to a team of analysts, and, seeing this kind of thing every day, make an informed and reasoned decision to either forward it up the chain, or bin it.
And, they've never caught a single terrorist. Pretty impressive results.
I don't buy that as being universally true. We all thought our band teacher was an asshole (and we were right) but we also understood that there was a direct correlation between his attitude and our winning (as in - first place) all but one competition in my first year in marching band. No way would we have let him be fired. I can point to other such teachers, also.
is it a prison or a school?
What with the security checkpoints, lockdowns, forced searches of student property without permission...
That's a damn good question.
Actually, it sounds like an airport.
There are somethings you really don't appreciate until later in life. Being spanked for free by an attractive middle aged woman is one of them.
FTFY.
I don't think the issue here is right wing vs left wing, it is that he accepts myths over observable fact.
Really? Like the left wingers in siphonphores post "who's antipathy toward free enterprise and economic globalism lead to more human suffering around the world than that of a global warming denier"? They also accept myths over observable facts. Maybe it's just myths that you also happen to believe?
Until every single plane in the sky crashes your analogy is stupid.
If only I had mod points.
There are no good intentions associated with this idea.
"free market capitalism" is your first hint that you're dealing with a cluefuck. "free markets" and "capitalism" are separate ideas that often work well together.
The banking industry doesn't work like it used to. In the old days, people saved money in banks and banks loaned that money out to others at a fairly high interest rate. I remember people having mortgages with 17% interest rates. The bank then shared some of that interest with the savers. When I was a kid we got 5.25% annual interest on a savings account.
Nowadays the fed lends to banks at a really low rate, around 1%, and the banks use that to back the mortgages and such. It's possible right now to get a mortgage of around 3% or less. So, saving money no longer makes any sense as banks can't pay interest. So they make it up in fees.
Take my bank as an example. They give me 1.5% interest on my checking account, but it's not interest. I have to use my debit card 3 times in a month, use the bill pay, etc. All of these activities generate fees for the bank, and they give me some of those fees back as "interest". Very different scenario.
It would be difficult to go back to the "old" way of doing things, but would be better for our economy.
Are you saying this *isn't* a victory for gay marriage? Because my gay friends would disagree strongly with you.
Well, they'll give up and go work in a grocery store or something. At that point, it will no longer affect them.
If XL is not built, there is nothing stopping the oil from coming in on rail and it's not clear how punishing that would be to the industry.
Um, depends on the industry.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-23/buffett-s-burlington-northern-among-winners-in-obama-rejection-of-pipeline.html
Buffett's made more money from his buddy turning down this pipeline than you'll make in several lifetimes.
A lot of folks like yourself - typically without a strong CS background - don't really "get" Ruby and, by proxy, Rails. I understand that and, honestly, it's not a problem. Stick with PHP, the best you could do in Rails is lower the average IQ of Rails programmers.
CodeIgnitor? Maybe. RoR? Um, no. Or, perhaps, in your dreams.
As an RoR developer who left PHP years ago I assure you - we aren't just waiting for a really good PHP framework that's an RoR knockoff. Part of the greatness of Rails is Ruby, and looking through the Laravel docs just confirms that. It looks like Laravel is about as nice as you can get on PHP, but ultimately it's still PHP underneath (and on top).
Rails is a meta-language built on top of Ruby. Just can't do that in PHP.
And that's not even getting into the ugliness of PHP's cruft that's been built up over the years.
The 68000 also made the 32-bit leap far more easily - of course that was 10-15 years later.
Are you still supporting forensic fraudster Steven Hayne?
http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/12/mississipip-ag-jim-hood-still
And even if it wasn't, the Patriot Act has plenty of blatantly anti-Constitutional provisions which no federal worker has an excuse for using (unless we want to make some post-mortem apologies at Nuremburg).
Good point. But it's a PITA when converting from that to hex, where the machine code is irrelevant and just some immediate values matter. Thankfully most of them were all 1s so it didn't matter.
On another note, the TMS9900 also had an extremely simple instruction format similar to the PDP-11 but with 16 registers, so the register # was a nybble and hex made sense.
This CPU is an excellent 16-bit CISC CPU, and it's the forerunner to not only the VAX-11 architecture, but also the Motorola 68000 series and the TMS9900 series. My only gripe with the assembly language was that it required octal instead of hex. The CPU had a lot of addressing modes, 8 registers (6 GP) and even floating point capabilities.
My first actual programming job was in 1988, making minimum wage, working for a physics professor - translating a PDP-11 assembly library that provided a programming interface to a Grinnell graphics processor into VAX-11 assembly. Part of that was turning the various IO calls on the PDP-11 into QIO calls on the VAX.
The Grinnell was incredibly capable for the time. It produced a 512x512 display with the capability for either 8-bit monochrome or 24-bit color. It also had a monochrome camera attached to it. The display had 5 memory "planes", so you could configure red, green, and blue to whichever planes. Writing an image to a plane took a few seconds. Reading an image from a plane took around a minute. It also had hardware 2D graphics commands for lines and squares which were hella-fast for the time.
The professor had just upgraded from a PDP-11 to a MicroVAX II (not sure it was an upgrade) and had 1800 fortran programs that used this library to do various graphics things. A lot of them were throw-aways written by students, but he had some cool stuff for the time to do histogram stretches, change contrast, etc. Yeah, stuff we do with a slider in photoshop now, but then we would run the program and wait for a couple of minutes.
The Constitution is remarkably easy to read and understand - it's illegal. Period. I don't even think anybody's even trying to say it's legal - just that we can't do anything to stop them.
But it still doesn't make it legal.
If they have nothing to hide, what's the problem?