Call me old fashioned but "in a big way" simply doesn't cut it for me. It is language used by pikeys. Or by bullies which are a linguistic or intellect stone's throw away from pikeys.
Do the geek proud and make a bit of an effort when writing. After all, the typical geek reads more than Joe Average -well "he" claims so and I personally do anyway- and hence trains his brain in appreciating well formed sentences.
Besides, there are so many alternatives to "in a big way".
See the problem here is that they won't have wifi or 3G coverage.
That's the minor problem. You can fake a connection. I would be thinking more of the missing content. Back then UNIX man pages were the most exciting deal around. And BTW, today they're still pretty cool.
Now I'm on a serious guilt trip. I deprived You of sex with my comment on ChromeOS. I ruined what could have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. How can I ever make up for that ?;-)
Well, I could go for second best to loosing one's virginity. Would you be my buddy and comfort me when I sulk over stuff that really matters, like window manager decorations or transparency for instance? Boy today seems to turn into the best day of my life!
I've played around with ChromeOS on a virtual machine and it sucks.
It's an OS for accessing Google apps and the web. Nothing else.
Great if that's all You need, but I need a bit more.
There I was, the subject and mood were right. The girl agreed with me on ChomeOS -sort of anyway- and I was working my way over her shoulder towards her back and trying to undo her bra.
Then you come along telling ChomeOS sucks and all I get now is the cold shoulder and a disturbed, alarmed look.
Buddy, I'd almost made it.What a party pooper you are. Sheesh!
Just to explain where I'm coming from, back in the 80s as an adolescent I was severely influenced by left wing politics. Indeed, I lived in the Netherlands and over there Reagan was criticised for anything he did. It was left wing fashion and I was influenced by it. But eventually the internet came to my rescue and I learned that there were more sides to a story and that people scorned by the populists actually had valid reasons to choose the way they do and that the matter is not to agree but to respect opinions. The left wings bigots realised only much later what Reagan's influence brought to the world.
So, coming from a left wing background and having thought things over quite a lot, I resolve that Reagan killing off the project is a very sane thing to do. It is NOT the task of a government but of private business to improve technology. A government should merely provide conditions in which healthy competition results in better products for our society. (Healthy meaning good businesses thrive scum bag bastard parasite business are demotivated.)
And with respect to the car at hand, what incentive would manufacturers have to build better cars when a government funded project -with whom you really cannot compete- comes up with a radical new car? I also strongly doubt if every facet of the car is really taken care of. It looks horrible and I wouldn't be surprised if there would be some reason by which the car eventually would be unsaleable and thus becoming a financial liability.
Competition for businesses and policy making for governments. Praise to Reagan!
nudity, violence, child-targeted advertising, mindless "culture", and raw stupidity
Not meaning to offend, but why is nudity almost always put in front of anything else? IMHO hurting someone -ranging from crude bullying to actually killing- is always worse than taking off yer pants to try to seduce someone into a bit of rolling in the hay. (Explicitly leaving out references to holy books.)
I don't understand. What does the Parents Television Council have against children learning Perl?
Indeed, I could come up with regex that would instantly make your stomach turn inside out and empty itself before you could say $line =~ s/\$#\*!/2g1c/g (And don't tempt me btw. as I'm not in the mood to socialise and as I have tortured innocent kitties before.)
Conversely, what right do you have to copy his words or print words he wrote and sell them for your profit?
What right do we have to express our thoughts and then expect others to refrain from repeating or perhaps being influenced by these? If you want to ultimately own your thoughts then don't express them.
I think it's bloody convenient to have a system in place whereby your particular ordering of words suddenly and perpetually brings you riches. I utterly agree with copyright during lifetime and for a limited time after. But in the referred articles Twain is speaking about 50 years after his death. 50 years! Say you die when your kids are 20 and they get to benefit from your work for almost the complete rest of their lives. An absolutely berserk idea and probably the best means in producing absolute, lazy bastards.
Make money during your lifetime, snuff it and pass the dough on to your kids. And 10-20 years after your death, your kids should be able to take care of themselves.
I'd give his kids the rights before I'd give some random bastard those rights.
There's no difference between the kids and "some random bastard". All of them were not involved in the producing of the works. And I tell you that publishing works from the public domain will NOT bring anyone heaps of money. Competition will take care of that. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" goes for about GBP 5.
Why should copyright take care of one's kids almost indefinitely? Sudden death apart, what right do children have to be treated well by their deceased predecessor? Why shouldn't I have to earn my living if my dad was a dead -pun not intended- good writer?
How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.
Have you ever been in a huge data centre? There are mostly systems not needing any human interaction for years and in fact people need a map and an index to find the system. Human intervention -e.g. for failing hardware- is usually cast into procedures whereby an "operator" does the work needed. Disk storage is usually separated form application servers. Etc...
Huge data centres analyse the used hardware used and usually set up a palette of system types to select from. (Therefore anything outside of "the palette" is usually possible at significantly higher costs.)
I take these data centres will be capable of analysing pros and cons for using immersion cooling. Higher server density and thus lower real estate requirements add up to significant savings for one.
Like nursing and completely unlike stock brokering, sysadmin-ing is a vocation. If you step into it for the wrong reasons you will eventually start hating it.
Without a vocation you simply cannot be arsed to trying to understand what you are administrating and your life will be reduced to clicking the GUIs. Much like described in the article.
However, with a vocation -which may come later- you will find it fascinating to build and set up systems to become very resilient and that respond better to hardware malfunction. You'll also find ways to reduce boring administration tasks.
Back in the days I was a UNIX sysadmin for a small cluster of systems with 200+ users. I started taking my job seriously, to understand in more and more details what of the soft and hardware. After several years I moved on to development/architecture/integration. Currently I design and implement large systems and my experiences with sysadmin make me want to produce administrable systems.
Take your existence to a next level. Every new day.
For example, even opening a file descriptor and then iterating upon it is awkward in Bourne shell - you end up stowing it as some FD number over 2, and then writing odd redirection like "3>&" on every line that connects with it.
The problem is that in most half decent language you can express almost anything. It is about choosing to refrain from expressing. As I stated, to me shell scripting languages are mostly about setting up environments and starting shells.
I've seen people creating monstrous programs in Bash -because apparently the f...ing could- using complex arrays, reinventing clib functions, resulting in an badly performing system, rendering their product unmanageable and thus becoming a liability.
I program only since 3 decades and 2 of them professionally. I'm still looking for the fine equilibrium between what you could and what you should do. My focus in this era is on Java, Perl and Bourne shell. Java can do most things I need on application level on most platforms and is well accepted almost everywhere within the corporate world. Perl is suitable for slightly more complex system stuff, is readily available on most systems and skills are still around. Bourne shell I use for straight forward system stuff and is very available.
I'd refrain from using Bash or Korn shells -not readily available, historically challenged-, from writing specific system programs in Java -no intrinsic POSIX support- and some other obvious permutations of language, applicability and practicality.
A rather frivolous parallel would be to compare programmers and music composers. The best ones are mostly technically accomplished and excel at refraining from using phrases that would not fit the composition.
Back to the Bourne shell. It is IMHO a truly remarkable piece of work, to be used for what it does best.
The shell is a poor clone of 1950's algol. Today, scripting in Ruby or Python yields scripts that can handle errors with advanced facilities like exceptions, and is more maintainable, and can connect to a number of different GUIs or the web.
That sounds like favouring certain human languages over others. I say use the right language to communicate well with your audience. The Bourne shell is excellently suited to manage daemons on UNIX like systems. It's 33 years old now and I don't see it disappearing in the next 33 years.
BTW, the similarity between Algol and the Bourne shell is that sometimes blocks of code are enclosed in a word and that word in reverse (case->easc, do->od.) Other than that I see mainly differences, most apparently in their applicability.
Once your mind setting is correct you will realize the beauty of the Bourne shell. Its main purpose really is to set up an environment to start another shell -a scripted or a compiled program. You can set up environment variables, start another shell, redirect output and evaluate the exit value. It's syntax is absolutely consistent and precise, the rule set to remember is relatively small and that to me is it's beauty. In fact, when starting a shell from another language like Java, I invariably log the environment and the execution in Bourne shell syntax.
People who suffer from a rare genetic disorder called Williams Syndrome have a complete lack of social fear.
Or, social fear is normal and those insufferable socialising managers really suffer from a malady. If only these idiots were forced into lunatic asylums... Where they belong...
Typically, children start overtly gravitating towards their own ethnic groups from the tender age of three.
Breaking ethnic bias is a thing for the cultured among us. The ultimate cure for racism is getting to know the world. Or, as Mark Twain said eloquently: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."
Science is one thing that if done right under socialism works best.
What? A commie? Here in this holy forum? (Loads shotgun.)
I definitely do not promote a Socialist or Communist political environment
Oh well, he seems god fearing.(Eases grip on shotgun and chews tobacco.)
as being overall good/bad/otherwise
(Chokes on tobacco.) Hell, he's not condemning the commies!? (Frantically hops about with shotgun and bids her wife Martha-Jane good bey 'cause he'll be off on a crusade.)
I take your point that science needs a form of altruism in order to be independent. I merely wanted to illustrate that the strong feelings certain people foster against communism condition us into excusing ourselves for using the C-word and writing disclaimers, basically telling people that coffee is hot and that you shouldn't pour it on your testicles.
DISCLAIMERS:
Sorry for using the C-word myself
I am not a commie. (Shit here I go again.)
In fact I think commies -oh well...- should be individually prosecuted for being idiots ruining the world by wanting to impose their lofty ideology on every one, including their own ilk.
Coffee is hot and that you shouldn't pour it on your testicles.
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Poor Mr. Cumming. I bet this is not so much a programming thing as it is the decency censor interfering.
Call me old fashioned but "in a big way" simply doesn't cut it for me. It is language used by pikeys. Or by bullies which are a linguistic or intellect stone's throw away from pikeys.
Do the geek proud and make a bit of an effort when writing. After all, the typical geek reads more than Joe Average -well "he" claims so and I personally do anyway- and hence trains his brain in appreciating well formed sentences.
Besides, there are so many alternatives to "in a big way".
Tweetle tweetle dumb.
See the problem here is that they won't have wifi or 3G coverage.
That's the minor problem. You can fake a connection. I would be thinking more of the missing content. Back then UNIX man pages were the most exciting deal around. And BTW, today they're still pretty cool.
There was a time when 15 Crays in your pocket wooed a gal.
(And it was cool to drink, drive and to get oneself and others killed. Times change. Mostly for the better.)
Now I'm on a serious guilt trip. I deprived You of sex with my comment on ChromeOS. I ruined what could have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience. How can I ever make up for that ? ;-)
Well, I could go for second best to loosing one's virginity. Would you be my buddy and comfort me when I sulk over stuff that really matters, like window manager decorations or transparency for instance? Boy today seems to turn into the best day of my life!
I've played around with ChromeOS on a virtual machine and it sucks. It's an OS for accessing Google apps and the web. Nothing else. Great if that's all You need, but I need a bit more.
There I was, the subject and mood were right. The girl agreed with me on ChomeOS -sort of anyway- and I was working my way over her shoulder towards her back and trying to undo her bra.
Then you come along telling ChomeOS sucks and all I get now is the cold shoulder and a disturbed, alarmed look.
Buddy, I'd almost made it.What a party pooper you are. Sheesh!
Just to explain where I'm coming from, back in the 80s as an adolescent I was severely influenced by left wing politics. Indeed, I lived in the Netherlands and over there Reagan was criticised for anything he did. It was left wing fashion and I was influenced by it. But eventually the internet came to my rescue and I learned that there were more sides to a story and that people scorned by the populists actually had valid reasons to choose the way they do and that the matter is not to agree but to respect opinions. The left wings bigots realised only much later what Reagan's influence brought to the world.
So, coming from a left wing background and having thought things over quite a lot, I resolve that Reagan killing off the project is a very sane thing to do. It is NOT the task of a government but of private business to improve technology. A government should merely provide conditions in which healthy competition results in better products for our society. (Healthy meaning good businesses thrive scum bag bastard parasite business are demotivated.)
And with respect to the car at hand, what incentive would manufacturers have to build better cars when a government funded project -with whom you really cannot compete- comes up with a radical new car? I also strongly doubt if every facet of the car is really taken care of. It looks horrible and I wouldn't be surprised if there would be some reason by which the car eventually would be unsaleable and thus becoming a financial liability.
Competition for businesses and policy making for governments. Praise to Reagan!
nudity, violence, child-targeted advertising, mindless "culture", and raw stupidity
Not meaning to offend, but why is nudity almost always put in front of anything else? IMHO hurting someone -ranging from crude bullying to actually killing- is always worse than taking off yer pants to try to seduce someone into a bit of rolling in the hay. (Explicitly leaving out references to holy books.)
I don't understand. What does the Parents Television Council have against children learning Perl?
Indeed, I could come up with regex that would instantly make your stomach turn inside out and empty itself before you could say $line =~ s/\$#\*!/2g1c/g (And don't tempt me btw. as I'm not in the mood to socialise and as I have tortured innocent kitties before.)
Conversely, what right do you have to copy his words or print words he wrote and sell them for your profit?
What right do we have to express our thoughts and then expect others to refrain from repeating or perhaps being influenced by these? If you want to ultimately own your thoughts then don't express them.
I think it's bloody convenient to have a system in place whereby your particular ordering of words suddenly and perpetually brings you riches. I utterly agree with copyright during lifetime and for a limited time after. But in the referred articles Twain is speaking about 50 years after his death. 50 years! Say you die when your kids are 20 and they get to benefit from your work for almost the complete rest of their lives. An absolutely berserk idea and probably the best means in producing absolute, lazy bastards.
Make money during your lifetime, snuff it and pass the dough on to your kids. And 10-20 years after your death, your kids should be able to take care of themselves.
I'd give his kids the rights before I'd give some random bastard those rights.
There's no difference between the kids and "some random bastard". All of them were not involved in the producing of the works. And I tell you that publishing works from the public domain will NOT bring anyone heaps of money. Competition will take care of that. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" goes for about GBP 5.
Why should copyright take care of one's kids almost indefinitely? Sudden death apart, what right do children have to be treated well by their deceased predecessor? Why shouldn't I have to earn my living if my dad was a dead -pun not intended- good writer?
How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.
Have you ever been in a huge data centre? There are mostly systems not needing any human interaction for years and in fact people need a map and an index to find the system. Human intervention -e.g. for failing hardware- is usually cast into procedures whereby an "operator" does the work needed. Disk storage is usually separated form application servers. Etc...
Huge data centres analyse the used hardware used and usually set up a palette of system types to select from. (Therefore anything outside of "the palette" is usually possible at significantly higher costs.)
I take these data centres will be capable of analysing pros and cons for using immersion cooling. Higher server density and thus lower real estate requirements add up to significant savings for one.
I like the idea of measuring energy use in bonbons.
Indeed binge eating actually is power!!! (Measured in bonbons per second.)
Losing sight has always been my greatest fear.
Don't underestimate deafness. Allegedly it's worse than blindness.
Obligatory free software rant: I bet he didn't even consider making his software free.... and then
Like nursing and completely unlike stock brokering, sysadmin-ing is a vocation. If you step into it for the wrong reasons you will eventually start hating it.
Without a vocation you simply cannot be arsed to trying to understand what you are administrating and your life will be reduced to clicking the GUIs. Much like described in the article.
However, with a vocation -which may come later- you will find it fascinating to build and set up systems to become very resilient and that respond better to hardware malfunction. You'll also find ways to reduce boring administration tasks.
Back in the days I was a UNIX sysadmin for a small cluster of systems with 200+ users. I started taking my job seriously, to understand in more and more details what of the soft and hardware. After several years I moved on to development/architecture/integration. Currently I design and implement large systems and my experiences with sysadmin make me want to produce administrable systems.
Take your existence to a next level. Every new day.
I used to have one of the first hulking 17" CRTs on my desk
Why on earth did you need 17'' for VT100 or maybe VT220?
Never have been particularly bright, hence I relish my moment of utter brilliance when deciding for Android. And I'll soon be able to flash too!
For example, even opening a file descriptor and then iterating upon it is awkward in Bourne shell - you end up stowing it as some FD number over 2, and then writing odd redirection like "3>&" on every line that connects with it.
The problem is that in most half decent language you can express almost anything. It is about choosing to refrain from expressing. As I stated, to me shell scripting languages are mostly about setting up environments and starting shells.
I've seen people creating monstrous programs in Bash -because apparently the f...ing could- using complex arrays, reinventing clib functions, resulting in an badly performing system, rendering their product unmanageable and thus becoming a liability.
I program only since 3 decades and 2 of them professionally. I'm still looking for the fine equilibrium between what you could and what you should do. My focus in this era is on Java, Perl and Bourne shell. Java can do most things I need on application level on most platforms and is well accepted almost everywhere within the corporate world. Perl is suitable for slightly more complex system stuff, is readily available on most systems and skills are still around. Bourne shell I use for straight forward system stuff and is very available.
I'd refrain from using Bash or Korn shells -not readily available, historically challenged-, from writing specific system programs in Java -no intrinsic POSIX support- and some other obvious permutations of language, applicability and practicality.
A rather frivolous parallel would be to compare programmers and music composers. The best ones are mostly technically accomplished and excel at refraining from using phrases that would not fit the composition.
Back to the Bourne shell. It is IMHO a truly remarkable piece of work, to be used for what it does best.
The shell is a poor clone of 1950's algol. Today, scripting in Ruby or Python yields scripts that can handle errors with advanced facilities like exceptions, and is more maintainable, and can connect to a number of different GUIs or the web.
That sounds like favouring certain human languages over others. I say use the right language to communicate well with your audience. The Bourne shell is excellently suited to manage daemons on UNIX like systems. It's 33 years old now and I don't see it disappearing in the next 33 years.
BTW, the similarity between Algol and the Bourne shell is that sometimes blocks of code are enclosed in a word and that word in reverse (case->easc, do->od.) Other than that I see mainly differences, most apparently in their applicability.
Once your mind setting is correct you will realize the beauty of the Bourne shell. Its main purpose really is to set up an environment to start another shell -a scripted or a compiled program. You can set up environment variables, start another shell, redirect output and evaluate the exit value. It's syntax is absolutely consistent and precise, the rule set to remember is relatively small and that to me is it's beauty. In fact, when starting a shell from another language like Java, I invariably log the environment and the execution in Bourne shell syntax.
People who suffer from a rare genetic disorder called Williams Syndrome have a complete lack of social fear.
Or, social fear is normal and those insufferable socialising managers really suffer from a malady. If only these idiots were forced into lunatic asylums... Where they belong...
Typically, children start overtly gravitating towards their own ethnic groups from the tender age of three.
Breaking ethnic bias is a thing for the cultured among us. The ultimate cure for racism is getting to know the world. Or, as Mark Twain said eloquently: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."
do you really want to let your kids, friends or random people to use it access all your browser history, photos, emails and such?
Perv! (The privilege of touching oneself whilst researching the Internet I though was exclusively mine.)
Come to think of perv-ing, is a (xyz)Pad suitable for spanking the monkey? I say it's a tall order to beat the notebook at beating the bishop.
Science is one thing that if done right under socialism works best.
What? A commie? Here in this holy forum? (Loads shotgun.)
I definitely do not promote a Socialist or Communist political environment
Oh well, he seems god fearing.(Eases grip on shotgun and chews tobacco.)
as being overall good/bad/otherwise
(Chokes on tobacco.) Hell, he's not condemning the commies!? (Frantically hops about with shotgun and bids her wife Martha-Jane good bey 'cause he'll be off on a crusade.)
I take your point that science needs a form of altruism in order to be independent. I merely wanted to illustrate that the strong feelings certain people foster against communism condition us into excusing ourselves for using the C-word and writing disclaimers, basically telling people that coffee is hot and that you shouldn't pour it on your testicles.
DISCLAIMERS: