Under your theory, you don't need to move to, live in, or even be in, Minnesota to fall under Minnesota law.
Interesting argument. Would that mean that if you bought merchandise from a supplier in Minnesota via a web commerce site you wouldn't need to pay sales tax on the sale? (Assuming Mn charges sales tax; no idea if they do, but the principle would be the same).
I'm not too happy about the ruling that MediaSentry evidence was legally obtained...
Yes, that one's a stunner. I suppose one could then incorporate a private detective agency in Liberia and practice in Minnesota, to the point of supplying evidence by manufacturing files on someone's computer?
So teach FORTRAN, teach VB6, teach them LOLCODE or whatever the hell you want but please make sure you're teaching them why the code is written the way it is...
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
Why is it written that way? Because I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGERS!
"Aha! Think you can dominate me with your IEBGENR Mind Flay?" (casts saving throw). "I counter with CORGZ" (Rolls dice. Then rolls again. And again...)
I think a primitive, fixed type language like Fortran is a good intro - not necessarily as a language to become their dominant one*, but to form one's thinking processes. It may seem like busy work from the outside, but learning the discipline and understanding the fundamentals such as the simple difference between data and algorithm is important. If you don't have the fundamentals understood, then subsequent applications - in any language - may suffer.
Case in point - a business programmer once did a very logical thing - nested a huge number of "else if"'s into a popular 4GL some years back (Cognos Powerhouse). He was getting four transactions per hour and couldn't understand why. What he did was logical, but did not map to what was "computable". A deeper understanding of data, parameter passing, manual stack manipulation taken as a school exercise would have cured him of aberrant practices early on.
Basically, you tend to remember later that any language you use, no matter how modern, can look awful if you forget the fundamentals in how to use a computer correctly.
*Disclaimer: It certainly was a dominant language for me, for a while. I've delivered a bit more than a quarter million lines of production Fortran.
these odd, pale blue, rounded wedge-shaped TV thingies whose screens glowed blue (ADM3A's, for the uninitiated).
Ahh, the ADM3A. For years I used an ADM3A "Dumb Terminal" clone that I built from the Heathkit catalog (H-19 I think it was). Great little terminal.
I remember seeing an ADM3A in the Hobart (Tasmania) Department of Health building, smack in the middle of one of those ergonomic workstations that had a raised centre and separate space for the keyboard. To use it that way you would have to be part orangutan. I learned everything I needed to know about bureaucracy from that single gestalt.
The building lost funds for branding before they completed the outdoor signage. All you could see from the street was "Depart". Say what you like about Taswiegens, but they do have a finely tuned sense of irony.
Go to Google main page and look for business solutions. They have a scheme where they'll charge you x dollars to index y hundred thousand documents, and they throw in the tinware (a custom pre-configured rack of search hardware, very scaleable) for you to plug into your LAN. All strictly inside your firewall. Set it up to crawl all your file shares and it won't matter whether you have a document management system or not. Most document management systems depend on keywords, taxonomies and special file name codes, all of which are decidedly old-hat. Index it and let 'em go search. The smallest version is kind of basic, but go up one level and they'll crawl pdf's, word docs, pretty much anything with text in it compressed or in source libraries or whatnot. They're pretty good. Not cheap, but then you're an aerospace firm...
There was a benefit to being a gnome in EQ (yes, truly!)... you got to see through walls occasionally due to the many & varied clipping bugs. Depends on how close you were, mostly. But in one or two of the original zones there were completely enclosed rooms with no apparent doorways where all walls were tiled with real-life photographs of someone's ginger cat. Very disturbing. I began to think that was how they started with wall textures - start with some photo image then photoshop it into unrecognisability. Either that or a very warped sense of humour.
Meh, don't take them too seriously. Do what you can do, do it well and at a pace geared for quality, smile at and speak little to or about users who are being bastards. It annoys the hell out of them and counts as a touche'.
There was a lovely old story by Issac Asimov - can't remember the name, sorry, and any search of his work will be a long walk - that told of the author of Genesis trying to write about the Big Bang in terms of particle physics. His son chastised him over the amount of writing materials that would take. At the end of the dialogue it was oversimplified to "(sigh) In the beginning..."
Fantasy is a good way to simplify scientific concepts, provided the fantasy actually tracks the science. If there's no believability, it doesn't make a very good story.
The line between SF and Fantasy has always been a little blurry (nowhere near as blurry as in Chalker's "Masters of Flux and Anchor" series which was a brilliant expansion on Clarke's Law, and a very good read if you can ignore the implicit mysogny in most of his works).
I've worried that Clarke's Law is taken as transitive by some (thank The Pasta for predictable and reproduceable results). I've also thought that we're on a trend to realisation of C.P.Snow's great cultural divide between the knowledge "haves" and "have-nots". I see this among friends who firmly believe that technology comes from observing certain rituals, rather than scientific advancement and engineering process. They're very Cargo Cult and not a little bit frightening.
The truly frightening thing is I have difficulty explaining the difference to them. The gulf is almost too deep to cross now.
This guy is not the first one to tell them there's no way it works and that they'd better just start making the adjustment now to a less-lavish lifestyle now that large parts of the contribution they used to make to music production and distribution are no longer needed.
The funny thing is, when people lower their prices the volume can go way up. That's why Wal-Mart is simultaneously loathed and extremely well patronized.
If they lower their prices to something more reasonable for decent work then people might be less inclined to walk past the record shops on their way to buy milk & bread.
...Personally, i've had a SEVERELY hard landing in Vietnam
Flying in a 737 from San Francisco to LA a few years ago (quite a few years ago) about mid-way we lost all lift in bad weather. When we took off it sounded like potholes in the runway or explosions from the back, all the way. Mid flight we started falling very hard with the nose still up. I started counting, one-onethousand, two-onethousand. Got to 45 before we bottomed out. The stewardess in the aisle had been holding on to both aisle seats and there was air between her feet and the floor for most of it.
Not sure how we survived that.
When we were safely on the ground the captain came on and said "...and if you enjoyed that ride and want to go on it again, please pass a "D" coupon to the front". (Old Disneyland visitors may remember that Matterhorn reference).
The Jammie is not presenting evidence. This is not evidence!! Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why weren't they able to obtain competent representation? With all due respect to lawyers, there certainly seem to be competent lawyers who will take on very dubious cases if paid enough, e.g. David Boies representing SCO.
That may be the very example they wish to avoid. If I were in the legal profession I think I'd sooner go up against NYCL in a karma pissing contest than cross Pamela Jones.
No offense, Ray, you're pretty cool. But PJ is a goddess.
Slashdot Mirror
And gasp, shock, horror...
Word to the wise .. that is not the way to start a post, if you want to be taken seriously.
That'll be a boon for Tom Lehrer...
First you get your mod points spent
Then you name the element
Which the trolls will then lament
Then you rant then you rant then you rant
Then for real fun
Use a good pun
Give it real class! Name it TommyLeherium!
Under your theory, you don't need to move to, live in, or even be in, Minnesota to fall under Minnesota law.
Interesting argument. Would that mean that if you bought merchandise from a supplier in Minnesota via a web commerce site you wouldn't need to pay sales tax on the sale? (Assuming Mn charges sales tax; no idea if they do, but the principle would be the same).
...subject to peer review...
Sounds like a desire to have some sort of academic acceptance of the MediaSentry techniques.
Heh...good luck with that.
I'm not too happy about the ruling that MediaSentry evidence was legally obtained...
Yes, that one's a stunner. I suppose one could then incorporate a private detective agency in Liberia and practice in Minnesota, to the point of supplying evidence by manufacturing files on someone's computer?
Hey, mon, it's not illegal in Liberia...
Yes. A Neutrino is a zero without a rim.
"Show us your Warcraft main".
Your case is proven.
Your point being?
- Nefarious Wheel, 40 years an IT geek, also PVP Geared 80 Mage, 80 Hunter
So teach FORTRAN, teach VB6, teach them LOLCODE or whatever the hell you want but please make sure you're teaching them why the code is written the way it is ...
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE
Why is it written that way? Because I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGERS!
I can still recite the JCL incantations needed...
"Aha! Think you can dominate me with your IEBGENR Mind Flay?" (casts saving throw). "I counter with CORGZ" (Rolls dice. Then rolls again. And again...)
I think a primitive, fixed type language like Fortran is a good intro - not necessarily as a language to become their dominant one*, but to form one's thinking processes. It may seem like busy work from the outside, but learning the discipline and understanding the fundamentals such as the simple difference between data and algorithm is important. If you don't have the fundamentals understood, then subsequent applications - in any language - may suffer.
Case in point - a business programmer once did a very logical thing - nested a huge number of "else if"'s into a popular 4GL some years back (Cognos Powerhouse). He was getting four transactions per hour and couldn't understand why. What he did was logical, but did not map to what was "computable". A deeper understanding of data, parameter passing, manual stack manipulation taken as a school exercise would have cured him of aberrant practices early on.
Basically, you tend to remember later that any language you use, no matter how modern, can look awful if you forget the fundamentals in how to use a computer correctly.
*Disclaimer: It certainly was a dominant language for me, for a while. I've delivered a bit more than a quarter million lines of production Fortran.
these odd, pale blue, rounded wedge-shaped TV thingies whose screens glowed blue (ADM3A's, for the uninitiated).
Ahh, the ADM3A. For years I used an ADM3A "Dumb Terminal" clone that I built from the Heathkit catalog (H-19 I think it was). Great little terminal.
I remember seeing an ADM3A in the Hobart (Tasmania) Department of Health building, smack in the middle of one of those ergonomic workstations that had a raised centre and separate space for the keyboard. To use it that way you would have to be part orangutan. I learned everything I needed to know about bureaucracy from that single gestalt.
The building lost funds for branding before they completed the outdoor signage. All you could see from the street was "Depart". Say what you like about Taswiegens, but they do have a finely tuned sense of irony.
Yes, the 029 was definitely the way to go. But you had to have your own programming drum for it, people were always nicking them.
Go to Google main page and look for business solutions. They have a scheme where they'll charge you x dollars to index y hundred thousand documents, and they throw in the tinware (a custom pre-configured rack of search hardware, very scaleable) for you to plug into your LAN. All strictly inside your firewall. Set it up to crawl all your file shares and it won't matter whether you have a document management system or not. Most document management systems depend on keywords, taxonomies and special file name codes, all of which are decidedly old-hat. Index it and let 'em go search. The smallest version is kind of basic, but go up one level and they'll crawl pdf's, word docs, pretty much anything with text in it compressed or in source libraries or whatnot. They're pretty good. Not cheap, but then you're an aerospace firm...
There was a benefit to being a gnome in EQ (yes, truly!) ... you got to see through walls occasionally due to the many & varied clipping bugs. Depends on how close you were, mostly. But in one or two of the original zones there were completely enclosed rooms with no apparent doorways where all walls were tiled with real-life photographs of someone's ginger cat. Very disturbing. I began to think that was how they started with wall textures - start with some photo image then photoshop it into unrecognisability. Either that or a very warped sense of humour.
And I believe Pratchett's corollary, wasn't it? "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced".
Meh, don't take them too seriously. Do what you can do, do it well and at a pace geared for quality, smile at and speak little to or about users who are being bastards. It annoys the hell out of them and counts as a touche'.
That number of bugs rather scares me. I depend on Windows for playing WoW at home and writing documents at work. Will this kill it?
There was a lovely old story by Issac Asimov - can't remember the name, sorry, and any search of his work will be a long walk - that told of the author of Genesis trying to write about the Big Bang in terms of particle physics. His son chastised him over the amount of writing materials that would take. At the end of the dialogue it was oversimplified to "(sigh) In the beginning..."
Fantasy is a good way to simplify scientific concepts, provided the fantasy actually tracks the science. If there's no believability, it doesn't make a very good story.
The line between SF and Fantasy has always been a little blurry (nowhere near as blurry as in Chalker's "Masters of Flux and Anchor" series which was a brilliant expansion on Clarke's Law, and a very good read if you can ignore the implicit mysogny in most of his works).
I've worried that Clarke's Law is taken as transitive by some (thank The Pasta for predictable and reproduceable results). I've also thought that we're on a trend to realisation of C.P.Snow's great cultural divide between the knowledge "haves" and "have-nots". I see this among friends who firmly believe that technology comes from observing certain rituals, rather than scientific advancement and engineering process. They're very Cargo Cult and not a little bit frightening.
The truly frightening thing is I have difficulty explaining the difference to them. The gulf is almost too deep to cross now.
actively encouraged by MBAs with an excessive tendency towards Powerpointisation and the attention span of a flea
Strong though he was, young Aniken could not withstand the Powerpoint of the Dark Side.
Infinite Cosmic Powerpoint!
There are two kinds of Powerpoint slides. Those that say far too little, and those that say far too much.
What it's meant to be is wallpaper for people to stare at while you insert messages into their brains while they're not paying attention.
This guy is not the first one to tell them there's no way it works and that they'd better just start making the adjustment now to a less-lavish lifestyle now that large parts of the contribution they used to make to music production and distribution are no longer needed.
The funny thing is, when people lower their prices the volume can go way up. That's why Wal-Mart is simultaneously loathed and extremely well patronized.
If they lower their prices to something more reasonable for decent work then people might be less inclined to walk past the record shops on their way to buy milk & bread.
...Personally, i've had a SEVERELY hard landing in Vietnam
Flying in a 737 from San Francisco to LA a few years ago (quite a few years ago) about mid-way we lost all lift in bad weather. When we took off it sounded like potholes in the runway or explosions from the back, all the way. Mid flight we started falling very hard with the nose still up. I started counting, one-onethousand, two-onethousand. Got to 45 before we bottomed out. The stewardess in the aisle had been holding on to both aisle seats and there was air between her feet and the floor for most of it.
Not sure how we survived that.
When we were safely on the ground the captain came on and said "...and if you enjoyed that ride and want to go on it again, please pass a "D" coupon to the front". (Old Disneyland visitors may remember that Matterhorn reference).
...but since there was no such separate determination, overturning the verdict throws out everything.
So the RIAA is treating this case as a pawn sacrifice? Get it thrown out so the findings aren't enshrined in case law?
The Jammie is not presenting evidence. This is not evidence!! Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why weren't they able to obtain competent representation? With all due respect to lawyers, there certainly seem to be competent lawyers who will take on very dubious cases if paid enough, e.g. David Boies representing SCO.
That may be the very example they wish to avoid. If I were in the legal profession I think I'd sooner go up against NYCL in a karma pissing contest than cross Pamela Jones.
No offense, Ray, you're pretty cool. But PJ is a goddess.
Whups, soz, right church, wrong pew....