Yes, that's right. I'm completely fanatical for a language I've never used. I'm rolling my eyes now... just in case the sarcasm went totally over your head.
Why do I have to fork up the money? You're the one with the extraordinary claims of dramatic reliability increases. If you're so much more brilliant than the rest of us, it shouldn't be terribly difficult for you to at least create something a little more sophisticated than something that looks like an OmniGraffle demo on stupid pills in a few weekends. I just want to know: Will COSA let us reprogram the Time Cube?
Before you replied, I wasn't sure if you were a complete crackpot. Thank you for resolving the question.
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See, here's the thing: I can download Erlang and start to learn it right now. Where can I find COSA? That's right, it's vaporware.
Who knows, you may be on to something. I'd suggest writing fewer white papers and less name-calling of your detractors and get busy implementing your vision. Nothing will shut them up faster when you've got something that lets people develop systems that are more reliable for no extra cost.
Until then, you're in the same category as people who promise us perpetual motion machines and anti-gravity levitation.
"A train leaves Cincinnati heading west at an average speed of 60 km/hr. Two hours later, another train leaves Indianapolis heading south at an average speed of 70 km/hr. What is the straight line distance between the trains 8 hours after the Cincinnati train departed? For simplicity's sake, assume Cincinnati is at 39.1 degrees north latitude, 84.5 degrees west longitude; Indianapolis is at 39.5 north latitude, 86.0 degrees west longitude, and the Earth is an oblate spheroid with polar radius 6,360 km and equatorial radius of 6,380 km."
"I don't hire ANYONE that has ever claimed unemployment, unless they have a REALLY good explanation and can deliver it with a straight face."
WTF does one have to do with the other? I guess you wouldn't hire me, then, because I've drawn a whole six weeks of unemployment (3 in '91, 3 in '01) over the last 20 years of my full time working life, which in total didn't add up to the amount of taxes I've paid this quarter alone. I sympathize with you on someone stealing from you (even trivial stuff), but wow.
I suppose, given that you seem to have minarchist libertarian to anarcho-capitalist sympathies from what I saw in your journal entries, that you regard taxation as theft, and by extension, drawing unemployment as theft. Fair enough, but I recommend reading Dr. Walter Block, a dyed-in-the-wool Austrian economist as there ever has been, who would probably see it more as reappropriating what has already been stolen.
Plus a comment from someone else about "worthless violins"... nothing like a technical music article to bring out catty instrument elitists. You can take my Fender Telecaster from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.;-)
BTW, it would be ultrasonic, not hypersonic. Hypersonic means speeds far in excess of the speed of sound, typically starting at mach 5.
A long time ago I worked loss prevention for a retail store, and basically the rule was you had to witness someone take merchandise and attempt to leave the store without paying for it. If someone stuffed product into their pocket or purse, that wasn't enough. They had to move to the exit before I could detain them. Once the merchandise was out of my sight, I had to watch them continuously or hand them off to another loss prevention person with no interruption in observation (they could claim they left the merchandise somewhere in the store otherwise). Most people who shoplift are dreadfully terrible at it... but if you get someone who knows what they're doing and knows the rules, they're next to impossible to catch.
Anyhow, the worst losses always came from employee theft. Biggest one I had contact with: The head of loss prevention in that very store I worked in got busted a couple years after I left with over a hundred thousand dollars worth of stolen merchandise in his possession (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?). They never figured out just how much he did take in total, but the investigation but the grand total at something near a half million dollars of merchandise. Someone walking out with a 200 dollar VCR (to help set the era... DVDs were still a decade away) is chump change next to that level.
Since I left retail long before the RFID/anti-theft tag era, I don't know their legal standing when the alarm goes off, but given the number of false positives I've seem from them (there was one in a Super Target in Gilbert, AZ that I ALWAYS set off, going in and coming out), I'd guess they're not enough to legally stop someone who doesn't want to be stopped.
Yeah, I feel like a bit of a chump for donating a thousand bucks for Critters to upgrade their servers a couple years ago.
I'm all for authors having control over their works, but the DMCA is a POS and I'm surprised and disappointed Aburt is going this route. I always thought he had more sense than that. If I find that any computing resources for Critters got misappropriated for this little venture, I'll be a damn sight more than disappointed. I'll be hopping mad that money I give willingly to help support the SF-lit community was used to buy servers to run this little DMCA dragnet.
"Some people, to use your coding example, can formulate a structure in their head with no visible signs of actual work and, if they do it this way, can execute the transcription of code better than if they had taken notes/outlined what they were about to do."
Spot. On. I'm usually at my most productive in my job when I'm turned away from my computer, staring off into space through the window. That's where the major thinking gets done. When I'm actually working at my computer, looking busy, my brain is mostly just doing busywork transcribing my thoughts into the computer, whether it's design or code. The stuff that makes my job hard and what not everyone can do is already mostly done at this point.
I'm not a Google fanboy, but if they want to raise a big middle finger to the collective telecom industry, then they can send me their wireless network hardware, some installation instructions, and I'll put it up on my roof myself. Who's with me?:-)
But CDs didn't sound any better than records... at least the first time you played an LP.
I got into CDs because they still sounded as good on subsequent listenings without going through a High Holy Ritual of cleansing and handling whenever you wanted to hear something. Even then, the LPs eventually degraded. You also couldn't play records in the car, though I have a half-memory of some harebrained device that let you do that. Good luck leaving LPs in a hot car, though.
So, which DAW do you like most that works under Linux? I'm getting back into recording music, and the last time I did this was with a four-track reel-to-reel deck, so it's all pretty new to me.
I'm a pretty big fan of Drupal myself (the only thing I've got against it is I don't care for PHP much), but I've got to agree with you that the Drupal forum module, while basically functional, is really ugly.
I like SMF for a forum app, and there is a pretty good SMF bridge Drupal module that handles user synchronization between the two, and gives you few nifty blocks for showing recent posts and other SMF information in Drupal sidebars. It's worked pretty well for me in a couple projects.
Things were so different even just 20 or so years ago. In 1985, I hacked my college's VAX 11/750 to give me all privs. The system manager found me out, and just reset the privs, locked my account for a week, and asked how I did it so he could fix the problem. Wound up doing a lot of work for him until he left for greener pastures. It formally never happened, even though it could certainly have been elevated up the disciplinary chain.
If I did that today, no doubt I would've been kicked out of school, arrested, and depending on what research was being done on the box, been subjected to extraordinary rendition to flush out my Al Qaeda cell.:-/
I long ago determined that if I boycotted every company who did stuff that I find objectionable and/or reprehensible my only option would be to run off to the Yukon Territory and eat pine bark.
Very well done, but you're missing just one thing: In 1981 the comp.* hierarchy didn't exist on Usenet. For your amusement: The Great Renaming, which didn't occur until 1987.
Wow, it just hit me that was 20 years ago. I suddenly feel very old.
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So we'll just hit Kirkland with a REALLY Big One.
Or maybe I've just been playing the World In Conflict demo too much.
"After all, Google has been competing with NSA for PhD mathematicians for some time now (and winning) and it seems like a natural fit."
If only the NSA would offer stock options and a splashy IPO, I'll bet they could get some of those candidates back.
He was far too polite for that.
Yes, that's right. I'm completely fanatical for a language I've never used. I'm rolling my eyes now... just in case the sarcasm went totally over your head.
Why do I have to fork up the money? You're the one with the extraordinary claims of dramatic reliability increases. If you're so much more brilliant than the rest of us, it shouldn't be terribly difficult for you to at least create something a little more sophisticated than something that looks like an OmniGraffle demo on stupid pills in a few weekends. I just want to know: Will COSA let us reprogram the Time Cube?
Before you replied, I wasn't sure if you were a complete crackpot. Thank you for resolving the question.
See, here's the thing: I can download Erlang and start to learn it right now. Where can I find COSA? That's right, it's vaporware.
Who knows, you may be on to something. I'd suggest writing fewer white papers and less name-calling of your detractors and get busy implementing your vision. Nothing will shut them up faster when you've got something that lets people develop systems that are more reliable for no extra cost.
Until then, you're in the same category as people who promise us perpetual motion machines and anti-gravity levitation.
"A train leaves Cincinnati heading west at an average speed of 60 km/hr. Two hours later, another train leaves Indianapolis heading south at an average speed of 70 km/hr. What is the straight line distance between the trains 8 hours after the Cincinnati train departed? For simplicity's sake, assume Cincinnati is at 39.1 degrees north latitude, 84.5 degrees west longitude; Indianapolis is at 39.5 north latitude, 86.0 degrees west longitude, and the Earth is an oblate spheroid with polar radius 6,360 km and equatorial radius of 6,380 km."
"I don't hire ANYONE that has ever claimed unemployment, unless they have a REALLY good explanation and can deliver it with a straight face."
WTF does one have to do with the other? I guess you wouldn't hire me, then, because I've drawn a whole six weeks of unemployment (3 in '91, 3 in '01) over the last 20 years of my full time working life, which in total didn't add up to the amount of taxes I've paid this quarter alone. I sympathize with you on someone stealing from you (even trivial stuff), but wow.
I suppose, given that you seem to have minarchist libertarian to anarcho-capitalist sympathies from what I saw in your journal entries, that you regard taxation as theft, and by extension, drawing unemployment as theft. Fair enough, but I recommend reading Dr. Walter Block, a dyed-in-the-wool Austrian economist as there ever has been, who would probably see it more as reappropriating what has already been stolen.
Plus a comment from someone else about "worthless violins"... nothing like a technical music article to bring out catty instrument elitists. You can take my Fender Telecaster from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. ;-)
BTW, it would be ultrasonic, not hypersonic. Hypersonic means speeds far in excess of the speed of sound, typically starting at mach 5.
A long time ago I worked loss prevention for a retail store, and basically the rule was you had to witness someone take merchandise and attempt to leave the store without paying for it. If someone stuffed product into their pocket or purse, that wasn't enough. They had to move to the exit before I could detain them. Once the merchandise was out of my sight, I had to watch them continuously or hand them off to another loss prevention person with no interruption in observation (they could claim they left the merchandise somewhere in the store otherwise). Most people who shoplift are dreadfully terrible at it... but if you get someone who knows what they're doing and knows the rules, they're next to impossible to catch.
Anyhow, the worst losses always came from employee theft. Biggest one I had contact with: The head of loss prevention in that very store I worked in got busted a couple years after I left with over a hundred thousand dollars worth of stolen merchandise in his possession (quis custodiet ipsos custodes?). They never figured out just how much he did take in total, but the investigation but the grand total at something near a half million dollars of merchandise. Someone walking out with a 200 dollar VCR (to help set the era... DVDs were still a decade away) is chump change next to that level.
Since I left retail long before the RFID/anti-theft tag era, I don't know their legal standing when the alarm goes off, but given the number of false positives I've seem from them (there was one in a Super Target in Gilbert, AZ that I ALWAYS set off, going in and coming out), I'd guess they're not enough to legally stop someone who doesn't want to be stopped.
Yeah, I feel like a bit of a chump for donating a thousand bucks for Critters to upgrade their servers a couple years ago.
I'm all for authors having control over their works, but the DMCA is a POS and I'm surprised and disappointed Aburt is going this route. I always thought he had more sense than that. If I find that any computing resources for Critters got misappropriated for this little venture, I'll be a damn sight more than disappointed. I'll be hopping mad that money I give willingly to help support the SF-lit community was used to buy servers to run this little DMCA dragnet.
Your cat could not. Cats have problems with network protocols.
"Some people, to use your coding example, can formulate a structure in their head with no visible signs of actual work and, if they do it this way, can execute the transcription of code better than if they had taken notes/outlined what they were about to do."
Spot. On. I'm usually at my most productive in my job when I'm turned away from my computer, staring off into space through the window. That's where the major thinking gets done. When I'm actually working at my computer, looking busy, my brain is mostly just doing busywork transcribing my thoughts into the computer, whether it's design or code. The stuff that makes my job hard and what not everyone can do is already mostly done at this point.
Exactly. And E++99 was enlightened.
Are you therefore saying it's your favorite headache?
There needs to be a "+1 Painfully True" mod for posts such as these. :-/
I'm not a Google fanboy, but if they want to raise a big middle finger to the collective telecom industry, then they can send me their wireless network hardware, some installation instructions, and I'll put it up on my roof myself. Who's with me? :-)
But CDs didn't sound any better than records... at least the first time you played an LP.
I got into CDs because they still sounded as good on subsequent listenings without going through a High Holy Ritual of cleansing and handling whenever you wanted to hear something. Even then, the LPs eventually degraded. You also couldn't play records in the car, though I have a half-memory of some harebrained device that let you do that. Good luck leaving LPs in a hot car, though.
Then there's Hawking: "Not only does God play dice with the universe, He sometimes throws them where you can't see them."
So, which DAW do you like most that works under Linux? I'm getting back into recording music, and the last time I did this was with a four-track reel-to-reel deck, so it's all pretty new to me.
I'm a pretty big fan of Drupal myself (the only thing I've got against it is I don't care for PHP much), but I've got to agree with you that the Drupal forum module, while basically functional, is really ugly.
I like SMF for a forum app, and there is a pretty good SMF bridge Drupal module that handles user synchronization between the two, and gives you few nifty blocks for showing recent posts and other SMF information in Drupal sidebars. It's worked pretty well for me in a couple projects.
Things were so different even just 20 or so years ago. In 1985, I hacked my college's VAX 11/750 to give me all privs. The system manager found me out, and just reset the privs, locked my account for a week, and asked how I did it so he could fix the problem. Wound up doing a lot of work for him until he left for greener pastures. It formally never happened, even though it could certainly have been elevated up the disciplinary chain.
If I did that today, no doubt I would've been kicked out of school, arrested, and depending on what research was being done on the box, been subjected to extraordinary rendition to flush out my Al Qaeda cell. :-/
I long ago determined that if I boycotted every company who did stuff that I find objectionable and/or reprehensible my only option would be to run off to the Yukon Territory and eat pine bark.
"My policy was that if your kid was sick, you could take a sick day once a month."
I gotta ask... is that a use it or lose it kind of a sick day, once a month, or did you get 12 a year?
If the latter, that's pretty respectable. If the former, I hate you break it to you, you're not generous... you're kind of a dick.
This is our default arrangement, too. It also avoids the potential for a drowned ferret, which would pretty much spoil our whole day.
To say nothing of reducing toilet water aerosol after flushing.
Very well done, but you're missing just one thing: In 1981 the comp.* hierarchy didn't exist on Usenet. For your amusement: The Great Renaming, which didn't occur until 1987.
Wow, it just hit me that was 20 years ago. I suddenly feel very old.