Whenever robots come out, why do people trot out Asimov's Laws of Robotics like they're holy writ? He created those laws and then wrote a book's worth of short stories (read: FICTION) showing their pitfalls.
For anyone who thinks they're a great idea, I'd also like to see your working prototype code and design docs.
"As a bonus, if enough people do it for a presidental campaign then they get federal election money.
Whereupon the party becomes ripe for takeover and schisms, destroying the party in the process. In this way, the two party system remains undisturbed. This is exactly what happened to the Reform Party. Any party that is really about change, after witnessing this lesson, should make it an irrevocable part of their charter that they will not accept any election fund money from any government. It will take them longer to get noted, but their chances of survival are better.
If a person believes that the system is corrupt, not voting has less to do with "sullying my hands", but more to do with "I won't do anything that aids the legitimacy of this process."
You can vote, and leave a ballot blank. I do that whenever I feel all the candidates are asshats, or if the candidate is running unopposed.
"I sometimes wonder if the answer to half the world's problems would not be to peg the world's currencies against the megawatt-hour, rather than the value of someting capricious like silver or gold."
Either way, it would likely be better than pegging the world's currencies to exactly nothing, which is the current system. It's certainly an interesting idea... the problem is savings. How do you store a megawatt-hour? I've read that at night the wholesale price of electricity can drop to zero because there's more being produced than consumed, because it's just too expensive to shut down a generator that's going to be urgently needed in just a few short hours. The retail price of a megawatt hour where I live probably about $100. I can store $100 in about 8 ounces of silver, or a few grams of gold. If you can make a battery that can store a megawatt-hour per pound (and hold its charge!) you'd be really onto something (apart from having laptops that could run for weeks on a single charge).
Though you are correct in this instance, it is fairly trivial to configure your webserver to run PHP (or any other module) using whatever extension you choose. So, if you want.html files to be processed by PHP,.php files to run through mod_python, and.pl files to serve static content, you can do it.
Why you'd want to, apart from driving everyone batshit loco, I don't know, but you can.
There was, a long time ago, a FILES-11 file system driver for Linux. Whether it worked well, was read-only, or was a complete mess I really can't say. A casual Googling didn't yield anything, but if you're really hankering for it, you might be able to find it out there somewhere.
Oh, I don't know about that. In 1990, I started my first full-time programming job, with a high school diploma, and about 2/3 of a bachelor's degree in systems analysis completed, and I made the princely sum of EIGHT BUCKS an hour.
There's no excuse for the fraud of Enron, and I hope the assholes who architected the fraud go away to jail for a very long time, but I'm pretty certain any financial advisor with his or her salt would tell you that it's a really stupid move to invest heavily in your employer, since you're already very financially bound to them. Any employee of company X that puts all their retirement into a 401k of "company X stock only" is begging for ruin.
I just started messing with twisted last weekend, and for my first learning project I wrote a server that worked not unlike BITNET Relay Chat (for those who don't remember those days, it was a precursor to IRC). It took about 20 minutes and the code fit on a single window length of emacs, most of which was the/command parser. It didn't have passwords or channels, but that would be all application code, and wouldn't take that much more. The network stuff was about 30 seconds and forget about it.
I'll never use socket() again. My next project is to integrate twisted and pygame into a basic multiplayer shoot 'em up space game, steadily working to my goal of a big multiplayer strategy game idea I have.
"Yeah, I have trouble enough opening a Microsoft Word document created on a Macintosh, let alone a system-destroying, self-propogating network worm..."
Then I want to know who he buys from, because if he raids my account, he'll be lucky to get a full tank of gas and a couple magazines for one of his AK47s.
You didn't identify if that was a family or an individual plan. If it's an individual, that plan sucks swamp water.
I pay about 5 dollars less a month to get a much better coverage for my 13-year-old son, using FACT Golden Rule insurance. The deductible is lower, there is a prescription benefit, and he even gets two $35 visits a year to the doc. He's healthy as a horse, so I was looking for just a major medical for him (in the event something bad happened, I wanted to take care of him, not obsess over where the money's gonna come from) when I found this plan that scarcely costs more than most major medical insurance only plans. It is not available in all states, unfortunately, but if you can get it there are different levels.
What I hate about most employer plans is the stunning price break the moment you want to insure your family. I have to pay as much with one kid and someone else who has six or more kids. I always thought it should be pay this much per person after the employee. It sucks that I have to subsidize someone else unable or unwilling to engage in birth control because I choose to have a small family. Hence, that's why my kid is on a different pland than my wife and I.
The system is seriously fucked-up, no doubt about it. I just don't trust our federal government to do anything but to fuck it up worse, though.
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I prefer Sci-fi Wasabi, myself.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Whenever robots come out, why do people trot out Asimov's Laws of Robotics like they're holy writ? He created those laws and then wrote a book's worth of short stories (read: FICTION) showing their pitfalls.
For anyone who thinks they're a great idea, I'd also like to see your working prototype code and design docs.
"As a bonus, if enough people do it for a presidental campaign then they get federal election money.
Whereupon the party becomes ripe for takeover and schisms, destroying the party in the process. In this way, the two party system remains undisturbed. This is exactly what happened to the Reform Party. Any party that is really about change, after witnessing this lesson, should make it an irrevocable part of their charter that they will not accept any election fund money from any government. It will take them longer to get noted, but their chances of survival are better.
If a person believes that the system is corrupt, not voting has less to do with "sullying my hands", but more to do with "I won't do anything that aids the legitimacy of this process."
You can vote, and leave a ballot blank. I do that whenever I feel all the candidates are asshats, or if the candidate is running unopposed.
"No, because there's no gay BDSM content already in Solitaire, dumbass."
I think it's time for somebody's warm milk and nap.
"I sometimes wonder if the answer to half the world's problems would not be to peg the world's currencies against the megawatt-hour, rather than the value of someting capricious like silver or gold."
Either way, it would likely be better than pegging the world's currencies to exactly nothing, which is the current system. It's certainly an interesting idea... the problem is savings. How do you store a megawatt-hour? I've read that at night the wholesale price of electricity can drop to zero because there's more being produced than consumed, because it's just too expensive to shut down a generator that's going to be urgently needed in just a few short hours. The retail price of a megawatt hour where I live probably about $100. I can store $100 in about 8 ounces of silver, or a few grams of gold. If you can make a battery that can store a megawatt-hour per pound (and hold its charge!) you'd be really onto something (apart from having laptops that could run for weeks on a single charge).
Though you are correct in this instance, it is fairly trivial to configure your webserver to run PHP (or any other module) using whatever extension you choose. So, if you want .html files to be processed by PHP, .php files to run through mod_python, and .pl files to serve static content, you can do it.
Why you'd want to, apart from driving everyone batshit loco, I don't know, but you can.
There was, a long time ago, a FILES-11 file system driver for Linux. Whether it worked well, was read-only, or was a complete mess I really can't say. A casual Googling didn't yield anything, but if you're really hankering for it, you might be able to find it out there somewhere.
Oh, I don't know about that. In 1990, I started my first full-time programming job, with a high school diploma, and about 2/3 of a bachelor's degree in systems analysis completed, and I made the princely sum of EIGHT BUCKS an hour.
Thank you for injecting a bit of reality here.
There's no excuse for the fraud of Enron, and I hope the assholes who architected the fraud go away to jail for a very long time, but I'm pretty certain any financial advisor with his or her salt would tell you that it's a really stupid move to invest heavily in your employer, since you're already very financially bound to them. Any employee of company X that puts all their retirement into a 401k of "company X stock only" is begging for ruin.
Diversify, diversify, diversify.
The problem with that is if you take apart and reassemble a 4D or 5D Rubik's Cube, you also turn the universe inside-out.
"Steve Jobs for President!"
The heck with that. I vote Steve Jobs for Borg Queen...er King...er... well, you get the point.
If I bore umbrage at the language any tool that burned me was written in, I would hate every last one of them.
People write broken programs in any language. It's not (necessarily) the language's fault.
"I called pizzahut and ordered a pizza. How many thousands of my tax dollars were spent so that the government could find out I like pepperoni?"
Oh, really? Terrorists communicate between cells with messages encoded by the position of pepperoni on pizzas. And you like pepperoni...Hmmm!
We'll be sending a car over for you momentarily.
Excel Spreadsheets have become the COBOL of our generation.
To answer your second question, the answer is probably yes. Not only that, they will develop their own language.
A statistician could never really agree 100%. :-)
Not that you'd know anything about that... ;-)
I just started messing with twisted last weekend, and for my first learning project I wrote a server that worked not unlike BITNET Relay Chat (for those who don't remember those days, it was a precursor to IRC). It took about 20 minutes and the code fit on a single window length of emacs, most of which was the /command parser. It didn't have passwords or channels, but that would be all application code, and wouldn't take that much more. The network stuff was about 30 seconds and forget about it.
I'll never use socket() again. My next project is to integrate twisted and pygame into a basic multiplayer shoot 'em up space game, steadily working to my goal of a big multiplayer strategy game idea I have.
No mod points, either... so I friended him.
"Only until they tell me the secret of infinite-resolution photography."
It's very simple, really. First you make an infinitely large CCD...
"Yeah, I have trouble enough opening a Microsoft Word document created on a Macintosh, let alone a system-destroying, self-propogating network worm..."
You repeat yourself. :-)
Then I want to know who he buys from, because if he raids my account, he'll be lucky to get a full tank of gas and a couple magazines for one of his AK47s.
You didn't identify if that was a family or an individual plan. If it's an individual, that plan sucks swamp water.
I pay about 5 dollars less a month to get a much better coverage for my 13-year-old son, using FACT Golden Rule insurance. The deductible is lower, there is a prescription benefit, and he even gets two $35 visits a year to the doc. He's healthy as a horse, so I was looking for just a major medical for him (in the event something bad happened, I wanted to take care of him, not obsess over where the money's gonna come from) when I found this plan that scarcely costs more than most major medical insurance only plans. It is not available in all states, unfortunately, but if you can get it there are different levels.
What I hate about most employer plans is the stunning price break the moment you want to insure your family. I have to pay as much with one kid and someone else who has six or more kids. I always thought it should be pay this much per person after the employee. It sucks that I have to subsidize someone else unable or unwilling to engage in birth control because I choose to have a small family. Hence, that's why my kid is on a different pland than my wife and I.
The system is seriously fucked-up, no doubt about it. I just don't trust our federal government to do anything but to fuck it up worse, though.
Or maybe just a nice Roman Font "Li" representing one of the chief components of the medications Dvorak should be taking...