The CIA doesn't sell things, except as part of some covert program. The CIA's stated goal is to do spy shit for the US, THAT IS ITS PURPOSE. What, you're expecting that the CIA should be off planting daises? We already have the Peace Corps for that. The problem here is that European private businesses are selling their shit to murderers, and they don't care. Not the first time we've seen this, is it? And don't give me this crap about what Ford did 80 years ago. This shit is happening now.
...that the REAL reason Gosling left was because the google execs were like "Ok Jimmy, here's your office, lets tuck you in... all nice and comfy? Good... now just rest here until we need you." I think the coolness of having the inventor of Java trolling 'round the office was greater than any expectation that he'd actually invent something for Google.
Well, unfortunately, if Microsoft builds something into it's OS, it's anticompetitive.
Easily noticed when it bundles a ubiquitous, major application as a browser that other vendors are also selling, like a browser. When Microsoft decided to make IE part of the OS, that put the other competitors at a major disadvantage, seeing as how Microsoft makes the platform that the browsers run on. An image mounting utility? Not so much.
Yeah, and its been a long time coming. Its been very annoying to have to install a 3rd party to do something on linux I can do easily with a double click or a right click.
Actually, if the RIAA wants to make file sharing as painful as possible then they couldn't have done any better than to encourage the use of site like rapidshare... these pay to play sites are a serious pain in my ass and whenever I see a link to one I run away is if it were the plague. Painful, useless, and annoying. Bit torrent will never die, bastards!
LDAP is a (what I always thought was) a pretty cool hierarchical directory type data server; its really good at storing data that is in a tree structure. But it will do relational duty as well. A company I worked for that did an enterprise web portal back in the 90's stored its stuff in a relational, but than we got a request for all its data to work on an LDAP server, so it got done. Worked pretty well as I recall. But I wonder if the NoSQL cloud dbs are better for that now. Seems like couchdb would do it just well too.
Of course. Its ridiculous for any law enforcement official under the jurisdiction of the US Constitution to believe that they can put a stop to people filming them. I know this because years ago I witnessed a cop trying to stop a slowly gathering protest in San Diego, California (I forget what the protest was about). A lawyer happened to be in the crowd and told the cop to back, the individual had an absolute constitutional right to protest, and if the cop persisted he'd be sued, the San Diego Muni Force would be sued, and he would do everything in his power to make sure that the cop was jailed for civil rights violations. Sounds like a typical story of these types but the experience left a big impression on me. After witnessing that I have to believe that citizens do indeed have an absolute right to film any police action. It might take a court to make sure it happens, but that's the nature of the topic in this country.
I'm not entirely sure (or convinced) I do that now. Most of these interactions occur with people in the same time zone. Its rare that I need to set a time or a date with some one in a different time zone, and on the occasions I do, they seem smart enough to know that a particular time won't work for them anyway and tell me so. Again, I don't recall the position of the sun being germain to the conversation.
YOUR NOT GETTING IT!. After people get accustomed to what time it is when the sun comes up, IT WON"T MATTER! When, in your local area, the sun comes up at 23:30, you'll know!!! You don't need a 12 hour clock connected to a local time zone! If you would just think about it, it will make sense. WHY do you need to know that the sun is at zenith at 12:00 pm??? You can just as easily come to learn that the sun rises at 23:30... this is not hard people.
1) Your using GMT anyway, so your all set.
2) When was the last time you called a meeting for "the hour at which the sun is 60 degrees on the horizon."? The position of the sun is immaterial. You call meetings using a position on a clock face, not where exactly where the sun is. Do you call off a meeting because its raining? Perhaps, maybe if its off site, but not because you don't know where the sun is and your scared.
I was just thinking: this is exactly what we need! Yet another programming language. And even more "web apps". Yay!
You're not getting it. Don't think of web apps as some separate application layer, think "web". This is where its going, its already there to be honest. If you're not prepared for that simple fact you're in for a bumpy ride as its only going to get more "webby" in the future. And a new language that ties all that in a more comprehensive way is going to be a good thing.
That's part of the point. How necessary is it for you to know the exact position of the sun, if you know what time it is anyway? The position of the sun was wonderful for farmers and navigators who relied on the sun to do some technical things for their time. nowadays if I say I have an important meeting at 13:45, you need to be there, the position of the sun has nothing to do with it, and adds nothing to the accuracy of the time dimension.
I didn't say it would be simple, tons of arguments against, I'm sure. But anyone with a modicum of intelligence would have to agree that metric is the superior system. If we'd started the change over in the 60's like we were supposed to it wouldn't have been a mess that it is today.
The inconvenience is completely self-imposed. Its very similar to the problem of English measure here; metric is a totally superior system in every way but people don't want to recognize it because they are simply too lazy to change. If i could put a proposal before the American people I'd say "Please lets all start using the metric system, and by the way, let's just not all times in GMT, and also do away with AM/PM and use the 24 hour clock." So much simpler, but people are people and by and large, they are stupid.
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The CIA doesn't sell things, except as part of some covert program. The CIA's stated goal is to do spy shit for the US, THAT IS ITS PURPOSE. What, you're expecting that the CIA should be off planting daises? We already have the Peace Corps for that. The problem here is that European private businesses are selling their shit to murderers, and they don't care. Not the first time we've seen this, is it? And don't give me this crap about what Ford did 80 years ago. This shit is happening now.
...that the REAL reason Gosling left was because the google execs were like "Ok Jimmy, here's your office, lets tuck you in... all nice and comfy? Good... now just rest here until we need you." I think the coolness of having the inventor of Java trolling 'round the office was greater than any expectation that he'd actually invent something for Google.
Well, unfortunately, if Microsoft builds something into it's OS, it's anticompetitive.
Easily noticed when it bundles a ubiquitous, major application as a browser that other vendors are also selling, like a browser. When Microsoft decided to make IE part of the OS, that put the other competitors at a major disadvantage, seeing as how Microsoft makes the platform that the browsers run on. An image mounting utility? Not so much.
Yeah, and its been a long time coming. Its been very annoying to have to install a 3rd party to do something on linux I can do easily with a double click or a right click.
Actually, if the RIAA wants to make file sharing as painful as possible then they couldn't have done any better than to encourage the use of site like rapidshare... these pay to play sites are a serious pain in my ass and whenever I see a link to one I run away is if it were the plague. Painful, useless, and annoying. Bit torrent will never die, bastards!
LDAP is a (what I always thought was) a pretty cool hierarchical directory type data server; its really good at storing data that is in a tree structure. But it will do relational duty as well. A company I worked for that did an enterprise web portal back in the 90's stored its stuff in a relational, but than we got a request for all its data to work on an LDAP server, so it got done. Worked pretty well as I recall. But I wonder if the NoSQL cloud dbs are better for that now. Seems like couchdb would do it just well too.
Just think where FUD will take them next year...
Of course. Its ridiculous for any law enforcement official under the jurisdiction of the US Constitution to believe that they can put a stop to people filming them. I know this because years ago I witnessed a cop trying to stop a slowly gathering protest in San Diego, California (I forget what the protest was about). A lawyer happened to be in the crowd and told the cop to back, the individual had an absolute constitutional right to protest, and if the cop persisted he'd be sued, the San Diego Muni Force would be sued, and he would do everything in his power to make sure that the cop was jailed for civil rights violations. Sounds like a typical story of these types but the experience left a big impression on me. After witnessing that I have to believe that citizens do indeed have an absolute right to film any police action. It might take a court to make sure it happens, but that's the nature of the topic in this country.
I'm not entirely sure (or convinced) I do that now. Most of these interactions occur with people in the same time zone. Its rare that I need to set a time or a date with some one in a different time zone, and on the occasions I do, they seem smart enough to know that a particular time won't work for them anyway and tell me so. Again, I don't recall the position of the sun being germain to the conversation.
YOUR NOT GETTING IT!. After people get accustomed to what time it is when the sun comes up, IT WON"T MATTER! When, in your local area, the sun comes up at 23:30, you'll know!!! You don't need a 12 hour clock connected to a local time zone! If you would just think about it, it will make sense. WHY do you need to know that the sun is at zenith at 12:00 pm??? You can just as easily come to learn that the sun rises at 23:30... this is not hard people.
1) Your using GMT anyway, so your all set. 2) When was the last time you called a meeting for "the hour at which the sun is 60 degrees on the horizon."? The position of the sun is immaterial. You call meetings using a position on a clock face, not where exactly where the sun is. Do you call off a meeting because its raining? Perhaps, maybe if its off site, but not because you don't know where the sun is and your scared.
I was just thinking: this is exactly what we need! Yet another programming language. And even more "web apps". Yay!
You're not getting it. Don't think of web apps as some separate application layer, think "web". This is where its going, its already there to be honest. If you're not prepared for that simple fact you're in for a bumpy ride as its only going to get more "webby" in the future. And a new language that ties all that in a more comprehensive way is going to be a good thing.
You need to know the approximate position of the sun for all of these meeting participants when you're scheduling the meeting...
Why?
Now. Under GMT knowing where the sun is isn't necessary.
That's part of the point. How necessary is it for you to know the exact position of the sun, if you know what time it is anyway? The position of the sun was wonderful for farmers and navigators who relied on the sun to do some technical things for their time. nowadays if I say I have an important meeting at 13:45, you need to be there, the position of the sun has nothing to do with it, and adds nothing to the accuracy of the time dimension.
I didn't say it would be simple, tons of arguments against, I'm sure. But anyone with a modicum of intelligence would have to agree that metric is the superior system. If we'd started the change over in the 60's like we were supposed to it wouldn't have been a mess that it is today.
Yeah yeah, mistype. I guess it takes a genius to figure it out.
The inconvenience is completely self-imposed. Its very similar to the problem of English measure here; metric is a totally superior system in every way but people don't want to recognize it because they are simply too lazy to change. If i could put a proposal before the American people I'd say "Please lets all start using the metric system, and by the way, let's just not all times in GMT, and also do away with AM/PM and use the 24 hour clock." So much simpler, but people are people and by and large, they are stupid.
CmdrTaco is gone, we're doomed.
(scenes of chaos and mayhem ensue...)
I suggest you take you simple mind...
I may have a simple mind, but you must have gone to a simple grade school. Or perhaps you're still in it...?
Humans produce 100 times as much CO2 per year as volcanic eruptions do.
Then help save the planet and off yourself.
Why the hell didn't GNU complete the entire GNU system? Saw Linus' kernel and said "Forget it, he's already got one running"?
I'm just sorry I didn't think of it myself.
I'm not really interested in Microsoft's term of the day. Really. Just let me get my stuff done.
Google are shills, just like everyone else on line in the .COM domain.