Please provide your statistics on Mac market share. According to NetApplications, OS X share is 7.4%. That is very inline with historical Apple share of market since the 1980's. Bottom line, it is Apple FUD.
not to mention the 'heating element' covers the thing? wtf? And it would have to be very hot to metl snow fast enough not to require plowing. And just imaging what a plow could do to it. How do they handle frost heaves and other shifts in the road bed?
this whole thing is impractical for roads... maybe walkways it might work.
Indeed - if anything, BSD's do much of what they claim in their FAQ that Linux does not.
At this point, it is hard to envision any OS displacing Windows/OSX/BSD/Linux without providing a radically different approach that allows users to do things not possible before
Granted, you are an AC dolt. This is not so much about capitalism as it is about philantrhopy and making use of an open market to reach the goals that are set by those organizations. Put another way - Balmer, Buffet, Gates et al all could independently finance any of the NASA observatory projects. Do you seriously think they would tolerate the mismanagement, cost overruns and general stupidity that has plagued so many of those? It is not that NASA can't ultimately get the job done - they do - it is the waste of resources (people and money) to get there that is so abhorent.
perfect example of the "must have it now I'm so bored" generation. OMFG the x-ray telescope was delayed 5 years! The horror! Delayed confirmation of other planetary systems by... 30 years. 30 out of.. 14 billion. Can we seriously get over it?
and you have a ton of dough for everything else. There is no good reason to send men to mars. I'm not even sure there is a good one for establishing a base on the moon, the "lesser" challenge.
No, NASA - aka the USG - is the sugar daddy to the astro researchers. There hasn't even been thought to seeing what it would take to operate a project independently. In fact, maybe if these projects were done privately from start to finish they would not see multi billion dollar cost overruns time after time.
What historical observations is this to be compared with? By the sounds of it there is nothing prior to 2005 - certainly nothing in the 40s thru 80s. Given that the few researchers down there are not running around the perimeter of the continent checking on where ice ends and sea begins, how do we place the current observation in context? Seems that we can't.
I have no issue with three letter agencies doing the job they were tasked to do - provide the USG with foreign intelligence gathered offshore. The problem is when they turn those same techniques inward.
And lest the foreigners cry - your governments are spying on the US too, often on behalf of your nationally domiciled corporations.
Fortran is still used because it works. Becuase it is fast. Because libraries are optimized and well understood. Fortran is still used because gasp it has evolved since FORTRAN 66 and FORTRAN IV. Maybe you and the other language nannies always forcing latest greatest buzz on the rest of us should take the time to actually read about some of the most recent versions?
Policies to reverse this trend are urgently needed.
OMG! People are (insert adjective, adverbs, nouns as appropriate)! We must do something! Somebody make a policy, quick!
The role of government is not to be Mom or Nanny. Will the government next send a message to their TV's 'You have reached your maxium TV dose for today, go outside and play now. The TV is off until tomorrow!"
but not another. Problem machine was AMD based, I think that my have something to do with it. This seemed to finally fix it for me. I also used the standalone installer.
thats really what this is. 10 weeks for 10K? And that gets you exactly what? Some rudimentary Ruby? A typical (and reasonably good) CS program requires classes like these (with credit hours):
Fundamentals of Programming 2
Programming and Data Structures 3
Systems Software 4
Technical Presentation 1
Computer Organization and Architecture 3
Software Engineering 3
Discrete Structures 3
Programming Languages 3
Operating System Design 3
Introduction to the Theory of Computation 3
Design and Analysis of Algorithms 3
Senior Project 3
Electives in CS 12
Note that does not include any of the math req's or basic "well rounded" college stuff. Is that more than you need to know to do simple scripting? Yes. Does it mean you probably have a clue once you graduate? Yes. I'll admit to thinking that the cost of college these days is out of whack but the reasons for that are not relevant. The bottom line is the depth and experience you gain in completing a program like above can't be compared to 'bootcamps'.
Another downside I think is that when you had to use cards (or the code base was large and compiles were very slow) you put a bit more thought into the code you were submitting and probably checked it a bit more thoroughly before trying to run it.
I worked on a DEC20 (god rest its blessed soul) in the early 80s and while we were all terminaled out, I would from time to time send my code to the card punch or paper tape just to annoy the operators who were still busy handling cards for the CDC Cyber.
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you clearly don't live where it snows more than a few snow flakes. Turn your rear wiper on much?
No, it is is more like "Dr. Pepper says people drank Coke and Pepsi by mistake!" *
* note that the dark cola market is clearly fragmented as users are not being updated from Pepsi to Coke in a timely manner.
Please provide your statistics on Mac market share. According to NetApplications, OS X share is 7.4%. That is very inline with historical Apple share of market since the 1980's. Bottom line, it is Apple FUD.
not to mention the 'heating element' covers the thing? wtf? And it would have to be very hot to metl snow fast enough not to require plowing. And just imaging what a plow could do to it. How do they handle frost heaves and other shifts in the road bed?
this whole thing is impractical for roads... maybe walkways it might work.
Indeed - if anything, BSD's do much of what they claim in their FAQ that Linux does not.
At this point, it is hard to envision any OS displacing Windows/OSX/BSD/Linux without providing a radically different approach that allows users to do things not possible before
Probably unknown to many people is that US city epa estimates include driving on the highway.
Granted, you are an AC dolt. This is not so much about capitalism as it is about philantrhopy and making use of an open market to reach the goals that are set by those organizations. Put another way - Balmer, Buffet, Gates et al all could independently finance any of the NASA observatory projects. Do you seriously think they would tolerate the mismanagement, cost overruns and general stupidity that has plagued so many of those? It is not that NASA can't ultimately get the job done - they do - it is the waste of resources (people and money) to get there that is so abhorent.
perfect example of the "must have it now I'm so bored" generation. OMFG the x-ray telescope was delayed 5 years! The horror! Delayed confirmation of other planetary systems by... 30 years. 30 out of.. 14 billion. Can we seriously get over it?
and you have a ton of dough for everything else. There is no good reason to send men to mars. I'm not even sure there is a good one for establishing a base on the moon, the "lesser" challenge.
No, NASA - aka the USG - is the sugar daddy to the astro researchers. There hasn't even been thought to seeing what it would take to operate a project independently. In fact, maybe if these projects were done privately from start to finish they would not see multi billion dollar cost overruns time after time.
What historical observations is this to be compared with? By the sounds of it there is nothing prior to 2005 - certainly nothing in the 40s thru 80s. Given that the few researchers down there are not running around the perimeter of the continent checking on where ice ends and sea begins, how do we place the current observation in context? Seems that we can't.
And I have stuff dating back to the 80s. Even the ones which were abused at parties are ok.
on Arxiv is peer reviewed or even 'good' science. This would seem to fall under that category.
I have no issue with three letter agencies doing the job they were tasked to do - provide the USG with foreign intelligence gathered offshore. The problem is when they turn those same techniques inward.
And lest the foreigners cry - your governments are spying on the US too, often on behalf of your nationally domiciled corporations.
Unless you can have a controlled study where both groups take the same exams and have the same labs/assignments the "result" is meaningless.
thank you for saving me the trouble.. its hard to take anything seroiusly when they can't even get those simple figures correct.
Fortran is still used because it works. Becuase it is fast. Because libraries are optimized and well understood. Fortran is still used because gasp it has evolved since FORTRAN 66 and FORTRAN IV. Maybe you and the other language nannies always forcing latest greatest buzz on the rest of us should take the time to actually read about some of the most recent versions?
OMG! People are (insert adjective, adverbs, nouns as appropriate)! We must do something! Somebody make a policy, quick!
The role of government is not to be Mom or Nanny. Will the government next send a message to their TV's 'You have reached your maxium TV dose for today, go outside and play now. The TV is off until tomorrow!"
Thank you commrade Max for your suggestions on how to control other people's lives.
but not another. Problem machine was AMD based, I think that my have something to do with it. This seemed to finally fix it for me. I also used the standalone installer.
The Inhell machine updted no problems.
65536 feet? hmmmm
thats really what this is. 10 weeks for 10K? And that gets you exactly what? Some rudimentary Ruby? A typical (and reasonably good) CS program requires classes like these (with credit hours):
Fundamentals of Programming 2
Programming and Data Structures 3
Systems Software 4
Technical Presentation 1
Computer Organization and Architecture 3
Software Engineering 3
Discrete Structures 3
Programming Languages 3
Operating System Design 3
Introduction to the Theory of Computation 3
Design and Analysis of Algorithms 3
Senior Project 3
Electives in CS 12
Note that does not include any of the math req's or basic "well rounded" college stuff. Is that more than you need to know to do simple scripting? Yes. Does it mean you probably have a clue once you graduate? Yes. I'll admit to thinking that the cost of college these days is out of whack but the reasons for that are not relevant. The bottom line is the depth and experience you gain in completing a program like above can't be compared to 'bootcamps'.
"and a basement full of DEC-10s somewhere in PA"
The DECSystem 10/20's were wonderful machines (though with a few security holes). There is still a guy in the US that runs an emulated one.
Another downside I think is that when you had to use cards (or the code base was large and compiles were very slow) you put a bit more thought into the code you were submitting and probably checked it a bit more thoroughly before trying to run it.
I worked on a DEC20 (god rest its blessed soul) in the early 80s and while we were all terminaled out, I would from time to time send my code to the card punch or paper tape just to annoy the operators who were still busy handling cards for the CDC Cyber.