Fail... not when Apple is promoting a competing OS(es) which they hope either kills Windows entirely or at least prevents MS from getting on competing phones/tablets. Sorry, can't get what you need in the iWorld? Switch back. Every time MS makes it easier for you to stay in Apple land they do damage to their own future.
are the same size as our phone "apps" (a handful of MB) then that might mean something. Until then splash screens are just a way to indicate, yes, your program really is starting and yes you did click the right icon. A number of programs offer the option to disable splash screens, maybe making that a "requirement" would make everyone happy.
Does Apple sell FinalCut for the non-iSteve world? I'm sure you can find a viewer of just about any document format, got get it. And good luck writing your spread sheets and word docs on a tablet, Office or not.
Bah. The kind of reply I get when you've never had to review the work of a dozen lesser programmers to see what simple thing they didn't get right. More complexity is not better - it's a shame if you haven't grokked that.
I was only half jesting but you have clearly proven my point in your reference to 'lesser programmers'. Do you make them bow down before you each morning? Kiss you feet before going to their cube? I have no doubt that you are a strong believer and advocate for the Nanny State - regardless of its target (in this case programming.)
Strange you also would like to use goto. Even in 1968 Dijkstra considered this harmful in a famous paper - so generally anyone wanting to use this is considered slightly deranged, there are alternatives that are much more maintanable. So railing against Java for a construct that the consensus considers bad form could also be seen as bad form (or an unawareness of just how bad designs that need goto are).
Clearly a member of the NannyState of programming. Will offer you a healthy alternative to that nasty goto/label that your mommy packed you for work today.
A) The child should *never* be involved in a disupte such as this, only parents and administrators B) Unless the child is deprived of food (starved) - which involves not the school but other authorities - wtf right does the government have to tell you how you should or should not feed your child?
We have? Hasn't this always been the case, unless you go all the way back to say the 18th or 17th century,
I would be inclined to use 1945 as the pivotal date. It would be interesting to also find stats on ratio of scientists employed by private industry vs goernment labs (or majority funding out of the government as apposed to academic institution if so employed.)
The reasons for this are complex, including huge cost overruns on James Webb Space Telescope and the Curiosity Mars rover, but it also points to a political lack of valuing science in America."
Anytime there is any cut to a program, however dubious the scientific merit, that is what you will hear. And that is a perfect example of what I spoke of in the previous posting on this subject. We have created a situation where scientists are now a welfare group on the government dole. There is no 'oh my god if we dont get a man to Mars by XXXX we are doomed!!!' about this. JWST, LHC, manned space missions - all these giganormous projects are more about keeping the scientists employed than any attempt at a rational trade off between ability to fund and desirability of outcome.
So as not to just pick on our Martian overlords, Suppose Cern never built the LHC, what would have happened? Fermilab probably would have run a couple extra years before shutting down. Other smaller labs would continue and other new experiments might come on using the existing infrastructure. Any discovery of Higgs would be delayed. Outside of the HEP/cosmology community how would that delay affect anyone on planet earth?
However, there almost certainly would have been a large excess of high energy physicists and associated professions. Some will say what about grid computing or this or that. While true that the demands of Tevatron and LHC pushed the envelope on some computing technology, those advances were near certain to come not long after without the HEP leadership.
Bottom line is that there needs to be a long hard look at how science is done not just in US but around the world. The way science is funded is certainly broken but it goes well beyond that and reaches into tenure, publishing and other areas.
There's a genuine scientific and human need to keep making new steps, gain more experience and create better technology regarding humans in space.
Really? This is a pressing national objective? Or even world objective? Could it wait 10 or 20 years until we figure out the budget mess in the US and Euroland?
The answer is, of course, yes it can wait 10, 20, 50 years. As can most of the large ticket scientific endeavours like JWST or LHC. The reason they do not is we have a very large number of scientists who are now for all intents on the government (whatever country) dole. Who does it hurt, for instance, if the JWST was mothballed (or cancelled) for 20 years? The scientists. Civilization is measured in centuries and millenia. What ever discoveries are to be made will still be there and the rest of the world will be no worse off. Likewise LHC. Compare the author "line" of a preprint from Atlas or CMS (or CDF or D0) to the 1974 discover of the J/Psi at SLAC and BNL, independently discovered but jointly announced: J. J. Aubert, U. Becker, P. J. Biggs, J. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong, T. McCorriston, T. G. Rhoades, M. Rohde, Samuel C. C. Ting, and Sau Lan Wu from BNL and a slightly longer list from SLAC.
I'm not anti-science by any means but I do see an imbalance/significant problem with the way current "science" is undertaken.
NASA is a bankrupt bureaucracy plain and simple. Instead of axing the funding (many billions) on space adventures for man (mars, moon, whatever) and 'heavy lift' vehicles they axe funding in the one area where one could say they have a legitimate role - pure scientific exploration. There are no good reasons to race to get men on Mars. And there is no reason any longer for NASA to be developing rockets when private industry can take over and perhaps profit now that the government funded competition is out of the way. Imagine taking just 25% of what is planned for manned missions and associated vehicles and applying it to basic exploration like voyager, cassini, etc. NASA would have more than enough funding to focus on the things they do best.
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Like on the iSteve estate - eventually it will be taxed when the wife dies. As to not taking salary and taking loans against the shares - it is not entirely free as you must pay interest and in Ahboracles case, the stock did tank large thus reducing the amounts which could be borrowed and potentially resulting in margin calls at least in the 2008 timeframe. And unless you are able to roll the loan over forever, you will eventually need to sell shares to pay the loan off and thus pay some tax. Either way, the top 1% pay 30% of the tax burden and the wealthy in the US also pay more both in $ and % of the total tax burden than do their equals in Euroland.
with investments elsewhere disses google. ok. twitter as a search agent? for what? where to eat? even if I asked a friend if they like their new car that doesn't mean I'm buying it (and certainly not without more than 'oh yeah its great' which can often really mean 'Its not as good as I thought so leave me alone I dont want to be embarassed stop asking me questions!;)
The area I think google (and the other search agents) can improve is relevancy and classification of results. Search is not dying but its growth rate may hae peaked in the developed world (who is not online? what would make you search more than you do now (on average)?)
The bottom line is that you are using Google's services FREE OF CHARGE and if you don't like their new privacy policy then you are free to use some other service, free or paid, of your own choice. And if you believe the outrage will be/is so tremendous, feel free to start your own competing services with a 'better' policy.
I get a little giddy whenever someone brings back memories of Algol But why stop reinventing the wheel every five years with a new greatest bestest programming language.. just think of all the lost revenue to publishers and software companies among others.
Fuck you Apple and everything about you. You DONT know what everybody wants. Can you possibly believe that some people like print books? Textbooks in particular? Maybe someday you'll learn that DIGITAL != BETTER
that is a defeatist attitude... most companies are started on a shoe string, not with millions of dollars. VC in the dot bomb era was very much the exception.
I say unless you are certain they will fire you for it, take your time off *. Are they going to pass you for promotion? Well if your work is good, or better than the rest, probably not unless the date coincides with your vacation. Given that there is little loyalty anymore on either side of the equation, might as well get what is yours.
* if they can you for no reason other than taking time off and you can document it, sue their ass.
probably 95+% of ebooks are fine as they are. What % of books rely on fancy layout or font gimmicry for presentation? Does that paperback you were reading on the subway need it? The hardcover novel? What % of books are reliant on illustrations as "part of the experience"? I think most of us (heavy e-readers in particular) are in it for the text, not the pictures.
As others have pointed out, screen size, type and resolution all play a part in this too. It would be great if every book could appear on an ereader just as it does in print. Unfortunately, e-readers have not yet discovered how to increase and decrease their size to make that possible.
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Fail... not when Apple is promoting a competing OS(es) which they hope either kills Windows entirely or at least prevents MS from getting on competing phones/tablets. Sorry, can't get what you need in the iWorld? Switch back. Every time MS makes it easier for you to stay in Apple land they do damage to their own future.
are the same size as our phone "apps" (a handful of MB) then that might mean something. Until then splash screens are just a way to indicate, yes, your program really is starting and yes you did click the right icon. A number of programs offer the option to disable splash screens, maybe making that a "requirement" would make everyone happy.
Does Apple sell FinalCut for the non-iSteve world? I'm sure you can find a viewer of just about any document format, got get it. And good luck writing your spread sheets and word docs on a tablet, Office or not.
I was only half jesting but you have clearly proven my point in your reference to 'lesser programmers'. Do you make them bow down before you each morning? Kiss you feet before going to their cube? I have no doubt that you are a strong believer and advocate for the Nanny State - regardless of its target (in this case programming.)
Clearly a member of the NannyState of programming. Will offer you a healthy alternative to that nasty goto/label that your mommy packed you for work today.
A) The child should *never* be involved in a disupte such as this, only parents and administrators
B) Unless the child is deprived of food (starved) - which involves not the school but other authorities - wtf right does the government have to tell you how you should or should not feed your child?
I would be inclined to use 1945 as the pivotal date. It would be interesting to also find stats on ratio of scientists employed by private industry vs goernment labs (or majority funding out of the government as apposed to academic institution if so employed.)
Anytime there is any cut to a program, however dubious the scientific merit, that is what you will hear. And that is a perfect example of what I spoke of in the previous posting on this subject. We have created a situation where scientists are now a welfare group on the government dole. There is no 'oh my god if we dont get a man to Mars by XXXX we are doomed!!!' about this. JWST, LHC, manned space missions - all these giganormous projects are more about keeping the scientists employed than any attempt at a rational trade off between ability to fund and desirability of outcome.
So as not to just pick on our Martian overlords, Suppose Cern never built the LHC, what would have happened? Fermilab probably would have run a couple extra years before shutting down. Other smaller labs would continue and other new experiments might come on using the existing infrastructure. Any discovery of Higgs would be delayed. Outside of the HEP/cosmology community how would that delay affect anyone on planet earth?
However, there almost certainly would have been a large excess of high energy physicists and associated professions. Some will say what about grid computing or this or that. While true that the demands of Tevatron and LHC pushed the envelope on some computing technology, those advances were near certain to come not long after without the HEP leadership.
Bottom line is that there needs to be a long hard look at how science is done not just in US but around the world. The way science is funded is certainly broken but it goes well beyond that and reaches into tenure, publishing and other areas.
Really? This is a pressing national objective? Or even world objective? Could it wait 10 or 20 years until we figure out the budget mess in the US and Euroland?
The answer is, of course, yes it can wait 10, 20, 50 years. As can most of the large ticket scientific endeavours like JWST or LHC. The reason they do not is we have a very large number of scientists who are now for all intents on the government (whatever country) dole. Who does it hurt, for instance, if the JWST was mothballed (or cancelled) for 20 years? The scientists. Civilization is measured in centuries and millenia. What ever discoveries are to be made will still be there and the rest of the world will be no worse off. Likewise LHC. Compare the author "line" of a preprint from Atlas or CMS (or CDF or D0) to the 1974 discover of the J/Psi at SLAC and BNL, independently discovered but jointly announced: J. J. Aubert, U. Becker, P. J. Biggs, J. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong, T. McCorriston, T. G. Rhoades, M. Rohde, Samuel C. C. Ting, and Sau Lan Wu from BNL and a slightly longer list from SLAC.
I'm not anti-science by any means but I do see an imbalance/significant problem with the way current "science" is undertaken.
NASA is a bankrupt bureaucracy plain and simple. Instead of axing the funding (many billions) on space adventures for man (mars, moon, whatever) and 'heavy lift' vehicles they axe funding in the one area where one could say they have a legitimate role - pure scientific exploration. There are no good reasons to race to get men on Mars. And there is no reason any longer for NASA to be developing rockets when private industry can take over and perhaps profit now that the government funded competition is out of the way. Imagine taking just 25% of what is planned for manned missions and associated vehicles and applying it to basic exploration like voyager, cassini, etc. NASA would have more than enough funding to focus on the things they do best.
Like on the iSteve estate - eventually it will be taxed when the wife dies. As to not taking salary and taking loans against the shares - it is not entirely free as you must pay interest and in Ahboracles case, the stock did tank large thus reducing the amounts which could be borrowed and potentially resulting in margin calls at least in the 2008 timeframe. And unless you are able to roll the loan over forever, you will eventually need to sell shares to pay the loan off and thus pay some tax. Either way, the top 1% pay 30% of the tax burden and the wealthy in the US also pay more both in $ and % of the total tax burden than do their equals in Euroland.
with investments elsewhere disses google. ok. twitter as a search agent? for what? where to eat? even if I asked a friend if they like their new car that doesn't mean I'm buying it (and certainly not without more than 'oh yeah its great' which can often really mean 'Its not as good as I thought so leave me alone I dont want to be embarassed stop asking me questions!;)
The area I think google (and the other search agents) can improve is relevancy and classification of results. Search is not dying but its growth rate may hae peaked in the developed world (who is not online? what would make you search more than you do now (on average)?)
The bottom line is that you are using Google's services FREE OF CHARGE and if you don't like their new privacy policy then you are free to use some other service, free or paid, of your own choice. And if you believe the outrage will be/is so tremendous, feel free to start your own competing services with a 'better' policy.
I get a little giddy whenever someone brings back memories of Algol But why stop reinventing the wheel every five years with a new greatest bestest programming language.. just think of all the lost revenue to publishers and software companies among others.
Fuck you Apple and everything about you. You DONT know what everybody wants. Can you possibly believe that some people like print books? Textbooks in particular? Maybe someday you'll learn that DIGITAL != BETTER
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that is a defeatist attitude... most companies are started on a shoe string, not with millions of dollars. VC in the dot bomb era was very much the exception.
yes like.. apple? microsoft? google? adobe? netflix? newegg? E-Trade? the bagel shop I've been going to the past 15 years?
The primary basis of Free/Net/Open BSD existed long before Linux. Not a diss on Linux, just saying. Ref: here
I say unless you are certain they will fire you for it, take your time off *. Are they going to pass you for promotion? Well if your work is good, or better than the rest, probably not unless the date coincides with your vacation. Given that there is little loyalty anymore on either side of the equation, might as well get what is yours.
* if they can you for no reason other than taking time off and you can document it, sue their ass.
nothing stopping you from starting your own company with your own policies. All MegaCorps started out as... BarelyAnyEmployeeCorps.
probably 95+% of ebooks are fine as they are. What % of books rely on fancy layout or font gimmicry for presentation? Does that paperback you were reading on the subway need it? The hardcover novel? What % of books are reliant on illustrations as "part of the experience"? I think most of us (heavy e-readers in particular) are in it for the text, not the pictures.
As others have pointed out, screen size, type and resolution all play a part in this too. It would be great if every book could appear on an ereader just as it does in print. Unfortunately, e-readers have not yet discovered how to increase and decrease their size to make that possible.
didn't you get the memo? The Norks are just on re-runs. Switch before you miss the live bombing
So.. who is paying for her rescue? And are they volunteers who are willing to risk their life to save some chick out on a whim?
"Papers? Ummm.. I think I left those at home today...."