What this sounds like is some academic catching up to state of the art and codifying it in immaterial footnotes. Dimes to doughnuts that any "new models" will be obsolete (or at least extremely old hat) before they're noticed in the Grooves of Acka Deme. Work gets done before it notices it has a name. I once passed arguments to another program using spawnle and got (very, very wrongly) praised for "inventing a new technology" -- nobody in the shop I was working for actually knew what was in ANSI Standard C!
Those who see nascent cyborg in the demonstration should reflect that hivemind and hivedive are worlds apart. Anyway, there's lots cheaper options when it comes to herding humans.
Personally, I discovered I can't run with the tall dogs because my dinky little I.Q. of 135 just doesn't cut it in the world of high-volume shrinkwrapped code. The first quality of the best programmers I've met is an ability to deliver product on schedule, despite Dilbert-esque management that I swear to God thinks they understand "coders" and "coding." Most of these guys burn out fast, too. Some of 'em, like me, flame out, and never go back. The second quality of the best programmers I've met is the ability to think large -- to grok the point of the application being developed and to write structure that doesn't hide the meaning of the implementation. The best code reads like the Book of Revelations, and the best coders are very odd ducks indeed. Pay for them. They exist, and you're slitting your own throat not to.
Bureaucracies tend to advance a subset of similar ideas whose only advantage is that they've worked up till now. When those ideas exhibit fatal flaws, possibly because the Gods of Science do not sufficiently appreciate the proletariat of implementation, designs for a leaner, meaner, higher, faster, sleeker shuttle seem hubresque. What's the fascination with bringing the damn thing back? What's wrong with designing a re-entry pod with only one function (to get back), and a cheap voom tube to get into space and get recycled into the infrastructure of the space station? Go up big, come back small.
Comments are designed to mitigate brain drain, at least in theory. All management wants comments, but no management is willing to extend a deadline to allow coders to comment. This is a lot like ISO 9660 -- in theory, the procedure manuals match praxis, but in practice, the trolley left for La La Land when the night shift cleaned up the empty plastic champagne cups, and won't be seen again until certificate gets revoked. On the other hand, the guy most likely to appreciate the distance between documentation and disaster is you -- but only checking yourself into Four Years Ago will ever help you understand your own notes.
Too terribly busy counting femtoseconds on the atomic clock already, I guess. Add a leap second, and somebody yells, "Ok, Mr. Wise Guy! If you think this is easy...!!!"
Isaac Asimov is famous for producing the two most self-lampooning ideas in the history of idle prophecy: The calculator with keys on the EDGES, and the Three Laws of Robotics, successfully ignored by reality since the invention of the sharp rock. The meaningless meme you're trying to foment is "gynoid," a word both obsolete and archaic since it has been replaced in the popular vernacular by Adult Swim's demi-pejorative "fembot."
Japan capitalized on non-military applications of the transistor in the Sixties, making Sony and Panasonic among the most-recognized brand names in the world. It had no immediate stake in the Cold War, aside from real estate on Okinawa, so the "guns or butter" scales tipped toward Japan, Inc.
Any lesson there for modern murkins? We'll probably produce a walking, talking, six-legged grenade (if we haven't already), long before we see anything like a human face come out of Ford, IBM or Apple. I look forward to a century of cultural hegemony radiating from Japan, or at least the Pearl Coast of China, in the field of personal robotics.
Speaking of evil genius, how about putting chemically tagged product in the ink cartridge refills at your local grocery store? You could tag day of the week, month and year, plus customer's VISA number, with 50 additives or maybe even less. If this qualifies as a 3M suggestion box idea, I want my 25 large. They stiffed me on the reflective tape on shoe heels idea I had back in 1986.
The niches natural selection forces the raw goo of speciation into are sometimes formed by the predilection of the participants. In other words, big antlers get bigger because females prefer them. There is something similar in human linguistics; that is, regional dialects emerge because high-status women speak that way. The same cause may easily select for race -- a trivial variation, genetically speaking, with major importance for those who play the game.
didahdidahdidah is the preferred form, evidently. Frankly, Morse is something that could easily be computerized: Type your message, spell check it, filter it through a reasonably adept Unix tool that understands Unicode, and pipe the output to some kind of cheesy hack that keys your transmitter. Q.E.D.
The first thing universities do when they realize their pages are being hit is lock out the goonies who don't pay tuition. The old internet of two or three years ago is dead, dead, dead, and everything useful is corralled in gated communities. It's fun seeing Google trying to game itself in order to stay relevant and offer ANYTHING that hasn't already been smothered under the sludge of commerce.
As any plumber knows, a pipe is usually secure; it's the joins and the open ends that leak first. Therefore, legislation is a rather obvious cracking tool. This is true even in the U.S., where 5th amendment "guarantees" are a presumption of guilt and are actually unavailable for use by parties who would NOT otherwise incriminate themselves. In other words, you may not invoke the Fifth unless you WOULD incriminate yourself. Law is what the Supremes say it is, and bears no resemblance to anything you may have learned in grade school. Law is a rubber hose.
This is brilliant (I'm still reading the article), and really really should become become part of the GNU Go project asap! Go (aka baduk, wei qi, etc.) is a natural candidate for Bayesian analysis, since the two best computer Go programs (WinHonte, Many Faces of Go) are already neural nets.
Seriously, I've heard of the dude, but not of anything he's written. Is he Required Reading at the Donald Trump Online University School of Fine Reading or something? Believe me, if this guy DESERVED to be on the Reading List Hell list, he would be.
Any "rough corners" shaved off had better leave a syntax that resembles the subset most people bother to learn. It's always fun to watch obvious code change from plain and sincere to incomprehensible because some genius decided to wrap the grammar in an "obviously useful" abstraction layer. Whenever this happens, I thank gad (aka Bill Goats) for giant corporations who think of customers before lighting up in their ivory towers.
IIRC, LoJack puts "secret transmitters" into cars so's they can be tracked by cops if stolen. Oh kay...
So, if I put one of these software jobbies on my laptop (it will work with Apple laptops, right?), what prevents Little Snitch (or -- heaven forfend -- even some little homebrew daemon script that monitors tcpdump) from noticing the "alert"?
This reminds me of "the club", that low tech bar you lock onto your steering wheel -- defeated in 10 seconds by a $20 hacksaw that wrecks a $200 steering wheel so the thief can drive off with a $28,000 Toyota. None of these systems PREVENT theft. None of these systems ALERT anybody, if thieves know where to look, what wires to jiggle, what files to delete, what black box to smash with a ball peen hammer.
Especially with commodity-priced laptops, you're better off assuming your laptop WILL be lost or destroyed, which is why you clone your hard disk onto an external Firewire drive every other day. Way cheaper, and provides 100% peace of mind.
Just a lowly forelock tugging taxpayer who thinks the shuttle has been a bad investment, especially considering the propaganda-driven groupthink that leads to such spectacular sacrifices as Challenger. As for Lagrange Points, I'm admit I can't do the math, but the concept of cheap delivery to far away places is elegant, dude. Bang for the buck, not bucks for the bang.
Cool about Cassini. NASA's Greatest Hits of the last few decades seem to be Lagrange Point planetary orbiters and the Hubble Space Telescope. I was going to credit the snake-bitten Shuttle missions for rescuing Hubble, but heck we're going to junk that.
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What this sounds like is some academic catching up to state of the art and codifying it in immaterial footnotes. Dimes to doughnuts that any "new models" will be obsolete (or at least extremely old hat) before they're noticed in the Grooves of Acka Deme. Work gets done before it notices it has a name. I once passed arguments to another program using spawnle and got (very, very wrongly) praised for "inventing a new technology" -- nobody in the shop I was working for actually knew what was in ANSI Standard C!
Those who see nascent cyborg in the demonstration should reflect that hivemind and hivedive are worlds apart. Anyway, there's lots cheaper options when it comes to herding humans.
Personally, I discovered I can't run with the tall dogs because my dinky little I.Q. of 135 just doesn't cut it in the world of high-volume shrinkwrapped code. The first quality of the best programmers I've met is an ability to deliver product on schedule, despite Dilbert-esque management that I swear to God thinks they understand "coders" and "coding." Most of these guys burn out fast, too. Some of 'em, like me, flame out, and never go back. The second quality of the best programmers I've met is the ability to think large -- to grok the point of the application being developed and to write structure that doesn't hide the meaning of the implementation. The best code reads like the Book of Revelations, and the best coders are very odd ducks indeed. Pay for them. They exist, and you're slitting your own throat not to.
Bureaucracies tend to advance a subset of similar ideas whose only advantage is that they've worked up till now. When those ideas exhibit fatal flaws, possibly because the Gods of Science do not sufficiently appreciate the proletariat of implementation, designs for a leaner, meaner, higher, faster, sleeker shuttle seem hubresque. What's the fascination with bringing the damn thing back? What's wrong with designing a re-entry pod with only one function (to get back), and a cheap voom tube to get into space and get recycled into the infrastructure of the space station? Go up big, come back small.
Comments are designed to mitigate brain drain, at least in theory. All management wants comments, but no management is willing to extend a deadline to allow coders to comment. This is a lot like ISO 9660 -- in theory, the procedure manuals match praxis, but in practice, the trolley left for La La Land when the night shift cleaned up the empty plastic champagne cups, and won't be seen again until certificate gets revoked. On the other hand, the guy most likely to appreciate the distance between documentation and disaster is you -- but only checking yourself into Four Years Ago will ever help you understand your own notes.
Too terribly busy counting femtoseconds on the atomic clock already, I guess. Add a leap second, and somebody yells, "Ok, Mr. Wise Guy! If you think this is easy...!!!"
As in guy-neck-ology. Du-uh.
Pris, as you recall, preferred toy soldiers to geeks. No accounting for taste, even when it tastes like WD40.
Isaac Asimov is famous for producing the two most self-lampooning ideas in the history of idle prophecy: The calculator with keys on the EDGES, and the Three Laws of Robotics, successfully ignored by reality since the invention of the sharp rock. The meaningless meme you're trying to foment is "gynoid," a word both obsolete and archaic since it has been replaced in the popular vernacular by Adult Swim's demi-pejorative "fembot."
Japan capitalized on non-military applications of the transistor in the Sixties, making Sony and Panasonic among the most-recognized brand names in the world. It had no immediate stake in the Cold War, aside from real estate on Okinawa, so the "guns or butter" scales tipped toward Japan, Inc.
Any lesson there for modern murkins? We'll probably produce a walking, talking, six-legged grenade (if we haven't already), long before we see anything like a human face come out of Ford, IBM or Apple. I look forward to a century of cultural hegemony radiating from Japan, or at least the Pearl Coast of China, in the field of personal robotics.
Speaking of evil genius, how about putting chemically tagged product in the ink cartridge refills at your local grocery store? You could tag day of the week, month and year, plus customer's VISA number, with 50 additives or maybe even less. If this qualifies as a 3M suggestion box idea, I want my 25 large. They stiffed me on the reflective tape on shoe heels idea I had back in 1986.
The niches natural selection forces the raw goo of speciation into are sometimes formed by the predilection of the participants. In other words, big antlers get bigger because females prefer them. There is something similar in human linguistics; that is, regional dialects emerge because high-status women speak that way. The same cause may easily select for race -- a trivial variation, genetically speaking, with major importance for those who play the game.
didahdidahdidah is the preferred form, evidently. Frankly, Morse is something that could easily be computerized: Type your message, spell check it, filter it through a reasonably adept Unix tool that understands Unicode, and pipe the output to some kind of cheesy hack that keys your transmitter. Q.E.D.
The first thing universities do when they realize their pages are being hit is lock out the goonies who don't pay tuition. The old internet of two or three years ago is dead, dead, dead, and everything useful is corralled in gated communities. It's fun seeing Google trying to game itself in order to stay relevant and offer ANYTHING that hasn't already been smothered under the sludge of commerce.
As any plumber knows, a pipe is usually secure; it's the joins and the open ends that leak first. Therefore, legislation is a rather obvious cracking tool. This is true even in the U.S., where 5th amendment "guarantees" are a presumption of guilt and are actually unavailable for use by parties who would NOT otherwise incriminate themselves. In other words, you may not invoke the Fifth unless you WOULD incriminate yourself. Law is what the Supremes say it is, and bears no resemblance to anything you may have learned in grade school. Law is a rubber hose.
didah dahdididi dahdahdah dididah dah - dah didi dahdah di didahdidahdidah
Now if we can just push that whisker wire about 2 cm toward nirvana......
This is brilliant (I'm still reading the article), and really really should become become part of the GNU Go project asap! Go (aka baduk, wei qi, etc.) is a natural candidate for Bayesian analysis, since the two best computer Go programs (WinHonte, Many Faces of Go) are already neural nets.
Well said. When I say it, I get moderated off topic ... NAFT.
...get free advertising on /.?
Seriously, I've heard of the dude, but not of anything he's written. Is he Required Reading at the Donald Trump Online University School of Fine Reading or something? Believe me, if this guy DESERVED to be on the Reading List Hell list, he would be.
...using the shuttle, China, Korea and Japan will have nothing to worry about.
Any "rough corners" shaved off had better leave a syntax that resembles the subset most people bother to learn. It's always fun to watch obvious code change from plain and sincere to incomprehensible because some genius decided to wrap the grammar in an "obviously useful" abstraction layer. Whenever this happens, I thank gad (aka Bill Goats) for giant corporations who think of customers before lighting up in their ivory towers.
IIRC, LoJack puts "secret transmitters" into cars so's they can be tracked by cops if stolen. Oh kay... So, if I put one of these software jobbies on my laptop (it will work with Apple laptops, right?), what prevents Little Snitch (or -- heaven forfend -- even some little homebrew daemon script that monitors tcpdump) from noticing the "alert"?
This reminds me of "the club", that low tech bar you lock onto your steering wheel -- defeated in 10 seconds by a $20 hacksaw that wrecks a $200 steering wheel so the thief can drive off with a $28,000 Toyota. None of these systems PREVENT theft. None of these systems ALERT anybody, if thieves know where to look, what wires to jiggle, what files to delete, what black box to smash with a ball peen hammer.
Especially with commodity-priced laptops, you're better off assuming your laptop WILL be lost or destroyed, which is why you clone your hard disk onto an external Firewire drive every other day. Way cheaper, and provides 100% peace of mind.
Just a lowly forelock tugging taxpayer who thinks the shuttle has been a bad investment, especially considering the propaganda-driven groupthink that leads to such spectacular sacrifices as Challenger. As for Lagrange Points, I'm admit I can't do the math, but the concept of cheap delivery to far away places is elegant, dude. Bang for the buck, not bucks for the bang.
Cool about Cassini. NASA's Greatest Hits of the last few decades seem to be Lagrange Point planetary orbiters and the Hubble Space Telescope. I was going to credit the snake-bitten Shuttle missions for rescuing Hubble, but heck we're going to junk that.