Nope. You're conflating technological generations with "programmer generations." Are you seriously arguing that a programmer's career only spans 3-5 years? Or even that one can't have a programming career which is equal or longer than a human generation (20-25 years)? I guess Linus is about done. Keeping skills up to date applies to any career.
"Programmer generation" is a red herring, made of whole cloth. There is no such thing.
Why would you put control circuitry that doesn't wear out into the replaceable part that *does* wear out instead of into the fixture that holds it?
Fixtures are pretty permanent (difficult to replace for most homeowners). Bulbs are made to be easily changed by anyone. LED bulbs should last a very long time, longer than quickly changing home net/mesh technology.
Why would you want to lock yourself into a new technology by making it difficult to upgrade? Does this answer your question?
Really, pointing to an article which (repeatedly) says the acronym for Software Defined Data Center is "SDDN?" That refers to Software Defined Data Network. The latter isn't limited to data centers, although that's where the most clear benefit lies. SDDN is just a single part of SDDC, which also make use of virtualization of compute and storage resources.
"texting while driving is against the law so getting in a crash while texting should be investigated by the cops"
You're using circular logic. If the cop knows that the driver was texting, he has probable cause for a warrant.
If not, the cop does what he's supposed to do, talk to witnesses and the suspect, examine immediately obvious evidence, and if that provides probable cause that the driver was texting, he can get a warrant to search the phone or the provider's records.
I suspect it is. But, that's why we have a Constitution which (ostensibly) grants only limited powers to government, and guarantees rights - to avoid a tyranny of the majority. Being a democracy however, politicians are inclined to ignore the Constitution in favor of votes from the majority, as the case at hand demonstrates.
"It is fun to use a Moore's Law extrapolation. Only 30 years later, cellphones will outnumber insects on the planet."
You misunderstand Moore's Law. It's all about the number of transistors in a chip, not the number of devices made from chips.
Windows has shown us that software consumes resources faster than Moore's law can keep up. My PC takes longer to boot than the Apple ][ (and 8088 PC clone) I had in the early days. Applications run not faster (but look prettier).
"Convince your friends and family to support open primary"
Primaries should be financed by the parties, not the public. More correctly, there should be no party recognition at all in elections - let all comers run, on an equal basis. There is nothing in any Constitution, state or federal, which allows/supports party based candidates. At least at the federal level, recognition of parties is not a power given by the Constitution. The ability to vote straight ticket is illegitimate.
Voting only makes a difference if you have a real choice. The Dems and Reps are flip sides of the same coin. As long as they can keep the bread and circuses going, and keep laws and rules in place which prevent third parties from gaining any real power, they're both in good position to build and maintain power.
This wouldn't have been any different if the opposite party were in power. We don't have a democracy - the rules are set up to give massive benefits in the process to the two parties, and to exclude others. The only difference in democracy between the US and the cold-war Soviet Union is that we have 2 choices where they had 1. (and we laughed and criticized their claim of "democracy"!)
One merely has to read the Constitution to know that any law allowing this is unconstitutional. Disingenuous legal rationalizations can't change that. Not even the Supremes declaring that "red is green" could change that.
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Really, they blow up whole fictional worlds, and you're worried about fictional droids?
Nope. You're conflating technological generations with "programmer generations." Are you seriously arguing that a programmer's career only spans 3-5 years? Or even that one can't have a programming career which is equal or longer than a human generation (20-25 years)? I guess Linus is about done. Keeping skills up to date applies to any career.
"Programmer generation" is a red herring, made of whole cloth. There is no such thing.
"Generation" doesn't refer to an average lifetime, it refers to the average childbearing age.
If they did that, maybe I'll have a change of heart and start supporting them.
Isn't that simply called a fork?
"I expect that there will be a riot around each one of these charging stations."
Because New Yorkers obviously haven't figured out that every car (including taxis) comes equipped with a charging outlet.
Fixtures are pretty permanent (difficult to replace for most homeowners). Bulbs are made to be easily changed by anyone. LED bulbs should last a very long time, longer than quickly changing home net/mesh technology.
Why would you want to lock yourself into a new technology by making it difficult to upgrade? Does this answer your question?
Really, pointing to an article which (repeatedly) says the acronym for Software Defined Data Center is "SDDN?" That refers to Software Defined Data Network. The latter isn't limited to data centers, although that's where the most clear benefit lies. SDDN is just a single part of SDDC, which also make use of virtualization of compute and storage resources.
If you're going to karma whore, you should at least reference the OP.
If you can see debian-multimedia.org lines in output, you might want to change all the lines including it to use deb-multimedia.org instead.
"Unless you use Photoshop to apply 'grain' and tonal changes to the shot it will lack character."
You misspelled "familiar defects."
"texting while driving is against the law so getting in a crash while texting should be investigated by the cops"
You're using circular logic. If the cop knows that the driver was texting, he has probable cause for a warrant.
If not, the cop does what he's supposed to do, talk to witnesses and the suspect, examine immediately obvious evidence, and if that provides probable cause that the driver was texting, he can get a warrant to search the phone or the provider's records.
"as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again."
Translation: we bought this thing, but we don't know how it works.
Whoosh, clueless fucker. HAL wasn't an IBM 360, either.
You should study the real world, where a theoretical random sample doesn't exist.
"It's not true!"
I suspect it is. But, that's why we have a Constitution which (ostensibly) grants only limited powers to government, and guarantees rights - to avoid a tyranny of the majority. Being a democracy however, politicians are inclined to ignore the Constitution in favor of votes from the majority, as the case at hand demonstrates.
I imagine the Royal Mint is very good at weighing things using gravity.
In exactly the same way 11n goes to 600 Mb (or not). Why would you want to connect a desktop to shared media, anyway?
But, they say it's good for another 10 years. (as long as you ignore 10 Gb networking, I guess)
"You are and idiot"
Your self-referential post speaks for itself.
extrapolation != exponential. HTH! HAND!
"It is fun to use a Moore's Law extrapolation. Only 30 years later, cellphones will outnumber insects on the planet."
You misunderstand Moore's Law. It's all about the number of transistors in a chip, not the number of devices made from chips.
Windows has shown us that software consumes resources faster than Moore's law can keep up. My PC takes longer to boot than the Apple ][ (and 8088 PC clone) I had in the early days. Applications run not faster (but look prettier).
"Convince your friends and family to support open primary"
Primaries should be financed by the parties, not the public. More correctly, there should be no party recognition at all in elections - let all comers run, on an equal basis. There is nothing in any Constitution, state or federal, which allows/supports party based candidates. At least at the federal level, recognition of parties is not a power given by the Constitution. The ability to vote straight ticket is illegitimate.
"There might be a few insights in that old code worth preserving..."
Just look to Windows. Just as IBM(rot -1) = HAL, VMS(rot 1) = WNT. VMS and Windows NT were both developed by Dave Cutler (who hated UNIX).
That's a non-sequitur.
Voting only makes a difference if you have a real choice. The Dems and Reps are flip sides of the same coin. As long as they can keep the bread and circuses going, and keep laws and rules in place which prevent third parties from gaining any real power, they're both in good position to build and maintain power.
This wouldn't have been any different if the opposite party were in power. We don't have a democracy - the rules are set up to give massive benefits in the process to the two parties, and to exclude others. The only difference in democracy between the US and the cold-war Soviet Union is that we have 2 choices where they had 1. (and we laughed and criticized their claim of "democracy"!)
One merely has to read the Constitution to know that any law allowing this is unconstitutional. Disingenuous legal rationalizations can't change that. Not even the Supremes declaring that "red is green" could change that.