Bravo, you hit the nail on the head there. As you said, I doubt anyone *IN* the engineering community actually takes this seriously, but my question is how do we get word out?
This is one issue among many. The problem is not this issue, but the trend that it represents. In order to restore political and social stability, we need to change the cognitive norm.
There's a small minority with innovative thoughts and real solutions to real problems, but in order to make things happen they need the backing of the community at large. Right now their voices are, for the most part, drowned out in the noise of infomercials, advertisements, and propaganda. So how do we change the intellectual landscape at large?
These are the questions I ask myself. It's not enough for me to throw my opinion out there, I need to do something. We all do. We see the problems, is it not our responsibility then to *DO* something about them? There must be a way to change the situation. So slashdotters, what do you have to say? What do you think can be done to revolutionize the way the world thinks? Can we turn this boat around, or are we doomed to kill each other over religious and political differences, just before the space age finally begins?
Signal to noise ratio is obviously only affected by what you see. You don't see the closed source projects that fail because... they're closed source. A binary dies out a lot faster than a source code repository sitting up on source forge, because a binary has no further potential, and if it doesn't do what it's supposed to then it has no use at all. The usefulness of source code is more ambiguous...
I do think sites like sourceforge should... not delete, but at least archive content that is no longer being worked on. This would drastically reduce the amount of noise.
IANARS, but I'm guessing that the parties involved have much more pressing concerns when designing satellites. Such as weight, which translates directly into cost. And as to the grandparent's idea of pushing things into the sun... I think it would require much less energy (again, cost) to just blow it up.
It should also be possible to use the artificial event horizon to help test whether anything can escape from a black hole. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking predicted that hot black holes could radiate particles, dubbed Hawking radiation, but it's tough to check this using telescopes, because they'd be swamped by noise. The team calculates that their laser black hole shares this property, and that it will "radiate" photons if it heats up to about 1000 degrees centigrade.
This makes me wonder how they're differentiating between light produced by their optics cable being on fire, and falloff from the laser. Or do optic cables not ignite at 1000 degrees centigrade? Regardless, it seems that there would be conflicting noise in a (presumably) non-vaccuum, lighted environment.
Of course MS isn't going to listen to anyone asking them to rewrite an OS from scratch, when they just spent nearly a decade doing so. That's absurd. Now some suckers have participated and provided feedback for their public beta... cough, I mean *release*, they're going to tweak things here and there, maybe rewrite some major problem areas, strip out some of the bloat, and release their next OS.
Anyone else notice where their programming languages are going? Extensibility, re-usability, modularity, and *really* good library support... we're finally seeing an effective implementation of what object oriented programming claimed to be all along. I would not be surprised then, to see that they've taken the same approach with their operating system design.
Their next OS will be better, and though we might complain, most of us will end up with it running on our machines. And you know, after a few years we might actually start to like it. That's my prediction.
This reminds me of SimCopter, where the police would announce "Suspect is wearing brown shoes!" I think Will Wright did that just to piss us off as we strained our eyes to try and find the 1-2 brown pixels on the screen.
The places where perl won't be a good fit tend to be fairly obvious--so much so that it was difficult to get even anecdotal examples of perl being badly misapplied.
So... you're saying there's really no point to this article. Thanks. I want my five minutes back.
Second to that in annoyance is the people who indiscriminately send company wide emails.
Heh, I just set up a rules in outlook based on mailing lists. Anything going to the whole corp gets moved to a separate folder. Rarely do I need to read anything that goes to the whole corp, so this works out fine for me.
Microsoft may have blundered, but they're not dumb. I'm pretty sure they wrote Vista in such a way that it's extensible. So people didn't like Vista, so what? Some people have paid for it, enough at least that they've gotten feedback on how to polish it up. Then they release their next OS, and life goes on. One product failure is not enough to kill MS.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows command line != DOS. The last Windows operating system to actually run on DOS was Win95. Since then, the Windows command line has maintained the original DOS syntax, but a true DOS layer is not present. Try running some old DOS games (Privateer anyone?) on your Windows 2008 box and let me know how that works out.
The problem with this approach is that you can't predict the future. You don't know if some piece of your education could come in handy in the future, and by the time realization hits it could be far too late. Having a narrow understanding of the topics you're interested in makes you 1) very reliant on your source of information, 2) unable to solve permutations of problems that you've solved before. The good side of this is that you're able to pick up new things quickly.
That 1% of the time when you *do* need to know? That's when natural selection really kicks in. That 40 year old guy that you make fun of for writing checks instead of using a debit card? He's going to outperform you 10 to 1 in an unpredictable environment, because he's self reliant. He'll get paid more, have better sex, and survive more tough situations because he can adapt to what life throws at him.
From the UI styles, it's pretty obvious they're basing this thing off of linux. So, beyond that they just have a hardware solution that doesn't require booting from a hard disk. Neither one of those things is revolutionary.
I'm running XP on my home desktop, with a Core 2 Duo and a WD Raptor. It takes about 30 seconds for me to go from the off state to booted, logged in, and ready to go. That's faster than my cell phone, and I haven't even done any specific optimizations. I don't really see much of a need for the 'splashtop'.
Yes, I can see you have a way with words. I can only imagine how you reeled them in with your suave diplomacy, but somehow at the last moment, they resisted. Those bastards.
TPB is a representation of the inevitable fact that your business model no longer works. Like a rock in the stream, you will eventually be worn down, because there is no way for you to stop the flowing water of reality. In the meantime, it is amusing for the rest of us to watch you try.
Now, I work in software, and I wouldn't do so if I didn't think there were potential profits in this field. However, there are some aspects that are more promising than others. The cost of copying digital information is economically irrelevant. Companies and individuals can either accept that fact and think of ways to use it to their advantage, or they can waste their resources in a struggle they will never win.
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Bravo, you hit the nail on the head there. As you said, I doubt anyone *IN* the engineering community actually takes this seriously, but my question is how do we get word out?
This is one issue among many. The problem is not this issue, but the trend that it represents. In order to restore political and social stability, we need to change the cognitive norm.
There's a small minority with innovative thoughts and real solutions to real problems, but in order to make things happen they need the backing of the community at large. Right now their voices are, for the most part, drowned out in the noise of infomercials, advertisements, and propaganda. So how do we change the intellectual landscape at large?
These are the questions I ask myself. It's not enough for me to throw my opinion out there, I need to do something. We all do. We see the problems, is it not our responsibility then to *DO* something about them? There must be a way to change the situation. So slashdotters, what do you have to say? What do you think can be done to revolutionize the way the world thinks? Can we turn this boat around, or are we doomed to kill each other over religious and political differences, just before the space age finally begins?
Signal to noise ratio is obviously only affected by what you see. You don't see the closed source projects that fail because... they're closed source. A binary dies out a lot faster than a source code repository sitting up on source forge, because a binary has no further potential, and if it doesn't do what it's supposed to then it has no use at all. The usefulness of source code is more ambiguous...
I do think sites like sourceforge should... not delete, but at least archive content that is no longer being worked on. This would drastically reduce the amount of noise.
I for one welcome our...
...wearing geek overlords!
# Mismatching Shoes and Belt
# Tie and Short Sleeve Shirt
# The One Binary Watch
# Tight Black Jeans
# Oversized Hawaiian Shirts
# Socks and Sandals
# Alternative Hairstyles
# Concert T-shirts
# A Closet of Vendor and Trade Show Gear
# Stains
Maybe it would be more balanced if folks like yourself participated in the editing as well?
IANARS, but I'm guessing that the parties involved have much more pressing concerns when designing satellites. Such as weight, which translates directly into cost. And as to the grandparent's idea of pushing things into the sun... I think it would require much less energy (again, cost) to just blow it up.
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This makes me wonder how they're differentiating between light produced by their optics cable being on fire, and falloff from the laser. Or do optic cables not ignite at 1000 degrees centigrade? Regardless, it seems that there would be conflicting noise in a (presumably) non-vaccuum, lighted environment.
They'll just go back to selling rice, and their economy will be hunky-dory.
Sure, there's no Quaker terrorists. When they were burning witches they were the good guys, and you don't call the good guys terrorists.
We should start tagging articles with the logical fallacies they use!
Of course MS isn't going to listen to anyone asking them to rewrite an OS from scratch, when they just spent nearly a decade doing so. That's absurd. Now some suckers have participated and provided feedback for their public beta... cough, I mean *release*, they're going to tweak things here and there, maybe rewrite some major problem areas, strip out some of the bloat, and release their next OS.
Anyone else notice where their programming languages are going? Extensibility, re-usability, modularity, and *really* good library support... we're finally seeing an effective implementation of what object oriented programming claimed to be all along. I would not be surprised then, to see that they've taken the same approach with their operating system design.
Their next OS will be better, and though we might complain, most of us will end up with it running on our machines. And you know, after a few years we might actually start to like it. That's my prediction.
But how many of those websites were compromised to serve Satan?
In Soviet Russia, Windows runs you!
Yes, give all the students guns - that's a great idea! Why not just raise tuition and provide them when they walk in the door? Then I'd feel safe!
When "everyone" disagrees with you, you might want to rethink your message.
Microsoft may have blundered, but they're not dumb. I'm pretty sure they wrote Vista in such a way that it's extensible. So people didn't like Vista, so what? Some people have paid for it, enough at least that they've gotten feedback on how to polish it up. Then they release their next OS, and life goes on. One product failure is not enough to kill MS.
If I received a handwritten death threat, I'd prefer not to follow that by being "blown away."
Why would someone donate their time to help protect your content?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows command line != DOS. The last Windows operating system to actually run on DOS was Win95. Since then, the Windows command line has maintained the original DOS syntax, but a true DOS layer is not present. Try running some old DOS games (Privateer anyone?) on your Windows 2008 box and let me know how that works out.
The problem with this approach is that you can't predict the future. You don't know if some piece of your education could come in handy in the future, and by the time realization hits it could be far too late. Having a narrow understanding of the topics you're interested in makes you 1) very reliant on your source of information, 2) unable to solve permutations of problems that you've solved before. The good side of this is that you're able to pick up new things quickly.
That 1% of the time when you *do* need to know? That's when natural selection really kicks in. That 40 year old guy that you make fun of for writing checks instead of using a debit card? He's going to outperform you 10 to 1 in an unpredictable environment, because he's self reliant. He'll get paid more, have better sex, and survive more tough situations because he can adapt to what life throws at him.
From the UI styles, it's pretty obvious they're basing this thing off of linux. So, beyond that they just have a hardware solution that doesn't require booting from a hard disk. Neither one of those things is revolutionary.
I'm running XP on my home desktop, with a Core 2 Duo and a WD Raptor. It takes about 30 seconds for me to go from the off state to booted, logged in, and ready to go. That's faster than my cell phone, and I haven't even done any specific optimizations. I don't really see much of a need for the 'splashtop'.
Yes, I can see you have a way with words. I can only imagine how you reeled them in with your suave diplomacy, but somehow at the last moment, they resisted. Those bastards. TPB is a representation of the inevitable fact that your business model no longer works. Like a rock in the stream, you will eventually be worn down, because there is no way for you to stop the flowing water of reality. In the meantime, it is amusing for the rest of us to watch you try. Now, I work in software, and I wouldn't do so if I didn't think there were potential profits in this field. However, there are some aspects that are more promising than others. The cost of copying digital information is economically irrelevant. Companies and individuals can either accept that fact and think of ways to use it to their advantage, or they can waste their resources in a struggle they will never win.