If you don't have the 'nads to go to court, you don't get protection.
That was just plane and simply a stupid answer. The correct answer in places where lawyers separate us from justice is, "if you don't have the money to go to court, you don't get protection."
Unfortunately I probably rose to take the bait from a troll.
They're skipping it in favor of kiddie science projects and more stuff related to human activity, i.e. putting more lives in danger.
If we want to make sure that human kind is not just limited to this one rock we currently inhabit, we are going to have to put lives in danger. Same thing happened when we wanted to be able to fly more than a few miles in an aeroplane. And this doesn't mean just making special test flights. It means making trips to space into a routine activity. Do it more often for whatever reason. The more it is done the more we know about how to do it, and eventually the cheaper it will become as that understanding is transferred to the technology of the day.
I for one would like to see us diversify our environment. With the number of countries aquiring nuclear arms on the increase, with Putin reformulating the Soviet Union and taking a more aggressive military posture, with China starting to expand its military even more and become more aggressive in its foreign policies... never mind America unilaterally doing whatever it wants and becoming the nuclear armed paranoid schizophrenic of the bunch (everyone is out to get us so we need to attack first before they attack us... and check out the republicans new front runners... even more right wing religious than Bush)... there is still a really good chance we could wipe ourselves out.
Personally I don't know why people are always jumping to the 'language of the week'. I don't think 'progress' is the answer. I think too many programmers suffer from the 'we want the coolest new gadget' syndrome. Perl is a good and able language and if they have implemented another tool to help them do their job, then good on them. Why the hell should they bother to learn another platform. That is a ridiculous and juvenile argument. Constantly having to learn new languages just because a new flavour comes along reduces productivity, and makes it difficult to hire new people as there will never be enough people who know the languages on the bleeding edge. Meanwhile they probably have tons of Perl code already in place working just fine. So what if they don't like to use your favourite tool of the week and want to advertise their own favourite. No matter what you may say, they still know how to successfully build and implement one of the highest trafficked news web sites in the world. Shove that in you pipe and smoke it. Get a grip for Christ's sake.
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I think that is where theory and reality come into conflict. You may have designed something really nice, but if the company goes broke because you have spent so much time designing and not delivering product, what's the point? Nothing gets released. So yes, I believe a good design saves time later, but at what cost? You may not have to worry about paying the bills, but the evil people in management do. If they spend all the money on paying the people to design, there won't be any left to code, test, and bug fix, and then re-design when the business decides they want it to do something slightly different. And that will happen as surely as water flows downhill.:)
After working on enough enterprise projects I have also become convinced that there is more than a little insight and truth when it comes to agile design techniques. I really do hate buzz word laden 'speak'. But I have seen requirements ebb and flow and change as 'the business' realizes what they asked for at the beginning of a 2 to 5 year project is different than what they need, or that they need more than what they asked for. And this only happens when they see the software in action, so the sooner that happens the faster the requirements are resolved. I have worked all areas of the project from the back back end to dealing with upper management. This is from the school of hard knocks from which I speak. I do believe that at each stage there has to be a good design. I do believe requirements and high level design are required (right down to the interfaces and data models), and they need to be actually documented (unlike agile design principles where documentation is the code and a few jpg's of white board design sessions). But I no longer believe we should take it to the n'th degree.
In one sense I totally agree with you. We need to exercise our "natural" immune system in order for it to become stronger. On the other hand, part of human evolutionary adaptation gave us the ability to modify our situation/environment.
With respect to the bird flu (being mentioned a lot in the replies), one of the best observations I have heard is that the real bird flu threat is the one you contract from KFC and McDonalds Chicken Nuggets, et al. Heart disease and obesity. That probably kills far more than all influenzas and pneumonias in the U.S. and Canada each year.:) A lot of people will need to become immune to all the advertising for that epidemic to die down.
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This is good too, but by and large, that's the programmers' concern, not yours.
It doesn't seem that way some days. I know that my current PC is orders of magnitude faster with respect to hardware. But it seems that programmers, or programming houses really, are just using the faster hardware to put out less efficient code. I say programming houses because they are the ones that pay the bills and want things done faster at the expense of quality so that they can sell more crap.
I wonder how fast something like Open Office would run if coded with the efficiency needed to run a program on older computers (not necessarily PCs) when they had to pay attention to resources and cycles. That or some of the games I've seen that take forever to load up even with a quite powerful dual core system. But of course it takes time to pay attention to those kinds of details, and time is money.
It doesn't even seem to matter the size of the project when it comes to leaning on the hardware too much. I've seen large enterprise level ordering and billing implementations founder because people... some supposedly very experienced... didn't think hard enough about performance when they should have. About how the system would scale with the number of users or the amount of data handled and/or stored.
Look you pin headed moron. You pick a date to honour people. A date that is the end of war is as good as any. November 11 is the date to honour ALL those who sacrificed. If you are too little to say thank you, then you should be the one to shut the fuck up. You sophomoric reasoning is pathetic. To the point of being sophmoronic. Oh good handle by the way... you are an enlightened philosopher. Ever done anything to help you fellow man other than to spout bullshit and thinking it makes you superior? Try getting your head out of your ass before the brain damage becomes permanent.
BOSS: Hey guy, we got you a laptop and VPN access. Don't you love it?! Never mind having a life and family, we got you a laptop and you have the COMPANY! OK, I'm going golfing now, there is a status meeting at 8 p.m. tonight I expect you to chair. Tell me about it tomorrow morning... we probably won't need what you find for a few days but we can say "we're ready now". Aren't you glad we got that laptop for you? Oh crap.... gotta go, going to miss my tee time.
ME: Oops, I dropped it. (OK.... wishful thinking.)
How do you artificially filter milk? I had to do some work at a dairy for several month a while back while I was working on a food technology project (in the old chem eng days). The pasteurizer did nothing more than heat the milk quickly and cool it back down quickly (HTST Pasteurization). Anther centrifuge separated out a lot of the fat to make it skim, 1%, 2%, etc. Another machine homogenized it by putting it through a tight pored filter. It was still milk when it came out. It just makes sure the fat doesn't separate out when it is left standing. Over all the commercial milk process is pretty straight up to me. Seeing it actually made me feel better about the whole thing. Very clean and controlled. Nothing artificial added to anything that I saw. They didn't make ice cream there though.
You are making a fundamental mistake in assuming that if their sub is diesel that the technology is out of date. The article implies that these subs are are newer and show China's improved technical ability. If you did any further research (a problem with the level of work in your post... the irony of it all), you would realize that these were deigned and implemented well after the cold war "ended" (as if it ever really did).
Another example is the Type 212 sub that Germany has just introduced as perhaps the quietest in the world. And it is not nuclear. It is a combination diesel electric and fuel cell.
Both of these are modern era submarines, and as demonstrated by the Chinese, quite capable platforms. Granted they will have a more limited underwater range than a nuclear submarine. However they are at least as dangerous as their battery/electric motors are quieter than a nuclear submarine's. In fact they may be more dangerous given the evidenced short sighted conceit of the American Navy with respect to their self declared superiority. The American military is VERY advanced technologically. But it doesn't mean that others out there aren't as well, even if not in all areas of military equipment manufacture. And it doesn't mean that the technology the the American military have decided not to use is not just as effective (or more so) than what the American military has implemented. Just because 'our side' built it doesn't mean it is the best or that others don't have something that can't beat it or compete with it. History is replete with such examples coming back to bite the unwary and near sighted. As (benignly... this time) evidenced by a diesel electric sub popping up a torpedo's running length from the U.S.S. Kittyhawk.:D
How about on November 11 we remember commemorate the fallen soldiers who died serving their countries. People bitch can continue to bitch and complain like they do the other days of the year. Let's at least pay some respects to people who gave more than most are willing to give for their fellow citizens (no matter the side) in causes important to those people at that time in history. I am not a right wing nut. I consider Bush to be out of control, etc. etc. etc. However I do think it is the right thing to do for Google to recognize along with many of us that there are people who made the ultimate sacrifice that Google would have the freedom to do what they do (and we have the freedom to do what we will). After all, a Nazi led society wouldn't allow the free flow in information which is what is Google's livelihood. Remember, the seeds of the atom bomb and the guided missile began in WWII and pre WWII era Germany, not America. Who knows what would have happened if the Nazis were not reigned in.
not drag and drop easy... how do you install a package if it is running from the cd? I've used Linux for almost 10 years. But I am tired of having to work like hell to get stuff that should just work to work. I want to use the tool not build it. At one time Linux wasn't just about using a tool (the OS) it was about building and playing with the tool. I'm not into that part anymore. If I want to program a business app on a computer, I want to program the business app. Programming today is starting to be too much about configuring a million different frameworks to work together... so much so it is a pain in the ass. I don't need to worry about having to continually build and configure my OS too.:)
It needs to allow the use of any mainstream Wifi chip set. Otherwise it will remain on the fringe. Hard wired connections to the internet are going away and people don't want to learn about chipsets and pull open packages at the store to see if the 'right one' is on the wireless card they want to buy. And if they can't figure out how to make native drivers work, they need to add a fool proof (read drag and drop easy) way of adding the windows drivers to the system. Without having to manually edit config files.
I would also suggest it allow you to install dual boot on a system with sata raid and running windows. I want it to recognize the raid and install on the partition I set up without screwing around. (Hey propeller head, I don't want to hear about how windows sata raid is fake... I don't give a shit... on windows I have a raid array and want to install Linux. If you don't want me or anyone with 'fake' raid to try out Linux, keep up the current attitude and stay in the fringe.)
Here is another thought: Can't the developers in the U.S. support a product being used elsewhere and make money from the support. The code they are using can be running on a server/machine located in another country and accessed remotely. So why not increase the user base elsewhere so they can make more money while living in the U.S.?
That is a little egocentric. To make my point let's just take "industrialized" countries/regions other than the U.S. You would have to agree that they would have a lot of graphic artists in that these are predominantly capitalistic based economies where advertising is important. Using population as a roughly equivalent measure of market base (numbers are rough but pretty close):
European Union: 500,000,000
Japan: 127,000,000
Russia: 143,000,000
Ukraine: 46,000,000
And throw in Canada: 33,000,000
and Australia: 21,000,000
Those total about 800,000,000 people.
America: 300,000,000
Of the ones who do care, the majority are not in America. Of any one country sure, but that doesn't really matter. Companies and people buy software. And anyway, even if there aren't as many advertising agencies in those other places (and I would think there would be comparable numbers) the overwhelming population advantage of the other industrial countries still says you are very likely wrong.
And then there are the up and comers like India. Even if only a fraction of their population can be considered at an 'industrial level' (recognizing that there are still areas of poverty and ignorance), given the population size, that still represents a lot of people who care. And as their country gets more advanced that will only increase. So for arguments sake let's add another say 250,000,000 million people to draw from. I'd include China, but they would probably just pirate whatever someone else made anyway.:D
And like I said, the rest of the world is rising economically while the U.S.A. seems to be shrinking. Probably due to stupidity like software patents and over emphasis on stock holders profits instead of long term growth of companies (short term gain instead of long term steady performance... a tortoise and the hare algorithm:) ).
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How does this refer to the GNAA?
That was just plane and simply a stupid answer. The correct answer in places where lawyers separate us from justice is, "if you don't have the money to go to court, you don't get protection."
Unfortunately I probably rose to take the bait from a troll.
If we want to make sure that human kind is not just limited to this one rock we currently inhabit, we are going to have to put lives in danger. Same thing happened when we wanted to be able to fly more than a few miles in an aeroplane. And this doesn't mean just making special test flights. It means making trips to space into a routine activity. Do it more often for whatever reason. The more it is done the more we know about how to do it, and eventually the cheaper it will become as that understanding is transferred to the technology of the day.
I for one would like to see us diversify our environment. With the number of countries aquiring nuclear arms on the increase, with Putin reformulating the Soviet Union and taking a more aggressive military posture, with China starting to expand its military even more and become more aggressive in its foreign policies... never mind America unilaterally doing whatever it wants and becoming the nuclear armed paranoid schizophrenic of the bunch (everyone is out to get us so we need to attack first before they attack us... and check out the republicans new front runners... even more right wing religious than Bush)
Personally I don't know why people are always jumping to the 'language of the week'. I don't think 'progress' is the answer. I think too many programmers suffer from the 'we want the coolest new gadget' syndrome. Perl is a good and able language and if they have implemented another tool to help them do their job, then good on them. Why the hell should they bother to learn another platform. That is a ridiculous and juvenile argument. Constantly having to learn new languages just because a new flavour comes along reduces productivity, and makes it difficult to hire new people as there will never be enough people who know the languages on the bleeding edge. Meanwhile they probably have tons of Perl code already in place working just fine. So what if they don't like to use your favourite tool of the week and want to advertise their own favourite. No matter what you may say, they still know how to successfully build and implement one of the highest trafficked news web sites in the world. Shove that in you pipe and smoke it. Get a grip for Christ's sake.
I think that is where theory and reality come into conflict. You may have designed something really nice, but if the company goes broke because you have spent so much time designing and not delivering product, what's the point? Nothing gets released. So yes, I believe a good design saves time later, but at what cost? You may not have to worry about paying the bills, but the evil people in management do. If they spend all the money on paying the people to design, there won't be any left to code, test, and bug fix, and then re-design when the business decides they want it to do something slightly different. And that will happen as surely as water flows downhill. :)
After working on enough enterprise projects I have also become convinced that there is more than a little insight and truth when it comes to agile design techniques. I really do hate buzz word laden 'speak'. But I have seen requirements ebb and flow and change as 'the business' realizes what they asked for at the beginning of a 2 to 5 year project is different than what they need, or that they need more than what they asked for. And this only happens when they see the software in action, so the sooner that happens the faster the requirements are resolved. I have worked all areas of the project from the back back end to dealing with upper management. This is from the school of hard knocks from which I speak. I do believe that at each stage there has to be a good design. I do believe requirements and high level design are required (right down to the interfaces and data models), and they need to be actually documented (unlike agile design principles where documentation is the code and a few jpg's of white board design sessions). But I no longer believe we should take it to the n'th degree.
How many angels can sit on the head of a pin?
Just because you don't know the source of this expression doesn't mean it is offtopic.
In one sense I totally agree with you. We need to exercise our "natural" immune system in order for it to become stronger. On the other hand, part of human evolutionary adaptation gave us the ability to modify our situation/environment.
:) A lot of people will need to become immune to all the advertising for that epidemic to die down.
With respect to the bird flu (being mentioned a lot in the replies), one of the best observations I have heard is that the real bird flu threat is the one you contract from KFC and McDonalds Chicken Nuggets, et al. Heart disease and obesity. That probably kills far more than all influenzas and pneumonias in the U.S. and Canada each year.
They want to drive the car, not build it.
It doesn't seem that way some days. I know that my current PC is orders of magnitude faster with respect to hardware. But it seems that programmers, or programming houses really, are just using the faster hardware to put out less efficient code. I say programming houses because they are the ones that pay the bills and want things done faster at the expense of quality so that they can sell more crap.
I wonder how fast something like Open Office would run if coded with the efficiency needed to run a program on older computers (not necessarily PCs) when they had to pay attention to resources and cycles. That or some of the games I've seen that take forever to load up even with a quite powerful dual core system. But of course it takes time to pay attention to those kinds of details, and time is money.
It doesn't even seem to matter the size of the project when it comes to leaning on the hardware too much. I've seen large enterprise level ordering and billing implementations founder because people... some supposedly very experienced... didn't think hard enough about performance when they should have. About how the system would scale with the number of users or the amount of data handled and/or stored.
Look you pin headed moron. You pick a date to honour people. A date that is the end of war is as good as any. November 11 is the date to honour ALL those who sacrificed. If you are too little to say thank you, then you should be the one to shut the fuck up. You sophomoric reasoning is pathetic. To the point of being sophmoronic. Oh good handle by the way... you are an enlightened philosopher. Ever done anything to help you fellow man other than to spout bullshit and thinking it makes you superior? Try getting your head out of your ass before the brain damage becomes permanent.
BOSS: Hey guy, we got you a laptop and VPN access. Don't you love it?! Never mind having a life and family, we got you a laptop and you have the COMPANY! OK, I'm going golfing now, there is a status meeting at 8 p.m. tonight I expect you to chair. Tell me about it tomorrow morning... we probably won't need what you find for a few days but we can say "we're ready now". Aren't you glad we got that laptop for you? Oh crap.... gotta go, going to miss my tee time.
ME: Oops, I dropped it. (OK.... wishful thinking.)
How do you artificially filter milk? I had to do some work at a dairy for several month a while back while I was working on a food technology project (in the old chem eng days). The pasteurizer did nothing more than heat the milk quickly and cool it back down quickly (HTST Pasteurization). Anther centrifuge separated out a lot of the fat to make it skim, 1%, 2%, etc. Another machine homogenized it by putting it through a tight pored filter. It was still milk when it came out. It just makes sure the fat doesn't separate out when it is left standing. Over all the commercial milk process is pretty straight up to me. Seeing it actually made me feel better about the whole thing. Very clean and controlled. Nothing artificial added to anything that I saw. They didn't make ice cream there though.
You are making a fundamental mistake in assuming that if their sub is diesel that the technology is out of date. The article implies that these subs are are newer and show China's improved technical ability. If you did any further research (a problem with the level of work in your post... the irony of it all), you would realize that these were deigned and implemented well after the cold war "ended" (as if it ever really did).
Another example is the Type 212 sub that Germany has just introduced as perhaps the quietest in the world. And it is not nuclear. It is a combination diesel electric and fuel cell.
Both of these are modern era submarines, and as demonstrated by the Chinese, quite capable platforms. Granted they will have a more limited underwater range than a nuclear submarine. However they are at least as dangerous as their battery/electric motors are quieter than a nuclear submarine's. In fact they may be more dangerous given the evidenced short sighted conceit of the American Navy with respect to their self declared superiority. The American military is VERY advanced technologically. But it doesn't mean that others out there aren't as well, even if not in all areas of military equipment manufacture. And it doesn't mean that the technology the the American military have decided not to use is not just as effective (or more so) than what the American military has implemented. Just because 'our side' built it doesn't mean it is the best or that others don't have something that can't beat it or compete with it. History is replete with such examples coming back to bite the unwary and near sighted. As (benignly... this time) evidenced by a diesel electric sub popping up a torpedo's running length from the U.S.S. Kittyhawk. :D
These are very significant days for the same reason in Canada, The UK, and Australia. And likely other commonwealth countries as well.
How about on November 11 we remember commemorate the fallen soldiers who died serving their countries. People bitch can continue to bitch and complain like they do the other days of the year. Let's at least pay some respects to people who gave more than most are willing to give for their fellow citizens (no matter the side) in causes important to those people at that time in history. I am not a right wing nut. I consider Bush to be out of control, etc. etc. etc. However I do think it is the right thing to do for Google to recognize along with many of us that there are people who made the ultimate sacrifice that Google would have the freedom to do what they do (and we have the freedom to do what we will). After all, a Nazi led society wouldn't allow the free flow in information which is what is Google's livelihood. Remember, the seeds of the atom bomb and the guided missile began in WWII and pre WWII era Germany, not America. Who knows what would have happened if the Nazis were not reigned in.
please mod parent informative. WWI was a turning point in Canadian history (as a country).... check the parent's link.
My car runs on air. And a 2,2,4 Trimethylpentane catalyst. :P
not drag and drop easy... how do you install a package if it is running from the cd? I've used Linux for almost 10 years. But I am tired of having to work like hell to get stuff that should just work to work. I want to use the tool not build it. At one time Linux wasn't just about using a tool (the OS) it was about building and playing with the tool. I'm not into that part anymore. If I want to program a business app on a computer, I want to program the business app. Programming today is starting to be too much about configuring a million different frameworks to work together... so much so it is a pain in the ass. I don't need to worry about having to continually build and configure my OS too. :)
It needs to allow the use of any mainstream Wifi chip set. Otherwise it will remain on the fringe. Hard wired connections to the internet are going away and people don't want to learn about chipsets and pull open packages at the store to see if the 'right one' is on the wireless card they want to buy. And if they can't figure out how to make native drivers work, they need to add a fool proof (read drag and drop easy) way of adding the windows drivers to the system. Without having to manually edit config files.
I would also suggest it allow you to install dual boot on a system with sata raid and running windows. I want it to recognize the raid and install on the partition I set up without screwing around. (Hey propeller head, I don't want to hear about how windows sata raid is fake... I don't give a shit... on windows I have a raid array and want to install Linux. If you don't want me or anyone with 'fake' raid to try out Linux, keep up the current attitude and stay in the fringe.)
Pat Paulsen for President And I don't care of he is dead.
Lard tunderrin jaisus ya talk damn funny boiy. Noew lets strap one o' dem rocket tingies to da back o' m' dory an take a real ride!
apologies to cape bretoners... couldn't help myself.
hey you gotta admit this might be a lot better than shovelling coal.
give this some insightful mod points ... it hits the nail on the head
Here is another thought: Can't the developers in the U.S. support a product being used elsewhere and make money from the support. The code they are using can be running on a server/machine located in another country and accessed remotely. So why not increase the user base elsewhere so they can make more money while living in the U.S.?
That is a little egocentric. To make my point let's just take "industrialized" countries/regions other than the U.S. You would have to agree that they would have a lot of graphic artists in that these are predominantly capitalistic based economies where advertising is important. Using population as a roughly equivalent measure of market base (numbers are rough but pretty close):
:D
:) ).
European Union: 500,000,000
Japan: 127,000,000
Russia: 143,000,000
Ukraine: 46,000,000
And throw in Canada: 33,000,000
and Australia: 21,000,000
Those total about 800,000,000 people.
America: 300,000,000
Of the ones who do care, the majority are not in America. Of any one country sure, but that doesn't really matter. Companies and people buy software. And anyway, even if there aren't as many advertising agencies in those other places (and I would think there would be comparable numbers) the overwhelming population advantage of the other industrial countries still says you are very likely wrong.
And then there are the up and comers like India. Even if only a fraction of their population can be considered at an 'industrial level' (recognizing that there are still areas of poverty and ignorance), given the population size, that still represents a lot of people who care. And as their country gets more advanced that will only increase. So for arguments sake let's add another say 250,000,000 million people to draw from. I'd include China, but they would probably just pirate whatever someone else made anyway.
And like I said, the rest of the world is rising economically while the U.S.A. seems to be shrinking. Probably due to stupidity like software patents and over emphasis on stock holders profits instead of long term growth of companies (short term gain instead of long term steady performance... a tortoise and the hare algorithm
World population: 6.6 billion
U.S. population: 0.3 billion