I'll admit this is a hard one since the Syrian government is a supreme piece of shit in a world filled with crap governments (and who actively finance terrorists bent on attacking and wiping out the only democracy in the region: Israel). And the people fighting them are comprised mostly, now, if not always, by religious fanatics and jihadists who are frankly worse than the government. And even before they came along the resistance was started in Muslim Brotherhood territory. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB)... the same people who wanted to turn Egypt into an Islamist state.
The MB should always be suspect, even if they are only "loosely affiliated" with the Egyptian wing... yeah right. Who put up the 'non-political movement' to start this while ball of wax rolling? There are always organizers. And considering it all started in MB territory... Any organization with a religion as part of the name is suspect. And despite their insistence that they are inclusive and non-violent, the MB symbol is still a koran and crossed swords. And the word 'brotherhood'... where are the women? Oh yeah, wearing potato sacks with eye holes... pretty fucking inclusive, yeah? At least they train their women to believe it. That last bit is sarcasm if you can't figure it out.
Some days I think the best solution is to turn the whole region outside of Israel into a parking lot. At least most of the religious bullshit will be nullified. Hell maybe even Israel. Then we wouldn't have a fucking 'religious land' for retarded assholes to fight over. After that we can start thinking about religious fundamentalists in America. Too bad we can't breed that out. Isn't there that god gene that we can treat with DNA therapy?
Yep. Pyrrhic victories aren't really victories. Victories with outside help are not victories by the regime. Funny how foreign fighters supplied and financed by Iran (Iranian intervention by proxy), fighting on the side of the regime are tolerated by Russia and China.
General Patton actually made a good case for continued war near what would be the end of WWII. He wanted to keep moving the West's forces east and take Stalin down. He knew that if they stopped where they did (where the politicians wanted) we would get a more dangerous set of conditions. We had the nukes and the armies and production capability and the technology to do it. But they fired (and some say assassinated) him to keep him from pushing that position. If we had done that, we would not have had a cold war, America could have gone back to isolationism, no one would be stopping the rest of the world from stopping the Syrian war at the beginning when Russia and China effectively blocked any action at the United Nations. Etc. etc. etc. Too bad Truman was such a fucking pussy.
Genghis Khan understood war. You don't. Enjoy your time in the play pen of life. War is war, there are no fucking rules. If the liberals in the west understood that, the middle east would be civilized by now. Grow up.
Thanks for your straw man argument here. Conventional weapons are not part of this conversation and have no bearing on what should happen here. Or are you saying that because conventional weapons get greater tolerance we should just say 'fuck it, it's not my problem' when a real weapon of mass destruction is used against a civilian population? I guess if someone gets nuked it isn't anyone's business either? Oops, shouldn't have said that since you will invoke Hiroshima which also has no bearing here.
Let me help you out, your comment is bullshit in the context of this discussion. Any reference to any other use of WMD's is not in context. What is in context is that WMDs were used against a civilian population in Syria, and what is the appropriate response. Most of the world seems to be saying, not my problem if people are getting sarin gas dropped on them. I guess from your response you are saying the same thing. And FWIW, Russia/Putin seems to be saying, "Go for it, Asad, we want your warm water ports for our warships!"
Just someone else who wants to tell us what can't be done. Just because he can build something doesn't mean he knows how best to use it. This is usually the case.
Yeah github... fork projects to your heart's content. After all, "a point in every direction is the same as no point at all." Projects without focus and process are hard pressed to survive. That is the advantage Apache brings. But sure, when process trumps progress, things need to change. But it doesn't change the fact that any process is better than none.
If this scheme/process was open source it would be simpler and better understood. Because if someone disagreed with how it was done, and thought they could do it better, they could just fork it and make a better one. That way we would never have a proliferation of different schemes, because the latest person to fork the code/scheme/process would have the best version, and it would be easy to keep that one up to date since people around the world would only need to concentrate on that one. There wouldn't be dozens of different projects doing the same thing and burning all those hours reinventing the wheel.
Education is the key to fixing that kind of crap. Getting computers capable of connecting to the internet to everyone will help. One of the reasons it was so easy to keep people living in serfdom, was because people didn't know any better. Teach people that there is a better way to live by showing them, not only showing the how and you (I know it sounds jingoistic) set free. There is a reason despots and dictators move to control the media/radio/television stations when they start their coup. To control information is to control the people. Getting computers and internet connections to everyone short circuits that whole big pile of bullshit.
For sure. I drove a taxi for a couple years in Ontario when I was 18, 19 years old. Helped me realize school wasn't so bad.:) You always had to keep on the good side of the dispatchers. One dispatcher was this morbidly obese guy who would be happy with you if you would bring him a gallon of ice cream periodically. It was gross to watch him eat the stuff. It was almost like he was having an orgasm when he ate. And all the fat would jiggle in waves as he took a spoonful. He actually had his stomach stapled (this was like over thirty years ago) and he blew the stipples out because he couldn't stop eating. Thanks for reminding me of things that shouldn't be remembered. lol.
I just booked a pickup truck a uHaul the other day, for an hour or two's work. When I went to pick it up the at location agreed to on the phone, they told me I didn't have any reservation. I told them to look it up using different criteria and they told me, 'oh you booked the truck in Anchorage, Alaska.' I don't live anywhere near Alaska, and the uHaul CSR on the phone was the one who gave me the address in my city where to pick it up.
It you unfamiliar with cab compnies, the bulk of their business in most places is done by calling a person at a dispatching office. This does away with the dispatch office, which is also a significant reporting structure. Leaving a major component out of an established business is a paradigm shift (good thing I proof read sometimes... I keep leaving the 'f' out). Even if the result is the same. But perhaps I'm making the assumption that the server at the end of the Uber smart phone app does the dispatching based on some quasi AI. But if so, it is akin to the 'paperless office'... which is starting to happen now. Except this is the 'peopleless office'.
For Christ's sake, you're calling to get a ride from point A to point B in someone else's car. Someone who drives anonymous people (to him or her) from point A to point B for a living, day in and day out. If you have a problem doing that simply, you have a problem.
Do you really think that by talking to someone you'll influence who they send to pick you up? (And we're talking about dispatched taxis, not ones that you hail... hailing is not common in every city or neighbourhood.) The guy at the cab company who answers the phone asks where you are going, then types it into a computer which is transmitted to a computerized display and metering system in a car. Joe Blow, or Abu Immigrantti, or whoever then comes to pick you up. You have no choice in whether you get the one guy in the fleet who takes pride in his car and hygene, or smelling whaterver the driver ate last night and now has coming through his pores, while trying to scrape off whatever the last passenger left on the seat.
The only advantage to a traditional cab company is that if they send a real fucktard, you can go after the cab company, but YRMV on that. Kind of like buying Oracle instead of using PostgreSQL. You can go after Oracle if something fucks up, but good luck with that. (There, since the post is about cars, I had to do a reverse software to car analogy!)
This is a complete paradigm shift (and I use that phrase very infrequently) in how one books a taxi. It disrupts entirely an establised method of dispatcching taxis, potentially leaving one party completely out in the cold. Of course it is slow to be taken up. As well, if it survives, it will definitely need to go through a number of process iterations before ease of use and satisfaction for the customers, the cab drivers, and (possibly) the established companies is acceptable. If it survives. A big question for any new system.
But this is true with every change in the way business is conducted in an esablished ecosystem. I'm sure that some of the same arguments were given when radios were first put in taxis decades ago. Never mind "if man were meant to fly..." Fuck, I remember seing the first tellerless bank I'd seen in Toronto (all ATMs) around 1981 or 1982. I said that would never fly, people want real tellers. Turns out I was half right. We still have tellers but people really like the convenience of ATMs as well. The same could happen here; or not.
Sure the patent runs out. But isn't this kind of like, just the 'base patent' for the technology? All the implementations (like 'G' and 'N' type routers, or client devices) are what matter to the end user; and whatever commercial implementations exist. It will help the manufacturers in not having to pay royalties, but really, will we see any significant changes for the end users?
No. I think most code is generally nowhere near as efficient as 30 years ago. 30 years ago you were severely limited in processing speed, memory, and storage. To run a major enterprise business system, you needed to code thins as efficiently as possible. As computer systems became more advanced, businesses had coders write stuff faster, with less efficiencies in the code, but overall more cheaply because they didn't have to such experts to create highly optimized code. It didn't need to be as highly optimized since the faster speeds of the computers made up for less optimized code, as well as all the new GUIs etc. Ever notice that games take as long or longer to load now than before, even though computer systems are orders of magnitude more powerful now? Cool bloated frameworks and programmers who think they the greatest since they read about the latest asynchronous web framework on the internet screw that whole notion up. I'm tired tonight and in a shite mood... could have worded this better, but you get my drift. Goodnight.
We allowed a senior developer to manage his own AWS EC2 instance for development of a server. Then we noticed a few hundred gigs of data were moving through the server when he wasn't around. We shut it down and audited it. There were ports and security vulnerabilities exposed that just shouldn't have been, because he had set it up to be easy for development etc etc etc. The IT bottleneck was removed. So was a good chunk of money from the company paying for some people at a number of Chinese IP addresses to move data through our servers (that costs on cloud services ya know). Just because people know how to make things work, doesn't mean they know how to do so safely. Nor does it mean they have the inclination to learn to do it safely either. I don't like data Nazis any more than the rest. But they serve a purpose that no-one else is willing to take on. Let the average computer users control things, and your company will be fucked.
I had to take a couple years off recently to recover from spinal surgery (couldn't sit in a chair or stand for more than an hour or two a day). Starting back up to work I received all sorts of reservations about being out of date (by retard HR types). A company hired me to help with server work for their cloud based servers. Turns out I was so far beyond almost everyone at this mid-sized mobile device software company in terms of their servers because it wasn't any different from working with Linux/Unix at any company: A bunch of headless servers you access from the network. And even though I was stepping back into a technical role after working mostly in technical systems analysis and project roles for the previous 4 or 5 years (mind you, programming at home on a Linux machine for interest's sake keeps most of the edge from wearing off). Of course anyone who understands knows that at companies of any size, most server users and administrators hardly ever see the actual physical servers. So ya, no diff. And here I am, state of the art using skills gained over 20 years but now in 'the cloud'. So what if you run Python Boto (AWS) scripts or Perl to automate tasks? Blob storage is just storage. DNS is just DNS. This kind of stuff makes me think of programmers whose apps are meant to be deployed on *nix who barely know how to do 'ls' or 'grep'.
If you are proactive and fix a problem before it causes an issue, then it obviously wasn't a problem, and you just wasted someone's money. [/end sarcasm]
This happened in Canada. But your point is valid when discussing this from a U.S. point of view. But to contrast the two countries we can look at key phrases in both countries' constitutions. In the U.S.A. you have, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." In Canada, the analogous phrase is: "Peace, Order and Good Government." Not quite the same. This can help explain some of the differences between the two countries. And FWIW, the latter phrasing is used by a number of Commonwealth countries. In Canada it is written into the constitution. And like I said, Canada's laws allow less freedom of speech than in the U.S.; which I stridently disagree with. But all said, and in spite of that, I do agree with you.:)
What's needed are less helicopter parents and less public and high school teachers who are more concerned with not hurting students self esteem, than about about teaching core fundamentals and ensuring that kids are graded so that they can know when that isn't happening. Then students will be better prepared for college. Yes good teachers are essential. But on the whole, the current batch seem to be less than stellar. Or on the other hand, teachers can continue to focus on students' self esteem so they feel better at work selling french fries.
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And even if it produced useful stuff that worked well, it would stop dead when the patent trolls got involved.
I'll admit this is a hard one since the Syrian government is a supreme piece of shit in a world filled with crap governments (and who actively finance terrorists bent on attacking and wiping out the only democracy in the region: Israel). And the people fighting them are comprised mostly, now, if not always, by religious fanatics and jihadists who are frankly worse than the government. And even before they came along the resistance was started in Muslim Brotherhood territory. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB)... the same people who wanted to turn Egypt into an Islamist state.
The MB should always be suspect, even if they are only "loosely affiliated" with the Egyptian wing... yeah right. Who put up the 'non-political movement' to start this while ball of wax rolling? There are always organizers. And considering it all started in MB territory... Any organization with a religion as part of the name is suspect. And despite their insistence that they are inclusive and non-violent, the MB symbol is still a koran and crossed swords. And the word 'brotherhood'... where are the women? Oh yeah, wearing potato sacks with eye holes... pretty fucking inclusive, yeah? At least they train their women to believe it. That last bit is sarcasm if you can't figure it out.
Some days I think the best solution is to turn the whole region outside of Israel into a parking lot. At least most of the religious bullshit will be nullified. Hell maybe even Israel. Then we wouldn't have a fucking 'religious land' for retarded assholes to fight over. After that we can start thinking about religious fundamentalists in America. Too bad we can't breed that out. Isn't there that god gene that we can treat with DNA therapy?
Yep. Pyrrhic victories aren't really victories. Victories with outside help are not victories by the regime. Funny how foreign fighters supplied and financed by Iran (Iranian intervention by proxy), fighting on the side of the regime are tolerated by Russia and China.
General Patton actually made a good case for continued war near what would be the end of WWII. He wanted to keep moving the West's forces east and take Stalin down. He knew that if they stopped where they did (where the politicians wanted) we would get a more dangerous set of conditions. We had the nukes and the armies and production capability and the technology to do it. But they fired (and some say assassinated) him to keep him from pushing that position. If we had done that, we would not have had a cold war, America could have gone back to isolationism, no one would be stopping the rest of the world from stopping the Syrian war at the beginning when Russia and China effectively blocked any action at the United Nations. Etc. etc. etc. Too bad Truman was such a fucking pussy.
Thanks for the insight Chamberlain.
Genghis Khan understood war. You don't. Enjoy your time in the play pen of life. War is war, there are no fucking rules. If the liberals in the west understood that, the middle east would be civilized by now. Grow up.
Thanks for your straw man argument here. Conventional weapons are not part of this conversation and have no bearing on what should happen here. Or are you saying that because conventional weapons get greater tolerance we should just say 'fuck it, it's not my problem' when a real weapon of mass destruction is used against a civilian population? I guess if someone gets nuked it isn't anyone's business either? Oops, shouldn't have said that since you will invoke Hiroshima which also has no bearing here.
Let me help you out, your comment is bullshit in the context of this discussion. Any reference to any other use of WMD's is not in context. What is in context is that WMDs were used against a civilian population in Syria, and what is the appropriate response. Most of the world seems to be saying, not my problem if people are getting sarin gas dropped on them. I guess from your response you are saying the same thing. And FWIW, Russia/Putin seems to be saying, "Go for it, Asad, we want your warm water ports for our warships!"
Just someone else who wants to tell us what can't be done. Just because he can build something doesn't mean he knows how best to use it. This is usually the case.
I agree that Apache documentation in general is shite.
Yeah github... fork projects to your heart's content. After all, "a point in every direction is the same as no point at all." Projects without focus and process are hard pressed to survive. That is the advantage Apache brings. But sure, when process trumps progress, things need to change. But it doesn't change the fact that any process is better than none.
If this scheme/process was open source it would be simpler and better understood. Because if someone disagreed with how it was done, and thought they could do it better, they could just fork it and make a better one. That way we would never have a proliferation of different schemes, because the latest person to fork the code/scheme/process would have the best version, and it would be easy to keep that one up to date since people around the world would only need to concentrate on that one. There wouldn't be dozens of different projects doing the same thing and burning all those hours reinventing the wheel.
Education is the key to fixing that kind of crap. Getting computers capable of connecting to the internet to everyone will help. One of the reasons it was so easy to keep people living in serfdom, was because people didn't know any better. Teach people that there is a better way to live by showing them, not only showing the how and you (I know it sounds jingoistic) set free. There is a reason despots and dictators move to control the media/radio/television stations when they start their coup. To control information is to control the people. Getting computers and internet connections to everyone short circuits that whole big pile of bullshit.
For sure. I drove a taxi for a couple years in Ontario when I was 18, 19 years old. Helped me realize school wasn't so bad. :) You always had to keep on the good side of the dispatchers. One dispatcher was this morbidly obese guy who would be happy with you if you would bring him a gallon of ice cream periodically. It was gross to watch him eat the stuff. It was almost like he was having an orgasm when he ate. And all the fat would jiggle in waves as he took a spoonful. He actually had his stomach stapled (this was like over thirty years ago) and he blew the stipples out because he couldn't stop eating. Thanks for reminding me of things that shouldn't be remembered. lol.
Wonder if Chuck Berry has heard of this yet.
I just booked a pickup truck a uHaul the other day, for an hour or two's work. When I went to pick it up the at location agreed to on the phone, they told me I didn't have any reservation. I told them to look it up using different criteria and they told me, 'oh you booked the truck in Anchorage, Alaska.' I don't live anywhere near Alaska, and the uHaul CSR on the phone was the one who gave me the address in my city where to pick it up.
It you unfamiliar with cab compnies, the bulk of their business in most places is done by calling a person at a dispatching office. This does away with the dispatch office, which is also a significant reporting structure. Leaving a major component out of an established business is a paradigm shift (good thing I proof read sometimes... I keep leaving the 'f' out). Even if the result is the same. But perhaps I'm making the assumption that the server at the end of the Uber smart phone app does the dispatching based on some quasi AI. But if so, it is akin to the 'paperless office'... which is starting to happen now. Except this is the 'peopleless office'.
For Christ's sake, you're calling to get a ride from point A to point B in someone else's car. Someone who drives anonymous people (to him or her) from point A to point B for a living, day in and day out. If you have a problem doing that simply, you have a problem.
Do you really think that by talking to someone you'll influence who they send to pick you up? (And we're talking about dispatched taxis, not ones that you hail... hailing is not common in every city or neighbourhood.) The guy at the cab company who answers the phone asks where you are going, then types it into a computer which is transmitted to a computerized display and metering system in a car. Joe Blow, or Abu Immigrantti, or whoever then comes to pick you up. You have no choice in whether you get the one guy in the fleet who takes pride in his car and hygene, or smelling whaterver the driver ate last night and now has coming through his pores, while trying to scrape off whatever the last passenger left on the seat.
The only advantage to a traditional cab company is that if they send a real fucktard, you can go after the cab company, but YRMV on that. Kind of like buying Oracle instead of using PostgreSQL. You can go after Oracle if something fucks up, but good luck with that. (There, since the post is about cars, I had to do a reverse software to car analogy!)
This is a complete paradigm shift (and I use that phrase very infrequently) in how one books a taxi. It disrupts entirely an establised method of dispatcching taxis, potentially leaving one party completely out in the cold. Of course it is slow to be taken up. As well, if it survives, it will definitely need to go through a number of process iterations before ease of use and satisfaction for the customers, the cab drivers, and (possibly) the established companies is acceptable. If it survives. A big question for any new system.
But this is true with every change in the way business is conducted in an esablished ecosystem. I'm sure that some of the same arguments were given when radios were first put in taxis decades ago. Never mind "if man were meant to fly..." Fuck, I remember seing the first tellerless bank I'd seen in Toronto (all ATMs) around 1981 or 1982. I said that would never fly, people want real tellers. Turns out I was half right. We still have tellers but people really like the convenience of ATMs as well. The same could happen here; or not.
Sure the patent runs out. But isn't this kind of like, just the 'base patent' for the technology? All the implementations (like 'G' and 'N' type routers, or client devices) are what matter to the end user; and whatever commercial implementations exist. It will help the manufacturers in not having to pay royalties, but really, will we see any significant changes for the end users?
Sounds like an MBA's wet dream.
No. I think most code is generally nowhere near as efficient as 30 years ago. 30 years ago you were severely limited in processing speed, memory, and storage. To run a major enterprise business system, you needed to code thins as efficiently as possible. As computer systems became more advanced, businesses had coders write stuff faster, with less efficiencies in the code, but overall more cheaply because they didn't have to such experts to create highly optimized code. It didn't need to be as highly optimized since the faster speeds of the computers made up for less optimized code, as well as all the new GUIs etc. Ever notice that games take as long or longer to load now than before, even though computer systems are orders of magnitude more powerful now? Cool bloated frameworks and programmers who think they the greatest since they read about the latest asynchronous web framework on the internet screw that whole notion up. I'm tired tonight and in a shite mood... could have worded this better, but you get my drift. Goodnight.
We allowed a senior developer to manage his own AWS EC2 instance for development of a server. Then we noticed a few hundred gigs of data were moving through the server when he wasn't around. We shut it down and audited it. There were ports and security vulnerabilities exposed that just shouldn't have been, because he had set it up to be easy for development etc etc etc. The IT bottleneck was removed. So was a good chunk of money from the company paying for some people at a number of Chinese IP addresses to move data through our servers (that costs on cloud services ya know). Just because people know how to make things work, doesn't mean they know how to do so safely. Nor does it mean they have the inclination to learn to do it safely either. I don't like data Nazis any more than the rest. But they serve a purpose that no-one else is willing to take on. Let the average computer users control things, and your company will be fucked.
I had to take a couple years off recently to recover from spinal surgery (couldn't sit in a chair or stand for more than an hour or two a day). Starting back up to work I received all sorts of reservations about being out of date (by retard HR types). A company hired me to help with server work for their cloud based servers. Turns out I was so far beyond almost everyone at this mid-sized mobile device software company in terms of their servers because it wasn't any different from working with Linux/Unix at any company: A bunch of headless servers you access from the network. And even though I was stepping back into a technical role after working mostly in technical systems analysis and project roles for the previous 4 or 5 years (mind you, programming at home on a Linux machine for interest's sake keeps most of the edge from wearing off). Of course anyone who understands knows that at companies of any size, most server users and administrators hardly ever see the actual physical servers. So ya, no diff. And here I am, state of the art using skills gained over 20 years but now in 'the cloud'. So what if you run Python Boto (AWS) scripts or Perl to automate tasks? Blob storage is just storage. DNS is just DNS. This kind of stuff makes me think of programmers whose apps are meant to be deployed on *nix who barely know how to do 'ls' or 'grep'.
If you are proactive and fix a problem before it causes an issue, then it obviously wasn't a problem, and you just wasted someone's money. [/end sarcasm]
This happened in Canada. But your point is valid when discussing this from a U.S. point of view. But to contrast the two countries we can look at key phrases in both countries' constitutions. In the U.S.A. you have, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." In Canada, the analogous phrase is: "Peace, Order and Good Government." Not quite the same. This can help explain some of the differences between the two countries. And FWIW, the latter phrasing is used by a number of Commonwealth countries. In Canada it is written into the constitution. And like I said, Canada's laws allow less freedom of speech than in the U.S.; which I stridently disagree with. But all said, and in spite of that, I do agree with you. :)
What's needed are less helicopter parents and less public and high school teachers who are more concerned with not hurting students self esteem, than about about teaching core fundamentals and ensuring that kids are graded so that they can know when that isn't happening. Then students will be better prepared for college. Yes good teachers are essential. But on the whole, the current batch seem to be less than stellar. Or on the other hand, teachers can continue to focus on students' self esteem so they feel better at work selling french fries.