Please read "For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny. It gives a definitive test for determining what is art, and to what extent computers can create it.
It doesn't even look like art. It isn't even cool like some screen savers (triagle). It's not interesting in the slightest.
But leaving aside poor taste, all it does is show how the "Art" establishment has affected many people to the point that they are unable to recognise art, distinguish art from non-art, or decide whether or art is good or bad; and fail to trust their own judgement.
because they aren't even looking at patches that are sent to them. Not because they're elitist, but because they don't have time. The underlying issue is: Why don't they have time? And the answer may be because they have been too elitist and haven't grown the core team. Of course, it may also be that Firefox just grew alot faster and bigger than anyone thought would happen, and this venting is a growing pain. Personally, I think Firefox has taken the wrong direction and still much prefer the Mozilla suite. (Though, I admit the separation of browser from email client has allowed thunderbird to contribute a lot of innovation back in to the suite.) Unfortunately, Firefox seems to have wrested control of the financial backing and now a weakly managed, but highly focussed splinter group has shown results and is now in charge of the overall direction of the Mozilla project.
The article, and obviously the study, are really just propoganda to 1) justify media such as CNN that want to push their agenda that "dissent (i.e., anit-Americanism) is patriotic" and 2) that Americans really are dumb for re-electing Bush. What it does, in fact, expose, is the incompetence and bias of school teachers.
Or you could put a big "L" and "R" on the mouse, but maybe Mac people who are too stupid to know left from right wouldn't get the hint. I think they could learn though.
For years it took weeks of training to do anything on a mac with the keyboard at all. I know people who had to resort to the character-map clickable keyboard to enter data. The macintosh "toaster" was the usability (or was it functionality?) level that the Apple folks were going for. (Steve jobs didn't know toasters had "darkness" settings and removable cleaning trays back then.)
has nothing to do with Heart of Darkness. The book (novella) is about an English sailor riding a boat up the Congo River in the 1800s to find out what happened to a man at a trading post (who has gone native.) The only similarity is that a white man goes native. But there are hundreds of other stories like it. Including "The Man Who Would Be King." Both it, and "Heart of Darkness" realize how old the "Prestor John" concept is, and distinguish themselves with their unique narratives.
Doesn't Zaphod use some variation of an SEP field so earlings won't notice his head and arm when he goes there to pick up chicks. Or maybe we're just all in denial.
I think the solution to this is to admit that everthing is a string of characters. This is the one thing perl got right. Sure, an int is 4 bytes, and a bitmap is an array of 2**x, but they can be _represented_ as bytes, and, in fact, that's how we think of them (except in particular math intensive algorithms.) 19.95 is read as characters, and RRGGBB is seen that way. And besides, almost anything going over the network (except sound/video), is serialized anyway, so it is in fact, good old byte arrays. Once you admit this, it makes coding so much simpler, and especially, processing so much more efficient.
Bah! People like you were saying stuff that 3 years ago. And, while I admit Moore's law has stalled, my computer today runs that same algorithm in C than yours did in Fortran 3 years ago.
And what's more, it runs as a distributed J2EE web-service with computation done entirely in xslt than your finely tuned. fortran equations ran in 1990.
How about instead of "pledging" money -- how much of all the orgy of tsunami money pledged by magnaminious nations and wealthy individuals will actually be paid out, much less distrubuted to those in need by the greedy carrion NGOs and and charities -- we see how many kids we can actually get vaccinated, although that's hardly the most pressing need of kids without vaccines.
Ignorant third world people have a kind of needle fetish, since a long time now, because injections have on occasion saved lives, so that often people want to feel a needleprick (and are often happily obliged by tourist medicos) as a symbol of good luck or even cosmopolitanism.
I've heard of times when a doctor proscribes penecillan or some other ingested medicine, that the patient begs for a shot until the western relief worker gives him a saline ingection.
I've been actively trying to get unemployed for the past couple years, but I keep getting calls from recruiters offering more money, and I end up going back to the cubicle farm. My one weakness is that I can identify is that when I go into interviews I wan the people to like me, even if I don't want the job. And then the recruiter calls me back and quotes me a number and I say I'm busy and he quotes me another number and I say I need more time off and usually about the third number I say, okay, give me a couple weeks.
This very page is 200+ KB. Compression might cut it in half. Using the techniques for JSON, you could reload it and see my post and it will be less than 0.1 K more for you to download.
Right now (and for a long time now) you have had every option available that JSON uses. Even before XMLHTTPRequest (almost 5 years old on IE & Mozilla) you could use a frame, or even keepalive without frames. JSON is a potential standard notation so you don't have to parse the querystring or request body. JSON-RPC is rediculous though. You're already using HTTP, make a "REST" request (that's a URL)
OK How about this:
Even when you do page reloads or load new pages, it saves on bandwidth. A new page that doesn't change the header/footer/sidebar doesn't have to reload any of those items.
There you go. All they do is add some processing (based on known patterns) before storing. In other words, if you want to know in real time how many hits your website had, your counter would count the hits as they occur instead of counting the hits after being recorded in the log.
Most projects outside your hacker by night use version control, although they may not use a diff-based tagging program. Think of Linux. It didn't use "version control" until fairly recently, and yet it was version controlled. Releases are version control. Backup tapes are version control. They work pretty good in THE REAL WORLD. They just take up more disk space. Although, in the real world, you probably end up using a lot more disk space with version control software because everyone is always "checking out" stuff that hasn't been changed, so there are hundreds or thousands of copies of something that you only need once.
It was the foreign powers that spent their leisure time thinking about science that enabled them to 'fuck over' the Chinese. And for about 1000 years Europeans complained about how backward and barbaric they were when the Chinese (Mongol) and Islam empires tried fucking them over. Realizing that brown people could beat white people in battle unless the white people applied themselves is what helped bring Europe out of the desparagingly termed "Dark Ages"
You've got to be kidding. Privately funded sattelites go up all the time. Boeing & Norway (okay, norway isn't a private company, but it's run by one) are building offshore launchpads to get around US law because NASA is so expensive and backlogged. NASA is probably the most profitable enterprise the US Government has ever created outside the IRS. For decades they had a virtual monopoly on communications sattelite launches, and that is very big business indeed.
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Please read "For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny. It gives a definitive test for determining what is art, and to what extent computers can create it.
It doesn't even look like art. It isn't even cool like some screen savers (triagle). It's not interesting in the slightest.
But leaving aside poor taste, all it does is show how the "Art" establishment has affected many people to the point that they are unable to recognise art, distinguish art from non-art, or decide whether or art is good or bad; and fail to trust their own judgement.
You need to design for the real world, not blame a flaw in reality when your bridge collapses due to the bedrock being undermined in the flood.
because they aren't even looking at patches that are sent to them. Not because they're elitist, but because they don't have time. The underlying issue is: Why don't they have time? And the answer may be because they have been too elitist and haven't grown the core team. Of course, it may also be that Firefox just grew alot faster and bigger than anyone thought would happen, and this venting is a growing pain. Personally, I think Firefox has taken the wrong direction and still much prefer the Mozilla suite. (Though, I admit the separation of browser from email client has allowed thunderbird to contribute a lot of innovation back in to the suite.) Unfortunately, Firefox seems to have wrested control of the financial backing and now a weakly managed, but highly focussed splinter group has shown results and is now in charge of the overall direction of the Mozilla project.
The article, and obviously the study, are really just propoganda to 1) justify media such as CNN that want to push their agenda that "dissent (i.e., anit-Americanism) is patriotic" and 2) that Americans really are dumb for re-electing Bush. What it does, in fact, expose, is the incompetence and bias of school teachers.
Or you could put a big "L" and "R" on the mouse, but maybe Mac people who are too stupid to know left from right wouldn't get the hint. I think they could learn though.
For years it took weeks of training to do anything on a mac with the keyboard at all. I know people who had to resort to the character-map clickable keyboard to enter data. The macintosh "toaster" was the usability (or was it functionality?) level that the Apple folks were going for. (Steve jobs didn't know toasters had "darkness" settings and removable cleaning trays back then.)
You're aware that keyboards and mice run about $5 each, new, right?
That's not true. The majority of Floridians voted for Bush. Give them a little credit.
has nothing to do with Heart of Darkness. The book (novella) is about an English sailor riding a boat up the Congo River in the 1800s to find out what happened to a man at a trading post (who has gone native.) The only similarity is that a white man goes native. But there are hundreds of other stories like it. Including "The Man Who Would Be King." Both it, and "Heart of Darkness" realize how old the "Prestor John" concept is, and distinguish themselves with their unique narratives.
Doesn't Zaphod use some variation of an SEP field so earlings won't notice his head and arm when he goes there to pick up chicks. Or maybe we're just all in denial.
I think the solution to this is to admit that everthing is a string of characters. This is the one thing perl got right. Sure, an int is 4 bytes, and a bitmap is an array of 2**x, but they can be _represented_ as bytes, and, in fact, that's how we think of them (except in particular math intensive algorithms.) 19.95 is read as characters, and RRGGBB is seen that way. And besides, almost anything going over the network (except sound/video), is serialized anyway, so it is in fact, good old byte arrays. Once you admit this, it makes coding so much simpler, and especially, processing so much more efficient.
Bah! People like you were saying stuff that 3 years ago. And, while I admit Moore's law has stalled, my computer today runs that same algorithm in C than yours did in Fortran 3 years ago. And what's more, it runs as a distributed J2EE web-service with computation done entirely in xslt than your finely tuned. fortran equations ran in 1990.
unless there was a point at the end of the article. I couldn't finish, though I slogged through to the second page.
How about instead of "pledging" money -- how much of all the orgy of tsunami money pledged by magnaminious nations and wealthy individuals will actually be paid out, much less distrubuted to those in need by the greedy carrion NGOs and and charities -- we see how many kids we can actually get vaccinated, although that's hardly the most pressing need of kids without vaccines. Ignorant third world people have a kind of needle fetish, since a long time now, because injections have on occasion saved lives, so that often people want to feel a needleprick (and are often happily obliged by tourist medicos) as a symbol of good luck or even cosmopolitanism. I've heard of times when a doctor proscribes penecillan or some other ingested medicine, that the patient begs for a shot until the western relief worker gives him a saline ingection.
I've been actively trying to get unemployed for the past couple years, but I keep getting calls from recruiters offering more money, and I end up going back to the cubicle farm. My one weakness is that I can identify is that when I go into interviews I wan the people to like me, even if I don't want the job. And then the recruiter calls me back and quotes me a number and I say I'm busy and he quotes me another number and I say I need more time off and usually about the third number I say, okay, give me a couple weeks.
This very page is 200+ KB. Compression might cut it in half. Using the techniques for JSON, you could reload it and see my post and it will be less than 0.1 K more for you to download.
Right now (and for a long time now) you have had every option available that JSON uses. Even before XMLHTTPRequest (almost 5 years old on IE & Mozilla) you could use a frame, or even keepalive without frames. JSON is a potential standard notation so you don't have to parse the querystring or request body. JSON-RPC is rediculous though. You're already using HTTP, make a "REST" request (that's a URL)
OK How about this: Even when you do page reloads or load new pages, it saves on bandwidth. A new page that doesn't change the header/footer/sidebar doesn't have to reload any of those items.
There you go. All they do is add some processing (based on known patterns) before storing. In other words, if you want to know in real time how many hits your website had, your counter would count the hits as they occur instead of counting the hits after being recorded in the log.
Most projects outside your hacker by night use version control, although they may not use a diff-based tagging program. Think of Linux. It didn't use "version control" until fairly recently, and yet it was version controlled. Releases are version control. Backup tapes are version control. They work pretty good in THE REAL WORLD. They just take up more disk space. Although, in the real world, you probably end up using a lot more disk space with version control software because everyone is always "checking out" stuff that hasn't been changed, so there are hundreds or thousands of copies of something that you only need once.
The word 'BRILLIANT' is actually older than Guinness beer commercials.
It was the foreign powers that spent their leisure time thinking about science that enabled them to 'fuck over' the Chinese. And for about 1000 years Europeans complained about how backward and barbaric they were when the Chinese (Mongol) and Islam empires tried fucking them over. Realizing that brown people could beat white people in battle unless the white people applied themselves is what helped bring Europe out of the desparagingly termed "Dark Ages"
Go watch "The Right Stuff" kid. Sheesh, don't they teach history anymore.
You've got to be kidding. Privately funded sattelites go up all the time. Boeing & Norway (okay, norway isn't a private company, but it's run by one) are building offshore launchpads to get around US law because NASA is so expensive and backlogged. NASA is probably the most profitable enterprise the US Government has ever created outside the IRS. For decades they had a virtual monopoly on communications sattelite launches, and that is very big business indeed.