Do not respect the laws of China, as one poster said. As if your government will let China imprison a US citizen on political crimes. Fuck the Chinese.
On another note, I was reading John P. Barlow's blog...he was talking about VOIP phone conversations with girls in China. He said he tried out a few Google queries (and websites) you might expect to be blocked by China. He said they were not. I imagine the Great Firewall of China is actually a piece of sh1t, a lot like other goods made in China.
Hey asshole, you couldn't be more wrong. XSL is basically a functional language with none of the benefits. I am fine with functional languages and recursion but XSL requires way more code than most functional languages (like Lisp & Scheme). So it's basically all the weirdness of a functional language without the main benefit, terseness.
Except perhaps having your flesh ripped off with pliers. That's pretty sucky. But honestly XSL is a piece of garbage. Pour gasoline over it and toss a match on it.
I could really cook up vaporware so much better than the security-cleared assclowns they hire for these projects. The government is where you go to work when your skills won't get you a job in the private sector.
All right. I grant you that I have never seen the inside of an airline cockpit. But let's be serious here, you're not going to blind all 4 eyes of the pilot and co-pilot with a laser. Sure, there's maybe a.1% chance but give me a fscking break. Also, I know little to nothing about autopilot and I was totally wrong on the capability of the tower to land the plane. If idiotic humans weren't so scared of letting go of control the world would be a different place.
And to the asshole that said a laser-guided RPG...the risk there is the RPG not the fricken lasers.
This is so stupid. This laser crap is so blown out of proportion. Wtf is someone going to do with a laser that will take down a commercial airliner? Shine it in the pilot's eye AND the copilots eye AND disable the autopiloting system AND they probably have a way for the tower to land the plane in case of emergency.
Anyone who disagrees with me is a scared little wussie and probably voted for Bush, who won mostly because of all the fearmongering leading up to the election.
Sheesh.
I too have serious concerns about the future of Palm OS. I've been programming professionally now for about 7 years and in all that time I have never written a program to run on a Palm, but I have written a Java program to run on Symbian OS mobile phones. I think PDAs are a thing of the past and to me it seems Palm needs to get onto more mobile phones if they want to be around another 10 years.
So this move can't be a bad thing and it might indeed reveal some other ways Palm can retain it's market share.
All it means is that the internet and it's communications capabilities represent the largest threat against governmental hegemony. Ever.
If they want to take away my Internet they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Or whatever it was that Heston said. Times two.
Thanks to people like this guy we are all expected to grin and bear it when our 40 hour work week turns into 50 or 60 or 70 hours a week. Screw that. I'd rather be dead. I wish these overachievers would grow a pair and tell their employers to go suck eggs.
Please. Let's kill all these sacred cows. We in the US cannot continue to charge such a premium for our supposed expertise. We are quickly being matched by foreign competition.
The other thing I get from this is wow...our money system is really really farked up. It is not representing value anymore. It's representing the most powerful interests, which is not exactly value. Those with all the money are so stingy they will not relinquish it and the prices for everything is sky high because of it. There is no middle class anymore...just rich, richer, filthy effing rich, and the invisible.
Money sucks, I hate these geographic price disparities. It's bullshit and something is going to change here in the USA soon. Count on that.
This is truly laughable. Who in their right mind would buy such a worthless piece of software? Three applications and no networking capabilities? Wtf do they think people do with their computers? Play minesweeper all day long? Cripes!
It is truly incredible how many other replies to this comment seem to have missed the point of the comment. This makes me very sad. I certainly hope that is not a quote from the paper because if you can't keep "then" and "than" straight I have a hard time believing in your ability to do anything requiring critical thought.
Seriously. I am sick and tired of hearing that 5.4% number. It is so worthless because they do not count the people who have given up on finding any kind of work. That's just cockamamie. There must be a reason why they calculate the number as such, but it escapes me right now.
I was just talking today about how users are so stupid that the states should begin to license computer users. They do it with cars, I figure, so why not computers?
And now along comes Slashdot telling me that we should make it easier for Joe Sixpack to buy/use a computer? Puh-leeze.
Learn a trade. I think I'll become an auto mechanic. a plumber, or an electrican. Anything but a code-monkey button-presser. But not until after I sit on my butt for six months and collect my unemployment. This economy makes me need a vacation.
Why should I care about this? If sex doesn't make a difference then why should I care? Women are weird and you'll never change their aversion to being alone.
One time at work one of our IT guys stopped by my desk to give me a RAM upgrade so I could run Dynamo without bogging down my machine. He forgot to power down and unplug my machine, so he just opened up the box and popped the stick of RAM into the mobo while the machine was running. We both realized what he did then we started cracking up. Power down and power up again and, whaddyaknow, it worked!
Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me? Have you ever even used IE 6?
Firefox loses hands-down on this account. With IE I can just set the Privacy slider to High and then allow in cookies on a site-by-site basis. IE will remember the list of sites I OK.
From what I could tell, Firefox doesn't keep any such list. It just obtrusively asks me everytime a site wants to use cookies. So even for those sites which I go to daily I have to endure a prompt about the site's cookies. What a pantload!
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Do not respect the laws of China, as one poster said. As if your government will let China imprison a US citizen on political crimes. Fuck the Chinese. On another note, I was reading John P. Barlow's blog...he was talking about VOIP phone conversations with girls in China. He said he tried out a few Google queries (and websites) you might expect to be blocked by China. He said they were not. I imagine the Great Firewall of China is actually a piece of sh1t, a lot like other goods made in China.
Hey asshole, you couldn't be more wrong. XSL is basically a functional language with none of the benefits. I am fine with functional languages and recursion but XSL requires way more code than most functional languages (like Lisp & Scheme). So it's basically all the weirdness of a functional language without the main benefit, terseness.
Except perhaps having your flesh ripped off with pliers. That's pretty sucky. But honestly XSL is a piece of garbage. Pour gasoline over it and toss a match on it.
I could really cook up vaporware so much better than the security-cleared assclowns they hire for these projects. The government is where you go to work when your skills won't get you a job in the private sector.
All right. I grant you that I have never seen the inside of an airline cockpit. But let's be serious here, you're not going to blind all 4 eyes of the pilot and co-pilot with a laser. Sure, there's maybe a .1% chance but give me a fscking break. Also, I know little to nothing about autopilot and I was totally wrong on the capability of the tower to land the plane. If idiotic humans weren't so scared of letting go of control the world would be a different place.
And to the asshole that said a laser-guided RPG...the risk there is the RPG not the fricken lasers.
This is so stupid. This laser crap is so blown out of proportion. Wtf is someone going to do with a laser that will take down a commercial airliner? Shine it in the pilot's eye AND the copilots eye AND disable the autopiloting system AND they probably have a way for the tower to land the plane in case of emergency. Anyone who disagrees with me is a scared little wussie and probably voted for Bush, who won mostly because of all the fearmongering leading up to the election. Sheesh.
Original poster is such a hater. Come feel the convergence love Mr. Man.
Apparently it is NOT obvious. I'm a programmer who doesn't have the admin password for my own machine. It's bullsh1t.
Seriously. Calm down people. If you are afraid of loud noises maybe you shouldn't have left the farm.
I too have serious concerns about the future of Palm OS. I've been programming professionally now for about 7 years and in all that time I have never written a program to run on a Palm, but I have written a Java program to run on Symbian OS mobile phones. I think PDAs are a thing of the past and to me it seems Palm needs to get onto more mobile phones if they want to be around another 10 years. So this move can't be a bad thing and it might indeed reveal some other ways Palm can retain it's market share.
All it means is that the internet and it's communications capabilities represent the largest threat against governmental hegemony. Ever. If they want to take away my Internet they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands. Or whatever it was that Heston said. Times two.
Thanks to people like this guy we are all expected to grin and bear it when our 40 hour work week turns into 50 or 60 or 70 hours a week. Screw that. I'd rather be dead. I wish these overachievers would grow a pair and tell their employers to go suck eggs.
Ha! Where's your snooty, coke-addled Steve Jobs now to save your i'm-prettier-than-you asses?
Please. Let's kill all these sacred cows. We in the US cannot continue to charge such a premium for our supposed expertise. We are quickly being matched by foreign competition. The other thing I get from this is wow...our money system is really really farked up. It is not representing value anymore. It's representing the most powerful interests, which is not exactly value. Those with all the money are so stingy they will not relinquish it and the prices for everything is sky high because of it. There is no middle class anymore...just rich, richer, filthy effing rich, and the invisible. Money sucks, I hate these geographic price disparities. It's bullshit and something is going to change here in the USA soon. Count on that.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Corrupt Corrupt Corrupt Corrupt
This is truly laughable. Who in their right mind would buy such a worthless piece of software? Three applications and no networking capabilities? Wtf do they think people do with their computers? Play minesweeper all day long? Cripes!
It is truly incredible how many other replies to this comment seem to have missed the point of the comment. This makes me very sad. I certainly hope that is not a quote from the paper because if you can't keep "then" and "than" straight I have a hard time believing in your ability to do anything requiring critical thought.
Seriously. I am sick and tired of hearing that 5.4% number. It is so worthless because they do not count the people who have given up on finding any kind of work. That's just cockamamie. There must be a reason why they calculate the number as such, but it escapes me right now.
I was just talking today about how users are so stupid that the states should begin to license computer users. They do it with cars, I figure, so why not computers? And now along comes Slashdot telling me that we should make it easier for Joe Sixpack to buy/use a computer? Puh-leeze.
Learn a trade. I think I'll become an auto mechanic. a plumber, or an electrican. Anything but a code-monkey button-presser. But not until after I sit on my butt for six months and collect my unemployment. This economy makes me need a vacation.
you can go eff yourself. and yes, eff is not usually spelled that way. hahahahahaha.
"who's code is what"
you REALLY mean:
"who is code is what"
???
Read a book for god's sake.
Why should I care about this? If sex doesn't make a difference then why should I care? Women are weird and you'll never change their aversion to being alone.
One time at work one of our IT guys stopped by my desk to give me a RAM upgrade so I could run Dynamo without bogging down my machine. He forgot to power down and unplug my machine, so he just opened up the box and popped the stick of RAM into the mobo while the machine was running. We both realized what he did then we started cracking up. Power down and power up again and, whaddyaknow, it worked!
Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me? Have you ever even used IE 6? Firefox loses hands-down on this account. With IE I can just set the Privacy slider to High and then allow in cookies on a site-by-site basis. IE will remember the list of sites I OK. From what I could tell, Firefox doesn't keep any such list. It just obtrusively asks me everytime a site wants to use cookies. So even for those sites which I go to daily I have to endure a prompt about the site's cookies. What a pantload!