Do South Americans actually identify themselves with being "South American"? If you ask a Brazilian their nationality do they say South American or American?
How should Mexicans refer to themselves? "Mexico, officially known as the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico So calling us the United States could be equally confusing.
The fact remains that America is the defining part of our name.
Sorry, this started off being a serious question about identity and I got carried away.
In theory you are correct. But if the money is coming from somewhere else, e.g. the US Govt seems to subsidize the oil companies pretty well, the oil companies will gladly take the money. Of course, if "not stand in the way" means "don't give them money" then I agree with you.
Capitalism exists to make profit. It doesn't matter how or what damage is caused in the process. That's why we have regulation, and we all know what happens when it is insufficient.
Regardless, the only viable solution is to use less oil. We don't immediately need special technological solutions -- all we need to do is change our habits. We use more energy as a country than anyone else and could easily use less with some attitude adjustments.
For some really stupid reason I said ST:E. I had meant to say ST:TNG wasn't bad, though slow to start. There was something irking me about my post all through the preview process...
What's funny is that the same comment can be applied to all of the treks, though I think DS9 was a bit more accessible due to Worf and Colm Meany carrying over from TNG.
Anyway, I didn't want posterity recording that I liked ST:E.
Lexx, Farscape, and MacGuyver. I mean, MacGuyver is not strictly SF, but it did define science geek gone cool. Other than flimsy plot devices, Sliders, Quantum Leap and a few others had little to no science in their fiction.
What I found odd was SG:Atlantis making the list so high. Almost smacks of paid advertising. It's a good show, but fairly cookie cutter w/ some interesting ideas.
Surely you meant Voyager? What a load of crap that show was. Just because 7of9 was a hottie in tights... Oh wait, that's one of the reasons Buck Rodgers made the list...
ST:E wasn't bad, though it took me a few attempts to get into it because the characters/actors were so sterile the first season.
Not that there is anything wrong with your post, but if the tools are really good (I vaguely remember that the license includes tools) then they are worth the cost in programmer productivity. If the tools save a week of time per developer over the lifetime of usage, it would pay for itself.
Of course, I haven't seen a productivity tool since Sun's DevGuide that really saved me time...
If you compare the two technorati links, the first thing you see is that the numbers of blog links is higher. In 2-3 years, that's to be expected.
The author also states we are in a more consumer blog error. Well duh, compare this to websites back in 1993/94 and again in 1996/97 after the consumer market got wind of it. In 1993, all of the websites were geek-ish, the early adopters. By 1997, businesses were everywhere and producing brochure sites for non-geeks.
Hence, the percentage of geek stuff is down. We're a small percentage of the population so in the end we'll be a small percentage of the blog world. What surprises me is that geek blogs are not further down the list. Face it, you'll have to come up with something new to regain your l33t ego boost.
What really scares me is:
a) This guy wrote that many words and missed the point. b) People actually read it before/. got wind of it and commented on the author's good reasoning.
PS. I just read the article's comments and Seth Finkelstein also noticed the author miss-analyzed the technorati rankings.
Either you are afraid of the ball or you meant right field. Right field is where teams hide their worst fielders because the ball isn't hit there as often. (Of course at the pro level it doesn't matter quite as much...)
The framework is in a highly dynamic state. For toy applications, it's fine if you want to migrate your code every month or so. FYI, snow devil is down for redesign, my money is on a RoR update. 43things is interesting, but isn't remarkable. Basecamp is mildly useful, but very limited. Backpackit is neat, but again, not very difficult to implement.
These sites are more about ideas anyway. RoR may have helped implement them faster (good!), but my point was that you don't want to write a professional, maintainable application in a framework that isn't finished and is subject to change dramatically.
Having better hardware helps (AMD 2400/1GB/6800GT). It's a cool little game. Not too difficult on the hardest level, but challenging and telikenesis is a neat angle on the gravity gun.
This beats most games I've ever seen and it's only a school project. Granted it's built upon HL2, but the art and concept are really good.
It seems to me that with a little effort, Guildhall could turn out a new game every year or two, publish it for say 20$, and let the money go to alleviate tuition or something...
RoR is interesting but in a high state of flux. Give it 6 months to a year unless you like migrating your applications every other week.
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IIRC, readline is GPL, not LGPL, so Oracle would have to open the source of sqlplus. I know, not much worth hiding, but oracle's tools have pretty much always sucked (especially when compared with informix, god rest its soul)
There was a recent study that said sleeping in doesn't actually help you catch up. I don't remember if they were referring to a significant deficit or not, though (i.e. I need to catch up 8 hours so I must sleep 16! vs I need to sleep 1 extra hour.)
The recommendation was to get 7-9 hours consistently and not to vary if possible. If you do get less, you don't really gain by sleeping more later on. They did advocate a short nap if you need it, but I don't remember the duration.
Their test was interesting, but I don't remember the specifics.
Perhaps so that the publisher stands a chance to make *some* money? It's not like anyone other than a java geek will buy the book (ok, maybe the author's mom...), and geeks are more willing to just use what's freely available online.
As the author stated, book writing is not a cash cow (at least that's what every author says...), especially when your market is so small and there are other options. However, I would like to know how much he got/gets for the book.
Actually, from what the previous articles have mentioned, there is custom work on the open source client, plus hosting costs (BK hosts the Linux kernel and some others...)
A couple of years of two dedicated developers (BK is based in SF, so the devs could be too) could easily make up the bulk of 500K.
However, BK didn't exist until McVoy scratched Linus' itch and since then has received plenty of free PR from hosting the LK.
Both Arch and Subversion have problems for projects the size of the LK, so either Linus/someone works with them to adapt the software or someone new tries to scratch Linus' itch. It shouldn't be *that* hard for a couple of good programmers to come up with something in a year or so. I'm not sure what patents BK may have applied for which might make this difficult.
In any case, it has been said that Tridge was working on a product to get data out of BK, not into it, with which McVoy should not argue too much with.
Re: the teachers interest teaching, you've just described every research institution in the US. The schools do have professors who actually enjoy teaching, though they are few in number and that usually dwindles as the profs get tenure or burned out.
Having said that, the profs are generally quite cool to work with or interact with as peers.
Take a peek at the code for OS Commerce. It is nightmarish. In fact, after looking at it today, I'm hoping I sleep well.
Plus, it REQUIRES register_globals which is a huge security risk. However, they are smart enough to use transactions (or at least the presence of innodb tables...) And, if I remember correctly, they store credit card numbers in the clear... Also, the last official release was in 2003 (2004 if you count the OSC Max version at aabox.com)
What is the point of this 'interview'? You are asking questions of an entity that will not give you a straight and honest answer. This isn't just Microsoft. It's like asking Bush what his biggest mistake of his first term was.
A proper interview would have someone calling for clarification or BS when the interviewee dodges or speaks mistruths. Either that, or you need non-offensive and insightful questions that transcend personal issues. IOW, don't back the interviewee into a corner.
Billions spent on the floating scrap heap that is the ISS. Prisoners in the Gulag have it better than ISS astronauts and probably perform more useful science.
Hubble is one of the few bright spots in US science history. Then again, Bush and his puppeteers are only interested in playing general and aren't interested in space unless we can start blowing things up. Maybe they plan on testing one of their military attack sats on the Hubble?
Carpentry is a bad metaphor. Guitar playing is much better. I have seen many good guitarists pick up a PoS guitar, tune it and then play really nice sounding music. In my hands it sounded like a PoS guitar...
Slashdot needs a moderation option for missing the point. He didn't say it was bad, but he implied that few people will shell out money for some proprietary OS lacking applications.
The site's down so I can't see whether it supports the whole set of GNU tools and judge potential for porting other OSS software. However, history shows that the barrier to entry is having end user applications that the users _want_. There are thousands of applications for Linux, but most of them suck and are not wanted by general users. It's not Windows, the same excuse that few Linux ports of popular software packages exist.
So what's to get excited (as a user) about a commercial OS that does nothing but allow you to read email, surf the web, and probably a few applications that do not play with the rest of the world's applications?
If Linux had started out commercial, it would never have grown. Even still, it's been around for 10+ years, had a bunch of press-hype, and it's still used less than the Mac. Where was SCO before the lawsuit mess? Where is AmigaOS (everyone says it was awesome)?
What chance does SkyOS of becoming relevant given these restrictions? Unless it fulfills a need it will remain obscure.
My livelyhood (and probably most of/.) depends mostly on free software because most of our clients are financially challenged. Additionally, if you haven't noticed, most (American, at least) jobs tend towards the service sector. Nothing is actually being produced, but money is changing hands.
I think it's bad enough she had to suffer for 3 months, let alone the 18 she would have otherwise. I'm pretty sure the doctor doing the organ transplant is not also doing the heart bypass, as doctors tend to specialize. I'm also pretty sure there aren't many emergency orthopedic surguries, so my only conclusion is a) limited hospital space, b) not enough ortho doctors, and/or c) sucky gov't management.
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Do South Americans actually identify themselves with being "South American"? If you ask a Brazilian their nationality do they say South American or American?
How should Mexicans refer to themselves? "Mexico, officially known as the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico So calling us the United States could be equally confusing.
The fact remains that America is the defining part of our name.
Sorry, this started off being a serious question about identity and I got carried away.
They don't make much money on the parts. They kill you will the labor.
Would you rather replace your brakes or your clutch?
Engine braking is fine as long as you aren't downshifting.
In theory you are correct. But if the money is coming from somewhere else, e.g. the US Govt seems to subsidize the oil companies pretty well, the oil companies will gladly take the money. Of course, if "not stand in the way" means "don't give them money" then I agree with you.
Capitalism exists to make profit. It doesn't matter how or what damage is caused in the process. That's why we have regulation, and we all know what happens when it is insufficient.
Regardless, the only viable solution is to use less oil. We don't immediately need special technological solutions -- all we need to do is change our habits. We use more energy as a country than anyone else and could easily use less with some attitude adjustments.
For some really stupid reason I said ST:E. I had meant to say ST:TNG wasn't bad, though slow to start. There was something irking me about my post all through the preview process...
What's funny is that the same comment can be applied to all of the treks, though I think DS9 was a bit more accessible due to Worf and Colm Meany carrying over from TNG.
Anyway, I didn't want posterity recording that I liked ST:E.
Lexx, Farscape, and MacGuyver. I mean, MacGuyver is not strictly SF, but it did define science geek gone cool. Other than flimsy plot devices, Sliders, Quantum Leap and a few others had little to no science in their fiction.
What I found odd was SG:Atlantis making the list so high. Almost smacks of paid advertising. It's a good show, but fairly cookie cutter w/ some interesting ideas.
Surely you meant Voyager? What a load of crap that show was. Just because 7of9 was a hottie in tights... Oh wait, that's one of the reasons Buck Rodgers made the list...
ST:E wasn't bad, though it took me a few attempts to get into it because the characters/actors were so sterile the first season.
Not that there is anything wrong with your post, but if the tools are really good (I vaguely remember that the license includes tools) then they are worth the cost in programmer productivity. If the tools save a week of time per developer over the lifetime of usage, it would pay for itself.
Of course, I haven't seen a productivity tool since Sun's DevGuide that really saved me time...
If you compare the two technorati links, the first thing you see is that the numbers of blog links is higher. In 2-3 years, that's to be expected.
/. got wind of it and commented on the author's good reasoning.
The author also states we are in a more consumer blog error. Well duh, compare this to websites back in 1993/94 and again in 1996/97 after the consumer market got wind of it. In 1993, all of the websites were geek-ish, the early adopters. By 1997, businesses were everywhere and producing brochure sites for non-geeks.
Hence, the percentage of geek stuff is down. We're a small percentage of the population so in the end we'll be a small percentage of the blog world. What surprises me is that geek blogs are not further down the list. Face it, you'll have to come up with something new to regain your l33t ego boost.
What really scares me is:
a) This guy wrote that many words and missed the point.
b) People actually read it before
PS. I just read the article's comments and Seth Finkelstein also noticed the author miss-analyzed the technorati rankings.
Either you are afraid of the ball or you meant right field. Right field is where teams hide their worst fielders because the ball isn't hit there as often. (Of course at the pro level it doesn't matter quite as much...)
The framework is in a highly dynamic state. For toy applications, it's fine if you want to migrate your code every month or so. FYI, snow devil is down for redesign, my money is on a RoR update. 43things is interesting, but isn't remarkable. Basecamp is mildly useful, but very limited. Backpackit is neat, but again, not very difficult to implement.
These sites are more about ideas anyway. RoR may have helped implement them faster (good!), but my point was that you don't want to write a professional, maintainable application in a framework that isn't finished and is subject to change dramatically.
Having better hardware helps (AMD 2400/1GB/6800GT). It's a cool little game. Not too difficult on the hardest level, but challenging and telikenesis is a neat angle on the gravity gun.
This beats most games I've ever seen and it's only a school project. Granted it's built upon HL2, but the art and concept are really good.
It seems to me that with a little effort, Guildhall could turn out a new game every year or two, publish it for say 20$, and let the money go to alleviate tuition or something...
RoR is interesting but in a high state of flux. Give it 6 months to a year unless you like migrating your applications every other week.
IIRC, readline is GPL, not LGPL, so Oracle would have to open the source of sqlplus. I know, not much worth hiding, but oracle's tools have pretty much always sucked (especially when compared with informix, god rest its soul)
There was a recent study that said sleeping in doesn't actually help you catch up. I don't remember if they were referring to a significant deficit or not, though (i.e. I need to catch up 8 hours so I must sleep 16! vs I need to sleep 1 extra hour.)
The recommendation was to get 7-9 hours consistently and not to vary if possible. If you do get less, you don't really gain by sleeping more later on. They did advocate a short nap if you need it, but I don't remember the duration.
Their test was interesting, but I don't remember the specifics.
Depends on whether it is American English or the Queen's.
Perhaps so that the publisher stands a chance to make *some* money? It's not like anyone other than a java geek will buy the book (ok, maybe the author's mom...), and geeks are more willing to just use what's freely available online.
As the author stated, book writing is not a cash cow (at least that's what every author says...), especially when your market is so small and there are other options. However, I would like to know how much he got/gets for the book.
Actually, from what the previous articles have mentioned, there is custom work on the open source client, plus hosting costs (BK hosts the Linux kernel and some others...)
A couple of years of two dedicated developers (BK is based in SF, so the devs could be too) could easily make up the bulk of 500K.
However, BK didn't exist until McVoy scratched Linus' itch and since then has received plenty of free PR from hosting the LK.
Both Arch and Subversion have problems for projects the size of the LK, so either Linus/someone works with them to adapt the software or someone new tries to scratch Linus' itch. It shouldn't be *that* hard for a couple of good programmers to come up with something in a year or so. I'm not sure what patents BK may have applied for which might make this difficult.
In any case, it has been said that Tridge was working on a product to get data out of BK, not into it, with which McVoy should not argue too much with.
An aside, I wonder if BK uses samba internally?
Re: the teachers interest teaching, you've just described every research institution in the US. The schools do have professors who actually enjoy teaching, though they are few in number and that usually dwindles as the profs get tenure or burned out.
Having said that, the profs are generally quite cool to work with or interact with as peers.
Take a peek at the code for OS Commerce. It is nightmarish. In fact, after looking at it today, I'm hoping I sleep well.
Plus, it REQUIRES register_globals which is a huge security risk. However, they are smart enough to use transactions (or at least the presence of innodb tables...) And, if I remember correctly, they store credit card numbers in the clear... Also, the last official release was in 2003 (2004 if you count the OSC Max version at aabox.com)
What's nice is it installs very easily.
What is the point of this 'interview'? You are asking questions of an entity that will not give you a straight and honest answer. This isn't just Microsoft. It's like asking Bush what his biggest mistake of his first term was.
A proper interview would have someone calling for clarification or BS when the interviewee dodges or speaks mistruths. Either that, or you need non-offensive and insightful questions that transcend personal issues. IOW, don't back the interviewee into a corner.
Billions spent on the floating scrap heap that is the ISS. Prisoners in the Gulag have it better than ISS astronauts and probably perform more useful science.
Hubble is one of the few bright spots in US science history. Then again, Bush and his puppeteers are only interested in playing general and aren't interested in space unless we can start blowing things up. Maybe they plan on testing one of their military attack sats on the Hubble?
Carpentry is a bad metaphor. Guitar playing is much better. I have seen many good guitarists pick up a PoS guitar, tune it and then play really nice sounding music. In my hands it sounded like a PoS guitar...
Slashdot needs a moderation option for missing the point. He didn't say it was bad, but he implied that few people will shell out money for some proprietary OS lacking applications.
/.) depends mostly on free software because most of our clients are financially challenged. Additionally, if you haven't noticed, most (American, at least) jobs tend towards the service sector. Nothing is actually being produced, but money is changing hands.
The site's down so I can't see whether it supports the whole set of GNU tools and judge potential for porting other OSS software. However, history shows that the barrier to entry is having end user applications that the users _want_. There are thousands of applications for Linux, but most of them suck and are not wanted by general users. It's not Windows, the same excuse that few Linux ports of popular software packages exist.
So what's to get excited (as a user) about a commercial OS that does nothing but allow you to read email, surf the web, and probably a few applications that do not play with the rest of the world's applications?
If Linux had started out commercial, it would never have grown. Even still, it's been around for 10+ years, had a bunch of press-hype, and it's still used less than the Mac. Where was SCO before the lawsuit mess? Where is AmigaOS (everyone says it was awesome)?
What chance does SkyOS of becoming relevant given these restrictions? Unless it fulfills a need it will remain obscure.
My livelyhood (and probably most of
Apologies for excessive use of the word "most".
"suffer unnecessarily" for a while?
I think it's bad enough she had to suffer for 3 months, let alone the 18 she would have otherwise. I'm pretty sure the doctor doing the organ transplant is not also doing the heart bypass, as doctors tend to specialize. I'm also pretty sure there aren't many emergency orthopedic surguries, so my only conclusion is a) limited hospital space, b) not enough ortho doctors, and/or c) sucky gov't management.