Part of the reason is that they have friends, such as myself, in the IT industry. Friends who say, "Yeah, working in IT is fantastic, I love getting phone calls at 2am when I'm trying to sleep because some client decided to change their API without telling us first. And of course, it has to be fixed RIGHT NOW, because Grandma can't get to her webmail interface to read the latest chain letter."
To me, there's incentive enough to return to the moon simply because of the research and development that would occur. The space program that sent us to the moon the first time brought forth incredible advances in all kinds of areas. We should keep pushing our own boundaries and explore the unknown not simply because it's there, but because we have the opportunity to develop stronger / more efficient / less expensive / generally better tools at the same time. Make the results of the new research available to the public at large and everyone benefits.
It's a use of my tax dollars that I can support without reservation.
As someone who develops with PHP for a living, I'm going to go ahead and say: Stick with what you know. It doesn't matter what the back end of your system is written in - as long as it is written well. If you know Java, then use Java. There's lots of Java sites out there and, if it wasn't for the.jsp extension on the pages, I wouldn't ever know the difference.
Do you worry that rule by direct election would lead to a "Mob Rule" mentality? Too often the public gets very angry over an issue and makes an emotional decision instead of an informed decision. And then, one must worry about the public basing their decisions on propaganda instead of information.
This can result in very poor policy - what is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular.
Someone already has won a patent on the concept of online auctions. All you have to do is take anything people do anyway, add "but do it online!" and you have your new patent. It's pretty awful.
Good hearted sports where, in the riots following the game, people are killed, cars are burned, and storefronts are destroyed - even if your team wins.
It was also once consensus that the Earth was the center of the universe. A consensus of people in some places think it's okay to stone adulterers.
Just because a majority of people believe something is true doesn't mean that it is.Bringing that up also doesn't do anything to convince people otherwise anyway. Providing facts and exposing myths without being confrontational is what will do it. You can point out factual errors in another's post without going down the road of "cheap rhetoric" and "buillshit" in your own. Try it sometime.
I agree with you on everything except the last point. Government should be restricted from both gathering information AND using it without a warrant. Grabbing all of my email, phone called, IMs, etc. without probable cause is absolutely wrong. If you give up the fight to limit their ability to gather then you've already half lost the war on limiting their usage as well.
The Supreme Court has found that obscenity is an exception to the constitutional rights under the First Amendment, and is usually limited to content that directly refers to explicit sexual acts that are publicly accessible, though it has at times encompassed other subject matters, such as spoken and written language that can be publicly transmitted and received by the general public.
And yet last year saw some of the coldest temperatures we've had in a very long time. But I didn't see people screaming OMG GLOBAL FREEZING!!1!!1! back then.
A lot of the stories from Brothers Grimm were quite violent and vivid in their original forms. Somehow we survived this childhood trauma. I'm not sure how.
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's just a timeline. You may be able to have lots of data, but that isn't going to revolutionize anything. Not even time lines. Doing X, but with HTML5!!!, doesn't make it revolutionary. It's just X with HTML5.
I don't understand why ANY government would want to take down these sites - even if they are in the pocket of Big Media.
Websites which simply link to content point you to the people providing the content, making it much easier to find the people committing the actual crime.
Why not let these sites stay up, let people run them, and just mine them for data?
Once all the providers of infringing content have been sued / arrested / whatever, the linking sites have nothing to link to, and they die out too.
Is my reasoning incorrect, or is it just too high a level of thinking for the government to handle?
To me, that 20% personal research time not only greatly benefits the company but also keeps the developers happy. Everyone wins. I wish that my current company had such a policy.
'About 40 percent of all U.S. prison inmates never finished high school, and nearly 44 percent of jail inmates did not complete high school.
Oh my god! This means that 60% of prison inmates did finish high school, and 56% of jail inmates finished high school too! Surely this means that we should ban all high schools!
Don't have any sensitive machines connected to the Internet. Create a completely separate and independent network for government work with all of that tracking / authentication / identification that you want. Problem solved.
You can't hack an FBI server over the Internet if there's no connection to it.
Mass Transportation in America won't have the amazing effect that people expect that it will. It makes sense in the cities (and in our cities we definitely need more / better public transportation), but the vast amount of Ameicans don't live in cities. We live outside of them, spread across a truly massive country, in smaller towns and villages. Mass transportation simply isn't economically viable on our scale.
It's a similar reason as to why cellular phone prices here are much higher than Europe. You can cover an entire country in Europe fairly easily, so it isn't as expensive to support. Thus, it's cheaper for the consumer. But in the US, it costs a fortune to plop down enough towers to cover even half of the country.
That your red Swingline stapler with you. It's yours, you earned it!
On a more serious note, document any kind of common troubles (networking problems, services that need special care, whatever) as they come in. Consolidate that information and provide a nice little package.
This is what I am doing where I work. We have a client on old, legacy software with some really quirky behavior in some circumstances. So I have a document detailing common issues, what the symptoms are, how to troubleshoot, and how to fix. This is THE FIRST document I am handing off to the next guy and will cover 95% of the issues he's going to be dealing with. I don't mind if he calls me for the extra 5% - that's where the dragons are anyway.
Cover the worst case scenario stuff first with the limited time you have left. If that means you don't have time to document the mundane stuff like a normal server configuration, then that's okay. They can piece together the non-critical stuff during normal business hours. They may grumble at you then, but they'll worship you if you can save them during that 2am emergency phone call.
And this is a good way to get it fixed. Contact the candidates involved in the lawsuit. Encourage them to take the matter seriously and to look into the abuses of the patent system. Use Righthaven as an example of a Patent Troll.
We all know that a vast majority of our representation in the government is technologically ignorant. They probably don't know that this kind of stuff is a real and serious problem; they likely see this lawsuit as some crazy on-off event.
It's not. Contact these people. Make sure they understand.
Wish I hadn't used all my mod points yesterday; this is a really good point.
This is a vaccine that can't be applied to people without some serious supervision. An addict under withdrawal who is desperate for a fix may very easily use deadly amounts of the drug.
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Part of the reason is that they have friends, such as myself, in the IT industry. Friends who say, "Yeah, working in IT is fantastic, I love getting phone calls at 2am when I'm trying to sleep because some client decided to change their API without telling us first. And of course, it has to be fixed RIGHT NOW, because Grandma can't get to her webmail interface to read the latest chain letter."
To me, there's incentive enough to return to the moon simply because of the research and development that would occur. The space program that sent us to the moon the first time brought forth incredible advances in all kinds of areas. We should keep pushing our own boundaries and explore the unknown not simply because it's there, but because we have the opportunity to develop stronger / more efficient / less expensive / generally better tools at the same time. Make the results of the new research available to the public at large and everyone benefits.
It's a use of my tax dollars that I can support without reservation.
The intention isn't to use Java on the front-end. The OP is intending to use Java on the back end to handle requests (generate pages / JSON / etc.).
As someone who develops with PHP for a living, I'm going to go ahead and say: Stick with what you know. It doesn't matter what the back end of your system is written in - as long as it is written well. If you know Java, then use Java. There's lots of Java sites out there and, if it wasn't for the .jsp extension on the pages, I wouldn't ever know the difference.
Do you worry that rule by direct election would lead to a "Mob Rule" mentality? Too often the public gets very angry over an issue and makes an emotional decision instead of an informed decision. And then, one must worry about the public basing their decisions on propaganda instead of information.
This can result in very poor policy - what is popular is not always right, and what is right is not always popular.
Someone already has won a patent on the concept of online auctions. All you have to do is take anything people do anyway, add "but do it online!" and you have your new patent. It's pretty awful.
Good hearted sports where, in the riots following the game, people are killed, cars are burned, and storefronts are destroyed - even if your team wins.
It was also once consensus that the Earth was the center of the universe. A consensus of people in some places think it's okay to stone adulterers.
Just because a majority of people believe something is true doesn't mean that it is.Bringing that up also doesn't do anything to convince people otherwise anyway. Providing facts and exposing myths without being confrontational is what will do it. You can point out factual errors in another's post without going down the road of "cheap rhetoric" and "buillshit" in your own. Try it sometime.
My second was, "That's a lot of buzz words."
I agree with you on everything except the last point. Government should be restricted from both gathering information AND using it without a warrant. Grabbing all of my email, phone called, IMs, etc. without probable cause is absolutely wrong. If you give up the fight to limit their ability to gather then you've already half lost the war on limiting their usage as well.
One of the more insightful comments I've heard about crypto in general; wish I had mod points for you today.
May I suggest leaving out the insults entirely, as they only detract from the conversation?
They can pass laws regarding "obscene" content.
And yet last year saw some of the coldest temperatures we've had in a very long time. But I didn't see people screaming OMG GLOBAL FREEZING!!1!!1! back then.
A lot of the stories from Brothers Grimm were quite violent and vivid in their original forms. Somehow we survived this childhood trauma. I'm not sure how.
I know that you're probably trying to be funny, but in this case discretion may be a better idea.
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's just a timeline. You may be able to have lots of data, but that isn't going to revolutionize anything. Not even time lines. Doing X, but with HTML5!!!, doesn't make it revolutionary. It's just X with HTML5.
I don't understand why ANY government would want to take down these sites - even if they are in the pocket of Big Media.
Websites which simply link to content point you to the people providing the content, making it much easier to find the people committing the actual crime.
Why not let these sites stay up, let people run them, and just mine them for data?
Once all the providers of infringing content have been sued / arrested / whatever, the linking sites have nothing to link to, and they die out too.
Is my reasoning incorrect, or is it just too high a level of thinking for the government to handle?
To me, that 20% personal research time not only greatly benefits the company but also keeps the developers happy. Everyone wins. I wish that my current company had such a policy.
Oh my god! This means that 60% of prison inmates did finish high school, and 56% of jail inmates finished high school too! Surely this means that we should ban all high schools!
Don't have any sensitive machines connected to the Internet. Create a completely separate and independent network for government work with all of that tracking / authentication / identification that you want. Problem solved.
You can't hack an FBI server over the Internet if there's no connection to it.
Mass Transportation in America won't have the amazing effect that people expect that it will. It makes sense in the cities (and in our cities we definitely need more / better public transportation), but the vast amount of Ameicans don't live in cities. We live outside of them, spread across a truly massive country, in smaller towns and villages. Mass transportation simply isn't economically viable on our scale.
It's a similar reason as to why cellular phone prices here are much higher than Europe. You can cover an entire country in Europe fairly easily, so it isn't as expensive to support. Thus, it's cheaper for the consumer. But in the US, it costs a fortune to plop down enough towers to cover even half of the country.
That your red Swingline stapler with you. It's yours, you earned it!
On a more serious note, document any kind of common troubles (networking problems, services that need special care, whatever) as they come in. Consolidate that information and provide a nice little package.
This is what I am doing where I work. We have a client on old, legacy software with some really quirky behavior in some circumstances. So I have a document detailing common issues, what the symptoms are, how to troubleshoot, and how to fix. This is THE FIRST document I am handing off to the next guy and will cover 95% of the issues he's going to be dealing with. I don't mind if he calls me for the extra 5% - that's where the dragons are anyway.
Cover the worst case scenario stuff first with the limited time you have left. If that means you don't have time to document the mundane stuff like a normal server configuration, then that's okay. They can piece together the non-critical stuff during normal business hours. They may grumble at you then, but they'll worship you if you can save them during that 2am emergency phone call.
And this is a good way to get it fixed. Contact the candidates involved in the lawsuit. Encourage them to take the matter seriously and to look into the abuses of the patent system. Use Righthaven as an example of a Patent Troll.
We all know that a vast majority of our representation in the government is technologically ignorant. They probably don't know that this kind of stuff is a real and serious problem; they likely see this lawsuit as some crazy on-off event.
It's not. Contact these people. Make sure they understand.
Wish I hadn't used all my mod points yesterday; this is a really good point.
This is a vaccine that can't be applied to people without some serious supervision. An addict under withdrawal who is desperate for a fix may very easily use deadly amounts of the drug.