We allowed you on the Internet, and moved our stuff to Internet2. You can Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and browse the webs. You can clog the tubes with bittorrent and netflix to your heart's (*cough* ISP's) content.
In return for allowing the public on the Internet, the government funded the Internet2 so we can have enough bandwidth to still perform work with room to grow.
If it wasn't for Internet2, we would have been forced to pulled our collective weight and kept the internet in the 1990's. You should be grateful you have access, and that research and collaborative work can still go on unimpeded.
It's not like you are still using dial-up and logging into BBS.
How can you take anybody who calls themselves a "Fiscal Conservative", while at the same time lower the government's revenue with tax cuts and significantly increase spending by starting two wars abroad, seriously? To appeal the the populace, they give us folksy stories about how the average family wouldn't write a check when they have no money in the bank. Too bad they don't follow their own advice and continue to write checks we can't afford, while playing on people's perceptions and fears by placing blame on government programs whose budget is considerably lower than the real culprits behind this deficit.
Don't blame the mainstream media. That's a strawman the politicians wants you to blame. If you want to blame the media, then go ahead and blame Rupert Murdoch and his networks. However, he is only guilty for providing cover for the politicians who are doing the real damage.
Google didn't create Linux either, but everybody uses the name Android.
That's a horse of a different color. The Linux kernel is being used mostly as a bootstrap and a hardware layer for Dalvik. For all intents and purposes Android is an OS provided by Dalvik, I haven't seen any push for Gnu/Android.
Your anti Free Software Foundation sentiment is dated.
The Free Software Foundation didn't create Linux. Linus Torvalds created Linux and decided to license his code with the GPL. This little fact is the main reason that I call Linux by "Linux" and not "GNU/Linux".
The OS kernel that should be tagged with "GNU" is Hurd since it is actually being created by the FSF therefore it should be called "GNU Hurd".
Before the flaming commences, I'd like to defend myself by saying that I promote GNU software in the workplace and support their hard work. I do have some minor ideological differences with RMS, but that doesn't stop me from using GNU software or supporting the FSF.
It sounded too much like an attempt to equate science as a religion. I would like to point out a minor detail that religion demands faith without proof, while science attempts to find proof. Having a hypothesis or theory does not equal "faith".
I know a very large Science vs Religion flamefest is about to begin. Before everybody starts foaming at the mouth, I just like to point out that not all scientists are athiests, and even though they are spiritual they do not let religion dictate what they observe in the field.
Keep in mind that religious manuscripts were created, translated, diseminated, and interpreted by man. Since man is far from perfect and always has an agenda, I suspect that these documents are not perfect and were written using the knowledge they had a very long time ago. I prefer to believe that science doesn't disprove religion, but rather show the inaccuracies of the written record.
Religion and science are not mutually exclusive for those with an open mind. Okay, you can resume bashing other people's belief system.
This is why I only telecommute no more than 50% of the time. This way I keep a physical presence in the workplace. Office politics isn't the only thing you have to worry about, there is also the problem of "Out of sight - out of mind".
I was a developer too. I remember my reaction when I paid something like $300 ( or was it $150 ) to Atari for a box of photocopies of the manuals and a C compiler on a floppy.
Come to think of it you may be right, it's been 26 years so cut me some slack. The more I think about it, I believe only the foreground application actually ran while the background applications just waited. I don't remember a 4 window limit, that seems low.
I'll have to dig the machine out of the garage and boot it up. I doubt the boot disk is still good, but I'm sure there is an image available somewhere.
I sold both Amiga and Atari ST computers while working through college in the '80s (I still have the first model of the ST, but sadly not the Amiga - It was more popular). The original ST only did "cooperative" multitasking, while the Amiga used preemptive multitasking. However, Amiga had no memory protection so it was prone to a lot of "Guru Meditations" (especially with the early versions of Exec used with the 1000).
The first preemptive multitasking in the "home" was provided by OS-9 that ran on the Color Computer by Tandy (Radio Shack). It was quite popular, and I have relatives that still swear by OS-9. Because of its low price it was common to see "mainstream" (ie. non-geeks) users running OS-9. My uncle used OS-9 for controlling his model railroad and he wasn't what I call "computer savvy". He was able to get help from other OS-9 users at his local CoCo user group meeting.
In addition to multitasking, OS-9 was also multi-user and real-time.
Probably because of regulatory constraints that require an engineer at the transmitter's control point (where the transmitter can be turned off quickly) in case something goes wrong with the transmitter. It could also be a safety issue, since the transmitter may have high voltage amplifiers that may catch fire if left unattended.
I like using my Mac for development. I love doing Linux kernel development using VMWare. Nothing beats reverting back to the previous snapshot when you royally fubarred something. Not to mention, I can revert to the snapshot containing the "stock" Linux kernel, update the source code from my SCM, compile, install, and test.
Of course I can't do all my development within VMWare, sometimes I have to run the code on the actual PC104 processor board.
Anyway, if I can do Linux kernel programming on a Mac then there is no reason a "Web Developer" couldn't use a Mac.
I don't think intermediate player is as bad as the GP believes either. When I saw "intermediate player" I assumed that was market speak for Dalvik for BB OS. If this is the case, then the performance should be on par with the other Android tablets.
What sort of morons make decisions in the white house?
Sneaky ones. The proposed new "Privacy Act" will dictate how private industry will keep information gathered on individuals. Just like the Data Privacy Act of 1974 does for the government. I do not believe this prevents the government from requiring ISPs from keeping data logs on its users, since they can create exceptions for ISPs by classifying them as similar to traditional common carrier status and not commerce. Better yet, they can make all the exceptions necessary in this new law to make their copyright enforcement law legal.
This way the populace will read headlines like "Privacy Bill of Rights", and think happy thoughts while the devil remains in the details within the bill. Isn't this how it normally works anyway? Compare some of the title of bills introduced in congress with its contents.
Don Allen had direct contact with Moore's employer by sending that letter urging Moore's termination, and then copied that same letter to John Hoff's blog. Don Allen settled with Moore and testified against Hoff. Allen then used his own blog to applaud the verdict against Hoff.
The WTF? moment is when Don Allen (aka the person who contacted Moore's boss) was quoted as "It's unfortunate for all bloggers, but you have to have some sense of responsibility," he said. "You have to attack the issues, not the individuals."
From what I read John Hoff's boasting that his blog was at least partially responsible for Moore's termination was the only comment used against him. How is this different from the local news making similar boasts on their commercials?
My point still stands. If John Hoff kept his secret identity as "Johnny Northside", then he wouldn't be in this legal predicament.
The police involvement in Watergate was the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters. The real question is would the follow up investigations and resulting impeachments happen if it wasn't for the efforts of Bob Woodward's and Carl Bernstein's reporting in the Washington Post?
While the Watergate scandal involved public figures, the DNC is a private organization tasked with coordinating the political agenda of the Democratic Party and raise funding for their elections, therefore it's not as clear cut as you think.
Contrast that today with the abundant use of contractors for consultants and university professors getting involved in public policy debates, I just don't see how we could consider using a "public versus private" litmus test for this story.
So instead of admitting there are shortcomings with the Google model, you bring up the fact that a tech savvy user could root their phone and use alternative distributions which are maintained by volunteers and NOT Google. You seem to have missed the GP's point.
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You indirectly benefit from Internet2 by having unrestricted growth on the original Internet.
Cheated? How so?
We allowed you on the Internet, and moved our stuff to Internet2. You can Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and browse the webs. You can clog the tubes with bittorrent and netflix to your heart's (*cough* ISP's) content.
In return for allowing the public on the Internet, the government funded the Internet2 so we can have enough bandwidth to still perform work with room to grow.
If it wasn't for Internet2, we would have been forced to pulled our collective weight and kept the internet in the 1990's. You should be grateful you have access, and that research and collaborative work can still go on unimpeded.
It's not like you are still using dial-up and logging into BBS.
How can you take anybody who calls themselves a "Fiscal Conservative", while at the same time lower the government's revenue with tax cuts and significantly increase spending by starting two wars abroad, seriously? To appeal the the populace, they give us folksy stories about how the average family wouldn't write a check when they have no money in the bank. Too bad they don't follow their own advice and continue to write checks we can't afford, while playing on people's perceptions and fears by placing blame on government programs whose budget is considerably lower than the real culprits behind this deficit.
Don't blame the mainstream media. That's a strawman the politicians wants you to blame. If you want to blame the media, then go ahead and blame Rupert Murdoch and his networks. However, he is only guilty for providing cover for the politicians who are doing the real damage.
Being the largest consumer market for games, you'd think they would.
That's a horse of a different color. The Linux kernel is being used mostly as a bootstrap and a hardware layer for Dalvik. For all intents and purposes Android is an OS provided by Dalvik, I haven't seen any push for Gnu/Android.
What anti-FSF sentiment?
It's already been 20 years?!?
Damn we're getting old.
The Free Software Foundation didn't create Linux. Linus Torvalds created Linux and decided to license his code with the GPL. This little fact is the main reason that I call Linux by "Linux" and not "GNU/Linux".
The OS kernel that should be tagged with "GNU" is Hurd since it is actually being created by the FSF therefore it should be called "GNU Hurd".
Before the flaming commences, I'd like to defend myself by saying that I promote GNU software in the workplace and support their hard work. I do have some minor ideological differences with RMS, but that doesn't stop me from using GNU software or supporting the FSF.
Stable API?
Calm down. I'm joking. It has gotten better. Just the occasional, changing of the name of constants.
It sounded too much like an attempt to equate science as a religion. I would like to point out a minor detail that religion demands faith without proof, while science attempts to find proof. Having a hypothesis or theory does not equal "faith".
I know a very large Science vs Religion flamefest is about to begin. Before everybody starts foaming at the mouth, I just like to point out that not all scientists are athiests, and even though they are spiritual they do not let religion dictate what they observe in the field.
Keep in mind that religious manuscripts were created, translated, diseminated, and interpreted by man. Since man is far from perfect and always has an agenda, I suspect that these documents are not perfect and were written using the knowledge they had a very long time ago. I prefer to believe that science doesn't disprove religion, but rather show the inaccuracies of the written record.
Religion and science are not mutually exclusive for those with an open mind. Okay, you can resume bashing other people's belief system.
This is why I only telecommute no more than 50% of the time. This way I keep a physical presence in the workplace. Office politics isn't the only thing you have to worry about, there is also the problem of "Out of sight - out of mind".
I was a developer too. I remember my reaction when I paid something like $300 ( or was it $150 ) to Atari for a box of photocopies of the manuals and a C compiler on a floppy.
Come to think of it you may be right, it's been 26 years so cut me some slack. The more I think about it, I believe only the foreground application actually ran while the background applications just waited. I don't remember a 4 window limit, that seems low.
I'll have to dig the machine out of the garage and boot it up. I doubt the boot disk is still good, but I'm sure there is an image available somewhere.
I sold both Amiga and Atari ST computers while working through college in the '80s (I still have the first model of the ST, but sadly not the Amiga - It was more popular). The original ST only did "cooperative" multitasking, while the Amiga used preemptive multitasking. However, Amiga had no memory protection so it was prone to a lot of "Guru Meditations" (especially with the early versions of Exec used with the 1000).
The first preemptive multitasking in the "home" was provided by OS-9 that ran on the Color Computer by Tandy (Radio Shack). It was quite popular, and I have relatives that still swear by OS-9. Because of its low price it was common to see "mainstream" (ie. non-geeks) users running OS-9. My uncle used OS-9 for controlling his model railroad and he wasn't what I call "computer savvy". He was able to get help from other OS-9 users at his local CoCo user group meeting.
In addition to multitasking, OS-9 was also multi-user and real-time.
Probably because of regulatory constraints that require an engineer at the transmitter's control point (where the transmitter can be turned off quickly) in case something goes wrong with the transmitter. It could also be a safety issue, since the transmitter may have high voltage amplifiers that may catch fire if left unattended.
I like using my Mac for development. I love doing Linux kernel development using VMWare. Nothing beats reverting back to the previous snapshot when you royally fubarred something. Not to mention, I can revert to the snapshot containing the "stock" Linux kernel, update the source code from my SCM, compile, install, and test.
Of course I can't do all my development within VMWare, sometimes I have to run the code on the actual PC104 processor board.
Anyway, if I can do Linux kernel programming on a Mac then there is no reason a "Web Developer" couldn't use a Mac.
I don't think intermediate player is as bad as the GP believes either. When I saw "intermediate player" I assumed that was market speak for Dalvik for BB OS. If this is the case, then the performance should be on par with the other Android tablets.
Except NASA isn't free...
Sneaky ones. The proposed new "Privacy Act" will dictate how private industry will keep information gathered on individuals. Just like the Data Privacy Act of 1974 does for the government. I do not believe this prevents the government from requiring ISPs from keeping data logs on its users, since they can create exceptions for ISPs by classifying them as similar to traditional common carrier status and not commerce. Better yet, they can make all the exceptions necessary in this new law to make their copyright enforcement law legal.
This way the populace will read headlines like "Privacy Bill of Rights", and think happy thoughts while the devil remains in the details within the bill. Isn't this how it normally works anyway? Compare some of the title of bills introduced in congress with its contents.
Which part should I read?
Don Allen had direct contact with Moore's employer by sending that letter urging Moore's termination, and then copied that same letter to John Hoff's blog. Don Allen settled with Moore and testified against Hoff. Allen then used his own blog to applaud the verdict against Hoff.
The WTF? moment is when Don Allen (aka the person who contacted Moore's boss) was quoted as "It's unfortunate for all bloggers, but you have to have some sense of responsibility," he said. "You have to attack the issues, not the individuals."
From what I read John Hoff's boasting that his blog was at least partially responsible for Moore's termination was the only comment used against him. How is this different from the local news making similar boasts on their commercials?
My point still stands. If John Hoff kept his secret identity as "Johnny Northside", then he wouldn't be in this legal predicament.
The police involvement in Watergate was the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters. The real question is would the follow up investigations and resulting impeachments happen if it wasn't for the efforts of Bob Woodward's and Carl Bernstein's reporting in the Washington Post?
While the Watergate scandal involved public figures, the DNC is a private organization tasked with coordinating the political agenda of the Democratic Party and raise funding for their elections, therefore it's not as clear cut as you think.
Contrast that today with the abundant use of contractors for consultants and university professors getting involved in public policy debates, I just don't see how we could consider using a "public versus private" litmus test for this story.
The title says it all.
Remember this while the government works hard to eliminate all anonymous speech on the Internet.
So instead of admitting there are shortcomings with the Google model, you bring up the fact that a tech savvy user could root their phone and use alternative distributions which are maintained by volunteers and NOT Google. You seem to have missed the GP's point.
The census bureau defines the poverty line as explained here. It is not based on a fraction of the median income.
Independents - candidates that couldn't win the nomination of their original party.
Middle East? Try Detroit!