I know a kid who is learning disabled but is just barely smart enough to be in mainstream classes. He had to ask me how to spell a three-letter word; the kid is 12. There is no way he could do well on a standardized test, unless it consists of stacking blocks.
If your college isn't "performing," you vote with your money and go somewhere else.
Kids don't realize their college didn't perform until five years after graduation, when they are burned out and still in debt.
There are so many lies and hype force-fed to high schoolers about college and "success" that kids simply have no idea what real life is. No one has to go to college after high school. It isn't like people who want to have a life, get a normal job, and raise a family aren't successful. Without unsecured school loan debt, it is really not difficult to get a modest car and live in an apartment for a while. Even saving up for a modest house is quite possible. "Real" people do it all the time. It is not true that college degrees bring higher pay, except in compiled aggregate statistics, and who knows what their sources are. The people who can be yuppies with an SUV right out of school are rare--everyone else is faking it on credit.
Every time I see advertisements for school loans showing proud parents and happy children dancing around at graduation, I puke (figuratively).
What about co-op programs in high school, where school is part-time year round and kids are required to work along side their schooling? Kids would be required to maintain a checking account, file taxes, and prove that they can keep their accounts positive before being allowed to graduate. Kids that waste all their money on shitty car mods and cigarettes stay in school taking remedial driver's ed until they are 25.
The current administration is not Republican--well, it is in name only, I suppose. Another word tossed around a lot is neo-conservative, which is probably more accurate. It's also possible that our government is nothing more than a cyborg Karl Rove plugged into the Matrix creating the whole illusion we see before us. Yes, I believe that is the most likely explanation, even if it turns out that Michael Moore is Neo.
Why not try OpenBSD? OpenBSD's ppp program has good documentation (`man ppp`) and can be embedded into a script to dial your modem for you. It has a good firewall, does NAT, updates your resolv.conf for you, and understands Microsoft authentication (if your ISP requires it). It isn't point-and-click, but its feature set and flexibility make up for that. Quite honestly, ppp under OpenBSD makes ppp under Linux look like rotting trash.
The same limitation applies to Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Erlang, etc.
(Common) Lisp lacks only a non-proprietary and useful GUI toolkit. Otherwise it has just about everything. The fact that POSIX interoperability doesn't appear standardized is annoying, but the most annoying thing is that the good Lisp environments cost $$$$. I envy Lisp developers from a distance have never had the balls to really become one myself. It does take balls, too, to say to a group of Java-nerds or C++-nerds that something can be done better, faster, and with fewer problems.
While I agree with you, some of the principles of the Liberty Alliance are that it is a distributed system. I don't know much about it, honestly, but the list of companies on board are competitors and rivals who certainly wouldn't want to share databases, if they could help it. They wouldn't want Microsoft to hold their data, that's for sure.
If it is brand new then it is most likely the NGage-QD...
Who has heard of this? Why is it that they bought the farm with rediculous marketing for the first NGage, and then they forget to tell anyone about the second? Amazing.
Most of "autoconf" exists to support obsolete UNIX implementations run by very few people.
I wasn't attacking autoconf directly, only that it isn't unknown for a programmer to put SuSE-specific tests, for example, in what is supposed to be a tool to aid portability.
I've even seen autoconf start checking for GNOME libraries on a Solaris system where they would be expected on a Linux distribution. Of course it failed, and of course there was no easy way to fix it. It is pathetic to leave the user with no options other than to symlink the hell out of the filesystem, to spend a weekend hacking a rediculously sloppy config script, or to simply give up. It is likely that option three is taken by most, and the programmer isn't left any wiser for it.
Many OSS programmers do not have access to more than one platform.
Okay, so they have an x86 box.
- Linux
- Windows
- Solaris x86
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- others, I'm sure.
It isn't hard to set up a computer with four or more operating systems on it. Seeing if a program even compiles on more than one platform will catch a huge number of bugs. Perhaps it will show the programmer that not all header files are named as they are on Linux distributions and that not everyone has libfoobar 2.2.4.3.5.4.3.1.4.9.7r6 installed.
...you'd have to be religiously insane to buy Microsoft's on the same evidence.
How lucky for Microsoft that they have a religiously insane customer base! I saw a company make a Microsoft-only policy, which was followed by a year-and-a-half of sheer hell for the employees suffering under the new IT infrastructure, and I wonder, "How in the hell does Microsoft have any customers at all?"
On the smaller Sun section of the network, the admin had a machine dedicated to virus scanning all the e-mail sent to the Windows section. What a waste of a machine. There were always outages on the Windows side. Electronic time cards were a roll of the dice. The Windows support staff was huge. With that money pit of a network, I bet the management was proud of how much money they controlled, because no rational thinking person would be proud of such a kludge otherwise.
It has always been a bit sad that there are always superior alternatives that are never chosen to great consequence. Such is the foundation of Microsoft's success.
Now if you are doing this as a showcase of bad ideas, let's link a few more interesting samples.
Sun scrapped the UltraSPARC V, Picojava, Javastations, and others, I'm sure. Yet, Sun is still around and looking good with Opteron, Niagara, and Solaris 10. You win some and lose some; we'll see how Intel fares their share of dead-end R&D (imagine how thankful they are for Pentium revenue in light of Itanium!).
Seriously, if a programmer can't even put forth the effort to make autoconf work on more than one platform, then they won't have the time to spend on "quality standards." I've seen professional programmers spout "best practices" out of their asses for a long time, and, when it comes time to produce something, they are just as fast and loose as anyone. The reason: talk is cheap. quality is very hard.
For one thing, the extra storage space on these new formats makes lots more extras and commentary possible.
Except for the occasional worthy film, having 10 hours of extras for a 90 min. movie has gotten really really old. For the first few DVDs we got, we watched all the extras. Then, we learned that commentaries almost universally suck, outakes are outakes, and the games usually have terrible user interfaces. Considering that people are only willing to pay $10 to $20 for a DVD, I guess we get what we pay for.
Why do so many people confuse High Def and Digital...
Why do people think Saddam was behind 9/11? Why do people think the "War on Drugs" is good for the USA? Why do people vote for a lottery but not a tax increase? Why do people buy SUVs to commute to work?
Marketing. The media and electronics industries want people to equate HDTV with digital TV, because they can sell more shit that way. It works, too, because people either are completely retarded (more common) or they consciously choose to not spend the time researching a particular purchase (less common). Only the rare individual who researches all the acronyms and buzzwords and the variations of those acronyms and buzzwords can make an informed purchase. I say rare, because stores like Best Buy wouldn't exist otherwise.
Proving that God doesn't exist is impossible. Proving that God exists hasn't happend, yet, except in the minds of those who lie to themselves about conincidence.
This is why we have the First Amendment, which is also why the government cannot write legislation for purely religious reasons. The remaining question is whether stem cell research is a religious issue or an ethical one. If it is religious, then the government has no say. The same goes for gay marriage, too, which, ethically, is neither good nor bad.
With medical costs rising much faster than inflation and wages and with an anti-science agenda in our government, the USA is moving backwards in time with respect to medicine.
For example, medical insurance has become so expensive, that I fear ever going to see a doctor out of fear what will happen to my premiums afterwards. If I ever see a doctor, it'll probably be due to a trip to the emergency room. And I get by cheap. If I was a woman with a child or had any pre-existing condition...holy shit, I know people who were quoted $1000+ per month, and they aren't even 30, yet!
I don't know the answer, but the current system is not it. Not by any measure.
can program code written for the POWER CPU's be used on the new Cell CPU? Is there even the remote chance that MacOS X could be ported to run on the Cell CPU architecture in a pretty straightforward fashion?
Given that their ISAs are close but not identical, I'd imagine a re-compile is necessary. I doubt that customers are demanding true binary compatibility among a Playstation, a Mac, and a POWER-based server.
Put ten Pentium-like cores on a die or two, clock it at 1GHz, and there you go. Given that current top-of-the-line CPUs have two ultra-modern cores at higher clock speeds, more simpler cores should be feasible. Even Sun has eight cores on a single Niagara chip that'll run faster than 1GHz, so why not IBM? Actually, I'd be suprised that, between Sun and IBM, that Sun would be first to do it.
whether or not Bush said/implied a link exists between Saddam and Osama.
A link exists via the Saudi royal family. They are quite buddy-buddy with the Bushes, and I'd bet they had no love for Saddam. There is a lot to the war in Iraq that is hinted at only in non-mainstream journalism and is certainly not hinted at by anyone in the government or the big networks. The war has a purpose and a desired result, but I'm not sure any of us (ordinary citizens) really knows what they are.
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Testing...Slashdot 500 errors are very annoying...
I know a kid who is learning disabled but is just barely smart enough to be in mainstream classes. He had to ask me how to spell a three-letter word; the kid is 12. There is no way he could do well on a standardized test, unless it consists of stacking blocks.
If your college isn't "performing," you vote with your money and go somewhere else.
Kids don't realize their college didn't perform until five years after graduation, when they are burned out and still in debt.
There are so many lies and hype force-fed to high schoolers about college and "success" that kids simply have no idea what real life is. No one has to go to college after high school. It isn't like people who want to have a life, get a normal job, and raise a family aren't successful. Without unsecured school loan debt, it is really not difficult to get a modest car and live in an apartment for a while. Even saving up for a modest house is quite possible. "Real" people do it all the time. It is not true that college degrees bring higher pay, except in compiled aggregate statistics, and who knows what their sources are. The people who can be yuppies with an SUV right out of school are rare--everyone else is faking it on credit.
Every time I see advertisements for school loans showing proud parents and happy children dancing around at graduation, I puke (figuratively).
What about co-op programs in high school, where school is part-time year round and kids are required to work along side their schooling? Kids would be required to maintain a checking account, file taxes, and prove that they can keep their accounts positive before being allowed to graduate.
Kids that waste all their money on shitty car mods and cigarettes stay in school taking remedial driver's ed until they are 25.
The current administration is not Republican--well, it is in name only, I suppose. Another word tossed around a lot is neo-conservative, which is probably more accurate. It's also possible that our government is nothing more than a cyborg Karl Rove plugged into the Matrix creating the whole illusion we see before us. Yes, I believe that is the most likely explanation, even if it turns out that Michael Moore is Neo.
Our gateway box is a Win2k machine.
Why not try OpenBSD? OpenBSD's ppp program has good documentation (`man ppp`) and can be embedded into a script to dial your modem for you. It has a good firewall, does NAT, updates your resolv.conf for you, and understands Microsoft authentication (if your ISP requires it). It isn't point-and-click, but its feature set and flexibility make up for that. Quite honestly, ppp under OpenBSD makes ppp under Linux look like rotting trash.
The same limitation applies to Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Erlang, etc.
(Common) Lisp lacks only a non-proprietary and useful GUI toolkit. Otherwise it has just about everything. The fact that POSIX interoperability doesn't appear standardized is annoying, but the most annoying thing is that the good Lisp environments cost $$$$. I envy Lisp developers from a distance have never had the balls to really become one myself. It does take balls, too, to say to a group of Java-nerds or C++-nerds that something can be done better, faster, and with fewer problems.
While I agree with you, some of the principles of the Liberty Alliance are that it is a distributed system. I don't know much about it, honestly, but the list of companies on board are competitors and rivals who certainly wouldn't want to share databases, if they could help it. They wouldn't want Microsoft to hold their data, that's for sure.
If it is brand new then it is most likely the NGage-QD...
Who has heard of this? Why is it that they bought the farm with rediculous marketing for the first NGage, and then they forget to tell anyone about the second? Amazing.
Marry Britney Spears, make the most of it, and dump her before she manages to say anything.
Most of "autoconf" exists to support obsolete UNIX implementations run by very few people.
I wasn't attacking autoconf directly, only that it isn't unknown for a programmer to put SuSE-specific tests, for example, in what is supposed to be a tool to aid portability.
I've even seen autoconf start checking for GNOME libraries on a Solaris system where they would be expected on a Linux distribution. Of course it failed, and of course there was no easy way to fix it. It is pathetic to leave the user with no options other than to symlink the hell out of the filesystem, to spend a weekend hacking a rediculously sloppy config script, or to simply give up. It is likely that option three is taken by most, and the programmer isn't left any wiser for it.
Many OSS programmers do not have access to more than one platform.
Okay, so they have an x86 box.
- Linux
- Windows
- Solaris x86
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- others, I'm sure.
It isn't hard to set up a computer with four or more operating systems on it. Seeing if a program even compiles on more than one platform will catch a huge number of bugs. Perhaps it will show the programmer that not all header files are named as they are on Linux distributions and that not everyone has libfoobar 2.2.4.3.5.4.3.1.4.9.7r6 installed.
...you'd have to be religiously insane to buy Microsoft's on the same evidence.
How lucky for Microsoft that they have a religiously insane customer base! I saw a company make a Microsoft-only policy, which was followed by a year-and-a-half of sheer hell for the employees suffering under the new IT infrastructure, and I wonder, "How in the hell does Microsoft have any customers at all?"
On the smaller Sun section of the network, the admin had a machine dedicated to virus scanning all the e-mail sent to the Windows section. What a waste of a machine. There were always outages on the Windows side. Electronic time cards were a roll of the dice. The Windows support staff was huge. With that money pit of a network, I bet the management was proud of how much money they controlled, because no rational thinking person would be proud of such a kludge otherwise.
It has always been a bit sad that there are always superior alternatives that are never chosen to great consequence. Such is the foundation of Microsoft's success.
Now if you are doing this as a showcase of bad ideas, let's link a few more interesting samples.
Sun scrapped the UltraSPARC V, Picojava, Javastations, and others, I'm sure. Yet, Sun is still around and looking good with Opteron, Niagara, and Solaris 10. You win some and lose some; we'll see how Intel fares their share of dead-end R&D (imagine how thankful they are for Pentium revenue in light of Itanium!).
Seriously, if a programmer can't even put forth the effort to make autoconf work on more than one platform, then they won't have the time to spend on "quality standards." I've seen professional programmers spout "best practices" out of their asses for a long time, and, when it comes time to produce something, they are just as fast and loose as anyone. The reason: talk is cheap. quality is very hard.
For one thing, the extra storage space on these new formats makes lots more extras and commentary possible.
Except for the occasional worthy film, having 10 hours of extras for a 90 min. movie has gotten really really old. For the first few DVDs we got, we watched all the extras. Then, we learned that commentaries almost universally suck, outakes are outakes, and the games usually have terrible user interfaces. Considering that people are only willing to pay $10 to $20 for a DVD, I guess we get what we pay for.
Why do so many people confuse High Def and Digital...
Why do people think Saddam was behind 9/11?
Why do people think the "War on Drugs" is good for the USA?
Why do people vote for a lottery but not a tax increase?
Why do people buy SUVs to commute to work?
Marketing. The media and electronics industries want people to equate HDTV with digital TV, because they can sell more shit that way. It works, too, because people either are completely retarded (more common) or they consciously choose to not spend the time researching a particular purchase (less common). Only the rare individual who researches all the acronyms and buzzwords and the variations of those acronyms and buzzwords can make an informed purchase. I say rare, because stores like Best Buy wouldn't exist otherwise.
as Ashley Judd's first on-screen kiss
Also, has Ashley Judd come back for seconds?
Proving that God doesn't exist is impossible. Proving that God exists hasn't happend, yet, except in the minds of those who lie to themselves about conincidence.
This is why we have the First Amendment, which is also why the government cannot write legislation for purely religious reasons. The remaining question is whether stem cell research is a religious issue or an ethical one. If it is religious, then the government has no say. The same goes for gay marriage, too, which, ethically, is neither good nor bad.
Also, women have spontaneous abortions all the time. Even life itself rejects its own kind for various reasons.
With medical costs rising much faster than inflation and wages and with an anti-science agenda in our government, the USA is moving backwards in time with respect to medicine.
For example, medical insurance has become so expensive, that I fear ever going to see a doctor out of fear what will happen to my premiums afterwards. If I ever see a doctor, it'll probably be due to a trip to the emergency room. And I get by cheap. If I was a woman with a child or had any pre-existing condition...holy shit, I know people who were quoted $1000+ per month, and they aren't even 30, yet!
I don't know the answer, but the current system is not it. Not by any measure.
Will a software implementation of OpenGL running on a Cell system top the performance of whatever NVidia and ATI are selling by then?
What about just feeding the model descriptions to a software ray-tracer? No further API needed, unless the raytracer needs it.
can program code written for the POWER CPU's be used on the new Cell CPU? Is there even the remote chance that MacOS X could be ported to run on the Cell CPU architecture in a pretty straightforward fashion?
Given that their ISAs are close but not identical, I'd imagine a re-compile is necessary.
I doubt that customers are demanding true binary compatibility among a Playstation, a Mac, and a POWER-based server.
Put ten Pentium-like cores on a die or two, clock it at 1GHz, and there you go. Given that current top-of-the-line CPUs have two ultra-modern cores at higher clock speeds, more simpler cores should be feasible. Even Sun has eight cores on a single Niagara chip that'll run faster than 1GHz, so why not IBM? Actually, I'd be suprised that, between Sun and IBM, that Sun would be first to do it.
whether or not Bush said/implied a link exists between Saddam and Osama.
A link exists via the Saudi royal family. They are quite buddy-buddy with the Bushes, and I'd bet they had no love for Saddam. There is a lot to the war in Iraq that is hinted at only in non-mainstream journalism and is certainly not hinted at by anyone in the government or the big networks. The war has a purpose and a desired result, but I'm not sure any of us (ordinary citizens) really knows what they are.