Maybe he's taking the script of a similar episode from "Yes, Minister" or "Yes, Prime Minister", I cannot recall which one that was. It was very humorous however.
I don't know, maybe an appreciation of how ideas are connected, formal logic for rigorously dissecting problems, issues in ethics...just a few incidentals.
At my place of employment, even though most of researchers use Macs, we are still required to run anti-virus. The reasoning is that it prevents PC malware from piggybacking on Macs and being spread to our PC users. I don't know if that can happen but it seems plausible.
It is probably being driven by the insurance industry. By interrogating the boxes, they can set your rates according to whether they deem you a safe driver. There's a certain sense in that. Presumably, the health insurance companies would like to have a black box installed in you so they could then set their rates according to how healthy you are.
What these schemes fail to understand is that people buy insurance to cover up for life's little screwups. If we are going to have court dates for every stubbed toe, the economy will pull to a sclerotic halt.
Jobs' reason was that servers was not profitable from Apple's standpoint. Apple is not that big of a company, to field the kind of systems you and the rest on this thread want would cost them much more than it is worth. Most rack server customers will buy them by the dozen from Dell or HP or whomever. They aren't going buy dozens from Apple just to support the minuscule number of people in their organizations using Macs.
I don't think elevatorsand is going help you here. Raising sand up and down on an elevator is very beneficial to humans but the energy required is probably prohibitive. And you're going to need many, many quads of the stuff (the grains are much smaller than regular sand).
More precisely, changing the tax code is easy, figuring out the ramifications to the economy, people, etc. is hard. Eliminate the housing deduction, that's easy. Figuring what that does the housing industry is hard. Paying off those who own homes isn't really a simplification, it's what the housing deduction does.
You want to see what the machine is doing when you start up, eh:
sudo nvram boot-args="-v"
To turn verbose mode off:
sudo nvram boot-args=
It is really only useful if you have a booting problem, I cannot see any other reason why you'd care to do such a thing.
I'm at a loss to figure out why you want to know which files were changed when you changed a setting in the GUI. You have some funny idea you are going to change those files manually? Why would you do that?
It isn't clear to me that breaking MS up would have given us Visual Studio for Android. Breaking up MS would not have changed the culture of the pieces. They would still act like a monopoly, only it would have been harder to point to since they'd have claimed to be independent. I think of MS as more or less a criminal organization, at least they seem to have a criminal mind. I do not think there is any fixing it.
Stalin expected to fight a nuclear war with the U.S. and win. That legacy was built into the Soviet military machine.
Was Korea threatening us? No. However, they had no love for Japan and would happily have picked a fight with Japan. The current little runt got his philosophy from his daddy.
Vietnam probably should never have happened. Not sure about Iraq, they didn't call Saddam the Butcher of Baghdad for nothing.
The thing about military spending is that you never know what you avert by having it. So your 20-20 hindsight is what I would call shallow thinking.
yes, dumb companies do not survive, but on the way out, they destroy the economic lives of many fine upstanding workers. In this sense, the system is not working at all for them.
It would be hard to argue that group theory was relevant when it was developed. Or early number theory. Maybe you'd have liked Einstein to have given several applications for his theory of relativity (hint: it was before space flight and GPS). Or how about quantum mechanics. How about modal logic, that was merely an academic curiosity before Tony Hoare and a host of others came along and made it relevant, relevant enough for Intel to care about mathematically proving facts about their chips.
Science is a web of ideas, start pruning before you even know whether something is useful is stupid and short-sighted. Here's a thought, science can chew gum and walk at the same time. It produces relevant stuff and stuff that you will not think will ever become relevant...until it does.
"political science, poetry, philosophy, English literature, and so on."
That shows how much you understand about research being a web of ideas. Maybe you think those ideas in the sciences grow on trees? Read Descartes sometime, he only invented algebra.
And it is clear you have never done science. Great ideas come from great analogies, those are frequently not from science.
"That traditional approach being stuffing whatever corporate-sponsored stuff into the heads of their students."
Never been in a PhD program have you. And by the way, this is somewhat the opposite of what the article was complaining about. If new PhD students were being stuffed with Business School Product ideas, then they'd be doing relevant research, wouldn't they.
Sometimes it helps to actually think before you...well...in your case...think.
"The 'great minds' earning PhDs in life sciences, probably would never be useful in the world of 'real' science anyway,"
Yes, that is snobbish, and certainly blinkered much like what the article was complaining about. Next time you come down with a life threatening disease, I want you to refuse any treatment that was not done using 'real' science.
For myself, I'm waiting until the Madhi returns. Here's my scenario:
The trumpets blare, the clouds of heaven part, the Madhi in all her beauty majestically sweeps down to Earth. The Righteous Islamics are in a deep funk since the Madhi was rumored to be male. She assures them in a thunderous voice that indeed She is the Madhi, throws a few lightning bolts for effect.
After a bit of meet and greet, She looks at her watch and declares that time is money and She's a bit busy this week. The Righteous Islamics are horrified claiming She was to be on Earth for seven, nine or nineteen years and rule with Jesus cleansing the world of injustice and women's rights.
With a fiery stare that shakes them to their sandals, and with a steel-eyed stare, She tells them that only by converting to Judism can they achieve a truly perfect world. And now, She'd like to get back to Her golf lessons.
The trumpets blare, She sweeps majestically back up, the clouds of Heaven close back in. And G-d looked upon the faces of the human females and declared them good. And He looked upon the faces of the human males, and made a snide remark which might have been something like "I'd give them a few more pointers but Muhammad already claimed to be the last."
I hear you, the cyber attacks on Georgia and Estonia never happened....all a conspiracy by the CIA...they are behind everything...even the things of which they are in front.
Yeah, investigative journalism should be free. I mean why should anyone be paid for spending his/her time tracking down a story. They should do this gratis and give it to you so you can still believe veracious information grows on trees.
To answer your question: not in your lifetime. The East Texans are doing the rest of the justice system a favor as far as the rest of the justice system is concerned. Patent cases are hard for the judges to understand since there are a host of technical issues for which almost none of them have been trained. So they'll allow East Texas to be a magnet for these cases as it keep them out of the rest of the system.
The only way to fix this is to take the USPO out back and shoot it in the head. Disband the entire agency, sow its fields with salt, sell its progeny into slavery, off with its head.
Then Congress needs to write new rules, no method patents, no software patents. Then construct a new USPO which is properly funded and staffed.
It might not be possible to keep patching XP for bug fixes and security updates. If that code is a pile of spaghetti, as I think it is, then MS may have reached a point where they simply don't understand it anymore enough to patch it. Lose enough engineers and the institutional memory on how things work goes with them.
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Maybe he's taking the script of a similar episode from "Yes, Minister" or "Yes, Prime Minister", I cannot recall which one that was. It was very humorous however.
I don't know, maybe an appreciation of how ideas are connected, formal logic for rigorously dissecting problems, issues in ethics...just a few incidentals.
At my place of employment, even though most of researchers use Macs, we are still required to run anti-virus. The reasoning is that it prevents PC malware from piggybacking on Macs and being spread to our PC users. I don't know if that can happen but it seems plausible.
"They seem to be heading this direction with their desktops as well." How so?
It is probably being driven by the insurance industry. By interrogating the boxes, they can set your rates according to whether they deem you a safe driver. There's a certain sense in that. Presumably, the health insurance companies would like to have a black box installed in you so they could then set their rates according to how healthy you are.
What these schemes fail to understand is that people buy insurance to cover up for life's little screwups. If we are going to have court dates for every stubbed toe, the economy will pull to a sclerotic halt.
Jobs' reason was that servers was not profitable from Apple's standpoint. Apple is not that big of a company, to field the kind of systems you and the rest on this thread want would cost them much more than it is worth. Most rack server customers will buy them by the dozen from Dell or HP or whomever. They aren't going buy dozens from Apple just to support the minuscule number of people in their organizations using Macs.
I don't think elevatorsand is going help you here. Raising sand up and down on an elevator is very beneficial to humans but the energy required is probably prohibitive. And you're going to need many, many quads of the stuff (the grains are much smaller than regular sand).
Aw, they probably just want to exchange porno disks. Just as long as they do not send us their politicians, that would be an act of war.
More precisely, changing the tax code is easy, figuring out the ramifications to the economy, people, etc. is hard. Eliminate the housing deduction, that's easy. Figuring what that does the housing industry is hard. Paying off those who own homes isn't really a simplification, it's what the housing deduction does.
Schizophrenic? I thought it was bot. Maybe the gp was a schizophrenic bot.
You want to see what the machine is doing when you start up, eh:
sudo nvram boot-args="-v"
To turn verbose mode off:
sudo nvram boot-args=
It is really only useful if you have a booting problem, I cannot see any other reason why you'd care to do such a thing.
I'm at a loss to figure out why you want to know which files were changed when you changed a setting in the GUI. You have some funny idea you are going to change those files manually? Why would you do that?
Congratulations! You win the Internet Politics Award for irrelevantly bringing the Bush Administration into a discussion.
It isn't clear to me that breaking MS up would have given us Visual Studio for Android. Breaking up MS would not have changed the culture of the pieces. They would still act like a monopoly, only it would have been harder to point to since they'd have claimed to be independent. I think of MS as more or less a criminal organization, at least they seem to have a criminal mind. I do not think there is any fixing it.
Stalin expected to fight a nuclear war with the U.S. and win. That legacy was built into the Soviet military machine.
Was Korea threatening us? No. However, they had no love for Japan and would happily have picked a fight with Japan. The current little runt got his philosophy from his daddy.
Vietnam probably should never have happened. Not sure about Iraq, they didn't call Saddam the Butcher of Baghdad for nothing.
The thing about military spending is that you never know what you avert by having it. So your 20-20 hindsight is what I would call shallow thinking.
yes, dumb companies do not survive, but on the way out, they destroy the economic lives of many fine upstanding workers. In this sense, the system is not working at all for them.
It would be hard to argue that group theory was relevant when it was developed. Or early number theory. Maybe you'd have liked Einstein to have given several applications for his theory of relativity (hint: it was before space flight and GPS). Or how about quantum mechanics. How about modal logic, that was merely an academic curiosity before Tony Hoare and a host of others came along and made it relevant, relevant enough for Intel to care about mathematically proving facts about their chips.
Science is a web of ideas, start pruning before you even know whether something is useful is stupid and short-sighted. Here's a thought, science can chew gum and walk at the same time. It produces relevant stuff and stuff that you will not think will ever become relevant...until it does.
"political science, poetry, philosophy, English literature, and so on."
That shows how much you understand about research being a web of ideas. Maybe you think those ideas in the sciences grow on trees? Read Descartes sometime, he only invented algebra.
And it is clear you have never done science. Great ideas come from great analogies, those are frequently not from science.
"That traditional approach being stuffing whatever corporate-sponsored stuff into the heads of their students."
Never been in a PhD program have you. And by the way, this is somewhat the opposite of what the article was complaining about. If new PhD students were being stuffed with Business School Product ideas, then they'd be doing relevant research, wouldn't they.
Sometimes it helps to actually think before you...well...in your case...think.
"The 'great minds' earning PhDs in life sciences, probably would never be useful in the world of 'real' science anyway,"
Yes, that is snobbish, and certainly blinkered much like what the article was complaining about. Next time you come down with a life threatening disease, I want you to refuse any treatment that was not done using 'real' science.
For myself, I'm waiting until the Madhi returns. Here's my scenario:
The trumpets blare, the clouds of heaven part, the Madhi in all her beauty majestically sweeps down to Earth. The Righteous Islamics are in a deep funk since the Madhi was rumored to be male. She assures them in a thunderous voice that indeed She is the Madhi, throws a few lightning bolts for effect.
After a bit of meet and greet, She looks at her watch and declares that time is money and She's a bit busy this week. The Righteous Islamics are horrified claiming She was to be on Earth for seven, nine or nineteen years and rule with Jesus cleansing the world of injustice and women's rights.
With a fiery stare that shakes them to their sandals, and with a steel-eyed stare, She tells them that only by converting to Judism can they achieve a truly perfect world. And now, She'd like to get back to Her golf lessons.
The trumpets blare, She sweeps majestically back up, the clouds of Heaven close back in. And G-d looked upon the faces of the human females and declared them good. And He looked upon the faces of the human males, and made a snide remark which might have been something like "I'd give them a few more pointers but Muhammad already claimed to be the last."
I hear you, the cyber attacks on Georgia and Estonia never happened....all a conspiracy by the CIA...they are behind everything...even the things of which they are in front.
Yeah, investigative journalism should be free. I mean why should anyone be paid for spending his/her time tracking down a story. They should do this gratis and give it to you so you can still believe veracious information grows on trees.
To answer your question: not in your lifetime. The East Texans are doing the rest of the justice system a favor as far as the rest of the justice system is concerned. Patent cases are hard for the judges to understand since there are a host of technical issues for which almost none of them have been trained. So they'll allow East Texas to be a magnet for these cases as it keep them out of the rest of the system.
The only way to fix this is to take the USPO out back and shoot it in the head. Disband the entire agency, sow its fields with salt, sell its progeny into slavery, off with its head.
Then Congress needs to write new rules, no method patents, no software patents. Then construct a new USPO which is properly funded and staffed.
In short, it will never get fixed.
Okay: "Anyway, US market is not something you can't ignore. "
So you are encouraging us to ignore US markets.
It might not be possible to keep patching XP for bug fixes and security updates. If that code is a pile of spaghetti, as I think it is, then MS may have reached a point where they simply don't understand it anymore enough to patch it. Lose enough engineers and the institutional memory on how things work goes with them.