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Evolutionary Prototyping probably works well with small systems. With large systems, the sheer weight and cost of producing many prototypes is going to get in the way. Just testing a large system is a significant expense.
Another area it probably won't fly is security systems for organizations like NSA. You won't be going back and forth with those guys over some system, they'll simply conclude you have no idea what you are doing and your contract won't be renewed. All of your security mechanisms and overall design need to be seen before they commit to funding any kind of development. If you show them a prototype near the start, it simply won't fit into their scheme of wanting to see precisely what you think you are building first since they'll be needing to evaluate it with security in mind. What is a small detail to you is covert channel to them.
Someone above wondered on the effect environmental oestrogens had on animals. In the Potomoc river (runs by Washington D.C) fish are observed to have transgender traits over and above any natural underlying statistic signal and it has been shown to be result of environmental oestrogens. So it does occur.
Capitalism, as a theory, doesn't have much to say about advertising. Nice strawman, choose another. It does posit that if another company's product is better in a global abstract sense, customers will choose it. It presumes that all customers have equal and complete information. The economic system we have is not capitalism. The premises don't hold.
What's more likely is that Wolfram will barely survive the knife MS is sure to stick in their back. I predict within 3 years, MS will announce its own version. Wolfram, acting like a blushing bride running back to Mommy crying, will file a lawsuit which will be mired in legal limbo until a settlement is reached.
Where do you get the idea that simply because Apple pulls software out of their ass that you should be able to run it on anything. They produce, get this, systems....that would be hardware-software. They are not a software company. Don't like it, buy some Wintel crap and be happy.
TheRegister's theory (aside from MySQL competing with M$) is that the Europeans are more receptive to open software because all the big closed source software outfits (leaving aside SAP) are U.S. companies. So they, well, the EC anyway, see FOSS a way to compete against the Americans and reduce the amount of money the give to the Americans for software. Personally, I hope they separate MySQL from Oracle just to kick Ellison in the balls.
TheRegister claims MySQL competes with Microsofts SQL thingy. I don't know if that's true but from 20,000 feet, that looks plausible. Plus, Oracle can use it as a feeder for their bigger database el Blobbo database.
Actually, they've stopped because a more interesting problem arose. They are spending all their resources on attempting to detect intelligent signals from the U. S. Congress. So far, the noise has completely overridden any underlying signal but they still hope for success with ever more sensitive equipment. It was thought that when Biden left, this would raise the signal to noise ratio, and it did for awhile. At least the noise decreased. But now it appears that the vice-president's office is acting like a radio black hole even able to suck intelligent brainwaves from escaping. The proof is apparently in the speeches the vice president has given since becoming vice-president. Alien abduction and replacement cannot be ruled out. Anyhow, a radio black hole has never before been seen in the natural universe and so close scrutiny by Navy scientists is called for.
There are two parts thought to be present in any Congressional signal if there be any all. The Republican part, it is theorized, is very attenuated but appears to vacillate between sanity and insanity. The phase of the moon figures in here. The Democrat part is chaotic in a strange way, the chaos appears to wrap back on itself. This has the effect of entirely isolating them in an electronic brain trap, no new ideas come in or go out. The Navy feels the key to unlocking this trap is frontal and backtal lobotomy leaving only the lower base parts of the Democrat brain intact. To catch the Republican signal, should it indeed be there, trained dolphins with lasers on their heads will be required. In the meantime, tin foil hats are being distributed throughout the government in the hopes of preventing any dangerous emissions, which might be present but at undetectable levels, from impacting the nation.
The Navy, in an interim report, says that apart from a mysterious exponential rise in the national debt, no active Congressional signal is present. Said Admiral Wavey-Gravy, "Some of us believe Congress doesn't really exist given they seem to have no discernible effect on the surrounding political environment; it is as though 1000 Klieg lights turned on and no Congress-critter materialized to bask in their warm glow." When it was pointed out to Adm. Wave that news conferences were being held daily by Congress-critters, his response was, "You mean alleged Congress-critters, it isn't like anyone actually caught them doing anything intelligent, is it?"
Hehehehehe...you are suggesting roundabouts for Maryland drivers? That's like inviting them all to a demolition derby. I doubt you could get them all to agree in which direction to round. Think the 5th horseman of the apocalypse, the first 4 would have been merely warm up.
Maryland drivers are the worst. They will pull out and zoom past you if they think there's an extra car length hiding there they can fit into while the entire train of cars for as far as the eye can see attempts to race from clusterf--k to clusterf--k traffic light. And then some bonehead will do something to cause an accident and traffic is hosed for the rest of the evening while the cops shut down every highway they can find, I think they get extra bonus points for screwing up extra traffic. To the scene of the accident will then rush about 4 times as many emergency ambulances (the word 'ambulance' here is a bit like calling the Hope diamond a nice rock) as are necessary careen though the jammed up traffic all fighting to be the first. I guess they get bored and when an accident happens it is something like Halloween for them.
I live near Washington, the county commissioner came on the tube and said he'd been budgeting for a replacement system since 2002 and that it would cost something on the order of $40 million. I presume there is a penny jar in the commissioner's office and he cadges pennies from visitors. He also said the new system would be ready around 2012 or 2014 (I cannot recall which). My guess is that the system just clunked away on its own and no one thought to upgrade parts of it as newer technology became available. Now they have a massive problem on their hands.
You brought up hatred and Christianity, nice straw men but beside the point. Read the Koran re what it says about unbelievers, and then there is the pesky Jew problem Islam has. Islam doesn't preach hate, simply the subjugation of all who are not Muslim.
Diplomacy takes generations, eh? So how are we to judge this diplomacy against mere societal drift. In the middle east, your diplomacy is thought of as interfering.
I think you are forgetting the field of Iced Cookies. Sliced depthwise, you have an iced half and an non-iced half. Now both could be considered cookies, but they are now of two entirely different species....evolution rears its head. It is a little known fact that Darwin considered the cookie problem early on in his work. After failing to get cookies to mate, he turned to animals that could and thus changed the course of modern biology. So, you think you are better than Darwin, mate?
You mean he stayed out of religious disputes by ironing them out. Look up how nicely Saddam treated the Shi'ites. Saddam made sure the Sunnis had the upper hand. The Shi'ites are still pissed off at the Sunnis and the Sunnis took offense that they could no longer screw the Shi'ites as back in the good ol' days under Saddam. Saddam helped to create the civil war. I will agree the U.S. took the lid off without realizing what a pressure cooker was underneath.
And Saddam didn't have the good sense to stay out of religious disputes with neighbors. Attacking a newly theocracy-thugacracy in Iran isn't the mark of someone who respects religious disputes.
"the way to bring "peace" to the Middle East would be through reason" Nice sentiment, and totally unrealistic. Islam will not allow your reason which probably includes something on the order of freedom of religion. Islam's idea of freedom of religion is that non-Muslims get to bow down to their Muslim rulers.
Let's rewind time a bit; suppose Einstein's advice was followed and the U.S. didn't build the bomb. No Hiroshima or Nagasaki as testament to its effects. It is known the Soviet Union was working on their own as was Germany. After the war, both the Soviets and the U.S. rushed to grab German scientists. So even if the Soviet Union wasn't working on it during the war, they'd have been working on it after. And they were led by that great humanitarian, Stalin. Hmmmm....what would a Stalin do with nukes knowing no one could retaliate...I give up, I cannot guess...
Let's assume that Stalin gets a case of Empathy and decides not to nuke his enemies, even the real ones. Roll time forward a bit. Iran decides it needs nukes to get out the Kill-the-Jews vote in Islam. The U.S., having eschewed nukes because they were bad, would surely have pressured Israel into no nukes as well. There is no stopping Iran from getting a nuke, they need it to help bring back the Mahdi and well, y'know, there are still some undead Jews.
Then there are those nice N. Koreans who are about as well adjusted as a squirrel after his third cup of coffee. Would you like L.A. with that holocaust or just a bit of self-indulgent sugar?
Whatever, the biggest cause of the bubble and subsequent collapse was the American People. They bought what they couldn't afford and allowed certain reptilian species to take advantage of them. The second was the housing industry which never met a development they didn't like and insisted on building McMansions everywhere knowing full well they had way more capacity the market could not sop up. The third biggest cause was government that failed to regulate. The forth was financial institutions that 'packaged' securities they knew were not backed by enough collateral. Even that 1-2-3-4 is misleading because as a system, there were many feedback and feedforward paths.
Pinning it on all on the financial community is convenient to conspiracy theorists like the Rolling Stone, but is rather silly.
"National security, whatever that is, needs to be above-board." That's an interesting concept and totally unworkable. Suppose the NSA get's a hint Al Qaeda is planning to piss on Obama's rose bushes. Should they (a) tell the New York Times and advertise we caught them being sneaky, (b) tell no one in hopes of catching the perpetrators in the act. Easy call. Now do that with intelligence in general. After Al Qaeda ferrets out all the rats in their organization because we advertise every time we catch hold of a scheme to long dick us (figuring out who ratted won't be hard), they will have a bullet proof organization all set to receive their complimentary nuke from those nice Pakistanis who only desire Islamic Oneness.
Yes, the crash did come on Bush's watch, and his administration was part of the problem and wouldn't face the issue in order to become part of the solution. However, it wasn't entirely Bush's fault. The biggest part of the problem was the American people; they bought houses they couldn't afford, second houses, etc. They voted in anyone promising not to raise their taxes in order to pay for the programs they also demanded. Americans also decided that science and technology were luxuries; that by endorsing an Educational establishment that had no respect for science and technology was somehow a winning formula. The children of the '60's were too good for science and tech, they sent their children to Business School. The result was Business School Product that thought nothing of shipping anything not nailed down out of the U.S.
There is plenty of blame to go around, and Bush's Administration did not nothing to stop the slide, including pissing on science by thinking it could be made to support their policies. In doing so, they made toilet paper out of clear rational thinking; but they also had a lot of help. So much help that it encouraged an America to vote in Obama who never saw a promise he couldn't make. Now we can have some serious deficit spending.
Uh, at the time there wasn't the same level of world trade as there is now and the U.S. didn't rebuild Europe for a market. The U.S. *helped* to rebuild Europe because (a) we felt sorry for the little buggers (hell, we still do), and (b) we didn't wish to turn it over to another dictator, Stalin, and have to go back in and do what we *helped* do to Hitler.
"95% of academic scientists and maybe 80% of engineers produce nothing useful in their lifetimes."
My experience is the opposite. Most scientists and engineers I've met might not be producing the next grand unified theory of whatever but are in the trenches producing the intricate web of details required for science and engineering to advance. There is only a finite amount of room at the top for stars. Once those slots are filled, everyone else who might be doing extraordinary work simply don't get recognized.
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Yeah, he's bribing web site owners to move to Microsoft...wow...that is soooo cuil.
Evolutionary Prototyping probably works well with small systems. With large systems, the sheer weight and cost of producing many prototypes is going to get in the way. Just testing a large system is a significant expense.
Another area it probably won't fly is security systems for organizations like NSA. You won't be going back and forth with those guys over some system, they'll simply conclude you have no idea what you are doing and your contract won't be renewed. All of your security mechanisms and overall design need to be seen before they commit to funding any kind of development. If you show them a prototype near the start, it simply won't fit into their scheme of wanting to see precisely what you think you are building first since they'll be needing to evaluate it with security in mind. What is a small detail to you is covert channel to them.
Someone above wondered on the effect environmental oestrogens had on animals. In the Potomoc river (runs by Washington D.C) fish are observed to have transgender traits over and above any natural underlying statistic signal and it has been shown to be result of environmental oestrogens. So it does occur.
Capitalism, as a theory, doesn't have much to say about advertising. Nice strawman, choose another. It does posit that if another company's product is better in a global abstract sense, customers will choose it. It presumes that all customers have equal and complete information. The economic system we have is not capitalism. The premises don't hold.
What's more likely is that Wolfram will barely survive the knife MS is sure to stick in their back. I predict within 3 years, MS will announce its own version. Wolfram, acting like a blushing bride running back to Mommy crying, will file a lawsuit which will be mired in legal limbo until a settlement is reached.
Where do you get the idea that simply because Apple pulls software out of their ass that you should be able to run it on anything. They produce, get this, systems....that would be hardware-software. They are not a software company. Don't like it, buy some Wintel crap and be happy.
Yes, and see what happened when BE attempted this. M$ knifed them. Apple appears to be that stupid.
TheRegister's theory (aside from MySQL competing with M$) is that the Europeans are more receptive to open software because all the big closed source software outfits (leaving aside SAP) are U.S. companies. So they, well, the EC anyway, see FOSS a way to compete against the Americans and reduce the amount of money the give to the Americans for software. Personally, I hope they separate MySQL from Oracle just to kick Ellison in the balls.
TheRegister claims MySQL competes with Microsofts SQL thingy. I don't know if that's true but from 20,000 feet, that looks plausible. Plus, Oracle can use it as a feeder for their bigger database el Blobbo database.
Actually, they've stopped because a more interesting problem arose. They are spending all their resources on attempting to detect intelligent signals from the U. S. Congress. So far, the noise has completely overridden any underlying signal but they still hope for success with ever more sensitive equipment. It was thought that when Biden left, this would raise the signal to noise ratio, and it did for awhile. At least the noise decreased. But now it appears that the vice-president's office is acting like a radio black hole even able to suck intelligent brainwaves from escaping. The proof is apparently in the speeches the vice president has given since becoming vice-president. Alien abduction and replacement cannot be ruled out. Anyhow, a radio black hole has never before been seen in the natural universe and so close scrutiny by Navy scientists is called for.
There are two parts thought to be present in any Congressional signal if there be any all. The Republican part, it is theorized, is very attenuated but appears to vacillate between sanity and insanity. The phase of the moon figures in here. The Democrat part is chaotic in a strange way, the chaos appears to wrap back on itself. This has the effect of entirely isolating them in an electronic brain trap, no new ideas come in or go out. The Navy feels the key to unlocking this trap is frontal and backtal lobotomy leaving only the lower base parts of the Democrat brain intact. To catch the Republican signal, should it indeed be there, trained dolphins with lasers on their heads will be required. In the meantime, tin foil hats are being distributed throughout the government in the hopes of preventing any dangerous emissions, which might be present but at undetectable levels, from impacting the nation.
The Navy, in an interim report, says that apart from a mysterious exponential rise in the national debt, no active Congressional signal is present. Said Admiral Wavey-Gravy, "Some of us believe Congress doesn't really exist given they seem to have no discernible effect on the surrounding political environment; it is as though 1000 Klieg lights turned on and no Congress-critter materialized to bask in their warm glow." When it was pointed out to Adm. Wave that news conferences were being held daily by Congress-critters, his response was, "You mean alleged Congress-critters, it isn't like anyone actually caught them doing anything intelligent, is it?"
Hehehehehe...you are suggesting roundabouts for Maryland drivers? That's like inviting them all to a demolition derby. I doubt you could get them all to agree in which direction to round. Think the 5th horseman of the apocalypse, the first 4 would have been merely warm up.
Maryland drivers are the worst. They will pull out and zoom past you if they think there's an extra car length hiding there they can fit into while the entire train of cars for as far as the eye can see attempts to race from clusterf--k to clusterf--k traffic light. And then some bonehead will do something to cause an accident and traffic is hosed for the rest of the evening while the cops shut down every highway they can find, I think they get extra bonus points for screwing up extra traffic. To the scene of the accident will then rush about 4 times as many emergency ambulances (the word 'ambulance' here is a bit like calling the Hope diamond a nice rock) as are necessary careen though the jammed up traffic all fighting to be the first. I guess they get bored and when an accident happens it is something like Halloween for them.
I live near Washington, the county commissioner came on the tube and said he'd been budgeting for a replacement system since 2002 and that it would cost something on the order of $40 million. I presume there is a penny jar in the commissioner's office and he cadges pennies from visitors. He also said the new system would be ready around 2012 or 2014 (I cannot recall which). My guess is that the system just clunked away on its own and no one thought to upgrade parts of it as newer technology became available. Now they have a massive problem on their hands.
You brought up hatred and Christianity, nice straw men but beside the point. Read the Koran re what it says about unbelievers, and then there is the pesky Jew problem Islam has. Islam doesn't preach hate, simply the subjugation of all who are not Muslim.
Diplomacy takes generations, eh? So how are we to judge this diplomacy against mere societal drift. In the middle east, your diplomacy is thought of as interfering.
Ah, but with enough time, grasshopper, the two halves of Slashdot would meet on the other side of the internet and again become one.
I think you are forgetting the field of Iced Cookies. Sliced depthwise, you have an iced half and an non-iced half. Now both could be considered cookies, but they are now of two entirely different species....evolution rears its head. It is a little known fact that Darwin considered the cookie problem early on in his work. After failing to get cookies to mate, he turned to animals that could and thus changed the course of modern biology. So, you think you are better than Darwin, mate?
my fruit label collection is going to be worth millions!
You mean he stayed out of religious disputes by ironing them out. Look up how nicely Saddam treated the Shi'ites. Saddam made sure the Sunnis had the upper hand. The Shi'ites are still pissed off at the Sunnis and the Sunnis took offense that they could no longer screw the Shi'ites as back in the good ol' days under Saddam. Saddam helped to create the civil war. I will agree the U.S. took the lid off without realizing what a pressure cooker was underneath.
And Saddam didn't have the good sense to stay out of religious disputes with neighbors. Attacking a newly theocracy-thugacracy in Iran isn't the mark of someone who respects religious disputes.
"the way to bring "peace" to the Middle East would be through reason" Nice sentiment, and totally unrealistic. Islam will not allow your reason which probably includes something on the order of freedom of religion. Islam's idea of freedom of religion is that non-Muslims get to bow down to their Muslim rulers.
Let's rewind time a bit; suppose Einstein's advice was followed and the U.S. didn't build the bomb. No Hiroshima or Nagasaki as testament to its effects. It is known the Soviet Union was working on their own as was Germany. After the war, both the Soviets and the U.S. rushed to grab German scientists. So even if the Soviet Union wasn't working on it during the war, they'd have been working on it after. And they were led by that great humanitarian, Stalin. Hmmmm....what would a Stalin do with nukes knowing no one could retaliate...I give up, I cannot guess...
Let's assume that Stalin gets a case of Empathy and decides not to nuke his enemies, even the real ones. Roll time forward a bit. Iran decides it needs nukes to get out the Kill-the-Jews vote in Islam. The U.S., having eschewed nukes because they were bad, would surely have pressured Israel into no nukes as well. There is no stopping Iran from getting a nuke, they need it to help bring back the Mahdi and well, y'know, there are still some undead Jews.
Then there are those nice N. Koreans who are about as well adjusted as a squirrel after his third cup of coffee. Would you like L.A. with that holocaust or just a bit of self-indulgent sugar?
Whatever, the biggest cause of the bubble and subsequent collapse was the American People. They bought what they couldn't afford and allowed certain reptilian species to take advantage of them. The second was the housing industry which never met a development they didn't like and insisted on building McMansions everywhere knowing full well they had way more capacity the market could not sop up. The third biggest cause was government that failed to regulate. The forth was financial institutions that 'packaged' securities they knew were not backed by enough collateral. Even that 1-2-3-4 is misleading because as a system, there were many feedback and feedforward paths.
Pinning it on all on the financial community is convenient to conspiracy theorists like the Rolling Stone, but is rather silly.
Your assumption that Pakistan won't become Talibanistan is fetching.
"National security, whatever that is, needs to be above-board." That's an interesting concept and totally unworkable. Suppose the NSA get's a hint Al Qaeda is planning to piss on Obama's rose bushes. Should they (a) tell the New York Times and advertise we caught them being sneaky, (b) tell no one in hopes of catching the perpetrators in the act. Easy call. Now do that with intelligence in general. After Al Qaeda ferrets out all the rats in their organization because we advertise every time we catch hold of a scheme to long dick us (figuring out who ratted won't be hard), they will have a bullet proof organization all set to receive their complimentary nuke from those nice Pakistanis who only desire Islamic Oneness.
Yes, the crash did come on Bush's watch, and his administration was part of the problem and wouldn't face the issue in order to become part of the solution. However, it wasn't entirely Bush's fault. The biggest part of the problem was the American people; they bought houses they couldn't afford, second houses, etc. They voted in anyone promising not to raise their taxes in order to pay for the programs they also demanded. Americans also decided that science and technology were luxuries; that by endorsing an Educational establishment that had no respect for science and technology was somehow a winning formula. The children of the '60's were too good for science and tech, they sent their children to Business School. The result was Business School Product that thought nothing of shipping anything not nailed down out of the U.S.
There is plenty of blame to go around, and Bush's Administration did not nothing to stop the slide, including pissing on science by thinking it could be made to support their policies. In doing so, they made toilet paper out of clear rational thinking; but they also had a lot of help. So much help that it encouraged an America to vote in Obama who never saw a promise he couldn't make. Now we can have some serious deficit spending.
Uh, at the time there wasn't the same level of world trade as there is now and the U.S. didn't rebuild Europe for a market. The U.S. *helped* to rebuild Europe because (a) we felt sorry for the little buggers (hell, we still do), and (b) we didn't wish to turn it over to another dictator, Stalin, and have to go back in and do what we *helped* do to Hitler.
"95% of academic scientists and maybe 80% of engineers produce nothing useful in their lifetimes."
My experience is the opposite. Most scientists and engineers I've met might not be producing the next grand unified theory of whatever but are in the trenches producing the intricate web of details required for science and engineering to advance. There is only a finite amount of room at the top for stars. Once those slots are filled, everyone else who might be doing extraordinary work simply don't get recognized.