You probably just managed to make the recycling problem a lot harder. Now you have powder that has to be centrifuged but there's no guarantee or science that I know of that will separate out the constituent particles so that you can say, these be aluminum. What you are likely to get are strata composed of really well mixed stuff that will be almost impossible to separate short of chemical processes. Those processes tend to be on the dirty side.
Bullshit, the Muslim religion prepped the Iranians for religious dictatorship for over a 1000 years. What the U.S. did doesn't even register any longer.
One axis I've not seen discussed is that most developers are using textual languages. Most mathematics is essentially text based, not diagram based. One uses diagrams for intuition, but when the formal derivation or program must be done, it is done in text.
The problem then becomes that the concepts expressed in the software are most easily explained in terms of text, not diagrams. Guis are diagrams. Consider, just for a mental exercise, any of the unix shells and their languages. Most developers have no problems. Most users would rather gnaw off their right arm than go through learning a shell language and then relearn in it 6 months when they must use it again.
So, let's see what it takes to produce a gui for it. Apple used to have a system called MPW. You could hilite a command and call up its Commando interface. The commands themselves were rather textual and unixy, but the interface allowed you to click radio buttons, use pulldown menus, etc. to construct a command. The command constructed as text and shown in an editable window at the bottom of the dialog box for the Commando interface of the command. You could run the command right there or copy the text and run it in another window. That sounds about the right level.
Now we must think about piping. There was a language called Prograph, but now called Marten. It is an object orientied data flow language. It is a diagrammatic language and one draws lines to 'pipe' objects from one command to another, with some special lines for control ordering. There are mechanisms for recursion and the usual range of program construction artifacts.
One could combine the two, Marten and Command and successfully guitate unix shell languages (I'm sure there are other concepts that would need to gui equivalents for those languages). Now think about the amount of work necessary to do this. The point is that guis take an extraordinary amount of time and effort, and most of the skills are not the headless (non-gui) development most developers are familiar with and it is a paradigm directly at odds with their programming languages.
I see no entity within the FOSS community that could do such kinds of design and get it stick so that it becomes the faces of the OS or the applications for casual users who might wear an occasional python boot (think Frank Zappa). OpenOffice isn't an example, it is the usual retarded word processor editor that Microsoft pushes with the usual result that people would rather use Office since OpenOffice isn't buying them anything in which they are interested.
So, in your opinion, the entire government is devoted to unloving and unprotecting your freediom, eh? How about the NSTA, the fellows who investigate transportation accidents? They are taking away your right to freely die due to a repeat error. How about the Coast Guard? They'll be taking away your ability to completely die due to operator stupidity. Errr...NSF...taking away your rights to no money for science. NIH...clearly out to fund medical research allowing you to die without a remedy to stop it. FDA...stopping you from taking those 'cures' which Jim Bob's Drug and Beanery has been producing for your ailments.
I'm no Obama supporter and he does tend to talk out of 360 degrees of his mouth, but he promised to close Gitmo, he didn't say how long it would take. How about we let them fellers in there live with you, you'd be okay with that right? It's for the good of the nation, son, so ante up.
The CEO of Chrysler got whacked as did the CEO of GM, you may have missed it in the news since you apparently do not pay attention. Ford hasn't taken any taxpayer money yet (but they probably will before its all over). Also, the bond holders got it between the eyes. Them are also called 'investors'. How about the stock holders, you think they are in the money right now?
Yep, he lied his ass off about taxes. Anyone with a brain knew that, which leaves out most of the dazzled press corps who seem to wet themselves whenever He looks at them.
Bush didn't raise your taxes and as a result, our massive federal deficit even without the 'stimulus' Mr. Wonderful and the Dems insisted on passing so when a recovery comes they can crow about how they made it happen.
Yep, life's a bitch here in the U.S. with no hope to look forward too. Alas, woe is us, we have no hope...sniff...wimper. Egads, stop being such a post-modern weenie...
Nice thoughts, but probably inaccurate. The Jesus you think you have read about is one you have probably constructed by reading the new Testament serially, one book after another. If you instead read at least the Gospels in parallel, side-by-side, you'll see they do not agree on several pertinent facts. Also, the Jesus you think you know is more or less a later reconstruction. In fact, were it not for Paul, the whole idea of Jesus being a deity would probably not be part of the religion. The early Christians were Jews (before Paul started campaigning for widening the religion), they certainly believed that Jesus was not a deity.
For just one misconception, Jesus is to have prophesied that he would return before people who were alive at that point were dead. At least Paul was pushing that. But after that generation died out, the myth had to be reworked just a bit.
Well, regardless of any trace of Neanderthal genes still present, one thing we know about humans is that if it looks...uh...screwable...someone, somewhere, sometime will have tried it. Just wander around the internet for examples today of just how out of the box some people think.
Personally, I think scientific laws should be open to voting. There are so many that are downright pesky and inhibit innovation, like the laws of thermodynamics. C'mon, these have been the single greatest impediment to free energy for over 80 years. It is about time we rewrite them and put new ones up for a vote. Even something as time-tested as the law of gravity. It's waaaaayyy past time for that law to die so it wouldn't cost so much to lift our satnavs. Come to think of it, the law of large numbers is a bit of a pest too.
How long will it take for some couple to find out the baby they selected didn't have the traits they selected. Presumably, these clinics do not work for free. And as soon as any sizable sum of money changes hands, it won't be long before some jilted couple decide they and their now unplanned kid deserve compensation.
"Historically speaking, the Church (Galileo notwithstanding!) and Islam during the medieval period played a very large part in encouraging the development of science, medicine, and the arts."
The problem with this statement is that it makes it seem as though the point of religion was the development of science, medicine, and the arts. It wasn't. That development was a by-product of education which at that time was centered in religion merely because religion was the most organized social institution. I think it would be difficult to argue now that further development of science, medicine, and the arts will be furthered by religion. Religion may have ethical considerations that affect these areas, but further technical achievement in the first two is doubtful, and further cultural achievement in the arts appear mostly to be hamstrung by religion or simply not influenced at all.
Who would win in any given matchup are lowly microbes and viruses (the kind that attack people). Not any countries. no resources a formal government is able to muster can top the able microbes. This has been the case all along. US, China, Russia, any of them has been attacked by these germs wantonly, at will. Neither this will change with application of a 'center for disease prevention' or any such absurd officialdom, or mustering of millions of $ and hundreds of scientists in any country's 'doctor unit'.
Attacking, afflicting, infecting, health et. al. - these all require huge talent in their highest levels (I'm not talking about colds or flus), and curiously this type of talent is found in the most rebellious, unruly bugs of any society. Good luck to you in recruiting those to any government's 'health team'. If one thing is in common in these types, it's their mutual hatred of any kind of medicine.
Am I one of them? No, but I can appreciate talent, and I can see cold hard truth as it is.
There, now we have no need to spend anything on health care since in the end, we're all dead. In fact, your argument can be used to deny spending any kind of money and effort on any of society's ills, very effective. I salute you. I also took the liberty of using capitalization and punctuation, I find it helps in reading.
You are comparing Apple's and Oranges. Apple has a share of the Hardware Market. They compete with HP, Dell, and innumerable others. You wish them to compete in the OS market...against Microsoft...which has the hardware companies by the balls and plays one dirty game of corporate pool. Now why would they win this competition?
Hear hear! Let's construct a new ad campaign for Apple, they'll appreciate this:
"Buy our computers, there's nothing special about them, they won't run your windoze software you like to run, they probably won't run your games. Your life won't be changed, you won't be happier or cooler. In short, there's no reason you should own a Mac. Errr...but buy one anyway."
There's, how's that. I await Apple's remuneration now that I've fixed their ad campaign for you.
I don't think MS is worried about OS X for a few reasons, but are worried about Linux for different reasons. OS X is made by Apple, a company that ties its os to its hardware. Apple only has so much capacity even if it is farmed out. It still requires a certain amount of overhead at Apple to care for. If they increase capacity too much, their quality suffers. And so does Apple's 'cache'. Apple would have to target cheaper models and their profit margins erode. Plus a bigger company means a more unfocused company. Also, all those Windoze PCs run software that only runs on Windoze, corporations are not going to give up a sunk investment easily. And Apple is predicable....although that seems to be changing a bit now. But then MS has never felt bad about allowing others to develop a market before finding a way to take it over.
Linux (and FOSS) is much harder for MS to deal with. It is decentralized, federated. It cannot be targeted easily by targeting the company making it. And because it is decentralized, it is much more unpredictable. It also has a 'business model' that is somewhat like a wooden stack aimed (although not directed by anyone) at MS's business model. Add to that a distribution system that MS cannot control, the interwebs, and at least one competitor with ambitions larger than MS (Google). MS's biggest fear is that Google becomes much more than a one trick pony and able to push FOSS down the throats of Business School Product that MS has spent years spoon feeding.
One thing MS gets is Business School Product. They understand how Business School Product thinks, i.e., it is vapid and willing to take any 'solution' which is cleanly packaged no matter how it sucks the life out of the companies Business School Product has metasticized (sp?) in. Apple doesn't get Business School Product and doesn't appear interested. Google gets Business School Product and Google is using FOSS among other things to get their foot into MS's turf.
I don't believe you could run a garbage company scheduling the way you think it ought to work. It would be grossly inefficient. Those trucks use a lot of expensive fuel. You cannot just send them out on routes, those routes have to be designed to be efficient. Roads get closed periodically. Your mix of trucks has to be matched to the routes. You must also design the routes so they mesh with where to put all the stuff you pick up. And you must also figure in shifting prices and locations to put the crap you collect. And if you are recycling, that's a whole other lot of scheduling.
There are customers complaining for every missed pickup that you must some how get back to servicing without spending more than their year's worth of fees. Then you must figure in sick time for employees, employees quitting, new employees not being as inefficient as trained employees. And if you have different tiers of employees, you must figure health benefits, retirement, etc.
Nice try, Bush was indeed originally opposed to DHS, but he was actually for guest worker programs and reforming immigration; he took a lot of heat from other Republicans over that stance but I do not recall him ever changing that.
Yes it is somewhat of a non-story. But then you aren't thinking like Business School Product. By making an Announcement, they get to make an Announcement. This is considered an achievement for Business School Product. Another feature is that if you succeed by a great advertising campaign, that's all well and good for your organization, but what does it do for you, the Bog Standard Business School Product? Not much. If, on the other hand, you can introduce into the mindless waste that is "the buzz" a new Official Buzz Word (voted Most Likely to Make it on Buzz Word Bingo), then you as Business School Product have achieved the highest pinnacle of success. And if your new Buzz Word becomes an Official Buzz Verb, then you will go down in Business School Product as one of the greatest artistes of pop culture. You have finally made the big time, able to get into trendy nightclubs with but a wave of your Jedi marketing hand, "I'm Big Business School Product, don't look behind my curtain".
It is difficult to believe that Asus did this out of love for Redmond. I wonder how much MS paid for this special treatment, or did they threaten Asus with higher prices?
You're full of shit, capitalism is the idea that a LARGE group of individuals ought to be able to make unilateral and INDIVIDUAL decisions with wide reaching consequences according to their own arbitrary whims.
Yeah, I can see it now. Robokitty walks into the house: Hey MeatBoy, could you get some mouse kibblets for my Lady Cat here? And she likes to be brushed, so get on your hands and knees and start stroking.
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You probably just managed to make the recycling problem a lot harder. Now you have powder that has to be centrifuged but there's no guarantee or science that I know of that will separate out the constituent particles so that you can say, these be aluminum. What you are likely to get are strata composed of really well mixed stuff that will be almost impossible to separate short of chemical processes. Those processes tend to be on the dirty side.
Bullshit, the Muslim religion prepped the Iranians for religious dictatorship for over a 1000 years. What the U.S. did doesn't even register any longer.
One axis I've not seen discussed is that most developers are using textual languages. Most mathematics is essentially text based, not diagram based. One uses diagrams for intuition, but when the formal derivation or program must be done, it is done in text.
The problem then becomes that the concepts expressed in the software are most easily explained in terms of text, not diagrams. Guis are diagrams. Consider, just for a mental exercise, any of the unix shells and their languages. Most developers have no problems. Most users would rather gnaw off their right arm than go through learning a shell language and then relearn in it 6 months when they must use it again.
So, let's see what it takes to produce a gui for it. Apple used to have a system called MPW. You could hilite a command and call up its Commando interface. The commands themselves were rather textual and unixy, but the interface allowed you to click radio buttons, use pulldown menus, etc. to construct a command. The command constructed as text and shown in an editable window at the bottom of the dialog box for the Commando interface of the command. You could run the command right there or copy the text and run it in another window. That sounds about the right level.
Now we must think about piping. There was a language called Prograph, but now called Marten. It is an object orientied data flow language. It is a diagrammatic language and one draws lines to 'pipe' objects from one command to another, with some special lines for control ordering. There are mechanisms for recursion and the usual range of program construction artifacts.
One could combine the two, Marten and Command and successfully guitate unix shell languages (I'm sure there are other concepts that would need to gui equivalents for those languages). Now think about the amount of work necessary to do this. The point is that guis take an extraordinary amount of time and effort, and most of the skills are not the headless (non-gui) development most developers are familiar with and it is a paradigm directly at odds with their programming languages.
I see no entity within the FOSS community that could do such kinds of design and get it stick so that it becomes the faces of the OS or the applications for casual users who might wear an occasional python boot (think Frank Zappa). OpenOffice isn't an example, it is the usual retarded word processor editor that Microsoft pushes with the usual result that people would rather use Office since OpenOffice isn't buying them anything in which they are interested.
So what's your point? That the Iranian regime is okay because of some nefarious activities by others in the past?
So, in your opinion, the entire government is devoted to unloving and unprotecting your freediom, eh? How about the NSTA, the fellows who investigate transportation accidents? They are taking away your right to freely die due to a repeat error. How about the Coast Guard? They'll be taking away your ability to completely die due to operator stupidity. Errr...NSF...taking away your rights to no money for science. NIH...clearly out to fund medical research allowing you to die without a remedy to stop it. FDA...stopping you from taking those 'cures' which Jim Bob's Drug and Beanery has been producing for your ailments.
I'm no Obama supporter and he does tend to talk out of 360 degrees of his mouth, but he promised to close Gitmo, he didn't say how long it would take. How about we let them fellers in there live with you, you'd be okay with that right? It's for the good of the nation, son, so ante up.
The CEO of Chrysler got whacked as did the CEO of GM, you may have missed it in the news since you apparently do not pay attention. Ford hasn't taken any taxpayer money yet (but they probably will before its all over). Also, the bond holders got it between the eyes. Them are also called 'investors'. How about the stock holders, you think they are in the money right now?
Yep, he lied his ass off about taxes. Anyone with a brain knew that, which leaves out most of the dazzled press corps who seem to wet themselves whenever He looks at them.
Bush didn't raise your taxes and as a result, our massive federal deficit even without the 'stimulus' Mr. Wonderful and the Dems insisted on passing so when a recovery comes they can crow about how they made it happen.
Yep, life's a bitch here in the U.S. with no hope to look forward too. Alas, woe is us, we have no hope...sniff...wimper. Egads, stop being such a post-modern weenie...
Nice thoughts, but probably inaccurate. The Jesus you think you have read about is one you have probably constructed by reading the new Testament serially, one book after another. If you instead read at least the Gospels in parallel, side-by-side, you'll see they do not agree on several pertinent facts. Also, the Jesus you think you know is more or less a later reconstruction. In fact, were it not for Paul, the whole idea of Jesus being a deity would probably not be part of the religion. The early Christians were Jews (before Paul started campaigning for widening the religion), they certainly believed that Jesus was not a deity.
For just one misconception, Jesus is to have prophesied that he would return before people who were alive at that point were dead. At least Paul was pushing that. But after that generation died out, the myth had to be reworked just a bit.
Well, regardless of any trace of Neanderthal genes still present, one thing we know about humans is that if it looks...uh...screwable...someone, somewhere, sometime will have tried it. Just wander around the internet for examples today of just how out of the box some people think.
Personally, I think scientific laws should be open to voting. There are so many that are downright pesky and inhibit innovation, like the laws of thermodynamics. C'mon, these have been the single greatest impediment to free energy for over 80 years. It is about time we rewrite them and put new ones up for a vote. Even something as time-tested as the law of gravity. It's waaaaayyy past time for that law to die so it wouldn't cost so much to lift our satnavs. Come to think of it, the law of large numbers is a bit of a pest too.
What a unique position, it's okay for some else to spread FUD because sometime in the past, the U.S. Government did.
How long will it take for some couple to find out the baby they selected didn't have the traits they selected. Presumably, these clinics do not work for free. And as soon as any sizable sum of money changes hands, it won't be long before some jilted couple decide they and their now unplanned kid deserve compensation.
"Historically speaking, the Church (Galileo notwithstanding!) and Islam during the medieval period played a very large part in encouraging the development of science, medicine, and the arts."
The problem with this statement is that it makes it seem as though the point of religion was the development of science, medicine, and the arts. It wasn't. That development was a by-product of education which at that time was centered in religion merely because religion was the most organized social institution. I think it would be difficult to argue now that further development of science, medicine, and the arts will be furthered by religion. Religion may have ethical considerations that affect these areas, but further technical achievement in the first two is doubtful, and further cultural achievement in the arts appear mostly to be hamstrung by religion or simply not influenced at all.
Who would win in any given matchup are lowly microbes and viruses (the kind that attack people). Not any countries. no resources a formal government is able to muster can top the able microbes. This has been the case all along. US, China, Russia, any of them has been attacked by these germs wantonly, at will. Neither this will change with application of a 'center for disease prevention' or any such absurd officialdom, or mustering of millions of $ and hundreds of scientists in any country's 'doctor unit'.
Attacking, afflicting, infecting, health et. al. - these all require huge talent in their highest levels (I'm not talking about colds or flus), and curiously this type of talent is found in the most rebellious, unruly bugs of any society. Good luck to you in recruiting those to any government's 'health team'. If one thing is in common in these types, it's their mutual hatred of any kind of medicine.
Am I one of them? No, but I can appreciate talent, and I can see cold hard truth as it is.
There, now we have no need to spend anything on health care since in the end, we're all dead. In fact, your argument can be used to deny spending any kind of money and effort on any of society's ills, very effective. I salute you. I also took the liberty of using capitalization and punctuation, I find it helps in reading.
The term is 'fiat currency'.
You are comparing Apple's and Oranges. Apple has a share of the Hardware Market. They compete with HP, Dell, and innumerable others. You wish them to compete in the OS market...against Microsoft...which has the hardware companies by the balls and plays one dirty game of corporate pool. Now why would they win this competition?
Hear hear! Let's construct a new ad campaign for Apple, they'll appreciate this:
"Buy our computers, there's nothing special about them, they won't run your windoze software you like to run, they probably won't run your games. Your life won't be changed, you won't be happier or cooler. In short, there's no reason you should own a Mac. Errr...but buy one anyway."
There's, how's that. I await Apple's remuneration now that I've fixed their ad campaign for you.
I don't think MS is worried about OS X for a few reasons, but are worried about Linux for different reasons. OS X is made by Apple, a company that ties its os to its hardware. Apple only has so much capacity even if it is farmed out. It still requires a certain amount of overhead at Apple to care for. If they increase capacity too much, their quality suffers. And so does Apple's 'cache'. Apple would have to target cheaper models and their profit margins erode. Plus a bigger company means a more unfocused company. Also, all those Windoze PCs run software that only runs on Windoze, corporations are not going to give up a sunk investment easily. And Apple is predicable....although that seems to be changing a bit now. But then MS has never felt bad about allowing others to develop a market before finding a way to take it over.
Linux (and FOSS) is much harder for MS to deal with. It is decentralized, federated. It cannot be targeted easily by targeting the company making it. And because it is decentralized, it is much more unpredictable. It also has a 'business model' that is somewhat like a wooden stack aimed (although not directed by anyone) at MS's business model. Add to that a distribution system that MS cannot control, the interwebs, and at least one competitor with ambitions larger than MS (Google). MS's biggest fear is that Google becomes much more than a one trick pony and able to push FOSS down the throats of Business School Product that MS has spent years spoon feeding.
One thing MS gets is Business School Product. They understand how Business School Product thinks, i.e., it is vapid and willing to take any 'solution' which is cleanly packaged no matter how it sucks the life out of the companies Business School Product has metasticized (sp?) in. Apple doesn't get Business School Product and doesn't appear interested. Google gets Business School Product and Google is using FOSS among other things to get their foot into MS's turf.
I don't believe you could run a garbage company scheduling the way you think it ought to work. It would be grossly inefficient. Those trucks use a lot of expensive fuel. You cannot just send them out on routes, those routes have to be designed to be efficient. Roads get closed periodically. Your mix of trucks has to be matched to the routes. You must also design the routes so they mesh with where to put all the stuff you pick up. And you must also figure in shifting prices and locations to put the crap you collect. And if you are recycling, that's a whole other lot of scheduling.
There are customers complaining for every missed pickup that you must some how get back to servicing without spending more than their year's worth of fees. Then you must figure in sick time for employees, employees quitting, new employees not being as inefficient as trained employees. And if you have different tiers of employees, you must figure health benefits, retirement, etc.
I'm sure there's a whole lot I've left out.
Nice try, Bush was indeed originally opposed to DHS, but he was actually for guest worker programs and reforming immigration; he took a lot of heat from other Republicans over that stance but I do not recall him ever changing that.
Yes it is somewhat of a non-story. But then you aren't thinking like Business School Product. By making an Announcement, they get to make an Announcement. This is considered an achievement for Business School Product. Another feature is that if you succeed by a great advertising campaign, that's all well and good for your organization, but what does it do for you, the Bog Standard Business School Product? Not much. If, on the other hand, you can introduce into the mindless waste that is "the buzz" a new Official Buzz Word (voted Most Likely to Make it on Buzz Word Bingo), then you as Business School Product have achieved the highest pinnacle of success. And if your new Buzz Word becomes an Official Buzz Verb, then you will go down in Business School Product as one of the greatest artistes of pop culture. You have finally made the big time, able to get into trendy nightclubs with but a wave of your Jedi marketing hand, "I'm Big Business School Product, don't look behind my curtain".
It is difficult to believe that Asus did this out of love for Redmond. I wonder how much MS paid for this special treatment, or did they threaten Asus with higher prices?
From the same taxfoundation doc, the top 50% of income earners pay 96.70% of federal income tax, and the top 10% pay 68.19% of federal income tax.
You're full of shit, capitalism is the idea that a LARGE group of individuals ought to be able to make unilateral and INDIVIDUAL decisions with wide reaching consequences according to their own arbitrary whims.
Yeah, I can see it now. Robokitty walks into the house: Hey MeatBoy, could you get some mouse kibblets for my Lady Cat here? And she likes to be brushed, so get on your hands and knees and start stroking.
Check the amounts, this isn't even a drop in the piss stream of money the Eurocrats whiz every year. To think they did this for money is stupid.