How the heck am I supposed to get ahead when these downturns happen every 5 years or so? How does one build wealth, get married and raise a family? I mean I just got my 6 month emergency fund restocked, and now I might have to use it?
You're not. You're supposed to be living paycheck-to-paycheck. They want you eating out of their hand. Welcome to the world of slavery! Welcome to the machine!
Dumb animals. You said it right there. Think about it. If we can heard a bunch of supposedly intelligent human beings just by putting up those 'Tense-A-Barrier' things, we can't be that far off from hearding dumb animals.;)
And if you think ranch-hands make a huge "bundle of money" compared to what it would cost to outfit and maintain a herd full of transmitters at $900 a head, you are WAY out of touch with how much ranch-hands make.
Notice I said "in the long run". At first, a rancher might start with outfitting the 'leaders' amd try the tech out. Or they might try it on some small herd on a contained plot of land, or something like that. I don't know much about ranching, honestly. But what I am saying is that that's kind of how things got started in the sign industry -- the CAD/CAM systems that came out at first really couldn't replace a sign painter. And they were expensive. It cost the annual salary of like 3-4 journeyman sign painters just to buy one machine.
But as the tech got better and economies of scale kicked in, you can by a machine complete with software that can power a small sign shop run by a single person for about a couple of grand. Less if you buy used.
So they'd start out with little projects here and there, and slowly but surely everything got automated more and more and more. To the point that these days, there are no more sign painters.
Sign painters figured they'd never get replaced by automation because they had a skill, and there was no way to automate that.
But I'm telling you, even if it isn't *this* tech, a radio-powered *something*, probably combined with other tech, will likely be used to herd cattle around someday.
So people going around emphatically denying that this profession or that profession is 'safe' from automation are most likely wrong, in the grand scheme of things.
Perhaps. But you sound like a whole lot of people whose jobs have since been replaced by automation.
Seriously.
For example, it was once said that vinyl-cutting CAD/CAM systems would never replace the journeyman sign painter (yes, signs used to be painted by hand!). You could NEVER do all the stuff that a guy with a brush and some paint could do.
Yet, today, you pretty much can. There are very few people left who actually know how to layout and paint a sign by hand like an old pro. Most sign companies don't even have a hand lettering person on staff anymore.
This might be in its infancy, but it is possible -- even likely -- that one day, something along these lines might actually be made to work well enough to replace experienced ranch hands.
If a rancher can even eliminate the need for 1 or 2 ranch hands with this technology, in the long-run, he'll save himself a bundle of money.
Exactly. And just about every TV sold in America and every set-top box I've ever seen includes some sort of 'parental control' feature. Hell, even my el-cleapo $30 Phillips DVD player has a 'parental control' feature. (How good these are and how easily they can be bypassed is a different issue entirely.)
So, yeah, you probably actually are helping to foot the cost, especially if you have bought consumer electronics in the last few years, but in the end, economies of scale make it so that you don't really feel it.
The electric efficiency is being ignored completely, and the miles driven on electric power are being used to massively inflate the petrol efficiency.
With a plug-in hybrid, the 'plug-in' part is optional. The engine will still charge the battery. The difference with a plug-in hybrid is that if you DO plug it in, the internal combustion engine doesn't kick in until the battery gets low that's typically about 50 miles for most plug-in hybrids.
So, if you don't do the plug-in part, you'll get better mileage than IC, similar to a Prius. If you do the plug-in part, then, yeah, you're not counting the kW/h used, however, realize that it is far easier to turn the power plant into alternative engery (i.e., nuclear, wind, solar, water currents, etc.) than it is to turn the car into using alternative energy because the infrastructure changes need to happen only in one place.
Look, if people obeyed the traffic laws, drivers and pedestrians alike, then there's no need for any of this crap. Cross the damn road at the signal and look both ways before crossing the damn street. If you're blind, get a fscking seeing eye dog or have a sighted person with you.
Oh, so making the planet inhabitable and inhospitable to human life is going to help the poor?
The cost of oil is going to continue to rise, subsidies or no. At the end of the day, shrinking supply + increasing demand == more $$$$. There's no stopping that force in a free market system. And free market economies are the force driving the global economy, like it or not.
There's no reason why we shouldn't end government subsidies on big oil.
We really are a joke to them, I remember the hilarious conversations we used to have about IP in Shenzhen with the local engineers, they have no concept of it at all. Its all fair game if they can work out how we did it.
While I think that we need to have some sort of protections like copyright and patents, I think that the concept of "intellectual property" is not useful. The purpose of copyright and patent protection is to encourage the useful arts and sciences. It does not exist to create intellectual 'fences' around ideas so that some person or corporation can make unlimited amounts of money forever on their intellectual creation. Copyrighted works and patented concepts must come back into the public domain after a relatively short period of time, just as the Founding Fathers envisioned it when they wrote the Constitution. This is what helps to advance arts and technology.
The point of copyright and patent protection isn't to provide companies with unlimited capital, but to encourage them to create new works and new technolgies that benefit everyone.
Yeah, but can they please choose another acronym? Computer Aided Design has been around a very, very long time. How about Computer Enabled (or Enhanced) Detection (CED) or Computer Facilitated Detection (CFD)?
That can hide subtle problems, especially in your own modules. A module can fail to load and you'll be left scratching your head as to why, because your method will cause the interpreter to abort with an exception on the second module, even if the 'one_way_to_do_it' module is supposed to work.
The better way would be to trap individual exceptions with something like this:
and so forth, so you get a better idea of what's going on. But I like my first way better because it tells the knowledgeable script user what's going on;)
Windows 3.x was 32-bit, but the main API was 16-bit. That's why it required a 386 or better. You could, in fact, install a 32-bit API called win32s for Windows 3.1
NT was both 32-bit and 64-bit. NT 3.5 and 4.0 ran on DEC Alpha and MIPS.
Vista also comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.
Most distros already include the current and previous versions of Python. So Ubuntu, for instance, will include 2.6 and 3.0, and possibly 2.5 as well.
Furthermore, you can check to see what version of Python you're running under and make your code so that it accomodates both. This is all accessible via sys.version or sys.version_info
With that knowledge, you just put all your version specific stuff in modules.
So you can do a: import sys major,minor,micro,release,release_num = sys.version if (major > 3):
import module_for_python_3.0 else:
import module_for_python_2.x
And for the record, I don't consider myself a Democrat, either. Both parties suck, but at least we usually have a fair chance to pick between Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dumber.
I know you aren't speaking from particular knowledge,
Just the particular knowledge contained in TFA, which states that the original reason Sequoia gave to block the report from being created in the first place was that the requested information contained trade secrets.
why does the evolution of desktop operating systems like Windows go slower now than a decade ago?
It's not exactly the way you paint it. There is no 'line of succession' between Windows 3.11 and Windows XP.
XP and Vista are derivatives of Windows NT. Version 3.1, the first version of NT, was released in 1992. There's a chasm of difference between Windows 3.11 and NT 3.1.
Between Windows 4.0, which was released in 1994 or 1996 and Windows 2000, there's not that much difference outside of the user interface changes. And between 2000 and Vista there's not that much difference, aside from user interface changes. But the evolution as a whole shows that 4.0 and Vista are very different operating systems.
Windows 95/98/ME and descended from the same line as 3.11. And thus have the same problems.
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And you know because you've asked for all their papers? The fact that someone is a Latino and homeless doesn't make them an illegal alien.
'Sides, last I checked you had to prove citizenship in order to register to vote.
How the heck am I supposed to get ahead when these downturns happen every 5 years or so? How does one build wealth, get married and raise a family? I mean I just got my 6 month emergency fund restocked, and now I might have to use it?
You're not. You're supposed to be living paycheck-to-paycheck. They want you eating out of their hand. Welcome to the world of slavery! Welcome to the machine!
Looks that way. Now when does Linux takeover the desktop market?
Let me consult my oracle:
Hmph. Outlook not so good.
Maybe it means that Thunderbird will start to take over ... ;)
The odds of it landing on you even if were tough enough to survive atmospheric entry are pretty remote.
The odds are astronomical, even! Hell, the odds are on a galactic scale! Why, the odds are so big, they make space look small!
Thank, you, thank you, I'm here all....Hey! What's with the giant hooooooooook....
Dumb animals. You said it right there. Think about it. If we can heard a bunch of supposedly intelligent human beings just by putting up those 'Tense-A-Barrier' things, we can't be that far off from hearding dumb animals. ;)
And if you think ranch-hands make a huge "bundle of money" compared to what it would cost to outfit and maintain a herd full of transmitters at $900 a head, you are WAY out of touch with how much ranch-hands make.
Notice I said "in the long run". At first, a rancher might start with outfitting the 'leaders' amd try the tech out. Or they might try it on some small herd on a contained plot of land, or something like that. I don't know much about ranching, honestly. But what I am saying is that that's kind of how things got started in the sign industry -- the CAD/CAM systems that came out at first really couldn't replace a sign painter. And they were expensive. It cost the annual salary of like 3-4 journeyman sign painters just to buy one machine.
But as the tech got better and economies of scale kicked in, you can by a machine complete with software that can power a small sign shop run by a single person for about a couple of grand. Less if you buy used.
So they'd start out with little projects here and there, and slowly but surely everything got automated more and more and more. To the point that these days, there are no more sign painters.
Sign painters figured they'd never get replaced by automation because they had a skill, and there was no way to automate that.
But I'm telling you, even if it isn't *this* tech, a radio-powered *something*, probably combined with other tech, will likely be used to herd cattle around someday.
So people going around emphatically denying that this profession or that profession is 'safe' from automation are most likely wrong, in the grand scheme of things.
And blogs. Blogs suck, too. Along with news sites. They all suck, too. Did I mention blogs?
Perhaps. But you sound like a whole lot of people whose jobs have since been replaced by automation.
Seriously.
For example, it was once said that vinyl-cutting CAD/CAM systems would never replace the journeyman sign painter (yes, signs used to be painted by hand!). You could NEVER do all the stuff that a guy with a brush and some paint could do.
Yet, today, you pretty much can. There are very few people left who actually know how to layout and paint a sign by hand like an old pro. Most sign companies don't even have a hand lettering person on staff anymore.
This might be in its infancy, but it is possible -- even likely -- that one day, something along these lines might actually be made to work well enough to replace experienced ranch hands.
If a rancher can even eliminate the need for 1 or 2 ranch hands with this technology, in the long-run, he'll save himself a bundle of money.
Exactly. And just about every TV sold in America and every set-top box I've ever seen includes some sort of 'parental control' feature. Hell, even my el-cleapo $30 Phillips DVD player has a 'parental control' feature. (How good these are and how easily they can be bypassed is a different issue entirely.)
So, yeah, you probably actually are helping to foot the cost, especially if you have bought consumer electronics in the last few years, but in the end, economies of scale make it so that you don't really feel it.
(And, realize that something like 30-40% of the power plants in the world are already using alternative energy)
The electric efficiency is being ignored completely, and the miles driven on electric power are being used to massively inflate the petrol efficiency.
With a plug-in hybrid, the 'plug-in' part is optional. The engine will still charge the battery. The difference with a plug-in hybrid is that if you DO plug it in, the internal combustion engine doesn't kick in until the battery gets low that's typically about 50 miles for most plug-in hybrids.
So, if you don't do the plug-in part, you'll get better mileage than IC, similar to a Prius. If you do the plug-in part, then, yeah, you're not counting the kW/h used, however, realize that it is far easier to turn the power plant into alternative engery (i.e., nuclear, wind, solar, water currents, etc.) than it is to turn the car into using alternative energy because the infrastructure changes need to happen only in one place.
OMFG, please MAKE IT STOP.
Look, if people obeyed the traffic laws, drivers and pedestrians alike, then there's no need for any of this crap. Cross the damn road at the signal and look both ways before crossing the damn street. If you're blind, get a fscking seeing eye dog or have a sighted person with you.
Why do people have no fscking common sense?!
Oh, so making the planet inhabitable and inhospitable to human life is going to help the poor?
The cost of oil is going to continue to rise, subsidies or no. At the end of the day, shrinking supply + increasing demand == more $$$$. There's no stopping that force in a free market system. And free market economies are the force driving the global economy, like it or not.
There's no reason why we shouldn't end government subsidies on big oil.
We really are a joke to them, I remember the hilarious conversations we used to have about IP in Shenzhen with the local engineers, they have no concept of it at all. Its all fair game if they can work out how we did it.
While I think that we need to have some sort of protections like copyright and patents, I think that the concept of "intellectual property" is not useful. The purpose of copyright and patent protection is to encourage the useful arts and sciences. It does not exist to create intellectual 'fences' around ideas so that some person or corporation can make unlimited amounts of money forever on their intellectual creation. Copyrighted works and patented concepts must come back into the public domain after a relatively short period of time, just as the Founding Fathers envisioned it when they wrote the Constitution. This is what helps to advance arts and technology.
The point of copyright and patent protection isn't to provide companies with unlimited capital, but to encourage them to create new works and new technolgies that benefit everyone.
To think otherwise is an abomination.
Yeah, but can they please choose another acronym? Computer Aided Design has been around a very, very long time. How about Computer Enabled (or Enhanced) Detection (CED) or Computer Facilitated Detection (CFD)?
That can hide subtle problems, especially in your own modules. A module can fail to load and you'll be left scratching your head as to why, because your method will cause the interpreter to abort with an exception on the second module, even if the 'one_way_to_do_it' module is supposed to work.
The better way would be to trap individual exceptions with something like this:
try:
import one_way_to_do_do_it
except SomeException:
handle_SomeException()
except SomeOtherException:
handle_some_other_exception()
and so forth, so you get a better idea of what's going on. But I like my first way better because it tells the knowledgeable script user what's going on ;)
Slashdot ate my equals sign somehow. change the (major > 3) to (major >= 3)
No.
Windows 3.x was 32-bit, but the main API was 16-bit. That's why it required a 386 or better. You could, in fact, install a 32-bit API called win32s for Windows 3.1
NT was both 32-bit and 64-bit. NT 3.5 and 4.0 ran on DEC Alpha and MIPS.
Vista also comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.
Most distros already include the current and previous versions of Python. So Ubuntu, for instance, will include 2.6 and 3.0, and possibly 2.5 as well.
Furthermore, you can check to see what version of Python you're running under and make your code so that it accomodates both. This is all accessible via sys.version or sys.version_info
>>> sys.version
'2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 22:53:39) \n[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)]
>>> sys.version_info
(2, 5, 1, 'final', 0)
With that knowledge, you just put all your version specific stuff in modules.
So you can do a:
import sys
major,minor,micro,release,release_num = sys.version
if (major > 3):
import module_for_python_3.0
else:
import module_for_python_2.x
And for the record, I don't consider myself a Democrat, either. Both parties suck, but at least we usually have a fair chance to pick between Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dumber.
There. Fixed it for you.
I know you aren't speaking from particular knowledge,
Just the particular knowledge contained in TFA, which states that the original reason Sequoia gave to block the report from being created in the first place was that the requested information contained trade secrets.
s/Windows 4.0/Windows NT 4.0
my bad.
why does the evolution of desktop operating systems like Windows go slower now than a decade ago?
It's not exactly the way you paint it. There is no 'line of succession' between Windows 3.11 and Windows XP.
XP and Vista are derivatives of Windows NT. Version 3.1, the first version of NT, was released in 1992. There's a chasm of difference between Windows 3.11 and NT 3.1.
Between Windows 4.0, which was released in 1994 or 1996 and Windows 2000, there's not that much difference outside of the user interface changes. And between 2000 and Vista there's not that much difference, aside from user interface changes. But the evolution as a whole shows that 4.0 and Vista are very different operating systems.
Windows 95/98/ME and descended from the same line as 3.11. And thus have the same problems.
So, no, it's not that simple.
I can't decide whether The Reg is The National Enquirer or the Weekly World News of tech news sites on the Web.
Can someone help me with this? ;)
Well, let's see 4 = D, right?
There 3 4's.
There are 4 1's and 4 > 3, so subtract 10 from the 31 factor and you get 21. 21=U
The first two digits of 326 are 3 and 2, the sum of which is 5. 5=E
So our first word is DUDE.
And I'm pretty sure the rest of the message has to do with thinking, because 4433 makes you think.
So, the message is:
"Dude, you are SOOOO overthinking this."