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When ISPs shut your service down when you aren't even distributing DeCSS (there was a stylesheet remover by that name as a way of protesting the DeCSS lawsuits.) without proper notification even though the DMCA requires it, you'd probably hold the ISP responsible.
But then again that's as useful as complaining it's not news for nerds, stuff that matters. Which reminds me, technically the comma in the previous sentence is more correct than the beloved slogan.
Feel free to pay a coder to fix code ten times because your lead programmer chose IE as a starting point instead of a standard based browser.
Do that 3 times and your coder will quit because you'll be laying off ppl anyway once the expense reports come in. Coders are starting to equate waste with job insecurity.
Or did you think people are fools enough to work on salary? Much less for an employer who is going to waste their talent? Not in this economy. You want something done, make every hour count. Then pay the coders accordingly.
Cost = i * work Value = j * 1 browser Profit = Value - Cost Raise or Bonus = k% of Profit
Where would a coder like to work: 1. Someplace where the profit margin is reduced because of inept leadership which reduces employee earning potential
2. Someplace where the profit margin is 10x which increases earning potential
What Windows can do is always a question. There's always a doubt. As a professional you use what you got for the best cost/long term experience value.
On Unix it's never a question because you can always get around shortcomings.
As for checking out whether it's possible, he knew Unix could do it and there was nothing requiring him to use Windows. Why should he do the work of Microsoft's marketting department? If Microsoft wants people to know what Windows can do then let them push the info already. Course they'll never do that since it would invalidate the image the majority of people have of Windows being GUI only and I know that's a threat to their bottom line in the consumer market.
In Windows, you have to keep it a secret that Windows can actually do the work in some cases. CLIing around is a taboo.
In Unix, nothing is a secret. Not getting the job done is a taboo.
That's just it. You're not admining the server. You're admining Windows. You constantly have to reinvent what you do because Microsoft changes this option to work some other way.
Technical skill degenerates into, well I use this command with this app which basically means you don't understand the process, nor the task, and are couched in having Microsoft do it for you.
In Unix, you know the task, and you know how to do it with a million different tools without even having to stress about "their way".
I'll give it a look... I'm just saying that I've seen this before. I've written rules that are self-replicating which if you mess with them will release cancers throughout the whole structure. I've played with the little critters enough to scare some virus writers at how they behave.
I didn't say experiments aren't required. In fact I said they were required for it be science in the first place. It might just be Wolfram's delivery is ineffective. Just didn't seem like he was doing anything more than digital botany.
If he is doing more than that, he needs a promotional advisor, badly.
Damn, he spent 10 years? My mistake. I must have had the right mentor, it only took a short while to see the Nature is a CA idea.
I guess the sample pages about how come we haven't used this stuff before sounded a little whiny.
Honestly, I still think the biggest block to scientific advance we have is societal and cultural not simply a lack of knowledge. It's right damn frustrating. Or maybe reality just bores me lately.
This stuff is like 40 years old. Older than Unix (30 year old OSes are fine, 31 year old ones well...).
I used to create two colonies of cells which after a certain modification would start firing moving structures at each other destroying each others sections. Sometimes bridges were built. I had one where cells seemed to patrol the border like a marquee (in reality they weren't moving, the cells simply progressed in the same decaying states). For the majority of situations, these patrols prevented incoming bodies from destroying the structures they were seemingly protecting.
We don't need a new kind of science. We need a level playing field that allows anyone to research without the kind of elitism that infuriates just the kind of people that cause independent groups to degenerate into cliques and feuds often found in the Free Energy, Cold Fusion, and Perpetual Machine cults.
We need a new approach at problem solving. Running a hundred experiments that make no new predictions is not science. Show me a laptop powered by water and I'll drop a dime into the donation cup.
If anything this stuff simply says that when things change they may stay the same. We program using code that behaves the same way at all times. Suppose code frangments changed in ways that valid execution strings were still created, but rather than taking up many gigs of space you would call a timer to capture a certain snapshot and rearrange the code to perform some other work.
Most of the arguments for no Internet research, palm notebooks, and such are based on bias.
So what are those biases based on?
The net seems to obscure the fact that many people contribute to an idea. This is especially true of research.
As for the palm computers, many people think that they are being thrifty if they get something for one purpose. But everything is backwards in terms of computers. The more general the cheaper the product, yet the more general the more powerful it is.
Sure some don't but I've seen enough yellow buses full of kids to not be too worried.
It's like they've raised by wolves and suddenly found civilization.
Totalitarianism destroys heritage and culture which produces a society incapable of prioritizing (school vs games, that's a tough one) or recognizing the problem (ban the games, don't bring it in slowly, and bring back the straitjacket gov't, that'll fix everything).
As long as they have nothing to look forward to nor noone to look up to, you're going to see this result. I'm sure pride, vanity, envy, and plain lying will produce an argument as to why it's worse without the totalitarian control. Might as well be cryogenically frozen until there's a cure for culture shock (which of course is a catch-22).
What do you do when they're interested in nothing but shiny things on TV? which is usually the result of having no interest at all?
I will not have one of those in my house, no sir. They tend to become injured morally and in their self-image and tend not to care about consequences just sitting there absorbing junk media.
I don't want them to become like me (certainly not like the losers I faced growing up, but that a whole other post.) However, you have to exercise your brain to use it. I'm not going to wait until they figure out what they want before I give them some training. These are the years when their self-esteem is most modifiable and the days when they are capable of being very curious.
Maybe you just had the wrong teachers. I'm a programmer, but I have a thing for mathematics and music. Oddly enough I learned music visually and from reading stories.
I couldn't give a damn about key this or instrument that. But if I thought a treatment of an idea needed more OOOMPH or more finesse, it was because of all the reading I've done. I owe some of it to my brother teaching me all he knows about movies. However, the least important thing for me is the sound element. It's everything else that grabs me.
Maybe do an audit of what you've been trained at and see if you can't apply it to your mechanical inclinations.
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I'm sorry if this Internet TV show is so boring for you... why bother commenting?
When ISPs shut your service down when you aren't even distributing DeCSS (there was a stylesheet remover by that name as a way of protesting the DeCSS lawsuits.) without proper notification even though the DMCA requires it, you'd probably hold the ISP responsible.
Why not Network Solutions?
So is it legal to um "describe" said application to non-users who might decide to code something else?
Also what pissed Lawwy off to have him bring in the threats?
Seriously dude you don't need to network everything INCLUDING people.
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Keep it simple
Store policies prevent users from being able to return opened boxes.
You can't test what you can't open.
Any boxes someone doesn't buy are assumed as lack of interest not displeasure.
Every game involves different situations so there are no trends such as shoddy coding to be gleaned.
But then again that's as useful as complaining it's not news for nerds, stuff that matters. Which reminds me, technically the comma in the previous sentence is more correct than the beloved slogan.
I really doubt they'll have any luck overseas.
Germany fined SCO $10000 for making threatening statements.
Hmm wonder how X does it?
Ah but Bill Gates is not an inanimate object. I would be betraying everything that's sacred to reward him for his crappy software.
Waste = More work = Less Profit = Less Bonus for coders
Let him fire the coders. He'll be doing them a favor.
Do you take your coders for morons?
Feel free to pay a coder to fix code ten times because your lead programmer chose IE as a starting point instead of a standard based browser.
Do that 3 times and your coder will quit because you'll be laying off ppl anyway once the expense reports come in. Coders are starting to equate waste with job insecurity.
Or did you think people are fools enough to work on salary? Much less for an employer who is going to waste their talent? Not in this economy. You want something done, make every hour count. Then pay the coders accordingly.
Cost = i * work
Value = j * 1 browser
Profit = Value - Cost
Raise or Bonus = k% of Profit
Where would a coder like to work:
1. Someplace where the profit margin is reduced because of inept leadership which reduces employee earning potential
2. Someplace where the profit margin is 10x which increases earning potential
What Windows can do is always a question. There's always a doubt. As a professional you use what you got for the best cost/long term experience value.
On Unix it's never a question because you can always get around shortcomings.
As for checking out whether it's possible, he knew Unix could do it and there was nothing requiring him to use Windows. Why should he do the work of Microsoft's marketting department? If Microsoft wants people to know what Windows can do then let them push the info already. Course they'll never do that since it would invalidate the image the majority of people have of Windows being GUI only and I know that's a threat to their bottom line in the consumer market.
In Windows, you have to keep it a secret that Windows can actually do the work in some cases. CLIing around is a taboo.
In Unix, nothing is a secret. Not getting the job done is a taboo.
That's just it. You're not admining the server. You're admining Windows. You constantly have to reinvent what you do because Microsoft changes this option to work some other way.
Technical skill degenerates into, well I use this command with this app which basically means you don't understand the process, nor the task, and are couched in having Microsoft do it for you.
In Unix, you know the task, and you know how to do it with a million different tools without even having to stress about "their way".
Keep your shirt on!
What in the world makes you think it didn't have to do with documents in the trash?
Like maybe someone made themselves look as qualified as him.
>This tendancy towards living in fear scares me.
In that case you're screwed.
That's like installing Windows to prove your computer can boot.
I'll give it a look... I'm just saying that I've seen this before. I've written rules that are self-replicating which if you mess with them will release cancers throughout the whole structure.
I've played with the little critters enough to scare some virus writers at how they behave.
I didn't say experiments aren't required. In fact I said they were required for it be science in the first place. It might just be Wolfram's delivery is ineffective. Just didn't seem like he was doing anything more than digital botany.
If he is doing more than that, he needs a promotional advisor, badly.
Nitrous? don't you mean helium?
Damn, he spent 10 years? My mistake. I must have had the right mentor, it only took a short while to see the Nature is a CA idea.
I guess the sample pages about how come we haven't used this stuff before sounded a little whiny.
Honestly, I still think the biggest block to scientific advance we have is societal and cultural not simply a lack of knowledge. It's right damn frustrating. Or maybe reality just bores me lately.
This stuff is like 40 years old. Older than Unix (30 year old OSes are fine, 31 year old ones well...).
I used to create two colonies of cells which after a certain modification would start firing moving structures at each other destroying each others sections. Sometimes bridges were built. I had one where cells seemed to patrol the border like a marquee (in reality they weren't moving, the cells simply progressed in the same decaying states). For the majority of situations, these patrols prevented incoming bodies from destroying the structures they were seemingly protecting.
We don't need a new kind of science. We need a level playing field that allows anyone to research without the kind of elitism that infuriates just the kind of people that cause independent groups to degenerate into cliques and feuds often found in the Free Energy, Cold Fusion, and Perpetual Machine cults.
We need a new approach at problem solving. Running a hundred experiments that make no new predictions is not science. Show me a laptop powered by water and I'll drop a dime into the donation cup.
If anything this stuff simply says that when things change they may stay the same. We program using code that behaves the same way at all times.
Suppose code frangments changed in ways that valid execution strings were still created, but rather than taking up many gigs of space you would call a timer to capture a certain snapshot and rearrange the code to perform some other work.
Publishing a book costs much more than holding a blog for anyone to critique.
And I happen to do tech writing. I can tell you first hand I've seen nothing but plagiarism from partners in certification manuals. Big time partners.
Most of the arguments for no Internet research, palm notebooks, and such are based on bias.
So what are those biases based on?
The net seems to obscure the fact that many people contribute to an idea. This is especially true of research.
As for the palm computers, many people think that they are being thrifty if they get something for one purpose. But everything is backwards in terms of computers. The more general the cheaper the product, yet the more general the more powerful it is.
Sure some don't but I've seen enough yellow buses full of kids to not be too worried.
It's like they've raised by wolves and suddenly found civilization.
Totalitarianism destroys heritage and culture which produces a society incapable of prioritizing (school vs games, that's a tough one) or recognizing the problem (ban the games, don't bring it in slowly, and bring back the straitjacket gov't, that'll fix everything).
As long as they have nothing to look forward to nor noone to look up to, you're going to see this result. I'm sure pride, vanity, envy, and plain lying will produce an argument as to why it's worse without the totalitarian control. Might as well be cryogenically frozen until there's a cure for culture shock (which of course is a catch-22).
What do you do when they're interested in nothing but shiny things on TV? which is usually the result of having no interest at all?
I will not have one of those in my house, no sir. They tend to become injured morally and in their self-image and tend not to care about consequences just sitting there absorbing junk media.
I don't want them to become like me (certainly not like the losers I faced growing up, but that a whole other post.) However, you have to exercise your brain to use it. I'm not going to wait until they figure out what they want before I give them some training. These are the years when their self-esteem is most modifiable and the days when they are capable of being very curious.
Maybe you just had the wrong teachers. I'm a programmer, but I have a thing for mathematics and music. Oddly enough I learned music visually and from reading stories.
I couldn't give a damn about key this or instrument that. But if I thought a treatment of an idea needed more OOOMPH or more finesse, it was because of all the reading I've done. I owe some of it to my brother teaching me all he knows about movies. However, the least important thing for me is the sound element. It's everything else that grabs me.
Maybe do an audit of what you've been trained at and see if you can't apply it to your mechanical inclinations.
LaTeX is more readable.
LaTeX is already a layout language.
LaTeX doesn't need a backend to remind it it is a layout language.
Unless of course you'd like to create an application and hand that in instead of a report.
Canada has one but the acronym came from the million monkey office so I can't remember what it's called. www.dibona.org has it I believe.