I thought success now depended upon a suite of flimsy, farcical patents and enough cash to hire an utterly immoral IP law firm willing to subvert every notion of justice and decency to beat potential competitors into the ground, or at least have them send you large cheques to keep said immoral IP law firm from dragging them through the month and delaying market entry for new products by months or years.
No kidding... I don't really get Delphi at all. I mean, sure, Pascal-like languages are fairly good teaching languages, but all in all, Java, with it's C/C++ like syntax seems far more logical in a world where C, C++, Objective C, C#, Java and hell, bloody Javascript and PHP, are dominant languages.
I can get MS Office, though it's obvious Microsoft and/or its partners benefit from this kind of lock-in, but at least it's so dominant you can see the logic. But Delphi? Does anybody code professionally in Delphi any more? Frankly, I only saw a few people who ever did.
and doubtless this Blogster has published his incredible finds that unseat what almost every climatologist in the fucking world says, right? I mean, you woujldnt just be buying into something that confirms your preexisting prejudices
When your sole definition of reality is that which can be argued well, I'd say you've stepped so far from a sane way of measuring and understanding the universe that you might as well believe you live in a Road Runner and Coyote cartoon.
let me ask you, do you think the universe cares if you can debate well?
Just to make it clear here, for any kind of non-trivial compatibility between Windows and *nix, Mono might as well not exist at all. Trying to assert that Mono offers anywhere near the portability one finds with Java is pure bullshit. And if I'm faced with having to put a helluva lot of work into porting between Windows and various *nixes, well why the fuck wouldn't I just use C/C++, with something like four decades of libraries and know-how behind it?
For all intents and purposes, C# is a Windows language, that treacherous little worm de Icaza's work aside. It may very well be the whiz bang bestest programming language and.NET may be the finest runtime environment, but they are utterly fucking irrelevant if you're planning on developing cross platform apps, and thus, it's safe to say, in this modern world, they don't mean rat fucking shit.
And really, apart from some neat syntactical innovations, C# is not the be-all and end-all of C-like languages, so for me it doesn't even enter consideration when I'm looking at a language for a project. The day and age when I wanted to limit myself to one platform is long long gone.
And by what measure is consensus the antithesis of science? This is nothing more than made-up meme, a lie told by clever pseudo-scientists and aped by morons like you.
I ran precisely one Ubuntu server, but they compiled Apache with some fucked up options and it would not, no matter what I did, run one of my PHP sites. In frustration, I through Debian on another machine, and it worked fine. At that point I decided never to try Ubuntu on a server again, and since then I've basically dumped it entire.
I remember in Ye Olde Days, when the sci.* Usenet groups started trying to push all the whackos to the talk.* and alt.* hierarchies, where researchers, if they were feeling particularly bored, could go and beat on netkooks. Coupled with moderation, it did return the sci groups back to some modicum of reason.
It can take years to do research on HIV and how it leads to AIDS, and it can take some maniac or holistic medicine astroturfer roughly twenty seconds to post an absurd and false claim against your research.
When it comes to AGW or evolution, the two topics I've paid the most attention to so far as comments from non-scientists, the bulk of the "skeptics" information seems to come from a very small number of organizations whose sole purpose is to spread anti-science FUD. Whether it's the Koch Brothers and their various shills or Answers in Genesis, it's all the same strategy; muddy the waters by making it look as if there is still huge debate on the scientific theory they're attacking. Throw in a bit of "consensus is evil, only believe dissenters" nonsense, they can give the appearance of a theory being total dreck, without ever having to bother actually publishing a single article in a journal to support the claim. Of course, it helps they have nasty little shills like Michael Behe and Roy Spencer who happily cash the cheques and publish anti-science material with their PhDs prominently displayed, but when you look at their actual publishing history in the journals, never publish anything to support the claims they so eagerly make on blogs, editorial sections or comment sections.
Fine by me. I long ago stopped reading anything by science journalists, who, save for an exceedingly small number of them, deserve neither the title "science" or "journalist".
It's one thing for people of near equal knowledge and ability to have a debate, even a heated one, but when we're talking about every one from credentialed experts to netkooks to astroturfers all posting in a format that seems to give equal weight to everyone, the results are anything but productive or useful.
One of my favorite blogs is by Professor Matt Strassler, a physicist at CERN, and also a damned fine writer, but frankly I ignore the comments to his blog entries because for every legitimate question or observation, there's some bloody nutjob who thinks because they use the word "quantum" in a sentence, that somehow makes what they're saying a legitimate critique.
So we can translate this as "We've abandoned using a cell phone's geolocation functionality, which is garbage, and now tie into all cell towers and get up to the minute accurate cell phone information, which we grab constantly and archive forever."
Um, I think the budget has now become a political nuclear weapon. Until the Tea Party can be excised from the GOP and forced to run its own merits (or, to put it another way, disappears into oblivion), this will continue. When maniacs like Cruz have sufficient clout to fuck up budget negotiations, you know the lunatics truly have taken over the asylum.
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I thought success now depended upon a suite of flimsy, farcical patents and enough cash to hire an utterly immoral IP law firm willing to subvert every notion of justice and decency to beat potential competitors into the ground, or at least have them send you large cheques to keep said immoral IP law firm from dragging them through the month and delaying market entry for new products by months or years.
No kidding... I don't really get Delphi at all. I mean, sure, Pascal-like languages are fairly good teaching languages, but all in all, Java, with it's C/C++ like syntax seems far more logical in a world where C, C++, Objective C, C#, Java and hell, bloody Javascript and PHP, are dominant languages.
I can get MS Office, though it's obvious Microsoft and/or its partners benefit from this kind of lock-in, but at least it's so dominant you can see the logic. But Delphi? Does anybody code professionally in Delphi any more? Frankly, I only saw a few people who ever did.
and doubtless this Blogster has published his incredible finds that unseat what almost every climatologist in the fucking world says, right? I mean, you woujldnt just be buying into something that confirms your preexisting prejudices
When your sole definition of reality is that which can be argued well, I'd say you've stepped so far from a sane way of measuring and understanding the universe that you might as well believe you live in a Road Runner and Coyote cartoon.
let me ask you, do you think the universe cares if you can debate well?
Just to make it clear here, for any kind of non-trivial compatibility between Windows and *nix, Mono might as well not exist at all. Trying to assert that Mono offers anywhere near the portability one finds with Java is pure bullshit. And if I'm faced with having to put a helluva lot of work into porting between Windows and various *nixes, well why the fuck wouldn't I just use C/C++, with something like four decades of libraries and know-how behind it?
For all intents and purposes, C# is a Windows language, that treacherous little worm de Icaza's work aside. It may very well be the whiz bang bestest programming language and .NET may be the finest runtime environment, but they are utterly fucking irrelevant if you're planning on developing cross platform apps, and thus, it's safe to say, in this modern world, they don't mean rat fucking shit.
And really, apart from some neat syntactical innovations, C# is not the be-all and end-all of C-like languages, so for me it doesn't even enter consideration when I'm looking at a language for a project. The day and age when I wanted to limit myself to one platform is long long gone.
I like the MycleanPC scam posts better.
You should feel lucky the Continental Congress didn't take your "long" view.
Hey, I did say he was effective. But the guy still sounds like a fucking asshole.
It's also a great testament to what an utter fucking prick Jobs was. An effective utter fucking prick, but an utter fucking prick nonetheless.
And by what measure is consensus the antithesis of science? This is nothing more than made-up meme, a lie told by clever pseudo-scientists and aped by morons like you.
I ran precisely one Ubuntu server, but they compiled Apache with some fucked up options and it would not, no matter what I did, run one of my PHP sites. In frustration, I through Debian on another machine, and it worked fine. At that point I decided never to try Ubuntu on a server again, and since then I've basically dumped it entire.
Here's a question. Who downmodded me; a Creationist or an AGW pseudo-skeptic? Or perhaps someone whose both.
There are plenty of places for morons and lunatics to spout their stupidity. Maybe Popular Science just doesn't want to be one of those places.
I remember in Ye Olde Days, when the sci.* Usenet groups started trying to push all the whackos to the talk.* and alt.* hierarchies, where researchers, if they were feeling particularly bored, could go and beat on netkooks. Coupled with moderation, it did return the sci groups back to some modicum of reason.
It can take years to do research on HIV and how it leads to AIDS, and it can take some maniac or holistic medicine astroturfer roughly twenty seconds to post an absurd and false claim against your research.
When it comes to AGW or evolution, the two topics I've paid the most attention to so far as comments from non-scientists, the bulk of the "skeptics" information seems to come from a very small number of organizations whose sole purpose is to spread anti-science FUD. Whether it's the Koch Brothers and their various shills or Answers in Genesis, it's all the same strategy; muddy the waters by making it look as if there is still huge debate on the scientific theory they're attacking. Throw in a bit of "consensus is evil, only believe dissenters" nonsense, they can give the appearance of a theory being total dreck, without ever having to bother actually publishing a single article in a journal to support the claim. Of course, it helps they have nasty little shills like Michael Behe and Roy Spencer who happily cash the cheques and publish anti-science material with their PhDs prominently displayed, but when you look at their actual publishing history in the journals, never publish anything to support the claims they so eagerly make on blogs, editorial sections or comment sections.
Fine by me. I long ago stopped reading anything by science journalists, who, save for an exceedingly small number of them, deserve neither the title "science" or "journalist".
It's one thing for people of near equal knowledge and ability to have a debate, even a heated one, but when we're talking about every one from credentialed experts to netkooks to astroturfers all posting in a format that seems to give equal weight to everyone, the results are anything but productive or useful.
One of my favorite blogs is by Professor Matt Strassler, a physicist at CERN, and also a damned fine writer, but frankly I ignore the comments to his blog entries because for every legitimate question or observation, there's some bloody nutjob who thinks because they use the word "quantum" in a sentence, that somehow makes what they're saying a legitimate critique.
So we can translate this as "We've abandoned using a cell phone's geolocation functionality, which is garbage, and now tie into all cell towers and get up to the minute accurate cell phone information, which we grab constantly and archive forever."
Yes, this strikes me as more of a "We don't like red apples, so we've abandoned it... Now introducing green apples!"
They made some pretty good movies out of his books, but I confess the few that I read I really struggled through.
And how does the 14th Amendment play into this?
Um, I think the budget has now become a political nuclear weapon. Until the Tea Party can be excised from the GOP and forced to run its own merits (or, to put it another way, disappears into oblivion), this will continue. When maniacs like Cruz have sufficient clout to fuck up budget negotiations, you know the lunatics truly have taken over the asylum.
And, of course, sick people being fucked over by the current system.
I do love tea part 'yards like you. What does amaze me is how they teach people with babboon-sized brains to type, let alone vote.