Nobody is going to target the internet with large amounts of money when it's more feasible to target the general public using television/newspaper ads. Nobody is going to say, "Hey! Look! I can donate $100 million in internet advertising" *when the money can be better utilitised somewhere else*.
Your right. But if you wanted to say, launder your "undue influence" in a nice unregulated way, and avoid any further Tom Delay-like ethics inestigations, you just invented a nice and tidy way to do it.
Your book is a style guide: a reference of background information and pointers how best to code
Did you even skim the pdf before posting? While it does include a coding guidelines section with each section, it also has a commentary section, language and standard comparision, etc... For example, when was the last time you read a style guide went into a lengthy discussion on the probability of floating point errors based on implementation. Given your current position, Knuth and Strang produce texts that are useless as they are not a cookbook for produce {latest widget} in {latest language}.
The Sparc laptop is $3,400! The specs on it suck. 512MB and 40GB? For $3,400 for a laptop, I better be getting some state-of-the-art hardware and not some dog-slow sparc with poor specs. ; )
Thank you! What amazes me is that there target market is "engineers and scientists perform[ing] demanding computer tasks away from their desks" and they only have 512MB of RAM. In my experience, heavy load engineering tasks are often bottlenecked by memory and not the processor or a CISC/RISC debate. Thus a Linux/x86 laptop with 2GB of ram may outperform the SPARC system for a significantly lower cost.
Further, in response to all of the "sun makes rock solid servers": anyone who is doing heavy engineering mobily will generally be more concerned about data throughput than hot swapping video cards. If people wanted a server in the field then: a) it probably doesn't need to sit on their lap; b) they are probably in a location where it would have been easier to just ship an Ultra and a flat panel.
That is, Europe has its fair share of stupid people too.
You can take it further to make some profound observations on the human psyche. That is, you will find that the key to Jung's concept of the collective unconscious in the following 2 related observations:
Jung's theory is missing 1 ennegram -- "The Redneck"
The proportion of "Rednecks" in any sufficiently large population is constant (although the sport and beer of choice may be a highly localized phenomena).
Nope. The research money will just go elsewhere; the current production lines will become streamlined; and the price point will be fixed by lesser know vendors. The CRT market (amply supplied by the way) is just transitioning from growth tech to tech commodity.
capitalism and communism do not apply to information, as they are systems for distributing scarce resources, and information, once created, is not naturally scarce
I see your point. The problem I see is ultimately that the creators of information (easily reproduceable hence not scarce) need scarce resources (e.g. food). So if information wants to be free (as in *), how exactly do you feed the programmers. It seems like if someone is willing to produce for free (as in *) that which used to be not free (as in *), you would depress the wages/whatever of the market for information creators.
Spike Lee was unavailable for comment. In related news, revlon is trading higher in anticipation that the "average computer user" will be convinced that staying clean from viruses requires wearing blackface.
The argument seems to be that P2P networks are inherently illegitimate because they are allegedly primarily used for sharing copyrighted works. Why doesn't this argument then extend to IPSs and the Internet as a whole, given the fact that the bulk of internet traffic is used for P2P applications?
Jews worship the same God as Christians
Not to be picky, but if your a monotheist, and person X calls God Adonai and person Y calls God Allah, isn't it still the same entity?
I think that there is no purely technical solution, but there is a solution that is a combination of community diligence and technical tools. Slashdot has managed to stay solvent despite the goatsecxsers, hot grittsers, and more virulent trolls. Kuro5hin has managed with a different system. Ultimately it seems that there needs to be some loose hierarchy and some real reprocussions within the community to bad behavior.
Is it just me, or does Gate's charity remind anyone else of Papal Indulgence (A.K.A. A get out of hell free card). Given that, maybe Free and Open Software Movement is the Protestant Reformation of our modern age. Although Stallman as Luther is a pretty scary thought.
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Nobody is going to target the internet with large amounts of money when it's more feasible to target the general public using television/newspaper ads. Nobody is going to say, "Hey! Look! I can donate $100 million in internet advertising" *when the money can be better utilitised somewhere else*.
Your right. But if you wanted to say, launder your "undue influence" in a nice unregulated way, and avoid any further Tom Delay-like ethics inestigations, you just invented a nice and tidy way to do it.
What ever happened to this fluorescent light bulb hack? I'd pay good money for x-ray specs, even if they are 3m long.
Most people value their lives more then their freedom.
I wholeheartedly agree. I have always believed in trusting the lesser evil.
Your book is a style guide: a reference of background information and pointers how best to code
Did you even skim the pdf before posting? While it does include a coding guidelines section with each section, it also has a commentary section, language and standard comparision, etc... For example, when was the last time you read a style guide went into a lengthy discussion on the probability of floating point errors based on implementation. Given your current position, Knuth and Strang produce texts that are useless as they are not a cookbook for produce {latest widget} in {latest language}.
Your post does raise the more interesting question of finding the the soul of computer science.
The Sparc laptop is $3,400! The specs on it suck. 512MB and 40GB? For $3,400 for a laptop, I better be getting some state-of-the-art hardware and not some dog-slow sparc with poor specs. ; )
Thank you! What amazes me is that there target market is "engineers and scientists perform[ing] demanding computer tasks away from their desks" and they only have 512MB of RAM. In my experience, heavy load engineering tasks are often bottlenecked by memory and not the processor or a CISC/RISC debate. Thus a Linux/x86 laptop with 2GB of ram may outperform the SPARC system for a significantly lower cost.
Further, in response to all of the "sun makes rock solid servers": anyone who is doing heavy engineering mobily will generally be more concerned about data throughput than hot swapping video cards. If people wanted a server in the field then: a) it probably doesn't need to sit on their lap; b) they are probably in a location where it would have been easier to just ship an Ultra and a flat panel.
That is why we must identify our candidates when they are young and train them in space!
You can take it further to make some profound observations on the human psyche. That is, you will find that the key to Jung's concept of the collective unconscious in the following 2 related observations:
Nope. The research money will just go elsewhere; the current production lines will become streamlined; and the price point will be fixed by lesser know vendors. The CRT market (amply supplied by the way) is just transitioning from growth tech to tech commodity.
Yes, one paid you money to put up with a bunch of crap, and the other made you feel good although it didn't help you eat.
capitalism and communism do not apply to information, as they are systems for distributing scarce resources, and information, once created, is not naturally scarce
I see your point. The problem I see is ultimately that the creators of information (easily reproduceable hence not scarce) need scarce resources (e.g. food). So if information wants to be free (as in *), how exactly do you feed the programmers. It seems like if someone is willing to produce for free (as in *) that which used to be not free (as in *), you would depress the wages/whatever of the market for information creators.
As a side note, I found this story on NPR really troubling: "Religous Schools Train Lawyers for Culture Wars"
Spike Lee was unavailable for comment. In related news, revlon is trading higher in anticipation that the "average computer user" will be convinced that staying clean from viruses requires wearing blackface.
The argument seems to be that P2P networks are inherently illegitimate because they are allegedly primarily used for sharing copyrighted works. Why doesn't this argument then extend to IPSs and the Internet as a whole, given the fact that the bulk of internet traffic is used for P2P applications?
Nasawatch has great coverage of the nomination with some interesting quotes.
In synopsis, Griffin has been willing eschew political expediency and stand on principle.
Jews worship the same God as Christians Not to be picky, but if your a monotheist, and person X calls God Adonai and person Y calls God Allah, isn't it still the same entity?
I scanned the headlines too fast and thought I read:
"Red Hat promises a more violent Fedora"
I think that there is no purely technical solution, but there is a solution that is a combination of community diligence and technical tools. Slashdot has managed to stay solvent despite the goatsecxsers, hot grittsers, and more virulent trolls. Kuro5hin has managed with a different system. Ultimately it seems that there needs to be some loose hierarchy and some real reprocussions within the community to bad behavior.
Is it just me, or does Gate's charity remind anyone else of Papal Indulgence (A.K.A. A get out of hell free card). Given that, maybe Free and Open Software Movement is the Protestant Reformation of our modern age. Although Stallman as Luther is a pretty scary thought.
Assuming you are writing from a warm room, somewhere near sea level, you have a density of approximately 1g/cm^3. So yes, you are relatively dense.