Yet many a mob scene, revolution, or overthrow of a government has been started with to much opiate, too little reason. It is not an opiate that keeps the masses down, it is the lack of hope of any change in their lives. An opiate, be it drugs or booze can over come that empty feeling and perhaps spark a change. There is an expression, in wine truth, it could be amended to say, in wine courage as well.
Dude, I think you need to do two out of three options:
1 - Drink at a party 2 - get Laid 3 - Smile
I'm a positive guy, yet you got me looking at that glass and wondering if it even matters that the glass has anything in it.
Then I realize that it is still half full of Vodka and I can still hope to party and smile (this is/., getting laid is less likely). I am sorry that this got moderated insightful, it should be +5 cynical.
I know this is art, but what's the big deal. So a poem scrolls up a screen and dies. Talk about read once approach to processing.
Is this a big deal because it got marketed well, it had big names associated with it? I feel like I did when I walked through the Delaware Arts museum, stopped to look at a canvas with colored straight lines and thought...huh? I love art, I love the idea of creativity (which is why I love programming), but Agrippa? it is a 5th grade programming project or a hackers toss off. The polygon Mona Lisa was a better article.
So for the first and maybe last time burn some karma and say "nothing to see here, move along please".
As I read through his writings it brought me back to my time at Moravian College circa 1979. I just started taking CS classes and in that same year Dr Brown, Head of the CS Department pulled out all the IBM mainframe systems and installed a PDP 11/45. Gone were the COBOL courses replaced by c, RATFOR, PASCAL, Fortran et al. I loved it and hated it at the same time.
Like the presentation, Dr Brown taught us programming before we really saw the computer. His focus was not on Language, but on concept. As he so well put to us, once done with our intro class we could work anywhere in any language. I believed it then and found it to be a true statement. At the end of that intro class he took the last three weeks and taught sort algorithms. The catch was each sort was analyzed in a different language. I chuckle when I read posts of youngsters that say "I learned Java, or C++ in college". I learned Programming in college then went on to figure out what language suited my economic and intellectual needs.
Cruelty in Computer Science? I am grateful for that kind of cruelty to this day. Since college I have had to adjust my knowledge as times and needs change. I have had the pleasure of working with RPG, COBOL, Java, FORTRAN, and even the bastard child Visual Basic. Unlike some, I do not look down at any language for each has its benefits for the task. What I do dislike is working on code written by persons who thought that "Learn to Code Java in three Weeks" made them a programmer; that language X is the best and only language out there.
Dr. Dijkstra says "Universities should not be afraid to teach radical novelties". What things could be discovered if that concept was embraced again.
Youngster, That's nothing compared to CP/M. Storing programs on 8" floppies, writing within 64K of memory...good times.
I both cut my teeth, and taught on that OS and have been a better Programmer for it. DOS is for lawn trespassers..Speaking of which, I need my cane, I see some kids coming this way with some shiny OS toy.
Somehow I am not comforted when a scientist exclaims "what the hell is that?". In most SciFi movies the next scene is an explosion viewed from very far away.
As a science fan I do agree this is exciting and I hope the science community can come up with plausible theories that can be discussed. Till then I do need to find my duct tape and tinfoil.
Thanks for dredging up the recent past. Just got over the pain in my wallet.
96' F250, Nice body, good cap, tow package and the fucking engine was shot. Caveat Emptor and in this case I failed the basic test of having my mechanic look it over before plunking money down.
btw, anyone looking for a F250 project truck? Maybe a school shop that wants to train future college grads of America.
Seems to me it is about time NASA contacts Area 51 and puts an order in for those inertial dampeners we keep hearing about in Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG. My favorite is EE Doc Smith's Enertia-less drives.
Putting shock absorbers in a space craft just sound wrong. What's next? Fuzzy dice in the command module?
didn't know whether to mod or comment...comment won out. 47, still current with today's tech world and wanting fast connection. Go kick their butts! +5 fun
that is a stark and scary article. Sadly enough it rings true to the point where even and an optimist like myself, I wonder not if, but when will this administration drop the other shoe and push us into a third war front.
It really sucks to be a thinking aware pawn in this current game of global chess.
Please...it is not the tools, but how they are used. It is too easy to blame VB or Access or XP, but the root problem is the programmer who used them to write crap code.
Did the programmer not test his or her work against all possible conditions? Did they question specs that asked for AV software on a closed system? A bad surgeon can kill you with the best scalpel, a skilled surgeon with a pen knife and a straw can save your life.
You worked on this project, shame then that you allowed such a travesty to be shit out onj the American public.
FAA regs state 500 ft separation in rural areas, 1000 ft in residential or urban areas. In Class G airspace you can fly as low as you like to the ground (if your are foolish), but cannot come with 500 ft of a structure. So if these folks lived in the country someone could fly over their property at 500 ft and take pictures to their hearts content.
Funny thing is, if they had just kept quiet this would be a non issue. How many people would be going onto google maps and looking at their specific spot on the planet. Now that they have raised a stink, people from all around the globe will consider visiting the famous "privacy" home. Their actions are like someone jumping up and down saying "Don't look at me, don;t look at me".
Two words...Ice Road truckers...okay I mean three words...World's Deadliest catch.
As a 47 year human, 28 year vet of the IT industry I can feel your pain. However, the road is long and he who lives in the mind can easily go batters on the mind numbing crawl that is the highway.
If possible, reinvent the skills and sell the hell out of the fact you got more life experience then those snot nosed zombies coming out of college factories (with minimal respect to current graduates). If that does not work, there is always the lottery. I got my eyes on the next power ball to provide my next career change, owner manager of an equestrian center.
Outrageous claims are made on/. every day. Given the demographics of this site, you will have do to more the words. To borrow from Shakespeare, me thinks the carbonunit doth protest to much...however, on the off chance I may be wrong, I am a mature minded nerd with actual outside interests besides computers. Now tell us all you have a husband or boyfriend otherwise I'd like to finally claim first post!
There are moments when I really miss the BBS world. Yes, I love my broadband connection over the internet, but I remember a time when I could dial into a BBS, no snoopes, no riaa, nothing but me and folks that could try to share at ridiculous slow rates compared to today, but without the crap we have to deal with today,
So now ISPs may block access to usenet? lets see, my options where I live are DSL through AT&T or cable through Charter. Wow, like I will be able to choose a path were I wont be blocked!
Yes, I remember BBS and can only imagine how we can circumvent this POS called the Internet and move forward to a time where I could "connect" without friggin Big or little brother watching me. (the tense change was intentional)
I think I'll just sip on my third vodka and club and ponder what I can do.
If you equate the likelihood of a supermodel having sex with you to the likelihood of a judge doing the right thing in this case, your optimism of the US legal system is higher than mine!:D If you equate the likelihood of a woman having sex with you to the likelihood of a judge doing the right thing in this case, your optimism of the US legal system is higher than mine!
I mean this is/. Why aim high when even the easy target may be tough to hit. However it reads, I do like the analogy.
I just have to ask, how does one do this? I mean you bike across Alaska, Russia, the yukon, and can report in detail about bugs. I sit here in my Southeastern home and wonder. Do you own a home, have family, do you have a job, and if so how do you pay for the time off and travel.
I mean, this cannot be cheap. Do you get sponsors? Are you a scientist with a grant? I love my home, my job is okay, but Ithink when I read you're post 'Wow, that would be cool' yet I cannot imagine how one disconnects from real life and has the capability to roam the planet. Can you tell us arm chair voyeurs how it is done?
Now I know I am coming close to the lawn bit (get off my lawn ya damn kids) in age, but I was under the impression that the original design of the internet was such that if one node was "taken out" communication could be routed through other nodes. If you drop a main router, there are secondaries to take up the flow.
Simply put, there are many paths to where you want to go (unless where you want to go is bombed to hell)
Mayhap this is more then coincidence, but as a plan to effect Iran's connection to the internet it is a failed operation. Beyond the obvious land line option, there is now even satellite to allow communication flow in and out of a country. The design works!
Here are some optional theories just for fun...
* It is Iran cutting the lines and they'll accuse the US of preemptive attack and will use the distraction to complete their nuclear ambitions * It is the Oil companies want to put pressure on Iran to allow more drilling and expansion of new oil fields in the country * It is Russia...just because they like to push the world's buttons * and finally, it is an alien race preparing for conquest of the world. They need to know how hard it is to knock out our networks. Thank goodness they don't know about EMP blasts
So if I got anything out of this bruhaha it is that the network works as designed. It routes around the failures and works to ensure data flow from point A to B.
You know, there is always Linux. I hear you can find a good version at Ubuntu, or SUSE, or from a recent/. article, Fedora. Bummer that you already spent the dough.
I've been an MS user since 3.1 This year I switched all but my work system to Linux and have not had any real issues. Sometimes I stuggle with installs or devices, but much of what I want to do, I can do with Linux. MS choose a dark road a long time ago; one of greed, control, power. Those roads tend to end poorly.
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Yet many a mob scene, revolution, or overthrow of a government has been started with to much opiate, too little reason. It is not an opiate that keeps the masses down, it is the lack of hope of any change in their lives. An opiate, be it drugs or booze can over come that empty feeling and perhaps spark a change. There is an expression, in wine truth, it could be amended to say, in wine courage as well.
Dude, I think you need to do two out of three options:
1 - Drink at a party
2 - get Laid
3 - Smile
I'm a positive guy, yet you got me looking at that glass and wondering if it even matters that the glass has anything in it.
Then I realize that it is still half full of Vodka and I can still hope to party and smile (this is /., getting laid is less likely). I am sorry that this got moderated insightful, it should be +5 cynical.
I know this is art, but what's the big deal. So a poem scrolls up a screen and dies. Talk about read once approach to processing.
Is this a big deal because it got marketed well, it had big names associated with it? I feel like I did when I walked through the Delaware Arts museum, stopped to look at a canvas with colored straight lines and thought...huh? I love art, I love the idea of creativity (which is why I love programming), but Agrippa? it is a 5th grade programming project or a hackers toss off. The polygon Mona Lisa was a better article.
So for the first and maybe last time burn some karma and say "nothing to see here, move along please".
As I read through his writings it brought me back to my time at Moravian College circa 1979. I just started taking CS classes and in that same year Dr Brown, Head of the CS Department pulled out all the IBM mainframe systems and installed a PDP 11/45. Gone were the COBOL courses replaced by c, RATFOR, PASCAL, Fortran et al. I loved it and hated it at the same time.
Like the presentation, Dr Brown taught us programming before we really saw the computer. His focus was not on Language, but on concept. As he so well put to us, once done with our intro class we could work anywhere in any language. I believed it then and found it to be a true statement. At the end of that intro class he took the last three weeks and taught sort algorithms. The catch was each sort was analyzed in a different language. I chuckle when I read posts of youngsters that say "I learned Java, or C++ in college". I learned Programming in college then went on to figure out what language suited my economic and intellectual needs.
Cruelty in Computer Science? I am grateful for that kind of cruelty to this day. Since college I have had to adjust my knowledge as times and needs change. I have had the pleasure of working with RPG, COBOL, Java, FORTRAN, and even the bastard child Visual Basic. Unlike some, I do not look down at any language for each has its benefits for the task. What I do dislike is working on code written by persons who thought that "Learn to Code Java in three Weeks" made them a programmer; that language X is the best and only language out there.
Dr. Dijkstra says "Universities should not be afraid to teach radical novelties". What things could be discovered if that concept was embraced again.
Youngster, That's nothing compared to CP/M. Storing programs on 8" floppies, writing within 64K of memory...good times.
I both cut my teeth, and taught on that OS and have been a better Programmer for it. DOS is for lawn trespassers..Speaking of which, I need my cane, I see some kids coming this way with some shiny OS toy.
Sorry for the humour but...
What's the last words of a southern redneck?
Hey Bubba, watch this!
Somehow I am not comforted when a scientist exclaims "what the hell is that?". In most SciFi movies the next scene is an explosion viewed from very far away.
As a science fan I do agree this is exciting and I hope the science community can come up with plausible theories that can be discussed. Till then I do need to find my duct tape and tinfoil.
Thanks for dredging up the recent past. Just got over the pain in my wallet.
96' F250, Nice body, good cap, tow package and the fucking engine was shot. Caveat Emptor and in this case I failed the basic test of having my mechanic look it over before plunking money down.
btw, anyone looking for a F250 project truck? Maybe a school shop that wants to train future college grads of America.
No, Money. Wo$h is ctl-alt-delete
Seems to me it is about time NASA contacts Area 51 and puts an order in for those inertial dampeners we keep hearing about in Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG. My favorite is EE Doc Smith's Enertia-less drives.
Putting shock absorbers in a space craft just sound wrong. What's next? Fuzzy dice in the command module?
didn't know whether to mod or comment...comment won out. 47, still current with today's tech world and wanting fast connection. Go kick their butts! +5 fun
that is a stark and scary article. Sadly enough it rings true to the point where even and an optimist like myself, I wonder not if, but when will this administration drop the other shoe and push us into a third war front.
It really sucks to be a thinking aware pawn in this current game of global chess.
dang, hit the wrong mod option. Did not mean to set as off topic. Actually thought that was very humorous.
Please...it is not the tools, but how they are used. It is too easy to blame VB or Access or XP, but the root problem is the programmer who used them to write crap code.
Did the programmer not test his or her work against all possible conditions? Did they question specs that asked for AV software on a closed system? A bad surgeon can kill you with the best scalpel, a skilled surgeon with a pen knife and a straw can save your life.
You worked on this project, shame then that you allowed such a travesty to be shit out onj the American public.
FAA regs state 500 ft separation in rural areas, 1000 ft in residential or urban areas. In Class G airspace you can fly as low as you like to the ground (if your are foolish), but cannot come with 500 ft of a structure. So if these folks lived in the country someone could fly over their property at 500 ft and take pictures to their hearts content.
Funny thing is, if they had just kept quiet this would be a non issue. How many people would be going onto google maps and looking at their specific spot on the planet. Now that they have raised a stink, people from all around the globe will consider visiting the famous "privacy" home. Their actions are like someone jumping up and down saying "Don't look at me, don;t look at me".
Two words...Ice Road truckers...okay I mean three words...World's Deadliest catch.
As a 47 year human, 28 year vet of the IT industry I can feel your pain. However, the road is long and he who lives in the mind can easily go batters on the mind numbing crawl that is the highway.
If possible, reinvent the skills and sell the hell out of the fact you got more life experience then those snot nosed zombies coming out of college factories (with minimal respect to current graduates). If that does not work, there is always the lottery. I got my eyes on the next power ball to provide my next career change, owner manager of an equestrian center.
One can dream...
And yes I really am a woman. I really am
Outrageous claims are made on /. every day. Given the demographics of this site, you will have do to more the words. To borrow from Shakespeare, me thinks the carbonunit doth protest to much...however, on the off chance I may be wrong, I am a mature minded nerd with actual outside interests besides computers. Now tell us all you have a husband or boyfriend otherwise I'd like to finally claim first post!
There are moments when I really miss the BBS world. Yes, I love my broadband connection over the internet, but I remember a time when I could dial into a BBS, no snoopes, no riaa, nothing but me and folks that could try to share at ridiculous slow rates compared to today, but without the crap we have to deal with today,
So now ISPs may block access to usenet? lets see, my options where I live are DSL through AT&T or cable through Charter. Wow, like I will be able to choose a path were I wont be blocked!
Yes, I remember BBS and can only imagine how we can circumvent this POS called the Internet and move forward to a time where I could "connect" without friggin Big or little brother watching me. (the tense change was intentional)
I think I'll just sip on my third vodka and club and ponder what I can do.
Bad idea, he would put a bad taste in our mouths. Look what he did to our brain already. Not everything should be made into soylent green.
I mean this is
I just have to ask, how does one do this? I mean you bike across Alaska, Russia, the yukon, and can report in detail about bugs. I sit here in my Southeastern home and wonder. Do you own a home, have family, do you have a job, and if so how do you pay for the time off and travel.
I mean, this cannot be cheap. Do you get sponsors? Are you a scientist with a grant? I love my home, my job is okay, but Ithink when I read you're post 'Wow, that would be cool' yet I cannot imagine how one disconnects from real life and has the capability to roam the planet. Can you tell us arm chair voyeurs how it is done?
You're a girl on /. ... that should not be hard.
This was the best laugh I have had in a while. If I had mods I would give +5 funny.
I went to that link, damn you. I never knew, all this time I thought I was alone in my addiction. All the kittens, oh the horror...
(and that was just plain strange in a mind bending way)
Now I know I am coming close to the lawn bit (get off my lawn ya damn kids) in age, but I was under the impression that the original design of the internet was such that if one node was "taken out" communication could be routed through other nodes. If you drop a main router, there are secondaries to take up the flow.
Simply put, there are many paths to where you want to go (unless where you want to go is bombed to hell)
Mayhap this is more then coincidence, but as a plan to effect Iran's connection to the internet it is a failed operation. Beyond the obvious land line option, there is now even satellite to allow communication flow in and out of a country. The design works!
Here are some optional theories just for fun...
* It is Iran cutting the lines and they'll accuse the US of preemptive attack and will use the distraction to complete their nuclear ambitions
* It is the Oil companies want to put pressure on Iran to allow more drilling and expansion of new oil fields in the country
* It is Russia...just because they like to push the world's buttons
* and finally, it is an alien race preparing for conquest of the world. They need to know how hard it is to knock out our networks. Thank goodness they don't know about EMP blasts
So if I got anything out of this bruhaha it is that the network works as designed. It routes around the failures and works to ensure data flow from point A to B.
Good job DARPA!
You know, there is always Linux. I hear you can find a good version at Ubuntu, or SUSE, or from a recent /. article, Fedora. Bummer that you already spent the dough.
I've been an MS user since 3.1 This year I switched all but my work system to Linux and have not had any real issues. Sometimes I stuggle with installs or devices, but much of what I want to do, I can do with Linux. MS choose a dark road a long time ago; one of greed, control, power. Those roads tend to end poorly.
Save money next time, try Linux and enjoy.