"You can't tell anymore the difference between what's propaganda and what's news," Adelstein said.
“Soviet Russia” jokes aside (who, by the way, had an entire Department for Agitation and Propaganda), we are at that uncanny nexus where Capitalism and Bolshevism meet: where greed, unchecked, vies to overawe and enslave a receptive populace.
Prescription? Strap in; when the government fears the governed, voting won't get you anywhere.
// some code to print a floating point number to a lot of // decimal places int main() { float f =.37; printf("%.20f\n", f); }
The main problem with that example, I take it, is that single-precision datatypes are only guaranteed for roughly seven decimal places; using double, of course, only defers the problem.
What about encoding floats as a pair of ints or longs: one to express the numerical value, and the other its tenth power; id est, decimal arithmetic?
Are severe changes in career direction in this sector commonplace/successful? Or have I truly already let my best chance for entry pass me by?
It's true that the neurons harden as your mind differentiates itself (much like a fetus' maturing organs); on the other hand, if you're violent enough to pursue something as “worthless” as art, you're much more likely to shake up the software world with radical ideas.
If your radical ideas happened to be annealed in post-hoc math, you may just carve out a niche for yourself; feral engineers are too goddamn down-to-earth for my taste, anyway.
We know from the NSA warrantless wiretapping program that the government is not limiting itself to access to under court orders, and the CALEA bill must be considered in light of the capacity it generates. [...] Most of the wiretaps—81 percent—dealt with drug crimes. Second on the list was racketeering. Homicide came third. Gambling was fourth. What's missing here? Terrorism.
We can safely assume that the lion's share of our empire's surveillance, terrorism, goes unreported; and that the most insidious state must hide from its citizens.
Haven't we learned any lessons from the hideous Bolsheviks?*
____________________ * Peter Holquist, "'Information Is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work': Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context," Journal of Modern History, 69: 3 (September 1997), pp. 415-450.
Automatic Updates will first notify people when IE 7 is ready to install and then show a welcome screen that presents key features and the choices to install, not install or postpone installation.
It appears, therefore, that they haven't yet resorted to force-feeding; and until security chief Stephen Toulouse eats his dogfood, moreover, force-feeding would be unconscionable.
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday.
Arthur Clarke once said: “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic;” and indeed, our senators conceive of the internet as a mysterious metaphysical entity. Ted Stevens seems to have “recieved an internet,” after all, sometime yesterday.
Isn't it bizarre having sub-literate legislators who determine the future of our livelihood: the internet?
Though I'm more of a Hellenist myself, I find glossal relativism repugnant; and subscribe to the credo of culture's singularity: that failing to detect the difference between psyche and anima is a culpable insensibilty.
The 1903A [...] can handle conversational computing on nine remote consoles.
“Conversational computing” is a fantastic euphemism for command-line-interaction; more sophisticated, in any case, than the point-and-grunt interface of today's hoi polloi.
My theory is that computing and humanity interrelate: in an environment where Latin is taught alongside math, your users and developers are sharper and more humane.
Horse-drawn trolleys ruled cities, too, but had to be destroyed to make way for progress. How do we rip the telco's trolley tracks out and enable something modern and real competition?
With Google buying up dark fiber, how relevant would net-neutrality's demise be (for Google, at least)?
Google may have stumbled across a very expensive but robust solution.
My fanciest pen is a beautiful Edgar Allen Poe Mont Blanc that cost about $1000.
I always shy away from those garish signatures; a good Meisterstück does the trick (possibly the Hommage à Chopin), which, in solid Sterling, will still break the kilobuck.
I think you're completely discounting the original usage of the word "concerted."
Interesting; "concerted software-development" looks pleonastic to me. There's a trivial sense in which all software-development is concerted; why not come out and say, "in-house?"
We shouldn't forget despite all this that Windows Vista remains the largest concerted software project in human history.
David Wheeler, for instance, calculated that Redhat 7.1 contained 30,152,114 physical source lines of code (SLOC), a 60% increase over 6.2 (and that was in 2001).
Linear extrapolation would take us to about eighty-two-million today, comfortably over Vista's projected fifty-million; but who's counting?
You do realize that western style schools and a western style legal system was _exactly_ what Saddam did implement during the 70's-80's?
Thanks: that needs to be underscored again and again; a classic moment from 2003: the American media cheers the graduation of women from Baghdad University, forgetting to mention that they would have been attending for four years under Hussein. From a similar article:
And right now she's on a high: an Iraqi woman, able to study in America, ironically because she'd learned English in Iraq. And her education at Baghdad University? It was funded by Saddam Hussein.
Not to mention the medieval esh, ezh, thorn, and yogh; which, I understand, are pronounced with subtle differences against their Roman transliterations: sh, zh, th and gh.
[Y]ou can never [...] progress above the millions of other mindless bromides.
Fantastic use of “bromide,” that; and not entirely off-topic: training in the hard sciences is also training in a certain culture, viz. appreciation of jokes.
Unbeknowst to me, potassium bromide was used as a sedative; its meaning expanded to included sedative men: dullards.
Ratpoison is by autists, for autists; to quote from whose founder:
The reason you want to avoid the rodent is that when your coding while
chemically modified you will want to minimize any possible distraction
or break in concentration. The slightest wavering in your attention
will easily explode into a ten minute setback. If you can keep
yourself on-track then I find that productivity is greatly increased,
and with the properly trained mindset bug density on first pass is
usually drastically decreased.
I've scanned TFA an ungodly three times: “60%” occurs in the title and summary, but nowhere else; can anyone divine its provenance? I'd wager it hails from the statistical nether-æther of sensationalist journalism.
That said, I think there's trouble brewing for any company that chants “innovation” like some apotropaïc mantra: you have it or you don't (and it tends to go hand in hand with testosterone).
Currently, the maximum data rate between Earth and Mars is about 128,000 bits per second.
They keep harping on data rate, but what about latency? Given that Mars are Earth are anywhere from 40 to 160 million miles apart, perhaps it suffice merely to:
Slashdot Mirror
Is “pthisis” a misspelling of the Greek phthisis, by the way, which means: décadence, wasting away?
Prescription? Strap in; when the government fears the governed, voting won't get you anywhere.
What about encoding floats as a pair of ints or longs: one to express the numerical value, and the other its tenth power; id est, decimal arithmetic?
If your radical ideas happened to be annealed in post-hoc math, you may just carve out a niche for yourself; feral engineers are too goddamn down-to-earth for my taste, anyway.
Haven't we learned any lessons from the hideous Bolsheviks?*
____________________
* Peter Holquist, "'Information Is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work': Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context," Journal of Modern History, 69: 3 (September 1997), pp. 415-450.
Isn't it bizarre having sub-literate legislators who determine the future of our livelihood: the internet?
- Polloi derives from polus, meaning: “many;” and “people” only by extension.
- There are many places in Greek where it's not advisable to translate the definite article: t'auton, for instance, may mean simply “same.”
The feater translation, therefore, would be “today's manifold;” with an implicit scilicet: “today's manifold [people, indwellers, etc.].”My theory is that computing and humanity interrelate: in an environment where Latin is taught alongside math, your users and developers are sharper and more humane.
Google may have stumbled across a very expensive but robust solution.
Linear extrapolation would take us to about eighty-two-million today, comfortably over Vista's projected fifty-million; but who's counting?
Not to mention the medieval esh, ezh, thorn, and yogh; which, I understand, are pronounced with subtle differences against their Roman transliterations: sh, zh, th and gh.
Unbeknowst to me, potassium bromide was used as a sedative; its meaning expanded to included sedative men: dullards.
That said, I think there's trouble brewing for any company that chants “innovation” like some apotropaïc mantra: you have it or you don't (and it tends to go hand in hand with testosterone).