Color me surprised. I had no idea. This is a prime example of why I read this site. Sometimes it seems like it's not difficulty finding information -- it's a matter of even knowing to look for it. Can't know what you don't know sort of thing.
Is there any such thing as a "true American"? How about a "true German"? "True Englishman"?
I'm so sick of the double standards people have when it comes to stereotyping. We can't stereotype based on skin color or sex, but we can on a much larger group -- nationality! I'm sure that if all black Americans don't fit into one package, nor do all asian Americans fit into one package, then the group that includes them and many other sub-groups doesn't fit into one package either.
This American bashing got started when the media decided it was hot to call the President every name under the sun, compare him to monkeys, insult his intelligence, and otherwise malign him in ways heretofore unheard of for American presidents. It's not a far cry from insulting an elected official to insulting the people who elected him.
Unfortunately, in international armchair politics, rarely does the average person differentiate between different political groups of a foreign power, because they usually aren't informed enough. The result is that they lump every citizen of that country into a neat little package that obviously elected said official as a whole.
I guess the moral of the story is that a nation's approach to politics represents them to the world. I don't need to re-iterate the sad story of American politics nowadays with regard to the quality of debate and election campaign ethos. What I do need to say is that, if we don't clean up our act and have a little more respect for each other and our own elected officials, a little "true American" stereotyping is going to be the least of our worries.
This is as coherent as I can make an argument at 3:40 in the morning. I hope it's clear enough.
Actually, it seems that at least some stem cells do penetrate the blood-brain barrier quite regularly. I first saw this in last month's Scientific American (Charles Q. Choi. Baby to Brain. Scientific American 11/2005, p. 22-24.), but, since I can't hastily find a link to it, here's a New Scientist article talking about the same thing.
Apparently, fetal stem cells normally migrate throughout the mother's body -- including to her brain -- during pregnancy. They've found this in mice, and, I suspect, will find it ini humans as well.
There's nothing to say that *only* fetal stem cells have this ability, but they were the first to be noticed, since they occur naturally.
I don't like or care about something I'm paying a large amount of money for. I don't care if it goes away, because then I won't have to pay for it.
Last I checked, DirecTV subscriptions are not compulsory. Do yourself a favor and cancel your subscription and go "waste your time and energy" on something productive. Maybe you'll invent something that will give the rest of the world a reason to dance in the streets with you.
I tend to agree with the idea that there's very little worthwhile on TV nowadays, but I still pay for it because, between the members of my family, we find enough of the programs "sufficiently interesting" to make it worth the $50 per month.
Maybe America would do well overall if we each watched a little less TV, but one can only be productive for so many hours in the day before a little mindless entertainment is in order.
I work with two Indian guys who both speak two Indian languages, but their only common language is English. Not difficult to believe, since Wikipedia's India article says the "official" languages are "Hindi, English, and 21 other languages". Yikes.
Am I missing something here? Is there some other reason why Debian et al is better?
I read that line as an attempt to avoid being flamed, as opposed to an actual opinion of the author.
That said, I think "better" depends a lot on the context. At my last job, we got RHEL bundled on a Dell workstation. In that context, it was great because much of the work was already done for me, and there was support when I ran into a glitch.
At home, "better" is gentoo, because I've been amazed at its speed and configurability. I also really dig the different init scripts.
My dad is almost 50 and still programming. He's perfectly happy with it, enjoys working a night shift, and probably will never change.
As for me, I'm 26, working as a developer in large firms, and looking for a way to be truly self employed by the time I'm 40. I own my own S-Corp now, but the work I do is essentially full-time contract work for one company. It's a start, and I still have 14 years to pull in additional business and get out of the programming biz altogether.
My gut feeling is that many people start realizing that coding is less fulfilling the older they get -- especially when they have no prospects on management -- so they start looking for other things to do.
Besides, I work with lots of 40-something programmers here in the finance industry, so I guess I really don't share the observation of the submitter.
Sort of a side note. I read speculation once that, as useful lifespans increase due to better nutrition and medical tech, it wouldn't be uncommon for people to have a few different careers in their lifetimes. I think it's human nature to get bored with things after a while and start looking for a change of venue. The long hours and insane deadlines probably only help to push that along.
Gads. Count me in, too. I saw ActiveState and Perl in the same sentence as "discontinuing". Missed the "Visual" bit.
I use both Active PERL and Python all the time for proof of concept code and quick CGIs on my desktop with Apache. It'd be a real shame if such a completely awesome (and typically unsung) tool were to go away.
Think "Site License" for e-books. Low cost of publishing, publisher makes money, schools get discounted books that are easy to distribute, and that never need to be collected at the end of the year, missing pages, and covered with doodles.
I know this wasn't the crux of your post, but I'm going to use it as a jumping-off point...
unless you manage to get enough volume to estabish what amounts to a manufacturing operation over there, in which case, they can take care of themselves
Isn't this the point? I mean, if it isn't, it should be. People here seem to have a distaste for business and corporations, but without them, I daresay that most of us would be unemployed, and maybe in need of some cheap laptops ourselves.
Businesses make the world a better place by circulating goods from other regions and setting up pipelines to do so more easily, generating wealth for the employees, and pushing people to continue their educations by creating competition.
It's another reason that I'm excited by the Virgin Galactic spaceport in New Mexico. Until there's money in it, space travel on any real scale will not be a reality. That means business. Until there's money to be made in making the world a better place, it won't happen on any real scale.
See the connection? Charity, for as nice and warm-n-fuzzy as it is, simply cannot change the world past a certain point. People need to have incentive, and that means business.
Heh -- I've heard that one too, but my 26 years of 'wisdom' have shown me that two heads generally just re-enforce each other's harebrained ideas (e.g. the wacky old couple down the street who have the wild ideas about the neighbors), or simply confuse each other more (typically in professional settings, or Slashdot). It even happens with smart people who have slightly different views of reality.
In my several years of professional IT, I've been shocked (and, at times, guilty as well) by how many times smart people will argue, over something that is easily investigable, but whom both are too lazy or full of themselves to actually do said investigation.
Surely, one thing is true: Two heads are better at talking out of their asses.
Sorry, but I need to pick a nit. It seems that the nudge-n-wink was directed to the legislature, in an effort to deprive the executive branch of their IT autonomy. I know people here are eager to dump on "this administration", whomever that may be at the time, but this time, "this administration" are our heroes.
We're lucky that this is the case, because at least it'll be put to a vote by a large group of people, not all of whom are shills. Just be glad the shill isn't a federal judge -- a single point of failure with the power to set precedence, and accountable to no one. That type of thing works out when you agree with his decision, but it's a real bitch when you don't.
So what ever happened to Sunbird? They apparently released their first official release, Sunbird 0.3 alpha1, on November 4th, and I don't remember even seeing a blip about it anywhere.
If calendaring is so important, why does no one support or pump this project?
Granted, Evolution is the obvious direct replacement for Outlook, but I personally like having one app that does a single task, but that can interop with my email, address book, etc easily. Considering the general trend of splitting the mozilla and open office suites from monolithic to standalone programs, I'd guess I'm not the only one.
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Color me surprised. I had no idea. This is a prime example of why I read this site. Sometimes it seems like it's not difficulty finding information -- it's a matter of even knowing to look for it. Can't know what you don't know sort of thing.
The real value of Teh Intarweb.
Well said.
Is there any such thing as a "true American"? How about a "true German"? "True Englishman"?
I'm so sick of the double standards people have when it comes to stereotyping. We can't stereotype based on skin color or sex, but we can on a much larger group -- nationality! I'm sure that if all black Americans don't fit into one package, nor do all asian Americans fit into one package, then the group that includes them and many other sub-groups doesn't fit into one package either.
This American bashing got started when the media decided it was hot to call the President every name under the sun, compare him to monkeys, insult his intelligence, and otherwise malign him in ways heretofore unheard of for American presidents. It's not a far cry from insulting an elected official to insulting the people who elected him.
Unfortunately, in international armchair politics, rarely does the average person differentiate between different political groups of a foreign power, because they usually aren't informed enough. The result is that they lump every citizen of that country into a neat little package that obviously elected said official as a whole.
I guess the moral of the story is that a nation's approach to politics represents them to the world. I don't need to re-iterate the sad story of American politics nowadays with regard to the quality of debate and election campaign ethos. What I do need to say is that, if we don't clean up our act and have a little more respect for each other and our own elected officials, a little "true American" stereotyping is going to be the least of our worries.
This is as coherent as I can make an argument at 3:40 in the morning. I hope it's clear enough.
Why bother? It says something satanic running it forwards.
Actually, it seems that at least some stem cells do penetrate the blood-brain barrier quite regularly. I first saw this in last month's Scientific American (Charles Q. Choi. Baby to Brain. Scientific American 11/2005, p. 22-24.), but, since I can't hastily find a link to it, here's a New Scientist article talking about the same thing.
Apparently, fetal stem cells normally migrate throughout the mother's body -- including to her brain -- during pregnancy. They've found this in mice, and, I suspect, will find it ini humans as well.
There's nothing to say that *only* fetal stem cells have this ability, but they were the first to be noticed, since they occur naturally.
This post is the "WTF?" winner for the day.
I don't like or care about something I'm paying a large amount of money for. I don't care if it goes away, because then I won't have to pay for it.
Last I checked, DirecTV subscriptions are not compulsory. Do yourself a favor and cancel your subscription and go "waste your time and energy" on something productive. Maybe you'll invent something that will give the rest of the world a reason to dance in the streets with you.
I tend to agree with the idea that there's very little worthwhile on TV nowadays, but I still pay for it because, between the members of my family, we find enough of the programs "sufficiently interesting" to make it worth the $50 per month.
Maybe America would do well overall if we each watched a little less TV, but one can only be productive for so many hours in the day before a little mindless entertainment is in order.
There are a few. I've never used them, so I can't speak to their quality, but apparently work is being done on exactly what you ask:
... just to name a few. I just google'd for 'php rails', and got lots of interesting links.
Biscuit: http://bennolan.com/biscuit/
Qcodo: http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/4726
Cake: http://cakephp.org/
I work with two Indian guys who both speak two Indian languages, but their only common language is English. Not difficult to believe, since Wikipedia's India article says the "official" languages are "Hindi, English, and 21 other languages". Yikes.
Isn't this what Esperanto was invented for?
It's an engineered language, in the Klingon tradition, but lots easier to learn and pronounce.
Then again, we could all just learn Klingon and wear lots of leather.
I use xcalc, you insensitive clod!
Am I missing something here? Is there some other reason why Debian et al is better?
I read that line as an attempt to avoid being flamed, as opposed to an actual opinion of the author.
That said, I think "better" depends a lot on the context. At my last job, we got RHEL bundled on a Dell workstation. In that context, it was great because much of the work was already done for me, and there was support when I ran into a glitch.
At home, "better" is gentoo, because I've been amazed at its speed and configurability. I also really dig the different init scripts.
You, my friend, are my idol.
My dad is almost 50 and still programming. He's perfectly happy with it, enjoys working a night shift, and probably will never change.
As for me, I'm 26, working as a developer in large firms, and looking for a way to be truly self employed by the time I'm 40. I own my own S-Corp now, but the work I do is essentially full-time contract work for one company. It's a start, and I still have 14 years to pull in additional business and get out of the programming biz altogether.
My gut feeling is that many people start realizing that coding is less fulfilling the older they get -- especially when they have no prospects on management -- so they start looking for other things to do.
Besides, I work with lots of 40-something programmers here in the finance industry, so I guess I really don't share the observation of the submitter.
Sort of a side note. I read speculation once that, as useful lifespans increase due to better nutrition and medical tech, it wouldn't be uncommon for people to have a few different careers in their lifetimes. I think it's human nature to get bored with things after a while and start looking for a change of venue. The long hours and insane deadlines probably only help to push that along.
Bah. pico is for n00bs. nano r0x0rz th3 planut!
:p)
(mods: this is a JOKE!
Gads. Count me in, too. I saw ActiveState and Perl in the same sentence as "discontinuing". Missed the "Visual" bit.
:-)
I use both Active PERL and Python all the time for proof of concept code and quick CGIs on my desktop with Apache. It'd be a real shame if such a completely awesome (and typically unsung) tool were to go away.
*deep breath*
Phew. I'm okay now. Thanks for asking.
Do I need any?
Think "Site License" for e-books. Low cost of publishing, publisher makes money, schools get discounted books that are easy to distribute, and that never need to be collected at the end of the year, missing pages, and covered with doodles.
I know this wasn't the crux of your post, but I'm going to use it as a jumping-off point...
unless you manage to get enough volume to estabish what amounts to a manufacturing operation over there, in which case, they can take care of themselves
Isn't this the point? I mean, if it isn't, it should be. People here seem to have a distaste for business and corporations, but without them, I daresay that most of us would be unemployed, and maybe in need of some cheap laptops ourselves.
Businesses make the world a better place by circulating goods from other regions and setting up pipelines to do so more easily, generating wealth for the employees, and pushing people to continue their educations by creating competition.
It's another reason that I'm excited by the Virgin Galactic spaceport in New Mexico. Until there's money in it, space travel on any real scale will not be a reality. That means business. Until there's money to be made in making the world a better place, it won't happen on any real scale.
See the connection? Charity, for as nice and warm-n-fuzzy as it is, simply cannot change the world past a certain point. People need to have incentive, and that means business.
Then maybe the missing word is "documented". Otherwise, the MS Word "standard" isn't.
Heh -- I've heard that one too, but my 26 years of 'wisdom' have shown me that two heads generally just re-enforce each other's harebrained ideas (e.g. the wacky old couple down the street who have the wild ideas about the neighbors), or simply confuse each other more (typically in professional settings, or Slashdot). It even happens with smart people who have slightly different views of reality.
In my several years of professional IT, I've been shocked (and, at times, guilty as well) by how many times smart people will argue, over something that is easily investigable, but whom both are too lazy or full of themselves to actually do said investigation.
Surely, one thing is true: Two heads are better at talking out of their asses.
Am I the only one who noticed the quote at the bottom of the page and its strange relevance to the article?
Clarke's Conclusion: Never let your sense of morals interfere with doing the right thing.
Sorry, but I need to pick a nit. It seems that the nudge-n-wink was directed to the legislature, in an effort to deprive the executive branch of their IT autonomy. I know people here are eager to dump on "this administration", whomever that may be at the time, but this time, "this administration" are our heroes.
We're lucky that this is the case, because at least it'll be put to a vote by a large group of people, not all of whom are shills. Just be glad the shill isn't a federal judge -- a single point of failure with the power to set precedence, and accountable to no one. That type of thing works out when you agree with his decision, but it's a real bitch when you don't.
Good thing He didn't say it to Noah, or the whole thing would be a wash!
They clearly should have used more. I think 640 qubits ought to be enough for anyone.
So what ever happened to Sunbird? They apparently released their first official release, Sunbird 0.3 alpha1, on November 4th, and I don't remember even seeing a blip about it anywhere.
If calendaring is so important, why does no one support or pump this project?
Granted, Evolution is the obvious direct replacement for Outlook, but I personally like having one app that does a single task, but that can interop with my email, address book, etc easily. Considering the general trend of splitting the mozilla and open office suites from monolithic to standalone programs, I'd guess I'm not the only one.