"We feel that the numerous clueless users whose cluelessness we take advantage of have started to become aware that 'Gator' is something they don't want on their machines so we are changing our name to confuse them and keep ahead of them."
Next names lined up: Cuddly-Web, Patriot, Love, Upgrade, MS Windows Update, iloveyou.exe.
Daniel
But Saddam isn't the one who was bombed. Saddam's troops got bombed, the Iraqi people got bombed, and Saddam stayed in power thanks the US withdrawing their support to the Shiites when they really needed it. So in effect, the story goes:
the US helped Saddam to power
the US sold Saddam WMDs and other assorted weapons (using loaned US taxpayer's money to pay for them)
Saddam used the WMDs and other weapons on the Iraqi and Iranian people
Saddam decided to invade Kuwait
Saddam invaded Kuwait
the US bombed Iraqi troops
the US bombed Iraqi people
Saddam bombed Iraqi people
Saddam tortured Iraqi people
The US applied economic sanctions to the Iraqi people
the US decided to invade Iraq
the US bombed Iraqi people
Saddam disappeared
If I were the Iraqi people I wouldn't be best pleased with the way things went, in great part thanks to the US.
Add to this a neat comparison between cigarettes and weed...
Smoke cigarettes regularly: become hopelessly addicted
Smoke joints regularly: stop when you want
Ciggies are much more addictive than weed (though weed is very mildly addictive, but the withdrawal simptoms for weed are very minor and only last for a couple of days or so, and after smoking truly VAST amounts of weed regularly for a long time).
Most importantly, I would think that driving under the influence of marijuana may lead to as many accidents as alcohol, but unlike alcohol they will mostly tend to happen at 10mph (eg driving into a wall that you didn't notice cause you were thinking of something else). And it would be a brave smoker who would face the highway when he's... high. *omg all these people are going so fast!!!*
Try since before we even started thinking. We've been eating random stuff that fell into our hands since we had hands, I would imagine. As soon as the brain was developped enough to be able to remember that eating X makes you feel like Y, where Y was some pleasurable state, we started "doing drugs".
And how do you define drugs anyway! As the dude himself put it:
"If you're against biochemical assistance where do you draw the line? Nicotine? Alcohol? Penicillin? Vitamins? Conventional sacremental substance?" - Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstacy)
With all the trouble they're having with blog noise and all that? Google have alredy done their "grow". They may grow a lot during the IPO too, but after that they will go down, most likely, when people start realising that it's not really going anywhere that fast and it's been over-rated during the IPO. the shareprice will readjust to a strong value, but not a strong growth.
The google search engine is a bit more generic than that. It's a search engine with a PageRank mechanism. One of the bits of the Pagerank mechanism is what you've just described. Then there's a whole lot of other stuff on top of that. Adapting the "PageRank" to be a "BookRank" instead (based on the popularity of the book in its subject domain?) is not much of a stretch.
Some web sites have 100's of A4 pages, but google still returns in a jiffy. I'm pretty sure their book collection is well indexed, if they're offering this service. Probably with the google engine, too.
Games will probably get faster to produce, as we move away from the technical side back towards the gameplay side, which a lot less people need to be involved in. However, there's no telling how long that will take. Could be 5 years, could be 20, could be more...
Agreed. I loved Daggerfall and Arena too. Morrowind was not just too easy, but too repetitive, too much the same thing, too little progress, not enough fun stuff.
It's more broke than you can even begin to imagine. RAQs have numerous problems, annoyances, hassles, etc. I won't bother getting into the details because I have work to do, but I'm sure some other people will.
The issues have been explored in science fiction. There have been plenty of stories describing how all of this could go horribly wrong. Now that the science is getting closer, some people who are smarter than you are taking steps to ensure that when the day comes, things don't go wrong. The dude is trying to set a legal precedent, even in a mock trial, while we sit here with no particular pressure to come to a quick decision. When, 20 years from now, there are massive political pressures to go one way or another, the judges of that time will be able to look back to the reasonings taken by today's judges while they had a clear mind.
On the other hand I have to admit that the quality of code written in Java can be quite abysmal. I am right now working on this project and man, it's so coupled between all the layers that it's a complete pita to work with, let alone work on... Definitely I'd rather have to work on a well designed PHP app than a badly designed Java app.
Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this.
So are you saying we can't deal with negative criticism (even if it's structured like a falling card castle - haven't read the article yet, I don't know).
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Ok, "Daniel" was meant to be on the next line. I'm sure they wouldn't go as far as to take on such a cool name.
Daniel
Or better:
"We feel that the numerous clueless users whose cluelessness we take advantage of have started to become aware that 'Gator' is something they don't want on their machines so we are changing our name to confuse them and keep ahead of them."
Next names lined up: Cuddly-Web, Patriot, Love, Upgrade, MS Windows Update, iloveyou.exe. Daniel
If I were the Iraqi people I wouldn't be best pleased with the way things went, in great part thanks to the US.
Daniel
Add to this a neat comparison between cigarettes and weed...
Smoke cigarettes regularly: become hopelessly addicted
Smoke joints regularly: stop when you want
Ciggies are much more addictive than weed (though weed is very mildly addictive, but the withdrawal simptoms for weed are very minor and only last for a couple of days or so, and after smoking truly VAST amounts of weed regularly for a long time).
Daniel
Most importantly, I would think that driving under the influence of marijuana may lead to as many accidents as alcohol, but unlike alcohol they will mostly tend to happen at 10mph (eg driving into a wall that you didn't notice cause you were thinking of something else). And it would be a brave smoker who would face the highway when he's... high. *omg all these people are going so fast!!!*
Daniel
Try since before we even started thinking. We've been eating random stuff that fell into our hands since we had hands, I would imagine. As soon as the brain was developped enough to be able to remember that eating X makes you feel like Y, where Y was some pleasurable state, we started "doing drugs".
And how do you define drugs anyway! As the dude himself put it:
"If you're against biochemical assistance where do you draw the line? Nicotine? Alcohol? Penicillin? Vitamins? Conventional sacremental substance?" - Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstacy)
Daniel
So buy spare parts and build your PC in one of those audio-rack form factor cases.
Daniel
And I don't, and I don't get any spam. Weird that.
I'm aware that lots of people get lots of spam... but I don't! Weird huh?
Daniel
Yes, and your brain is made from rigid metallic struts.
Daniel
With all the trouble they're having with blog noise and all that? Google have alredy done their "grow". They may grow a lot during the IPO too, but after that they will go down, most likely, when people start realising that it's not really going anywhere that fast and it's been over-rated during the IPO. the shareprice will readjust to a strong value, but not a strong growth.
Daniel
The google search engine is a bit more generic than that. It's a search engine with a PageRank mechanism. One of the bits of the Pagerank mechanism is what you've just described. Then there's a whole lot of other stuff on top of that. Adapting the "PageRank" to be a "BookRank" instead (based on the popularity of the book in its subject domain?) is not much of a stretch.
Daniel
Thinking before speaking is not in everyone's reach...
Daniel
Some web sites have 100's of A4 pages, but google still returns in a jiffy. I'm pretty sure their book collection is well indexed, if they're offering this service. Probably with the google engine, too.
Daniel
If you're going to steal stuff, at least have the balls to admit that you're stealing stuff. Anything less is just cowardly.
... dixit the anonymous coward poster.
Daniel
Rofl! Redundant! That's hilarious! :-D
Daniel
Spyware! Spyware! SPY SPY SPY SPY SPYWARE! SPY SPY SPY!
Spyware Spyware Spyware!! Spy-spy-spy-ware! SPYWARE!
Daniel
Games will probably get faster to produce, as we move away from the technical side back towards the gameplay side, which a lot less people need to be involved in. However, there's no telling how long that will take. Could be 5 years, could be 20, could be more...
Daniel
Agreed. I loved Daggerfall and Arena too. Morrowind was not just too easy, but too repetitive, too much the same thing, too little progress, not enough fun stuff.
Daniel
It's more broke than you can even begin to imagine. RAQs have numerous problems, annoyances, hassles, etc. I won't bother getting into the details because I have work to do, but I'm sure some other people will.
Daniel
Not quite. I think they're planning to have a separate front-page post for every ACK packet relayed by the BSD clustering mailing lists' smtp servers.
Daniel
I'll go you one more. You're not the person who wrote this post anymore. That person is gone, for ever.
Daniel
The issues have been explored in science fiction. There have been plenty of stories describing how all of this could go horribly wrong. Now that the science is getting closer, some people who are smarter than you are taking steps to ensure that when the day comes, things don't go wrong. The dude is trying to set a legal precedent, even in a mock trial, while we sit here with no particular pressure to come to a quick decision. When, 20 years from now, there are massive political pressures to go one way or another, the judges of that time will be able to look back to the reasonings taken by today's judges while they had a clear mind.
Makes a lot of sense to me.
Daniel
On the other hand I have to admit that the quality of code written in Java can be quite abysmal. I am right now working on this project and man, it's so coupled between all the layers that it's a complete pita to work with, let alone work on... Definitely I'd rather have to work on a well designed PHP app than a badly designed Java app.
Daniel
The article repeats that it just scales as well as Java quite a bit. Maybe it does. At runtime. But it sure doesn't at maintenance time!!!
Daniel
Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this.
So are you saying we can't deal with negative criticism (even if it's structured like a falling card castle - haven't read the article yet, I don't know).
Daniel