Computing power and responsibility has oscillated between the user's terminal and central servers for ages. With a user environment composed of unreliable, insecure software such as Windoze, it's really no surprise many users would rather that application data be held by the application maker. Application makers oblige by trying to take advantage of the most convenient platform universally available on user computers.
Unfortunately, that platform is the web browser, and attempting to run applications in it gives as AJAX, since Java failed to provide a suitable cross-platform environment. We could be running NeWS (NEtworked Window System by Sun, not the stuff you see on Slashdot), Flash, Java, or even remote-PC programs that transmit I/O across the network, now that sufficient compression is being developed. However, history overrides technology and gives us AJAX.
If I may kill the joke for a moment, the point of giving his daughters to the men was twofold:
1.To uphold the ancient value of hospitality to guests. This was considered one of the most important values in ancient Israelite culture (and hospitality, while nonviolent, is still very important in the modern Middle East). 2.To prevent homosexual sex. Rational modern folks like us disagree with this one, but there it is.
I'm not shitting you - this was the 70's - yes, I was organizing orgies when I was 12 and yes, there was sucking and fucking. I call bullshit. No Slashdotter has ever been in an orgy, let alone organized them at the age of twelve.
It ain't a myth, I'm leaving for camp on Sunday. Of course, mine's a camp where you actually *study* things, and I volunteered to go. Why people send their kids off to Podunk Random Camp, I'll never know.
No, I don't argue in any way against raising the wages in other countries. That's the natural consequence of globalization - everything reaches equilibrium. The investments that US companies make into (relatively) high-paying jobs in, for example, India, spread more money around that economy. A rising tide lifts all boats.
Unfortunately, we can't afford the 20-100 year indefinite timespan necessary for globalization to actually bring about equilibrium. After all, you can count yourself sure that the corporations which hire Indian workers and H-1B workers don't want a free market any more than labor does: they just want cheap labor to make very cheap products they can sell for high prices. Ideologues like you are the only ones who actually want free markets - most people actually participating in the market don't.
OK, Sony, cough up. If you've managed to make robotic dogs evolve a natural (for them, not us) language, then let's see some real research published on how you managed to do it. That way, the scientific community can take the techniques apart and verify them, while some twelve-year-old creates a breed of sentient computer viruses which eventually cripple every computing device in the world.
I was about to write mostly the very same comment. We can dream: we can dream of a day when people own their utilities and their workplaces, making business responsive to its customers without the necessity of government intervention.
1.You're talking about a recreational drug. Do what you bloody well like for fun, I don't care. And we already named the hypothetical perfect recreational drug Soma. Which brings me to my next point (via how Soma was used in Huxley's "Brave New World")... 2.When talking about work or study drugs, the real problem is what happens when either A) the mainstream population uses them directly in opposition to their intended purpose, to gain an unfair advantage over people with a real medical issue, and/or B) the use of the drug becomes so widespread that market forces make it mandatory. When one or both of those happens, what then?
That sounds a lot like me, actually. The strongest caffeine I ever use is English breakfast tea or really dark chocolate (I admit I'm chocoholic, just love the stuff but can't stand cheap Milk Chocolate). No drinking of coffee, at all, ever; though I do use it for flavoring purposes when cooking. I enjoy the effects of alcohol in smallish amounts, but can't stand the loss of coordination that comes with real drunkenness.
Frankly, widespread minority amphetamine use for studying alarms, not least because I was diagnosed with ADHD when younger. I go without meds for it out of principle, but it still angers me that kids who possessed normal mindless-studying capacity in the first place now take drugs invented for helping those without such capacity to get ahead. We're left behind, again; this time by people with no problem abusing our solution.
And what about the kind of society that demands this? Another comment states that the use of drugs by medical students for their residencies used to be routine. Why are we placing inhuman burdens on people that can only lead to the requirement of inhuman aide?
Btw, just friended you. Nice to know somebody else likes to run their own damn brain.
That works because in most people the musical memory remembers better than the normal one. Hence, associating things with music (particularly memorable music) helps you to remember them.
Hell, I plan to trope mark my notes when I need to study, then sing them.
His reading comprehension appears perfect. "Kandlin" indeed appears classically antisocial, his idea of interpersonal morality amounts to "use when convenient."
Noble ideals that don't hold up against reality. As long as students compete with each other in academic performance (grades, projects, internship, research, etc) for jobs, spots in grad school, and even spots in their majors education in the real world will be a "sports discipline", as you so aptly put it.
This will hold especially true since we live in a capitalist economy, which is most certainly a sports discipline.
It was a great comment until you threw in the militant vegetarianism. I don't like factory farming either, but I'm not giving up what my body tells me is an important component of my diet (I get meat cravings if I go too long without any. Too long being several days.).
Athletics != intellect, primarily in the fact that we don't expect athletic ability to get most anyone a job.
Let me tell you something. Last Saturday, I took the SAT Reasoning Test. Hopefully, I did reasonably well, but I expect to take it again once my family can argue for extra time. Am I learning disabled? No. ADHD? Sometimes, but not so much on standardized tests. However, my psychometric tests show that my brain's processing speed (and I mean "processing speed" the way one means it about a CPU) is in the 10th percentile.
So should I be an ER doctor, where quick thinking really is required? God no, and were I a doctor I would make sure everyone knew I can't think quickly enough for the ER. Should I be forced into omitting questions on the SAT or some future exam due to a bad genetic draw that gave me a slow clock speed? Also no, because slow thought would have no real impact on ability as an engineer or computer scientist.
I agree with this post's GP. Some people honestly need drugs to concentrate. I probably need a very small amount of the stuff for boring work that I can't move about during (exercise helps concentration, but tell that to 5-month long winters), though I don't actually take it. I used to though, and nobody who really has ADHD gets an unhealthy advantage from a correct dose of prescription drugs. The only people gaining an unfair advantage are the "normal" students who take drugs to augment their already-fine study abilities, because they partied instead of studying in the first place.
Politics are just something else that smart people can hack.
Actually, no. Many math/computer/science smart people lack the ability to easily understand social structures. There's a reason bad social skills are stereotypical, and we love meritocracy because it benefits people like us. Also, many smart people would also consider "hacking" social or political structures somewhat immoral.
Wow. I never thought I'd read a worker-ownership comment that got modded up. Everyone always seems to forget that ownership of capital by labor (rather than employment of labor by capital) is completely different from government socialism.
Of course, the biggest problem modern worker-owned firms have is getting investment capital. Workers don't usually have much of the stuff! The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain's Basque Country (arguably the most successful worker-owned enterprises to date) even needed to create their own bank to get capital.
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Computing power and responsibility has oscillated between the user's terminal and central servers for ages. With a user environment composed of unreliable, insecure software such as Windoze, it's really no surprise many users would rather that application data be held by the application maker. Application makers oblige by trying to take advantage of the most convenient platform universally available on user computers.
Unfortunately, that platform is the web browser, and attempting to run applications in it gives as AJAX, since Java failed to provide a suitable cross-platform environment. We could be running NeWS (NEtworked Window System by Sun, not the stuff you see on Slashdot), Flash, Java, or even remote-PC programs that transmit I/O across the network, now that sufficient compression is being developed. However, history overrides technology and gives us AJAX.
If I may kill the joke for a moment, the point of giving his daughters to the men was twofold:
1.To uphold the ancient value of hospitality to guests. This was considered one of the most important values in ancient Israelite culture (and hospitality, while nonviolent, is still very important in the modern Middle East).
2.To prevent homosexual sex. Rational modern folks like us disagree with this one, but there it is.
Google "Free Pascal Compiler" and "Lazarus Pascal IDE", minus the quote marks in the latter case.
What if Microsoft stopped supporting DRM...
When Meshiakh comes, dude...
I'm not shitting you - this was the 70's - yes, I was organizing orgies when I was 12 and yes, there was sucking and fucking.
I call bullshit. No Slashdotter has ever been in an orgy, let alone organized them at the age of twelve.
It ain't a myth, I'm leaving for camp on Sunday. Of course, mine's a camp where you actually *study* things, and I volunteered to go. Why people send their kids off to Podunk Random Camp, I'll never know.
No, I don't argue in any way against raising the wages in other countries. That's the natural consequence of globalization - everything reaches equilibrium. The investments that US companies make into (relatively) high-paying jobs in, for example, India, spread more money around that economy. A rising tide lifts all boats.
Unfortunately, we can't afford the 20-100 year indefinite timespan necessary for globalization to actually bring about equilibrium. After all, you can count yourself sure that the corporations which hire Indian workers and H-1B workers don't want a free market any more than labor does: they just want cheap labor to make very cheap products they can sell for high prices. Ideologues like you are the only ones who actually want free markets - most people actually participating in the market don't.
www.youthrights.org - The Armed Revolt. OK, not so Armed, but Revolt.
OK, Sony, cough up. If you've managed to make robotic dogs evolve a natural (for them, not us) language, then let's see some real research published on how you managed to do it. That way, the scientific community can take the techniques apart and verify them, while some twelve-year-old creates a breed of sentient computer viruses which eventually cripple every computing device in the world.
IPC, n - Inter-Process Communication
I was about to write mostly the very same comment. We can dream: we can dream of a day when people own their utilities and their workplaces, making business responsive to its customers without the necessity of government intervention.
"People have still been in charge!" It's not Communism if you have a government.
Providing a good education to all kids is such a smart investment, so why isn't it happening??
When the 19th-century robber barons said they wanted to provide good educations to all children, what did they really mean?
Humanitarian programs can't clean dirty money.
Or perhaps they were surprised that kids decided to turn a small favor for friends into a way to make money off their friends.
1.You're talking about a recreational drug. Do what you bloody well like for fun, I don't care. And we already named the hypothetical perfect recreational drug Soma. Which brings me to my next point (via how Soma was used in Huxley's "Brave New World")...
2.When talking about work or study drugs, the real problem is what happens when either A) the mainstream population uses them directly in opposition to their intended purpose, to gain an unfair advantage over people with a real medical issue, and/or B) the use of the drug becomes so widespread that market forces make it mandatory. When one or both of those happens, what then?
That sounds a lot like me, actually. The strongest caffeine I ever use is English breakfast tea or really dark chocolate (I admit I'm chocoholic, just love the stuff but can't stand cheap Milk Chocolate). No drinking of coffee, at all, ever; though I do use it for flavoring purposes when cooking. I enjoy the effects of alcohol in smallish amounts, but can't stand the loss of coordination that comes with real drunkenness.
Frankly, widespread minority amphetamine use for studying alarms, not least because I was diagnosed with ADHD when younger. I go without meds for it out of principle, but it still angers me that kids who possessed normal mindless-studying capacity in the first place now take drugs invented for helping those without such capacity to get ahead. We're left behind, again; this time by people with no problem abusing our solution.
And what about the kind of society that demands this? Another comment states that the use of drugs by medical students for their residencies used to be routine. Why are we placing inhuman burdens on people that can only lead to the requirement of inhuman aide?
Btw, just friended you. Nice to know somebody else likes to run their own damn brain.
That works because in most people the musical memory remembers better than the normal one. Hence, associating things with music (particularly memorable music) helps you to remember them.
Hell, I plan to trope mark my notes when I need to study, then sing them.
His reading comprehension appears perfect. "Kandlin" indeed appears classically antisocial, his idea of interpersonal morality amounts to "use when convenient."
Noble ideals that don't hold up against reality. As long as students compete with each other in academic performance (grades, projects, internship, research, etc) for jobs, spots in grad school, and even spots in their majors education in the real world will be a "sports discipline", as you so aptly put it.
This will hold especially true since we live in a capitalist economy, which is most certainly a sports discipline.
It was a great comment until you threw in the militant vegetarianism. I don't like factory farming either, but I'm not giving up what my body tells me is an important component of my diet (I get meat cravings if I go too long without any. Too long being several days.).
Athletics != intellect, primarily in the fact that we don't expect athletic ability to get most anyone a job.
Let me tell you something. Last Saturday, I took the SAT Reasoning Test. Hopefully, I did reasonably well, but I expect to take it again once my family can argue for extra time. Am I learning disabled? No. ADHD? Sometimes, but not so much on standardized tests. However, my psychometric tests show that my brain's processing speed (and I mean "processing speed" the way one means it about a CPU) is in the 10th percentile.
So should I be an ER doctor, where quick thinking really is required? God no, and were I a doctor I would make sure everyone knew I can't think quickly enough for the ER. Should I be forced into omitting questions on the SAT or some future exam due to a bad genetic draw that gave me a slow clock speed? Also no, because slow thought would have no real impact on ability as an engineer or computer scientist.
I agree with this post's GP. Some people honestly need drugs to concentrate. I probably need a very small amount of the stuff for boring work that I can't move about during (exercise helps concentration, but tell that to 5-month long winters), though I don't actually take it. I used to though, and nobody who really has ADHD gets an unhealthy advantage from a correct dose of prescription drugs. The only people gaining an unfair advantage are the "normal" students who take drugs to augment their already-fine study abilities, because they partied instead of studying in the first place.
Politics are just something else that smart people can hack.
Actually, no. Many math/computer/science smart people lack the ability to easily understand social structures. There's a reason bad social skills are stereotypical, and we love meritocracy because it benefits people like us. Also, many smart people would also consider "hacking" social or political structures somewhat immoral.
Wow. I never thought I'd read a worker-ownership comment that got modded up. Everyone always seems to forget that ownership of capital by labor (rather than employment of labor by capital) is completely different from government socialism.
Of course, the biggest problem modern worker-owned firms have is getting investment capital. Workers don't usually have much of the stuff! The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain's Basque Country (arguably the most successful worker-owned enterprises to date) even needed to create their own bank to get capital.
Weaponry we could use to subdue our pro-government police forces and fight the government's military.
But that would be terrorism, wouldn't it?