It was manufactured by a small group to derail Copenhagen. I wouldn't be surprised if those were financed by the usual suspects but I haven't seen any evidence of their motives because they've stayed in the shadows.
With the rising cost of energy, shipping stuff and people around the world soon won't be cheap enough to make outsourcing profitable. It'll last for a while for small, high value items like electronics but it's going to change soon for bulk materials like steel. Localization and (re-)insourcing will be the new buzzwords in a decade or two.
But that would reduce profits! No board will like that and no C-level exec's bonus will increase from this. So the politicians who are paid by those folks won't stand for that. Campaign financing is the root cause of the problem.
You don't need to understand how it works. All that is needed is a website with a few screenshots that show how to change the DNS server. Even grandma can do that.
Chinese guy comes to visit on a business trip. Over lunch, he and his American hosts chat and of course the theme turns to politics. One of the Americans challenges, "So do you have regular elections?" "Oh yes, evely molning!"
Measuring code quality by LoC is like measuring a plane's quality by tons of weight. Dunno where that originated. You should see some of the old checkins in our repo when management ran reports on LoC per developer. Lots of cutting and pasting or writing a C program where 3 lines of bash or perl would have been the correct solution:(
So you say you don't have dual bonded 10Gb Ethernet on your i7? Pity. Back then 10Mb/s was the high end, today multiple 10Gb/s are. So we have a factor of >1000 here too.
My public high school had a CS class where we had access to a Prime 300 at the local college and wrote pretty decent FORTRAN programs after two years. That was in the mid 70s. I crashed Primos twice by trying out a few things. Once it caused a whole roll of paper to be used up over night by an endless loop printing error messages on the teletype console. Good times.
Exactly. Any Real Programmer used mostly PEEK, POKE, SYS and USR on their C64. Plus a book on C64 internals and the MOS 6502 programming manual (although the instruction set is so small that you know it by heart within two weeks.) Now try that with the Intel 386 manual (the last one I read) or even more newfangled hardware...
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Yup. Don't mount them all in the same orientation as the Earth's axis or you can probably measure the change in the day's length.
It was manufactured by a small group to derail Copenhagen. I wouldn't be surprised if those were financed by the usual suspects but I haven't seen any evidence of their motives because they've stayed in the shadows.
With the rising cost of energy, shipping stuff and people around the world soon won't be cheap enough to make outsourcing profitable. It'll last for a while for small, high value items like electronics but it's going to change soon for bulk materials like steel. Localization and (re-)insourcing will be the new buzzwords in a decade or two.
But that would reduce profits! No board will like that and no C-level exec's bonus will increase from this.
So the politicians who are paid by those folks won't stand for that.
Campaign financing is the root cause of the problem.
You can still get unlimited data/texting plans from T-Mo.
You could have gotten all that for free/cheap by installing Debian stable.
I don't see them going away from Gnome 2 any time soon.
OMG Microsoft has implemented artificial politeness?
Heinberg's new book, "The End of Growth" here.
Economists seem to be the only people who think that exponential growth can go on forever. Unfortunately physics has a small problem with that.
I've been reading some George Mobus recently. Depressing: http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2011/05/will-earth-be-the-stage-for-a-cosmic-tragedy.html
Theoildrum.com is the best source for unbiased information about our energy situation I know. It's no less depressing.
Duh.
http://ufoseries.com/photos/skydiverUnderwater-T.jpg
Nearer to the turbines will serve as a training ground for Arrakis.
So you can grow spice there.
I think she wouldn't know the difference and this is the form response to any complaint about the tubes.
You don't need to understand how it works. All that is needed is a website with a few screenshots that show how to change the DNS server. Even grandma can do that.
Chinese guy comes to visit on a business trip.
Over lunch, he and his American hosts chat and of course the theme turns to politics.
One of the Americans challenges, "So do you have regular elections?"
"Oh yes, evely molning!"
Sounds like he was embraced and his role was expanded.
Measuring code quality by LoC is like measuring a plane's quality by tons of weight. :(
Dunno where that originated.
You should see some of the old checkins in our repo when management ran reports on LoC per developer. Lots of cutting and pasting or writing a C program where 3 lines of bash or perl would have been the correct solution
Just run it on Freenet or a .onion site. Problem solved.
So you say you don't have dual bonded 10Gb Ethernet on your i7? Pity.
Back then 10Mb/s was the high end, today multiple 10Gb/s are. So we have a factor of >1000 here too.
1970s: ASCII art on the line printer :)
My public high school had a CS class where we had access to a Prime 300 at the local college and wrote pretty decent FORTRAN programs after two years. That was in the mid 70s.
I crashed Primos twice by trying out a few things. Once it caused a whole roll of paper to be used up over night by an endless loop printing error messages on the teletype console.
Good times.
They don't even have proper houses or roads and you want to build 100km long pipes?
... with lots of warts added.
Exactly. Any Real Programmer used mostly PEEK, POKE, SYS and USR on their C64.
Plus a book on C64 internals and the MOS 6502 programming manual (although the instruction set is so small that you know it by heart within two weeks.)
Now try that with the Intel 386 manual (the last one I read) or even more newfangled hardware...
Has anybody had any luck torrenting one of the DVDs? I can't connect to tracker.centos.org.
CentOS is basically a dead project to the majority of people who have moved on to more responsive distributions.
That must be why CentOS runs 30% of the Net's Web servers according to sjvn.