No matter how much of other people's money they pour into the problem, the basic nature of people cannot be changed.
Science and everything else important and good will continue to be developed almost entirely by those straight white Christian males they hate so very much.
The tech industry practices hunter-gathering, not agriculture. They devour what's already there but they refuse to plant anything new. I have been on their ass about this for decades and they. won't. do it.
Stupidity has it's own terrible strength.
Donald Knuth said only one person in fifty has the brain wiring to do computer science and I interpret that as almost no one can be good at this. We've seen a lot of 'why Johnny can't program' stuff lately. That's why.
What they SHOULD do is find the people with this brain wiring and train them. But they don't. They want good ones someone ELSE has trained.
So it starts to look like Jesus parable of the seeds that fall on the good soil and some that fall on the rocks. It's chance that determines who gets in and that is not good enough for this important industry
Actually it is one of the big mistakes of our culture to assume that a person with a phd knows how to teach - they know how to LEARN and have busted their ass to distance themselves from the state of ignorance every noob is in.
I have had horrible phd teachers and great teenage teachers.
It was all assembler, (a sign of superior work right there) you ran it on a DOS box and it took over disk IO, memory and the keyboard and only did two things - served files and unspooled printers.
It was like a ROCK. NEVER a problem at all. A firm I was with ran a 100 person company just fine on a 486 with this thing.
I'm surprised Theo deRatt (or whatever it is) didn't do this to OpenBSD after the American Forces reneged on an award after his interview in the Globe.
WAY back in the day the guys at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory took a mini computer (this was pre micros) and wired it to racks of solinoids on a massive church organ.
Both keyboards AND the bass pedals.
They programed it to play Bach and recorded an album called Unplayed by Human Hands.
I have been looking for this album for THIRTY YEARS.
It has NEVER come up on eBay and p2p has never heard of it
One of the most significant events in computer history was IBM abandoning tubes for transistors and a new architecture for the 360 series.
This is finally happening again. There will be a great deal of moaning about having to upgrade all the software then we will step into a great new world of higher performance!
UNLESS - we bung the whole thing up with DRM.
With DRM built in we will buy our computers, own our computers, pay for our computers, but they won't be working for US - they'll be working for THEM.
This is how the very rich get very richer. Make the CLIENT pay for THEIR security.
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No matter how much of other people's money they pour into the problem, the basic nature of people cannot be changed.
Science and everything else important and good will continue to be developed almost entirely by those straight white Christian males they hate so very much.
I saw this coming.
The tech industry practices hunter-gathering, not agriculture. They devour what's already there but they refuse to plant anything new. I have been on their ass about this for decades and they. won't. do it.
Stupidity has it's own terrible strength.
Donald Knuth said only one person in fifty has the brain wiring to do computer science and I interpret that as almost no one can be good at this. We've seen a lot of 'why Johnny can't program' stuff lately. That's why.
What they SHOULD do is find the people with this brain wiring and train them. But they don't. They want good ones someone ELSE has trained.
So it starts to look like Jesus parable of the seeds that fall on the good soil and some that fall on the rocks. It's chance that determines who gets in and that is not good enough for this important industry
WHEN will it pull it's head out of it's ass?
I agree - I was told by a doctor once that an MD used to be a big ticket - now it's just the first step to further training...
The entire concept of patenting computer ideas is completely immoral anyway.
The entire thing should be completely ignored.
Actually it is one of the big mistakes of our culture to assume that a person with a phd knows how to teach - they know how to LEARN and have busted their ass to distance themselves from the state of ignorance every noob is in.
I have had horrible phd teachers and great teenage teachers.
rule of auto guns.
Never let the computer pull the trigger.
The beginning of the end. They are taking our computers away from us.
Soon we will be good little cattle in geekdom as we are in the realm of TV movies and newspapers.
Computers will be folded into the mass media.
a teeny tiny little helmet?
It was all assembler, (a sign of superior work right there) you ran it on a DOS box and it took over disk IO, memory and the keyboard and only did two things - served files and unspooled printers.
It was like a ROCK. NEVER a problem at all. A firm I was with ran a 100 person company just fine on a 486 with this thing.
How does YouTube pay it's unGodly bandwidth bills?
Are all these competitors lining up to go off the cliff too?
I'm surprised Theo deRatt (or whatever it is) didn't do this to OpenBSD after the American Forces reneged on an award after his interview in the Globe.
But what does Leroy Jenkins think, that's the question!
Gonzo journalism was a fluke of Thompson's genius. It'll be back when there's another great writer in the papers.
Mark Twain was gonzo in his day...
I have needed this utility for YEARS and I only just found out it exists!
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This is why I read
Yes, some years ago. No joy.
WAY back in the day the guys at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory took a mini computer (this was pre micros) and wired it to racks of solinoids on a massive church organ.
Both keyboards AND the bass pedals.
They programed it to play Bach and recorded an album called Unplayed by Human Hands.
I have been looking for this album for THIRTY YEARS.
It has NEVER come up on eBay and p2p has never heard of it
Can ANYONE help me, please?
Another psychopath in show business. What else is new?
One of the most significant events in computer history was IBM abandoning tubes for transistors and a new architecture for the 360 series.
This is finally happening again. There will be a great deal of moaning about having to upgrade all the software then we will step into a great new world of higher performance!
UNLESS - we bung the whole thing up with DRM.
With DRM built in we will buy our computers, own our computers, pay for our computers, but they won't be working for US - they'll be working for THEM.
This is how the very rich get very richer. Make the CLIENT pay for THEIR security.
This can still all end in tears.
Setting a trap for Bill Gates is exactly like baiting a shark net with your face.
Even if he falls for it, you're screwed - but he'll never fall for it.
(Especially after he reads this message - right, Bill?)