It's rational to make decisions based on what is currently known. It's hard to predict future popularity of tools. Merit alone won't tell you what clicks with the masses.
first let's get a better GUI standard than browser-based DOM. Customers want desktop-like UI's on the web, and HTML/CSS/JS/DOM has to be force-bent under threat to pull it off, and still broken or jittery half the time even on big-name deep-pocket sites.
Sure, it's job security, but at the expense of turning grey prematurely.
The programming language choice would matter less if the programming language didn't have to do so much to deliver GUI's.
those people should work to get the tax system simplified.
There is too much temptation for politicians to muck with tax rules for various reasons. It's unrealistic they would keep it simple for simplicity's sake. They want bragging rights for new programs or tax breaks, and the negotiating to get such changes passed often creates convoluted compromises.
An interesting idea was that the IRS could simply do your taxes for you and send you a receipt along with stated assumptions to be verified, but tax prep co. lobbyists blew that idea out of the water.
The equivalent works fairly well in other countries, saving people tax prep costs. Let's face it, other countries do socialism better than us. They often do socialism better than we do capitalism even, largely because the United States is not very United.
I have to agree. Something is probably limiting the future population because we are statistically likely to be roughly "in the middle" of total human population than at either extreme end (Copernican Principle).
Roughly 60 billion humans have come before, so that means statistically roughly 60bil will come after (within a factor of about 10).
Considering the time-frame of the Earth, 60bil more people is not very many. Even if we had near disasters, we'd expect an eventual recovery, but the law of statistics don't support this. This would suggest humanity's end is near, and the end result is probably either total extinction, or transcendence to mostly AI beings. The second is the least of 2 evils.
NH is whizzing by Pluto pretty quickly. I doubt a small mechanical device would be enough to fling a small canister to crash land on Pluto.
Unless, perhaps the flinging is done several weeks before the Pluto encounter such that the canister splits off from NH's trajectory and simply smashes into Pluto face on. But its velocity would have to be spot-on because Pluto's gravity isn't going to make the target much bigger at the probe's encounter speed (which would be similar to the canister's). Adjustment propellants and a guidance system would probably be in order.
At work we once had a bank of modems, and to check which modem went to which phone number (people sometimes switched them without telling us) we would have to call the number on a voice phone across the way and then run over to the modem bank to see which lights were on. Often the modem lights wouldn't stay on long enough from a mere phone call.
Rather than run fast and risky in a crowded, wiry data center, I discovered that if I whistled certain frequencies mirroring the connect sound, the modem would think I was another modem and spend a longer time trying to connect. Thus, by learning to speak modemese, I could walk instead of run.
A computer room steward saw me doing this and told his shift buddies about "the crazy lonely guy who flirts with modems". Referring to their squawky sound, somebody joked about modems being consolation partners after I allegedly got dumped by a Dalek. Good Times!
And you have Postgre nasal drip. "Microsoft" is also a goofy name, I would note, and that didn't seem to slow the company. It's certainly not very manly.
If you want ideas for future OSS tools, here's a free list:
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It's rational to make decisions based on what is currently known. It's hard to predict future popularity of tools. Merit alone won't tell you what clicks with the masses.
No, we need more Justin Beibers and Paris Hiltons.
Have they improved the scripting? It used to have convoluted scripting with convoluted documentation.
Look into the Lazarus project. It's a Delphi semi-clone.
Sound like typical OSS product names.
first let's get a better GUI standard than browser-based DOM. Customers want desktop-like UI's on the web, and HTML/CSS/JS/DOM has to be force-bent under threat to pull it off, and still broken or jittery half the time even on big-name deep-pocket sites.
Sure, it's job security, but at the expense of turning grey prematurely.
The programming language choice would matter less if the programming language didn't have to do so much to deliver GUI's.
This poster is likely a specimen having a recently-infected brain that may be ideal for studying this phenomenon in its early stages.
Based on our collective voting patterns, YES.
Well, I do have my instant pop-up Blame Finger ready. (Careful, don't confuse those things with the Commute Finger.)
You'd think plutocrats would be helpful to NASA.
They misread the request and gave us a mortgage bubble instead.
The AI would be in the "try" function. The rest can be hard-coded. No need to over-complicate a Death Machine. K.I.S.S. of Death.
There is too much temptation for politicians to muck with tax rules for various reasons. It's unrealistic they would keep it simple for simplicity's sake. They want bragging rights for new programs or tax breaks, and the negotiating to get such changes passed often creates convoluted compromises.
An interesting idea was that the IRS could simply do your taxes for you and send you a receipt along with stated assumptions to be verified, but tax prep co. lobbyists blew that idea out of the water.
The equivalent works fairly well in other countries, saving people tax prep costs. Let's face it, other countries do socialism better than us. They often do socialism better than we do capitalism even, largely because the United States is not very United.
I have to agree. Something is probably limiting the future population because we are statistically likely to be roughly "in the middle" of total human population than at either extreme end (Copernican Principle).
Roughly 60 billion humans have come before, so that means statistically roughly 60bil will come after (within a factor of about 10).
Considering the time-frame of the Earth, 60bil more people is not very many. Even if we had near disasters, we'd expect an eventual recovery, but the law of statistics don't support this. This would suggest humanity's end is near, and the end result is probably either total extinction, or transcendence to mostly AI beings. The second is the least of 2 evils.
Bullocks. A sufficient bot algorithm is relatively simple:
Shortage of virg1ns? Try mining Slashdot. The contract says nothing about quality.
There's also a CD with the names of everyone who submitted their name on NASA's website shortly before the launch. My daughter's name is on it.
NH is whizzing by Pluto pretty quickly. I doubt a small mechanical device would be enough to fling a small canister to crash land on Pluto.
Unless, perhaps the flinging is done several weeks before the Pluto encounter such that the canister splits off from NH's trajectory and simply smashes into Pluto face on. But its velocity would have to be spot-on because Pluto's gravity isn't going to make the target much bigger at the probe's encounter speed (which would be similar to the canister's). Adjustment propellants and a guidance system would probably be in order.
We are apes. Live with it.
The sound of Tyrannosaurus Rex trying to eat my family will never leave my mind. Wait, I must really be dating myself here.
Logo? http://img.rt.com/files/news/n...
At work we once had a bank of modems, and to check which modem went to which phone number (people sometimes switched them without telling us) we would have to call the number on a voice phone across the way and then run over to the modem bank to see which lights were on. Often the modem lights wouldn't stay on long enough from a mere phone call.
Rather than run fast and risky in a crowded, wiry data center, I discovered that if I whistled certain frequencies mirroring the connect sound, the modem would think I was another modem and spend a longer time trying to connect. Thus, by learning to speak modemese, I could walk instead of run.
A computer room steward saw me doing this and told his shift buddies about "the crazy lonely guy who flirts with modems". Referring to their squawky sound, somebody joked about modems being consolation partners after I allegedly got dumped by a Dalek. Good Times!
Devil got promoted to 777. His half brother is hoping to get a 333 rating soon.
And you have Postgre nasal drip. "Microsoft" is also a goofy name, I would note, and that didn't seem to slow the company. It's certainly not very manly.
If you want ideas for future OSS tools, here's a free list:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FutureO...
I like "GazundWidth" and "GezundHeight" myself. "OraFiss" is also cool.
It's those damned humans. Wipe 'em out. - Joe Cockroach