"Nope! That's piracy, copyright infringement, trademark violations, plagarism, and all around cheating! Keep your eyes on your own work or else! The minute each precious sentence is scrawled in blue pen, that's a copyrighted work! If you copy it you will be sued by RightHaven for $150,000 per note book page! Now, wasn't that a nice class?"
But the funny thing was, a 1571 drive was apparently affordable by 1986 when I got my C128, and I don't recall Dad making the fuss like "oh dear gawd this will cost more than a month's mortgage". I still sorta wish I were 10 years younger without all that "legacy baggage" but I still think amiga style tracker mods are better music than a third of today's stuff, so go figure.
That's half of my point, being a Mindless Drone at a sufficiently high level pays the rent. Your choice on what you make mindless, but that's what it becomes, the same 22 tasks done every month "forever" until you quit/get downsized/company folds/power politics bite you/etc.
(Hi Mods. Parent was talking about counting in binary on his hands.)
1 2 4 8 16 --> up to 31 on hand 1, 32 64 128 256 512 --> 1023 was what your snide critic was saying.
But! Just roll your hand (either up, or if the topology switch doesn't bother you, roll it over) and you can keep counting!
1024 2048 4096 --> 8191 right? Then *raise an arm* from 90 degrees in front of you to like 45 degrees or something. I'm starting to get a little fuzzy but I'll try. 16384 32768 65536 --> 131,071? Then *cross your arms* I think gets you to 262,143 or such, and I'll end there!
I'll switch fields but we didn't say we had to limit ourselves to physics!
In Buddhism, it's a fairly tough religion because having been one of the most lenient in doctrine, you can't just hand someone the Bible/Koran/Book of Mormon and call it a day. There are easily five major branches with seven sub-branches each, and five sub-sub-branches below that! (Inside joke included in that last sentence! Think Haiku! But then that's how the Eastern mind thinks too - in Layers!)
So I recall reading a book on Tibetan Buddhism where the author got to a point and had this (paraphrased):
"So, this is about the best the field will ever see for the next five years because to solve these points of theoretical doctrine will require someone who is expert in all four of the old languages (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, with Vedic influences) and in addition has access to fresh new material unavailable to me since it was only preserved in Chinese, Japanese, Koran, Cambodian, and Nepalese translations! Then to interpret it to make a fresh discovery requires someone who has sufficient Buddhist training in enough of the lineages to resolve the theoretical question!
Whew! Unfortunately, there are only about twelve of us in the English Speaking Buddhist community at this time with all those qualifications, and we know who we are. So I believe this will remain the state of the art for the next few years until a new generation of scholars joins us in the field."
Hi, I'll reply to you with what might be a middle ground in all this.
What GUI's excel at are being easier on the memory than command lines. Most of the examples of CLI FTW I have seen in this topic are for functions. So what's a GUI user to do? "Make an app/plugin for that!" Let me call up my first rough example - grep for Windows. (It does have about 3 screens too many but that's just design.)
What text do you want to find? (Toggles for Match Case and Whole Word Only) Which Folders do you want to search in? (Toggle for Include Subfolders) File Types to Include Search
Oh look! There's a little note. "When you are familiar with the way Windows grep works you may wish to switch to Expert Mode. You can do this by selecting Expert Mode on the Options menu."
Well hello! "Thread Over". Every GUI then just needs an Expert Mode! There it is, all in three screens! But on those screens I can lay it all out visually, then hit "go".
Naw, I believe you need homework to be graded, but for a *different* lesson! I now call that the "100% Performance" heuristic. Y'all are smarter than me. But I made it through college just doing the damn homework. For me, it prevented test time melt downs. I know, it's a point of bragging who blew off their homework, but then a bunch of the otherwise bright kid melted on the exams and that was that.
In *real work*, there's none of this "Gee, 88%, that's good enough". Sure, that's how far you get the *first time*, then Boss says something and... you have to go *finish* it. Then you do another one. And another one. Because business is about repeatable tasks performed at 100%. So the biggest lesson of all is about transcending the bored willies and just drilling stuff out.
First Pastor Niemoller warned us, but we forgot about him. Then the nerds warned us, but we called them Tin Foil Hats. Then when they come for your favorite site there will be no recourse left.
On the Big Picture level, this is complicated. So... what... Apple gets out of the Pro Desktop/Laptop market... that leaves is back to Microsoft again right? Except instead of Windows vs "Rebel" OS X wars, it's Windows and... what? For everyone who hates Windows and MS, if Apple literally phases out OS X, could THAT be the Year of the Linux Desktop?
"What's more, a lot of that old "squeezing the last drop out of the hardware" stuff really meant exploiting tricks that would barely enable you to get the job done by the skin of your teeth, and everybody would marvel that you got it done at all. Those wow-factor programs amaze people with what they can do,..."
There's something sad here - the old Wow Factor got me interested in computers, "back when it was all fresh and new". Maybe the modern software houses took over, it's been some time since I heard a Wow-type comment about new software. It's almost like all the delighted young hackers grew up and are burning out in their 40's at dull jobs.
Maybe if we looked again at topics that were indeed too hard 25 years ago, but this time we applied some Wow, we might get AI. - That is, if we want it.
Nah, "Unlimited" is bad. That's just like throwing everything into "My Documents". (I hate MS's schemes, programs randomly pick their default location between My Documents, Downloads,/Programs/Data/____ ,/_____/____/Temporary/Content/___/____/ThisMail/____ (5% of my job at work is spent recovering stuff that people "open" out of their email. Yuk!
I do "Drive Reads" that gather all files on the disk into a text file, and then search *that* for my long lost files. It's 1000 times faster than old windows search. If you Drive Read by Date, that's your MRU list. But you can also do it by name, by type, etc.
Sorry, your post went a little south with the Vista debacle. Because MS had to fast track a recovery of a whole new architecture, the result was not optimized at all... and netbooks got crushed. Windows 7 is more sensible because they did have time to snip out a lot of the junk code.
Currently we're disparaging the need for tight code, but give it one skipped cycle of Moore's law and suddenly the software side will have to take up the slack. Currently it's the mobile phones with their weaker processors that are preventing "dock your phone into a workstation shell" from being the universal desktop in your pocket.
I'd love it if someone managed to make a meme that Tight Code Stops Terrorists. Then watch the OS fly!
They kinda sorta work, *if* you manage 100 file extensions. Forget the Ribbon, the other disaster from Office 2007 was the 'glorious basterd' new file names, docx xlsx and the others. But of course 'file extensions are too hard for users' so those differences get hidden. One of my 'mission critical' programs from work FINALLY added support for those filenames... *this past April*.
So yeah, there's probably a scorpion barb in the Microsoft article.
I'm thinking of the Rapture guy. A few people gave their life savings to him. At the very least he's getting ad clicks, maybe. When you do a Long Con you have to push it really close like a game of chicken and Spin-Doctor the daylights out of the last 12 hours.
The first part is quite easy. I guarantee I am not... yet... a Google Employee.
For the second part, can I put you down as a reference that you think I would be a good fit there? If you're right, they'd like me. I could use a change of scenery. And better Mexican food.
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"Nope! That's piracy, copyright infringement, trademark violations, plagarism, and all around cheating! Keep your eyes on your own work or else! The minute each precious sentence is scrawled in blue pen, that's a copyrighted work! If you copy it you will be sued by RightHaven for $150,000 per note book page! Now, wasn't that a nice class?"
But the funny thing was, a 1571 drive was apparently affordable by 1986 when I got my C128, and I don't recall Dad making the fuss like "oh dear gawd this will cost more than a month's mortgage". I still sorta wish I were 10 years younger without all that "legacy baggage" but I still think amiga style tracker mods are better music than a third of today's stuff, so go figure.
That's half of my point, being a Mindless Drone at a sufficiently high level pays the rent. Your choice on what you make mindless, but that's what it becomes, the same 22 tasks done every month "forever" until you quit/get downsized/company folds/power politics bite you/etc.
Nah, "Smartass is the step before innovation!"
(Hi Mods. Parent was talking about counting in binary on his hands.)
1 2 4 8 16 --> up to 31 on hand 1, 32 64 128 256 512 --> 1023 was what your snide critic was saying.
But! Just roll your hand (either up, or if the topology switch doesn't bother you, roll it over) and you can keep counting!
1024 2048 4096 --> 8191 right? Then *raise an arm* from 90 degrees in front of you to like 45 degrees or something. I'm starting to get a little fuzzy but I'll try. 16384 32768 65536 --> 131,071? Then *cross your arms* I think gets you to 262,143 or such, and I'll end there!
I'll switch fields but we didn't say we had to limit ourselves to physics!
In Buddhism, it's a fairly tough religion because having been one of the most lenient in doctrine, you can't just hand someone the Bible/Koran/Book of Mormon and call it a day. There are easily five major branches with seven sub-branches each, and five sub-sub-branches below that! (Inside joke included in that last sentence! Think Haiku! But then that's how the Eastern mind thinks too - in Layers!)
So I recall reading a book on Tibetan Buddhism where the author got to a point and had this (paraphrased):
"So, this is about the best the field will ever see for the next five years because to solve these points of theoretical doctrine will require someone who is expert in all four of the old languages (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali, with Vedic influences) and in addition has access to fresh new material unavailable to me since it was only preserved in Chinese, Japanese, Koran, Cambodian, and Nepalese translations! Then to interpret it to make a fresh discovery requires someone who has sufficient Buddhist training in enough of the lineages to resolve the theoretical question!
Whew! Unfortunately, there are only about twelve of us in the English Speaking Buddhist community at this time with all those qualifications, and we know who we are. So I believe this will remain the state of the art for the next few years until a new generation of scholars joins us in the field."
Hi, I'll reply to you with what might be a middle ground in all this.
What GUI's excel at are being easier on the memory than command lines. Most of the examples of CLI FTW I have seen in this topic are for functions. So what's a GUI user to do? "Make an app/plugin for that!" Let me call up my first rough example - grep for Windows. (It does have about 3 screens too many but that's just design.)
What text do you want to find? (Toggles for Match Case and Whole Word Only)
Which Folders do you want to search in? (Toggle for Include Subfolders)
File Types to Include
Search
Oh look! There's a little note. "When you are familiar with the way Windows grep works you may wish to switch to Expert Mode. You can do this by selecting Expert Mode on the Options menu."
Well hello! "Thread Over". Every GUI then just needs an Expert Mode! There it is, all in three screens! But on those screens I can lay it all out visually, then hit "go".
The kid has a sister?
Maybe you meant that SCO is burying the courts in paper Feces.
Naw, I believe you need homework to be graded, but for a *different* lesson! I now call that the "100% Performance" heuristic. Y'all are smarter than me. But I made it through college just doing the damn homework. For me, it prevented test time melt downs. I know, it's a point of bragging who blew off their homework, but then a bunch of the otherwise bright kid melted on the exams and that was that.
In *real work*, there's none of this "Gee, 88%, that's good enough". Sure, that's how far you get the *first time*, then Boss says something and ... you have to go *finish* it. Then you do another one. And another one. Because business is about repeatable tasks performed at 100%. So the biggest lesson of all is about transcending the bored willies and just drilling stuff out.
First Pastor Niemoller warned us, but we forgot about him. Then the nerds warned us, but we called them Tin Foil Hats. Then when they come for your favorite site there will be no recourse left.
Real Life Angry Birds!
On the Big Picture level, this is complicated. So ... what... Apple gets out of the Pro Desktop/Laptop market... that leaves is back to Microsoft again right? Except instead of Windows vs "Rebel" OS X wars, it's Windows and ... what? For everyone who hates Windows and MS, if Apple literally phases out OS X, could THAT be the Year of the Linux Desktop?
Forget TFA, I stopped reading the summary after "Users of Facebook Connect have previously enjoyed extra privacy..."
The Slaves of Corporate Big Brother have also enjoyed extra silent company.
"What's more, a lot of that old "squeezing the last drop out of the hardware" stuff really meant exploiting tricks that would barely enable you to get the job done by the skin of your teeth, and everybody would marvel that you got it done at all. Those wow-factor programs amaze people with what they can do, ..."
There's something sad here - the old Wow Factor got me interested in computers, "back when it was all fresh and new". Maybe the modern software houses took over, it's been some time since I heard a Wow-type comment about new software. It's almost like all the delighted young hackers grew up and are burning out in their 40's at dull jobs.
Maybe if we looked again at topics that were indeed too hard 25 years ago, but this time we applied some Wow, we might get AI. - That is, if we want it.
Once again xkcd has a comment.
From Verse 849:
http://xkcd.com/849/
What about these crossover software-hardware patents?
"Let's patent a swipe." "Let's patent one button that does everything."
It's like patenting your first grade.
Speaking of bloat, there's a humorously insightful article here about http://www.trygve.com/doomsday.html
Those WYSIWYG creators produce the most gawdawful code full of
Sudo We're Fighting Terrorists. This Is Not The Case You Are Looking For. Move Along Your Docket Now.
Nah, "Unlimited" is bad. That's just like throwing everything into "My Documents". (I hate MS's schemes, programs randomly pick their default location between My Documents, Downloads, /Programs/Data/____ , /_____/____/Temporary/Content/___/____/ThisMail/____ (5% of my job at work is spent recovering stuff that people "open" out of their email. Yuk!
I do "Drive Reads" that gather all files on the disk into a text file, and then search *that* for my long lost files. It's 1000 times faster than old windows search. If you Drive Read by Date, that's your MRU list. But you can also do it by name, by type, etc.
Sorry, your post went a little south with the Vista debacle. Because MS had to fast track a recovery of a whole new architecture, the result was not optimized at all ... and netbooks got crushed. Windows 7 is more sensible because they did have time to snip out a lot of the junk code.
Currently we're disparaging the need for tight code, but give it one skipped cycle of Moore's law and suddenly the software side will have to take up the slack. Currently it's the mobile phones with their weaker processors that are preventing "dock your phone into a workstation shell" from being the universal desktop in your pocket.
I'd love it if someone managed to make a meme that Tight Code Stops Terrorists. Then watch the OS fly!
They kinda sorta work, *if* you manage 100 file extensions. Forget the Ribbon, the other disaster from Office 2007 was the 'glorious basterd' new file names, docx xlsx and the others. But of course 'file extensions are too hard for users' so those differences get hidden. One of my 'mission critical' programs from work FINALLY added support for those filenames ... *this past April*.
So yeah, there's probably a scorpion barb in the Microsoft article.
Ho Hum, Corps lying, then they admit it, and no one has any energy left to care.
It's called the Long Con.
I'm thinking of the Rapture guy. A few people gave their life savings to him. At the very least he's getting ad clicks, maybe. When you do a Long Con you have to push it really close like a game of chicken and Spin-Doctor the daylights out of the last 12 hours.
Are Atomic Energy Plants "Stuff That Matters"?
The first part is quite easy. I guarantee I am not ... yet... a Google Employee.
For the second part, can I put you down as a reference that you think I would be a good fit there? If you're right, they'd like me. I could use a change of scenery. And better Mexican food.