Delphi would be able to go head to head with C++. It will lose but the time difference will be marginal. The compiler and linker and pretty amazing and blindingly fast. It would be interesting to see and out of the box ( build with defaults) competition between the two as I think Delphi would win with ease.
I hate Anders for defecting to the Evil Empire. Say what you like about C# but that is another in a long line of huge achievements that man has to his name.
And least anything poo poo Delphi look around, there are a lot of major applications authored in that version of pascal.
Not to mention hoping the pilot gets the weight & balance correct, not to mention fuel consumption ( which none of them have had to calculate in years ). Most times the plane datalink has the correct information but I have seen a commercial jet parked at the gate because the feed from the computer was down.
Making assumptions based on the standard FAA passenger w/standard baggage is tricky business not to mention dangerous since that has killed more then a few passengers and crew especially stops at regional airports where some get off some get on and off we go! Out of range CG kills people.
This year I turned my son's 4th grade class into a computer using nothing but the kids, baskets, 3x5 cards and a white board.
You should have seen their eyes light up when it hit home that a computer is nothing but a machine that follows simple instructions.
After one afternoon the kids were writing their own "programs"
This is an example of 9 and 10 year old's learning problem solving and conceptualization with about $15.00 bucks worth of materials.
Angry Birds is all the rage for 4th graders. After summer vacation and they move onto 5th grade we are going to "write" Angry Birds with the same 15 bucks worth of materials.
And with any luck HTML5 will vanish with both of them.
HTML5's biggest selling point is a canvas for making pretty pictures dance on the screen. NOTHING ELSE has changed in the HTML spec that amounts to anything, including local storage.
HTML5 matters only to people who want to play games and watch porn. Business does not give a rats ass about that. What business cares about is being able to deploy and app that is not brittle and actually works on all three major platforms ( 1st Windows, 2nd IOS and in a dead last place, Linux Desktops ).
Most everything was connected to hard lines that went back to the big main frame machines that ran it.
If one terminal was down then it was most likely the terminal that had failed or possibly one of hundreds of hard lines back to the Main Frame
Now days with everything being all cloudy good luck figuring out what might still be available. It could have been something as simple as the single bit of fiber serving that main concourse was damaged or a router someplace in the airport had failed or some cloud vendors routing had gone south or hell it might have been something as dramatic as what happened to Amazon a little bit ago.
We all remember when every byte of ram used was worried about because RAM was a precious resource.
Now we have programmers who have drank the kool-aid of "Hey Ram is CHEAP and programer time is expensive.
Need another feature? Oh just compile is some humongous library that some other guy wrote that is so poorly written that not even the smartest linker can avoid linking in every dam line since every thing is interdependent on everything else.
This is objects gone insane. Need another property, another method, just pile it on, don't waste time refactoring the code so that you get what you need with the smallest footprint you can get.
Programmers need to re-boot their brains and start coding like memory is a precious commodity because it IS when everyone wants to have 100 tabs open in their browser, plus eclipse, plus gimp, plus this plus that plus the other and do all of this when re-compiling the entire Linux kernel.
I take your point. The other possibility is that the web will become less authoritative and people will not believe what they see since they will not know if it is a "planted" story or not. Given that the nation as a whole is drinking the "cloud" koolaid and governments at all levels are publishing "official" information is this really a good thing?
wont amount to much when someone slips up and stays connected a little to long and they are detected right down to the DSLAM.
When that happens, and it will happen, they are going to be made an example of in a big nasty public way.
And after they are "de-briefed" the group will start to unravel as one by one they will be found and made examples of as the thread continues to unravel and more and more information is gathered as each in turn is made an offer of "You can cooperate and we can be nice, or you cannot cooperate as we will ruin your life, you kids lives, your wife's life, you parents lives and pretty much anyone else you know and care for. We will give you a few minutes to think it over".
This is what you get when you start seriously fucking around with companies, individuals and governments.
I think planting the bogus news story was the tipping point. Tupoc was of course a bit silly but what if it had been something different, something far more serious that had implications that caused people to take financial or other action, then is it still funny ha ha? People take what they see on websites of places like PBS as serious and authoritative. Rightly or wrongly they do because everyone has pushed to make the web authoritative.
Not sure on this point, but something is missing, at least I think we are missing some data to really decide if there is something else going on or not.
While I think your question is valid, to a point, I think a lot of professors do not give credit where credit is due, or at least "page one credit". My own experience is with two professors at UC Berkeley who do give "page one credit" if it is truly due, but YMMV.
I can only postulate that the young woman's role is not explained completely in the various articles and that it can only be determined if and when the lead researchers detail it.
But if the leads on this were willing to place the young lady under the very bright light that will be cast upon this particular bit of research AND she is willing to be there then I can only really draw two conclusions:
1. She DID discover something critical that lead to a re/closer examination of the data and thus the resultant paper.
2. All three of them are really stupid by setting the young lady up for an epic fail when it turns out that she did nothing of note.
If my first conclusion ( the one that I prefer to be correct ) is correct then she has a very promising career going forward as she progresses and the leads recognize this and being established researchers want to give her career a big boost and open doors for her that would not be open for your basic undergrad.
I cannot see my second conclusion being correct for any reason since the two professors have a lot at risk here if the story is truly BS. In the scientific community your reputation is everything since if it is tarnished, especially in the attribution of serious scientific work, then getting your next grant would be in serious peril and few people would be willing to work with you.
The only other thing that I can possibly imagine would be that they wanted some really good press on this and so they put here on the cover as eye candy. Given the magnitude of this discovery, everyone and I do mean everyone, is going to be crawling all over this work, I do not see any reason why they would need to do so since the work could have profound impact on a lot of things.
Why perhaps because she is humble and hard working?
She says the ‘Eureka’ moment came after Dr Lazendic-Galloway examined the data collected. “Using her expert knowledge in the X-ray astronomy field, Jasmina reanalysed our results to find that we had in fact detected the filaments in our data, where previously we believed we had not.” Ms Fraser-McKelvie said in the press release.
This breakthrough discovery in determining the amount of mass contained in the filaments, as scientists have been making deductions based on numerical models until now.
Although she is still a year away from undertaking Honours, Ms Fraser-McKelvie’s work has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a terrific achievement for an undergraduate. “Being a published author is very exciting for me, and something I could never have achieved without the help of both Kevin and Jasmina.” she said.
“Their passion and commitment for this project ensured the great result and I am very thankful to them for all the help they have given me and time they have invested.”
From the original article as posted on Science Illustrated's website.
Emphasis is mine but the quotes clearly point out her level of gratitude and humbleness or would you like to attach some other meaning to it?
I don't have mod points at the moment, but if I did I would mod you up.
I am still surprised that people just don't get this, at all or they are living in some fantasy land in which everything is free and they are allowed to do whatever they want with whatever software they decide they like.
I use an iPhone for three things, Primarily to make phone calls, secondly to keep track of my calender, thirdly to listen to music.
I personally don't care for all the split personalities of Android on the various handsets and carriers.
Google put out an OS that works that the source is available for and that is their model, more power to them.
Apple put out an OS for their tablet and phones that the source is not available for and it does what the vast majority of people want it to do, more power to them.
People always want to turn this into a binary choice and its certainly is not that in the least. Many people will only let their Blackberry go when you pry it from their cold fingers and the same goes with an iPhone or a Droid Phone.
I see the number of people who bitch about the whole damn thing as about 1/1000 of 1 percent of the users and frankly those people don't amount to anything in the greater scheme of things.
The WSJ is owned by News Corp the same company that owns Fox News so it should not come as a surprise that they are leaning towards tabloid style "journalism". Murdoch & Co will do whatever it takes to push more paper.
The whole things boils down to security. I advise CEO's, CTO's and the like and I tell them "let them vbing in their device, but that device must be made security compatible with all the existing IT polices. If they don't want to hand the device over to IT to make the thing secure, then tell them no, or buy them one just like it and make sure they understand it is company property and that the company will remotely wipe the thing with the least provocation. I have yet to talk to a CEO that isn't fine with that. They understand productivity and the forward march of tech, they just want to know that the companies data is secure to the greatest extent possible.
Mod you as clueless. PC's in a company were fine, I was there when it happened. They are on a company controlled network and nothing walks out the front door.
Laptops, fine with those too. You need one, the company buys you one and locks it down tighter then you can imagine and encrypts everything. You cannot even change the desktop icons much less add or remove anything.
Your own personal iPad? Personal iPhone? Not gonna happen, because once I tell the CEO that the company can be completely hosed because that idiot salesman loses the device at the next big market show and the competition gets their hands on it he says, "But the guy one, and make it secure and then hand it to him along with this memo outlining just how fast he will be fired if he violates policy.
And we will all snicker as you are shown the door for bringing in your latest whiz-bang gadget and all the crud on it that infects the network and puts the whole thing down for a few days.
I manage change, I don't fight it. I will let your new whiz bang toy onto the network but you can bet your sweet ass that every packet it sends and receives is monitored and recorded and when the network goes down it is your packet trace I will be showing to the CEO and then he will fire your dumb ass when all of the rest of the people with "better things to do" can't do them.
When tech's rise to the level of CTO they know how to leave people like you out to twist in the wind hanging from your own petard. Been there, done that., got several t-shirts I wear under my three piece suit.
I run FF 4.x on a OpenSuse 11.x box and on a windows XP box. I have actually experimented, both FF installs are default. On the Linux box the same stupid screen comes up, "scanning your hard drive you have 99 million viruses clock OK to get rid of them.".
FF on the Linux box you click ok and FF prompts you that such and such a site wants to do some shit with some executable file, tell it no, close the tab and you are ok.
FF on the XP box you click ok and you are off to the races trying to get the crap-ware off of your computer!
Now can some please explain just why the fuck that is?
Can someone explain why the ability for for Drive By's can happen AT ALL an how come the code that allows this sort of shit to happen has not been ripped out with extreme prejudice after the very first occurrence of this behavior?
Perhaps there is a browser author in the mighty/. world who will step up and explain this?
Wouldn't a simpler way be, every time IT touches a machine is to get a backup of the registry ( a clean one ) or better yet simply have a default registry on hand. Pop the install CD, go into repair mode and restore the registry to your company defaults.
Another way would be to perhaps take the infected registry and then compare it to the infected registry and you will find every trace of the damn thing, yes?
Too many years ago I took "C for Professional Programmers" at UC Berkeley Extension because I was running into some places that I could not fathom a way out of. The guy teaching it had written a couple of books on compiler design and knew his stuff. I had to sort through some cruft, but it was a good course overall.
check your local University for extension courses, most aren't cheep and are usually worth the money you pay.
Nail on the head. Almost no one remembers DataEase which was a 4GL database program from the 80's that just kicked serious ass. I would import over a dozen different data formats, export to just as many. It had a completely visual form builder and report writer that was based on SQL they called DQL, built in custom menus, quick reports, menu / form / field level security and was the first all in one database program to take advantage of the LIM spec for extended memory, supported optimistic concurrency and LAN record locking on both Novell and Lan Man.
They too bet the farm on O/S2 and Presentation Manager only to have the rug pulled out from under their feet. In the DOS world they were kicking dBase's butt along with Paradox as well. They still exist in the windows world and occupy a niche and is still in active development and being ported as a serious web database tool.
I have fond memories of making a DataEase logo out of cement with some very good friends, going down to Borland's HQ in Scot's Valley and using the same glue they use to glue the reflectors to the highway and gluing the logo to the pavement right in the right in the middle of Phillip Kahn's parking spot. Going to COMDEX and just wowing people by creating databases and reports completely on the fly from peoples suggestions and watching them just being amazed that within 30 Minutes I handed them a floppy with all the required files on it to run that database back at their office if they purchased a copy of the product right then and there.
I sure wish we didn't have to but as my wise old relative once said, "shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one gets full first".
There are some things that really need to be kept secret. I am not saying everything they do keep secret should be, but there are some things.
Diplomacy, the alternative to war yes? Our diplomats need to be able to communicate between themselves freely and not worry that some shit for brains private is going to spew it forth. What our diplomats say to each other and what they say to their counterparts in other countries are two very different things and the two should never meet because wars have been started over less.
Wanting everything to be out in the open and no secrets is a valid position in some instances but in the case of relationships between countries it is both naive and utterly reckless. Given you very low ID number you should be old enough to know better
As to calling me the traitor... I served my country, I kept the secrets entrusted to me, even though I disagreed with them because that is what I swore to do and it was my duty to do so and if you sir would care to to meet me on the field of honor I would demand satisfaction and I would send you to your maker with gusto and aplomb.
Hmmmm isn't the point of a covert operation to remain, well, covert? You don't run around screaming your head off that a covert operative got whacked or an informer got whacked. The other side might have whacked that person simply on suspicion (yes I know, something completely unheard of...) So rather then confirm those suspicions you keep your mouth shut and hope it all blows over and you can continue the operation.
Bin - Laden getting killed made headlines because of who he was.
Deep cover agents / informers don't make headlines when they are taken out back and get a bullet in the head
The problem with people like you is that you just don't fucking get it. There are all sorts of operations going on with peoples lives in the balance, hell their whole families lives in the balance. We got Bin - Laden because of a massive intelligence effort eg: sifting through every shred of everything looking for the smallest clue.
The other side is doing / does the same thing and Manning / Assange gave them EVERYTHING no filter in a nice fully search-able form. NO ONE knows what small bit of info in ALL of that will give away informers, covert agents or operations that have to be shutdown because suddenly they are no longer secret Not ME, not YOU, not that stupid fucking traitor Manning and for GOD DAMN SURE sure not that idiot Assange!
People like you whimpering and whining about this stuff make me want to puke. You want all your little geek toys that consume electricity, you want convenience, you want to get on some sort of transport and go on vacation ( provided you can pry your dumb ass out of your parents basement ) and guess what all of that takes energy. People in the North East want heating oil, people in Arizona want air conditioning and guess what all that energy has to come from someplace. ANWR is not an answer, solar is not an answer, nuclear is completely NIMBY now no matter how or where it is built. Guess where 50% of our energy comes from, wait for it... yes the middle east. Guess what turn off that spigot and we got one big fucking problem.
When the lights go out and your cold and hungry you wont care how the energy is gotten, you will just want your government to go and get it and that is how the world spins.
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Delphi would be able to go head to head with C++. It will lose but the time difference will be marginal. The compiler and linker and pretty amazing and blindingly fast. It would be interesting to see and out of the box ( build with defaults) competition between the two as I think Delphi would win with ease.
I hate Anders for defecting to the Evil Empire. Say what you like about C# but that is another in a long line of huge achievements that man has to his name.
And least anything poo poo Delphi look around, there are a lot of major applications authored in that version of pascal.
Not to mention hoping the pilot gets the weight & balance correct, not to mention fuel consumption ( which none of them have had to calculate in years ). Most times the plane datalink has the correct information but I have seen a commercial jet parked at the gate because the feed from the computer was down.
Making assumptions based on the standard FAA passenger w/standard baggage is tricky business not to mention dangerous since that has killed more then a few passengers and crew especially stops at regional airports where some get off some get on and off we go! Out of range CG kills people.
This year I turned my son's 4th grade class into a computer using nothing but the kids, baskets, 3x5 cards and a white board.
You should have seen their eyes light up when it hit home that a computer is nothing but a machine that follows simple instructions.
After one afternoon the kids were writing their own "programs"
This is an example of 9 and 10 year old's learning problem solving and conceptualization with about $15.00 bucks worth of materials.
Angry Birds is all the rage for 4th graders. After summer vacation and they move onto 5th grade we are going to "write" Angry Birds with the same 15 bucks worth of materials.
And with any luck HTML5 will vanish with both of them.
HTML5's biggest selling point is a canvas for making pretty pictures dance on the screen. NOTHING ELSE has changed in the HTML spec that amounts to anything, including local storage.
HTML5 matters only to people who want to play games and watch porn. Business does not give a rats ass about that. What business cares about is being able to deploy and app that is not brittle and actually works on all three major platforms ( 1st Windows, 2nd IOS and in a dead last place, Linux Desktops ).
In 1960 most everyone was running Sabre
Most everything was connected to hard lines that went back to the big main frame machines that ran it.
If one terminal was down then it was most likely the terminal that had failed or possibly one of hundreds of hard lines back to the Main Frame
Now days with everything being all cloudy good luck figuring out what might still be available. It could have been something as simple as the single bit of fiber serving that main concourse was damaged or a router someplace in the airport had failed or some cloud vendors routing had gone south or hell it might have been something as dramatic as what happened to Amazon a little bit ago.
he problem is with programmers.
We all remember when every byte of ram used was worried about because RAM was a precious resource.
Now we have programmers who have drank the kool-aid of "Hey Ram is CHEAP and programer time is expensive.
Need another feature? Oh just compile is some humongous library that some other guy wrote that is so poorly written that not even the smartest linker can avoid linking in every dam line since every thing is interdependent on everything else.
This is objects gone insane. Need another property, another method, just pile it on, don't waste time refactoring the code so that you get what you need with the smallest footprint you can get.
Programmers need to re-boot their brains and start coding like memory is a precious commodity because it IS when everyone wants to have 100 tabs open in their browser, plus eclipse, plus gimp, plus this plus that plus the other and do all of this when re-compiling the entire Linux kernel.
I take your point. The other possibility is that the web will become less authoritative and people will not believe what they see since they will not know if it is a "planted" story or not. Given that the nation as a whole is drinking the "cloud" koolaid and governments at all levels are publishing "official" information is this really a good thing?
wont amount to much when someone slips up and stays connected a little to long and they are detected right down to the DSLAM.
When that happens, and it will happen, they are going to be made an example of in a big nasty public way.
And after they are "de-briefed" the group will start to unravel as one by one they will be found and made examples of as the thread continues to unravel and more and more information is gathered as each in turn is made an offer of "You can cooperate and we can be nice, or you cannot cooperate as we will ruin your life, you kids lives, your wife's life, you parents lives and pretty much anyone else you know and care for. We will give you a few minutes to think it over".
This is what you get when you start seriously fucking around with companies, individuals and governments.
I think planting the bogus news story was the tipping point. Tupoc was of course a bit silly but what if it had been something different, something far more serious that had implications that caused people to take financial or other action, then is it still funny ha ha? People take what they see on websites of places like PBS as serious and authoritative. Rightly or wrongly they do because everyone has pushed to make the web authoritative.
Not sure on this point, but something is missing, at least I think we are missing some data to really decide if there is something else going on or not.
While I think your question is valid, to a point, I think a lot of professors do not give credit where credit is due, or at least "page one credit". My own experience is with two professors at UC Berkeley who do give "page one credit" if it is truly due, but YMMV.
I can only postulate that the young woman's role is not explained completely in the various articles and that it can only be determined if and when the lead researchers detail it.
But if the leads on this were willing to place the young lady under the very bright light that will be cast upon this particular bit of research AND she is willing to be there then I can only really draw two conclusions:
1. She DID discover something critical that lead to a re/closer examination of the data and thus the resultant paper.
2. All three of them are really stupid by setting the young lady up for an epic fail when it turns out that she did nothing of note.
If my first conclusion ( the one that I prefer to be correct ) is correct then she has a very promising career going forward as she progresses and the leads recognize this and being established researchers want to give her career a big boost and open doors for her that would not be open for your basic undergrad.
I cannot see my second conclusion being correct for any reason since the two professors have a lot at risk here if the story is truly BS. In the scientific community your reputation is everything since if it is tarnished, especially in the attribution of serious scientific work, then getting your next grant would be in serious peril and few people would be willing to work with you.
The only other thing that I can possibly imagine would be that they wanted some really good press on this and so they put here on the cover as eye candy. Given the magnitude of this discovery, everyone and I do mean everyone, is going to be crawling all over this work, I do not see any reason why they would need to do so since the work could have profound impact on a lot of things.
Why perhaps because she is humble and hard working?
She says the ‘Eureka’ moment came after Dr Lazendic-Galloway examined the data collected. “Using her expert knowledge in the X-ray astronomy field, Jasmina reanalysed our results to find that we had in fact detected the filaments in our data, where previously we believed we had not.” Ms Fraser-McKelvie said in the press release.
This breakthrough discovery in determining the amount of mass contained in the filaments, as scientists have been making deductions based on numerical models until now.
Although she is still a year away from undertaking Honours, Ms Fraser-McKelvie’s work has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a terrific achievement for an undergraduate. “Being a published author is very exciting for me, and something I could never have achieved without the help of both Kevin and Jasmina.” she said.
“Their passion and commitment for this project ensured the great result and I am very thankful to them for all the help they have given me and time they have invested.”
From the original article as posted on Science Illustrated's website.
Emphasis is mine but the quotes clearly point out her level of gratitude and humbleness or would you like to attach some other meaning to it?
Given that Gates was pushing the purchase of Skype with the board I think it is still appropriate.
I don't have mod points at the moment, but if I did I would mod you up.
I am still surprised that people just don't get this, at all or they are living in some fantasy land in which everything is free and they are allowed to do whatever they want with whatever software they decide they like.
I use an iPhone for three things, Primarily to make phone calls, secondly to keep track of my calender, thirdly to listen to music.
I personally don't care for all the split personalities of Android on the various handsets and carriers.
Google put out an OS that works that the source is available for and that is their model, more power to them.
Apple put out an OS for their tablet and phones that the source is not available for and it does what the vast majority of people want it to do, more power to them.
People always want to turn this into a binary choice and its certainly is not that in the least. Many people will only let their Blackberry go when you pry it from their cold fingers and the same goes with an iPhone or a Droid Phone.
I see the number of people who bitch about the whole damn thing as about 1/1000 of 1 percent of the users and frankly those people don't amount to anything in the greater scheme of things.
The WSJ is owned by News Corp the same company that owns Fox News so it should not come as a surprise that they are leaning towards tabloid style "journalism". Murdoch & Co will do whatever it takes to push more paper.
The whole things boils down to security. I advise CEO's, CTO's and the like and I tell them "let them vbing in their device, but that device must be made security compatible with all the existing IT polices. If they don't want to hand the device over to IT to make the thing secure, then tell them no, or buy them one just like it and make sure they understand it is company property and that the company will remotely wipe the thing with the least provocation. I have yet to talk to a CEO that isn't fine with that. They understand productivity and the forward march of tech, they just want to know that the companies data is secure to the greatest extent possible.
Mod you as clueless. PC's in a company were fine, I was there when it happened. They are on a company controlled network and nothing walks out the front door.
Laptops, fine with those too. You need one, the company buys you one and locks it down tighter then you can imagine and encrypts everything. You cannot even change the desktop icons much less add or remove anything.
Your own personal iPad? Personal iPhone? Not gonna happen, because once I tell the CEO that the company can be completely hosed because that idiot salesman loses the device at the next big market show and the competition gets their hands on it he says, "But the guy one, and make it secure and then hand it to him along with this memo outlining just how fast he will be fired if he violates policy.
And we will all snicker as you are shown the door for bringing in your latest whiz-bang gadget and all the crud on it that infects the network and puts the whole thing down for a few days.
I manage change, I don't fight it. I will let your new whiz bang toy onto the network but you can bet your sweet ass that every packet it sends and receives is monitored and recorded and when the network goes down it is your packet trace I will be showing to the CEO and then he will fire your dumb ass when all of the rest of the people with "better things to do" can't do them.
When tech's rise to the level of CTO they know how to leave people like you out to twist in the wind hanging from your own petard. Been there, done that., got several t-shirts I wear under my three piece suit.
How can this still be happening!
I run FF 4.x on a OpenSuse 11.x box and on a windows XP box. I have actually experimented, both FF installs are default. On the Linux box the same stupid screen comes up, "scanning your hard drive you have 99 million viruses clock OK to get rid of them.".
FF on the Linux box you click ok and FF prompts you that such and such a site wants to do some shit with some executable file, tell it no, close the tab and you are ok.
FF on the XP box you click ok and you are off to the races trying to get the crap-ware off of your computer!
Now can some please explain just why the fuck that is?
Can someone explain why the ability for for Drive By's can happen AT ALL an how come the code that allows this sort of shit to happen has not been ripped out with extreme prejudice after the very first occurrence of this behavior?
Perhaps there is a browser author in the mighty /. world who will step up and explain this?
Wouldn't a simpler way be, every time IT touches a machine is to get a backup of the registry ( a clean one ) or better yet simply have a default registry on hand. Pop the install CD, go into repair mode and restore the registry to your company defaults.
Another way would be to perhaps take the infected registry and then compare it to the infected registry and you will find every trace of the damn thing, yes?
The military was still using computers with core memory.
Check this out!
I have MOD points and right now I want a moderation selection that says, "You'd Shit on your own mother!".
Jesus fucking Christ dude, a 16 year old, yes that is a KID, a junior in HIGH SCHOOL and you go out of your way to belittle his accomplishment!
Yes that is how we motivate the young and the obviously gifted to excel in science by crapping all over their accomplishment.
Look up the definition of asshole in the dictionary and you will find your name, address and photo.
Ohh yes and the people who modded you up will find their names, addresses and phone numbers under the definition of asshole as well.
Too many years ago I took "C for Professional Programmers" at UC Berkeley Extension because I was running into some places that I could not fathom a way out of. The guy teaching it had written a couple of books on compiler design and knew his stuff. I had to sort through some cruft, but it was a good course overall.
check your local University for extension courses, most aren't cheep and are usually worth the money you pay.
Nail on the head. Almost no one remembers DataEase which was a 4GL database program from the 80's that just kicked serious ass. I would import over a dozen different data formats, export to just as many. It had a completely visual form builder and report writer that was based on SQL they called DQL, built in custom menus, quick reports, menu / form / field level security and was the first all in one database program to take advantage of the LIM spec for extended memory, supported optimistic concurrency and LAN record locking on both Novell and Lan Man.
They too bet the farm on O/S2 and Presentation Manager only to have the rug pulled out from under their feet. In the DOS world they were kicking dBase's butt along with Paradox as well. They still exist in the windows world and occupy a niche and is still in active development and being ported as a serious web database tool.
I have fond memories of making a DataEase logo out of cement with some very good friends, going down to Borland's HQ in Scot's Valley and using the same glue they use to glue the reflectors to the highway and gluing the logo to the pavement right in the right in the middle of Phillip Kahn's parking spot. Going to COMDEX and just wowing people by creating databases and reports completely on the fly from peoples suggestions and watching them just being amazed that within 30 Minutes I handed them a floppy with all the required files on it to run that database back at their office if they purchased a copy of the product right then and there.
Heady times the 80's were.
I sure wish we didn't have to but as my wise old relative once said, "shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which one gets full first".
There are some things that really need to be kept secret. I am not saying everything they do keep secret should be, but there are some things.
Diplomacy, the alternative to war yes? Our diplomats need to be able to communicate between themselves freely and not worry that some shit for brains private is going to spew it forth. What our diplomats say to each other and what they say to their counterparts in other countries are two very different things and the two should never meet because wars have been started over less.
Wanting everything to be out in the open and no secrets is a valid position in some instances but in the case of relationships between countries it is both naive and utterly reckless. Given you very low ID number you should be old enough to know better
As to calling me the traitor... I served my country, I kept the secrets entrusted to me, even though I disagreed with them because that is what I swore to do and it was my duty to do so and if you sir would care to to meet me on the field of honor I would demand satisfaction and I would send you to your maker with gusto and aplomb.
Hmmmm isn't the point of a covert operation to remain, well, covert? You don't run around screaming your head off that a covert operative got whacked or an informer got whacked. The other side might have whacked that person simply on suspicion (yes I know, something completely unheard of...) So rather then confirm those suspicions you keep your mouth shut and hope it all blows over and you can continue the operation.
You are a blithering fucking idiot!!!!
Bin - Laden getting killed made headlines because of who he was.
Deep cover agents / informers don't make headlines when they are taken out back and get a bullet in the head
The problem with people like you is that you just don't fucking get it. There are all sorts of operations going on with peoples lives in the balance, hell their whole families lives in the balance. We got Bin - Laden because of a massive intelligence effort eg: sifting through every shred of everything looking for the smallest clue.
The other side is doing / does the same thing and Manning / Assange gave them EVERYTHING no filter in a nice fully search-able form. NO ONE knows what small bit of info in ALL of that will give away informers, covert agents or operations that have to be shutdown because suddenly they are no longer secret Not ME, not YOU, not that stupid fucking traitor Manning and for GOD DAMN SURE sure not that idiot Assange!
People like you whimpering and whining about this stuff make me want to puke. You want all your little geek toys that consume electricity, you want convenience, you want to get on some sort of transport and go on vacation ( provided you can pry your dumb ass out of your parents basement ) and guess what all of that takes energy. People in the North East want heating oil, people in Arizona want air conditioning and guess what all that energy has to come from someplace. ANWR is not an answer, solar is not an answer, nuclear is completely NIMBY now no matter how or where it is built. Guess where 50% of our energy comes from, wait for it... yes the middle east. Guess what turn off that spigot and we got one big fucking problem.
When the lights go out and your cold and hungry you wont care how the energy is gotten, you will just want your government to go and get it and that is how the world spins.