The KSA didn't invent or build, nor do they own, the internet. If the KSA objects to the content on the internet, they are free to filter or restrict whatever they wish, in their own country. While the rest of the world is unlikely to have much interest in their objections, they are free to make as many objections as they wish.
Which is the elephant in the room. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland all have nicely functioning societies, quite popular with their own citizenry for the most part. They also act as if their citizenry mattered. They're also taxed up the wazoo BUT they get decent services out of it and a functioning safety net. Every time I hear about the dire consequences of taxes, socialized health care, and a reduced military, I can only look at these countries, and despair. Apparently, people here in the USA are now unable to see real world examples that demonstrate how nutty their ideas are.
1) You have 100 employees who use MS Office. Did they want a new interface? No. Did they need one? No. Do they have learn one to use the flood of.docx docs and xlsx spreadsheets they are starting to receive? Yes. Do you have to spend money retraining them again? Yes. Did a whole generation of macros become useless? Mostly
2) You have 50,000 employees (say, Seimens) using XP who must now upgrade to Windows 8. Did they want a new interface? No. Did they need one? No. Do you have to spend money retraining them again? Yes. Did a whole generation of software build around Windows XP become useless? Pretty much.
3) You have 1000 customers using your VB6 application. You employ 3 programmers Did they want to learn new code? No. Despite the promises, does their VB6 app work on 64-bit Windows 7? Yes, it just crashes every few minutes now. Do they have to learn new code and then recode and then retest to keep their customers? Yes.
Microsoft's Motto? Who cares about how much you have to spend upgrading or training or re-developing, asshole? You'll eat our shit with a smile.
Or not, actually. Linux gets more usable each year, and android pad OSs aren't standing still either.
Standard operating procedure on Slashdot where the obscure software project, framework, language or technology is promoted as being something you all should have known about all along.
If you're getting paid for your software, there's one set of priorities. If you're doing it for your own satisfaction, there's quite another. Not understanding or being able to separate business from the actual activity of writing software seems to be the problem.
I see this on a daily basis where I work. Younger software developers seem to think that "cool" and "new" is a good reason to do things - which it is, as long as it doesn't get in the way of making money. When there's a client involved and significant money, "cool" and "new" are only good if they actually help sell and maintain the software. The client doesn't care about frameworks, or ruby, or agile or lambda expressions. They care about cost, reliability and usability. Change for its own sake, or to gratify only the programmer is frequently a problem.
I take it you didn't program it with a recursive loop defined in some lambda calculus in a LISP statement... that would have made it much easier. Oh heavens no. It was more like a recursive macro that terminated when the lower bound of the vertical axis was reached. The only thing "lambda" about it was the fact that I didn't wrap it in a named function so in one sense, the equation was anonymous. Not that I thought about *any* of this at the time. I just needed to get the cursor to do something so we could capture a consistent bitmap, so I hacked together a formula.
Once I had to program a cursor to move diagonally across a window. While unchallenging, it was probably the pinnacle of my mathematics programming. Sometimes I have to remember to divide by 1024 instead of 1000. There you have it. Most of my life centers around multiply nested loops peppered with if-then statements plus regular expressions.
Funny, original and like nothing you've ever read before. Lafferty is the literary equivalent of taking a strong hallucinogenic. A wild and sometimes wonderful ride.
Bean counter and management do. They don't care how much the staff struggles with lousy software (e.g. Oracle server on Linux). They care about saving a few bucks, getting their bonuses, reorganizing to hide the bodies and moving on to the next job. Hence, there will always be a market for crappy software. Capitalism fails at the interface level. If the engineers and low level end users made the purchasing decisions, you can bet quality would improve in a hurry.
Most people don't have the intestinal fortitude or inclination to face unpleasant truths. "Canticle for Liebowitz" suggests that we will never learn from our mistakes, just like the evidence of the Romans, Mayans, Sumerians, Easter Islanders, et. al. would suggest. "Breakfast of Champions" rubs our noses in the unpleasant aspects of modern existence. It challenges the reader to recognize these facts and perhaps even do something about them. And *that* in a nutshell is what annoys some people. They don't want to think about anything bad. They don't want to do anything about anything bad. They don't want to think ahead to what bad things that look likely to happen. They want to be entertained. They want books and stories to be somewhere between candy and masturbation. They want unthinking optimism. They want Pollyanna.
1) Illegal drugs fund the CIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US). No possibility of corruption there, of course. 2) Illegal drugs finance the banks (http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/06/29/us-banks-laundered-mexican-drug-money/), even helps them weather financial crises (http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims). 3) Last, but not at ALL least, illegal drug money finances congressional campaigns (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/18/gordon-duff-how-drug-money-is-buying-our-new-congress/).
Illegal drugs! They feel good, taste good and they're so good for you!...if you happen to be part of the world's money/power elite. This is why they'll never go away, and they'll never be legal.
You obviously lack imagination, haven't studied history much and/or haven't visited a rural area recently. I travel frequently in rural east Texas, where gun ownership is high, poverty, tattoos and meth use are de riguer, many people have confederate flags flying from their houses and put signs in the yard that say things like "This is a UN free zone."
Americans aren't special. Genocidal waves developed in Germany, Rwanda, Cambodia, Greece, and Russia - all within the last century or so. The idea that we are magically protected from this is pure fantasy, particularly when there's an entire media industry dedicated to making disenfranchised, armed, people angry and keeping them that way for political gain.
Right now, people aren't suffering enough. When the next economic crisis inevitably hits, or possibly the one after that caused by resource depletion (or both), and cheap food, cheap entertainment and cheap psychotropics are no longer available, this is exactly what will happen in the USA, as the corporate owned media frantically and successfully diverts attention from the actual causes of the crises (i.e. a global elite that has gone from symbiotic to parasitic) and finds some vulnerable group to blame, most likely illegal immigrants.
Because people are crazy. I don't think gangs of brown shirted Democrats are going to start breaking the windows on the homes of Republicans or minorities, but I can easily see the reverse happening.
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Or outside of Sweden. Either way. No word yet on border sex, however borderline sex can get *very* complicated.
The KSA didn't invent or build, nor do they own, the internet. If the KSA objects to the content on the internet, they are free to filter or restrict whatever they wish, in their own country. While the rest of the world is unlikely to have much interest in their objections, they are free to make as many objections as they wish.
Which is the elephant in the room. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland all have nicely functioning societies, quite popular with their own citizenry for the most part. They also act as if their citizenry mattered. They're also taxed up the wazoo BUT they get decent services out of it and a functioning safety net. Every time I hear about the dire consequences of taxes, socialized health care, and a reduced military, I can only look at these countries, and despair. Apparently, people here in the USA are now unable to see real world examples that demonstrate how nutty their ideas are.
Speak for yourself, squishy Terran.
1) You have 100 employees who use MS Office. .docx docs and xlsx spreadsheets they are starting to receive? Yes.
Did they want a new interface? No.
Did they need one? No.
Do they have learn one to use the flood of
Do you have to spend money retraining them again? Yes.
Did a whole generation of macros become useless? Mostly
2) You have 50,000 employees (say, Seimens) using XP who must now upgrade to Windows 8.
Did they want a new interface? No.
Did they need one? No.
Do you have to spend money retraining them again? Yes.
Did a whole generation of software build around Windows XP become useless? Pretty much.
3) You have 1000 customers using your VB6 application. You employ 3 programmers
Did they want to learn new code? No.
Despite the promises, does their VB6 app work on 64-bit Windows 7? Yes, it just crashes every few minutes now.
Do they have to learn new code and then recode and then retest to keep their customers? Yes.
Microsoft's Motto? Who cares about how much you have to spend upgrading or training or re-developing, asshole? You'll eat our shit with a smile.
Or not, actually. Linux gets more usable each year, and android pad OSs aren't standing still either.
Who are famous for framing their questions so as to get the answers that please the faux news crowd. Well, the day just got more depressing.
Driving is mandatory, Parking is not permitted anywhere. No wait, that's San Francisco.
Standard operating procedure on Slashdot where the obscure software project, framework, language or technology is promoted as being something you all should have known about all along.
If you're getting paid for your software, there's one set of priorities. If you're doing it for your own satisfaction, there's quite another. Not understanding or being able to separate business from the actual activity of writing software seems to be the problem.
I see this on a daily basis where I work. Younger software developers seem to think that "cool" and "new" is a good reason to do things - which it is, as long as it doesn't get in the way of making money. When there's a client involved and significant money, "cool" and "new" are only good if they actually help sell and maintain the software. The client doesn't care about frameworks, or ruby, or agile or lambda expressions. They care about cost, reliability and usability. Change for its own sake, or to gratify only the programmer is frequently a problem.
I take it you didn't program it with a recursive loop defined in some lambda calculus in a LISP statement... that would have made it much easier.
Oh heavens no. It was more like a recursive macro that terminated when the lower bound of the vertical axis was reached. The only thing "lambda" about it was the fact that I didn't wrap it in a named function so in one sense, the equation was anonymous. Not that I thought about *any* of this at the time. I just needed to get the cursor to do something so we could capture a consistent bitmap, so I hacked together a formula.
From what I'm reading, I'm thinking you're right.
Once I had to program a cursor to move diagonally across a window. While unchallenging, it was probably the pinnacle of my mathematics programming. Sometimes I have to remember to divide by 1024 instead of 1000. There you have it. Most of my life centers around multiply nested loops peppered with if-then statements plus regular expressions.
Funny, original and like nothing you've ever read before. Lafferty is the literary equivalent of taking a strong hallucinogenic. A wild and sometimes wonderful ride.
That'll fix 'em right up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)
I still say "whatnot" and whatnot.
Bean counter and management do. They don't care how much the staff struggles with lousy software (e.g. Oracle server on Linux). They care about saving a few bucks, getting their bonuses, reorganizing to hide the bodies and moving on to the next job. Hence, there will always be a market for crappy software. Capitalism fails at the interface level. If the engineers and low level end users made the purchasing decisions, you can bet quality would improve in a hurry.
Sad. Grim. Misleading. Full of lies and deceit. An uncaring attitude that finally drives the reader to unending despair and dark madness.
Most people don't have the intestinal fortitude or inclination to face unpleasant truths. "Canticle for Liebowitz" suggests that we will never learn from our mistakes, just like the evidence of the Romans, Mayans, Sumerians, Easter Islanders, et. al. would suggest. "Breakfast of Champions" rubs our noses in the unpleasant aspects of modern existence. It challenges the reader to recognize these facts and perhaps even do something about them. And *that* in a nutshell is what annoys some people. They don't want to think about anything bad. They don't want to do anything about anything bad. They don't want to think ahead to what bad things that look likely to happen. They want to be entertained. They want books and stories to be somewhere between candy and masturbation. They want unthinking optimism. They want Pollyanna.
1) Illegal drugs fund the CIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US). No possibility of corruption there, of course.
2) Illegal drugs finance the banks (http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/06/29/us-banks-laundered-mexican-drug-money/), even helps them weather financial crises (http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims).
3) Last, but not at ALL least, illegal drug money finances congressional campaigns (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/18/gordon-duff-how-drug-money-is-buying-our-new-congress/).
Illegal drugs! They feel good, taste good and they're so good for you! ...if you happen to be part of the world's money/power elite. This is why they'll never go away, and they'll never be legal.
You obviously lack imagination, haven't studied history much and/or haven't visited a rural area recently. I travel frequently in rural east Texas, where gun ownership is high, poverty, tattoos and meth use are de riguer, many people have confederate flags flying from their houses and put signs in the yard that say things like "This is a UN free zone."
Americans aren't special. Genocidal waves developed in Germany, Rwanda, Cambodia, Greece, and Russia - all within the last century or so. The idea that we are magically protected from this is pure fantasy, particularly when there's an entire media industry dedicated to making disenfranchised, armed, people angry and keeping them that way for political gain.
Right now, people aren't suffering enough. When the next economic crisis inevitably hits, or possibly the one after that caused by resource depletion (or both), and cheap food, cheap entertainment and cheap psychotropics are no longer available, this is exactly what will happen in the USA, as the corporate owned media frantically and successfully diverts attention from the actual causes of the crises (i.e. a global elite that has gone from symbiotic to parasitic) and finds some vulnerable group to blame, most likely illegal immigrants.
Yes. Quite easily. Does the term "Kristallnacht" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht) mean anything to you?
Because people are crazy. I don't think gangs of brown shirted Democrats are going to start breaking the windows on the homes of Republicans or minorities, but I can easily see the reverse happening.
Determine what planet it's from and plan to emigrate as soon as possible.
Go tachyons! The trades could be made before the orders were sent.
Sorry about that.