no longer exists in the USA. Relatively simple, practical tasks can no longer get done due to lobbyists and corrupt, inattentive politicians. Nor is this likely to change before the economy and energy shortages force societal simplification, like it or not. Interesting times.
A bit further between Deming and Silver City, there are farms, cows and even a herd of antelope near Bayard. No word on whether they were playing or not. Stay tuned. Towards Lordsburg.... not so much. Of anything.
No. There will be a large die-off, but inhabitable zones will persist in Greenland, Canada and Siberia as well as areas in the Southern hemisphere, some spots in Australia, a few islands and so on. By some estimates, Earth supported almost one billion humans before widespread fossil fuel use. The final population depends on remaining arable land and how widespread radiation poisoning from old nuclear weapons, decaying nuclear plants and hospitals is. The bottleneck could go as low as a few million and perhaps as high as 200 million, worldwide.
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Golly, I can't tell you how surprised I am. In other news, Yahoo and MSN and the TV networks decide to focus exclusively on sports and entertainment "news" 24/7. Oh wait, that happened 10 years ago.
after you figure out the syntax, that is And that's the problem. You have to figure it out. Had the dev team instead said, "Let's leverage the existing experience of sysadmins everywhere" we'd have not Powershell syntax, but something like vbscript.net and/or javascript.net syntax as an admin language. Millions of IT professionals could then do their jobs quickly and get on with their lives instead of having to learn an entire new language.
And all this difficulty because some little pisher at Microsoft thought it would be "cool" to have an internally consistent language. %#$^%$@@% idiot!
I think they may have jumped over the fence into "user hostile" territory. F'rinstance, despite it's idiotic pseudo-TCLish syntax, a Powershell CLI interface CAN be very convenient and useful. Making it more of a pain to get that running is not. If they're going to go that route, MS needs to provide a decent Powershell editor (i.e. Visual Studio tweaked for Powershell) and perhaps a version of explorer that's actually useful, but just taking away *everything* because some little twerp of a manager had a brainwave and didn't run it by a human factors expert is probably yet another very, very, bad idea.
Very hard. For some people. The code tells you what is being done. Sometimes that requires a line of explanation. The rest of the cognitive layer (i.e. the code documentation) tells you why something is being done a particular way, so you don't have to engage in another expensive research project.
The best exercise I ever had in documenting code was rewriting a colleague's code. All I did was take the comments, sentence by sentence and rewrite them using the least number of words that preserved the concept. Paragraph length sentences often reduced to as few as 10 words. That's not all, of course. Some comments were eliminated; others were rewritten in their entirety. All were arranged to emphasize the flow of concepts, rather than the specifics of the code. It's nontrivial.
For convenience, when it happens in the chemical domain and contains hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen, we call it "life." Quaint and parochial, but convenient.
Salt crystals in hypersaturated solution, bacteria, books, religion, money. Self replicators all. Some more limited than others.
Tinfoil, you say? It was a recent invention when my grandfather was sent to a gulag and my uncle was forcibly drafted into the Russian army to be what are now called "shock troops" or more accurately, "cannon fodder."
Always. Other issues factor in, in small ways, but the truth of the equation in the subject line is difficult to dispute, although the wealthy will always pay someone to try.
So no candidate is "best" for geek issues. Candidates work for their employers, the lobbyists on K-street who covertly fill their offshore bank accounts or overtly give money to their campaigns. Any support for things like net neutrality are mere coincidence, because the candidate or hired hand (congressperson) was paid to do so.
Which it will, assuming the minority neighborhood in question has a statistically higher crime rate. The pocket of Indian and Chinese professionals down the street from me are a "minority neighborhood." Crime rates there are not exceptionally high. Crime correlates with poverty, not flavor.
The moment the aforementioned bill was signed, we lost the few rights we still retained after the "Patriot" act.
So remember:
1) You're a terrorist if and when some unelected bureaucrat like a TSA inspector *suspects* you're a terrorist.
2) As a suspected terrorist, you can be detained indefinitely.
Leaving the country with your cash while you can is starting to look pretty good. If you are stopped, you'd be crazy to not comply with the request, but try not to belong to whatever party isn't in power at the time. At the moment, political affiliation isn't a reason for suspected terrorism, but how long do you think that will last?
Put more simply, no government regulation = gang/mafia rule (e.g. Somalia). Too much = dysfunctional dictatorship (e.g. North Korea). We have real world examples. It's just that the politicians and media are made to ignore them.
(Sarcasm) See? It's just that simple. But of course, outsourcing must be right because the market never makes mistakes. (End Sarcasm). We lose a lot of engineering competence when college students see a 4-year engineering degree as a way to compete with folks making $10 an hour at most, while a business, law or medical degree are easier and almost guarantee a higher income. Not only that, we tend to give away what expertise we do have every time we outsource the manufacture of a new item to a foreign country.
Aliens: OK, here you are. Oh, that glistening? That's just what we spray on our food to make it brown up nicely. Here, step into this heat box and let us show you...
Actually, the lobbyists are just the hired hands for our single branch of government - the wealthy (many of whom are not located in the continental USA).
Oh wait, "People" is a scholarly journal compared to the celebrity "news" on the front page of Yahoo. (e.g. Top 10 ways to find out if you're an idiot!)
Seriously. Microsoft and Google can't seem to stop abandoning new technologies. Oh yeah, they'll continue to be "supported" (wink, wink). Sure makes me want to invest my time in the latest whiz-bang language/API/Framework/etc.
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no longer exists in the USA. Relatively simple, practical tasks can no longer get done due to lobbyists and corrupt, inattentive politicians. Nor is this likely to change before the economy and energy shortages force societal simplification, like it or not. Interesting times.
A bit further between Deming and Silver City, there are farms, cows and even a herd of antelope near Bayard. No word on whether they were playing or not. Stay tuned. Towards Lordsburg.... not so much. Of anything.
No. There will be a large die-off, but inhabitable zones will persist in Greenland, Canada and Siberia as well as areas in the Southern hemisphere, some spots in Australia, a few islands and so on. By some estimates, Earth supported almost one billion humans before widespread fossil fuel use. The final population depends on remaining arable land and how widespread radiation poisoning from old nuclear weapons, decaying nuclear plants and hospitals is. The bottleneck could go as low as a few million and perhaps as high as 200 million, worldwide.
Golly, I can't tell you how surprised I am. In other news, Yahoo and MSN and the TV networks decide to focus exclusively on sports and entertainment "news" 24/7. Oh wait, that happened 10 years ago.
I guess it would depend on how they were prepared.
They have some common cents.
after you figure out the syntax, that is
And that's the problem. You have to figure it out. Had the dev team instead said, "Let's leverage the existing experience of sysadmins everywhere" we'd have not Powershell syntax, but something like vbscript.net and/or javascript.net syntax as an admin language. Millions of IT professionals could then do their jobs quickly and get on with their lives instead of having to learn an entire new language.
And all this difficulty because some little pisher at Microsoft thought it would be "cool" to have an internally consistent language. %#$^%$@@% idiot!
I think they may have jumped over the fence into "user hostile" territory. F'rinstance, despite it's idiotic pseudo-TCLish syntax, a Powershell CLI interface CAN be very convenient and useful. Making it more of a pain to get that running is not. If they're going to go that route, MS needs to provide a decent Powershell editor (i.e. Visual Studio tweaked for Powershell) and perhaps a version of explorer that's actually useful, but just taking away *everything* because some little twerp of a manager had a brainwave and didn't run it by a human factors expert is probably yet another very, very, bad idea.
Very hard. For some people. The code tells you what is being done. Sometimes that requires a line of explanation. The rest of the cognitive layer (i.e. the code documentation) tells you why something is being done a particular way, so you don't have to engage in another expensive research project.
The best exercise I ever had in documenting code was rewriting a colleague's code. All I did was take the comments, sentence by sentence and rewrite them using the least number of words that preserved the concept. Paragraph length sentences often reduced to as few as 10 words. That's not all, of course. Some comments were eliminated; others were rewritten in their entirety. All were arranged to emphasize the flow of concepts, rather than the specifics of the code. It's nontrivial.
For convenience, when it happens in the chemical domain and contains hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen, we call it "life." Quaint and parochial, but convenient.
Salt crystals in hypersaturated solution, bacteria, books, religion, money. Self replicators all. Some more limited than others.
Tinfoil, you say? It was a recent invention when my grandfather was sent to a gulag and my uncle was forcibly drafted into the Russian army to be what are now called "shock troops" or more accurately, "cannon fodder."
Always. Other issues factor in, in small ways, but the truth of the equation in the subject line is difficult to dispute, although the wealthy will always pay someone to try.
So no candidate is "best" for geek issues. Candidates work for their employers, the lobbyists on K-street who covertly fill their offshore bank accounts or overtly give money to their campaigns. Any support for things like net neutrality are mere coincidence, because the candidate or hired hand (congressperson) was paid to do so.
But that's not what irrational humans really do. They go after people they know, in their own neighborhoods.
Which it will, assuming the minority neighborhood in question has a statistically higher crime rate. The pocket of Indian and Chinese professionals down the street from me are a "minority neighborhood." Crime rates there are not exceptionally high. Crime correlates with poverty, not flavor.
See links below. Discuss.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_DEFENSE_BILL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/constitutional-expert-president-obama-says-that-he-can-kill-you-on-his-own-discretion-he-can-jail-you-indefinitely-on-his-own-discretion.html
The moment the aforementioned bill was signed, we lost the few rights we still retained after the "Patriot" act.
So remember:
1) You're a terrorist if and when some unelected bureaucrat like a TSA inspector *suspects* you're a terrorist.
2) As a suspected terrorist, you can be detained indefinitely.
Leaving the country with your cash while you can is starting to look pretty good. If you are stopped, you'd be crazy to not comply with the request, but try not to belong to whatever party isn't in power at the time. At the moment, political affiliation isn't a reason for suspected terrorism, but how long do you think that will last?
Put more simply, no government regulation = gang/mafia rule (e.g. Somalia). Too much = dysfunctional dictatorship (e.g. North Korea). We have real world examples. It's just that the politicians and media are made to ignore them.
Or is it just me? I guess if she fails, she can go back to teaching tap dancing.... Oh, wait. We're back to that pointless thing again.
Remind me again how this person merits any newsworthiness?
(Sarcasm) See? It's just that simple. But of course, outsourcing must be right because the market never makes mistakes. (End Sarcasm).
We lose a lot of engineering competence when college students see a 4-year engineering degree as a way to compete with folks making $10 an hour at most, while a business, law or medical degree are easier and almost guarantee a higher income. Not only that, we tend to give away what expertise we do have every time we outsource the manufacture of a new item to a foreign country.
So what do you *expect* to happen?
Aliens: OK, here you are. Oh, that glistening? That's just what we spray on our food to make it brown up nicely. Here, step into this heat box and let us show you...
Actually, the lobbyists are just the hired hands for our single branch of government - the wealthy (many of whom are not located in the continental USA).
I don't know why. I just felt like saying that.
Oh wait, "People" is a scholarly journal compared to the celebrity "news" on the front page of Yahoo. (e.g. Top 10 ways to find out if you're an idiot!)
Perhaps they'll even be able to keep their comics pages updated, a task apparently too herculean for past (and current) staff and management.
That's no moon....
Seriously. Microsoft and Google can't seem to stop abandoning new technologies. Oh yeah, they'll continue to be "supported" (wink, wink). Sure makes me want to invest my time in the latest whiz-bang language/API/Framework/etc.