...the fielding of the ONLY jet fighter of WW2 [by Germany] which out classed and out ran ANYTHING flying only too late to make a difference.
Not true. The British Royal Air Force developed and flew the Gloster Meteor in World War II, which was another jet fighter of the time.
There was a discussion on slashdot about this in 1999. Interesting the comment quality between then and now.
From the 1999 summary (emphasis added): "It also has a lot to say about the Quality Plateau, Design Patterns, the povery of methodologies and the false goal of deskilling."
It's nice to see that the editing standards haven't declined.
If you want speed, go for MongoDB. It doesn't use joins & it's webscale, plus it can even use
For those who haven't seen it, the parent is (I think) referring to this very amusing video.
John Oliver delivered an excellent treatment of this topic that is both informative and entertaining (and maddening). It's worth a watch.
...they were so bitterly reticent about it.
Are you sure about that? Single-window mode was the top "new feature" that the GIMP team highlighted in the version 2.8 release notes. It seemed like it was a feature they were excited to have, not something they were trying to quietly implement without anyone noticing.
When you open GIMP, it throws up so many Windows that I just get totally confused
This complaint has cropped up several times on this thread already. That is somewhat incredible, because GIMP has supported a single-window interface for years. Select "Single-Window Mode" from the "Windows" menu, and the "so many windows" will become one window.
The day GIMP started trying to force people to save in its own proprietary format (to the great unhappiness of a large portion of its user base) rather than the format the file was OPENED in pretty much marks its death.
Have you even used GIMP recently? If you open a file in GIMP that is not in GIMP's native XCF format, there is an "Overwrite image_file_name" option in the "File" menu that does exactly what you want (i.e., does exactly what the "Save" option used to do).
Excellent post. To make matters worse: Even though most of the time, other commenters eventually call out those early, garbage +5 "informative/insightful" posts, it often happens late enough in the thread that moderators have moved on and the corrections never bubble up in visibility as they should.
I assume this means that a new Discovery Channel/Animal Planet "reality" show is just around the corner. "Underwater Gold", "Robot Miners", or something like that. It will be a nice complement to "Bering Sea Gold", "Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice", "Ice Cold Gold", "Prospectors", "The Gold Rush", "Jungle Gold", "Yukon Gold", etc. (Yes, those are all real television shows. And yes, that is how stupid Discovery Channel and Animal Planet have gotten.)
You are asking us to believe that they actually care about this cause?
I'm not sure I understand your question. I am suggesting that they might be primarily motivated by increasing their own profits, and that creating an excess supply of coders is a means to that end. What "cause" are you referring to?
not a cynic, a conspiracy theorist.
I don't think you understand what those terms mean. It is a fact that wealthy tech business leaders (Gates, Zuckerberg, etc.) are funding and lobbying for "everyone needs to code" initiatives. There is no question of whether or not those people are "conspiring" to push these initiatives; it is a well-publicized fact that they are. They only question is what their motivation might be. A cynical viewpoint is that their primary motivation is to flood the market with a glut of "coders" in an effort to drive down wages and increase profits (as many other slashdotters have also speculated), hence my original comment.
To review: "Conspiracy theorists" question which individuals or groups are behind a series of events. Cynics question the motives behind peoples' actions and usually believe that they are motivated by greed.
Well said. I wish I could mod up your comment.
Well said. I wish I could mod your comment up.
Then you have depressed pricing for the labor of people who earned a degree.
The cynic in me wonders if that was the intent from the very beginning: Create a narrative that "everyone needs to go to college", create loan programs so that just about anyone can go (and rack up massive debt in the process), then sit back and watch as the value of having a college degree, and the wages of workers with degrees, both decline. At the very least, that is surely not a disappointing outcome for wealthy business owners, CEOs, etc.
A cynic might also wonder if that is the intention of all of the recent "everyone needs to learn how to code" initiatives, too.
The invention was quite interesting, too -- a mechanical implementation of spread spectrum that was based on player piano technology.
In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the five year period will begin.
