Comment Re:oh, not true! (Score 1) 328
Didn't get the job.
A swift wind blew from on high.
My shirt was un-tucked.
Didn't get the job.
A swift wind blew from on high.
My shirt was un-tucked.
Rush to build on time;
Then the compilation fails
Like a snapping twig.
The lemming attitudes in the business World makes it a no win situation for us.
Ironically, that same attitude has been responsible for a huge amount of tech growth by encouraging re-inventing the wheel over and over again somewhat needlessly.
In fact, the lemming mentality has driven almost the entire economy, as groups of investors swarm from one profitable endeavor to another, dragging workers with them. That will have to end eventually. People seem to be slowly waking up to that realization. And I'm hopeful that it will actually be good for the tech industry in the long run.
Speaking as someone who needs to hit the gym in 26 minutes, I have to wonder whether the physical requirements are somewhat counter-productive. If you just want to strap a person to a rocket and send them into space for a few hours, it might make sense to require that they be in excellent physical condition. But historically, I don't think most colonists and explorers have been exactly body builders. I mean, just think about it for a second. Most of the people who travel long distances for a living are in downright terrible shape. It takes a lot of infrastructure to maintain a person in top physical condition. Cramming them into a tiny capsule where they can barely move for long periods is not exactly the ideal environment. If the goal is to send humans into space, why would we only choose those with the highest support infrastructure requirements?
Do you have any idea how much methane is already simply flared, instead of being collected? You seriously believe it will ever be economically recovered from such a disperse source?
grunts hump around and do the fighting, and are mucho cheaper than scientists or expensive pilots
Frankly, no they aren't.
What you're failing to account for is that, in peace time, scientists and pilots can get jobs building technology that improves lives, while grunts just continue to "hump around" and fight.
Are you afraid that a condensing radiator might not be portable?
That's an ingenious idea, actually. A pipeline a couple of inches in diameter could transport a ridiculous amount of drugs, wouldn't be too expensive to drill, and would be pretty much undetectable.
Electric cars generate a lot of torque. There's not much reason you couldn't use them for towing.
There are far too many idiots on
The point of Linux, and of Open Source in general, is that the vast majority of time one spends on a computer is not the day (or few days even) it takes to install an OS. The vast majority of time is spent developing that OS into something useable in day-to-day work. And the most time-efficient way of doing that is to get a freely-modifiable operating system into the hands of as many people as possible, give them the means to collaborate, and enable them build the most effective tools and programs possible.
Do you see the step in that process that requires the OS to be used by as many people as possible? That's what we're discussing. An OS that only runs on expensive hardware doesn't meet that requirement.
Linux is a community OS. Members of a community voluntarily act in ways which tend to subsidize the group, even when it may not appear to outsiders to be in their individual interests, because it is in their best interests in the long run.
Since automating middle-class information workers out of jobs became the single largest driver of economic growth, around 1996 or so.
I keep imagining that Bill really just wants more H1B visas and has conflated a couple of his negotiating points...
I'm a slashdot national...
my rhymes are ill-rational
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
