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I grew up in a country(Switzerland) where the education system is not targeted towards the rich(can afford to pay) , the athletes(get scholarship to play golf, lucky ones !) and the geniuses(get scholarship also). It's a country where every kid has a chance, no matter how rich his parents are.

In the US, we have state-sponsored schools, which are mostly funded through taxes and endowments. To give an example, to go full time at my Alma Mater costs $2933.12 per semester. It cost less when I went there, but whatever. Say you spent your summers temping at $12/hr. That's $8000 (you pay no income taxes with income that low, but even if you somehow had to, your HOPE credit would more than counteract it, so you are really gonna pay no income taxes). If you can live at home and mooch off the parents, relax, you're done. If not, don't fret.

Take a job in the computer lab at $7.50/hr for 10 hours/wk. That's about $300/mo to sit there and do your homework. Live in a coop, eat ramen, rice, and beans. In four years, relax. You just worked your way through school with no loans and no mooching off the parents.

Surprise, my friend! You can work your way through school in the US no matter how dirt-poor you are and graduate debt-free! Hopefully now you'll quit spreading misinformation about US Universities being restricted to the wealthy and athlectically gifted.

Incidentally, how does access to education work in Switzerland? Is it like in Germany where if you can't get into Gymnasium, you're basically fucked and get to go to the Realschule and learn to be a plumber? The US education system is looking way better from where I'm sitting, I gotta tell ya.

P.S. I know you're gonna say, "but what about healthcare when you're living on that shoestring?" Nice try, but health care is free through the Univ.

No need to cuss ;-)

Since you're interested... I actually am a decent chemist. I'm even published in a peer-reviewed journal.

But since you ask about why I work as an Information Systems Coordinator, that's a bit longer story. I started college early - in fact, I finished my Bachelor's in Chemistry when I was 18 & my Master's when I was 21. So as you can imagine, at that age, I wasn't certain what I wanted to do with my life! I'm a quick learner, so it was easy for me to master the UNIX (Well, Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, Tru64, HPUX, Irix, AIX, Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake) & maybe one or two other flavors... mostly System V though, I wasn't too keen on BSD), Windows & MacOS operating systems. Believe it or not, my biggest weakness as an IS Coordinator is the administrative & managerial responsibilities!

As far as the thread you linked, it maintained a +5 insightful for a good 36 hours after I posted it. (It ate ~20 mod points within the first 36 hours). Those that agreed with my points moved on. Those that did not kept coming back as they received additional mod points and modded me down to flamebait. Oh well, I don't care so much about karma as I do opening peoples' eyes to the truth!

No need to cuss ;-)

Since you're interested... I actually am a decent chemist. I'm even published in a peer-reviewed journal.

But since you ask about why I work as an Information Systems Coordinator, that's a bit longer story. I started college early - in fact, I finished my Bachelor's in Chemistry when I was 18 & my Master's when I was 21. So as you can imagine, at that age, I wasn't certain what I wanted to do with my life! I'm a quick learner, so it was easy for me to master the UNIX (Well, Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, Tru64, HPUX, Irix, AIX, Linux (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake) & maybe one or two other flavors... mostly System V though, I wasn't too keen on BSD), Windows & MacOS operating systems. Believe it or not, my biggest weakness as an IS Coordinator is the administrative & managerial responsibilities!

As far as the thread you linked, it maintained a +5 insightful for a good 36 hours after I posted it. (It ate ~20 mod points within the first 36 hours). Those that agreed with my points moved on. Those that did not kept coming back as they received additional mod points and modded me down to flamebait. Oh well, I don't care so much about karma as I do opening peoples' eyes to the truth!

That gives us 68 years since another civilization could have detected our presence.

Since radio waves travel at the speed of light that means that broadcast is ~68 light years from us. Within that range there are numerous stars and one, Alpha Centauri, which may have a chance at having extraterrestrial life.

So far, no word if anyone other than us heard that broadcast. To be fair though, 68 years is not a long time in the grand scheme of things. Wake me in 500 years and then we can talk.

One of the several Titan arum plants that are at UW-Madison is also blooming this week (called "Little Stinker"). The link has daily updates on this specific plant and also some general information on the species.

http://www.news.wisc.edu/titanarum2004/index.html

Neutrinos can be detected.

I am now presbyopic as well as myopic, so my near point is (I just checked it) 5", and my far point is 9" . I used to be able to focus at 4". Even with myopia, it seems I can view an object at half the distance of many normally sighted people, yielding a magnified image compared to what they see - like a macro lens. Non myopic individuals with presbyopia will not be able to focus nearly as close: the only previously 20/20 presbyopic nearby at the time of this post reports 18-20 inches at best.

With laser correction of the myopia, this close vision does go away, as my sister discovered to her chagrin.

you missed the point of the demonstation, (it was richard leaky by the way, son of louis and mary leaky, who did a great deal of work in africa on human origins, particuarly Australopithecus)

the fact that he was able to run down the gazelle, was not to do with how much energy the gazelle was using, rather it was to do with the differences in heat dissipation between humans and .. all other mammals.

obviously large amounts of heat are generated by the action of the muscles in running.

the only way other mammals have of dissipating this potentially fatal heat increase is to pant, losing heat through water evaporation from the tongue.

sweating is not an good heat loss solution for most mammals, as it takes very little heat from their bodies due to the dense covering of fur that is typical of mammals (except humans). Humans being largely hairless, are able to dissipate heat much more efficiently through sweating.

it is this ability to lose the heat generated by running that enables hummans to run down pretty much any other mammal, as the animal will have to stop (or else die of heat stroke) long before the human.

I have been waiting for This Prophecy to come to pass for some time! At last the world of Microsoft cars is upon us!

This is a common problem on supercomputers: you have lots of users that want to run lots of jobs that have conflicting requirements for resources, and typically some dependancies between jobs and the like. Take a look at some of the scheduling and resource management tools available for supercomputers and maybe one of those will scratch your itch.

A couple pointers to get you started:

• SLURM, which while designed for Linux clusters is a good system and at least should seed a Google search (disclaimer: I work for LLNL and am on the user end of slurm, and I'm only speaking for myself here).
• Condor is a lot more than scheduling, but it does that as well.

Those are the ones I think it would be useful to look at for now. Most of the other systems are vendor specific.

-"Zow"

See FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978)

You are probably thinking of the one that bloomed in Germany in May, 2003. Slash also reported on one back in 2001 in Wisconsin.

I wouldn't call three specimens in four years blooming "all the time". There have been only about 15 recorded blooms in the United States. That's not blooms in a year, that is blooms at all. This is not a garden variety daylily we're talking about.

ghostscript is not gsview

I didn't say it was. gsview is Ghostscript. Here's a link if you don't believe me. From the linked README: "GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript". So I'm "the one lacking clues"?

Acrobat PDFs are smaller, loader faster, and generally have less problems than those generated by Ghostscript.

The High Energy Physics group at UW Madison is also a bit of a mac shop as they just purchased quite a few new G5's.

Because Sun has had to hash out many of the issues of scalable vector drawings, gradients, etc. that would be very useful in an SVG implementation that could be incredibly powerful for resolution independent, dynamic web applications in an open standard, open source way (as opposed to Flash or PDF).

[I know that ghostscript has many of those issues worked out, too, but the code base was started back in the days of C and DOS and might not be as nice to work from as the Java 2D API. The Mozilla and KDE SVG efforts might benefit from an open source Java 2D.]

I don't know if this goes into Computer Science or Musicology, but people have tried composing music using mathematical equations for quite some time...

For example, I propose (also an example here

This site also gives fractal and algorithmic music to download while this one give you the opportunity to download a fractal music software (Windows, sorry)

Maybe we can get a computer to compose like Mozart and finish his symphonie ?

Something like these people do :
"We are a group of students and faculty members in the University of Wisconsin - Madison working on the exciting project of applying artificial intelligence in analyzing and composing music.

In this research, mathematical models will be developed to analyze a given collection of music pieces, represented in MIDI format. In particular, machine learning and artificial intelligence problem solving methods such as neural network, time series prediction, and statistical pattern classification will be used, and to simulate the process of music composition through the results of analysis. The overall objective is to analyze polyphonic music of certain composers, and create new pieces that retain stylistic details which distinguish composers from one another. "

You can even dowload some of their computer generated music...

As you yourself said, "individuals with a hobby that have brought formidable computing skills and analysis techniques from other fields" (really nice javadoc...) but I'm not sure they "are largely ignorant of the works within music departments", as they seem to take a nice approach on the subject...

I don't know if this goes into Computer Science or Musicology, but people have tried composing music using mathematical equations for quite some time...

For example, I propose (also an example here

This site also gives fractal and algorithmic music to download while this one give you the opportunity to download a fractal music software (Windows, sorry)

Maybe we can get a computer to compose like Mozart and finish his symphonie ?

Something like these people do :
"We are a group of students and faculty members in the University of Wisconsin - Madison working on the exciting project of applying artificial intelligence in analyzing and composing music.

In this research, mathematical models will be developed to analyze a given collection of music pieces, represented in MIDI format. In particular, machine learning and artificial intelligence problem solving methods such as neural network, time series prediction, and statistical pattern classification will be used, and to simulate the process of music composition through the results of analysis. The overall objective is to analyze polyphonic music of certain composers, and create new pieces that retain stylistic details which distinguish composers from one another. "

You can even dowload some of their computer generated music...

As you yourself said, "individuals with a hobby that have brought formidable computing skills and analysis techniques from other fields" (really nice javadoc...) but I'm not sure they "are largely ignorant of the works within music departments", as they seem to take a nice approach on the subject...

I don't know if this goes into Computer Science or Musicology, but people have tried composing music using mathematical equations for quite some time...

For example, I propose (also an example here

This site also gives fractal and algorithmic music to download while this one give you the opportunity to download a fractal music software (Windows, sorry)

Maybe we can get a computer to compose like Mozart and finish his symphonie ?

Something like these people do :
"We are a group of students and faculty members in the University of Wisconsin - Madison working on the exciting project of applying artificial intelligence in analyzing and composing music.

In this research, mathematical models will be developed to analyze a given collection of music pieces, represented in MIDI format. In particular, machine learning and artificial intelligence problem solving methods such as neural network, time series prediction, and statistical pattern classification will be used, and to simulate the process of music composition through the results of analysis. The overall objective is to analyze polyphonic music of certain composers, and create new pieces that retain stylistic details which distinguish composers from one another. "

You can even dowload some of their computer generated music...

As you yourself said, "individuals with a hobby that have brought formidable computing skills and analysis techniques from other fields" (really nice javadoc...) but I'm not sure they "are largely ignorant of the works within music departments", as they seem to take a nice approach on the subject...

I don't know if this goes into Computer Science or Musicology, but people have tried composing music using mathematical equations for quite some time...

For example, I propose (also an example here

This site also gives fractal and algorithmic music to download while this one give you the opportunity to download a fractal music software (Windows, sorry)

Maybe we can get a computer to compose like Mozart and finish his symphonie ?

Something like these people do :
"We are a group of students and faculty members in the University of Wisconsin - Madison working on the exciting project of applying artificial intelligence in analyzing and composing music.

In this research, mathematical models will be developed to analyze a given collection of music pieces, represented in MIDI format. In particular, machine learning and artificial intelligence problem solving methods such as neural network, time series prediction, and statistical pattern classification will be used, and to simulate the process of music composition through the results of analysis. The overall objective is to analyze polyphonic music of certain composers, and create new pieces that retain stylistic details which distinguish composers from one another. "

You can even dowload some of their computer generated music...

As you yourself said, "individuals with a hobby that have brought formidable computing skills and analysis techniques from other fields" (really nice javadoc...) but I'm not sure they "are largely ignorant of the works within music departments", as they seem to take a nice approach on the subject...

You want to know about Java3D and why people love it? Try looking towards the medical profession, especially radiology and surgical planning. There are a number of Java3D based DICOM viewers out there for viewing CT and MRI images, such as SPLViz and VisAdd.

The cross-platform portability means that the same CT and MRI images can be loaded up onto the same viewer on both the doctor's office PC workstation, their home macintosh or linux system, or even onto one of the esoteric workstations.

To get a better handle on why this images are needed, read up on this article: Combining Local and Remote Visualization Techniques for Interactive Volume Rendering in Medical Applications, and check out the Stanford-NASA National Biocomputation Center Website.

Once you dive around those articles and websites, you'll realize that Java3D supports alot of exotic hardware, such as 5 megapixel LCD monitors, Projection Tables for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Virtual Surgery Tables.

Radiograph images in most hospitals are obtained on VAX or QNX or HP Unix systems, and are then transmitted to Solaris or Windows workstations/servers for post processing. It's typical to have sometype of Oracle database sitting on an imaging archive (we have a 20TB archive, for example), feeding images to the clients sitting on workstations. Sometimes the images are saved as 3D volumetric data, although usually they're saved as 2D slices. So, you need some type of portable 3D viewing application that can sit on nearly any type of box, and can compile the radiographs for whatever local viewing equipment is available...

FYI, medical systems have to conform and perform according to federally mandated law, and there isn't the market pressure to compete with the newest processor on the market. Therefore, priorities are very different in the medical world. Pixel shading and texture mapping are generally on the bottom of our list of importance. True stereoscopic visualization and platform portability are near the top. For our purposes, Java3D outperforms all other competitors, because we *need* the portability, the garbage cleanup of java, and all of the other advantages of Java.

"You mean like any other normal person who might be wanting to use such a product?"

And to that, I would say... Someone writing an article for publication in a peer-reviewed journal should become experienced in their area of research before attempting to publish their results!

For example, I'm sure you don't have much experience with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging - And you might or might not have experience with X11 forwarding. But unless you are fluent with both of those topics, I would not expect you to attempt to publish a paper in a peer-reviewed journal discussing those topics!
(Like I did, last December)

However, for the sake of presenting some evidence to back up what I'm saying here, I'll take your example of Consumer Reports.

From their site: CR has the most comprehensive auto-test program and reliability survey data of any U.S. publication; its auto experts have decades of experience in driving, testing, and reporting on cars.

...nevermind, I don't need to say anything else.

BTW, I just upgraded from 9.1 to 10 on my Thinkpad T41 by running swaret --update && swaret --upgrade. Well, my original Slackware installation wasn't quite "out of the box", but I grabbed a good bag of tricks

Also, you can print to any windows printer, just use RedMon and CUPS.

That's your excuse quota used up for the next 6 months :-)

Hey

I've set up and administrated a number of farms over the years (doing it as I type. its.. what I do). One thing you really want to do, certainly with Maya's renderer, is to try to use the same OS and platform on your farm as you use on your user workstations. There can be subtle or even obvious differences in the render output between OS's, and since you'll have enough issues to deal with you'll want to keep cross-platform incompatabilities out of the mix. Please, trust me on this. Had to deal with Maya Irix/Win2k/Linux differences in the past.

As for queueing software, give Condor a look-see. Free and functional. I reverse-engineered a Perl version of it before they made their source available, and my version has been run quite successfully at several animation studios and an effects house over the years. It's a well architected system for distributed computing.

Feel free to contact me if you've got any other render system or management questions. I'm always interested in seeing how other studios approach the challenge.

...a very interesting page about Electron Band Structure In Germanium.

The answer is simple -- use an emulator. That way, you don't have to provide hardware to your students, and you can use a nicer assembly language without worrying that you're actually using a x86. In short, the answer is SPIM, the MIPS R2000/R3000 simulator. The MIPS assembly language is nice and simple, with an abundance of registers that let you get going with simple apps early on. As complexity grows and the students learn, you can bring in the concept of pushing data onto the stack. It's free, and runs on Unix/Linux and Windows, so you don't have to track down a bunch of old R2000 or R3000 machines for students to use.

If the end goal is to be able to write immediately-applicable code, x86 would be the way to go. If the goal is to learn about assembly languages and concepts, the platform doesn't much matter (or if it does, only to the extent that the language and hardware should be easy to learn).

Use GhostScript to process the printed ballot?

Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/

Abstract:

"In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. The flood traffic rate was hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second, and hundreds of megabits-per-second.

Subsequently, we have determined the sources of this flooding to be literally hundreds of thousands of real Internet hosts throughout the world. However, rather than having originated as a malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the root cause is actually a serious flaw in the design of hundreds of thousands of one vendor's low-cost Internet products targeted for residential use. The unexpected behavior of these products presents a significant operational problem for UW-Madison for years to come.

This document includes the initial public disclosure of details of these products' serious design flaw. Furthermore, it discusses our ongoing, multifaceted approach toward the solution which involves the University, the products' manufacturer, the relevant Internet standards (RFCs), and the public Internet service and user communities."

In addition, the FCC helped fuel DBS satellite TV adoption by pre-empting local laws, and codes, covenants, and restrictions (all those long restrictions on land's use generally put in place by the original developer) from prohibiting satellite dishes/antennas smaller than 1m. Prior to that, most developments and tract houses (and some entire cities) were banning their use. This is another thing that the FCC did that helped make DBS worthwhile.

The parent brings up a good point. I just tried all the linked exploits from the grandparent on a PowerBook that I have tried no exploits on so far.

The first one does nothing.

The second one mounts the volume "idink" and presents me with the new dialogue.

The third doesn't mount a volume, but it launches the Help Viewer.

The fourth doesn't mount a volume, but it pops up Terminal.app with the ssh command mentioned earlier.

That's a nice 0 for 4, but given that I only got the dialogue on one, so I tried three (AFP, FTP, and Disk) of the tests on http://test.doit.wisc.edu/. On all three, the volume mounted properly and I got the dialogue. As far as I can tell, everything is fine now. Maybe you just need to remove the previously registered the helpers.

"No word in given regarding how the average user should know whether or not to approve the request?"

Well, first of all, this security update takes the issue completely from the realm of a an automated exploit that could execute arbitrary code simply by visiting a web page with no user interaction or warning, to what can now only be described, more or less, as a social engineering exploit. If you download a new application, like, say an RSS reader, the OS will prompt you to add, for example, the 'feed:' URI handler:

- ONLY the first time, and

- ONLY if it's invoked remotely, e.g., via a web page, URL in an email message, etc.

And since the only value of this exploit came from it being used in two HTML frames with two META REFRESH tags, via a browser, to cause some type of remote volume to mount (or a file to download) AND then have the newly registered URI remotely called, this completely and totally fixes the issue, without hurting the normal functionality of having new URIs get registered when you launch an application. Saying "No word in given regarding how the average user should know whether or not to approve the request" is tantamount to saying that no guidance is given on whether or not a user should even know to open, say, a shareware app they've downloaded for the first time.

On the other hand, if a user is innocently visiting a web site and a dialog box all of a sudden appears prompting the user to accept that *an application* be run, I think it's pretty clear that this handles the issue. This addresses the core of the issue, which was several OS features interacting to essentially enable an automated exploit; that capability is now completely disabled. Apple even went further and removed some suspect handlers (disk:) completely, even though this fix makes it unnecessary.

Also, detailed information on what exactly was changed is here:

http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

...as well as a description of what exactly occurs if this situation is encountered:

http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25785

You can verify that these issues are fixed by using the following test site: http://test.doit.wisc.edu/

We (Goodman, et al) designed SAL back in 1990 when the CS354 Computer Organization and Programming was moved from VAX. I was a TA at the time and added the SAL code onto Spim.

There are many publicly available time servers. I don't quite get why this is all that important.

It's useful to use the pool as a default address when distributing software, routers, etc., to avoid situations like this: Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server.

I've put up a test page at http://test.doit.wisc.edu/, and the exploit still works via afp, ftp, disk, and downloadable file in the default configuration of Mac OS X 10.3.4.

To protect yourself, you still MUST:

- disable "open safe files after download" in Safari

- disable the following protocols (or reassign to a helper other than Finder):

afp
ftp
disk
disks

and additionally:

telnet
ssh

and/or install Paranoid Android

Hopefully Apple will find a reasonable resolution for this soon.

BTW, a few links for you:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclear-blackmarket -02d.html
http://www.llnl.gov/csts/publications/sutcliffe/

The end result is very few (if any) people would die from the radiological effects. Of course, maybe the public would know better if Nader had done something useful and taken the nuclear challenge.

It's long been said that there are real men and quiche eaters.

Legend has it the Seymour Cray actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Needless to say, Seymour Cray is a Real Programmer.

Assuming that "Real Men" and "Hardcore" are synonymous, and given that Java falls firmly in to the Quiche Eating category, can you really say you can have Hardcore Quiche?

What's next: "AOL for Powerusers"?

So far, they don't compare at all well with various Linux/UNIX implementations. However, I'm sure they'll manage to get their nose under the tent flap where either they paid their way in, or a PHB thinks that it'll leverage his existing stock of desktop machines. My lab built a couple of turnkey systems for the later scenario, where the given reason was that the typing pool cpus could pitch in some cycles to the cluster after hours. What really happened was that the non-com tasked with managing the systems was trained as an MCSE, and he wanted to stick with what he knew, come hell or high water.

A buddy who was in the army was busted for showing up drunk, and they made him take antabuse. According to him, when you're taking it drinking even the smallest amount of alcohol makes you puke puke puke.

This might be slightly OT, but you can't ignore the BOFH excuse server!

My alma matter graded most of my computer programs with shell scripts and I graduated in 1997. So I don't think India is the first to do that.

Your articles adapt many of their models based upon a measured intensity at 750 nm (which is then scaled to 550 nm).

According to UW-Madison O2 has a significant absorption band conveniently located right around 750 nm.

Since the absorption band at 750, scaled to 550, and then extapolated to universally be respective of the entire spectrum, is saturated by oxygen absorption it's much easier to let arbitrarily assigned values in the equation (such as the Angstrom coefficient) to have a much greater impact in overstating the results.

I'll continue to google, and you can continue to live in your pompous world.

we spend OVER 50% of our budget on "defense"

Bullshit

http://das.doit.wisc.edu/misc/outlays.jpg

Defense spending, INCLUDING veterans affairs and foreign affairs, is 20%. Nice try.

We spend more on "social programs" alone, and twice as much on social security and medicare.

Not saying defense spending still isn't a lot, but it's no where near "over 50%".

As I said, it's really only dangerous if inhaled. Potentially, you could ingest some, but the reality is that your body usually passes it through without damage. (Of course, Nader has a very different opinion.)

Many other materials we use are dangerous as well. Lead us prevalent throughout our culture, uranium is used to make false teeth whiter and brighter, many of the materials your computer is constructed of are carcinogens, batteries are highly toxic, etc. It's simply a matter of doing one's best to protect the consumer against himself. PU-238 melted into a lead block isn't likely to cause much damage.

Plants are green because chlorophyll reflects green light. This means that green light isn't important to photosynthesis. See these links.

From the read me:

Trojan Example Read Me

This is an EXAMPLE of an AppleScript with a custom icon. It does nothing malicious. It does not spread. It does not delete files. It speaks and displays some dialog boxes. It's merely poking fun at Intego's sensationalist handling of these issues on Mac OS X, and their claims that these represent serious flaws in Mac OS X.

I wonder if Intego will protect against, and describe, this trojan...?

Perhaps they can make another press release hawking VirusBarrier.

For more information:

das@doit.wisc.edu

Available at:

http://mirror.services.wisc.edu/mirrors/tmp/

The "trojan" is an AppleScript that speaks the text: "Muhahahaha. You have been owned by this elite trojan. Just kidding." It then displays a series of dialog boxes:

1. "OMG! it's another trojan for Mac OS X! Will Intego have to protect against this one too?"

2. "Intego's irresponsible sensationalism about non-issues is quite astounding."

3. "They make wild claims about 'serious weaknesses' in Mac OS X that simply aren't true, for the sake of hawking their product."

4. "AppleScripts and fake MP3s do not, nor will they ever, rise to the level of the mind-boggling number of completely remote exploits for Windows, requiring absolutely no user interaction, that plague millions of computers and cost billions of dollars of lost productivity."

5. "Mac OS X is intrinsically and fundamentally more secure, and more open to peer and community review."

6. "Social engineering problems, such as tricking a user into launching a fake Word installer that's really an AppleScript downloaded from a P2P network, don't reveal 'serious weaknesses' in Mac OS X."

7. "Intego would be well suited to selling snake oil at a two-bit carnival."

It then quits.

It has Intego's VirusBarrier X installer icon, and is named "VirusBarrier X Install.app".

(Note: this package is CLEARLY labeled as an example, and comes with a read me.)

Give me Tango or Tzero over any hydrogen creation anytime. Simpler, saner, better performer.
Check out Michelins Challenge Bibendum results, EVs routinely kick those hybrids asses in every relevant category.

Ok, one that works better this time :
grrr

While an improperly planned project will, mostly likely end-up behind schedule, there is no guarantee a properly planned project will end up any differently.

First: There is a limit to one's estimation ability. It is described here in a 2001 Slashdot post. here. So unless you've actually done the task before, you may get the estimations wrong ... and even if you HAVE done a task before, you may not get the estimations right.

Second: Prefect planning is not possible because change happens. "Market" change, financial change, and thus, time and requirements and features change. Of course, one does not have to adapt, but then again, neither did the trilobite.

Third: People work differently under, and approaching deadlines. A paper on this can be found here Productivity is not flat at all times in the project.

So, let's not make planning more than it's meant to be. It's valuable, but certainly a solution to the problem.

I think that if you want to get rid of crunch time, you have to get rid of market pressures ... which in essence mean getting rid of capitalism as we know it.

> Isn't that what "real" programmers would do?

Or what about keeping the code blocks small and concise? See Linux kernel coding style Chapter 4.
If you have to scroll some pages to find the corresponding closing tag, something has gone wrong.

But I've to admit, that I use code folding myself, which shows, I'm not a real programmer. But I also prefer Emacs to vi, which only confirms the fact I'm a quiche eater.

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translation: Your smell makes me sick.

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