The 'purity' problem dates back to when AT&T seeded universities with Unix back in the '60s when the first Minis were making their appearance.
They had to rewrite all their code to be clean of any AT&T code.
BSD has been at it a very long time.
Linux is a "purity problem" free OS thanks to Richard Stallman but its still trying to solve some problems which BSD (and Solaris and VMS yadda, yadda) solved a long time ago. Still the 2.4 kernel is good enough to propell it forward into the next decade or two.
After that we may not be able to recognize the kinds of hardware we'll be playing with.
While I agree that there might be some confusion, that's because BOTH are at fault for picking such a stupid name for a product.
Secure Shell is a description NOT a name. That's about as dumb as "Word Processor" Corporation or "Raspberry Ice Cream Cake" corporation.
Get your head out of your lawyer's ass adn pick a decent name for your company and your product. The Bozos who pick any Unix-ish perpetuated acronym and stick "Open" in front of it are as deserving of scorn as the original idiots who couldn't type the entire word in the first place.
The conditions that brought M$ to domination and the same ones that will lead to its decimation. M$ exists because it ran on clones that had a lower T.C. of Aquisition than IBM PCs.
Now that NT has some serious competition with a lower T.C. of Aquisition, M$ has started on a slow inextorable death spiral. Why do you think they are trying.NET and X-Box?
Since most shops using NT have sys admin staff, the OS itself doesn't matter anymore. Its now somebody job to get the systems up and running. That Linux is better is nice. What will kill M$ is that Linux is cheaper. But better has never mattered. Good enough is good enough. The people who buy the products don't use them.
The reality is that 15% of the people are going to be sick 85% of the time while 85% of the people are going to be sick 15% of the time.
Those are the friggin' statistics.
However which people belong to the 85% and which people belong to the 15% change over time.
If the friggin' companies can't hack those numbers, they should get the fuck out of the fucking business. They don't belong there.
The purpose of insurance is to spread the risk and spread the wealth. Running it for profit is a mugs game.
You end up with the argument from the companies that if you need it you can't get it.
This type of testing will prove self-defeating because if you can get insurance, you aren't likely to need it so its a waste of money so don't buy any insurance.
If properly modeled, any NP complete computing problem can be reduced to a topology network (even behavior can be seen as transition in the temporal dimension.)
There are two ways of handling n-dimensional presentation:
1) Untangle and handle one dimension at a time. While this allows for textual presentation, this approach suffers from the difficulty of "getting the 'big' picture." This leads to reams of source code of dubious quality.
2) Handle the dimensions three or four at a time and construct geodesics or geodesic transformation "movies" to present the problem space. The geodesics put objects at the terminal points of relationships.
The second approach can be entirely dynamic and generated from provably correct definitions of the objects and of the relationships in the problem space.
The object definitions can go as far as referring to specific instances of the objects but disambiguation becomes yet another dimension which might be more effectively be handles by refactoring and subclassing.
There is still the problem of selection, some dimensions will reveal very little of the problem space being limited, disconnected and/or monotonic.
The creation of an interactive "3D tank" presentation using data gloves to select and manipulate objects and relationships and the selection of dimensions themselves would be great for presenting problems for discussion and solutions for correctness of fit.
Still this would make for a promising area of research.
Osama bin Laden is using encryption. Poor fool. With a couple of cracking Beowolf clusters (of Crays 'cause our government can afford the best,) his messages might as well be in clear text.
Using a one-time-pad code to transmit over a mobile Ham radio would get him better security. Come to think of it smoke signals would be more secure.
Some countries (like Britain, the US, Russia, Chine, India and Pakistan) started using one-time-pads before or shortly after world war two and still works fine to this day.
Terrrific! Except that they don't explain how they're going to move the planet mover. Eventually, we get down to something we CAN move and the unpredictability effects of chaos means that we're about as likely to succeed as drop to billion ton rock in what's left of the Pacific (which will have changed shape by then.)
What are these mooks smoking? Its faster and easier to just leave the dirt ball behind.
If you know somebody's behaving like scum, register the complaint to them.
If clients know two words of Latin, like "caveat emptor," they actually call the bureau to check on complaints about a vendor before they issue a contract.
If you're ethical, you get repeat business. If you're not you get complained about. (If you're not and you're sloppy, you get a call from the police.) That's how it works.
Be missed the boat. Its got nothing to do with quality (how else do you explain the very existence of M$) but its got plenty to do with marketing and being in the right place at the right time.
Be missed by "that" much but they missed. They have as much future as the NeXT cube.
The article said that they hadn't been cracked. So I guess this was a natural response of their own software running on their own-ed hardware.
Which is scarier, that M$ would be that vulnerable to cracking, which wasn' the case this time, or that not even M$ is capable of defending itself against its own products?
Check into access security systems which monitor traffic through doors and other entry/exit points from secure facilities. NONE are running anything by M$. They're ALL run on Unix platforms.
Everybody's decrying the alleged loss of quality with MP3s. That's a complete crock.
Environment: Most music is listened to in a noisy social settings like bars and dives and juke joints (and elevators.)
Equipment: The speakers suck because not everybody can afford B&O, B&W, SAE. (the rest of the components are pretty much good enough from 20 to 20kHz.)
Listeners: The listener's ears suck because listening to NIN full blast damages the cilia in you cochlea. Hell, listening to Mantovanni full blast damages the cilia in you cochlea. Years of listening to your mother's nagging full blast damages the cilia in you cochlea.
Source: Then you have to consider that one man's music is another man's noise. Personally I loathe Mariachi music, polka and Thrash Metal. This week's pop goddess is next week's remainder bin and that's how the music industry makes its money, on churn. Quality? Puh-leeze.
Okay, the environment sucks, the speakers suck, the listeners degrade and the source sucks.
MP3 is plenty good enough and I'll keep my old drives and CD burner for my own use and the RIAA can KMA.
M$ has just compounded the C# mistake (try to do a search with 'C#',:-)
They're going to try to ramp up C# to use the VB VM. They realize that C# doesn't quite cut it as a language (like they care about semantic and syntactic purity,) and that VB's VM is pokin' slow and its been cracked to bits.
M$ don't care but they should.
VMs are bitches to write and the best one is produced by the folks with the most experience (Namely the ParcPlace Smalltalk VM that's been honed and whetted by experience since 1977.) Java's second with 1996. Nineteen years difference.
Man we Smalltalkers laugh at VB-ers, Java-ers and C# should be good for a ROTFL.
And the US is only too willing to send the cops to Norway if that what it takes to protect reruns of "I Love Lucy"
Why? Because, if they get their way, you pay but it costs them nothing. Eventually you'll get bored and go back to culture and having some time for yourself in the evenings.
I gave up on TV (and being a passive sponge,) and I'm having more fun that I ever did sitting there asking myself "Why am I watching this shit?"
Ask the Irish about the dangers inherent in mono-culture.
They became dependent on a single kind of potato even though the new world had dozens of them.
The end result was the famine, the death of millions, economic disruption Ireland still hasn't recovered from and some stern lessons which are being ignored at the peril of those who would repeat history in technology instead of agriculture.
Mono-cultures are forever poised on the knife edge of catastrophy. One slip leads to oblivion.
Has anyone noticed that infection incidents are becoming more severe? Melissa is spawning faster and spreading much wider using ruses programed into it.
Changing the vector from diskette to e-mail is part the reason. Using larger 'active' content is another part. Now imagine a exploit of content files, infected media. I'm sure someone's already getting hard at the thought.
One particularly complex and capable computer virus which could be carried over the expanded communications channels in place now could conceivably wipe out everybody without a set of uninfected backups.
The Luddites would win. But at what a cost...
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I once received crap from some idiot who was sending me Spam with return enveloppes included but they were "return postage garanteed" enveloppes. The company HAS to pay the post office the postage due on what ever they received.
It turned out that just about everybody in my office had received the same mailing. We taped the cards to bricks. The Spammer had to pay for sending about a hundred bricks through the mail.
Gee only 400 MHz? :-) PCs will eat their lunch!
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As a Mac user (multiple) smarting from the stupid MHz comments in the press, I'm surprised that they didn't put a 2GHz clock on the bastard (and step it down 5:1 at the chip, which would give them an ultra-precise 400 MHz clock.)
I'd have some real decisions to make if I hadn't already budgeted for a Titanium PowerBook.
Now people with the IQ of a dead lemming, or the president, will blame the 'Net for everything from smut (its the naked people, not the 'Net,) to smut (or other cause of crop failure.)
There's more power used in California by grow-lights for people's pot gardens than by PCs. You KNOW they've been smoking something to come up with that argument.
This article at MacCentral had much better coverage. Rather than focussing on the language that Jobs used to skake his audience into paying attention, they covered what he was actually fucking saying:
That buying a Mac at CompUSA and Sears et al. is an exercise in futility and frustration. If you go to a car dealership, they don't steer you away from the model you ask for to show you another brand and try to bullshit you while they do it.
I think Apple should sell on the Web and exclusively through its Mac retailers like MacZone, MacMall.
Screw the pimply-faced, rat-assed, pig-ignorant kids who try to screw the Mac customer for the sake of an idiotic loyalty to someone who has ripped off their parents out of of billions of dollars.
Seriously, just what kind of an ass-hole are you? You've got the processor wrong. Its a G4 not a G3.
It smokes the Pentium IV by about 33% for processor intensive tasks.
You just don't want to admit that I'm gonna look SO-O COOOL whipping one out and watching a DVD with your girl at a Linux Expo while you lug around a lame-ass Vaio and a well thumber copy of Hustler...
From what I remember of the Sun 'luggable' some salesman hauled to my office, it had longer battery life because it was only used to run the clock. The guy had power adaptors for every friggin' continent 'cause the second thing he asked for was the nearest power plug.
What 6 months? Count along with me:
1) January,
2) February,
3) March.
Its not all of March, its March 24th, and part of January's already gone. Its like 2 1/2 months.
As for not being MP, they're selling dual processor and OS X is based on Darwin which is Open BSD which IS MP. And Carbonized apps will be able to use MP in MP machines.
As cool as the Titanium notebook is, it isn't likely to be MP anymore than the Sony Vaio.
OO is a design technique and OO systems can be implemented in Assembler (like CICS/IDMS-DC) all the way to Smalltalk.
Brooks in "The Mythical Man-Month" talked about the difference between programs and systems back when they were building OS 360. The complaints talked about here aren't limited to OO.
However, every non-trivial implementation of any successful system can be shown to be OO in design and technical every failure can be shown to have violated OO principles (that's not counting management, direction marketing and every other reason for failure.)
Most systems tend to become unmanagable because the peoplle in the trenches doing the maintenance get "too busy" to maintain the documentation and rely on osmosis and oral tradition to pass on the system lore. Things get lost with ever departure until its necessary to start over again. ("Read the code" has NEVER worked for more than trivial stuff because the code only caries traces of its INTENT and clever programmers tend to obscure that through 'clever' hacks.)
Smalltalk, a best of breed, has several short comings but that doesn't mean it can't be made to work easily. You just have to remember the limitations of container-based implementations.
Java, C++, C#, CLOS, Simula, and Smalltalk ALL share in these deficiencies:
1)Contained object don't know that they are contained unless you explicitely make a reference to the container part of the object.
2)Object instantiation is made without regard to context.
3)Objects don't understand anything about participation in relationships.
4)Class membership tends to be hard to mutate.
When we have a language that can model the difference between the cuppola of the Piaza Duomo in Firenze and a common garden wall, then we'll have something to work with. Until then OO is the best design technique we've got.
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Congratulations. You have just reiterated M$ argument about Linux.
... ) can trust Linux.
You can trust Darwin/FreeBSD for the same reasons that you (and IBM and Oracle and
Do you seriously think that anybody can corrupt the OS willy-nilly? Without review? < sigh>
Its not Sun or Solaris.
The 'purity' problem dates back to when AT&T seeded universities with Unix back in the '60s when the first Minis were making their appearance.
They had to rewrite all their code to be clean of any AT&T code.
BSD has been at it a very long time.
Linux is a "purity problem" free OS thanks to Richard Stallman but its still trying to solve some problems which BSD (and Solaris and VMS yadda, yadda) solved a long time ago. Still the 2.4 kernel is good enough to propell it forward into the next decade or two.
After that we may not be able to recognize the kinds of hardware we'll be playing with.
While I agree that there might be some confusion, that's because BOTH are at fault for picking such a stupid name for a product.
Secure Shell is a description NOT a name. That's about as dumb as "Word Processor" Corporation or "Raspberry Ice Cream Cake" corporation.
Get your head out of your lawyer's ass adn pick a decent name for your company and your product. The Bozos who pick any Unix-ish perpetuated acronym and stick "Open" in front of it are as deserving of scorn as the original idiots who couldn't type the entire word in the first place.
Read it and weep. Script kiddies are too ignorant to do damage on anything their tools can't handle.
The conditions that brought M$ to domination and the same ones that will lead to its decimation. M$ exists because it ran on clones that had a lower T.C. of Aquisition than IBM PCs.
.NET and X-Box?
Now that NT has some serious competition with a lower T.C. of Aquisition, M$ has started on a slow inextorable death spiral. Why do you think they are trying
Since most shops using NT have sys admin staff, the OS itself doesn't matter anymore. Its now somebody job to get the systems up and running. That Linux is better is nice. What will kill M$ is that Linux is cheaper. But better has never mattered. Good enough is good enough. The people who buy the products don't use them.
The reality is that 15% of the people are going to be sick 85% of the time while 85% of the people are going to be sick 15% of the time.
Those are the friggin' statistics.
However which people belong to the 85% and which people belong to the 15% change over time.
If the friggin' companies can't hack those numbers, they should get the fuck out of the fucking business. They don't belong there.
The purpose of insurance is to spread the risk and spread the wealth. Running it for profit is a mugs game.
You end up with the argument from the companies that if you need it you can't get it.
This type of testing will prove self-defeating because if you can get insurance, you aren't likely to need it so its a waste of money so don't buy any insurance.
If properly modeled, any NP complete computing problem can be reduced to a topology network (even behavior can be seen as transition in the temporal dimension.)
There are two ways of handling n-dimensional presentation:
1) Untangle and handle one dimension at a time. While this allows for textual presentation, this approach suffers from the difficulty of "getting the 'big' picture." This leads to reams of source code of dubious quality.
2) Handle the dimensions three or four at a time and construct geodesics or geodesic transformation "movies" to present the problem space. The geodesics put objects at the terminal points of relationships.
The second approach can be entirely dynamic and generated from provably correct definitions of the objects and of the relationships in the problem space.
The object definitions can go as far as referring to specific instances of the objects but disambiguation becomes yet another dimension which might be more effectively be handles by refactoring and subclassing.
There is still the problem of selection, some dimensions will reveal very little of the problem space being limited, disconnected and/or monotonic.
The creation of an interactive "3D tank" presentation using data gloves to select and manipulate objects and relationships and the selection of dimensions themselves would be great for presenting problems for discussion and solutions for correctness of fit.
Still this would make for a promising area of research.
Osama bin Laden is using encryption. Poor fool. With a couple of cracking Beowolf clusters (of Crays 'cause our government can afford the best,) his messages might as well be in clear text.
Using a one-time-pad code to transmit over a mobile Ham radio would get him better security. Come to think of it smoke signals would be more secure.
Some countries (like Britain, the US, Russia, Chine, India and Pakistan) started using one-time-pads before or shortly after world war two and still works fine to this day.
Terrrific! Except that they don't explain how they're going to move the planet mover. Eventually, we get down to something we CAN move and the unpredictability effects of chaos means that we're about as likely to succeed as drop to billion ton rock in what's left of the Pacific (which will have changed shape by then.)
What are these mooks smoking? Its faster and easier to just leave the dirt ball behind.
If you know somebody's behaving like scum, register the complaint to them.
If clients know two words of Latin, like "caveat emptor," they actually call the bureau to check on complaints about a vendor before they issue a contract.
If you're ethical, you get repeat business. If you're not you get complained about. (If you're not and you're sloppy, you get a call from the police.) That's how it works.
Man, ya gotta be kidding.
Be missed the boat. Its got nothing to do with quality (how else do you explain the very existence of M$) but its got plenty to do with marketing and being in the right place at the right time.
Be missed by "that" much but they missed. They have as much future as the NeXT cube.
The article said that they hadn't been cracked. So I guess this was a natural response of their own software running on their own-ed hardware.
Which is scarier, that M$ would be that vulnerable to cracking, which wasn' the case this time, or that not even M$ is capable of defending itself against its own products?
Check into access security systems which monitor traffic through doors and other entry/exit points from secure facilities. NONE are running anything by M$. They're ALL run on Unix platforms.
Everybody's decrying the alleged loss of quality with MP3s. That's a complete crock.
Environment: Most music is listened to in a noisy social settings like bars and dives and juke joints (and elevators.)
Equipment: The speakers suck because not everybody can afford B&O, B&W, SAE. (the rest of the components are pretty much good enough from 20 to 20kHz.)
Listeners: The listener's ears suck because listening to NIN full blast damages the cilia in you cochlea. Hell, listening to Mantovanni full blast damages the cilia in you cochlea. Years of listening to your mother's nagging full blast damages the cilia in you cochlea.
Source: Then you have to consider that one man's music is another man's noise. Personally I loathe Mariachi music, polka and Thrash Metal. This week's pop goddess is next week's remainder bin and that's how the music industry makes its money, on churn. Quality? Puh-leeze.
Okay, the environment sucks, the speakers suck, the listeners degrade and the source sucks.
MP3 is plenty good enough and I'll keep my old drives and CD burner for my own use and the RIAA can KMA.
M$ has just compounded the C# mistake (try to do a search with 'C#', :-)
They're going to try to ramp up C# to use the VB VM. They realize that C# doesn't quite cut it as a language (like they care about semantic and syntactic purity,) and that VB's VM is pokin' slow and its been cracked to bits.
M$ don't care but they should.
VMs are bitches to write and the best one is produced by the folks with the most experience (Namely the ParcPlace Smalltalk VM that's been honed and whetted by experience since 1977.) Java's second with 1996. Nineteen years difference.
Man we Smalltalkers laugh at VB-ers, Java-ers and C# should be good for a ROTFL.
Dubya is off to a roaring start. His vision of high-tech social policy comes from the cleaners.
Gotta love the Republican hippocracy.
First came the Reagan drug policy. The ultimate in cost reduction. Nancy telling all the kids to"Just Say NO!" Oooo, like THAT was gonna work!
Now I guess women all over the third world will have to "Just say NO!" Or "NON!" or jabber whatever it is in the "patoi" they use for communication.
Or maybe we should teach them the virtues of blow jobs: "Just Say MFFF MFFF!"
And the US is only too willing to send the cops to Norway if that what it takes to protect reruns of "I Love Lucy"
Why? Because, if they get their way, you pay but it costs them nothing. Eventually you'll get bored and go back to culture and having some time for yourself in the evenings.
I gave up on TV (and being a passive sponge,) and I'm having more fun that I ever did sitting there asking myself "Why am I watching this shit?"
Ask the Irish about the dangers inherent in mono-culture.
They became dependent on a single kind of potato even though the new world had dozens of them.
The end result was the famine, the death of millions, economic disruption Ireland still hasn't recovered from and some stern lessons which are being ignored at the peril of those who would repeat history in technology instead of agriculture.
Mono-cultures are forever poised on the knife edge of catastrophy. One slip leads to oblivion.
Has anyone noticed that infection incidents are becoming more severe? Melissa is spawning faster and spreading much wider using ruses programed into it.
Changing the vector from diskette to e-mail is part the reason. Using larger 'active' content is another part. Now imagine a exploit of content files, infected media. I'm sure someone's already getting hard at the thought.
One particularly complex and capable computer virus which could be carried over the expanded communications channels in place now could conceivably wipe out everybody without a set of uninfected backups.
The Luddites would win. But at what a cost...
I once received crap from some idiot who was sending me Spam with return enveloppes included but they were "return postage garanteed" enveloppes. The company HAS to pay the post office the postage due on what ever they received.
It turned out that just about everybody in my office had received the same mailing. We taped the cards to bricks. The Spammer had to pay for sending about a hundred bricks through the mail.
As a Mac user (multiple) smarting from the stupid MHz comments in the press, I'm surprised that they didn't put a 2GHz clock on the bastard (and step it down 5:1 at the chip, which would give them an ultra-precise 400 MHz clock.)
I'd have some real decisions to make if I hadn't already budgeted for a Titanium PowerBook.
But the next rack unit I buy...
Now people with the IQ of a dead lemming, or the president, will blame the 'Net for everything from smut (its the naked people, not the 'Net,) to smut (or other cause of crop failure.)
There's more power used in California by grow-lights for people's pot gardens than by PCs. You KNOW they've been smoking something to come up with that argument.
This article at MacCentral had much better coverage. Rather than focussing on the language that Jobs used to skake his audience into paying attention, they covered what he was actually fucking saying:
That buying a Mac at CompUSA and Sears et al. is an exercise in futility and frustration. If you go to a car dealership, they don't steer you away from the model you ask for to show you another brand and try to bullshit you while they do it.
I think Apple should sell on the Web and exclusively through its Mac retailers like MacZone, MacMall.
Screw the pimply-faced, rat-assed, pig-ignorant kids who try to screw the Mac customer for the sake of an idiotic loyalty to someone who has ripped off their parents out of of billions of dollars.
Hey why should the media producers be the ones who bear the burden?
How 'bout pencil manufacturers?
How 'bout all those photocopy machines?
And don't get me started in on those printers...
Seriously, just what kind of an ass-hole are you? You've got the processor wrong. Its a G4 not a G3.
It smokes the Pentium IV by about 33% for processor intensive tasks.
You just don't want to admit that I'm gonna look SO-O COOOL whipping one out and watching a DVD with your girl at a Linux Expo while you lug around a lame-ass Vaio and a well thumber copy of Hustler...
From what I remember of the Sun 'luggable' some salesman hauled to my office, it had longer battery life because it was only used to run the clock. The guy had power adaptors for every friggin' continent 'cause the second thing he asked for was the nearest power plug.
What 6 months? Count along with me:
1) January,
2) February,
3) March.
Its not all of March, its March 24th, and part of January's already gone. Its like 2 1/2 months.
As for not being MP, they're selling dual processor and OS X is based on Darwin which is Open BSD which IS MP. And Carbonized apps will be able to use MP in MP machines.
As cool as the Titanium notebook is, it isn't likely to be MP anymore than the Sony Vaio.
OO is a design technique and OO systems can be implemented in Assembler (like CICS/IDMS-DC) all the way to Smalltalk.
Brooks in "The Mythical Man-Month" talked about the difference between programs and systems back when they were building OS 360. The complaints talked about here aren't limited to OO.
However, every non-trivial implementation of any successful system can be shown to be OO in design and technical every failure can be shown to have violated OO principles (that's not counting management, direction marketing and every other reason for failure.)
Most systems tend to become unmanagable because the peoplle in the trenches doing the maintenance get "too busy" to maintain the documentation and rely on osmosis and oral tradition to pass on the system lore. Things get lost with ever departure until its necessary to start over again. ("Read the code" has NEVER worked for more than trivial stuff because the code only caries traces of its INTENT and clever programmers tend to obscure that through 'clever' hacks.)
Smalltalk, a best of breed, has several short comings but that doesn't mean it can't be made to work easily. You just have to remember the limitations of container-based implementations.
Java, C++, C#, CLOS, Simula, and Smalltalk ALL share in these deficiencies:
1)Contained object don't know that they are contained unless you explicitely make a reference to the container part of the object.
2)Object instantiation is made without regard to context.
3)Objects don't understand anything about participation in relationships.
4)Class membership tends to be hard to mutate.
When we have a language that can model the difference between the cuppola of the Piaza Duomo in Firenze and a common garden wall, then we'll have something to work with. Until then OO is the best design technique we've got.