is practice as well as in design. Then its becomes a lot easier to farm out presentation and trigger interaction to switchable leaves on the presentation layer (like switching data base engines leavel on the persistence layer.)
It may be infrastructure and belongs "behind the GypRock" but yhou still have to deal with it in a coherent fashion.
There is no need to tag people. Each one of us has a biometric signature of visible, audible, "smell"able patterns from the large (body shape) to the small (DNA) whch can collaborate to uniquely identify us.
The "lapsus" in using these patterns is two fold: One, the technology is still expensive, potentially flawless but poorly distributed and expensive. Two, it has an entrenched, flawed but in "situ" infrastructure to displace.
Once these two problem are overcome, in time they will be, we're going to be soooo fucked!
5% of 17,000 means that 850 customer reps in our call center are down once a day while the system reboots and looked like jerks if they were talking to a client at the time.
That's NOT good. That's expensive.
I only reboot my Linux box when I upgrade (last time was to slide in a new motherboard, CPU and RAM a few weeks back.)
the companies who want to sell you the damn Viagra and fine their butts off, its all useless.
The only way to stem the flood is to target those who think they benefit from it.
If the VENDOR who uses Spam has to cough up a massive fine, they will put the spammers out of business. It has nothing to do with who sent you the friggin' email but who's trying to get youto spend money. Once it COSTS THEM far more than their RateOfReturn, the Spammers will suck wind.
Two hyper-capable systems computer systems achieve semi-sentience, discover each other, fall in some sort of homo-errotic death-pact love, leap/jump/drive off a cliff togeth... uh, wait, that's another story, and establish communication over a really thin pipe and achieve world domination.
Now in the internet world, it would be a replay/take-off of the old sci-fi story (I think it was Algis Budris or some other British sci-fi author,) where the telephone system becomes sentient.
It would be when PCs and their OSs become powerful and complex enough to act like cells in Marvin Minski's "Society of Mind" and achieve several levels of colaboration emerging as sentient behavior.
Sort of like the matrix in "The Matrix."
The point is that we fear our own creations. We fear them because their own potentialities leads the world in directions that can NEVER be anticipated.
Who would have thought that work on high quality glass fibre in 1950s by Dr Charles K. Kao and perfected by Corning and others by 1966 would lead to economic dislocation and devastating changes in North American work habits...
I parse the content before I read it (isn't php great?:-)
Any email with HTML in it, any email with.exe attachments, any email with the words viagra or penis (or some other words in my list, like "second mortgage" when I don't own a home,) in it gets purged as soon as I pull it off the server.
It never gets to my mail program.
I could also filter on subject lines containing any word whi isn't in thdictionary but since some of my friends don't spell too well...
I have a two button wireless mouse with a wheel and the wheel works, the right mouse button pops up menus and the left mouse button selects and drags.
The one button mouse is only an issue if you drink all of and only Steve's kool-aid. The OS supports the hardware. And for the $39 it cost me, it was well worth it.
and don't give a shit who gets stomped on the way. Even if it cuts off billions in potential earnings for the rest of the world, they aren't altruists, they want their dough (all of it too,) and they want it NOW!
Same mind set as the xxAAs.
If the RIAA had had its way in 1800, the following wouldn't even have existed:
Player Pianos, Radio, Edison Cylinders, the telephone, 78s, LPs, stereo, DATs, CDs, photocopiers, public libraries, the internet, personal computers,,,, Get the idea?
Actually the MPAA wouldn't exist because movies have sound and that run counter to the RIAA's wishes.
These Teutonic Twits are Fascists and they'd kill their children if they could get away with it.
The government HAS to get the source code, while the source code can be kept from prying eyes and its just an insurance against the supplier going bankrupt and vanishing (think it can't happen, think what if Enron sold energy management software as well,) taking its software with it.
The vendor can enter into non-compete agreements with the government and the code never gets out unless the vendor goes tits-up.
The government HAS to get the file formats and they HAVE to be entered into the public domain. Otherwise interoperability is impossible.
No compliance, no sale.
Simple, clean and fair. No preferential treatments for anybody and no more shifting software base costing billions every year.
"it's only a matter of time before every CD will work only in stereos and on machines which have specific versions of software like Windows."
How about we key the media to the player so that YOUR CD will ONLY play on YOUR CD player. Its 128 bit encrypted at the time of purchase and if your hardware breaks, kiss your collection goodbye.
Put every song from every CD and every.mov and.mpg and every piece of software and every file on it. I also bought a DVD burner to back the thing up.
I did it NOW because I still can. As for the rest. I listen to the radio occasionally and its all the same old crap anyway but with different ads. I threw out the TV years ago. Someday somebody'll tell me about the excellent Swis crafsmanship he saw on the "Rotary Nose-Hair Trimmer" network and I'll feel sure I did the right thing.
If only I didn't get a twinge of pity and utter contempt now and then for twho are still "Sucking on the Glass Teat" (With thanks to Harlan Ellison for that lovely concept.)
How long did the western world think the earth was flat because of ONE influential ignorant Greek? How many people were turned into gyros by the Catholic church?
How many people have been killed because some towel-headed camel-molester believed in some "Invisible Guy In The Sky" and felt he was justified in killing the towel-headed camel-molester one village over because they believed in some other "Invisible Guy In The Sky".
To anybody with a good grasp of topology, and of the finite fundamentals, computing is all BS.
I have no idea how technies managed to convince themselves or their PHBs that they were any better or worth anymore per hour than gocery shelf re-stockers.
IBM just rolls over and says: "Well, you won. There's a whole bunch of mainframes out there. Have fun supporting 'em. We're out of this business... We're GPL-ing all of out patents. You'll be hearing from our customers and our customers' lawyers."
If I was SCO I'd shit my pants.
I know you should never gamble if you can't afford to lose. But how about never fighting if you can't afford to win.
The problem is the micro scale versus the macro scale. While you think having bricks with humidity sensors would help you find a leak in a wall, just find the first brick that reported wetness, they wouldn't work in the rain.
What's a brick going to tell you during a California earthquake? "Dude... I'm feeling shaky."
Unless a brick can report its actual position and orientation in 3D space along with any delta since is was laid (better be none) you can't tell anymore about "settling damage" than with a visual inspection. But GPS down to the fraction of a centimeter is beyond what the military has access to.
Its one thing to have sense organs as part of a structure but they have to be extremely cheap, utterly reliable and infallibly interpretable.
Try being 50 and watching everybody else
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make the same mistakes you did yourself or wisely learned to avoid committing in the first place (usually by learning from somebody else's disaster.)
Some are painfully obvious to me but the PHBs and the co-workers have blind spots that just means that everything that I (and they) do is fundamentally flawed, undocumentable, will be a hemmorhoid to maintain and get trashed because it deserved to be still-born to start with.
Having a system designed by "people who knew" using Objects With States, but implemented by a "crew without a clue" who don't understand a thing about State Transition Engines, leads to duplicated, inelegant or just plain f*cked up code. When its gets to the GUI, its painful, just painful.
At least they pay me the little bucks and I eventually learned to just shut the f*ck up.
I just make sure to take my own advice whenever I can and write my code as well as I can. And when I have to pull off a real hack, I appologize in the explanatory comments.
Some insurance companies did that years ago with a billion dollar settlement against them and they used the opportunity to charge off a lot of hardware and document scanning software and the people and procedure development against it.
End result, they got lots of new toys which they used to develop in-house technology and processing and they had bugger all left to share between the poor fools who applied for their redress.
Specially since most of the process was to make the poor schmucks provide information (that's why the scanning,) that was then checked against the companies' own records. If there was a discrepancy, they got squat. Like there was a chance an outsider has access to that data.
End result, insurance companies win, their customers lose, again, and the law was flouted once again.
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we can expect Novell to use Ximian's offerings, APIs, research and development to stick a spoke in M$s wheels and poke Gates in the eye.
Here's to their continued success.
is practice as well as in design. Then its becomes a lot easier to farm out presentation and trigger interaction to switchable leaves on the presentation layer (like switching data base engines leavel on the persistence layer.)
It may be infrastructure and belongs "behind the GypRock" but yhou still have to deal with it in a coherent fashion.
There is no need to tag people. Each one of us has a biometric signature of visible, audible, "smell"able patterns from the large (body shape) to the small (DNA) whch can collaborate to uniquely identify us.
The "lapsus" in using these patterns is two fold: One, the technology is still expensive, potentially flawless but poorly distributed and expensive. Two, it has an entrenched, flawed but in "situ" infrastructure to displace.
Once these two problem are overcome, in time they will be, we're going to be soooo fucked!
for one call center alone. All Windows (for now.)
5% of 17,000 means that 850 customer reps in our call center are down once a day while the system reboots and looked like jerks if they were talking to a client at the time.
That's NOT good. That's expensive.
I only reboot my Linux box when I upgrade (last time was to slide in a new motherboard, CPU and RAM a few weeks back.)
How about some quality of food?
I just went to the page using my trusty Mozilla browser and got this message:
Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com.
In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com's offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher.
BuyMusic.com is not likely to ever see a dime of my money. In fact, they can go screw themselves.
Sounds like a shake down by a protection racket. And about as legal too.
Instead of threatening people with baseball bats to the knees, they're throwin' lawyers around like WMDs.
Somebody needs to be driven into bankruptcy and wiped from the face of the planet, real soon now.
the companies who want to sell you the damn Viagra and fine their butts off, its all useless.
The only way to stem the flood is to target those who think they benefit from it.
If the VENDOR who uses Spam has to cough up a massive fine, they will put the spammers out of business. It has nothing to do with who sent you the friggin' email but who's trying to get youto spend money. Once it COSTS THEM far more than their RateOfReturn, the Spammers will suck wind.
Two hyper-capable systems computer systems achieve semi-sentience, discover each other, fall in some sort of homo-errotic death-pact love, leap/jump/drive off a cliff togeth... uh, wait, that's another story, and establish communication over a really thin pipe and achieve world domination.
Now in the internet world, it would be a replay/take-off of the old sci-fi story (I think it was Algis Budris or some other British sci-fi author,) where the telephone system becomes sentient.
It would be when PCs and their OSs become powerful and complex enough to act like cells in Marvin Minski's "Society of Mind" and achieve several levels of colaboration emerging as sentient behavior.
Sort of like the matrix in "The Matrix."
The point is that we fear our own creations. We fear them because their own potentialities leads the world in directions that can NEVER be anticipated.
Who would have thought that work on high quality glass fibre in 1950s by Dr Charles K. Kao and perfected by Corning and others by 1966 would lead to economic dislocation and devastating changes in North American work habits...
The manufacturing machine could be put on a geostationary satellite and could "grow" a thread reaching earth and further out into space.
Its "Fountains of Paradise" time.
Arthur C Clarke must be so pleased. He got right the development and use of satellites, geostationary and orbital, and now this.
Kewl.
I parse the content before I read it (isn't php great? :-)
.exe attachments, any email with the words viagra or penis (or some other words in my list, like "second mortgage" when I don't own a home,) in it gets purged as soon as I pull it off the server.
Any email with HTML in it, any email with
It never gets to my mail program.
I could also filter on subject lines containing any word whi isn't in thdictionary but since some of my friends don't spell too well...
I have a two button wireless mouse with a wheel and the wheel works, the right mouse button pops up menus and the left mouse button selects and drags.
The one button mouse is only an issue if you drink all of and only Steve's kool-aid. The OS supports the hardware. And for the $39 it cost me, it was well worth it.
Or any windoze crap.
and don't give a shit who gets stomped on the way. Even if it cuts off billions in potential earnings for the rest of the world, they aren't altruists, they want their dough (all of it too,) and they want it NOW!
Same mind set as the xxAAs.
If the RIAA had had its way in 1800, the following wouldn't even have existed:
Player Pianos, Radio, Edison Cylinders, the telephone, 78s, LPs, stereo, DATs, CDs, photocopiers, public libraries, the internet, personal computers,,,, Get the idea?
Actually the MPAA wouldn't exist because movies have sound and that run counter to the RIAA's wishes.
These Teutonic Twits are Fascists and they'd kill their children if they could get away with it.
The government HAS to get the source code, while the source code can be kept from prying eyes and its just an insurance against the supplier going bankrupt and vanishing (think it can't happen, think what if Enron sold energy management software as well,) taking its software with it.
The vendor can enter into non-compete agreements with the government and the code never gets out unless the vendor goes tits-up.
The government HAS to get the file formats and they HAVE to be entered into the public domain. Otherwise interoperability is impossible.
No compliance, no sale.
Simple, clean and fair. No preferential treatments for anybody and no more shifting software base costing billions every year.
"it's only a matter of time before every CD will work only in stereos and on machines which have specific versions of software like Windows."
How about we key the media to the player so that YOUR CD will ONLY play on YOUR CD player. Its 128 bit encrypted at the time of purchase and if your hardware breaks, kiss your collection goodbye.
Put every song from every CD and every .mov and .mpg and every piece of software and every file on it. I also bought a DVD burner to back the thing up.
I did it NOW because I still can. As for the rest. I listen to the radio occasionally and its all the same old crap anyway but with different ads. I threw out the TV years ago. Someday somebody'll tell me about the excellent Swis crafsmanship he saw on the "Rotary Nose-Hair Trimmer" network and I'll feel sure I did the right thing.
If only I didn't get a twinge of pity and utter contempt now and then for twho are still "Sucking on the Glass Teat" (With thanks to Harlan Ellison for that lovely concept.)
No I HAVE a mouth and I will SCREAM!!!
shouldn't assume it won't be used.
How long did the western world think the earth was flat because of ONE influential ignorant Greek? How many people were turned into gyros by the Catholic church?
How many people have been killed because some towel-headed camel-molester believed in some "Invisible Guy In The Sky" and felt he was justified in killing the towel-headed camel-molester one village over because they believed in some other "Invisible Guy In The Sky".
Never underestimate human stupidity.
Having parents that lame must have been a real disaster.
White collar. HA!
To anybody with a good grasp of topology, and of the finite fundamentals, computing is all BS.
I have no idea how technies managed to convince themselves or their PHBs that they were any better or worth anymore per hour than gocery shelf re-stockers.
IBM just rolls over and says: "Well, you won. There's a whole bunch of mainframes out there. Have fun supporting 'em. We're out of this business... We're GPL-ing all of out patents. You'll be hearing from our customers and our customers' lawyers."
If I was SCO I'd shit my pants.
I know you should never gamble if you can't afford to lose. But how about never fighting if you can't afford to win.
"Help I've fallen and I can't get up!"
... I'm feeling shaky."
The problem is the micro scale versus the macro scale. While you think having bricks with humidity sensors would help you find a leak in a wall, just find the first brick that reported wetness, they wouldn't work in the rain.
What's a brick going to tell you during a California earthquake? "Dude
Unless a brick can report its actual position and orientation in 3D space along with any delta since is was laid (better be none) you can't tell anymore about "settling damage" than with a visual inspection. But GPS down to the fraction of a centimeter is beyond what the military has access to.
Its one thing to have sense organs as part of a structure but they have to be extremely cheap, utterly reliable and infallibly interpretable.
That can't be bad...
make the same mistakes you did yourself or wisely learned to avoid committing in the first place (usually by learning from somebody else's disaster.)
Some are painfully obvious to me but the PHBs and the co-workers have blind spots that just means that everything that I (and they) do is fundamentally flawed, undocumentable, will be a hemmorhoid to maintain and get trashed because it deserved to be still-born to start with.
Having a system designed by "people who knew" using Objects With States, but implemented by a "crew without a clue" who don't understand a thing about State Transition Engines, leads to duplicated, inelegant or just plain f*cked up code. When its gets to the GUI, its painful, just painful.
At least they pay me the little bucks and I eventually learned to just shut the f*ck up.
I just make sure to take my own advice whenever I can and write my code as well as I can. And when I have to pull off a real hack, I appologize in the explanatory comments.
a profit center.
Some insurance companies did that years ago with a billion dollar settlement against them and they used the opportunity to charge off a lot of hardware and document scanning software and the people and procedure development against it.
End result, they got lots of new toys which they used to develop in-house technology and processing and they had bugger all left to share between the poor fools who applied for their redress.
Specially since most of the process was to make the poor schmucks provide information (that's why the scanning,) that was then checked against the companies' own records. If there was a discrepancy, they got squat. Like there was a chance an outsider has access to that data.
End result, insurance companies win, their customers lose, again, and the law was flouted once again.
No surprise there either.