"In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless."
I'd like him to play a DVD from Hollywood Video.
Of the last three I rented, - one had pits and I had to skip a scene, - one was delaminated, unplayable and I had to eject it before my DVD drive got munged, -one was outright unplayable on my TiBook because according to the README.TXT "It doesn't play on a Macintosh."
I can MAKE a DVD on my TiBook with iMovie and a video camera but I can't play one of yours Jack.
Bwahahaha. Somebody buy this poor dumb [expletive deleted] a clue.
He probably believes M$ when they say that their systems are "secure now."
You don't want to wipe their elder-cared-for butts do you? You'd rather choke on your own vomit than take care of the elderly, feeble, so-easily-abusable, senile old fools wouldn't you?
So its going to have be done by a robot.
That was the wisest and most long-term research and development, manufacturing and marketing concept that an American company would NEVER have been able to conceive or sustain.
Is there anybody left on this planet who can keep a straight face when they read the sentence "This new security initiative, known as the Government Security Program, is designed to 'address the unique security requirements of governments and international organizations throughout the world,' Microsoft said. "
But the dinghies can get off the sand bar long before the luxury liner.
Eventually, the distribution of wealth (or is that poverty?) will even out.
The rich will have gotten far fewer but very rich indeed, and we, the masses, will all earn squat, own squat and get processed into "Soylent Green" because it cheaper than retirement.
Oh JOY. Now industrialization MUST come to IT.
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IT is basically built on hand-crafting little gems. That's slow and expensive.
Shifting production off-shore just stuffs an oily rag in the entry wound and staunches the hemmoraging a bit but its not the right way to do it. The patient's long term prospects are still a flat line.
I don't even want to save most of the crap jobs that are being jettisoned. They are using entirely the wrong approach.
We need to start making software a componentable, art-by-the-yard factory where the principles of the product line, the concepts behind it, are applied to software generation based on comprehensive models.
The ones with the best models win and generate lots and lots of software for everybody to use.
The art comes in knowing how to craft models. The skill comes in knowing how to tweak a model. The money comes in marketing and delivering software modeled on and tailored to a specific market.
Some code is mandated by law.
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Several algorithms for calculating payroll and other revenue source tax deductions or for calculating pension contributions are mandated by law.
The COBOL code was written and approved, probably before many of you were born, and you're NOT going to change it. Fuggedaboudit.
If I have to buy a separate reader (USB & FireWire please) I'd rather not take the chance of the media (the card-drive itself) breaking on me as it makes repeated transitions from wallet to reader or bouncing around in my pocket and being subjected to other thermal/physical stresses.
Thieves who 'jack rentals & commercial vehicles, drug dealers who want 'deniability' or to lose (areal, night time or covered) pursuit.
I've got a cel phone. Whoever wants to know where I am can just call me, give me a destination and ask for an ETA. At worst if I'm busy and didn't want to be interrupted so I turned the phone off, they can leave a message.
My Macs are Macs running OS X & OS 9.2. My PC is a server box running slackware. It might as well be invisible.
I don't like the x86 architecture. I definitely don't like Windows. I like Aqua. End of story.
The hardware'll get faster next week and the week after and the week after that. But I bought it when I needed it and when I could afford it and when it did what I needed. And with the style I wanted to do my work in.
Why import them here where the cost of living is ridiculously high when you can have one or two middle managers here coordinating the development and maintenance of systems over there where the cost of living is ridiculously low.
You can pay them peanuts and they're still happy because peanuts over there makes for a good standard of living.
Cabling is a bit premature and NOT doing them a great favor.
Apart from the need to address the lack of food, shelter, clothing, education, uh, "somebody stop the shooting please," telephones that actually work, telephone lines that can actually carry a signal, a country side as rugged as it is lovely, swampy as it is drowned by occasional monsoons, rats the size of corgis, insulation eating cockroaches the size of Norwegian browns and a host of other disadvantages.
Its not a good long term solution. WiFi is better.
is the desire to make it square, so it won't roll away, and to later enhance it by making it triangular thereby eliminating one bump.
M$ seems to have an absolute overarching need to make everything and anything all their own. Not better just their own. It just takes them three tries at anything before customers stop asking that it work properly.
Just reply that their marketing division has succesfully polluted M$'s own resource pool since schools curricula now only teach operating systems as "How to sys admin with Windows NT"
The problem with GUIs is that they are copyrightable and become extremely proprietary.
Try copying Aqua and get sued by Apple. Copy the lousy/lesser looking XP interface and get sued by M$.
Since its what's visible, the system topography, its what sells the system to those incapable (because they can't, don't or won't know or care,) of seeing below the surface, the topology.
Sadly the only way to win is to make the GUI so transparent that its invisible or to change the way computers interface with users.
Create it and patent it NOW so you lock out Microsoft.
e.g. no more logon & security dialog, a fingerprint scanner and/or other biometric devices announce who's using the system.
e.g. voice recognition & gestural controls (no keyboard, just point in space at a letter or a word or an object.)
e.g. voice/speech/tone generation. Use music to generate reports on the relative scale of things.
e.g. 3D display.
Do it now or the one with the most bucks will lock you out of the game with laws (even if it only has to be able to afford to break them.)
They basically want to enter textual (single or multi-line text, numbers, dates, currency [specie and quantity]) or spacial (2D or 3D coordinate system point[s]) data
or to navigate relationships between objects. Think 0|1:0|1|N relationships (select from a list which may be a simple or a compound presentation of text, graphical or mixed views of objects.
Radio Buttons, push butons and other 'screen candy' should be switchable without the developer being involved. This has been available in Smalltalk (Widgets) since '91. Extend don't re-invent.
Let the user theme the presentations. Let the coder concentrate on the objects and the relationships, what's important.
And set up your API's on data streams so that you NEVER waste a cycle pumping data one pixel beyond what's visible. (There is NOTHING as disgusting as waiting on a GUI to fill a window that only shows a few Ks of data with a the complete contents of a multi-megabyte file.)
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If they request the licences, tell 'em you don't have them anymore and refuse to let 'em leave empty handed.
"In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless."
I'd like him to play a DVD from Hollywood Video.
Of the last three I rented,
- one had pits and I had to skip a scene,
- one was delaminated, unplayable and I had to eject it before my DVD drive got munged,
-one was outright unplayable on my TiBook because according to the README.TXT "It doesn't play on a Macintosh."
I can MAKE a DVD on my TiBook with iMovie and a video camera but I can't play one of yours Jack.
Bwahahaha. Somebody buy this poor dumb [expletive deleted] a clue.
He probably believes M$ when they say that their systems are "secure now."
You don't want to wipe their elder-cared-for butts do you? You'd rather choke on your own vomit than take care of the elderly, feeble, so-easily-abusable, senile old fools wouldn't you?
So its going to have be done by a robot.
That was the wisest and most long-term research and development, manufacturing and marketing concept that an American company would NEVER have been able to conceive or sustain.
Can my iPod still play music? Can I still use it to shuffle files between home & work? Keep my date book, my address book, my MP3s?
Tinkering to improve is a good thing. Otherwise its just vandalism.
If you're not bringing anything new and improved, you might as well be lobbing bricks at store windows.
Is there anybody left on this planet who can keep a straight face when they read the sentence "This new security initiative, known as the Government Security Program, is designed to 'address the unique security requirements of governments and international organizations throughout the world,' Microsoft said. "
Not even Iraq would feel secure...
If they're supposed to be reporting anything, whi are the charts unlabeled?
Is the whole thing bullshit?
But the dinghies can get off the sand bar long before the luxury liner.
Eventually, the distribution of wealth (or is that poverty?) will even out.
The rich will have gotten far fewer but very rich indeed, and we, the masses, will all earn squat, own squat and get processed into "Soylent Green" because it cheaper than retirement.
IT is basically built on hand-crafting little gems. That's slow and expensive.
Shifting production off-shore just stuffs an oily rag in the entry wound and staunches the hemmoraging a bit but its not the right way to do it. The patient's long term prospects are still a flat line.
I don't even want to save most of the crap jobs that are being jettisoned. They are using entirely the wrong approach.
We need to start making software a componentable, art-by-the-yard factory where the principles of the product line, the concepts behind it, are applied to software generation based on comprehensive models.
The ones with the best models win and generate lots and lots of software for everybody to use.
The art comes in knowing how to craft models. The skill comes in knowing how to tweak a model. The money comes in marketing and delivering software modeled on and tailored to a specific market.
Several algorithms for calculating payroll and other revenue source tax deductions or for calculating pension contributions are mandated by law.
The COBOL code was written and approved, probably before many of you were born, and you're NOT going to change it. Fuggedaboudit.
What they are doing and proposing to do is an act of war when done by one state to another.
If I have to buy a separate reader (USB & FireWire please) I'd rather not take the chance of the media (the card-drive itself) breaking on me as it makes repeated transitions from wallet to reader or bouncing around in my pocket and being subjected to other thermal/physical stresses.
While booster are rare, they do happen. New technology, and therefore untried designs, alway has/have risk.
Do you want to be in the fallout downwind footprint if one of those suckers ever blows up in the pad or anywhere before reachine excape velocity?
I thought not.
Thieves who 'jack rentals & commercial vehicles, drug dealers who want 'deniability' or to lose (areal, night time or covered) pursuit.
I've got a cel phone. Whoever wants to know where I am can just call me, give me a destination and ask for an ETA. At worst if I'm busy and didn't want to be interrupted so I turned the phone off, they can leave a message.
there are exploits just waiting to happen.
They break encapsulation in the worst way possible and are probably the major source of buffer overrun entry points.
How could anybody be that stupid? A language FEATURE that just spells disaster.
Server side RULES dude...
Get some substantiation and get back to me. Until then... What is this www.MOSR.com? Just mod trolls down and reject rumors.
I wouldn't wanna have one in my basement.
My Macs are Macs running OS X & OS 9.2. My PC is a server box running slackware. It might as well be invisible.
I don't like the x86 architecture. I definitely don't like Windows. I like Aqua. End of story.
The hardware'll get faster next week and the week after and the week after that. But I bought it when I needed it and when I could afford it and when it did what I needed. And with the style I wanted to do my work in.
That's what its about.
I've heard of having infectious ideas but...
The issue of H1-Bs is becoming moot.
Why import them here where the cost of living is ridiculously high when you can have one or two middle managers here coordinating the development and maintenance of systems over there where the cost of living is ridiculously low.
You can pay them peanuts and they're still happy because peanuts over there makes for a good standard of living.
Its a commentary on the dependablility of the information found on the internet.
Without a corresponding web of trust...
Cabling is a bit premature and NOT doing them a great favor.
Apart from the need to address the lack of food, shelter, clothing, education, uh, "somebody stop the shooting please," telephones that actually work, telephone lines that can actually carry a signal, a country side as rugged as it is lovely, swampy as it is drowned by occasional monsoons, rats the size of corgis, insulation eating cockroaches the size of Norwegian browns and a host of other disadvantages.
Its not a good long term solution. WiFi is better.
Some people are more Mercurial than others.
I wonder what it would make of some kids I know either on Prozac and/or on a SugarPops buzz?
is the desire to make it square, so it won't roll away, and to later enhance it by making it triangular thereby eliminating one bump.
M$ seems to have an absolute overarching need to make everything and anything all their own. Not better just their own. It just takes them three tries at anything before customers stop asking that it work properly.
Just reply that their marketing division has succesfully polluted M$'s own resource pool since schools curricula now only teach operating systems as "How to sys admin with Windows NT"
The problem with GUIs is that they are copyrightable and become extremely proprietary.
Try copying Aqua and get sued by Apple. Copy the lousy/lesser looking XP interface and get sued by M$.
Since its what's visible, the system topography, its what sells the system to those incapable (because they can't, don't or won't know or care,) of seeing below the surface, the topology.
Sadly the only way to win is to make the GUI so transparent that its invisible or to change the way computers interface with users.
Create it and patent it NOW so you lock out Microsoft.
e.g. no more logon & security dialog, a fingerprint scanner and/or other biometric devices announce who's using the system.
e.g. voice recognition & gestural controls (no keyboard, just point in space at a letter or a word or an object.)
e.g. voice/speech/tone generation. Use music to generate reports on the relative scale of things.
e.g. 3D display.
Do it now or the one with the most bucks will lock you out of the game with laws (even if it only has to be able to afford to break them.)
Why are people using GUIs?
They basically want to enter textual (single or multi-line text, numbers, dates, currency [specie and quantity]) or spacial (2D or 3D coordinate system point[s]) data
or
to navigate relationships between objects. Think 0|1:0|1|N relationships (select from a list which may be a simple or a compound presentation of text, graphical or mixed views of objects.
Radio Buttons, push butons and other 'screen candy' should be switchable without the developer being involved. This has been available in Smalltalk (Widgets) since '91. Extend don't re-invent.
Let the user theme the presentations. Let the coder concentrate on the objects and the relationships, what's important.
And set up your API's on data streams so that you NEVER waste a cycle pumping data one pixel beyond what's visible. (There is NOTHING as disgusting as waiting on a GUI to fill a window that only shows a few Ks of data with a the complete contents of a multi-megabyte file.)