Power being a toggle is not true in all cases. Sony devices currently have both an on and an off command. Using a Sony universal remote (AVR2100), My macros tell my Sony devices to turn on, not to toggle. I don't have to worry about their current state. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), not all my devices are Sony, and so I still do have the toggle button problem for some things.
Also, I think I heard that Sony was discontinuing this feature.
No kidding, I was at the site and wipping my credit card out as I was filling out my address info. Suddenly I notice that under country they have USA hardcoded. NOOOOOOOOO, I want a Zaurus, but can't afford the normal price right now. Argh!
But that isn't the point. Yes, they have the patent. The problem is that they were part of the standards body (SDRAM?) that pushed for technology that Rambus was in the process of (?had already?) patented. I think it was Rambus's duty to disclose the patent when they were helping to set the standard.
I was writing a disagreement to this when I realized that my argument was false and actually support the above statement. When I was earning my engineering degree, it happened on a number of occaisions that I'd write a test where the class average would end up being in the 35-45% range. The curve saved our bacon in terms of relating a grade to a percentage. My argument was that the curve was necessary to make for a fair test, but in thinking about it, the curve was really just masking the fact that the profs couldn't write good tests. The curve also masks what you really know. If the best student only new 50% of the material, then maybe the prof hadn't done a very good job in teaching us.
I agree completely, while some of the features would be cool to have, I value the portability of my Palm V. I put it in my front pocket and it's always handy. I didn't notice the dimensions of this thing, but I'm betting it isn't something that will fit in my pocket. Maybe the saying will change to "Is that a Clie in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"
"It's been well documented that the average career of a programmer is about 4 years".
SAY WHAT? Where is this well documented? Other than people who have just started, I don't know many good code monkeys who gave up after four years. I and a number of friends have been going at it for 10. My brother (much older than I) has been going at it for more than 25 years.
And I have to say I'm glad there aren't enough management positions for all of them. I've quit jobs because they wanted to push me into management.
I LIKE coding, and I'm very good at it. I don't want to manage and get away from the tech. Although I have accepted architect roles as long as I could keep my hands dirty.
I can see myself staying in IT for my entire career. I can also see myself going low tech and becoming a boat wright.
I agree that there are places where programmers are disposable. This is probably where you get the 4 year people from. I was lucky enough to start in a place that wasn't like that. And now I'm lucky enough to have the insight to recognize a place like that and the skills to walk away to find a better place.
Will TCPA compliant machines make it more difficult for a user to updgrade CPUs or change computers? Do you see users having to re-confirm their identity with external sources because the identity of their computer has changed? (I know this already happens, I just see it becoming more pervasive in the future and am afraid more software vendors will begin to license by specific computer).
What I'd like is one device that can contain all my media needs. Put a big hard-drive, a video card with component out and some sort of video in, a sound card with digital out, a DVD drive and some sort of IR receiver in a small form factor and then you can record everything onto this hard-drive and play it from there also. It would be a PVR on steriods. Instead of needing a 300 disk CD player, You could rip all the CDs to MP3 using the included drive. You could record shows as TiVo does. You could put both disks of the extended edition of LOTR on the drive and not have to be unduly interrupted by needing to change disks.
Since you own all the disks you're puttting on the drive it should fall under fair use (and when it doesn't the public should start screaming more).
Give it an ethernet port and base it off Linux and you could have a serious entertainment platform available.
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Sorry, the Palantir had some very significant purposes in the book. It explains why Saruman has fallen (not like in the movie, where he just decided to join with Sauron). It sets up Denethor's behavior. It again points to Aragorn's heredity, and Aragorn uses it to prompt Sauron into releasing his armies before he is completely ready, thereby moving his eye to Minas Tirith and somewhat emptying Mordor, therefore allowing Frodo and Sam to get to Orodruim.
Excuse me. Have you done any enterprise programming? Show me how you can write a J2EE application if you don't know Java. JDeveloper's wizards aren't going to get you much past the deployment descriptor.
Or are you saying that it isn't enough to know Java, you need to know the exact toolset. I disagree with this also. I have solid J2EE experience. I can write a J2EE app that will basically function on JBoss, WebSphere, Oracle 8's internal app server, without knowing the internals of each. The deployment is unique among each, and if you're doing something outside of the spec, then you need to know the internals, but general tuning principles are the same among all app servers. If you need to do something unique, then its time to read the docs, but since you have the vocabulary from general knowledge, you should be able to find the answer if it is there.
My take is there should be a hand that comes out of the monitor and smacks a user hard while a voice says "Don't Do That". Maybe a little negative conditioning will help fix users.
I think you're missing the point of VHS. I suspect many(most) people use VHS as a time shifting device. Throw a tape in (or use the one that is always in the machine for this exact purpose) to record a show while you're out/busy/watching something else. Then watch when you have time. This usage does not alow for the "edit out the comercials" step. You need to get at least 64 minutes out of a VCD to even approach being able to replace VHS, and I'd suggest you need to get a bunch more for those who want to record a couple shows while they aren't home. (I say 64, because some stations play a little fast and loose with the time, and I need to start recording a bit before and end recording a bit after to ensure I've go a whole show)
I've seen posts about editing the commercials, fine-tuning the compression, ect. to get enogh time on a VCD, but that doesn't help when you want to time-shift.
The noise isn't a huge problem when you've got one machine in a room. But my den now has four machines running. The noise is starting to become a real bother. Admittedly, two (maybe three) of the machine could be moved elsewhere in the house and run as headless servers, but I haven't taken the time to run cable to an appropriate place. Server rooms are even worse. Quiteing these things down would make life alot easier for those of us who sometimes admin large networks.
Although most modern BIOSs can boot from CD, I've setup a number of 486 and early 586 machines as linux firewalls, gateways, etc. Still need the floppy for them, but a number of PC stores in my area have stopped stocking floppy disks. Despite the fact that Linux works fine on older equipment, we may one day no longer be able to support this older equipment because of lack of floppies. Who would have expected the useful life of a machine to be limited by the availability of floppies?
Watching on TV, it often seems that the expert provides some good initial insight into a problem, but then often becomes superflous. Sitting through many hours of actually watching the challenges unfold. How valuable were the experts in comparison to teams with general inventiveness?
I went to google and searched for "installing apache web server". I got about 153000 hits. First one was to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/install.html which looks like a pretty good match to me. In fact none of the first 5 sites looked like corporate sites to me. Maybe you need to check the top of the list instead of the bottom?
In my experience, it's pretty rare for one of the top five hits to not have the info I need (unless what I'm looking for is pretty obscure).
At the last place I worked, we had a number of IPs assigned. This made it painfully obvious in the logs when some script kiddie was port scanning us. On a couple occaisions we found that the machine scanning us had netsend active and availble, so we net sended them telling them to stop port scanning or we would take action. We could just picture the 13 year-old kid at the other end freakin out at this message popping up on their monitor.
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Hey that's not right! If you grab your computer fast enough, you can probably save a good portion of it. Remember, harddrives are pretty tightly sealed. Your girlfriend (even if she can't swim), will probably be able to flail about long enough for you to gently put your computer down and save her. Besides, cold water will probably enhance your girlfriend, but definately not your computer.
Anyone in Europe want to sue Sony for a DOS attack? Seems to me that turning off DMA is a pretty clear DOS attempt (not to mention actually crashing a consumers computer)
The thing that makes Software engineering different from (say) civil engineering is that gravity doesn't chenge on a monthly basis and people have been dealing with it for a very long time.
Software engineering has only been around for ~40 years, civil engineering has been around for ~2500 years (I'm no historian, so those numbers could be off by a fair amount). We as Software engineers don't have enough of a history to develop meaningfull metrics. How many skyscrapers do you think were well estimated in the first couple decades of building them?
As I alluded to above, another major difference is that software engineers are retraining in a new language/paradigm/methodology on almost every project. I'm not suggesting that civil engineering is stagnant, but things don't change with the frequency and scope that they do in software engineering. How can you estimate how long an EJB project will take if no one has done one before (A project I was involved with two years ago faced this). If you've done EJBs, how can you estimate a 20 screen forestry project from a 20 screen health project. Contrast that to estimating building a bridge. The structural equations are well known, and experience has taught how various site conditions will impact the project. There is little that is new. Maybe some new type of steel or concrete. But people wouldn't be using the steel or concrete if they didn't have the numbers for strength, ect. to plug into their equations.
Some would say that people shouldn't be hired on a project if they haven't done something similar before, but again, things are changing too rapidly to expect people to have worked on anything more than somewhat similar to what is being done next.
I agree. This last season has been very disappointing, almost as if they were trying to make us look forward to it beeing over. I've noticed a number of episodes this season where Mulder and Scully just did not stay in character. The story lines have also seemed to occasionally contradict previous seasons stories.
I'm in the real world (sad to say) and have been doing Java work for between two and three years now. I've worked at four different client sites and at those sites have seen one project being done in VB while the rest (at least two dozen) were a mix of Oracle Forms/C/Java/Newton Script. The marketplace I'm in doesn't view VB with a whole lot of respect and you wouldn't get a contract at any of my clients with VB skills.
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Power being a toggle is not true in all cases. Sony devices currently have both an on and an off command. Using a Sony universal remote (AVR2100), My macros tell my Sony devices to turn on, not to toggle. I don't have to worry about their current state. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), not all my devices are Sony, and so I still do have the toggle button problem for some things.
Also, I think I heard that Sony was discontinuing this feature.
Why is this marked flamebait? And why do people think this wasn't funny? I thought it was hilarious.
No kidding, I was at the site and wipping my credit card out as I was filling out my address info. Suddenly I notice that under country they have USA hardcoded. NOOOOOOOOO, I want a Zaurus, but can't afford the normal price right now. Argh!
But that isn't the point. Yes, they have the patent. The problem is that they were part of the standards body (SDRAM?) that pushed for technology that Rambus was in the process of (?had already?) patented. I think it was Rambus's duty to disclose the patent when they were helping to set the standard.
I was writing a disagreement to this when I realized that my argument was false and actually support the above statement. When I was earning my engineering degree, it happened on a number of occaisions that I'd write a test where the class average would end up being in the 35-45% range. The curve saved our bacon in terms of relating a grade to a percentage. My argument was that the curve was necessary to make for a fair test, but in thinking about it, the curve was really just masking the fact that the profs couldn't write good tests. The curve also masks what you really know. If the best student only new 50% of the material, then maybe the prof hadn't done a very good job in teaching us.
Why does a PDA need a remote control? I've heard of using a PDA as a remote control, but not remotely controlling your PDA.
I suspect it is for the camera, but it still struck me as strange when I saw that the package contents include a remote control.
I agree completely, while some of the features would be cool to have, I value the portability of my Palm V. I put it in my front pocket and it's always handy. I didn't notice the dimensions of this thing, but I'm betting it isn't something that will fit in my pocket. Maybe the saying will change to "Is that a Clie in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"
"It's been well documented that the average career of a programmer is about 4 years".
SAY WHAT? Where is this well documented? Other than people who have just started, I don't know many good code monkeys who gave up after four years. I and a number of friends have been going at it for 10. My brother (much older than I) has been going at it for more than 25 years.
And I have to say I'm glad there aren't enough management positions for all of them. I've quit jobs because they wanted to push me into management.
I LIKE coding, and I'm very good at it. I don't want to manage and get away from the tech. Although I have accepted architect roles as long as I could keep my hands dirty.
I can see myself staying in IT for my entire career. I can also see myself going low tech and becoming a boat wright.
I agree that there are places where programmers are disposable. This is probably where you get the 4 year people from. I was lucky enough to start in a place that wasn't like that. And now I'm lucky enough to have the insight to recognize a place like that and the skills to walk away to find a better place.
Bzzt, wrong answer. The feathers are there to trap the air. Dead air is what is keeping you warm, not the feathers.
Will TCPA compliant machines make it more difficult for a user to updgrade CPUs or change computers? Do you see users having to re-confirm their identity with external sources because the identity of their computer has changed? (I know this already happens, I just see it becoming more pervasive in the future and am afraid more software vendors will begin to license by specific computer).
What I'd like is one device that can contain all my media needs. Put a big hard-drive, a video card with component out and some sort of video in, a sound card with digital out, a DVD drive and some sort of IR receiver in a small form factor and then you can record everything onto this hard-drive and play it from there also. It would be a PVR on steriods. Instead of needing a 300 disk CD player, You could rip all the CDs to MP3 using the included drive. You could record shows as TiVo does. You could put both disks of the extended edition of LOTR on the drive and not have to be unduly interrupted by needing to change disks.
Since you own all the disks you're puttting on the drive it should fall under fair use (and when it doesn't the public should start screaming more).
Give it an ethernet port and base it off Linux and you could have a serious entertainment platform available.
Sorry, the Palantir had some very significant purposes in the book. It explains why Saruman has fallen (not like in the movie, where he just decided to join with Sauron). It sets up Denethor's behavior. It again points to Aragorn's heredity, and Aragorn uses it to prompt Sauron into releasing his armies before he is completely ready, thereby moving his eye to Minas Tirith and somewhat emptying Mordor, therefore allowing Frodo and Sam to get to Orodruim.
Excuse me. Have you done any enterprise programming? Show me how you can write a J2EE application if you don't know Java. JDeveloper's wizards aren't going to get you much past the deployment descriptor.
Or are you saying that it isn't enough to know Java, you need to know the exact toolset. I disagree with this also. I have solid J2EE experience. I can write a J2EE app that will basically function on JBoss, WebSphere, Oracle 8's internal app server, without knowing the internals of each. The deployment is unique among each, and if you're doing something outside of the spec, then you need to know the internals, but general tuning principles are the same among all app servers. If you need to do something unique, then its time to read the docs, but since you have the vocabulary from general knowledge, you should be able to find the answer if it is there.
My take is there should be a hand that comes out of the monitor and smacks a user hard while a voice says "Don't Do That". Maybe a little negative conditioning will help fix users.
Remember user is a four letter word.
I think you're missing the point of VHS. I suspect many(most) people use VHS as a time shifting device. Throw a tape in (or use the one that is always in the machine for this exact purpose) to record a show while you're out/busy/watching something else. Then watch when you have time. This usage does not alow for the "edit out the comercials" step. You need to get at least 64 minutes out of a VCD to even approach being able to replace VHS, and I'd suggest you need to get a bunch more for those who want to record a couple shows while they aren't home. (I say 64, because some stations play a little fast and loose with the time, and I need to start recording a bit before and end recording a bit after to ensure I've go a whole show)
I've seen posts about editing the commercials, fine-tuning the compression, ect. to get enogh time on a VCD, but that doesn't help when you want to time-shift.
The noise isn't a huge problem when you've got one machine in a room. But my den now has four machines running. The noise is starting to become a real bother. Admittedly, two (maybe three) of the machine could be moved elsewhere in the house and run as headless servers, but I haven't taken the time to run cable to an appropriate place. Server rooms are even worse. Quiteing these things down would make life alot easier for those of us who sometimes admin large networks.
Although most modern BIOSs can boot from CD, I've setup a number of 486 and early 586 machines as linux firewalls, gateways, etc. Still need the floppy for them, but a number of PC stores in my area have stopped stocking floppy disks. Despite the fact that Linux works fine on older equipment, we may one day no longer be able to support this older equipment because of lack of floppies. Who would have expected the useful life of a machine to be limited by the availability of floppies?
Watching on TV, it often seems that the expert provides some good initial insight into a problem, but then often becomes superflous. Sitting through many hours of actually watching the challenges unfold. How valuable were the experts in comparison to teams with general inventiveness?
OK, it's silly to reply to this, but oh well.
I went to google and searched for "installing apache web server". I got about 153000 hits. First one was to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/install.html which looks like a pretty good match to me. In fact none of the first 5 sites looked like corporate sites to me. Maybe you need to check the top of the list instead of the bottom?
In my experience, it's pretty rare for one of the top five hits to not have the info I need (unless what I'm looking for is pretty obscure).
At the last place I worked, we had a number of IPs assigned. This made it painfully obvious in the logs when some script kiddie was port scanning us. On a couple occaisions we found that the machine scanning us had netsend active and availble, so we net sended them telling them to stop port scanning or we would take action. We could just picture the 13 year-old kid at the other end freakin out at this message popping up on their monitor.
Hey that's not right! If you grab your computer fast enough, you can probably save a good portion of it. Remember, harddrives are pretty tightly sealed. Your girlfriend (even if she can't swim), will probably be able to flail about long enough for you to gently put your computer down and save her. Besides, cold water will probably enhance your girlfriend, but definately not your computer.
Anyone in Europe want to sue Sony for a DOS attack? Seems to me that turning off DMA is a pretty clear DOS attempt (not to mention actually crashing a consumers computer)
The thing that makes Software engineering different from (say) civil engineering is that gravity doesn't chenge on a monthly basis and people have been dealing with it for a very long time.
Software engineering has only been around for ~40 years, civil engineering has been around for ~2500 years (I'm no historian, so those numbers could be off by a fair amount). We as Software engineers don't have enough of a history to develop meaningfull metrics. How many skyscrapers do you think were well estimated in the first couple decades of building them?
As I alluded to above, another major difference is that software engineers are retraining in a new language/paradigm/methodology on almost every project. I'm not suggesting that civil engineering is stagnant, but things don't change with the frequency and scope that they do in software engineering. How can you estimate how long an EJB project will take if no one has done one before (A project I was involved with two years ago faced this). If you've done EJBs, how can you estimate a 20 screen forestry project from a 20 screen health project. Contrast that to estimating building a bridge. The structural equations are well known, and experience has taught how various site conditions will impact the project. There is little that is new. Maybe some new type of steel or concrete. But people wouldn't be using the steel or concrete if they didn't have the numbers for strength, ect. to plug into their equations.
Some would say that people shouldn't be hired on a project if they haven't done something similar before, but again, things are changing too rapidly to expect people to have worked on anything more than somewhat similar to what is being done next.
I agree. This last season has been very disappointing, almost as if they were trying to make us look forward to it beeing over. I've noticed a number of episodes this season where Mulder and Scully just did not stay in character. The story lines have also seemed to occasionally contradict previous seasons stories.
I'm in the real world (sad to say) and have been doing Java work for between two and three years now. I've worked at four different client sites and at those sites have seen one project being done in VB while the rest (at least two dozen) were a mix of Oracle Forms/C/Java/Newton Script. The marketplace I'm in doesn't view VB with a whole lot of respect and you wouldn't get a contract at any of my clients with VB skills.