It is obvious (to us) that most servers running Linux are not "shipped" with it installed.
The real danger here is that some corporate manager will see this headline snippet, and react with something like:
"I knew this was a passing fad. Those geeks in tech don't know what they're talking about," etc.
Despite the misleading nature of these numbers, too many statistics like this will eventually add up to too many setbacks, and less acceptance. It's amazing the amount of people out there that have not idea when it comes to computers, but they want to believe that they do.
can drown in a river that averages 12 inches deep.
A look at RIAA sales statistics 1991-1999 reveals that CD sales do not always increase. The data shows growth in the early '90s, but nearly flat sales in the mid '90s, actually decreasing from 96-97.
As a music fan, I attirbute this (pre-Napster craze) trend to the explosion of new, unique bands in the early '90s, followed by a bunch of bland, industry-generated, me-too bands that lacked any originality or edge.
With Napster, record company executives now have a scapegoat for thier ineptness. They want to paint the picture of always increasing sales and profits, else someone surely is tampering illegally with thier industry.
These are passive devices that require an excitation signal from a reader or scanner in order to send the ID. This technology has been in use for years for the purpose of building custom devices in an automated assembly process. The device under assembly carries a passive rf tag, and when it comes to a station, a reader gets the ID, looks it up in a database, and runs a robotic program, tells the worker what to do, etc. The goal of this technology is to get the tags cheap enough so the tag is on the device, not the pallet that carries it. Information about the custom device stays with the device, for the purpose of multiple assembly plants, quality tracking, and service. Chances the engine in your car already has a similar passive tag built in.
Is that an invasion of your privacy?
These devices need to have a very limited range in order to perform thier task in an assembly environment.
The article starts out talking about tracking theft of root beer bottles. Reading past the 1st paragraph reveals that the range of Motorola's tag is limited to slightly more than a centimeter. A&W will need to invest in a lot of rf receivers to find out who has its root beer. To say that we will be tracked using this tech is the equivalent to saying that we are already being tracked by spy satellites that read bar codes. (scans the sky for black helicopters)
I cannot morph, yet I am suitable to many varied tasks. An application to this type of technology may be to produce a robot that can repair itself when it is damaged, but comments from the article make me doubt they are on the right track:
She suspects that a process of top-down planning that "cascades" the process of form-changing will be needed to make the system change shape quickly.
They will not be able to make a robust system by trying to control these "building blocks" from the top down. The cells in our body are not being told by a controller that they are an arm, or a kidney, the information is stored in the DNA. Yet our bodies do have arms and kidneys.
Interesting research into complex systems has shown that robust systems are not controlled top-down, but are the emergent properties of lost of small agents that are reacting with each other based on a simple set of rules.
This type of research is the holy grail for scientists in this field, but we are still stumbling on much simpler problems right now.
Moto Mannequin
"With all appliances, and means to boot!" - William Shakespeare
As long as the U.S. Constitution allows a candidate into office with less than 50% of the vote, a vote outside the 2 party system will likely allow the least desirable (to the majority) candidate to win.
Consider:
1988: Bush v. Dukakis. Bush gets (approx.) 55%, Dukakis 45%. Bush wins.
1992: Bush v. Clinton v. Perot. Bush 37%, Clinton 43%, Perot 20%.
Now a question: Who is Dukakis? The guy that got more votes than Clinton. There is no way of telling who would have won the 1992 election without Perot in the race, but there is a problem that the guy in office got there with a minority vote. (actually a plurality.)
In Russia's fledgling democracy, and in most city's mayoral races, if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the top 2 must run off against each other. Apply these rules in 1992: Bush and Clinton run off against each other. It turns out that (hypothetically) Perot took more votes from Bush than from Clinton (I am not advocating Bush, it just looks likely from the numbers.) Same candidates, same voters, different result? Maybe voters, not being afraid that the right-wing vote will be split, allowing a left-wing candidate to win, turn out and give Perot a larger vote than Bush or Clinton.
This example is entirely speculative, but it points out the problem with our election system, and why there are only 2 major political parties. Require a candidate to have greater than 50% of the vote, and people could vote their choice without worrying about the worse of 2 evils getting into office. Unfortunately, this requires an ammendment to the Constitution.
MotoMannequin
"With all appliances, and means to boot!" - William Shakespeare
It is true that some of the complaints on the 13 ways list may be the author's pet peeves, but working with VB can get one peeved.
The reason one doesn't want to refer to functions the same as arrays is that if you are maintaining a large code base that someone else wrote, why do extra cross referencing to determine if that thing's a variable or a function? The concepts are not vaguely related, so why the same syntax?
An #1 deserves to be there:
Result = Funcname(parm1,parm2) 'passes parameters by value
Funcname(parm1,parm2) 'passes parameters by reference
Call Funcname(parm1,parm2) 'passes parameters by value!
And I think you misunderstood the author's complaint about the missing End If. The problem is that the compiler was unable to catch this error.
If these issues don't mean much to you, this the very reason why developers hate VB so much. It tries to hide details about programming, so you end up with an army of programmers who are ignorant about these important details.
As for me, I have language preferences, but for work I have used as many as 5 languages in 1 day. My experience starts with MSDOS Basic on a TRS-80, then Pascal and assembly on an Apple ][. From there I have done large projects with C, C++, Java, Motorola Assembly, PIC Basic, PIC Assembly, Delphi, and Lisp. I think that amount of experience allows me to have some objectivity regarding a language's shortcomings. When someone says they like [language of choice] and not VB, realize that the reason VB is not the language of choice is not always someone parrotting what they heard on/.
MotoMannequin
"With all appliances and means to boot." - William Shakespeare
People who think that other people whine about Microsoft because it is trendy, probably have never spent much time working with those products, or they have only worked with those products and don't realize what else is out there.
I have the displeasure of working with VB and VC++, after coming from a Delphi shop. The more I work with these tools, the more I think, "You've got to be kidding."
Check out 13 ways to loathe VB to satisfy your curiosity, or pick up a copy of VB and hack away!
Now Society has about 400 years of data in it, and if we patch the goddamn thing again, we'll have to start over. We can't patch sex.c with the system up...
Nonsense, we just need to find objects that are willing to override the insertion operator!:)~
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It is obvious (to us) that most servers running Linux are not "shipped" with it installed.
The real danger here is that some corporate manager will see this headline snippet, and react with something like:
"I knew this was a passing fad. Those geeks in tech don't know what they're talking about," etc.
Despite the misleading nature of these numbers, too many statistics like this will eventually add up to too many setbacks, and less acceptance. It's amazing the amount of people out there that have not idea when it comes to computers, but they want to believe that they do.
MotoMannequin
can drown in a river that averages 12 inches deep.
A look at RIAA sales statistics 1991-1999 reveals that CD sales do not always increase. The data shows growth in the early '90s, but nearly flat sales in the mid '90s, actually decreasing from 96-97.
As a music fan, I attirbute this (pre-Napster craze) trend to the explosion of new, unique bands in the early '90s, followed by a bunch of bland, industry-generated, me-too bands that lacked any originality or edge.
With Napster, record company executives now have a scapegoat for thier ineptness. They want to paint the picture of always increasing sales and profits, else someone surely is tampering illegally with thier industry.
Now consider that retail sales are down in many industries this year, and it looks like the record industry is trying to get a good PR spin on the combination of incompetence and a down market.
MotoMannequin
These are passive devices that require an excitation signal from a reader or scanner in order to send the ID. This technology has been in use for years for the purpose of building custom devices in an automated assembly process. The device under assembly carries a passive rf tag, and when it comes to a station, a reader gets the ID, looks it up in a database, and runs a robotic program, tells the worker what to do, etc. The goal of this technology is to get the tags cheap enough so the tag is on the device, not the pallet that carries it. Information about the custom device stays with the device, for the purpose of multiple assembly plants, quality tracking, and service. Chances the engine in your car already has a similar passive tag built in.
Is that an invasion of your privacy? These devices need to have a very limited range in order to perform thier task in an assembly environment.
The article starts out talking about tracking theft of root beer bottles. Reading past the 1st paragraph reveals that the range of Motorola's tag is limited to slightly more than a centimeter. A&W will need to invest in a lot of rf receivers to find out who has its root beer. To say that we will be tracked using this tech is the equivalent to saying that we are already being tracked by spy satellites that read bar codes. (scans the sky for black helicopters)
WHBT, WHL, HAND
MotoMannequin
She suspects that a process of top-down planning that "cascades" the process of form-changing will be needed to make the system change shape quickly.
They will not be able to make a robust system by trying to control these "building blocks" from the top down. The cells in our body are not being told by a controller that they are an arm, or a kidney, the information is stored in the DNA. Yet our bodies do have arms and kidneys.
Interesting research into complex systems has shown that robust systems are not controlled top-down, but are the emergent properties of lost of small agents that are reacting with each other based on a simple set of rules.
This type of research is the holy grail for scientists in this field, but we are still stumbling on much simpler problems right now.
Moto Mannequin
"With all appliances, and means to boot!" - William Shakespeare
MotoMannequin
"With all appliances, and means to boot!" - William Shakespeare
Consider:
1988: Bush v. Dukakis. Bush gets (approx.) 55%, Dukakis 45%. Bush wins.
1992: Bush v. Clinton v. Perot. Bush 37%, Clinton 43%, Perot 20%.
Now a question: Who is Dukakis? The guy that got more votes than Clinton. There is no way of telling who would have won the 1992 election without Perot in the race, but there is a problem that the guy in office got there with a minority vote. (actually a plurality.)
In Russia's fledgling democracy, and in most city's mayoral races, if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the top 2 must run off against each other. Apply these rules in 1992: Bush and Clinton run off against each other. It turns out that (hypothetically) Perot took more votes from Bush than from Clinton (I am not advocating Bush, it just looks likely from the numbers.) Same candidates, same voters, different result? Maybe voters, not being afraid that the right-wing vote will be split, allowing a left-wing candidate to win, turn out and give Perot a larger vote than Bush or Clinton.
This example is entirely speculative, but it points out the problem with our election system, and why there are only 2 major political parties. Require a candidate to have greater than 50% of the vote, and people could vote their choice without worrying about the worse of 2 evils getting into office. Unfortunately, this requires an ammendment to the Constitution.
MotoMannequin
"With all appliances, and means to boot!" - William Shakespeare
"Hey, what's this? I think I've found the lost Windows DNA..."
MotoMannequin
"With all appliances and means to boot." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV
God doesn't care about a relationship with you. The only thing god cares about is having a multiplatform B2B 3D collaboration system.
The reason one doesn't want to refer to functions the same as arrays is that if you are maintaining a large code base that someone else wrote, why do extra cross referencing to determine if that thing's a variable or a function? The concepts are not vaguely related, so why the same syntax?
An #1 deserves to be there:
Result = Funcname(parm1,parm2) 'passes parameters by value
Funcname(parm1,parm2) 'passes parameters by reference
Call Funcname(parm1,parm2) 'passes parameters by value!
And I think you misunderstood the author's complaint about the missing End If. The problem is that the compiler was unable to catch this error.
If these issues don't mean much to you, this the very reason why developers hate VB so much. It tries to hide details about programming, so you end up with an army of programmers who are ignorant about these important details.
As for me, I have language preferences, but for work I have used as many as 5 languages in 1 day. My experience starts with MSDOS Basic on a TRS-80, then Pascal and assembly on an Apple ][. From there I have done large projects with C, C++, Java, Motorola Assembly, PIC Basic, PIC Assembly, Delphi, and Lisp. I think that amount of experience allows me to have some objectivity regarding a language's shortcomings. When someone says they like [language of choice] and not VB, realize that the reason VB is not the language of choice is not always someone parrotting what they heard on /.
MotoMannequin
"With all appliances and means to boot." - William Shakespeare
I have the displeasure of working with VB and VC++, after coming from a Delphi shop. The more I work with these tools, the more I think, "You've got to be kidding."
Check out 13 ways to loathe VB to satisfy your curiosity, or pick up a copy of VB and hack away!
I know a statistician that drown in a river that averages 2' deep.
Nonsense, we just need to find objects that are willing to override the insertion operator! :)~
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Would Picasso every try to fit one of his paintings on more than one canvas?