You are kidding, right? That POS has to be the most under-whelming 'announcement' I've seen in a long time. The thing is virtually useless, even as a new technology demonstration.
Not puzzling at all. Norse and other N. European mythologies were quite informative to Professor Tolkien. His runic alphabets are especially informed by Norse writings from Iceland. His love of language and the oral history of people comes through ALL of his work.
Are you kidding. I bet the administration at MIT really Love this stuff, in a Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge sort of way. As long as no one gets killed, and the hackers don't burn the place down....
You are correct. THe Shuttle has proven to be quite a mistake. What should have happened is the continued use of heavy lift boosters to get the un-manned payloads up, and development of plane-launched manned vehicles for the crews. Much lighter in weight, smaller, many more could fly. Use the un-manned heavy lifters like the Saturn V to get the stuff up there. In road construction, you don't drive the workers to the job site in the same trucks you deliver the gravel and asphalt in.
Nano tubes will change the world far more than any other creation of man.
They are little more than lab curiosities, with no practical applications. The late 1980's gave us Cold Fusion, and the late 1990's gave us Bucky Balls and Nano-tubes. What will change the world, (and NOT for the better is the continual meddling in cloning and human genetics. The moral, ethical, legal, environmental, and biological problems are not being addressed by those who are doing the research. We are behaving like children with shiny, dangerous toys. One thing many Science Fiction writers have done over the years is examine these things, as they relate to technology.
Many State, City, and local school districts are implementing various online initiatives. There are also some efforts at the Federal level. What we do not have is a sweeping, coordinated program, across all levels of government. This is a Good Thing. It lets smaller, less costly, programs sort out the successful approaches from the unsuccessful ones. The cities and states are prototyping, sharing ideas, learning from each others mistakes.
Gee, this sounds like Open Source Software development process.
If you are using ANY modern compiler, targetted for a modern CPU, your code is getting re-written without you knowing about it. It's getting re-arranged for pipeline efficiency, loops are getting unrolled, common sub-expressions are getting stripped. The notion held by some C programmers that they are smarter than the compiler is quite silly.
I am not sure of the usefulness of this particular language/compiler/etc, but I like the direction they are going. DWIM(Do What I Mean) programming is becoming more and more possible, with this kind of language research. We want programmers to solve problems in the macro world, not be bothered with the minutia of the language they are using. This has been one of the appeals of perl over the years.
in one of the trade rags this past week. (Sorry, no link. I can't remeber which one.) This is a perfect example of bad planning, and vendors getting in over their heads.
There are situations when the technology specified and delivered is just not the right solution. But this inevitably stems from poor analysis up front, or an inside deal between the purchaser and the vendor. Sweetheart Deals are the kind of thing to look out for when dealing with MS. Back in the 1970's, it was said, 'No on ever got fired for buying IBM.' It was true then, and in the 1990's that was true of Microsoft. That kind of thinking is still around, bu MS is beginning to feel the crunch. They are getting pushed back in the datacenter, and are not making the kind of ground they'd like in the web arena.
... strictly because of the technology chosen. Most of the time it crappy planning, poor scheduling, lousy project managers, bad programmers, analysts, etc. In otherwords, give a bad carpenter the finest tools, and he'll still produce crappy furniture.
Large projects require extensive planning before pulling the trigger. They also require nearly perfect execution.
I have no inside information about Ameritrade, but in my career, I have been on many projects, including some disaster. I have been one to come in after the failure, and clean it up. I have also been responsible for causing failures. You learn from it, and move on.
... for a small startup software company. I was hired as a programmer, and my first day, the boss sat me down in front of a Compaq Deskpro,(386 16mhz, 4mbytes RAM, 40meg hard drive, and a 40meg tape. It cost him almost US$10,000 at the time), and handed me a stack of SCO XENIX 51/4 install floppies. He told me to keep installing and configuring until I understood what I was doing.
I've been both an admin and a developer ever since. I have worked with better programmers, and better admins. I find that I can bring a unique perspectives to both realms. I can bring an Admin's sense of process and procedure and documentation and paranoia to the development process, and I'm good at programming solutions, not just hacking scripts, for administration problems.
Unless you like wearing a pager 24/7, being a sysadmin might not be right for you.
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You are kidding, right? That POS has to be the most under-whelming 'announcement' I've seen in a long time. The thing is virtually useless, even as a new technology demonstration.
I LIKE this kind of thinking. Bravo!
Lighten Up! Geez, who pissed on your wheaties?
It's easy to get them confused. They both like women.
And a lot of those post on /.
;-)
Nope. You get a custom Segway, with lowrider actuators.
What geek sleeps as much as 8 hours per 24?
Not puzzling at all. Norse and other N. European mythologies were quite informative to Professor Tolkien. His runic alphabets are especially informed by Norse writings from Iceland. His love of language and the oral history of people comes through ALL of his work.
Are you kidding. I bet the administration at MIT really Love this stuff, in a Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge sort of way. As long as no one gets killed, and the hackers don't burn the place down....
My.
God.
would it take to reduce the MS campus to a system of caves?
You are correct. THe Shuttle has proven to be quite a mistake. What should have happened is the continued use of heavy lift boosters to get the un-manned payloads up, and development of plane-launched manned vehicles for the crews. Much lighter in weight, smaller, many more could fly. Use the un-manned heavy lifters like the Saturn V to get the stuff up there. In road construction, you don't drive the workers to the job site in the same trucks you deliver the gravel and asphalt in.
That is no solution. Port 81 is usually blocked by firewalls.
Intel, who created it, are going with IEEE 1439 instead. (Firewire) No one else is really interested in it either.
They are little more than lab curiosities, with no practical applications. The late 1980's gave us Cold Fusion, and the late 1990's gave us Bucky Balls and Nano-tubes. What will change the world, (and NOT for the better is the continual meddling in cloning and human genetics. The moral, ethical, legal, environmental, and biological problems are not being addressed by those who are doing the research. We are behaving like children with shiny, dangerous toys. One thing many Science Fiction writers have done over the years is examine these things, as they relate to technology.
I remain unconvinced of the need for Linux to 'succeed' on the desktop.
Gee, this sounds like Open Source Software development process.
I am not sure of the usefulness of this particular language/compiler/etc, but I like the direction they are going. DWIM(Do What I Mean) programming is becoming more and more possible, with this kind of language research. We want programmers to solve problems in the macro world, not be bothered with the minutia of the language they are using. This has been one of the appeals of perl over the years.
There are situations when the technology specified and delivered is just not the right solution. But this inevitably stems from poor analysis up front, or an inside deal between the purchaser and the vendor. Sweetheart Deals are the kind of thing to look out for when dealing with MS. Back in the 1970's, it was said, 'No on ever got fired for buying IBM.' It was true then, and in the 1990's that was true of Microsoft. That kind of thinking is still around, bu MS is beginning to feel the crunch. They are getting pushed back in the datacenter, and are not making the kind of ground they'd like in the web arena.
Large projects require extensive planning before pulling the trigger. They also require nearly perfect execution.
I have no inside information about Ameritrade, but in my career, I have been on many projects, including some disaster. I have been one to come in after the failure, and clean it up. I have also been responsible for causing failures. You learn from it, and move on.
I've been both an admin and a developer ever since. I have worked with better programmers, and better admins. I find that I can bring a unique perspectives to both realms. I can bring an Admin's sense of process and procedure and documentation and paranoia to the development process, and I'm good at programming solutions, not just hacking scripts, for administration problems.
Unless you like wearing a pager 24/7, being a sysadmin might not be right for you.
Right. Like Slash has ever cared about correctly formed HTML.
Ahnk, or Moorpork?
Yes, it can.
Indeed.