If it could have gone away due to a change in client, why not change to a simple client without using HTTP - instead using any TCP/IP based messaging system.
I don't believe that the Russians did get a Mars lander before Viking.
I think that they did get several to Venus though although the extreme conditions of Venus meant that relatively little data was returned. Unfortunately the best Russian lander managed to survive for just a couple of hours, and I belive that a freak accident prevented its main experiment from working. It was intended to sample the soil and analyse its makeup, sadly the heat shield appears to have fallen off under the scope and prevented it from getting a sample.
Very hard on all the brilliant engineers who invested so much time.
And no semantics anywhere (outside of humans) either, just sets of relationships attached to symbols stored in computers. I think it's important to say, the semantics in OWL (for example FOL is the same) come from an agreement between and within communities in humans which are framed in natural language (not maths, the meaning of the maths is what we are agreeing) and are therefore subject to debate.
As an example some people don't accept constructed proofs as valid. This makes a lot of physics and maths inaccessible or unproven in thier view, but it is a reasonable enough stance, although not necessarily the most useful. The point is that this is about stances and not immutable truth.
I totally agree with this article. The issue is not only that we don't focus enough on the rest of the cycle, but also that we have no understanding of it.
The best work in the field is the so called "FEAST hypothesis" http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/feast/. What they say is that systems evolve along an inverse square rule. But there are catches. The big issue in systems is not growing size, but growing complexity. Simple code is easy to maintain, complex code is a nightmare. The biggest catch though is in the data. I have later data for one of the systems studied by the FEAST project. It grew from 3.1 mloc to 3.9 mloc in the projects study period, along an inverse square form. If the system had continued to grow at that trend it would be 4.5 (ish) mloc today.
In fact it's 13mloc and it's become the nexus of an ecosystem of 400 systems connected to it via XML middle ware.
The problem with your idea is that there are large numbers of kids who need teachers and very few people who will follow the pattern you prescribe.
The laws of supply and demand dictate a simple solution to this problem : pay teachers more. Or at least they would if we didn't discount other peoples childrens future to have zero value under our current set up.
It always astonishes me how anti-innovation Slashdot is! Vista is a really, really significant new OS targeted at the machines of the 2000's rather than the machines of the 1970's. It's memory management features are aimed at multi-processor, multi-core architectures, it's video management takes GPU's into account, it's heap management is aimed at keeping framementation to a minimum (which isn't a problem unless you have a multi-GB machine... oh...)
The feature list goes on and on, and most interestingly the key feature from MS's perspective is the architecture that allows rapid redevelopment of the OS.. enabling them to innovate much faster than before. I want Vista, because I suspect that I will be working on Vista or a variant for a long, long time.
All I read here is "it's just Win XP" well - it's a lot more, and you'd best get used to it because there are going to be very few alternatives for some time to come.
Here is the story: Bill decided some to give away his wealth. His first idea was to bring computers to the third world. He ponied up some gigadollars and various flunkies got busy buying the kit for various god forsaken villages.
Mr. Gates feels good.
A flunky suggests (probably hopeing to gain flunky points) that Mr. Gates should go on a visit to one of the god forsaken villages and see the poor folkes learning from the computer machine.
Of Bill goes. Happy children play with microsoft products, the ultra modern computer whizzes and whirs. Mr. Gates is cheered by the crowd. He looks at the wall.
There is a plug, which the computer is using, and a fridge, which is not plugged in. Bill asks "what is wrong with the fridge?" Probably he was planning on kicking a flunky into buying a new fridge stocked with king size buds... Everyone looks shifty though.
Bill does not like this. He asks again. A small voice says "nothing", so Bill askes "why is it unplugged?"
"Well," the small voice says, "well, you see the power system will only let us have 10 amps at a time out of this socket, any more load and everything blows up." Bill starts a thinkin'.
"So, what is the fridge for?" The great man asks. A small voice replies:
"Thats what we use to store the district vaccine supply in."
"So where are they now?"
"In the fridge"
"Won't they go bad"
"Not if the power is turned back on in the next 10 minutes."
Lo. The village received a new, and good power supply, and fridge.
And lo. Did the focus of the Gates foundation change?
You betcha.
I've always wondered, though, what happened to the flunkies.
WOW and other MMORPG's are user designed experiences that have evolved to appeal to a large group of people.
Think about it :
Mods : player contributed Teamspeak : player contributed Guild chat : player contributed Parties : player contributed Guild websites : player contributed Forums : player contributed
These are the things that I have come to most focus on in the over all experience in WOW, I think many, many players are exactly the same.
1. There aren't many nice people around. 2. We all have a nagging feeling that there is someone, or several someones missing from our lives - a girlfriend? A wife? A supportive friend? 3. All the people in the churches are evil.
Here's the deal. Decisions on bandwidth, server purchases, upgrades and so on are made on the basis of projections about revenue. WOW has busted all those predictions, and so it's relatively underfunded as a result.
Why? Because WOW has tapped into a market that MMORPG's of the past has not hit, and that market has told all it's friends what a cool game this is, and they told all there friends... Basically this is a network effect gone mad.
Eventually the network will run out and the growth will stabalise, then we will see how stable the new crowd is, and how streched Blizzards revenue reserves get if, for example 2/3rd of the WOW pop cancel their accounts between now and Xmas...
I think you may have not thought this one through.
A WOW session contains several events per second, probably more, perhaps more than 20, two ways. These have to be provided within tight QoS parameters, or the whole play experience is damaged - the users then complain and bitch and moan. Contrast this to a web site experience... you click and wait, nothing happens. You stop it, click again, the page comes, no problem - this it a key difference; the QoS required is almost 0 compared to WOW.
Ok - then moving from there -- the investment that Blizzard made was in upfront product development &&&&& an infrastructure build out with no promise of a hit, or a miss. They've then got a cost base to maintain on their revenues. Are they making money? Sure, lots, but is there stock higher than googles??? I don't think sooooo..
Nahh, it's not quite so simple.
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The funniest thing I heard for a while was the discussion about the "British Day" that Gordon Brown mooted recently. My friend proposed that we should celebrate it on the 4th July... Why? Well, that's the day that the US celebrates independence and complete separation from the British state and nation, and so should we, so should we...
I'm sorry, but I think you might be disappointed when you discover the quantities that are being produced and stored. I fear that current technology is actually rather less productive than "one atom at a time".
Could take a while to make even an anti-matter powered scooter..
I work as a research scientist. I get ideas all the time, every day. Other people I work with mention mind blowing ideas, every day. We all have ideas, ideas are a good thing, but ideas are cheap.
Six months later, one year later, three years later and I read about "my idea" being done by someone.
I used to think I was deluding myself, but I'm forced to keep log books at work, and (cunning as a fox I decided to check a couple of episodes out and) lo and behold; I am not deluding myself.
Here's the kick. Every time I have an episode like this I think "if you were worth the money you are paid, you would have *actually got of your fat pampered arse* and done it."
The prizes and the plaudits go to the do'ers. Doing is hard. Doing is good. Protect your doers. Point at them and tell the ideas men "look : gooooood".
Mind you... easy to say....
The other thing is that I have seen a few true visionaries who have plugged away for years, garnering contempt and approbrium from all (sadly me too) before being proved fundamentally correct and suddenly becoming flavour of the month. The trick is to grow a culture of "do, make, prove, give" and yet make sure that you have a bit of a space for people to go deep and dig out the real gold.
I think you've confused interactive site development with good site design. It's pretty easy to write a bad GUI for a stand alone app (desktop) in Java or C++, just as it's pretty easy to write a bad page design for a page centric app on the web. The point is that AJAX lets you write non-page centric apps on the web, and this tool supports that.
Actually, I take it as a good sign that they are focusing on their tech and not their site.
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Pardon me if I'm wrong, but there are some costs of fiber that should be considered.
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You have to dig holes to put it in.
You have to have people look after the bits around it.
You have to have electronics and opto-electronics associated with it to use it.
You have to pump signals down it (which means power).
I wonder, have other people thought if the pipes are going to be a bigger obstacle to distributed computing than the processors. I know that Jim Grey seems to have thought this way in the past. http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/papers/Petasc
He seems to be a smart fellow, perhaps he has a point?
This is rubbish.
If it could have gone away due to a change in client, why not change to a simple client without using HTTP - instead using any TCP/IP based messaging system.
Just doesn't ring true or mean a damn thing.
I don't believe that the Russians did get a Mars lander before Viking.
I think that they did get several to Venus though although the extreme conditions of Venus meant that relatively little data was returned. Unfortunately the best Russian lander managed to survive for just a couple of hours, and I belive that a freak accident prevented its main experiment from working. It was intended to sample the soil and analyse its makeup, sadly the heat shield appears to have fallen off under the scope and prevented it from getting a sample.
Very hard on all the brilliant engineers who invested so much time.
And no semantics anywhere (outside of humans) either, just sets of relationships attached to symbols stored in computers. I think it's important to say, the semantics in OWL (for example FOL is the same) come from an agreement between and within communities in humans which are framed in natural language (not maths, the meaning of the maths is what we are agreeing) and are therefore subject to debate.
As an example some people don't accept constructed proofs as valid. This makes a lot of physics and maths inaccessible or unproven in thier view, but it is a reasonable enough stance, although not necessarily the most useful. The point is that this is about stances and not immutable truth.
I'm curios; does anyone have any reason (as opposed to sales pitch) that should make one believe that SOA will make systems more maintainable?
What are the abstractions that people think underpin SOA?
I totally agree with this article. The issue is not only that we don't focus enough on the rest of the cycle, but also that we have no understanding of it.
The best work in the field is the so called "FEAST hypothesis" http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/feast/. What they say is that systems evolve along an inverse square rule. But there are catches. The big issue in systems is not growing size, but growing complexity. Simple code is easy to maintain, complex code is a nightmare. The biggest catch though is in the data. I have later data for one of the systems studied by the FEAST project. It grew from 3.1 mloc to 3.9 mloc in the projects study period, along an inverse square form. If the system had continued to grow at that trend it would be 4.5 (ish) mloc today.
In fact it's 13mloc and it's become the nexus of an ecosystem of 400 systems connected to it via XML middle ware.
We know squat.
The problem with your idea is that there are large numbers of kids who need teachers and very few people who will follow the pattern you prescribe.
The laws of supply and demand dictate a simple solution to this problem : pay teachers more. Or at least they would if we didn't discount other peoples childrens future to have zero value under our current set up.
Not really, but the potential to get those capabilities can be wasted.
I've known a lot of good guys who simply refuse to believe what you just said, and plough the same frustrated furrow for year after year as a result.
Also, everyone needs a good mentor to blossom.
It always astonishes me how anti-innovation Slashdot is! Vista is a really, really significant new OS targeted at the machines of the 2000's rather than the machines of the 1970's. It's memory management features are aimed at multi-processor, multi-core architectures, it's video management takes GPU's into account, it's heap management is aimed at keeping framementation to a minimum (which isn't a problem unless you have a multi-GB machine... oh...)
The feature list goes on and on, and most interestingly the key feature from MS's perspective is the architecture that allows rapid redevelopment of the OS.. enabling them to innovate much faster than before. I want Vista, because I suspect that I will be working on Vista or a variant for a long, long time.
All I read here is "it's just Win XP" well - it's a lot more, and you'd best get used to it because there are going to be very few alternatives for some time to come.
Well, here's all you need to know: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1488 20
This is the Windows Kernel team telling us what they've been up to (in terms).
Well, there is a story about Bill Gates and giving that I think may clarify his motivations here. The facts can be found at http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story /0,6903,393015,00.html
Here is the story:
Bill decided some to give away his wealth. His first idea was to bring computers to the third world. He ponied up some gigadollars and various flunkies got busy buying the kit for various god forsaken villages.
Mr. Gates feels good.
A flunky suggests (probably hopeing to gain flunky points) that Mr. Gates should go on a visit to one of the god forsaken villages and see the poor folkes learning from the computer machine.
Of Bill goes. Happy children play with microsoft products, the ultra modern computer whizzes and whirs. Mr. Gates is cheered by the crowd. He looks at the wall.
There is a plug, which the computer is using, and a fridge, which is not plugged in. Bill asks "what is wrong with the fridge?" Probably he was planning on kicking a flunky into buying a new fridge stocked with king size buds... Everyone looks shifty though.
Bill does not like this. He asks again. A small voice says "nothing", so Bill askes "why is it unplugged?"
"Well," the small voice says, "well, you see the power system will only let us have 10 amps at a time out of this socket, any more load and everything blows up." Bill starts a thinkin'.
"So, what is the fridge for?" The great man asks. A small voice replies:
"Thats what we use to store the district vaccine supply in."
"So where are they now?"
"In the fridge"
"Won't they go bad"
"Not if the power is turned back on in the next 10 minutes."
Lo. The village received a new, and good power supply, and fridge.
And lo. Did the focus of the Gates foundation change?
You betcha.
I've always wondered, though, what happened to the flunkies.
Nope.
WOW and other MMORPG's are user designed experiences that have evolved to appeal to a large group of people.
Think about it :
Mods : player contributed
Teamspeak : player contributed
Guild chat : player contributed
Parties : player contributed
Guild websites : player contributed
Forums : player contributed
These are the things that I have come to most focus on in the over all experience in WOW, I think many, many players are exactly the same.
Coz we are living after the rapture.
Think about it.
1. There aren't many nice people around.
2. We all have a nagging feeling that there is someone, or several someones missing from our lives - a girlfriend? A wife? A supportive friend?
3. All the people in the churches are evil.
I.
Rest.
My.
Case!
I think that the problem is in the stats!
Here's the deal. Decisions on bandwidth, server purchases, upgrades and so on are made on the basis of projections about revenue. WOW has busted all those predictions, and so it's relatively underfunded as a result.
Why? Because WOW has tapped into a market that MMORPG's of the past has not hit, and that market has told all it's friends what a cool game this is, and they told all there friends... Basically this is a network effect gone mad.
Eventually the network will run out and the growth will stabalise, then we will see how stable the new crowd is, and how streched Blizzards revenue reserves get if, for example 2/3rd of the WOW pop cancel their accounts between now and Xmas...
Not true.
This is part of the evil doctorine that the children of the future have precisely zero value and zero say.
Have children.
Fight for their future.
I think you may have not thought this one through.
A WOW session contains several events per second, probably more, perhaps more than 20, two ways. These have to be provided within tight QoS parameters, or the whole play experience is damaged - the users then complain and bitch and moan. Contrast this to a web site experience... you click and wait, nothing happens. You stop it, click again, the page comes, no problem - this it a key difference; the QoS required is almost 0 compared to WOW.
Ok - then moving from there -- the investment that Blizzard made was in upfront product development &&&&& an infrastructure build out with no promise of a hit, or a miss. They've then got a cost base to maintain on their revenues. Are they making money? Sure, lots, but is there stock higher than googles??? I don't think sooooo..
Nahh, it's not quite so simple.
The funniest thing I heard for a while was the discussion about the "British Day" that Gordon Brown mooted recently. My friend proposed that we should celebrate it on the 4th July... Why? Well, that's the day that the US celebrates independence and complete separation from the British state and nation, and so should we, so should we...
Never is a long time.
And who said anything about reproducing the human mind?
I'm sorry, but I think you might be disappointed when you discover the quantities that are being produced and stored. I fear that current technology is actually rather less productive than "one atom at a time".
Could take a while to make even an anti-matter powered scooter..
On the other hand, we could use COBOL, as that has really good facilities for putting data inline with imperative code.
ohh...
wait...
(reads 30 years of literature on databases, furrows brow)
I think I've seen a problem with that!
(looks up brightly)
You're not wrong.
I work as a research scientist. I get ideas all the time, every day. Other people I work with mention mind blowing ideas, every day. We all have ideas, ideas are a good thing, but ideas are cheap.
Six months later, one year later, three years later and I read about "my idea" being done by someone.
I used to think I was deluding myself, but I'm forced to keep log books at work, and (cunning as a fox I decided to check a couple of episodes out and) lo and behold; I am not deluding myself.
Here's the kick. Every time I have an episode like this I think "if you were worth the money you are paid, you would have *actually got of your fat pampered arse* and done it."
The prizes and the plaudits go to the do'ers. Doing is hard. Doing is good. Protect your doers. Point at them and tell the ideas men "look : gooooood".
Mind you... easy to say....
The other thing is that I have seen a few true visionaries who have plugged away for years, garnering contempt and approbrium from all (sadly me too) before being proved fundamentally correct and suddenly becoming flavour of the month. The trick is to grow a culture of "do, make, prove, give" and yet make sure that you have a bit of a space for people to go deep and dig out the real gold.
I think you've confused interactive site development with good site design. It's pretty easy to write a bad GUI for a stand alone app (desktop) in Java or C++, just as it's pretty easy to write a bad page design for a page centric app on the web. The point is that AJAX lets you write non-page centric apps on the web, and this tool supports that.
Actually, I take it as a good sign that they are focusing on their tech and not their site.
Or on the other hand they get the insurance money and build a 2006 state of the art facility to jumpstart the next phase of their research.
In the meantime the question is; what will the researchers do for facilities? It's the Ph.D's I feel for most.
Mitochrondria are passed from the female line only. So what is indicated is that no female neanderthals bore children from sapien males.
It is still possible that female sapiens bore children to male neanderthals.
Yeah - this really worked for North American Buffalo