It's a long way to tie a small corner of computer science to curing urban sprawl. Not only are there many other areas of computer science often working in opposition to the objective but there are other things besides computer science promoting deurbanization. Terrorist attacks have deurbanized areas far better than wireless LAN. The cost of houses in Contra Costa County doubled since September while the cost of houses in San Jose fell through the floor.
Like no-one used Divx, AVI, SMB, DHCP, active server pages, common object model, or the X box. They don't even have to ship stuff to sell people on it anymore. It's wonderful.
Yet Another Unemployed Programmer (TM)?
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Tridge Speaks Out
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· Score: 4, Interesting
As far as I know VA I.O.U. eliminated all their programmers, including the Australian group. Conspicuously absent from the interview is #1 whether he's employed and whether open source projects contributed anything positive to his employment prospects and #2 how he's handled liability for the use of Samba.
At least according to the interest in handhelds calenders have much greater value than windowmanagers. Sort of funny how Raster called the VA I.O.U. layoffs "redundancies" the same term most women in the world described themselves with after Sep 11.
"this doesn't mean that Excite@Home has dropped off the face of the earth"
In other words the reason we're appending this disclaimer to the end of 80% of our articles is so you don't dump your $1.05 VALinux stock when the bankruptcy article is about VALinux.
I'd expect not just the bankruptcy articles but all the conspiracy announcements about colleges taking over the world by suppressing individual freedom and 1000s of new handhelds for displaying calendars to soon end with "Bankruptcy doesn't mean closing of business".
In fact instead of appending the disclaimer to every article why not just put it in fine print on the bottom of valinux.com and get it overwith.
The Pioneer DVD-ROM drives can usually handle more CD's than others. The Ricos are really bad. Creative Labs have trouble ejecting. Just because a particular CD-ROM drive stops working doesn't mean big business is taking away individual freedom by copy protecting CD's.
It's not worth making anything into a desktop operating system these days. How many stories about desktop computers appeared on the internet this year? None. How many stories about PDA's and dedicated applicances? About 1,000,000,000.
I've often
complained about how Linux has become harder and harder to use with the
extra security in every revision. It's no doubt going to get harder in
the future as computer scientists fear the software equivalents of
terrorism.
Originally it would automatically repair all filesystems on startup,
simultaneously. Now you have to log in with a password and manually
invoke the filesystem checker for every filesystem.
Originally passwords were stored in one passwd file. Now they're
stored in 3 password files. Originally telnet servers were enabled by
default. Today you need to generate 3 encryption key pairs, remove
several ssh cache files, and enable a sshd by hand before accessing the
system over a network.
Even tab completion now requires you to answer a prompt before getting
a directory listing. All these changes were due to bedroom hacked
network breaches of one type or another in the past. Imagine how tough
it's going to be in the next revision now that the country is on
terrorist alert.
They should be perfectly free to restart Precision Insight today just as if it was still their first day in "business". I do believe however that they would have to target full screen OpenGL with no windowing system to be effective and this isn't the personal motivation of the founders for starting Precision Insight.
The fact that VA I.O.U. laid off the last vestige of their engineers is sad, but you didn't need to be a prophet to know that was going to happen long before fuckedcompany.com reported it 2 weeks ago.
I'm pretty sure if VA I.O.U. focused more on producing productivity software instead of library tweeking, infrastructure tools, and studies in basic computer science, they could have made money. There's only so much you can do with a cluster manager, but there's a lot you can do with a program that runs on the cluster.
Unfortunately VA I.O.U.'s business scope was far to constrained by the personal experience of the board of directors, who were primarily basic computer scientists and not interested in options unrelated to their personal experience.
Where it's really going to hit hard is in the decline of sourceforget.net. They pushed so hard to get everyone off the many free software portals of 1999 that when sourceforget.net eventually founders it's going to wipe out most of what we know as open source projects.
They've already eliminated ftp servers, most shell services, and they're pretty much reading off the handbook of service eliminations that every other open source portal took last year before it shut down.
Usually the code is too difficult for bedroom programmers to make much headway in it. The problem isn't the coding style as much as the problems modern productivity software has to solve in order to be considered much use.
The bedroom hacked software of today would be considered much more substantial if it was 20 years ago and software that reformatted the screen colors was considered killer.
Now in order to be considered substantial, software has to be 100,000 lines and take 9 megs on disk, which is going to require more than a hobbyist attitude toward scheduling and budget than ordinary individuals have any reason to invest.
I don't believe there was ever a time housing prices dropped in the bay area. Even in the recessions of 1992 and 1980 prices continued to rise, though at a slow rate. The key is to lock in a down payment while you're still young, before the inflation curve leaves you behind forever. Most of my college friends either got a house as soon as they graduated or forever paid rent.
There's definitely a difference in the quality of the emails I get from software engineers these days. They're much more technically adept.
Seems as if most of the computer scientists working for.coms neither had the interest nor the ability to solve real computer science problems and have now switched to non-technical, and for them, more interesting careers. Wired ran a story about how many armchair engineers from the 90's went back to school and followed their true passion to become actors, artists, and writers.
You might say the quality of software being written today is slightly up compared to the 90's because the only people programming are the ones who really want to do it.
Housing prices continue to rise because the guys who didn't bother looking 2 years ago have replaced the guys who left. $1.1 million is still bargain basement for a bay area house.
Time to postpone my home entertainment purchases
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XBox II Revealed, Maybe
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· Score: 1, Flamebait
Because, like the XBox, HomeStation is going to be 100 times better than anything else available today. In fact when Microsoft announces a future product any competitor might as well consider it here today.
You can be sure any company in the "home entertainment nexus" business, and there are many, who sees that Microsoft is going to enter it some time in the future is going to get out of the business soon enough. The fact that we've seen nothing but XBox news for most of 2001 even though the XBox was never sold and probably never will be is immaterial. What matters is the perception.
Just as Microsoft might as well have sold millions of XBoxes in 2001. Microsoft might as well have sold millions of HomeStations in 2001 too.
Goes without saying that any voiceovers or "sound and technology" as computer scientist call them, are very expensive. Female voiceovers because of the excruciatingly small number of women in the business of speaking in public, are the most expensive. You always hear stories about how Julia Roberts commanded the highest fee in the history of acting to come out of her 10 year "maternity leave". Well voiceovers are no different. When was the last time you heard a female voiced movie trailer?
After spending $150,000 writing free software, the thought has occurred to me to file chapter 11. Let's face it. Who cares it the software is open source. Just make sure you don't have to pay for it.
> but this will have an impact on the embedded market.
And every industry in the world, unless someone still gets paid to build PC's. Really though, Intel was first in embedded systems so they won that game long before AMD dropped K6. Transmeta of course... what was Transmeta anyway?
It has a FFT reordering problem which makes fire crackles sound like water bubbling. You wouldn't notice it on an ordinary PC speaker system but it makes ac3dec useless for home theater systems. In that sense, Dolby doesn't want to have people distributing faulty decoders.
Well, it won't be as bad is the 80's since women these days are 1/100th as prone to starving themselves to death to look like movie characters as they were in the brah burning/dual breadwinner euphoric 80's. That stuff just doesn't happen anymore.
Then of course, as chip makers swap higher clockspeeds for slower/portable chips, the cost of attaining reasonable rendering speeds on computers is going to skyrocket.
You won't be able to get the fastest chip in the world at dime stores like you could in 2001. The CG industry is small enough that chip makers can't afford to keep pumping clockcycles into chips that 99% of the world uses in nothing but wristwatches and PDA's.
Women stronger than their boyfriends
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Bionic Nurses
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· Score: 2
When I saw this article last week the first thing that came to mind was how much a suit allowing women to be stronger than their boyfriends would change the world. It would change daily life as we know it. Of course few women would tolerate the idea of being stronger than their boyfriends.
Slashdot Mirror
> Experience 100 Mbps wireless networking in your
> conference room, classroom, or office
Why do they show a model lying on a couch with a wireless laptop?
While engineers pummel the hell out of the wireless handheld market trying to save their jobs their marketing has become a bit paranoid.
"Coming early 2002"
> Finally, Handspring has done it before everyone else
Bill Gates has taught you well, slashdot contributor.
It's a long way to tie a small corner of computer science to curing urban sprawl. Not only are there many other areas of computer science often working in opposition to the objective but there are other things besides computer science promoting deurbanization. Terrorist attacks have deurbanized areas far better than wireless LAN. The cost of houses in Contra Costa County doubled since September while the cost of houses in San Jose fell through the floor.
Like no-one used Divx, AVI, SMB, DHCP, active server pages, common object model, or the X box. They don't even have to ship stuff to sell people on it anymore. It's wonderful.
As far as I know VA I.O.U. eliminated all their programmers, including the Australian group. Conspicuously absent from the interview is #1 whether he's employed and whether open source projects contributed anything positive to his employment prospects and #2 how he's handled liability for the use of Samba.
At least according to the interest in handhelds calenders have much greater value than windowmanagers. Sort of funny how Raster called the VA I.O.U. layoffs "redundancies" the same term most women in the world described themselves with after Sep 11.
"this doesn't mean that Excite@Home has dropped off the face of the earth"
In other words the reason we're appending this disclaimer to the end of 80% of our articles is so you don't dump your $1.05 VALinux stock when the bankruptcy article is about VALinux.
I'd expect not just the bankruptcy articles but all the conspiracy announcements about colleges taking over the world by suppressing individual freedom and 1000s of new handhelds for displaying calendars to soon end with "Bankruptcy doesn't mean closing of business".
In fact instead of appending the disclaimer to every article why not just put it in fine print on the bottom of valinux.com and get it overwith.
The Pioneer DVD-ROM drives can usually handle more CD's than others. The Ricos are really bad. Creative Labs have trouble ejecting. Just because a particular CD-ROM drive stops working doesn't mean big business is taking away individual freedom by copy protecting CD's.
It's not worth making anything into a desktop operating system these days. How many stories about desktop computers appeared on the internet this year? None. How many stories about PDA's and dedicated applicances? About 1,000,000,000.
I've often
complained about how Linux has become harder and harder to use with the
extra security in every revision. It's no doubt going to get harder in
the future as computer scientists fear the software equivalents of
terrorism.
Originally it would automatically repair all filesystems on startup,
simultaneously. Now you have to log in with a password and manually
invoke the filesystem checker for every filesystem.
Originally passwords were stored in one passwd file. Now they're
stored in 3 password files. Originally telnet servers were enabled by
default. Today you need to generate 3 encryption key pairs, remove
several ssh cache files, and enable a sshd by hand before accessing the
system over a network.
Even tab completion now requires you to answer a prompt before getting
a directory listing. All these changes were due to bedroom hacked
network breaches of one type or another in the past. Imagine how tough
it's going to be in the next revision now that the country is on
terrorist alert.
They should be perfectly free to restart Precision Insight today just as if it was still their first day in "business". I do believe however that they would have to target full screen OpenGL with no windowing system to be effective and this isn't the personal motivation of the founders for starting Precision Insight.
The fact that VA I.O.U. laid off the last vestige of their engineers is sad, but you didn't need to be a prophet to know that was going to happen long before fuckedcompany.com reported it 2 weeks ago.
I'm pretty sure if VA I.O.U. focused more on producing productivity software instead of library tweeking, infrastructure tools, and studies in basic computer science, they could have made money. There's only so much you can do with a cluster manager, but there's a lot you can do with a program that runs on the cluster.
Unfortunately VA I.O.U.'s business scope was far to constrained by the personal experience of the board of directors, who were primarily basic computer scientists and not interested in options unrelated to their personal experience.
Where it's really going to hit hard is in the decline of sourceforget.net. They pushed so hard to get everyone off the many free software portals of 1999 that when sourceforget.net eventually founders it's going to wipe out most of what we know as open source projects.
They've already eliminated ftp servers, most shell services, and they're pretty much reading off the handbook of service eliminations that every other open source portal took last year before it shut down.
Usually the code is too difficult for bedroom programmers to make much headway in it. The problem isn't the coding style as much as the problems modern productivity software has to solve in order to be considered much use.
The bedroom hacked software of today would be considered much more substantial if it was 20 years ago and software that reformatted the screen colors was considered killer.
Now in order to be considered substantial, software has to be 100,000 lines and take 9 megs on disk, which is going to require more than a hobbyist attitude toward scheduling and budget than ordinary individuals have any reason to invest.
I don't believe there was ever a time housing prices dropped in the bay area. Even in the recessions of 1992 and 1980 prices continued to rise, though at a slow rate. The key is to lock in a down payment while you're still young, before the inflation curve leaves you behind forever. Most of my college friends either got a house as soon as they graduated or forever paid rent.
There's definitely a difference in the quality of the emails I get from software engineers these days. They're much more technically adept.
.coms neither had the interest nor the ability to solve real computer science problems and have now switched to non-technical, and for them, more interesting careers. Wired ran a story about how many armchair engineers from the 90's went back to school and followed their true passion to become actors, artists, and writers.
Seems as if most of the computer scientists working for
You might say the quality of software being written today is slightly up compared to the 90's because the only people programming are the ones who really want to do it.
Housing prices continue to rise because the guys who didn't bother looking 2 years ago have replaced the guys who left. $1.1 million is still bargain basement for a bay area house.
Because, like the XBox, HomeStation is going to be 100 times better than anything else available today. In fact when Microsoft announces a future product any competitor might as well consider it here today.
You can be sure any company in the "home entertainment nexus" business, and there are many, who sees that Microsoft is going to enter it some time in the future is going to get out of the business soon enough. The fact that we've seen nothing but XBox news for most of 2001 even though the XBox was never sold and probably never will be is immaterial. What matters is the perception.
Just as Microsoft might as well have sold millions of XBoxes in 2001. Microsoft might as well have sold millions of HomeStations in 2001 too.
OpenGL will be only for professional use while DirectX becomes the standard for games and computer scientists.
Goes without saying that any voiceovers or "sound and technology" as computer scientist call them, are very expensive. Female voiceovers because of the excruciatingly small number of women in the business of speaking in public, are the most expensive. You always hear stories about how Julia Roberts commanded the highest fee in the history of acting to come out of her 10 year "maternity leave". Well voiceovers are no different. When was the last time you heard a female voiced movie trailer?
After spending $150,000 writing free software, the thought has occurred to me to file chapter 11. Let's face it. Who cares it the software is open source. Just make sure you don't have to pay for it.
> but this will have an impact on the embedded market.
And every industry in the world, unless someone still gets paid to build PC's. Really though, Intel was first in embedded systems so they won that game long before AMD dropped K6. Transmeta of course... what was Transmeta anyway?
When you start working and paying far a car, paying your own rent, paying for health insurance $166 is nothing.
Unless you believe in conspiracy theories of course.
It has a FFT reordering problem which makes fire crackles sound like water bubbling. You wouldn't notice it on an ordinary PC speaker system but it makes ac3dec useless for home theater systems. In that sense, Dolby doesn't want to have people distributing faulty decoders.
Well, it won't be as bad is the 80's since women these days are 1/100th as prone to starving themselves to death to look like movie characters as they were in the brah burning/dual breadwinner euphoric 80's. That stuff just doesn't happen anymore.
Then of course, as chip makers swap higher clockspeeds for slower/portable chips, the cost of attaining reasonable rendering speeds on computers is going to skyrocket.
You won't be able to get the fastest chip in the world at dime stores like you could in 2001. The CG industry is small enough that chip makers can't afford to keep pumping clockcycles into chips that 99% of the world uses in nothing but wristwatches and PDA's.
When I saw this article last week the first thing that came to mind was how much a suit allowing women to be stronger than their boyfriends would change the world. It would change daily life as we know it. Of course few women would tolerate the idea of being stronger than their boyfriends.