...that actually give a shit about the customer and want to see them more productive, for less, now and in the future.
Back in the day, most engineers had the credo "I'm going to do my job so well, I'll put myself out of work".
I've been disillusioned by the industry. Managers who control, rather than assist...coworkers who don't, and just want to get a check and say "I'm so cool making money with a 'puter"
There are times when I just put my head down and tell people to BACK THE HELL OFF, I'M FUCKING CREATING HERE!!!
...for lusers, and developers who release code under GPL.
but if you want to do "commercial development" or "closed source" it's something like $1550 per developer seat...more than Win2K and Visual C++ pro combined!!
The primary technical jewel on this thing was the cryo-composite fuel tank. It failed miserably, and was going to be replaced with an aluminum tank.
Other than the tank, there was little in this prototype that would truly advance the state of spaceflight.
Also, this was guaranteed -- in writing -- to fly in 2001. If they go with the aluminum tank, it will fly (possibly) in 2003. Missing time and budget is not a good way to keep a program alive.
Let this one go, build something closer to the final 'spaceplane'. America desperately needs a shuttle backup/replacement, and this prototype is too expensive and behind schedule for the technology return it would give.
First off, I won't "do windows" strictly because of my belief system -- I can't support a company that has cheated, broken the law, yada, yada, yada (you've heard it all, right?)
I think Quake3 and MythII work great on my Debian box...wasn't that hard to install.
I, for one, am going to stop by fryes in LA in a couple weeks and buy TWO Loki Linux games. At the bottom end, they're $25.00!! How much is programming freedom worth to you?
Being proactive for Linux is very important right now. I donate to FSF and EFF as well.
If you don't use or like Linux, don't buy the games. But if you're a crazy programmer, or think Linux is pretty cool, help Loki and Linux provide a real alternative to Windows -- buy Linux!!
Like exchange, what manager wouldn't be able to resist the idea of "scanning" through his/her employees while they work?
In the Microsoft universe, this gives management a whole new set of reasons to hire hotties...so they can sit there and beat off while they watch the secretary do her lipstick.
Once the Fortune 500 are saturated, the public infrastructure will probably follow.
Make sure you add it! It's about the only really accurate record of the collapse of the IT industry.
It looks like I'll be adding an entry myself in October...we're getting cutback from 30+ employees to 6.
I'm "guaranteed" a slot, but I have to say that our little corner of the IT world has been GROSSLY MISMANAGED.
if the truth ever comes out, this collapse has everything to do with COPORATE WELFARE SCAMS and nothing to do with the talented people at the bottom.
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I had a friend in High School who:
1) Started dealing a little pot in Jr. High;
2) Started dealing coke in Sr. High;
3) By the time he graduated, he had paid for a big house on the beach; with cash;
4) Had 2 new Harleys and a couple sports cars (all cash);
5) Several babes around the pool on any given weekend.
But, people get jealous. One night as he rode his Harley home from a party, a rival dealer ran him down with a big four wheel drive -- then drove over his body 8-10 times.
It's a shame, he was a really nice kid, and non-violent about the whole drug thing -- he just liked having money, respect (from his users/groupies, anyway) and a care free lifestyle.
He was 22 years old when they got him, as I recall.
# 1 is debatable. certainly fiing material... always get permission in writing.
#2, #3 :
My former ISP often runs crack against their user space, looking for weak passwds.
this guy was a paid consultant of Intel. His error was FAILING TO GET PERMISSION from a superior, in writing, or having a contract that specifically granted him the right to nondestructively test corporate security.
He also exposed a VP's weak, potentially embarrassing passwd -- "pre$ident" -- which will get you fired in almost any corporation, just for political reasons.
He doesn't sound all that savvy to me, if he did not discuss his plans with a superior first.
doubt it, i worked on a project awhile ago -- had to interface to a bunch of data from a aircraft -- it was mostly ADA structures. they claimed it was 40 millions lines of code overall.
Microsoft and NASA are working on a project to autopilot aircraft through takeoff, cruise and landing -- with minimal interaction with the pilot.
as i read it, the hydraulic system degraded, and the pilot hit reset 8-10 times as the plane went down (per the book).
no offense, but given all the problems with the hydraulics on this beast, and the people ordered by the military to lie and falsify records regarding those problems, i think a s/w glitch is a bit later on the list.
i do think it's a shame that the software wasn't written well enough, or tested well enough, to save those people from a mechanical failure.
maybe management is right -- just give it all to microsoft and let the H1-B's deal with it.
An implication was made by the poster that this person is worthy of respect because he is "100% straight up" and "honest with his answers".
I would like to point out that hitler and stalin were fairly straight up and honest about their goals, but I do not beleive I am obligated -- in any way -- to respect them.
Similarly, I could give a f*ck what some luser microserf has to say.
> 1. No really solid HTML editors
a lot of the best webpages are written by hand anyway, use vi or emacs.
> 2. Poor application linking
my linker and links seem okay.
> 3. Poor printing services
HP just released JetDirect for Linux.
> 4. Its harder to update anything on Linux than Windows and MacOS
debian:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
> 5. Poor graphics support
OpenGL, OpenInventor, Nvidia, ATI, Matrox...
> 6. No unified GUI (KDE, Gnome, who cares, just make ONE of them work)
My ximian gnome box works fine.
> 7. Each Linux variant ships with security holes
to some extent, all s/w products have security holes. or perhaps you mean the recent bind problems? fixed months ago, and the "apt-get" lines above (provided the security.debian.org entry is in your sources.list) took care of that pretty fast...provided you use bind...long before the Lion was out. Or perhaps you mean a boot disk against a non-passwd protected bios? all mainstream OSen are subject to that.
Go install a stock NT 4.0 box and stick that on the web. I dare ya.
Open Inventor starting compiling fairly clean on my debian box last week.
I had to do intermediate installs of the Inventor and InventorXt libraries as intermediate steps, but I'm free from having to deal with the TGS demoware...not that it was too much of a hassle, but I got the Inventor and Mentor books and just wanted to check it out, not have to go through registration, demo crud, expiration issues.
As I say, I hope this is just a "clueless legal dept" thing.
Given the cost-per-pound, etc, is he paying a reasonable fee?
Didn't we send a aging congressman on a shuttle ride at some point? Joh Glenn certainly had the training and experience, but paid nothing and was older.
Will the precedent of letting one rich primate bribe his way into space lead to russian rockets full of ex-dot-com yuppies?
The taxpayers/insurers/investors want people up there who are best fit for the task at hand. Turning the ISS into a space ride for yuppies is not a good thing at all.
Maybe if the space tourists are restrained to the russian side, and there is no impact on the mission, then there can be little argument.
Then there is the social issue -- every kid in the world learns that it's not how good you are at your job, but how rich you are that counts. Bad, bad lesson.
it's tough for me to call this an applicance w/o knowing more about it...really, it looks like a fairly capable PC made from mainstream components -- i've always considered net appliances to have no hard drive, etc.
this has decent mem, cpu, harddrive...all the makings for kids to start ripping out open source code.
spain has a sizable open source/linux community...they're going to go wild on this machine, I bet.
I couldn't go to the link you mention, but I imagine the english dominance in programming languages has already polluted the memes of the entire freaking planet!
You might want to re-read that, sport. It says "Educational Division", meaning that there was a animation group that made short films for classroom use.
Linux seems to run on more and more systems as time passes, yet still has fairly moderate requirements.
I don't you'll ever see Linux distros "recommending" you buy a new pc to get the "...full experience...".
contrast this with windos, which appears to require ever increasing requirements, to the point where only the newest, fastest machines will run it...plus MS appears to be moving towards "pre installed" only os releases.
this is great for linux...free, low system requirements...espescially for people outside the the "west" -- who tend to have less money to go pissing away for a new PC every year or two.
little Achmed or Pei-Pei can do their CS homework on Linux...while Johnny and Shawna relearn the OSX interface.
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...that actually give a shit about the customer and want to see them more productive, for less, now and in the future.
Back in the day, most engineers had the credo "I'm going to do my job so well, I'll put myself out of work".
I've been disillusioned by the industry. Managers who control, rather than assist...coworkers who don't, and just want to get a check and say "I'm so cool making money with a 'puter"
There are times when I just put my head down and tell people to BACK THE HELL OFF, I'M FUCKING CREATING HERE!!!
...fortunately, they do...
...Califonia?
I run www.smalldick.org to help oversized men solve their "problem", but am getting few takers.
Wunder why?
...for lusers, and developers who release code under GPL.
but if you want to do "commercial development" or "closed source" it's something like $1550 per developer seat...more than Win2K and Visual C++ pro combined!!
The primary technical jewel on this thing was the cryo-composite fuel tank. It failed miserably, and was going to be replaced with an aluminum tank.
Other than the tank, there was little in this prototype that would truly advance the state of spaceflight.
Also, this was guaranteed -- in writing -- to fly in 2001. If they go with the aluminum tank, it will fly (possibly) in 2003. Missing time and budget is not a good way to keep a program alive.
Let this one go, build something closer to the final 'spaceplane'. America desperately needs a shuttle backup/replacement, and this prototype is too expensive and behind schedule for the technology return it would give.
First off, I won't "do windows" strictly because of my belief system -- I can't support a company that has cheated, broken the law, yada, yada, yada (you've heard it all, right?)
I think Quake3 and MythII work great on my Debian box...wasn't that hard to install.
I, for one, am going to stop by fryes in LA in a couple weeks and buy TWO Loki Linux games. At the bottom end, they're $25.00!! How much is programming freedom worth to you?
Being proactive for Linux is very important right now. I donate to FSF and EFF as well.
If you don't use or like Linux, don't buy the games. But if you're a crazy programmer, or think Linux is pretty cool, help Loki and Linux provide a real alternative to Windows -- buy Linux!!
Like exchange, what manager wouldn't be able to resist the idea of "scanning" through his/her employees while they work?
In the Microsoft universe, this gives management a whole new set of reasons to hire hotties...so they can sit there and beat off while they watch the secretary do her lipstick.
Once the Fortune 500 are saturated, the public infrastructure will probably follow.
...for fscked company.
Make sure you add it! It's about the only really accurate record of the collapse of the IT industry.
It looks like I'll be adding an entry myself in October...we're getting cutback from 30+ employees to 6.
I'm "guaranteed" a slot, but I have to say that our little corner of the IT world has been GROSSLY MISMANAGED.
if the truth ever comes out, this collapse has everything to do with COPORATE WELFARE SCAMS and nothing to do with the talented people at the bottom.
I had a friend in High School who:
1) Started dealing a little pot in Jr. High;
2) Started dealing coke in Sr. High;
3) By the time he graduated, he had paid for a big house on the beach; with cash;
4) Had 2 new Harleys and a couple sports cars (all cash);
5) Several babes around the pool on any given weekend.
But, people get jealous. One night as he rode his Harley home from a party, a rival dealer ran him down with a big four wheel drive -- then drove over his body 8-10 times.
It's a shame, he was a really nice kid, and non-violent about the whole drug thing -- he just liked having money, respect (from his users/groupies, anyway) and a care free lifestyle.
He was 22 years old when they got him, as I recall.
# 1 is debatable. certainly fiing material ... always get permission in writing.
#2, #3 :
My former ISP often runs crack against their user space, looking for weak passwds.
this guy was a paid consultant of Intel. His error was FAILING TO GET PERMISSION from a superior, in writing, or having a contract that specifically granted him the right to nondestructively test corporate security.
He also exposed a VP's weak, potentially embarrassing passwd -- "pre$ident" -- which will get you fired in almost any corporation, just for political reasons.
He doesn't sound all that savvy to me, if he did not discuss his plans with a superior first.
> jeez, what were they running? WinCE?
doubt it, i worked on a project awhile ago -- had to interface to a bunch of data from a aircraft -- it was mostly ADA structures. they claimed it was 40 millions lines of code overall.
Microsoft and NASA are working on a project to autopilot aircraft through takeoff, cruise and landing -- with minimal interaction with the pilot.
It's called Highway In The Sky
as i read it, the hydraulic system degraded, and the pilot hit reset 8-10 times as the plane went down (per the book).
no offense, but given all the problems with the hydraulics on this beast, and the people ordered by the military to lie and falsify records regarding those problems, i think a s/w glitch is a bit later on the list.
i do think it's a shame that the software wasn't written well enough, or tested well enough, to save those people from a mechanical failure.
maybe management is right -- just give it all to microsoft and let the H1-B's deal with it.
"...linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer..."
"...From a theoretical (and aesthetical) standpoint linux looses..."
Thank you.
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> ...but you can only produce vapor for so long
> before exposing your soft fleshy belly.
My soft, fleshy underbelly was exposed for years before I began producing vapor.
An implication was made by the poster that this person is worthy of respect because he is "100% straight up" and "honest with his answers".
I would like to point out that hitler and stalin were fairly straight up and honest about their goals, but I do not beleive I am obligated -- in any way -- to respect them.
Similarly, I could give a f*ck what some luser microserf has to say.
> 1. No really solid HTML editors
a lot of the best webpages are written by hand anyway, use vi or emacs.
> 2. Poor application linking
my linker and links seem okay.
> 3. Poor printing services
HP just released JetDirect for Linux.
> 4. Its harder to update anything on Linux than Windows and MacOS
debian:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
> 5. Poor graphics support
OpenGL, OpenInventor, Nvidia, ATI, Matrox...
> 6. No unified GUI (KDE, Gnome, who cares, just make ONE of them work)
My ximian gnome box works fine.
> 7. Each Linux variant ships with security holes
to some extent, all s/w products have security holes. or perhaps you mean the recent bind problems? fixed months ago, and the "apt-get" lines above (provided the security.debian.org entry is in your sources.list) took care of that pretty fast...provided you use bind...long before the Lion was out. Or perhaps you mean a boot disk against a non-passwd protected bios? all mainstream OSen are subject to that.
Go install a stock NT 4.0 box and stick that on the web. I dare ya.
Open Inventor starting compiling fairly clean on my debian box last week.
I had to do intermediate installs of the Inventor and InventorXt libraries as intermediate steps, but I'm free from having to deal with the TGS demoware...not that it was too much of a hassle, but I got the Inventor and Mentor books and just wanted to check it out, not have to go through registration, demo crud, expiration issues.
As I say, I hope this is just a "clueless legal dept" thing.
When I read about Australian gov't decisions, I wonder if a lot of schizophrenia genes got spread about as a result of being a former prison colony.
why link to SGI? Go directly to opengl.org
Developers who claim they don't want to develop under anything under GL cuz it doesn't have shading, etc. "like DX8". What a crock of FUD.
Don't you realize what you are giving up? At least with GL, you can influence the creation of extensions. You! Not Microsoft.
Or do you just want to spend your life swallowing what MS decides to plop into your open mouth? Before long you'll be paying for it, too.
Given the cost-per-pound, etc, is he paying a reasonable fee?
Didn't we send a aging congressman on a shuttle ride at some point? Joh Glenn certainly had the training and experience, but paid nothing and was older.
Will the precedent of letting one rich primate bribe his way into space lead to russian rockets full of ex-dot-com yuppies?
The taxpayers/insurers/investors want people up there who are best fit for the task at hand. Turning the ISS into a space ride for yuppies is not a good thing at all.
Maybe if the space tourists are restrained to the russian side, and there is no impact on the mission, then there can be little argument.
Then there is the social issue -- every kid in the world learns that it's not how good you are at your job, but how rich you are that counts. Bad, bad lesson.
here is a MCSE demonstrating the new windos XP "Head Up" interface.
it's tough for me to call this an applicance w/o knowing more about it...really, it looks like a fairly capable PC made from mainstream components -- i've always considered net appliances to have no hard drive, etc.
this has decent mem, cpu, harddrive...all the makings for kids to start ripping out open source code.
spain has a sizable open source/linux community...they're going to go wild on this machine, I bet.
I couldn't go to the link you mention, but I imagine the english dominance in programming languages has already polluted the memes of the entire freaking planet!
You might want to re-read that, sport. It says "Educational Division", meaning that there was a animation group that made short films for classroom use.
Widely distributed? Probably not.
Linux seems to run on more and more systems as time passes, yet still has fairly moderate requirements.
I don't you'll ever see Linux distros "recommending" you buy a new pc to get the "...full experience...".
contrast this with windos, which appears to require ever increasing requirements, to the point where only the newest, fastest machines will run it...plus MS appears to be moving towards "pre installed" only os releases.
this is great for linux...free, low system requirements...espescially for people outside the the "west" -- who tend to have less money to go pissing away for a new PC every year or two.
little Achmed or Pei-Pei can do their CS homework on Linux...while Johnny and Shawna relearn the OSX interface.