but let the neighbor's dog do it, and that's against the law.
people talk about germs and microbes like they're toxic waste...but let's face it your hands come in cantact with a lot more nasty stuff as the day goes by than your ass.
A huge sonar transducer for a sub...cable snapped while being taken off the dock. The crate, containing an assembly of brass transducers (about 1200 pounds) fell maybe 7 feet and hit the ground. They shipped it back, some of the electronics were salvageable, rest was insurance loss.
The other time, a bunch of boards for a telemetry system. All had the "anti-static" warning label. The person who received then for the company painstakingly went though every bag and pulled the board out--maybe 15 boards total--carefully wrote down the serial numbers, and then stacked/layered them in a box of styrofoam peanuts!! All boards destroyed.
i've always thought burying your troubles and pretend they have gone away is a shitty solution.
quality, above ground storage would allow maintainence, monitoring, etc.--heck, in fifty years we might have the technology to turn this crud into baby food.
The goal is not end users building up frankenstein desktops from scratch, using s/w they downloaded from the web.
Hardware vendors -- Dell, Compaq (sorry, HPQ), Sony -- they will make a desktop for use with the machines they sell, forging alliances with AOL, Real, etc. to build up a user environment on top of the commodity OS core that MS would provide.
Add in the tech oversight in the company, forced publishing of core APIs, etc., thus allowing RedHat, BSD or Apple to make a "drop in" replacement core...
no offense to the money savers and dumbing downers, but suppose it gets to the point where something like.NET is used to control the nukes and guide the nuclear warhead equipped drones...and the technicians and programmers in asia and india are far more familiar with the protocols, strengths and weaknesses of the system, and the hacks and the bug reports are all floating across their screens...
well, it would be kind of a shitty legacy for america to go down in history as having been completely overwhelmed and lost the big one because a foreign power simply pointed our own weapons, which we paid for, at our major cities and said one thing:
the syntax and readability are so horrible that it took several computer scientists years to decide exactly how butt ugly and unreadable to make it.
STL is not, in any way, shape, or form, a step forward for programmers.
people can write stuff with it that is totally incomprehensible to anyone who is not party to their school of programming style -- but this is true of C and C++ in general.
I don't know what the solution to programming's difficult problems with reliability, reusability and maintainability, but I think Java has done a lot more to improve the state of the art in programming models, especially WRT these problems, than the STL.
a lot of people claim the managers are people who know a lot about the product, and engineering specifics, etc...my experience has not been that way.
if anything, i've found experienced software people/engineers make less than ideal managers...often digging into details, making errant decisions that take months to fix, etc.
my best software manager (previous job) got his masters degree in mnagement from a small, private technical school in california. he was one of those guys who has a somewhat priveleged childhood, but you would never know it from working with him.
primary focus : "what do you need to get the job done?" He know more about software design and programming than he ever let on, and rarely got involved in techinical details unless our design group was missing something obvious.
very big on communication; no secrets allowed. get problems in the open, etc. absolute gem of a guy...no problems, only solutions, very positive attitude, etc.
at the current job i have two managers that are former military and one is okay but the other is a bleeding, incompetent idiot. complains, yells, makes stupid decisions and won't reneg on them, wasting much time and money.
left the previous manager because i felt the dot-com bust coming...but they are still in business and have projects...probably because of him.
...and let someone at FSF at least take a look at the BNF (or whatever) for Java and C# and come up with some kind of well designed language that is not controlled/created by Sun or MS.
Properly designed, such a language could practically auto translate from C# or Java.
The back end JIT could make Java, CIL or FSF(?) bytecodes.
Don't let MS destroy the free side. Get rid of Miguel and his greed/power worship now.
Frankly, I'm frustrated at the free software community's willingness to hail Microsoft's latest technologies as a great gift of some kind.
More likely, a trojan horse.
My take on the entire brouhaha is that MS has simply cloned java...more or less.
Why doesn't some genious FSF type of guru take the BNF or design specs of both java and C# and create a totally free, yet easily cross compiled, language? Then let mono or dotGNU take over from there?
At some point, MS will drop the ball and try to put the squeeze on the.NET effort...having a complete solution (from the highest level down) that is easy to port to would probably be a great stick to hold over Bill Gates's head.
they sure had a nice finder and environment, especially for the day.
i've heard the main reason for migrating to Linux is a variety of shortcomings in the Unix/Irix code base that are irreperable, but not too sure about that.
i think it would be neat for them to have a partnership with Sony and make a hot-rod linux/MIPS PS2 and put the SGI badge on it.
My gut feeling is that the PC box makers are going to be under a huge cloud as Microsoft starts using next generation Xboxes to get around the court ordered OEM restrictions.
that makes the low-end market very open to ew styles and configurations of consoles.
I think the contents of this webpage are a bit extreme, but the USA has probably contributed (directly or indirectly) to the deaths of large numbers of people, at home and abroad, in the name of greed and control. Unfortunate, but probably true.
I hope one day the USA will return to the Constitution and lawful behavior, and perhaps even start visualizing utopia again.
if you pay a kid three dollars to dress funny at school, who are the sick people and who is healthy?
in the simplest analysis, the kid is three dollars richer, and the kids who attacked him did it because he is different--in other words, they have sadistic impulses.
maybe these people are the product of evolution--a new breed that values simple logic and deep thought over social hierarchies and base cruelty.
I've been to many large municipal libraries which have special archives of books and documents...many of which have not been accessed in decades (example : one book I read had not been opened for 23 years).
I suspect the web needs this type of persistence for at least some of it's content. National archives, maybe? It's hard to tell what will be interesting to the "web researchers" of 1,000 years from now.
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and that's "nature".
but let the neighbor's dog do it, and that's against the law.
people talk about germs and microbes like they're toxic waste...but let's face it your hands come in cantact with a lot more nasty stuff as the day goes by than your ass.
Might as well pick that up, too.
A huge sonar transducer for a sub...cable snapped while being taken off the dock. The crate, containing an assembly of brass transducers (about 1200 pounds) fell maybe 7 feet and hit the ground. They shipped it back, some of the electronics were salvageable, rest was insurance loss.
The other time, a bunch of boards for a telemetry system. All had the "anti-static" warning label. The person who received then for the company painstakingly went though every bag and pulled the board out--maybe 15 boards total--carefully wrote down the serial numbers, and then stacked/layered them in a box of styrofoam peanuts!! All boards destroyed.
i've always thought burying your troubles and pretend they have gone away is a shitty solution.
quality, above ground storage would allow maintainence, monitoring, etc.--heck, in fifty years we might have the technology to turn this crud into baby food.
be a shame to have to go dig it all up again.
The goal is not end users building up frankenstein desktops from scratch, using s/w they downloaded from the web.
Hardware vendors -- Dell, Compaq (sorry, HPQ), Sony -- they will make a desktop for use with the machines they sell, forging alliances with AOL, Real, etc. to build up a user environment on top of the commodity OS core that MS would provide.
Add in the tech oversight in the company, forced publishing of core APIs, etc., thus allowing RedHat, BSD or Apple to make a "drop in" replacement core...
That would be a tough situation for MS.
How can we get this guy into the American congress? Maybe expand the H1B visa system to include politicians?
Porno flick tonight
Young couple in love
Motion sensor pegs.
When young, the media constantly warned that America should be ever vigilant for threats from overseas enemies who hated the American people.
Welcome to the new millenium. The enemy is wealth and control, they have no borders, and it appears they have won.
To think that just three years ago, my employer would give everyone the day off for big events -- 2-3 times a year.
That company is long gone now--sold off--and all the people I know from there (as well as myself) have had big benefit cuts.
Gone are the days of the hope of Java and the joy of seeing a Kim Polese presentation.
no offense to the money savers and dumbing downers, but suppose it gets to the point where something like .NET is used to control the nukes and guide the nuclear warhead equipped drones...and the technicians and programmers in asia and india are far more familiar with the protocols, strengths and weaknesses of the system, and the hacks and the bug reports are all floating across their screens...
well, it would be kind of a shitty legacy for america to go down in history as having been completely overwhelmed and lost the big one because a foreign power simply pointed our own weapons, which we paid for, at our major cities and said one thing:
Surrender, biyatch.
the syntax and readability are so horrible that it took several computer scientists years to decide exactly how butt ugly and unreadable to make it.
STL is not, in any way, shape, or form, a step forward for programmers.
people can write stuff with it that is totally incomprehensible to anyone who is not party to their school of programming style -- but this is true of C and C++ in general.
I don't know what the solution to programming's difficult problems with reliability, reusability and maintainability, but I think Java has done a lot more to improve the state of the art in programming models, especially WRT these problems, than the STL.
yes. i read that story, too. in return for statements supporting MS in the trial, MS would announce support for AMD64 ahead of intel.
the prosecution was aware of the communications and it's in the court records.
the monorail is great; i recently spent almost an hour on the strip, moved maybe two car lengths, desperate to pee. it sucked.
they need more lateral action off the strip, maybe with some cheep buses or something, so guys like me can get to the strip from our cheap hotels...
sing it loud and proud my brother. amen.
I absolutely beleive their should be a /etc/xml-config hierarchy, optionally populated, with translators between the old and new formats.
Once done, any of the usual xml property editors can be used to edit same.
a lot of people claim the managers are people who know a lot about the product, and engineering specifics, etc...my experience has not been that way.
if anything, i've found experienced software people/engineers make less than ideal managers...often digging into details, making errant decisions that take months to fix, etc.
my best software manager (previous job) got his masters degree in mnagement from a small, private technical school in california. he was one of those guys who has a somewhat priveleged childhood, but you would never know it from working with him.
primary focus : "what do you need to get the job done?" He know more about software design and programming than he ever let on, and rarely got involved in techinical details unless our design group was missing something obvious.
very big on communication; no secrets allowed. get problems in the open, etc. absolute gem of a guy...no problems, only solutions, very positive attitude, etc.
at the current job i have two managers that are former military and one is okay but the other is a bleeding, incompetent idiot. complains, yells, makes stupid decisions and won't reneg on them, wasting much time and money.
left the previous manager because i felt the dot-com bust coming...but they are still in business and have projects...probably because of him.
...and let someone at FSF at least take a look at the BNF (or whatever) for Java and C# and come up with some kind of well designed language that is not controlled/created by Sun or MS.
Properly designed, such a language could practically auto translate from C# or Java.
The back end JIT could make Java, CIL or FSF(?) bytecodes.
Don't let MS destroy the free side. Get rid of Miguel and his greed/power worship now.
Frankly, I'm frustrated at the free software community's willingness to hail Microsoft's latest technologies as a great gift of some kind.
.NET effort...having a complete solution (from the highest level down) that is easy to port to would probably be a great stick to hold over Bill Gates's head.
More likely, a trojan horse.
My take on the entire brouhaha is that MS has simply cloned java...more or less.
Why doesn't some genious FSF type of guru take the BNF or design specs of both java and C# and create a totally free, yet easily cross compiled, language? Then let mono or dotGNU take over from there?
At some point, MS will drop the ball and try to put the squeeze on the
Bill Gates, of course. Just ask him.
This would be a great time for the people at odds with microsoft to think about the future.
Linux needs something other than Microsoft/Gnome.
Java won't cut it, being held tightly by Sun (who is going to use Gnome anyway).
So, what the heck is the alternative? KDE (with the licensing issues?)
The last guy I worked with from Ximian had a severe fetish for python, so maybe they can do something?
they sure had a nice finder and environment, especially for the day.
i've heard the main reason for migrating to Linux is a variety of shortcomings in the Unix/Irix code base that are irreperable, but not too sure about that.
i think it would be neat for them to have a partnership with Sony and make a hot-rod linux/MIPS PS2 and put the SGI badge on it.
My gut feeling is that the PC box makers are going to be under a huge cloud as Microsoft starts using next generation Xboxes to get around the court ordered OEM restrictions.
that makes the low-end market very open to ew styles and configurations of consoles.
I think the contents of this webpage are a bit extreme, but the USA has probably contributed (directly or indirectly) to the deaths of large numbers of people, at home and abroad, in the name of greed and control. Unfortunate, but probably true.
I hope one day the USA will return to the Constitution and lawful behavior, and perhaps even start visualizing utopia again.
if you pay a kid three dollars to dress funny at school, who are the sick people and who is healthy?
in the simplest analysis, the kid is three dollars richer, and the kids who attacked him did it because he is different--in other words, they have sadistic impulses.
maybe these people are the product of evolution--a new breed that values simple logic and deep thought over social hierarchies and base cruelty.
so true, I can't help but wonder if the "proprietary" part is due to their licensing the protocol from MS?
AFAIK, the fastest way to meet a MS lawyer is hacking or otherwise reverse engineering the exchange protocol.
You mention archives that are largely unvisited.
I've been to many large municipal libraries which have special archives of books and documents...many of which have not been accessed in decades (example : one book I read had not been opened for 23 years).
I suspect the web needs this type of persistence for at least some of it's content. National archives, maybe? It's hard to tell what will be interesting to the "web researchers" of 1,000 years from now.
Maybe it will all fit on a jaz by then!