oh nonsense... we know Wil still harbors Wesley Crusher fantasies involving everything from being given the vulcan neck pinch to having a gaggle of tribbles on the bed.
aw man, that got WAY too graphic.
but I'm certain that Wil probably came up with this idea ALL on his own. He's a craft guy. Not that the SLASHDORK editors don't have mad pull in the internet world...some would consider them minor deities!
Wow! I am in exatcly the same situation as you! (Yahoo account solely for personal correspondence, hotmail account to catch the crap, so to speak).
With belt's tightening all over the world, couldn't I stop the forwarding and just read my yahoo e-mail account at home? (work blocks www.mail.yahoo.com, thus the forwarding to my unix account)
Or is a forwarding service, where none of my e-mail eats up ANY of their hardrive space (they just pass it on down the line) actually worth ~$20? Or have I just been overly sensitized to money in exchange for computer services?
The greatest thing about this was how wildly public and outlandish the battle was; full page adverts in the Wall Street Journal (sometimes 3 in one section!), Commercials, radio spots, and even Mrs. Fiorina directly dialing up minority shareholders to get 'em to vote her way.
And guess who foots the bill for all of this? You got it, the shareholders!
I need to first state my bias: I'm with Joel on this one for 90% of the time. However for that mission critical, people's lives are at stake, other 10% I am with you. But let me generalize it and say you should have a back up plan. There is a risk that your system will fail in someway. How have you mitigated that risk? If you don't have a plan B you fail. Your company has chosen to re-write as part of plan B. That's great!
Now if your initial code design is modular enough, you don't have to re-write the whole thing. Yes, I understand that sometimes people code for performance and that involves highly hacked kernel c involving pointers to pointers to function pointers. But as long as you have a clear design methodology there is no reason to completey re-write.
The new version of an operating system doesn't have the queue device you relied on previously? (happened to me) Rewrite the queueing functionality, but leave the rest alone.
Now on to the comment of your software not scaling. Rewrite or no rewrite, if you software isn't DESIGNED to perform from the start, then no amount of rewriting/rebasing is going to help you out! You know what kind of performance a processor/os pairing will give you (becuase YOU baselined it yourself!), so you design around that.
If your first version wasn't designed with performance in mind, then you better be re-writing it!
having no metrics is a BAD Thing in the long run. Why?
You need metrics to prove to clients that you can perform based upon YOUR schedule estimates, not thiers. (and we all know their estimates are "we want it done yesterday!")
Example: You have a client who likes your work, but is interested in cutting down costs as much as possible. You say "I think it'll take 19 months to get this done". They say, "well, we were hoping for 12. Change your estimate."
How can you quantify your company's performance? How can you prove to the client that it will really take 19 months and that reducing it to 12 will do nothing but ensure that the project misses the schedule? By having metrics to back up your performance.
Using metrics to judge your employees is wrong, shameful, reserves you a special spot in hell, and will get you shot in my neighborhood. However, not being able to show the customer your track record in terms of performance is as good as giving the contract to your competitors.
I LIKE linux PPC! Sure I had some install issues (I had to install incrementally 7 times just to get everything in correctly), and there was that one x windows problem which forced be to login to run level 3, but other then that it was pretty schmoov. MkLinux stunk to high heaven...
Plus there are websites for customizing your linux to make it a leaner machine. But then again I had a three button mouse to begin with. (funny because I couldn't use all three buttons on mac os 8, it caused some conflicts)
Not to mention the satisfaction of telling my students I ran their programs on my 7 year old mac.
People dedicating their lives to training to become better then their opponents. The obsession, the hard core commitment. The quest to become the best.
[SARCASM] NAh, there's nothing interesting about that![/SARCASM]
to break down your post: 1) Who are you to cast judgement that they are "wasting their lives"? People are making a MOVIE about them. Is anyone making a movie about your life? 2) Read the comments around you. People would not only pay to see this, they would pull all nighters and stay up for 36+ hours to fit it into their lives. 3) the attraction is as stated above. Mastering the game, becoming one with your tool (the game), and using it to trounce the competition.
Okay, all of your troll points have been addressed.
"My guitar teacher always told me that the sound comes from your hands"
yeah yeah. Listen to me play on my crappy BC rich NJ series guitar. (I sound like the guy from pavement, Steve Malkmus, cuz he can't play that well)
Then listen to me play on a Paul Reed Smith guitar. I'm Jimmy Hendrix back from the grave with a vengence!!
Never underestimate a quality tool in the hands of a master.
I am an alum of hopkins (also getting my masters at a drive-thru hopkins- check my web url) and as an ex-tour guide I know for a fact that as a private institution Hopkins was second only to NASA in the amount of federal funding it receives for research (and it recent years it may have surpassed NASA).
I can honestly say I have never been more proud of the research being done by this fine, fine institution.
HE has a point! "Hey, buddy, I'm on server bigfatpipe.edu, get into the frag frenzy!"
Originally people said "hey, these IP addresses, they're too long, and they're wierd. let's correlate them with real names." It's the same thing for MAC addresses (via ARP and RARP), it's the same thing for IPv4 addy's, and it'll be the same thing for IPv6 addys.
This was a great article filled with buzz words managerial biz-speak, and its great that there is this sprawling wireless tracking service, but has this been useful? Are there any measured improvements in sales?
And more importantly, how have the users reacted? Oh yeah, yr always gonna get those privacy zealots, but what about everyone else? Do they just shrug it off? Do they hate it? Or are they actually using it?
He has those tables where he calculated the Clustering Coeffcient C and the average path length L... Those are your labels.
And he directly comments on scalability and performance- he says it doesn't scale well, and does a lot of duplicate work and wastes time and bandwith when you are so highly clustered.
Uhm, this only makes sense to ravers... and again only when used with the analogy with pac-man and the notion that violent video games leads to violence. I think you are at the wrong website
What is important : These networks are highly clustered, and as such the current Gnutella algorithms don't take advantage of that and do a lot of duplicate work, leading to an in-efficient use of bandwith and problems in scaling.
This conclusion is rather interesting for someone who is into distributed processing (although I'm not sure how "d'uh!" obvious it is to most) but even more interesting is that its all based upon empirical evidence (of course using a mathematical basis).
Give 'em a reason. What do people need? Currently, they need compatibility with Microsoft products (and they don't even have that between releases of microsoft products!)
But if they can get all their old data and still keep chugging, that's an incentive.
But other than that, What is being offered? (I mean ASIDE from reliability! Does it come in a cute titanium frame?)
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Where I work, The management actually has a clue! Most former developers (some were even good developers!!), they understand the line between getting the job done right and getting the job done on time and under budget.
But it's the customer demands that get in the way. We have years of metrics to back up our productivity. Yet, the customer decides "we don't like those numbers, make your lines of code estimate smaller."
So what does one do? You document your original estimate, say "fine, we'll try for this new estimate" and when you fail to meet it you are already 80% done (no sense in cancelling) and you are, oddly enough, on track with your original estimate. Funny how that works!
Can your management can handle a shizophrenic customer who's needs change on a whim? Bad management will propagate the insanity down to the developers. Good management will bear (bare? Bayer?) the stress themselves and insulate the developer. That is the mark of good management.
The GBA is backwards compatible and has more games out than any new comer. So I'd buy this... you can't go wrong.
And with the addition of this backlight, I'd ACTUALLY think about buying one of these (played it in Target (that's TAR-JAY! to you) and hated the screen... played Tony Hawk with my little cousin, and still hated the screen)
Now what *I* can't wait for is when people start buying GBA's in bulk, buying the Portable Monopoly backlight in bulk, put 'em together, and sell 'em on E-bay for a quick killing...
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oh nonsense...
we know Wil still harbors Wesley Crusher fantasies involving everything from being given the vulcan neck pinch to having a gaggle of tribbles on the bed.
aw man, that got WAY too graphic.
but I'm certain that Wil probably came up with this idea ALL on his own. He's a craft guy. Not that the SLASHDORK editors don't have mad pull in the internet world...some would consider them minor deities!
Ahhhh yes. April Fools.
wait, wait, I got the cable, that's not the issue.
He said E triple I. THAT'S whats funny/ a bogus claim!
man, you geeks. Always taking what I say waaaaay to literally. Always demanding a modicum of precision in what I mean. Next time I'll draw a map.
So I go to buy a printer cable for my wife's laptop, and this guy INSISTS that this more expensive cable is indeed, E triple I compiant.
being a lapsed member of the IEEE, I laughed. Out loud.
BWAHAHAHA!
Yeah, it is odd that they've chosen a weird-o name for it. They must be new to the acronym game.
This is almost as bad as that time that congress was going to levy a tax on e-mail. You remember, that e-mail tax? Yeah.
Wow! I am in exatcly the same situation as you!
(Yahoo account solely for personal correspondence, hotmail account to catch the crap, so to speak).
With belt's tightening all over the world, couldn't I stop the forwarding and just read my yahoo e-mail account at home? (work blocks www.mail.yahoo.com, thus the forwarding to my unix account)
Or is a forwarding service, where none of my e-mail eats up ANY of their hardrive space (they just pass it on down the line) actually worth ~$20? Or have I just been overly sensitized to money in exchange for computer services?
The greatest thing about this was how wildly public and outlandish the battle was; full page adverts in the Wall Street Journal (sometimes 3 in one section!), Commercials, radio spots, and even Mrs. Fiorina directly dialing up minority shareholders to get 'em to vote her way.
And guess who foots the bill for all of this?
You got it, the shareholders!
I bet they've got Emachine's quaking in their boots! (and smoking out their power supply's...)
I guess there's always room for America's Choice Computers (available at your local safeway supermarket)
I need to first state my bias: I'm with Joel on this one for 90% of the time. However for that mission critical, people's lives are at stake, other 10% I am with you. But let me generalize it and say you should have a back up plan. There is a risk that your system will fail in someway. How have you mitigated that risk? If you don't have a plan B you fail. Your company has chosen to re-write as part of plan B. That's great!
Now if your initial code design is modular enough, you don't have to re-write the whole thing. Yes, I understand that sometimes people code for performance and that involves highly hacked kernel c involving pointers to pointers to function pointers. But as long as you have a clear design methodology there is no reason to completey re-write.
The new version of an operating system doesn't have the queue device you relied on previously? (happened to me) Rewrite the queueing functionality, but leave the rest alone.
Now on to the comment of your software not scaling. Rewrite or no rewrite, if you software isn't DESIGNED to perform from the start, then no amount of rewriting/rebasing is going to help you out! You know what kind of performance a processor/os pairing will give you (becuase YOU baselined it yourself!), so you design around that.
If your first version wasn't designed with performance in mind, then you better be re-writing it!
having no metrics is a BAD Thing in the long run.
Why?
You need metrics to prove to clients that you can perform based upon YOUR schedule estimates, not thiers. (and we all know their estimates are "we want it done yesterday!")
Example:
You have a client who likes your work, but is interested in cutting down costs as much as possible. You say "I think it'll take 19 months to get this done". They say, "well, we were hoping for 12. Change your estimate."
How can you quantify your company's performance? How can you prove to the client that it will really take 19 months and that reducing it to 12 will do nothing but ensure that the project misses the schedule? By having metrics to back up your performance.
Using metrics to judge your employees is wrong, shameful, reserves you a special spot in hell, and will get you shot in my neighborhood. However, not being able to show the customer your track record in terms of performance is as good as giving the contract to your competitors.
I LIKE linux PPC! Sure I had some install issues (I had to install incrementally 7 times just to get everything in correctly), and there was that one x windows problem which forced be to login to run level 3, but other then that it was pretty schmoov. MkLinux stunk to high heaven...
Plus there are websites for customizing your linux to make it a leaner machine. But then again I had a three button mouse to begin with. (funny because I couldn't use all three buttons on mac os 8, it caused some conflicts)
Not to mention the satisfaction of telling my students I ran their programs on my 7 year old mac.
Next time you drop a cultural reference involving a movie that tanked, you might have to clue in the rest of the slashdot public.
regardless, you had me laughing.
People dedicating their lives to training to become better then their opponents. The obsession, the hard core commitment. The quest to become the best.
[SARCASM] NAh, there's nothing interesting about that![/SARCASM]
to break down your post:
1) Who are you to cast judgement that they are "wasting their lives"? People are making a MOVIE about them. Is anyone making a movie about your life?
2) Read the comments around you. People would not only pay to see this, they would pull all nighters and stay up for 36+ hours to fit it into their lives.
3) the attraction is as stated above. Mastering the game, becoming one with your tool (the game), and using it to trounce the competition.
Okay, all of your troll points have been addressed.
"My guitar teacher always told me that the sound comes from your hands"
yeah yeah. Listen to me play on my crappy BC rich NJ series guitar. (I sound like the guy from pavement, Steve Malkmus, cuz he can't play that well)
Then listen to me play on a Paul Reed Smith guitar. I'm Jimmy Hendrix back from the grave with a vengence!!
Never underestimate a quality tool in the hands of a master.
I am an alum of hopkins (also getting my masters at a drive-thru hopkins- check my web url) and as an ex-tour guide I know for a fact that as a private institution Hopkins was second only to NASA in the amount of federal funding it receives for research (and it recent years it may have surpassed NASA).
I can honestly say I have never been more proud of the research being done by this fine, fine institution.
Eat some vegetable! It's good for you!!! You no come here anymore!
Somebody set us up the bomb! (oh wait, sorry...)
HE has a point! "Hey, buddy, I'm on server bigfatpipe.edu, get into the frag frenzy!"
Originally people said "hey, these IP addresses, they're too long, and they're wierd. let's correlate them with real names." It's the same thing for MAC addresses (via ARP and RARP), it's the same thing for IPv4 addy's, and it'll be the same thing for IPv6 addys.
actually, what if you "borrowed" a friends (or foes) phone and then made a lot of VIctoria's secret orders and bought some NSYNC cd's?!
Could you then "RUIN" someone's demographic fit?
Thats actually real scary.
Imagine getting bombarded with goatse.cx pictures while trying to read about the latest linux distro?
Oh, wait, this is slashdot...
This was a great article filled with buzz words managerial biz-speak, and its great that there is this sprawling wireless tracking service,
but has this been useful? Are there any measured improvements in sales?
And more importantly, how have the users reacted? Oh yeah, yr always gonna get those privacy zealots, but what about everyone else? Do they just shrug it off? Do they hate it? Or are they actually using it?
He has those tables where he calculated the Clustering Coeffcient C and the average path length L... Those are your labels.
And he directly comments on scalability and performance- he says it doesn't scale well, and does a lot of duplicate work and wastes time and bandwith when you are so highly clustered.
Uhm, this only makes sense to ravers... and again only when used with the analogy with pac-man and the notion that violent video games leads to violence.
I think you are at the wrong website
What is important : These networks are highly clustered, and as such the current Gnutella algorithms don't take advantage of that and do a lot of duplicate work, leading to an in-efficient use of bandwith and problems in scaling.
This conclusion is rather interesting for someone who is into distributed processing (although I'm not sure how "d'uh!" obvious it is to most) but even more interesting is that its all based upon empirical evidence (of course using a mathematical basis).
So don't just look at the pretty pictures!
Give 'em a reason.
What do people need? Currently, they need compatibility with Microsoft products (and they don't even have that between releases of microsoft products!)
But if they can get all their old data and still keep chugging, that's an incentive.
But other than that, What is being offered? (I mean ASIDE from reliability! Does it come in a cute titanium frame?)
Where I work, The management actually has a clue! Most former developers (some were even good developers!!), they understand the line between getting the job done right and getting the job done on time and under budget.
But it's the customer demands that get in the way. We have years of metrics to back up our productivity. Yet, the customer decides "we don't like those numbers, make your lines of code estimate smaller."
So what does one do? You document your original estimate, say "fine, we'll try for this new estimate" and when you fail to meet it you are already 80% done (no sense in cancelling) and you are, oddly enough, on track with your original estimate. Funny how that works!
Can your management can handle a shizophrenic customer who's needs change on a whim? Bad management will propagate the insanity down to the developers. Good management will bear (bare? Bayer?) the stress themselves and insulate the developer. That is the mark of good management.
And yes, my manager is da bomb!
Much like the PS2 vs. X-Box...
The GBA is backwards compatible and has more games out than any new comer. So I'd buy this... you can't go wrong.
And with the addition of this backlight, I'd ACTUALLY think about buying one of these (played it in Target (that's TAR-JAY! to you) and hated the screen... played Tony Hawk with my little cousin, and still hated the screen)
Now what *I* can't wait for is when people start buying GBA's in bulk, buying the Portable Monopoly backlight in bulk, put 'em together, and sell 'em on E-bay for a quick killing...
I wonder if it will work as well as MS's IE bug tracking...