I have installed the base server on an old ibm 385XD laptop with 96Megs of ram. With ICEwm, it makes an excellent kitchen laptop-- perfect for email and recipe lookup.
The nice thing about that was that I did not have a colossal hassle making it work. Everything I need can be piecewise installed and updated painlessly with synaptic.
It sort of makes sense that someone that is formerly from the Bush administration would propose making individual developers responsible for what are typically system-wide problems in software development.
I wonder where he got that idea from?? You know.... scapgoat the underlings, and let the execs and admin go scott-free.
...Have we ever actually launched active nuclear ICBMs? No. Does that mean they aren't tested or are unreliable? No.
Yes. ICBM's are potentially very unreliable. You can't really know until they are used. Remember, the point of having ICBM's is not to actually use them but to provide a deterrent effect to other nations via mutally assured destruction.
In the particular case of this sonic weapon, using it during a test probably would not harm any people, but it could harm wildlife. I'm sorry, but I just don't trust the military (or slimy DOD contractors) to make the right decisions when it comes to ecological protection.
For every time that particular countermeasure is used in combat, it will have been used thousands upon thousands of times in open water testing and war gaming. That really could have an adverse effect on wild life.
It would be very irresponsible to develop this weapon without clear data on what effect it has on wildlife.
People make comments on RFID without being aware of the rather strong limitations of this technology. Not all RFID tags are the same. Some only work at very close ranges (millimeters), some are are active, some are passive. Read failure rates for some tags are in the double digit percentages.
If there was a way I could invest money in anticipation of a total failure of RFID, I would do it.
Why is it these days that everyone thinks that everything has to be a web app that runs out of a godamn browser??
While I am sure that some smarty-pants developers can crank out office suites in AJAX, the end user is better served by a _real_ app has web connectivity.
Any advantage that an AJAX-based app has can be EASILY upped by a properly designed app. Deployment is (or should be) a non-issue now that we have things like java web start and whatever the MS equivalent is.
If they pull it off and actually distribute these in the numbers they are talking about, its a wonderful thing. That little device has the possibility of transforming the lives of some of the kids who use it.
It sort of reminds me of when my parents bought an atari 800 when I was growing up. My brother and I stayed up late into the night "tag team" programming on the atari-- haven't enjoyed programming half as much since then, it was pure bliss. If the media lab computer can do something similar for millions of families in the near future, it will be a worthwhile project.
The oqo is simply too small to be useful. The only real market is Cx0's who want to run powerpoint presentations on a nifty little gadget. They might as well bundle it with a snazzy magnesium-cased projector.
...I have seen many projects go out of control where unsuspecting developers have spent months on this stuff to produce a bulky unusable system...
Ahem.... that would describe where I work.
But anyways, its all water under the bridge. In a few years, those of us that are still employed will laugh at the comically baroque complexity of the bullshit tools we have to work with today.
Instead of launching a hot letter, he should have simply quit. In the real world, any type of litigation is a frustrating and expensive nightmare. Now he has to hold out a jar and collect money to save his ass.
The other moral of the story... don't work for smarmy companies and expect to them to get ethical. "Health Market Science??" What the hell is that?
Its wierd how the word "fraud" appears in the title, but the article has only one passing mention of fraud.
It makes me want to dismiss the article as management baloney-- as though some editor thought the article would attract more attention if they suggested it was about FRAUD.
Here is what I know is in the movie. Please correct me if I am wrong:
1) Too many slightly overweight characters 2) All the women are plain-janes except maybe one 3) Stiff, fake-sounding dialog. 4) Tedious and gratuitous use of special effects. 5) Boring plot
A few years from now, people are going to re-visit the legacy j2ee junk that was written today. They will just junk it and start from scratch. Why? Because no one will want to muck around with the endless unreadable globs of declarative configuration that comprises a j2ee application.
Apple mostly likely let him off the hook with a token payment. Which is a good thing.
Its really hard to put a number value on the damage caused to Apple by all this, but it can really hurt Apple if they are preceived as being excessively vindictive.
Time for someone to write a worm that forces an update from Windows Update; downloads a copy of SpyBot Search & Destroy, runs it and then turns on the firewall.
Because then that worm would very quickly make itself extinct. The success of worms comes from the fact that they can "reproduce" themselves.
Because its a colossal pain the ass to deal with cdrecord directly-- that's why every week there is a new gui that attempts to wrap cdrecord so that people don't have to waste their time figuring out how to do something that should be trivial.
Sadly most of these attempts produce piss-poor gui software. Perhaps this is a step in the right direction. At least, it might inspire someone to create a truly easy to use burner app.
Everytime computer security issues come up on slashdot, a torrent of geeks always chime in about how things are so bad because of "stupid" people.
In fact, there is such a sys-admin (excuse me, I mean "architect") in my office. He loudly complains all day about how the "stupid" and "incompetent" are always making his life difficult and wasting his time.
What I don't think he realizes is that people are afraid to approach him with questions and problems. Those that do are often quickly and rudely dismissed or put on hold for extended times.
Here's the big problem-- if the "stupid people" in the office, you know, like scientists, professionals and others that make money for the org, dread interacting with the IT guy (I mean architect), they will go elsewhere when there are problems. If they are brushed aside when they ask about "the internet not working", they will be less likely to say anything when something _really_ goes wrong.
...Why can't somebody come up with a decent design? And why are the Apple guys able to just get it right? And not just once, but most of their stuff looks really amazing. It's not like there aren't any designers out there...
It depends on your perspective. If you are 17 year old white male LAN-partier who salivates at the sight of gaudy "pimped-out" japanese cars-- then yes, there are many many wonderful PC case designs to choose from.
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I have installed the base server on an old ibm 385XD laptop with 96Megs of ram. With ICEwm, it makes an excellent kitchen laptop-- perfect for email and recipe lookup.
The nice thing about that was that I did not have a colossal hassle making it work. Everything I need can be piecewise installed and updated painlessly with synaptic.
It sort of makes sense that someone that is formerly from the Bush administration would propose making individual developers responsible for what are typically system-wide problems in software development.
I wonder where he got that idea from?? You know.... scapgoat the underlings, and let the execs and admin go scott-free.
...Have we ever actually launched active nuclear ICBMs? No. Does that mean they aren't tested or are unreliable? No.
Yes. ICBM's are potentially very unreliable. You can't really know until they are used. Remember, the point of having ICBM's is not to actually use them but to provide a deterrent effect to other nations via mutally assured destruction.
In the particular case of this sonic weapon, using it during a test probably would not harm any people, but it could harm wildlife. I'm sorry, but I just don't trust the military (or slimy DOD contractors) to make the right decisions when it comes to ecological protection.
For every time that particular countermeasure is used in combat, it will have been used thousands upon thousands of times in open water testing and war gaming. That really could have an adverse effect on wild life.
It would be very irresponsible to develop this weapon without clear data on what effect it has on wildlife.
People make comments on RFID without being aware of the rather strong limitations of this technology. Not all RFID tags are the same. Some only work at very close ranges (millimeters), some are are active, some are passive. Read failure rates for some tags are in the double digit percentages.
If there was a way I could invest money in anticipation of a total failure of RFID, I would do it.
No, I don't think so....
Why is it these days that everyone thinks that everything has to be a web app that runs out of a godamn browser??
While I am sure that some smarty-pants developers can crank out office suites in AJAX, the end user is better served by a _real_ app has web connectivity.
Any advantage that an AJAX-based app has can be EASILY upped by a properly designed app. Deployment is (or should be) a non-issue now that we have things like java web start and whatever the MS equivalent is.
I think it is a good idea to completely avoid RIAA music.
But how does one find out what is from the RIAA or not? Is there a list?
If they pull it off and actually distribute these in the numbers they are talking about, its a wonderful thing. That little device has the possibility of transforming the lives of some of the kids who use it.
It sort of reminds me of when my parents bought an atari 800 when I was growing up. My brother and I stayed up late into the night "tag team" programming on the atari-- haven't enjoyed programming half as much since then, it was pure bliss. If the media lab computer can do something similar for millions of families in the near future, it will be a worthwhile project.
The oqo is simply too small to be useful. The only real market is Cx0's who want to run powerpoint presentations on a nifty little gadget. They might as well bundle it with a snazzy magnesium-cased projector.
Woohoo!
I just found the next background for my desktop.
...I have seen many projects go out of control where unsuspecting developers have spent months on this stuff to produce a bulky unusable system...
Ahem.... that would describe where I work.
But anyways, its all water under the bridge. In a few years, those of us that are still employed will laugh at the comically baroque complexity of the bullshit tools we have to work with today.
Instead of launching a hot letter, he should have simply quit. In the real world, any type of litigation is a frustrating and expensive nightmare. Now he has to hold out a jar and collect money to save his ass.
The other moral of the story... don't work for smarmy companies and expect to them to get ethical. "Health Market Science??" What the hell is that?
Any web developer should already know where to find the standards. The material was intended to be a handbook.
The standards are almost unreadable, anyways-- no need to use them unless its an emergency!
Its wierd how the word "fraud" appears in the title, but the article has only one passing mention of fraud.
It makes me want to dismiss the article as management baloney-- as though some editor thought the article would attract more attention if they suggested it was about FRAUD.
BMI is not intended to be used to asess elite athletes.
For the vast majority of the population, it is a fairly good indicator of overweight or obese.
... I know it sucks.
A fan movie? Come on.
Here is what I know is in the movie. Please correct me if I am wrong:
1) Too many slightly overweight characters
2) All the women are plain-janes except maybe one
3) Stiff, fake-sounding dialog.
4) Tedious and gratuitous use of special effects.
5) Boring plot
Patching satellite photos taken at different times...
http://tinyurl.com/44dn3
I wonder if this is done automatically?
I'm tired of over-complicated J2EE messes.
A few years from now, people are going to re-visit the legacy j2ee junk that was written today. They will just junk it and start from scratch. Why? Because no one will want to muck around with the endless unreadable globs of declarative configuration that comprises a j2ee application.
Apple mostly likely let him off the hook with a token payment. Which is a good thing.
Its really hard to put a number value on the damage caused to Apple by all this, but it can really hurt Apple if they are preceived as being excessively vindictive.
Time for someone to write a worm that forces an update from Windows Update; downloads a copy of SpyBot Search & Destroy, runs it and then turns on the firewall.
Because then that worm would very quickly make itself extinct. The success of worms comes from the fact that they can "reproduce" themselves.
As soon as the phrase "best of breed" appears in an article...
I know everything in the article is bullsh*t, remincient of late-90's IT-bull-speak.
uhh,
Because its a colossal pain the ass to deal with cdrecord directly-- that's why every week there is a new gui that attempts to wrap cdrecord so that people don't have to waste their time figuring out how to do something that should be trivial.
Sadly most of these attempts produce piss-poor gui software. Perhaps this is a step in the right direction. At least, it might inspire someone to create a truly easy to use burner app.
.... ...
All this while the iPod keeps working normally as a music player as it would.
Awesome!
Now sysadmins can listen to chill-out music while repairing mission-critical workstations!
Everytime computer security issues come up on slashdot, a torrent of geeks always chime in about how things are so bad because of "stupid" people.
In fact, there is such a sys-admin (excuse me, I mean "architect") in my office. He loudly complains all day about how the "stupid" and "incompetent" are always making his life difficult and wasting his time.
What I don't think he realizes is that people are afraid to approach him with questions and problems. Those that do are often quickly and rudely dismissed or put on hold for extended times.
Here's the big problem-- if the "stupid people" in the office, you know, like scientists, professionals and others that make money for the org, dread interacting with the IT guy (I mean architect), they will go elsewhere when there are problems. If they are brushed aside when they ask about "the internet not working", they will be less likely to say anything when something _really_ goes wrong.
...Why can't somebody come up with a decent design? And why are the Apple guys able to just get it right? And not just once, but most of their stuff looks really amazing. It's not like there aren't any designers out there ...
It depends on your perspective. If you are 17 year old white male LAN-partier who salivates at the sight of gaudy "pimped-out" japanese cars-- then yes, there are many many wonderful PC case designs to choose from.