My experience with EDS is that problem is most likely to have actually been operator error. These people, and CSC are the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as outsourced data centres go. Yes IBM GS costs more, but there's a good reason for that! I'd sooner use Accenture than EDS, and that's saying something.
I don't know if you ever watch the BBC, but they claim to be impartial and advertising free - yet there's loads of advertising on their channels, for their own goods and services. Right now we're bombarded with lavishly produced ads trying to get us all to sign up to BBC3 and 4, channels that are only available to digital subscribers (tho' you pay for them whether or not you even view them). EVERYONE is biased towards their own corporate siblings. At least CNN always tacks on a disclaimer that they're related when they report on an(other) AOL/TW company.
find a job that you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.
I firmly believe that to be bollocks. In your hobby you are answerable to no-one but yourself. Once you start doing it for a living - whether it's programming or photography or cooking or playing the trombone - you must compromise your art to pay the bills. You must work on what the client wants, to their specification, and deliver by their deadline. Ultimately, when someone hates their job, it's those things they hate, not the work itself but the constraints in which the work must be done.
Now, it's different when you reach superstar level, and people will pay you to do whatever you want. But there's room for very very few of those people in a given industry. And most of them paid their dues to get there, the ones that made it are the ones who stuck it out for years.
Michael Bergman, a Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer, said the fact that Mr. Modes does not charge admission does not diminish his basic violation of copyright law. "The copyright proprietor for the film has the exclusive right to publicly perform the work," he said in a telephone interview. "Projecting a rented DVD onto the side of a building, where anybody who wants to can come and watch it, is certainly a violation of the copyright act."
Shouldn't the people advocating annoying, bouncing, animated, rollover tripe beleive in their own products and techniques enough to use it on their own pages?
But if you're a corporation selling to end users, you wouldn't ever deal with Doubleclick. You would have a relationship with an ad agency, the ad agency would have a relationship with Doubleclick. The ad agency decides what sort of banner, popup, rollover, whatever they want, and Doubleclick just delivers it and keeps track of some statistics for them. Maybe Doubleclick knows that end users hate those kind of ads - but it'll do whatever its customers, the ad agencies, want. It's an infrastructure company really. You think Exodus had strong aesthetic opinions on the sites they host?
Don't you people learn to check whether he patient is conscious (i.e., responds to questions, or reacts to pain)?
ABC is for an unconscious victim.
It seems to me that "airway" is kind of superfluous, since you need it for breathing?
No, because the reason they aren't breathing might simply be that the airway is blocked by something, so check that first and if you clear an obstruction and they they start breathing naturally there's no need for artificial respiration. If the airway is clear and they're still not breathing, then something is more seriously wrong.
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Of course, not too many terminal heart patients can be found out jogging on Sunday morning...
Even on proportionality Gates beats ESR hands down, since ESR said he would give NOTHING away. Gates is on track to give away the vast majority of his wealth before he dies.
Hmm, I am not convinced by that site. CPR as a means to strengthen a weak heartbeat? My instructors were pretty clear than performing CPR on a beating heart will do more harm than good.
the proof-of-concept is there, the whole thing is then rewritten "from the ground up" in something like C or C++
Ha ha, that never happens. Show someone a semi-working prototype and they'll think it's 90% done and want a ship date from you there and then, preferably some time in the next week, just long enough to tweak the interface. Never write a prototype you wouldn't be willing to support in production!
Well, that's kinda the whole point of this article... you now can, using a heart-whirr instead of a heart-beat.
But if you're breathing, it's safe to assume that your heart is working. That's basic physiology.
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I'm wondering about the little one-way valves throughout the body which aid the pulse. Does such a system damage or suffocate those valves?
Also, the heart isn't the only pump in the body - the muscles in your legs help return blood to the heart when you run. That why if you run then stop abruptly you feel faint, because suddenly the load on your heart has suddenly increased and it needs to ramp up to pump blood all the way up to your head at a usable pressure (which is one reason you should warm down properly after exercising). How would the impeller interact with "pulses" from the legs?
Her name was Rosalilnd Franklin, and Crick actively fought against her getting any credit.
Franklin is a feminist hero, but here's a reality check: her science was wrong. She got her nitrogen the wrong way round, IIRC. It's not some Patriarchal White Male conspiracy.
most CPR certified professionals check for breathing, not a pulse.
Yup, ABC, Airway, Breathing, Circulation. One of the fist things they teach in First Aid class. You can have a hearbeat while not breathing, but you can't breathe without a heartbeat.
I am a long term hacker. I LOVE C, C++, Python, LISP AND I love Java too.
If you have strong feelings about ANY technology, you have abandoned objectivity and are no longer an engineer. An engineer has no emotional attachment to his tools, they are means to an end, nothing more. While an engineer will appreciate fine tools, he will NEVER choose the tool before understanding the job at hand. If another tool is better suited, he will lay down the one in his hand without hesitation or regret. That's how it is.
The same is true for artists, BTW. Show me a painter who loves his brushes or his easel. What engineers and artists love is their SUBJECT. Tools are, well, just tools.
As for debugging and writing tests, a great hacker's code is so clean and so defect free, they don't need to spend a lot of time debugging and writing test cases will simply diminish returns.
We have some incredibly bright people here. We are a financial services company and we hire PhDs by the boatload and set them to work on trading software.
What you've said is true of none of them. Anyone who dared to claim that writing test cases diminished returns would very quickly find themselves sidelined. No-one is perfect, and EVERYONE needs an independant authority who can veto the release of their code if necessary. That's why we keep development and test groups entirely seperate.
Is this the same ESR who has no code in the kernel, whose configuration system is considered a laughing stock on LKML, who maintains termcap because no-one else can be bothered, and whose one major project, fetchmail is full of security holes?
Just checking.
Now I'm no code god myself, but I don't claim to be the authority on what passes for "hacker" and what doesn't. If, however, I did, I'd have a hell of a better claim to it than ESR.
And neither of whom have a journaled filesystem yet, while Linux has many to choose from.
What are you talking about? NTFS has had journalling for over a decade. And Unicode. And ACLs. And streams. And reparse points (these are amazingly cool). And compression. And encryption. And... you get the point.
Now, MS doesn't use most of this good stuff, but it's all in there. Even three-letter file extensions on Windows are obsolete, since everything on NTFS can be an OLE server. There's nothing on Linux that comes close to the capabilities of NTFS. About the only major thing NTFS is missing is versionning, which VMS has.
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My experience with EDS is that problem is most likely to have actually been operator error. These people, and CSC are the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as outsourced data centres go. Yes IBM GS costs more, but there's a good reason for that! I'd sooner use Accenture than EDS, and that's saying something.
I don't know if you ever watch the BBC, but they claim to be impartial and advertising free - yet there's loads of advertising on their channels, for their own goods and services. Right now we're bombarded with lavishly produced ads trying to get us all to sign up to BBC3 and 4, channels that are only available to digital subscribers (tho' you pay for them whether or not you even view them). EVERYONE is biased towards their own corporate siblings. At least CNN always tacks on a disclaimer that they're related when they report on an(other) AOL/TW company.
find a job that you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.
I firmly believe that to be bollocks. In your hobby you are answerable to no-one but yourself. Once you start doing it for a living - whether it's programming or photography or cooking or playing the trombone - you must compromise your art to pay the bills. You must work on what the client wants, to their specification, and deliver by their deadline. Ultimately, when someone hates their job, it's those things they hate, not the work itself but the constraints in which the work must be done.
Now, it's different when you reach superstar level, and people will pay you to do whatever you want. But there's room for very very few of those people in a given industry. And most of them paid their dues to get there, the ones that made it are the ones who stuck it out for years.
Err, no. That is only his opinion.
Well, he is a lawyer. Now, whether it should be legal or not is irrelevant here; what matters is the law as it stands now, if you get busted, that is.
From the article:
RDBMS can't be more granular than the language it's written in, it can only be less.
You're right, that's why JVMs don't have garbage collection or strong typing, because JVMs are written in C, and C doesn't.
Oh, wait. It looks like software can have features that its host language doesn't. How 'bout that?
Shouldn't the people advocating annoying, bouncing, animated, rollover tripe beleive in their own products and techniques enough to use it on their own pages?
But if you're a corporation selling to end users, you wouldn't ever deal with Doubleclick. You would have a relationship with an ad agency, the ad agency would have a relationship with Doubleclick. The ad agency decides what sort of banner, popup, rollover, whatever they want, and Doubleclick just delivers it and keeps track of some statistics for them. Maybe Doubleclick knows that end users hate those kind of ads - but it'll do whatever its customers, the ad agencies, want. It's an infrastructure company really. You think Exodus had strong aesthetic opinions on the sites they host?
Don't you people learn to check whether he patient is conscious (i.e., responds to questions, or reacts to pain)?
ABC is for an unconscious victim.
It seems to me that "airway" is kind of superfluous, since you need it for breathing?
No, because the reason they aren't breathing might simply be that the airway is blocked by something, so check that first and if you clear an obstruction and they they start breathing naturally there's no need for artificial respiration. If the airway is clear and they're still not breathing, then something is more seriously wrong.
Of course, not too many terminal heart patients can be found out jogging on Sunday morning...
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I'm thinking more about the Bionic Man
Proportionality, friend.
Even on proportionality Gates beats ESR hands down, since ESR said he would give NOTHING away. Gates is on track to give away the vast majority of his wealth before he dies.
Hmm, I am not convinced by that site. CPR as a means to strengthen a weak heartbeat? My instructors were pretty clear than performing CPR on a beating heart will do more harm than good.
the proof-of-concept is there, the whole thing is then rewritten "from the ground up" in something like C or C++
Ha ha, that never happens. Show someone a semi-working prototype and they'll think it's 90% done and want a ship date from you there and then, preferably some time in the next week, just long enough to tweak the interface. Never write a prototype you wouldn't be willing to support in production!
Gates may go down in history as the single individual who did more to help the world's neediest people than anyone who has ever lived.
You are exactly right. Compare that to Eric "it's mine mine mine and no-one else is getting a cent" Raymond's attitude.
Well, that's kinda the whole point of this article... you now can, using a heart-whirr instead of a heart-beat.
But if you're breathing, it's safe to assume that your heart is working. That's basic physiology.
I'm wondering about the little one-way valves throughout the body which aid the pulse. Does such a system damage or suffocate those valves?
Also, the heart isn't the only pump in the body - the muscles in your legs help return blood to the heart when you run. That why if you run then stop abruptly you feel faint, because suddenly the load on your heart has suddenly increased and it needs to ramp up to pump blood all the way up to your head at a usable pressure (which is one reason you should warm down properly after exercising). How would the impeller interact with "pulses" from the legs?
and I thought: Wow! But how do they keep the people there?
I read it as "artificial pr0n" and I thought: Mmm, Aki Ross...
It seems to me that creating a new version of a highly contagious disease is a dubious way to go about trying to cure it.
Well it worked in Mission Impossible 2...
Her name was Rosalilnd Franklin, and Crick actively fought against her getting any credit.
Franklin is a feminist hero, but here's a reality check: her science was wrong. She got her nitrogen the wrong way round, IIRC. It's not some Patriarchal White Male conspiracy.
most CPR certified professionals check for breathing, not a pulse.
Yup, ABC, Airway, Breathing, Circulation. One of the fist things they teach in First Aid class. You can have a hearbeat while not breathing, but you can't breathe without a heartbeat.
So instead of building a camera into a cellphone, build a cellphone into a camera
You can get a wireless adaptor from Nikon that FTPs your photos as you take them straight to a server over 802.11b. Close...
Sorry dude, they have 3M pixel cameras with optical zooms in cell phones here in Japan NOW
How're your 8x10" prints from those?
I am a long term hacker. I LOVE C, C++, Python, LISP AND I love Java too.
If you have strong feelings about ANY technology, you have abandoned objectivity and are no longer an engineer. An engineer has no emotional attachment to his tools, they are means to an end, nothing more. While an engineer will appreciate fine tools, he will NEVER choose the tool before understanding the job at hand. If another tool is better suited, he will lay down the one in his hand without hesitation or regret. That's how it is.
The same is true for artists, BTW. Show me a painter who loves his brushes or his easel. What engineers and artists love is their SUBJECT. Tools are, well, just tools.
As for debugging and writing tests, a great hacker's code is so clean and so defect free, they don't need to spend a lot of time debugging and writing test cases will simply diminish returns.
We have some incredibly bright people here. We are a financial services company and we hire PhDs by the boatload and set them to work on trading software.
What you've said is true of none of them. Anyone who dared to claim that writing test cases diminished returns would very quickly find themselves sidelined. No-one is perfect, and EVERYONE needs an independant authority who can veto the release of their code if necessary. That's why we keep development and test groups entirely seperate.
ESR will tell you that you must be like him.
Is this the same ESR who has no code in the kernel, whose configuration system is considered a laughing stock on LKML, who maintains termcap because no-one else can be bothered, and whose one major project, fetchmail is full of security holes?
Just checking.
Now I'm no code god myself, but I don't claim to be the authority on what passes for "hacker" and what doesn't. If, however, I did, I'd have a hell of a better claim to it than ESR.
And neither of whom have a journaled filesystem yet, while Linux has many to choose from.
... you get the point.
What are you talking about? NTFS has had journalling for over a decade. And Unicode. And ACLs. And streams. And reparse points (these are amazingly cool). And compression. And encryption. And
Now, MS doesn't use most of this good stuff, but it's all in there. Even three-letter file extensions on Windows are obsolete, since everything on NTFS can be an OLE server. There's nothing on Linux that comes close to the capabilities of NTFS. About the only major thing NTFS is missing is versionning, which VMS has.