Actually, you are doing your part to reinforce every stereotype I have ever held about americans.
BTW, you may want to check your own grammar. I'm pretty sure the contraction that is is that's.
Dick.
Please, please, please - try to take that on an airplane sometime as carry-on luggage. Bring a camera for the expression on the X-ray tech's face.
Or maybe I'm the only one who finds that hilarious.
All good news. Looks like I'll have to upgrade my Windows box and drag the Linux box up out of the stone age. Been too busy playing with the candy coated goodness of OS X to notice what else has been going on.
Drivers may not be that necessary. I borrowed a digital camera from my folks a couple of weeks ago, a Panasonic PDR M5 or something. Thought, just for the heck of it, I'd plug it into the USB port on my iMac DV without installing any drivers. Up pops the OS X Image Capture utility asking me what I want to do with these pictures from the camera. So cool.
Good point; Quoth Netcraft
The site www.doi.gov is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) on Solaris
Other sub-domains are Netscape Enterprise on Solaris and Lotus Domino on NT4/98.
Garrett Hardin proposed what is to me the same thesis 33 years ago in his paper The Tragedy of the Commons. Hardin was proposing a class of problems that had no technical solution, no matter how hard we looked for them, as they were moral problems. Specifically he was talking about growing populations taxing resources, but the analogy is fairly easily applied to "the internet as commons" model.
The 400 lb gorillas of IP are trying to maximise their utility gains from the internet while impacting the utility to others negatively. Good old utilitarianism.
Hardin goes on from there, but it has been a few years since I read the paper so I'm going to breeze through it again. I'm looking forward to picking up this book to see what new thinking it might bring to the analysis.
I'd be interested to hear from Mr. Lessig (as he seems to be posting here) how much his thesis was influenced by Hardin.
Wanna see something completely fscked?
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Go to www.segway.com and you'll get the standard IE "This page cannot be displayed" form with all sorts of helpful advice on why it can't.
Which is all well and good, except I am using Omniweb. Damn that freaked me out.
Let the conspiracy theories begin!
The CCPE got agreement from MS earlier this year that MSCE's in Canada can't call themselves Engineers. I think they can use the acronym, but not the full descriptor. More here.
And a simple 'Hello, World' program is about 3 lines of code.
Most engineered bridges can't be designed on a couple of sheets of paper any more than most programs can't be written in 3 lines of code.
Hardly a convincing supporting argument for "You are in general wrong."
I'd have to disagree with engineering being repeatable. Maybe in an outfit where you have to design the same widget day after day. But in an operating environment, there is a new problem to solve every day. If not every hour.
If something isn't working, I find it interesting to throw on a hard hat, go collect as much information as practical, and come up with a creative solution quickly. And tomorrow, somthing else will break, or need optimizing.
Background: I am a chemical engineer, and I currently work in water treatment.
To me an essential part of engineering has always been a sense of responsibility to society as a whole. Technology is harnessing natural forces in a way that provides benefit to someone or some group. Engineers try to ensure that this technology is used is as safe a fashion as possible. Minimization of risk. Planes stay in the air, bridges don't fall down, the water is safe to drink.
The article is hopelessly/.ed, so I'm not sure entirely what the IEEE is up to. However I would think that there is a definite need for accredited software engineers for software systems that would pose a hazard to life or limb by their failure. A control system for an oil refinery, or medical equipment, for example are no place for feature rich bloatware that needs to be re-booted once a day.
The other side of the responsibility coin is liability. Engineers must show due diligence and carry liability insurance. It would likely be easier to insure an accredited software engineer working on a mission critical system.
I'm anxious to see what might come out as accreditation criteria for software engineers. I hope it would require some knowledge of the larger technological context and social responsibility.
Thanks for the explanation. That's about the clearest answer I've heard to a question that's been bugging me for years.
Physics kicks ass, but it does get a bit tough on the noggin after a while.
Don't think it's available for anything other than OS X, but Omniweb has great javascript control. There is actually a setting to not execute a pop-up window unless it is from within the domain of the website you are at. Very slick, haven't seen an X-10 ad in a long time. Plus it has some sweet cookie handling options, like accept but don't save. (This may be old news on other browsers, but I've been stuck with IE for a long time.)
Only downside is I can't do my banking with it, but other than that it's the perfect browser for me.
The company I am contracting for just lifted it's travel ban, and had this comment in the memo:
The air travel reservation system, called Sabre is not functioning anywhere in North America because of damage to the transponder that was located in the New York World Trade Center. Odd that such a complicated system would have a single point of failure. Anyone have any further info on this?
I'm an old school engineer (chemical to be exact) and to me, there is one thing that defines for me what an engineer does: have a sense of social responsibility. Doctors and lawyers are responsible only to their respective clients. Engineers are the only professionals who are responsible to society as a whole.
Software engineering does neither. Nothing makes my skin crawl more than a MCSE calling themselves an engineer, in Canada we finally made that illegal. I make a mistake, and there is a big smoking crater and lots of dead people. I take that incredibly seriously. A software engineer makes a mistke, BSOD big deal! (Nothing critical to facility safety, in my experience, is controlled by software. It's all mechanical safety devices or discrete logic.)
Computer science I can accept as an science. But software engineering has no sense of responsibility to the end user, let alone the greater good.
Actually I saw a National Post on the way to work this morning with Bush Wins proclaimed on the cover. Looks like they changed their front page between editions.
The company I work for uses Dell's across the board. The latest desktop machines we have been getting are the "Small Form Factor Chassis" H: 3.6" W: 12.5" D: 14.9". They fit quite nicely in a backpack or briefcase.
It's a dirty little secret in the IS department that we lose a laptop every two months. I can't wait until one of these walks away.
That reformulated gasoline patent was absolutely bizzare. And I'm currently designing reformulated gasoline production facilities. The claims were basically a set of specifications with no real novel method of achieving them. I guess I shouldn't be surprised a patent was granted for this. After all the weird computer related patents brought to light, it's odd to see one for such a mature technology.
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Actually, you are doing your part to reinforce every stereotype I have ever held about americans.
BTW, you may want to check your own grammar. I'm pretty sure the contraction that is is that's.
Dick.
Please, please, please - try to take that on an airplane sometime as carry-on luggage. Bring a camera for the expression on the X-ray tech's face.
Or maybe I'm the only one who finds that hilarious.
Or Mr. Smarty Pants
All good news. Looks like I'll have to upgrade my Windows box and drag the Linux box up out of the stone age. Been too busy playing with the candy coated goodness of OS X to notice what else has been going on.
Drivers may not be that necessary. I borrowed a digital camera from my folks a couple of weeks ago, a Panasonic PDR M5 or something. Thought, just for the heck of it, I'd plug it into the USB port on my iMac DV without installing any drivers. Up pops the OS X Image Capture utility asking me what I want to do with these pictures from the camera. So cool.
Ya know, if you've been around /. long enough, this modded down comment is way funnier than the parent comment that got modded up.
Good point; Quoth Netcraft
The site www.doi.gov is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) on Solaris
Other sub-domains are Netscape Enterprise on Solaris and Lotus Domino on NT4/98.
Garrett Hardin proposed what is to me the same thesis 33 years ago in his paper The Tragedy of the Commons. Hardin was proposing a class of problems that had no technical solution, no matter how hard we looked for them, as they were moral problems. Specifically he was talking about growing populations taxing resources, but the analogy is fairly easily applied to "the internet as commons" model.
The 400 lb gorillas of IP are trying to maximise their utility gains from the internet while impacting the utility to others negatively. Good old utilitarianism.
Hardin goes on from there, but it has been a few years since I read the paper so I'm going to breeze through it again. I'm looking forward to picking up this book to see what new thinking it might bring to the analysis.
I'd be interested to hear from Mr. Lessig (as he seems to be posting here) how much his thesis was influenced by Hardin.
Go to www.segway.com and you'll get the standard IE "This page cannot be displayed" form with all sorts of helpful advice on why it can't.
Which is all well and good, except I am using Omniweb. Damn that freaked me out.
Let the conspiracy theories begin!
The CCPE got agreement from MS earlier this year that MSCE's in Canada can't call themselves Engineers. I think they can use the acronym, but not the full descriptor. More here.
And a simple 'Hello, World' program is about 3 lines of code.
Most engineered bridges can't be designed on a couple of sheets of paper any more than most programs can't be written in 3 lines of code.
Hardly a convincing supporting argument for "You are in general wrong."
I'd have to disagree with engineering being repeatable. Maybe in an outfit where you have to design the same widget day after day. But in an operating environment, there is a new problem to solve every day. If not every hour.
If something isn't working, I find it interesting to throw on a hard hat, go collect as much information as practical, and come up with a creative solution quickly. And tomorrow, somthing else will break, or need optimizing.
Background: I am a chemical engineer, and I currently work in water treatment. /.ed, so I'm not sure entirely what the IEEE is up to. However I would think that there is a definite need for accredited software engineers for software systems that would pose a hazard to life or limb by their failure. A control system for an oil refinery, or medical equipment, for example are no place for feature rich bloatware that needs to be re-booted once a day.
To me an essential part of engineering has always been a sense of responsibility to society as a whole. Technology is harnessing natural forces in a way that provides benefit to someone or some group. Engineers try to ensure that this technology is used is as safe a fashion as possible. Minimization of risk. Planes stay in the air, bridges don't fall down, the water is safe to drink.
The article is hopelessly
The other side of the responsibility coin is liability. Engineers must show due diligence and carry liability insurance. It would likely be easier to insure an accredited software engineer working on a mission critical system.
I'm anxious to see what might come out as accreditation criteria for software engineers. I hope it would require some knowledge of the larger technological context and social responsibility.
How else would you explain Cat Dynamics?
Check out the R&D page, makes Bonsai Kittens look downright cuddly.
Thanks for the explanation. That's about the clearest answer I've heard to a question that's been bugging me for years.
Physics kicks ass, but it does get a bit tough on the noggin after a while.
Don't think it's available for anything other than OS X, but Omniweb has great javascript control. There is actually a setting to not execute a pop-up window unless it is from within the domain of the website you are at. Very slick, haven't seen an X-10 ad in a long time. Plus it has some sweet cookie handling options, like accept but don't save. (This may be old news on other browsers, but I've been stuck with IE for a long time.)
Only downside is I can't do my banking with it, but other than that it's the perfect browser for me.
The company I am contracting for just lifted it's travel ban, and had this comment in the memo:
The air travel reservation system, called Sabre is not functioning anywhere in North America because of damage to the transponder that was located in the New York World Trade Center.
Odd that such a complicated system would have a single point of failure. Anyone have any further info on this?
I'm an old school engineer (chemical to be exact) and to me, there is one thing that defines for me what an engineer does: have a sense of social responsibility. Doctors and lawyers are responsible only to their respective clients. Engineers are the only professionals who are responsible to society as a whole.
Software engineering does neither. Nothing makes my skin crawl more than a MCSE calling themselves an engineer, in Canada we finally made that illegal. I make a mistake, and there is a big smoking crater and lots of dead people. I take that incredibly seriously. A software engineer makes a mistke, BSOD big deal!
(Nothing critical to facility safety, in my experience, is controlled by software. It's all mechanical safety devices or discrete logic.)
Computer science I can accept as an science. But software engineering has no sense of responsibility to the end user, let alone the greater good.
I think the next target for Slashdot's hard hitting brand of journalism should be Gene Ray, the Timecube guy.
Man, that Kibo guy gets around.
In the first paragraph, the article says that ICANN would be all for .biz and .dot. WTF would .dot be a TLD for?
Sun could be the dot in dot dot.
Slashdot dot dot?
Actually I saw a National Post on the way to work this morning with Bush Wins proclaimed on the cover. Looks like they changed their front page between editions.
The company I work for uses Dell's across the board. The latest desktop machines we have been getting are the "Small Form Factor Chassis" H: 3.6" W: 12.5" D: 14.9". They fit quite nicely in a backpack or briefcase.
It's a dirty little secret in the IS department that we lose a laptop every two months. I can't wait until one of these walks away.
That reformulated gasoline patent was absolutely bizzare. And I'm currently designing reformulated gasoline production facilities. The claims were basically a set of specifications with no real novel method of achieving them. I guess I shouldn't be surprised a patent was granted for this. After all the weird computer related patents brought to light, it's odd to see one for such a mature technology.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but Danny Hillis is trying to make a clock that will last 10,000 years.