We're saying here that a good strategy for a piece of softwares survival is to make it so bad that someone will be compelled to rewrite it?
No, we're saying that if your software is so bad that you actually have to apologize to people who bought it with cash than it might be a good survival strategy to rewrite it.
It's like blindfolding someone and then blaming them for not being able to catch a baseball pitch, facing away from the thrower, with their bare hands. Of course they won't be able to, if you take away every single useful tool for them to accomplish the task.
At least with vampires you don't have that whole smelling of formaldehyde thing going. Plus you have a perfectly legitimate excuse not to go out into the Big Blue Room.
Of course you've got that whole Damned For All Eternity (tm) thing going, but optimum solutions are always about finding the right engineering compromise.
And ya know, there's something really kinda creepy about typing this while watching the opening of Van Helsing on Encore, 'cause, like, I've read the reviews first.
Rather the causes include the facts that distributed storage is hard, and people don't like loosing their data.
Oh suuuuuuuuuure! That's what "they" want/i you to believe.
But the reality is that Norton bought up all the genetically engineered data storage pigeons and is keeping them in bondage in a secret aviary in Piscataway, NJ, colloquially refered to as Area "Wow! That's a lot of pigeon shit."
With a purpose-built tank, this hazard can be reduced or completely eliminated.
All liquid fuel "tanks" should be a puncture resistent, selfsealing bladder, with the "tank" itself simply an enclosure.
This is almost exactly what is used in conteporary hybrids, except that this car concept does away with the battery.
More than that, it does away with the conventional drive train as well, along with it's weight and friction. Instead of using one large electric motor positioned where the gas motor would be it has four smaller motors built directly into the wheel hubs.
I do not eliminate the battery entirely, merely reduce their number to the minimum. With the motors built into the hubs regenerative braking is a snap (and actually provide braking power) and a computer handles supplimenting electricity from the battery when and if it is advantagous to use it.
Now think about this, what if, instead of an internal combustion engine, you used a pedal turned generator? 1/4 hp electric motor built into the rear hub. A small battery for supplimental power when climbing hills, with regenerative charging on the way down.
And when you don't want to go anywhere you can just put it on a stand and jack your laptop into it.
There is no such thing as an oil powered car. They are internal combustion cars and run on anything that can be injected into the cylinder in a vapor state.
Such as bioalcohol. Or various gases. All Morgans sold in the United States for a number of years ran on propane. Same engine as in Morgans that ran on gasoline. All it requires is tuning for the particular fuel and with modern, computer controled fuel injection systems this can be accomplished automagically.
External "combustion" (steam/Sterling) cars can run on anything that generates heat. Like a Mr. Fusion.
Don't get me wrong. I love electric cars. The electric motor is the ideal for the purpose. It's just giving it its required motive power that's the bug in the ointment.
i.e., the battery problem.
One solution is to not use batteries. Since, as you point out, electric motors are energy source agnostic simply hook up a generator to an engine.
Electric cars are also no magic bullet. The car itself might well be zero emmissions, but the generation of the electricity is not (no, not even if you use solar cells to charge the batteries), and the electricity still needs to be generated.
At the current energy usage rate for motor transport (nevermind the rate at which usage is expanding) that inevitably means, oil, coal and nuclear, because we are using energy at a greater rate than we can extract energy from solar.
This does mean that certain individuals whose energy use patterns aren't typical can't benefit from a switch to an electric car, but most of those people have short commutes in climates with copious good weather; and there is already a superior motive technology to electric in such conditions.
...you'd just be a blank 'hole' in in the scene of the video...
Oh, yeah, now that would be inconspicuous!
Professionally I find the best course is to stand way out and let the cops get used to you as just another harmless eccentric, which, as it happens, is also what you want to do to make money as a street performer.
And, as it happens, I'm just another harmless eccentric, so that works out ok.
You're a street performing, bike riding, astronaut, cowboy, super secret agent, slashdotter, FAG!!!
I'm not an astronaut, I'm a rocket scientist. There's a difference. And you left out luthier. I make some of my own instruments. And clothes. Oh, and bicycles . ..and
Among the things I am. . .
Wait, let me come in again.
How do you do that?
By not wasting my life sitting in some fucking cubicle. I do things.
"Folk" music. Right now I'm concentrating on Irish fiddle, whistle and flute, with a little Old Timey and uke songs thrown in for spice, because it's easy to tour by bicycle that way. I like to bicycle.
If you ever see a guy standing by a bicycle and playing Irish fiddle while dressed in traditional Irish clothing (leine and braht), that's likely me. I don't think there are too many of us like that out there.
When I go by tour bus I'll throw in guitar and banjo, and maybe even a bit of piano now and then. Welcome to the digital instrument age. I also dress more "normal" then (if you call a black trench coat or duster "normal").
your dollar bills have unique serial numbers attached to it, so whoever spends the dollar bill can be traced.
I am a street performer. I live by the dollar bill. The dollar bills can be traced from bank to bank, but there is no way to trace the route from bank to bank through my pocket (and those dollar bills have been legally defined by the Supremes as gifts and donations).
When the bubble burst, there was a false impression that computer related fields were doomed.
Computer related fields grew a tumor. Some people will see the tumor and think doom.
But this tumor has a selfregulating mechanism limiting the extent to which it can grow. The tumor is under control and defective cells are being excised, although, I'm afraid, some healthy cells might have a bit of a rough time of it for awhile as well. That's the way it goes with excising tumors I'm afraid.
The people who got into CS because it was the "hot" field" will go on to bigger and better things in the food preperation industry. The people who got into CS because it's the only thing they could concieve of doing; and would pay for the priviledge if they had to, will, in the long run, remain. Someone has to do R&D, run the damned machines and write their programs. The machines are clearly not going to go away.
And we'll all be the better for it when the tumor is finally destroyed, even the people taking up their new positions in "frier technology." They weren't where they were supposed to be in the first place, which is never a recipe for happiness.
And, quite frankly, I think that feeding people is one of the highest callings. Line cooks have my respect, and waitstaff have my deepest respect and sympathy. I do not measure the value of a human being by their wage scale.
A good lunch is always of value and 99.9999999999999% of lines of code have none at best, and somebody's got to feed the poor, dumb code poets, who otherwise seem totally incapable of simply taking care of themselves.
Denying the right to copy the work of art is theft from the public domain. It denies the right to possess what is legitimately your property. Back in the day when the American copyright laws were being formulated the parties who were against it and the parties that were for it both understood this explicitly.
At any rate, this should prompt the 30-something crowd here and elsewhere to reflect on just what the hell they've been doing with thir careers while this guy becomes the CEO of Sun...
In the words of the great Tom Lehrer:
"It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age. ..he'd been dead for three years."
Naaaaaaaaaah! They're just doing a bit of "load balancing" to make up for the last time they kept posting story after story for hours after commenting was broken.
Slashdot Mirror
In democratic Russia the dumbass is you!
KFG
I'm surprised we haven't yet had a war on piracy.
It's not a war, it's a "police action."
And it's one, two three, what are we fightin' for?
Don't ask me I don't give damn
We hate mp3s and spam
KFG
Wii not?!
This is the answer that would have gotten you an F on Santayana's apocryphal philosophy final exam, because it is arbitrary.
Because.
This is the answer that would have gotten you an A, because it is reasoned.
OP fails. You get on the Dean's list.
KFG
We're saying here that a good strategy for a piece of softwares survival is to make it so bad that someone will be compelled to rewrite it?
No, we're saying that if your software is so bad that you actually have to apologize to people who bought it with cash than it might be a good survival strategy to rewrite it.
KFG
..it would be okay to give them to the proverbial "female".
Papers please. Drop your pants.
KFG
Are we that impressed by apocalyptic stories and high technology that we ignore the whole reason we're watching the show?
Boobs?
KFG
It's like blindfolding someone and then blaming them for not being able to catch a baseball pitch, facing away from the thrower, with their bare hands. Of course they won't be able to, if you take away every single useful tool for them to accomplish the task.
Bend over and spread 'em.
KFG
At least with vampires you don't have that whole smelling of formaldehyde thing going. Plus you have a perfectly legitimate excuse not to go out into the Big Blue Room.
Of course you've got that whole Damned For All Eternity (tm) thing going, but optimum solutions are always about finding the right engineering compromise.
And ya know, there's something really kinda creepy about typing this while watching the opening of Van Helsing on Encore, 'cause, like, I've read the reviews first.
KFG
How do you cut open someone's chest to fix a heart valve without there being blood?
Vampires.
KFG
The editor I hired after I sacked the last one, has been sacked.
KFG
Rather the causes include the facts that distributed storage is hard, and people don't like loosing their data.
Oh suuuuuuuuuure! That's what "they" want/i you to believe.
But the reality is that Norton bought up all the genetically engineered data storage pigeons and is keeping them in bondage in a secret aviary in Piscataway, NJ, colloquially refered to as Area "Wow! That's a lot of pigeon shit."
KFG
With a purpose-built tank, this hazard can be reduced or completely eliminated.
All liquid fuel "tanks" should be a puncture resistent, selfsealing bladder, with the "tank" itself simply an enclosure.
This is almost exactly what is used in conteporary hybrids, except that this car concept does away with the battery.
More than that, it does away with the conventional drive train as well, along with it's weight and friction. Instead of using one large electric motor positioned where the gas motor would be it has four smaller motors built directly into the wheel hubs.
I do not eliminate the battery entirely, merely reduce their number to the minimum. With the motors built into the hubs regenerative braking is a snap (and actually provide braking power) and a computer handles supplimenting electricity from the battery when and if it is advantagous to use it.
Now think about this, what if, instead of an internal combustion engine, you used a pedal turned generator? 1/4 hp electric motor built into the rear hub. A small battery for supplimental power when climbing hills, with regenerative charging on the way down.
And when you don't want to go anywhere you can just put it on a stand and jack your laptop into it.
KFG
Oil-powered cars require oil
There is no such thing as an oil powered car. They are internal combustion cars and run on anything that can be injected into the cylinder in a vapor state.
Such as bioalcohol. Or various gases. All Morgans sold in the United States for a number of years ran on propane. Same engine as in Morgans that ran on gasoline. All it requires is tuning for the particular fuel and with modern, computer controled fuel injection systems this can be accomplished automagically.
External "combustion" (steam/Sterling) cars can run on anything that generates heat. Like a Mr. Fusion.
Don't get me wrong. I love electric cars. The electric motor is the ideal for the purpose. It's just giving it its required motive power that's the bug in the ointment.
i.e., the battery problem.
One solution is to not use batteries. Since, as you point out, electric motors are energy source agnostic simply hook up a generator to an engine.
Electric cars are also no magic bullet. The car itself might well be zero emmissions, but the generation of the electricity is not (no, not even if you use solar cells to charge the batteries), and the electricity still needs to be generated.
At the current energy usage rate for motor transport (nevermind the rate at which usage is expanding) that inevitably means, oil, coal and nuclear, because we are using energy at a greater rate than we can extract energy from solar.
This does mean that certain individuals whose energy use patterns aren't typical can't benefit from a switch to an electric car, but most of those people have short commutes in climates with copious good weather; and there is already a superior motive technology to electric in such conditions.
KFG
...you'd just be a blank 'hole' in in the scene of the video...
Oh, yeah, now that would be inconspicuous!
Professionally I find the best course is to stand way out and let the cops get used to you as just another harmless eccentric, which, as it happens, is also what you want to do to make money as a street performer.
And, as it happens, I'm just another harmless eccentric, so that works out ok.
KFG
The video cameras taping everything you do pick up the serial numbers as the bills are being handed to you.
I fool them, I spray paint the bills flat black.
But yes, they are in the process of installing several hundred surviellence video cameras in areas of Manhatten which I am known to frequent.
KFG
You're a street performing, bike riding, astronaut, cowboy, super secret agent, slashdotter, FAG!!!
.and
I'm not an astronaut, I'm a rocket scientist. There's a difference. And you left out luthier. I make some of my own instruments. And clothes. Oh, and bicycles . .
Among the things I am. . .
Wait, let me come in again.
How do you do that?
By not wasting my life sitting in some fucking cubicle. I do things.
KFG
"Folk" music. Right now I'm concentrating on Irish fiddle, whistle and flute, with a little Old Timey and uke songs thrown in for spice, because it's easy to tour by bicycle that way. I like to bicycle.
If you ever see a guy standing by a bicycle and playing Irish fiddle while dressed in traditional Irish clothing (leine and braht), that's likely me. I don't think there are too many of us like that out there.
When I go by tour bus I'll throw in guitar and banjo, and maybe even a bit of piano now and then. Welcome to the digital instrument age. I also dress more "normal" then (if you call a black trench coat or duster "normal").
KFG
your dollar bills have unique serial numbers attached to it, so whoever spends the dollar bill can be traced.
I am a street performer. I live by the dollar bill. The dollar bills can be traced from bank to bank, but there is no way to trace the route from bank to bank through my pocket (and those dollar bills have been legally defined by the Supremes as gifts and donations).
And I like it that way.
KFG
Don't say that, it will give Management some stupid ideas.
People who pay their own way do not suffer from the tumor of management.
Think about it.
KFG
When the bubble burst, there was a false impression that computer related fields were doomed.
Computer related fields grew a tumor. Some people will see the tumor and think doom.
But this tumor has a selfregulating mechanism limiting the extent to which it can grow. The tumor is under control and defective cells are being excised, although, I'm afraid, some healthy cells might have a bit of a rough time of it for awhile as well. That's the way it goes with excising tumors I'm afraid.
The people who got into CS because it was the "hot" field" will go on to bigger and better things in the food preperation industry. The people who got into CS because it's the only thing they could concieve of doing; and would pay for the priviledge if they had to, will, in the long run, remain. Someone has to do R&D, run the damned machines and write their programs. The machines are clearly not going to go away.
And we'll all be the better for it when the tumor is finally destroyed, even the people taking up their new positions in "frier technology." They weren't where they were supposed to be in the first place, which is never a recipe for happiness.
And, quite frankly, I think that feeding people is one of the highest callings. Line cooks have my respect, and waitstaff have my deepest respect and sympathy. I do not measure the value of a human being by their wage scale.
A good lunch is always of value and 99.9999999999999% of lines of code have none at best, and somebody's got to feed the poor, dumb code poets, who otherwise seem totally incapable of simply taking care of themselves.
KFG
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183808&cid=151 80750
Copying the work of art is not theft.
Denying the right to copy the work of art is theft from the public domain. It denies the right to possess what is legitimately your property. Back in the day when the American copyright laws were being formulated the parties who were against it and the parties that were for it both understood this explicitly.
KFG
scooter could have declared victory with better timing a few years back.
Ah! But if timing were Scooter's forte; he could have declared victory a few years back.
KFG
At any rate, this should prompt the 30-something crowd here and elsewhere to reflect on just what the hell they've been doing with thir careers while this guy becomes the CEO of Sun...
.he'd been dead for three years."
In the words of the great Tom Lehrer:
"It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age. .
KFG
Naaaaaaaaaah! They're just doing a bit of "load balancing" to make up for the last time they kept posting story after story for hours after commenting was broken.
KFG
Just wait until they patent it and come after your hemoglobin.
KFG