Have you ever seen devs get anything done sitting around a table? We call those a waste of time, aka meetings where I come frome.
In my experience having worked 20 years as a software developer, having experienced private office, home office, cubeville, bullpens, and all manner of craziness... the idea of having four devs around a single table is really just upper management saying "how cheap can we be on accomodations?" or "I'm paranoid as hell and think my devs are not productive because they are playing games and surfing pr0n so I want to watch them."
Not all people are able to concentrate on tasks with a lot of racket and distractions around them, that takes a special breed. I took a job with a former submarine commander at his company and he loved working right in the midst of a ridiculously loud customer service bullpen, and tried to get me to work in that. It was his expectation. I tried for a week or two to figure out how to manage, but I couldn't stand it and walked. What a waste of time.
Bar none, private offices are superior. Second to that, working from home. Third... high wall cubes. Last and in my opinion the least thoughtful is a bullpen where everything is open air, its very noise, and very distracting.
Having devs sitting around a table? Even worse. I like my privacy, and need to be able to tune out.
Go visit http://www.mokafive.com/
Their vm operates on thumb drives and can house any flavor of OS you want. Also has the added bonus of security, versioning of vms, and streaming.
I suppose it wouldn't make sense for Google to take some responsibility for essentially aiding and abetting this activity. Turning a blind eye to abuse would be akin to that.
What market do you live in? I couldn't even use 3G in the San Francisco Bay Area and I sure can't use it in Phoenix. It drops calls like mad! Naturally I only discovered how utterly congested the network was until AFTER I'd shelled out $249.99 for my iPhone 3G. Advertisers won that round.
Oracle's bread and butter is data storage management, consulting, and services. Small fry (independent developers, small businesses) cannot afford these services. Medium to Big business and government agencies cannot afford NOT to have these services. Open source solutions provide a way for small businesses to grow into big businesses. I can also envision an argument centered around limiting revenue to competitors as a result of maintaining state of the art OSS...In effect it could be thought of as an anti-competitive strategy. It would therefore be in Oracle's best long term interest to maintain OSS products and provide a gateway to their own services in a structured manner which includes support.
Secondly, the talent pool available to tech companies is kept consistently high and is of excellent quality due to the availability of OSS. Before the rise of OSS it was common to reverse engineer applications from native code (anyone remember coding in assembly?) and as a result there were fewer programmers with state of the art knowledge. There are numerous arguments possible here.
This is akin to slapping a Honda motor into a Chrysler body with Toyota ignition and response electronics.
I fear for the child and the descendants of this process. They are a guinea pig. As long as genetically the individuals are very closely related I could see this working relatively well... and a healthy child being the result... but this type of effort is misguided and frankly selfish.
There is a reason people cannot have children, and its part of the selection process.
There are aspects of recombination and expression which are essentially unknown or very poorly understood at best. This is foolish.
I've been watching the development of Project Offset for at least 3 years. Sam McGrath and Co. are doing great things. The stuff that was shown was built way before Intel bought into them.
ROI is a misleading concept. You can't just figure ROI based on your PG&E bill over 30 years time. With traditional energy production methods costs have historically been subsidized and not even fully account for ecologic damage. Energy production costs do not include costs associated with recovering from previous CO2 emissions. What will the full cost be? It will have to include costs associated with cleanup from radioactive waste treatment, land, homes, and other associated economic losses due to rising sea levels, and so on. Cost of energy as it currently is produced will prove to be incredibly expensive.
1) Natural gas is the most abundant and clean burning hydrocarbon on the planet.
2) It is clean burning, meaning it will not release as any waste hydrocarbons or as much CO2 into the atmosphere. ergo "green"
3) It is a new technology. As demand rises, costs will come down.
My gut is telling me that true ROI all things considered would be 5-10 years, not 30.
Is the Vatican funding this? Considering all the terrible news that I get bombarded with, including university closures, tuition costs, and incredibly poorly paid teachers... that funding is available for yet another fancy telescope just kind of makes me wonder.
I don't think "successful" is the word I would use...
It is a cliche' that the "course of history" is altered by X or Y events or Z disease. In motion, the future is. Disease is fundamental to evolution.
Point taken.
Utilizing the results of multiple models via bootstrap is nothing new. The term "ensemble" as applied just.... makes me have to deal with a new way which really annoys me.
An ensemble as typically defined is a group of musicians working together in harmony. As applied in statistical modeling it is a process which selects the model which fits the data the best. Thus it it makes me irate as my understanding is in opposition with its classical use.
The housing bubble burst and splattered me all over the place financially.
Our economy has many systemic problems which defy conventional classification in my opinion. I can't be more helpful than that, and I do not trust pat economotrician answers that I've heard on the talking-head shows.
I have been a developer since the 80's. There are so many trendy cute buzzwords flying around (cloud computing...what the ****?), "mashups", "ensemble", etc. Can't we just call it what it is instead of this marketing crap? So tired of it.
Think of the bias in this. The people who "buy" the remote watch what kind of TV? And what of the potential lawsuits when people who didn't really "get it" realize they have been tracked.
Speaking of which, when are supermarkets gonna starting twittering my groceries? Holy cow I just bought a pack of Trojans. What will mom think?
Recession means "lack" of spending behavior, not "lack" of money. Often spending on promising technologies has important spin-off applications which bolster the economy / people spend money.
Why go after Sheriff Joe when it is in fact the electorate and the knee-jerk politicians who pander to them who create the situation that promulgates what can be perceived as abuse by law enforcement?
Sweeping generalities regarding the state of America aside, Joe Arpaio is doing his job enforcing the law. It just so happens that he pays little attention to politics in doing so, thus coming across as though he were brazen. What this underscores, in my view, is that law makers should more carefully consider their laws passed with the "hick" mentality.
The sensibilities of a rather vociferous segment of America are mis-educated. yes I said it. Mis-educated. Bible thumpers.
In my experience, having lived in Arizona, and in Phoenix within his jurisdiction for well over 15 years, the only people who dislike sheriff Joe are those who have been busted by him, or have reason to be afraid.
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I used toothpicks and duct tape before all this new fangled Ecmascript and whatever-format-you-care-about naming it after a famous Greek warrior.
Have you ever seen devs get anything done sitting around a table? We call those a waste of time, aka meetings where I come frome. In my experience having worked 20 years as a software developer, having experienced private office, home office, cubeville, bullpens, and all manner of craziness... the idea of having four devs around a single table is really just upper management saying "how cheap can we be on accomodations?" or "I'm paranoid as hell and think my devs are not productive because they are playing games and surfing pr0n so I want to watch them." Not all people are able to concentrate on tasks with a lot of racket and distractions around them, that takes a special breed. I took a job with a former submarine commander at his company and he loved working right in the midst of a ridiculously loud customer service bullpen, and tried to get me to work in that. It was his expectation. I tried for a week or two to figure out how to manage, but I couldn't stand it and walked. What a waste of time. Bar none, private offices are superior. Second to that, working from home. Third... high wall cubes. Last and in my opinion the least thoughtful is a bullpen where everything is open air, its very noise, and very distracting. Having devs sitting around a table? Even worse. I like my privacy, and need to be able to tune out.
Go visit http://www.mokafive.com/ Their vm operates on thumb drives and can house any flavor of OS you want. Also has the added bonus of security, versioning of vms, and streaming.
I suppose it wouldn't make sense for Google to take some responsibility for essentially aiding and abetting this activity. Turning a blind eye to abuse would be akin to that.
What market do you live in? I couldn't even use 3G in the San Francisco Bay Area and I sure can't use it in Phoenix. It drops calls like mad! Naturally I only discovered how utterly congested the network was until AFTER I'd shelled out $249.99 for my iPhone 3G. Advertisers won that round.
Oracle's bread and butter is data storage management, consulting, and services. Small fry (independent developers, small businesses) cannot afford these services. Medium to Big business and government agencies cannot afford NOT to have these services. Open source solutions provide a way for small businesses to grow into big businesses. I can also envision an argument centered around limiting revenue to competitors as a result of maintaining state of the art OSS...In effect it could be thought of as an anti-competitive strategy. It would therefore be in Oracle's best long term interest to maintain OSS products and provide a gateway to their own services in a structured manner which includes support. Secondly, the talent pool available to tech companies is kept consistently high and is of excellent quality due to the availability of OSS. Before the rise of OSS it was common to reverse engineer applications from native code (anyone remember coding in assembly?) and as a result there were fewer programmers with state of the art knowledge. There are numerous arguments possible here.
This is akin to slapping a Honda motor into a Chrysler body with Toyota ignition and response electronics. I fear for the child and the descendants of this process. They are a guinea pig. As long as genetically the individuals are very closely related I could see this working relatively well... and a healthy child being the result... but this type of effort is misguided and frankly selfish. There is a reason people cannot have children, and its part of the selection process. There are aspects of recombination and expression which are essentially unknown or very poorly understood at best. This is foolish.
Everytime I hear Sarah Palin gives me tourette's. Can I sue Fox "News"?
Well said! I cannot improve upon your summary.
Thats a very intelligent argument. Perhaps you can share it with the afflicted people.
I also would like to add that Red5 Studios is using the Offset engine with a MMO project they have I believe in Korea / Asia.
I've been watching the development of Project Offset for at least 3 years. Sam McGrath and Co. are doing great things. The stuff that was shown was built way before Intel bought into them.
ROI is a misleading concept. You can't just figure ROI based on your PG&E bill over 30 years time. With traditional energy production methods costs have historically been subsidized and not even fully account for ecologic damage. Energy production costs do not include costs associated with recovering from previous CO2 emissions. What will the full cost be? It will have to include costs associated with cleanup from radioactive waste treatment, land, homes, and other associated economic losses due to rising sea levels, and so on. Cost of energy as it currently is produced will prove to be incredibly expensive. 1) Natural gas is the most abundant and clean burning hydrocarbon on the planet. 2) It is clean burning, meaning it will not release as any waste hydrocarbons or as much CO2 into the atmosphere. ergo "green" 3) It is a new technology. As demand rises, costs will come down. My gut is telling me that true ROI all things considered would be 5-10 years, not 30.
Is the Vatican funding this? Considering all the terrible news that I get bombarded with, including university closures, tuition costs, and incredibly poorly paid teachers... that funding is available for yet another fancy telescope just kind of makes me wonder.
The incompetence of the legal system has no lower bound.
I don't think "successful" is the word I would use... It is a cliche' that the "course of history" is altered by X or Y events or Z disease. In motion, the future is. Disease is fundamental to evolution.
Point taken. Utilizing the results of multiple models via bootstrap is nothing new. The term "ensemble" as applied just .... makes me have to deal with a new way which really annoys me.
An ensemble as typically defined is a group of musicians working together in harmony. As applied in statistical modeling it is a process which selects the model which fits the data the best. Thus it it makes me irate as my understanding is in opposition with its classical use.
The housing bubble burst and splattered me all over the place financially. Our economy has many systemic problems which defy conventional classification in my opinion. I can't be more helpful than that, and I do not trust pat economotrician answers that I've heard on the talking-head shows.
I have been a developer since the 80's. There are so many trendy cute buzzwords flying around (cloud computing...what the ****?), "mashups", "ensemble", etc. Can't we just call it what it is instead of this marketing crap? So tired of it.
I honestly don't know what the heck is going on in the US! It's a clusterf***.
Great! Now I can tell my wife "See? Video games > TV."
Think of the bias in this. The people who "buy" the remote watch what kind of TV? And what of the potential lawsuits when people who didn't really "get it" realize they have been tracked. Speaking of which, when are supermarkets gonna starting twittering my groceries? Holy cow I just bought a pack of Trojans. What will mom think?
Recession means "lack" of spending behavior, not "lack" of money. Often spending on promising technologies has important spin-off applications which bolster the economy / people spend money.
Why go after Sheriff Joe when it is in fact the electorate and the knee-jerk politicians who pander to them who create the situation that promulgates what can be perceived as abuse by law enforcement? Sweeping generalities regarding the state of America aside, Joe Arpaio is doing his job enforcing the law. It just so happens that he pays little attention to politics in doing so, thus coming across as though he were brazen. What this underscores, in my view, is that law makers should more carefully consider their laws passed with the "hick" mentality. The sensibilities of a rather vociferous segment of America are mis-educated. yes I said it. Mis-educated. Bible thumpers.
In my experience, having lived in Arizona, and in Phoenix within his jurisdiction for well over 15 years, the only people who dislike sheriff Joe are those who have been busted by him, or have reason to be afraid.