I work for a company that is really pushing to do business in China which I find hypocritical considering we try to uphold such a high standard of ethics and conduct but we're more than willing to bend over backwards to get China into the WTO.
I can't understand the push for China but there is no push to do business in India which may not have as many people as China but still is very populous.
According to legend handed down during Motorola brain... er... training, the idea for Iridium came from some VPs wife who couldn't use her cell phone to make a phone call in the Carribean. The VP came up with this concept for a cellular phone that would work anywhere in the world.
10 years, billions of dollars later...
An engineer in the group I work in took an Iridium phone with him to the Carribean a few months ago to try it out. He tried to make a phone call... it didn't work.
I think the big caveat is at the end of the article which seems to suggest that a compiler for this kind of architecture might be really difficult to develop and have it meet the theoretical performance gains by going to this new architecture.
One thing that troubled me about the Handy 21 example: the author states that he has a pager, a cell phone and a Palm Pilot. He could tell his Handy 21 to become one of those devices. Wouldn't he rather have a device that did ALL of those things? Ummm... I think Motorola has a CDMA Star Tac with a Rex clip on that does all of that and more. Today. Not in the "near future".
Along those same lines, can this architecture be used for general purpose computing? Or for that matter, multitasking? What's the use of having an architecture that can be highly specialized if you're trying to do non specific things with it?
I really didn't buy the article. It all seemed way too pie-in-the-sky with no real accomplishments and nothing new to report.
Sure if you're looking for the skill set du jour (which is of course dictated by the Bay Area). Not every single programming job involves the internet or e-commerce.
If you want programmers that are familiar with financial or commodities applications (there is some pretty high tech stuff being done in this area), you're not going to find them in Silicon Valley. Try New York or Chicago.
There are whole high tech areas in Austin and Boston. The number of programmers outside the Bay Area far outweighs the number inside. Only the people inside the Bay Area think they are the center of the high-tech universe. And there are other sources for venture capital than the Bay Area.
The Bay Area economy is eventually going to collapse upon itself. There is an article in last week's U.S. News and World Report about the housing shortage and how the skyrocketing rents and house prices are causing extreme pressure on those whose salaries are not based on technology.
Bwhahaha... this implies that Andreessen might have actually been in charge of SOMETHING over at Netscape other than writing his little crystal ball insights on how groupware was going to change the future.
What if you have to write a large web application?
Basically, what you're saying is that you don't have to rewrite the foundations of a web server to have a web application. Okay, I agree with you but still there is a lot of work involved in large applications to model the business process, analyze requirements, create an architecture (yes, architecture is more than just picking which web server to use), etc.
Granted, you don't need to do all of the artifacts in all of the development phases for a project but UML still has a place in most OO projects. If you are working in a team, the diagrams are best for communicating how the application will work and will be structured. If the application will be enhanced at a later date, you have a collection of documentation (through UML) that hopefully will make it easier which classes would have to be modified, which use cases and scenarios have changed, etc.
And if you get hit by a truck the UML documentation will allow whoever replaces you to make heads or tails of your code. Sometimes comments just don't cut it to see the overall interaction between objects.
I'd consider getting ConcentricDSL but their map of cities with coverage is extremely geographically challenged.
I'm not sure I would want to order DSL from a company that doesn't know that Washington DC is not in North Carolina and Chicago is not on the Mississippi.
Of course there isn't a email address on any of the web pages to let them know that their map is severely wrong.
They're based in California too so that explains why they have trouble with geography east of Lake Tahoe.
Apparently you've never been threatened with "you'll never work in this town again"-esque punishments for quiting a job.
I find some of the attitudes of employeers equally unprofessional.
I also like to be called stupid for quiting a job at a company that everybody was certain to get rich at. Two years later, the stock still hasn't moved.:)
I have an idea on how to avoid all of that depravity on the net...
Don't go there.
Seems pretty easy to me. How often have you typed www.yahoo.com into your browser and ended up with hardcore porn?
Statements like the above post still make people who aren't net savvy think that all you have to do is be logged in to your ISP and then you are bombarded with porn. That's what the authors of the CDA thought actually happened and that is why they thought they needed to "protect" children.
If you can't take responsibility for yourself, your children, your businesses (and churches) then why should the government do it for you?
"New videos from Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Missy Elliott, R. Kelly, Jennifer Lopez and Will Smith are all set to premiere on the channel. Kicking off the premieres is ``Duel of the Fates'' from Star Wars: Episode 1-The Phantom Menace..."
Be careful who you share that fact with however. I mentioned this to some people I had been exchanging email on the subject and suddenly I became the most evil person on the planet. None of these people however had ever been in the same situation. High school was probably the high point of their lives so far.
As somebody else posted above, understanding someones actions does not condone it. I think Katz's articles and everybody's responses have probably been the closest I have seen to date about what is REALLY wrong with our schools.
I think it is in our best interest to figure out a way to make sure that kids like these two do not fall through the cracks. We need to make sure that they do not feel like they are alone and to at least given them hope that it will get better.
This web site is yet another in a growing number of them that insist you have your web browser open to a certain size (this one looks like 800x600) in order for it to layout properly.
Ugh. No thank you. I don't want my web browser to take up 3/4 of the screen.
Here here! As with typical Bay Area thinking, if it didn't happen inside the Valley, it never happened.
I think the worst thing I ever read about the WELL was the article in Wired awhile back detailing the oh so melodramatic events over the WELL's history.
Please. The article treated it like it was some unique thing. Many of the BBS of the 80's were a lot like this especially the ones that had a close nit group. The only thing that made the WELL special was the fact that isn't of ordinary people, it was famous people.
I find the fact that ordinary people form communities through BBSs in the past and chat rooms/web sites now a much more interesting story about human nature and society.
And the type of people who find the WELL influential and important are the same type of people who stand in line at the new trendy dance club trying to get in so they can hang with the "in" people. They need to define their own opinion over what is influential and important.
The moderation system sounds really great. I'm sure that a lot of coding went into making it work...
The question I have is whether or not moderator actions are being tracked...
I don't think we're worried about abuse and all that. I think the moderation concept could possibly be a very interesting study in group filtering and collaboration.
Some interesting things to look at:
1) The kinds of posts that were marked down. 2) The kinds of posts that were marked up. 3) Do moderator use most of their points to market posts down? 4) Do they use most of them to market posts up?
If there are any sociologists or pschologists out there, here is the basis for a paper.:)
From the declaration, it just read to me that this guy had too many high expectations from a language that should only be used for rapid prototyping or small limited applications. It shouldn't be used to develop anything complex.
Unfortunately, there are many management types who don't understand that Rapid Application Development languages might help you get things rolling but the quality and robustness of the code and applications will not hold up in the long run with enhancements and other changes.
Slashdot Mirror
I work for a company that is really pushing to do business in China which I find hypocritical considering we try to uphold such a high standard of ethics and conduct but we're more than willing to bend over backwards to get China into the WTO.
I can't understand the push for China but there is no push to do business in India which may not have as many people as China but still is very populous.
Excuse my ignorance but what is a SPR?
The word is womEn
:)
I think Slashdot needs a spellchecker.
According to legend handed down during Motorola brain... er... training, the idea for Iridium came from some VPs wife who couldn't use her cell phone to make a phone call in the Carribean. The VP came up with this concept for a cellular phone that would work anywhere in the world.
10 years, billions of dollars later...
An engineer in the group I work in took an Iridium phone with him to the Carribean a few months ago to try it out. He tried to make a phone call... it didn't work.
If you think things in Silicon Valley (except for gas and rent) are the same as the rest of the country, you haven't really lived anywhere else.
Are you the overweight, pimple-faced, poorly dressed person in your post?
Somebody needs a hug.
Chris
I think the big caveat is at the end of the article which seems to suggest that a compiler for this kind of architecture might be really difficult to develop and have it meet the theoretical performance gains by going to this new architecture.
One thing that troubled me about the Handy 21 example: the author states that he has a pager, a cell phone and a Palm Pilot. He could tell his Handy 21 to become one of those devices. Wouldn't he rather have a device that did ALL of those things? Ummm... I think Motorola has a CDMA Star Tac with a Rex clip on that does all of that and more. Today. Not in the "near future".
Along those same lines, can this architecture be used for general purpose computing? Or for that matter, multitasking? What's the use of having an architecture that can be highly specialized if you're trying to do non specific things with it?
I really didn't buy the article. It all seemed way too pie-in-the-sky with no real accomplishments and nothing new to report.
Sure if you're looking for the skill set du jour (which is of course dictated by the Bay Area). Not every single programming job involves the internet or e-commerce.
If you want programmers that are familiar with financial or commodities applications (there is some pretty high tech stuff being done in this area), you're not going to find them in Silicon Valley. Try New York or Chicago.
There are whole high tech areas in Austin and Boston. The number of programmers outside the Bay Area far outweighs the number inside. Only the people inside the Bay Area think they are the center of the high-tech universe. And there are other sources for venture capital than the Bay Area.
The Bay Area economy is eventually going to collapse upon itself. There is an article in last week's U.S. News and World Report about the housing shortage and how the skyrocketing rents and house prices are causing extreme pressure on those whose salaries are not based on technology.
Bwhahaha... this implies that Andreessen might have actually been in charge of SOMETHING over at Netscape other than writing his little crystal ball insights on how groupware was going to change the future.
What if you have to write a large web application?
Basically, what you're saying is that you don't have to rewrite the foundations of a web server to have a web application. Okay, I agree with you but still there is a lot of work involved in large applications to model the business process, analyze requirements, create an architecture (yes, architecture is more than just picking which web server to use), etc.
Granted, you don't need to do all of the artifacts in all of the development phases for a project but UML still has a place in most OO projects. If you are working in a team, the diagrams are best for communicating how the application will work and will be structured. If the application will be enhanced at a later date, you have a collection of documentation (through UML) that hopefully will make it easier which classes would have to be modified, which use cases and scenarios have changed, etc.
And if you get hit by a truck the UML documentation will allow whoever replaces you to make heads or tails of your code. Sometimes comments just don't cut it to see the overall interaction between objects.
I think posts should be downgraded for using words like zeitgeist.
:)
Same thing goes for gestalt.
Chris
Looks like the map has been fixed since the last time I saw it...
:)
Washington is still in North Carolina though.
I'd consider getting ConcentricDSL but their map of cities with coverage is extremely geographically challenged.
I'm not sure I would want to order DSL from a company that doesn't know that Washington DC is not in North Carolina and Chicago is not on the Mississippi.
Of course there isn't a email address on any of the web pages to let them know that their map is severely wrong.
They're based in California too so that explains why they have trouble with geography east of Lake Tahoe.
Apparently you've never been threatened with "you'll never work in this town again"-esque punishments for quiting a job.
:)
I find some of the attitudes of employeers equally unprofessional.
I also like to be called stupid for quiting a job at a company that everybody was certain to get rich at. Two years later, the stock still hasn't moved.
I have an idea on how to avoid all of that depravity on the net...
Don't go there.
Seems pretty easy to me. How often have you typed www.yahoo.com into your browser and ended up with hardcore porn?
Statements like the above post still make people who aren't net savvy think that all you have to do is be logged in to your ISP and then you are bombarded with porn. That's what the authors of the CDA thought actually happened and that is why they thought they needed to "protect" children.
If you can't take responsibility for yourself, your children, your businesses (and churches) then why should the government do it for you?
Chris
"New videos from Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Missy Elliott, R. Kelly, Jennifer Lopez and Will
:)
Smith are all set to premiere on the channel. Kicking off the premieres is ``Duel of the Fates'' from Star Wars: Episode 1-The Phantom Menace..."
One of these things is not like the others...
Be careful who you share that fact with however. I mentioned this to some people I had been exchanging email on the subject and suddenly I became the most evil person on the planet. None of these people however had ever been in the same situation. High school was probably the high point of their lives so far.
As somebody else posted above, understanding someones actions does not condone it. I think Katz's articles and everybody's responses have probably been the closest I have seen to date about what is REALLY wrong with our schools.
I think it is in our best interest to figure out a way to make sure that kids like these two do not fall through the cracks. We need to make sure that they do not feel like they are alone and to at least given them hope that it will get better.
Isn't this a punchline to a Yakoff Smirnov joke:
"In America, you watch television. In my country, TV watches you!"
"In America, you go to party. In my country, Party comes to you!"
I haven't heard anything about Clerks but a Mallrats Special Edition DVD is supposed to be out July 20th.
This web site is yet another in a growing number of them that insist you have your web browser open to a certain size (this one looks like 800x600) in order for it to layout properly.
Ugh. No thank you. I don't want my web browser to take up 3/4 of the screen.
Chris
Here here! As with typical Bay Area thinking, if it didn't happen inside the Valley, it never happened.
I think the worst thing I ever read about the WELL was the article in Wired awhile back detailing the oh so melodramatic events over the WELL's history.
Please. The article treated it like it was some unique thing. Many of the BBS of the 80's were a lot like this especially the ones that had a close nit group. The only thing that made the WELL special was the fact that isn't of ordinary people, it was famous people.
I find the fact that ordinary people form communities through BBSs in the past and chat rooms/web sites now a much more interesting story about human nature and society.
And the type of people who find the WELL influential and important are the same type of people who stand in line at the new trendy dance club trying to get in so they can hang with the "in" people. They need to define their own opinion over what is influential and important.
The moderation system sounds really great. I'm sure that a lot of coding went into making it work...
:)
The question I have is whether or not moderator actions are being tracked...
I don't think we're worried about abuse and all that. I think the moderation concept could possibly be a very interesting study in group filtering and collaboration.
Some interesting things to look at:
1) The kinds of posts that were marked down.
2) The kinds of posts that were marked up.
3) Do moderator use most of their points to market posts down?
4) Do they use most of them to market posts up?
If there are any sociologists or pschologists out there, here is the basis for a paper.
From the declaration, it just read to me that this guy had too many high expectations from a language that should only be used for rapid prototyping or small limited applications. It shouldn't be used to develop anything complex.
Unfortunately, there are many management types who don't understand that Rapid Application Development languages might help you get things rolling but the quality and robustness of the code and applications will not hold up in the long run with enhancements and other changes.