And to assume that even a collection of highly skilled professionals will somehow instantly become a wonderful orchestra is equally arrogant. It takes time, much rehearsal, a great conductor and great section coaches to produce an ensemble capable of truly brilliant music.
Shop around. There are tons of CDs out of performances at the level we're likely to get here, usually for a couple bucks each. I applaud the effort, but let's be realistic about our expectations.
Larry has always wanted to own the whole stack (viz., funding Pillar), but he doesn't seem to believe in standing in the way of realities. The majority of his company's data runs on NetApp storage. NetApp has something like an entire division focused on Oracle installations. And both Larry and Georgens are smart enough to figure out that you can make at least 100 times as much money selling product together as you can suing each other.
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You know how dumb the average guy is, right? Well, by definition, half of them are dumber than that.
recipes =~ waterfall code development
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Cooking For Geeks
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Great cooking, like great coding, involves intuition; there's more to it than specs and training.
As in programming, slavishly following a recipe, down to scraping the extra salt off the teaspoon measure, will get you acceptable results. It will only rarely give you spectacular results.
Great cooking involves (1) using the best ingredients, which may mean paying more for them, (2) understanding how the ingredients each cook, how they cook together, and how the flavors combine, and (3) having a reasonable idea of what you want the outcome to be. A recipe can help with this. But if it could substitute for it, then food out of a can would be as great as the real thing. But canned food is like the product of waterfall development, which regards coding as a clerical skill. It may get the job done, but it doesn't inspire.
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Real men eat anything they like. Including quiche.
Everyone switching to Ubuntu probably ain't gonna happen. But some people will, and others to Debian, RHEL, SUSE, and a half dozen others. Why, testing against Linux has gotten as complicated as testing against Microsoft. What's not to love about that, if you're Microsoft?
It takes the human brain a couple dozen years to get educated to a point where it's useful for things more complicated than driving bison off a cliff and kicking soccer balls around. During most of that time it is under a process of continuous development. Even assuming we can build them, how long will it take these simulated brains to become fully developed, I wonder?
If any construction or remodeling has been done lately then new building syndrome should be considered. Cabinets, desks and carpets all outgas some pretty weird shit the first year (formaldehyde, vinyl derivatives, etc.), Even some kinds of paint and vinyl wallpapers can be pretty rough on young bodies.
The heck with one vs. two spaces. One vs. two 'o's, now that's a battle. Last I checked, two was winning.
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echo "Be ye in this world, but not of this world." | sed s/world/shit/g
Agree in priniciple, but I find the glib reaction here to the leak of actual names of informers worrisome (I apologize if this is getting off topic, but the case can be made that the actions of these Army officers are far less important than the motivating circumstances). The leak of _one_ name (Valerie Plame) sent the "liberal press" into contortions of fury, but we conveniently overlook the leak of Afghani supporters' names, some of whom are now possibly dead. Wtf?
The "conservative press" could do us all a favor, btw, and document some of these deaths, instead of just working itself up into similar contortions of fury over the matter.
But whether or not any actual damage is done, the Wikileaks were irresponsible in disclosing names of those who are not decision makers in the US command structure. Suppose the shoe were on the other foot, and there were active terrorist cells in the US assassinating anyone involved in helping the government fight them? Would anyone here say that Wikileaks should publish transcripts of the government effort, naming names?
As noticed elsewhere in this thread, most musicians make their money off of touring, not from music distribution. Downloading amounts to nearly free advertising for touring bands, in other words.
Given this, the only reason for rights holders to think ISVs owe them anything is if those rights holders are the record labels. Record labels make money from distribution, not touring, so of course free downloads look like theft to them.
Pursue the thought to its logical conclusion, and you have another ripoff of the musicians by the labels: the ISVs get taxed by the labels for the theft of their property, and to make up for this they somehow figure out how to tax the artists for the advertising. Nifty.
would be awfully nice. We have these with email, and at parties, the water cooler and so on. I guess the message system can be used to simulate this, but it doesn't feel the same.
The readership are not fools. They know about one-day experiments and transition costs. They're more likely to be negatively affected by the touchiness of the F/OSS community, which so often treats even implicit criticism as a heresy against its religion.
I can understand that one could see it that way. But there is a persuasive argument, for some of us anyway, that mere hallucinations do not generally produce scripture or other inspirational prose and poetry that has the kind of durability that is exhibited by Ezekiel, the Quran and other works thought to have been authored by epileptics.
You missed (5) He was having a "vision" during an epileptic fit. There is reason to believe a high percentage of the prophets and seers of old "suffered" from epilepsy.
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Show me a guy who says he wants justice, and I'll show you a guy who wants the scales weighed down on his side.
IIRC, Socrates made an analogy between his methods of teaching the youth of the city and the training of horses. While it was an excellent illustration, the imagery, unintentionally equating the citizen's children to a troup of horses, probably did nothing to endear him to said citizens, who proceeded to condemn him to death.
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Theory blazes the trail, but it can't pave the road.
PS. I was as incredulous as you probably are now when this first came to pass. It's all a good object lesson the law, which has much less to do with justice than ordinary good hearted and intelligent people would like to believe.
Try telling my friend in Los Gatos that, whose house has been egged multiple times, and who has been told by the police multiple times that there's nothing they can really do except scold the miscreants, in the unlikely case that anyone catches them in the act.
Your doubts are worth nothing. Try verifying the facts before you act like some goddamned authority on California law.
$10K might not be chump change, but it won't make anyone rich. Putting together botnets using said attacks and selling time on them is a much easier way to good money and requires less genius time And buying time on the botnets and using them for decent spam attacks probably makes the most money of all, for the least amount of genius time.
At least in the example given, it would seem pretty feasible to do this at the GoDaddy site itself, where all the A records are centralized. How many businesses registered with GoDaddy have subdomains in different class A or even class B networks?
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
-- Bill Gates, in "The Road Ahead," p. 265
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And to assume that even a collection of highly skilled professionals will somehow instantly become a wonderful orchestra is equally arrogant. It takes time, much rehearsal, a great conductor and great section coaches to produce an ensemble capable of truly brilliant music.
Shop around. There are tons of CDs out of performances at the level we're likely to get here, usually for a couple bucks each. I applaud the effort, but let's be realistic about our expectations.
Larry has always wanted to own the whole stack (viz., funding Pillar), but he doesn't seem to believe in standing in the way of realities. The majority of his company's data runs on NetApp storage. NetApp has something like an entire division focused on Oracle installations. And both Larry and Georgens are smart enough to figure out that you can make at least 100 times as much money selling product together as you can suing each other.
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You know how dumb the average guy is, right? Well, by definition, half of them are dumber than that.
Great cooking, like great coding, involves intuition; there's more to it than specs and training.
As in programming, slavishly following a recipe, down to scraping the extra salt off the teaspoon measure, will get you acceptable results. It will only rarely give you spectacular results.
Great cooking involves (1) using the best ingredients, which may mean paying more for them, (2) understanding how the ingredients each cook, how they cook together, and how the flavors combine, and (3) having a reasonable idea of what you want the outcome to be. A recipe can help with this. But if it could substitute for it, then food out of a can would be as great as the real thing. But canned food is like the product of waterfall development, which regards coding as a clerical skill. It may get the job done, but it doesn't inspire.
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Real men eat anything they like. Including quiche.
Everyone switching to Ubuntu probably ain't gonna happen. But some people will, and others to Debian, RHEL, SUSE, and a half dozen others. Why, testing against Linux has gotten as complicated as testing against Microsoft. What's not to love about that, if you're Microsoft?
Sentient: having an awareness that most other sentient beings are fucked up.
It takes the human brain a couple dozen years to get educated to a point where it's useful for things more complicated than driving bison off a cliff and kicking soccer balls around. During most of that time it is under a process of continuous development. Even assuming we can build them, how long will it take these simulated brains to become fully developed, I wonder?
If any construction or remodeling has been done lately then new building syndrome should be considered. Cabinets, desks and carpets all outgas some pretty weird shit the first year (formaldehyde, vinyl derivatives, etc.), Even some kinds of paint and vinyl wallpapers can be pretty rough on young bodies.
The heck with one vs. two spaces. One vs. two 'o's, now that's a battle. Last I checked, two was winning.
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echo "Be ye in this world, but not of this world." | sed s/world/shit/g
Agree in priniciple, but I find the glib reaction here to the leak of actual names of informers worrisome (I apologize if this is getting off topic, but the case can be made that the actions of these Army officers are far less important than the motivating circumstances). The leak of _one_ name (Valerie Plame) sent the "liberal press" into contortions of fury, but we conveniently overlook the leak of Afghani supporters' names, some of whom are now possibly dead. Wtf?
.sig transit gloria mundi
The "conservative press" could do us all a favor, btw, and document some of these deaths, instead of just working itself up into similar contortions of fury over the matter.
But whether or not any actual damage is done, the Wikileaks were irresponsible in disclosing names of those who are not decision makers in the US command structure. Suppose the shoe were on the other foot, and there were active terrorist cells in the US assassinating anyone involved in helping the government fight them? Would anyone here say that Wikileaks should publish transcripts of the government effort, naming names?
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Get one of your most curious and bright engineers to interview them with a view to answering the question, "Do They Have A Pulse?"
That, and team fit, are better predictors of success at your company than any of the other stuff, in my experience.
As noticed elsewhere in this thread, most musicians make their money off of touring, not from music distribution. Downloading amounts to nearly free advertising for touring bands, in other words.
Given this, the only reason for rights holders to think ISVs owe them anything is if those rights holders are the record labels. Record labels make money from distribution, not touring, so of course free downloads look like theft to them.
Pursue the thought to its logical conclusion, and you have another ripoff of the musicians by the labels: the ISVs get taxed by the labels for the theft of their property, and to make up for this they somehow figure out how to tax the artists for the advertising. Nifty.
QED
would be awfully nice. We have these with email, and at parties, the water cooler and so on. I guess the message system can be used to simulate this, but it doesn't feel the same.
The readership are not fools. They know about one-day experiments and transition costs. They're more likely to be negatively affected by the touchiness of the F/OSS community, which so often treats even implicit criticism as a heresy against its religion.
I can understand that one could see it that way. But there is a persuasive argument, for some of us anyway, that mere hallucinations do not generally produce scripture or other inspirational prose and poetry that has the kind of durability that is exhibited by Ezekiel, the Quran and other works thought to have been authored by epileptics.
You missed (5) He was having a "vision" during an epileptic fit. There is reason to believe a high percentage of the prophets and seers of old "suffered" from epilepsy.
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Show me a guy who says he wants justice, and I'll show you a guy who wants the scales weighed down on his side.
IIRC, Socrates made an analogy between his methods of teaching the youth of the city and the training of horses. While it was an excellent illustration, the imagery, unintentionally equating the citizen's children to a troup of horses, probably did nothing to endear him to said citizens, who proceeded to condemn him to death.
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Theory blazes the trail, but it can't pave the road.
We're unlikely to come up with anything better than crassical on this list.
Exactly what I was going to say. Same story, different day.
PS. I was as incredulous as you probably are now when this first came to pass. It's all a good object lesson the law, which has much less to do with justice than ordinary good hearted and intelligent people would like to believe.
Try telling my friend in Los Gatos that, whose house has been egged multiple times, and who has been told by the police multiple times that there's nothing they can really do except scold the miscreants, in the unlikely case that anyone catches them in the act.
Your doubts are worth nothing. Try verifying the facts before you act like some goddamned authority on California law.
In California it is legal to throw eggs at a house. So all we need is names and addresses....
$10K might not be chump change, but it won't make anyone rich. Putting together botnets using said attacks and selling time on them is a much easier way to good money and requires less genius time And buying time on the botnets and using them for decent spam attacks probably makes the most money of all, for the least amount of genius time.
At least in the example given, it would seem pretty feasible to do this at the GoDaddy site itself, where all the A records are centralized. How many businesses registered with GoDaddy have subdomains in different class A or even class B networks?
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
-- Bill Gates, in "The Road Ahead," p. 265
Uh huh.