But you probably have the idea right. It is easy to extrapolate anything you want if you use the right (for your argument) physical model.
I think the ebullient press is assuming that this thing's only problem is that it is small, and they see no problems with its efficiencies or practical implementations.
Possibly, though, this might be able to generate
small amounts of electricity where nothing else is practical. Remote sensors associated with flowing liquids would not need external power sources. Stuff like that.
Old mechanical teletypes would often be left
on idle for less wear and tear, and to reduce
noise.
When a machine started a session with another, it
would send an SOH character, to 'wake up' the receiver and start its motor. The sender would wait
a moment for the receiver to get warmed up before typing.
The Are You There (AYT) symbol was used a lot for this, too.
(I think this is accurate. It's been a -long- time!)
It makes me sick to think that the fastest
high end machines will end up on the desks of
management types running Word for OSX. With a cursor blinking all day at the speed of light.
While the tech guys who might actually need such horsepower will have 5-year-old boxes.
Face it, having such a box on your desk is like having a 4WD in the driveway that has never had mud on it.
I just love the little guys... Inexpensive. All stainless steel and magnesium. Fit nicely in the hand and pocket. Write flawlessly. The ultimate geek pen. I prefer them over the larger 401's.
Whenever a buddy asks to borrow a pen,
I give him one of these, and tell
him to keep it. Everyone loves them. I must have gone through a hundred of them that way.
I have always thought that placebo
keys like "Any", "More memory", and
"Go faster" would help coax our
proto-simian brothers out of the
primordial ooze.
This would be similar to that extra
button on your car's dash that doesn't
do anything, but you feel compelled to
push it, anyway. And just like that
Steven-Wrightesque light switch that
seemingly has no function, either, but
defies you to not flip it.
How nice it would be to be able
to access the radio version of
Sherlock Holmes or
Agatha Christie or even the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! I love those.
This is obviously a lie.;-) According to news reports, only the stalwart working class heroes
of the mighty New York City, and a few random people from some unimportant outlying areas were affected.
Why is is that anything that happens in New York, Washington, or Los Angeles receives saturation news coverage, yet anything from anywhere else must meet a far higher threshold to rate the same treatment? With all of the local news stations and affiliates in the Northeast, this can't be attributed merely to media access. It's almost as if these places are being paid a banality tax.
The Beltway Sniper story was a fine example. Had the shootings occurred in a blighted urban neighborhood, instead of the upper-middle-class suburbs where the journalists actually live,
it would never have received the same kind of
coverage.
Or are people so ignorant of geography that stories of places like Albany or Hartford are lost on them?
I would prefer that the GCC guys not remove SCO, but neither actively develop for it. Let it wither on the vine until SCO comes to their senses. Then there will still
be a good compiler for the faithful who need it,
but no valuable time or effort is wasted on what is likely a dead end. But that's not up to me,
cause I'm not a GCC developer.
I don't understand why people would have any problem with this. The GCC developers are likely the best that the Open Source world has to offer. They perform an incredible amount of work to benefit others. Anything they want to do with GCC is fine with me. If there were any concept of ownership of "free" software, then GCC belongs to those who contribute to it.
Hey, if Mark Mitchell wanted the GCC logo blinking pink and blue every time the compiler was used, that would be fine, too.
People so often forget the best way to get their
problem addressed in the Open Source environment.
Along with your problem report, send in a suggested fix. Not just "here's what I want," but "here's how to do it." A person will get so much
more respect if he exhibits a little altruism.
Maybe he should even send some candidate code to acomplish
the feat.
It will rise much more quickly to the
top of a developer's TODO list.
It will be much more appreciated if the
user with the problem has thought the thing
through, rather than just complaining.
It is basic to the spirit of Open Source, where
people contribute.
Selfishness has no value here. Ayn Rand would die of hunger in the Open Source world.
I have been waiting for native SVG browser
support for a long time. While it is great
to see the project guys slap the tag "Beta"
on the Mozilla, this does not change the
basic environment at all. SVG has been
available for quite a while now as an alternate
build. But until a developer can reasonably expect
the audience to have an SVG-capable browser, SVG
will not be able to start growing the critical
mass that it needs.
I love SVG. We have already used it in one application. It is so nice to be able to
generate graphs and charts dynamically at
runtime by merely generating some XML code.
But it needs an installed base of players.
How did Flash become so prevalent? Because
graphics artists knew that Macromedia had
endeavored to get IE and Netscape to bundle
Flash players with >90% of all browsers.
I do not consider SVG to be bloat at all. In
a Web standards based browser, it is the W3
analog to PNG and JPEG decoders.
Just according to the posting, this is not the
ordinary state of affairs, and it will be over in 4-6 weeks. Just do it.
Being salaried means that you are not merely employed by the company; you are a part of it. If you can't be depended upon to deliver in tough times, what is your worth? You are salaried, but want to perform only the duties of a dayworker.
Cowboy up, do some hours, get the product out the door. Lose that "Not My Job" attitude, and maybe you will gain some respect. And maybe get a raise or promotion, too. That certainly won't happen if your boss feels he must bribe you to stay after 5p.m.
A few months ago I got a bogus $20 from an automatic teller machine. It was one-sided, and made on regular paper. It looked like it had been moistened and pressed to give it a more realistic texture. However, it was so obviously fake that I find it hard to believe that it passed visual inspection twice:
From the bank employee who received it
From another employee who stocked the ATM
How is this possible? Anyway, I called the bank;
they said they would take it back and do the paperwork. But they would -not- reimburse me the
$20! Cheap bastards! (kidding);-)
Each tool for its own purpose! If the
best language for the task is Java, then use Java.
If the best language for your project is
C++, then use C++. If it happens to be Billy Bob's Bug-Free
Language which suits the job best, well, then,
use that one.
Yes, if I need speed, I use C, the same as
anyone else. If I am writing a Web application,
I use Java. That's an area where Java excels.
And maybe I'll get lucky enough to be able
to code a project in Assembly or Lisp, who knows?
Programming does not follow the "jack of all trades, expert at none" theory. General concepts
map well across the spectrum.
I find it discouraging that there are so many
programmers who only want to learn as much
about their job, as to merely be good
enough. Don't they feel any pride,
or any desire to excel at something?
Coders who can only handle one language
should be paid minimum wage; that is all
they are worth. That is because it is
neither the language nor the implementation
that is important. It is the knowledge
of how to program which will ensure
your career and pay your bills.
I have been using Mozilla since it was first
available, and I must say that this version
is so nice and small and fast. I have
no complaints at all.
HOWEVER, it just seems almost criminal that such
a pretty piece of Open Source coding must
be marred by the evil little Windows icon on the
drag bar. A tiny bird or a little
Zilla would be more in keeping
with the spirit of the thing.
That is the only thing that bugs me. Everything
else is wonderful.
I followed the link, and glanced over the
RFC's, but I could not find any explanation
of what would make it run more efficiently
over the Internet. It still uses RPCs!
And TCP is available in the current version
of NFS (I use TCP through an SSH tunnel).
What an Internet - capable FS needs, of
course, is
a way to handle unreliable connections and bad latencies. I don't see that in the RFC's.
I'm sick of stale NFS cookies! They go badly with coffee.;-)
If this is a contract, then DARPA is
paying someone to do what DARPA wants.
That is how contracts work. We have done
government-funded contracts before, and it
is always the case that you are working for
a person, not a faceless bureacracy.
That person becomes your employer and boss.
And if so, then the contract almost certainly states
that it can be cancelled at any time, for
any reason. Nobody is special, everyone
is treated the same. You don't deliver,
they fire you. You waste money, they fire you. If they
don't like your shoes, they fire you. And yes,
if you are being a real pain in the ass bitch
about your politics, they fire you. Simple
as that.
If I hire a plumber, and it turns out he is a klepto, then I want him out of my house.
It has nothing to do with plumbing, but it is
my money, and I will spend it how I want.
But that was probably not the point at all.
If the "security fest" portion of the task was just a silly conference,
junket, or other government-funded
paid vacation, then I'm glad it was
cancelled. There are things
that need money more.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sending you my pacemaker replacement bill.
But you probably have the idea right. It is easy to extrapolate anything you want if you use the right (for your argument) physical model.
I think the ebullient press is assuming that this thing's only problem is that it is small, and they see no problems with its efficiencies or practical implementations.
Possibly, though, this might be able to generate small amounts of electricity where nothing else is practical. Remote sensors associated with flowing liquids would not need external power sources. Stuff like that.
Here's from the flash ROM image update I downloaded/burnt a few weeks ago:
This should remind everyone why a totally open framework is preferable. Familiar Linux / MiniGUI seems the way to go now.When a machine started a session with another, it would send an SOH character, to 'wake up' the receiver and start its motor. The sender would wait a moment for the receiver to get warmed up before typing.
The Are You There (AYT) symbol was used a lot for this, too.
(I think this is accurate. It's been a -long- time!)
While the tech guys who might actually need such horsepower will have 5-year-old boxes.
Face it, having such a box on your desk is like having a 4WD in the driveway that has never had mud on it.
Whenever a buddy asks to borrow a pen, I give him one of these, and tell him to keep it. Everyone loves them. I must have gone through a hundred of them that way.
But I've never had one run out of ink!
This is similar to newpapers in China quoting articles from the Onion as the truth.
Must be attributable to hangovers!
This would be similar to that extra button on your car's dash that doesn't do anything, but you feel compelled to push it, anyway. And just like that Steven-Wrightesque light switch that seemingly has no function, either, but defies you to not flip it.
Anyone agree?
ftp to:
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nightly/latest-trunk
it is:
MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
The Java plugin built with gcc3 is possibly the one you will need. I have not had any problems with Flash.
Don't stress over this. Take your Ritalin.
But I'm less attentive to detail as I should be. ;-)
How nice it would be to be able to access the radio version of Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie or even the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! I love those.
Why is is that anything that happens in New York, Washington, or Los Angeles receives saturation news coverage, yet anything from anywhere else must meet a far higher threshold to rate the same treatment? With all of the local news stations and affiliates in the Northeast, this can't be attributed merely to media access. It's almost as if these places are being paid a banality tax.
The Beltway Sniper story was a fine example. Had the shootings occurred in a blighted urban neighborhood, instead of the upper-middle-class suburbs where the journalists actually live, it would never have received the same kind of coverage.
Or are people so ignorant of geography that stories of places like Albany or Hartford are lost on them?
I don't understand why people would have any problem with this. The GCC developers are likely the best that the Open Source world has to offer. They perform an incredible amount of work to benefit others. Anything they want to do with GCC is fine with me. If there were any concept of ownership of "free" software, then GCC belongs to those who contribute to it.
Hey, if Mark Mitchell wanted the GCC logo blinking pink and blue every time the compiler was used, that would be fine, too.
It will rise much more quickly to the top of a developer's TODO list.
It will be much more appreciated if the user with the problem has thought the thing through, rather than just complaining.
It is basic to the spirit of Open Source, where people contribute .
Selfishness has no value here. Ayn Rand would die of hunger in the Open Source world.
I love SVG. We have already used it in one application. It is so nice to be able to generate graphs and charts dynamically at runtime by merely generating some XML code. But it needs an installed base of players. How did Flash become so prevalent? Because graphics artists knew that Macromedia had endeavored to get IE and Netscape to bundle Flash players with >90% of all browsers.
I do not consider SVG to be bloat at all. In a Web standards based browser, it is the W3 analog to PNG and JPEG decoders.
Being salaried means that you are not merely employed by the company; you are a part of it. If you can't be depended upon to deliver in tough times, what is your worth? You are salaried, but want to perform only the duties of a dayworker. Cowboy up, do some hours, get the product out the door. Lose that "Not My Job" attitude, and maybe you will gain some respect. And maybe get a raise or promotion, too. That certainly won't happen if your boss feels he must bribe you to stay after 5p.m.
Would make a great name for a clandestine radio station! With Che Guevara berets, cigars, and the other paraphernalia.
How is this possible? Anyway, I called the bank; they said they would take it back and do the paperwork. But they would -not- reimburse me the $20! Cheap bastards! (kidding) ;-)
Yes, if I need speed, I use C, the same as anyone else. If I am writing a Web application, I use Java. That's an area where Java excels. And maybe I'll get lucky enough to be able to code a project in Assembly or Lisp, who knows? Programming does not follow the "jack of all trades, expert at none" theory. General concepts map well across the spectrum.
I find it discouraging that there are so many programmers who only want to learn as much about their job, as to merely be good enough . Don't they feel any pride, or any desire to excel at something?
Coders who can only handle one language should be paid minimum wage; that is all they are worth. That is because it is neither the language nor the implementation that is important. It is the knowledge of how to program which will ensure your career and pay your bills.
HOWEVER, it just seems almost criminal that such a pretty piece of Open Source coding must be marred by the evil little Windows icon on the drag bar. A tiny bird or a little Zilla would be more in keeping with the spirit of the thing.
That is the only thing that bugs me. Everything else is wonderful.
The original had a surprisingly good story line, which overcame the cheesy Kung-Fu. That seems to have evaporated.
Now it's just going through the motions, punching the ticket.
What an Internet - capable FS needs, of course, is a way to handle unreliable connections and bad latencies. I don't see that in the RFC's.
I'm sick of stale NFS cookies! They go badly with coffee. ;-)
And if so, then the contract almost certainly states that it can be cancelled at any time, for any reason. Nobody is special, everyone is treated the same. You don't deliver, they fire you. You waste money, they fire you. If they don't like your shoes, they fire you. And yes, if you are being a real pain in the ass bitch about your politics, they fire you. Simple as that.
If I hire a plumber, and it turns out he is a klepto, then I want him out of my house. It has nothing to do with plumbing, but it is my money, and I will spend it how I want.
But that was probably not the point at all. If the "security fest" portion of the task was just a silly conference, junket, or other government-funded paid vacation, then I'm glad it was cancelled. There are things that need money more.