I agree, this seems to be an obvious solutions to a simple problem.
There is something about the mix of legalese and techobabble in the patent applications, that renders the most trivial thing an air of importance.
I once worked for a company, where we discovered that we couldn't let a system redirect an incoming call to another system, if the customer wan't in the first systems database, since that violated a patent. The digital equivalence of looking in the next drawer when you are looking for a matching sock. Pretty far from http://www.google.com/patents?vid=1781541
If patent applications were required to include a car-analogy in the summary, the patent system would less annoying.
The Unix file-tree got it right. It's kind-of clear where your files are, and everything is rooted in / (duh).
Microsoft messed up, people are not finding their files in folder hidden deep in some weird structure, and are trying to solve the problem by abstracting away the hierarchal structure, which only confuses people even more. Now up to a point where the tree is going to be "killed" (hidden even more)
Sadly the major linux distros seems to have swallowed the bait. I suddenly have weird folders for my desktop, photos, documents, etc, and they seem to be "localized" so it's not entirely clear what they are named. Dynamic mounts are suddenly made under/media ? What's fuckng wrong with/mnt that has been around since the seventies, is as aptly named, and is shorter to type? I am waiting for "tags" on Ubuntu, Unity seems to heading in that direction.
User experience geeks can rave all they want about tags and that people do not "think hierarchically", but I am confident that the confusion is rather the leaky and broken abstractions on the windows platform.
It seems to me that it wasn't clear to the pilots that the aircraft was stalled, probably because of the heavy turbulence.
But I can't understand why the PF was pulling back for 3 full minutes, unless they figured that there was structural damage since they were falling out of the sky.
Or did they "forget" that alternate law disables stall protection?
As a human interface designer, it think its a rather bad idea to just silently ignore the pilot inputs in normal law, where the same input will be fatal in alternate law. Some physical feedback, like a shaker or buzzer should be there to wake you up.
It's science fiction, until we can program a creative and reasoning mind.
Yes, we can build warning systems, or even systems that delivers fault free driving in most conditions, but exceptions happens, and our technology is far from beeing able to handle the unknown. The margins for errors when driving is frightfully small - we are travelling inches from death, and even small errors are potentially fatal.
The human mind is excellent at doing fast intuitive reactions, and there is nothing that makes you gain respect for the brain, than trying to program something that is dead simple for a human to do, like formatting a graph in a nice looking way.
Unfortunately, games that are just playing simple tricks are fooling us to believe that AI is simple and near.
I wont let anything drive me, unless it can also talk about something funny and relevant during the drive...
Perhaps so, but the fact is that the police in Norway made a very controversial statement claiming that *all* assault rapes for the past three years were committed by non-european immigrants, most, from africa and the middle east.
The police called for action of some sorts, but i can't really see that mandatory non-rape classes for immigrants would really work...
There are of course many more rapes committed by Norwegians and Europeans, but in those cases the victim and the perpetrator knew each other in some way - typically a "domestic rape" or domestic violence scenario. (Or perhaps like whatever happened between Assange and the two ladies...)
Since the number of assault rapes is rather low compared to "other" rapes, one might argue that it's not a big deal, but it's clearly a problem since it affects women's lives. (Albeit mostly indirectly, because of the media scare.)
You may argue that there is no point in analysing the problem on the ground that is not possible to do anything reasonably intelligent about it, and that it might just defame immigrants. However, I fail to find a reason to not discuss facts, other than to avoid being called a racist.
I just stopped reading when I got to the "notes" and "genius" part.
He may be a nice guy, but the long list of "impressive" stuff he's made looks more like a list of shit that desperate clueless suits hope will be the Next Big Thing, but won't ever.
Unfortunately, the idea that a smart guy can write a framework for the rest of us idiots, is what ACTUALLY is causing problems and life long misery.
Most of the times, a problem is as complex as it is; yes you can "abstract away" the horrible details of your synchronization problem - but the nitty gritty details tend to leak through, and when a unforseen (real world) problem hits the framework, it tends to be hard to solve using the framework in a clean way, and you might need spend much more time on bending the framwork, than you ever had to do without it.
What I am saying is that writing a framework is really really hard; at least 10 times more expensive than just coding something that works, and in the end, it won't magically protect you from developers that can't code.
I have a PS2 and a Sony digital video recorder. I have always wanted to run linux on the ps2, but as Sony is openly hostile to that (now), I am screwed. Irritating as they initially promoted Linux on ps2 and that kind of made the deal for me.
The DVR is next to useless for many reasons, but the most irritating feature (apart from that it's already obsolete) is that video formats that can be read and played from a DVD iso-disk is NOT allowed when accessing media using the built in USB port,as that only allows photos for no technical reason at all.
It is clearly that way in order to piss me off - their customer, in order to satisfy their media division or division of evil supreme beeings (or something).
The CD root kit is just plain sad.
So; well, decision made: no more crippled Sony crapware for me.
Its not the writing that's hard, it's the thinking, and that is why drawing flowcharts that aren't expressive enough just makes simple problems simple, and real problems impossible to solve.
However, this is not about programming using graphical tools really, it's about finding out where to send keyboard and gui events in an automation script.
There are other ways, but none that is 100% universal.
Not all applications uses controls that you can access programatically (some are just drawings on a bitmap - like java, flash etc). So using image recognition is a nice touch, and better than guessing : which is the alternative.
Now, there is limited use for this, but some corporations are willing to spend some serious money on application integration, no more sofisticated than sending keyboard events to old applications, so it might come handy.
I'd guess that the subtle flaw would *fly* through the 3rd level or red tape, as the devil is in the details, and generally not in power point presentations.
Reducing bureaucracy is one good thing, but if you mean that the knowledge is to be portined out to the development team through one or two "experts", possibly through some "designers", You are in trouble.
Locking down the information is a common mistake.
("Do not confuse the developers with the reality" seems to be some kind of a management anti-pattern.)
Beeing a developer, your main task is to turn "noise" into coherent business rules.
The reason is that Software is all about Design. There is no code factory.
Well, I did that, but with a eraser and book - over night.
The key board buffer overflow beeps (that seems to lock up the whole computer during the beep) annoyed my collegues no end, until someone killed the machine:-(
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I agree, this seems to be an obvious solutions to a simple problem.
There is something about the mix of legalese and techobabble in the patent applications, that renders the most trivial thing
an air of importance.
I once worked for a company, where we discovered that we couldn't let a system redirect an incoming call to another system,
if the customer wan't in the first systems database, since that violated a patent. The digital equivalence of looking in the next
drawer when you are looking for a matching sock. Pretty far from http://www.google.com/patents?vid=1781541
If patent applications were required to include a car-analogy in the summary, the patent system would less annoying.
Word!
The Unix file-tree got it right. It's kind-of clear where your files are, and everything is rooted in / (duh).
Microsoft messed up, people are not finding their files in folder hidden deep in some weird structure, and are trying to solve
the problem by abstracting away the hierarchal structure, which only confuses people even more. Now up to a point where the tree is going to be "killed"
(hidden even more)
Sadly the major linux distros seems to have swallowed the bait. I suddenly have weird folders for my desktop, photos, documents, etc, and they /media ? What's fuckng wrong with /mnt that
seem to be "localized" so it's not entirely clear what they are named. Dynamic mounts are suddenly made under
has been around since the seventies, is as aptly named, and is shorter to type? I am waiting for "tags" on Ubuntu, Unity seems to heading in that direction.
User experience geeks can rave all they want about tags and that people do not "think hierarchically", but I am confident that the confusion is rather the leaky and broken abstractions on the windows platform.
The unix file tree is a little like this: http://xkcd.com/297/
Or maybe this *is* a complicated language, and I should just go back to idle.
I thought that it was proven that languages with less complexity will make simple problems simpler, and the rest of the problems impossible.
hm? Soomsung? Saamsoong? SumSang? Nope totally blank, can't come up with anything.
So, what's your guess what happened?
It seems to me that it wasn't clear to the pilots that the aircraft was stalled, probably because of the heavy turbulence.
But I can't understand why the PF was pulling back for 3 full minutes, unless they figured that there was structural damage since they were falling out of the sky.
Or did they "forget" that alternate law disables stall protection?
As a human interface designer, it think its a rather bad idea to just silently ignore the pilot inputs in normal law, where the same input will be fatal in alternate law. Some physical feedback, like a shaker or buzzer should be there to wake you up.
It's science fiction, until we can program a creative and reasoning mind.
Yes, we can build warning systems, or even systems that delivers fault free driving in most conditions,
but exceptions happens, and our technology is far from beeing able to handle the unknown.
The margins for errors when driving is frightfully small - we are travelling inches from death, and
even small errors are potentially fatal.
The human mind is excellent at doing fast intuitive reactions, and there is nothing that makes you gain respect
for the brain, than trying to program something that is dead simple for a human to do, like formatting a graph in a nice looking way.
Unfortunately, games that are just playing simple tricks are fooling us to believe that AI is simple and near.
I wont let anything drive me, unless it can also talk about something funny and relevant during the drive...
Perhaps so, but the fact is that the police in Norway made a very controversial statement claiming that *all* assault rapes for the past three years were committed by non-european immigrants, most, from africa and the middle east.
The police called for action of some sorts, but i can't really see that mandatory non-rape classes for immigrants would really work...
http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagbladet.no%2F2009%2F04%2F15%2Fnyheter%2Fvoldtekt%2Finnenriks%2F5759702%2F
There are of course many more rapes committed by Norwegians and Europeans, but in those cases the victim and the perpetrator knew each other in some way - typically a "domestic rape" or domestic violence scenario. (Or perhaps like whatever happened between Assange and the two ladies...)
Since the number of assault rapes is rather low compared to "other" rapes, one might argue that it's not a big deal, but it's clearly a problem since it affects women's lives. (Albeit mostly indirectly, because of the media scare.)
You may argue that there is no point in analysing the problem on the ground that is not possible to do anything reasonably intelligent about it, and that it might just defame immigrants. However, I fail to find a reason to not discuss facts, other than to avoid being called a racist.
I just stopped reading when I got to the "notes" and "genius" part.
He may be a nice guy, but the long list of "impressive" stuff he's made looks more like a list of shit that desperate clueless suits hope will be the Next Big Thing, but won't ever.
Sony is a media company, and they sell crippled devices.
I have a PS3, a Xperia 10 and a set top box, and they are all intentionally not delivering what they could,
in order to protect Sonys media interests.
Never Sony again.
Unfortunately, the idea that a smart guy can write a framework for the rest of us idiots, is what ACTUALLY is causing problems and life long misery.
Most of the times, a problem is as complex as it is; yes you can "abstract away" the horrible details of your synchronization problem - but the nitty gritty details tend to leak through, and when a unforseen (real world) problem hits the framework, it tends to be hard to solve using the framework in a clean way, and you might need spend much more time on bending the framwork, than you ever had to do without it.
What I am saying is that writing a framework is really really hard; at least 10 times more expensive than just coding something that works, and in the end, it won't magically protect you from developers that can't code.
I have a PS2 and a Sony digital video recorder. I have always wanted to run linux on the ps2, but
as Sony is openly hostile to that (now), I am screwed. Irritating as they initially promoted Linux on ps2
and that kind of made the deal for me.
The DVR is next to useless for many reasons, but the most irritating feature (apart from that it's already obsolete)
is that video formats that can be read and played from a DVD iso-disk is NOT allowed when accessing media using the built in USB port,as that only allows photos for no technical reason at all.
It is clearly that way in order to piss me off - their customer, in order to satisfy their media division or division of evil supreme beeings (or something).
The CD root kit is just plain sad.
So; well, decision made: no more crippled Sony crapware for me.
Not very likely. Instead, they use one of the "cable modem" protocols, perhaps DOCSIS.
Sorry. You might be able to use coax cable with some baluns to run 2 or 10 mbit, but thats probably not what you want.
Connecting each pair of a cat5 tp cable to a coax cable each will not work for any reasonable cable lenght. (if at all)
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Hear hear. Wish I had modpoints.
Its not the writing that's hard, it's the thinking, and that is why drawing flowcharts that aren't expressive enough just makes simple problems simple, and real problems impossible to solve.
However, this is not about programming using graphical tools really, it's about finding out where to send keyboard and gui events in an automation script.
There are other ways, but none that is 100% universal.
Not all applications uses controls that you can access programatically (some are just drawings on a bitmap - like java, flash etc).
So using image recognition is a nice touch, and better than guessing : which is the alternative.
Now, there is limited use for this, but some corporations are willing to spend some serious money on application integration, no more sofisticated than sending keyboard events to old applications, so it might come handy.
It's the margin on selling things to people who should know their job better.
I'd guess that the subtle flaw would *fly* through the 3rd level or red tape,
as the devil is in the details, and generally not in power point presentations.
You are my exact anti-these.
google "The Magical Business Layer".
Really.
Reducing bureaucracy is one good thing, but if you mean that the knowledge
is to be portined out to the development team through one or two "experts",
possibly through some "designers", You are in trouble.
Locking down the information is a common mistake.
("Do not confuse the developers with the reality" seems to be some kind of a management anti-pattern.)
Beeing a developer, your main task is to turn "noise" into coherent business rules.
The reason is that Software is all about Design. There is no code factory.
Solve specific problems, and avoid generic "frameworks."
Reduce configurability, dare to code business/core logic.
Know your domain; If a problem seems complicated, the solution tends to be complicated.
(And if you know nothing, all problems seems complicated.)
Iterate. Refine.
Well... XML is human readable in the same way as a sand is edible.
If the OP wants to use a tool better than notepad for editing, he probably should try Open Office.
Not quite true...
It seems that wind (trees and leafs) or rain intermittently pushes the signal quality down the slope, rather annoyingly.
Something that might have caused a small flicker on an analog tv is replaced by a minute long mpeg blur.
http://www.slate.com/id/33569/entry/33571/
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
Well, I did that, but with a eraser and book - over night.
:-(
The key board buffer overflow beeps (that seems to lock up the whole computer during the beep)
annoyed my collegues no end, until someone killed the machine
nooo, a -real- art major thinks in copper salts and shit...
Well, AJAX and DHTML are alreay beeing utilized to -m-i-m-i-c traditional GUIs in Web applications, ...though only much more crappier.
GIVE ME BACK MY APPS! Damn it. Remember "undo", or why not the right mouse button context menu?