Smartphones and netbooks are getting more capable by the day. Before long, employees will be surfing whatever they want on them without involving the company network. That will relieve the pressure on IT and put it back on managers.
Why, this very comment prints a list of prime numbers less than one hundred!
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You can really see the Ubuntu influence on the Fedora marketing materials: smiling faces, happy about "software that helps you work, play, organize, and socialize."
Wait, did Fedora even have marketing materials before Ubuntu?
This is why I name all my programming languages by UUID.
In fact, look for my new book, Ed68c886-6390-4255-813f-48e61f6b0b06: The Definitive Guide to be published in the second quarter of next year!
Which is the approach Scala and Clojure have taken: tight integration with the Java Virtual Machine.
By definition this is the "layering" mode of software engineering Pike cites in the tech talk as a reason for starting over.
Layering is easier to sell to management, at least outside technology companies.
Waiting for the science fiction movie that takes this principle to its logical extreme: widespread application of herd health management practices, developed for livestock, to humans.
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Obligatory link to Edward Teller's article "Can We Harness Nuclear Fusion in the '70s?" in Popular Science magazine, May 1972 edition.
http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id=VvyLShXydNgC&pg=88
Flawed or not, it's the only measure of its kind spanning such a large swath of the history of computing.
Insert "scheme" joke here. Or "chroot jail", "execution protection", "dropping privileges",...
Forget flying cars, where's my fusion reactor?: Can We Harness Nuclear Fusion in the '70s?
Does anybody know if Bloom Energy eats their own dog food? Do they power their own offices, labs, and other facilities with Bloom Boxes?
So the feature film becomes a very specialized kind of cutscene.
Posting video of the problem, demonstrating its repeatability, should get the attention of the vendor and of regulators.
About time! I'm sick of the lackluster displays in my command center.
Smartphones and netbooks are getting more capable by the day. Before long, employees will be surfing whatever they want on them without involving the company network. That will relieve the pressure on IT and put it back on managers.
...when news articles contain revision control commands.
What? No exemption for campaign commercials?!
Finally, vertically integrated data centers...
At $212,000, a great stocking-stuffer for the kernel hacker who has everything.
Who cares? Anything to get them a browser update.
What a treat to even be able to have this discussion: which of the many capable, mature, free options to adopt. Thank you, open source movement!
I bet you LXXVII bucks this would not have happened with Roman numerals. That's what they get for upgrading a perfectly good numeration system.
Why, this very comment prints a list of prime numbers less than one hundred!
You can really see the Ubuntu influence on the Fedora marketing materials: smiling faces, happy about "software that helps you work, play, organize, and socialize." Wait, did Fedora even have marketing materials before Ubuntu?
This is why I name all my programming languages by UUID. In fact, look for my new book, Ed68c886-6390-4255-813f-48e61f6b0b06: The Definitive Guide to be published in the second quarter of next year!
Which is the approach Scala and Clojure have taken: tight integration with the Java Virtual Machine. By definition this is the "layering" mode of software engineering Pike cites in the tech talk as a reason for starting over. Layering is easier to sell to management, at least outside technology companies.
Why stop with day traders? Wouldn't it be fascinating to know the measured stress profile of a given workplace before accepting their job offer?
I know I would feel safer reading Slashdot knowing its employees were properly vaccinated.
Waiting for the science fiction movie that takes this principle to its logical extreme: widespread application of herd health management practices, developed for livestock, to humans.
Just as movable customers chase low prices. And movable investors chase high returns.
Great, now all these destinations will be overrun with geeks.