One simple and powerful application for even higher bandwidth ethernet is iSCSI and SANs.
For enterprises, its a no-brainer.
For the consumer, eventually prices will come down and it would really be cool to be able to put all your storage in one location in a well designed RAID with hotswappable drives and expandable storage and access it like you access any block device (ie. install OSes on it, etc.).
1) Start signing bands on a 50/49 cent split. (OMG...can you imagine it, artists getting more money than the label for a change)
Because if they do this, they wouldn't be able to distribute thier music at the traditional channles, ie. Borders, Tower Records,... because the RIAA controls these channels.
Those channels are still where the vast majority of people buy thier music.
Hmmm, CERN, you mean the European Organization for Nuclear Research? Funny what a little google can do, ain't it? Besides, Tim was born in London, and graduated from Oxford... at best he might be a naturalised citizen.
Well, unlike some Europeans, most Americans have a sense of humor...
The real *value* of the share is a sum of all earnings from now until infinity (ie. the company goes under) adjusted for inflation (or interest rate opportunity cost)
The *price* of a share is what the market thinks the value is.
Don't forget about the Michaelson-Morely (sp?) experiment where they demonstrated that the speed light was constant no matter what direction you measure it in.
Special Relativity was genius in that Einstein put Newtonian Physics, Maxwell's Equations and the implications of the experiment together into a strange, but plausible theory. But I also agree with the original poster in that its not nearly as amazing as the other work he did.
If using nuclear weapons is no longer a guarantee that it would be suicide and/or end the world as we know it, world leaders would be much more willing to use them.
All these causes of "bad" code are valid, but by far, in my limited experience, the by far largest cause of "bad" code in at least closed source software is tight deadlines.
Programs never have static requirements. They are always changing. Features are always being added / changed. Everyone understands this (mgmt / engineering). However, the orignal design for the program, no matter how perfect it may be, becomes inadequate. Yes, if the architect / designer is good, the program is proof against some feature additions. But not all feature additions fit seamlessly into any good design. The program has to be redesigned to add this feature "correctly". Or it can be hacked in. To redesign takes considerable amounts of time.
Now what happens if you add constant severe time pressure into the equation.
The rest of the equation is left for the reader to solve.
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One simple and powerful application for even higher bandwidth ethernet is iSCSI and SANs.
For enterprises, its a no-brainer.
For the consumer, eventually prices will come down and it would really be cool to be able to put all your storage in one location in a well designed RAID with hotswappable drives and expandable storage and access it like you access any block device (ie. install OSes on it, etc.).
If it was a stock transaction, Disney + Pixar would be worth 67 billion.
If it was a cash transaction, the 7 billion in cash went from Disney's bank account to Pixar's shareholders. Disney + Pixar would be worth 60 billion.
> To summarize, people are morans.
Indeed.
1) Start signing bands on a 50/49 cent split. (OMG...can you imagine it, artists getting more money than the label for a change)
... because the RIAA controls these channels.
Because if they do this, they wouldn't be able to distribute thier music at the traditional channles, ie. Borders, Tower Records,
Those channels are still where the vast majority of people buy thier music.
Well, unlike some Europeans, most Americans have a sense of humor...
I thought BSD was dead? :)
I think one application that a lot of us are not seeing here (other than defense against planet-killers) is asteroid mining.
1. Find an asteroid thats going to swing close to earth.
2. Deflect it so it orbits the earth.
3. Mine it.
4. Profit!!!
The real *value* of the share is a sum of all earnings from now until infinity (ie. the company goes under) adjusted for inflation (or interest rate opportunity cost)
The *price* of a share is what the market thinks the value is.
Don't forget about the Michaelson-Morely (sp?) experiment where they demonstrated that the speed light was constant no matter what direction you measure it in.
Special Relativity was genius in that Einstein put Newtonian Physics, Maxwell's Equations and the implications of the experiment together into a strange, but plausible theory. But I also agree with the original poster in that its not nearly as amazing as the other work he did.
If using nuclear weapons is no longer a guarantee that it would be suicide and/or end the world as we know it, world leaders would be much more willing to use them.
did you ever stop and think that having a colony on another planet / moon makes nuclear war *much* more likely?
OS:
Linux 6.2
Hmm... Redhat really does == Linux...
All these causes of "bad" code are valid, but by far, in my limited experience, the by far largest cause of "bad" code in at least closed source software is tight deadlines.
Programs never have static requirements. They are always changing. Features are always being added / changed. Everyone understands this (mgmt / engineering). However, the orignal design for the program, no matter how perfect it may be, becomes inadequate. Yes, if the architect / designer is good, the program is proof against some feature additions. But not all feature additions fit seamlessly into any good design. The program has to be redesigned to add this feature "correctly". Or it can be hacked in. To redesign takes considerable amounts of time.
Now what happens if you add constant severe time pressure into the equation.
The rest of the equation is left for the reader to solve.