Sounds like a classic case of silver bullet syndrome to me. Develop software for long enough and you will likely observe many who are afflicted with this nasty disorder. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have been asked to implement the silver bullet, usually coincides with the vendor hosted golf game. Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to implement a silver bullet that in most cases increases maintenance costs, bugs, performance issues etc and provides "zero" return on investment.
If it is not broke, don't fix it. In this case the author had sloppy hard to maintain php code on the server. He finally came back to the solution that makes sense(fix the sloppy code) and drop the silver bullet.
Actually most applications use PWM (Pulse width modulation) for dc motor control. Banks of high amperage switching transistors feed the dc motor with a high frequency on off pulse. By varying the pulse width you increase or decrease the speed of the motor.
Since my source swears to me that Apple uses the FreeBSD driver code to support the Atheros wireless network card in all the newer Intel-based Macs, I had to get Atheros' verification if this is true. Right off the bat and to my surprise, Atheros tells me they write the drivers and that it is not the FreeBSD code. I said wait: I've been told with certainty that these are the FreeBSD drivers written by Sam Leffler. Atheros went in to a bit of history and explained that they had Sam Leffler as a contractor and initially financed the MADWiFi Linux Driver and the FreeBSD drivers for Atheros wireless chipsets. Those drivers for Linux and FreeBSD took a life of their own and are independent of Atheros today and Sam Leffler is one of the primary contributors to both of those independent projects. But the Atheros driver for Mac OS X is written and supported by Atheros for their chipset client Apple computers but it uses the same data and header structures as the FreeBSD drivers to maintain compatibility with the FreeBSD userland.
What, do you think people in the middle east are somehow stupid or not educated and incapable of creating a UAV without assistance? Having spent a fair amount of time in the middle east I can tell you that their population in many cases has better access to technology than we do here in the states.
I think if they have the smarts and capability to build a reactor that a UAV would not be real difficult for them.
Set up a web cam tracker with a geo tagging setup say on a google map for instance. In this case it only geo tags public vehicles, city officials, squad cars etc...
Just about all code I have seen written in python is great looking stuff..mainly because of the imposed indentation and clear language characteristics.
1. Does not come with all that crap ware installed add $200 in savings for a great deal of time cleaning the trash off of the system.
2. Add office professional (ships with open office) I am sure that is at least a $200 savings.
3. Scratch having to take the machine into a shop every three months to clean all the spyware, crap etc out of the machine to make it actually work again. There is another few hundred bucks $200
I did not even list the other software it ships with and the equivalents would likely run you into the thousands.
I like the blurb about 10 people per square mile... In a few weeks here it is about to be 1000 people per square mile... I go to this area every year(sturgis) and of course quite a bit of time in Rapids city. The phone service always sucks so I take a additional old school cell phone with me so I may possibly have service. I cannot imagine that even just to service rally week customers it would not be profitable to put up some towers. It is a wide open space but next month it will get pretty crowded when 2 million bikers move into the area.
There is a rather simple solution to the great immigration and guest worker debate. I spent 10 years of my life in the US military. There are 10's of thousands of other troops on the front lines in Iraq fighting insurgents. These brave men are putting their lives on the line every day so that we here in the states can maintain what freedoms we still have and assisting in securing our national interests.
If you want to immigrate to the US then fine you spend 4 years active duty in my country's military and earn your green card. Everyone able bodied and of qualified military age should have to serve 4 years in our military to earn a green card. After those 4 years if someone want's to deny you a green card, I will be the first to help you kick their ass.
Our troops ain't over there right now risking their lives just so they can come home and be denied jobs because of crap like this!
You said it yourself you are a all MS business(owned), I doubt you have any intention of running Linux
so why would RedHat care what you do.
The bigger problem if you ever did decide to run linux is that the MS blessed distro's are as good as dead. Go ahead and ask for some help using your new blessed linspire distro on here and see where it get's you.
Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises 'will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses.'"
I think they are full of it, I am willing to bet with a linux box jacked into a mirrored port in the core that I can find bots and malware on more like 95% or better of windows based enterprises. There is not a network I have looked at in the last two years that is not owned, botted etc in some fashion.
Actually a Linux port would probably be in the company's best interest and here is why. Say I am a educator and I want to run Linux on my schools network. I come to you and say hey does your software run on Linux? Your salesman tells me no and it is not likely to ever be ported, besides who would want to run Linux anyway. I say ok and go on my merry way, however that salesman left me no choice but to look for a alternative solution. It just so happens that I am a educator but also a programmer and now I have a mission to replace the very software that does not run on my platform of choice. I spend a few months not only writing a replacement but better piece of software and distributing it on source forge. You in the mean time hear that company sales are dismal as millions are downloading this new package that does what yours does and more. Further you get word that the company needs to cut back staff to stay afloat and expect pink slips for half of the staff very soon....This has happened to others and it can happen to you and your company.
You see open source is the great equalizer all it takes is one man with a mission and the software that you currently produce can be obsoleted nearly over night.
HS Dropout or not and I don't care how you look at it he wins no matter what. Just for a lawyer to show it is gonna cost the company 10 times the cost of a new system. When you sue one of these big co's in small claims court they loose no matter what. On top of this ad the bad publicity and they loose 100 times any little monetary claim involved.
So he goes in and does a crappy job arguing his case and looses, well so what he still cost them 100 times the cost of a new system, goes home empty but still stuck it to them.
It has been a few years since I left the navy but when I was in there was no windows machines ever in a critical mission and I doubt that changed any....navy had tons of unix and sure it still rules the roost when it comes to mission critical systems.
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Sounds like a classic case of silver bullet syndrome to me. Develop software for long enough and
you will likely observe many who are afflicted with this nasty disorder. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have been asked to implement the silver bullet, usually coincides with the vendor hosted golf game. Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to implement a silver bullet that in most cases increases maintenance costs, bugs, performance issues etc and provides "zero" return on investment.
If it is not broke, don't fix it. In this case the author had sloppy hard to maintain php code
on the server. He finally came back to the solution that makes sense(fix the sloppy code) and drop
the silver bullet.
It's a worm hole....hmmm now where do we plant the thumper to lure them out.
Actually most applications use PWM (Pulse width modulation) for dc motor control. Banks of high amperage switching transistors feed the dc motor with a high frequency on off pulse. By varying the
pulse width you increase or decrease the speed of the motor.
Since my source swears to me that Apple uses the FreeBSD driver code to support the Atheros wireless network card in all the newer Intel-based Macs, I had to get Atheros' verification if this is true. Right off the bat and to my surprise, Atheros tells me they write the drivers and that it is not the FreeBSD code. I said wait: I've been told with certainty that these are the FreeBSD drivers written by Sam Leffler. Atheros went in to a bit of history and explained that they had Sam Leffler as a contractor and initially financed the MADWiFi Linux Driver and the FreeBSD drivers for Atheros wireless chipsets. Those drivers for Linux and FreeBSD took a life of their own and are independent of Atheros today and Sam Leffler is one of the primary contributors to both of those independent projects. But the Atheros driver for Mac OS X is written and supported by Atheros for their chipset client Apple computers but it uses the same data and header structures as the FreeBSD drivers to maintain compatibility with the FreeBSD userland.
Implement the changes, compile it into a binary, slap some crazy draconian type EULA on it and distribute away....
I guess when faced with a runaway monopoly there is not much left that you can do other than sell your competitors software to make a buck.
Not on your life would I ever pick a BSD license over any version of the GPL.
What user cares what license any of it runs under?
Answer: NIS
What happens when someone hijacks the botnet for more destructive use...
What, do you think people in the middle east are somehow stupid or not educated and incapable of
creating a UAV without assistance? Having spent a fair amount of time in the middle east I can tell you that their population in many cases has better access to technology than we do here in the states.
I think if they have the smarts and capability to build a reactor that a UAV would not be real difficult for them.
Why so they can end of life the product again and leave you holding the bag?
Fully cross platform open source object pascal IDE
http://lazarus.freepascal.org/
Ok some issues here and there and I was following his logic right up to the point when
I hit this.
The current design of Automatix precludes any reasonable way to fix
some of these problems.
This is the point where I had to call bullshit, there is nothing that cannot be fixed.
Set up a web cam tracker with a geo tagging setup say on a google map for instance. In this case it only geo tags public vehicles, city officials, squad cars etc...
Just about all code I have seen written in python is great looking stuff..mainly because of
the imposed indentation and clear language characteristics.
1. Does not come with all that crap ware installed add $200 in savings for a great deal of time cleaning the trash off of the system.
2. Add office professional (ships with open office) I am sure that is at least a $200 savings.
3. Scratch having to take the machine into a shop every three months to clean all the spyware, crap etc out of the machine to make it actually work again. There is another few hundred bucks $200
I did not even list the other software it ships with and the equivalents would likely run you into the thousands.
I like the blurb about 10 people per square mile... In a few weeks here it is about to be 1000 people per square mile... I go to this area every year(sturgis) and of course quite a bit of time in Rapids city. The phone service always sucks so I take a additional old school cell phone with me so I
may possibly have service. I cannot imagine that even just to service rally week customers it would not be profitable to put up some towers. It is a wide open space but next month it will get pretty crowded when 2 million bikers move into the area.
It did not run on firefox on my ubuntu linux box....so no it cannot hold a candle to flash, which
just so happens to work on my machine.
Yes, exactly....And why it this highly trained foreign worker more deserving of the
opportunity of a great job then that soldier on the front lines?
There is a rather simple solution to the great immigration and guest worker debate. I spent 10 years
of my life in the US military. There are 10's of thousands of other troops on the front lines
in Iraq fighting insurgents. These brave men are putting their lives on the line every day so that we here in the states can maintain what freedoms we still have and assisting in securing our national interests.
If you want to immigrate to the US then fine you spend 4 years active duty in my country's military and earn your green card. Everyone able bodied and of qualified military age should have to serve
4 years in our military to earn a green card. After those 4 years if someone want's to deny you
a green card, I will be the first to help you kick their ass.
Our troops ain't over there right now risking their lives just so they can come home and be
denied jobs because of crap like this!
Now tell me I am wrong!
You said it yourself you are a all MS business(owned), I doubt you have any intention of running Linux
so why would RedHat care what you do.
The bigger problem if you ever did decide to run linux is that the MS blessed distro's are as good
as dead. Go ahead and ask for some help using your new blessed linspire distro on here and see where it
get's you.
Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises 'will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses.'"
I think they are full of it, I am willing to bet with a linux box jacked into a mirrored port in the core that I can find bots and malware on more like 95% or better of windows based enterprises. There is not a network I have looked
at in the last two years that is not owned, botted etc in some fashion.
iptraf is the one I use most often...I doubt the %75 percent figure I find it closer to 95% of the networks I have
inspected are owned.
Actually a Linux port would probably be in the company's best interest and here is why. Say I am a educator and I want to run Linux on my schools network. I come to you and say hey does your software
run on Linux? Your salesman tells me no and it is not likely to ever be ported, besides who would want to run Linux anyway. I say ok and go on my merry way, however that salesman left me no choice but to look for a alternative solution. It just so happens that I am a educator but also a programmer and now I have a mission to replace the very software that does not run on my platform of choice. I spend a few months not only writing a replacement but better piece of software and distributing it on source forge. You in the mean time hear that company sales are dismal as millions are downloading this new package that does what yours does and more. Further you get word that the company needs to cut back staff to stay afloat and expect pink slips for half of the staff very soon....This has happened to others and it can happen to you and your company.
You see open source is the great equalizer all it takes is one man with a mission and the software
that you currently produce can be obsoleted nearly over night.
HS Dropout or not and I don't care how you look at it he wins no matter what. Just for a lawyer to show it is gonna cost the company 10 times the cost of a new system. When you sue one of these big co's in small claims court they loose no matter what. On top of this ad the bad publicity and they loose 100 times any little monetary claim involved.
So he goes in and does a crappy job arguing his case and looses, well so what he still cost them
100 times the cost of a new system, goes home empty but still stuck it to them.
It has been a few years since I left the navy but when I was in there was no windows machines ever in a critical mission and I doubt that changed any....navy had tons of unix and sure it still rules the roost when it comes
to mission critical systems.