So he caught a few contemporary references in a book written over 30 years ago and that makes MMM irrelevant? If that's all you got from this book, the paper was wasted on you, because the book describes fundamental principles of software development that are as valid today as they were 30 years ago.
Dan O'Dowd is President and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software,Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
So I Googled for Green Hills Software and found that Green Hills Software is "The Leader In Real-Time Operating Systems". Their Products page lists several RTOS, development platforms, debuggers, compilers, etc.
I just want to let you know that I'm suspending purchase of several accessories made by Belkin for my 30G iPod because of your blatant abuse of customer trust (the router rerouter fiasco). Furthermore, I shall engage in an active campaign among friends and family to make sure none of them buy your products for the same reason. Being a geek by profession, a lot of my non-tech friends take my advice for tech purchases. Since you've been featured on/. already, you can be sure there are many others who'll take similar course of action.
I sincerely hope your bottom line will suffer enough for you to make an official pledge never to ream your customers again. Or that you go bankrupt (financially, because morally you obviously already have).
I feel betrayed, having recommended your products (even when priced above competition) for corporate and personal purchase so many times in the past, because of build quality I can count on. However, build quality is not enough; integrity and ethics are just as (if not more) important, especially at times of Good Enough Syndrome.
Is this (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=85076&cid=741 9620) what really happened? ENDQUOTE
1. Six-plus hours of battery life is not always enough. A: Yes, think of the masses doing the daily trans-Pacific commute, to them that iPod is worthless. Not even that, actually, because long-haul airplanes of any airlines worth flying on has power outlets for laptops which can be used to recharge the battery should you have actually depleted it.
2. Jogging with a hard drive-based player is not cool. A: I snowboard and I bike singletrails (mountain/forest mountain biking), each of which involves a lot of jumps (and falls) and I've *never* experienced a skip with my 30G iPod.
3. The iPod is expensive. A: So are Porsches and Ferraris. So get into your Yugo and go get yourself that cheap-ass Chinese plastic toy with 29 buttons spread all over and a battery compartment cover that doesn't fully fit and I'll keep my iPod, thank you. At C$749 + taxes that I paid for it, I still consider it a good value.
4. You want to make high-quality digital recordings. A: Yeah, all those DJs and other music professionals lining up to do their production in the bus, replacing 3 tonnes of very expensive studio gear with a handheld.
5. You want a choice in online music stores. A: Of course, because we all know music purchased from online stores makes (almost) 0.00000001% of digital music people currently own. I'm still waiting for someone to explain how is WMA any different from AAC with regards to openness.
IBM's lawyers, I hear, are very expensive ones
on
SCO's Lawyers Analyzed
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· Score: 2, Insightful
What'll be the arrangement between SCO and Boies with regards to paying IBM's legal fees (which is inevitable when they lose this case, which is inevitable (no, this is not a redundancy))? No doubt the tab will run into millions... Will Boies pick up 20% of that?
If my understanding of GPL is correct, they'll have to release the source to the soldiers because they're the users who got the binaries on the computer (just like Tivo had to do it to whoever got a Tivo).
THis, IMHO, is an issue of common currency that differs in the two worlds we see clashing right before our eyes: the intelligentsia and the corporate world.
Former's currency is Knowledge, latter's Cold Hard Cash. Principles are really same: you wanna use ${my_stuff}, you pay me X in ${my_currency}.
What confuses Forbes types is that FSF folks can't be bought for money, their price is listed in Knowledge.
My boss is not only giving me the afternoon off to see the movie, he's buying the tickets. All geek movies (LoTR, Matrix, et al) are treated as such: company pays for the premiere tickets and we get the afternoon off.
Bank of America got badly burnt due to their use of Windows when Slammer hit (more details), and yet
"A Windows platform will give us more flexibility and opportunity for future enhancements," said Julie Davis, spokeswoman for Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank. "The Windows platform allows us to put even better protections in place. However, we won't discuss the details of our security procedures."
To answer question someone asked earlier: yes, I do believe IT in banks is run by morons, as this clearly illustrates.
They seem to think SCO has merit because they're reserving the stock at a price, assuming it's going to shoot up (which it will, should SCO win the case).
-- Now playing: Leper Messiah (Metallica/Master of Puppets)
I spend most of my days working on software that is written exclusively in Java (OK, *some* C++ for native utilities, called through JNI) and our client component is blazingly fast *and* runs with almost no modification on all major (and a few minor) platforms.
Slashdot Mirror
So how exactly does one redistribute the change made on-the-fly in one's own browser?
Retard.
n/t
His last attempt was back in January.
Imagine a Beowulf clus... Ahh, nevermind!
So he caught a few contemporary references in a book written over 30 years ago and that makes MMM irrelevant? If that's all you got from this book, the paper was wasted on you, because the book describes fundamental principles of software development that are as valid today as they were 30 years ago.
Are we going to se idiots driving around 1000hp diesel trucks with 15 speed gearboxes and no trailer? Of course it will have 36" chrome rims too....
I take it you've never been to Georgia...
You were supposed to say: "I'm Irish, you insensitive clod!"
You're only supposed to insert gerbils into your butt, not monkeys!
Dan O'Dowd is President and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software,Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
So I Googled for Green Hills Software and found that Green Hills Software is "The Leader In
Real-Time Operating Systems". Their Products page lists several RTOS, development platforms, debuggers, compilers, etc.
So much for disclosure at EETimes...
I've never met code written using well-accepted Design Patterns that I was unable to maintain without problem.
I've rarely seen code written by the likes of you who shun good design over irrelevant performance issues that I could maintain at all.
I've *never* encountered a well-designed distributed app that cannot be scaled with hw.
Here's my e-mail to sales@belkin.com
/. already, you can be sure there are many others who'll take
1 9620) what really
QUOTE
Hi,
I just want to let you know that I'm suspending purchase of several
accessories made by Belkin for my 30G iPod because of your blatant abuse of
customer trust (the router rerouter fiasco). Furthermore, I shall engage in
an active campaign among friends and family to make sure none of them buy your
products for the same reason. Being a geek by profession, a lot of my
non-tech friends take my advice for tech purchases. Since you've been
featured on
similar course of action.
I sincerely hope your bottom line will suffer enough for you to make an
official pledge never to ream your customers again. Or that you go bankrupt
(financially, because morally you obviously already have).
I feel betrayed, having recommended your products (even when priced above
competition) for corporate and personal purchase so many times in the past,
because of build quality I can count on. However, build quality is not
enough; integrity and ethics are just as (if not more) important, especially
at times of Good Enough Syndrome.
Is this (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=85076&cid=74
happened?
ENDQUOTE
WARNING: Sarcasm abounds.
1. Six-plus hours of battery life is not always enough.
A: Yes, think of the masses doing the daily trans-Pacific commute, to them that iPod is worthless. Not even that, actually, because long-haul airplanes of any airlines worth flying on has power outlets for laptops which can be used to recharge the battery should you have actually depleted it.
2. Jogging with a hard drive-based player is not cool.
A: I snowboard and I bike singletrails (mountain/forest mountain biking), each of which involves a lot of jumps (and falls) and I've *never* experienced a skip with my 30G iPod.
3. The iPod is expensive.
A: So are Porsches and Ferraris. So get into your Yugo and go get yourself that cheap-ass Chinese plastic toy with 29 buttons spread all over and a battery compartment cover that doesn't fully fit and I'll keep my iPod, thank you. At C$749 + taxes that I paid for it, I still consider it a good value.
4. You want to make high-quality digital recordings.
A: Yeah, all those DJs and other music professionals lining up to do their production in the bus, replacing 3 tonnes of very expensive studio gear with a handheld.
5. You want a choice in online music stores.
A: Of course, because we all know music purchased from online stores makes (almost) 0.00000001% of digital music people currently own. I'm still waiting for someone to explain how is WMA any different from AAC with regards to openness.
What'll be the arrangement between SCO and Boies with regards to paying IBM's legal fees (which is inevitable when they lose this case, which is inevitable (no, this is not a redundancy))? No doubt the tab will run into millions... Will Boies pick up 20% of that?
Current war (Iraq) is as much about self-defense (for those you argue in favor of) as was Operation: Barbarossa for the ones who initiated it.
If my understanding of GPL is correct, they'll have to release the source to the soldiers because they're the users who got the binaries on the computer (just like Tivo had to do it to whoever got a Tivo).
Any geeks in uniform to get us the sources?
Switching workspaces (WMaker) does the trick too.
THis, IMHO, is an issue of common currency that differs in the two worlds we see clashing right before our eyes: the intelligentsia and the corporate world.
Former's currency is Knowledge, latter's Cold Hard Cash. Principles are really same: you wanna use ${my_stuff}, you pay me X in ${my_currency}.
What confuses Forbes types is that FSF folks can't be bought for money, their price is listed in Knowledge.
My boss is not only giving me the afternoon off to see the movie, he's buying the tickets. All geek movies (LoTR, Matrix, et al) are treated as such: company pays for the premiere tickets and we get the afternoon off.
"A Windows platform will give us more flexibility and opportunity for future enhancements," said Julie Davis, spokeswoman for Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank. "The Windows platform allows us to put even better protections in place. However, we won't discuss the details of our security procedures."
To answer question someone asked earlier: yes, I do believe IT in banks is run by morons, as this clearly illustrates.
You're not the brightest pencil in the shed, are you?
RTFA
They seem to think SCO has merit because they're reserving the stock at a price, assuming it's going to shoot up (which it will, should SCO win the case).
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Now playing: Leper Messiah (Metallica/Master of Puppets)
The site reasoning.com is running Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) on Linux.
True, fire which burned down Tesla's lab was attributed to Edison even though nothing was ever proven.
I spend most of my days working on software that is written exclusively in Java (OK, *some* C++ for native utilities, called through JNI) and our client component is blazingly fast *and* runs with almost no modification on all major (and a few minor) platforms.
Oh, did I mention we use SWT?