Actually, I think you'll find that people who go and see summer blockbusters no-matter-what are the ones that fun innovation.
See, innovation isn't cheap, it has a cost and a risk. If a company has plenty of income and revenue and spare cash, when they get asked 'do you want to take a risk with this?' they are more likely to answer yes, than if they're strapped for cash and are struggling to make it through.
There's plenty of quotes around from people in production companies who say 'we mass produce all this stuff to make a profit so that we can afford to make minority stuff that doesn't.'
Turbo Pascal has an option to do that... I was told once that any language compiler that would offer to write array bounds checking must be for a mickey mouse language. After all, real programmers didn't need help from compilers to do that.
Once the arms are complete, you chop them off the surface they are on, re-arrange them, and place them on another surface. You can then use them to build other things, by putting together a little miniature assembly line.
Building them is the first stage, building millions of them is necessary, so building them quickly is essential.
The manual process can make one arm per time-slice (however long that takes) using what looks to be a single, large, expensive device.
However, by building a single arm manually, and then moving the surface to another location you can breed more arms, at 2 per time-slice, then 4 per time-slice, etc.
Once you have 1024 [for example], you chop them up using another device, and place them on another surface in any arrangement you desire and get them to build things.
AArrgggh! Noooooooooooo. Get rid of binaries on usenet. You want one copy of each file, and everyone able to get to it, not 100,000 copies of each file, with only one server actually being used.
In general I'd say, for PC-LAN / windows, 1 person per 30 workstations.
Rubbish, IMO.
Previous job - 10,000 users, all Wintel based, 15 people in the support team, another 10 or so in a development/support role, and 5 in 'third line' (but they also covered AIX, MVS, etc.)
That gives around 1 person per 300'ish workstations, and they were spread over a 400 mile radius.
My feeling is that numbers mean nothing, and it's down to how you implemented the solution. But to say one person per 30 PC-LAN/Windows workstations is required is way out.
Aside... it does make you wonder about the human race though when more people believe in astrology (and pay for it) than they do in investing in funding astronomy.
People don't want truth, they want fantasy. They want to hear good things, not true things.
Agreed, for me, the problem is not getting spam into a hotmail account, but preventing spammers from using hotmail to send spam out!
I'm sick of having hotmail accounts cancelled, only to find that surprise surprise, the same person has another one the next day.
This is even more annoying when people are being disruptive on mailing lists, and you have them banned, etc. Tomorrow, another hotmail account, another anonymous identity.
I had already started wondering about what to do when (A)DSL finally gets to be widespread in the UK.
I'm already sharing several machines across my dial-up access, but I'm on for such short periods and at such odd times, that I've never really been too worried about any kind of firewall.
However, (A)DSL is going to change things rather quickly I would have thought - time to start collecting lists of GPL'ed or Freeware firewall products me thinks.
Isn't the issue with that, "where do we draw the line".
Ooops, wrong colour hair guys, get me the gas.
Ok, so that's an extreme view, but it helps to illustrate my point - with 6 billion people in the world, everyone's going to have a different opinion about what constitutes 'fit to live'.
The other point of course is that right up until the point of death, you have no real idea what your potential is, you might, at that last dying moment have an insight which has far-reaching effects.
You can *not* manage life on a 'return on investment' basis. IMO.
Woah! How come you knew the content of my bookmarks Rob? I've just checked and the only bookmarks I've got that aren't in a nice little box somewhere on my new dynamic SlashDot are the work related ones!
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I refuse to use any search engine which returns 0 hits for bacon cob,
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=bacon%20cob&sl=long
grrr, fund*
Actually, I think you'll find that people who go and see summer blockbusters no-matter-what are the ones that fun innovation.
See, innovation isn't cheap, it has a cost and a risk. If a company has plenty of income and revenue and spare cash, when they get asked 'do you want to take a risk with this?' they are more likely to answer yes, than if they're strapped for cash and are struggling to make it through.
There's plenty of quotes around from people in production companies who say 'we mass produce all this stuff to make a profit so that we can afford to make minority stuff that doesn't.'
Turbo Pascal has an option to do that ... I was told once that any language compiler that would offer to write array bounds checking must be for a mickey mouse language. After all, real programmers didn't need help from compilers to do that.
Once the arms are complete, you chop them off the surface they are on, re-arrange them, and place them on another surface. You can then use them to build other things, by putting together a little miniature assembly line.
Building them is the first stage, building millions of them is necessary, so building them quickly is essential.
Simple.
The manual process can make one arm per time-slice (however long that takes) using what looks to be a single, large, expensive device.
However, by building a single arm manually, and then moving the surface to another location you can breed more arms, at 2 per time-slice, then 4 per time-slice, etc.
Once you have 1024 [for example], you chop them up using another device, and place them on another surface in any arrangement you desire and get them to build things.
1024 manually takes 1024 time-slices, 1024 exponentially takes 11 time-slices.
AArrgggh! Noooooooooooo. Get rid of binaries on usenet. You want one copy of each file, and everyone able to get to it, not 100,000 copies of each file, with only one server actually being used.
Usenet is NOT the place for binary images.
Rubbish, IMO.
Previous job - 10,000 users, all Wintel based, 15 people in the support team, another 10 or so in a development/support role, and 5 in 'third line' (but they also covered AIX, MVS, etc.)
That gives around 1 person per 300'ish workstations, and they were spread over a 400 mile radius.
My feeling is that numbers mean nothing, and it's down to how you implemented the solution. But to say one person per 30 PC-LAN/Windows workstations is required is way out.
People don't want truth, they want fantasy. They want to hear good things, not true things.
I wouldn't mind giving up the terrible security that ICQ has :(
The number of people I know who've had their ICQ accounts 'liberated' from them, with almost no response from the ICQ 'developers'.
Agreed, for me, the problem is not getting spam into a hotmail account, but preventing spammers from using hotmail to send spam out!
I'm sick of having hotmail accounts cancelled, only to find that surprise surprise, the same person has another one the next day.
This is even more annoying when people are being disruptive on mailing lists, and you have them banned, etc. Tomorrow, another hotmail account, another anonymous identity.
I had already started wondering about what to do when (A)DSL finally gets to be widespread in the UK.
I'm already sharing several machines across my dial-up access, but I'm on for such short periods and at such odd times, that I've never really been too worried about any kind of firewall.
However, (A)DSL is going to change things rather quickly I would have thought - time to start collecting lists of GPL'ed or Freeware firewall products me thinks.
Isn't the issue with that, "where do we draw the line".
Ooops, wrong colour hair guys, get me the gas.
Ok, so that's an extreme view, but it helps to illustrate my point - with 6 billion people in the world, everyone's going to have a different opinion about what constitutes 'fit to live'.
The other point of course is that right up until the point of death, you have no real idea what your potential is, you might, at that last dying moment have an insight which has far-reaching effects.
You can *not* manage life on a 'return on investment' basis. IMO.
Oh come on! It was immediately obvious that Rob would never allow the e-mail addresses to be used for this kind of crap.
Anyone who's read slashdot for more than two hours should have realised it immediately.
My initial response was "oooh, he's in for a bad life" (he as in the spammer).
Woah! How come you knew the content of my bookmarks Rob? I've just checked and the only bookmarks I've got that aren't in a nice little box somewhere on my new dynamic SlashDot are the work related ones!
:-)
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Excellent work
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