This is where government intervention/financial_support is needed for the long term good of society -- I can't see it happening since the payoff is way beyond the next election.
The government will not do this. This is what you need private charity for.
Yep, I agree. It seems that the OpenBSD folks (not just Theo) think that SVN is too complicated to be secure. They want to stick with the "proven" CVS protocols and RCS file formats. And yeah, they always start from scratch because they've gotta make it BSD licensed.. and besides, it gives them a feeling of ownership.
This is a pretty common pattern. Complex == insecure to them. Which, to me, implies that secure == poverty. I like security as much as the next guy, but living in poverty because you're paranoid about security is not healthy.
CVS is ok if you don't go moving and renaming files. Due to the nature of OpenBSD, that does not happen very often. Granted, I think OpenSVN would be a much better use of there efforts in terms of it benefiting the rest of us, but they are free to do as they want.
You are right that Theo and friends take the simplicity a bit too far and functionality does suffer. However, OpenBSD does have its niche in my world. If I wanted to use an old machine to act as a firewall or a box with SSH access to the world, I would chose OpenBSD over anything else. As soon as I needed to "get stuff done" I'd switch to linux or FreeBSD though.
XHTML is still bettr than HTML in that it's a lot easier to parse. IMHO that is a good thing as it makes it easier for browsers to be smaller and bug free. The point that any device can also render HTML is moot because it still makes the devices work harder and the majority of websites still don't use XHTML because the majority of web designers are trapped in 1997. The majority of websites still just can't easily be tweaked to work on multiple types of devices to any decent level of usability - many don't even work on different browsers or screen sizes properly. Just because people still make really bad code we should take that as a reason to stop trying to make better code? Doh.
I don't think parsing is an issue. Yes it is easier to parse XML than html, but no browser of any significance is "xhtml only." I predict that this will remain the case for at least 20 years. Also, Opera is much smaller than the competition, and links is quite small as well. Parsing is not an area that causes browser bloat.
It appears Lunix intends to catch up to Windows 95's tail lights by trying, piece by piece, to turn Lunix INTO Windows 95. Hardly surprising: if the Lunix community had any talent or imagination, they wouldn't still be chasing an operating system which is approaching 13 years old.
Well he already caught up to and surpassed a 37 year old operating system. Actually, user mode drivers seem to be new to VISTA, although I think there is something similar in earlier NT kernels.
Its called cross pollination btw. I'd like Linus to go stealing all the good ideas from the non unix OSes.
The big projects fail because they take long enough that people change their minds (so requirements don't stay fixed) and because there's too much communication overhead (the old "management wants status reports more often, because we're falling behind" situation).
Try planning a project that will take 5 years and $10 million.
People WILL leave the organization during that time. They will be replaced. If it was a tech, will the new tech do things the same way as the old one? Will you have hammered down your process so that s/he will HAVE to do it the same way?
Will any tech worth his salt WANT to do things the same way as the old guy without questinging anything? Personally when I enter a new company, a large part of "getting adjusted" is fighting every foreign idea tooth and nail. I come to terms with them shortly, but I can't accept them as useful until I see them.
This is such an exquisite example of design pattern overkill that I may require a private moment.
It is the Gang-of-four Job_Security_Strategy pattern. Only the author can figure out their own code like this, and if you get paid per volume of code, you get wealthy.
Actually, if you have a code generator doing all the grunt work for you, it wont take you long to write like that. If you use.net 3.0 and the guidance packages to write a WCF web service the code will look like that. However, all you have to do after running the guidance package is fill in the business logic functions.
Should you write all your code like that? No. Some code belongs in utility classes where the only public members are static that inherit directly from object and implement no interfaces. However, some things you want reusable and extendable. Now a hello world is not a good candidate for the full design by contract factory pattern implementation because it abstracts the code to the point of making it harder to read. However, often in the case of real world code it does not do this.
(I don't see an issue for guns, when used as 'tools' - I can well understand why a hunter might need a rifle or a shotgun. However I remain unconvinced that a pistol, or any form of automatic weapon has any reason other than showing off, and killing other people)
Sometimes you need to kill someone. Self preservation comes to mind. Its not something I hope to do, but I don't hope to use a fire extinguisher either. Some people are mentally incapable of owning a gun. However, innocence should be presumed until proven guilty. So as long as a majority of gun owners do not commit murder, I'm willing to accept the risk of someone killing me with a legally obtained registered firearm, if it means that my neighbors will all be able to buy a gun when then learn that there is a killer on the loose in their neighborhood.
Good luck selling your house to someone who just wants plain old phone service, unless Verizon's going to put the copper back in or charge normal phone rates for people not using the internet stuff.
Assuming they didn't, how many people are going not want to buy a house because they can't get a land line? Alarm systems work with FIOS, and the modems come with 8 hour batteries? If I was moving into a new house, I would not go out of my way to get a land line.
This is a big problem in principal, and has some negative implications, but house resale is not one of them.
I would rather prefer LPAR if I had the posibility, but for the moment I'll have to be happy with virtualization. (on x86/x64 hardware)
What exactly is the difference between LPAR and virtualization? Other than allocating specific CPUs or chunks of CPUs, what does VMWare offer that the LPARs of an iSeries do not?
Having some flexibility just over the fence gives MS a lot of options to get heavy handed.
And force the US market to become more competitive? It that a really terrible thing? Yes MS will forever pay low wages as a matter of principal. Some companies just have a firm belief that wages should be kept down. It works for many of them. I don't agree with it, but don't consider the practice immoral. It generally makes for unhappy employees, but the employeers pay for that in increased turnover and shrinkage. Not that I advocate employee theft. I consider the employeers non innocent victims.
Take it from me, I work in HR at a Fortune 500 company, so I know a thing or two.
I lack a degree and my experience is to all over the map for me fit nicely into one of your fortune 500 peg holes. I'll have to continue working for one of the smaller companies that your company outsources its work to.
BTW, I do happen to user C# in my current job. However, that does not mean that there are no jobs in Java available. There is merit in learning Cobol, and trade schools that still teach it. Someone has to maintain the old code.
*BSD doesn't have an authoritative leader like Linus Torvalds to keep them together. The GPL is not immune from fragmentation -- consider Emacs vs XEmacs. Or GCC/EGCS.
EGCS was an intention fork that merged back as intended. In other words it was a development strategy.
This is Capitalism in action: the trickledown effect.
Men earn much more on average than women. Larry is doing these women, and hence society, a favour. They marry him, then divorce him, acquiring a substantial proportion of his vast wealth in the process. This unlocks this capital and redistributes it in the economy, thus keeping things flowing and stimulating economic growth and jobs for the less well-off.
This is why it is important for rich men to have lots of wives.
Well, with that thinking a wife is just a crazy business idea with Dot Com style funding. He could give 5 idiots 10 million to start a business, and they would spend the money on furniture, workers, computers, and various other products and services. That would redistribute capital and stimulate growth. However, after the 5 guys spend all there money, they might learn enough to be useful to society.
The Dot-Commers got the idea from the Valley technology companies back in the 80's.
Indeed. The money to fund exorbitant play activities like foosball tables dried up after the Dot Bomb, but the relaxed dress code, flexible hours, and "it's what you do, not how you look" attitude of Silicon Valley entrepreneurism never changed. I can't think of the last time I saw a suit in a meeting, and that includes gatherings with VCs.
Speaking of suits, I've done some programming in the construction industry and I've noticed that except for the under 30 engineers and the secretaries, there is a strict Suit/work cloths line between the workers and the executives and engineers. I'm wondering, is this "normal" in other industries, and is this a ause or effect of a work industry where degrees, and union membership more clearly define peoples roles.
On and I can't help but think that just perhaps Nina used the bride service just to get her butt out of Russia and into an environment with better oppertunities. That's not all that uncommon..
If workers are "interchangeable parts," as the article seems to suggest, then from the company's point of view, it's best if your work IS your life. So what if you burn out early, there's a class-load of graduates every year, plus stragglers or over-achievers at mid-year.
In other words, you have to set your limits, because many employers will be happy to take all they can get from you, without thought to the future.
Unfortunately, in an employment situation like we have now in the US, there is little-to-no disincentive for employers to put workers on the burnout track, as a matter of course.
There seem to be plenty of places to go after google, or any other "burnout track" job. Although you are kinda like an abused foster kid at that point. It takes you a while to learn to behave in "normal" manner, at least that was my experience. Granted I didn't work at MS or Google, but a place that qualified as "not normal" in many regards. I think in the long run it was a beneficial experience, as it has made me better at what I do. I'll never be a manager, but I am happier that way.
I feel the immigration quota should be raised to the number of estimated illegals in the country. What is it, 12,000,000. The number of legal immigrants is capped at 250,000. That's a joke! NO wonder there are so many illegals!
Actually, we should raise it to how many illegals come into the country in a year, and maybe double that the first year if we plan on a mass deportation.
We don't need 12 million new immigrants a year, but we could use more than 250,000. If there is a shortage of workers the wages of fruit pickers will rise. The wages of fruit pickers could probably double without totally destroying our economy. It would raise our grocery bills, but we will survive. Granted this will hurt the poor a little more than the rise in gas as they tend to not own cars.
Just remind her of the old adage of *keeping hot food hot* and *cold food cold*. I'm an environmental health specialist by training and some people just don't understand the concept behind food safety.
Honestly, they never get sick, so whats so unsafe about there behavior? If I ever do spend a month in her country I do plan on starting my trip by drinking copious amounts of tap water until it no longer makes me sick. If course I will make sure I am near the hospital when I undertake this dubious task.
Notice how their test DIDN'T include in their actual test phase a "passenger conversation" experiment phase at all.
Also, the difference between hands-free sets and normal sets were minimal... but then again the experiment only required one hand, not two (and most non-US cars are driven with two hands, not one).
I drive stick while talking on my cell phone on speaker just fine. Two fingers and a thumb hold the phone and the rest hook the shifter.
Is it unsafe? Sure, but I'm not much safer paying attention to the road. The real issue here is Americans don't care about safety. We are willing to take risks. We have easier road tests is because we believe in low barriers of entry in the market place and personnel freedom.
I just clicked on your link in Safari 3 (Mac), and it looked fine. I don't know if it looks different in IE, but it certainly didn't look broken. Perhaps your friend should check out a newer version of WebKit (nightly builds have been available for a while for people who must have an updated rendering engine every day). Did you purchase a subscription and try to use the pay for tools?
Slashdot Mirror
Ldap?
This is where government intervention/financial_support is needed for the long term good of society -- I can't see it happening since the payoff is way beyond the next election.
The government will not do this. This is what you need private charity for.
This is a pretty common pattern. Complex == insecure to them. Which, to me, implies that secure == poverty. I like security as much as the next guy, but living in poverty because you're paranoid about security is not healthy.
CVS is ok if you don't go moving and renaming files. Due to the nature of OpenBSD, that does not happen very often. Granted, I think OpenSVN would be a much better use of there efforts in terms of it benefiting the rest of us, but they are free to do as they want.
You are right that Theo and friends take the simplicity a bit too far and functionality does suffer. However, OpenBSD does have its niche in my world. If I wanted to use an old machine to act as a firewall or a box with SSH access to the world, I would chose OpenBSD over anything else. As soon as I needed to "get stuff done" I'd switch to linux or FreeBSD though.
I don't think parsing is an issue. Yes it is easier to parse XML than html, but no browser of any significance is "xhtml only." I predict that this will remain the case for at least 20 years. Also, Opera is much smaller than the competition, and links is quite small as well. Parsing is not an area that causes browser bloat.
Well he already caught up to and surpassed a 37 year old operating system. Actually, user mode drivers seem to be new to VISTA, although I think there is something similar in earlier NT kernels.
Its called cross pollination btw. I'd like Linus to go stealing all the good ideas from the non unix OSes.
Try planning a project that will take 5 years and $10 million.
People WILL leave the organization during that time. They will be replaced. If it was a tech, will the new tech do things the same way as the old one? Will you have hammered down your process so that s/he will HAVE to do it the same way?
Will any tech worth his salt WANT to do things the same way as the old guy without questinging anything? Personally when I enter a new company, a large part of "getting adjusted" is fighting every foreign idea tooth and nail. I come to terms with them shortly, but I can't accept them as useful until I see them.
It is the Gang-of-four Job_Security_Strategy pattern. Only the author can figure out their own code like this, and if you get paid per volume of code, you get wealthy.
Actually, if you have a code generator doing all the grunt work for you, it wont take you long to write like that. If you use .net 3.0 and the guidance packages to write a WCF web service the code will look like that. However, all you have to do after running the guidance package is fill in the business logic functions.
Should you write all your code like that? No. Some code belongs in utility classes where the only public members are static that inherit directly from object and implement no interfaces. However, some things you want reusable and extendable. Now a hello world is not a good candidate for the full design by contract factory pattern implementation because it abstracts the code to the point of making it harder to read. However, often in the case of real world code it does not do this.
(I don't see an issue for guns, when used as 'tools' - I can well understand why a hunter might need a rifle or a shotgun. However I remain unconvinced that a pistol, or any form of automatic weapon has any reason other than showing off, and killing other people)
Sometimes you need to kill someone. Self preservation comes to mind. Its not something I hope to do, but I don't hope to use a fire extinguisher either. Some people are mentally incapable of owning a gun. However, innocence should be presumed until proven guilty. So as long as a majority of gun owners do not commit murder, I'm willing to accept the risk of someone killing me with a legally obtained registered firearm, if it means that my neighbors will all be able to buy a gun when then learn that there is a killer on the loose in their neighborhood.
Assuming they didn't, how many people are going not want to buy a house because they can't get a land line? Alarm systems work with FIOS, and the modems come with 8 hour batteries? If I was moving into a new house, I would not go out of my way to get a land line.
This is a big problem in principal, and has some negative implications, but house resale is not one of them.
What exactly is the difference between LPAR and virtualization? Other than allocating specific CPUs or chunks of CPUs, what does VMWare offer that the LPARs of an iSeries do not?
Having some flexibility just over the fence gives MS a lot of options to get heavy handed.
And force the US market to become more competitive? It that a really terrible thing? Yes MS will forever pay low wages as a matter of principal. Some companies just have a firm belief that wages should be kept down. It works for many of them. I don't agree with it, but don't consider the practice immoral. It generally makes for unhappy employees, but the employeers pay for that in increased turnover and shrinkage. Not that I advocate employee theft. I consider the employeers non innocent victims.
I lack a degree and my experience is to all over the map for me fit nicely into one of your fortune 500 peg holes. I'll have to continue working for one of the smaller companies that your company outsources its work to.
BTW, I do happen to user C# in my current job. However, that does not mean that there are no jobs in Java available. There is merit in learning Cobol, and trade schools that still teach it. Someone has to maintain the old code.
EGCS was an intention fork that merged back as intended. In other words it was a development strategy.This is Capitalism in action: the trickledown effect.
Men earn much more on average than women. Larry is doing these women, and hence society, a favour. They marry him, then divorce him, acquiring a substantial proportion of his vast wealth in the process. This unlocks this capital and redistributes it in the economy, thus keeping things flowing and stimulating economic growth and jobs for the less well-off.
This is why it is important for rich men to have lots of wives.
Well, with that thinking a wife is just a crazy business idea with Dot Com style funding. He could give 5 idiots 10 million to start a business, and they would spend the money on furniture, workers, computers, and various other products and services. That would redistribute capital and stimulate growth. However, after the 5 guys spend all there money, they might learn enough to be useful to society.
The Dot-Commers got the idea from the Valley technology companies back in the 80's.
Indeed. The money to fund exorbitant play activities like foosball tables dried up after the Dot Bomb, but the relaxed dress code, flexible hours, and "it's what you do, not how you look" attitude of Silicon Valley entrepreneurism never changed. I can't think of the last time I saw a suit in a meeting, and that includes gatherings with VCs.
Speaking of suits, I've done some programming in the construction industry and I've noticed that except for the under 30 engineers and the secretaries, there is a strict Suit/work cloths line between the workers and the executives and engineers. I'm wondering, is this "normal" in other industries, and is this a ause or effect of a work industry where degrees, and union membership more clearly define peoples roles.
SO why else do Russian women use bride services?
In other words, you have to set your limits, because many employers will be happy to take all they can get from you, without thought to the future.
Unfortunately, in an employment situation like we have now in the US, there is little-to-no disincentive for employers to put workers on the burnout track, as a matter of course.
There seem to be plenty of places to go after google, or any other "burnout track" job. Although you are kinda like an abused foster kid at that point. It takes you a while to learn to behave in "normal" manner, at least that was my experience. Granted I didn't work at MS or Google, but a place that qualified as "not normal" in many regards. I think in the long run it was a beneficial experience, as it has made me better at what I do. I'll never be a manager, but I am happier that way.
We were talking about illegal immigrants picking fruit IN THE US.
And we do have examine the possibility of actions that affect the cost of doing business locally, increasing the demand for foreign work.
Actually, we should raise it to how many illegals come into the country in a year, and maybe double that the first year if we plan on a mass deportation.
We don't need 12 million new immigrants a year, but we could use more than 250,000. If there is a shortage of workers the wages of fruit pickers will rise. The wages of fruit pickers could probably double without totally destroying our economy. It would raise our grocery bills, but we will survive. Granted this will hurt the poor a little more than the rise in gas as they tend to not own cars.
Crackers were the poor whites that could not afford slaves.
We all have *bacteria* in our body that helps with digestion and fighting disease . . . I guess what they carry is *meaner* than ours or something.
They can drink the water and I can't so your absolutely right.Duuuuude. That's rough.
Just remind her of the old adage of *keeping hot food hot* and *cold food cold*. I'm an environmental health specialist by training and some people just don't understand the concept behind food safety.
Honestly, they never get sick, so whats so unsafe about there behavior? If I ever do spend a month in her country I do plan on starting my trip by drinking copious amounts of tap water until it no longer makes me sick. If course I will make sure I am near the hospital when I undertake this dubious task.Also, the difference between hands-free sets and normal sets were minimal... but then again the experiment only required one hand, not two (and most non-US cars are driven with two hands, not one).
I drive stick while talking on my cell phone on speaker just fine. Two fingers and a thumb hold the phone and the rest hook the shifter.
Is it unsafe? Sure, but I'm not much safer paying attention to the road. The real issue here is Americans don't care about safety. We are willing to take risks. We have easier road tests is because we believe in low barriers of entry in the market place and personnel freedom.
"Default" browser? Does it have an extension to view foreclosures?
And I had to scroll pretty far down to get the joke. Perhaps a credited quotation would have been a better choice.