Humans certainly have a range of emotions - is this an evolutionary advantage to be injected into robots or an inefficient side effect to be disregarded?
I'm not going to credit that individual (or individuals) with being any more competent than I am at deciding what order I would like to listen to the songs on an album.
Yeah but we're talking shuffle - personally im not gonna pay much respec to a pseudorandom algorithm's idea on the order either.
the reason for shuffle is a no-brainer - you have lots of artists playable at once and you have too many songs to get through at one time. people dont really care about the order, they just want to hear a combo of artists. most people would be content if they could play all songs in sequential order but keep switching artists
IBM has grabbed the Linux ball and run like hell with it, and they've done very well. Sun has pussy footed, flip-flopping more often than a spatula at a pancake shop on Linux.
Actually you could say IBM has two big balls that Sun doesn't --- the other one benig Java, which has earned Big Blue many more $$$s than its earned for its maker.
the two of us just sat there and talked about chicks!
Bzzzzt. "the two of us"???? Yes you program in pairs, but under XP, you're also supposed to exercise collective ownership. That means rotating frequently, so everyone pairs with everyone else. Ideas in the code spread that way.
Now, if there were only two of you on the project, and both of you couldn't be bothered programming, then no methodology's going to fix that.
It *has* been said that two cowboys sitting next to each other will still be more productive than apart, because they will still be able to pick up all the problems that only one of them would have spotted. Not to mention being able to talk to each other might actually teach them something, other than about which chicks they dig.
No doubt, these six salespeople will be "thanking" slashdot under their breath. Hopefully, their photo will be real-time, thus providing a glimpse of how websites feel when suffering from slashdot effect.
I think people who make statements like this aren't really aware of how widespread the usage of Java is in enterprise and multi-tiered systems.
LOL rejuvenate != repair
Rejuvenation: To restore to youthful vigor or appearance; make young again.
Java is 9 years old, getting to be a senior citizen in the world of programming languages. Do you think it's possible to be a successful 60-year old person and still enjoy being restored to youth? Of course, they are not incompatible concepts.
Not everyone around here has their head in the sand waiting around for Perl CGI to rule again!
Java is a mature technology, and, with reports of around 50% usage in enterprise systems, it can hardly grow much further. The Java platform, OTOH, is capable of large growth in new areas, e.g. configuration scripting.
With all this high storage for MP3s, why don't PDAs come with built-in 5 or 10GB?
Yes battery life suffers, but we already have colour screens and fast processors - the days of plugging in the palm every month or so are gone, and many users are used to recharging on a daily basis.
It would be nice to fill the PDA with work docs, technical docs, encyclopaedias, useful apps, and a complete backup image - not to mention all the music!
Why doesn't Michael Dell spend 14hrs a day working the phones in Bangalore, enriching the life of his customers who spent first-world money only to put up with third-rate service.
I've heard this idea before, but I can't believe it's a good thing to check in code you haven't actually seen and tried out. Can you be absolutely sure the transformation is correct? A regession test won't catch everything.
This task is better performed by an IDE which would render the code in your own style. You won't see the final code, but at least you'll be debugging/testing on it.
I saw RMS discussing intellectual property, covering Disney's successful lobbying for extending copyright period. He concluded by saying we don't need Mickey Mouse laws.
It's possible for a man and his dog to buy the company, as long as they can convince people to put up the funds on the promise of the right strategy. Could be as simple as a change in management team.
There's a name for this - "discretionary pricing". It can be a dirty phrase because of associations with anti-competitve behaviour, but it is intrinsically a useful means of allocating resources effectively.
BTW Remember the 486-SX chip, which was a 486-DX with the math coprocessor disabled?
Fine, personally I'm not arguing against free market - companies can send jobs to India if it's more economic, more jobs in western countries etc etc etc
But this is interesting.
it allows US companies to concentrate on their core competencies and the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs.
That's a typical motivation - the problem is, do companies actually have a good handle on their core competencies. Is customer service just a commodity? In this information era, is software development just a commodity?
Of course not. In the case of software development, smart companies have vast opportunities to differentiate themselves, leapfrog competitors, eliminate wasteful processes, receive up-to-date reporting, etc.
You could say that the requirements are the core competency, and the implementation is just a commodity. But if you did, I'd have to accuse you of lacking any practical experience in software development.
Being required to sometimes develop under windows, I need this integration. Haven't used unix services, but I find Cygwin integration very "challenging". I know other people who've given up on it simply because they can't navigate the hard drive.
Took some playing around to work out "/cygdrive/c" for c: etc. But working out how to have a bash profile, a home dir, etc, take a lot of time. Great project, but certainly not something you can use to solve an immediate problem.
If Unix services integrates cleaner, I suppose I'll have to sacrifice the tools.
It would be nice, though, and certainly possible, if a product could be built on top of cygwin to provide a more seamless experience.
Why should they? Telling citizens to download OO for free is much more friendly and nice than telling them to buy MSO for 455$.
Yes but supporting both is even nicer. Many of the organisations are converting to Linux/OO for reasons other than the nice price. Likewise, many organisations will stay with MS, for now, despite the price. Why? Training costs, concerns about quality (legit or not), legacy documents, support costs.
It doesn't matter how valid the arguments are in favour of Linux. The fact remanis that changing OS is a huge step, and many govt "clients" (citizens, companies, etc) will not change in a hurry. Hence, MS will have to be supported for a long time.
development of large scale applications (like notes and clearcase) is entirely seperate from internal deployment
Nope. Can't speak specifically about IBM, but in-house users are a great source of information, ideas, opinions. They obviously aren't representative of the whole user community, but it's a lot easier to conduct focus groups when they are attending as part of their jobs, as opposed to grovelling to customers for info.
Having no in-house windows users will mean IBM will have to think carefully about its product development strategies.
If Sun can win over the Israeli government to StarOffice then within a year or so every single Israeli business is going to have a copy of StarOffice
It will take longer than that: The govt will probably still keep MS office at the edge of its structure so asto work in with everyone else. Hopefully, they will take steps to break the format's dominance, though, because it would be in their interest having made this decision.
Well, knoppix CD is great, but with 256MB (and more?) USB keys out there, I wish more BIOS's would allow booting from USB, it'd be so nice to walk into a net cafe, pull linux out of my pocket or USB watch, and then read mail with mutt in X-Windows while surfing with my own damn bookmarks. And not having to close the last guy's chat session and assorted porn popups? Priceless.
Iomega Clik! Drive: In 1999, just as recordable CDs started getting really cheap and popular, Iomega released its own proprietary way to write nearly 40 gigabytes of data to a removable disk.
If they couldn't move that in 1999, that's gotta be the biggest marketing flop in history!
Can't entirely blame the author for this typo -- K, Meg, Gig, Tera -- can get a bit blurry in the psat tense
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Humans certainly have a range of emotions - is this an evolutionary advantage to be injected into robots or an inefficient side effect to be disregarded?
I'm not going to credit that individual (or individuals) with being any more competent than I am at deciding what order I would like to listen to the songs on an album.
Yeah but we're talking shuffle - personally im not gonna pay much respec to a pseudorandom algorithm's idea on the order either.
the reason for shuffle is a no-brainer - you have lots of artists playable at once and you have too many songs to get through at one time. people dont really care about the order, they just want to hear a combo of artists. most people would be content if they could play all songs in sequential order but keep switching artists
IBM has grabbed the Linux ball and run like hell with it, and they've done very well. Sun has pussy footed, flip-flopping more often than a spatula at a pancake shop on Linux.
Actually you could say IBM has two big balls that Sun doesn't --- the other one benig Java, which has earned Big Blue many more $$$s than its earned for its maker.
the two of us just sat there and talked about chicks!
Bzzzzt. "the two of us"???? Yes you program in pairs, but under XP, you're also supposed to exercise collective ownership. That means rotating frequently, so everyone pairs with everyone else. Ideas in the code spread that way.
Now, if there were only two of you on the project, and both of you couldn't be bothered programming, then no methodology's going to fix that.
It *has* been said that two cowboys sitting next to each other will still be more productive than apart, because they will still be able to pick up all the problems that only one of them would have spotted. Not to mention being able to talk to each other might actually teach them something, other than about which chicks they dig.
No doubt, these six salespeople will be "thanking" slashdot under their breath. Hopefully, their photo will be real-time, thus providing a glimpse of how websites feel when suffering from slashdot effect.
I think people who make statements like this aren't really aware of how widespread the usage of Java is in enterprise and multi-tiered systems.
LOL rejuvenate != repair
Rejuvenation: To restore to youthful vigor or appearance; make young again.
Java is 9 years old, getting to be a senior citizen in the world of programming languages. Do you think it's possible to be a successful 60-year old person and still enjoy being restored to youth? Of course, they are not incompatible concepts.
Not everyone around here has their head in the sand waiting around for Perl CGI to rule again!
Java is a mature technology, and, with reports of around 50% usage in enterprise systems, it can hardly grow much further. The Java platform, OTOH, is capable of large growth in new areas, e.g. configuration scripting.
With all this high storage for MP3s, why don't PDAs come with built-in 5 or 10GB?
Yes battery life suffers, but we already have colour screens and fast processors - the days of plugging in the palm every month or so are gone, and many users are used to recharging on a daily basis.
It would be nice to fill the PDA with work docs, technical docs, encyclopaedias, useful apps, and a complete backup image - not to mention all the music!
Speech-to speech - that's great.
Now for something simpler, can I have a PDA or "music/mp3" players which reads E-Books/websites. And one that takes dictation. Thankyou.
Why doesn't Michael Dell spend 14hrs a day working the phones in Bangalore, enriching the life of his customers who spent first-world money only to put up with third-rate service.
I've heard this idea before, but I can't believe it's a good thing to check in code you haven't actually seen and tried out. Can you be absolutely sure the transformation is correct? A regession test won't catch everything.
This task is better performed by an IDE which would render the code in your own style. You won't see the final code, but at least you'll be debugging/testing on it.
Eolas Reexam? Is that supposed to be an anagram for some Hollywood actor?
I saw RMS discussing intellectual property, covering Disney's successful lobbying for extending copyright period. He concluded by saying we don't need Mickey Mouse laws.
It's possible for a man and his dog to buy the company, as long as they can convince people to put up the funds on the promise of the right strategy. Could be as simple as a change in management team.
There's a name for this - "discretionary pricing". It can be a dirty phrase because of associations with anti-competitve behaviour, but it is intrinsically a useful means of allocating resources effectively.
BTW Remember the 486-SX chip, which was a 486-DX with the math coprocessor disabled?
Fine, personally I'm not arguing against free market - companies can send jobs to India if it's more economic, more jobs in western countries etc etc etc
But this is interesting.
it allows US companies to concentrate on their core competencies and the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs.
That's a typical motivation - the problem is, do companies actually have a good handle on their core competencies. Is customer service just a commodity? In this information era, is software development just a commodity?
Of course not. In the case of software development, smart companies have vast opportunities to differentiate themselves, leapfrog competitors, eliminate wasteful processes, receive up-to-date reporting, etc.
You could say that the requirements are the core competency, and the implementation is just a commodity. But if you did, I'd have to accuse you of lacking any practical experience in software development.
For the sake of open source diplomacy, I hope he didn't sing for the PM.
In any event, great to see open source has reached this level. Won't be long before managers have to justify their platform decisions again.
All this and Del''s special third-class support from a call centre in a country where operators could care less? Thanks, I'll stick with IPod.
Than again, being instructed to work on a personal project seems to be the default role for googlers.
Being required to sometimes develop under windows, I need this integration. Haven't used unix services, but I find Cygwin integration very "challenging". I know other people who've given up on it simply because they can't navigate the hard drive.
Took some playing around to work out "/cygdrive/c" for c: etc. But working out how to have a bash profile, a home dir, etc, take a lot of time. Great project, but certainly not something you can use to solve an immediate problem.
If Unix services integrates cleaner, I suppose I'll have to sacrifice the tools.
It would be nice, though, and certainly possible, if a product could be built on top of cygwin to provide a more seamless experience.
Why should they? Telling citizens to download OO for free is much more friendly and nice than telling them to buy MSO for 455$.
Yes but supporting both is even nicer. Many of the organisations are converting to Linux/OO for reasons other than the nice price. Likewise, many organisations will stay with MS, for now, despite the price. Why? Training costs, concerns about quality (legit or not), legacy documents, support costs.
It doesn't matter how valid the arguments are in favour of Linux. The fact remanis that changing OS is a huge step, and many govt "clients" (citizens, companies, etc) will not change in a hurry. Hence, MS will have to be supported for a long time.
development of large scale applications (like notes and clearcase) is entirely seperate from internal deployment
Nope. Can't speak specifically about IBM, but in-house users are a great source of information, ideas, opinions. They obviously aren't representative of the whole user community, but it's a lot easier to conduct focus groups when they are attending as part of their jobs, as opposed to grovelling to customers for info.
Having no in-house windows users will mean IBM will have to think carefully about its product development strategies.
If Sun can win over the Israeli government to StarOffice then within a year or so every single Israeli business is going to have a copy of StarOffice
It will take longer than that: The govt will probably still keep MS office at the edge of its structure so asto work in with everyone else. Hopefully, they will take steps to break the format's dominance, though, because it would be in their interest having made this decision.
With Lego out of the way, this sort of thing may now be introduced by other companies who were too intimidated to enter the market.
(Slashdotted already?)
Well, knoppix CD is great, but with 256MB (and more?) USB keys out there, I wish more BIOS's would allow booting from USB, it'd be so nice to walk into a net cafe, pull linux out of my pocket or USB watch, and then read mail with mutt in X-Windows while surfing with my own damn bookmarks. And not having to close the last guy's chat session and assorted porn popups? Priceless.
Iomega Clik! Drive: In 1999, just as recordable CDs started getting really cheap and popular, Iomega released its own proprietary way to write nearly 40 gigabytes of data to a removable disk.
If they couldn't move that in 1999, that's gotta be the biggest marketing flop in history!
Can't entirely blame the author for this typo -- K, Meg, Gig, Tera -- can get a bit blurry in the psat tense