Yeah, geez, it's not like Apple just announced today that the new iMac will be using it for wireless keyboard and mouse! And no way is it standard in every mid-to-high-range phone! And it's definitely not the preferred standard for PC-phone connectivity or wireless headsets.
People will only upgrade if it's absolutely painless or absolutely necessary, we should've learned this by now. I have friends that still use analog cell phones, just because it's easier not to switch.
I love when I go to a company's website and they have a big countdown script and some BS text about how they're going to totally change everything in the world forever and so on. Stuff like this always reminds me of an old boss I had an IT company (that, of course, no longer exists) who seemed to think every one of his ideas was going to totally change everything. He also kind of reminded me of the Boss from the Office, incidentally, except that he couldn't breakdance like this.
Basically, this sounds like a totally moronic idea. What better way to piss off script kiddies than to attempt to fight back through some product that will doubtless be outdated in a matter of weeks? How exactly do they expect this to deter any sort of a DOS attack, anyway? Why sould a script kiddie care if you start DOSsing a bunch of machines he just "pwmed" anyway?
That's like in high school when you'd be hanging out at your friend's house and his dad would be one of those guys who thought he was cool but he was actually terribly out of touch. You know, the kind of guy who would come downstairs in like 1998 and say something like, "What are you guys doing? Listening to Nirvana?" in a desperate attempt to seem cool and "with it."
Another option would be to read books because you find it enjoyable. You're bound to have an ulcer by 35 if you keep up like this. Sometime I worry that I spend too much of my day ingesting data because I read so many websites, newsgroups, message boards, mailing lists, etc. and I certainly don't need to cram any more in while putting on my socks in the morning.
It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. We're the first generation to have this much data available to us at all times, but I don't think we've really started to see the true effects of it yet. Just think about how much more media (music, movies, books, etc) we're exposed to than previous generations-- I wonder what the implications of that will be.
I can already, as a musician, see a very big change to music and to how people interact with it. People spend so much less time actually appreciating music than they used to. Just think that, not that long ago, people used to sit down together and listen to a record and do nothing else. You rarely see anybody do anything like that anymore. Hell, most people I know barely finish listening to songs anymore now that they have access to MP3 players.
If you examine other areas of media (news, books, movies, etc), all of this is happening in much the same way. I digest easily 100 times the news in a day that somebody would've 50 years ago, I see at least five movies a week (thank you, Netflix and Suprnova!), etc. Not to mention how many ads I see in any given day.
I think that having all of this information at our fingertips is going to be a double-edged sword. Just like having MP3s around commoditized music, the same will go for all media. And just as search engines/data collection sites (say, for example, Slashdot or Metafilter-- sites that find data for you) became the "killer app" for the web, I guess these "timeshifting" devices, like TiVo, which allow you to collect the data you wish to collect from a given source (i.e. record all episodes of "Arrested Development," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "The World Series of Poker"), will become the "killer app" of their respected medium. I just have to wonder how it will affect us as people and our society as a whole.
Consider - worlds largest post company - Deutsche Post. The airline that carries the most passengers - Lufthansa. The Germans own a good many of the biggest companies in the auto industry. And Deutsche Telecom (which I believe includes T-Online) is one of the world's largest telecomms.
What constitutes largst "post" company? Larger than FedEx or UPS, or do those not count? Also, I believe UAL (a partner of Lufthansa), American and Delta are all bigger than Lufthansa. BA is also a large airline and the new Air France/KLM merger will definitely create a mammoth airline. The largest ever airline, though, by far, was Aeroloft, before the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Deutsche Telecom is definitely a huge company (and they even own a large share of the American cell phone market) and don't forget Deutsche Bank, also huge.
I think people fail to realise how powerful the German business sector is. If Germany was the same size of the USA, I'm sure it would be the top dog at the moment, not the USA.
Well, that's a rather twisted form of reasoning. If California were the size of the entire US, it'd be BY FAR the largest economy in the world, but things don't really scale like that (much like an ant can lift four times its own weight but couldn't do the same if it were the size of a human. muscle mass increases at a rate of x^2 while everything else increases at a rate of x^3)
And now that the European European Union is creating the biggest single global market, Germany should be able to increase it's economy even further as it is at the heart of Europe.
Well, that may be true until the FTAA comes into existence, which is a scary proposition to say the least.
Look at the theoretical picture, by analyzing the whole class of phenomena: the human immune system didn't evolve in the presence of antibiotic treatments. But we're not objectively worse for the wear.
Are you serious? Overprescription of antibiotics is one of the scariest things our civilization has done in the last hundred years.
We had the exact opposite happen, actually. I was against the idea of XP when we first started using it at my previous company, but once we got into the swing of it, I grew to love it. It sounds like you guys weren't actually sticking to the XP very well.
You should have a lot of problems with pairs getting off-topic- that's the reason you have a coach. If your pairs are spending their time talking and going over estimates, somebody should step in. You should be having regular meetings to discuss estimates and figure out what will and won't get done, so I don't see how people can just go over like that.
You shouldn't grow expertise domains because two people are working on any given thing at once. If you're pairing with somebody and they start doing things that you don't understand without talking to you, you should stop them (and I don't see how non-XP processes would've done any better for you in this situation) and ask to drive so that they have to explain it to you while you code it.
Our bugs were significantly reduced because we always had more eyes designing, writing and looking over code. It's important that you not let people just go off and write one component over the course of two months or something. You should be focusing on small components done on a short schedule and constantly rotating people so that there's no code ownership.
Also, were you not doing good unit testing? That alone should bring your bugs down significantly.
It really sounds like your new system is just XP-lite... If you really stuck to XP I think it would save you a lot of time (no need for scheduling meetings and reviews) and get the same end results.
Another thing we tried at our old company was "demos" at the end of every phase (phases were two weeks) where we had to show and explain to the rest of the dev team what we coded that phase- this greatly reduced bad design and was akin to your peer reviews, but we just gathered up the whole dev team and spent a morning doing it. It sounded like a waste of time but it significantly helped, because everybody understood how every component of the system worked.
I don't know how people never bothered to notice any of these. Some of these are even very high quality (the RME and the VXpocket are both for pro audio) and are great laptop sound solutions.
Did he get the money?:)
Seriously, though, that's absolutely ridiculous in a lot of ways. However it was pretty silly of the kid to not see this coming; if the teacher told you that MasterLock would give him a reward if he could break into the Principal's office and he did it one night I'm sure the same thing would've happened.
It kind of makes sense- it's like if somebody posted child pornography or snuff films on a website, the US would do everything they could to make sure Americans couldn't access it. Now imagine if our country had been taken over by Hitler about 50 years ago; I think the government wouldn't be too fond of Nazi memorabilia.
I'm not saying that I agree with them, but it isn't as irrationial as everybody tries to say it is.
Don't they realize that no matter how many TLDs they add, companies are still going to buy them. Amazon will buy amazon.stupidfuckingtld if they have to just so that nobody else has it.
The real solution would be to limit the number of domains that people can have, but we know that won't happen, and if it did it would only hurt smaller people and the big companies would find a loophole in it.
I wish we could make it so that companies couldn't have.ORGs and only ISPs could have.NETs, but that won't happen any time soon.
Therefore, CDMA must be doing time multiplexing to some extent also. You cannot have multiple people on a channel without it. But this is a good thing, less radiation to your head is a good thing (even if its only 29.5 dBm).
No- you can indeed have multiple people on a channel with CDMA, that's what the MA means! Multiple Access!
I guess another way to explain it is like a hashtable... You have a bunch of data but you only get the value corresponding to your key. A bunch of people are transmitting on the same channel with different codes (the C in CDMA) but they are parsed (the D) out according to these codes so that multiple people can be on one channel (the MA).
If CDMA is time multiplexing, then all W-CDMA most likely is just multi-slot. And its not the new GSM spec. The standards are going to be fought for a long time, but there is also EDGE (total estimated throughput of 384 kbps) and CDMA-1 (???). I'm not sure about the details of CDMA-1, but EDGE is just multi-slot GSM with GMSK, 8 DPQPSK (something like that), and TDMA voice.
GSM is currently multi-slot (TDMA)... But the new standards being worked on (and there are multiples, but W-CDMA shows the most promise for data) are CDMA + TDMA.
I don't know CDMA spec inside and out, but to me it looks like you are wrong. Multiplexing doesn't increase effective use of bandwidth, it simply uses more bandwidth. Thats how DSL works, simply multiplexes data above 40 kHz (I think...I'm not quite sure what the freqs are...above 10 kHz for sure).
Not true- CDMA multiplexes by putting multiple people on the same frequency. This is why it is essential that nobody is transmitting with any more power (or rather the signals, when they reach the tower, must be of equal power). Basically imagine that you write ten messages and encrypt them with a bunch of different private keys and then somebody listens to all of them but only pays attention to the one which they can decrypt...
Or the more common analogy is imagine you're in a room with a bunch of people speaking a bunch of different languages- your brain is able to block out anything you don't recognize.
If you are strictly concerned about absolute bandwidth effeciency, Time Division Multiplexing is just as good if not better. But total bandwidth used, Code Division is the better way to go.
Code Division = CDMA. This is the best way to make efficient use of bandwidth. W-CDMA (the new GSM standard) uses both TDMA (Time Division) and CDMA (Code Division).
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Yeah, geez, it's not like Apple just announced today that the new iMac will be using it for wireless keyboard and mouse! And no way is it standard in every mid-to-high-range phone! And it's definitely not the preferred standard for PC-phone connectivity or wireless headsets.
People should just get over it.
And we're the only country in the world where the rich have a personal wealth larger than the GDP of most nations... What's your point?
Steve Albini wrote an excellent article in The Baffler about this very thing a few years back that I still make all of my musician friends read. It's called Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.
just like it has for IPv6.
People will only upgrade if it's absolutely painless or absolutely necessary, we should've learned this by now. I have friends that still use analog cell phones, just because it's easier not to switch.
I love when I go to a company's website and they have a big countdown script and some BS text about how they're going to totally change everything in the world forever and so on. Stuff like this always reminds me of an old boss I had an IT company (that, of course, no longer exists) who seemed to think every one of his ideas was going to totally change everything. He also kind of reminded me of the Boss from the Office, incidentally, except that he couldn't breakdance like this.
Basically, this sounds like a totally moronic idea. What better way to piss off script kiddies than to attempt to fight back through some product that will doubtless be outdated in a matter of weeks? How exactly do they expect this to deter any sort of a DOS attack, anyway? Why sould a script kiddie care if you start DOSsing a bunch of machines he just "pwmed" anyway?
Jesus. That's so lame.
That's like in high school when you'd be hanging out at your friend's house and his dad would be one of those guys who thought he was cool but he was actually terribly out of touch. You know, the kind of guy who would come downstairs in like 1998 and say something like, "What are you guys doing? Listening to Nirvana?" in a desperate attempt to seem cool and "with it."
Another option would be to read books because you find it enjoyable. You're bound to have an ulcer by 35 if you keep up like this. Sometime I worry that I spend too much of my day ingesting data because I read so many websites, newsgroups, message boards, mailing lists, etc. and I certainly don't need to cram any more in while putting on my socks in the morning.
It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. We're the first generation to have this much data available to us at all times, but I don't think we've really started to see the true effects of it yet. Just think about how much more media (music, movies, books, etc) we're exposed to than previous generations-- I wonder what the implications of that will be.
I can already, as a musician, see a very big change to music and to how people interact with it. People spend so much less time actually appreciating music than they used to. Just think that, not that long ago, people used to sit down together and listen to a record and do nothing else. You rarely see anybody do anything like that anymore. Hell, most people I know barely finish listening to songs anymore now that they have access to MP3 players.
If you examine other areas of media (news, books, movies, etc), all of this is happening in much the same way. I digest easily 100 times the news in a day that somebody would've 50 years ago, I see at least five movies a week (thank you, Netflix and Suprnova!), etc. Not to mention how many ads I see in any given day.
I think that having all of this information at our fingertips is going to be a double-edged sword. Just like having MP3s around commoditized music, the same will go for all media. And just as search engines/data collection sites (say, for example, Slashdot or Metafilter-- sites that find data for you) became the "killer app" for the web, I guess these "timeshifting" devices, like TiVo, which allow you to collect the data you wish to collect from a given source (i.e. record all episodes of "Arrested Development," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "The World Series of Poker"), will become the "killer app" of their respected medium. I just have to wonder how it will affect us as people and our society as a whole.
Well, I'm not, since that was from Wisconsin.
He wanted to bite Swarmcast, of course!
I, for one, welcome our new, corporate overlords.
Seriously, how can this sound like a good idea?
Wow, that's quite a comment.
So muslim = terrorist, eh?
Consider - worlds largest post company - Deutsche Post. The airline that carries the most passengers - Lufthansa. The Germans own a good many of the biggest companies in the auto industry. And Deutsche Telecom (which I believe includes T-Online) is one of the world's largest telecomms.
What constitutes largst "post" company? Larger than FedEx or UPS, or do those not count? Also, I believe UAL (a partner of Lufthansa), American and Delta are all bigger than Lufthansa. BA is also a large airline and the new Air France/KLM merger will definitely create a mammoth airline. The largest ever airline, though, by far, was Aeroloft, before the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Deutsche Telecom is definitely a huge company (and they even own a large share of the American cell phone market) and don't forget Deutsche Bank, also huge.
I think people fail to realise how powerful the German business sector is. If Germany was the same size of the USA, I'm sure it would be the top dog at the moment, not the USA.
Well, that's a rather twisted form of reasoning. If California were the size of the entire US, it'd be BY FAR the largest economy in the world, but things don't really scale like that (much like an ant can lift four times its own weight but couldn't do the same if it were the size of a human. muscle mass increases at a rate of x^2 while everything else increases at a rate of x^3)
And now that the European European Union is creating the biggest single global market, Germany should be able to increase it's economy even further as it is at the heart of Europe.
Well, that may be true until the FTAA comes into existence, which is a scary proposition to say the least.
Look at the theoretical picture, by analyzing the whole class of phenomena: the human immune system didn't evolve in the presence of antibiotic treatments. But we're not objectively worse for the wear.
Are you serious? Overprescription of antibiotics is one of the scariest things our civilization has done in the last hundred years.
We had the exact opposite happen, actually. I was against the idea of XP when we first started using it at my previous company, but once we got into the swing of it, I grew to love it. It sounds like you guys weren't actually sticking to the XP very well.
You should have a lot of problems with pairs getting off-topic- that's the reason you have a coach. If your pairs are spending their time talking and going over estimates, somebody should step in. You should be having regular meetings to discuss estimates and figure out what will and won't get done, so I don't see how people can just go over like that.
You shouldn't grow expertise domains because two people are working on any given thing at once. If you're pairing with somebody and they start doing things that you don't understand without talking to you, you should stop them (and I don't see how non-XP processes would've done any better for you in this situation) and ask to drive so that they have to explain it to you while you code it.
Our bugs were significantly reduced because we always had more eyes designing, writing and looking over code. It's important that you not let people just go off and write one component over the course of two months or something. You should be focusing on small components done on a short schedule and constantly rotating people so that there's no code ownership.
Also, were you not doing good unit testing? That alone should bring your bugs down significantly.
It really sounds like your new system is just XP-lite... If you really stuck to XP I think it would save you a lot of time (no need for scheduling meetings and reviews) and get the same end results.
Another thing we tried at our old company was "demos" at the end of every phase (phases were two weeks) where we had to show and explain to the rest of the dev team what we coded that phase- this greatly reduced bad design and was akin to your peer reviews, but we just gathered up the whole dev team and spent a morning doing it. It sounded like a waste of time but it significantly helped, because everybody understood how every component of the system worked.
This is nowhere near a new thing.
the event ez bus
edirol UA-5
wamibox
digigram vxpocket
RME hammerfall
I don't know how people never bothered to notice any of these. Some of these are even very high quality (the RME and the VXpocket are both for pro audio) and are great laptop sound solutions.
The string 55378008 was found at position 623901 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.
All your base are belong to us.
Did he get the money? :)
Seriously, though, that's absolutely ridiculous in a lot of ways. However it was pretty silly of the kid to not see this coming; if the teacher told you that MasterLock would give him a reward if he could break into the Principal's office and he did it one night I'm sure the same thing would've happened.
It kind of makes sense- it's like if somebody posted child pornography or snuff films on a website, the US would do everything they could to make sure Americans couldn't access it. Now imagine if our country had been taken over by Hitler about 50 years ago; I think the government wouldn't be too fond of Nazi memorabilia.
I'm not saying that I agree with them, but it isn't as irrationial as everybody tries to say it is.
Hip kids attempting to make a political statement can't very well get a tattoo of a piece of paper! We need to keep barcodes!
I submitted that on August 11th and got rejected. Sheesh.
Don't they realize that no matter how many TLDs they add, companies are still going to buy them. Amazon will buy amazon.stupidfuckingtld if they have to just so that nobody else has it.
.ORGs and only ISPs could have .NETs, but that won't happen any time soon.
The real solution would be to limit the number of domains that people can have, but we know that won't happen, and if it did it would only hurt smaller people and the big companies would find a loophole in it.
I wish we could make it so that companies couldn't have
There is no Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt in this message.
Linux uses a monolithic kernel, that is a fact. Sure, Linux has LKMs, but those were only a hack because the kernel was growing too big...
Even after the LKM *hack*, a lot of people still find it necessary to use BZ2 to compress their kernel because it's still too big.
Sure, you can switch *some* hardware without recompiling, but only that which is already a module...
Rebooting to install hardware is dumb and shouldn't be necessary.
Therefore, CDMA must be doing time multiplexing to some extent also. You cannot have multiple people on a channel without it. But this is a good thing, less radiation to your head is a good thing (even if its only 29.5 dBm).
No- you can indeed have multiple people on a channel with CDMA, that's what the MA means! Multiple Access!
I guess another way to explain it is like a hashtable... You have a bunch of data but you only get the value corresponding to your key. A bunch of people are transmitting on the same channel with different codes (the C in CDMA) but they are parsed (the D) out according to these codes so that multiple people can be on one channel (the MA).
If CDMA is time multiplexing, then all W-CDMA most likely is just multi-slot. And its not the new GSM spec. The standards are going to be fought for a long time, but there is also EDGE (total estimated throughput of 384 kbps) and CDMA-1 (???). I'm not sure about the details of CDMA-1, but EDGE is just multi-slot GSM with GMSK, 8 DPQPSK (something like that), and TDMA voice.
GSM is currently multi-slot (TDMA)... But the new standards being worked on (and there are multiples, but W-CDMA shows the most promise for data) are CDMA + TDMA.
I don't know CDMA spec inside and out, but to me it looks like you are wrong. Multiplexing doesn't increase effective use of bandwidth, it simply uses more bandwidth. Thats how DSL works, simply multiplexes data above 40 kHz (I think...I'm not quite sure what the freqs are...above 10 kHz for sure).
Not true- CDMA multiplexes by putting multiple people on the same frequency. This is why it is essential that nobody is transmitting with any more power (or rather the signals, when they reach the tower, must be of equal power). Basically imagine that you write ten messages and encrypt them with a bunch of different private keys and then somebody listens to all of them but only pays attention to the one which they can decrypt...
Or the more common analogy is imagine you're in a room with a bunch of people speaking a bunch of different languages- your brain is able to block out anything you don't recognize.
If you are strictly concerned about absolute bandwidth effeciency, Time Division Multiplexing is just as good if not better. But total bandwidth used, Code Division is the better way to go.
Code Division = CDMA. This is the best way to make efficient use of bandwidth. W-CDMA (the new GSM standard) uses both TDMA (Time Division) and CDMA (Code Division).