Are you retarded? It was ment as an analog to a known pattern.
That is most certainly not the case here. In the case of the ever-shrinking motherboards the component count drops, unlike the increased transistor count in IC's as Moore's law predicts.
And no, I'm not retarded.
In closing, to be a grammar nazi try this on for size: "It was meant to be analogous to a known pattern."
I don't think so. Moore's Law deals with the doubling of the number of transistors in IC's every eighteen months. It has nothing to do with motherboard shrinkage. Methinks the headline is a bit misleading.
Another good site to look at for GUI history is Nathan Whitehorn's "GUI Gallery" here: The GUI Gallery. I like it because Nathan is actively developing it. He actually loads and runs these various environments before writing about them.
Either that, or that boy has way too much time on his hands:-)
Take heart, companies like you are describing do exist, though they are a rare find. I had the privilege and pleasure of working for one for the past four years. It's a cryin' shame they went out of business last year due to crappy post-merger management.
At the risk of sounding altruistic, it was a real kickass job being able to work on FOSS, giving something back to said community, and getting paid for it in the process.
Of course, it helps if your boss also supports open source.:-)
Call me crazy but it seems to me that over the past few years (OK, a decade or two) innovation (not used in the Microsoft abuse of the word) has taken a back seat in favor of stagnation. Golly gee wow, someone else has manufactured tEh "iPod killer." Wow. What's this, the fifth or sixth MP3 player that is supposed to tank Apple's market share? No thanks, I'll pass.
How about this, instead of trying to garner market share by imitation, do something original.
I guess the polar opposite can be just as bad: cell phones with mandatory cameras, &c. . ..
That's not a portable! My laptop is heavy at 8lbs and it sucks to carry around with all of the gadgets and gizmos. Heck... even my SFF is lighter than 20 pounds. I love the concept but the weight has to improve big time.
Methinks you are missing the point of TFA. They're comparing apples-to-oranges; like comparing Compaq Portable PC, or luggable, to the laptops (or "ultra-portibles") of the time. I can't cite specific articles, but I do remember reading about the luggable-portable debates in early issues of PC magazine, back around 1987 or so.
Yup, I was in the same predicament that you're in; home after work, and bored out of my skull. So, I started contracting at night working with a small firm writing accounting software, and with a hotel writing banquet management software. One night when I finally got to bed at two in the morning, my wife looked at me and said "you've been so distant for the past six months, have I done anything wrong?" That broke my heart. I realized that I'd come home from work, eat dinner, and head on upstairs to my home office and code all night.
It was also affecting my full time job. I was constantly late, and groggy and grumpy until sometime around lunch. My boss at the time finally got tired of the complaints and gave me an ultimatum: fix my attitude problem or find another job.
I finally realized what an a-hole I'd been to my co-workers and more importantly to my wife. So, I gave up the contracting work.
What I'm trying to say is that instead of burying your head in coding 16+ hours a day. Take some time for yourself after hours. Hang out with friends. Surprise your S.O. by doing something that's fun, offbeat, and different from your normal routine. To sum it up, enjoy life.
Thank you. I hadn't noticed that the URL was was constantly changing. My hat's off to whomever originally posted this observation.
Heres what I do: make this luser ID (909211) a foe and set your preferences to mod foes at -6. You'll never even see his crap on the front page let alone in the comments section. I do the same thing for Mssr. Pickebucket.
How would you sue an open source project for patent violation? Suppose there was patented code found in the kernel, who do the litigants go after? Linus? The author of the code?
It is a good father-son hobby. I built my own 8" newtonian about 27 years ago, dad and I spent a lot of time grinding the mirror, heading down to Meade to buy parts, eyepieces, an equatorial mount, etc. I learned more about my father during that nine month project than I had in my previous sixteen years of existence on this ball of dirt we call the earth.
We had many years of eyepiece time enjoying and documenting our observations
I still have that telescope, and I think of my recently-departed father whenver I use it.
Oh, yeah, we both learned early on not to drink and grind optics.:-)
Where I work the owner actually prefers to hire engineers that have been around the block: it makes his life a lot easier. But I agree with you, that's not too common these days.
Two questions: 1) where do you work and 2) are you hiring?:-)
-Scott
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I can attest to the fact that hiring older, experienced workers is becoming more and more difficult. Let me tell you that it's harder for us old farts to find work than it is companies to fill the aforementioned vacancies. I'm in my early forties, and I find it increasingly difficult to compete in today's job market--it seems to me that many companies are after getting workers on the cheap rather than hiring experienced individuals.
Yes, one could probably get two fresh grads for the price of my salary, but where and when does experience and wisdom rule over copper-tops?
There's been a call for coders on the Haiku mailing list to port this to BeOS, Haiku, and/or Zeta:
Sorry for interrupting your scheduled broadcast . . . we will return to your regular program shortly.
The source code for Q3Arena has just been released under GPL. I'm willilng to be part of the team looking into porting this to BeOS/Haiku/Zeta (well, I've only got Zeta installed, but nevertheless), since I've got some experience with OpenGL. Anyone who *seriously* wants to participate in getting this beast building under the BeOS family (sorry, no offers to beta test yet), drop me a private line and I'll see about setting up a freelists mailing list for this project. We need to give Rudolf something other than Q2 to test his drivers with, since running the same old timedemo must be driving him nuts.
I can be reached at: solaja FUNNY_MONKEY_SIGN gmail FULLSTOP com
Call me crazy, but for me it's a heck of a lot easier for me to filter '.*?\.xxx' than it is "ImA(monkey|loser|dork)(spank|wanker)pedo-monkey\. (com|info|net)"
The ICANN (or "I-can't" as I often refer to them) is not a government agency, and doesn't have some embedded responsibilty to enforce the government's whishes. I-can't owes its existence and powers of internet governance to us. What am I missing here?
My memory is really foggy on this, but when I was a teenager back in the late 1970's, I had heard that when you buy blank cassette tapes, you paid a one cent [tax|levy|fine] for each cassette. I asked my father (whom worked peripherally with recording studios) about this. He told me that you are paying "the industry" because they think you are going to pirate music with it.
I'm thinking that this is the same or similar situation happening now.
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Time to burn some karma. . . .
Are you retarded? It was ment as an analog to a known pattern.That is most certainly not the case here. In the case of the ever-shrinking motherboards the component count drops , unlike the increased transistor count in IC's as Moore's law predicts.
And no, I'm not retarded.
In closing, to be a grammar nazi try this on for size: "It was meant to be analogous to a known pattern."
-ScottI already boycott Amazon because of their stupid patent nonsense; I wish there was a way I could boycott the USPTO, now that would be fun. . . .
:-)
-ScottI don't think so. Moore's Law deals with the doubling of the number of transistors in IC's every eighteen months. It has nothing to do with motherboard shrinkage. Methinks the headline is a bit misleading.
-ScottDidn't they abandon the PowerPC (G3 and G4) line of CPU's in favor of IBM's G5 chips before switching to Intel (at least in the desktop world)?
-ScottNope, it's my sanity that should be put into question. I have a close friend named Nathan Whitehorn, got the names all confuzzled.
-ScottAnother good site to look at for GUI history is Nathan Whitehorn's "GUI Gallery" here: The GUI Gallery. I like it because Nathan is actively developing it. He actually loads and runs these various environments before writing about them.
Either that, or that boy has way too much time on his hands :-)
-ScottTake heart, companies like you are describing do exist, though they are a rare find. I had the privilege and pleasure of working for one for the past four years. It's a cryin' shame they went out of business last year due to crappy post-merger management.
At the risk of sounding altruistic, it was a real kickass job being able to work on FOSS, giving something back to said community, and getting paid for it in the process.
Of course, it helps if your boss also supports open source. :-)
-Scott
Call me crazy but it seems to me that over the past few years (OK, a decade or two) innovation (not used in the Microsoft abuse of the word) has taken a back seat in favor of stagnation. Golly gee wow, someone else has manufactured tEh "iPod killer." Wow. What's this, the fifth or sixth MP3 player that is supposed to tank Apple's market share? No thanks, I'll pass.
How about this, instead of trying to garner market share by imitation, do something original.
I guess the polar opposite can be just as bad: cell phones with mandatory cameras, &c. . . .
-ScottThat's not a portable! My laptop is heavy at 8lbs and it sucks to carry around with all of the gadgets and gizmos. Heck... even my SFF is lighter than 20 pounds. I love the concept but the weight has to improve big time.
Methinks you are missing the point of TFA. They're comparing apples-to-oranges; like comparing Compaq Portable PC, or luggable, to the laptops (or "ultra-portibles") of the time. I can't cite specific articles, but I do remember reading about the luggable-portable debates in early issues of PC magazine, back around 1987 or so.
-ScottYup, I was in the same predicament that you're in; home after work, and bored out of my skull. So, I started contracting at night working with a small firm writing accounting software, and with a hotel writing banquet management software. One night when I finally got to bed at two in the morning, my wife looked at me and said "you've been so distant for the past six months, have I done anything wrong?" That broke my heart. I realized that I'd come home from work, eat dinner, and head on upstairs to my home office and code all night.
It was also affecting my full time job. I was constantly late, and groggy and grumpy until sometime around lunch. My boss at the time finally got tired of the complaints and gave me an ultimatum: fix my attitude problem or find another job.
I finally realized what an a-hole I'd been to my co-workers and more importantly to my wife. So, I gave up the contracting work.
What I'm trying to say is that instead of burying your head in coding 16+ hours a day. Take some time for yourself after hours. Hang out with friends. Surprise your S.O. by doing something that's fun, offbeat, and different from your normal routine. To sum it up, enjoy life.
-ScottFiles are files.
If you don't want's someone snooping into your personal affairs then don't store them on your PC, period!
-Scott
Thank you. I hadn't noticed that the URL was was constantly changing. My hat's off to whomever originally posted this observation.
Heres what I do: make this luser ID (909211) a foe and set your preferences to mod foes at -6. You'll never even see his crap on the front page let alone in the comments section. I do the same thing for Mssr. Pickebucket.
-Scott
How would you sue an open source project for patent violation? Suppose there was patented code found in the kernel, who do the litigants go after? Linus? The author of the code?
-Scott
It is a good father-son hobby. I built my own 8" newtonian about 27 years ago, dad and I spent a lot of time grinding the mirror, heading down to Meade to buy parts, eyepieces, an equatorial mount, etc. I learned more about my father during that nine month project than I had in my previous sixteen years of existence on this ball of dirt we call the earth.
:-)
We had many years of eyepiece time enjoying and documenting our observations
I still have that telescope, and I think of my recently-departed father whenver I use it.
Oh, yeah, we both learned early on not to drink and grind optics.
-Scott
Where I work the owner actually prefers to hire engineers that have been around the block: it makes his life a lot easier. But I agree with you, that's not too common these days.
:-)
Two questions: 1) where do you work and 2) are you hiring?
-Scott
I can attest to the fact that hiring older, experienced workers is becoming more and more difficult. Let me tell you that it's harder for us old farts to find work than it is companies to fill the aforementioned vacancies. I'm in my early forties, and I find it increasingly difficult to compete in today's job market--it seems to me that many companies are after getting workers on the cheap rather than hiring experienced individuals.
Yes, one could probably get two fresh grads for the price of my salary, but where and when does experience and wisdom rule over copper-tops?
-Scott
From TFA: ...announced plans back in 2003 to cut £66m from its IT budget by switching from a Unix server platform to Linux running on Itanium.
I don't want to come across as a troll or tinfoil hat wearer, but I sure hope their "Unix server platform" isn't some strain of SCO unix.
-Scott
Actually, Apple came up with their GUI after seeing a demonstration at Xerox PARC, here's some good reading for you.
-Scott
Excellent post! +1 Insightf... oh, wait. :-)
-Scott
-Z
Call me crazy, but for me it's a heck of a lot easier for me to filter '.*?\.xxx' than it is "ImA(monkey|loser|dork)(spank|wanker)pedo-monkey\. (com|info|net)"
The ICANN (or "I-can't" as I often refer to them) is not a government agency, and doesn't have some embedded responsibilty to enforce the government's whishes. I-can't owes its existence and powers of internet governance to us. What am I missing here?
My opinion only, YMMV.
-Scott
from the to-melt-even-the-largest-chocolate-bar dept.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, chocolate.
-Scott
smacks forehead
:-)
Duh, Scott! I didn't get enough coffee this morning.
-Scott
Unfortunately Rosetta cannot run Garage Band. IIRC Garage Band makes some pretty heavy use of AltiVec instructions.
-Scott
My memory is really foggy on this, but when I was a teenager back in the late 1970's, I had heard that when you buy blank cassette tapes, you paid a one cent [tax|levy|fine] for each cassette. I asked my father (whom worked peripherally with recording studios) about this. He told me that you are paying "the industry" because they think you are going to pirate music with it.
I'm thinking that this is the same or similar situation happening now.
-Scott