This is kind of an interesting post from one of the SkyOS guys. Even being a small 'one-man' OS, it seems that people get mired in politics these days.
My favorite calculator was one I picked up in the late 80's. It had 128 built in formulas and was from Radio Shack. You could program several other fomulas as well.
What I haven't seen other calculators do well, is that this had excellent support for greek and other odd math characters. And the calculator was very small. I didn't usually like hauling around the TI's.
The build in formulas are nice when you can't remember some formula you really needed. Very handy.
The calculator is similar to some of Casio's calculators today, but I don't see them with good support for math symbols. I'd still use it today, except that it fell apart. You have to squeeze it together just right and hold it that way for it to work correctly.
The United States has Nuclear weapons and continues to develop and is the *only* country to ever have used them in war - and it is very debatable whether they needed to - definitely, not the second bomb.
It wasn't necessary for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor either.
What would be better? I like this rant on Subversion. Most of the other version control systems don't have a lot of 3rd party support. I like WinCVS, tortoise, Eclipse intergration, ant, etc.
CVS is great for version control. Don't get tempted by Rational's ClearCase product.
A full build of a sample project with CVS takes me 30 seconds. CC takes 7 min, 30 sec.
CVS doesn't need multi-site repositories, clearcase does if you have a lot of remote development.
CVS doesn't integrate with the kernel, so if CVS crashes it doesn't take your whole machine.
CVS has better add-on GUI tools for branching and comparison.
It is easy to create and apply patch files with CVS, something not easy to do with CC.
With CC, when you check out a file, you can't actually write to it. You have to loop and keep checking for the file to be 'writable' after check out. Even then, sometimes when CC marks the file as writable, it really isn't.
A batch update in CVS is easy, with CC you have to check out individual files. I have a script for this. A batch update takes about 20 minutes compaired to 45 seconds in CVS.
CVS is free.
CVS doesn't require as much training or support time as ClearCase.
ClearCase does have excellent command-line tools. It also has a lot more features. But you can probably live without them.
The Piccards are well known for scientific exploration and adventure. Bertrand went around the world in the a balloon. The Piccard family is known as the inventor of the modern hot air balloon. Here is info on Don Piccard, one of his relatives. The bathyscaphe used to explore deep ocean areas was developed by Auguste Piccard. I've had the pleasure of speaking with Don Piccard before. Great family all around.
I have to agree with Cringely. Any paper-base receipt is suseptable to abuse. Specifically, this allows someone to confirm how another person voted. Bought votes are possible this way.
I do like the old-tech method. Put an X next to the person on paper. It is cheaper, and give old people something to do. (They staff all the voting over here, providing a very valuable service.)
Things like, all union members must show their receipt to prove they voted for canidate x. Or an abusive husband controlling the voting his wife. Or a wife withholding sex from her husband because he didn't vote for a canidate.
We can pass a law against it, but having a verifiable receipt will really change things.
I agree. I don't use the drawers or hard plastic ones, because they just don't stand up. I only have a couple to hold connectors. But we have 100+ Rubbermaid Roughneck totes in our basement.
They stack well, eliminating the need for a lot of shelving. Boxes don't do this well. If your basement gets wet, no problem.
The key thing with these is to tape on a sign that says what is in each one. I just use tape and paper so I can easily re-label. Makes it easy for a garage sale (which we really need to do).
Always think twice aboutr getting things that don't fit in a tote. High chairs, baby rockers, cribs, chairs, doll beds, these all take a ton of room. And my wife doesn't like to get rid of them.
Think about it. Who's going to tell people about the virtues of MySQL? Do you think executive will rather listen to developers (who usually hate anything sale-related), or highly trains and motivated sales people?
Consider the fact that their 'off' hours are usually away from home. There is a LOT of work that they do outside of flying. This doesn't count in their per-hour charge.
They spend a lot of time gaining hours in small aircraft and as co-pilots of large aircraft. And they get dirt-pay for that.
They can't drink 12 hours before going on the job.
They work odd hours.
They are controlling a big gas tank with an aluminum shell and 300 people inside, all while moving 600+ mph in weather conditions that prevent you from seeing out side.
Yea, I want a good incentive for the pilot up front in my aircraft. I want to get to my destination!
I'd rather spend the money on a space elevator. Once you can get things into space at a lower cost and time frame, going to the moon and mars would be easier.
I agree. RUP is great. Any member of your team that isn't really productive, and you have them start creating these RUP artifacts. It gets them out of the way.
Long live the old user and functional requirement documents!
I think the people are there to entertain the machines.
They take a bunch of kids in their early 20's who are drama junkies, unemployable, and have too many hormones. Then they stick them in the same place and see how screwed up they really get.
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This is kind of an interesting post from one of the SkyOS guys. Even being a small 'one-man' OS, it seems that people get mired in politics these days.
I would guess it works something like SpamAssassin. You've got a bunch of attributes and it goes to your score.
Like if you are 40 years old, and you have a credit report that shows you never taking a loan or having an account balance, that would be unusual.
If you have had a house mortgage for the last 20 years, that would lower your score.
If you want just plain bricks, they sell them. And those sets aren't that expensive.
Arjan is a Redhat guy. See:
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/
For the stuff he builds. He does a lot of 2.6 rpm's for Fedora and RH 9.0.
You are right. Here is a site with info on it. Lovely calculator. Also known as Casio fx-5000F.
My favorite calculator was one I picked up in the late 80's. It had 128 built in formulas and was from Radio Shack. You could program several other fomulas as well.
What I haven't seen other calculators do well, is that this had excellent support for greek and other odd math characters. And the calculator was very small. I didn't usually like hauling around the TI's.
The build in formulas are nice when you can't remember some formula you really needed. Very handy.
The calculator is similar to some of Casio's calculators today, but I don't see them with good support for math symbols. I'd still use it today, except that it fell apart. You have to squeeze it together just right and hold it that way for it to work correctly.
At least I mostly forgot about this dupe before I read it.
It wasn't necessary for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor either.
What would be better? I like this rant on Subversion. Most of the other version control systems don't have a lot of 3rd party support. I like WinCVS, tortoise, Eclipse intergration, ant, etc.
No kidding.
I forgot to mention where ClearCase is much better than CVS though, and that is Sales People. No CVS people will take you golfing.
CVS is great for version control. Don't get tempted by Rational's ClearCase product.
A full build of a sample project with CVS takes me 30 seconds. CC takes 7 min, 30 sec.
CVS doesn't need multi-site repositories, clearcase does if you have a lot of remote development.
CVS doesn't integrate with the kernel, so if CVS crashes it doesn't take your whole machine.
CVS has better add-on GUI tools for branching and comparison.
It is easy to create and apply patch files with CVS, something not easy to do with CC.
With CC, when you check out a file, you can't actually write to it. You have to loop and keep checking for the file to be 'writable' after check out. Even then, sometimes when CC marks the file as writable, it really isn't.
A batch update in CVS is easy, with CC you have to check out individual files. I have a script for this. A batch update takes about 20 minutes compaired to 45 seconds in CVS.
CVS is free.
CVS doesn't require as much training or support time as ClearCase.
ClearCase does have excellent command-line tools. It also has a lot more features. But you can probably live without them.
For me, I thought Code Complete was the book for learning good coding.
On another note, does anyone else want to scream every time someone says 'best practice'?
The Piccards are well known for scientific exploration and adventure. Bertrand went around the world in the a balloon. The Piccard family is known as the inventor of the modern hot air balloon. Here is info on Don Piccard, one of his relatives. The bathyscaphe used to explore deep ocean areas was developed by Auguste Piccard. I've had the pleasure of speaking with Don Piccard before. Great family all around.
I have to agree with Cringely. Any paper-base receipt is suseptable to abuse. Specifically, this allows someone to confirm how another person voted. Bought votes are possible this way.
I do like the old-tech method. Put an X next to the person on paper. It is cheaper, and give old people something to do. (They staff all the voting over here, providing a very valuable service.)
What prevents a paper-receipt from being abused?
Things like, all union members must show their receipt to prove they voted for canidate x. Or an abusive husband controlling the voting his wife. Or a wife withholding sex from her husband because he didn't vote for a canidate.
We can pass a law against it, but having a verifiable receipt will really change things.
I agree. I don't use the drawers or hard plastic ones, because they just don't stand up. I only have a couple to hold connectors. But we have 100+ Rubbermaid Roughneck totes in our basement.
They stack well, eliminating the need for a lot of shelving. Boxes don't do this well. If your basement gets wet, no problem.
The key thing with these is to tape on a sign that says what is in each one. I just use tape and paper so I can easily re-label. Makes it easy for a garage sale (which we really need to do).
Always think twice aboutr getting things that don't fit in a tote. High chairs, baby rockers, cribs, chairs, doll beds, these all take a ton of room. And my wife doesn't like to get rid of them.
Because Oracle has sales people?
Think about it. Who's going to tell people about the virtues of MySQL? Do you think executive will rather listen to developers (who usually hate anything sale-related), or highly trains and motivated sales people?
Hi Hal, from one of your Rolla classmates. It's been fun to occasionally check your mapping project.
>Note that this is an infringement of God's copyrights and patents and trade secrets!
4 /gibs on.passion/
And we all know what happens when you infringe on God's IP:
http://www2.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/2
I don't think top airline pilots are overpaid.
Consider the fact that their 'off' hours are usually away from home. There is a LOT of work that they do outside of flying. This doesn't count in their per-hour charge.
They spend a lot of time gaining hours in small aircraft and as co-pilots of large aircraft. And they get dirt-pay for that.
They can't drink 12 hours before going on the job.
They work odd hours.
They are controlling a big gas tank with an aluminum shell and 300 people inside, all while moving 600+ mph in weather conditions that prevent you from seeing out side.
Yea, I want a good incentive for the pilot up front in my aircraft. I want to get to my destination!
I'd rather spend the money on a space elevator. Once you can get things into space at a lower cost and time frame, going to the moon and mars would be easier.
Cable TV turned a lot of people souless. I'm not sure this is any worse.
That's like comparing a Windows 3.1 system to a current Mac with the Unix-based OS. You'd be asking why anyone would choose Windows.
The mac you are using doesn't have pre-emptive threading support. The Macs now have a totally different OS core, based on BSD.
I agree. RUP is great. Any member of your team that isn't really productive, and you have them start creating these RUP artifacts. It gets them out of the way.
Long live the old user and functional requirement documents!
I think the people are there to entertain the machines.
They take a bunch of kids in their early 20's who are drama junkies, unemployable, and have too many hormones. Then they stick them in the same place and see how screwed up they really get.
Oh wait, that's MTV, not the Matrix.