When I worked with SCO Open Server Unix, it was absolutely the WORST version of Unix I've ever worked with. Half the X-windows TCL/TK admin tools had major bugs. Most the utilities didn't work and I had to edit straight Unix files. I had to install it several times to get it working. UNIXWARE they bought from Novell, so they deserve no credit for that. An associate used to call SCO Open Server, SCO Open Sore.:)
the "Woz" belongs on there much more then many of the other members of the hall of fame. He "engineered" most of the early apple stuff including the floppy drive and most people don't even know about him today.
Wasn't the existence of water on Mars once thought to be Science Fiction? They used to think the canals held water until what, about the 1950's? Then that became out of favor. Now they found evidence again with the last probes that Mars DID have running water. I don't pay attention to scientists. Especially Biologists, Astronomers, and Physics. They change theories every few years and everything that was known is completely disproven. For instance, Quantium Mechanics would have made Scientists in the 1950's spin on their heads...
Thats not what I was saying. What I'm saying is that in this particular write-up, most of the info was common sense. Of course I learned a lot from others over the years. I didn't say I was a good programmer. I just said that most programmers aren't that good. If you don't believe me, look at the state of most software today. Look at how many simple bugs get repeated in software packages over and over again. Maybe the 90% rule doesn't apply at your company, but that just means you work at a good company. Like one example, when I was on a team of 5 at a large company, every other member of the team, some people with supposed 5 years of C experience, have trouble with memory leaks and misuse pointers in EVERY program they write. Another company I worked at, most of the programmers only new maintenance. They couldn't even write a program from scrach. Good programming is learned, BUT there is essential logic and problem solving skills required.
I''m sorry but a lot of this is common sense
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I saw the section on debugging and much of it is common sense. Unit testing is common sense. Personal Skills??? When did programmers get those?? Most good programmers figure all this out on their own. I'm afraid that most of the people reading this, will never be good programmers, because they lacked the initative to figure out most of this by themselves. I've been programming almost 20 years. Most of this stuff I figured out on my own when I started programming.
Good programmers don't need to be told how to program.
Bad programmers are always bad no matter how much they are taught or how much they read.
90% of programmers are bad. 9% are pretty good. And 1% are incredible.
I'm afaid most of the people that have to read this are lousy programmers or "script kiddies" anyway that won't be helped by it.
Yeah, for the software. But the hardware there is real. There is a lot of stuff in Taiwan, Japan, Korea. Neat Stuff made there, that never makes it to the US.
They are up to snuff in Asia. Most everyone I met in Philippines was running Win 95/98 on Pentium II's. This was 2 years ago. And Korea standard of living is much higher than the Philippines. Once again, the US view of the world is skewed. If anything, more is available in Asia and Asia is plugged in. When I was in Tawain, there were street vendors selling hardware and software!!! In addition to huge indoor markets selling everything from digital cameras to power supplys. This was back in 1999.
I found some of these in the Philippines back in March of 2000 in Manila. They had gaming cafes setup to play several 3-D games on a LAN. In addition they had standalone machines for surfing the internet. Nothing new.
I'm sure this is nothing new. Professional criminals ( the smart ones, not the ones you see on Cops! ) have probably known about this for years. I mean, come on, unless a lock is custom made it came from a factory where there is a set number of templates.
Cars are the worst. I once opened a friends car ( same make, model as mine ) with my keys. I think the car manufactuers must only have 50 or so lock variations. More reason to go to retinal scans.
I don't care about the rain forest. I DO care about my liver. I already blew it out with too much alchohol. I don't need any heavy metals while I'm recovering...:)
Strom Thurmond and Jessie Helms are practically dead, and they get reelected every Senate race. Strom finally realized that he was dead and quit running for reelection.
Jessie - I'm not dead yet... I want to get off the cart
In the US we don't need the internet to tamper with voting result. Heck, even Dead people vote sometimes. In fact, voting 2 times is pretty easy. You can even give someone a beer and cigarettes to vote how you want them too!
Cool, I wish they would get this in the US. I could vote while playing Civilization. I could setup a leader for each candiate and vote according to which one is doing best against me!
Whether this technology works out or not, Plasma will probably kill LCD in a few years anyway. If not that LED displays will take over. And there is always DLP.
With Cadium. Wonderful for the water supply and growing plants. My liver and kidneys can hardly wait. I could always use some more heavy metals in my diet.
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Redhat and other versions of Linux always "Basically" worked the first time. For SCO I think had to wipe and reformat the hard drive a few times.
When I worked with SCO Open Server Unix, it was absolutely the WORST version of Unix I've ever worked with. Half the X-windows TCL/TK admin tools had major bugs. Most the utilities didn't work and I had to edit straight Unix files. I had to install it several times to get it working. UNIXWARE they bought from Novell, so they deserve no credit for that. An associate used to call SCO Open Server, SCO Open Sore. :)
Sorry, my bad...
Emperors make mistakes too.
the "Woz" belongs on there much more then many of the other members of the hall of fame. He "engineered" most of the early apple stuff including the floppy drive and most people don't even know about him today.
www.woz.org
Wasn't the existence of water on Mars once thought to be Science Fiction? They used to think the canals held water until what, about the 1950's? Then that became out of favor. Now they found evidence again with the last probes that Mars DID have running water. I don't pay attention to scientists. Especially Biologists, Astronomers, and Physics. They change theories every few years and everything that was known is completely disproven. For instance, Quantium Mechanics would have made Scientists in the 1950's spin on their heads...
I agree, but you don't learn these from reading about them in a paper. You learn them from life experience.
Thats not what I was saying. What I'm saying is that in this particular write-up, most of the info was common sense. Of course I learned a lot from others over the years. I didn't say I was a good programmer. I just said that most programmers aren't that good. If you don't believe me, look at the state of most software today. Look at how many simple bugs get repeated in software packages over and over again. Maybe the 90% rule doesn't apply at your company, but that just means you work at a good company. Like one example, when I was on a team of 5 at a large company, every other member of the team, some people with supposed 5 years of C experience, have trouble with memory leaks and misuse pointers in EVERY program they write. Another company I worked at, most of the programmers only new maintenance. They couldn't even write a program from scrach. Good programming is learned, BUT there is essential logic and problem solving skills required.
I saw the section on debugging and much of it is common sense. Unit testing is common sense. Personal Skills??? When did programmers get those?? Most good programmers figure all this out on their own. I'm afraid that most of the people reading this, will never be good programmers, because they lacked the initative to figure out most of this by themselves. I've been programming almost 20 years. Most of this stuff I figured out on my own when I started programming.
Good programmers don't need to be told how to program.
Bad programmers are always bad no matter how much they are taught or how much they read.
90% of programmers are bad. 9% are pretty good. And 1% are incredible.
I'm afaid most of the people that have to read this are lousy programmers or "script kiddies" anyway that won't be helped by it.
Yeah, for the software. But the hardware there is real. There is a lot of stuff in Taiwan, Japan, Korea. Neat Stuff made there, that never makes it to the US.
They are up to snuff in Asia. Most everyone I met in Philippines was running Win 95/98 on Pentium II's. This was 2 years ago. And Korea standard of living is much higher than the Philippines. Once again, the US view of the world is skewed. If anything, more is available in Asia and Asia is plugged in. When I was in Tawain, there were street vendors selling hardware and software!!! In addition to huge indoor markets selling everything from digital cameras to power supplys. This was back in 1999.
I found some of these in the Philippines back in March of 2000 in Manila. They had gaming cafes setup to play several 3-D games on a LAN. In addition they had standalone machines for surfing the internet. Nothing new.
I'm sure this is nothing new. Professional criminals ( the smart ones, not the ones you see on Cops! ) have probably known about this for years. I mean, come on, unless a lock is custom made it came from a factory where there is a set number of templates.
Cars are the worst. I once opened a friends car ( same make, model as mine ) with my keys. I think the car manufactuers must only have 50 or so lock variations. More reason to go to retinal scans.
Beer can also be toxic to animal life. Especially Budweiser. :)
I don't care about the rain forest. I DO care about my liver. I already blew it out with too much alchohol. I don't need any heavy metals while I'm recovering... :)
Yes, but it used to be underground until Saruman dug it up. Theres going to be some ticked off Ents in a bit.
No,
I want the usernames and passwords to all you internet accounts. And your copy of Civilization...
Think about it, if the Psilons were in charge, we would be so technically advanced, we could clone a 'Elerian' for everyone.
Thats my platform, vote for the Psilons, and a Elerian in every house!!
Why? They even have Civilization for Linux...
Strom Thurmond and Jessie Helms are practically dead, and they get reelected every Senate race. Strom finally realized that he was dead and quit running for reelection.
Jessie - I'm not dead yet... I want to get off the cart
MOO would also be a consideration. I think Bush would make a good Klackon. Clinton was a Sakkra. We need a Psilon for president for sure.
In the US we don't need the internet to tamper with voting result. Heck, even Dead people vote sometimes. In fact, voting 2 times is pretty easy. You can even give someone a beer and cigarettes to vote how you want them too!
Cool, I wish they would get this in the US. I could vote while playing Civilization. I could setup a leader for each candiate and vote according to which one is doing best against me!
If its organic, it must be from another planet. Cadmium wasn't an organic molecule and is toxic to animal life on Earth last time I checked.
Whether this technology works out or not, Plasma will probably kill LCD in a few years anyway. If not that LED displays will take over. And there is always DLP.
We would then have disposable screens
With Cadium. Wonderful for the water supply and growing plants. My liver and kidneys can hardly wait. I could always use some more heavy metals in my diet.