No one can fuck w/China. The MAD clause applies to them as well as to any nuke-enabled country. Now they are spacebound too. The pinnacle of science has obviously been reached by the Chinese too. Better watch out for them.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.- James Fenimore Cooper
It's "annoying" - you know why? Here's a quote for you - ponder on it:
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity" - James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), U.S. novelist. The American Democrat, "On the Disadvantages of Democracy," (1838).
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Doesn't anyone have a global patent on kernels? That'll show SCO who their daddy is!
Dear friend- Microsoft may win, but alas, it may be a Phyrric victory. For what good is it to you if you win, after you have lost all or almost all of what you stood for? At least in the sense of operating systems... Microsoft may well be a very diverse company, but Bill Gates would be ill advised to continue fighting something that has the making of a long term loss, rather than a victory... Progess, albeit slow, is inevitable...
.... which still does not excuse you from bad coding habits, poor algorithm choice, neophytic style of programming and a plethora of other things they taught you in CS school. I find the "RAM is cheap and so is CPU power" argument laughable, when it is spoken in the face of good efficient, programming. You should _always_ try to find the best (or most optimal, I should say) approach/solution to your problem. As soon as you've done that, you can use the "RAM is cheap, CPU power's cheap" argument, but not before that.
Let's do a linear search of every list we ever create in Java - 3Ghz is FAST! It'll find our value FAST! Instead of maybe doing a binary search on a pre-sorted list, right? Or let's always use bubble sort, it's fast on a 3Ghz CPU - forget quicksort, heapsort and the like.. too complex.
Some people here said, the sw engineering discipline is still immature - that is, for the most part, today, correct - not because we lack the methodologies to make software engineering a true engineering discipline but because a lot of companies choose not to adopt these processes as part of their development paradigm, and do not foster these processes in the company.
Such companies usually have smaller requirements that do not need MDA to develop good software so maybe they can get away with only using pieces of the MDA to do their software but not all of the processess specified in it, or maybe do away with it altogether and just kind of drive their entire development process based on a data model alone (e.g. in case of e-business applications..).
While this may be sufficient for the whole lot out there, it is definitely not helping software engineering become a true engineering discipline, which is precisely why there are no true state-mandated software engineering certifications, etc etc.
It all eventually will boil down to designing models , which are platform, vendor neutral, if you wish to formalize sw engineering as a discipline. It seems that is where we're headed. It won't however happen unless everyone decides to participate, force everyone to use these tools/methodologies....
But , give or take another 10-20 years, I am pretty sure we'll get there, massively... then software engineers will become just like anyone else:), a mechanical, civil, etc. engineer. Then we can start calling ourselves ENGINEERS:).
Of course it comes from the USA! Duh, you're so 'smart':)! It ALWAYS comes from the USA. The internet now makes you more aware of it, but those who run this country are some pretty shrewd and intelligent individuals who happened to figure out the equilibrium formula of economics/military FAR before you were a glee in your dad's eye and a figment of his imagination.....
I think it's you that needs a hint - America has been exporting war to the rest of the world, and has become what it is now primarily because of that cohesion of the military/economic machine that exists in this country. What they paint you on CNN or these propagandist AM stations I keep listening to is something comprehensible to the average shithead ("Iraq/Saddam/whoever's rouge regime/state is bad and a threat and will kill if unrestrained now! Let's do him NOW!"), religious follower, etc.
When you cut through the bullshit, America will not be what it is today had it not known how to lead and win(and lose some) wars. War, as ugly as it is, is necessary for the health of the state. For those dumbfucks who do not grasp the concept of war and how it applies to economics - well too fucking bad. The writing is on the wall.. 'cept that most of us are blind to see it.
has the ability to create encrypted images with any given cipher and mount them. They've made a version for both, Windows and Linux (not sure if they have a Mac though). It creates a.jbc file that you can copy and manipulate to your heart's content. Here's their site.
My former boss has a BSc in theoretical physics from Uni. of Kingston, Jamaica, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from an American university, stutters, is dyslexic and misspells often. Yet, you pick a problem out of any physics textbook graduate or undergraduate, he's able to solve it short of 5 minutes.. Yet you give him a problem in software, he comes up with the most patterned OO solution one can dream up even after 5 iterations and no spelling mistakes....
I guess he'd be ridiculing himself if he posts here (which he never does) and misspelled a thing...
Yes, the earth is a finite resouce as long as your neighbor kid's mom continues to take short trips to the supermarket in her Lincoln Expedition or Navigator or other guzzler....
and Office 2000 if you really have to use MS software. Short of that, I can't see how StarOffice or openoffice would fail to do most of what these Nazi-suites do.
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No one can fuck w/China. The MAD clause applies to them as well as to any nuke-enabled country. Now they are spacebound too. The pinnacle of science has obviously been reached by the Chinese too. Better watch out for them.
No no no, you got that wrong, Microsoft is officially Fucking Ornamental Road Debris! ;)
What about a ban on running Windows? That alone promotes shitty OS architecture, fosters an environment of mediocrity and FUD. Ban that!
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. - James Fenimore Cooper
It's "annoying" - you know why? Here's a quote for you - ponder on it:
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity" - James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), U.S. novelist. The American Democrat, "On the Disadvantages of Democracy," (1838).
Doesn't anyone have a global patent on kernels? That'll show SCO who their daddy is!
Dear friend- Microsoft may win, but alas, it may be a Phyrric victory. For what good is it to you if you win, after you have lost all or almost all of what you stood for? At least in the sense of operating systems... Microsoft may well be a very diverse company, but Bill Gates would be ill advised to continue fighting something that has the making of a long term loss, rather than a victory... Progess, albeit slow, is inevitable...
(a) Both GSM and CDMA encryption are flawed and can be broken.
I'm not sure which CDMA encryption you are talking about, but using a phone like this would make breaking its encryption a hard feat to accomplish.
Just wait until MS starts writing software for Linux. That will be a funny day
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April 1st was 12 days ago... Please, don't throw around these convenient innuendos
.... which still does not excuse you from bad coding habits, poor algorithm choice, neophytic style of programming and a plethora of other things they taught you in CS school. I find the "RAM is cheap and so is CPU power" argument laughable, when it is spoken in the face of good efficient, programming. You should _always_ try to find the best (or most optimal, I should say) approach/solution to your problem. As soon as you've done that, you can use the "RAM is cheap, CPU power's cheap" argument, but not before that.
Let's do a linear search of every list we ever create in Java - 3Ghz is FAST! It'll find our value FAST! Instead of maybe doing a binary search on a pre-sorted list, right? Or let's always use bubble sort, it's fast on a 3Ghz CPU - forget quicksort, heapsort and the like.. too complex.
Some people here said, the sw engineering discipline is still immature - that is, for the most part, today, correct - not because we lack the methodologies to make software engineering a true engineering discipline but because a lot of companies choose not to adopt these processes as part of their development paradigm, and do not foster these processes in the company.
Such companies usually have smaller requirements that do not need MDA to develop good software so maybe they can get away with only using pieces of the MDA to do their software but not all of the processess specified in it, or maybe do away with it altogether and just kind of drive their entire development process based on a data model alone (e.g. in case of e-business applications..).
While this may be sufficient for the whole lot out there, it is definitely not helping software engineering become a true engineering discipline, which is precisely why there are no true state-mandated software engineering certifications, etc etc.
It all eventually will boil down to designing models , which are platform, vendor neutral, if you wish to formalize sw engineering as a discipline. It seems that is where we're headed. It won't however happen unless everyone decides to participate, force everyone to use these tools/methodologies....
But , give or take another 10-20 years, I am pretty sure we'll get there, massively... then software engineers will become just like anyone else
Yeah... it'll fall alright. In another 5000 years, give or take a millenia...
Of course it comes from the USA! Duh, you're so 'smart' :)! It ALWAYS comes from the USA. The internet now makes you more aware of it, but those who run this country are some pretty shrewd and intelligent individuals who happened to figure out the equilibrium formula of economics/military FAR before you were a glee in your dad's eye and a figment of his imagination.....
I think it's you that needs a hint - America has been exporting war to the rest of the world, and has become what it is now primarily because of that cohesion of the military/economic machine that exists in this country. What they paint you on CNN or these propagandist AM stations I keep listening to is something comprehensible to the average shithead ("Iraq/Saddam/whoever's rouge regime/state is bad and a threat and will kill if unrestrained now! Let's do him NOW!"), religious follower, etc.
When you cut through the bullshit, America will not be what it is today had it not known how to lead and win(and lose some) wars. War, as ugly as it is, is necessary for the health of the state. For those dumbfucks who do not grasp the concept of war and how it applies to economics - well too fucking bad. The writing is on the wall.. 'cept that most of us are blind to see it.
I am willing to bet the anonymous coward who posted this is an SCO employee :).
has the ability to create encrypted images with any given cipher and mount them. They've made a version for both, Windows and Linux (not sure if they have a Mac though). It creates a .jbc file that you can copy and manipulate to your heart's content. Here's their site.
Patent the "Start" button!! QUICK QUICK before Jeff Bezos comes out of the woodwork!! :)
My former boss has a BSc in theoretical physics from Uni. of Kingston, Jamaica, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from an American university, stutters, is dyslexic and misspells often. Yet, you pick a problem out of any physics textbook graduate or undergraduate, he's able to solve it short of 5 minutes.. Yet you give him a problem in software, he comes up with the most patterned OO solution one can dream up even after 5 iterations and no spelling mistakes....
I guess he'd be ridiculing himself if he posts here (which he never does) and misspelled a thing...
Yes, the earth is a finite resouce as long as your neighbor kid's mom continues to take short trips to the supermarket in her Lincoln Expedition or Navigator or other guzzler....
The United who?
Do you really think anyone's ever going to need more thank 640kb of RAM? C'mon.. "get REAL"!
I've heard this rant 5 times over the course of the last 10 years 1992-2002.... "RUN, UNIX, RUUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!!" :)
does jacking off in the office bathroom count as crime? then I guess I'm guilty all the time :)
by Jeff Bezos. That's what's wrong with it.
and Office 2000 if you really have to use MS software. Short of that, I can't see how StarOffice or openoffice would fail to do most of what these Nazi-suites do.