The release of XP was an event - for the duration of XP, including the period where updates shut of software access, and turning off updates for unlicensed XP instances that exist and are a security nightmare nonetheless has been a steady decline. During that time, Vista has been under development (remember longhorn?). 95/98 was good enough - XP was the top of the hill, with very little increase in "height". I believe Vista is the other side and a clean slope down.
And note that I didn't say we're using MAC OS across the board. There's a linux/solarix backoffice with SAMBA shares.
No morons here. Physicists and Engineers actually. A little geeky but I have some very smart peers.
I had a software development manager at GTE Government Systems in Colorado Springs who left 3 inch deep knuckle trails between his office and the meeting room. He was a returning employee who left the project before I came on board. The group was a terrific group of developers who fostered good relationships with one another - respectful, supportive, mature.
When this guy returned our project manager gave him seniority over the team. Big Mistake. Within the next few months he did everything from assign everyone as leads over eachother in a matrix format that made NO SENSE (How can you lead one subproject while being assigned to another as a subordinate to one of your subordinates?) to calling me a liar when I mentioned looking into an ldap solution in a hallway conversation. He just couldn't believe that I spend my time at home playing with software.
My point - we had a woman on the team who was out during this downward spiral with a terminal illness & a high probability of dying. She returned and during the first meeting since she came back, she voiced her concern for the progress on the project, assuming our amicability to constructive criticism & peer relationships still existed. The Dev Manager interrupted her, yelled "GOD DAMMIT, THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT" and beat his fist into the table.
I left within two weeks. The rest of the team, including the woman were gone in 4 months.
I hope that guy sets himself an arbitrary deadline to drive to Utah in a snow storm and dies by driving off an iced over road.
Yeah, I'm still angry over the way he treated her. Any of us for that matter. It was a good team.
I disagree. Compact flourescents are a little less than an order of magnitude improvement over incandescent. LED's are another digit down. Incandescent: 100, Flourescent: 16, LED: 6
Vista *might* roll out. But my company just switched to Mac OS instead. The backoffice servers are all linux. There is only one windows machine for accounting, and that is due to roll over to a Mac at the beginning of the new year.
Vista is windows dead end. I believe a mass exodus to Apple computers will be occurring over the next five year. Up until and including Windows 2000, Microsoft deserved the market share they have had. But with Windows XP came especially Vista comes the realization that the company has lost their way.
It will take some serious losses, perhaps even half of the company, before someone will be able to come in and turn things around again.
I'd venture that LED lighting in the home will become mainstream within the next 10 years. Given that lightbulbs make up about 33% of a home's power consumption & they will be going from 40-100 watts a piece to 2-6 watts, isn't the complaining about gadgets power draw a little... hot headed?
So long as our power generation is cyclical when it comes to CO2, it really doesn't matter what we spend the energy doing. Getting to solar, wind & biofuel generation is a real target, not making a phone recharger more intelligent.
Let's suppose we all do an about face and take *all* of our personal information and throw it out for everyone to see. Everyone freely gives out their social, everyone freely tells everyone else their financial information and *every* passenger on an airplane insists on opening up their luggage and showing "security" personnel. Every time you drive by a police office you insist on a breathalizer test and registration check. Every time you run into a government official you hand them a pile of paperwork that includes everything about you.
I wonder what would happen if banks couldn't rely on you to keep your account number secret or your ssn as a secret, or your mother's maiden name or anything. If nothing was a secret, you have to ask the question, why gather any of the information at all?
a) would they make laws against sharing personal information except to government officials? b) would they make better security systems that didn't rely on you having a secret? c) would they stop coming to your door to ask questions if you insisted on showing them your family photo album every time they did? d) if everyone swallowed a GPS tracking device would they try to detain anyone any more? Given that their whereabouts could be identified?
CNN missed the fact that this has been going on in Africa for some time now. I saw an article several years ago where they drive around in a truck something like this in the back.
But back to the topic at hand, can't we just get the electronic copies for the love of all that is holy in the world?. Is there ANY REAL reason where we can't just go to amazon.com, order a book, receive an email with a link and download it from there? I mean, if I want to read a chapter at the commode I can print it off myself. But usually, I'm near a computer or have my cell phone handy (little pun for all you German folk:).
Why are we still stuck with hardcopies and stores full of dead trees?
I for one welcome the extinction of animals on behalf of our predecessors who died on the forest floor at the teeth of lions, paws of tiger and claws of bears. At some point in the past, we were at the mercy of the rest of the animal kingdom and nature in general for our existence. We broke the dominance formula by having brains instead of just might (military and warmongers - pay attention) and if a handful of animals go extinct at the expense of our success, I'm not surprise and I'm glad it's not the other way around.
I hear they just learned whales have significant intelligence as do several species of monkeys - let's off them next...
Editors do do that; however, xml files are passed between computers waaay more often that a human opens the file to read it. Why sacrifice network bandwidth and parsing time for something an editor can also solve.
I mean, we don't name our end brackets to if statements in C except with comments - the machine doesn't have to chew on those during runtime.
Perhaps, but you can make *any* text file messy. You're example is actually this:
</>
</>
</>
</>
<someTag>Hello</>
</>
</> </>
Besides, any editor worth it's salt will highlight the bracket association. I guess my grip is that xml is passed over the network far more than it is read by humans, and yet we sacrificed size for human readability. I mean, people suggest using it for RPC!
Schema definition by it's nature is tedious but necessary at this point. If you're going to take a standard thats already entrenched and suggest everyone stop and polish the edges from it how about we kill the verbosity of the xml end-tag instead?
Do we lose anything other than bandwidth use by doing this,
As for slow, I don't know where you get your data from, but comparing my gaming XP box to my SuSE Linux 10.0 box, XP actually boots faster, and the GUI is quite a bit more responsive than X with either KDE or Gnome too.
Would it be safe to say your gaming box is a tad higher end than your suse linux box? I ask because I have a relatively current Win XP box with a serial ATA drive & half a gig of memory that boots slower than my gentoo laptop, a gentoo office server, gentoo router or Mac powerbook. And by boot I include login since, getting to the login prompt doesn't actually let you do anything other than, well, login.
Get a girlfriend and let her use your computer. In less than two days you will have a trojan horse. One bed and breakfast site with a guestbook and it's all over my friend. Here's a piece of software to run before your first date:
Just starting out in software? Here's a tip - If your release date is affected by a single bug, your date is too close to the end of qa test. Your codebase should be untouched for a few days after QA before it can be declared suitable for consumption.
Glad I just switched to mac, even though it took a CompUSA store closing in Roswell, GA to get me to fork the cash out. Even a 30% discount was painful. Since then I've had two crashes caused by alpha software, but nothing from release quality stuff.
Keep in mind they don't necessarily want diamonds either. I gave my girl a 2 carat sapphire ring instead and she loved it more because it wasn't a diamond. What's more, everyone who sees it things it's a blue diamond! Go figure!
I did this actually. Instead of buying a worthless rock (look for diamond rings on craigslist some time - they can't give them away) I bought a sapphire ring to propose to my girlfriend. She was relieved that I didn't give her something plain that looked like everyone elses ring. She actually wants to use it as her band and have me just regive it to her on when we get married.
I was so relieved! The whole diamond industry is a big lie! Skip it - if your fiancee complains skip her too; she doesn't know the value of money and you'll pay for it later.
Curses! And I just got this thing after buying a new macbook because of the bash terminal & bsd backend. Wow, I was so focused on what appeared to be a troll-like response that I missed that.
Not with the human races current track record of ethics and morals and the prospects of having my organ sold by some corporation for an extreme amount of money.
Have you considered shopping around for a new sense of humour?
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The release of XP was an event - for the duration of XP, including the period where updates shut of software access, and turning off updates for unlicensed XP instances that exist and are a security nightmare nonetheless has been a steady decline. During that time, Vista has been under development (remember longhorn?). 95/98 was good enough - XP was the top of the hill, with very little increase in "height". I believe Vista is the other side and a clean slope down.
And note that I didn't say we're using MAC OS across the board. There's a linux/solarix backoffice with SAMBA shares.
No morons here. Physicists and Engineers actually. A little geeky but I have some very smart peers.
I had a software development manager at GTE Government Systems in Colorado Springs who left 3 inch deep knuckle trails between his office and the meeting room. He was a returning employee who left the project before I came on board. The group was a terrific group of developers who fostered good relationships with one another - respectful, supportive, mature.
When this guy returned our project manager gave him seniority over the team. Big Mistake. Within the next few months he did everything from assign everyone as leads over eachother in a matrix format that made NO SENSE (How can you lead one subproject while being assigned to another as a subordinate to one of your subordinates?) to calling me a liar when I mentioned looking into an ldap solution in a hallway conversation. He just couldn't believe that I spend my time at home playing with software.
My point - we had a woman on the team who was out during this downward spiral with a terminal illness & a high probability of dying. She returned and during the first meeting since she came back, she voiced her concern for the progress on the project, assuming our amicability to constructive criticism & peer relationships still existed. The Dev Manager interrupted her, yelled "GOD DAMMIT, THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT" and beat his fist into the table.
I left within two weeks. The rest of the team, including the woman were gone in 4 months.
I hope that guy sets himself an arbitrary deadline to drive to Utah in a snow storm and dies by driving off an iced over road.
Yeah, I'm still angry over the way he treated her. Any of us for that matter. It was a good team.
Oh, I don't know...
g clid=CJ-Mrc7-t4kCFQsEVAodnlYvPg
0 -E27-70-W
x .aspx
= 1142
http://www.besthomeledlighting.com/all_led_bulbs?
Here's a 4 watt light bulb for example.
http://www.besthomeledlighting.com/product/G32-12
And a host of LED alternatives:
http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/inde
And here's a spreadsheet to compare all three:
http://www.productdose.com/article.php?article_id
Anything else?
I disagree. Compact flourescents are a little less than an order of magnitude improvement over incandescent. LED's are another digit down. Incandescent: 100, Flourescent: 16, LED: 6
Vista *might* roll out. But my company just switched to Mac OS instead. The backoffice servers are all linux. There is only one windows machine for accounting, and that is due to roll over to a Mac at the beginning of the new year.
Vista is windows dead end. I believe a mass exodus to Apple computers will be occurring over the next five year. Up until and including Windows 2000, Microsoft deserved the market share they have had. But with Windows XP came especially Vista comes the realization that the company has lost their way.
It will take some serious losses, perhaps even half of the company, before someone will be able to come in and turn things around again.
I'd venture that LED lighting in the home will become mainstream within the next 10 years. Given that lightbulbs make up about 33% of a home's power consumption & they will be going from 40-100 watts a piece to 2-6 watts, isn't the complaining about gadgets power draw a little
So long as our power generation is cyclical when it comes to CO2, it really doesn't matter what we spend the energy doing. Getting to solar, wind & biofuel generation is a real target, not making a phone recharger more intelligent.
Let's suppose we all do an about face and take *all* of our personal information and throw it out for everyone to see. Everyone freely gives out their social, everyone freely tells everyone else their financial information and *every* passenger on an airplane insists on opening up their luggage and showing "security" personnel. Every time you drive by a police office you insist on a breathalizer test and registration check. Every time you run into a government official you hand them a pile of paperwork that includes everything about you.
I wonder what would happen if banks couldn't rely on you to keep your account number secret or your ssn as a secret, or your mother's maiden name or anything. If nothing was a secret, you have to ask the question, why gather any of the information at all?
a) would they make laws against sharing personal information except to government officials?
b) would they make better security systems that didn't rely on you having a secret?
c) would they stop coming to your door to ask questions if you insisted on showing them your family photo album every time they did?
d) if everyone swallowed a GPS tracking device would they try to detain anyone any more? Given that their whereabouts could be identified?
Hey.... relax man..... losen up!
CNN missed the fact that this has been going on in Africa for some time now. I saw an article several years ago where they drive around in a truck something like this in the back.
:).
But back to the topic at hand, can't we just get the electronic copies for the love of all that is holy in the world?. Is there ANY REAL reason where we can't just go to amazon.com, order a book, receive an email with a link and download it from there? I mean, if I want to read a chapter at the commode I can print it off myself. But usually, I'm near a computer or have my cell phone handy (little pun for all you German folk
Why are we still stuck with hardcopies and stores full of dead trees?
I for one welcome the extinction of animals on behalf of our predecessors who died on the forest floor at the teeth of lions, paws of tiger and claws of bears. At some point in the past, we were at the mercy of the rest of the animal kingdom and nature in general for our existence. We broke the dominance formula by having brains instead of just might (military and warmongers - pay attention) and if a handful of animals go extinct at the expense of our success, I'm not surprise and I'm glad it's not the other way around.
I hear they just learned whales have significant intelligence as do several species of monkeys - let's off them next...
Well it seems to be working for anti-american groups in iraq...
*ducks*
Editors do do that; however, xml files are passed between computers waaay more often that a human opens the file to read it. Why sacrifice network bandwidth and parsing time for something an editor can also solve.
I mean, we don't name our end brackets to if statements in C except with comments - the machine doesn't have to chew on those during runtime.
Perhaps, but you can make *any* text file messy.
You're example is actually this:
</>
</>
</>
</>
<someTag>Hello</>
</>
</>
</>
Besides, any editor worth it's salt will highlight the bracket association. I guess my grip is that xml is passed over the network far more than it is read by humans, and yet we sacrificed size for human readability. I mean, people suggest using it for RPC!
"Word" Isn't a word processor. It's a platform which includes scripting support. All scripting platforms can be used for less that noble purposes.
Ever heard of buffer overflow attached in browsers from Javascript embedded in html?
Schema definition by it's nature is tedious but necessary at this point. If you're going to take a standard thats already entrenched and suggest everyone stop and polish the edges from it how about we kill the verbosity of the xml end-tag instead?
Do we lose anything other than bandwidth use by doing this,
<tagNameThatCanBeLong>Some Text</>
instead of this:
<tagNameThatCanBeLong>Some Text</tagNameThatCanBeLong>
If the next end tag must belong to the last start tag what's the point of naming it?
As for slow, I don't know where you get your data from, but comparing my gaming XP box to my SuSE Linux 10.0 box, XP actually boots faster, and the GUI is quite a bit more responsive than X with either KDE or Gnome too.
Would it be safe to say your gaming box is a tad higher end than your suse linux box? I ask because I have a relatively current Win XP box with a serial ATA drive & half a gig of memory that boots slower than my gentoo laptop, a gentoo office server, gentoo router or Mac powerbook. And by boot I include login since, getting to the login prompt doesn't actually let you do anything other than, well, login.
You mean, like Java Webstart?
*ducks*
Get a girlfriend and let her use your computer. In less than two days you will have a trojan horse. One bed and breakfast site with a guestbook and it's all over my friend. Here's a piece of software to run before your first date:
http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
In it's dying moments better go quick!
Just starting out in software? Here's a tip - If your release date is affected by a single bug, your date is too close to the end of qa test. Your codebase should be untouched for a few days after QA before it can be declared suitable for consumption.
Glad I just switched to mac, even though it took a CompUSA store closing in Roswell, GA to get me to fork the cash out. Even a 30% discount was painful. Since then I've had two crashes caused by alpha software, but nothing from release quality stuff.
Keep in mind they don't necessarily want diamonds either. I gave my girl a 2 carat sapphire ring instead and she loved it more because it wasn't a diamond. What's more, everyone who sees it things it's a blue diamond! Go figure!
So sorry, it was an original thought, not a Monty Python quote. Never saw the skit.
I did this actually. Instead of buying a worthless rock (look for diamond rings on craigslist some time - they can't give them away) I bought a sapphire ring to propose to my girlfriend. She was relieved that I didn't give her something plain that looked like everyone elses ring. She actually wants to use it as her band and have me just regive it to her on when we get married.
I was so relieved! The whole diamond industry is a big lie! Skip it - if your fiancee complains skip her too; she doesn't know the value of money and you'll pay for it later.
Curses! And I just got this thing after buying a new macbook because of the bash terminal & bsd backend. Wow, I was so focused on what appeared to be a troll-like response that I missed that.
Thanks for the heads up
Not with the human races current track record of ethics and morals and the prospects of having my organ sold by some corporation for an extreme amount of money.
Have you considered shopping around for a new sense of humour?