Sounds like a bunch of water-cooler talk to me. This kind of thing happens all the time and no attempt to hype this event it will make any more that gossip.
Military planes are already protected from EMF. I wouldn't be surprised if non-military aircraft had at least rudimentary protections since it should be easier, in theory, for an avionics manufacturer to have a single production line for an instrument instead of having one for EMF resistant and one for EMF susceptible.
Of course, FAA safety regs are, on occasion, written in blood. If a plane falls out of the sky because of this, they would have real proof instead of theoretical proof. Fatalities tend to to accelerate the definition and adoption of new safety regulations.
One of Borland's more excellent products...
It did have backstepping, but there are limits
to what you can backstep over. If you do any IO
(filesystem, ports, etc...) backstepping
really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. For
pure computation, however, it rocked.
With an app that is multi-threaded, the semantics
of backstepping might get a bit dicey. Might
be a nice PHD research area, though.
-xbytor
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I read Timeline, too. It read like the novelization (sp?) of a movie, worse than the variety that Alan Dean Foster used to churn out. This will be a case where the orignal novel is also the novelization.
I have decided to stand by my principles, and not accept any sexual proposition from Miss Rodgers. I implore the rest of you to follow my example. Let's not be soft in the face of bad syntax!
I would think that refusing a "sexual proposition from Miss Rodgers" would require being soft. Although this might be difficult if she were to streak by.
I watched this on PBS probably in 84 and taped it
on a replay. I was already a fan of Glass and this
sealed the deal. I've seen this film probably
30 or 40 times over the years.
I don't see the propaganda that everyone mentions.
I groove on the music and let the images wash over me. I tried chemically enhancing the experience
once. Anything other than a good scotch is distracting.
I had the good fortune of seeing Koyaanisqatsi in
a theater with the Philip Glass Ensemble playing
live. If you ever get change, do it. I also got
to see Einstein on the Beach live in Princeton
where they did there warmup gig before touring
back about 95 or so, but thats another story.
I'm still waiting for the DVDs to arrive. We have
a 'sqatsi fest planned for next week at work.
There are more than a few Glass-loving geeks here in the office.
Obviously, I am looking for to the last part of the
trilogy. I just wish I could see these films in IMAX...
eBay has lots of money (well, at least a profit) and they have a staff of attorneys. Maybe this can be the case that finally gets 'computerization of a business process' thrown on to the trash heap labeled 'bad ideas that really sucked'. The patent office has apparently forgotten what the intent of the patent system is. Lets hope that some people in the judicial system haven't. And lets hope that eBay doesn't settle.
I have to disagree with one point. Code review is often the only way to find architectural/design problems. A programmer may have designed a component in one way but, for whatever reason, had to implement differently. They may even mis-remember what they did after a couple of weeks. The Source doesn't lie. The Source is the One Truth. Comments lie. That's why they call it code review, not comment review.
BTW, I'm ranting because I just spent 20+ hours tracking down a bug in code with incorrect comments and docs. I need some sleep.
I just got back from a strip club in boston. One of the girls danced a set to three Who songs. I enjoyed it, natch, but thought it was odd. Had I known JE had passed, I would have tipped her a bit more for the tribute.
The maximum sustained force by and individual (voluntarily) was 45Gs by a Col Stall (MD), part of a team that was investigating restraints and ejection seat safety for the military. The force, though momentary, temporarily detached his retinas and collapsed his lungs. He survived the experience but obviously decided not to be a test subject anymore.
Doing RAID-1 is good for protecting against
hardware failure, but it does not protect
agains soft failures. Soft failures can
run the gamut from virii to 'oops, I wiped
my home directory last night'.
My solution is to go RAID-1 and hotswap
a drive with a third one once a week. Of course,
I've been doing this for over a year and have
had no need to go to a backup (yet).
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The "movement" began with emacs. You don't really think gcc was written with vi, do you?
Their servlet engine was orginally from apache. I remember the exception stacks very clearly. A large part of the apache soap effort originated with IBM. Go back and look at the history in from the mail groups. IBM has fed a lot of tech into the Java Apache effort.
Which brings me to my next point. I took a visit to their Java labs over in the UK a few years ago. (I fergit the town, but there was lots of sheep:-). I had serious doubts about java primarily because of Sun. After talking with the IBM folks, I decided java would survive in spite of Sun, not because of Sun.
But I'll be happier when the MQJMS libs are cleaner...
I am currently in the middle of a series of irefights. WebSphere with Oracle and Sybase on some really big Solaris boxes (4x8CPU boxes etc...).
My problem is not finger pointing by IBM support, my problem is finding anybody at IBM who has worked with an environment with more than 2 dozen EJB classes. We have 200+. We finally found a guy yesterday with a clue. Now, if I can only get him on site for a week or two.
No finger pointing. Lots of cluelessness for the size and load that we expect to have.
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It wasn't a rental. It was a "consulting fee".
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One small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind.
Neil got it wrong.Ask him.
Sounds like a bunch of water-cooler talk to me. This kind of thing happens all the time and no attempt to hype this event it will make any more that gossip.
Of course, FAA safety regs are, on occasion, written in blood. If a plane falls out of the sky because of this, they would have real proof instead of theoretical proof. Fatalities tend to to accelerate the definition and adoption of new safety regulations.
Haven't you ever seen the pointing device embedded in an IBM laptop which is sometimes referred to as a 'clit-mouse'?
You've got no imagination. You're just an AC in troll-mode
I had a lisp in emacs that automated this. It was at thus point that emacs won the war with vi. :-)
Actually, this was the original name of the classic
Iron Butterfly tune. It got a bit munged along the way.
One of Borland's more excellent products...
It did have backstepping, but there are limits to what you can backstep over. If you do any IO (filesystem, ports, etc...) backstepping really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. For pure computation, however, it rocked.
With an app that is multi-threaded, the semantics of backstepping might get a bit dicey. Might be a nice PHD research area, though.
-xbytor
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Dyson chairwoman-of-totalitarian-internet-organization
Where will it all end?????
I read Timeline, too. It read like the novelization (sp?) of a movie, worse than the variety that Alan Dean Foster used to churn out. This will be a case where the orignal novel is also the novelization.
In case its not clear, I think Timeline sucked.
I, however, ball. Every chance I get. Sometimes I even ball my head off.
But I don't bawl like a baby. That service costs extra and I'm a wiped out genX slacker...
I don't see the propaganda that everyone mentions. I groove on the music and let the images wash over me. I tried chemically enhancing the experience once. Anything other than a good scotch is distracting.
I had the good fortune of seeing Koyaanisqatsi in a theater with the Philip Glass Ensemble playing live. If you ever get change, do it. I also got to see Einstein on the Beach live in Princeton where they did there warmup gig before touring back about 95 or so, but thats another story.
I'm still waiting for the DVDs to arrive. We have a 'sqatsi fest planned for next week at work. There are more than a few Glass-loving geeks here in the office.
Obviously, I am looking for to the last part of the trilogy. I just wish I could see these films in IMAX...
-xbytor
Oh wait....
They tossed out due process, too.
Let me go buy a gun. At least the 2nd amendment has some legs.
-xbytor
eBay has lots of money (well, at least a profit) and they have a staff of attorneys. Maybe this can be the case that finally gets 'computerization of a business process' thrown on to the trash heap labeled 'bad ideas that really sucked'. The patent office has apparently forgotten what the intent of the patent system is. Lets hope that some people in the judicial system haven't. And lets hope that eBay doesn't settle.
BTW, I'm ranting because I just spent 20+ hours tracking down a bug in code with incorrect comments and docs. I need some sleep.
ciao
Thanks, John. We hardly knew ye...
ciao,
-xbytor
The maximum sustained force by and individual
(voluntarily) was 45Gs by a Col Stall (MD), part
of a team that was investigating restraints and
ejection seat safety for the military. The force,
though momentary, temporarily detached his retinas
and collapsed his lungs. He survived the experience
but obviously decided not to be a test subject
anymore.
My solution is to go RAID-1 and hotswap a drive with a third one once a week. Of course, I've been doing this for over a year and have had no need to go to a backup (yet).
The "movement" began with emacs. You don't really think gcc was written with vi, do you?
Which brings me to my next point. I took a visit to their Java labs over in the UK a few years ago. (I fergit the town, but there was lots of sheep :-). I had serious doubts about java primarily because of Sun. After talking with the IBM folks, I decided java would survive in spite of Sun, not because of Sun.
But I'll be happier when the MQJMS libs are cleaner...
ciao,
-bytor
I am currently in the middle of a series of irefights. WebSphere with Oracle and Sybase on some really big Solaris boxes (4x8CPU boxes etc...).
My problem is not finger pointing by IBM support, my problem is finding anybody at IBM who has worked with an environment with more than 2 dozen EJB classes. We have 200+. We finally found a guy yesterday with a clue. Now, if I can only get him on site for a week or two.
No finger pointing. Lots of cluelessness for the size and load that we expect to have.
ciao