[Open Source Java or you risk relegating it, while.NET on commodity hardware gobbles up both the development and hardware markets to Sun's eventual doom. Work with us
and Java will be strong as many eyes and hands (ours included) clean it up and expand it where need and demand lay. Ignore this request and we'll pick it up at your bankruptcy auction.
Regards,
Rod
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It seems that many japanese companies like to tease us Americans for a while while they have the latest gadgetry....
There are two ways of looking at this:
1. They perfect it on the home market before releasing it to the rest of the world.
2. They despise the rest of the world and only release it to it, eventually, to fund the next really cool thing in Japan.
That's a good point - in fact, the media outlets that didn't even bother to check this bad looking picture out *really* have to be seen as the bad guys here. The whole 'check your sources' thing has to hold once you get past the tabloids. Bad journalism, plain and simple.
Ms Fonda is reviled by many Vietnam vets for her wartime visit to Hanoi, and the image was widely aired over the internet by a fringe group of Vietnam veterans who have pursued a vendetta against Mr Kerry for years.
In less than a week, the forgery travelled from a message board on a rightwing website to a Vietnam veterans' mailing list to mainstream organisations. Two British national newspapers - the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday - used the photograph in editions on Friday last week and at the weekend.
Maybe if companies like MP3.com used their VC to build their businesses rather than buy Hummers, so many wouldn't have gone under. I bet you can't even listen to MP3s over the roar of the diesel in that thing...
What? Hummer is not the trademark of success? The current California Guv was one an early adopter, how can you associate having a Hummer with impending doom...
Ah, sh!t, never mind... Mar. 2, election. Watch the big debt bond issue go to the masses to approve.
It seemed to me that MP3 went due to the lawsuits and harrassment from RIAA, not because they had a particularly flawed business model (aside from the music sharing thing), though a Hummer, Harley, Pool table and other junk does suggest
an overeagerness to burn through capital.
The items up for sale include lots of those dumb Herman Miller Aeron chairs
I'd still like to get one of those, but with the price of shipping and gas being what it is, I'm better off looking
for one around where I live. I could certainly use a new laptop, but there's piles of those around for cheep.
I've tried the Aeron chair out and it seemed like a decent chair, are they not all
they appear?
I had one of those swedish (or whatever they were) chairs you kneel in and found my upper back became very sore, so that didn't last.
I had a few pints of ale last night (Mardi Gras, ya know:o) and have no worries about privacy issues with regard to Spudweiser. For one, I don't drink their 'beer' as it tastes like water compared to my usual tipple.
I can understand their interest in better tracking of inventory, but it done be amazing the lengths they go for profit other than to improve their brands. I'm sure they, like Miller and others, picked up a few microbreweries during the boom in the 90's, but if they watered them down like their own flagship brand then it's a self-defeating measure. (Budweiser shorts on expensive malted barley, using 40% rice)
I've known enough people who work in stores (or have worked for distributors) and the pressure for sales space (particularly at the expense of competitors) usually is waged with inducements, like clocks, TV's, trips to the Super Bowl, etc.
After all the advertising, all the tactics, all the analysis, it's still like Eric Idle said. It's worth pointing out to Bud fans, who stand by their 'beer' like it's Mom, Apple Pie and the Flag, that this company didn't become hugely profitable by following the Reinheitsgebot.
RSA stands for "Adleman, Rivest, Shamir". Why the the acronym doesn't go alphabetically is left as an exercise to the reader.
Back in the day there was a convention for writers to write out fully the name and afterward refer by the initials or acronym. Now I rarely see this practice followed.
I get some big brochure in the mail on CRM and I can't figure out what the hell they're trying to sell (isn't this the goal of all brochures?) I figure if they can't bother to tell me then it goes in the bin.
Sadly Microsoft is lobbying to shut down the NSA's involvement in free software, claiming that the government is essentially "competing" with them. Somehow our tax dollar going to work securing windows isn't communist according to MS. Just if it also helps someone that ISN'T MS. Lets hope they fail.
If the NSA pored over the Windows code and made it secure, well, then you would have big government.
"It required a work force of
384 slaves, 34 slave drivers, 12 engineers, 2 turtle doves,
and a partridge in a pear tree. The work was managed by
a command team composed of 2345 bureaucrats, 2347
secretaries (at least two of whom could type), 12,256
paper shufflers, 52,469 rubber stampers, 245,193 red
tape processors, and nearly one million dead trees."
So Linux servers can't do a number of things and for a lower cost? For free I can turn a Linux box into a webserver, domain server, ftp server, irc server, database server and such. How exactly is Microsoft offering more value? All they are doing is charging more for their product.
You don't really do it for free. It takes your time to recompile your kernal if you don't want a swiss-army-knife operating system like Windows. There's free software for pretty much each of the apps you've described, with varying capability and premium software you can buy, too, for each.
The rock bottom difference for me between the two is with Linux I know what I have and can see it all. With Windows I have to have faith in them, because it's a black box.
You install the software, boot it for the first time, run its virus scanner, which uninstalls said software. Nice, Huh?
In 2008: "Your computer is infested with an unsupported operating system... fixing (your bank account will automatically be billed.)"
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It is exponentially proportional to coding time.:-)
No, it's exponentially proportional to the number of programmers working on it. B=n^(number of coders)
where n=number of modules or number of weeks less than reasonable number of weeks, etc.
This, of course, explains the high bug count in Windows, as Microsoft has legions of coders at work.
There's a Java one, on-line (with a few bugs) at Northwestern (probably not much longer, support is spotty and Microsoft will probably send them a C&D letter.)
Settlers of Catan, an old favorite will be developed as a premium online game for MSN. Bummer.
At least there's Russian Rails (scheduled) to come out this year, Comrade(!)
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I guess the issue is in the meaning we attach to version numbers. What about a program as a well-specified function that, once is implemented (at least for a fixed platform) needs no "enhancements"?
A dishonest computer repairman dies and finds himself in Hades. The Devil smiles and says, "we've been waiting for you and have your place for eternity all ready." The repairman shudders, but follows the Devil as he is lead down a tunnel. They pass several doors along the way and the repairman peers through portals to see the other condemned up to their necks in feces, languishing in pools of acid and being proded by lesser demons with red hot pokers. The devil finally comes to a door and rubs his hands together. "Here you are, your eternal damnation." The repairman cringes as the door is flung open, but sees only a vast cavern filled with PC's, Mac's, Sun SparcStations, etc. "What? That's it?", he enquires, "I shall spend eternity fixing these then?" "Oh, yes", says the Devil. "Well that's not so bad," the repairman cracks his knuckles and strides into the cavern. "Just one thing", says the Devil as he closes the door, "they've all got intermittent problems."
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
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10. Code is _always_ Beta. It's never done until it's no longer in use or support no longer exists.
9. The better the SDK, the more sophisticated the bugs.
8. There's always more bugs in the other guy's (girl's) code.
7. Declaring code bug-free is asking for it to fail at the worst possible time with the greatest visibility.
6. A good design is as likely to have bugs as a bad one. Bugs are equal opportunity.
5. Debugging time is inversely proportional to
coding time.
4. If it works the first time, there's a bug, but you won't find it until you roll it out.
3. Debugging is fun. Really! It's when you run out of bugs that you should wonder if you got them all, that's not fun.
2. The most difficult bugs to find are in the most straightforward looking code.
hey, how did you know the Dart is green anyways??... you-you're one of THEM, aren't you... NNNOOoooo...
"Shit, look at that guy, carrying all those meds and trying to surf the web with his WiFi PDA. He almost got run over by that red Geo Metro."
"Yes, but look! His tinfoil hat fell off and did get run over, so we've got him now!! Muah-ha-ha-hah!"
"Yeah! Muah-ha-ha-ha!"
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[Open Source Java or you risk relegating it, while .NET on commodity hardware gobbles up both the development and hardware markets to Sun's eventual doom. Work with us
and Java will be strong as many eyes and hands (ours included) clean it up and expand it where need and demand lay. Ignore this request and we'll pick it up at your bankruptcy auction.
Regards,
Rod
There are two ways of looking at this:
Maybe you'll be able to play Duke Nukem Forever on it, too :-)
Good thing the BBC didn't show it on the radio...
That would seem ironic, considering it's apparent origins:
From the Guardian
ob Homer: "mmm cheezy smear ... hrhrhgh"
What? Hummer is not the trademark of success? The current California Guv was one an early adopter, how can you associate having a Hummer with impending doom...
Ah, sh!t, never mind... Mar. 2, election. Watch the big debt bond issue go to the masses to approve.
It seemed to me that MP3 went due to the lawsuits and harrassment from RIAA, not because they had a particularly flawed business model (aside from the music sharing thing), though a Hummer, Harley, Pool table and other junk does suggest an overeagerness to burn through capital.
The items up for sale include lots of those dumb Herman Miller Aeron chairs
I'd still like to get one of those, but with the price of shipping and gas being what it is, I'm better off looking for one around where I live. I could certainly use a new laptop, but there's piles of those around for cheep.
I've tried the Aeron chair out and it seemed like a decent chair, are they not all they appear?
I had one of those swedish (or whatever they were) chairs you kneel in and found my upper back became very sore, so that didn't last.
I wondered about it myself, but did type it all in by hand. It would be a small matter to write up a script to do. Maybe after a few Duff braus.
On the other hand, if you do have a script to do it for you... mind sharing? I promise I won't give it to the trolls :)
Ha!
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
Yes, Mr. Fishbulb, I can see.
"pLac e $500 IN A BrO W n PapEr b A g AnD l eAV e IT i t BeHinD tHE du mPsTe r O R w E tEl L yOur f r IeN D s y O U DRiNK bUD"
I can understand their interest in better tracking of inventory, but it done be amazing the lengths they go for profit other than to improve their brands. I'm sure they, like Miller and others, picked up a few microbreweries during the boom in the 90's, but if they watered them down like their own flagship brand then it's a self-defeating measure. (Budweiser shorts on expensive malted barley, using 40% rice)
I've known enough people who work in stores (or have worked for distributors) and the pressure for sales space (particularly at the expense of competitors) usually is waged with inducements, like clocks, TV's, trips to the Super Bowl, etc.
After all the advertising, all the tactics, all the analysis, it's still like Eric Idle said. It's worth pointing out to Bud fans, who stand by their 'beer' like it's Mom, Apple Pie and the Flag, that this company didn't become hugely profitable by following the Reinheitsgebot.
Back in the day there was a convention for writers to write out fully the name and afterward refer by the initials or acronym. Now I rarely see this practice followed.
I get some big brochure in the mail on CRM and I can't figure out what the hell they're trying to sell (isn't this the goal of all brochures?) I figure if they can't bother to tell me then it goes in the bin.
I'm still screwed up on CRM. How about giving the damn acronyms a break?
If the NSA pored over the Windows code and made it secure, well, then you would have big government.
"It required a work force of 384 slaves, 34 slave drivers, 12 engineers, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. The work was managed by a command team composed of 2345 bureaucrats, 2347 secretaries (at least two of whom could type), 12,256 paper shufflers, 52,469 rubber stampers, 245,193 red tape processors, and nearly one million dead trees."
I'll know they're really shadowy figures when they take that 'released' Microsoft code and clean it up and re-release it. :-)
You don't really do it for free. It takes your time to recompile your kernal if you don't want a swiss-army-knife operating system like Windows. There's free software for pretty much each of the apps you've described, with varying capability and premium software you can buy, too, for each.
The rock bottom difference for me between the two is with Linux I know what I have and can see it all. With Windows I have to have faith in them, because it's a black box.
In 2008: "Your computer is infested with an unsupported operating system ... fixing (your bank account will automatically be billed.)"
No, it's exponentially proportional to the number of programmers working on it. B=n^(number of coders) where n=number of modules or number of weeks less than reasonable number of weeks, etc.
This, of course, explains the high bug count in Windows, as Microsoft has legions of coders at work.
And this isn't theory, it's fact.
You don't say?
There's a Java one, on-line (with a few bugs) at Northwestern (probably not much longer, support is spotty and Microsoft will probably send them a C&D letter.)
At least there's Russian Rails (scheduled) to come out this year, Comrade(!)
Then it becomes Bug Ver. 1.1
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
10. Code is _always_ Beta. It's never done until it's no longer in use or support no longer exists.
9. The better the SDK, the more sophisticated the bugs.
8. There's always more bugs in the other guy's (girl's) code.
7. Declaring code bug-free is asking for it to fail at the worst possible time with the greatest visibility.
6. A good design is as likely to have bugs as a bad one. Bugs are equal opportunity.
5. Debugging time is inversely proportional to coding time.
4. If it works the first time, there's a bug, but you won't find it until you roll it out.
3. Debugging is fun. Really! It's when you run out of bugs that you should wonder if you got them all, that's not fun.
2. The most difficult bugs to find are in the most straightforward looking code.
1. That's not a bug, that's a feature.
"Shit, look at that guy, carrying all those meds and trying to surf the web with his WiFi PDA. He almost got run over by that red Geo Metro."
"Yes, but look! His tinfoil hat fell off and did get run over, so we've got him now!! Muah-ha-ha-hah!"
"Yeah! Muah-ha-ha-ha!"