Peace prize? Maybe? Some kind of technical excellence award? Heck no. Everybody knows that linux kernel is pretty lame in terms of design. Everybody knows this and everybody's hiding their head in the sand about the fact. I think the majority of problems Linux is experiencing these days is because Linux kernel isn't modular enough and the interfaces aren't stable enough for hardware manufacturers to rely on them and safely invest into developing hardware drivers. It seems that open source community's stance on this is "either it's fully open or we don't support it". Sorry, but in the world where companies have to make money they have to hide some of their IP in closed source code. There should be more separation between kernel and drivers (like, say, in WinNT).
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You've misunderstood your teacher. Doubling the output power will make an amplifier 3dB louder. In order to make it twice as loud you have to increase the power by the factor of 10.
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3dB is the limit of relative sensitivity, that is, average person can only hear the difference between two sounds if the difference between their loudness is 3dB.
Actually what I would like to see
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..is a directed active noise cancellation system targeted specifically at those civics. Imagine the situation. You're at the intersection waiting for for a red light. Now this punk comes by with loud throbbing thump coming out of the windows of his car. Your car starts shaking. You press the right button, and active noise suppressor (kinda like the one they use on F-117s) supresses this motherf@ker's subwoofer and makes his entire sound system sound like a tin can until he closes the windows. Now that would be cool.
Not a single slashdotter guessed that this may be a good thing. They're already spending big bucks at lawyers and legislation against spam now they'll throw in some of their most talented devs in the mix as well and let them rip. This may get some serious results down the road as well as that trustworthy computing initiative. Be prepared.
You seem to confuse _customers_ and _salespeople_. It's the salespeople who scream and want to have it _right now_. Customers don't give a flying fuck about your product before salespeople mislead them into believing that your product does something it realy can't do. Being a PM (and thus by definition collaborating closer with the marketing team than with the dev team) it is important to NOT mix these two groups of people.
I know a guy who wrote some cruise missile guidance software for US military. He says they (the military) don't give a crap about software errors. They test their shit in field and if it hits something politically sensitive (like a bus with civilians or a house 50 miles away from the target) - then they will fix the bugs. Proper software engineering is way too expensive even for the military.
A downside to that is you'll get a good deal of electric shock if something is not isolated and your hands are wet or worse, your skin is cut. Body sensitivity (resistance) varies depending on whole slew of conditions, but it is commonly known that on average 30 volt or above is not pleasing to the touch even if your hands are dry.
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Even the best Oracle results are obtained on SMP systems, not on RAC. Plus it's not totally transparent and requires you to mod the apps to support failover clusters (contrary to Oracle claims). Plus it costs $20K per processor per node for RAC alone. Over two years after it's been released, it's only installed at about 100 customer sites (according to Oracle). How's that for market penetration? The product must either suck balls really bad or be overpriced or both (which I believe is the case) to fare this bad.
The only thing that those "giants of low cost computing" (Ellison and McNealy) really know how to do is how to rape customer's wallet.
The Architect - I am the Architect. I created the matrix. Ive been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.
Neo - Why am I here?
The Architect - Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
Neo - You haven't answered my question.
The Architect - Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.
*The responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "Others? What others? How many? Answer me!"* (I dont agree with whoever wrote this, I think that the monitors are showing Neo's possible answers, possible hinting that there are alternatives to his actions (and hence the choice issue comes up). Also, the camera zooms in on Neo's current response, showing the choice made.)
The Architect - The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.
*Again, the responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "Five versions? Three? I've been lied too. This is bull****."*
Neo: There are only two possible explanations: either no one told me, or no one knows.
The Architect - Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly's systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
*Once again, the responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "You can't control me! **** you! I'm going to kill you! You can't make me do anything!*
Neo - Choice. The problem is choice.
*The scene cuts to Trinity fighting an agent, and then back to the Architects room*
The Architect - The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo - The Oracle.
The Architect - Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
Neo - This is about Zion.
The Architect - You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
Neo - Bull****.
*The responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "Bull****!"*
There's no f@king way I'll be paying $40 a month to watch commercials all the time. There's simply no freaking way. I use a simple non-amplified Terk antenna to watch local TV channels for free. I still watch commercials but at least I don't pay for them. I can watch news, I can watch Simpsons and my wife can watch Friends and that's all we need. Sorry, but no matter how hard Drirect TV and Comcast advertising departments try I don't feel that TV entertainment is worth $480 (or more) a year. I'd rather buy another (used) guitar for this much dough or go somewhere.
One of the most important skills you'll learn in college/university is picking the more important bits of information out of what your professor is saying. When you write you actually systematize the data in your head and that's something you can't relly learn without.
Those recorders are just stupid. And as far as laptops go, how are you going to type formulas and diagrams into them in real time? Even Tablet PCs won't help because if I write in the realtime it's going to slow me down and won't give me any additional benefit because my realtime chicken scratch is much worse than its non-realtime counterpart.
I'm not paying $120 a year for no stinkin' streaming. There are less than 6 to 7 CDs coming out every year that I'd really be interested in listening to or purchasing. I'd rather spend my $120 on the CDs and burn however many copies I want than consume musical junk.
"Real" guys can't have it both ways. Either do subscription thing (this is what Microsoft wants to do, and they're TOUGH competitors), OR do pay-per-song thing (this is what Apple already does, and they're tough competitors, too). Whoever has suggested this shit should be fired without any severance package.
For the gaping holes and pitfalls he has created in C++. Everyone who has read books from Effective C++ and Exceptional C++ series knows this. In Java or C# you've got to try to shoot yourself in the foot, in C++ this comes by default, you don't even have to do anything. Some insanely simple situations shoot you in the foot so bad, it's not even funny. Not that C++ doesn't have its uses, but its usage should be limited and punished for. Thanks to Bjarne's "excellent" design, devs punish themselves every time they use the language for something non-trivial.
When C# came out, all the features you're singing praises today to were called "syntactic sugar" by this very community. Now they come out in Java and it turns out it's such a huge innovation that nobody can live without it. Next thing you know you'll be praising true properties and delegates.:0)
Find the warmest and the most "livable" spot on the Mars, take some die hard plants from the Earth, drop them off there! If there's no life, let's bring it there already. By the time humans get there, they may get a tiny bit of oxygen in the atmosphere.
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>> I also built a pan-African voice and data satellite network
_You_ have built it or helped build it? Because if you've built it yourself, you must be really close to God Almighty.
Peace prize? Maybe? Some kind of technical excellence award? Heck no. Everybody knows that linux kernel is pretty lame in terms of design. Everybody knows this and everybody's hiding their head in the sand about the fact. I think the majority of problems Linux is experiencing these days is because Linux kernel isn't modular enough and the interfaces aren't stable enough for hardware manufacturers to rely on them and safely invest into developing hardware drivers. It seems that open source community's stance on this is "either it's fully open or we don't support it". Sorry, but in the world where companies have to make money they have to hide some of their IP in closed source code. There should be more separation between kernel and drivers (like, say, in WinNT).
You've misunderstood your teacher. Doubling the output power will make an amplifier 3dB louder. In order to make it twice as loud you have to increase the power by the factor of 10.
3dB is the limit of relative sensitivity, that is, average person can only hear the difference between two sounds if the difference between their loudness is 3dB.
..is a directed active noise cancellation system targeted specifically at those civics. Imagine the situation. You're at the intersection waiting for for a red light. Now this punk comes by with loud throbbing thump coming out of the windows of his car. Your car starts shaking. You press the right button, and active noise suppressor (kinda like the one they use on F-117s) supresses this motherf@ker's subwoofer and makes his entire sound system sound like a tin can until he closes the windows. Now that would be cool.
and there's not that much money left. If it's a 6 year contract, I think Microsoft is just breaking even on it.
Not a single slashdotter guessed that this may be a good thing. They're already spending big bucks at lawyers and legislation against spam now they'll throw in some of their most talented devs in the mix as well and let them rip. This may get some serious results down the road as well as that trustworthy computing initiative. Be prepared.
You seem to confuse _customers_ and _salespeople_. It's the salespeople who scream and want to have it _right now_. Customers don't give a flying fuck about your product before salespeople mislead them into believing that your product does something it realy can't do. Being a PM (and thus by definition collaborating closer with the marketing team than with the dev team) it is important to NOT mix these two groups of people.
It's based on kernel 2.4.x, so it's got to be 2.x, yet it's 9.0.
I know a guy who wrote some cruise missile guidance software for US military. He says they (the military) don't give a crap about software errors. They test their shit in field and if it hits something politically sensitive (like a bus with civilians or a house 50 miles away from the target) - then they will fix the bugs. Proper software engineering is way too expensive even for the military.
A downside to that is you'll get a good deal of electric shock if something is not isolated and your hands are wet or worse, your skin is cut. Body sensitivity (resistance) varies depending on whole slew of conditions, but it is commonly known that on average 30 volt or above is not pleasing to the touch even if your hands are dry.
Even the best Oracle results are obtained on SMP systems, not on RAC. Plus it's not totally transparent and requires you to mod the apps to support failover clusters (contrary to Oracle claims). Plus it costs $20K per processor per node for RAC alone. Over two years after it's been released, it's only installed at about 100 customer sites (according to Oracle). How's that for market penetration? The product must either suck balls really bad or be overpriced or both (which I believe is the case) to fare this bad.
The only thing that those "giants of low cost computing" (Ellison and McNealy) really know how to do is how to rape customer's wallet.
This is a gift for our Egyptian friends. :0)
The Architect - Hello, Neo.
Neo - Who are you?
The Architect - I am the Architect. I created the matrix. Ive been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.
Neo - Why am I here?
The Architect - Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
Neo - You haven't answered my question.
The Architect - Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.
*The responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "Others? What others? How many? Answer me!"*
(I dont agree with whoever wrote this, I think that the monitors are showing Neo's possible answers, possible hinting that there are alternatives to his actions (and hence the choice issue comes up). Also, the camera zooms in on Neo's current response, showing the choice made.)
The Architect - The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.
*Again, the responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "Five versions? Three? I've been lied too. This is bull****."*
Neo: There are only two possible explanations: either no one told me, or no one knows.
The Architect - Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly's systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
*Once again, the responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "You can't control me! **** you! I'm going to kill you! You can't make me do anything!*
Neo - Choice. The problem is choice.
*The scene cuts to Trinity fighting an agent, and then back to the Architects room*
The Architect - The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.
Neo - The Oracle.
The Architect - Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.
Neo - This is about Zion.
The Architect - You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.
Neo - Bull****.
*The responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: "Bull****!"*
And everybody's foaming at the mouth about this. Now when RH has a right to fuck a business in the ass, it turns to be OK. Hypocrites.
What if your freakin' hands are freakin' wet? :0)
There's no f@king way I'll be paying $40 a month to watch commercials all the time. There's simply no freaking way. I use a simple non-amplified Terk antenna to watch local TV channels for free. I still watch commercials but at least I don't pay for them. I can watch news, I can watch Simpsons and my wife can watch Friends and that's all we need. Sorry, but no matter how hard Drirect TV and Comcast advertising departments try I don't feel that TV entertainment is worth $480 (or more) a year. I'd rather buy another (used) guitar for this much dough or go somewhere.
One of the most important skills you'll learn in college/university is picking the more important bits of information out of what your professor is saying. When you write you actually systematize the data in your head and that's something you can't relly learn without.
Those recorders are just stupid. And as far as laptops go, how are you going to type formulas and diagrams into them in real time? Even Tablet PCs won't help because if I write in the realtime it's going to slow me down and won't give me any additional benefit because my realtime chicken scratch is much worse than its non-realtime counterpart.
I'm not paying $120 a year for no stinkin' streaming. There are less than 6 to 7 CDs coming out every year that I'd really be interested in listening to or purchasing. I'd rather spend my $120 on the CDs and burn however many copies I want than consume musical junk.
Radio was invented by Russian scientist Alexander Popov. It was him who done the actual radio transmission first. Marconi just patented his invention.
"Real" guys can't have it both ways. Either do subscription thing (this is what Microsoft wants to do, and they're TOUGH competitors), OR do pay-per-song thing (this is what Apple already does, and they're tough competitors, too). Whoever has suggested this shit should be fired without any severance package.
And discover that RedHat has the same problems and W2K requires you to download 3 times more patches. :0)
For the gaping holes and pitfalls he has created in C++. Everyone who has read books from Effective C++ and Exceptional C++ series knows this. In Java or C# you've got to try to shoot yourself in the foot, in C++ this comes by default, you don't even have to do anything. Some insanely simple situations shoot you in the foot so bad, it's not even funny. Not that C++ doesn't have its uses, but its usage should be limited and punished for. Thanks to Bjarne's "excellent" design, devs punish themselves every time they use the language for something non-trivial.
When C# came out, all the features you're singing praises today to were called "syntactic sugar" by this very community. Now they come out in Java and it turns out it's such a huge innovation that nobody can live without it. Next thing you know you'll be praising true properties and delegates. :0)
Find the warmest and the most "livable" spot on the Mars, take some die hard plants from the Earth, drop them off there! If there's no life, let's bring it there already. By the time humans get there, they may get a tiny bit of oxygen in the atmosphere.
It's on Google now.
v lj gh.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/030505163420.gym