'Eventually, of course, you'll end up listening to Robert Johnson, because that's where all 20th century music comes from anyway.'
How do you explain the above statement? I'm hoping you don't equate blues as the only new form of music created in the last century?
I think that Johnson had a profound affect on blues and it's derived forms. Listening to his music and the Stones or Clapton talking about him leave you in no doubt. It's a bit like saying Herbert Hollireth(sp) was the originator of all moern computing, or that Bletchley Park defined algorithims.
Why not just let the users have access to discarded stories, something like a new topic 'Garbage'. We could then post to any of these stories. Might be interesting to see if any of the garbage generates more comments than the front page?
Of course, the REAL reason they do not open up the submission queue is for job security. What would they do if the site ran on auto and how would they justify it to Andover.
This is the question you need to answer first, because what I'm going to suggest is sure to be ridiculed.
Who is the biggest seller of OS in the world?
Why not try and promote Linux to that company?
If their OS has problems and they could get a better OS for a bargain price, would they not at least consider it? Forget the rhetoric M$ makes money.
Has any of the advocacy groups approached Micro$oft? Why not?
Both camps have a lot to gain from this, M$ gets a decent OS. Linux removes competition on the server, gets a large advertising budget, Office gets ported, Visual Dev tools get ported. Of course M$ would probably keep the desktop, but for how long?
If the Linux camp is not thinking about this, they should be. I bet people in M$ have already discussed this, maybe not with Gates and Co:-)
Most people never gave a concious thought to what O.S. they would run, the decision was either made by the company or the reseller.
If you want large scale adoption of Linux then you need to start selling Linux to large companies.
Given that companies are now going back to centralised processing why is Linux with either X-Windows or VNC not being actively promoted. Is there a technical reason that limits these products in the thousands of users per machine environment?
I think the O.S. has been ready for the enterprise since 2.2.0 was released. But I have yet to see small cheap, $300, Xterms, what's the good of having a cheap OS if the xterms cost more than a PC. Don't get me started on the lack of decent XServers for windows, do you want people to jump to Linux without a safety net?
On a similar note, there is no complete COBOL compiler for Linux, there are a couple of projects in process, come on IBM give us a decent COBOL compiler and debugger. Go ahead laugh but when enterprise compaines port software it's COBOL they usually port.
When big compaies start installing Linux as a matter of routine then you will see a big swing on the home front. But it ain't going to happen because a group with no name recognition asks people to. IBM, Compaq, DELL, GateWay, Oracle, Sun, CA, EDS and the like are who you need to convince.
http://www.eidola.org/implementation/java/howto.ht ml
Looks like this is just going to put a GUI on top of a new language on top of java. Sun had a visual tool that I thought was pretty neat, shame they canned it:-(
Read this book, 'Visual Object-Orientated Programming' 0-13-172397-9, to have a better understanding of the problems involved and some of the tried approaches.
Personally I don't think GUI Dev Tools are going to solve any of our problems. The Sun tool had the right approach, plug components together. Forget about defining members/functions etc Rather concentrate on putting useable components together.
At present the most productive dev tools are those catering to a specific niche. For example, Client/Server database tools are prolific and allow for rapid design/implementation and reuse. The big drawback is that you have to do things the way the tools wants you to.
Some not so novel ideas for improvement:-
A language that seperates design from implementation
Understanding that different projects need different tools/skills.
Programmers that seperate GUI from business rules
Acknowledgement that OO is just the beginning not the end
World peace and universal happiness, ok technically that's not in the remit of programming, but it's far more likely than the prior four.
Sponsorship and the World of Motor Racing
Guy Edwards
0-905138-95-3
As the title says it's primarily aimed at Motor Racing, but the fundementals are the same. The author has arranged some huge deals
In a brief summation it's about giving the sponsor more than they paid for.
You are going to be a moving bill board for them on T. V. do you know how much TV time costs? $$$ If you win how much exposure will you generate for the company?
The work doesn't stop when you get the money, that's when it starts.
When the competition is over you should work out how much publicity you generated for the firm and let them know, a slick video is not out of the question given todays hardware.
In short you can get a small amount of money fairly easily, but getting more money or getting money for the next campaign takes effort.
Being a car/bike nut I like the idea of replacing the messy, inefficient engine.
One of the alternatives is electric power, the main problem is storing the electric power to drive the motor.
Short of a physics breakthrough of nobel prize winning proportions we are stuck trying to store the energy and then releasing it in a fast controlled manner.
Does this have the possibility of driving my truck? I mean if the carbo cell has been around for sixty years why has no-one investigated it's use in such an application.
I only registered so I did not have see his name. Now your popping it into the quickies.
I'm not usually given to sudden rises in blood pressure but his name triggers some sort of flight or fight response which I can't respond to.
As a tax payer why should a goverment keep any info secret from me? I pay for the reasearch, I elect the officials but I'm not trusted with the results.
For every positive use of secrecy is there not ten abuses. What benefits does the country gain by secrecy? Defence, should that be attack, is not a good enough reason. There can be a good argument made that secrecy has been a contributing factor to many wars.
Medical records, criminal records etc etc What truly do we want kept secret?
Is a more thoughtful way to admit that people in power will always abuse that power and one of the abuses is the hoarding of information. One way to lessen the abuse of power is to make all information open, I mean everything.
I mean, if Timmy can get a security clearance what reason is there for the rest of us not to have one:-)
I'm wondering if Jon Katz is as I type readying his next multi part article on this very matter. I could not care less as the only time I see his articles is when they are part of the quickies:-)
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Tommorrow is tommorrow is tommorrow no matter what we call it.
I for one think it's a very neat idea, leap years could just have an extra day at the start, another 0 if you like, sort of like hogmanay.
It would make all the maths easier for pay/vacation etc.
Decimal days another good idea, why not combine the two. While we're at it lets standardize on a universal time, no more time zones.
Of course this will never work because of all the nay sayers "Makes perfect sense, but eveybody else will object" when they should be saying "I'll never accept anything as radical as this".
KDE 2 is _LESS_ stable than NT. I'm shocked that this has not been reported more widely. I'm a firm believer in KDE but one look at the critical issues on their bug tracking system shows where their minds are. It sure as hell isn't about fixing things.
I want a stable desktop not one that seg faults every hour.
Being a sailor, I love the idea of sailing around the planets:-)
Thinking about it thou, downwind anything held out would probably work. Upwind is another matter, with no foils under water to provide lift I cannot see this being viable for coming back. Rather than thinking of it like sailing think more of kite flying, very,very big kite flying.
This just sounds like the NASA PR machine at work, must be time for budget submission.
"I'm still not sure how I feel about this one. I'm gonna adopt ye old wait-and-see before I let it bug me." Taco
I know it's his site, sort of, but those inane comments on the front page really bug me.
It's bad enough that they feel the need to post stories just to make up the numbers, it's bad enough the users have no moderation on which articles go on the front page.
It would be better if you just gave yourself first post.
Rant off.
It's been announced Microsoft does not want to be broken up. Further more the company has decided to try and stall the process as much as possible. At the same time as they are stalling they are trying to put a positive spin on the matter.
Well who'd have thought it? What next bugs in a Linux? The sky'll fall next:-)
FOR GOD'S SAKE REPORT NEWS FOR NERDS STUFF THAT MATTERS.
M$ has done this before, Apple got quite bit of money from M$.
Why has M$ done this, any number of reasons. My personal hunch is that they wanted in on Linux, access to the coders at Corel and to the Wine project. Interestung to see which way they go, try and stifle WP and Wine or try and make them the best.
Yep, those college years really give you an insight into how to deal with adults. There's a reason your first job was coding, you probably didn't have a clue about design.
At last you got to manage a team, all four of them. That ain't management that's team leading.
That last paragraph could be a quote from Dilbert. Of course you get your kicks out of being the boss, why the hell else would you do it. It's a bit like being a cop no one does it for the money.
Being a Brit living abroad I was delighted to find that America had Milky Ways and Mars Bars. I was less than delighted to find out they were not the same as the British originals. Same name different product:-(
at last, intent is hard to prove and even harder to define.
In my theoretical example, I was merely posting my CDs so that I could, and any other legeally entitled person, listen to them in the new format.
My understanding of the original article, and the ruling in the case, is that the belief is that Napster is being solely used to commit crime.
My question being, and I bet your glad I eventually got round to it, is merely provding a service that might be used for illegal means, an illegal act in itself?
CDs are legal. Listening to my CDs in whatever format is legal, even if I did not myself record that format?
Drugs are another case, merely owning drugs is illegal. Distribution of drugs for free or not is also illegal. Advertising the sale of drugs is illegal.
Bad example, but you already knew that. A tiwason by any other name is still a troll.
Slashdot Mirror
Jez,
:-)
you want to give these cans some hang time dump them out of a plane.
Satellite requires an orbit not a descent
'Slashdot, news for nerds. Stuff that matters.' What a joke!
'Eventually, of course, you'll end up listening to Robert Johnson, because that's where all 20th century music comes from anyway.'
How do you explain the above statement? I'm hoping you don't equate blues as the only new form of music created in the last century?
I think that Johnson had a profound affect on blues and it's derived forms. Listening to his music and the Stones or Clapton talking about him leave you in no doubt. It's a bit like saying Herbert Hollireth(sp) was the originator of all moern computing, or that Bletchley Park defined algorithims.
I made a suggestion the other day.
Why not just let the users have access to discarded stories, something like a new topic 'Garbage'. We could then post to any of these stories. Might be interesting to see if any of the garbage generates more comments than the front page?
Of course, the REAL reason they do not open up the submission queue is for job security. What would they do if the site ran on auto and how would they justify it to Andover.
This is the question you need to answer first, because what I'm going to suggest is sure to be ridiculed.
:-)
Who is the biggest seller of OS in the world?
Why not try and promote Linux to that company?
If their OS has problems and they could get a better OS for a bargain price, would they not at least consider it? Forget the rhetoric M$ makes money.
Has any of the advocacy groups approached Micro$oft? Why not?
Both camps have a lot to gain from this, M$ gets a decent OS. Linux removes competition on the server, gets a large advertising budget, Office gets ported, Visual Dev tools get ported. Of course M$ would probably keep the desktop, but for how long?
If the Linux camp is not thinking about this, they should be. I bet people in M$ have already discussed this, maybe not with Gates and Co
...so why should they choose Linux.
Most people never gave a concious thought to what O.S. they would run, the decision was either made by the company or the reseller.
If you want large scale adoption of Linux then you need to start selling Linux to large companies.
Given that companies are now going back to centralised processing why is Linux with either X-Windows or VNC not being actively promoted. Is there a technical reason that limits these products in the thousands of users per machine environment?
I think the O.S. has been ready for the enterprise since 2.2.0 was released. But I have yet to see small cheap, $300, Xterms, what's the good of having a cheap OS if the xterms cost more than a PC. Don't get me started on the lack of decent XServers for windows, do you want people to jump to Linux without a safety net?
On a similar note, there is no complete COBOL compiler for Linux, there are a couple of projects in process, come on IBM give us a decent COBOL compiler and debugger. Go ahead laugh but when enterprise compaines port software it's COBOL they usually port.
When big compaies start installing Linux as a matter of routine then you will see a big swing on the home front. But it ain't going to happen because a group with no name recognition asks people to. IBM, Compaq, DELL, GateWay, Oracle, Sun, CA, EDS and the like are who you need to convince.
http://www.eidola.org/implementation/java/howto.ht ml
:-(
:-
Looks like this is just going to put a GUI on top of a new language on top of java. Sun had a visual tool that I thought was pretty neat, shame they canned it
Read this book, 'Visual Object-Orientated Programming' 0-13-172397-9, to have a better understanding of the problems involved and some of the tried approaches.
Personally I don't think GUI Dev Tools are going to solve any of our problems. The Sun tool had the right approach, plug components together. Forget about defining members/functions etc Rather concentrate on putting useable components together.
At present the most productive dev tools are those catering to a specific niche. For example, Client/Server database tools are prolific and allow for rapid design/implementation and reuse. The big drawback is that you have to do things the way the tools wants you to.
Some not so novel ideas for improvement
A language that seperates design from implementation
Understanding that different projects need different tools/skills.
Programmers that seperate GUI from business rules
Acknowledgement that OO is just the beginning not the end
World peace and universal happiness, ok technically that's not in the remit of programming, but it's far more likely than the prior four.
"Macs are for idiots and artists, but I repeat myself" :-)
Sponsorship and the World of Motor Racing
Guy Edwards
0-905138-95-3
As the title says it's primarily aimed at Motor Racing, but the fundementals are the same. The author has arranged some huge deals
In a brief summation it's about giving the sponsor more than they paid for.
You are going to be a moving bill board for them on T. V. do you know how much TV time costs? $$$ If you win how much exposure will you generate for the company?
The work doesn't stop when you get the money, that's when it starts.
When the competition is over you should work out how much publicity you generated for the firm and let them know, a slick video is not out of the question given todays hardware.
In short you can get a small amount of money fairly easily, but getting more money or getting money for the next campaign takes effort.
Being a car/bike nut I like the idea of replacing the messy, inefficient engine.
One of the alternatives is electric power, the main problem is storing the electric power to drive the motor.
Short of a physics breakthrough of nobel prize winning proportions we are stuck trying to store the energy and then releasing it in a fast controlled manner.
Does this have the possibility of driving my truck? I mean if the carbo cell has been around for sixty years why has no-one investigated it's use in such an application.
I only registered so I did not have see his name. Now your popping it into the quickies.
;-)
I'm not usually given to sudden rises in blood pressure but his name triggers some sort of flight or fight response which I can't respond to.
So please, please no more quickies for Jon
Do you feel Linux on the PPC was pushed into the market place too soon?
I have an IMAC DV and under both LinuxPPC and SuSE/PPC the hardware is still not recognised/supported.
I feel that if LinuxPPC concentrated on the newer machines your market share would increase dramatically.
As a tax payer why should a goverment keep any info secret from me? I pay for the reasearch, I elect the officials but I'm not trusted with the results.
:-)
:-)
For every positive use of secrecy is there not ten abuses. What benefits does the country gain by secrecy? Defence, should that be attack, is not a good enough reason. There can be a good argument made that secrecy has been a contributing factor to many wars.
Medical records, criminal records etc etc What truly do we want kept secret?
Is a more thoughtful way to admit that people in power will always abuse that power and one of the abuses is the hoarding of information. One way to lessen the abuse of power is to make all information open, I mean everything.
I mean, if Timmy can get a security clearance what reason is there for the rest of us not to have one
I'm wondering if Jon Katz is as I type readying his next multi part article on this very matter. I could not care less as the only time I see his articles is when they are part of the quickies
Tommorrow is tommorrow is tommorrow no matter what we call it.
I for one think it's a very neat idea, leap years could just have an extra day at the start, another 0 if you like, sort of like hogmanay.
It would make all the maths easier for pay/vacation etc.
Decimal days another good idea, why not combine the two. While we're at it lets standardize on a universal time, no more time zones.
Of course this will never work because of all the nay sayers "Makes perfect sense, but eveybody else will object" when they should be saying "I'll never accept anything as radical as this".
And why wasn't this modded up?
KDE 2 is _LESS_ stable than NT. I'm shocked that this has not been reported more widely. I'm a firm believer in KDE but one look at the critical issues on their bug tracking system shows where their minds are. It sure as hell isn't about fixing things.
I want a stable desktop not one that seg faults every hour.
I thought Linus just left his alpha in the box and only turned it on so he could say to DEC that he'd switched it on.
Is Linus now getting credit for doing the port?
Being a sailor, I love the idea of sailing around the planets :-)
Thinking about it thou, downwind anything held out would probably work. Upwind is another matter, with no foils under water to provide lift I cannot see this being viable for coming back. Rather than thinking of it like sailing think more of kite flying, very,very big kite flying.
This just sounds like the NASA PR machine at work, must be time for budget submission.
Rant on.
"I'm still not sure how I feel about this one. I'm gonna adopt ye old wait-and-see before I let it bug me." Taco
I know it's his site, sort of, but those inane comments on the front page really bug me.
It's bad enough that they feel the need to post stories just to make up the numbers, it's bad enough the users have no moderation on which articles go on the front page.
It would be better if you just gave yourself first post.
Rant off.
No it's not, I'm a damn foreigner on a H1B and basically I'm an indentured,sp?, servant.
If I don't get a greencard there's no way I'm coming back on another slave visa.
I'm off to Canada where the visa system is damn site more humane than the american fuck up.
It's been announced Microsoft does not want to be broken up. Further more the company has decided to try and stall the process as much as possible. At the same time as they are stalling they are trying to put a positive spin on the matter.
:-)
Well who'd have thought it? What next bugs in a Linux? The sky'll fall next
FOR GOD'S SAKE REPORT NEWS FOR NERDS STUFF THAT MATTERS.
M$ has done this before, Apple got quite bit of money from M$.
Why has M$ done this, any number of reasons. My personal hunch is that they wanted in on Linux, access to the coders at Corel and to the Wine project. Interestung to see which way they go, try and stifle WP and Wine or try and make them the best.
Yep, those college years really give you an insight into how to deal with adults. There's a reason your first job was coding, you probably didn't have a clue about design.
At last you got to manage a team, all four of them. That ain't management that's team leading.
That last paragraph could be a quote from Dilbert. Of course you get your kicks out of being the boss, why the hell else would you do it. It's a bit like being a cop no one does it for the money.
Ahhh two countries divided by a common language.
:-(
Being a Brit living abroad I was delighted to find that America had Milky Ways and Mars Bars. I was less than delighted to find out they were not the same as the British originals. Same name different product
It's been done :-
http://www.rokon.com/
http://home.mira.net/~iwd/2x2x2/index.html
Notice it's not really a sports bike, see my sig for the ultimate bike.
Ah-ha,
at last, intent is hard to prove and even harder to define.
In my theoretical example, I was merely posting my CDs so that I could, and any other legeally entitled person, listen to them in the new format.
My understanding of the original article, and the ruling in the case, is that the belief is that Napster is being solely used to commit crime.
My question being, and I bet your glad I eventually got round to it, is merely provding a service that might be used for illegal means, an illegal act in itself?
OK I'll bite...
CDs are legal. Listening to my CDs in whatever format is legal, even if I did not myself record that format?
Drugs are another case, merely owning drugs is illegal. Distribution of drugs for free or not is also illegal. Advertising the sale of drugs is illegal.
Bad example, but you already knew that. A tiwason by any other name is still a troll.