I RTFA, and IMHO found some counterdictory logic in the arguments of the author. From doing this stuff for a generation I have found three areas that have been problem areas for any Application. The first is a User's Manual for "ALL" features of the Application. But a Software Manual is Not Enough. When the Applications's Creator envisions their creation, the examples that can use their creation are tragically left in the mind of the Application's Creator. The third issue is the Maintenance of the Application. From my perspective, Applications are like living things, they have a beginning, growth, and decline. What keeps the Application in Growth is Maintenance of the Application. Sometimes others will adjust the Growth in a different direction of the Application's Creator, sometimes without the the Creator's acceptance. If an Application is to survive, and continue to Grow, then it must adapt by changing to the environment it is allowed to exist in. And one of the most successful ways to kill an Application is to NOT write about how it can solve types of problems.
Lets look at the U.S. arsenal and consider anything that involves a Laser. First off, laser type guns, illegal by international treaty. And if the Oval office isn't to clear on the verbiage, the rest of the world would have no trouble rubbing the Oval office's collective noses in the words. Because, lasers can be fired by bad guys too. Now, laser guided bombs, from the bad guys view point, setup a dummy laser signature spot and the bomb heads in that direction. The defense against "Spotting", (women please pardon the pun), is to either change the frequency of the Laser on the ground and in the air, or its signal feedback frequency. All this stuff considers the teeth of the Tiger, but how about its tail? How about developing lasers that cause mischief, and when dealing with cleaning up the mess, just to generally just piss people off. How about laser based Graffiti? Try painting over that mess. How about firing a laser into a traffic photo taking device, or grocery store check out device. How about coating a bar code sticker such that the wrong valid number is read in. Wars are lost because of Logistic's foul-ups. Now I'm starting to feel uncomfortable...
About 10 years ago, my ISP boss stumbled over a chat room on his server where this stuff was being talked about. He call the F.B.I., they told him to do some stuff. A couple of weeks later, an agent shows up and the problem was handled. One thing I can say about this was, "Those Perverted Nut Jobs know each other", and it still creeps me out to remember it. But in thinking about ISP's stepping up to take the law in their hands may not be the way to handle this perverted need. There is a department of the government referred to as the F.B.I., this is very much their Jurisdiction. If an person sees Child Pornography, report it to the local F.B.I. office. There are agents there that know how to handle this correctly. If an ISP shuts down something and states it was for something illegal, or not "allowed"; that ISP has just given the victim a reason to sue for damages. I know a lot of ISP folks, personally, none of them would take a bullet for their beliefs; and when their facing a person they have publicly destroyed, I do not think an ISP would take the "Moral High Road". And the more I think about it, an ISP that starts taking the law into their hands is setting themselves up for a class action solution.
By the ruling handed down inferring that coping a game into RAM is an illegal copy, does this imply that WOW uses only Peripherals, and CPU only? The graphics alone are copied to the RAM on the Video Card. There is a decrease in available RAM when the game is "Loaded". There has got to be to the ruling than this "Copying the game into RAM". What is the outcome of we WOW users when we start using Solid State Disk Drives?
One of the most difficult problems 3+ World Communities have is the acquiring of fresh water. Another problem is that once fresh water is acquired, others would come and take it, AND the method to make more fresh water. If MIT could find a Low Technology solution to this one issue, then these cultures could work on the next great problem, "Finding a Good Deli."
Imagine; MS, (Multiple Sclerosis), treated as an Out Patient Therapy? Diabetes, and Obesity treated like a scratch. All because DNA/RNA problems are mechanically curable. I do not know of any form of Death more hideous than that of Malignant Melanoma, but if a device could created that would create a therapy using the victims own Immune System to cure itself of problems like Cancer, that would be an invention worthy of mass producing.
Mankind does Life Threating actions everyday; Flying Aircraft is but one dangerous occupation. And when the weather is rough, good pilots change flight plans. One benefit would be that Truck Jackings would go down, (a bad use of words here...). But what is the cost per ton by the Consignee? What is the average ground speed for cargo delivery. What are the Logistics of this Grand Design? I know this; "Point to Point Delivery" would open up our congested Freeways, that's cool.
Just a thought, but what about a "Sport Light Aircraft Blimp"? Just please don't call this Aircraft an "Icarus".
There was a time when Businesses would train their staff for projects. Globalization, and investor's demand for the fastest turnaround time have eroded the ethos for hiring skilled engineers. With the level of education required to create product because of the tools available, I cannot help but think that engineers have started a spiral of engineering themselves out of a job. Engineers need to be more than a "One Trick Engineer", they need to have a working knowledge of many tools. But that is cheaper said than done. Maybe if engineers started looking at DNA/RNA Mechanics, they could maintain their livelihood. As it stands now, "User Friendly" is becoming the Bain of engineering. I think that if the U.S. government started treating Services Flooding like Product Flooding, a lot of Engineers would become very hireable in the U.S.. Also, there is a disturbing trend by "Show Off" business types to openly lie about their "Perceptions". With unemployment in the U.S. getting higher, and higher, I have a tendency to be skeptical about a "Lack of Trained Personal", when the final result is tragically nothing more than a falsehood to use labor from some other country at a substantially less wage scale.
When interviewing someone for a software position, I have always used this question as an ethics question. If the person voluntarily shows me their code from a company they have worked with, they are rejected because I cannot trust them with the code of the company I work for. My response to those who ask me about my coding is to say, "I have no problem showing you the coding I have done for others. If you need to, I will give you the phone number of that past company and you can ask them to see the code they purchased from me."
Breeder plants have been on the books since the early 1970's. Fundamentally, they're a good idea; interesting thing is that South Africa is buying the Soviets missiles, and converting them to be used in reactor plants. Some good things might come from this. Namely (1)the turning of "swords" to "plowshares", (ie. missiles to energy plants). (2) It gives time for the intelligent types time to invent some kind of massive filter method for depleting radio active matter for reuse. (3) Maybe drive down the cost of shipping by installing nuclear reactors in cargo ships.
The problem with Nuclear Reactors is Nuclear Waste; that garbage will ruin your whole day. The nuclear waste issue still hasn't changed, until someone finds a way to filter out the Radio Active stuff from the Non Radio Active stuff, nuclear waste is f'ing dangerous. As for the "Energy to Produce" argument that is proudly strutted out by oil's mediocrity; one can only ask, "who profits by such an argument?"
Consider globalization as a solution. The single biggest overhead cost of any set of software projects is the Upper Management Staff. This group of people do not necessarily need to understand how the process is made, they only need to just find other ways of doing some process cheaper. By hiring staff that would cost roughly 30 cents on the dollar from some 'nth world government, the Investor/Owner can reap 70 cents in profit by reducing Upper Management. With the added benefits of not being slowed down by those not directly involved with the product. But the saleability issue is unignorable. For large groups of software projects, like the D.O.D. a different globalization solution would work more optimally. By using A.I.Alturnitives for the handling of such things as Logistics, the DOD can effectively reduce their cost savings by 90 cents on the dollar. The DOD does not really make anything. The vast majority of officers act as redundent support staff. One person could do the job of project effectiveness as an entire team of Middle Managers. As one Combat Engineer said, "Can Do." With the devaluation of the U.S.Dollar, one has to consider lifestyles of other cultures. The worst thing that could happen to the Owner/Investor is the giving back of profits to the Market. The only reliable solution for this is to convert to some other currency than the U.S.Dollar. I cannot help but think that Upper Management should be asking the question, "Should I stay with this firm? In this country?"
Noted Inventor Benjamin Franklyn was once asked how best to rank 2 products. The response went something like, "Create a column of the all benefits of both products. For each product, attach another column. Go through the list and place a check mark in the corresponding box. The product with most checks is the better product."
I can see where applying this to Safari, Opera, and IE, would be a good thing. But I also think that making it public would start a trend that would be very constructive from a users point of view. Other browsers are known for being products that set themselves apart from the IE folks. This "matrix" looks to be like a simple spread sheet. It should not be hard to apply any Browser to it in the future. It will be interesting when in August, IE 6,7, and 8 could be added to this matrix. From my point of view, it is a great way to show "Pride In Craftsmanship".
Who ever modded you down has no idea what you just said. My experience under fire has been to trust my training, obey my orders; And if the CO has a problem with our advancement; We are more than willing to follow that CO into battle at any time.
Just a thought, but one idea might be to model an anti-graviton field generator using a small singularity; And it would have the added benefit of being more cost effective than building one.
I was chuckling over the implications of the meaning of the words when they are capitalized or not. I guess I was seeing something deeper. Usually the implication of something "left" is not as constrained as something "right". "open" has a different meaning than "Open". And given that the current political climate has accelerated faster than Global Warming; it just tickled my funny bone.
It kind of reminded me of the bumper sticker, "Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere." Now I find myself thinking, "So That's How Those Guys Do It!" You got to love the Irony.
This story has been in the O.C.Register a little bit. I can not help but wonder if the punishment was a little bit excessive. But I think a couple of recruiting sargents, some corporate lawyers, and a couple of FBI types might want to go an visit this guy. Of course, if the goods guys think they hold all the cards, maybe going over to the local Blockbuster and renting "Swordfish" might be a nice casual way to cool the summer off; especially after last nights little mini heat wave. Personally, I think the FBI will have the better dental plan.
The publication date is a curious bit of trivia, but that would imply that knowledge of doing bad things is just as bad as doing them. In that case, I would say that the 10 Commandments is a very informative story.
I don't about that, a couple of days ago I was modded down as a Troll for stating what was I thought was painfully obvious. I 'm still scratching my head over that reaction. But I do think that time has shown that it is not party affiliation, but personal advancement that fuels some of the legislation in Congress.
We talked about increasing the use of Nuclear Power systems in the early '70's, (remember OPEC?). And the engineering of such power plants have come along way since then. But the basic question still remains, "What about the the waste?" Even back in the early '70's Radio Active Waste was acceptable. But the biggest stumbling block that stopped the building of more reactors back then was the actual Container System itself; concrete only lasts about 20 years. Even back then people said OK, but when they went to the money people, and the money people discovered that a device that has an effective life of 20 years will take a little over 30 years to pay back, well, that is when the money people said, we're sorry. We were not deterred even by that back then. We went back to our Chalk Boards and took a long look at the real problem, Nuclear Waste itself. If we could just filter out the actual reactive material, the rest would be safe scrap, and the we could recycle the reactive matter. That matter would be some of most expensive stuff in the world, but it would be safely reusable. And as an administrative note, there was one last unsolvable problem; Radio Activity is orderless, and you can not see it; it will slowing, and quietly, f'n kill you.
So, I have categorically trashed the solution that the minds of mediocrity have so cheerfully presented. What is my solution? Go to the Hydrogen Dollar. U.S., Europe, and BRIC,(Brazil,Russia,India, and China) have access to the largest pool of Hydrogen on the planet,(for the unwashed, it is called an Ocean). Use the Sun, and Wind to "Mine" the Hydrogen. The waste products can be recycled, and it will take just as long to build this infrastructure as it would to start drilling in Flipper's back yard. Oil wells take time to build also, and good professionals can hit the oil one in five times.
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I RTFA, and IMHO found some counterdictory logic in the arguments of the author. From doing this stuff for a generation I have found three areas that have been problem areas for any Application. The first is a User's Manual for "ALL" features of the Application. But a Software Manual is Not Enough. When the Applications's Creator envisions their creation, the examples that can use their creation are tragically left in the mind of the Application's Creator. The third issue is the Maintenance of the Application. From my perspective, Applications are like living things, they have a beginning, growth, and decline. What keeps the Application in Growth is Maintenance of the Application. Sometimes others will adjust the Growth in a different direction of the Application's Creator, sometimes without the the Creator's acceptance. If an Application is to survive, and continue to Grow, then it must adapt by changing to the environment it is allowed to exist in. And one of the most successful ways to kill an Application is to NOT write about how it can solve types of problems.
Lets look at the U.S. arsenal and consider anything that involves a Laser. First off, laser type guns, illegal by international treaty. And if the Oval office isn't to clear on the verbiage, the rest of the world would have no trouble rubbing the Oval office's collective noses in the words. Because, lasers can be fired by bad guys too. Now, laser guided bombs, from the bad guys view point, setup a dummy laser signature spot and the bomb heads in that direction. The defense against "Spotting", (women please pardon the pun), is to either change the frequency of the Laser on the ground and in the air, or its signal feedback frequency. All this stuff considers the teeth of the Tiger, but how about its tail? How about developing lasers that cause mischief, and when dealing with cleaning up the mess, just to generally just piss people off. How about laser based Graffiti? Try painting over that mess. How about firing a laser into a traffic photo taking device, or grocery store check out device. How about coating a bar code sticker such that the wrong valid number is read in. Wars are lost because of Logistic's foul-ups. Now I'm starting to feel uncomfortable...
A creator of the technology said it could be used for emergency first-responders, bio-medical devices and historic preservation.
I guess that Emergency First-Responders could use "spray on" waterproofing. But the image of the person trying to remove the coating...
About 10 years ago, my ISP boss stumbled over a chat room on his server where this stuff was being talked about. He call the F.B.I., they told him to do some stuff. A couple of weeks later, an agent shows up and the problem was handled. One thing I can say about this was, "Those Perverted Nut Jobs know each other", and it still creeps me out to remember it. But in thinking about ISP's stepping up to take the law in their hands may not be the way to handle this perverted need. There is a department of the government referred to as the F.B.I., this is very much their Jurisdiction. If an person sees Child Pornography, report it to the local F.B.I. office. There are agents there that know how to handle this correctly. If an ISP shuts down something and states it was for something illegal, or not "allowed"; that ISP has just given the victim a reason to sue for damages. I know a lot of ISP folks, personally, none of them would take a bullet for their beliefs; and when their facing a person they have publicly destroyed, I do not think an ISP would take the "Moral High Road". And the more I think about it, an ISP that starts taking the law into their hands is setting themselves up for a class action solution.
By the ruling handed down inferring that coping a game into RAM is an illegal copy, does this imply that WOW uses only Peripherals, and CPU only? The graphics alone are copied to the RAM on the Video Card. There is a decrease in available RAM when the game is "Loaded". There has got to be to the ruling than this "Copying the game into RAM". What is the outcome of we WOW users when we start using Solid State Disk Drives?
One of the most difficult problems 3+ World Communities have is the acquiring of fresh water. Another problem is that once fresh water is acquired, others would come and take it, AND the method to make more fresh water. If MIT could find a Low Technology solution to this one issue, then these cultures could work on the next great problem, "Finding a Good Deli."
Imagine; MS, (Multiple Sclerosis), treated as an Out Patient Therapy? Diabetes, and Obesity treated like a scratch. All because DNA/RNA problems are mechanically curable. I do not know of any form of Death more hideous than that of Malignant Melanoma, but if a device could created that would create a therapy using the victims own Immune System to cure itself of problems like Cancer, that would be an invention worthy of mass producing.
Mankind does Life Threating actions everyday; Flying Aircraft is but one dangerous occupation. And when the weather is rough, good pilots change flight plans. One benefit would be that Truck Jackings would go down, (a bad use of words here...). But what is the cost per ton by the Consignee? What is the average ground speed for cargo delivery. What are the Logistics of this Grand Design? I know this; "Point to Point Delivery" would open up our congested Freeways, that's cool.
Just a thought, but what about a "Sport Light Aircraft Blimp"? Just please don't call this Aircraft an "Icarus".
There was a time when Businesses would train their staff for projects. Globalization, and investor's demand for the fastest turnaround time have eroded the ethos for hiring skilled engineers. With the level of education required to create product because of the tools available, I cannot help but think that engineers have started a spiral of engineering themselves out of a job. Engineers need to be more than a "One Trick Engineer", they need to have a working knowledge of many tools. But that is cheaper said than done. Maybe if engineers started looking at DNA/RNA Mechanics, they could maintain their livelihood. As it stands now, "User Friendly" is becoming the Bain of engineering. I think that if the U.S. government started treating Services Flooding like Product Flooding, a lot of Engineers would become very hireable in the U.S.. Also, there is a disturbing trend by "Show Off" business types to openly lie about their "Perceptions". With unemployment in the U.S. getting higher, and higher, I have a tendency to be skeptical about a "Lack of Trained Personal", when the final result is tragically nothing more than a falsehood to use labor from some other country at a substantially less wage scale.
When interviewing someone for a software position, I have always used this question as an ethics question. If the person voluntarily shows me their code from a company they have worked with, they are rejected because I cannot trust them with the code of the company I work for. My response to those who ask me about my coding is to say, "I have no problem showing you the coding I have done for others. If you need to, I will give you the phone number of that past company and you can ask them to see the code they purchased from me."
Breeder plants have been on the books since the early 1970's. Fundamentally, they're a good idea; interesting thing is that South Africa is buying the Soviets missiles, and converting them to be used in reactor plants. Some good things might come from this. Namely (1)the turning of "swords" to "plowshares", (ie. missiles to energy plants). (2) It gives time for the intelligent types time to invent some kind of massive filter method for depleting radio active matter for reuse. (3) Maybe drive down the cost of shipping by installing nuclear reactors in cargo ships.
The problem with Nuclear Reactors is Nuclear Waste; that garbage will ruin your whole day. The nuclear waste issue still hasn't changed, until someone finds a way to filter out the Radio Active stuff from the Non Radio Active stuff, nuclear waste is f'ing dangerous. As for the "Energy to Produce" argument that is proudly strutted out by oil's mediocrity; one can only ask, "who profits by such an argument?"
Consider globalization as a solution. The single biggest overhead cost of any set of software projects is the Upper Management Staff. This group of people do not necessarily need to understand how the process is made, they only need to just find other ways of doing some process cheaper. By hiring staff that would cost roughly 30 cents on the dollar from some 'nth world government, the Investor/Owner can reap 70 cents in profit by reducing Upper Management. With the added benefits of not being slowed down by those not directly involved with the product. But the saleability issue is unignorable. For large groups of software projects, like the D.O.D. a different globalization solution would work more optimally. By using A.I.Alturnitives for the handling of such things as Logistics, the DOD can effectively reduce their cost savings by 90 cents on the dollar. The DOD does not really make anything. The vast majority of officers act as redundent support staff. One person could do the job of project effectiveness as an entire team of Middle Managers. As one Combat Engineer said, "Can Do." With the devaluation of the U.S.Dollar, one has to consider lifestyles of other cultures. The worst thing that could happen to the Owner/Investor is the giving back of profits to the Market. The only reliable solution for this is to convert to some other currency than the U.S.Dollar. I cannot help but think that Upper Management should be asking the question, "Should I stay with this firm? In this country?"
Noted Inventor Benjamin Franklyn was once asked how best to rank 2 products. The response went something like, "Create a column of the all benefits of both products. For each product, attach another column. Go through the list and place a check mark in the corresponding box. The product with most checks is the better product."
I can see where applying this to Safari, Opera, and IE, would be a good thing. But I also think that making it public would start a trend that would be very constructive from a users point of view. Other browsers are known for being products that set themselves apart from the IE folks. This "matrix" looks to be like a simple spread sheet. It should not be hard to apply any Browser to it in the future. It will be interesting when in August, IE 6,7, and 8 could be added to this matrix. From my point of view, it is a great way to show "Pride In Craftsmanship".
Let me guess: Private-for-life, in charge of pop-and-chips procurement?
Retired Warrior God."It takes an act of Congress to make you a Gentleman." - Unknown
Who ever modded you down has no idea what you just said. My experience under fire has been to trust my training, obey my orders; And if the CO has a problem with our advancement; We are more than willing to follow that CO into battle at any time.
Just a thought, but one idea might be to model an anti-graviton field generator using a small singularity; And it would have the added benefit of being more cost effective than building one.
I was chuckling over the implications of the meaning of the words when they are capitalized or not. I guess I was seeing something deeper. Usually the implication of something "left" is not as constrained as something "right". "open" has a different meaning than "Open". And given that the current political climate has accelerated faster than Global Warming; it just tickled my funny bone.
I see excellent things like openSSH, and openOffice. Why choose "OpenLeft", instead of "openLeft"?
It kind of reminded me of the bumper sticker, "Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere." Now I find myself thinking, "So That's How Those Guys Do It!" You got to love the Irony.
This story has been in the O.C.Register a little bit. I can not help but wonder if the punishment was a little bit excessive. But I think a couple of recruiting sargents, some corporate lawyers, and a couple of FBI types might want to go an visit this guy. Of course, if the goods guys think they hold all the cards, maybe going over to the local Blockbuster and renting "Swordfish" might be a nice casual way to cool the summer off; especially after last nights little mini heat wave. Personally, I think the FBI will have the better dental plan.
The publication date is a curious bit of trivia, but that would imply that knowledge of doing bad things is just as bad as doing them. In that case, I would say that the 10 Commandments is a very informative story.
I don't about that, a couple of days ago I was modded down as a Troll for stating what was I thought was painfully obvious. I 'm still scratching my head over that reaction. But I do think that time has shown that it is not party affiliation, but personal advancement that fuels some of the legislation in Congress.
Maybe the submitter of this article should learn French?
Oh, I can't resist, "Duh, everyone knows Colorado is in Quebec, they both start with the same sound."
We talked about increasing the use of Nuclear Power systems in the early '70's, (remember OPEC?). And the engineering of such power plants have come along way since then. But the basic question still remains, "What about the the waste?" Even back in the early '70's Radio Active Waste was acceptable. But the biggest stumbling block that stopped the building of more reactors back then was the actual Container System itself; concrete only lasts about 20 years. Even back then people said OK, but when they went to the money people, and the money people discovered that a device that has an effective life of 20 years will take a little over 30 years to pay back, well, that is when the money people said, we're sorry. We were not deterred even by that back then. We went back to our Chalk Boards and took a long look at the real problem, Nuclear Waste itself. If we could just filter out the actual reactive material, the rest would be safe scrap, and the we could recycle the reactive matter. That matter would be some of most expensive stuff in the world, but it would be safely reusable. And as an administrative note, there was one last unsolvable problem; Radio Activity is orderless, and you can not see it; it will slowing, and quietly, f'n kill you.
So, I have categorically trashed the solution that the minds of mediocrity have so cheerfully presented. What is my solution? Go to the Hydrogen Dollar. U.S., Europe, and BRIC,(Brazil,Russia,India, and China) have access to the largest pool of Hydrogen on the planet,(for the unwashed, it is called an Ocean). Use the Sun, and Wind to "Mine" the Hydrogen. The waste products can be recycled, and it will take just as long to build this infrastructure as it would to start drilling in Flipper's back yard. Oil wells take time to build also, and good professionals can hit the oil one in five times.