According to them, both. It's useless to hire good people if you don't give them good space, and vice versa, though even poor performers do relatively better in good space.
I would say an expert can at times generate up to 3 times a much output, but 10 times is ludicrous.
Heh, quantity is not quality. Do you have any metrics? DeMarco and Lister do, and their data seems to show 10x. As in, not 'more code' but 'better code, fewer bugs, faster execution'
It's pretty obvious that it's in the Microsoft family, at least. I have an ages-old laptop currently running Ubuntu, and it takes about 20 seconds to boot.
approach to fighting bad patents. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Patent trolls can easily use it to harvest ideas ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (x) It will stop patent trolls for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of patents will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from patent trolls (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many patent users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers (x) Patent trolls don't care about prior art ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for prior art ( ) Patent law in foreign countries (x) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing backlog of bad patents (x) Susceptibility to attack ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of patents (x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (x) Technically illiterate politicians (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with patent trolls (x) Dishonesty on the part of patent trolls themselves
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (x) Blacklists suck (x) Whitelists suck (x) We should be able to patent Viagra ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks (x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
It's a problem of nomenclature: you are referring to 'wheels' when you say tires. Tires are made of rubber and wrap around the wheel, no bolts required.
That must have been a cool study, getting to call the editorial department anonymously and see if they're taking payola. Makes me want to do it to some of my ex-bosses.
The point is, if everyone does it, nobody will care. Everyone will have a publicly accessible data of dirt they done, such that there's 'mutually assured embarrassment' protecting people.
If you bother me over my porn-watching habits, I'll bother you over your driving-drunk habits, or your racist tendencies, or... So neither of us bothers.
Use two PCs. One small Via Epia 700mhz to do your webserver and bit torrent, and another PC with whatever spec you desire to use when you need to do processor-intensive stuff.
If they're networked, you can just as easily copy files over when you need them, or stream media across.
You're wrong. I'd post a screenshot, but I'm lazy. Here's a knowledge base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281980 This discusses what you're talking about, which is opening task manager. That only happens when you've got it set up to use the 'Welcome' screen. The rest of the time, it pops up a little widget that has
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According to them, both. It's useless to hire good people if you don't give them good space, and vice versa, though even poor performers do relatively better in good space.
Heh, quantity is not quality. Do you have any metrics? DeMarco and Lister do, and their data seems to show 10x. As in, not 'more code' but 'better code, fewer bugs, faster execution'
It's not 'Khaaaaan!' it's the 'Nooooo!' sound from the last star wars movie.
It's pretty obvious that it's in the Microsoft family, at least. I have an ages-old laptop currently running Ubuntu, and it takes about 20 seconds to boot.
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting bad patents. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Patent trolls can easily use it to harvest ideas
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) It will stop patent trolls for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of patents will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from patent trolls
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many patent users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
(x) Patent trolls don't care about prior art
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for prior art
( ) Patent law in foreign countries
(x) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing backlog of bad patents
(x) Susceptibility to attack
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of patents
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(x) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with patent trolls
(x) Dishonesty on the part of patent trolls themselves
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
(x) Blacklists suck
(x) Whitelists suck
(x) We should be able to patent Viagra
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
It's a problem of nomenclature: you are referring to 'wheels' when you say tires. Tires are made of rubber and wrap around the wheel, no bolts required.
Botnets running on compromised windows machines run > $10k / hr for the larger ones.
So in a way, they can.
Pardon?
That must have been a cool study, getting to call the editorial department anonymously and see if they're taking payola. Makes me want to do it to some of my ex-bosses.
I find it far less expensive in time and effort to just keep it all.
Well, maybe when YOU talk about Fear and Loathing, you're not advocating drug use, but when I do it, I sure as hell am.
150GB mp3s
80GB DVDs
120GB games
14GB/hr for DV editing
1 whole drive for OSes
RAID-5ed (1 parity drive)
So I'm up to 4 200gb drives right now, without even trying hard.
Soon I'm going to jump to 500GB drives, and I expect to be hitting their limits in a year or so.
Also, how the hell am I supposed to back up all this?! Incrementals would be 10gb+ / week
The point is, if everyone does it, nobody will care. Everyone will have a publicly accessible data of dirt they done, such that there's 'mutually assured embarrassment' protecting people.
If you bother me over my porn-watching habits, I'll bother you over your driving-drunk habits, or your racist tendencies, or... So neither of us bothers.
The contrast lies largely in the appeal to emotion vs the appeal to higher authority.
Fascists argue that reason is not the prime mover in humans, but rather emotion is. Particularly baser emotions like fear and hatred.
Pretty much every other state doesn't have court-provided civil lawyers.
"exclusive licence" means exactly that, nobody else can use it even if they still own the copyright.
EG I develop something for you, retain copyright, and give you an exclusive license.
Now, you can't go resell it, because you are only licensing it. And I can't go resell it, because you have an exclusive license.
Unless he didn't really mean 'exclusive' license.
Cue cool stories about large FDDI networks being used as storage...
Something about sending a packet around the ring as storage, say it takes 100ms+ to get around the ring, that's a long time in CPU-time.
Server overloaded? just bounce the packet around the ring a couple more times. Like delay-line memory using optical fiber.
well, I'm saying 2^32 usable out of maybe 2^1024 possible keys. IE two functions, one to generate, one to authenticate.
Well, probably on the order of 2^32 or so... so not really infinite, but not exhaustible either. :P
I love the thinking.
:P
"This needs to be solved declaratively, by making other people figure out how it works and do it for me."
Ironic you should mention Photoshop, since adobe is frantically working on a web version to compete with online-image-editing startups.
Log scale. you move up two orders of magnitude of humanity from 90 to 97%
Which implies that a banana only has 1/112th of a soul.
Use two PCs. One small Via Epia 700mhz to do your webserver and bit torrent, and another PC with whatever spec you desire to use when you need to do processor-intensive stuff.
If they're networked, you can just as easily copy files over when you need them, or stream media across.
You're wrong. I'd post a screenshot, but I'm lazy. Here's a knowledge base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281980
This discusses what you're talking about, which is opening task manager. That only happens when you've got it set up to use the 'Welcome' screen. The rest of the time, it pops up a little widget that has
(Lock Computer) (Log Off) (Shut Down)
(Change Password) (Task Manager) (Cancel)
buttons on it.
Well, someone has to fill in for E3. Why exactly did they stop having E3 anyway? Seems silly.