He either never had, or no longer trusts, his own programming knowledge and skills. He, therefore, can't make informed decisions about programmers and programming and so comes up with arbitrary criteria to make his decisions for him.
It may be that inhaling the fumes are more harmful than drinking IPA. Fumes, it seems to me, would be absorbed directly into the blood through the lungs. While if you drink it, the stomach has a chance to digest it.
Unless I have to throw away my combination tv/stereo/dvd/vcr/computer because the vcr player part of it crapped out and the parts needed to fix it are no longer made or the cost of parts plus labor is more than the cost of replacement of the whole unit.
I think a plaintiff is the accuser in a civil case. Since this is a criminal case, the State is the prosecuter, Bryant (the accused) is the defendant and the girl is the alleged victim and a witness for the prosecution.
What I'm waiting for is for every item I buy at the grocery store to be RFIDed, and for my fridge and pantry to read all of these. My computer would keep a list of my desired inventory of staples and upcoming menu and any special order items and I would get a weekly delivery from the grocery store willing to provide refills at the least cost.
The grocery stores seem willing to give subsantial discounts if you a willing to use your "membership card", but the problem with that is that you don't have to use it every time, or give accurate information for the account. If the grocery stores provide delivery, they have to know your true address and therefore would get superior customer tracking data.
It may be that the benefit of collecting superiour data on your customers helps offset the cost of providing delivery. This would be especially true if the customer is willing to pay a premium for the service.
First there was computers, a big thing in every sense of the word. They did amazingly fast calculations, but they were big in size and big in dollars. Second there was small, cheap computers. It took a long time to figure out both how to do this and that it was worth doing, but eventually it became a Big Thing. Then there was the network. This also took a while to figure out that it was worth doing, but it became a Big Thing.
All of these advances will keep advancing. Computers will get faster. Computers will get smaller, cheaper and more ubiquitous. We will find new ways to connect them together. But these changes will be incremental. These advances will not be the Next Big Thing.
The Next Big Thing will be something different. It may have already been invented, it may not. Many of the pieces are certainly around us, we just haven't figured out how to put it together or that it is worth doing.
Adaptive, seamless, ubiquitous, autonomous, organic, utility computing sounds like incremental advances of the existing technology. If people are looking here for the Next Big Thing, they will miss it.
Yes! Let us fine people who have their computer taken over by a virus. Also let's fine people who have their car stolen and used in a crime. Also people who have their identity stolen and used for illegal immigrants. Don't these people know enough to not park in dangerous areas and not to give out their social security number.
We should blame and punish the victim, they are so much more fun to attack than the people actually writing/releasing viruses.
How is the following senario any different from what this software is doing?
I have a car. The car has a built in cell phone and GPS. If the car is stolen, the cell phone calls me and tells me the location of my car from the GPS. Am I now spying on the theif? Am I violating his right to privacy?
The easy answer... If they want it quick and dirty, do it quick and dirty. Don't pretend that you will go back and pretty it up later. There is no later. There is only another project that must be completed.
The up side of all this is that you will insure that you have a job for years to come fixing the dang thing.
For those of you who haven't bothered to read the article, (or those of you who took it seriously) I just have to point out the funniest line in the whole thing has to be where the arrested time traveller claims that, "...I just got caught in the moment."
Did you know that the entire U.S. electrical grid could be powered by less than 150,000 modern wind turbines?
I did not know this, so I did some quick googling and found some interesting numbers. According to the DOE the total U.S. generation of electricity for 1999 was 3691 billion kilowatt hours. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epav1/i ntro.html#tab1
According to the Danish Windpower Industry Association, a modern wind turbine will generate about 2 to 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. http://www.windpower.org/faqs.htm#anchor727849
If these numbers (and my math) is right, your conclusion is off by about an order of magnitude
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Shared libraries are by their nature unique creations based on various decisions to write code in certain ways, which are in great part random decisions of the software developers who create the shared library code base.
It's interesting to note that SCO considers the decisions of programmers to be basically random.
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because coffee contains water.
Maybe this explains all the problems with the holodeck on TNG
If I was a college student and found one of these drives, I would definitely plug it in to see what was on it.
Not on MY computer, but it can't be hard to find and unguarded USB port on a college campus.
I currently have a NAKAMICHI RX-202 cassette deck connected to my pc to convert some family audio cassette recordings to mp3.
He either never had, or no longer trusts, his own programming knowledge and skills. He, therefore, can't make informed decisions about programmers and programming and so comes up with arbitrary criteria to make his decisions for him.
that it is surprising that a company listens to its customers.
Then they are either padding their project plans way too much, or are really not trying to do anything new.
It may be that inhaling the fumes are more harmful than drinking IPA. Fumes, it seems to me, would be absorbed directly into the blood through the lungs. While if you drink it, the stomach has a chance to digest it.
have been greatly exaggerated.
Unless I have to throw away my combination tv/stereo/dvd/vcr/computer because the vcr player part of it crapped out and the parts needed to fix it are no longer made or the cost of parts plus labor is more than the cost of replacement of the whole unit.
I think a plaintiff is the accuser in a civil case. Since this is a criminal case, the State is the prosecuter, Bryant (the accused) is the defendant and the girl is the alleged victim and a witness for the prosecution.
What I'm waiting for is for every item I buy at the grocery store to be RFIDed, and for my fridge and pantry to read all of these. My computer would keep a list of my desired inventory of staples and upcoming menu and any special order items and I would get a weekly delivery from the grocery store willing to provide refills at the least cost.
The grocery stores seem willing to give subsantial discounts if you a willing to use your "membership card", but the problem with that is that you don't have to use it every time, or give accurate information for the account. If the grocery stores provide delivery, they have to know your true address and therefore would get superior customer tracking data.
It may be that the benefit of collecting superiour data on your customers helps offset the cost of providing delivery. This would be especially true if the customer is willing to pay a premium for the service.
about the same time that I start commuting to work in my flying jet car.
This problem can be solved the same way I fixed the check engine light on my car... Duct Tape!
So if someone offered to pay you for geocacheing with your friends, you would turn them down?
First there was computers, a big thing in every sense of the word. They did amazingly fast calculations, but they were big in size and big in dollars. Second there was small, cheap computers. It took a long time to figure out both how to do this and that it was worth doing, but eventually it became a Big Thing. Then there was the network. This also took a while to figure out that it was worth doing, but it became a Big Thing.
All of these advances will keep advancing. Computers will get faster. Computers will get smaller, cheaper and more ubiquitous. We will find new ways to connect them together. But these changes will be incremental. These advances will not be the Next Big Thing.
The Next Big Thing will be something different. It may have already been invented, it may not. Many of the pieces are certainly around us, we just haven't figured out how to put it together or that it is worth doing.
Adaptive, seamless, ubiquitous, autonomous, organic, utility computing sounds like incremental advances of the existing technology. If people are looking here for the Next Big Thing, they will miss it.
Because the point they are trying to make is that they do _not_ want him coming back.
Yes! Let us fine people who have their computer taken over by a virus. Also let's fine people who have their car stolen and used in a crime. Also people who have their identity stolen and used for illegal immigrants. Don't these people know enough to not park in dangerous areas and not to give out their social security number.
We should blame and punish the victim, they are so much more fun to attack than the people actually writing/releasing viruses.
How is the following senario any different from what this software is doing?
I have a car. The car has a built in cell phone and GPS. If the car is stolen, the cell phone calls me and tells me the location of my car from the GPS. Am I now spying on the theif? Am I violating his right to privacy?
The easy answer ...
If they want it quick and dirty, do it quick and dirty. Don't pretend that you will go back and pretty it up later. There is no later. There is only another project that must be completed.
The up side of all this is that you will insure that you have a job for years to come fixing the dang thing.
For those of you who haven't bothered to read the article, (or those of you who took it seriously) I just have to point out the funniest line in the whole thing has to be where the arrested time traveller claims that, "...I just got caught in the moment."
Did you know that the entire U.S. electrical grid could be powered by less than 150,000 modern wind turbines?
i ntro.html#tab1
I did not know this, so I did some quick googling and found some interesting numbers. According to the DOE the total U.S. generation of electricity for 1999 was 3691 billion kilowatt hours.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epav1/
According to the Danish Windpower Industry Association, a modern wind turbine will generate about 2 to 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
http://www.windpower.org/faqs.htm#anchor727849
If these numbers (and my math) is right, your conclusion is off by about an order of magnitude
IMHO, RIAA has barely figured out that there is an internet, much less how to use it to send spam.
Averment 41
Shared libraries are by their nature unique creations based on various decisions to write code in certain ways, which are in great part random decisions of the software developers who create the shared library code base.
It's interesting to note that SCO considers the decisions of programmers to be basically random.