I'm a veteran tester, and we all think we could write a book on the subject. Fortunately, O'Reilly wrote such a book already ('Beautiful Testing'). So I'll just make one other comment not yet covered:
Not all testing can be automated: I'm thinking of UI testing (or verifying all bells n' whistles are in place). It doesn't take long to check, and it's not even the most critical part of the testing process (functional UAT is, imo); but it's the first and last component of the app the end-user sees.
The UCL team calculated the rates of electron hopping in a nose receptor that has an odorant molecule bound to it.
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He had me until this sentence (although the line that he found the theory interesting enough to refute was a very nice touch).
Electrons, photons, and protons are all merely models to explain in tangible terms what the **** is going on down there, so I become skeptical when these terms are utilized to explain/demonstrate quantum mechanics. We know how to use electricity, buy it, sell it, how to protect our kids from it, yet we really don't know what it is. Two and a half degrees in Chemistry has taught me little that's applicable to the English speaking world, save this: we don't have a clue what's going on at that level of reality, but we're absolutely certain it involoves nothing at all that could be described as little balls orbiting other balls and emitting electrical charges. That's merely a model to make sense of it, and an imitation of life at best.
Something else about Quantum Mechanics/Chemistry: If what anyone says doesn't sound medeival, they're probably thinking too hard and incorrectly. It's gotta sound really strange or it's not QM/C.
I wish Creationists who've taken the time to memorize and regurgitate the first two chapters of the book of Genesis would take the time and read the other 48 cahpters of this book. Anyone who does so would accept the fact that Genesis is about the Patriarchs, not about the creation of the world/universe (which was very likely tacked on for the sake of curisosity and completeion.... and at the time, *that* explanation in Ch.'s 1-2 was more than sufficient).
Darwin was peculiarly skeptical of the "reliability" of fossification records. And bear in mind that his three books prior to Origin_of_Species were geological treastises...
That said, I certainly appreciate the dialogue here on slashdot on this topic, from both sides: I typically don't see Christians well-versed in the literature...
At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it:-)
I installed GNU Sourcerer on a box for a graduate Parallel Processing class I'm taking right now.
I'll post results on my web site as are updates warranted.
My thinking is, why not optimize your OS to integrate with your system board, especially in an experimental/research setting? At the least, we students now have a NACHOS-esque* OS for parallel theory.
About a year ago I began work on a novel about a newspaper reporter exiled into the Obit Department after inadvertantly tampering with evidence for a murder in a story he is following. The columnist decides to follow leads on an "accidental death" which he suspects is actually a botched murder of a rock star.
At one point, he begins reflecting on the possibility that someday his job will be eliminated by soul-less AI agents to write obits for his employer.
Feel free to read the unfinished manuscript here (someday I'll get around to finishing this)
A friend of mine is doing a Grateful Dead New Year's Eve shows marathon ('78, '77, '76, '74, et. al)...
I'll be playing Best Jams from the String Cheese Incident, including their cover of Abbey Road from 12/31/99... got about sixteen hours' worth ready in the changer...
They're like Phish, but not nearly as dorky...
Last year we did Classic Jazz A-to-Z for twenty-two hours straight.... that was fun
But in just a few years, they'll be a redux Y2K scare, as anyone who's studied the Mayan Calendar can attest to: according to them, there is "no history" of civiilization to record after 20xx (sorry, I forget the exact year -- ask the quirks in my own department, and they won't shut up about it). They had categorized the Calendar for centuries, but foresaw no reason to do it after this said year....
.. they didn't know why (many believe it to the the dawning of the next New Age).... but they didn't make calendars past this year...
.... don't mean to single him out (yeah, I do), but he's the first artist/genius I thought of who had a reputation for being a real prick AND peformed for the "sake of the music"...
But really, isn't just more eveidence that the music industry is media/profit-driven? It is, of course, but what true artists will respond to a policy where they'd have to all-but-confess to this?
Sadly, not many.... I like the idea, though....
Speaking of Miles -- I'm running out of search queues to find his music on Napster/Gnutella (i.e., Myles Dayvis, etc.).... any suggestions?
is about the trained idiot. with "many aparati available in his backyard designed to keep him [John Cleese] silly"....
Oh, and of course, the lumberjack song with footnote: "Dear sir, I find the preceeding bit about lumberjacks dressing in women's clothing both highly offensive dispicable. For I have several close friends who are lumberjacks, and only a few of them are actually transvestites."
Especially because in the three categories which Napster has precisely zero effect on -- cassettes, vinyl, and music video -- their combined year-to-year loss was $579.5 million.
I disagree. I have "shared" my share of jazz tracks not [yet] available on CD's (or are only available on out-of-print/Ebay-"Friendly" CD's).
Granted, not many of these... but several hundred of 'em nonetheles....
My all-time favorite Christmas show [which isn't played anymore], and not because I was a die-hard Opus/BC fan.
BC was LIKE Saturday Night Live for me, in that it provided me some great catch phrases ["PWWWTTT", "Closet of Anxieties", "Dandelions in October", et. al)...
Now, for me, the REVOLUTION introduced by BC was what I now call the "comical one-two strip punch" -- in other words, a punchline at a frame in the middle of the "story", followed immediately by a SECOND punchline/retort in the last frame.... two dry moments for the price of one....
At the time [for the first few times we all read it], we didn't really know what to think, except to acknowledge that we've never seen someone do that before. But Calvin and Hobbes basically mastered this technique, and now virtually every hot comic being published plays on some variation of this now-called "rule"....
In the time spent to write this article, post it on the internet, e-mail it it CmdrTaco, link it from SlashDot [insert SlashDot Effect here], the U.S. Government has bought enough time to investigate what Hussein has REALLY acquired (no, SlashDot readers still don't know this yet, and we will NOT, either). Whatever he has smuggled in, it/they are SIMILIAR enough to be compared with PS2's, hence suspectible to open debate as to what they are.
I have been somewhat concerned for nearly a year now about micro-computer technology penetrating Iraq, but they needed a diversion. And more importantly, U.S. Intelligence needed a diversion thrown to the think-they're-in-the-know public (so we wouldn't get our hands dirty, and of course, not get us concerned over what's really going on).
These are all topics I would consider "practical" (I would wonder how well these topics are covered, and if this book is worth purchasing, according to it's dedication to these areas)...
If by "practical" one means "getting DB2 to integrate with Oracle", that's a vendor-specific issue, and the vendors would be HAPPY to tell you how to do this... and on this count, the book fails.
But such is not the aim of this book.
What 18th-century copyright law seems to have disregarded - and I can't know how intrusive of an influence this was back then - was that art and science is not only about commerce and making big bucks -- it's also about fame.
Now sure, n'Synch n' Spears n' Hansen are bloody rich, but they're also famous -- and let's not forget, one reason why they ARE so rich is because they have been formulated to LOOK FAMOUS wherever they go (i.e., it all started when the record companies "planted" groupies to yell and scream and cry when the stars get off their lear jet... but I digress); and whether they deny it or not, the aspect of FAME is one of the rewards these "artists" were seeking.
You've heard the old saying, "there's no such thing as bad publicity," right? Metalica's big problem is their image -- if all they were inteserested in was their purses (which seems to have been the case), they should've just said so. But now, they're still fanous, alright -- famous for being out-of-synch with the technology, and therefore, looking like idiots.
It's interesting to me that the above-mentioned artists aren't complaining very loudly about Napster, et. al.... it's MY guess that they aren't because their fame is not being being jeopardized. Sure, maybe their album sales have been dented (and even this I doubt, since most young fans NEED as many photos of their artists as possible, and there are photos included with the CD's)... and of course, they're getting more exposure than ever, thanks to Napster. And it would seem that since they're getting SO MUCH MORE exposure, they have MORE pressure than ever to produce more work (notice, I didn't call it "music" or "art" -- but "work")... isn't THAT the intention of Copyright Law?
Those who don't study history are destined to re-implement it.
Incredible how this bill was first written soon after Melissa, and that no one would deny the critical mass of this getting passed.... and yet, 14 months later ??
And what does it mean that it WASN'T proposed "in reaction" to Melissa? Who cares that our officials aren't intuitive enough to come up with this on their own (well, I mean, WE care, but that's no reason to go into denial about what makes them reactionary, does it) ?
I'd be curious to know about the CONTENT of his lectures....
Is he saying, "beware of this kind of attack," or is it "[snicker-snicker] O.K., now, don't ever try this [snicker-snicker]... and if you do, don't get caught, and CERTIANLY, don't tell them where you heard about this..."
Maybe that's overstating my point, but the fact is, his lectures are the best example of the proof of his rehabilitation, right? from the tone of the few words he said in the news article, it sounds like he's BEGGING to do something and get caught.... I'm not sure, though...
It just seems that what he's preaching about may tell volumes about the "potential harm" he may still be... if he's lecturing about how to bang together two brings to make music, no harm.... if he's lecturing about work-arounds, to intrusion-detection architectures, harm....
Kinda like Apple's response a few years ago ....
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.... to re-name their experiemntal OS "Dumbass Astronomer" -- like that, paylars.com makes Lars even a bigger public idiot than he could've on his OWN powers....
I've been an on-again-off-again fan since their Black Album in '91, so if my opinions have any credibility, it's because of that...
But is it just me, or has anyone else always SUSPECTED Lars was such an anti-commerce-savvy loudmouth, and that THIS incident (referring to the quote from Lars on paylars.com) sealed it for us ?
Either Jon has diarreah of the brain [I dunno, which may be the case], or else he wrote most of this article before the event last night...... just how interactive is that ??
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I'm a veteran tester, and we all think we could write a book on the subject. Fortunately, O'Reilly wrote such a book already ('Beautiful Testing'). So I'll just make one other comment not yet covered:
Not all testing can be automated: I'm thinking of UI testing (or verifying all bells n' whistles are in place). It doesn't take long to check, and it's not even the most critical part of the testing process (functional UAT is, imo); but it's the first and last component of the app the end-user sees.
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He had me until this sentence (although the line that he found the theory interesting enough to refute was a very nice touch).
Electrons, photons, and protons are all merely models to explain in tangible terms what the **** is going on down there, so I become skeptical when these terms are utilized to explain/demonstrate quantum mechanics. We know how to use electricity, buy it, sell it, how to protect our kids from it, yet we really don't know what it is. Two and a half degrees in Chemistry has taught me little that's applicable to the English speaking world, save this: we don't have a clue what's going on at that level of reality, but we're absolutely certain it involoves nothing at all that could be described as little balls orbiting other balls and emitting electrical charges. That's merely a model to make sense of it, and an imitation of life at best.
Something else about Quantum Mechanics/Chemistry: If what anyone says doesn't sound medeival, they're probably thinking too hard and incorrectly. It's gotta sound really strange or it's not QM/C.
I wish Creationists who've taken the time to memorize and regurgitate the first two chapters of the book of Genesis would take the time and read the other 48 cahpters of this book. Anyone who does so would accept the fact that Genesis is about the Patriarchs, not about the creation of the world/universe (which was very likely tacked on for the sake of curisosity and completeion .... and at the time, *that* explanation in Ch.'s 1-2 was more than sufficient).
during which time the logo design pieces were kept hidden and under cover from identified and unidentified flying objects.
>>>Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the advertisement? I would've thought KFC *wants* fly-by's to see the ad.
But "in the FBI, if you're not an agent, you're on the bottom of the food chain," Richard Forno, an independent security consultant, said.
Like Dan and Chevy Chase in Spies Like Us, right? Didn't they get the girls in the end?
Darwin was peculiarly skeptical of the "reliability" of fossification records. And bear in mind that his three books prior to Origin_of_Species were geological treastises ...
That said, I certainly appreciate the dialogue here on slashdot on this topic, from both sides: I typically don't see Christians well-versed in the literature ...
At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it
I installed GNU Sourcerer on a box for a graduate Parallel Processing class I'm taking right now.
I'll post results on my web site as are updates warranted.
My thinking is, why not optimize your OS to integrate with your system board, especially in an experimental/research setting? At the least, we students now have a NACHOS-esque* OS for parallel theory.
About a year ago I began work on a novel about a newspaper reporter exiled into the Obit Department after inadvertantly tampering with evidence for a murder in a story he is following. The columnist decides to follow leads on an "accidental death" which he suspects is actually a botched murder of a rock star.
At one point, he begins reflecting on the possibility that someday his job will be eliminated by soul-less AI agents to write obits for his employer.
Feel free to read the unfinished manuscript here (someday I'll get around to finishing this)
A friend of mine is doing a Grateful Dead New Year's Eve shows marathon ('78, '77, '76, '74, et. al) ...
I'll be playing Best Jams from the String Cheese Incident, including their cover of Abbey Road from 12/31/99 ... got about sixteen hours' worth ready in the changer ...
They're like Phish, but not nearly as dorky ...
Last year we did Classic Jazz A-to-Z for twenty-two hours straight .... that was fun
Honestly, what better lesson to give anyone that even those jobs that look like a fast-buck, aren't ...
And pardon my prisoner demographic profiling here, but isn't that a well-deserved lesson to be learned among ex-con's?
But really, isn't just more eveidence that the music industry is media/profit-driven? It is, of course, but what true artists will respond to a policy where they'd have to all-but-confess to this?
Sadly, not many .... I like the idea, though ....
Speaking of Miles -- I'm running out of search queues to find his music on Napster/Gnutella (i.e., Myles Dayvis, etc.) .... any suggestions?
is about the trained idiot. with "many aparati available in his backyard designed to keep him [John Cleese] silly" ....
Oh, and of course, the lumberjack song with footnote: "Dear sir, I find the preceeding bit about lumberjacks dressing in women's clothing both highly offensive dispicable. For I have several close friends who are lumberjacks, and only a few of them are actually transvestites."
I disagree. I have "shared" my share of jazz tracks not [yet] available on CD's (or are only available on out-of-print/Ebay-"Friendly" CD's).
Granted, not many of these ... but several hundred of 'em nonetheles ....
"A WISH FOR WINGS THAT WORK" ---
My all-time favorite Christmas show [which isn't played anymore], and not because I was a die-hard Opus/BC fan.
BC was LIKE Saturday Night Live for me, in that it provided me some great catch phrases ["PWWWTTT", "Closet of Anxieties", "Dandelions in October", et. al) ...
Now, for me, the REVOLUTION introduced by BC was what I now call the "comical one-two strip punch" -- in other words, a punchline at a frame in the middle of the "story", followed immediately by a SECOND punchline/retort in the last frame .... two dry moments for the price of one ....
At the time [for the first few times we all read it], we didn't really know what to think, except to acknowledge that we've never seen someone do that before. But Calvin and Hobbes basically mastered this technique, and now virtually every hot comic being published plays on some variation of this now-called "rule" ....
In the time spent to write this article, post it on the internet, e-mail it it CmdrTaco, link it from SlashDot [insert SlashDot Effect here], the U.S. Government has bought enough time to investigate what Hussein has REALLY acquired (no, SlashDot readers still don't know this yet, and we will NOT, either). Whatever he has smuggled in, it/they are SIMILIAR enough to be compared with PS2's, hence suspectible to open debate as to what they are.
I have been somewhat concerned for nearly a year now about micro-computer technology penetrating Iraq, but they needed a diversion. And more importantly, U.S. Intelligence needed a diversion thrown to the think-they're-in-the-know public (so we wouldn't get our hands dirty, and of course, not get us concerned over what's really going on).
Now it's happened ....
These are all topics I would consider "practical" (I would wonder how well these topics are covered, and if this book is worth purchasing, according to it's dedication to these areas) ...
If by "practical" one means "getting DB2 to integrate with Oracle", that's a vendor-specific issue, and the vendors would be HAPPY to tell you how to do this ... and on this count, the book fails.
But such is not the aim of this book.
What 18th-century copyright law seems to have disregarded - and I can't know how intrusive of an influence this was back then - was that art and science is not only about commerce and making big bucks -- it's also about fame.
Now sure, n'Synch n' Spears n' Hansen are bloody rich, but they're also famous -- and let's not forget, one reason why they ARE so rich is because they have been formulated to LOOK FAMOUS wherever they go (i.e., it all started when the record companies "planted" groupies to yell and scream and cry when the stars get off their lear jet ... but I digress); and whether they deny it or not, the aspect of FAME is one of the rewards these "artists" were seeking.
You've heard the old saying, "there's no such thing as bad publicity," right? Metalica's big problem is their image -- if all they were inteserested in was their purses (which seems to have been the case), they should've just said so. But now, they're still fanous, alright -- famous for being out-of-synch with the technology, and therefore, looking like idiots.
It's interesting to me that the above-mentioned artists aren't complaining very loudly about Napster, et. al. ... it's MY guess that they aren't because their fame is not being being jeopardized. Sure, maybe their album sales have been dented (and even this I doubt, since most young fans NEED as many photos of their artists as possible, and there are photos included with the CD's)... and of course, they're getting more exposure than ever, thanks to Napster. And it would seem that since they're getting SO MUCH MORE exposure, they have MORE pressure than ever to produce more work (notice, I didn't call it "music" or "art" -- but "work") ... isn't THAT the intention of Copyright Law?
Those who don't study history are destined to re-implement it.
I don't mean CD's I burn myself ... I mean CD's I purchased in stores, and now my tastes in music have changed ?
And more specifically, didn't he read The Diamond Age?? If this wasn't Historical Fiction on exponential levels, I don't know what is ....
Then again, seems like Neal himself forgot he wrote Diamon ... too bad -- still borderline-essential Sci-Fi reading ....
And what does it mean that it WASN'T proposed "in reaction" to Melissa? Who cares that our officials aren't intuitive enough to come up with this on their own (well, I mean, WE care, but that's no reason to go into denial about what makes them reactionary, does it) ?
Better Nate than Lever, I guess ....
Is he saying, "beware of this kind of attack," or is it "[snicker-snicker] O.K., now, don't ever try this [snicker-snicker] ... and if you do, don't get caught, and CERTIANLY, don't tell them where you heard about this ..."
Maybe that's overstating my point, but the fact is, his lectures are the best example of the proof of his rehabilitation, right? from the tone of the few words he said in the news article, it sounds like he's BEGGING to do something and get caught .... I'm not sure, though ...
It just seems that what he's preaching about may tell volumes about the "potential harm" he may still be ... if he's lecturing about how to bang together two brings to make music, no harm .... if he's lecturing about work-arounds, to intrusion-detection architectures, harm ....
I've been an on-again-off-again fan since their Black Album in '91, so if my opinions have any credibility, it's because of that ...
But is it just me, or has anyone else always SUSPECTED Lars was such an anti-commerce-savvy loudmouth, and that THIS incident (referring to the quote from Lars on paylars.com) sealed it for us ?
Either Jon has diarreah of the brain [I dunno, which may be the case], or else he wrote most of this article before the event last night ...... just how interactive is that ??
Now our former undergrad professors who were ALREADY fascinated with Buckyballs [for no apparent reason] will NEVER shut up !!