His suggestion is how to create clean applications with the technology that we currently have, putting wet dreams about storing object in the database aside.
In todays industry with today's technology that is what counts and for what you get paid.
Can you, oh source of wisdom, mention which law they broke? I did not know that falling for an scam was illegal in your place of residence (where is that, the Moon?).
Hell, I also wish I don't have to pay taxes, I dream about ways of hiding my money from the taxman, nevertheless I reluctantly pay my taxes every time. Should I go to jail for wishful thinking?
They may be griddy an unethical people, but that is not a crime until you brake the law.
.... I went to the Post Office to send an small parcel.
After paying and all the formalities I was told to leave it in a counter in full view of everybody (the office was full of people, the workers in the counter could not possibly be chacking that nobody steals the parcels all the time).
My gut feeling said this is silly, nevertheless 3 more people came left their own parcels and left.
Another example? Some big supermarkets here have an scanning system with which yourslef scan the priece of each product of your shooping, then in the cashier you hand over the scanner that is read by the machine that produces your bill. They randomly check people once in a blue moon, but the important part is tha they trust that people will mostly do the right thing.
In some busy train stations you can just take your newspaper and drop your money in collection boxes for that purpose.
Call it childish, but it feels immensily beeter to live in a society where you know you can trust people most of the time.
The period of time when people decide to use something or not is during those intitial 15 minutes you so much deride.
Provide 15 minutes that are a joy to experience and you have got a new user that will be willing to learn later because he has not been ostracized by the assumptions of the designers.
Provide 15 minutes in which you can't get anything done as a newbie and you have lost an user which will very difficult to turn around to support you in the future.
The decission to concentrate in newbies taking into account that OS projects do not normally have the luxury of usability tests is a decision that is wise and that will pay in the long run.
Every time Hussein executes somebody with a gun, or that ETA in Spain kills yet another politician, or another robber kills a victim, yeah, they are preventing the violence of those people against them
Absolutely, you hit the nail in the head with that bullet of yours.
If the computer will pass the moves to a "Real Person"[tm] without you noticing, there is practically absolutely no way for you to know that who is moving is the computer, not the bunch of meat in front of you.
In many narrow fields computers are taking decisions today that used to be taken by humans.
If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and flies like a duck I don't care if it was made in Japan by Sony or if it hatched from an egg.
quacks like a duck, flies like a duck, and for all practical purposes it is a duck, but it is made in Japan by Sony.
I say it is not a duck, it is a machine, a robot, whatever, but it is comparable to the duck.
You'll have to get the best of this Leibnitz guy to convince me that a machine can not have for all practical puposes human-like intellectual capabilities.
2.- That is a vulgar lie. I have used NFS in many different industries (banking, oil, goverment, geography, geophisics, research, graphic design) under many different conditions (from a couple of worwstations in one network up to several thousends machines accessing a few central servers) and it has always been a reliable tool. Since SunOS 4.x by the way. As with any piece of software you'll find the ocassional bug, but not at the scale that you pretend it was,
3.-Hardware failures: you are liying, plain and simple. Right now I am directly responsible for around 70 machines and we see hardware errors around once a month (normally with machines that we are re-using and thus are handled with less care than normally). New machines? Can't remember one incident in the last 4 years. If your budget is so limited that you have to cram services in the same machine then yes, you should be using cheaper machines. What a joy will be to se your do-it-all servers have a problem and see al you services colapse at the same time just because you are macho enough to keep that CPU usage at 100% utilization (which begs the question, if you are such a fan of avoiding single points of failure, how do you justify to have several vital services in the same box?).
4.- You are completely incompetent. There are no abolutes here, the ease of administration could be a major concern compared to the risk of your box being lost, administering several redundant systems increase administration complexity, no matter how competent your people are. In any case if you have the money and the need to have such a machine I assure you that then you have contingency mechanisms to make sure you can continue working if you lose your machine (normaly replication to an off-site facility).
Those who humbly submit themsleves to any proven evidence (scientists will have no problems to accept religious explanations that are repeatable and verifiable) or those that in spite of repeatable, evident evidence of phenomena decide to ignore it to follow an often poorly understood dogma?
Newton may have been fundmanetlay correct about mathematics and physics, but he is wrong in many other things, this being one of them.
For ages we prayed anw we were the victims of famine and disease.
For a few hundred years we made science and improved the lifes of millions.
Faith healing? Yeah, sure, whatever makes you rock, I have seen more people saved by verifiable applied science than vy unverified alleged "faith" healing.
Keep praying, but surely you take your vaccinations, go to your doctor, and benefit from the research to make your life last 3 or 4 times as much as lifes used to last around 200 or 300 years in conditions far better.
The CS degree gives you the tools of the trade. The "drive" or "values" (whatever that SUBJECTIVE things are) are a personal trit that nothing has to do with a fscking professional education.
Although you need to be a self learner the basics given by formal education are invaluable. A good scripter normally can't manage to work under the constratints of a big programming porjects. Real programmers can because that is part of the learned trad (serious programmers know about project management, time constrains, working in teams, formal software specification, etc).
In the UK only until you are close to the national average you begin to pay 40% for part of your income. Capital gains tax is even lower (i.e. corps pay little tax). Heck, USian and other foreign companies do not pay VAT.
Are you suggesting that an US company may be using creative accounting in order to keep benefitting from rightist goverment favours (note to USians: all their goverments are rightist).
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His suggestion is how to create clean applications with the technology that we currently have, putting wet dreams about storing object in the database aside.
In todays industry with today's technology that is what counts and for what you get paid.
Go away.
(i did not know either but was waiting for somebody else to ask... heh!).
And lynching while we are at it.
Can you, oh source of wisdom, mention which law they broke? I did not know that falling for an scam was illegal in your place of residence (where is that, the Moon?).
Hell, I also wish I don't have to pay taxes, I dream about ways of hiding my money from the taxman, nevertheless I reluctantly pay my taxes every time. Should I go to jail for wishful thinking?
They may be griddy an unethical people, but that is not a crime until you brake the law.
... helps the effort how, wise boy?
You can't prosecute anybody for the intent of commiting a crime, you can only do it for the commission of one.
At least in civilized countries it is like that.
.... I went to the Post Office to send an small parcel.
After paying and all the formalities I was told to leave it in a counter in full view of everybody (the office was full of people, the workers in the counter could not possibly be chacking that nobody steals the parcels all the time).
My gut feeling said this is silly, nevertheless 3 more people came left their own parcels and left.
Another example? Some big supermarkets here have an scanning system with which yourslef scan the priece of each product of your shooping, then in the cashier you hand over the scanner that is read by the machine that produces your bill. They randomly check people once in a blue moon, but the important part is tha they trust that people will mostly do the right thing.
In some busy train stations you can just take your newspaper and drop your money in collection boxes for that purpose.
Call it childish, but it feels immensily beeter to live in a society where you know you can trust people most of the time.
With GNOME you can write commercial applications without paying anybody a dime (you have to open the source).
With KDE (Via Trolltech's Qt) you have to pay to do the same.
Now Mr. 1Hz, which part of freedom don't you understand?
And ape I am not, although primate I am, Sir. But you are one too. Do you fancy a banana?
The period of time when people decide to use something or not is during those intitial 15 minutes you so much deride.
Provide 15 minutes that are a joy to experience and you have got a new user that will be willing to learn later because he has not been ostracized by the assumptions of the designers.
Provide 15 minutes in which you can't get anything done as a newbie and you have lost an user which will very difficult to turn around to support you in the future.
The decission to concentrate in newbies taking into account that OS projects do not normally have the luxury of usability tests is a decision that is wise and that will pay in the long run.
Does that mean that we can use the newest LCD monitors in portrait mode?
I would like to get one LCD monitor (Voodoo 5 card) but it seems wasteful to do so if I can't use the portrait mode that many of them have available.
Or do you want me to harvest the kidneys of your precious kittens without your permission?
What some people will say to complain about people with a cause...
It is a load of rubish but I like rubish.
Every time Hussein executes somebody with a gun, or that ETA in Spain kills yet another politician, or another robber kills a victim, yeah, they are preventing the violence of those people against them
Absolutely, you hit the nail in the head with that bullet of yours.
.... but it plays chess better than you.
If the computer will pass the moves to a "Real Person"[tm] without you noticing, there is practically absolutely no way for you to know that who is moving is the computer, not the bunch of meat in front of you.
In many narrow fields computers are taking decisions today that used to be taken by humans.
If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and flies like a duck I don't care if it was made in Japan by Sony or if it hatched from an egg.
quacks like a duck,
flies like a duck,
and for all practical purposes it is a duck,
but it is made in Japan by Sony.
I say it is not a duck, it is a machine, a robot, whatever, but it is comparable to the duck.
You'll have to get the best of this Leibnitz guy to convince me that a machine can not have for all practical puposes human-like intellectual capabilities.
1.- Show your evidence for 1 if you can.
2.- That is a vulgar lie. I have used NFS in many different industries (banking, oil, goverment, geography, geophisics, research, graphic design) under many different conditions (from a couple of worwstations in one network up to several thousends machines accessing a few central servers) and it has always been a reliable tool. Since SunOS 4.x by the way. As with any piece of software you'll find the ocassional bug, but not at the scale that you pretend it was,
3.-Hardware failures: you are liying, plain and simple. Right now I am directly responsible for around 70 machines and we see hardware errors around once a month (normally with machines that we are re-using and thus are handled with less care than normally). New machines? Can't remember one incident in the last 4 years.
If your budget is so limited that you have to cram services in the same machine then yes, you should be using cheaper machines. What a joy will be to se your do-it-all servers have a problem and see al you services colapse at the same time just because you are macho enough to keep that CPU usage at 100% utilization (which begs the question, if you are such a fan of avoiding single points of failure, how do you justify to have several vital services in the same box?).
4.- You are completely incompetent. There are no abolutes here, the ease of administration could be a major concern compared to the risk of your box being lost, administering several redundant systems increase administration complexity, no matter how competent your people are. In any case if you have the money and the need to have such a machine I assure you that then you have contingency mechanisms to make sure you can continue working if you lose your machine (normaly replication to an off-site facility).
Those who humbly submit themsleves to any proven evidence (scientists will have no problems to accept religious explanations that are repeatable and verifiable) or those that in spite of repeatable, evident evidence of phenomena decide to ignore it to follow an often poorly understood dogma?
Newton may have been fundmanetlay correct about mathematics and physics, but he is wrong in many other things, this being one of them.
For ages we prayed anw we were the victims of famine and disease.
For a few hundred years we made science and improved the lifes of millions.
Faith healing? Yeah, sure, whatever makes you rock, I have seen more people saved by verifiable applied science than vy unverified alleged "faith" healing.
Keep praying, but surely you take your vaccinations, go to your doctor, and benefit from the research to make your life last 3 or 4 times as much as lifes used to last around 200 or 300 years in conditions far better.
Keep praying.
I mean, bullshit.
The CS degree gives you the tools of the trade. The "drive" or "values" (whatever that SUBJECTIVE things are) are a personal trit that nothing has to do with a fscking professional education.
Although you need to be a self learner the basics given by formal education are invaluable. A good scripter normally can't manage to work under the constratints of a big programming porjects. Real programmers can because that is part of the learned trad (serious programmers know about project management, time constrains, working in teams, formal software specification, etc).
In the UK only until you are close to the national average you begin to pay 40% for part of your income.
Capital gains tax is even lower (i.e. corps pay little tax). Heck, USian and other foreign companies do not pay VAT.
Try something more inventive please.
Promoting a bankrup, expensive, inefficient option (nuclear)?
Or one dirty, unsustainable, non renewable one? (fossil energy).
On top of renewables better design and decreas on consumption are the keys.
Whining at the proposed solutions while offering no credible alternatives is a sure path to damnation.
Are you suggesting that an US company may be using creative accounting in order to keep benefitting from rightist goverment favours (note to USians: all their goverments are rightist).
Battery.
Please, don't thank me, I did it from the goodness of my heart.