Yes, we now have a real villain... and it's not Jar-Jar...
I said in an earlier post that I won't be spending any money on this one. I could change my mind if Jar-Jar gets to spend lovingly detailed time with an interrogation droid. The droid can start with a little tongue pulling and work its way up to drugging, burning, and dismemberment.
"Oh NO!!! Not Meesa's testicles!!!!!!" zzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaappp!
In a year or two it'll show up on the premium movie channels. I'll see it then. I pay for the movie channels anyway. I'm NOT feeding Lucas any cash for this one even if is is the greatest SW ever. EP. 1 and 2 sucked (2 a tad less) and I'm not getting fooled again. Come to think of it, I only rented Ep. 2 (after "New Release" period was over) so I was getting wiser already.
One way this could be done is if all of the 911 services also have a full (area)-xxx-xxxx phone number. You would then alias that to "911" in your VOIP hardware.
The latest and greatest BSD code is NOT part of OS X. That BSD code does not contain Reiser4 and other advances that are being made in Linux and the other BSD trees for that matter. I suppose at some point Apple will snarf all sorts of low level goodness out then current BSD codebases. But then that would take wind of out the "FOSS does not innovate." meme.
With OS X, Apple bit the bullet and made a clean break with their crufty past. They had the Carbon API for a couple of years prior to release which made quite a few apps "OS X ready" from the gitgo. There is the Classic virtual machine for the apps that haven't gotten with the program and everything else is all new and quite a bit saner.
MS should do the same. Chuck the current hopeless mess into a virtual machine and start all over.
Reiser4 seems to have most or maybe even more than what is being touted for WinFS. The bravest among us even run their desktops on it.
Things like SELinux and Xen promise various ways of locking things down that aren't evil and are also here right now. For that matter, support for motherboard crypto will also be here in a month or two. The way that is done will likewise be evil free.
The X.Org people and various projects are also working on 3D accellerated, eyecandylicious, vector desktops even as we speak. KDE4, GNOME, E, and other users of video infrastructure are incorporating these things.
Linux is already faster with new ideas in security and filesystems. As far as desktops go, Linux is developing at least as fast as Windows. Apple is bringing out new desktops faster but they are still riding on a maintained old version of BSD for their infrastructure. They aren't outpacing Linux there.
Tridgell never ran Bitkeeper or downloaded it or any legal way came in contact with McVoy's license. He used standard UNIX tools to develop a way to access developer metadata that McVoy was (VERY improperly) laying claim to. Tridgell never had a copy of Bitkeeper so what code or license was being trampled on?
They can start by separting Filemaker into self contained parts with a sane API for those parts to communicate with each other. Right now Filemaker is an unholy glop of database, networking, and GUI widget code that is tied together worse than even Win32 + ActiveX.
I wouldn't have a problem with that if apps implemented on it were contained to small LANs with no more than 10 users. I wouldn't have a problem with that if Filemaker apps were only proof on concepts which will be redeveloped on scalable technology. I've seen Filemaker apps deployed across large networks with 50 or more users. Every such app I've seen has been slow, chatty, unstable disaster. A big reason for that is that bugs trace back into that unseparated glopped together mess.
Its Apple's version of Access. We all know what happens when SQL server scaleup time comes and the app isn't retooled for it.
For $5000 dollars, I'd expect to be able to use any piece of software I damn well please. For that amount of money, I decide what "bona-fide software" from "bona-fide" developers is.
Exactly. I wasn't advocating that sort of thing at all. I'm thinking more along the lines of tersely documented document headers and some explanation when the developer feels excessive cleverness is called for. Comments don't have to be and shouldn't be a stream of consciousness.
Another situation where they're called for is if working around brokeness elsewhere is necessary. Without knowing the problem being worked around, it won't be clear why apparantly baroque code was used. I just don't accept the "comments are almost never necessary" school of thought. Code often has to be adapted to external realities that won't be apparent from the code itself.
Remove the harddrive and plug in a fullsize IDE adaptor. Make it a slave or secondary drive in a desktop machine. You'll get a much more effective defrag this way because very little or none of the drive will be in use.
A less extreme version of this would be use a BART-PE CD to defrag the drive in-situ. If that doesn't work, then backup the data and reinstall.
The owner of the laptop is seriously asking for it if some maintenance isn't done to it ASAP.
And that my friends, is true innovation! Let someone else come up with a good idea and then implement a feature identical replacement.
That is the history of all technology starting from Ogg The Caveman bashing his kill with a stick and Argh seeing it and trying it with a rock.
Bitkeeper itself copies functionality and ideas from older SCMs; it didn't arise in a vacuum. And we all know the one about how Xerox invented the point and click GUI except that they really didn't either.
If the code does not speak for itself, it is bad code and should be rewritten.
Is that truly universal? What if a really ugly regex is the most efficient way to get something done? What if the code in question implements a not immediately apparant algorithm? As far as algorithms go some rely on some rather hairy math that not everybody has minored in mathematics to understand. In situations like that, the last thing we need are arrogant programmers who think their code is so elegant as to not need comments.
Nope but I did google for it after you mentioned it. I rather like the idea of humansicles being cannon-fodder draftees. I bet Walt would be highly surprised to wake up a boot camp that makes Parris Island look like Disneyland;-).
You've put yourself at the mercy of the future's denizens. It is commonly assumed that society and technology is progressing towards some sort of utopia where there is little crime, little disease, and a highly advanced social justice prevails. The only reasonably safe assumption is advances in the physical sciences and technology. Our history has already demonstrated that ethics and morality progresses much more slowly than our technology. I think waking up in a DIStopia is far more likely. That is if they permit you to wake up at all.
One, for every problem solved by technology others are introduced. To someone frozen in the early 1800s, this would be a strange and wondrous time. It would be no paradise though.
Two, our hypothetical 1800s thawee would need a lot of education to get by in our world. There are a lot of things schools don't teach because you pick them up growing up in a typical household. I never took a class on operating remote controls for instance. Even assuming our thawee is open-minded, intelligent, and adaptable it will still be a long and expensive process to make him functional in our society.
Three, if enough time has passed then the thawee finds himself in a world where all of his friends and family are dead. Education or not, he probably won't relate well with most people he encounters. It could be a very lonely existance.
Four, the world to come will have it's own problems. A multitude of frozen people from the past expecting to wake up in a land of milk and honey will be seen as adding to them. Never waking them up will be an option. For that matter, just dumping the human-sicles in the ocean might be another. Paradise nothing. You'll be lucky if they decide to wake you up in the first place.
So there you are, you probably thawed yourself with the idea that the interest on your fortune would cure whatever disease you had and pay for your way in a brave new world. If you're lucky, all they'll do is take your fortune and make you a kind of lonely welfare recipient. On the other hand, if you're going to die anyway and the suspended animation really works then it's just a gamble where you don't have anything to lose.
They don't really have prisons. They have jails which is just a place to store you for a short time before they either fine, spank, or kill you.
That style of justice is nothing new. Prisons were originally meant as a reform for that type of system. I'm not so sure that it is superior; it surely is much more expensive for arguably worse results.
Or it would just make it even harder to get rid of evil people with good networking skills. Right now, no matter how bad an evil dictator or tycoon is you can at least count on the fact that someday the bastard will die.
Any advance in longevity technologies will have to be accompanied by advances in assassin tech.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was originally an underground comic book. They weren't nice surfer dude turtles either. Bloody decapitations were common. The cartoon was only the START of that going downhill.....
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Yes, we now have a real villain... and it's not Jar-Jar...
I said in an earlier post that I won't be spending any money on this one. I could change my mind if Jar-Jar gets to spend lovingly detailed time with an interrogation droid. The droid can start with a little tongue pulling and work its way up to drugging, burning, and dismemberment.
"Oh NO!!! Not Meesa's testicles!!!!!!" zzzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaappp!
In a year or two it'll show up on the premium movie channels. I'll see it then. I pay for the movie channels anyway. I'm NOT feeding Lucas any cash for this one even if is is the greatest SW ever. EP. 1 and 2 sucked (2 a tad less) and I'm not getting fooled again. Come to think of it, I only rented Ep. 2 (after "New Release" period was over) so I was getting wiser already.
One way this could be done is if all of the 911 services also have a full (area)-xxx-xxxx phone number. You would then alias that to "911" in your VOIP hardware.
The latest and greatest BSD code is NOT part of OS X. That BSD code does not contain Reiser4 and other advances that are being made in Linux and the other BSD trees for that matter. I suppose at some point Apple will snarf all sorts of low level goodness out then current BSD codebases. But then that would take wind of out the "FOSS does not innovate." meme.
With OS X, Apple bit the bullet and made a clean break with their crufty past. They had the Carbon API for a couple of years prior to release which made quite a few apps "OS X ready" from the gitgo. There is the Classic virtual machine for the apps that haven't gotten with the program and everything else is all new and quite a bit saner.
MS should do the same. Chuck the current hopeless mess into a virtual machine and start all over.
Reiser4 seems to have most or maybe even more than what is being touted for WinFS. The bravest among us even run their desktops on it.
Things like SELinux and Xen promise various ways of locking things down that aren't evil and are also here right now. For that matter, support for motherboard crypto will also be here in a month or two. The way that is done will likewise be evil free.
The X.Org people and various projects are also working on 3D accellerated, eyecandylicious, vector desktops even as we speak. KDE4, GNOME, E, and other users of video infrastructure are incorporating these things.
Linux is already faster with new ideas in security and filesystems. As far as desktops go, Linux is developing at least as fast as Windows. Apple is bringing out new desktops faster but they are still riding on a maintained old version of BSD for their infrastructure. They aren't outpacing Linux there.
HP's widely supported Printer Control Language?
All of the major FOSS operating systems support PCL quite well.
Or you can just run your collection through Hymn and dispense with that stupid dance permanently.
It's buried in a corner of the X-Strike Force webserver. It's titled "The_Real_Motto.jpg" or something like that.
Tridgell never ran Bitkeeper or downloaded it or any legal way came in contact with McVoy's license. He used standard UNIX tools to develop a way to access developer metadata that McVoy was (VERY improperly) laying claim to. Tridgell never had a copy of Bitkeeper so what code or license was being trampled on?
They can start by separting Filemaker into self contained parts with a sane API for those parts to communicate with each other. Right now Filemaker is an unholy glop of database, networking, and GUI widget code that is tied together worse than even Win32 + ActiveX.
I wouldn't have a problem with that if apps implemented on it were contained to small LANs with no more than 10 users. I wouldn't have a problem with that if Filemaker apps were only proof on concepts which will be redeveloped on scalable technology. I've seen Filemaker apps deployed across large networks with 50 or more users. Every such app I've seen has been slow, chatty, unstable disaster. A big reason for that is that bugs trace back into that unseparated glopped together mess.
Its Apple's version of Access. We all know what happens when SQL server scaleup time comes and the app isn't retooled for it.
For $5000 dollars, I'd expect to be able to use any piece of software I damn well please. For that amount of money, I decide what "bona-fide software" from "bona-fide" developers is.
Exactly. I wasn't advocating that sort of thing at all. I'm thinking more along the lines of tersely documented document headers and some explanation when the developer feels excessive cleverness is called for. Comments don't have to be and shouldn't be a stream of consciousness.
Another situation where they're called for is if working around brokeness elsewhere is necessary. Without knowing the problem being worked around, it won't be clear why apparantly baroque code was used. I just don't accept the "comments are almost never necessary" school of thought. Code often has to be adapted to external realities that won't be apparent from the code itself.
Remove the harddrive and plug in a fullsize IDE adaptor. Make it a slave or secondary drive in a desktop machine. You'll get a much more effective defrag this way because very little or none of the drive will be in use.
A less extreme version of this would be use a BART-PE CD to defrag the drive in-situ. If that doesn't work, then backup the data and reinstall.
The owner of the laptop is seriously asking for it if some maintenance isn't done to it ASAP.
And that my friends, is true innovation! Let someone else come up with a good idea and then implement a feature identical replacement.
That is the history of all technology starting from Ogg The Caveman bashing his kill with a stick and Argh seeing it and trying it with a rock.
Bitkeeper itself copies functionality and ideas from older SCMs; it didn't arise in a vacuum. And we all know the one about how Xerox invented the point and click GUI except that they really didn't either.
If the code does not speak for itself, it is bad code and should be rewritten.
Is that truly universal? What if a really ugly regex is the most efficient way to get something done? What if the code in question implements a not immediately apparant algorithm? As far as algorithms go some rely on some rather hairy math that not everybody has minored in mathematics to understand. In situations like that, the last thing we need are arrogant programmers who think their code is so elegant as to not need comments.
IBM and MS can pay those fees out of what they find in the couch cushions. They provide no disincentive for abusing the patent system.
Nope but I did google for it after you mentioned it. I rather like the idea of humansicles being cannon-fodder draftees. I bet Walt would be highly surprised to wake up a boot camp that makes Parris Island look like Disneyland ;-).
You've put yourself at the mercy of the future's denizens. It is commonly assumed that society and technology is progressing towards some sort of utopia where there is little crime, little disease, and a highly advanced social justice prevails. The only reasonably safe assumption is advances in the physical sciences and technology. Our history has already demonstrated that ethics and morality progresses much more slowly than our technology. I think waking up in a DIStopia is far more likely. That is if they permit you to wake up at all.
One, for every problem solved by technology others are introduced. To someone frozen in the early 1800s, this would be a strange and wondrous time. It would be no paradise though.
Two, our hypothetical 1800s thawee would need a lot of education to get by in our world. There are a lot of things schools don't teach because you pick them up growing up in a typical household. I never took a class on operating remote controls for instance. Even assuming our thawee is open-minded, intelligent, and adaptable it will still be a long and expensive process to make him functional in our society.
Three, if enough time has passed then the thawee finds himself in a world where all of his friends and family are dead. Education or not, he probably won't relate well with most people he encounters. It could be a very lonely existance.
Four, the world to come will have it's own problems. A multitude of frozen people from the past expecting to wake up in a land of milk and honey will be seen as adding to them. Never waking them up will be an option. For that matter, just dumping the human-sicles in the ocean might be another. Paradise nothing. You'll be lucky if they decide to wake you up in the first place.
So there you are, you probably thawed yourself with the idea that the interest on your fortune would cure whatever disease you had and pay for your way in a brave new world. If you're lucky, all they'll do is take your fortune and make you a kind of lonely welfare recipient. On the other hand, if you're going to die anyway and the suspended animation really works then it's just a gamble where you don't have anything to lose.
They don't really have prisons. They have jails which is just a place to store you for a short time before they either fine, spank, or kill you.
That style of justice is nothing new. Prisons were originally meant as a reform for that type of system. I'm not so sure that it is superior; it surely is much more expensive for arguably worse results.
Or it would just make it even harder to get rid of evil people with good networking skills. Right now, no matter how bad an evil dictator or tycoon is you can at least count on the fact that someday the bastard will die.
Any advance in longevity technologies will have to be accompanied by advances in assassin tech.
I like the idea of installing the brain in a big body bristling with military equipment even better.
"Now who's kicking who around?"
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was originally an underground comic book. They weren't nice surfer dude turtles either. Bloody decapitations were common. The cartoon was only the START of that going downhill.....
I don't EVER want to see this just when the movie is getting really good: ...buffering 20% ...buffering 22% .........