Outside of the fact that you have to clean your mop bucket as well. Do you expect the Scooba to work with the existing plumbing? So either the Scooba has to find the toilet (best case as it's closest to the ground and found in every bathroom) and flush it's own waste, or a plumber has to install a waste line on each floor (only required floors of course) of the house at Scooba level?
Please enlighten me to other options that might be simpler. I'll be happy to send it on to iRobot feedback.
Agreed, this is a standard software development problem. I generally see it as the difference between comp scice and comp engineering. Engineers tend to make things that then have to be signed off on - including the bugs. Consider a bridge that would collapse under a 15 ton load. The bridge has to perform to specs or the architect/engineer/company behind will be sued. So what I'm trying to say is that software guarantees should be certified by comp engineers (if you understand me), who have an accountability to what they sign off on. Otherwise, user beware.
Leaving aside the issue of patches, if standard environment variables couldn't solve the non-standard location of things, then it would seem to me you're asking for something akin to the Windows Registry, maybe more elegant, but there doesn't there need to be a standard place to find the information you're seeking. It seems a better solution than getting all distributions/programs/modules/etc to standardize where they should be deployed - users tend to have different ideas about such things anyway. Also, what if you don't use KDE or GNOME?
Just consider that it might be possible the school is trying to prevent "criminal" charges from being pressed. If they don't do anything and just let the justice system deal with it, it could be much more damaging to the student.
Then again, the student sounds like an idiot - I wouldn't protect him from squat.
I think the slashdot mentality is one of fear of the tech because if the megacorps deploying these cards screw it up, we could end up with a system far less secure than we have now.
Even in the ideal example you provide, I STILL need to SEE the receipt to make sure I was charged the right amount for each item. This doesn't guarantee that the system is up-to-date with prices, coupons, rebates, sales, etc. One big beep, and I can get screwed even with all the security measures in place and working properly because the company messed up their inventory system.
I see this scenario most likely in a grocery store where price change is probably more frequent than anywhere else (of course I'm making that statistic up, but it seems likely).
Google on "digital photography cmos chips" found this nice article http://www.dpreview.com/news/0512/05121201new_chip s.asp which explains the benefits and seems to answer some of your questions, althouth I'd suggest salt-to-taste.
If they can get a million or more players on the market within a year or less, movie/tv releases will definitely be on blu-ray because there will be a huge market.
Consider that a million PS3s in no way means that all of the owners are willing to shell out for HD movies.
Rather than update my DVD collection I'd rather find out if it's worth getting a HD cabable TV for an awesome game I'll waste weeks of my life on, rather than some 2 hour movies. I know my kids don't care, they'll watch TV on anything and be happy (including the 5" DVD player in the minivan).
I'm still a SONY fanboy. I love my PS2, and maybe for my Xmas/Birthday I'll be able to swing a PS3. I see a lot of hate out here today, but let's be honest - I'm not ready to hate them for a single delay of their product, and it's only 6 months. There are plenty of I love CELL processor posts, to make me believe the bandwagon riders will be back when the developers get around to unlocking all of the potential in those chips. I can wait for that, there's still plenty of PS2 games I want to play.
As for all the Blu-Ray hype - who gives a f??? Fine, PS3 plays my DVDs but I can't play the games on any other hardware, and that doesn't to be an unusual nor a bad thing. You don't like memory sticks, me neither. But their computers all come with USB ports too - they know how to play the game .
I wouldn't call them idiots, I'd actually call the brave enough to take a stand and try to provide the best solutions. If they want to lock up the format that's their business and things like memory sticks won't stand up to usb thumb drives.
That's a big if, which I assume would require IBM to be the sole provider of all GPLed software. But even in that case with the source code under copyleft - anyone could still get the source and provide support. I do not see how any of this could happen - assuming that the GPL is followed (no abuses).
...makes it much more sensible to use the GPL for software to avoid all the legal problems just like this. Of course I'm fairly ignorant, so if someone can show why even the GPL wouldn't prevent this kind of problem feel free to shoot me down.
If you get to the point where you realize how vital souce control is to your project(s) then I'll assume that you're already bogged down with work and deadlines. In this case start small. Just get your data into CVS or Subversion (for teams put the repository on the LAN/web/Sourceforge/etc)
This first step will lead you to the next - increased communication in the team and good documentation. For documentation I've been please with the ReadySet project at Tigris.org. Start with the basics and work up from there. Bringing a whole team along for the ride is time consuming, challenging and in the end - absolutely necessary (make it part of their objectives if you can).
...George Carlin's theory of stuff. I have a desktop computer at home, and then I go on vacation with my laptop, which I leave in my hotel room. I leave my hotel room with my PDA, which I leave in my car. My PDA stays in the car, and I bring a pencil and notepad to the park where I scribble my deep thoughts.
I'm afraid that being part of the government is not a defacto statement about one's ethical behavior.
All of this information can be abused, and people with power are in the best position to abuse it. Everything has two sides. Guns don't kill, it's the people who use them, and some of those people are using the guns defending me from other people with guns (which is how I like it). If we didn't have guns we'd certainly kill each other by different means, and I'd still want somebody to defend me - I'd be happier if we could all just get along.
I'm sure there could be great and benenficial uses to this information, but a government by the people for the people has to allow for the debate on something as dangerous as this due it's potential abuses. Of course if we all got along, then what would be the need for such a collection of information outside of marketing.
It's a difficult line to walk, but it would be nice if we were all allowed to participate in deciding where the line should be drawn.
but I'm starting to get discouraged now that the already hard to grasp concepts of quantum mechanics are being infused with new more complicated forms. In the end I just want to know if we can teleport ourselves cause I'm tired of my f'ing commute.
I'll agree missing XSLT support is my number one complaint against Opera. It's still the fastest browser around, especially for traversing your link history! But I'd love to see it more extensible the way Firefox is. Little things like iTunes integration with FoxyTunes and ForecastFox are things I constantly use in Firefox and miss in Opera.
So my 2 questions are, when is XSLT support coming? and do you envision opening Opera up for user built extensions.
Additionally, now that they know it's location - any future lunar rovers that are sent can have the mission of further analysis, which would never be a consideration/possibility if no one kept looking for the wreckage.
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When debugging I emphasize the use of "warn" over "print". It's the same syntax, but the warn statements don't get spooled and therefore their timing is quicker.
This is vital when you code just plain blows up. Using "print" means that a statement which got executed before the disaster may not make it to console, thus leading you to believe that it never got executed. "warn" avoids this problem and thus leads you to the problem more accurately. It also makes it easy to globally comment out the warn statements before going releasing the code.
If every comparison between, "an open development process and one with a closed development process is critically flawed", then how can you ever compare them. It seems as if Thompson is picking something that can be measured by the average sysadmin -- maintenance to the system, however it's done -- and showing the differences. Quite possibly the missing information is how much pain is caused from an outside intrusion e.g. virus, malware, rootkit exploit, etc. Sure you update the system when you update the system, but what if it is compromised? That's when the real pain hits. Can it be shown that the Win environment was more or less susceptible to these attacks? Can it be shown what the effects of the slammer worm on each environment would be and what it would take to recover from such an infestation? In the end that's what we're trying to deal with, the acutal catastrophe, not the minor maintenance to try and avoid it (eventually you'll get hit).
I honestly don't care who funded it, it's information that's good to know, and if Linux is more of a pain to maintain that's fine because I don't believe my network is going to get decimated by a Worm (I never assume I'm completely safe because paranoia is an effective motivator:)
I'd also like to comment that while the ACLU/EFF do a great defending our rights against moves such as this, it seems odd that the congress we elect to preserve our rights is the same congress taking money from big business to remove our rights. Does the constitution need a group of lobbyists to protect itself? With all of the supreme court moving lately I've heard a few times how some members of congress get upset when the supreme court comes in to say they've oversetpped their bounds. Waiting for the checks and balances in the system to work themselves out really seems like a pain, but it's our country and if you're going to complain make sure you stand up and fight this type of lunacy.
Find your cause and do more than comment on slashdot.
This has been an issue forever. A mechanical engineer builds a bridge and signs off being made responsible for it. So, my comment is that if you want code made to the same level it should be written by a qualified software engineer in the same vein as other engineering professions. This would make for software, which would be guaranteed under certain operating environments/conditions.
The EULA could then specifically state there is a warantee/guarantee, unlike the standard we're not responsible for anything even though we made it clause.
I agree with you (despite the allegations that cut&paste is different from drag&drop), for right hand mouse usage only. Being ambidextrous and currently using the mouse with my left hand due to tendonitis in the right it becomes very hard to reach that Ctrl X,C,V (especially on an ergonomic keyboard) with my right hand. So all the die hard lefties out there are SOL with this combination.
Yes, let's reward these companies for their abuses of the internet. 500 million reasons to be unscrupulous in business. This is going to make spyware/adware that much worse. Yea, let's here it for best business practices!!!/rant
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Thanks for the book reference! Programmers helping programmers is always a good thing.
Outside of the fact that you have to clean your mop bucket as well. Do you expect the Scooba to work with the existing plumbing? So either the Scooba has to find the toilet (best case as it's closest to the ground and found in every bathroom) and flush it's own waste, or a plumber has to install a waste line on each floor (only required floors of course) of the house at Scooba level?
Please enlighten me to other options that might be simpler. I'll be happy to send it on to iRobot feedback.
Agreed, this is a standard software development problem. I generally see it as the difference between comp scice and comp engineering. Engineers tend to make things that then have to be signed off on - including the bugs. Consider a bridge that would collapse under a 15 ton load. The bridge has to perform to specs or the architect/engineer/company behind will be sued. So what I'm trying to say is that software guarantees should be certified by comp engineers (if you understand me), who have an accountability to what they sign off on. Otherwise, user beware.
Leaving aside the issue of patches, if standard environment variables couldn't solve the non-standard location of things, then it would seem to me you're asking for something akin to the Windows Registry, maybe more elegant, but there doesn't there need to be a standard place to find the information you're seeking. It seems a better solution than getting all distributions/programs/modules/etc to standardize where they should be deployed - users tend to have different ideas about such things anyway. Also, what if you don't use KDE or GNOME?
Just consider that it might be possible the school is trying to prevent "criminal" charges from being pressed. If they don't do anything and just let the justice system deal with it, it could be much more damaging to the student.
Then again, the student sounds like an idiot - I wouldn't protect him from squat.
I think the slashdot mentality is one of fear of the tech because if the megacorps deploying these cards screw it up, we could end up with a system far less secure than we have now.
Even in the ideal example you provide, I STILL need to SEE the receipt to make sure I was charged the right amount for each item. This doesn't guarantee that the system is up-to-date with prices, coupons, rebates, sales, etc. One big beep, and I can get screwed even with all the security measures in place and working properly because the company messed up their inventory system.
I see this scenario most likely in a grocery store where price change is probably more frequent than anywhere else (of course I'm making that statistic up, but it seems likely).
Google on "digital photography cmos chips" found this nice article http://www.dpreview.com/news/0512/05121201new_chip s.asp which explains the benefits and seems to answer some of your questions, althouth I'd suggest salt-to-taste.
If they can get a million or more players on the market within a year or less, movie/tv releases will definitely be on blu-ray because there will be a huge market.
Consider that a million PS3s in no way means that all of the owners are willing to shell out for HD movies.
Rather than update my DVD collection I'd rather find out if it's worth getting a HD cabable TV for an awesome game I'll waste weeks of my life on, rather than some 2 hour movies. I know my kids don't care, they'll watch TV on anything and be happy (including the 5" DVD player in the minivan).
My 2cents.
I'm still a SONY fanboy. I love my PS2, and maybe for my Xmas/Birthday I'll be able to swing a PS3. I see a lot of hate out here today, but let's be honest - I'm not ready to hate them for a single delay of their product, and it's only 6 months. There are plenty of I love CELL processor posts, to make me believe the bandwagon riders will be back when the developers get around to unlocking all of the potential in those chips. I can wait for that, there's still plenty of PS2 games I want to play.
As for all the Blu-Ray hype - who gives a f??? Fine, PS3 plays my DVDs but I can't play the games on any other hardware, and that doesn't to be an unusual nor a bad thing. You don't like memory sticks, me neither. But their computers all come with USB ports too - they know how to play the game .
I wouldn't call them idiots, I'd actually call the brave enough to take a stand and try to provide the best solutions. If they want to lock up the format that's their business and things like memory sticks won't stand up to usb thumb drives.
That's a big if, which I assume would require IBM to be the sole provider of all GPLed software. But even in that case with the source code under copyleft - anyone could still get the source and provide support. I do not see how any of this could happen - assuming that the GPL is followed (no abuses).
...makes it much more sensible to use the GPL for software to avoid all the legal problems just like this. Of course I'm fairly ignorant, so if someone can show why even the GPL wouldn't prevent this kind of problem feel free to shoot me down.
I'm too tired to be righteous.
If you get to the point where you realize how vital souce control is to your project(s) then I'll assume that you're already bogged down with work and deadlines. In this case start small. Just get your data into CVS or Subversion (for teams put the repository on the LAN/web/Sourceforge/etc)
This first step will lead you to the next - increased communication in the team and good documentation. For documentation I've been please with the ReadySet project at Tigris.org. Start with the basics and work up from there. Bringing a whole team along for the ride is time consuming, challenging and in the end - absolutely necessary (make it part of their objectives if you can).
Continue from there
...George Carlin's theory of stuff. I have a desktop computer at home, and then I go on vacation with my laptop, which I leave in my hotel room. I leave my hotel room with my PDA, which I leave in my car. My PDA stays in the car, and I bring a pencil and notepad to the park where I scribble my deep thoughts.
What are you so afraid of?
I'm afraid that being part of the government is not a defacto statement about one's ethical behavior.
All of this information can be abused, and people with power are in the best position to abuse it. Everything has two sides. Guns don't kill, it's the people who use them, and some of those people are using the guns defending me from other people with guns (which is how I like it). If we didn't have guns we'd certainly kill each other by different means, and I'd still want somebody to defend me - I'd be happier if we could all just get along.
I'm sure there could be great and benenficial uses to this information, but a government by the people for the people has to allow for the debate on something as dangerous as this due it's potential abuses. Of course if we all got along, then what would be the need for such a collection of information outside of marketing.
It's a difficult line to walk, but it would be nice if we were all allowed to participate in deciding where the line should be drawn.
but I'm starting to get discouraged now that the already hard to grasp concepts of quantum mechanics are being infused with new more complicated forms. In the end I just want to know if we can teleport ourselves cause I'm tired of my f'ing commute.
I'll agree missing XSLT support is my number one complaint against Opera. It's still the fastest browser around, especially for traversing your link history! But I'd love to see it more extensible the way Firefox is. Little things like iTunes integration with FoxyTunes and ForecastFox are things I constantly use in Firefox and miss in Opera.
So my 2 questions are, when is XSLT support coming? and do you envision opening Opera up for user built extensions.
Additionally, now that they know it's location - any future lunar rovers that are sent can have the mission of further analysis, which would never be a consideration/possibility if no one kept looking for the wreckage.
When debugging I emphasize the use of "warn" over "print". It's the same syntax, but the warn statements don't get spooled and therefore their timing is quicker.
This is vital when you code just plain blows up. Using "print" means that a statement which got executed before the disaster may not make it to console, thus leading you to believe that it never got executed. "warn" avoids this problem and thus leads you to the problem more accurately. It also makes it easy to globally comment out the warn statements before going releasing the code.
Turn in your geek card if you don't want the fastest, coolest, not necessarily worth the money but if I was rich I'd have it, gadgets?
If every comparison between, "an open development process and one with a closed development process is critically flawed", then how can you ever compare them. It seems as if Thompson is picking something that can be measured by the average sysadmin -- maintenance to the system, however it's done -- and showing the differences. Quite possibly the missing information is how much pain is caused from an outside intrusion e.g. virus, malware, rootkit exploit, etc. Sure you update the system when you update the system, but what if it is compromised? That's when the real pain hits. Can it be shown that the Win environment was more or less susceptible to these attacks? Can it be shown what the effects of the slammer worm on each environment would be and what it would take to recover from such an infestation? In the end that's what we're trying to deal with, the acutal catastrophe, not the minor maintenance to try and avoid it (eventually you'll get hit).
:)
I honestly don't care who funded it, it's information that's good to know, and if Linux is more of a pain to maintain that's fine because I don't believe my network is going to get decimated by a Worm (I never assume I'm completely safe because paranoia is an effective motivator
You have been assimilated! (I just couldn't resist, because I know how you feel).
I agree with the smokescreen argument.
I'd also like to comment that while the ACLU/EFF do a great defending our rights against moves such as this, it seems odd that the congress we elect to preserve our rights is the same congress taking money from big business to remove our rights. Does the constitution need a group of lobbyists to protect itself? With all of the supreme court moving lately I've heard a few times how some members of congress get upset when the supreme court comes in to say they've oversetpped their bounds. Waiting for the checks and balances in the system to work themselves out really seems like a pain, but it's our country and if you're going to complain make sure you stand up and fight this type of lunacy.
Find your cause and do more than comment on slashdot.
This has been an issue forever. A mechanical engineer builds a bridge and signs off being made responsible for it. So, my comment is that if you want code made to the same level it should be written by a qualified software engineer in the same vein as other engineering professions. This would make for software, which would be guaranteed under certain operating environments/conditions.
The EULA could then specifically state there is a warantee/guarantee, unlike the standard we're not responsible for anything even though we made it clause.
I agree with you (despite the allegations that cut&paste is different from drag&drop), for right hand mouse usage only. Being ambidextrous and currently using the mouse with my left hand due to tendonitis in the right it becomes very hard to reach that Ctrl X,C,V (especially on an ergonomic keyboard) with my right hand. So all the die hard lefties out there are SOL with this combination.
Yes, let's reward these companies for their abuses of the internet. 500 million reasons to be unscrupulous in business. This is going to make spyware/adware that much worse. Yea, let's here it for best business practices!!! /rant