You see there is this part of the government called the Federal Communications Commission. It is their job to make sure that all of those nifty wireless devices; like Radios, Walkie-talkies, Cell Phones, Wi-Fi Internet Access points, Cordless Phones, Television Signals, Very Low Frequency Transmissions, Satellite Signals and just about every other way to communicate wirelessly are able to do their thing without interfering with one another.
Hunh. And all this time I thought the FCC's job was to harass Howard Stern.
Huh? Absolutely not! GPL doesn't have anything to do with the input and output of GPL'ed programs, only with the code. Code compiled with gcc is definitely not GPL'ed (unless you license it that way, of course).
But a program built using GCC will most likely link to its runtime libraries, which are GPLed, aren't they?
Either concessions need to be made, or there will be conflict. How those concessions should be made is not stated, but the alternative to making concessions is likely to be worse for everyone.
Funny that you should have used the American Revolution as an alleged example of this, as it seems to me that in fact this is a case where the results were better for everyone - or, at the very least, better for the United States.
Populations, however, do not reach the line by steadily growing in number and tapering off, treating the carrying capacity as an asymptote. Think of the line as a horizontal line on a graph, the horizontal axis representing time, the virtical representing population. Population grows with an exponential function until it overshoots the carrying capacity, then it starts to die off until it is below the capacity. The population level oscillates around this level with a logarithmic function, looking somewhat similar to a sine wave, and as time goes to infinity, the oscillations become smaller and closer to the carrying capacity.
This is a fact of nature. It happens with mice, antelope, fish, bacteria, and apes. Why would people think it wouldn't happen to humans?
Perhaps because it has already been shown not to be the case? Look at the historical population of the US, or Europe. Did either of these places experience massive die-offs before leveling to near ZPG? If so, it's been covered up awfully well...
sounds like a good excuse to re-test what they can do.
Huh? If the Navy wanted to perform tests of the F-18, they wouldn't need to make up some cockamamie cover story - they'd just fire one up over at Miramar and test the damned thing.
That's insulting to programmers everywhere. The business requirements state why the software is needed. The specification addresses what the software will do. That still leaves the question of how the software will be implemented so as to meet the specification. In any non-trivial programming language, there are many, many ways to write a piece of code that will perform a given function. Even with excellent, detailed specs, there's still a lot of thought that goes into how to write a good program. To say "it's just data entry" implies to me that you've never actually done programming on a project of any significant magnitude.
Put the pertinent information in a WikiWikiWeb, then any of your admins can access or add info from any web browser that can see the Wiki server. Plus the whole idea of Wiki is so neat that they'll want to use it and watch it grow.
There is nothing more disingenuous in this article than Nathan Myhrvold's statement that: "Software sucks because users demand it to." Talk about shifting the blame. Take some fucking responsibility, fat pig.
Why should he? He's right. Customers buy what's cheap, and available soonest, and works well enough. In general, it seems they're not willing to wait, or pay more, to get better quality. If you are, then feel free to buy someone else's product!
Time required to load GEOS on a C64 - 5 minutes Time required to load DOS + Windows 3.1 on a 486 - 5 minutes Time requiree to load WinXP on a P3 - 3 minutes Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
Time required to load Commodore KERNAL and BASIC 2.0 on a C64 - 5 seconds...;-P
Also, I don't quite get your math... 0-40 in ~4 seconds, and then another 6 seconds to get to 60? Does it feel like the engine cuts out, or is there a different technique involved, or what is it that I'm missing?
It's a diesel, so it makes lots of torque at low RPM, but doesn't have much of a top end (and therefore not as much power, since power is proportional to torque times RPM). So you get moving quickly, but after that the acceleration falls off. Diesels tend to work best in situations where you want high efficiency at a relatively constant speed - thus their use in electric generators, locomotives, long-haul trucks, etc. (Any why you don't see any diesel-powered 'Vettes, for instance.)
So I suppose that, to you, baseball is not a sport, for example? After all, most of the time the players are just standing there like lumps. A golfer has to walk several miles around the course as well as hit the ball.
I, for one, actually OWN a legitimate copy of every CD I have. That doesn't mean I don't need or want an extra copy for myself. Not everyone who is against copy-protection is stealing music, which is what lovely folks like the RIAA seem to forget.
They haven't forgotten it. They and the record companies want to make you buy a copy for home, and one for the car. That way, they only have to work half as hard to find new music acts to record.
Two agents walk up to a park bench and sit. Never talking, exchanging anything or touching. They sit for 1/3 hour while the secrets are copied from one to the the other. (and if they are double agents the transfer will be bi-directional) Then they get up an leave.
Man, the CIA and FBI will hate that...
I know this was supposed to be a joke, but seriously - do you think the various Three-Letter Agencies aren't going to try and surveil all this data somehow?
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Hunh. And all this time I thought the FCC's job was to harass Howard Stern.
Huh? Absolutely not! GPL doesn't have anything to do with the input and output of GPL'ed programs, only with the code. Code compiled with gcc is definitely not GPL'ed (unless you license it that way, of course).
But a program built using GCC will most likely link to its runtime libraries, which are GPLed, aren't they?
Either concessions need to be made, or there will be conflict. How those concessions should be made is not stated, but the alternative to making concessions is likely to be worse for everyone.
Funny that you should have used the American Revolution as an alleged example of this, as it seems to me that in fact this is a case where the results were better for everyone - or, at the very least, better for the United States.
Populations, however, do not reach the line by steadily growing in number and tapering off, treating the carrying capacity as an asymptote. Think of the line as a horizontal line on a graph, the horizontal axis representing time, the virtical representing population. Population grows with an exponential function until it overshoots the carrying capacity, then it starts to die off until it is below the capacity. The population level oscillates around this level with a logarithmic function, looking somewhat similar to a sine wave, and as time goes to infinity, the oscillations become smaller and closer to the carrying capacity.
This is a fact of nature. It happens with mice, antelope, fish, bacteria, and apes. Why would people think it wouldn't happen to humans?
Perhaps because it has already been shown not to be the case? Look at the historical population of the US, or Europe. Did either of these places experience massive die-offs before leveling to near ZPG? If so, it's been covered up awfully well...
Huh? If the Navy wanted to perform tests of the F-18, they wouldn't need to make up some cockamamie cover story - they'd just fire one up over at Miramar and test the damned thing.
That's insulting to programmers everywhere. The business requirements state why the software is needed. The specification addresses what the software will do. That still leaves the question of how the software will be implemented so as to meet the specification. In any non-trivial programming language, there are many, many ways to write a piece of code that will perform a given function. Even with excellent, detailed specs, there's still a lot of thought that goes into how to write a good program. To say "it's just data entry" implies to me that you've never actually done programming on a project of any significant magnitude.
Put the pertinent information in a WikiWikiWeb, then any of your admins can access or add info from any web browser that can see the Wiki server. Plus the whole idea of Wiki is so neat that they'll want to use it and watch it grow.
There is nothing more disingenuous in this article than Nathan Myhrvold's statement that: "Software sucks because users demand it to." Talk about shifting the blame. Take some fucking responsibility, fat pig.
Why should he? He's right. Customers buy what's cheap, and available soonest, and works well enough. In general, it seems they're not willing to wait, or pay more, to get better quality. If you are, then feel free to buy someone else's product!
...let's hear more about this "5-by-10 inch laptop"!
but I reminded him that a Mac 10 is what the REAL action heroes use.
According to Tom Clancy, real action heroes use these.
Why not make tax cuts even, across the board, for all income levels?
Sure, that would be fair - that is, if taxes were even, across the board, for all income levels...
Gonads in the LIGHTNING!!!! In the LIGHTNING!!!! ;-)
Time required to load GEOS on a C64 - 5 minutes
;-P
Time required to load DOS + Windows 3.1 on a 486 - 5 minutes
Time requiree to load WinXP on a P3 - 3 minutes
Time required to load Red Hat on a P3 workstation - 5 minutes...
Time required to load Commodore KERNAL and BASIC 2.0 on a C64 - 5 seconds...
Also, I don't quite get your math... 0-40 in ~4 seconds, and then another 6 seconds to get to 60? Does it feel like the engine cuts out, or is there a different technique involved, or what is it that I'm missing?
It's a diesel, so it makes lots of torque at low RPM, but doesn't have much of a top end (and therefore not as much power, since power is proportional to torque times RPM). So you get moving quickly, but after that the acceleration falls off. Diesels tend to work best in situations where you want high efficiency at a relatively constant speed - thus their use in electric generators, locomotives, long-haul trucks, etc. (Any why you don't see any diesel-powered 'Vettes, for instance.)
Make that a 180 (non-g) and I'd pretty much agree. I can't stand graffiti, and the 90/180/270 keypad is surprisingly usable.
So I suppose that, to you, baseball is not a sport, for example? After all, most of the time the players are just standing there like lumps. A golfer has to walk several miles around the course as well as hit the ball.
They haven't forgotten it. They and the record companies want to make you buy a copy for home, and one for the car. That way, they only have to work half as hard to find new music acts to record.
Um, I believe this was the whole idea behind RDRAM - that it does have the necessary bandwidth. (Latency, of course, is another issue.)
...and here I always thought it was "Knights In Satan's Service". Y'know, with that scary makeup and all.
And if we use rusty nails - instant bioweapons for the whole army!
C'mon, I thought the "Beowulf cluster" joke was obligatory?
...and jetpacks. Where the hell's my jetpack?
Actually, there's another one, that runs between Treasure Island and the Mirage.
Man, the CIA and FBI will hate that...
I know this was supposed to be a joke, but seriously - do you think the various Three-Letter Agencies aren't going to try and surveil all this data somehow?
Oh yeah? Maybe we should send Colin Ferguson over there. :-/