We've been amazed how this has taken off as a new item when there's so much to do before making decent usable pictures.
The Otago Polytechnic students who came up with the idea of ramming the camera into the end of a ball have been working on a much more interesting project (imho) of creating a pressure sensing system inside the tiny pads that some rugby players wear.
Hopefully Dr Samuel Mann, the supervisor of the students that are playing with this will drop in with a note.
Dave
There's a lot of worry about all kinds of irrational things here - some people even seem to be saying that programmers won't be able to programme without having some kind of cert - absolute FUD!
All the IEEE seem to be doing is codifying current 'best practices' in software engineering in a similar manner to the Project Management Institutes (ANSI std) "Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge"
SE *is* project management as far as I've experienced it, or a subset. No-one with any sense would ever suggest that stds will prevent cockups in projects - but being totally ignorant of what many considers best practices will make you more likely to stuff things up.
I really can't see why developers get so upset about groups trying to put up hand-rails and guidelines for managing large projects.
If you're sitting coding up a wee access database for a mate or writing a little bash script to check your logs then you don't need them - but projects of a larger scale, involving many organisations and multiple teams DO benefit from guidelines.
Dave
yeah - the documentation sux^h^h^h is often less
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I really appreciate those that try to develop the man & info pages (man ain't dead!) but I'm afraid that it somply doesn't compare to the quality of the material available when working on a commercial unix system (I'm thinking of AIX & Digital Unix (now tru/64 I think)).
Documentation is not as sexy as writing the code - the documentation exists in many forms but the quality jut isn't there when compared to systems that people pay money for.
(non-referenced) Research aside... I think you'll find that more revolutions have been attributed to coffee houses than to tea drinking. Don't forget that the little squabble in boston wasn't about drinking tea - just the purchase price (IIRC). Coffee houses have been the meeting pllace of rebels & somewhere to whinge about govt's for ages (and where insurance schemes started I think)
I wonder if that's because coffee really does make you think more about your situation... or does it just make you pissed off with those in control.
I really REALLY doubt this. It's been quite a while since most internet users have been american, and this forum is very popular with tech-heads in general. Nope - I'd be very surprised if most readers were in the states - I'd even be surprised if most respondents, or even registered members were in the states.
I'm one of the small wee majority who are NOT up on the american education system. Could someone enlighten me as to what an AP is (high school certificate??) and where it fits in the whole scheme of things
Dave Bremer DipTch, BEd, PGDA(educ), Dip Grad(comp sci), A+, MCP, CNA, and ignorant of AP
But how big a grain of salt?
And how many angels can fit on it... oh that's a needle... that too
If I slap you - is THAT the sound of one hand clapping?
Why?
Should I go back to my novell books now?
It's a bit like old Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (quick link from google). Which basically says you can't expect someone to work as a team member (level 3) when they're having their house re-possessed (level 2). Retention is a bit like that I guess.
I'm unsure whether you understand the nature of DTD's. They are the foundation - the very fabric of any SGML document type, of which i believe html is one. DTD doesn't specify something as detailed and subjective as a particular font - DTD's define the entire NATURE of the document.
I can assure you that IT managers are open to the idea of changing Office systems. At least in NZ - I've personally had several discussions with management about it, and the word from friends in IT in other places is similar. Do I have formal statistics? no.
Paramount is cost (phrases like TOC) and maintenance. Quite frankly MS have so far been one of the best Office products both politicly AND functionally (nb the word BOTH).
There has been a dramatic lack of uptake of Office 2000 here because there is no percieved need for it - I'm guessing that MS are considering subscriptions because large companies are NOT upgrading applications automatically any more.
StarOffice probably won't be accepted by General Management simply because it is free - but Lotus sure does have an opening now.
...in about, oh, one year I bet a whole bunch of pissed-off IT managers move to StarOffice on a real (Solaris/Linux/BSD/HP) platform.
It need not be on a *nix platform. Moving an office package costs one hell of a lot less than changing workstation OS's - but I think you're right, this would cause a LOT of IT depts to consider StarOffice, Lotus... maybe even WordPerfect (is it still around?)
<i>If almost no one is allowed to use them, the general consumer will likely be unaware that they exist</i><P>
That's a good point. There are a LOT of people out there that don't realise that the dot-us TLD exists simply because no-one uses it.
nope - it's 4d all right. I was fooled for a bit too
each row could be stacked into a 3d block - a single row gives you X, Y & Z movements... but the columns change the number of dimensions a tad, and in a rather elegant fashion (imho)
if you don't believe me then just try building a physical model that has the same topological adjacenies as that maze
Does anyone have some links to the real comparisons of usage of the various IM's? If they're simply counting "registered users" then that isn't really good enough. I've registered several times to try out new versions of AIM (and the MS one, and I think I've a few on novell's InstantME - AIM by another name I think) but I continue to use ICQ. I'm sure AIM has some presence in the IM area but I can't believe that they are most dominant. Something like number of users within w week/month using it or number of messages in a period would be good
I'm also on the download.com mail list which gives out the top 10 downloads each week. ICQ has been in the top few each week for well over a year - AIM just doesn't feature. There's no way AIM is the most common.
The Govt hasn't cracked it (and the article implies they tried - or at least wanted to)
A laptop that old was capable of running algorithms in a reasonably useful time that were of significant complexity to stump the NSA. I mean - how useful is it to have it take a day to encrypt one doc - Kevin might be paranoid but he would have wanted someCPU-time left in the day rather than totally dedicated to a ground-breaking new encryption
Something stinks about this whole thing. I suspect a rat making up stories to set a precedent.
We really do need something like: Score -2 (Ignorant of issues, abusive devoid of content) A score of zero is just too damned high Is everyone here an idiot? (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18, @02:56PM EST (#235) Jeez...you people are all a bunch of GNU idiots. Create one standard and Microsoft will quickly control it. Who in the hell is going to download ICQ, or AIM, or anything else, when Windows comes with an instant messaging client built in? And you wonder how Microsoft has so much power in the computer industry when they have idiots like you backing 'the competition'. It's thinking like this that destroyed Novell. All Microsoft had to do is replace Novells client (by shipping it with Windows 95), then bye-bye Novell. Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank. Damn you people live in a dream world. I feel really sick...I think I'll go buy some Microsoft stock.
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The Otago Polytechnic students who came up with the idea of ramming the camera into the end of a ball have been working on a much more interesting project (imho) of creating a pressure sensing system inside the tiny pads that some rugby players wear.
Hopefully Dr Samuel Mann, the supervisor of the students that are playing with this will drop in with a note. Dave
All the IEEE seem to be doing is codifying current 'best practices' in software engineering in a similar manner to the Project Management Institutes (ANSI std) "Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge"
SE *is* project management as far as I've experienced it, or a subset. No-one with any sense would ever suggest that stds will prevent cockups in projects - but being totally ignorant of what many considers best practices will make you more likely to stuff things up.
I really can't see why developers get so upset about groups trying to put up hand-rails and guidelines for managing large projects.
If you're sitting coding up a wee access database for a mate or writing a little bash script to check your logs then you don't need them - but projects of a larger scale, involving many organisations and multiple teams DO benefit from guidelines.
Dave
I really appreciate those that try to develop the man & info pages (man ain't dead!) but I'm afraid that it somply doesn't compare to the quality of the material available when working on a commercial unix system (I'm thinking of AIX & Digital Unix (now tru/64 I think)).
Documentation is not as sexy as writing the code - the documentation exists in many forms but the quality jut isn't there when compared to systems that people pay money for.
Dave
I wonder if that's because coffee really does make you think more about your situation ... or does it just make you pissed off with those in control.
now where's my coffee & rifle ....
I really REALLY doubt this. It's been quite a while since most internet users have been american, and this forum is very popular with tech-heads in general. Nope - I'd be very surprised if most readers were in the states - I'd even be surprised if most respondents, or even registered members were in the states.
Dave Bremer DipTch, BEd, PGDA(educ), Dip Grad(comp sci), A+, MCP, CNA, and ignorant of AP
But how big a grain of salt? ... oh that's a needle ... that too
And how many angels can fit on it
If I slap you - is THAT the sound of one hand clapping?
Why?
Should I go back to my novell books now?
but the post stated ...
Oh well - just being pedantic I guess - or was JK a little over eager for the front page after allIt's a bit like old Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (quick link from google). Which basically says you can't expect someone to work as a team member (level 3) when they're having their house re-possessed (level 2). Retention is a bit like that I guess.
I like Orson Scott Card's take on this issue he's talking about programmers rather than sys-admin's but I think there are similarities.
I'm unsure whether you understand the nature of DTD's. They are the foundation - the very fabric of any SGML document type, of which i believe html is one. DTD doesn't specify something as detailed and subjective as a particular font - DTD's define the entire NATURE of the document.
Paramount is cost (phrases like TOC) and maintenance. Quite frankly MS have so far been one of the best Office products both politicly AND functionally (nb the word BOTH).
There has been a dramatic lack of uptake of Office 2000 here because there is no percieved need for it - I'm guessing that MS are considering subscriptions because large companies are NOT upgrading applications automatically any more.
StarOffice probably won't be accepted by General Management simply because it is free - but Lotus sure does have an opening now.
It need not be on a *nix platform. Moving an office package costs one hell of a lot less than changing workstation OS's - but I think you're right, this would cause a LOT of IT depts to consider StarOffice, Lotus ... maybe even WordPerfect (is it still around?)
forgot to pre-view and change the format didn't i!
<i>If almost no one is allowed to use them, the general consumer will likely be unaware that they exist</i><P>
That's a good point. There are a LOT of people out there that don't realise that the dot-us TLD exists simply because no-one uses it.
each row could be stacked into a 3d block - a single row gives you X, Y & Z movements ... but the columns change the number of dimensions a tad, and in a rather elegant fashion (imho)
if you don't believe me then just try building a physical model that has the same topological adjacenies as that maze
Dave
I'm also on the download.com mail list which gives out the top 10 downloads each week. ICQ has been in the top few each week for well over a year - AIM just doesn't feature. There's no way AIM is the most common.
Consider this:
Something stinks about this whole thing. I suspect a rat making up stories to set a precedent.
This looks like it:
http://douglas.min.net/~drw/y2k1.gif
We really do need something like: Score -2 (Ignorant of issues, abusive devoid of content) A score of zero is just too damned high Is everyone here an idiot? (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18, @02:56PM EST (#235) Jeez...you people are all a bunch of GNU idiots. Create one standard and Microsoft will quickly control it. Who in the hell is going to download ICQ, or AIM, or anything else, when Windows comes with an instant messaging client built in? And you wonder how Microsoft has so much power in the computer industry when they have idiots like you backing 'the competition'. It's thinking like this that destroyed Novell. All Microsoft had to do is replace Novells client (by shipping it with Windows 95), then bye-bye Novell. Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank. Damn you people live in a dream world. I feel really sick...I think I'll go buy some Microsoft stock.