in Linus's book "Just for Fun" he tells how Finland is often all over the latest/greatest technology product and how everyone understands technology at a reasonable level. From the sounds of this article, it seems that the rest of Europe is the same way, especially given the amount of prosperity over there being greater than that of many parts of North America. Hence, NA, despite being way larger in population, has a much less percentage of people who are tech savvy. I wouldnt blame this entirely on US telecoms, as independent dial up ISPs (and AOL) are available nationwide (the real definition, not Sprint's def). If it were amount of broadband usage that were less, then yes, US telecoms take a large chunk of the blame.
Honestly - I've NEVER seen a manager take that approach. Amazes me that any engineering manager (software or otherwise) would be like that. Or maybe I've been fortunate to have a management well-grounded in software development practices.
hmmm. I used to have the.sig "Offtopic == Moderator doesnt understand joke", linking to an "Offtopic" joke I had made. Methinks I need to reinstate it.
ok, so the full linux kernel map is a bad example because of it's sheer size.
more commonly, you would want to generate sub-graphs instead of the whole thing, unless the system were very small. For example, only display the parts that start at node X and are up to N hops away. Or, only those paths from node A that find their way to node B.
oh, and if you're bug fixing, something like this can come in handy. Let's say you narrow the bug down to a certain point, but it depends on who calls taht function. You can look on the graph for who calls the function where you're at.
Generally, you want to use subsets of graphs, not the whole tamale like in this story.
CIAO from AT&T is a good tool for C/C++/Java. I do work in a research lab that does this type of stuff, and we use CIAO DBs as a backend to some of our work, but it works quite well in it's own right as a visualizer. http://www.research.att.com/~ciao/
if someone were to come along and want to make a change to the kernel, he/she use the graph to determine what other parts of the system may be affected if the change were to be made, in theory leading to a more robust system.
These are used all the time in software re-engineering, and there's an entire research community in software visualization. It's particularly helpful for legacy systems where architectual design or other docs have been lost or are severely outdated.
Have you considered contacting Adobe with regards to correspondence you've had with Mr Stack? They might be interested in (at a minimum) seeing what they've said to you, and your website chronicling the tale is a good start. To me, it's not entirely clear from Adobe's PR what the plaintiffs are actually in complaint of. For you, it's a tool that has the capability to edit ttf files. From the PR, it looks like Acrobat might be ignoring embedding flags when it creates pdf files, but it's not exactly clear. (Note: IANAL)
Curiosity: What was the original purpose of embedding flags in ttfs?
interesting thought, except that it never worked. her phone was loud enough (and also an easily recognized song) that everyone was looking at her after a short time. It was to the point that hearing just the first few notes could draw attention to her.
My phone, for example, plays Mozart, and I often think it's ringing when I hear distinct G tone somewhere (like on TV), even if the phone is on vibrate.
What amazes me are the people who dont realize it's their phone that's ringing. During lecture once last winter, a student's phone started ringing very loudly. The prof normally ignores these, as they usually silence in about 2.4 seconds.
After about 10 secnods, he started to get annoyed. Finally, someone front row center leans over to her bookbag, and takes her sweet time shutting the phone off. The look on her face was "oh, that's my phone!"
The person was in other classes of mine that semester, and was the first of many "oh, that's me" moments. I dont think she made any attempt all term to shut off her phone in a timely manner. We all leave the ringer on every now and then and get a call, but good grief! At least make the effort to shut it off when it does!
back when I was in high school, people used to leave during lunch or simply go out to the lot (they werent allowed, but did so anyway, usually to smoke or otherwise light-up). A bunch of us used to sit in the library watching our cars, and a few had panic buttons on their remotes for car alarms. We'd set them off when people would walk past our cars. It often freaked out whomever was walking past.
kinko is an office copy shop type store here in the US. I've never been to one, but given their context in the article, it sounds like they have computer terminals w/ Internet in their stores.
One does not have AIDS, they have HIV. AIDS is a condition resulting from HIV - the inability to defend one's immune system. Hence, when one has HIV, viruses so incredibly weak can infect the person because of the lack of immune system.
Hence, this drug blocks those viruses, not HIV itself.
just about the same as many of the php/mysql bulletin board systems
that's really all it is, plus a few useful bells and whistles to sell it. We used it for a CS course that had the traditional in-classroom brick-and-mortar component. Probably wouldn't take much effort for the OSS community to come up with an equivalent solution.
I've had one class use WebCT. It's pretty good, though I do now know what it costs.
The teacher would post the syllabus, lecture slides, announcements, solutions, etc to our class's forum, where only students in the class could access it, unlike profs who put all that info on their website for future students to see and cache before taking the course.
Two not-so useful features were the ability to perform multiple-choice quizzes in class and have instant grading, and a chat feature where the TA would schedule sessions. We only had one quiz, and it didnt count (I think the prof was trying it out). As for chat, I never used it, as I never really needed TA assistance.
What I really liked were the ability to upload assignment deliverables to the server, as opposed to emailing the prof and overloading his inbox, using floppies, or printing out stacks of paper. Another biggie were that we could look up our grades at any time for assignments, exams, etc., and also get a comparison to other students in the class on a particular gradable item -- a histogram of grades and descriptive stats on those grades (ie - mean/median/high/low). (I _really_ liked that after the final for that course - I saw that the highest score was 30/35, and that I had a 30.)
it's not the geek admins taht make those decisions, nor do they have any type of serious influence over these types of decisions. It's normally managers and other higher-ups in sudden need to revenue and cash flow that make these types of decisions.
yeah, you're correct, by pulling this type of stunt, mp3 is dying. Fame & non-fortune for the first "MP3 Is Dying!!" troll....
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in Linus's book "Just for Fun" he tells how Finland is often all over the latest/greatest technology product and how everyone understands technology at a reasonable level. From the sounds of this article, it seems that the rest of Europe is the same way, especially given the amount of prosperity over there being greater than that of many parts of North America. Hence, NA, despite being way larger in population, has a much less percentage of people who are tech savvy. I wouldnt blame this entirely on US telecoms, as independent dial up ISPs (and AOL) are available nationwide (the real definition, not Sprint's def). If it were amount of broadband usage that were less, then yes, US telecoms take a large chunk of the blame.
this is one way to feed the BSD is dying trolls....
Honestly - I've NEVER seen a manager take that approach. Amazes me that any engineering manager (software or otherwise) would be like that. Or maybe I've been fortunate to have a management well-grounded in software development practices.
more proof
...has finally gotten through to them -- Security is something that starts from the ground up, not when you reach the top and back down.
hmmm. I used to have the .sig "Offtopic == Moderator doesnt understand joke", linking to an "Offtopic" joke I had made. Methinks I need to reinstate it.
ok, so the full linux kernel map is a bad example because of it's sheer size.
more commonly, you would want to generate sub-graphs instead of the whole thing, unless the system were very small. For example, only display the parts that start at node X and are up to N hops away. Or, only those paths from node A that find their way to node B.
rather than repeat myself, read this thread.
oh, and if you're bug fixing, something like this can come in handy. Let's say you narrow the bug down to a certain point, but it depends on who calls taht function. You can look on the graph for who calls the function where you're at.
Generally, you want to use subsets of graphs, not the whole tamale like in this story.
CIAO from AT&T is a good tool for C/C++/Java. I do work in a research lab that does this type of stuff, and we use CIAO DBs as a backend to some of our work, but it works quite well in it's own right as a visualizer.
http://www.research.att.com/~ciao/
if someone were to come along and want to make a change to the kernel, he/she use the graph to determine what other parts of the system may be affected if the change were to be made, in theory leading to a more robust system.
These are used all the time in software re-engineering, and there's an entire research community in software visualization. It's particularly helpful for legacy systems where architectual design or other docs have been lost or are severely outdated.
Have you considered contacting Adobe with regards to correspondence you've had with Mr Stack? They might be interested in (at a minimum) seeing what they've said to you, and your website chronicling the tale is a good start. To me, it's not entirely clear from Adobe's PR what the plaintiffs are actually in complaint of. For you, it's a tool that has the capability to edit ttf files. From the PR, it looks like Acrobat might be ignoring embedding flags when it creates pdf files, but it's not exactly clear. (Note: IANAL)
Curiosity: What was the original purpose of embedding flags in ttfs?
Arent these the same companies going after the CMU student for his embed tool?
interesting thought, except that it never worked. her phone was loud enough (and also an easily recognized song) that everyone was looking at her after a short time. It was to the point that hearing just the first few notes could draw attention to her.
My phone, for example, plays Mozart, and I often think it's ringing when I hear distinct G tone somewhere (like on TV), even if the phone is on vibrate.
What amazes me are the people who dont realize it's their phone that's ringing. During lecture once last winter, a student's phone started ringing very loudly. The prof normally ignores these, as they usually silence in about 2.4 seconds.
After about 10 secnods, he started to get annoyed. Finally, someone front row center leans over to her bookbag, and takes her sweet time shutting the phone off. The look on her face was "oh, that's my phone!"
The person was in other classes of mine that semester, and was the first of many "oh, that's me" moments. I dont think she made any attempt all term to shut off her phone in a timely manner. We all leave the ringer on every now and then and get a call, but good grief! At least make the effort to shut it off when it does!
back when I was in high school, people used to leave during lunch or simply go out to the lot (they werent allowed, but did so anyway, usually to smoke or otherwise light-up). A bunch of us used to sit in the library watching our cars, and a few had panic buttons on their remotes for car alarms. We'd set them off when people would walk past our cars. It often freaked out whomever was walking past.
kinko is an office copy shop type store here in the US. I've never been to one, but given their context in the article, it sounds like they have computer terminals w/ Internet in their stores.
i think fat tony actually says "4 minutes", and the subtitle over the next scene is "2 minutes later" with barrels and mugs of beer everywhere.
One does not have AIDS, they have HIV. AIDS is a condition resulting from HIV - the inability to defend one's immune system. Hence, when one has HIV, viruses so incredibly weak can infect the person because of the lack of immune system.
Hence, this drug blocks those viruses, not HIV itself.
Do the editors on slashdot ever think before they post links?
everyone but michael. he's also the only one who also fails to think before he speaks too.
just about the same as many of the php/mysql bulletin board systems
that's really all it is, plus a few useful bells and whistles to sell it. We used it for a CS course that had the traditional in-classroom brick-and-mortar component. Probably wouldn't take much effort for the OSS community to come up with an equivalent solution.
it was a CS course on threaded programming
I've had one class use WebCT. It's pretty good, though I do now know what it costs.
The teacher would post the syllabus, lecture slides, announcements, solutions, etc to our class's forum, where only students in the class could access it, unlike profs who put all that info on their website for future students to see and cache before taking the course.
Two not-so useful features were the ability to perform multiple-choice quizzes in class and have instant grading, and a chat feature where the TA would schedule sessions. We only had one quiz, and it didnt count (I think the prof was trying it out). As for chat, I never used it, as I never really needed TA assistance.
What I really liked were the ability to upload assignment deliverables to the server, as opposed to emailing the prof and overloading his inbox, using floppies, or printing out stacks of paper. Another biggie were that we could look up our grades at any time for assignments, exams, etc., and also get a comparison to other students in the class on a particular gradable item -- a histogram of grades and descriptive stats on those grades (ie - mean/median/high/low). (I _really_ liked that after the final for that course - I saw that the highest score was 30/35, and that I had a 30.)
who needs the RIAA around when you have these guys to kill off the MP3?
it's not the geek admins taht make those decisions, nor do they have any type of serious influence over these types of decisions. It's normally managers and other higher-ups in sudden need to revenue and cash flow that make these types of decisions.
yeah, you're correct, by pulling this type of stunt, mp3 is dying. Fame & non-fortune for the first "MP3 Is Dying!!" troll....