As it is - it could be useful for strange locations.
We talk about humvees being the all terrain vehicle, but in the end - the ability to "port" the vehicle (carry by hand) is what makes a vehicle trully All terrain.
a mono wheel maximized diameter while minimizing size - it is therefore the optimal design for an all terrain vehicle.
We GIVE thousands of bottles of medicine to hospitals in Iraq. The day they arrive they are taken out the back door and distributed by a mafia blacl market.
That and not a fanatical religion is what is standing in the way of progress.
Progress in developing countries can be measured as the time it takes for people to assume that dishonest acts will be punshished.
Transparency.org tracks public perception regarding corruption for various countries.
The point is the ITEM LEVEL IDENTIFICATION is a disruptive technology for reducing the ability of corrupt economies to operate anonymously.
If we could RFID every item of material support we send to IRAQ we could satisfy the essential needs of the masses without enriching a few warlords - which means our boys could be home for Christmas.
I'm not sure we need this here - but let's look at some world class problems which could be solved.
When you're done they fire you, they bury you, or they replace you. If you did the first job right - then the improvements will follow. If there is no room for improvement then you are living in a communist state or operating a monopoly. Competition endures the need for continual improvement.
My position is that specifications can hide the need for flexibe architecture.
I like your golden rule.
I worked at a company that basiclly fired me for automating the code generation of mid level tiers because it took 5 days longer than writing yet another copycat day class might have taken.
In the end - these disctinctions exist because they either are or they are not optimal for essential goals - such as survival, creting a war machine, harvesting food, justifying poltical power - ie taxes.
Slavery ended because it was no longer optimal. Industry changed the rules and said you could build a better war machine if you had factories than you could with slaves - or translated - you could get better work out of peers than property.
in addition the moral highground is a propoganda tool not to be misunderstood.
The north was able to 1. get the highground, and 2. build better guns and 3. field more dedicated soldiers.
In the end this proved that slavery was past its prime and so it ended.
The question is what does that teach us about the environment- when will fuel burning cars be understood as the unsustainable device they are?
Bear in mind that the budgget and hence the hours devoted to open source is fraction compared to closed source.
When fractional can keep pace as you suggest - and i suggest linux is not keeping pace - it is building a more future proofed foundation - the advantage will come later when MS runs of options for bad security - the world starts to use computer for more than excersize - look at voting - nobody will touch it because its full of holes.
What about banking - this should also be tight - the fact is my bank can't figure out how to cut off the leaches that are spamming my bank account ($50 here there etc)
MS software might not be the thing when software is necessary.
Its a great piece of entertainment however and while that is your business - may I be the first to recommend it.
Oh excet that leading entertaniment isn't using it either (Linux render farms at pixar?)
As a musician - who sees little if any fincial value in learning music - so I keep my day job.
I believe record companies have gutted the industry of music by reducing the fare to prerecorded offering of a few.
Every CD is a "free" version of a thing that previously had value - namely live music.
As such I believe they deserve to be comodified into irrelevancy - not at all because i like free downloads - i listen to radio because its fresh - but because they have eliminated a cultural experience from the face of the earth - or so reduced it as to render the making of music a rare and unappreciated talent.
if your design breaks when changed in the middle - these is a hell of a chance it will break in tthe end - when more changes are necessatry.
If I was the customer - I woulld ask for half the project - then chhanges the specs just to see how flexible the design was and whether or not it is future proof.
Speaking of which - I think the military should do more of this - it should test suppliers to see how fast the can react to design needs generated in real time - because in war people die for evey day your chain of useless executive paper stamper takes to "approve" a design change.
If you are wasting months on an OLAP cube that is your problem.
I implemented OLAP cube with an excell frontend embbedded in a webpage such that all users in a multistate company could view the OLAP live from the website - and it took LESS time than any crystal report - and it was precisly what the company had been hinting at for years - only they didn't understand what it was they wanted.
Still - it is only what the customer THINKS he wants on day one with far less experience in computer techniques.
Customer says he want a report - but in reality he want to understand his business.
An OLAP server can help him understand his business, a crystal report can start him down a long road of report modifications which in the end will lead him to 1. an unmanagable pile of confusing reports or, b. an OLAP cube.
The design process is to understand the need of the customer - not have the customer specify how or what the solution will be.
If you provide the solution the customer specifies - you will be run out of business when he reads the next business journal anout how to do omething better.
You had beter know what he is going to read next if you intend on being a solution provider for very long.
This is the real crux of the design people vs the architecure people.
Requirement are how offshore houses get paid for uninspired work.
You want software which will a. act like software already created by someone else (knock off)
b. to be a metaphor for existing (and fixed) paperwork based processes
Then you can consider a rigid design - which means you can consider outsourcing - but I ask, what novel piece of software was invented in a developing country?
AIK
(BTW the add on this page flashes my curser and disables my delete key - adds ok - flashy adds which interfere are a bit much)
Create a safe server which runs the decrypt. Have the safe sever identify IP addresses and restrict ip addresses which are obviously automated. This means that a given IP address can only "see" a finite number of email addresses per unit time.
Add blacklisting and you have reasonably restricted email addresses.
The server could also serve up and create temporary proxies which could later be identified.
For example:
Your emaail is Bob@OpenStuff.com
The server says your email is peter23343@Safeemail.com - which of course forwards to you with a memo as to exactly where where and to whom (ip Address) the email was displayed.
Sure - no question - this is very large step towards 1984.
To deal with the issue - we have to realize that when the supreme court says you have the right to privacy - you have total complete right - even if it means taking the life of another person (abortion) you have total complete rights to privacy.
However - when you do not have the right to privacy - you have didlee squat.
This strange polarization is wherein lies the problem.
We will argue in this thread that this or that is wrong - when really what we mean is that it is not porportional.
The Camera seems overkill - it also smacks of the beginning of a lie - income tax and the social security number - one was to be repealled after the war - the other was never to be used for anything other than social security (as in money you get when you're old).
The issue here is not privacy - it is unreasonable search because they are creating a public record based on the presumption of guilt when in fact the government has no right to create presumptive records.
(or do they)
The fact is they do all the time - but it is limited by the cost of private research and cannot be inflicted wholesale - automation of government process will democratize whatever problems previously existed.
In short - instead of pestering a few people - they will pester everyone - and the backlash will create a political contraint.
This constraint feedback is what is most important. Democracies will work well- only if the average voted experiences the problem.
In the end - this is not a serious threat. It is predictable, and we will test it, and find out the benefits vs. the costs and we will vote - probably for the increased security and peace of mind. Westerners have not been subjected to a totalitarian government for a very long time - while street crime has persisted - thus the balance of risk tends towards a greater police powers.
Even if one did not INCREASE the number of total transistors - the fact that they are closer together means the clock propogation delay is reduced thus MHz can increase without loss of synchronicity.
electricity does not travel even as fast as the speed of light - that and heat dissapation are the primary barriors to Moore's law.
What influence would this have? Christians, Jews, and Muslims share the Noah story.
Yeah - I know - that is the great irony of our time - least of all how it relates to the ark - most of all how it related the temple mount of jerusalem.
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As it is - it could be useful for strange locations.
We talk about humvees being the all terrain vehicle, but in the end - the ability to "port" the vehicle (carry by hand) is what makes a vehicle trully All terrain.
a mono wheel maximized diameter while minimizing size - it is therefore the optimal design for an all terrain vehicle.
AIK
This is not to discount the privacy issue - but
May I propose a bright Side?
We GIVE thousands of bottles of medicine to hospitals in Iraq. The day they arrive they are taken out the back door and distributed by a mafia blacl market.
That and not a fanatical religion is what is standing in the way of progress.
Progress in developing countries can be measured as the time it takes for people to assume that dishonest acts will be punshished.
Transparency.org tracks public perception regarding corruption for various countries.
The point is the ITEM LEVEL IDENTIFICATION is a disruptive technology for reducing the ability of corrupt economies to operate anonymously.
If we could RFID every item of material support we send to IRAQ we could satisfy the essential needs of the masses without enriching a few warlords - which means our boys could be home for Christmas.
I'm not sure we need this here - but let's look at some world class problems which could be solved.
AIK
Imagine an arry of one
When you're done they fire you, they bury you, or they replace you. If you did the first job right - then the improvements will follow. If there is no room for improvement then you are living in a communist state or operating a monopoly. Competition endures the need for continual improvement.
My position is that specifications can hide the need for flexibe architecture.
I like your golden rule.
I worked at a company that basiclly fired me for automating the code generation of mid level tiers because it took 5 days longer than writing yet another copycat day class might have taken.
(got a raise at my next job though)
AIK
AIK
In the end - these disctinctions exist because they either are or they are not optimal for essential goals - such as survival, creting a war machine, harvesting food, justifying poltical power - ie taxes.
Slavery ended because it was no longer optimal. Industry changed the rules and said you could build a better war machine if you had factories than you could with slaves - or translated - you could get better work out of peers than property.
in addition the moral highground is a propoganda tool not to be misunderstood.
The north was able to 1. get the highground, and 2. build better guns and 3. field more dedicated soldiers.
In the end this proved that slavery was past its prime and so it ended.
The question is what does that teach us about the environment- when will fuel burning cars be understood as the unsustainable device they are?
AIK
Bear in mind that the budgget and hence the hours devoted to open source is fraction compared to closed source.
When fractional can keep pace as you suggest - and i suggest linux is not keeping pace - it is building a more future proofed foundation - the advantage will come later when MS runs of options for bad security - the world starts to use computer for more than excersize - look at voting - nobody will touch it because its full of holes.
What about banking - this should also be tight - the fact is my bank can't figure out how to cut off the leaches that are spamming my bank account ($50 here there etc)
MS software might not be the thing when software is necessary.
Its a great piece of entertainment however and while that is your business - may I be the first to recommend it.
Oh excet that leading entertaniment isn't using it either (Linux render farms at pixar?)
AIK
Damn serious paster copyier
Here one line you left out.
Mine.
As a musician - who sees little if any fincial value in learning music - so I keep my day job.
I believe record companies have gutted the industry of music by reducing the fare to prerecorded offering of a few.
Every CD is a "free" version of a thing that previously had value - namely live music.
As such I believe they deserve to be comodified into irrelevancy - not at all because i like free downloads - i listen to radio because its fresh - but because they have eliminated a cultural experience from the face of the earth - or so reduced it as to render the making of music a rare and unappreciated talent.
AIK
to much stuff on the WEB?
I don't hear Goggle crying.
What does it f**** matter if there is "too Much Stuff"
Search engines will sort it out - and competition will ensure they do a good job.
There are problems in this world but you have certainly not identified one here
AIK
if your design breaks when changed in the middle - these is a hell of a chance it will break in tthe end - when more changes are necessatry.
If I was the customer - I woulld ask for half the project - then chhanges the specs just to see how flexible the design was and whether or not it is future proof.
Speaking of which - I think the military should do more of this - it should test suppliers to see how fast the can react to design needs generated in real time - because in war people die for evey day your chain of useless executive paper stamper takes to "approve" a design change.
AIK
My latest design uses a common function called RunCmd
All the user experience, gui, and command line argument run through the RunCmd function -
Each object eiter handles the command or passes it on to its children.
Command are addressable such as "Red.Gamma, +.3"
Which send a gamma command to the red object
This means I can snapshot any user session and repeat it
it also means I can write customer examples in very basic language such as
RunCmd "Open"
RunCmd "Print"
Which means on the outside it starts looking more like a spec and less like the raw details of implementation.
The problem with testable containers - is for some projects it creates double work.
This message oriented experience (In plain english btw - that immportant)
allows for writing tests by example etc etc etc
AIK
If you are wasting months on an OLAP cube that is your problem.
I implemented OLAP cube with an excell frontend embbedded in a webpage such that all users in a multistate company could view the OLAP live from the website - and it took LESS time than any crystal report - and it was precisly what the company had been hinting at for years - only they didn't understand what it was they wanted.
Yes - I'm arrogant if it means anything to you.
AIK
And Is Flexcube a version OLAP Cube?
And Was OLAP invented in the United States.
We may be losing our lead in innovation - but I suggest that for software - the United States is where new computer ideas start.
For transportation on the other hand we suck suck suck.
AIK
Isn't Kazaa a file share aka Napster invvented I believe - now let my think - og yes - invented in the United States.
And BTW - Estonia is in a corner of the world I would not considered developing.
Estonia is an emerging FSU
Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lat, Lith, Est. These are all very attractive countries with more charm and culture than most (red) states.
So let's ask again - which novel software invented in developing country?
Projects which are not archected for expansion will screech to a halt and become a boneyard for the project which is better architected.
Its hard to say in advance what better architecture may prove to be.
AIK
Still - it is only what the customer THINKS he wants on day one with far less experience in computer techniques.
Customer says he want a report - but in reality he want to understand his business.
An OLAP server can help him understand his business, a crystal report can start him down a long road of report modifications which in the end will lead him to 1. an unmanagable pile of confusing reports or, b. an OLAP cube.
The design process is to understand the need of the customer - not have the customer specify how or what the solution will be.
If you provide the solution the customer specifies - you will be run out of business when he reads the next business journal anout how to do omething better.
You had beter know what he is going to read next if you intend on being a solution provider for very long.
AIK
When people say Specifications - they mean software code written in a language managers can understand.
(For What?)
The only perfect language for software specs is an unambiguated, testable, logical language.
The end result of this logical posativism IS software languages.
Software languages existed before the computer, and unambiguous processes could be described unambiguously only be using these unambiguous languages.
So I suggest the software IS the specification - and its testable.
If you write confusing software - what makes anyone think you can write specification which are any less confusing?
(Suggestion - delete major important detail and make it look simple - when in reality it is merely incomplete.)
AIK
When you use specification - you are making the "customer" the deisgn engineer.
I highly doubt the "customer" is going to deisgn great software.
for example.
A thousand customers could say I need a tool that lets me input the various factors of my budget and look at what the sums will be.
But how many could say - I need a program with a grid of flexible cells which can hold a value or a formula?
AIK
This is the real crux of the design people vs the architecure people.
Requirement are how offshore houses get paid for uninspired work.
You want software which will
a. act like software already created by someone else (knock off)
b. to be a metaphor for existing (and fixed) paperwork based processes
Then you can consider a rigid design - which means you can consider outsourcing - but I ask, what novel piece of software was invented in a developing country?
AIK
(BTW the add on this page flashes my curser and disables my delete key - adds ok - flashy adds which interfere are a bit much)
Yes - but this points to a solution.
Create a safe server which runs the decrypt. Have the safe sever identify IP addresses and restrict ip addresses which are obviously automated. This means that a given IP address can only "see" a finite number of email addresses per unit time.
Add blacklisting and you have reasonably restricted email addresses.
The server could also serve up and create temporary proxies which could later be identified.
For example:
Your emaail is Bob@OpenStuff.com
The server says your email is peter23343@Safeemail.com - which of course forwards to you with a memo as to exactly where where and to whom (ip Address) the email was displayed.
AIK
This Site has a way to make a computer quiet and it is immediately slashdotted - you think there isn't any valid interest in a quiet computer?
AIK
Free = Scaleable massively.
If you want a business with serious growth potential and computers are a part of that - Free is a good thing.
The TCO of a single desktop may not be lower - but what about TCO * 10,000?
AIK
The end result of persistant speed enforcement is fewer deaths. That has to be a good thing.
But in that case - the crime is detected (Without a persistant record) before the persistant record is created.
Sure - no question - this is very large step towards 1984.
To deal with the issue - we have to realize that when the supreme court says you have the right to privacy - you have total complete right - even if it means taking the life of another person (abortion) you have total complete rights to privacy.
However - when you do not have the right to privacy - you have didlee squat.
This strange polarization is wherein lies the problem.
We will argue in this thread that this or that is wrong - when really what we mean is that it is not porportional.
The Camera seems overkill - it also smacks of the beginning of a lie - income tax and the social security number - one was to be repealled after the war - the other was never to be used for anything other than social security (as in money you get when you're old).
The issue here is not privacy - it is unreasonable search because they are creating a public record based on the presumption of guilt when in fact the government has no right to create presumptive records.
(or do they)
The fact is they do all the time - but it is limited by the cost of private research and cannot be inflicted wholesale - automation of government process will democratize whatever problems previously existed.
In short - instead of pestering a few people - they will pester everyone - and the backlash will create a political contraint.
This constraint feedback is what is most important. Democracies will work well- only if the average voted experiences the problem.
In the end - this is not a serious threat. It is predictable, and we will test it, and find out the benefits vs. the costs and we will vote - probably for the increased security and peace of mind. Westerners have not been subjected to a totalitarian government for a very long time - while street crime has persisted - thus the balance of risk tends towards a greater police powers.
AIK
Sure it does.
Even if one did not INCREASE the number of total transistors - the fact that they are closer together means the clock propogation delay is reduced thus MHz can increase without loss of synchronicity.
electricity does not travel even as fast as the speed of light - that and heat dissapation are the primary barriors to Moore's law.
AIK
What influence would this have? Christians, Jews, and Muslims share the Noah story.
Yeah - I know - that is the great irony of our time - least of all how it relates to the ark - most of all how it related the temple mount of jerusalem.
AIK