And breed a nation of people with no will to do anything interesting or creative. This is the worst idea I've heard since reading the article about celldar.
The success of the USA has everything to do with Freedom and nothing to do with government bureaucracy or domestic spying. If you think otherwise, go live in China or pre-1990 USSR for a while.
they CREATED terrorism by wreaking havoc and destruction around the world.
and are making the original authors of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution turn in their graves.
How long until the People really and truly have to invoke the Second Amendment? Will the Second Amendment be declared illegal, with the Supreme Court held prisoner under an executive order of emergency?
You can start with the very existence of the Federal Income Tax and the FBI.
Some people claimed the USA peaked in 2001. I think it's probably more accurate to say it peaked in 1913. It's been downhill ever since as the USA has become a managed-by-taxation economy.
if you want the government to be proactive instead of reactive, they need to powers to be proactive, and you're going to have to sacrifice a handful of freedoms for it.
You don't have to sacrifice anything. The right way for the government to be proactive is to gather some modesty and stop being the world's asshole. Embracing freedom is embracing safety, it's just that the people are so used to sucking off of the governments tits that they don't care anymore.
Guess this is what happens when you don't properly fund an organization.
Then they shouldn't have done the upgrade in the first place. When the government does something that isn't an F-22 it will be underfunded and half-assed. I can't wait for a Democrat to win in 2004, we'll go from getting one cent on the dollar to a tenth of a cent on the dollar in government services. Not only that, Big Brother will turn into a giant after nationalized health care in instituted. It's too bad that the Republicans aren't offering anything better.
It would be much easier to base the road taxes on a function of milage and vehicle weight. Not only is this technologically easy but it protects privacy, too. As far as average wear and tear are concerned, the government should care only about total milage and aggregate statistics for certain roads and bridges. There is no need to tie everything down to where your kids were at 10pm on Friday.
These celldar technologies are really only for government empowerment when used outside of the context of air defense/airport management. The sad thing is that most people are too distracted and/or ignorant to realize it.
"Yes, Parrot will run.NET bytecode," but emphasized that it would not run it at a speed which would make it competitive with the CLR.
For light to moderate server workloads, this shouldn't be a big issue. Of course, ignorant developers will make a big deal out of it anyway, even as their server sits 97% idle during peak use.
Architecture is more important the the absolute speed of the VM, regardless.
develop using MS IDEs(faster learning curve),and deploy on Linux.
This is a bad idea, unless very frequent testing is done on the target platform throughout development..NET, J2EE, etc. are not panaceas, and it is inevitable that platform-specific nuances will leak through. Just wait for something to work on an MS IDE to break on Linux, because some idiot developer didn't use the right file abstractions, for example.
It is sickening that the same people jumping on the CMM bandwagon will commit their valuable data into a pit of proprietary software. This is very short-sighted and only creates an exponentially-increasing cost as the vendor goes out of business or starts tightening their grip on your testicles.
It sounds like you are looking for an easy eye-candy way of managing data. What's wrong with plain-text e-mail archives? What's wrong with an in-house RDBMS with simple web forms to manage your important metrics? For the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars you could spend on proprietary solutions, you could collect a few idle programmers to collect your CMM requirements and see what database scheme naturally evolves from them. Develop the schema first; the front ends later. Use KISS. If a new requirement arrives, a good schema can be extended rather than rearranged, and SQL queries are pretty damn powerful tools for getting new information and relationships out of the data.
Of course, if your CMM-enabled company can't do even this for the sake of your own infrastructure, I suggest you look for a new job, because the bureaucratic nightmare is just beginning.
it certainly doesn't seem like 1/160th of the machine my G5 is
That's because the software on it is 1/160th of what is on the G5. I have an old SPARCstation 10 with a 40MHz CPU, and there is a very very good reason why I run Netscape 4 on it rather than Mozilla/Netscape 7, for example. Don't get me started on when I tried GNOME on it (I could watch the widgets draw on the screen in real time!).
Anyone else still run old DOS programs on actual DOS machines?
I suggest visiting some of your county offices to see what they use for data entry and bookkeeping. I know of an office that still hires a programmer to maintain a pure text-console DOS program for scheduling meals and deliveries. I bet if they "upgraded" to Windows it would all turn to shit, too (our DMV recently "upgraded" to a Windows-based system, complete with shitty ink-jet printers at each station and Windows 98 on the terminals, what a huge steaming pile of shit that is and much much worse than the system it replaced).
When you write a paper for school or work, it's not supposed to be interesting looking, it's supposed to have CONTENT.
That still won't stop a grade school teach who doesn't know how easy fancy text these days from giving an "A for effort" to a kid whose project consists of only eye-candy. We have to be careful what rewards we give our kids these days, because, often, it doesn't take much effort to look good.
While this is definitely due to it being good enough for most people (and for me, too), we also have to consider the timing relative to the economy. Office 97 and Office 2000 were probably purchases in massive quantities during the climb up towards the 2001 peak, and Office XP simply came too late. Now, not only does Microsoft have to battle the current sluggish economy, but they are also battling the amazing economy of four years ago. This is the perfect opportunity for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice to gain their market penetration.
A PHB with a little knowledge says "make me a system that counts sheep, and it should use an ACID-compliant database and J2EE, and I think XP will be the way to go..."
Please, oh PLEASE, NOOO!!!!!! A boss the defines the technology to use in or before the actual system's requirements is a boss from hell. I've actually heard bosses say stuff like "we need to throw XML in here, because that's what people are doing now."
The boss should use his miserable little bit of knowledge to try to appreciate the developer's opinions about how to implement the requirements. Actually, doing as much analysis and design in a platform-agnostic way up front pays dividends later as that's a huge block of work that is not only done but is portable.
Further, what does the boss know anyway? What if CGI were a much more appropriate solution than J2EE? And any boss that specifies Extreme Programming is probably asking for people to quit eventually, anyway.
The Democrats are actually more dangerous than the Republicans and will only lead our country into tyranny at a faster rate. The real fix is neither Democrat nor Republican but one that ignores the last 80 years of crappy legislation and recognizes the intents of our nations founders to emphasize Freedom over cozy social programs and pork-barrel contracting.
Besides, what's wrong with going under the knife once a year?
Because each surgery carries a real risk of death, due to anesthesiology being the black magic of modern medicine (not to mention risk of infection in modern understaffed hospitals). When they actually know what they are doing in the operating room and there are enough nurses to pass around, I'll be less apprehensive about non-essential surgery.
Damn, such bad timing! Who'd have paid money to see Schwarzenegger in a movie about a city in the future on another planet ravaged by huge worms living in gaping holes? It could have been a sci-fi classic:(
Slashdot Mirror
1. Where is Osama bin Laden?
2. Where is Saddam Hussein?
3. Where is President-Vice Cheney?
I think they were last seen arriving for their 8:30 tee time at a Mexican resort.
Placing 11kw in one 42U rack is enormously difficult to cool.
I put Arsenio Hall, Justin Timerberlake, and Billy Ray Cyrus into my 11KW server room, and things weren't cool at all!
Guard the Apples using girls with guns!
Mmmmmm....how do you like dem apples?
make it legal to track minors.
And breed a nation of people with no will to do anything interesting or creative. This is the worst idea I've heard since reading the article about celldar.
The success of the USA has everything to do with Freedom and nothing to do with government bureaucracy or domestic spying. If you think otherwise, go live in China or pre-1990 USSR for a while.
they CREATED terrorism by wreaking havoc and destruction around the world.
and are making the original authors of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution turn in their graves.
How long until the People really and truly have to invoke the Second Amendment? Will the Second Amendment be declared illegal, with the Supreme Court held prisoner under an executive order of emergency?
All the govt needs now is another major terrorist strike, then you will really see the Bush administration grab hold.
It makes you wonder who is pulling the strings of Bush and the terrorists to eventually gain power over the whole world.
You can start with the very existence of the Federal Income Tax and the FBI.
Some people claimed the USA peaked in 2001. I think it's probably more accurate to say it peaked in 1913. It's been downhill ever since as the USA has become a managed-by-taxation economy.
if you want the government to be proactive instead of reactive, they need to powers to be proactive, and you're going to have to sacrifice a handful of freedoms for it.
You don't have to sacrifice anything. The right way for the government to be proactive is to gather some modesty and stop being the world's asshole. Embracing freedom is embracing safety, it's just that the people are so used to sucking off of the governments tits that they don't care anymore.
Guess this is what happens when you don't properly fund an organization.
Then they shouldn't have done the upgrade in the first place. When the government does something that isn't an F-22 it will be underfunded and half-assed. I can't wait for a Democrat to win in 2004, we'll go from getting one cent on the dollar to a tenth of a cent on the dollar in government services. Not only that, Big Brother will turn into a giant after nationalized health care in instituted. It's too bad that the Republicans aren't offering anything better.
It would be much easier to base the road taxes on a function of milage and vehicle weight. Not only is this technologically easy but it protects privacy, too. As far as average wear and tear are concerned, the government should care only about total milage and aggregate statistics for certain roads and bridges. There is no need to tie everything down to where your kids were at 10pm on Friday.
These celldar technologies are really only for government empowerment when used outside of the context of air defense/airport management. The sad thing is that most people are too distracted and/or ignorant to realize it.
MS Office, the backend products, etc are still viable and dont need rapid porting to a new platform.
Microsoft look at Linux and frowns.
Microsoft looks at OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. Microsoft breaks down crying.
"Yes, Parrot will run .NET bytecode," but emphasized that it would not run it at a speed which would make it competitive with the CLR.
For light to moderate server workloads, this shouldn't be a big issue. Of course, ignorant developers will make a big deal out of it anyway, even as their server sits 97% idle during peak use.
Architecture is more important the the absolute speed of the VM, regardless.
develop using MS IDEs(faster learning curve) ,and deploy on Linux.
.NET, J2EE, etc. are not panaceas, and it is inevitable that platform-specific nuances will leak through. Just wait for something to work on an MS IDE to break on Linux, because some idiot developer didn't use the right file abstractions, for example.
This is a bad idea, unless very frequent testing is done on the target platform throughout development.
It is sickening that the same people jumping on the CMM bandwagon will commit their valuable data into a pit of proprietary software. This is very short-sighted and only creates an exponentially-increasing cost as the vendor goes out of business or starts tightening their grip on your testicles.
It sounds like you are looking for an easy eye-candy way of managing data. What's wrong with plain-text e-mail archives? What's wrong with an in-house RDBMS with simple web forms to manage your important metrics? For the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars you could spend on proprietary solutions, you could collect a few idle programmers to collect your CMM requirements and see what database scheme naturally evolves from them. Develop the schema first; the front ends later. Use KISS. If a new requirement arrives, a good schema can be extended rather than rearranged, and SQL queries are pretty damn powerful tools for getting new information and relationships out of the data.
Of course, if your CMM-enabled company can't do even this for the sake of your own infrastructure, I suggest you look for a new job, because the bureaucratic nightmare is just beginning.
it certainly doesn't seem like 1/160th of the machine my G5 is
That's because the software on it is 1/160th of what is on the G5. I have an old SPARCstation 10 with a 40MHz CPU, and there is a very very good reason why I run Netscape 4 on it rather than Mozilla/Netscape 7, for example. Don't get me started on when I tried GNOME on it (I could watch the widgets draw on the screen in real time!).
Anyone else still run old DOS programs on actual DOS machines?
I suggest visiting some of your county offices to see what they use for data entry and bookkeeping. I know of an office that still hires a programmer to maintain a pure text-console DOS program for scheduling meals and deliveries. I bet if they "upgraded" to Windows it would all turn to shit, too (our DMV recently "upgraded" to a Windows-based system, complete with shitty ink-jet printers at each station and Windows 98 on the terminals, what a huge steaming pile of shit that is and much much worse than the system it replaced).
64MB of ram...1992
How much did that cost? I was very proud to have had 64MB of RAM in 1997!
From your boyfriend's point of view, women are merely a great multiport hub for quick downloads.
Doesn't everyone use an abandoned iron mine for this stuff? What rock did you hide under for the last decade?!?
When you write a paper for school or work, it's not supposed to be interesting looking, it's supposed to have CONTENT.
That still won't stop a grade school teach who doesn't know how easy fancy text these days from giving an "A for effort" to a kid whose project consists of only eye-candy. We have to be careful what rewards we give our kids these days, because, often, it doesn't take much effort to look good.
Office 97 is still very popular.
While this is definitely due to it being good enough for most people (and for me, too), we also have to consider the timing relative to the economy. Office 97 and Office 2000 were probably purchases in massive quantities during the climb up towards the 2001 peak, and Office XP simply came too late. Now, not only does Microsoft have to battle the current sluggish economy, but they are also battling the amazing economy of four years ago. This is the perfect opportunity for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice to gain their market penetration.
A PHB with a little knowledge says "make me a system that counts sheep, and it should use an ACID-compliant database and J2EE, and I think XP will be the way to go..."
Please, oh PLEASE, NOOO!!!!!! A boss the defines the technology to use in or before the actual system's requirements is a boss from hell. I've actually heard bosses say stuff like "we need to throw XML in here, because that's what people are doing now."
The boss should use his miserable little bit of knowledge to try to appreciate the developer's opinions about how to implement the requirements. Actually, doing as much analysis and design in a platform-agnostic way up front pays dividends later as that's a huge block of work that is not only done but is portable.
Further, what does the boss know anyway? What if CGI were a much more appropriate solution than J2EE? And any boss that specifies Extreme Programming is probably asking for people to quit eventually, anyway.
Dean 2004
The Democrats are actually more dangerous than the Republicans and will only lead our country into tyranny at a faster rate. The real fix is neither Democrat nor Republican but one that ignores the last 80 years of crappy legislation and recognizes the intents of our nations founders to emphasize Freedom over cozy social programs and pork-barrel contracting.
Besides, what's wrong with going under the knife once a year?
Because each surgery carries a real risk of death, due to anesthesiology being the black magic of modern medicine (not to mention risk of infection in modern understaffed hospitals). When they actually know what they are doing in the operating room and there are enough nurses to pass around, I'll be less apprehensive about non-essential surgery.
Windows 3D goatse worm
:(
Damn, such bad timing! Who'd have paid money to see Schwarzenegger in a movie about a city in the future on another planet ravaged by huge worms living in gaping holes? It could have been a sci-fi classic