"Defense attorney William DuBois cross-examined the witnesses about Nina's extramarital affair with Reiser's former best friend, Sean Sturgeon. (The jury was not allowed to hear testimony that Sturgeon has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, in retaliation for child abuse.)"
You are misinformed. The galileo satellites are the first of a new breed of reverse GPS. Using your known location on earth, the satellite(s) triangulate THEIR location and consult an on-board map of turn-by-turn directions so that they can find nearby gas stations, restaurants, and space stations. It's the first step in establishing a network of McDonalds in orbit, a necessity before space colonization can begin.
I secretly suspect that Jack Welch is just barely clever enough to make a big deal out of six sigma and forced ranking, not because they are good for GE, but because they are neutral to GE and bad for other companies. When smaller competitors of GE adopt these strategies the disruptive effects make them less competitive against GE's products and improve GE's relative standing in the marketplace. Just a thought.
Mr. Welch promoted that as on ongoing thing to keep a company healthy. AMD's decision to do this now is just desperation, and is not part of any long-term strategy of improving their workforce.
Aside from that, the directive itself is controversial even when properly applied.
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Oh how I miss panzergirl, on the beach in her panzerkini. But I have to get back to work cleaning out septic panzers.
TFA shows it being used as a sales tool in a cell phone store. While it has a cool GUI, it's usage is that of a sales kiosk. If that's the best use they can think of for this technology something is very wrong.
It may simply not be suitable for long-term use so they picked an application where people would interact with it and leave the store before they got tired of craning their necks and holding their arms up in the air.
in terms of $ per megabyte broadband is the best deal going. taking into account the throttling and limited upstream pipes...it's still a screaming deal. go price T1's, or try to live with satellite broadband, dialup, or 3G. all these alternatives have profound limitations.
>> Bad firms have bad bosses, good firms have good bosses, etc.
I'd make a variation on this one point. Lots of firms (good and bad) have good bosses at the top, and bad bosses at the bottom. If you're a leaf-node employee odds are you're going to be reporting to someone who has lower-than-average management skills. If they were good they would have already been promoted up and away from you.
>> So he wants to convince someone to pay $15 per month for an >> OS, (or $150 per year which would be a 20% discount)
It's not a discount at all if you expect to get more than one year's use out of your copy of XP or vista. Take the average life of a PC at 3 years and now it's $540 just for the OS, which is probably more than the hardware costs on most desktop models these days.
It makes me suspect that what it really is, is a way for big outfits like dell and HP to get machines out the door with no windows tax built into the retail price.
I would say that design-pattern-neutral would describe a language in which no particular design pattern was favored over any other, in terms of simpler syntax let's say. (This would have to extend to anti-patterns as well.) Lambda calculus is a good start, however in order to get things done, common lisp was grafted onto it, establishing preferred design patterns in the process.
I think the crux of the matter is that design patterns are difficult to work with since they are not regular or mathematical, they are fuzzy best-practices type things. So once you have a set of decent design patterns in a language, it becomes popular (since people like to avoid the work of creating design patterns).
In the long run, I'd hope that there are a finite number of distinct and useful design patterns and we'd have one set of languages for exploring design pattern space to find them all, and a second set of languages which take useful subsets of that space and embed them into their syntax (and probably semantics). I suspect that's what's actually going on, but the boundaries between the first set and the second set are not always clear. Possibly this is because there are patterns to designing design-patterns.
Also, this isn't a FOSS vs. Microsoft thing even though many people make it out to be. For maximum protection against malware I'd actually go for Oracle on Solaris or AIX, all of which are closed source.
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So when my windows box gets pwned, the botmaster can just wait for root access next time I uses MOM and then he gets my linux cluster too? No thanks.
this part of the article caught my eye:
"Defense attorney William DuBois cross-examined the witnesses about Nina's extramarital affair with Reiser's former best friend, Sean Sturgeon. (The jury was not allowed to hear testimony that Sturgeon has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, in retaliation for child abuse.)"
You are misinformed. The galileo satellites are the first of a new breed of reverse GPS. Using your known location on earth, the satellite(s) triangulate THEIR location and consult an on-board map of turn-by-turn directions so that they can find nearby gas stations, restaurants, and space stations. It's the first step in establishing a network of McDonalds in orbit, a necessity before space colonization can begin.
>> pleiades of supporting languages
that doesn't seem right.
perhaps you meant plethora, or myriad.
microsoft introduced readyboost just in time!
it had to be said.
OMGPONIES!!!!
I think the main issue that people are afraid to talk about here is that Ada will soon be replaced by a language based entirely on cat macros.
I secretly suspect that Jack Welch is just barely clever enough to make a big deal out of six sigma and forced ranking, not because they are good for GE, but because they are neutral to GE and bad for other companies. When smaller competitors of GE adopt these strategies the disruptive effects make them less competitive against GE's products and improve GE's relative standing in the marketplace. Just a thought.
If I despise both companies should I be for or against a merger?
Thanks, now I have a disturbing image of what front bacon might be.
Mr. Welch promoted that as on ongoing thing to keep a company healthy. AMD's decision to do this now is just desperation, and is not part of any long-term strategy of improving their workforce.
Aside from that, the directive itself is controversial even when properly applied.
Oh how I miss panzergirl, on the beach in her panzerkini.
But I have to get back to work cleaning out septic panzers.
Yep, as early as 2004 Joel knew that HTML was the up-and-coming technology to watch.
TFA shows it being used as a sales tool in a cell phone store. While it has a cool GUI, it's usage is that of a sales kiosk. If that's the best use they can think of for this technology something is very wrong.
It may simply not be suitable for long-term use so they picked an application where people would interact with it and leave the store before they got tired of craning their necks and holding their arms up in the air.
I believe that kind of TPS/ABS is signalled over plain old wiring inside the car, no RFID or code is broadcast.
in terms of $ per megabyte broadband is the best deal going. taking into account the throttling and limited upstream pipes...it's still a screaming deal. go price T1's, or try to live with satellite broadband, dialup, or 3G. all these alternatives have profound limitations.
So far today no joke stories.
is this supposed to be a reverse-meta-april-fool's joke?
cause if it is, i'm laughing so hard i pooped my adult diapers.
>> Bad firms have bad bosses, good firms have good bosses, etc.
I'd make a variation on this one point. Lots of firms (good and bad) have good bosses at the top, and bad bosses at the bottom. If you're a leaf-node employee odds are you're going to be reporting to someone who has lower-than-average management skills. If they were good they would have already been promoted up and away from you.
>> So he wants to convince someone to pay $15 per month for an
>> OS, (or $150 per year which would be a 20% discount)
It's not a discount at all if you expect to get more than one year's use out of your copy of XP or vista. Take the average life of a PC at 3 years and now it's $540 just for the OS, which is probably more than the hardware costs on most desktop models these days.
It makes me suspect that what it really is, is a way for big outfits like dell and HP to get machines out the door with no windows tax built into the retail price.
presumably 6000K was the color temperature.
That worked out well.
yeah, but the CFL's wind up in landfills, where they can easily contaminate drinking water.
>> What does 'design-pattern-neutral' mean?
Good question.
I would say that design-pattern-neutral would describe a language in which no particular design pattern was favored over any other, in terms of simpler syntax let's say. (This would have to extend to anti-patterns as well.) Lambda calculus is a good start, however in order to get things done, common lisp was grafted onto it, establishing preferred design patterns in the process.
I think the crux of the matter is that design patterns are difficult to work with since they are not regular or mathematical, they are fuzzy best-practices type things. So once you have a set of decent design patterns in a language, it becomes popular (since people like to avoid the work of creating design patterns).
In the long run, I'd hope that there are a finite number of distinct and useful design patterns and we'd have one set of languages for exploring design pattern space to find them all, and a second set of languages which take useful subsets of that space and embed them into their syntax (and probably semantics). I suspect that's what's actually going on, but the boundaries between the first set and the second set are not always clear. Possibly this is because there are patterns to designing design-patterns.
Also, this isn't a FOSS vs. Microsoft thing even though many people make it out to be. For maximum protection against malware I'd actually go for Oracle on Solaris or AIX, all of which are closed source.