If you are going with lineage as your classification attribute at a given level, you should stick with lineage. At the top level, he mixed lineage (i.e., SuSE, RedHat, Debian) with purpose (i.e., minialist system, security oriented, etc.). This leads to hideousness like the tags on the minimalist systems like "derived from...". So it might be a good representation of how he understands the space (i.e., it might be a good map of his mind), but for any real use, you'll still need a proper taxonomy. And the first rule of taxonomy construction is that you split only on one independent attribute at a given node. In this case, lineage and purpose are not independently splittable. You need to split on one or the other.
The two parties are IDENTICAL except for a couple knee-jerk issues that make good sound-bytes but have zero to do with the day to day operation of the government.
Do you really think we'd be in Iraq now if Gore had been (s)elected? Afghanistan, probably, but not Iraq. And do you think that a Kerry administration would be sabre rattling at Iran, or trying to work with the UN to find a peaceful solution. No Difference, yeah... What a fucking joke that is. Tell it to the dead soldiers.
Are there community awards to award portions of the linux world that do provide outstanding support?
Why, yes! Here's a few off the top of my head:
The Eric S. Raymond Award for Politically Salient Customer Support - This lovely bronzed handgun, mounted on a stunning marble pedestal is given to the support forum that can most quickly turn a simple question into a flame about why handguns are a necessity in our modern society and why Libertarianism is the only true way. Extra points are given if you can add in an abortion debate (either pro or con).
The Richard S. Stallman Award for Political Correctness in Licensing - Given to the individual contributor to a support forum who best exemplifies defense of GPL'ed software in the face of any other licenses, free or proprietary, this beautiful rendition of Bill Gate's head on a silver patter will be a wonderful addition to any fireplace mantle. Extra consideration given to those who can find places where the GPL is too lenient in allowing commercial users to use the system (Because that gives us ideas for the next version, huh?).
The Linus Torvalds "I Don't Give a Crap as Long as I Can Code on My Kernel" Award - Presented to the hacker who best exemplifies the ability to stay focused on technical issues to the complete obvlibion to any "political" considerations like licensing, lock-in, and freeloading, this Brass plaque with an engraved picture of Alfred P.Newman sitting in front of a smoking terminal with a "What, me Worry?" thought balloon will look great on any wall. If you can cut off an email or IRC discussion with a breezy "Whatever" and then place the user on your ignore list, you're a shoo-in here!
Off course, there are many more. Feel free to let others know of them...
The meeting began with the usual warm greetings, but shortly moved into a tirade by the Linux "guru" that resembled a three year old's tantrums.
As described by Jason, the engineer began to mock Windows users, declared that Jason was "obviously ignorant and inexperienced" and continued by giving his personal opinions on various topics from religion to political philosophy.
"You can use new technology to improve the operation of your business." Take the word out and the sentence has lost no meaning.
I can do even better! Look:
Technology can improve your business!
I win!
However, by shortening the sentence, I make it easier for someone to understand the meaning and say, "But it might not help your business, either." In the long form, one must attack the "new" and the "operation" before they get to the "improve". Corporate speech, rather than being useless, is a highly structured artform used to deflect potential attack and responsibility. Anyone in business will eventually need to engage on this field of battle. As such, it should not be shunned, but recognized and mastered for the useful tool it is.
Do you really think Western Europe and North America would be better off if our business cultures fully embraced the models of Nigeria and Russia?
I don't know... There are several people from Nigeria who write every day wanting to share their wealth with me! Some of them are moving to Russia, too, because I get emails from them also!
one FM station dropping all their classical music programs in favor of news and talk--and the other FM station dropping their drive-time classical music programming in order to broadcast the identical news programming at the same time as the other station.
It probably had nothing to do with any kind of coersion other than that of ratings. Over the past thirty years, NPR has gone from mainly a "entertainment/music with some news" organization to a "news with some entertainment/music" organization. In fact, one of the main detractors of this movement has been none other than that NPR bright light, Garrison Keilor. But it is a movement driven mainly by the market. The folks that listen to NPR are mainly interested in news. I like classical music. I'm lucky enough to live in an area that has both a public radio station tath plays classical music around the clock (only semi-affilliated with NPR) and a "mainly news" public station (almost totally made up of NPR feeds), but when the Arbitrons come out, the classical music station is always at the bottom of the ratings, while the NPR news station is closer to the top. If I was running a public radio station, I'd have to think long and hard about whether I'd want to sacrifice my morning and afternoon drive time to a shrinking market made up mostly of a shrinking demographic.
We have a crapload of good PC Manufacturers here in the states, and our government instead orders 16,000 PCs from a Chinese manufacturer?
Well, first of all, we don't - outsourcing ended US PC manufacturing a long time ago. Even if it didn't, outsourcing of mobo's, hard drives, and most other components would make sure if there was some sort of monitoring agent put in there, you wouldn't know it.
On another tack, it seems it's always the right wing who bitch about high taxes and 'guvmint wastin' our money' that also bitch about our security being broken by having to use all of these foreign boxes. The bottom line is that, in this global economy, if you want control, you pay for it.
I guess my overall feeling is that the right wing free traders made this bed. They shouldn't whine about having to lie in it.
By that logic, it would be cheaper to group the entire country into 1 large group, and have everybody in the country under the same insurance plan. Then, to make it even cheaper, you remove the insurance company, and have a government run insurance plan that takes no profit.
Yes, it would be. In fact, most of the rest of the world use that model. Do you think this is a bad thing? Medicare has been shown to spend ~3% of its funds as overhead. The best you have in the private system is somewhere around 5-7% for HMO's like Kaiser-Permanente and going up to as much as 15-20% for large health care/insurance chains. Employers (and employees) are paying for this innefficiency every day. Some people think that we get better health care for this added innefficiency. Somehow I think we just get more commercials.
You could order your fries without salt. And I'm pretty sure McD would make it possible.
Actually, no. They'd need to have a clean fry tray. They salt the fries in the same heat tray that they store them in before they're packaged. Even if they emptied the fry tray (for your special order), there would still be residual salt from prior orders. And if you think that Mickey D's is going to take on the liability of having some flunky manually trying to transfer your hot, unsalted fries from a dripping fry basket, you're probably wrong.
So am I alone towing this line that the BSCS or a Software Engineering degree should produce a higher caliber Software Engineer than someone with a High School diploma or a degree in Electrical Engineering?
Probably, but I think correctly so (at least for EE's). These days, digital engineering has a hell of a lot of programming involved. Most circuits are designed in a programming language (VHDL) and automatically synthesized. And if you don't think that programming resuable synthesizable models is not as hideously difficult as programming reusable objects or libraries, I'd beg you to reconsider. I'd also be hard pressed to find any MS level EE thesis these days that did not depend on a fair amount of programming. So, if you find an EE who's specialized in the digital field or who's got an MS, you probably have a fairly good programmer.
That being said, you should also check to see if they've also shown the gumption to actually get a course in data structures and database systems and compilers. If they have, then they really are about as well trained as any "pure CS" type, at least with respect to the current job market. And, if they also have a course in software engineering, then you've got something almost as useful as a CS grad, and maybe more - they'll tend to understand systems from the Si atoms up. For embedded work, this is pretty esential. Trying to model latencies without understanding the underlying hardware layer (something the traditional CS curriculum skimps on a bit) is pretty difficult. So, yeah, with a few caveat's, I'd take an EE or Comp E as well as a CS. Maybe even a physicist in a pinch (as long as his programming skillz weren't blunted with overexposure to Matlab:-).
Apparently McAfee hasn't heard of a novel concept called "testing".
Well, it's no surprise, given how they treat their employees there. They are in a continual state of hiring "alert". Even worse than Symantec. So they lose a few, get a couple of cheap guys who aren't as diligent about testing and... Blammo! Instant chaos. Anyone who buys McAfee gets what they deserve...
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My Swiss army knife does.
They do in India!
If you are going with lineage as your classification attribute at a given level, you should stick with lineage. At the top level, he mixed lineage (i.e., SuSE, RedHat, Debian) with purpose (i.e., minialist system, security oriented, etc.). This leads to hideousness like the tags on the minimalist systems like "derived from...". So it might be a good representation of how he understands the space (i.e., it might be a good map of his mind), but for any real use, you'll still need a proper taxonomy. And the first rule of taxonomy construction is that you split only on one independent attribute at a given node. In this case, lineage and purpose are not independently splittable. You need to split on one or the other.
Do you really think we'd be in Iraq now if Gore had been (s)elected? Afghanistan, probably, but not Iraq. And do you think that a Kerry administration would be sabre rattling at Iran, or trying to work with the UN to find a peaceful solution. No Difference, yeah... What a fucking joke that is. Tell it to the dead soldiers.
The correct response, if I ma be so bold, would be "Get a life!"
Why, yes! Here's a few off the top of my head:
The Eric S. Raymond Award for Politically Salient Customer Support - This lovely bronzed handgun, mounted on a stunning marble pedestal is given to the support forum that can most quickly turn a simple question into a flame about why handguns are a necessity in our modern society and why Libertarianism is the only true way. Extra points are given if you can add in an abortion debate (either pro or con).
The Richard S. Stallman Award for Political Correctness in Licensing - Given to the individual contributor to a support forum who best exemplifies defense of GPL'ed software in the face of any other licenses, free or proprietary, this beautiful rendition of Bill Gate's head on a silver patter will be a wonderful addition to any fireplace mantle. Extra consideration given to those who can find places where the GPL is too lenient in allowing commercial users to use the system (Because that gives us ideas for the next version, huh?).
The Linus Torvalds "I Don't Give a Crap as Long as I Can Code on My Kernel" Award - Presented to the hacker who best exemplifies the ability to stay focused on technical issues to the complete obvlibion to any "political" considerations like licensing, lock-in, and freeloading, this Brass plaque with an engraved picture of Alfred P.Newman sitting in front of a smoking terminal with a "What, me Worry?" thought balloon will look great on any wall. If you can cut off an email or IRC discussion with a breezy "Whatever" and then place the user on your ignore list, you're a shoo-in here!
Off course, there are many more. Feel free to let others know of them...
As described by Jason, the engineer began to mock Windows users, declared that Jason was "obviously ignorant and inexperienced" and continued by giving his personal opinions on various topics from religion to political philosophy.
Wow! He got to meet with ESR?
Lawyers have children!?!? I thought they ate their young!
Yeah. Those casual Fridays are a bitch, aren't they?
I can do even better! Look:
Technology can improve your business!
I win!
However, by shortening the sentence, I make it easier for someone to understand the meaning and say, "But it might not help your business, either." In the long form, one must attack the "new" and the "operation" before they get to the "improve". Corporate speech, rather than being useless, is a highly structured artform used to deflect potential attack and responsibility. Anyone in business will eventually need to engage on this field of battle. As such, it should not be shunned, but recognized and mastered for the useful tool it is.
Woof! Arf! Arf! Whine! Woof!
I don't know... There are several people from Nigeria who write every day wanting to share their wealth with me! Some of them are moving to Russia, too, because I get emails from them also!
Not like the girl friend you ain't got.
And then, if the Sun ever cools down so we don't need it any more, we can set up a giant fan in space to blow it away!
It's a lousy book. The heroes were SF fans. 'Nuf said (unless you think that filk are the high point of artistic evolution)...
It probably had nothing to do with any kind of coersion other than that of ratings. Over the past thirty years, NPR has gone from mainly a "entertainment/music with some news" organization to a "news with some entertainment/music" organization. In fact, one of the main detractors of this movement has been none other than that NPR bright light, Garrison Keilor. But it is a movement driven mainly by the market. The folks that listen to NPR are mainly interested in news. I like classical music. I'm lucky enough to live in an area that has both a public radio station tath plays classical music around the clock (only semi-affilliated with NPR) and a "mainly news" public station (almost totally made up of NPR feeds), but when the Arbitrons come out, the classical music station is always at the bottom of the ratings, while the NPR news station is closer to the top. If I was running a public radio station, I'd have to think long and hard about whether I'd want to sacrifice my morning and afternoon drive time to a shrinking market made up mostly of a shrinking demographic.
To uphold the law?
Prosecutors felt they had enough evidence. Last I heard, a bad economy was not a defense against criminal behavior.
I'm not sure if I'm referring to the meeting in the story or the post on Slashdot, either...
Well, first of all, we don't - outsourcing ended US PC manufacturing a long time ago. Even if it didn't, outsourcing of mobo's, hard drives, and most other components would make sure if there was some sort of monitoring agent put in there, you wouldn't know it.
On another tack, it seems it's always the right wing who bitch about high taxes and 'guvmint wastin' our money' that also bitch about our security being broken by having to use all of these foreign boxes. The bottom line is that, in this global economy, if you want control, you pay for it.
I guess my overall feeling is that the right wing free traders made this bed. They shouldn't whine about having to lie in it.
Yes, it would be. In fact, most of the rest of the world use that model. Do you think this is a bad thing? Medicare has been shown to spend ~3% of its funds as overhead. The best you have in the private system is somewhere around 5-7% for HMO's like Kaiser-Permanente and going up to as much as 15-20% for large health care/insurance chains. Employers (and employees) are paying for this innefficiency every day. Some people think that we get better health care for this added innefficiency. Somehow I think we just get more commercials.
Ooh! Ohh, ooh! Cue the Randroid flamers!
I thought they wore togas back then! You learn something every day on Slashdot!
Actually, no. They'd need to have a clean fry tray. They salt the fries in the same heat tray that they store them in before they're packaged. Even if they emptied the fry tray (for your special order), there would still be residual salt from prior orders. And if you think that Mickey D's is going to take on the liability of having some flunky manually trying to transfer your hot, unsalted fries from a dripping fry basket, you're probably wrong.
Probably, but I think correctly so (at least for EE's). These days, digital engineering has a hell of a lot of programming involved. Most circuits are designed in a programming language (VHDL) and automatically synthesized. And if you don't think that programming resuable synthesizable models is not as hideously difficult as programming reusable objects or libraries, I'd beg you to reconsider. I'd also be hard pressed to find any MS level EE thesis these days that did not depend on a fair amount of programming. So, if you find an EE who's specialized in the digital field or who's got an MS, you probably have a fairly good programmer.
That being said, you should also check to see if they've also shown the gumption to actually get a course in data structures and database systems and compilers. If they have, then they really are about as well trained as any "pure CS" type, at least with respect to the current job market. And, if they also have a course in software engineering, then you've got something almost as useful as a CS grad, and maybe more - they'll tend to understand systems from the Si atoms up. For embedded work, this is pretty esential. Trying to model latencies without understanding the underlying hardware layer (something the traditional CS curriculum skimps on a bit) is pretty difficult. So, yeah, with a few caveat's, I'd take an EE or Comp E as well as a CS. Maybe even a physicist in a pinch (as long as his programming skillz weren't blunted with overexposure to Matlab :-).
Well, it's no surprise, given how they treat their employees there. They are in a continual state of hiring "alert". Even worse than Symantec. So they lose a few, get a couple of cheap guys who aren't as diligent about testing and... Blammo! Instant chaos. Anyone who buys McAfee gets what they deserve...