Software is inheirantly irreliable. By imposing implistic regulations the notion of security is loosly upheld. The point of the whole situation is that there is no sense of professionalism or liability to coding and in my opinion there should not be either. Government and society only want scapegoats when things go wrong. Naturally certificiation is their venue. In order for a skill or trade to become a profession it needs both autonomy and naturally a governing body. The IEEE or CIPS are examples. Neither organizations aid the cause of coding. In fact they hinder it. When one are forced to bide by a code of conduct you had no input in creating one is limiting one's ability and knowledgebase. Now I am not saying that certification is wrong what I am saying is that certification shouldn't be the blanket an external government should use to indemnify themselves for bad management. Software only sucks because the management doesn't want to take the time to make sure the software works in the first place. Certification grants one a sense of accomplishment and reliability at the cost of politics.
Well that's my 3.234213412342 cents. But then again I'm just a lowly coder,
The headset is way too damned clunky... What about the ibm thingy a few months ago that had that tiny slit like display? It was small and not so clunky. The point of a wearable computer is to have a computer you treat like your discman/minidisc player just shove it in your pocket and put it on when you need it... therefore it has to be small and fast to use/put on.
The mouse doesn't like changing between the 2 computers (just a simple unpowered 2 position switch). Though keyboard and monitor don't have any problems whatso ever.
In X the mouse goes nutso (even if gpm or X wasn't running previously). The only way I can get it back properly in linux is to reboot the box. But between 2 windows boxes no problems.. Maybe it's my settings any suggestions???? (email me).
P.S. I got me a Logitech cordless radio keyboard and cordless radio wheel mouse...(hehehe I don't like being attached).
I think the greatest thing since slice bread was and is remote X sessions.:) Nice nice happy and thin clients that because of the magic powers of X11 can run remotely very easily. It seems people these days forget the happiness one can achive with an xterm and a beefy server:) Sure Quake is not an application for x-terms but one can do data entry and solitaire on these machines. Plus you don't have to worry about the users killing the x-terms because they really have nothing too kill.:) But then again that's my 3.234128734192222222222222222224341341 cents (Canadian)
I agree and the perfect example is "The Matrix." Not only were no products explictly mentioned but they were left up to our imaginations.... All I remember is sitting in the theatre wonderin how much processing power it took for the The Matrix to simulate that world.:)
Computers are so important in that movie that without them the movie seems dumb. Kudos again to the brothers cause they did a great job *for once anyways*.
I would surely hope so but the way things look the more a computer company sponsors a movie the less realistic it has become.... Take mission impossible which told us that the spy world uses mac laptops and the big hacker dude wants a "cutting edge" Cyrix Dual 6x86 laptop.. Not to mention the role of macs in "Hackers":) What about "Golden Eye" and it's IBM is everything point of view. More recently in "Fight Club" (a great movie) the main characters blow up a computer store with apple's logo prominantly displayed. Unfortunately movie's are not about portraying what's real. They're simple enterainment based marketing.
Do dumb terminals count? The x-term's server at my school is rebooted something like twice a year and since each of the "millions" of dambed x-terms use tcp for status and loging.....
At home I have kept a telnet session open for 2 weeks.... being used about 6 of 24 hours...
This means that as the computer propogation into our society greatens many "knowledge based" industries will be made obsolete and thereby will use their current economic power to find every possible fashion of stopping and stifeling their depleating place in the economy. Expect more witch-hunts. Though there is a way around this. It's called value added services. Take Macmillian publishing and their personal desktop service. Seeing that it was so simple to copy their material (mainly books) they made them free and used advertising to sustain the service meanwhile offering the "ability" to purchase a "hard copy." Unfortunately greedy old companies don't like new business models. In Canada the CRTC has regulated the upstream cap on dialup and other transmission means from the public sector.
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Software is inheirantly irreliable. By imposing implistic regulations the notion of security is loosly upheld. The point of the whole situation is that there is no sense of professionalism or liability to coding and in my opinion there should not be either. Government and society only want scapegoats when things go wrong. Naturally certificiation is their venue. In order for a skill or trade to become a profession it needs both autonomy and naturally a governing body. The IEEE or CIPS are examples. Neither organizations aid the cause of coding. In fact they hinder it. When one are forced to bide by a code of conduct you had no input in creating one is limiting one's ability and knowledgebase. Now I am not saying that certification is wrong what I am saying is that certification shouldn't be the blanket an external government should use to indemnify themselves for bad management. Software only sucks because the management doesn't want to take the time to make sure the software works in the first place. Certification grants one a sense of accomplishment and reliability at the cost of politics.
Well that's my 3.234213412342 cents. But then again I'm just a lowly coder,
Hehehehehe I'm Canadian... we've already had our pepper-spray scandal for the year.
The headset is way too damned clunky... What about the ibm thingy a few months ago that had that tiny slit like display? It was small and not so clunky. The point of a wearable computer is to have a computer you treat like your discman/minidisc player just shove it in your pocket and put it on when you need it... therefore it has to be small and fast to use/put on.
It's getting to the point where jursidiction doesn't matter online.
ISP's don't want the hassles of saying no to annoying peoples saying their FBI...
Internet censorship is based on your financial backing.... let's see the reverse happen then maybe that will change.
One thing's for sure I'm not giving up my bandwith just because some fool wants attention...
Oooopsss now if you look at my argument illogically I'm now part of the problem...
TDR
"You have to be bitter to deal with the general public.."
What is the current size of transitors in consumer electronics/computers?
The mouse doesn't like changing between the 2 computers (just a simple unpowered 2 position switch). Though keyboard and monitor don't have any problems whatso ever.
In X the mouse goes nutso (even if gpm or X wasn't running previously). The only way I can get it back properly in linux is to reboot the box. But between 2 windows boxes no problems.. Maybe it's my settings any suggestions???? (email me).
P.S. I got me a Logitech cordless radio keyboard and cordless radio wheel mouse...(hehehe I don't like being attached).
My personal technique is called the mash blindly like a drunk on your keyboard then write out the mess about 10 to 15 times and you got it memorized.
Today's Password is: p5Q28#%^uhqqb&@
I think the greatest thing since slice bread was and is remote X sessions. :) Nice nice happy and thin clients that because of the magic powers of X11 can run remotely very easily. It seems people these days forget the happiness one can achive with an xterm and a beefy server :) Sure Quake is not an application for x-terms but one can do data entry and solitaire on these machines. Plus you don't have to worry about the users killing the x-terms because they really have nothing too kill. :) But then again that's my 3.234128734192222222222222222224341341 cents (Canadian)
I agree and the perfect example is "The Matrix." Not only were no products explictly mentioned but they were left up to our imaginations.... All I remember is sitting in the theatre wonderin how much processing power it took for the The Matrix to simulate that world. :)
Computers are so important in that movie that without them the movie seems dumb. Kudos again to the brothers cause they did a great job *for once anyways*.
I would surely hope so but the way things look the more a computer company sponsors a movie the less realistic it has become.... Take mission impossible which told us that the spy world uses mac laptops and the big hacker dude wants a "cutting edge" Cyrix Dual 6x86 laptop.. Not to mention the role of macs in "Hackers" :) What about "Golden Eye" and it's IBM is everything point of view. More recently in "Fight Club" (a great movie) the main characters blow up a computer store with apple's logo prominantly displayed. Unfortunately movie's are not about portraying what's real. They're simple enterainment based marketing.
Do dumb terminals count? The x-term's server at my school is rebooted something like twice a year and since each of the "millions" of dambed x-terms use tcp for status and loging.....
At home I have kept a telnet session open for 2 weeks.... being used about 6 of 24 hours...
Well tis my 2 cents...
(even less with exchange)
This means that as the computer propogation into
our society greatens many "knowledge based"
industries will be made obsolete and thereby will
use their current economic power to find every
possible fashion of stopping and stifeling their
depleating place in the economy. Expect more
witch-hunts. Though there is a way around
this. It's called value added services. Take
Macmillian publishing and their personal
desktop service. Seeing that it was so simple to
copy their material (mainly books) they made them
free and used advertising to sustain the service
meanwhile offering the "ability" to purchase a "hard copy." Unfortunately greedy old companies don't like new business models. In Canada the CRTC has regulated the upstream cap on dialup and other transmission means from the public sector.
Well that's my 2 cents.
>As my wife says "We need to put all of the >stupid people on an island and nuke 'em".
:)
Now that would leave the planet very sparse.