Imagine having to sift through tonnes of porn material, and getting paid for it. The job itself isn't really important because most of the search warrants would be over bullshit matters anyway.
Tolerance is easy when there's nobody bothering you. ... The Internet brings people together who are best kept separated.
I think the process of change (with so much communication) is going to be painful, but eventually it will be for the ultimate good. There will always be cases of media exploiting sensationalism and stereotypes. As people mix more, there will eventually be less stark stereotypes.
Meanwhile, we will keep getting articles like this posted on slashdot. There was one recently (about three weeks ago) about intolerance because of excessive media coverage (paraphrasing).
How would a "second hand sale" be recorded in a book? What about subsequent sales? Would I have to go through an agency (ala dept. motor vehichles service -- DMV) where there will be a "change of ownership form" every time someone sells a book? Will I have to wait in long lines as I do at the DMV? Will they justify all this by saying "reading is not a right, it is a privilege?"
About microwaving books, will a person be fined if his book is "not standards compliant"? Will there be an annual inspection (like motor vehicles) for each book?
Since it is the "Mother's day", I will not call the advocates of this policy sons of ******.
Speaking "Google asian porn" aloud in the office is not a good idea. For some things the nonverbal interface is best.
That is the point... you get to use whatever mode is convenient in a given situation. For instance, a command like "lights on", is tough to give via a keyboard when all lights are off:)
Extrapolation is usually not very reliable. In most of these chaotic systems, the fact that a model predicted accurately what has happenned in the last 50 years, does not mean very much because of the following factors:
(a) there may not be enough models that have been run, so we may pick something that "seems close" (b) running a 50 year simulation (rather 100 year) in 8 months on small computers means that the model is not going to be very sophisticated (c) there are random parameters, such as volcanic eruptions, man made emissions, deforestation/aforestation, etc., that won't get into the model properly
A prof of mine told this in the class: In the good old days, many mechanical engineers came up with formulae for heat transfer in pipes under various conditions. The formulae matched experimental data almost perfectly. They started extrapolating the results. Eventually, they found out that *ALL* those extrapolations violated the second law of thermodynamics -- and they went back to just interpolating.
The porn sites convince themselves that people under 21 won't click on the links if a button says so, or like M$FT wants that everyone pledge their asses to Bill G because of the EULA.
The oaths are more symbolic, and people should always assume the worst -- as they say, "Be courteous, and always carry a knife."
In other words, they could freeze raises and new hiring and give their products away for an entire year.
One year?? Make it more like a decade or so... They could probably last a decade or more with "zero revenues", not even "zero profit". There are thousands of companies that have lasted for decades with zero profits (think the Bells, the Nortels...)
To put this in context... Recently, there was a report about the New Jersey Government's projections about how to finance the EZPass scheme (this is the automatic toll deduction via a transponder in your car thingie).
The infrastructure costs were to be about 500M, and the folks raised 300M through public bonds, and projected that the remaining 200M will be collected from Toll violators. Mind you, not from tolls, but from toll violation fines. 40% of the infrastructure costs. Agreed, New Jersey might be a rougue state, but not this much!
In reality, the collections were only 13M in the first year, and it cost the state 15M for the administrative costs -- for taking care of the fines. Poetic justice.
When I was in school, this was the most fascinating thing that I ever read about. Simple mirrors and rotation. Ofcourse, the Young's double slit experiment is also fascinating, but I didn't understand it when I was in School:)
It would be great to see how much throughputdisks SCSI and IDE support. I worked at a place where they had a SCSI disk controller (a hub) where a lot of machines could connect to the array and see the disks as local disks. I have seen some cases where there is a fiber channel controller going into another fiber channel controller and the actual disks were simple scsi disks.
What metrics do people use? Price surely favors IDE, and proabably scalability -- it is very easy to install a dozen scsi controllers and connect to several hundreds of disks because of the several channels provided.
A quote here: Connectivity: The ATA interface can only address two devices while SCSI can address eight devices (Narrow SCSI), 16 devices (Wide SCSI), 32 (Very Wide SCSI) or 126 (FireWire). There are also many peripherals available to SCSI only and not ATA.
I believe more patients' lives are lost because of mistakes by doctors/hospitals/nurses, or sheer negligence. In some parts of India, for example, private hospitals are afraid to admit victims of accidents or crimes because the hospital itself might get into some trouble. Personally, I have seen doctors giving stupid advice, and people losing lives.
To put things in perspective, fatalities caused by human errors (non programming related) outnumber those caused by software errors by orders of magnitude, in many fields (except, say in launching unmanned space vehicles).
How much are these Microsoft lawyers getting if this is the level of their trial prep?
Microsoft has only certain amount of money for PR, trial lawyers, immigration lawyers, Bullying small companies, and so on...
Between the money they spend on Bush/Ashcroft clique, the money the pay the BSA, they have very little to spare for the trial lawyers. They figured, it is better to improve revenues by bullying people, and get "justice" directly from the "Department of justice".
Therefore, incompetent lawyers is no big deal for Microsoft, since they have a direct line to "Justice".
Current State of the art seems to be "giving cues to travel left, right, and so on". Isn't it better to do these things with complete machines? Some sort of a robot that is probably completely spherical, or some other shape that allows easy navigation?
It would be cruelty to use animals in this fashion. Further, there may be big time repurcussions. What if some rats escape, and become very violent -- may be they aren't afraid of death anymore, may be some weird neurons trigger growth of enormous teeth (then, we'll see more spam on "guaranteed enlargement" with electrodes, but I'm digressing).
How much would it cost to train normal rats, just like they do with rescue dogs -- and put small cameras on their backs? That is also cruel, but we can look at the rats as employees:)
Me... I took the $200 of my last pay, sent mails to 140 people by sending $1 mails, and asking them to put my name on the "list"... Made a bounty you know:)
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." Dr. John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
This surely applies to several layers in a dis-organization. Things like, "What? You are doing the front-end work? Should suck!", or "What? You are programming in that language?", or "I don't code. I design!", and so on... On that note, I have seen directors of QA treated poorly compared to junior "core engineers".
My big gripe about KDE is I think it's butt-ugly. The main reason I keep using GNOME is that the icons on KDE are aesthetically offensive to me. And the letter K is kind of offensive, it's not very elegant. There's an elegancy missing in the thing. The underlying thing is pretty darn good, no argument with that.
I think "K" is as offensive as the rest of the letters "F", "U", and "C"!
Serious things in the article... The maturing of Star Office (it should rather be OpenOffice, right?), KDE, and GNOME. How, WinXP bootleg CDs cannot be found in Korea.
I believe the "anti-US sentiment" mentioned in the summary is not fully representative of the interview -- the point seems to be more like "if a single source for product is present, the Koreans should rather have a Korean source rather than an American source". That is very different from "K" (and the other offensive letters) USA:)
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If only can repartition disks & install linux!
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Wonder how that would be? Next time the user logs in, it will be Grub, lilo, or whatever...
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Doesn't the earth receive more?
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By virtue of the size of earth, we ought to be getting more. Harnessing 1% of this is as good!
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Imagine having to sift through tonnes of porn material, and getting paid for it. The job itself isn't really important because most of the search warrants would be over bullshit matters anyway.
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I'd imagine the internal letters between linux developers on crippling microsoft are 100x worse.
How would some linux developers cripple Windows? By threatening to make linux "not work" with X86?
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Tolerance is easy when there's nobody bothering you.
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The Internet brings people together who are best kept separated.
I think the process of change (with so much communication) is going to be painful, but eventually it will be for the ultimate good. There will always be cases of media exploiting sensationalism and stereotypes. As people mix more, there will eventually be less stark stereotypes.
Meanwhile, we will keep getting articles like this posted on slashdot. There was one recently (about three weeks ago) about intolerance because of excessive media coverage (paraphrasing).
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How would a "second hand sale" be recorded in a book? What about subsequent sales? Would I have to go through an agency (ala dept. motor vehichles service -- DMV) where there will be a "change of ownership form" every time someone sells a book? Will I have to wait in long lines as I do at the DMV? Will they justify all this by saying "reading is not a right, it is a privilege?"
About microwaving books, will a person be fined if his book is "not standards compliant"? Will there be an annual inspection (like motor vehicles) for each book?
Since it is the "Mother's day", I will not call the advocates of this policy sons of ******.
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How about Matrix II RC2 that will fix majority of the bugs from Matrix I?
Speaking "Google asian porn" aloud in the office is not a good idea. For some things the nonverbal interface is best.
That is the point... you get to use whatever mode is convenient in a given situation. For instance, a command like "lights on", is tough to give via a keyboard when all lights are off
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At least this will push lasik surgery to an "old but reliable technology", so that people will feel more comfortable with that.
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Extrapolation is usually not very reliable. In most of these chaotic systems, the fact that a model predicted accurately what has happenned in the last 50 years, does not mean very much because of the following factors:
(a) there may not be enough models that have been run, so we may pick something that "seems close"
(b) running a 50 year simulation (rather 100 year) in 8 months on small computers means that the model is not going to be very sophisticated
(c) there are random parameters, such as volcanic eruptions, man made emissions, deforestation/aforestation, etc., that won't get into the model properly
A prof of mine told this in the class: In the good old days, many mechanical engineers came up with formulae for heat transfer in pipes under various conditions. The formulae matched experimental data almost perfectly. They started extrapolating the results. Eventually, they found out that *ALL* those extrapolations violated the second law of thermodynamics -- and they went back to just interpolating.
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The porn sites convince themselves that people under 21 won't click on the links if a button says so, or like M$FT wants that everyone pledge their asses to Bill G because of the EULA.
The oaths are more symbolic, and people should always assume the worst -- as they say, "Be courteous, and always carry a knife."
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In other words, they could freeze raises and new hiring and give their products away for an entire year.
One year?? Make it more like a decade or so... They could probably last a decade or more with "zero revenues", not even "zero profit". There are thousands of companies that have lasted for decades with zero profits (think the Bells, the Nortels...)
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Ralph Nader pointed out that the money is a sort of a n "illegal tax shelter" for very rich people such as Billie Boy, Paul Allen, and Steve Ballmer.
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To put this in context... Recently, there was a report about the New Jersey Government's projections about how to finance the EZPass scheme (this is the automatic toll deduction via a transponder in your car thingie).
The infrastructure costs were to be about 500M, and the folks raised 300M through public bonds, and projected that the remaining 200M will be collected from Toll violators. Mind you, not from tolls, but from toll violation fines. 40% of the infrastructure costs. Agreed, New Jersey might be a rougue state, but not this much!
In reality, the collections were only 13M in the first year, and it cost the state 15M for the administrative costs -- for taking care of the fines. Poetic justice.
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When I was in school, this was the most fascinating thing that I ever read about. Simple mirrors and rotation. Ofcourse, the Young's double slit experiment is also fascinating, but I didn't understand it when I was in School :)
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More info at a link I got from Google: http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109N/lecture
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It would be great to see how much throughputdisks SCSI and IDE support. I worked at a place where they had a SCSI disk controller (a hub) where a lot of machines could connect to the array and see the disks as local disks. I have seen some cases where there is a fiber channel controller going into another fiber channel controller and the actual disks were simple scsi disks.
What metrics do people use? Price surely favors IDE, and proabably scalability -- it is very easy to install a dozen scsi controllers and connect to several hundreds of disks because of the several channels provided.
A quote here:
Connectivity: The ATA interface can only address two devices while SCSI can address eight devices (Narrow SCSI), 16 devices (Wide SCSI), 32 (Very Wide SCSI) or 126 (FireWire). There are also many peripherals available to SCSI only and not ATA.
The page I got this quote from is at http://www.acc.umu.se/~sagge/scsi_ide/
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I believe more patients' lives are lost because of mistakes by doctors/hospitals/nurses, or sheer negligence. In some parts of India, for example, private hospitals are afraid to admit victims of accidents or crimes because the hospital itself might get into some trouble. Personally, I have seen doctors giving stupid advice, and people losing lives.
To put things in perspective, fatalities caused by human errors (non programming related) outnumber those caused by software errors by orders of magnitude, in many fields (except, say in launching unmanned space vehicles).
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How much are these Microsoft lawyers getting if this is the level of their trial prep?
Microsoft has only certain amount of money for PR, trial lawyers, immigration lawyers, Bullying small companies, and so on...
Between the money they spend on Bush/Ashcroft clique, the money the pay the BSA, they have very little to spare for the trial lawyers. They figured, it is better to improve revenues by bullying people, and get "justice" directly from the "Department of justice".
Therefore, incompetent lawyers is no big deal for Microsoft, since they have a direct line to "Justice".
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The interview was very short and I did not find much information. Here are some related links:
4 7_ STO69691,00.html -- on .NET and J2EE
v iews/james_ gosling.html
d efault.asp
g os ling/
http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV
Gosling on netbeans -- (03/2002)
http://www.netbeans.org/articles/inter
An old interview from 2000 -- more on java http://www.devx.com/judgingjava/articles/gosling/
Another from 1999 --
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/features/
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Animals, like plants are a resource to be used. They are not people.
Funny, they think of employees like that in many of the sweat shops!
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Current State of the art seems to be "giving cues to travel left, right, and so on". Isn't it better to do these things with complete machines? Some sort of a robot that is probably completely spherical, or some other shape that allows easy navigation?
:)
It would be cruelty to use animals in this fashion. Further, there may be big time repurcussions. What if some rats escape, and become very violent -- may be they aren't afraid of death anymore, may be some weird neurons trigger growth of enormous teeth (then, we'll see more spam on "guaranteed enlargement" with electrodes, but I'm digressing).
How much would it cost to train normal rats, just like they do with rescue dogs -- and put small cameras on their backs? That is also cruel, but we can look at the rats as employees
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Me... I took the $200 of my last pay, sent mails to 140 people by sending $1 mails, and asking them to put my name on the "list"... Made a bounty you know :)
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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." Dr. John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
This surely applies to several layers in a dis-organization. Things like, "What? You are doing the front-end work? Should suck!", or "What? You are programming in that language?", or "I don't code. I design!", and so on... On that note, I have seen directors of QA treated poorly compared to junior "core engineers".
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Wait until the goatse.cx people start complaining about getting a bad name when you link more such senators.
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My big gripe about KDE is I think it's butt-ugly. The main reason I keep using GNOME is that the icons on KDE are aesthetically offensive to me. And the letter K is kind of offensive, it's not very elegant. There's an elegancy missing in the thing. The underlying thing is pretty darn good, no argument with that.
I think "K" is as offensive as the rest of the letters "F", "U", and "C"!
Serious things in the article... The maturing of Star Office (it should rather be OpenOffice, right?), KDE, and GNOME. How, WinXP bootleg CDs cannot be found in Korea.
I believe the "anti-US sentiment" mentioned in the summary is not fully representative of the interview -- the point seems to be more like "if a single source for product is present, the Koreans should rather have a Korean source rather than an American source". That is very different from "K" (and the other offensive letters) USA
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Wonder how that would be? Next time the user logs in, it will be Grub, lilo, or whatever...
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By virtue of the size of earth, we ought to be getting more. Harnessing 1% of this is as good!
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