...was "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
It's surprising that someone so respected would need to chase a carrot like that. It sounds like that solitude extended indefinitely. Maybe extreme genius demands solitude.
A number of applications (both commercial and open source) claim to solve the document-sharing problem, and yet, the predominant method for sharing files is to email them back and forth. This is the computational equivalent of sneakernet. If the tools that purport to solve this problem are good, why aren't we using them?
Doing everything via a share would require a massive amount of permission adjustments that users just can't handle easily. Not to mention, file systems are only useful when two users are on the same network. An internet filesystem is simply not practicle enough to use on a daily basis. This may be one place where Internet2 might show us what's possible.
Who determines when N-squared is too large? Management has a tendency to maximize profit and therefore to let N get large. If you let software go in the wild under these conditions it's only a matter of time before a manager asks his techie why the software that worked yesterday doesn't work today, or why it's going to take a month out of his quarter for re-design if we want to change the forum or layout of the group.
Writing form-fitting software is not an asymptotic approach to design and breeds laziness in all levels of design in a design group. Change is the nature of the market and software written for that market must be able to handle that change.
Cheaper and faster doesn't teach the programmer anything; in fact this dulling effect can bore a programmer out of his job. Just because you ignore scalability doesn't mean the software has fewer scalability issues. You'll find the simplest changes much more challenging than they should be. If users aren't willing to learn software (or any other skill) to do their job better, this also breeds mediocrity.
How rare is it to find programming talent that can't write utilitarian software? Software programmers are born lazy. This is the nature of all inexperienced and un-trained programmers. With experience in a field, skills become secondary to philosophy. When you focus purely on skill and ignore philosophy you become doomed to peak at mediocrity; thus the world before XML and other important abstractions.
I thank God that mathematicians are free to think asymptotically. If their creativity were confined to industry they would be pressured to stick with 4 function calculators and work everything else out on the fly.
I would suggest that a program like "Teachers on the Run" contain the ability to setup a basic schema via an INI file so the schema can be changed based on the needs of the user very quickly and easily.
The trade-off in popularity came when your programmers got geeked about their product - which is very healthy. But the fact that we live in different locations of the country and we both have heard of ratemyprofessor.com proves that when Web School app developers get excited, indeed the oceans and the continents start to heat up.
The pier pressure on deadbeats approach works only in the vacuum of an academic setting.
"We rarely rely on the cognitive capabilities of groups, however, though we rely on those capabilities in the real world all the time." A large part of industry is trained to perform daily functions - novelty only occurs when a new system is implemented, and contrary to popular belief many people don't use icons because they're drawn toward the usefulness of the pictures, but out of trained procedure and rote documentation. When we use schemas that developers can easily modify, we allow the trained and very bored masses that ability of having a deeper understanding of the system, which improves their ability to submit change requests, not to mention the improved ability to train new employees.
The two mid-term critiques might have been a reflection of people finally learning a centralized abstraction such as the Web. Remember the web is still new to most people even though it's been around for 10 years. As it permeates our culture you'll be more and more blown away at how well users integrate higher technology into their lives. I'm amazed every day when I hear non-technical types talking about upload sizes, bandwidth limitations, proxy servers (etc.) like they were talking about an episode of Oprah.
Do you think it would be harder for most kids born in the 80's to use a web form or a beta-max interface? Most kids born in the 80's have never heard of beta-max, and apart from novelty might quickly ask those important questions.
Deploying services on an Intranet would solve your physical layer issue with web deployment.
"everyone knew and trusted Scott" - again, this only works in the vacuum of an academic setting.
This falls under the category "If everyone is guilty of everything then no one is guilty of anything". But I wouldn't expect the RIAA to be stumped by this. They would simply have an open field day suing EVERYONE for aiding in piracy, even if only 2 people were engaged in pirating. Then users would be stuck with the impossible dillema of proving that nobody was pirating anything (a universal negative).
"The hand you hold is the hand that holds you down"
And BTW, what kind of a business plan is based upon "Well, my wife wanted me to start a company so here I am."? If he isn't starting a business out of his own passion then he's not going to stick with it, or if he does, it'll be because it's a very simple commoditized low yeild type of business (i.e. local tech support).
You've got two jobs: a wife, and a career. Pick one.
I have a lousey short term memory, so I find that technology allows me to forget something for a minute and keep working on something else until I remember what it is I'm supposed to be doing. Being able to work with that kind of multitasking environment isn't neccessarily tiring. In many ways it's more relaxing than the real world. It has actually made me a bit more edgy just because more things in life aren't as immediatley gratifying. In real life you can't sit at red light and keep track of your stocks. You can't sit in line at the grocery store and get anything important done. But when I'm at a computer I can write a method here - keep track of some tech news - handle my scheduling - write a class there - do a summary for a school assignment. I can get alot more accomplished when I'm not forced to do one thing over and over. That's why I can come home after working on a computer all day, then sit down at my own computer and actually still enjoy myself.
Either that, or a failed attempt to force the consumer into relying on the manufacturer if the mouse goes bad.
I remember some of the old 200Mhz Compaq Presarios had part of the BIOS information stored in a hidden Xenix partition. That's a way to rely on the OEM and pay them money. Luckily when the drive failed, Maxtor's EZ-BIOS took over and I could boot, but I couldn't do anything else to the BIOS. Compaq also made proprietary monitors to handle that stupid onscreen volume control (pin16), which used to be reserved for blue channel data. You used to have to literally have a red-tinted screen by removing a pin to use the first video card pass-through accelerators.
Fast forward 5 years later, Compaq gets bought out by HP. Corrupting the hardware never gives you the advantage over your competitors.
Gateway has used proprietary hardware in the past, so when Dell began as a small company they quickly swallowed up marketshare.
If I recall correctly, it was shortly after Intel released its unique identification chip 'feature' on the P3 for secure online purchasing that AMD began to really start booming and separate itself from the rest of the pack (Cyrix etc).
I have no doubt the market will adjust itself in a similar fashion.
I guarentee Israel will be using Open Office on Windows machines, otherwise the story would have read "Israel switches to Linux and uses Open Office", but code portability in this case was the primary player. I doubt they would be using OO if they all had to install Linux to use it.
As a further note, the article mentions that Open Office is "for use on the Linux operating system", when in fact that's not the case at all. It's for use on EVERY operating system
text as digital music. Here's what uncle Steve had to say:
Because of their technological innocence, I would say. When we first went to talk to these record companies -- about eighteen months ago -- we said, "None of this technology that you're talking about's gonna work. We have Ph.D.s here who know the stuff cold, and we don't believe it's possible to protect digital content."
I think we're talking more about homebrew board games, as in homebrew beer - not something you want Miller to start producing for you - just something of great quality for you to enjoy with good company.
... get the vibe that when he said he was performing a 'vulnerability assessment' he was using NMAP or something? It sounds like some PHB freaked out and fired him.
It sounds fishy because no company trusts a third party above their own staff unless they're suspicious to begin with, or unless they already knew you needed to go.
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If this is a silver bullet app, then why does it only work on 'major' apps???
...was "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
It's surprising that someone so respected would need to chase a carrot like that. It sounds like that solitude extended indefinitely. Maybe extreme genius demands solitude.
Any thoughts?
That is sick!!!!
amazing SK1LLz!!!
IF ( girlfriend.likesToShop() ) THEN
{
girlfriend.Dump();
girlfriend.getNext();
}//end of IF 'girlfriend'
... on this issue of Playboy. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you Hef?
I think the point is to squelch the flames. No product can really ever claim to make things "melt proof"
A very interesting note is that Saphire/Novec 1230 has a freezing point at -162.4*F according to 3M's white paper
(looks around & laughs nervously)
right guys?!
(cricket cricket)
... considering the value of a dollar in some countries. I guess this program's demographic includes any computer up to spec in 3rd world countries.
Hey, all the more reason to go to war with them!!!
Doing everything via a share would require a massive amount of permission adjustments that users just can't handle easily. Not to mention, file systems are only useful when two users are on the same network. An internet filesystem is simply not practicle enough to use on a daily basis. This may be one place where Internet2 might show us what's possible.
Who determines when N-squared is too large? Management has a tendency to maximize profit and therefore to let N get large. If you let software go in the wild under these conditions it's only a matter of time before a manager asks his techie why the software that worked yesterday doesn't work today, or why it's going to take a month out of his quarter for re-design if we want to change the forum or layout of the group.
Writing form-fitting software is not an asymptotic approach to design and breeds laziness in all levels of design in a design group. Change is the nature of the market and software written for that market must be able to handle that change.
Cheaper and faster doesn't teach the programmer anything; in fact this dulling effect can bore a programmer out of his job. Just because you ignore scalability doesn't mean the software has fewer scalability issues. You'll find the simplest changes much more challenging than they should be. If users aren't willing to learn software (or any other skill) to do their job better, this also breeds mediocrity.
How rare is it to find programming talent that can't write utilitarian software? Software programmers are born lazy. This is the nature of all inexperienced and un-trained programmers. With experience in a field, skills become secondary to philosophy. When you focus purely on skill and ignore philosophy you become doomed to peak at mediocrity; thus the world before XML and other important abstractions.
I thank God that mathematicians are free to think asymptotically. If their creativity were confined to industry they would be pressured to stick with 4 function calculators and work everything else out on the fly.
I would suggest that a program like "Teachers on the Run" contain the ability to setup a basic schema via an INI file so the schema can be changed based on the needs of the user very quickly and easily.
The trade-off in popularity came when your programmers got geeked about their product - which is very healthy. But the fact that we live in different locations of the country and we both have heard of ratemyprofessor.com proves that when Web School app developers get excited, indeed the oceans and the continents start to heat up.
The pier pressure on deadbeats approach works only in the vacuum of an academic setting.
"We rarely rely on the cognitive capabilities of groups, however, though we rely on those capabilities in the real world all the time." A large part of industry is trained to perform daily functions - novelty only occurs when a new system is implemented, and contrary to popular belief many people don't use icons because they're drawn toward the usefulness of the pictures, but out of trained procedure and rote documentation. When we use schemas that developers can easily modify, we allow the trained and very bored masses that ability of having a deeper understanding of the system, which improves their ability to submit change requests, not to mention the improved ability to train new employees.
The two mid-term critiques might have been a reflection of people finally learning a centralized abstraction such as the Web. Remember the web is still new to most people even though it's been around for 10 years. As it permeates our culture you'll be more and more blown away at how well users integrate higher technology into their lives. I'm amazed every day when I hear non-technical types talking about upload sizes, bandwidth limitations, proxy servers (etc.) like they were talking about an episode of Oprah.
Do you think it would be harder for most kids born in the 80's to use a web form or a beta-max interface? Most kids born in the 80's have never heard of beta-max, and apart from novelty might quickly ask those important questions.
Deploying services on an Intranet would solve your physical layer issue with web deployment.
"everyone knew and trusted Scott" - again, this only works in the vacuum of an academic setting.
In the information age, where the ent
This falls under the category "If everyone is guilty of everything then no one is guilty of anything". But I wouldn't expect the RIAA to be stumped by this. They would simply have an open field day suing EVERYONE for aiding in piracy, even if only 2 people were engaged in pirating. Then users would be stuck with the impossible dillema of proving that nobody was pirating anything (a universal negative).
"The hand you hold is the hand that holds you down"
And BTW, what kind of a business plan is based upon "Well, my wife wanted me to start a company so here I am."? If he isn't starting a business out of his own passion then he's not going to stick with it, or if he does, it'll be because it's a very simple commoditized low yeild type of business (i.e. local tech support).
You've got two jobs: a wife, and a career. Pick one.
... that the B in BIOS stands for BASIC
Why don't they just write an entire interface in the BIOS and scrap the OS completely? The BIOS should only be for settings in the hardware.
I have a lousey short term memory, so I find that technology allows me to forget something for a minute and keep working on something else until I remember what it is I'm supposed to be doing. Being able to work with that kind of multitasking environment isn't neccessarily tiring. In many ways it's more relaxing than the real world. It has actually made me a bit more edgy just because more things in life aren't as immediatley gratifying. In real life you can't sit at red light and keep track of your stocks. You can't sit in line at the grocery store and get anything important done. But when I'm at a computer I can write a method here - keep track of some tech news - handle my scheduling - write a class there - do a summary for a school assignment. I can get alot more accomplished when I'm not forced to do one thing over and over. That's why I can come home after working on a computer all day, then sit down at my own computer and actually still enjoy myself.
link here: http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontro l.html
And remember, urine control
... the pissing videogame from those kids at MIT
Statner covering Rollins Band:
Cuz.
I'm.
A liar.
I'll.
Tear your heart out.
I'll.
BURN your soul.
Either that, or a failed attempt to force the consumer into relying on the manufacturer if the mouse goes bad.
I remember some of the old 200Mhz Compaq Presarios had part of the BIOS information stored in a hidden Xenix partition. That's a way to rely on the OEM and pay them money. Luckily when the drive failed, Maxtor's EZ-BIOS took over and I could boot, but I couldn't do anything else to the BIOS. Compaq also made proprietary monitors to handle that stupid onscreen volume control (pin16), which used to be reserved for blue channel data. You used to have to literally have a red-tinted screen by removing a pin to use the first video card pass-through accelerators.
Fast forward 5 years later, Compaq gets bought out by HP. Corrupting the hardware never gives you the advantage over your competitors.
Gateway has used proprietary hardware in the past, so when Dell began as a small company they quickly swallowed up marketshare.
If I recall correctly, it was shortly after Intel released its unique identification chip 'feature' on the P3 for secure online purchasing that AMD began to really start booming and separate itself from the rest of the pack (Cyrix etc).
I have no doubt the market will adjust itself in a similar fashion.
I guarentee Israel will be using Open Office on Windows machines, otherwise the story would have read "Israel switches to Linux and uses Open Office", but code portability in this case was the primary player. I doubt they would be using OO if they all had to install Linux to use it.
As a further note, the article mentions that Open Office is "for use on the Linux operating system", when in fact that's not the case at all. It's for use on EVERY operating system
(that's what the source is there for)
Come again?
What's that you're trying to say?
Perhaps if there were some blue dots or a colored line of some sort THAT would help
I think we're talking more about homebrew board games, as in homebrew beer - not something you want Miller to start producing for you - just something of great quality for you to enjoy with good company.
... get the vibe that when he said he was performing a 'vulnerability assessment' he was using NMAP or something? It sounds like some PHB freaked out and fired him.
It sounds fishy because no company trusts a third party above their own staff unless they're suspicious to begin with, or unless they already knew you needed to go.