I have to agree that it sounds rather fishy. What happens if the window is in a hallway? They should make a helocopter one instead of a fixed-wing one. That way it could hover and enter windows, buildings, etc. Of course maybe it's hard to RC the collective as I think it's called?
I read the article and with every line I got more and more angry. Then I closed the article and I couldn't really recall what they were talking about....
I'm paraphrasing here but it went something like this:
"When the most intelligent work on the most complex to build the the only prototype, inevitably the radio won't work."
The point is that when working on very complex designs and prototypes installing something incorrectly doesn't seem odd because your brain is unable to "see" the mistake for what it is. In a car, if you install the brakes incorrectly, the scale is such that you understand the mistake simply from your gut, visually. Like looking at a crumpled front fender and understanding that's not correct.
Too bad +5 is as high as the meter will go. This was a lucid, irreverant, intelligent comment. The part I liked most was (in the 'Specifically, your plan fails to account for' section, "Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once".
You know we could all move the Earth from it's current orbit if we all jumped up at the same time. Okay, China you've got 1/6th the population, don't screw this up again!
Great post. Parent should go SHoF (Slashdot Hall of Fame).
I had an idea like this at one time. I registered a domain name: vatsucks.com (or something to that effect). My idea was to drop-forward packages to foreign countries. You escrow $, I buy, you pay, I ship.
"Everything's cellurized. No one has said "he must die," there's been no vote, there's nothing on paper, there's no one to blame. It's as old as the Crucifixion: the Mafia firing squad, one blank, no one's guilty because everyone in the Power Structure who knows anything has a plausible deniability. There are no compromising connections except at the most secret point. But what's paramount is that it must succeed. No matter how many die, how much it costs, the perpetrators must be on the winning side and never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. That is a coup d'etat."
Microsoft has already decided to use the RDF standard in it's XML based reporting solution. The interesting thing with this product is it's being touted as a open-source like product: reports are XML based, no binary required to view them, rdf would be a standard, reports are HTML-viewed, no required viewer. Which is funny that Microsoft is trying to break into the reporting market by being generic to break the hold of the current slew of companies that hold the monopoly there with more proprietary solutions.
My only beef with my cable (I have digital-cable) is that changing the channels is quite slow. It seems that SAT is a little more snappy. Now this probably doesn't seem that earth-shattering but you used to be able to bump-bump-bump through channels real quickly and let the blended images burn your retinas until you found something that looked interesting. Which brings me to point #2:
The guide. The menus with digital-cable using the remote provided me is quite lacking. Often, as you delve into your system to check options there is no Go-back-to-the-beginning button. So you end up repeating the three or four keystrokes to get from the main menu (of anything) to where you can branch into several options. Of course, this leads me to point #3:
Uptime. I can almost guarantee that cable will not make it through a thunderstorm with winds in excess of 10MPH. It's just impossible. My cable did make it through a thunderstorm once, but I just assumed it was like an amputee who still feels the sensations from a limb long gone. This of course brings me to point #3:
The cable guy. Installations and repair windows are scheduled over like a 3-day 24-hour period, and "we won't call before we come.". Naturally, they'll come at the most inconvient time.
I really think satellite is the future, but cable's got the high-speed cable modem and that's a pretty big carrot...
* Hopefully he was on God's buddy list. * Did he get the Heavenster invite? * Was he 6 degrees from StPeter@PearlyGates.com? * Was he listed in the master directory? * He's taken the big ping-pong ball drop in the sky! * He's put on the red sweater of eternity! * His next gig will be at WGod and paid in part by the corporation for public broadcasting! * He got his bowl-cut for the last time!
Throughly useless I think. You can replace the code, but you can't indemnify 3rd parties. So, because anybody can sue anyone for anything, you'll still end up in court if your pockets are deep enough.
it's liberal Europe? I think that's an oversimplification. What I do think is that the Dutch are all free-traders (no pun intended). Their history is one of free-trade, global trade, and lower regulation.
This history and culture has continually influenced their laws and outlook on new technology. They always seem to be more matter-of-fact and realist when it comes to these issues.
It's an interesting insight into a way in a different culture.
Could someone honestly give me a feedback on how a well-documented, frank, on topic dicussion of that article at hand can be considered a TROLL? My Karma is excellent, I partipate... how can I be a TROLL?
I am not an OS zealot. I enjoy the sunshine too much to worry about media drivers and file systems. However, Mr. Tridgell makes several comments I find incongruous:
First, he talks about his first attempt at Samba, "It really wasn't a very good piece of code, and it certainly wasn't very reliable, but the important thing is that I then decided to release it to the world for free.".
So from this, it would seem he would be arguing that it was bad code, written sloppily; but that released into the "wild" so to speak, it would return a better thing. I assume much like the peer review / criticism so normal in academia. Okay, I think I'm with him there.
Next, Mr. Tridgell talks about proprietary software and states, "We now have large numbers of programmers reinventing poorly designed bits of software, most of which will eventually be discarded and lost forever."
So, it's the "proprietaries" as I will not call them that only write bad code? Didn't he just suggest that his first attempt was poorly written. Or maybe he's arguing that it's continually poor no matter how many times it's re-written.
Finally, he states, "At the moment I'm working on Samba version 4, which is a rather major rewrite..."
It just seems to inconsistent. Bad code was sent out into the world and returned voila -- bad code. Why would Samba need a major re-write if the code weren't properly written in the first place? Isn't this just like a rewrite of Windows? It seems from his comments, that bad code won't be magically fixed in the world of open-source and I think it's not necessarily true that closed-source will just turn out garbage over-and-over again.
What you could argue is that samba and all open-source derivatives are more micro-economic driven. That, in the end, might be a good thing.
Torvalds' father was a card-carrying Communist who spent a year studying in Moscow when his son was about 5.
With the US legal system, it's always hard to tell what the hell is going to happen," Torvalds says. "So I can't just dismiss the lawsuit as the complete crapola I think it is."...in which Torvalds admits he abides by a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to patent issues: "I do not look up any patents on principle because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know," he wrote to fellow Linux hackers.
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My first reaction is to "ditto" your comment. But I can't. I can't because I can't blame the end-user for something that isn't their fault.
Computers basically come from the manufacturer broke. The remain in states of brokeness -- sometimes entering complete brokeness -- and its all the poor user can do to keep the computer operating.
It's our fault as IT professionals to make computers more like... refrigerators for lack of a better similie.
I can't blame the user for software that contains vulnerabilities which they don't (and shouldn't) have the comprehension or time to understand. I can't blame the user for default settings on devices that are delivered unmodified. I can't blame the user for software that allows a person to accomplish something they shouldn't.
Counsel used bolded italics to make their point, a clear sign of grievous iniquity by one's foe.
I love well-worded use of language. It just feels good to say well-written prose. One could divert into the technology here, but I would like to take another road.
This, to me, seems to sum-up American life. We grow up, dream big dreams, educate ourselves, strive for betterment. In the end, we spend our lives making our point through formatting. Is it just me or has America become a bunch of pussies (I'm American)?
I cannot stand bad thinking. And bad thinking is just what the Telemarketers are engaged in when they argue that the DNC list will cost jobs.
They could make an arguemnt for free-speech. I say the could make it (without me laughing), but I will disagree in the end with that one too.
But as for jobs -- it will actually make the telemarketer MORE money -- if there are less telemarketers! The current game plan is simply to call everyone on the planet from the time they are born until the time they die like every second of every day. I would suggest that TARGETED, AGREED, and WARRANTED solicition will result in a lower-cost of SALES OVERHEAD than currently spamming everyone on the plantet, with the same rate of success!
Of course, the telephone companies sit quietly in a corner and pout as it was their corner upon which the pimp was solicting his wares.
I would love to wake up in an opt-in world, but until that day I have to have some way to say, "No, I don't want a year's subscription to volvo-hotrod magazine.".
I find the argument against Microsoft as a problem for national security ringing a little hollow. First, The US government is a complete hodge-podge of computer systems, databases, technologies from various epochs; all of which is unfunded. In fact, the latest US CIO is not going to get the funding need to create a central IT.
So the problem, as I see it, is that the US government has some severe, indemic, structual problems relating to IT policy which makes citizen privacy, national security, and proprietary knowledge at risk.
Of course, put Microsoft on top of the quagmire and you've simply opened the door to the vault for every hacker in the known universe.
I have a hard time blaming the problems of US IT policy on an OS; it's hard to fathom.
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I have to agree that it sounds rather fishy. What happens if the window is in a hallway? They should make a helocopter one instead of a fixed-wing one. That way it could hover and enter windows, buildings, etc. Of course maybe it's hard to RC the collective as I think it's called?
Good, they can make xbox2 games backwards compatible!
I always miss that rule, verb and noun have to agree, so it would be 'are' with morons (plural)?
I read the article and with every line I got more and more angry. Then I closed the article and I couldn't really recall what they were talking about ....
I'm paraphrasing here but it went something like this:
"When the most intelligent work on the most complex to build the the only prototype, inevitably the radio won't work."
The point is that when working on very complex designs and prototypes installing something incorrectly doesn't seem odd because your brain is unable to "see" the mistake for what it is. In a car, if you install the brakes incorrectly, the scale is such that you understand the mistake simply from your gut, visually. Like looking at a crumpled front fender and understanding that's not correct.
Too bad +5 is as high as the meter will go. This was a lucid, irreverant, intelligent comment. The part I liked most was (in the 'Specifically, your plan fails to account for' section, "Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once".
You know we could all move the Earth from it's current orbit if we all jumped up at the same time. Okay, China you've got 1/6th the population, don't screw this up again!
Great post. Parent should go SHoF (Slashdot Hall of Fame).
Peace out.
I had an idea like this at one time. I registered a domain name: vatsucks.com (or something to that effect). My idea was to drop-forward packages to foreign countries. You escrow $, I buy, you pay, I ship.
I'm too lazy to follow through though.
I really think it's going to come down to some sort of buddy list. The technical details of which I'm too tired to think about ... discuss.
From the movie, JFK, spoken by Mr. X:
"Everything's cellurized. No one has said "he must die," there's been no vote, there's nothing on paper, there's no one to blame. It's as old as the Crucifixion: the Mafia firing squad, one blank, no one's guilty because everyone in the Power Structure who knows anything has a plausible deniability. There are no compromising connections except at the most secret point. But what's paramount is that it must succeed. No matter how many die, how much it costs, the perpetrators must be on the winning side and never subject to prosecution for anything by anyone. That is a coup d'etat."
I guess should be multi-terabyte? :)
Microsoft has already decided to use the RDF standard in it's XML based reporting solution. The interesting thing with this product is it's being touted as a open-source like product: reports are XML based, no binary required to view them, rdf would be a standard, reports are HTML-viewed, no required viewer. Which is funny that Microsoft is trying to break into the reporting market by being generic to break the hold of the current slew of companies that hold the monopoly there with more proprietary solutions.
Interesting don't ya think?
Peace Out.
Please learn Assembly, we need it.
Thanks,
America
My only beef with my cable (I have digital-cable) is that changing the channels is quite slow. It seems that SAT is a little more snappy. Now this probably doesn't seem that earth-shattering but you used to be able to bump-bump-bump through channels real quickly and let the blended images burn your retinas until you found something that looked interesting. Which brings me to point #2:
...
The guide. The menus with digital-cable using the remote provided me is quite lacking. Often, as you delve into your system to check options there is no Go-back-to-the-beginning button. So you end up repeating the three or four keystrokes to get from the main menu (of anything) to where you can branch into several options. Of course, this leads me to point #3:
Uptime. I can almost guarantee that cable will not make it through a thunderstorm with winds in excess of 10MPH. It's just impossible. My cable did make it through a thunderstorm once, but I just assumed it was like an amputee who still feels the sensations from a limb long gone. This of course brings me to point #3:
The cable guy. Installations and repair windows are scheduled over like a 3-day 24-hour period, and "we won't call before we come.". Naturally, they'll come at the most inconvient time.
I really think satellite is the future, but cable's got the high-speed cable modem and that's a pretty big carrot
Peace out.
* Hopefully he was on God's buddy list.
* Did he get the Heavenster invite?
* Was he 6 degrees from StPeter@PearlyGates.com?
* Was he listed in the master directory?
* He's taken the big ping-pong ball drop in the sky!
* He's put on the red sweater of eternity!
* His next gig will be at WGod and paid in part by the corporation for public broadcasting!
* He got his bowl-cut for the last time!
Oh what am I talking about?
Okay, now THAT was funny!
Throughly useless I think. You can replace the code, but you can't indemnify 3rd parties. So, because anybody can sue anyone for anything, you'll still end up in court if your pockets are deep enough.
Like trying to swat elephants with fly-swatters.
it's liberal Europe? I think that's an oversimplification. What I do think is that the Dutch are all free-traders (no pun intended). Their history is one of free-trade, global trade, and lower regulation.
This history and culture has continually influenced their laws and outlook on new technology. They always seem to be more matter-of-fact and realist when it comes to these issues.
It's an interesting insight into a way in a different culture.
Could someone honestly give me a feedback on how a well-documented, frank, on topic dicussion of that article at hand can be considered a TROLL? My Karma is excellent, I partipate ... how can I be a TROLL?
Seriously, that's just sad.
I am not an OS zealot. I enjoy the sunshine too much to worry about media drivers and file systems. However, Mr. Tridgell makes several comments I find incongruous:
First, he talks about his first attempt at Samba, "It really wasn't a very good piece of code, and it certainly wasn't very reliable, but the important thing is that I then decided to release it to the world for free.".
So from this, it would seem he would be arguing that it was bad code, written sloppily; but that released into the "wild" so to speak, it would return a better thing. I assume much like the peer review / criticism so normal in academia. Okay, I think I'm with him there.
Next, Mr. Tridgell talks about proprietary software and states, "We now have large numbers of programmers reinventing poorly designed bits of software, most of which will eventually be discarded and lost forever."
So, it's the "proprietaries" as I will not call them that only write bad code? Didn't he just suggest that his first attempt was poorly written. Or maybe he's arguing that it's continually poor no matter how many times it's re-written.
Finally, he states, "At the moment I'm working on Samba version 4, which is a rather major rewrite..."
It just seems to inconsistent. Bad code was sent out into the world and returned voila -- bad code. Why would Samba need a major re-write if the code weren't properly written in the first place? Isn't this just like a rewrite of Windows? It seems from his comments, that bad code won't be magically fixed in the world of open-source and I think it's not necessarily true that closed-source will just turn out garbage over-and-over again.
What you could argue is that samba and all open-source derivatives are more micro-economic driven. That, in the end, might be a good thing.
Torvalds' father was a card-carrying Communist who spent a year studying in Moscow when his son was about 5.
...in which Torvalds admits he abides by a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to patent issues: "I do not look up any patents on principle because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know," he wrote to fellow Linux hackers.
With the US legal system, it's always hard to tell what the hell is going to happen," Torvalds says. "So I can't just dismiss the lawsuit as the complete crapola I think it is."
My first reaction is to "ditto" your comment. But I can't. I can't because I can't blame the end-user for something that isn't their fault.
... refrigerators for lack of a better similie.
Computers basically come from the manufacturer broke. The remain in states of brokeness -- sometimes entering complete brokeness -- and its all the poor user can do to keep the computer operating.
It's our fault as IT professionals to make computers more like
I can't blame the user for software that contains vulnerabilities which they don't (and shouldn't) have the comprehension or time to understand. I can't blame the user for default settings on devices that are delivered unmodified. I can't blame the user for software that allows a person to accomplish something they shouldn't.
Yeah, I think my answer is better.
Counsel used bolded italics to make their point, a clear sign of grievous iniquity by one's foe.
I love well-worded use of language. It just feels good to say well-written prose. One could divert into the technology here, but I would like to take another road.
This, to me, seems to sum-up American life. We grow up, dream big dreams, educate ourselves, strive for betterment. In the end, we spend our lives making our point through formatting. Is it just me or has America become a bunch of pussies (I'm American)?
I don't use aerosol, I use roll on...
I cannot stand bad thinking. And bad thinking is just what the Telemarketers are engaged in when they argue that the DNC list will cost jobs.
They could make an arguemnt for free-speech. I say the could make it (without me laughing), but I will disagree in the end with that one too.
But as for jobs -- it will actually make the telemarketer MORE money -- if there are less telemarketers! The current game plan is simply to call everyone on the planet from the time they are born until the time they die like every second of every day. I would suggest that TARGETED, AGREED, and WARRANTED solicition will result in a lower-cost of SALES OVERHEAD than currently spamming everyone on the plantet, with the same rate of success!
Of course, the telephone companies sit quietly in a corner and pout as it was their corner upon which the pimp was solicting his wares.
I would love to wake up in an opt-in world, but until that day I have to have some way to say, "No, I don't want a year's subscription to volvo-hotrod magazine.".
Peace Out.
I find the argument against Microsoft as a problem for national security ringing a little hollow. First, The US government is a complete hodge-podge of computer systems, databases, technologies from various epochs; all of which is unfunded. In fact, the latest US CIO is not going to get the funding need to create a central IT.
So the problem, as I see it, is that the US government has some severe, indemic, structual problems relating to IT policy which makes citizen privacy, national security, and proprietary knowledge at risk.
Of course, put Microsoft on top of the quagmire and you've simply opened the door to the vault for every hacker in the known universe.
I have a hard time blaming the problems of US IT policy on an OS; it's hard to fathom.