THAT'S one good reason to use XML between your own processes, rather than in in-memory data structure and/or RPC. Mgt. is often former COBOLers used to archaic mainframe style processing of many simplistic programs dumping into many many temp files. It's the architecture they know. XML sucks much less than many file formats, but files aren't always the best way to join tasks / processes, as you seem to be "hinting" at.
So, any estimate of the actual values of these 2 quantities? (NASA budget vs. commercial satellite industry gross / profits)
I'm not familiar with that data, and would appreciate a hint, even if 1960 vs. 2000 dollars aren't adjusted, and there's only 1 significant digit. I suppose something on google would tell me, if I had a half hour to bumble around looking...
Reading the "tips" page from MS says that only OBJECT tags with parameters cause the loading confirmation box, presumably because the parameters refer to an external data source. If the app is a static blob, w/out external data, no confirmation is required.
Oh, or if you add the magic "just do it" tag/attribute (I forgot the name, but it's there).
All this crud is contingent upon tips in the HTML, IE is still happy to run ActiveVex trojans, er, valuable content automagically in many situations.
Yes, "outbound" sections of earth-crossing orbits are hard to see (from the ground), because you are looking at the shadow side of something in a daytime sky (this was mentioned in another post on the thread somewhere).
My point above is that an actual impact event is slightly more likely to be in the A.M. (local time at impact site) due to the motion of the earth in its orbit around the sun. The best time to view a meteor shower, for instance, is after midnight, at least until the sun comes up.
Did you read Vernor Vinge's "Deepness in the Sky"? Because that sounds exactly like the "localizer" network of dust mote sized nodes use by the villians to spy on all of their captives in that story. The bad guys were VERY much into monitoring and analyzing everybody, lest they be thinking Bad Things.
Of course, if I said any more about it, I'd be a spoiler...
Otherwise, yeah, it sucks to have to learn "make, only different" to be able to do the same old things. That must be why my Ant book has sat browsed, and ignored (IDEs? Windows? Who cares?!? "vi Makefile", and I'm outta here...)
Actually, the earth runs into a bit more solar system "junk" between 12 AM and 12 PM (local time). Consider the "after midnight" (AM) time where you are as being on the front windshield, and the "after noon" (PM) time as being on the back window (of a car)
At midnight, you are on the "back side" of the earth moving at a tangent to the earth's orbit, then moving sun-ward on the "front side" of the earth, until you slip around the back of the orbital direction in the afternoon.
Or was this a "millenial" type question, rather than an "astronomical" one. In that case -- cuz yur' a'sleepin', you slacker!
Maybe $0.08 for you, but under PG&E in rural California (El Dorado County), it's about $0.12 to $0.15, I think. Some friend's of my wife's down the road are putting in the panels (civil engineers, not computer geeks). Apparently, they did the math and decided not to give so much of their money to PG&E any more. Even with the existing glassy blue silicon panels, it is still working out.
OTOH, municipally owned utilities like SMUD, MID or TID (various Central Valley cities/towns) charge quite a bit less than their "free enterprise" counterpart.
That whole orbital guidance tech for China deal in the 90s made me sick. I would have found Clinton, Congress and the Corporation all guilty of treason if it were up to me.
And yes, we are selling our national security short with all the multi-national corporate work migration.
(note: I'm non partisan -- we seem to have had 2 village idiots in a row for president)
Actually, if you just delete data, it gets restored from backups (hopefully).
If one *really* wanted to play havoc, you just periodically corrupt something at random. BUT PLEASE DON'T!
I think most of these really are just the work of vandal script kiddies. Except for a few nasty industrial espionage level things that destroy all evidence that they were ever there:-) (what, me worry?)
I thought MS-DOS was a bicycle, and Linux was a tank?!? Or was it a Hole-Hawg?
(In the Beginning Was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson -- some funny analogies)
Anyway, they seem to just repeat "Linux can't be made to work on Voyager, er, Enterprise.... Cuz we said so! And, and, and, you will be assimilated, yah!"
Hmmm. So how does *BSD do SMP??? Were they given Unix(TM) brain transplants as well? - - -
Re:Stock "Ownership" (OK, off topic...)
on
Today's SCO News
·
· Score: 1
Hmm. Good point. This is not a personal problem for me, as I have nothing outside of retirement plan stuff, just what I've read.
Ignorance and apathy don't get much done, do they?
Still, it would seem like punishing the guilty might help to restore some confidence in the market, and make people more inclined to invest in future business. The perception seems to be that the current government (Congress, not just the Executive) just looks the other way, and is not demanding much of anything from the privelidged.
Unfornately, ownership, even majority / mass plurality, of stock does not, apparently, give the "owners" of a company the right to dictate to the corporate ruling elite nowadays, from what I have been reading in the papers. The Board of Aristocrats can do whatever they !@#$ please. (after all, *they* went to the best schools and were brought up by the proper families, you plebe!)
Now, if they owed us money, OTOH, that would be another story.... -
Imagine the cost savings of not having to have a lawyer review such tripe before deciding if you want to / can use a software product.
Of course, my employer has decided that using open source is just too risky, as there might be "intellectual property bombs" lurking within, which is true. OTOH, life is not without risk no matter what decisions you make, and how do organizations decipher what risks / obligations they are submitting themselves to when faced with such a list of rambling "we promise little, but you watch your step" prose???
It almost sounds like you would rather use the Win 3.x "Program Manager" menu group system, rather than "Start" -> "Programs" -> "Vendor" -> "Random" -> "BogoEdit". I know I would.
I think the Windows 95 style desktop (etc) was a big botch, compared to Windows 3.x. Yes, Win32 suck much less than Win16 as an API / run-time environment, but the look is awful, and it is hard to explain.
"Hey, let's re-order the buttons at the top of the frame: minimize, maximize, kill." What kind of logical progression is that?
I used to be able to easily make program groups in win 3.x, and drag program icons wherever *I* wante d them. Nesting would have been nice, but I had a usable desktop with the stuff I used. Under 9x and its brethren, you can dump lots-o-stuff on the one-and-only-one disktop background, or those insane "start" menus. Moving things around in the menus requires some pretty arcane knowledge of magic files and/or hidden menus (I've had better things to do...)
Er, this is a bit off topic, isn't it?
When somethings works pretty well, carefully consider whether you should "revolutionize it". As we've seen, egomanics could probably screw up the web browser interface every bit as bad as the OS desktop... ("Has anyone seen my fvwm? Maybe it's underneath this gnome thing...")
I started using Linux (Slackware) in March 1995, and it was already better than the SCO system I sometimes used at work then. At least in terms of developer-friendly tools, and the performance / reliability was reasonable on a single CPU.
Doubtless, many people learned this much before I did... .
The 4 years things has been commented on, but I'll wager it is "4 years, MTBF" (Mean Time Before Finding another job). Actually, I think that would be lower (2.5, 3 years?).
Otherwise, yeah, corporate life is hard. Personally, I want to stack up my saving a bit, then get out and do something a bit slower pace. I would like it to be software development related. However, I'd like to spend a bit more time with my kids before the leave home for college, work, whatever.
After that, maybe I'll bust my butt as a consultant some time again, if anybody will have me. Yes, I do learn new stuff, but of course I don't have the ob. "7 years experience in Acme FOOBOL IDS-builder 3.1" that HR goons screen for.
The HR screening process is the worst part, I think. Otherwise, the "work hard, it's up or out!" ethic is much like other professional jobs.
Oh, but you do. AIX 4 definitely wants -DLARGE_FILES (sp?), or bad things happen, and watch your longs and long-longs (and their aliases) carefully. (A buddy and I recently had to comb through exactly this problem in an app)
I'm sorry, sir, but the CC & Rs of our network neighborhood expressly forbid the presence of Windows 9x boxes unless they are hidden behind a fire wall. We are trying to maintain a pleasant, livable place here. Good day.
Slashdot Mirror
THAT'S one good reason to use XML between your own processes, rather than in in-memory data structure and/or RPC. Mgt. is often former COBOLers used to archaic mainframe style processing of many simplistic programs dumping into many many temp files. It's the architecture they know. XML sucks much less than many file formats, but files aren't always the best way to join tasks / processes, as you seem to be "hinting" at.
So, any estimate of the actual values of these 2 quantities? (NASA budget vs. commercial satellite industry gross / profits)
I'm not familiar with that data, and would appreciate a hint, even if 1960 vs. 2000 dollars aren't adjusted, and there's only 1 significant digit. I suppose something on google would tell me, if I had a half hour to bumble around looking...
Reading the "tips" page from MS says that only OBJECT tags with parameters cause the loading confirmation box, presumably because the parameters refer to an external data source. If the app is a static blob, w/out external data, no confirmation is required.
Oh, or if you add the magic "just do it" tag/attribute (I forgot the name, but it's there).
All this crud is contingent upon tips in the HTML, IE is still happy to run ActiveVex trojans, er, valuable content automagically in many situations.
Yes, "outbound" sections of earth-crossing orbits are hard to see (from the ground), because you are looking at the shadow side of something in a daytime sky (this was mentioned in another post on the thread somewhere).
My point above is that an actual impact event is slightly more likely to be in the A.M. (local time at impact site) due to the motion of the earth in its orbit around the sun. The best time to view a meteor shower, for instance, is after midnight, at least until the sun comes up.
Did you read Vernor Vinge's "Deepness in the Sky"? Because that sounds exactly like the "localizer" network of dust mote sized nodes use by the villians to spy on all of their captives in that story. The bad guys were VERY much into monitoring and analyzing everybody, lest they be thinking Bad Things.
Of course, if I said any more about it, I'd be a spoiler...
Windows (dos)!
Otherwise, yeah, it sucks to have to learn "make, only different" to be able to do the same old things. That must be why my Ant book has sat browsed, and ignored (IDEs? Windows? Who cares?!? "vi Makefile", and I'm outta here...)
Actually, the earth runs into a bit more solar system "junk" between 12 AM and 12 PM (local time). Consider the "after midnight" (AM) time where you are as being on the front windshield, and the "after noon" (PM) time as being on the back window (of a car)
At midnight, you are on the "back side" of the earth moving at a tangent to the earth's orbit, then moving sun-ward on the "front side" of the earth, until you slip around the back of the orbital direction in the afternoon.
Or was this a "millenial" type question, rather than an "astronomical" one. In that case -- cuz yur' a'sleepin', you slacker!
I wish I could mod it up, but I commented, and think I lost my points anyway...
Maybe $0.08 for you, but under PG&E in rural California (El Dorado County), it's about $0.12 to $0.15, I think. Some friend's of my wife's down the road are putting in the panels (civil engineers, not computer geeks). Apparently, they did the math and decided not to give so much of their money to PG&E any more. Even with the existing glassy blue silicon panels, it is still working out.
OTOH, municipally owned utilities like SMUD, MID or TID (various Central Valley cities/towns) charge quite a bit less than their "free enterprise" counterpart.
That whole orbital guidance tech for China deal in the 90s made me sick. I would have found Clinton, Congress and the Corporation all guilty of treason if it were up to me.
And yes, we are selling our national security short with all the multi-national corporate work migration.
(note: I'm non partisan -- we seem to have had 2 village idiots in a row for president)
Actually, if you just delete data, it gets restored from backups (hopefully).
:-) (what, me worry?)
If one *really* wanted to play havoc, you just periodically corrupt something at random. BUT PLEASE DON'T!
I think most of these really are just the work of vandal script kiddies. Except for a few nasty industrial espionage level things that destroy all evidence that they were ever there
AOL! (I agree), except for one thing:
In the (distant..) future, some people will always want to go to GET THE HELL AS FAR FROM EVERYONE ELSE AS THEY CAN.
I guess if you can affort a new home in the (asteroid) belt, anyway.
I thought MS-DOS was a bicycle, and Linux was a tank?!? Or was it a Hole-Hawg?
(In the Beginning Was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson -- some funny analogies)
Anyway, they seem to just repeat "Linux can't be made to work on Voyager, er, Enterprise.... Cuz we said so! And, and, and, you will be assimilated, yah!"
Hmmm. So how does *BSD do SMP??? Were they given Unix(TM) brain transplants as well?
- - -
Hmm. Good point. This is not a personal problem for me, as I have nothing outside of retirement plan stuff, just what I've read.
Ignorance and apathy don't get much done, do they?
Still, it would seem like punishing the guilty might help to restore some confidence in the market, and make people more inclined to invest in future business. The perception seems to be that the current government (Congress, not just the Executive) just looks the other way, and is not demanding much of anything from the privelidged.
Well, maybe that's just my rant.
Unfornately, ownership, even majority / mass plurality, of stock does not, apparently, give the "owners" of a company the right to dictate to the corporate ruling elite nowadays, from what I have been reading in the papers. The Board of Aristocrats can do whatever they !@#$ please. (after all, *they* went to the best schools and were brought up by the proper families, you plebe!)
Now, if they owed us money, OTOH, that would be another story....
-
"Fast foot"? I can't drive 55???
Oh, the link is about the EEEEEVILS of fast food. "Never mind"
always see something when I DON'T have moderator points. Blah!
I very much like / agree / (AOL!) the parent post about modular PDA frame & guts. Good idea.
(sorry for the lame post, but I *can't* moderate today)
Aaargh!!! It burns!!!
That was painful to even view.
Imagine the cost savings of not having to have a lawyer review such tripe before deciding if you want to / can use a software product.
Of course, my employer has decided that using open source is just too risky, as there might be "intellectual property bombs" lurking within, which is true. OTOH, life is not without risk no matter what decisions you make, and how do organizations decipher what risks / obligations they are submitting themselves to when faced with such a list of rambling "we promise little, but you watch your step" prose???
It almost sounds like you would rather use the Win 3.x "Program Manager" menu group system, rather than "Start" -> "Programs" -> "Vendor" -> "Random" -> "BogoEdit". I know I would.
I think the Windows 95 style desktop (etc) was a big botch, compared to Windows 3.x. Yes, Win32 suck much less than Win16 as an API / run-time environment, but the look is awful, and it is hard to explain.
"Hey, let's re-order the buttons at the top of the frame: minimize, maximize, kill." What kind of logical progression is that?
I used to be able to easily make program groups in win 3.x, and drag program icons wherever *I* wante d them. Nesting would have been nice, but I had a usable desktop with the stuff I used. Under 9x and its brethren, you can dump lots-o-stuff on the one-and-only-one disktop background, or those insane "start" menus. Moving things around in the menus requires some pretty arcane knowledge of magic files and/or hidden menus (I've had better things to do...)
Er, this is a bit off topic, isn't it?
When somethings works pretty well, carefully consider whether you should "revolutionize it". As we've seen, egomanics could probably screw up the web browser interface every bit as bad as the OS desktop... ("Has anyone seen my fvwm? Maybe it's underneath this gnome thing...")
I started using Linux (Slackware) in March 1995, and it was already better than the SCO system I sometimes used at work then. At least in terms of developer-friendly tools, and the performance / reliability was reasonable on a single CPU.
Doubtless, many people learned this much before I did...
.
The 4 years things has been commented on, but I'll wager it is "4 years, MTBF" (Mean Time Before Finding another job). Actually, I think that would be lower (2.5, 3 years?).
Otherwise, yeah, corporate life is hard. Personally, I want to stack up my saving a bit, then get out and do something a bit slower pace. I would like it to be software development related. However, I'd like to spend a bit more time with my kids before the leave home for college, work, whatever.
After that, maybe I'll bust my butt as a consultant some time again, if anybody will have me. Yes, I do learn new stuff, but of course I don't have the ob. "7 years experience in Acme FOOBOL IDS-builder 3.1" that HR goons screen for.
The HR screening process is the worst part, I think. Otherwise, the "work hard, it's up or out!" ethic is much like other professional jobs.
-
Oh, but you do. AIX 4 definitely wants -DLARGE_FILES (sp?), or bad things happen, and watch your longs and long-longs (and their aliases) carefully. (A buddy and I recently had to comb through exactly this problem in an app)
I'm sorry, sir, but the CC & Rs of our network neighborhood expressly forbid the presence of Windows 9x boxes unless they are hidden behind a fire wall. We are trying to maintain a pleasant, livable place here. Good day.
Man, the first example reads like a page out of BOFH! http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
(New boy comes in) "Here, hold this wire." (Bzzt!)
Yeah, it's a multi-faceted problem. I guess it comes down to "Don't hire jerks, and try not to be a jerk" as much as "redundant meat-ware".