Alton is a Mad Cook, as in Mad scientist. For those who haven't watched him on Foodtv, it's worth a peek. He approaches things in a very geeky fashion. From building his own smoker to smoke salmon, to other fun projects.
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Compared to other article on linux in the past by all the news sources out there, this set of articles are reasonably objective. One particular quote from "Retail Therapy" struck me as sign of people's frustration with MS's attempt to extract/extort more money from consumers.
Microsoft is helping me make the decision to look for alternatives, Roberts says.
I have no actual proof of the following statement, but is it possible that people view MS differently than pre law suit? Has a significant percentage of the population taken the view that Microsoft is a poster boy of Corporate America gone agro against consumers?
Another, though clumsy way might be to have your modeler running and a in house viewer/renderer running. It might not be possible to write a plugin for your modeler that uses the same exact code as the final rendering engine.
Unfortunately this is one case where experience is invaluable. Someone who has a ton of experience will know as they are modeling how it will look in final form. It's a hard skill to develop and requires deeper knowledge than just x colors look different in the console vs monitor.
Is this really going to become reality for remote operations? Given how unrealiable the network is for absolutely secure, realtime video I hope this is limited to only minor non-critical surgery. But then again, if it's non-critical and can wait, it's best to go into the hospital.
I really wonder how practical remote surgery besides distance learning.
probably not going to happen, but it would allow studios to put what is currently 2 DVD's onto 1. Or it would be nice to get a DVD of every Kubrick film on one CD. The only downside of this is when toddlers take out the disk and start using it as a toy. There goes 200.00 of movies in 5 seconds.
If you want integrated UML modeller where the sourcefiles methods and attributes are modifying UML documents
directly you should take a look at clearcase, it integrates with rational rose. It also makes a mountable filesystem and
really good administration. Quite expensive but worth the price if larger projects.
I have nothing against UML, but from personal experience UML in the hands of a junior developer can have a stunting effect. UML in the hands of a senior developer or lead architect is very powerful and can save a lot of time. Other people will have different experiences, but my experience tells me the things UML tries to solve are communication issues between developers and management. For that UML doesn't help one bit. In all the cases I've seen first hand, solid communication skills is what made the difference.
Time is better spent trying to determine exactly where the disconnect is and how to communicate more clearly. Without that, source control, UML or Xtreme programming are just distractions.
I have a personal bias on this issue, but for me CVS is all I need. Having lots of fancy features like file-locks in StarTeam, and SourceSafe creates a false sense of security. I don't have 20 yrs of experience like some people, but in the 7 yrs of programming the organizational structure has a the biggest effect on source management and control.
Trying to maintain a huge source database with hundreds of developers is basically impossible if there isn't a well established team structure with source managers. When there are fewer than 6 developers working on the same project, it is fairly smoothe. With 12 or more developers, it gets exponentially harder to figure what's going on. Unless there are very few check-ins or changes and the source is in maintenance mode.
In active development phase, there may be dozens to hundreds of checkin's and changes per day, which may cause an unknown number of effects. It doesn't matter which development style you use, because in the end it comes down to whether or not the product is divided into small manageable chunks. Distributed development is a management artform and very few managers know how to do it effectively. I would put forth the idea that the tool for source management is really only 20% of the equation of distributed development/source management. Trying to address the problem by focusing on the symptons isn't a solution to the real cause of the illness.
the thing I don't like about RAND license in public standard is it implicitly supports non royal free technology for public domain and implicitly devalues royal free standards. It's not as blatant as saying "come on down to the price is right." But it does encourage businesses to push for RAND, which in my mind will result in the breakdown of W3C and public standards. It's my opinion, so whether it's true or not is a different story. I just feel that going down the RAND path will lead to certain death of W3C.
Freakin give me a break. Is that the cause or the effect? Is that the result of parents that let their kids sit for 5-7 hours playing video games non-stop? Trying to make that connection to say the obvious is plain old stupid and redundant.
Is the public benefiting from crack pot idiot studies to realize "playing video for long hours by oneself is bad." A parent who balances a kids activity is the only real indicator. If the parents encourage critical and creative thought, the kid will do just that. If a parent plays with a kid and then finds all sorts of creative ways to tap into the kids excitement, like teaching them to draw the characters in the game or better yet to invent their own game. The game is a bonding experience and a tool for jumping into other more creative activities.
Bad science is all it is. Makes me wonder how good of a parent this researcher is if he can't even come to this simple and obvious conclusion.
I use both on a regular basis and I have to say XP is a much better and friendlier OS. 2K is fairly stable now and runs for several weeks without crashing with moderate use on 2 of 3 systems I use regularly. On the machine with the most use, I get blue screen of death once every 3 months if I don't reboot once a month. XP's new task bar is a bit weird. By default it groups all the windows together. So if you open another browser window, it places it next to the previous one. One annoying thing with XP on laptops is if I have more windows open the width allows, it only shows the icon once. I have to then click on it and select which one I want.
It changes how I work and is annoying, since I work on both 2K and XP at work. XP really isn't worth it. The only thing you gain is more vulnerabilities and annoying feature changes.
I know a lot of republicans who use these types of examples to discredit all environmental activism. Making these extreme reports often does more harm than good. The real problem is our culture is majorly F**ked up. Rather than taking an effective approach via lobbiest and building a strong credible political front, writing doom & glooom reports makes it hard for sympathetic politicians to stand with the environmental activists.
Claiming unproveable effects like "global warming" or depletion of earths resources in 50 years only serves to make the environmentalist community look like a bunch of fanatical tree huggers. Taking the middle road and working within the system is what is needed to make a real gradual change. Trying to force a dramatic change is never going to succeed. Too many people's lives depend on current economy. It takes time to train and change people's mind, because that is the only way to reach a balanced plan of resource consumption.
"Urie says his company doesn't heavily research consumer attitude, noting, "We tend to ask how can we make more money and sell more product, not deal with consumer gripes."
Sure sounds like Urie and other record execs have totally lost touch with the public and really doesn't give a crap about what we want and don't want. If that doesn't paint a clear picture of what is wrong with the record industry, nothing else will.
Rather than bitch about how they are loosing money, they could be listening to the public about what they hate and don't like. That knowledge would be beneficial to finding new artists that appeal to those desires. I mean really. You would think any one of the thousands of MBA's working in the music industry would have learned that in school or a few years on the job?
Did microsoft forget china is still communist? Did they forget chinese politicians are zenophobic? Do they really think the government is going to buy in?
Those old enough to grow up listening to billy joel know his story of being cheated and lied to repeatedly. Now he manages his own finances.
Guess what people! Think for yourself. Don't trust some idiot just because the letter CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO or CFUO (Chief F..k U Officer). When are people going to realize life isn't like cruise control. Cruise control almost always means someone else is in control. What happened sucks big time. Alot of hard working people got hurt big time. Group thinking is dangerous, so it's time for America to realize critical thought is healthy. Critical thinking means putting aside one's own bias and perspective to analyze a situation objectively. It most definitely doesn't mean jumping on open source bandwagon,.NET bandwagon or Java bandwagon.
It's about working your ass off about everything and checking everything. Yeah, it takes a shit load of time to manage all these things, but in the end it pays off.
Aside from whether or not the pearl jam effect is happening or the new album sucks. Lets look at it from a different perspective.
The geek crowd is many things, but one defining characteristic, atleast for me is, geek think for themselves and tend to change their preferences more frequently than say the 12-20 age group. Some one who loves britnet will probably like britney for a long time. Some one who likes Moby or pearl jam isn't necessarily a geek, but a geek who likes pearl jam is more likely to bag an artist once they are main stream.
Everyone loves new things, but geeks are more likely to use P2P, which a higher turn over rate in the geek segment of consumers.
Is this bad? Is it good? Who the hell cares. This is what happens and no amount of bitching by Moby or metallica is going to change how the geek segment makes purchases. A typical teen (if it really exists) buys what MTV peddles, because the need to fit in is greater than some one in their 30's or 40's. How about look at all the other artists who have had their 15 minutes of fame. Then look at all the artists that have lasted more than 2 decades. Moby needs to re-invent his ass and do something new. Look at david bowie, who has had a career spanning 4 decades.
Grow up Moby and stop your bitching. This is the perfect inspiration to reinvent yourself. Mod me down if you like, but the post is really a story about Moby (who is really smart and talented) being lazy and stuck artistically.
To do it properly, one has to have the time and energy to supervise the construction closely. If you don't, it's easy to get into trouble. A contractor has the experience to know where mistakes are made and when to check for them. On the otherhand, if you really have the time and energy to do all that, it produces much better results.
Not everyone can do it. Especially if your work and other commitments aren't flexible enough to allow it.
Any politician dumb enough to support this bill will get a swift kick in the ass the next election. Plus, it would be totally unenforceable. The only thing this will result in is pissing the audience off.
than companies selling home security systems, lojack and steering wheel locks?
And like all the other security related products, anti-virus software will only gain a certain amount of additional sales due to fear tactics. Yes, it's a shame and predatory, but it's nothing new people. move on, nothing to see here.
Back in december 99 when wireless data started getting really big, a lot of people thought about doing exactly this. From a technical point of view, it's actually fairly straight forward, though time consuming. The hardest part was all the licensing and political BS. I know for a fact these ideas were proposed to the major carriers, but they couldn't decide whether or not they wanted to go ahead. Some executives did and others didn't. The end result was these kinds of projects got killed.
Getting access to the carriers network isn't something the major carriers do happily. All of them salivated at the idea of providing highly accurate traffic data to both the transit authority, companies and consumers, but they couldn't stop bickering enough to move ahead. Most of the arguments where over the value of the technology, but whether they should develop it in house and who should lead the effort.
For those who want to know more about cell technology here is a slide about CDMA, which talks about GSM and TDMA. It's biasd towards CDMA, but the information is still good.
I believe all cell networks will have problems. That includes TDMA, CDPD, CDMA, GSM and GPRS. The average distance between towers for CDMA network is 5miles or 10K. If the train is traveling at 500kph, that means the phone has to switch to another tower every minute. In dense cities, the distance between towers is much shorter, but high speed trains are really for long distances, so cities don't apply. Coverage is already bad enough in the boon docks, so trying to use mobile phones on a high speed train is likely be completely frustrating.
Depending on where you are traveling, it may not be such a big problem. In the case of the CA high speed rail, central CA is totally flat. Therefore the towers are spread out much further. In fact in places that are flat, you can pretty much reduce the number of towers by a magnitude. For example in Orange county alone, sprint pcs has something like 200+ towers. In contrast, it would only take 20 towers to cover a 30 mile radius in bakersfield.
People who work in the phone industry already know these facts, but it's not like there's something they can do about it (well except install a special network). Cell phone technology just wasn't meant for high speed travel. This is also why cell phones do not work on planes, since planes fly at 900kph. Plus planes aren't properly shielded, so it can also cause bad reactions.
Maybe others didn't buy the sword fight because the rest of the movie was poorly written, therefore they never bought the movie from the beginning? Suspension of disbelief isn't isolated to just one scene. It's the whole movie and it's ability to engage the audience.
The viewing audience hasn't really changed much, just a lot of baggage attach to the star wars universe. But saying that isn't an excuse for the poor writing either.
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Alton is a Mad Cook, as in Mad scientist. For those who haven't watched him on Foodtv, it's worth a peek. He approaches things in a very geeky fashion. From building his own smoker to smoke salmon, to other fun projects.
Microsoft is helping me make the decision to look for alternatives, Roberts says.
I have no actual proof of the following statement, but is it possible that people view MS differently than pre law suit? Has a significant percentage of the population taken the view that Microsoft is a poster boy of Corporate America gone agro against consumers?
Unfortunately this is one case where experience is invaluable. Someone who has a ton of experience will know as they are modeling how it will look in final form. It's a hard skill to develop and requires deeper knowledge than just x colors look different in the console vs monitor.
I really wonder how practical remote surgery besides distance learning.
probably not going to happen, but it would allow studios to put what is currently 2 DVD's onto 1. Or it would be nice to get a DVD of every Kubrick film on one CD. The only downside of this is when toddlers take out the disk and start using it as a toy. There goes 200.00 of movies in 5 seconds.
I have nothing against UML, but from personal experience UML in the hands of a junior developer can have a stunting effect. UML in the hands of a senior developer or lead architect is very powerful and can save a lot of time. Other people will have different experiences, but my experience tells me the things UML tries to solve are communication issues between developers and management. For that UML doesn't help one bit. In all the cases I've seen first hand, solid communication skills is what made the difference.
Time is better spent trying to determine exactly where the disconnect is and how to communicate more clearly. Without that, source control, UML or Xtreme programming are just distractions.
Trying to maintain a huge source database with hundreds of developers is basically impossible if there isn't a well established team structure with source managers. When there are fewer than 6 developers working on the same project, it is fairly smoothe. With 12 or more developers, it gets exponentially harder to figure what's going on. Unless there are very few check-ins or changes and the source is in maintenance mode.
In active development phase, there may be dozens to hundreds of checkin's and changes per day, which may cause an unknown number of effects. It doesn't matter which development style you use, because in the end it comes down to whether or not the product is divided into small manageable chunks. Distributed development is a management artform and very few managers know how to do it effectively. I would put forth the idea that the tool for source management is really only 20% of the equation of distributed development/source management. Trying to address the problem by focusing on the symptons isn't a solution to the real cause of the illness.
the thing I don't like about RAND license in public standard is it implicitly supports non royal free technology for public domain and implicitly devalues royal free standards. It's not as blatant as saying "come on down to the price is right." But it does encourage businesses to push for RAND, which in my mind will result in the breakdown of W3C and public standards. It's my opinion, so whether it's true or not is a different story. I just feel that going down the RAND path will lead to certain death of W3C.
When the year reads 5025 I will use passport. Until then, I won't use any credit card that uses passport for anything.
If I reboot once a month, then no it doesn't do BSoD.
Is the public benefiting from crack pot idiot studies to realize "playing video for long hours by oneself is bad." A parent who balances a kids activity is the only real indicator. If the parents encourage critical and creative thought, the kid will do just that. If a parent plays with a kid and then finds all sorts of creative ways to tap into the kids excitement, like teaching them to draw the characters in the game or better yet to invent their own game. The game is a bonding experience and a tool for jumping into other more creative activities.
Bad science is all it is. Makes me wonder how good of a parent this researcher is if he can't even come to this simple and obvious conclusion.
It changes how I work and is annoying, since I work on both 2K and XP at work. XP really isn't worth it. The only thing you gain is more vulnerabilities and annoying feature changes.
Claiming unproveable effects like "global warming" or depletion of earths resources in 50 years only serves to make the environmentalist community look like a bunch of fanatical tree huggers. Taking the middle road and working within the system is what is needed to make a real gradual change. Trying to force a dramatic change is never going to succeed. Too many people's lives depend on current economy. It takes time to train and change people's mind, because that is the only way to reach a balanced plan of resource consumption.
Sure sounds like Urie and other record execs have totally lost touch with the public and really doesn't give a crap about what we want and don't want. If that doesn't paint a clear picture of what is wrong with the record industry, nothing else will.
Rather than bitch about how they are loosing money, they could be listening to the public about what they hate and don't like. That knowledge would be beneficial to finding new artists that appeal to those desires. I mean really. You would think any one of the thousands of MBA's working in the music industry would have learned that in school or a few years on the job?
Damn my spelling sucks or is that my proof reading sucks. Or maybe it's really MS that sucks.
Get real. Nothing to see here.
That's probably why billy joel came to mind when I read the post.
Guess what people! Think for yourself. Don't trust some idiot just because the letter CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO or CFUO (Chief F..k U Officer). When are people going to realize life isn't like cruise control. Cruise control almost always means someone else is in control. What happened sucks big time. Alot of hard working people got hurt big time. Group thinking is dangerous, so it's time for America to realize critical thought is healthy. Critical thinking means putting aside one's own bias and perspective to analyze a situation objectively. It most definitely doesn't mean jumping on open source bandwagon, .NET bandwagon or Java bandwagon.
It's about working your ass off about everything and checking everything. Yeah, it takes a shit load of time to manage all these things, but in the end it pays off.
The geek crowd is many things, but one defining characteristic, atleast for me is, geek think for themselves and tend to change their preferences more frequently than say the 12-20 age group. Some one who loves britnet will probably like britney for a long time. Some one who likes Moby or pearl jam isn't necessarily a geek, but a geek who likes pearl jam is more likely to bag an artist once they are main stream.
Everyone loves new things, but geeks are more likely to use P2P, which a higher turn over rate in the geek segment of consumers.
Is this bad? Is it good? Who the hell cares. This is what happens and no amount of bitching by Moby or metallica is going to change how the geek segment makes purchases. A typical teen (if it really exists) buys what MTV peddles, because the need to fit in is greater than some one in their 30's or 40's. How about look at all the other artists who have had their 15 minutes of fame. Then look at all the artists that have lasted more than 2 decades. Moby needs to re-invent his ass and do something new. Look at david bowie, who has had a career spanning 4 decades.
Grow up Moby and stop your bitching. This is the perfect inspiration to reinvent yourself. Mod me down if you like, but the post is really a story about Moby (who is really smart and talented) being lazy and stuck artistically.
Not everyone can do it. Especially if your work and other commitments aren't flexible enough to allow it.
Any politician dumb enough to support this bill will get a swift kick in the ass the next election. Plus, it would be totally unenforceable. The only thing this will result in is pissing the audience off.
And like all the other security related products, anti-virus software will only gain a certain amount of additional sales due to fear tactics. Yes, it's a shame and predatory, but it's nothing new people. move on, nothing to see here.
Getting access to the carriers network isn't something the major carriers do happily. All of them salivated at the idea of providing highly accurate traffic data to both the transit authority, companies and consumers, but they couldn't stop bickering enough to move ahead. Most of the arguments where over the value of the technology, but whether they should develop it in house and who should lead the effort.
For those who want to know more about cell technology here is a slide about CDMA, which talks about GSM and TDMA. It's biasd towards CDMA, but the information is still good.
Depending on where you are traveling, it may not be such a big problem. In the case of the CA high speed rail, central CA is totally flat. Therefore the towers are spread out much further. In fact in places that are flat, you can pretty much reduce the number of towers by a magnitude. For example in Orange county alone, sprint pcs has something like 200+ towers. In contrast, it would only take 20 towers to cover a 30 mile radius in bakersfield.
People who work in the phone industry already know these facts, but it's not like there's something they can do about it (well except install a special network). Cell phone technology just wasn't meant for high speed travel. This is also why cell phones do not work on planes, since planes fly at 900kph. Plus planes aren't properly shielded, so it can also cause bad reactions.
Maybe others didn't buy the sword fight because the rest of the movie was poorly written, therefore they never bought the movie from the beginning? Suspension of disbelief isn't isolated to just one scene. It's the whole movie and it's ability to engage the audience.
The viewing audience hasn't really changed much, just a lot of baggage attach to the star wars universe. But saying that isn't an excuse for the poor writing either.