I agree with the idea that disconnecting can be rehabilitating. I wonder what the demographics are of the 1,011 people they talked to. Where they all clueless web trollers looking for something to do because they were up at 2AM with nothing to do? Or were they all hanging out at the local hot spot? Or where these the 1,011 people who were all on their way to the Great White North for one last camping trek through the back woods?
The internet is being built into an addictive media path, much like TV has been for many. It's pretty obvious of this when all the TV shows are trying to get you to go online to talk to all the other people watching the show at the same time, or to see the rest of the show that they clipped so they could sell more commercial time and spend more airtime telling you about all the content you're missing by not going on line. WTF?
For those of us who where around when the IMG tag was invented I suspect that the internet doesn't rate as high as the disposable income generation of the 14-28 year olds who haven't anything better to do.
I suppose now we'll have to start shelling out tax payers dollars to support the internet addiction victims who are unable to keep a job because they are addicted to internet porn and internet gambling.
Considering microwaves do not penetrate metallic materials (Light Armored Vehicles, Cars, Trucks, Tanks, Planes) I don't know that there is a lot of military value in this unless you are defending against a field of attacking Zulu Warriors.
Unless you are positioned against dissenters of the reign, like protestors and others who might threaten the government with Civil Disobedience.
You know, I seem to remember hearing the same thing every year for the last 10 years. Someone reviews Linux and finds it's not Windows or OS X. And then someone else decided that you shouldn't switch and blah blah blah...
First off, testing Linux on a Notebook as a comparison for Windows is a sign that you really don't know what you are doing. Notebooks are notoriously difficult to get working correctly, even when you have the OEM recommended or even installed software/OS. Only once have I owned a notebook that has been truly trouble free and that was a Mac OS X. Windows and Linux both have difficulty running notebooks with any reliability or consistency. But this isn't always the fault of the software.
Notebooks, for some reason that I'll pass, has a tendency to have pretty goofy hardware with all kinds of Lite variations and combinations of hardware. This results in a lot of chipsets that are almost like the desktop versions but not enough to actually work, so they need new drivers. Then the manufacturer changes the hardware in mid-year and forgets to tell anyone about it. The ACPI and APIC implementations are probably the best example of these problems.
Today, I would have to go with a Mac. Hasn't crashed in a year. The only other thing around there that hasn't crashed in a year are all my Linux workstations. But even the Linux notebooks have never worked as notebooks.
Linux might be ready for the notebook only after the Linux Community is able to specify what they want installed as hardware into a notebook and keep it there. If you want to know what I'm talking about, see Apple. This is something they've done well. They have absolute control over the notebook hardware and as such, have absolute guarantee that the software will work.
Microsoft has been found guilty of many things. But how many of them have they actually been sentenced on? And of those, how many times was the sentence actually carried out?
There's a lot of legal wranglings when it comes to the definition of Right and Wrong when it comes to that Corporation.
Thank you. And that is one of the reasons I think Debian should have won.
At least with Debian you can readily install a Window Manager that is small and lightweight enough that it would hog up all the available resources of your machine.
Um... Where you aware that Analog Cell Phone technology is being suspended in 2008 by most of the major carriers in the nation?
They are dropping Analog but continuing with the CDMA and GSM. The continuance of Analog is purely the decision of the carriers and is no longer any kind of requirement. I don't call that middle ages.
But then it's easier for the Cell Phone Industry. They are highly captive about their customer base and make a big deal about continued phone upgrades and contract extensions. I don't see that with the cable companies just yet.
I went back through this list and looked at some of the stuff that won and some of the things that didn't. I'm pretty much disappointed with the philosophy of the list. Seems that the Best of Open Source Software is not determined by any kind of technical merits but the popular opinion of the software at hand.
There are a lot of company products mentioned as winners which means they are always working under a shadow.
Fundamentally, I do not believe CentOS should be the server winner for the simple reason that RPM is not a very good package system in this century. There are much better alternatives and considering that Ubuntu won for the desktop I would have expected Debian to be a much better choice for the Server for many of the reasons that Ubuntu won, with the added incentive that it's focus is on reliability, ease of maintenance and lower TCO.
And I'm getting pretty tired of everyone spouting off about how wonderful SpamAssassin is. It too is last century technology in spam filtering and is a tremendous resource pig for what it does. Bogofilter, in many ways, is far superior. And any bayesian spam filter today can run circles around SpamAssassin both in any performance measure and accuracy.
I can't help wonder how much coincidence there is between these winners and the corporate sponsorship that they each have.
Perhaps I can provide some insight into this. I am a Systems Analyst and get paid more than the Indian developers do in my company.
I am a degreed BSEE (Electrical Engineering) and BSMME (Materials & Metallurgical Engineering) who graduated some twenty years ago. In that time I served as:
Materials Engineer in Government Contracting Satellite Industry. I mostly did environment analysis of the materials in question -- would it work in that application (heat, cold, chemicals..)?
Electronic Components in same.
Plastic Injection molding engineer for Automotive Industry.
Quality Assurance Auditor for QS-9000 and ISO-9000.
Software Engineer for Insurance Industry
Systems Analysis.
You can't follow this path. But the point is you enter the role of Systems Analysis after you have many years of experience in something outside of computers. You have to know and experience things working and breaking in the worse and most bizarre cases to understand what a Systems Analysis role actually does.
The software engineer is critical. But I don't have a degree as such and likely never will. I spent years playing with computers and F/OSS projects in my own spare time as an interest. This interest put me into a position to know what makes the Systems Analysis valueable -- all the lost skills of todays Software Developers. Examples would be: how a hard drive or disk array can affect your applications. Where Web Services will fail, how, and what to look for. How a database actually works in theory and how to use that information to make a more efficient interface to that database.
The list could go on forever -- but this is a job based on experience. The job remains because I do keep moving forward trying to learn a new language (or learn about a new language, technology) every year. As a Systems Analyst, the technology you have to deal with develops much slower than the advancing wave of new technology. And you can always get a quick overview from the Indian Developers who will be homeless in 3 years because they can't keep up with the newest technology because they spend too much time trying to keep on schedule.
Ironic isn't it? To be a Systems Analyst in computers you have to have no training, but 20 years of experience. Some things are hard to get in a class room.
I will say this though. We recently hired an ex Unix Sys Admin with about 20 years experience there. He's awesome, brilliant, and can do this job with his eyes closed. He's still getting the overall hang of it, but I would venture to say these SysAdmin guys (with some experience in programming) are my favorite right now. Others I have tried to work with are not... Including IT Masters degrees.
Wouldn't it be funny/ironic if the next fuel boom came from those shit hole nations that we've been shipping food to for decades? I can just see their faces when they realize they are on the top of the energy pyramid (or is it the bottom).
I think it would be wonderfully overdue and ironic. And, in some way, it wouldnt' surprise me in the least.
It's a conceptual different between VIP parking or VIP tickets at Disneyland allowing you to get onto the rides first versus the highway (asphalt, not information) where everyone has equal opportunity to drive like an asshole and cut people off.
Arguably, toll roads could have tiered roads where you can access special lanes that permit you to drive between 70 and 100 mph without fear of a ticket for an extra fee and have standard lanes for the 55-70 crowd and even additional lanes for the heavy trucking industry that is car free.
The conflict isn't so much the economic/marketing strategy of tiered pricing. We've been living with that for years with or without our knowledge. But many people view the internet like land line phones. One service equals one price in a very socialistic perspective and not one of capitalism.
Personally, I agree with the camp that certain things should be government supported in a socialist manner. The Federal Government is responsible for our roads through direct funding of interstate travel and indirect funding of intrastate and surface streets. The ability to travel from point to point is a core infrastructure element of our society upon which all things: safety, security, defense, capitalism, industry depend upon. These core infrastructures should be government guarantee and in the US they have been so far.
To expect a government guarantee of protection for these core services is not new. It's a logical extension of the interstate highway system, rural electrification, telegraph and telephone coverage to include internet coverage, availability, and service.
But more importantly, it's a core feature in our nations ability to compete in a global market for goods and services. This is the part that is not being considered and is a critical failure point in these arguments. As a correlary, if all goods where shipped overland via trucks that were required to pay tolls throughout the country, then the cost of the finished goods would be higher and our nations buying power would be diverted into the toll road services rather than goods. In some cases these goods are precursors to value added products (raw plastic to finished goods) and as such the cost of manufacturing becomes more expensive without adding value to the final product. As the result, more jobs go to the countries that do not have this cost overhead on their industrial infrastructure.
It's not too difficult to see what has happened and is happening in other industrial sectors and how this can be applied here. Automotive Unions are backing down fast because they are unable to compete to such a degree that Automotive manufactures are taking their work elsewhere. Some can blame health care, but historically that is not the expense of the Unions. Similarly, if I have to pad my operating expenses for an internet services business because I'm paying for access service to the internet, then I have a higher cost load to bear. As a consumer, I have lower disposable income to work with because I'm paying more for the internet access.
They won't go head to head against Linux like that. It's not effective.
What is going to be effective is to lock out everyone but Microsoft and rather than discontinue it, make it suck so bad that it becomes a standing example of why Windows Rocks and Linux Sucks and therefore everyone should not be using Linux because, by example, it's lame.
That's one option. The other is they are willing to lose the OS platform and rely on the Mac BSD and the Linux OS to remain open enough that they can sell their cost generating applications on top. For example -- Microsoft Office for Linux and the existing but ancient Microsoft Office for Macintosh. OSes don't make Microsoft money. The Office suite lockin does.
There are a lot of configuration options that you may need to attend to in order to get a browser of the nature you need. But if you can set up one computer that works correctly and has all the right settings, you could use LTSP [Linux Terminal Server Project] which will turn your one box into a desktop server for multiple client computers.
The limitation with this is that you will need to wire all the computers together on a LAN, I don't believe that they have any wireless solutions, but I haven't needed to review it for years. I've been using it for 5 years on one installation environment without ever needing to do any maintenance on the LTSP installation of the boxes -- just the usual linux based upgrades from Debian.
I would also recommend Debian over Ubuntu or any others primarily because of the fact that they do not change the software in the stable branch nearly as often as most of the others. And with good reason. The stable branch works and works well. That is the value of that software branch. If you go with something like Ubuntu you run the risk of upgrading software on a far more often schedule. You did mention a desire to minimize the upgrading processes.
Well, there seems to be a very high correlation between "geeks" and the developers of F/OSS. Considering the fact that FOSS is a libertarian form of software development I think it's a natural progression from hobby/career interests and politics.
How many people in care giving professions (nurse, teacher) are democratic
How many people in top tier of corporations are republican
I see nothing that ties this to economic status. In fact I see a lot of Libertarian & developers who have very low incomes.
I'm curious if the Democratic or Republican party comes in second in the F/OSS community. I'll guess it's Republican because we probably don't care much for the welfare philosophy more than anything else. If we did, we would all use Windows and never ask questions about it because we would be so grateful that Bill Gates is keeping us from thinking too hard (or much). But if computers aren't your interest, then you probably don't what to think too much about it.
Really, it depends on the city. Detroit is a joke. San Francisco is pretty tame, Chicago in between.
I have lived in Detroit for a decade and still find it openly threatening during the day. Bums will borderline assualt for dollar. And these bums have blackberries -- something I can't afford myself!
Well, I was thinking it was going to be pretty damn hard to find anyone in government that America can be proud of. And anyone worth that opinion is likely not to want a position in American politics. I thought it was bad with Nixon was around -- but this makes Nixon look like a teddy bear and less of a criminal than OJ Simpson would if he were in fact convicted of a crime
Of course they would. Becuase his intense desire for wanting all that music would cause him to go to college, get a real job, and make millions.
The last thing they will ever say is, Music sales are down because we Suck.
it's a sick industry that can't see it's own problems. Kind of like 1972 American Automotive when GM decided to build yet another huge car in competition to the smaller for efficient foreign jobs with the remark, "American buys what we build for them." And it's barely recognized that today, many still won't concede that there was a mistake made.
Music in America is an industry. Music over history has been an art form. What do you think is going to happen to Art when you combine it with modern industrial business practices? We are not universally known for our quality of products but the industrial complex that can make so many so fast...
I used to be a huge fan of the AMD CPU architecture. Clearly a better, faster, more product compared to Intel
But over the years there has been so much splitting and fragmentation of the architectures from both companies and I hardly know what I'm getting anymore. Too many cute names and not enough information about what they are really doing. It would have been a lot better for both companies if they just made three lines of CPU and left it at that
Of course, my choice for the simplified structure would be:
Notebook class: emphasis on power consumption
Workstation class: emphasis on a cheap ass POS that is affordable but limited (original Celeron)
Server class: dims the lights in most major cities trying to get that extra squeeze of performance because it's all about performance
But they've got way too many variants right now for me to have a clue what I'm actually getting.
If Microsoft had any brains they would focus all their efforts on making proprietary software that can run on top of not-so-proprietary OSes: Mac OS, Linus, and other Nixes.
You do have to recognize the need for trade-offs. I think everyone still uses single character letters for classically obvious or short lived variables like i, j, k, x, y, z. And at the same time, there are real needs for readable variables.
In my opinion, the best code is one that can be read:
foreach order (daily_orders) { if (submit_payment_for(order)) { queue_for_shipping(order) } }
daily_orders.foreach { if (order.is_paid?) order.send_to_shipping } }
It can still be managed in 80 columns. You just have to stop using object names like Customer_Last_Names_with_Denied_Visa_Credit_Cars_a nd_Pending_Orders because that's too specific for proper object abstractions.
Except I was in the market for a new car. So the time it took to make up the difference was 0.0 miles because that's the car I wanted to purchase. The alternatives that I was considering were all more expensive. So it's nothing but a win for me.
By the way, the diesel VW golf has an unbelievable amount of carrying space. More than a Chevy Blazer and enough for two people to go scuba diving with 4 tanks and all their gear. Or camping for a weekend with room to spare.
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I agree with the idea that disconnecting can be rehabilitating. I wonder what the demographics are of the 1,011 people they talked to. Where they all clueless web trollers looking for something to do because they were up at 2AM with nothing to do? Or were they all hanging out at the local hot spot? Or where these the 1,011 people who were all on their way to the Great White North for one last camping trek through the back woods?
The internet is being built into an addictive media path, much like TV has been for many. It's pretty obvious of this when all the TV shows are trying to get you to go online to talk to all the other people watching the show at the same time, or to see the rest of the show that they clipped so they could sell more commercial time and spend more airtime telling you about all the content you're missing by not going on line. WTF?
For those of us who where around when the IMG tag was invented I suspect that the internet doesn't rate as high as the disposable income generation of the 14-28 year olds who haven't anything better to do.
I suppose now we'll have to start shelling out tax payers dollars to support the internet addiction victims who are unable to keep a job because they are addicted to internet porn and internet gambling.
Considering microwaves do not penetrate metallic materials (Light Armored Vehicles, Cars, Trucks, Tanks, Planes) I don't know that there is a lot of military value in this unless you are defending against a field of attacking Zulu Warriors.
Unless you are positioned against dissenters of the reign, like protestors and others who might threaten the government with Civil Disobedience.
You know, I seem to remember hearing the same thing every year for the last 10 years. Someone reviews Linux and finds it's not Windows or OS X. And then someone else decided that you shouldn't switch and blah blah blah...
First off, testing Linux on a Notebook as a comparison for Windows is a sign that you really don't know what you are doing. Notebooks are notoriously difficult to get working correctly, even when you have the OEM recommended or even installed software/OS. Only once have I owned a notebook that has been truly trouble free and that was a Mac OS X. Windows and Linux both have difficulty running notebooks with any reliability or consistency. But this isn't always the fault of the software.
Notebooks, for some reason that I'll pass, has a tendency to have pretty goofy hardware with all kinds of Lite variations and combinations of hardware. This results in a lot of chipsets that are almost like the desktop versions but not enough to actually work, so they need new drivers. Then the manufacturer changes the hardware in mid-year and forgets to tell anyone about it. The ACPI and APIC implementations are probably the best example of these problems.
Today, I would have to go with a Mac. Hasn't crashed in a year. The only other thing around there that hasn't crashed in a year are all my Linux workstations. But even the Linux notebooks have never worked as notebooks.
Linux might be ready for the notebook only after the Linux Community is able to specify what they want installed as hardware into a notebook and keep it there. If you want to know what I'm talking about, see Apple. This is something they've done well. They have absolute control over the notebook hardware and as such, have absolute guarantee that the software will work.
Microsoft has been found guilty of many things. But how many of them have they actually been sentenced on? And of those, how many times was the sentence actually carried out?
There's a lot of legal wranglings when it comes to the definition of Right and Wrong when it comes to that Corporation.
Thank you. And that is one of the reasons I think Debian should have won.
At least with Debian you can readily install a Window Manager that is small and lightweight enough that it would hog up all the available resources of your machine.
Um... Where you aware that Analog Cell Phone technology is being suspended in 2008 by most of the major carriers in the nation?
They are dropping Analog but continuing with the CDMA and GSM. The continuance of Analog is purely the decision of the carriers and is no longer any kind of requirement. I don't call that middle ages.
But then it's easier for the Cell Phone Industry. They are highly captive about their customer base and make a big deal about continued phone upgrades and contract extensions. I don't see that with the cable companies just yet.
I went back through this list and looked at some of the stuff that won and some of the things that didn't. I'm pretty much disappointed with the philosophy of the list. Seems that the Best of Open Source Software is not determined by any kind of technical merits but the popular opinion of the software at hand.
There are a lot of company products mentioned as winners which means they are always working under a shadow.
Fundamentally, I do not believe CentOS should be the server winner for the simple reason that RPM is not a very good package system in this century. There are much better alternatives and considering that Ubuntu won for the desktop I would have expected Debian to be a much better choice for the Server for many of the reasons that Ubuntu won, with the added incentive that it's focus is on reliability, ease of maintenance and lower TCO.
And I'm getting pretty tired of everyone spouting off about how wonderful SpamAssassin is. It too is last century technology in spam filtering and is a tremendous resource pig for what it does. Bogofilter, in many ways, is far superior. And any bayesian spam filter today can run circles around SpamAssassin both in any performance measure and accuracy.
I can't help wonder how much coincidence there is between these winners and the corporate sponsorship that they each have.
Perhaps I can provide some insight into this. I am a Systems Analyst and get paid more than the Indian developers do in my company.
I am a degreed BSEE (Electrical Engineering) and BSMME (Materials & Metallurgical Engineering) who graduated some twenty years ago. In that time I served as:
- Materials Engineer in Government Contracting Satellite Industry. I mostly did environment analysis of the materials in question -- would it work in that application (heat, cold, chemicals..)?
- Electronic Components in same.
- Plastic Injection molding engineer for Automotive Industry.
- Quality Assurance Auditor for QS-9000 and ISO-9000.
- Software Engineer for Insurance Industry
- Systems Analysis.
You can't follow this path. But the point is you enter the role of Systems Analysis after you have many years of experience in something outside of computers. You have to know and experience things working and breaking in the worse and most bizarre cases to understand what a Systems Analysis role actually does.The software engineer is critical. But I don't have a degree as such and likely never will. I spent years playing with computers and F/OSS projects in my own spare time as an interest. This interest put me into a position to know what makes the Systems Analysis valueable -- all the lost skills of todays Software Developers. Examples would be: how a hard drive or disk array can affect your applications. Where Web Services will fail, how, and what to look for. How a database actually works in theory and how to use that information to make a more efficient interface to that database.
The list could go on forever -- but this is a job based on experience. The job remains because I do keep moving forward trying to learn a new language (or learn about a new language, technology) every year. As a Systems Analyst, the technology you have to deal with develops much slower than the advancing wave of new technology. And you can always get a quick overview from the Indian Developers who will be homeless in 3 years because they can't keep up with the newest technology because they spend too much time trying to keep on schedule.
Ironic isn't it? To be a Systems Analyst in computers you have to have no training, but 20 years of experience. Some things are hard to get in a class room.
I will say this though. We recently hired an ex Unix Sys Admin with about 20 years experience there. He's awesome, brilliant, and can do this job with his eyes closed. He's still getting the overall hang of it, but I would venture to say these SysAdmin guys (with some experience in programming) are my favorite right now. Others I have tried to work with are not... Including IT Masters degrees.
Umm... Why not just reinstall Windows using the rescue disk provided and bring it back in.
Then you've got the right OS and the crack is still there.
Wouldn't it be funny/ironic if the next fuel boom came from those shit hole nations that we've been shipping food to for decades? I can just see their faces when they realize they are on the top of the energy pyramid (or is it the bottom).
I think it would be wonderfully overdue and ironic. And, in some way, it wouldnt' surprise me in the least.
It's a conceptual different between VIP parking or VIP tickets at Disneyland allowing you to get onto the rides first versus the highway (asphalt, not information) where everyone has equal opportunity to drive like an asshole and cut people off.
Arguably, toll roads could have tiered roads where you can access special lanes that permit you to drive between 70 and 100 mph without fear of a ticket for an extra fee and have standard lanes for the 55-70 crowd and even additional lanes for the heavy trucking industry that is car free.
The conflict isn't so much the economic/marketing strategy of tiered pricing. We've been living with that for years with or without our knowledge. But many people view the internet like land line phones. One service equals one price in a very socialistic perspective and not one of capitalism.
Personally, I agree with the camp that certain things should be government supported in a socialist manner. The Federal Government is responsible for our roads through direct funding of interstate travel and indirect funding of intrastate and surface streets. The ability to travel from point to point is a core infrastructure element of our society upon which all things: safety, security, defense, capitalism, industry depend upon. These core infrastructures should be government guarantee and in the US they have been so far.
To expect a government guarantee of protection for these core services is not new. It's a logical extension of the interstate highway system, rural electrification, telegraph and telephone coverage to include internet coverage, availability, and service.
But more importantly, it's a core feature in our nations ability to compete in a global market for goods and services. This is the part that is not being considered and is a critical failure point in these arguments. As a correlary, if all goods where shipped overland via trucks that were required to pay tolls throughout the country, then the cost of the finished goods would be higher and our nations buying power would be diverted into the toll road services rather than goods. In some cases these goods are precursors to value added products (raw plastic to finished goods) and as such the cost of manufacturing becomes more expensive without adding value to the final product. As the result, more jobs go to the countries that do not have this cost overhead on their industrial infrastructure.
It's not too difficult to see what has happened and is happening in other industrial sectors and how this can be applied here. Automotive Unions are backing down fast because they are unable to compete to such a degree that Automotive manufactures are taking their work elsewhere. Some can blame health care, but historically that is not the expense of the Unions. Similarly, if I have to pad my operating expenses for an internet services business because I'm paying for access service to the internet, then I have a higher cost load to bear. As a consumer, I have lower disposable income to work with because I'm paying more for the internet access.
They won't go head to head against Linux like that. It's not effective.
What is going to be effective is to lock out everyone but Microsoft and rather than discontinue it, make it suck so bad that it becomes a standing example of why Windows Rocks and Linux Sucks and therefore everyone should not be using Linux because, by example, it's lame.
That's one option. The other is they are willing to lose the OS platform and rely on the Mac BSD and the Linux OS to remain open enough that they can sell their cost generating applications on top. For example -- Microsoft Office for Linux and the existing but ancient Microsoft Office for Macintosh. OSes don't make Microsoft money. The Office suite lockin does.
There are a lot of configuration options that you may need to attend to in order to get a browser of the nature you need. But if you can set up one computer that works correctly and has all the right settings, you could use LTSP [Linux Terminal Server Project] which will turn your one box into a desktop server for multiple client computers.
The limitation with this is that you will need to wire all the computers together on a LAN, I don't believe that they have any wireless solutions, but I haven't needed to review it for years. I've been using it for 5 years on one installation environment without ever needing to do any maintenance on the LTSP installation of the boxes -- just the usual linux based upgrades from Debian.
I would also recommend Debian over Ubuntu or any others primarily because of the fact that they do not change the software in the stable branch nearly as often as most of the others. And with good reason. The stable branch works and works well. That is the value of that software branch. If you go with something like Ubuntu you run the risk of upgrading software on a far more often schedule. You did mention a desire to minimize the upgrading processes.
Well, there seems to be a very high correlation between "geeks" and the developers of F/OSS. Considering the fact that FOSS is a libertarian form of software development I think it's a natural progression from hobby/career interests and politics.
How many people in care giving professions (nurse, teacher) are democratic
How many people in top tier of corporations are republican
I see nothing that ties this to economic status. In fact I see a lot of Libertarian & developers who have very low incomes.
I'm curious if the Democratic or Republican party comes in second in the F/OSS community. I'll guess it's Republican because we probably don't care much for the welfare philosophy more than anything else. If we did, we would all use Windows and never ask questions about it because we would be so grateful that Bill Gates is keeping us from thinking too hard (or much). But if computers aren't your interest, then you probably don't what to think too much about it.
This is the difference between US and Canada?
Really, it depends on the city. Detroit is a joke. San Francisco is pretty tame, Chicago in between.
I have lived in Detroit for a decade and still find it openly threatening during the day. Bums will borderline assualt for dollar. And these bums have blackberries -- something I can't afford myself!
Well, I was thinking it was going to be pretty damn hard to find anyone in government that America can be proud of. And anyone worth that opinion is likely not to want a position in American politics. I thought it was bad with Nixon was around -- but this makes Nixon look like a teddy bear and less of a criminal than OJ Simpson would if he were in fact convicted of a crime
You want justice in the justice system...
Of course they would. Becuase his intense desire for wanting all that music would cause him to go to college, get a real job, and make millions.
The last thing they will ever say is, Music sales are down because we Suck.
it's a sick industry that can't see it's own problems. Kind of like 1972 American Automotive when GM decided to build yet another huge car in competition to the smaller for efficient foreign jobs with the remark, "American buys what we build for them." And it's barely recognized that today, many still won't concede that there was a mistake made.
Music in America is an industry. Music over history has been an art form. What do you think is going to happen to Art when you combine it with modern industrial business practices? We are not universally known for our quality of products but the industrial complex that can make so many so fast...
I used to be a huge fan of the AMD CPU architecture. Clearly a better, faster, more product compared to Intel
But over the years there has been so much splitting and fragmentation of the architectures from both companies and I hardly know what I'm getting anymore. Too many cute names and not enough information about what they are really doing. It would have been a lot better for both companies if they just made three lines of CPU and left it at that
Of course, my choice for the simplified structure would be:
- Notebook class: emphasis on power consumption
- Workstation class: emphasis on a cheap ass POS that is affordable but limited (original Celeron)
- Server class: dims the lights in most major cities trying to get that extra squeeze of performance because it's all about performance
But they've got way too many variants right now for me to have a clue what I'm actually getting.Whatever happened to PNG being the standard?
I think Windows is a dying software OS.
If Microsoft had any brains they would focus all their efforts on making proprietary software that can run on top of not-so-proprietary OSes: Mac OS, Linus, and other Nixes.
You probably never lived there then.
I think Indiana could hire a lot more than 80 people to clean up the crap left by the first 80 people. Brilliant.
You do have to recognize the need for trade-offs. I think everyone still uses single character letters for classically obvious or short lived variables like i, j, k, x, y, z. And at the same time, there are real needs for readable variables.
In my opinion, the best code is one that can be read:
Something along those lines...It can still be managed in 80 columns. You just have to stop using object names like Customer_Last_Names_with_Denied_Visa_Credit_Cars_a nd_Pending_Orders because that's too specific for proper object abstractions.
Thanks for clarifying that for me. Maybe I can get the T-Shirt collection at Arby's
Except I was in the market for a new car. So the time it took to make up the difference was 0.0 miles because that's the car I wanted to purchase. The alternatives that I was considering were all more expensive. So it's nothing but a win for me.
By the way, the diesel VW golf has an unbelievable amount of carrying space. More than a Chevy Blazer and enough for two people to go scuba diving with 4 tanks and all their gear. Or camping for a weekend with room to spare.