Isn't there some way you can incorporate short-cut keys into a web page to reintroduce the labor saving options? I know TAB works most of the time, but I suspect a lot of DHTML pages have paid no attention to the path your cursor takes when you TAB, but then textmessage fields are problematic.
Using the mouse is a pain. I contributes significantly to CTS in every work environment I've been in
Just look at the top 10% of the graduating classes.
And we call the muslims religious extremists? Isn't that ironic?
Is religious background of political candidates becoming more important these days? The constitution doesn't seperate religion from government, but Church and State, so don't start on that bandwagon. But it is worrisome that ones religious background is becoming more of an issue every day.
I don't believe you have to install anything or even run XP to experience this.
This has been a common complaint that I have heard since Windows 95.
Disk defrag doesn't help and I've seen it happen with computer that have had nothing installed for 4 years. I suspect that this has been a problem all along and is far more ubiquitous than imagined. But when you consider that Microsoft OS timelines require you to get a new computer and new software almost every 3 years, it's harder to identify. Now that hardware has somewhat leveled out, I think you will find this more often.
Planned Obsolescence?
Re:The children will ask themselves
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No it's not.
And Bush's "no child left behind" has made it worse.
In order for everyone to Pass, you have to teach down to the lowest common denominator to the class, meaning that 90% of the students are bored and 30% are bored off their ass and asleep.
I believe the right approach would be to actually fail people out of grades until you did have 16 year olds sitting in the third grade and simply eject anyone from the school system who can't graduate by their 20th birthday.
Getting an education requires some investment on the students part.
I'm not so worried about these uber-smart kids. I'm more worried about the rest of us. As a nation we are quickly falling into a second world tier of educated nations and it is only getting worse.
Haven't you ever read Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy?
It's fairly obvious that those who want to run for public office are not qualified to do so. Consider the intelligent people who never stood a chance or voluntarily turned it down. Consider the people who hold the positions today versus those who held it in the past. Lincoln would probably not be even considered today. Quayle was ridiculed out of the chance not because he's ignorant (he's not really, he's actually quite smart) but he couldn't surivive the assault of the media. Gore is a very intelligent person but also could not manage the media presence. All of these people do not have a good presence on the television/radio.
It's not about politics, it's about marketing appeal and sales.
I spent some time reading these reviews and just walked away.
Most, not all, of the postings are just dumb. Just a bunch of drivel about the same old shit without anything specific to back it up. And the funny part is, they spend most of their time belly-aching about how Jack has no facts presented in his book. Well, neither do they.
It's just a bunch of wind on both sides.
They allege Jack has no facts and they provide no facts to back that up. The closest thing I did find to any truth is he probably has poor writing skills and a poorly backed case against gaming.
We have to be careful between the balance of violence and non-violence influences in society. If we never have any exposure of violence in any form then we become a society of Welfare Pussies who are incapable of responding to anything which might appear violent in nature. If we only have exposure to violence then we end up a society of synics who don't give a shit or one giant anger management class.
Unfortunately, most games these days that are considered Violent to not present conflict resolution in any terms but 9mm versus BFG9000. On the flip side students in school have all these touchy-feely classes on conflict resolution. And where in the mix do they learn that there comes a time when your best option is to meet someone in the playground after school?
I see a lot of people who are told that they can't get angry because anger is bad and in their games they just blow the shit out of anyone who crosses them. So much Therapy!!!
I'm begining to wonder about the validity of this arguement.
I think a part of the problem is that they are still working with the phsychological studies that if you say it often enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe you. I'm not sure this is the case. This country (US) is so rampant with sarcasm and skepticism that such antics are usually greated with The Bird and then they walk away.
I'm actually finding myself spending less than I used to on consumer items simply because I have so much hype sent my way I no longer know what to believe and end up going to the library rather than the movies.
Besides, when it comes to movies they all are so incredably awesome that surely they are going to be playing in the box offices for at least a month after the ads come out so I'm in no rush... Yeah Right!
I think this is an indication of the next kind of spam you will see.
You can expect anything that might be exposed to your eyeballs to be assaulted by marketing. If they could advertise through smell, touch, or taste you can bet your ass they would.
Isn't AOL/TW (still together?) the same company that plans on putting out their own version of P2P to distribute shows with advertisements?
I thought a potential solution was to use both MD5 and SHA since the probability of creating a collision on both algorithms to still meet the intended goal of signatures.
I went to the article and they show a picture of a notebook computer with a crank handle on it. I would assume that this is for developing nations that do not as yet have an electrical grid as part of their infrastructure.
That's fucked up.
No running water. No electricity. No toilets. But they'll have a notebook computer. Will it have WiFi? I wonder how they plan to do WiFi or any networking without electricity.
I remember in the 70's people were bemoaning the fact that there were more television sets per household than there were toilets: "All that shit coming in and no where for it to go out." That was 35 years ago. Today we have the same problem with computers only now we're applying it to the entire planet.
Imagine what this will do to the economic structure of software development. We're sending RedHat OS computers to the same dudes that Sally Struthers has been trying to feed for 30 cents a day. I wonder how long it will be before that same half naked grubby little dude has your job because you aren't willling to work for $1.00 a day like he is.
Welcome to a global economy.
I wonder if they would rather have a working toilet?
On one side, he's being an ass. If he really does have the potential for a cure, then he would do well for the community at large to assist where reasonable.
On the other side one would not want to become a guinea pig in some laboratory. I think he might be able to make himself available on a fixed schedule and have science just figure out how to accomodate to it.
But to simply refuse is not cool. There seems to be some questions if he even had the disease in the first place, but the articles seem rather certain of it. I think the first test would be to validate that he had HIV at some point and work from there.
Wouldn't it be a hell of a lot simpler if they just set up P2P servers with the shows set up with commercials and let everyone use the existing P2P networks rather than reinventing the existing technology?
I recognize they need to generate revenue via pumping advertisements into the shows, but you would think they could come up with a better business model. I suspect that the only reason they are requiring use of their own network is so that they can track who downloads what for the marketing demographics and charge back to the advertisement firms.
So I guess my first concern with this is the matter of privacy on their P2P network. I'm suspicious that they will be using this network a little differently than what people have seen in the past.
Unfortunately the use of US patents doesn't necessarily apply to other nations. Meaning that we are ripe for falling well behind the technological lead on the planet simply because we are unwilling to share.
In the virtual world of Intellectual Property, patents are the equivelant to the Great Wall, Berlin Wall, or the newly created Isreali Wall.
When an idea is generated into a product by any company, they establish there product be being "first to market". This is an extremely important part of product development. First to Market is more important than the quality of the product. You can ship pretty marginal product just so long as you can get the name out there and get it recognized. But you can't wait to get it perfect.
This is the first step in establishing a company in the market. In parallel with this effort you submit the core patents around your product consistent with the original intention of the USPTO to give your "better mousetrap" a fighting chance to establish itself safely in the market.
Once established as an entity in the market, you begin to establish a protectionary zone of defense against any potential competitors by laying out a pattern of patent landmines to make it difficult for others to approach the intellectual space that your product covers. If you make an MP3 player, you want to generate any form of patent you can concering all aspects of your product to muddy the waters against the competition. So you would patent aspects of digitizing sound, file compression, file transfer methods, storage, playback, and user interface. You also copyright the hell out of everything as another form of protection (IMHO more legitimate).
Once you have an IP buffer zone established, you can back off on the product development efforts and rely on lawyers to keep you on top. I think the business logic is something like this: I have to pay for lawyers anyways on a flat fee retainer, so I'll fire the engineers and put the lawyers to work. But I'm probably being really synical here.
The company I work at has been making an effort to generate as many Patents as possible every year. But out of almost 1,000 patents filed over 5 years, only 2 are scheduled for real consideration into future products. The rest are all part of a protectionary zone to prevent us from dealing with any real competition.
Ironically, if we had any real competition today, we would be complete overwhelmed within a year. The technology we use is easily 5 years old and as such, grossly overpriced. If it weren't for out protection zone, we would have disappeared a long time ago for sake of our own inability to react to the market forces without the quagmire or patents to slow down the enemy.
I suppose you're going to try and tell me that the reason I never found any snipes in all my Boy Scout snipe-hunts was because they don't exist?
And what about the famous "Left Handed smoke shifter" we always forgot to bring to our camp outings?
Actually, there was one trip where we seen some green newbies down to the Rangers office to get one. An hour later he came back with one, freaked everyone out. But these Rangers went along with it in perfect form. They didn't have one at the time, they were all loaned out already, but they told them they could make one up for the kids if they were willing to wait a bit.
Mostly hanger wire and coffee cans, but they made a good effort at it and convince the kids it was what they needed to bring back to camp.
After reading the article about Fischer College I think he should be expelled.
Yes you have the Freedom of Speech in America, but you can't yell, "Fire" in a theater. This guy appears to have made a post nothing short of slanderous and inciteful comments with designs on entrapment of the officer.
You can bitch about free speech, but there are some kinds of free speech that just aren't worth defending. Political Free Speech is a good thing. But I don't believe there is a fundamental right to Free Speech when it comes to public swearing or Nazi/KKK conventions in public calling for the destruction of the Nigger Race as they so love to call it.
Ravings of a lunatic do not need to be protected. But we have to know who the lunatics are.
For if you are right then it basically means that no Federal Law can be overloaded by a more local governing entity, be it state or store. This also means that the only laws that can exists at a less than Federal level are ones that fill in the gaps of the Federal Laws.
Sounds rather Socialist to me.
That also means if I make a law raising the bar on something, say fuel economy regulations, that the Federal government can force a lowering of that bar by passing a law in their chambers.
But I'm of the mind that the Federal government should be relatively weak and to support differentiation of the laws through a stronger States Rights stance. I don't see this any different from the software model of Microsoft versus 100 Linux variants.
So what you are saying is that the Theory of Evolution is not in violation of the premise of Intelligent Design but that they can co-exist within the same scientific arena?
If that is the case, then could it be said that Intelligent Design is merely an expression that the process of evolution which leads to macro-evolutionary changes: fish to monkeys to humans... is not a process given entirely to chance but some overall guidance is being provided to the direction for that evolution and that guidance falls more closely to the hand of God than Chance.
Rather difficult to debate at that point for the existence of God depends upon Faith ( there was something on this by Douglas Adams that I found interesting ). Unfortunately Faith has never been identified as a scientific method, influence, or force. Furthermore it seems that what science has been able to develop so far has been largely independent of the religious orientation of the viewers.
Since the entire premise of Intillent Design is based on a non-scientific premise of Faith rather than observable facts which can be proven through repeated independent tests, I submit that Intillent Design can be neither proven nor disproven within the scientific community and as such, be included only as the basis of a footnote: Isn't remarkable that things have been able to evolve the way they have?.
To enforced a non-scientifically supported concept into the realm of science in America is pretty scarey. We, as a nation, are already in a heap of trouble trying to compete with the rest of the world, who is quickly catching up and passing us on many fronts. To dilude ourselves with this kind of debate merely ensures that we become the largest third world nation in record time.
Sounds like he would be better off trying to compare C vs Perl or the infamous flamebait article of Java vs Perl.
Perl, when used without the Taint option has the potential be be insecure. However, you can readily so secure programs without using Taint. Perhaps the best I can really state is Secure Enough
Perl, when used with the Tain option, is a complete pain in the butt to work with an very secure. It's very difficult to do anything particularly stupid unless you work at it. But properly treated, it goes a long ways past Secure Enough
It can be argued that any language certainly can be secure. Similarly anything language can be made insecure. It's not much about the language but the lackey at the keyboard. I've seen people do things to Java at work that actually looked like they had to work at making it that shitty. Even in C is would suck. Programmers make insecure applications, not the code. Kind of like People killing people and not the guns.
Not true. The byproducts are C02 and H2O only if there is complete combustion. This is not and cannot be the case in an internal combustion engine -- this is a fact of thermodynamics of which I'm much stronger than Chemistry.
Catalytic convertors help the process of breaking down the hydrocarbon byproducts into more environmentally compatable compounds. I don't know the specifics, but Carbon Monoxide to Carbon Dioxide is one of them.
If the process was so perfect then there wouldn't be anything like Ozone, Nitrous compounds, and sulfides...
I don't disagree with you at all. But most of my experience working for large companies (really big ones) all indicate the the PHB's tend to collect at these larger companies. I would like to speculate that this collection of ineptitude will actually bring about their downfall, but they also have a lot of lawyers on the payroll and their sole purpose of existence is to protect the territory carved out by the company in the first place.
There are some points that are valid. There are a lot of points that would be better addressed by his Therapist. Cubicles and office doors being one of them.
In TFA he mentions that the really smart people should have doors. I don't know where he has been working but in the last 20 years of work in a variety of positions, some of which have nothing to do with management or software, there are no more cubicles in America. If you think you need one then you'll either have to work in a small company, your own company, or start a Union.
Actually, a lot of what he writes here sounds like the beginnings of a Software Union movement. That'll be fun given all the H1B visa holders he is going to be competing with.
Everyone cuts the schedule. If they didn't reduce the schedule from 8 to 6 days then they wouldn't be "productive". Get over yourself and learn to pad everything by the necessary 25% to 30% in time so that when they cut it out it's still attainable. But make sure it looks like a struggle doing it. If you get on schedule without massive OT then they cut goes from 25% to 35% to 45% and so on. One company I worked at they had a 75% fluff to every number just to survive all the management cuts that will come along during the budget reviews.
I don't think this will work quite like a catalytic converter, which reduces he emissions into something less nasty. Rather it just extracts chemical H2O from the emissions. I was hoping for news that someone can actually convert the diesel exhaust into something less nasty. That would be a good thing.
I agree that Diesel + Electric/Hybrid will be a better solution but Diesel isn't well supported in America.
As for the battery technology, I think it is safe to say that now that the research has been done once by this really big American automotive company they will never look at it again until someone kicks them in the head with a product on the market that is eating up their market share. It's just their way of doing things.
Hopefully someone will take the lead and come up with something that works.
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I don't know what else to say other than "Duh"
Isn't there some way you can incorporate short-cut keys into a web page to reintroduce the labor saving options? I know TAB works most of the time, but I suspect a lot of DHTML pages have paid no attention to the path your cursor takes when you TAB, but then textmessage fields are problematic.
Using the mouse is a pain. I contributes significantly to CTS in every work environment I've been in
We are losing our edge.
Just look at the top 10% of the graduating classes.
And we call the muslims religious extremists? Isn't that ironic?
Is religious background of political candidates becoming more important these days? The constitution doesn't seperate religion from government, but Church and State, so don't start on that bandwagon. But it is worrisome that ones religious background is becoming more of an issue every day.
I don't believe you have to install anything or even run XP to experience this.
This has been a common complaint that I have heard since Windows 95.
Disk defrag doesn't help and I've seen it happen with computer that have had nothing installed for 4 years. I suspect that this has been a problem all along and is far more ubiquitous than imagined. But when you consider that Microsoft OS timelines require you to get a new computer and new software almost every 3 years, it's harder to identify. Now that hardware has somewhat leveled out, I think you will find this more often.
Planned Obsolescence?
No it's not.
And Bush's "no child left behind" has made it worse.
In order for everyone to Pass, you have to teach down to the lowest common denominator to the class, meaning that 90% of the students are bored and 30% are bored off their ass and asleep.
I believe the right approach would be to actually fail people out of grades until you did have 16 year olds sitting in the third grade and simply eject anyone from the school system who can't graduate by their 20th birthday.
Getting an education requires some investment on the students part.
I'm not so worried about these uber-smart kids. I'm more worried about the rest of us. As a nation we are quickly falling into a second world tier of educated nations and it is only getting worse.
Haven't you ever read Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy?
It's fairly obvious that those who want to run for public office are not qualified to do so. Consider the intelligent people who never stood a chance or voluntarily turned it down. Consider the people who hold the positions today versus those who held it in the past. Lincoln would probably not be even considered today. Quayle was ridiculed out of the chance not because he's ignorant (he's not really, he's actually quite smart) but he couldn't surivive the assault of the media. Gore is a very intelligent person but also could not manage the media presence. All of these people do not have a good presence on the television/radio.
It's not about politics, it's about marketing appeal and sales.
I spent some time reading these reviews and just walked away.
Most, not all, of the postings are just dumb. Just a bunch of drivel about the same old shit without anything specific to back it up. And the funny part is, they spend most of their time belly-aching about how Jack has no facts presented in his book. Well, neither do they.
It's just a bunch of wind on both sides.
They allege Jack has no facts and they provide no facts to back that up. The closest thing I did find to any truth is he probably has poor writing skills and a poorly backed case against gaming.
We have to be careful between the balance of violence and non-violence influences in society. If we never have any exposure of violence in any form then we become a society of Welfare Pussies who are incapable of responding to anything which might appear violent in nature. If we only have exposure to violence then we end up a society of synics who don't give a shit or one giant anger management class.
Unfortunately, most games these days that are considered Violent to not present conflict resolution in any terms but 9mm versus BFG9000. On the flip side students in school have all these touchy-feely classes on conflict resolution. And where in the mix do they learn that there comes a time when your best option is to meet someone in the playground after school?
I see a lot of people who are told that they can't get angry because anger is bad and in their games they just blow the shit out of anyone who crosses them. So much Therapy!!!
I'm begining to wonder about the validity of this arguement.
I think a part of the problem is that they are still working with the phsychological studies that if you say it often enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe you. I'm not sure this is the case. This country (US) is so rampant with sarcasm and skepticism that such antics are usually greated with The Bird and then they walk away.
I'm actually finding myself spending less than I used to on consumer items simply because I have so much hype sent my way I no longer know what to believe and end up going to the library rather than the movies.
Besides, when it comes to movies they all are so incredably awesome that surely they are going to be playing in the box offices for at least a month after the ads come out so I'm in no rush... Yeah Right!
I think this is an indication of the next kind of spam you will see.
You can expect anything that might be exposed to your eyeballs to be assaulted by marketing. If they could advertise through smell, touch, or taste you can bet your ass they would.
Isn't AOL/TW (still together?) the same company that plans on putting out their own version of P2P to distribute shows with advertisements?
I thought a potential solution was to use both MD5 and SHA since the probability of creating a collision on both algorithms to still meet the intended goal of signatures.
I went to the article and they show a picture of a notebook computer with a crank handle on it. I would assume that this is for developing nations that do not as yet have an electrical grid as part of their infrastructure.
That's fucked up.
No running water. No electricity. No toilets. But they'll have a notebook computer. Will it have WiFi? I wonder how they plan to do WiFi or any networking without electricity.
I remember in the 70's people were bemoaning the fact that there were more television sets per household than there were toilets: "All that shit coming in and no where for it to go out." That was 35 years ago. Today we have the same problem with computers only now we're applying it to the entire planet.
Imagine what this will do to the economic structure of software development. We're sending RedHat OS computers to the same dudes that Sally Struthers has been trying to feed for 30 cents a day. I wonder how long it will be before that same half naked grubby little dude has your job because you aren't willling to work for $1.00 a day like he is.
Welcome to a global economy.
I wonder if they would rather have a working toilet?
On one side, he's being an ass. If he really does have the potential for a cure, then he would do well for the community at large to assist where reasonable.
On the other side one would not want to become a guinea pig in some laboratory. I think he might be able to make himself available on a fixed schedule and have science just figure out how to accomodate to it.
But to simply refuse is not cool. There seems to be some questions if he even had the disease in the first place, but the articles seem rather certain of it. I think the first test would be to validate that he had HIV at some point and work from there.
First they say that P2P networks are pure Evil.
Now they want to set up their own P2P network.
Wouldn't it be a hell of a lot simpler if they just set up P2P servers with the shows set up with commercials and let everyone use the existing P2P networks rather than reinventing the existing technology?
I recognize they need to generate revenue via pumping advertisements into the shows, but you would think they could come up with a better business model. I suspect that the only reason they are requiring use of their own network is so that they can track who downloads what for the marketing demographics and charge back to the advertisement firms.
So I guess my first concern with this is the matter of privacy on their P2P network. I'm suspicious that they will be using this network a little differently than what people have seen in the past.
Unfortunately the use of US patents doesn't necessarily apply to other nations. Meaning that we are ripe for falling well behind the technological lead on the planet simply because we are unwilling to share.
Territorial Claims for Intellectual Property
In the virtual world of Intellectual Property, patents are the equivelant to the Great Wall, Berlin Wall, or the newly created Isreali Wall.
When an idea is generated into a product by any company, they establish there product be being "first to market". This is an extremely important part of product development. First to Market is more important than the quality of the product. You can ship pretty marginal product just so long as you can get the name out there and get it recognized. But you can't wait to get it perfect.
This is the first step in establishing a company in the market. In parallel with this effort you submit the core patents around your product consistent with the original intention of the USPTO to give your "better mousetrap" a fighting chance to establish itself safely in the market.
Once established as an entity in the market, you begin to establish a protectionary zone of defense against any potential competitors by laying out a pattern of patent landmines to make it difficult for others to approach the intellectual space that your product covers. If you make an MP3 player, you want to generate any form of patent you can concering all aspects of your product to muddy the waters against the competition. So you would patent aspects of digitizing sound, file compression, file transfer methods, storage, playback, and user interface. You also copyright the hell out of everything as another form of protection (IMHO more legitimate).
Once you have an IP buffer zone established, you can back off on the product development efforts and rely on lawyers to keep you on top. I think the business logic is something like this: I have to pay for lawyers anyways on a flat fee retainer, so I'll fire the engineers and put the lawyers to work. But I'm probably being really synical here.
The company I work at has been making an effort to generate as many Patents as possible every year. But out of almost 1,000 patents filed over 5 years, only 2 are scheduled for real consideration into future products. The rest are all part of a protectionary zone to prevent us from dealing with any real competition.
Ironically, if we had any real competition today, we would be complete overwhelmed within a year. The technology we use is easily 5 years old and as such, grossly overpriced. If it weren't for out protection zone, we would have disappeared a long time ago for sake of our own inability to react to the market forces without the quagmire or patents to slow down the enemy.
I suppose you're going to try and tell me that the reason I never found any snipes in all my Boy Scout snipe-hunts was because they don't exist?
And what about the famous "Left Handed smoke shifter" we always forgot to bring to our camp outings?
Actually, there was one trip where we seen some green newbies down to the Rangers office to get one. An hour later he came back with one, freaked everyone out. But these Rangers went along with it in perfect form. They didn't have one at the time, they were all loaned out already, but they told them they could make one up for the kids if they were willing to wait a bit.
Mostly hanger wire and coffee cans, but they made a good effort at it and convince the kids it was what they needed to bring back to camp.
After reading the article about Fischer College I think he should be expelled.
Yes you have the Freedom of Speech in America, but you can't yell, "Fire" in a theater. This guy appears to have made a post nothing short of slanderous and inciteful comments with designs on entrapment of the officer.
You can bitch about free speech, but there are some kinds of free speech that just aren't worth defending. Political Free Speech is a good thing. But I don't believe there is a fundamental right to Free Speech when it comes to public swearing or Nazi/KKK conventions in public calling for the destruction of the Nigger Race as they so love to call it.
Ravings of a lunatic do not need to be protected. But we have to know who the lunatics are.
I certainly hope you are wrong.
For if you are right then it basically means that no Federal Law can be overloaded by a more local governing entity, be it state or store. This also means that the only laws that can exists at a less than Federal level are ones that fill in the gaps of the Federal Laws.
Sounds rather Socialist to me.
That also means if I make a law raising the bar on something, say fuel economy regulations, that the Federal government can force a lowering of that bar by passing a law in their chambers.
But I'm of the mind that the Federal government should be relatively weak and to support differentiation of the laws through a stronger States Rights stance. I don't see this any different from the software model of Microsoft versus 100 Linux variants.
So what you are saying is that the Theory of Evolution is not in violation of the premise of Intelligent Design but that they can co-exist within the same scientific arena?
If that is the case, then could it be said that Intelligent Design is merely an expression that the process of evolution which leads to macro-evolutionary changes: fish to monkeys to humans... is not a process given entirely to chance but some overall guidance is being provided to the direction for that evolution and that guidance falls more closely to the hand of God than Chance.
Rather difficult to debate at that point for the existence of God depends upon Faith ( there was something on this by Douglas Adams that I found interesting ). Unfortunately Faith has never been identified as a scientific method, influence, or force. Furthermore it seems that what science has been able to develop so far has been largely independent of the religious orientation of the viewers.
Since the entire premise of Intillent Design is based on a non-scientific premise of Faith rather than observable facts which can be proven through repeated independent tests, I submit that Intillent Design can be neither proven nor disproven within the scientific community and as such, be included only as the basis of a footnote: Isn't remarkable that things have been able to evolve the way they have?.
To enforced a non-scientifically supported concept into the realm of science in America is pretty scarey. We, as a nation, are already in a heap of trouble trying to compete with the rest of the world, who is quickly catching up and passing us on many fronts. To dilude ourselves with this kind of debate merely ensures that we become the largest third world nation in record time.
Sounds like he would be better off trying to compare C vs Perl or the infamous flamebait article of Java vs Perl.
Perl, when used without the Taint option has the potential be be insecure. However, you can readily so secure programs without using Taint. Perhaps the best I can really state is Secure Enough
Perl, when used with the Tain option, is a complete pain in the butt to work with an very secure. It's very difficult to do anything particularly stupid unless you work at it. But properly treated, it goes a long ways past Secure Enough
It can be argued that any language certainly can be secure. Similarly anything language can be made insecure. It's not much about the language but the lackey at the keyboard. I've seen people do things to Java at work that actually looked like they had to work at making it that shitty. Even in C is would suck. Programmers make insecure applications, not the code. Kind of like People killing people and not the guns.
This sucks!
There's no plugin for viewing these under Firefox. What a pain in the butt.
Why couldn't they just come with something that you can actually share?
Not true. The byproducts are C02 and H2O only if there is complete combustion. This is not and cannot be the case in an internal combustion engine -- this is a fact of thermodynamics of which I'm much stronger than Chemistry.
Catalytic convertors help the process of breaking down the hydrocarbon byproducts into more environmentally compatable compounds. I don't know the specifics, but Carbon Monoxide to Carbon Dioxide is one of them.
If the process was so perfect then there wouldn't be anything like Ozone, Nitrous compounds, and sulfides...
I don't disagree with you at all. But most of my experience working for large companies (really big ones) all indicate the the PHB's tend to collect at these larger companies. I would like to speculate that this collection of ineptitude will actually bring about their downfall, but they also have a lot of lawyers on the payroll and their sole purpose of existence is to protect the territory carved out by the company in the first place.
There are some points that are valid. There are a lot of points that would be better addressed by his Therapist. Cubicles and office doors being one of them.
In TFA he mentions that the really smart people should have doors. I don't know where he has been working but in the last 20 years of work in a variety of positions, some of which have nothing to do with management or software, there are no more cubicles in America. If you think you need one then you'll either have to work in a small company, your own company, or start a Union.
Actually, a lot of what he writes here sounds like the beginnings of a Software Union movement. That'll be fun given all the H1B visa holders he is going to be competing with.
Everyone cuts the schedule. If they didn't reduce the schedule from 8 to 6 days then they wouldn't be "productive". Get over yourself and learn to pad everything by the necessary 25% to 30% in time so that when they cut it out it's still attainable. But make sure it looks like a struggle doing it. If you get on schedule without massive OT then they cut goes from 25% to 35% to 45% and so on. One company I worked at they had a 75% fluff to every number just to survive all the management cuts that will come along during the budget reviews.
I don't think this will work quite like a catalytic converter, which reduces he emissions into something less nasty. Rather it just extracts chemical H2O from the emissions. I was hoping for news that someone can actually convert the diesel exhaust into something less nasty. That would be a good thing.
I agree that Diesel + Electric/Hybrid will be a better solution but Diesel isn't well supported in America.
As for the battery technology, I think it is safe to say that now that the research has been done once by this really big American automotive company they will never look at it again until someone kicks them in the head with a product on the market that is eating up their market share. It's just their way of doing things.
Hopefully someone will take the lead and come up with something that works.