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"You have to have software developers that can make this stuff work."
Or a bunch of clever kids, which are in ample supply in the classroom. Just b/c the average idiot teacher can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done. Even my own highschool, poorest in the county, was able to handle two DEC workstations I won in a contest, b/c they let my team and I admin them. To his credit, one of the teachers involved was also a hacker capable admining them as well.
This reminds me of a recent Air Force recruiting commercial, where the cop car pulls up to a bunch of teen guys loitering on the sidewalk at night and flashes its lights. A guy comes over to the car and the cop in the passenger seat says, somewhat embarrassed, 'It's broken again', and gestures at the laptop computer. The kid smugly says, 'reboot with F8 into safe mode', as if he's a master hacker.
I could take hours deconstructing that commercial, but in a nutshell: yes kids are fearless with technology and hence learn it faster, but rebooting Windows does not a hacker make, nor is it something to even be smug about, yet whoever made and approved that commercial (presumably adults) thought it was and had no idea what real l33t skillz are.
Essentially, if you want kids to really learn technology, give them Linux, BSD, or something else free and OSS, and let them figure it out. Have two sections to your lab - stable and experimental. Stable for internet and office apps, and experimental for reinstalling OS's, playing with Xen, and the like. With Linux it couldn't be cheaper, especially if you can get donations of old computers. Unfortunately too many in education don't seem to realize this, they've drunk the M$ koolaid...
Sweet, I'm starting my new tech review blog right away, it's called Niagra For Me, and it's hosted at http://niagraforme.blogspot.com/. Everybody go visit it and leave a comment so it will look popular and get me a Niagra server!
Woz: "We're a computer company, and we really think computers. Spinning off a separate division makes a whole lot of sense."
Not anymore they're not. Now they're some combination of a media company, industrial design company, and computer company, to varying degrees. The other other Steve gets that...
Focus and size are not the same thing, and could even be mutually exclusive. I agree that they need to keep the former, but not convinced that the latter is a net benefit. If you want to talk about companies that have lost focus, Microsoft is a prime candidate. They're no longer the leaders in most major areas of tech - web2.0, ajax, virtualization, security, browsers, software production methods, search (in the latter two they never were), etc. You name it, they're just followers, and only their monopolies keep them in the game. I would argue this is symptomatic of their size and unwieldiness.
Darnit, just eight versions? What about Embedded Home, Embedded Automotive, Embedded for Point of Service, Mobile, Workstation, Media Center Edition, Datacenter Edition, Server, Server System Home, Storage Server, Small Business Server Edition, and Compute Cluster Server edition?!?!? I feel shortchanged already!
And Yahoo!, I hope you don't really think that this was an accidental blunder on MS's part. If so, then I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you...
I bet right about now MS is wishing they had waited a little longer to launch 360 so they could include an HD-DVD drive in it instead of just a DVD one...
"Now imagine the body count in a 1200 mio. people country. Add modern firearms and tanks. 3 mio.? 4 mio.? maybe 5 mio. people could die during an all-china civil unrest."
That already happened, it was called the CulturalRevolution, but it sure as hell wasn't about achieving free speech.
I use Skype are b/c its data is strongly encrypted, and it is transmitted via P2P rather than via central server. Are there any SIP-based alternatives that meet these criteria that I can evaluate and possibly switch to? I hate it when companies do stupid deals like this.
First of all, on a per-capita basis the U.S is more oppressive to its citizens then the Chinese government. An American is almost four times as likely to be imprisoned then a Chinese citizen. In fact, the US has more total people in jail then the Chinese, despite the fact that china has almost four times as many people as the US.
Perhaps that's b/c the Chinese government doesn't bother to jail people when they can just"disappear"theminstead. The "disappeared" are conveniently not included the statistics you reference. Don't be so foolish, there's no comparison b/t a totalitarian Maoist Communist government and America.
Can't wait to see the fireworks when RIM turns around and sues Microsoft for patent infringement of some sort to prevent them from impementing this plan...
Damn, I guess I'll have to upgrade all my company's Windows servers with new DX9c graphics cards so we can admin our servers with Aero Glass when we upgrade to Vista. Darn you Microsoft!!!
"IMHO, it will be MUCH better if Russia and US both tried to disarm N.Korea _and_ Israel."
I would tend to agree with that, except that Israel has a pretty good track record of not using their nukes for the decades they've possed them. The only time we know they came close to actually using them was during the '67 Six Day War, and the '73 Yom Kippur War, in order to prevent their tiny country from being overrun and destroyed. Also, Israel has never publicly advocated using nukes to completely eradicate another country, unlike Iran's current regime, nor is Israel headed by unbalanced, unpredictable wacko's like North Korea. Though if it were the only way to get Iran and North Korea to peacefully and faithfully give up their nuclear ambitions, it might be an acceptable trade-off.
Programming languages are lot harder to learn than screwdrivers are, so that analogy is not particularly apt. If you're a well-healed business that can afford to hire for the bulk of your tech team CS graduates or the equivalent who are versed in theory and therefore equipped with the intellectual tools to quickly pick up any language, then you should have no problem supporting a diversity of languages and platforms, and could even leverage their various strengths to get something better than a single platform or language might provide. If you can't hire such a tech team, you're probably better off standardizing on something common like.NET or Java.
You've only got half the story. It wasn't the US and Europe playing chess in the Mid East, it was NATO vs. Warsaw Pact, for control of the world's oil. The USSR's southern border neighbors the Mid East, and should a hot war ever have broken out b/t East and West, the West's Achilles' Heel was our economic and military dependence on Mid East oil, and the Soviets' strategic proximity to the region. We propped up and armed brutal dictators like Hussein, the Shah of a Iran, and Osama's Afghan guerillas as a buffer against a Soviet land invasion of the Mid East oil nations. They would have had to go through Afghanistan, maybe Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait to get to Saudi Arabia. It worked well too, and Afghanistan is considered the USSR's Vietnam, but unfortunately we're now dealing with the severe blowback from our actions there. Frankly, I don't much blame the Arabs, and would probably feel the same if my country had been subjected to similar, but neither do I blame the West for opposing Soviet Communism, the most terrible thing to happen to humanity in the history of our race, worse than the most brutal conquerer of antiquity, the bubonic plague, or even Hitler and his Nazis. But collateral damage is still a bitch, even if the conflict is just.
Before the formation of the Soviet Union and the start of the Cold War, I can't offer any justification and don't know enough history that far back to attempt it. But if you're going to talk about the past 50 years of history in that region, you simply can't do so credibly without including the Soviet Union's role.
"Imagine that 'the arrow of time' in the Universe, like gravity on Earth, is pretty much the same everywhere, yet also different everywhere relative to everywhere else. That means that the 'arrow of time' points in different directions in spacetime depending on where you are, so time has a geometry just like space has a geometry. The novel idea that there are an infinite number of time dimensions in the Universe revolutionizes gravitational theory and much of modern science with it. A number of outstanding scientific mysteries are definitively solved, including observations that lead to the concepts of 'dark energy' and 'dark matter'."
Heady claims. Interesting that he's publishing this first in a book and a website, rather than in a peer-reviewed journal, unless I missed mention of a journal somewhere. Such brazen moves seem to bring more scorn than regard from fellow scientists, Stephen Wolfram being a prime example. Wonder Alexander Mayer will fare with his theory...
"Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share." - Gates
Well, Gates may have totally missed the Internet, but he can sure claim to have predicted Open Source! (at least, if you take his words out of context)
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Save yourself $5.60 by buying the book here: Foundations of Ajax [amazon.com].
Muchos gracias.
And if you use the "secret" A9.com discount [amazon.com], you can save an extra 1.57%!
Appreciated, but...
from A9: You can save an additional 1.57% (/2%) on virtually all your purchases at Amazon.com by simply becoming a regular user of our search engine at A9.com and on A9.com. Once you use A9.com for a few days you will be eligible for the A9 Instant Reward.
I'm not so easily bribed... at least not for a measily 1.57%. And even if I was, the patheticness factor of this 'marketing' scheme would outweigh the savings anyway.
"You have to have software developers that can make this stuff work."
Or a bunch of clever kids, which are in ample supply in the classroom. Just b/c the average idiot teacher can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done. Even my own highschool, poorest in the county, was able to handle two DEC workstations I won in a contest, b/c they let my team and I admin them. To his credit, one of the teachers involved was also a hacker capable admining them as well.
This reminds me of a recent Air Force recruiting commercial, where the cop car pulls up to a bunch of teen guys loitering on the sidewalk at night and flashes its lights. A guy comes over to the car and the cop in the passenger seat says, somewhat embarrassed, 'It's broken again', and gestures at the laptop computer. The kid smugly says, 'reboot with F8 into safe mode', as if he's a master hacker.
I could take hours deconstructing that commercial, but in a nutshell: yes kids are fearless with technology and hence learn it faster, but rebooting Windows does not a hacker make, nor is it something to even be smug about, yet whoever made and approved that commercial (presumably adults) thought it was and had no idea what real l33t skillz are.
Essentially, if you want kids to really learn technology, give them Linux, BSD, or something else free and OSS, and let them figure it out. Have two sections to your lab - stable and experimental. Stable for internet and office apps, and experimental for reinstalling OS's, playing with Xen, and the like. With Linux it couldn't be cheaper, especially if you can get donations of old computers. Unfortunately too many in education don't seem to realize this, they've drunk the M$ koolaid...
Sweet, I'm starting my new tech review blog right away, it's called Niagra For Me, and it's hosted at http://niagraforme.blogspot.com/. Everybody go visit it and leave a comment so it will look popular and get me a Niagra server!
Woz: "We're a computer company, and we really think computers. Spinning off a separate division makes a whole lot of sense."
Not anymore they're not. Now they're some combination of a media company, industrial design company, and computer company, to varying degrees. The other other Steve gets that...
Focus and size are not the same thing, and could even be mutually exclusive. I agree that they need to keep the former, but not convinced that the latter is a net benefit. If you want to talk about companies that have lost focus, Microsoft is a prime candidate. They're no longer the leaders in most major areas of tech - web2.0, ajax, virtualization, security, browsers, software production methods, search (in the latter two they never were), etc. You name it, they're just followers, and only their monopolies keep them in the game. I would argue this is symptomatic of their size and unwieldiness.
Darnit, just eight versions? What about Embedded Home, Embedded Automotive, Embedded for Point of Service, Mobile, Workstation, Media Center Edition, Datacenter Edition, Server, Server System Home, Storage Server, Small Business Server Edition, and Compute Cluster Server edition?!?!? I feel shortchanged already!
And Yahoo!, I hope you don't really think that this was an accidental blunder on MS's part. If so, then I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you...
I bet right about now MS is wishing they had waited a little longer to launch 360 so they could include an HD-DVD drive in it instead of just a DVD one...
"Now imagine the body count in a 1200 mio. people country. Add modern firearms and tanks. 3 mio.? 4 mio.? maybe 5 mio. people could die during an all-china civil unrest."
That already happened, it was called the CulturalRevolution, but it sure as hell wasn't about achieving free speech.
Glad to know the fundies running China are up to the task of protecting us from porn, especially of that really depraved Tiennamen sort.
I use Skype are b/c its data is strongly encrypted, and it is transmitted via P2P rather than via central server. Are there any SIP-based alternatives that meet these criteria that I can evaluate and possibly switch to? I hate it when companies do stupid deals like this.
Sweet, for the next phase, let's hope they program a dynamically reconfiguring LCARS interface.
But at least we'll now be able to turn all our lead into gold!
First of all, on a per-capita basis the U.S is more oppressive to its citizens then the Chinese government. An American is almost four times as likely to be imprisoned then a Chinese citizen. In fact, the US has more total people in jail then the Chinese, despite the fact that china has almost four times as many people as the US.
Perhaps that's b/c the Chinese government doesn't bother to jail people when they can just "disappear" them instead. The "disappeared" are conveniently not included the statistics you reference. Don't be so foolish, there's no comparison b/t a totalitarian Maoist Communist government and America.
Can't wait to see the fireworks when RIM turns around and sues Microsoft for patent infringement of some sort to prevent them from impementing this plan...
My question: which blogs and what misinformation? I'm curious...
Earlier CPU speeds doubled every 18 months.
To nitpick, it's not speed that doubles every 18 months, but, roughly, the number of transistors per die. Clarification here.
Damn, I guess I'll have to upgrade all my company's Windows servers with new DX9c graphics cards so we can admin our servers with Aero Glass when we upgrade to Vista. Darn you Microsoft!!!
[ducks]
"IMHO, it will be MUCH better if Russia and US both tried to disarm N.Korea _and_ Israel."
I would tend to agree with that, except that Israel has a pretty good track record of not using their nukes for the decades they've possed them. The only time we know they came close to actually using them was during the '67 Six Day War, and the '73 Yom Kippur War, in order to prevent their tiny country from being overrun and destroyed. Also, Israel has never publicly advocated using nukes to completely eradicate another country, unlike Iran's current regime, nor is Israel headed by unbalanced, unpredictable wacko's like North Korea. Though if it were the only way to get Iran and North Korea to peacefully and faithfully give up their nuclear ambitions, it might be an acceptable trade-off.
Programming languages are lot harder to learn than screwdrivers are, so that analogy is not particularly apt. If you're a well-healed business that can afford to hire for the bulk of your tech team CS graduates or the equivalent who are versed in theory and therefore equipped with the intellectual tools to quickly pick up any language, then you should have no problem supporting a diversity of languages and platforms, and could even leverage their various strengths to get something better than a single platform or language might provide. If you can't hire such a tech team, you're probably better off standardizing on something common like .NET or Java.
Why do AI in .NET when you can do it in the language designed specifically for AI in the first place?
And the "Disney to buy Pixar" rumor too!
Erm, uhm, wait...
You've only got half the story. It wasn't the US and Europe playing chess in the Mid East, it was NATO vs. Warsaw Pact, for control of the world's oil. The USSR's southern border neighbors the Mid East, and should a hot war ever have broken out b/t East and West, the West's Achilles' Heel was our economic and military dependence on Mid East oil, and the Soviets' strategic proximity to the region. We propped up and armed brutal dictators like Hussein, the Shah of a Iran, and Osama's Afghan guerillas as a buffer against a Soviet land invasion of the Mid East oil nations. They would have had to go through Afghanistan, maybe Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait to get to Saudi Arabia. It worked well too, and Afghanistan is considered the USSR's Vietnam, but unfortunately we're now dealing with the severe blowback from our actions there. Frankly, I don't much blame the Arabs, and would probably feel the same if my country had been subjected to similar, but neither do I blame the West for opposing Soviet Communism, the most terrible thing to happen to humanity in the history of our race, worse than the most brutal conquerer of antiquity, the bubonic plague, or even Hitler and his Nazis. But collateral damage is still a bitch, even if the conflict is just.
Before the formation of the Soviet Union and the start of the Cold War, I can't offer any justification and don't know enough history that far back to attempt it. But if you're going to talk about the past 50 years of history in that region, you simply can't do so credibly without including the Soviet Union's role.
"Imagine that 'the arrow of time' in the Universe, like gravity on Earth, is pretty much the same everywhere, yet also different everywhere relative to everywhere else. That means that the 'arrow of time' points in different directions in spacetime depending on where you are, so time has a geometry just like space has a geometry. The novel idea that there are an infinite number of time dimensions in the Universe revolutionizes gravitational theory and much of modern science with it. A number of outstanding scientific mysteries are definitively solved, including observations that lead to the concepts of 'dark energy' and 'dark matter'."
Heady claims. Interesting that he's publishing this first in a book and a website, rather than in a peer-reviewed journal, unless I missed mention of a journal somewhere. Such brazen moves seem to bring more scorn than regard from fellow scientists, Stephen Wolfram being a prime example. Wonder Alexander Mayer will fare with his theory...
NASA's Mission Control Centre in Houston, Texas, says the transmitter ceased operating very quickly after its deployment.
Darn, just like my home wi-fi network. Well I'm glad to hear NASA has trouble with these things too, makes me feel a little less inept...
"Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share." - Gates
Well, Gates may have totally missed the Internet, but he can sure claim to have predicted Open Source! (at least, if you take his words out of context)