Yeah, but the best managers are always guys who used to code, and still code a little. I would sacrifice some of the best coders on my team if the managers were all people with both coding AND management skills.
Hrmmmph. Then maybe you could talk with MrsWhizBang, who is constantly asking "Why can't the kids play (insert stupid game attached to cereal box)" or "Why can't you just use Windows like everyone else" (usually immediately after an ease-of-use issue) or "Why does this website not work" (pointing at braindead jscript based UI).
My wife falsely assumes that all this stuff would work better on Windows. Not that she has any more experience with Windows, she just knows that everyone else is using it, so it must be easier, and her husband just likes to be different. Never mind that she has her own personal sysadmin, which I thing more than makes up for any advantages Windows has.
And I thought that I had explained everything with gobs of humour and intelligence;-)
(OT: you must also be Canadian (or British), since you spell "humour" correctly!)
I didn't realize that the events themselve would be conducted on streets. Being unfamiliar with solar racing, I had only a couple of articles to go by (plus slashdot posts, which are of course legendary worldwide for their accuracy and insightfulness;-) If so then I suppose driving them on the road is necessary.
But to say on one hand that the vehicles are not safe enough to drive on the road, and then say that the thrill of driving one on the road compensates for that makes me fearful.
Solar car racing has been going on for a very long time. This is the first fatality.
Fair enough. But in your first post you were questioning the steering and suspension of the vehicle. Sure, it's not as safe as a Volvo, But is it as safe as a motorcycle?
I don't see a lot of mini-van bashing here on slashdot - lot's of SUV bashing though. Although I agree with you that lots of these geeks don't understand the need for a larger vehicle, you have to admit that there are a lot of people riding around in huge SUVs because it is more fashionable than driving a minivan or wagon (and because or some tax break that I don't know about because I'm in Canada, eh?)
I drive a Subaru Outback, myself. Great in the snow, carries me, my wife, our two boys, our dog, and all of our camping gear. If I was hauling lumber, I would need a pickup. If I were a Rich Asshole (TM), I would driver a Hummer because it's a great way to prove that I have lots of cash and that I don't care about anyone else.
The parent post said nothing about Hummers. Most of us can agree here that Hummers are purely on the road for the enjoyment of Rich Assholes(TM). He was stating that an unsafe vehicle should not be on the road. If the cars are not safe, then they should transport them from one event to the next on a trailer. Just because the car is part of a research project that can help humanity does not mean the team should eschew safety needlessly.
... The U of T car was following these regulations."
Although they were following the regulations (the letter of the law), unless some can demonstrate that this was caused by a mechanical failure one has to assume that the car was not safe for highway.
Would it really be that much trouble to float a lightweight car on a trailer rather than drive it between events?
Personally, I think there's probably a lot more room to be stricter with accident avoidance stuff, like making sure your steering and suspension is REALLY secure.
This is an experimental solar racing car, not designed for road. If the steering and weight are not adequate for road safety, then why not just put it on a trailer and float it between events?
According to another post here, U of T won a safety at on of their recent events. Obviously the car met criteria for racing. Why did they need to take it on the road?
I can't imagine how taking that out on the road feels, but I imagine it compensates somewhat for the very real danger that exists whenever people strap themselves into unorthodox moving objects for the sake of enhancing the body of human knowledge.
Bull crap! If the cars are safe for the road, then drive them ther, and if no then keep them off. If this was not caused by a mechanical failure, then it was because the car should not have been on the road. It is a terrible shame that someone had to die, but hopefully from now on people will think twice about taking their experimental cars on public streets. The U of T team (and any one else who has been taking this risk) should revisit their policies regarding transportation between events.
Cosmoe is in fact an AtheOS fork, but of a different sort. Bill took the appserver (gui layer) from AtheOS and ported it to the linux kernel. So the API is almost the same as Syllable, but the kernel (and driver subsystem) is linux. He stated at the time that his aim was to have the hardware compatibility of linux, but get rid of X.
The two (syllable and cosmoe) have diverged somewhat since their respective forks, since Bill is aiming for a BeOS API, whereas syllable is not attempting to be a clone.
not exactly. Generally low level stuff is C, everything else is C++. The API to write gui apps is C++.
He (and others) later built some POSIX, KDE and GTK API mappings so that Linux and Unix software could be compiled and used.
nope, not at all. Syllable has always been a posix OS, so posix apps generally compile effortlessly. But part of the raison d'etre of syllable is to create a more BeOS, Mac, or Amiga inspired OS. This means no X, GTK or QT (a subset of QT was ported to port KHTML, similar to what Apple did for Safari), and these toolkits will never be ported to Syllable. At least not by the core devs.
That's because slashdot users are a bunch of PHRs.
Props to "the mad poster"
(If enough of us use this, it will become part of the vernacular;-)
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If you work with Solaris, you know that there is no standard for "/bin/sh". Most unixes ship with a posix compatible "/bin/sh". Solaris, on the other hand, ship the real Bourne shell, thus forcing anyone who wants to write a portable script to get down on their belly and crawl the whole way.
I thought about opening the tag, but I figured people would get my meaning. I didn't really want to give readers a warning what I was doing until I was done.
I could be wrong, but I think in the case of the of the Fischer, the UN said "Don't go to Yugoslavia", whereas with the US and Britain the UN said "We didn't say you can go to Iraq." Didn't say they couldn't though.
Of course, Fischer played chess, but Bush busted heads. Big difference. But different situation. One could certainly call the US hyprocritical (for a lot of reasons), but these two events do not give any logical proof.
Maybe so, but you're certainly not an editor. "am" does not start with the letter "M".
Of course, "IAAM" just looks stupid. I think I would like to declare open war on acronyms - especially when the acronym is followed by the entire phrase written out, and then never used again.
"Pardon me sir, but did I just catch you making up an acronym as a rhetorical device even though it does not increase the efficiency and clarity of your overall message? Yes?"
Is there a better phrase for two "fuzzy" values being exactly the same? Two people exactly the same height? I think not, because they stretch or shrink during the day.
that's a good question. I knew what you meant, I just saw the oxymoron-ish phrase and couldn't resist a little fun:-)
I think the funnines is because the phrase "exactly the same" is emphatic. If you said "they are virtually the same" I probably wouldn't hae been startled by the phrase.
Then again, I may have simply overlooked your comment.
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Yeah, but the best managers are always guys who used to code, and still code a little. I would sacrifice some of the best coders on my team if the managers were all people with both coding AND management skills.
Hrmmmph. Then maybe you could talk with MrsWhizBang, who is constantly asking "Why can't the kids play (insert stupid game attached to cereal box)" or "Why can't you just use Windows like everyone else" (usually immediately after an ease-of-use issue) or "Why does this website not work" (pointing at braindead jscript based UI).
;-)
My wife falsely assumes that all this stuff would work better on Windows. Not that she has any more experience with Windows, she just knows that everyone else is using it, so it must be easier, and her husband just likes to be different. Never mind that she has her own personal sysadmin, which I thing more than makes up for any advantages Windows has.
And I thought that I had explained everything with gobs of humour and intelligence
(OT: you must also be Canadian (or British), since you spell "humour" correctly!)
Anyway, many solar car races are on the road.
;-) If so then I suppose driving them on the road is necessary.
I didn't realize that the events themselve would be conducted on streets. Being unfamiliar with solar racing, I had only a couple of articles to go by (plus slashdot posts, which are of course legendary worldwide for their accuracy and insightfulness
But to say on one hand that the vehicles are not safe enough to drive on the road, and then say that the thrill of driving one on the road compensates for that makes me fearful.
Solar car racing has been going on for a very long time. This is the first fatality.
Fair enough. But in your first post you were questioning the steering and suspension of the vehicle. Sure, it's not as safe as a Volvo, But is it as safe as a motorcycle?
I don't see a lot of mini-van bashing here on slashdot - lot's of SUV bashing though. Although I agree with you that lots of these geeks don't understand the need for a larger vehicle, you have to admit that there are a lot of people riding around in huge SUVs because it is more fashionable than driving a minivan or wagon (and because or some tax break that I don't know about because I'm in Canada, eh?)
I drive a Subaru Outback, myself. Great in the snow, carries me, my wife, our two boys, our dog, and all of our camping gear. If I was hauling lumber, I would need a pickup. If I were a Rich Asshole (TM), I would driver a Hummer because it's a great way to prove that I have lots of cash and that I don't care about anyone else.
And hummers were?
The parent post said nothing about Hummers. Most of us can agree here that Hummers are purely on the road for the enjoyment of Rich Assholes(TM). He was stating that an unsafe vehicle should not be on the road. If the cars are not safe, then they should transport them from one event to the next on a trailer. Just because the car is part of a research project that can help humanity does not mean the team should eschew safety needlessly.
... The U of T car was following these regulations."
Although they were following the regulations (the letter of the law), unless some can demonstrate that this was caused by a mechanical failure one has to assume that the car was not safe for highway.
Would it really be that much trouble to float a lightweight car on a trailer rather than drive it between events?
Personally, I think there's probably a lot more room to be stricter with accident avoidance stuff, like making sure your steering and suspension is REALLY secure.
This is an experimental solar racing car, not designed for road. If the steering and weight are not adequate for road safety, then why not just put it on a trailer and float it between events?
According to another post here, U of T won a safety at on of their recent events. Obviously the car met criteria for racing. Why did they need to take it on the road?
I can't imagine how taking that out on the road feels, but I imagine it compensates somewhat for the very real danger that exists whenever people strap themselves into unorthodox moving objects for the sake of enhancing the body of human knowledge.
Bull crap! If the cars are safe for the road, then drive them ther, and if no then keep them off. If this was not caused by a mechanical failure, then it was because the car should not have been on the road. It is a terrible shame that someone had to die, but hopefully from now on people will think twice about taking their experimental cars on public streets. The U of T team (and any one else who has been taking this risk) should revisit their policies regarding transportation between events.
Correct me if I'm wrong,
OK.
Cosmoe is in fact an AtheOS fork, but of a different sort. Bill took the appserver (gui layer) from AtheOS and ported it to the linux kernel. So the API is almost the same as Syllable, but the kernel (and driver subsystem) is linux. He stated at the time that his aim was to have the hardware compatibility of linux, but get rid of X.
The two (syllable and cosmoe) have diverged somewhat since their respective forks, since Bill is aiming for a BeOS API, whereas syllable is not attempting to be a clone.
Is their web site powered by Syllable?
No, it's hosted by sourceforge (another osdn site)
Does this mean that slashdot has just slashdotted itself?
IIRC, AtheOS was written in 100% assembler
not exactly. Generally low level stuff is C, everything else is C++. The API to write gui apps is C++.
He (and others) later built some POSIX, KDE and GTK API mappings so that Linux and Unix software could be compiled and used.
nope, not at all. Syllable has always been a posix OS, so posix apps generally compile effortlessly. But part of the raison d'etre of syllable is to create a more BeOS, Mac, or Amiga inspired OS. This means no X, GTK or QT (a subset of QT was ported to port KHTML, similar to what Apple did for Safari), and these toolkits will never be ported to Syllable. At least not by the core devs.
That's because slashdot users are a bunch of PHRs.
;-)
Props to "the mad poster"
(If enough of us use this, it will become part of the vernacular
If you work with Solaris, you know that there is no standard for "/bin/sh". Most unixes ship with a posix compatible "/bin/sh". Solaris, on the other hand, ship the real Bourne shell, thus forcing anyone who wants to write a portable script to get down on their belly and crawl the whole way.
Maybe they might have, if it wasn't based on a book from a series with establisehd names.
In fact, that's why, when I got a Standard Schnauzer, I named him "Evil" Montgomery Burns!
Hey, you're all right. ... for a mathematician.
touché.
I thought about opening the tag, but I figured people would get my meaning. I didn't really want to give readers a warning what I was doing until I was done.
Bryan Adams is bad for sure, but do I need to start listing the American artists that we have been subjected to up here?
I didn't think so.
Yes we can - we don't use MSN.
Yes, but we apologize for everything.
I'm sorry.
I could be wrong, but I think in the case of the of the Fischer, the UN said "Don't go to Yugoslavia", whereas with the US and Britain the UN said "We didn't say you can go to Iraq." Didn't say they couldn't though.
Of course, Fischer played chess, but Bush busted heads. Big difference. But different situation. One could certainly call the US hyprocritical (for a lot of reasons), but these two events do not give any logical proof.
not really. Here in Canada, that's where we send all of our criminals.
Oh, and bad comedians.
IMAM (I Am A Mathematician)
Maybe so, but you're certainly not an editor. "am" does not start with the letter "M".
Of course, "IAAM" just looks stupid. I think I would like to declare open war on acronyms - especially when the acronym is followed by the entire phrase written out, and then never used again.
"Pardon me sir, but did I just catch you making up an acronym as a rhetorical device even though it does not increase the efficiency and clarity of your overall message? Yes?"
BLAM!!!
"That'll teach you..."
</rant>
Is there a better phrase for two "fuzzy" values being exactly the same? Two people exactly the same height? I think not, because they stretch or shrink during the day.
:-)
that's a good question. I knew what you meant, I just saw the oxymoron-ish phrase and couldn't resist a little fun
I think the funnines is because the phrase "exactly the same" is emphatic. If you said "they are virtually the same" I probably wouldn't hae been startled by the phrase.
Then again, I may have simply overlooked your comment.
So good work!
they're both about exactly the same
that precisely close to what I was thinking. And definitely almost a good observation.
Are you mostly completely following me?
I generally go through Quebec in the middle of the night and I do it as fast as possible (150 km/h).
And here in Saint John, the highways have a speed limit of 110 km/h. Yet we drive 100-120 here also. weird...