I bet there was a massive project inside of Microsoft to convert their desktops to Linux and Mozilla and it failed because they could not figure out all the issues with Exchange and AD;-)
That seems to be pretty standard these days. Especially in J2EE. Especially for a new project. Those are typically put together by people who did not have a clue and probably exploited their management to star working on new tech. They typically end up with giant, procedural, slow-like-midnight-shit J2EE monster. After that they either: have a management uprising and go to.NET and the cycle starts over, or, hire the right people who bring in the new, cool technology like Hibernate,Spring, Jboss, stay away from EJBs (until 3.0 matures) and build new fast single-JVM system.
Java app can have a perfect "native" look too.
For example, this is the product (sharing and sync application) my friend and I developed:
Windows screenshot Linux screenshot or, if you have Java, just Web Start it here - another great Java feature.
Gee where are my mod points when I need them?
But seriously, the formula for success that I observed for many many years in the game is - custom applications built on OTS components/frameworks, preferably OSS frameworks.
This gives you best of both worlds - good, custom solution and speed of development based on not reinventing the wheel.
Even working alone, sometimes you would want to access the project from someone's laptop, from your wife's PC, etc.
CVS is godsent. I keep all the documents, files, and of course source I create in CVS. Among other things, it is convinient to backup only one CVS repository instead of multitude of My Documents and/home/biggerman folders.
I always thought that it is just not right esthetically speaking:
Take 500 tons of explosives, pile them up skyhigh, put a person on top of it in a tin can and then set the whole thing ablaze.
You can smell government / military-indistrial thinking all over it. There MUST be a better way.
>> couln't think of a single instance involving Chandler and Information retrieval.
Chandler Bing _was_ in Data Processing. As the matter of fact, according to some job placement pro, it was his true calling in life.
Or so my wife says who is the one watching Friends;-)
I was suprised how quickly my original post was moderated to the ground - about 15 seconds. I bet an editor with unlimited mod points is watching the beginning of every discussion.
Yes of course we value Slashdot because of "coverage of non-Microsoft platforms". But in case of Wired, there is a definite pattern in how they post stories from there trying to cover the slow news days I guess. If it was truly news-discussing site we would see all 3,4,8 Wired stories at the same time after the issue is available and we would discuss it fresh.
Since the signal to noise ratio on this topic is very low, let's talk about couple concrete things here:
First, obviosly we do not know if the thing is going to hit. For this reason we cannot predict where exactly it would hit either. But we can estimate that at least to a hemisphere.
I believe some on Slashdot either know how to do such calculation (which half of the Earth is going to face the incoming asteroid) or know people who already did. So please cough this information up.
Second, what would be criteria to decide whether we even want to stop the damned thing at all?
I suspect it would be a while before we know where it is going to hit.
If it is going into a low density area (not ocean), would not we just cordon it off and enjoy the show?
What if it is NYC? Is it cheaper to abandon NYC or try to stop the asteroid?
What are the other possibilities and our response to them?
What about possible ways to change its trajectory / destroy it? Surface nuclear blast?
The thing is not that big. When atomic energy was used to move earth / dig canals, the volume of work was comparable to this rock.
Imagine how much technology boost all the related stuff will receive. If the Moon shot (the pure publicity stunt) generated so much progress, imagine this.
By the time we will know it is going to miss by 500km, we will already have cheap reliable interplanet travel and will be able to melt/mine/whatever the asteroids. Cool.
Dont forget Russians built at least 7 "Salute" stations before Mir (At least, because some flew under various military designations) and had routine 1.5 year long missions.
Long time before ISS, everything we (humankind) wanted to try on the LEO were already tried many times. That is what makes ISS so pointless.
I just keep grinning quetly when someone mentions (again) how much we SPEND on Iraq.
Think about where most of this money actually goes: parts, supplies, planes, vehicles,... For someone like me living in the middle of military industrial complex it is obvious: money flows right back and rejuvenates the local economy.
Just the same when someone keeps crying about 3B we give away to Israel. Israel turns right back and buys more F-16s from Lockheed.
The money flow is pretty much a closed system. We spend money, our own contractors (and their millions of employees/families) get money.
Speaking of "sane", I am currently contractin at big big big defense contractor. Desktops are so heavily "managed", 2GHz P4 machine is nearly useless as McAfee runs all the time. We are not local admins and to install something I need to find one of only two people who are.
Overall, I estimated I lose 80% of productivity this way. For a large group of contractors, the amount of money they are wasting is astronomical.
. I have this rule - I upgrade (typically motherboard/CPU/memory combo) when price of such for new technology comes down below $350. Right now I am eagerly availting arrival of my AMD64 3000+ upgrade ( up from dual PIII 1000 )
..how the movie is about all of us who (at least the good ones) were DotCom Superheroes in the days past and now have to put up with boring classic desk job to keep the family going. And how one possible way back to glory is to sign up with some Evil.
Slashdot Mirror
yeah but the opportunity to advertize something with "enlarged media option" has already been taken ;-)
Interesting that Dunn has no technology experience whatsoever
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/
or even (using Apache-like URL rewriting):
/maps/locations/384/map.html
dynamically rewritten to your format.
I think it is clever and patentable.
I bet there was a massive project inside of Microsoft to convert their desktops to Linux and Mozilla and it failed because they could not figure out all the issues with Exchange and AD ;-)
for those who may come here after us ;-) -
It seems to work well under Fedora Core 3 on AMD64
That seems to be pretty standard these days. Especially in J2EE. Especially for a new project. Those are typically put together by people who did not have a clue and probably exploited their management to star working on new tech. They typically end up with giant, procedural, slow-like-midnight-shit J2EE monster. After that they either: have a management uprising and go to .NET and the cycle starts over, or, hire the right people who bring in the new, cool technology like Hibernate,Spring, Jboss, stay away from EJBs (until 3.0 matures) and build new fast single-JVM system.
Java app can have a perfect "native" look too.
For example, this is the product (sharing and sync application) my friend and I developed:
Windows screenshot
Linux screenshot
or, if you have Java, just Web Start it here - another great Java feature.
Gee where are my mod points when I need them?
But seriously, the formula for success that I observed for many many years in the game is - custom applications built on OTS components/frameworks, preferably OSS frameworks.
This gives you best of both worlds - good, custom solution and speed of development based on not reinventing the wheel.
Even working alone, sometimes you would want to access the project from someone's laptop, from your wife's PC, etc. /home/biggerman folders.
CVS is godsent. I keep all the documents, files, and of course source I create in CVS. Among other things, it is convinient to backup only one CVS repository instead of multitude of My Documents and
I always thought that it is just not right esthetically speaking:
Take 500 tons of explosives, pile them up skyhigh, put a person on top of it in a tin can and then set the whole thing ablaze.
You can smell government / military-indistrial thinking all over it. There MUST be a better way.
Chandler Bing _was_ in Data Processing. As the matter of fact, according to some job placement pro, it was his true calling in life. ;-)
Or so my wife says who is the one watching Friends
Yes of course we value Slashdot because of "coverage of non-Microsoft platforms". But in case of Wired, there is a definite pattern in how they post stories from there trying to cover the slow news days I guess. If it was truly news-discussing site we would see all 3,4,8 Wired stories at the same time after the issue is available and we would discuss it fresh.
Come on guys every single more-than-one-page-long article from current issue of Wired was presented as "news" over the last few weeks.
Either Slashdot is (albeit slowly) jumping the shark or some kind of cross-marketing game is afoot.
mmm, because they cannot afford Sun's hardware for everyone? ;-)
I you want to search network shares (yes, not just Intranet sites) with a browser or Web Services, follow my sig ;-)
this is primary reason she boots Linux on her computer
I just like the term "furthering".
I thought if one kept furthering oneself he would go blind or something
First, obviosly we do not know if the thing is going to hit. For this reason we cannot predict where exactly it would hit either. But we can estimate that at least to a hemisphere.
I believe some on Slashdot either know how to do such calculation (which half of the Earth is going to face the incoming asteroid) or know people who already did. So please cough this information up.
Second, what would be criteria to decide whether we even want to stop the damned thing at all? I suspect it would be a while before we know where it is going to hit.
If it is going into a low density area (not ocean), would not we just cordon it off and enjoy the show?
What if it is NYC? Is it cheaper to abandon NYC or try to stop the asteroid?
What are the other possibilities and our response to them?
What about possible ways to change its trajectory / destroy it? Surface nuclear blast? The thing is not that big. When atomic energy was used to move earth / dig canals, the volume of work was comparable to this rock.
or, we can just establish a color-coded threat-level scale. Simple, powerful, well understood by the general public ;-)
Imagine how much technology boost all the related stuff will receive. If the Moon shot (the pure publicity stunt) generated so much progress, imagine this.
By the time we will know it is going to miss by 500km, we will already have cheap reliable interplanet travel and will be able to melt/mine/whatever the asteroids. Cool.
Long time before ISS, everything we (humankind) wanted to try on the LEO were already tried many times. That is what makes ISS so pointless.
Think about where most of this money actually goes: parts, supplies, planes, vehicles, ... For someone like me living in the middle of military industrial complex it is obvious: money flows right back and rejuvenates the local economy.
Just the same when someone keeps crying about 3B we give away to Israel. Israel turns right back and buys more F-16s from Lockheed.
The money flow is pretty much a closed system. We spend money, our own contractors (and their millions of employees/families) get money.
Speaking of "sane", I am currently contractin at big big big defense contractor. Desktops are so heavily "managed", 2GHz P4 machine is nearly useless as McAfee runs all the time. We are not local admins and to install something I need to find one of only two people who are.
Overall, I estimated I lose 80% of productivity this way. For a large group of contractors, the amount of money they are wasting is astronomical.
. I have this rule - I upgrade (typically motherboard/CPU/memory combo) when price of such for new technology comes down below $350. Right now I am eagerly availting arrival of my AMD64 3000+ upgrade ( up from dual PIII 1000 )
..how the movie is about all of us who (at least the good ones) were DotCom Superheroes in the days past and now have to put up with boring classic desk job to keep the family going. And how one possible way back to glory is to sign up with some Evil.