They've done this with segway. They selected people that were highly involved with internet from a social aspect to give the first free segweys. Then the dorks did a better job than marketing ever could.
For this level of work, I think this is much better than hiring a marketer.
hmm, nozzles are still employed with really funky radioactive fuels as well...so they're not out of the picture.
Anyway, the debris is moving too fast for anything to go after it.
Ships will simply have to be built stronger. And this isnt going to happen in the next 100 years. so until then, we're going to have to fly with the risk.
also, why doesnt this new wave of space elevator proponents think debris will be a risk. although, maybe its made of a super strong space aged;-) material. maybe we can cover our ships with the same (or something better designed sortof like a bulletproof vest made of the best materiels).
Yes the unemployment numbers are higher, but when you go off work in these countryies, you still have health insurance (socialized medicine). All the 10% of unemployed in germany are on wellfare provided they are looking for new jobs.
In these countries, you *don't* start having a heart attack the moment you are fired.
Right now most IT companies that my friends work for, and mine as well are really putting the screws to the employees. Our company is demanding more work, giving scanty raises, and lowering our benefits. Unfortunately I live in Texas which is traditionally a state that favors the employer heavily. Good luck with your OT issue, but if it was me right now I would probably just lay low being the heartless coward I am:). I know that even if you win you will probably lose your job for not turning off the lights when you leave or something stupid like that. If I were you I would just take the screwing they are giving you, keep track of your hours, and if you ever get fired or quit then sue for back pay and take the nice fat bonus at the end:).
Sorry, but this is bullshit. This is america's bullshit where you have no job protection. Where you have to fend for yourself through lawyers.
Its really less human than say a nice atmosphere of *living* like a european country, or brazil or korea.
There was an article featured here on slashdot by ben stein about exactly this. I live in texas too. When I can't find a tech job that isnt *nice* and *proper* I do other work, why? because Im happier as a waiter/chef at night and writing open source during the day than when Im an a competitive, non-team like atmosphere.
Ben stein link: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/17 24232
If you have unit tests where a variable is a integral/scalar value, and then somehow at runtime it has a string value (cause someone called your function incorrectly), you're screwed because you didn't test that.
And whose fault is it that you didn't test that?
Im an XP by far, and a huge python fan (and contributor). Initially, I agreed with the first comment here. But then, I did a little thought experiment. Once you do find a bug in big code, you HAVE to try and reproduce it. Yes, unit test that fails to catch something but still works, will result eventually in an actual bug, so this simply means that your unit testing wasnt coded well; it doesnt have much to do with the fact that you have strong typing or not. Once a bug happens, you have to track it down regardless of what language you are in. And see python isnt weakly typed, its strongly typed, eg: when you need to know the type of a variable, you call type(var_name) and u know exactly what type it is, so during the bug hunting process you can get the exact same information regardless of whether its typed by value (of variable) (eg python, eg 'implicitly') or whether its type by variable (eg java, eg 'explicitly').
And if you argue that java or some other explicitely typed language can make the bug hunting process faster, i disagree. Again, java or python will show you the exact line where execution failed. Then the debugging process begins at that line regardless of language.
You're giving an "interesting" reply to a "funny" comment. This is not advised:-).
The funniness of your parent comment lies in the fact that all these buzz-word "synergists" thing that XML is the cure all. And the comment is poking fun of that in an angry but correct sort of way.
1. is that java is not reliable: eg: inherently unstable (understandable b/c its a complex problem), AND this memo exposes some of the design issues over the progressing releases of java (which they actually classify as bugs (not in runtime or anythiing, but in usability and maintainability).
2. is the performance aspect that they are whining about. (both timewise, and memorywise).
Well....for the amount of garbage collection and optimization that goes on in a JRE (like the HotSpot (tm) and what not...)its not wonder that its "big". Sheesh, it took 30 years to figure out primes in P http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.html , and what? its been less than 10 years since gosling has managed to convince sun that java is worth it. Anyway, theres a reason python and eiffel are more stable...they do less optimization. Please don't argue that python is anywhere near as fast as java. The computer language shootout, OR just experience with both languages can tell you this.
Anyway, I think that ultimately, computers should have something like a co-processor for bytecoded languages. Everyone needs to get together (like the now-dying parrot project), make a SOLID standard for a bytecode and for a hardware implementation, and sit back and enjoy the ride (eg http://www.ajile.com/...but based on something less proprietary). Heck we have graphics cards dont we!
Finally,if sun is bailing, im sure a CS department/thinktank will pick up a grant and continue with java in a completely non-proprietary fashion (java *is* open source, just too proprietary to conflict with GNU and what not... (not like im a gnuru or anything).
The path of least resistance is simply to have free software. But the simple thing is that concentrated developement follows money. And the sources of money wish to see return. Money is a great tool for organization.
I suppose free software tries to engineer money out of the loop.
Untill then...As I said the device i describe will be net aware. So it uploads its data regularly. The software is only to show the BSA that your ratio of computers to software is in fact fair.
Im merely engineering here...i think site licenses are pretty retarded;-).
Where software pirating really eats away at profits is in corporate and educational institutions.
The poster's experience describes *the* sole interface between an authority and the potentially law-breaking organization. This IS the only place the information gets exchanged.
The poster is doing a simple risk assessment. Now, these are fine for life and death matters like war eg "force depletion assessment" (thanks west wing), or for business risks. But this is a risk with the law, and history shows us that it is not worth discussing.
All information to actually answer the posters comment would either go into making him feel ok with his illegal risk, or give him ideas on how best to avoid getting caught.
So....I dont think that the BSA simply asking some random,relatively senior member of an organization is effective at all. I don't think that something this routine is worth any human's time. I do think that we have to engineer ourselves out of the loop here (thats one of the basic things we do as programmers).
But, when envisioning a model of how we could engineer ourselves out of the loop, the idea of trusted computing comes to mind.
Suppose the process is automated. Well, as corporations serve their master (the dollar), it might be more justified to fake that your corporation is running legal software (however that might be for all non-spyware microsoft stuff...) although this brings up the idea (how the heck does the BSA actually invesitigate for non-spyware produces (maybe answering this will satisfy the poster)).
But, the easiest way to solve this problem is "trusted computing".eg devise an untamperable way to record certain data on a device connected the computer and to the net (eg write only without capability of deleting). Make a standard for this, and get all software vendors that care to implement their software to make use of this.
Yeah, I realize that this is going to ruffle a lot of feathers as it seems that everyone is freedom-for-the-sake-of-freedom here. But I am simply presenting a pretty ruff and pretty good solution to how to engineer ourselves out of the loop here.
This doesnt mean much as far more qualitative arguments exist. You can also browse over the code.:-)
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"They should either send about 2500 words (of the top of my head) and let it be any number of actual questions so the short funny ones don't "waste" anything, ditto with the other (serious) short obvious ones that will be answered with essentially a form letter. Or, get serious about the limit of ten questions, one per comment, and start ignoring multi-question comments."
Well, this is gameable quite easily. you could fit far more than 10 questions that require far more effort to answer this way. But I'm just humoring you now.
However, i do support my parent comment in that/. likes to present a "pizza" (or something), containing a variety.
Funny is variety. The interview was a lot more human, and enjoyable with the funny question.
check out the cool things they did to cats from the article: Michel Jouvet and his colleagues in France in the 1960's made lesions in cat brain stems that prevented muscle atonia. When the cats went into REM sleep, they didn't lie immobilized in the dream world; they scrambled up, arched their backs and acted out all sorts of aggressive automatic behaviors.
I was sleeping in a youth hostel once, and when I woke up, some of my roomates told me my "girlfriend" has visited at night.
I've been meaning to record myself in sleep...but have been so lazy about getting a microphone;-)
theres no point in the mysql test on top of the ip test, it then becomes even moreso a pure kernel test (eg scheduler/vm....), plenty of which have been done.
But i do think that serving out 1k of html would make the test a bit more solid.
Id be interested, given this narrow field thats being tested on how linux would hold up under the same tweaking, and what tweaking exactly that would require as compared to the freebsd (yes its probably trivial, but im just curious).
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I wonder if any of the special IP priorities that rarely get used outside of LANS (or in) were used.
Also, if any encryption was done, because id be concerned with achieving maximum latency possible.
They said over a commercial network, so I'd have to assume encryption, possibly with special hardware for it.
They've done this with segway. They selected people that were highly involved with internet from a social aspect to give the first free segweys. Then the dorks did a better job than marketing ever could.
For this level of work, I think this is much better than hiring a marketer.
How is ipv4 a hassle to ipsec....
You can see that the article is from germany,eg:
Prototype from the IBM Development Lab in Böblingen, Germany
The translator missed a word:
"Power und Intel Blades can be mixed in a BladeCenter in any order depending on the software applications."
Arent I the csi^2 ??
few viruses jump species
This is just jibber jabber. Plenty of other badies cross species like bacteria (anthrax), hepatitus, and umm AIDS.
Hmm, although, you could probably keep such a computing system disease free by thoroughly cleaning whatever you put into the system.
Nah. its a simple issue of the complexity the follows herds of human programmers and users.
The more people use bsd, the more distros that would pop up.
Theres already debian on bsd for example, and that would give u a system completely incompatible with a ports based system.
And so forth.
hmm, nozzles are still employed with really funky radioactive fuels as well...so they're not out of the picture.
;-) material. maybe we can cover our ships with the same (or something better designed sortof like a bulletproof vest made of the best materiels).
Anyway, the debris is moving too fast for anything to go after it.
Ships will simply have to be built stronger. And this isnt going to happen in the next 100 years. so until then, we're going to have to fly with the risk.
also, why doesnt this new wave of space elevator proponents think debris will be a risk. although, maybe its made of a super strong space aged
Even though this is a simple question. and probably the most obvious one of all. I still havent been able to find much answers.
How, given the nature of the copyleft that the GPL enforces, can a company keep they're code closed.
Unless motorola doesnt even care about it source? im sure that its figured out the answer to my question above.
Yes the unemployment numbers are higher, but when you go off work in these countryies, you still have health insurance (socialized medicine). All the 10% of unemployed in germany are on wellfare provided they are looking for new jobs.
In these countries, you *don't* start having a heart attack the moment you are fired.
Right now most IT companies that my friends work for, and mine as well are really putting the screws to the employees. Our company is demanding more work, giving scanty raises, and lowering our benefits. Unfortunately I live in Texas which is traditionally a state that favors the employer heavily. Good luck with your OT issue, but if it was me right now I would probably just lay low being the heartless coward I am :). I know that even if you win you will probably lose your job for not turning off the lights when you leave or something stupid like that. If I were you I would just take the screwing they are giving you, keep track of your hours, and if you ever get fired or quit then sue for back pay and take the nice fat bonus at the end :).
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Sorry, but this is bullshit. This is america's bullshit where you have no job protection. Where you have to fend for yourself through lawyers.
Its really less human than say a nice atmosphere of *living* like a european country, or brazil or korea.
There was an article featured here on slashdot by ben stein about exactly this.
I live in texas too. When I can't find a tech job that isnt *nice* and *proper* I do other work, why? because Im happier as a waiter/chef at night and writing open source during the day than when Im an a competitive, non-team like atmosphere.
Ben stein link: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/16/1
Im an XP by far, and a huge python fan (and contributor). Initially, I agreed with the first comment here. But then, I did a little thought experiment. Once you do find a bug in big code, you HAVE to try and reproduce it. Yes, unit test that fails to catch something but still works, will result eventually in an actual bug, so this simply means that your unit testing wasnt coded well; it doesnt have much to do with the fact that you have strong typing or not. Once a bug happens, you have to track it down regardless of what language you are in.
And see python isnt weakly typed, its strongly typed, eg: when you need to know the type of a variable, you call type(var_name) and u know exactly what type it is, so during the bug hunting process you can get the exact same information regardless of whether its typed by value (of variable) (eg python, eg 'implicitly') or whether its type by variable (eg java, eg 'explicitly').
And if you argue that java or some other explicitely typed language can make the bug hunting process faster, i disagree. Again, java or python will show you the exact line where execution failed. Then the debugging process begins at that line regardless of language.
You're giving an "interesting" reply to a "funny" comment. This is not advised :-).
The funniness of your parent comment lies in the fact that all these buzz-word "synergists" thing that XML is the cure all. And the comment is poking fun of that in an angry but correct sort of way.
I "sniff" two main arguments out of this article:
...but based on something less proprietary). Heck we have graphics cards dont we!
1. is that java is not reliable: eg: inherently unstable (understandable b/c its a complex problem), AND this memo exposes some of the design issues over the progressing releases of java (which they actually classify as bugs (not in runtime or anythiing, but in usability and maintainability).
2. is the performance aspect that they are whining about. (both timewise, and memorywise).
Well....for the amount of garbage collection and optimization that goes on in a JRE (like the HotSpot (tm) and what not...)its not wonder that its "big". Sheesh, it took 30 years to figure out primes in P http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/news/primality.html , and what? its been less than 10 years since gosling has managed to convince sun that java is worth it.
Anyway, theres a reason python and eiffel are more stable...they do less optimization. Please don't argue that python is anywhere near as fast as java. The computer language shootout, OR just experience with both languages can tell you this.
Anyway, I think that ultimately, computers should have something like a co-processor for bytecoded languages. Everyone needs to get together (like the now-dying parrot project), make a SOLID standard for a bytecode and for a hardware implementation, and sit back and enjoy the ride (eg http://www.ajile.com/
Finally,if sun is bailing, im sure a CS department/thinktank will pick up a grant and continue with java in a completely non-proprietary fashion (java *is* open source, just too proprietary to conflict with GNU and what not... (not like im a gnuru or anything).
Im sure theres something im forgetting. thank ya.
for such a crufty and complex language, you probably do need these essential techniques just to be able to program.
The path of least resistance is simply to have free software. But the simple thing is that concentrated developement follows money. And the sources of money wish to see return. Money is a great tool for organization.
;-).
I suppose free software tries to engineer money out of the loop.
Untill then...As I said the device i describe will be net aware. So it uploads its data regularly. The software is only to show the BSA that your ratio of computers to software is in fact fair.
Im merely engineering here...i think site licenses are pretty retarded
Where software pirating really eats away at profits is in corporate and educational institutions.
The poster's experience describes *the* sole interface between an authority and the potentially law-breaking organization. This IS the only place the information gets exchanged.
The poster is doing a simple risk assessment. Now, these are fine for life and death matters like war eg "force depletion assessment" (thanks west wing), or for business risks. But this is a risk with the law, and history shows us that it is not worth discussing.
All information to actually answer the posters comment would either go into making him feel ok with his illegal risk, or give him ideas on how best to avoid getting caught.
So....I dont think that the BSA simply asking some random,relatively senior member of an organization is effective at all. I don't think that something this routine is worth any human's time. I do think that we have to engineer ourselves out of the loop here (thats one of the basic things we do as programmers).
But, when envisioning a model of how we could engineer ourselves out of the loop, the idea of trusted computing comes to mind.
Suppose the process is automated. Well, as corporations serve their master (the dollar), it might be more justified to fake that your corporation is running legal software (however that might be for all non-spyware microsoft stuff...) although this brings up the idea (how the heck does the BSA actually invesitigate for non-spyware produces (maybe answering this will satisfy the poster)).
But, the easiest way to solve this problem is "trusted computing".eg devise an untamperable way to record certain data on a device connected the computer and to the net (eg write only without capability of deleting). Make a standard for this, and get all software vendors that care to implement their software to make use of this.
Yeah, I realize that this is going to ruffle a lot of feathers as it seems that everyone is freedom-for-the-sake-of-freedom here. But I am simply presenting a pretty ruff and pretty good solution to how to engineer ourselves out of the loop here.
As always join us on irc.freenode.net #bittorrent to chat and get help.
although i have just learned about erlang. i went to the trusty computer language shootout, and behold, it covered erlang!
:-)
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/lang/erlang/
This doesnt mean much as far more qualitative arguments exist. You can also browse over the code.
"They should either send about 2500 words (of the top of my head) and let it be any number of actual questions so the short funny ones don't "waste" anything, ditto with the other (serious) short obvious ones that will be answered with essentially a form letter. Or, get serious about the limit of ten questions, one per comment, and start ignoring multi-question comments."
/. likes to present a "pizza" (or something), containing a variety.
Well, this is gameable
quite easily. you could fit far more than 10 questions that require far more effort to answer this way. But I'm just humoring you now.
However, i do support my parent comment in that
Funny is variety. The interview was a lot more human, and enjoyable with the funny question.
Success of trek (proportional to) minutes of wheaton. eh???
I read his site. He wasnt even called for opening night.
wilwheaton.net
(repruhsent!)
i've never seen such a group of old and ugly tits.
like free shell account??
check out the cool things they did to cats from the article:
;-)
Michel Jouvet and his colleagues in France in the 1960's made lesions in cat brain stems that prevented muscle atonia. When the cats went into REM sleep, they didn't lie immobilized in the dream world; they scrambled up, arched their backs and acted out all sorts of aggressive automatic behaviors.
I was sleeping in a youth hostel once, and when I woke up, some of my roomates told me my "girlfriend" has visited at night.
I've been meaning to record myself in sleep...but have been so lazy about getting a microphone
theres no point in the mysql test on top of the ip test, it then becomes even moreso a pure kernel test (eg scheduler/vm....), plenty of which have been done.
But i do think that serving out 1k of html would make the test a bit more solid.
Id be interested, given this narrow field thats being tested on how linux would hold up under the same tweaking, and what tweaking exactly that would require as compared to the freebsd (yes its probably trivial, but im just curious).
Sorry, but i've yet to ever investigate this very interesting field.
The faq and the features page are not written too well.
What tools can i use to do pc-pc calls over linux?