The USPS frequently gives me mail that was intended for my neighbors. Usually it's junk but on a few occasions it's been important (yes, I either tossed it back in my mailbox or hand-delivered it).
When I say "frequently" I mean currently about once every week or two, but in the past there have been periods where I got the wrong mail 3-4 times a week!
Of course, what bugs me isn't getting my neighbor's mail, but wondering where my mail is ending up.
The article is well worth reading, just for the following quote:
When Fugarino learned that another employee had been hired at the company, Fugarino became enraged, telling another employee that the company's code was "his product, that no one else was going to work on his code, that nobody was going to take his place and that he was 'going to take his code with him."
There are a lot of things that could wipe out the human race: nuclear weapons, bioweapons, pollution, etc. Focusing in on something that happens every 50 million years or so seems kind of foolish. Especially since the cost of establishing a self-sustaining colony on another planet is going to be... well... astronomical. What are chances that a Mars colony could survive if it was going to get zero support from Earth?
I like the space program as much as anybody, and I'd love to see humans on Mars, but not at the cost of ignoring critical problems on Earth.
You know, as I wrote my post, I thought, "somone is going to complain about the word 'Indian', I ought to be PC and use 'Native American', and then I said, screw it".
But speaking of non-sequiturs, this reminds me of a great line from Sanford and Son. Red Foxx is pretending that he was robbed and two cops show up. One asks "Were your attackers colored?". Red glares at him and says, "yeah, they wus colored white."
One other interesting point that the book discusses: why were Indians so affected by European diseases, but not vice versa? The book provides a clear, rational reason. It's truly an excellent read (or listen if you are into BOT).
Lots of companies could use advice on security. You don't have to be a Fortune 500 company to want to secure yourself. But one of the best forms of security is to hire trustworthy employees and treat them right. If you put yourself in a situation where you feel you have to have "close monitoring" of the people you hire, you've lost already.
Given that Kevin Mitnick didn't have any problem with "social engineering" (lying) to get what he wanted, I would guess that if you employed him, you'd want to keep an eye on him.
True. But what a lot of people seem to be missing is that it is at least as important that an employee be trustworthy as it is that they be knowledgable. Some people are made very uncomfortable by the thought of stealing. To other people it's no big deal unless you get caught. You don't want the employees that you have to monitor continuously.
I also like that it just so happens that the lisp-derived languages that this guy is working on are the "main branch" and all the languages everyone else is working on are side issues.
This wasn't just a feature of Wintel. I remember working on an early UNIX system at college. The system would suddenly slow to a crawl and you would desperately try to save before it crashed. And of course it was particularly bad late in the term when everyone was hunkered all nite over their terminals.
What you are describing is the pretty much the way the first season went. One of the best things about "Buffy" is that it's evolved considerably. Virtually all of the characters have become "real people".
What's happened is that the characters have all been thru incredible events, and it's changed their lives. Part of the change was due to clever writing, but in some ways I think it was almost a requirement that the writers couldn't avoid. As people, the characters simply couldn't ignore events like dying and being resurrected.
I would match up the best Buffy episodes against *any* of the "quality" programming on television.
You can install as many programs under Windows as you want to (or have disk space for). The parent is referring to the currently running number of processes.
Windows has enough reasons to bash it w/o making up spurious ones.
I've heard that done in Everquest. Apparently if you annoy the GMs enough they can dump you into a padded cell for a week, where you get to sit and contemplate your crimes. Don't know if the week is measured in real world time, or whether you have to actually be logged in for a week.
> Without commercial, non-GPL software, these businesses would not have software.
That is a non sequitur.
No, that's my opinion, based on what I've seen over the last 30 years. Many businesses need software that is not serviced by the GPL, open-source market.
It's a commercial manufacturing sector... exciting stuff like accounting and inventory, as well as some stuff that's very specific to this particular market.
Sure, individual manufacturers can each hire people to write the software, but that is going to cost them much more than buying a system off the shelf. And a consortium of companies could get together and fund a group to do the development... about the same time Saddam Hussein and George Bush smoke a peace pipe.
Reality is that there is some software that isn't exciting enough to generate momentum for open source GPL projects, but is necessary enough that people will pay for them. Closed source isn't going away.
Thinking that software only gets written to be sold is very short-sighted... If commercial software suddenly dies as a business I'm pretty sure I will be able to adapt
It's equally shortsighted to think that we can get along without selling commercial software. For example, the industry I write software for couldn't afford to have each company "roll it's own"... and I can guarantee you that it's not sexy enough to have "lots of eyeballs to make all bugs shallow". Without commercial, non-GPL software, these businesses would not have software.
It's no so much PR, as it is one of those cautionary statements that businesses are required to make. Basically if there's the possibility that this will occur, MS is required to talk about it. Doesn't mean that they think that their empire is suddenly threatened, because it isn't.
As I said, I *thought* the city was Dresden. In fact it was Hamburg in mid-1943 (certainly before Germany was "in the final stages of collapse).
"Why The Allies Won" states: "When the heat died away almost three quarters of the city had been destroyed and fourty thousand of its inhabitants consumed in the inferno".
The book goes on to say that firebombing wasn't used on other cities because they were out of range of the radio target-finding device. It's worth remembering that in WWII, bombing was in its infancy, and many times the entire payload might be dropped miles away from the target.
It's pretty clear that the Allies would have jumped at the chance to firebomb Germany into submission.
I've been reading all the "Graffiti is hard to learn" posts... and I'm kind of baffled. I am not the fastest learner in the bunch, my memory is just awful, but I learned it in about 10 minutes. Literally 10 minutes.
If someone told you "write the alphabet using one continuous stroke for each letter" you would pretty much just write the Graffiti characters w/o having ever seen a Palm.
But it seems clear that LeMay's strategy was the deliberate firebombing of population centers, without, as was the case in Europe, even nominal moves towards avoiding civilians.
The Allied bombing of Europe certainly attacked population centers. One of the German cities (Dresden?) was deliberately destroyed by firestorm. The bombers first used high explosive to break up the buildings into kindling, then later waves of bombers dropped incendiaries to set them on fire. The book "Why the Allies Won", claimed that the only reason the same treatment wasn't applied to other German cities was that they were out of range of fighter cover.
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The USPS frequently gives me mail that was intended for my neighbors. Usually it's junk but on a few occasions it's been important (yes, I either tossed it back in my mailbox or hand-delivered it).
When I say "frequently" I mean currently about once every week or two, but in the past there have been periods where I got the wrong mail 3-4 times a week!
Of course, what bugs me isn't getting my neighbor's mail, but wondering where my mail is ending up.
The article is well worth reading, just for the following quote:
Sounds like a fun guy to work with.
There are a lot of things that could wipe out the human race: nuclear weapons, bioweapons, pollution, etc. Focusing in on something that happens every 50 million years or so seems kind of foolish. Especially since the cost of establishing a self-sustaining colony on another planet is going to be... well... astronomical. What are chances that a Mars colony could survive if it was going to get zero support from Earth?
I like the space program as much as anybody, and I'd love to see humans on Mars, but not at the cost of ignoring critical problems on Earth.
Talk about non-sequiturs.
You know, as I wrote my post, I thought, "somone is going to complain about the word 'Indian', I ought to be PC and use 'Native American', and then I said, screw it".
But speaking of non-sequiturs, this reminds me of a great line from Sanford and Son. Red Foxx is pretending that he was robbed and two cops show up. One asks "Were your attackers colored?". Red glares at him and says, "yeah, they wus colored white."
One other interesting point that the book discusses: why were Indians so affected by European diseases, but not vice versa? The book provides a clear, rational reason. It's truly an excellent read (or listen if you are into BOT).
Lots of companies could use advice on security. You don't have to be a Fortune 500 company to want to secure yourself. But one of the best forms of security is to hire trustworthy employees and treat them right. If you put yourself in a situation where you feel you have to have "close monitoring" of the people you hire, you've lost already.
Given that Kevin Mitnick didn't have any problem with "social engineering" (lying) to get what he wanted, I would guess that if you employed him, you'd want to keep an eye on him.
True. But what a lot of people seem to be missing is that it is at least as important that an employee be trustworthy as it is that they be knowledgable. Some people are made very uncomfortable by the thought of stealing. To other people it's no big deal unless you get caught. You don't want the employees that you have to monitor continuously.
I also like that it just so happens that the lisp-derived languages that this guy is working on are the "main branch" and all the languages everyone else is working on are side issues.
And if you divide his "4 million" by about a million you probably get an more reasonable count of the casualties.
I hope he programs a bit better than he estimates.
This wasn't just a feature of Wintel. I remember working on an early UNIX system at college. The system would suddenly slow to a crawl and you would desperately try to save before it crashed. And of course it was particularly bad late in the term when everyone was hunkered all nite over their terminals.
You might want to try reading the article. It was pretty interesting.
What you are describing is the pretty much the way the first season went. One of the best things about "Buffy" is that it's evolved considerably. Virtually all of the characters have become "real people".
What's happened is that the characters have all been thru incredible events, and it's changed their lives. Part of the change was due to clever writing, but in some ways I think it was almost a requirement that the writers couldn't avoid. As people, the characters simply couldn't ignore events like dying and being resurrected.
I would match up the best Buffy episodes against *any* of the "quality" programming on television.
Apparently Microsoft does. .Net avoids the registry like the plague... thank God.
You can install as many programs under Windows as you want to (or have disk space for). The parent is referring to the currently running number of processes.
Windows has enough reasons to bash it w/o making up spurious ones.
I've heard that done in Everquest. Apparently if you annoy the GMs enough they can dump you into a padded cell for a week, where you get to sit and contemplate your crimes. Don't know if the week is measured in real world time, or whether you have to actually be logged in for a week.
You have your opinion, and I have mine. You didn't address any of my original arguments so my opinion stands.
No, that's my opinion, based on what I've seen over the last 30 years. Many businesses need software that is not serviced by the GPL, open-source market.
It's a commercial manufacturing sector... exciting stuff like accounting and inventory, as well as some stuff that's very specific to this particular market.
Sure, individual manufacturers can each hire people to write the software, but that is going to cost them much more than buying a system off the shelf. And a consortium of companies could get together and fund a group to do the development... about the same time Saddam Hussein and George Bush smoke a peace pipe.
Reality is that there is some software that isn't exciting enough to generate momentum for open source GPL projects, but is necessary enough that people will pay for them. Closed source isn't going away.
It's equally shortsighted to think that we can get along without selling commercial software. For example, the industry I write software for couldn't afford to have each company "roll it's own"... and I can guarantee you that it's not sexy enough to have "lots of eyeballs to make all bugs shallow". Without commercial, non-GPL software, these businesses would not have software.
It's no so much PR, as it is one of those cautionary statements that businesses are required to make. Basically if there's the possibility that this will occur, MS is required to talk about it. Doesn't mean that they think that their empire is suddenly threatened, because it isn't.
As I said, I *thought* the city was Dresden. In fact it was Hamburg in mid-1943 (certainly before Germany was "in the final stages of collapse).
"Why The Allies Won" states: "When the heat died away almost three quarters of the city had been destroyed and fourty thousand of its inhabitants consumed in the inferno".
The book goes on to say that firebombing wasn't used on other cities because they were out of range of the radio target-finding device. It's worth remembering that in WWII, bombing was in its infancy, and many times the entire payload might be dropped miles away from the target.
It's pretty clear that the Allies would have jumped at the chance to firebomb Germany into submission.
I've been reading all the "Graffiti is hard to learn" posts... and I'm kind of baffled. I am not the fastest learner in the bunch, my memory is just awful, but I learned it in about 10 minutes. Literally 10 minutes.
If someone told you "write the alphabet using one continuous stroke for each letter" you would pretty much just write the Graffiti characters w/o having ever seen a Palm.
In order to mind control you, "they" need you to wear an aluminum foil hat, so they start these stories...
The Allied bombing of Europe certainly attacked population centers. One of the German cities (Dresden?) was deliberately destroyed by firestorm. The bombers first used high explosive to break up the buildings into kindling, then later waves of bombers dropped incendiaries to set them on fire. The book "Why the Allies Won", claimed that the only reason the same treatment wasn't applied to other German cities was that they were out of range of fighter cover.