that keep big technical corporations from moving. Its the 1000s of little apps written by engineers and departments to do very local, very special little tasks. It takes years to move all of these because the corporate big wigs will never recognize the problem and realize that they need to send 80% of the transition funding to the people that wrote the invisible 80%+ of the applications. If they were a non-technical company where every geek didn't have their own set of apps that needed porting, the transition would actually be easier.
I would hope bloggers are never held down to journalistic standards. You really can't go any lower. At least bloggers are typically honest about their motivations. There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion, so its much better to have the bias be obvious instead of sneaky. I've never seen a journalistic article that didn't reek of opinion. Even when relating nothing but the facts, they usually manage through which facts they report.
The only way to arrive close to "transparency" that I could even imagine would be for the writer to publish a link to a detailed account of their world view, family experiences, education, significant events of their lives, and all funding sources either direct or indirect, including the funding sources of people who are significant to them. Even then the goal couldn't be met because the reader would never have the time to utilize them and thus the communication may as well not happen.
It seems that GM would have no ability now to ask for a warrant if an officer requests the location of a vehicle equipped with OnStar. Thus, the cost barrier to mass use of this new privilege spoken about in several above articles has already been breeched. Law enforcement doesn't have to pay for mass bugging. It has already been done.
As I remember it, the Soviets tested at least one thermonuclear device in the gigaton range and were said to have some larger devices that they never tested. This isn't exactly an extinction event.
Face it, WiFi is an externally exposed link. If you've enabled it and you're not requiring a VPN, you might as well run some 100BaseT lines out to the poles in your parking lot too.
Put all of your radios on a private LAN that only has radios. Run that LAN into an extra card on a Linux machine. Close all of the ports on that card other than your favorite VPN's ports. Require all connecting clients to use the VPN. Problem solved.
No, these are ways to at least try to give you something without paying more taxes. This doesn't eliminate that because the IRS is separate and will need to make a change in their policies too, but, rest assured, the part of your wish that stock options go away will be granted soon.
Companies were using this because iIn most situations, the cost to the company per real dollar put in your pocket is less using this means than raises.
Larger raises will not occur in place of the elimination of this funnel. Furthermore, since the total real cost of getting X dollars into an employee's pocket (the cost that includes the taxes that the company pays in your name that is above and beyond that shown on your stub) will increase, the ability of corporations to compensate employees will decrease thus decreasing the ability to keep very high end employees and causing a decrease in stock value.
As usual with more regulation everyone loses except the extra bureaucrats employed to manage the regulation.
Business in the greater DC area is booming. Over a 5% growth rate last year. Government IT spending increased by 60% in the last year to something like 160 billion. So, I'd say your chances of getting a job would be great. Though having AOL on your resume might not be the best thing. I don't touch any of their stuff on sheer principle.
My first computer was a Radio Shack CoCo II. I believe it ran about $149 in 1983 when I got it. I was a Computer Engineering student at the time and did my last 3 years worth of undergrad work using that computer. Without enhancement, it was only able to drive a 32x16 character screen, but with a little assembly language and a couple extra memory chips, I was able to build a more reasonable screen mode using the "high res" graphics mode.
It's likely that you could make the same computer today for less than $20. And the challenge of dealing with something that low end would be a lot more educational than this $100 dream machine. It is the high expectations that we create that keep many out of the computer age. If they entered it where we entered, they'd find the going far easier.
I did it for 13 years. During one 24 month project, I averaged 90 hours a week of embedded software and hardware design. In my best year, I hit over 250K lines of ANSI C and the particular project I was on only had 5 bugs reported post deployment. We fixed them for free in a day. While writing that code, I also reviewed every line written by anyone else.
As for sleep, 90 hours per week is less than a 13 hour day. I forced myself to have 8 hours per day of sleep at every point except the last 6 weeks of 3 shift per day testing. During that period, I managed on 5 hours per day.
So, is it possible, yes. Is it possible to be productive,,, maybe even more so because in order to do it you have to zone into the code and eliminate every other element of your life. Is it possible for the code to have high quality,,, maybe even more so for the same reason. When there are zero other distractions and you turn yourself into a programming machine, productivity and quality can go up. Can anyone do it,, no, crafting code has to be your consuming love,,, no time for the pron so many of you seem to enjoy:o) Would I do it again,,, no way, I have a life now. Am I sorry I did,,, no, there aren't many people around with 18 calendar years of experience that include about 29 man-years of experience, approximately 25 of which were as lead architect / engineer on development tasks. I've paid the entrance fee and am now enjoying the club.
Yeh, I can imagine it. Of course, it would have to have some smarts as to what to clean and what not to clean. So, computer control is probably a given. Someone would then pretty quickly come up with ideas of automatically forming to feet or even putting spring in your steps. You could move furniture around with ease. Of course, as long as we're imagining we could just make the fibers controllable on a nano scale and start talking about taking the crumbs apart atom by atom. Maybe you could even use the material found in the crumbs to self repair damage. And imagine atomically decomposing pet waste. Of course, that will evolve to just decomposing the cat and the dog. And shortly thereafter you could decompose people you don't like along with all of the evidence. Hmmm. Maybe there is a limit to the technology we should have... at least widely available.
The recovery is where it should be, in rural America. The era of grouping like ants in inhumanely scaled cities that strip away personal identity is over. But, at the same time, the tech industry seems to be loaded with people who haven't found a life yet and don't understand the benefit of a rural existence. Also, tech people educated with work ethics and high productivity attitudes compatible with rural America are few and far between. I know of companies in this area that are looking for numbers of staff equal to 1/3 or more of their current total. Yet finding real engineers ready to do work and take responsibility for knowing how instead of moan about not having processes is almost impossible.
if we simply retrofitted it as an unmanned vehicle and kept flying them as a robotic space truck? The hardest thing to replace about it is its heavy lift capacity. If it was prepared to unmanned instead of manned standards and life support was stripped, it seems possible that we could get some more use out of it for a lot less cost.
If the project office sweeps something under the rug publicly, but addresses it privately, I'd sign off on it anyday. It is not our purpose to publicly humiliate or embarass. If we made that our purpose, we wouldn't survive to do what good we do.
If you find a problem that you can prove will cause a problem, and you don't sign off, it doesn't fly. There are a lot of people that don't seem to understand though that not every problem is a showstopper.
Your theory of projects withholding information to avoid problems is exactly what happens when you rub the developers' noses in the problems you find or when you blow meaningless problems out of proportion and waste time. Sounds like you didn't play nice. I have several employees working with the facility who get minute to minute direct access to the software development team's repository and are invited to more software team meetings than they can attend. They got that access because they proved to the developers that they were on the same side. They found problems, told the developers, and the problems were fixed. And yes, in many cases, they were fixed quietly. IV&Vers don't get a lot of fame, but the ones who work hard at it do get results and personal satisfaction.
Of course, you've shown the depth of your knowledge of how to constructively criticize very clearly. If you want to influence people positively or be taken seriously, you don't start off by "F'ing" a whole state. Your desire to create positive change appears to be weaker than your hatred and/or anger.
The winters are one of the reasons I moved here, though I personally would prefer that it be a little colder so that the snow wouldn't melt any. I'd take a winter in West Virginia over a summer anywhere in the south any day.
Also, in terms of shear beauty, seeing my land snow covered strikes me with awe every time. One of my most memorable times last winter was sitting outside in my picnic shelter listening to and watching the snow come down. There aren't many places where its so peaceful that you can sit for over a half hour and hear nothing but the snow and the crackling of the fire.
The one downside of the area is that they haven't embraced the idea of developers and analysts working from home yet. Working from home in St. Louis was nice; working from home here would be awesome. I've spent a few days sitting beside the stream or in front of the fire with my laptop, but wish they were the majority.
It is not the little wins like this that they are after. They aren't even actually fighting. They are setting up a club with heavy fees that is designed to ensure that open source projects and even small businesses are forced to close their doors. They all win in the end.
The maker of the vehicle has found that they weren't at fault! And, of course, it lends so much credibility that they are going to that modern bastion of truth, the court system, to "prove" it!
How can any engineering organization claim so quickly that there was no problem? Unless their recording system has a lot more breadth and depth than I imagine, there really is no way. What they've done is run diagnostics on the vehicle and found no known issues.
The probelm with that is that the question is likely not "what was broke in the system", its probably "what design flaw in the control laws allows for a rare sequence of events to trigger infinite acceleration".
In other words, OF COURSE THERE WAS NO PROBLEM WITH THE VEHICLE! IT WAS WORKING EXACTLY AS DESIGNED! That's probably a true statement about 95% of the bugs I've seen. Most bugs are design bugs.
A previous employer of mine used an open FAQ system for the corporate FAQ. Anyone could add or edit a FAQ. If anyone ever asked a question that wasn't in the FAQ, they frequently got the answer "I don't know, but when you find out, please put it in the FAQ". We had a very complete, very useful corporate FAQ.
The common objections to this system that users might sabotage it are easily solved. Simply have it version controlled and force user identification. If a user puts something unprofessional in, roll it back and fire them.
The internet scenario is a little tougher than the intranet one, but still usually works well with the addition of a moderator.
In the end, the only difference between a FAQ and a WIKI becomes a forced FAQlike structure.
Could it be that Sun is learning from Microsoft? This means that Solaris will run Linux stuff, but not that all Solaris code will run on Linux. I'd bet whatever OSI license they choose won't allow many Linux distributions to adopt much of their code. Seems like this is all a recipe for lots of problems unless everyone converts to Solaris. I'd bet that's there hope. Then their market for selling extensions above and beyond the open source version would be larger.
I see that others have already noted that VMWare and Virtual Server 2005 allow this. Virtual PC 2004 also allows this. "Rolling back" changes is one of the neater capabilities.
Normal applications are not as likely to drive a processor into thermal throttling as a benchmark is. It sounds like benchmarks are going to need to be rewritten to either be short enough to not cause thermal throttling or to spread the benchmark out so that the CPU has a chance to dissipate heat buildup caused by the artificially intensive benchmark code.
To compare this with fiber is just ridiculous. Even if it is cheap fiber (I would hope they are smart enough to put down something with at least a couple of orders of magnitude of growth room), the fiber will have growth room way beyond the 300MB speed of this technology. The numbers being reported now are the maximum potentials. Just one more case of rolling out an infrastructure with no room to grow.
Sorry, but I do not take pleasure in the adventure of pure science. I know its not very sophisticated of me, but if my money is spent on it, I'd at least like some of it to go to activities that keep alive the dream of actually being there someday.
To this point, I've been understanding of the extensive expenditures on your pure science missions though I think Hollywood could probably create better images that are just as real to me at much less cost. But, you are now attacking my adventures. So, apparently, the ground rules need to be defined.
Why don't you read the site you posted. Its chock full of quotes like "timber supplies in some areas of the United States were being exhausted", "study to encompassing forest consumption, importation, exportation, national wants, probable supply for the future, the means of preservation and renewal, the influence of forests on climates, and forestry methods used in other countries", "policy of wise use and conservation", etc.
In short, all of the early history is about management of forest "use", "consumption", "supply", etc. toward sustainability because it had gotten out of hand and the resource was threatened.
Today, the number one threat to our wood supply is those that would just let this sustainable resource rot and become artificially expensive to the point that even steel is now frequently a cheaper material for even small building (read "home") construction.
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that keep big technical corporations from moving. Its the 1000s of little apps written by engineers and departments to do very local, very special little tasks. It takes years to move all of these because the corporate big wigs will never recognize the problem and realize that they need to send 80% of the transition funding to the people that wrote the invisible 80%+ of the applications. If they were a non-technical company where every geek didn't have their own set of apps that needed porting, the transition would actually be easier.
I would hope bloggers are never held down to journalistic standards. You really can't go any lower. At least bloggers are typically honest about their motivations. There is no such thing as an unbiased opinion, so its much better to have the bias be obvious instead of sneaky. I've never seen a journalistic article that didn't reek of opinion. Even when relating nothing but the facts, they usually manage through which facts they report.
The only way to arrive close to "transparency" that I could even imagine would be for the writer to publish a link to a detailed account of their world view, family experiences, education, significant events of their lives, and all funding sources either direct or indirect, including the funding sources of people who are significant to them. Even then the goal couldn't be met because the reader would never have the time to utilize them and thus the communication may as well not happen.
It seems that GM would have no ability now to ask for a warrant if an officer requests the location of a vehicle equipped with OnStar. Thus, the cost barrier to mass use of this new privilege spoken about in several above articles has already been breeched. Law enforcement doesn't have to pay for mass bugging. It has already been done.
As I remember it, the Soviets tested at least one thermonuclear device in the gigaton range and were said to have some larger devices that they never tested. This isn't exactly an extinction event.
Face it, WiFi is an externally exposed link. If you've enabled it and you're not requiring a VPN, you might as well run some 100BaseT lines out to the poles in your parking lot too.
Put all of your radios on a private LAN that only has radios. Run that LAN into an extra card on a Linux machine. Close all of the ports on that card other than your favorite VPN's ports. Require all connecting clients to use the VPN. Problem solved.
No, these are ways to at least try to give you something without paying more taxes. This doesn't eliminate that because the IRS is separate and will need to make a change in their policies too, but, rest assured, the part of your wish that stock options go away will be granted soon.
Companies were using this because iIn most situations, the cost to the company per real dollar put in your pocket is less using this means than raises.
Larger raises will not occur in place of the elimination of this funnel. Furthermore, since the total real cost of getting X dollars into an employee's pocket (the cost that includes the taxes that the company pays in your name that is above and beyond that shown on your stub) will increase, the ability of corporations to compensate employees will decrease thus decreasing the ability to keep very high end employees and causing a decrease in stock value.
As usual with more regulation everyone loses except the extra bureaucrats employed to manage the regulation.
Business in the greater DC area is booming. Over a 5% growth rate last year. Government IT spending increased by 60% in the last year to something like 160 billion. So, I'd say your chances of getting a job would be great. Though having AOL on your resume might not be the best thing. I don't touch any of their stuff on sheer principle.
My first computer was a Radio Shack CoCo II. I believe it ran about $149 in 1983 when I got it. I was a Computer Engineering student at the time and did my last 3 years worth of undergrad work using that computer. Without enhancement, it was only able to drive a 32x16 character screen, but with a little assembly language and a couple extra memory chips, I was able to build a more reasonable screen mode using the "high res" graphics mode.
It's likely that you could make the same computer today for less than $20. And the challenge of dealing with something that low end would be a lot more educational than this $100 dream machine. It is the high expectations that we create that keep many out of the computer age. If they entered it where we entered, they'd find the going far easier.
I did it for 13 years. During one 24 month project, I averaged 90 hours a week of embedded software and hardware design. In my best year, I hit over 250K lines of ANSI C and the particular project I was on only had 5 bugs reported post deployment. We fixed them for free in a day. While writing that code, I also reviewed every line written by anyone else.
As for sleep, 90 hours per week is less than a 13 hour day. I forced myself to have 8 hours per day of sleep at every point except the last 6 weeks of 3 shift per day testing. During that period, I managed on 5 hours per day.
So, is it possible, yes. Is it possible to be productive,,, maybe even more so because in order to do it you have to zone into the code and eliminate every other element of your life. Is it possible for the code to have high quality,,, maybe even more so for the same reason. When there are zero other distractions and you turn yourself into a programming machine, productivity and quality can go up. Can anyone do it,, no, crafting code has to be your consuming love,,, no time for the pron so many of you seem to enjoy :o) Would I do it again,,, no way, I have a life now. Am I sorry I did,,, no, there aren't many people around with 18 calendar years of experience that include about 29 man-years of experience, approximately 25 of which were as lead architect / engineer on development tasks. I've paid the entrance fee and am now enjoying the club.
Yeh, I can imagine it. Of course, it would have to have some smarts as to what to clean and what not to clean. So, computer control is probably a given. Someone would then pretty quickly come up with ideas of automatically forming to feet or even putting spring in your steps. You could move furniture around with ease. Of course, as long as we're imagining we could just make the fibers controllable on a nano scale and start talking about taking the crumbs apart atom by atom. Maybe you could even use the material found in the crumbs to self repair damage. And imagine atomically decomposing pet waste. Of course, that will evolve to just decomposing the cat and the dog. And shortly thereafter you could decompose people you don't like along with all of the evidence. Hmmm. Maybe there is a limit to the technology we should have... at least widely available.
The recovery is where it should be, in rural America. The era of grouping like ants in inhumanely scaled cities that strip away personal identity is over. But, at the same time, the tech industry seems to be loaded with people who haven't found a life yet and don't understand the benefit of a rural existence. Also, tech people educated with work ethics and high productivity attitudes compatible with rural America are few and far between. I know of companies in this area that are looking for numbers of staff equal to 1/3 or more of their current total. Yet finding real engineers ready to do work and take responsibility for knowing how instead of moan about not having processes is almost impossible.
The shows here made it much further south than Nebraska. People in North Carolina and Tennessee were also reporting sightings.
if we simply retrofitted it as an unmanned vehicle and kept flying them as a robotic space truck? The hardest thing to replace about it is its heavy lift capacity. If it was prepared to unmanned instead of manned standards and life support was stripped, it seems possible that we could get some more use out of it for a lot less cost.
If the project office sweeps something under the rug publicly, but addresses it privately, I'd sign off on it anyday. It is not our purpose to publicly humiliate or embarass. If we made that our purpose, we wouldn't survive to do what good we do.
If you find a problem that you can prove will cause a problem, and you don't sign off, it doesn't fly. There are a lot of people that don't seem to understand though that not every problem is a showstopper.
Your theory of projects withholding information to avoid problems is exactly what happens when you rub the developers' noses in the problems you find or when you blow meaningless problems out of proportion and waste time. Sounds like you didn't play nice. I have several employees working with the facility who get minute to minute direct access to the software development team's repository and are invited to more software team meetings than they can attend. They got that access because they proved to the developers that they were on the same side. They found problems, told the developers, and the problems were fixed. And yes, in many cases, they were fixed quietly. IV&Vers don't get a lot of fame, but the ones who work hard at it do get results and personal satisfaction.
Of course, you've shown the depth of your knowledge of how to constructively criticize very clearly. If you want to influence people positively or be taken seriously, you don't start off by "F'ing" a whole state. Your desire to create positive change appears to be weaker than your hatred and/or anger.
The winters are one of the reasons I moved here, though I personally would prefer that it be a little colder so that the snow wouldn't melt any. I'd take a winter in West Virginia over a summer anywhere in the south any day.
Also, in terms of shear beauty, seeing my land snow covered strikes me with awe every time. One of my most memorable times last winter was sitting outside in my picnic shelter listening to and watching the snow come down. There aren't many places where its so peaceful that you can sit for over a half hour and hear nothing but the snow and the crackling of the fire.
The one downside of the area is that they haven't embraced the idea of developers and analysts working from home yet. Working from home in St. Louis was nice; working from home here would be awesome. I've spent a few days sitting beside the stream or in front of the fire with my laptop, but wish they were the majority.
It is not the little wins like this that they are after. They aren't even actually fighting. They are setting up a club with heavy fees that is designed to ensure that open source projects and even small businesses are forced to close their doors. They all win in the end.
The maker of the vehicle has found that they weren't at fault! And, of course, it lends so much credibility that they are going to that modern bastion of truth, the court system, to "prove" it!
How can any engineering organization claim so quickly that there was no problem? Unless their recording system has a lot more breadth and depth than I imagine, there really is no way. What they've done is run diagnostics on the vehicle and found no known issues.
The probelm with that is that the question is likely not "what was broke in the system", its probably "what design flaw in the control laws allows for a rare sequence of events to trigger infinite acceleration".
In other words, OF COURSE THERE WAS NO PROBLEM WITH THE VEHICLE! IT WAS WORKING EXACTLY AS DESIGNED! That's probably a true statement about 95% of the bugs I've seen. Most bugs are design bugs.
Better yet, let your users edit the FAQ.
A previous employer of mine used an open FAQ system for the corporate FAQ. Anyone could add or edit a FAQ. If anyone ever asked a question that wasn't in the FAQ, they frequently got the answer "I don't know, but when you find out, please put it in the FAQ". We had a very complete, very useful corporate FAQ.
The common objections to this system that users might sabotage it are easily solved. Simply have it version controlled and force user identification. If a user puts something unprofessional in, roll it back and fire them.
The internet scenario is a little tougher than the intranet one, but still usually works well with the addition of a moderator.
In the end, the only difference between a FAQ and a WIKI becomes a forced FAQlike structure.
Could it be that Sun is learning from Microsoft? This means that Solaris will run Linux stuff, but not that all Solaris code will run on Linux. I'd bet whatever OSI license they choose won't allow many Linux distributions to adopt much of their code. Seems like this is all a recipe for lots of problems unless everyone converts to Solaris. I'd bet that's there hope. Then their market for selling extensions above and beyond the open source version would be larger.
I see that others have already noted that VMWare and Virtual Server 2005 allow this. Virtual PC 2004 also allows this. "Rolling back" changes is one of the neater capabilities.
Normal applications are not as likely to drive a processor into thermal throttling as a benchmark is. It sounds like benchmarks are going to need to be rewritten to either be short enough to not cause thermal throttling or to spread the benchmark out so that the CPU has a chance to dissipate heat buildup caused by the artificially intensive benchmark code.
The point is that, unless Verizon has been highly negligent in their fiber choice, Verizon's fiber offering can grow. This can't.
To compare this with fiber is just ridiculous. Even if it is cheap fiber (I would hope they are smart enough to put down something with at least a couple of orders of magnitude of growth room), the fiber will have growth room way beyond the 300MB speed of this technology. The numbers being reported now are the maximum potentials. Just one more case of rolling out an infrastructure with no room to grow.
Mr. Van Allen,
Sorry, but I do not take pleasure in the adventure of pure science. I know its not very sophisticated of me, but if my money is spent on it, I'd at least like some of it to go to activities that keep alive the dream of actually being there someday.
To this point, I've been understanding of the extensive expenditures on your pure science missions though I think Hollywood could probably create better images that are just as real to me at much less cost. But, you are now attacking my adventures. So, apparently, the ground rules need to be defined.
If you want your adventure, give me mine.
Sincerely,
"apparently not as geeky as you"
Why don't you read the site you posted. Its chock full of quotes like "timber supplies in some areas of the United States were being exhausted", "study to encompassing forest consumption, importation, exportation, national wants, probable supply for the future, the means of preservation and renewal, the influence of forests on climates, and forestry methods used in other countries", "policy of wise use and conservation", etc.
In short, all of the early history is about management of forest "use", "consumption", "supply", etc. toward sustainability because it had gotten out of hand and the resource was threatened.
Today, the number one threat to our wood supply is those that would just let this sustainable resource rot and become artificially expensive to the point that even steel is now frequently a cheaper material for even small building (read "home") construction.