> Software has much in common with other engineering disciplines
As a programmer, I go through life battling this view. I would agree to: Software (development) has much in common with engineering of first-time things.
Engineering is about how to create and how to reproduce. The two are often confused, but very distinct. Building a house is mostly reproductive engineering. Because software is easily reproduced, "building" software usually is much more a N-time endeavor for a relative small N.
Clearly the space shuttle design was mostly pushing the envelope, first-time engineering. In my opinion, in constructing the big engine, too much reproductive engineering was utilized, where they should have used first-time engineering techniques.
I think this point is maybe to subtle for non programmers, and therefore I feel the need to oppose it.
The top-down approach is compatible with reproductive engineering, the bottom(s)-up approach is better suited for most first-time development.
I think Microsoft is willing to make a special price. Atleast untill their marketshare is secure. I am also sure they will have some people question the legality of any FOSS OS, so if you are Chnees and you manufacture computers your best option will be MS Windows, it will be cheap (free?) because the price to pay will be in the future.
I think Google puts a stiff penalty on lowering your price-per-click. I am sure most advertisers will (sooner of later) try is they can lower their rice-per-click. Google's algorithm will start to give them bad ratings immediately and most will be back to the old price in no time. The few that accept the hit in click troughs, will cost Google some money, but the ones that go back to the higher price will more than make up for that. Just do the math...
(Warning: non native writer.) Also, most animals can outrun humans. As I understand it, tsunami's can be outrun if you run over 20km per hour. Clearly a lot of big mamals can run faster than that. So that combined with the fact that animals usually do not go investigate how far the sea retracted, makes (bigger) animals byfar more tsunami restistant than humans. I would like to point out however that humans are very successfull multiplying wise. Does anyone know if we outnumber any mamal population (even before we start destroing their habitats)?
When barcodes were introduced, retailers feared barcode swappers, because barcodes were not printed on partitioned labels, like those small price labels used to be (If you can remeber when all items were (manually) priced, you are getting old.) It turned out not to be to big a problem (now most barcodes are printed).
However, when you can automate something, that is an differend story. With tag swapping, you can play the percentage game, usually the number of individual swappers is small. With automated swapping (esp. wireless), one individual can swap everything. That is a true risk.
However like the step from label to printon bar code. There is only a small window of opportunity. In the near future, we will see read-only tags, embedded during the production fase.
Next thing in line: an automatic spyware remover. Followed by: an automatic licence checker. And in true 1984 style: an automatic open source software remover.
Some reactions make a good point. If many people link to the Ken Brown site, Google will think it is important. The last thing we want is people googling for information to find that stuff first.
Please don't link to Ken Brown, and please do link to the Tanenbaum story (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown).
Imagine a lawyer googling for information on some SCO/Linux case...
Well, it's not my second language, it's my third. But would I have been modded "funny" had I written better English?:-) I am sorry, I hardly ever forget to spell check. (En de groeten aan alle Nederlanders, op deze ons zo weemoedige dag.:-)
Since 3/4 of the surface is watter, it has a high chance of hitting the watter. Maybe by that time we have a satalite fall out fall down forcast appended to the wether forcast: "Don't go walking on the beatch near post 23.4, between 16:40 and 16:42."
The title does not begin to do justice to the support that IBM gave to the Nazis. If it were not for the millions illegale imported punch-cards, the Nazis would not have had "those lists" of who was 1/2, 1/4, up to 1/16th "jude". Trains would not have run on time, saving many, many allied lives. The Nazi whole war machine ran on IBM machines! And the way Watson used his connections to the president, to have his own army branches (litterly) going to Europe to protect the interrests of IBM. Makes me want to p**k. Read that book and tell me again you are a fan of IBMs! Hitler him self rewarded Watson with the highest meddal Germany had, in fact he had one created for Watson! You know that number tatoed on the arms of each KZ prisoners? That is the number of the IBM card corresponding with that person, holding personal information. IBM knew about their usage, hell they serviced IBM computers in KZs all over Germany, Poland, etc. *Read that book!*
Maybe the Rover can track the Beagle. Would it be able to do things like nudging or flipping the Beagle? Maybe it landed upside down, or on a slope. The solarpanels might generate energy after some handeling. But can the Rover do that?
How some companies can make all the wrong desisions! But let's face it, anyone whos job it is to protect against (insure against, etc.) has a hard time justifying the work he/she has done: The more successfull you are, the more it seems you are not neede. Also, if some expensive advisor labels you, there is pretty little you can do. The combination must be deadly. Not much you could have done. Your former boss will pay the price in a year or so, and he will remeber you. But its not much of a soulace for you.
I strongly feel that programming is a creative process, and anyone that describes it as a low-end job, does noet knows what programming is. It's like out-sourcing art-painters to an other country and letting the important managers of the painting-creating process say inside, to send e-mails like: "Don't forget to use a lot of blue in the right corner, art-buyers like red."
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Just looking at http://www.news-images.com/1118de/p0-0.htm, you can see the third picture on the right, it's a cooky, yet the page it links to shows "Bundeskanzler Schroeder". In fact non of the "Spiegel" pictures are right.
Maybe "Der Spiegel" has some kind of protection against using images outside their site?
If I am correct, some (most?) warez and porn sites have this kind of protection. But a paper? Why?
SCO might turn out to be for Linux what AT&T was to BSD Unix (precursor of 386/Free/Open/Net/etc. BSD). People where reluctant to use BSD Unix (and it's derivates) because AT&T insisted on BSD users having a AT&T Unix License. This could put the brakes on the diffusion of Linux (esp. in the business segment).
How long would a thread of SCO tie up Linux? (Are they funded by M$?)
I think I am destined to see the Hampster Dance at least once a year for the rest of my life as every female in the world forwards it to me. You lucky b***rd, all I get form those females is viagra ads and those enlarge your p***s in five simple steps. Which reminds me, is there anyone in the/. croud that knows if these two go together wel? (It's for a friend.)
I stand corrected! However, I guess my English is better than yout Dutch. Though it would not take mutch: I am word-blind like Stevie Wonder, but not as musical alas!:-) I've some paper about to be submitted, would you care to check that too?
Sure, but only the telcos are able to mass SMS cheaply. Others will have to pay trough the nose for it (to the telco). It is not for nothing that most people get spammed most by their provider (or one of its partners, when abroad). Would it not limit the freedom of speach if anyone sending an SMS to multiple receipiants would be sue-able? These laws can be abused too.
Actually it is worse! In my country, The Netherlands, there are two tarifs, a low and a high. Low tarifs (6%) are for food, drinks, books and some services. High tarifs (19.5%) are for other goods. (There is also a third tarif, but that is for construction, so not likely to be applicable.)
Other EU countries have two or three tarifs, so it can be hard. Not all goods fall under the same tarif in every country, so it will be hard to know what VAT (btw BTW is the Dutch acronime for VAT) to apply.
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> Software has much in common with other engineering disciplines
:-)
As a programmer, I go through life battling this view. I would agree to:
Software (development) has much in common with engineering of
first-time things.
Engineering is about how to create and how to reproduce. The two are
often confused, but very distinct. Building a house is mostly reproductive
engineering. Because software is easily reproduced, "building" software
usually is much more a N-time endeavor for a relative small N.
Clearly the space shuttle design was mostly pushing the envelope,
first-time engineering. In my opinion, in constructing the big engine,
too much reproductive engineering was utilized, where they should have
used first-time engineering techniques.
I think this point is maybe to subtle for non programmers, and therefore I
feel the need to oppose it.
The top-down approach is compatible with reproductive engineering, the
bottom(s)-up approach is better suited for most first-time development.
If only my managers would get that.
Who has the copyright of the applications?
I think Microsoft is willing to make a special price. Atleast untill their marketshare is secure. I am also sure they will have some people question the legality of any FOSS OS, so if you are Chnees and you manufacture computers your best option will be MS Windows, it will be cheap (free?) because the price to pay will be in the future.
I think Google puts a stiff penalty on lowering your price-per-click. I am sure most advertisers will (sooner of later) try is they can lower their rice-per-click. Google's algorithm will start to give them bad ratings immediately and most will be back to the old price in no time. The few that accept the hit in click troughs, will cost Google some money, but the ones that go back to the higher price will more than make up for that. Just do the math...
Not only that, there is also a VMware image!
Imagine professor Tanenbaum's workload, he is close to a regular visitor on slashdot, remember
this story, and this one?
(Warning: non native writer.) Also, most animals can outrun humans. As I understand it, tsunami's can be outrun if you run over 20km per hour. Clearly a lot of big mamals can run faster than that. So that combined with the fact that animals usually do not go investigate how far the sea retracted, makes (bigger) animals byfar more tsunami restistant than humans. I would like to point out however that humans are very successfull multiplying wise. Does anyone know if we outnumber any mamal population (even before we start destroing their habitats)?
That does not solve the DoS attack.
When barcodes were introduced, retailers feared barcode swappers, because barcodes were not printed on partitioned labels, like those small price labels used to be (If you can remeber when all items were (manually) priced, you are getting old.) It turned out not to be to big a problem (now most barcodes are printed).
However, when you can automate something, that is an differend story. With tag swapping, you can play the percentage game, usually the number of individual swappers is small. With automated swapping (esp. wireless), one individual can swap everything. That is a true risk.
However like the step from label to printon bar code. There is only a small window of opportunity.
In the near future, we will see read-only tags, embedded during the production fase.
Next thing in line: an automatic spyware remover. Followed by: an automatic licence checker. And in true 1984 style: an automatic open source software remover.
Nice, but only if you know what you are looking for. If all the books are scanned first, you can google them.
Some reactions make a good point. If many people link to the Ken Brown site, Google will think it is important. The last thing we want is people googling for information to find that stuff first.
Please don't link to Ken Brown, and please do link to the Tanenbaum story (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown).
Imagine a lawyer googling for information on some SCO/Linux case...
Well, it's not my second language, it's my third. But would I have been modded "funny" had I written better English? :-) I am sorry, I hardly ever forget to spell check. (En de groeten aan alle Nederlanders, op deze ons zo weemoedige dag. :-)
Since 3/4 of the surface is watter, it has a high chance of hitting the watter. Maybe by that time we have a satalite fall out fall down forcast appended to the wether forcast: "Don't go walking on the beatch near post 23.4, between 16:40 and 16:42."
The title does not begin to do justice to the support that IBM gave to the Nazis. If it were not for the millions illegale imported punch-cards, the Nazis would not have had "those lists" of who was 1/2, 1/4, up to 1/16th "jude". Trains would not have run on time, saving many, many allied lives. The Nazi whole war machine ran on IBM machines! And the way Watson used his connections to the president, to have his own army branches (litterly) going to Europe to protect the interrests of IBM. Makes me want to p**k. Read that book and tell me again you are a fan of IBMs!
Hitler him self rewarded Watson with the highest meddal Germany had, in fact he had one created for Watson! You know that number tatoed on the arms of each KZ prisoners? That is the number of the IBM card corresponding with that person, holding personal information. IBM knew about their usage, hell they serviced IBM computers in KZs all over Germany, Poland, etc. *Read that book!*
Maybe the Rover can track the Beagle. Would it be able to do things like nudging or flipping the Beagle? Maybe it landed upside down, or on a slope.
The solarpanels might generate energy after some handeling. But can the Rover do that?
How some companies can make all the wrong desisions! But let's face it, anyone whos job it is to protect against (insure against, etc.) has a hard time justifying the work he/she has done: The more successfull you are, the more it seems you are not neede. Also, if some expensive advisor labels you, there is pretty little you can do. The combination must be deadly. Not much you could have done. Your former boss will pay the price in a year or so, and he will remeber you. But its not much of a soulace for you.
I strongly feel that programming is a creative process, and anyone that describes it as a low-end job, does noet knows what programming is. It's like out-sourcing art-painters to an other country and letting the important managers of the painting-creating process say inside, to send e-mails like: "Don't forget to use a lot of blue in the right corner, art-buyers like red."
Just looking at http://www.news-images.com/1118de/p0-0.htm, you can see the third picture on the right, it's a cooky, yet the page it links to shows "Bundeskanzler Schroeder". In fact non of the "Spiegel" pictures are right.
Maybe "Der Spiegel" has some kind of protection against using images outside their site?
If I am correct, some (most?) warez and porn sites have this kind of protection. But a paper? Why?
SCO might turn out to be for Linux what AT&T was to BSD Unix (precursor of 386/Free/Open/Net/etc. BSD). People where reluctant to use BSD Unix (and it's derivates) because AT&T insisted on BSD users having a AT&T Unix License. This could put the brakes on the diffusion of Linux (esp. in the business segment).
How long would a thread of SCO tie up Linux? (Are they funded by M$?)
I think I am destined to see the Hampster Dance at least once a year for the rest of my life as every female in the world forwards it to me. /. croud that knows if these two go together wel? (It's for a friend.)
You lucky b***rd, all I get form those females is viagra ads and those enlarge your p***s in five simple steps. Which reminds me, is there anyone in the
I stand corrected! However, I guess my English is better than yout Dutch. Though it would not take mutch: I am word-blind like Stevie Wonder, but not as musical alas! :-) I've some paper about to be submitted, would you care to check that too?
Sorry, I am from The Netherlands :-) How can there be no freedom of speech?
Sure, but only the telcos are able to mass SMS cheaply. Others will have to pay trough the nose for it (to the telco). It is not for nothing that most people get spammed most by their provider (or one of its partners, when abroad). Would it not limit the freedom of speach if anyone sending an SMS to multiple receipiants would be sue-able? These laws can be abused too.
> you have to manage 15 different tax rates,
Actually it is worse! In my country, The Netherlands, there are two tarifs, a low and a high. Low tarifs (6%) are for food, drinks, books and some services. High tarifs (19.5%) are for other goods. (There is also a third tarif, but that is for construction, so not likely to be applicable.)
Other EU countries have two or three tarifs, so it can be hard. Not all goods fall under the same tarif in every country, so it will be hard to know what VAT (btw BTW is the Dutch acronime for VAT) to apply.