Rational always were a tad expensive. Great for medium to large commercial shops but a shame for the rest of us.
I had the benefit of using it at a couple of places (banking industry, they can or at least could afford it) under Solaris. Great, easy to instrument existing s/w. Of course one's software runs more than a little slower!!!!
I have played with some of the older Open Source stuff under Linux and it wasn't that helpful but haven't tried the newer stuff like valgrind yet.
Anyway, it is is good to see that Rational is taking Linux seriously now.
It isn't that cold. I tried the hole in the ice in February (at a balmy -20), no worries!!!!!!! Perhaps that could be a new use for an overclocked Pentium, making that ice hole!!!!!
If you want really cold you need to find that place in Siberia where they have down to -57C.
This is also known as the Emporor's New Clothes Syndrome after the children's tale of that name.Cognitive dissonance sounds better, but it all comes down to believing that you get what you pay for!!!!
The way a person refers to the Micro$oft corporation tends to reflect their relationship with it. For example the $ substitution implies that I may believe that they are a group of money grabbing SOBs.
This gentleman refers to them by their stock ticker symbol, MSFT. The "use Open Source" solution is a threat to the great Ponzi scheme. Personally, I have worked in developing countries and can say sure, we give them a World Bank loan for a hundred copies of XP, but where are they going to money for their licence renewals/update fees?
Government led OS initiatives do not mean a Government monopoly. The Govt is a useful first-mover and because of open-source, anyone can compete for the provision of support services, even local companies in developing countries.
I agree. I want Linux Kernel and expect people to look at Win 2K/XP as well as BSD. They don't need to study it but they should be aware of alternate ways of doing things.
GUI manager developers seem to get even more religious.I am not particularly interested in a merger between GNOME and KDE but I do want their developers trying to use the best of the opposition to improve their products. Remember, one of the intentions of the open source movement is promote knowledge sharing not monopolies of the way of doing something.
Given that a modern telephone has a computer and a dsp (even if it is just ISDN), putting encryption in just isn't really a problem. Some people may remember the PGPfone project (also known as Nautilus which could use a standard PC plus a soundcard (CPU plus DSP).
Remember GSM handsets do encryption/decryption in real-time (not very strong, but it could be better without overloading the CPU).
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You don't have to be dishonest, but you have to exagerate problems and take them to their logical conclusion. For example, if the media companies want to control how we watch things, then we have to show what that can lead to.
Many persons claim that the media companies don't want so much control, if that is the case, why do some of them disable fast-forward on DVDs? We already have seen other aspects of IP law abused, so we need to show what can go wrong here too!
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The NRA are a minority, a well financed one but nothing like the size of lobbying groups such as the Advancement of Colored People and so on. Their tactics work and nobody with power in Washington likes to further regulate gun control, for gear that they will be out of a job.
Remember that negative publicity hurts. Exagerate, tell the public that big business wants to take away their video recorders. Tell them that the fast forward button is being banned. Yes, this is a little strong but isn't what the NRA do when they tell Americans about their rights. Tell them that some idiot has got protection on work they ripped off from someone else over 50 years ago. Ask them whether they believe it is right for them to be able to take apart anything that they own so that they can maintain it themselves...
Leave the techie stuff out. The public and politicians won't understand.
A president is elected but a terrorist leader or dictator is not, so the population is less guilty. I'd say Cuba and Afganistans civil population are not responsible for anything while the people of a democratic republic should be at least to some degree.
AC is right. In a democracy we are all responsible for the actions of our government, however distasteful they are and whether or not we voted for them. It is unlikely that Bush would have seen to have been resonsiple for upsetting the terrorists that precipitated September 11th, it is more likely a number of actions (or inactions) by different governments over time. If we want our governments to be seen to be less offensive then there is always the ballot box. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we all let countries like Afghanistan suffer, and after arming them to the teeth as well.
Organisations such as USAID do a fine job, but there good works are undermined by stupid politicians who couldn't find central asia on a map until they had seen it on CNN.
There is no way to directly measure that you are you. Any biometric system can only identify that you are by measuring something that you have, such as your fingerprint. Regrettably, this has been shown to be easy to fake. Trinity sounds nice though, sort of religious, don't you think!
The problem with Biometrics is that in the end it is nothing more than a digital signal going down a wire. If the hardware can be compromised, then your physical attribute that can be measured just becomes another signal that can be captured and replayed.
This seems quite efficient at 20%. Maybe it is a more a problem with true visible light lasers which tend to be less efficient. I guess the bulk of the battery helps also to dissipate the temperature a little but I'm still impressed.
The problem with a CPU heatsink/cooling fan is that it would make the thing a little unwieldy for hand-held aiming.
How do you keep the thing cool? I have seen 10mw semiconductor lasers with some serious cooling in the form of a big heatsink. I understand the normal medical lasers have an assembly carrying power and cooling to link it back to a power unit.
Also it is normal to stop trading on derivative instruments if there is a major problem trading the underlying. For example, trading on the DOW future isn't a good idea if the NYSE is closed.
I was taught in school that that Robert Peel (of the Bobbie fame) brought income tax at a rate of 2.5% to finance the Napoleonic Wars. It was a temporary manner that has lasted almost a couple of hundres years. I learned that temporary revenue generators are only reluctantly (if ever) abandoned by governments.
More on topic is that automatic speed traps are used in several smaller towns and villages in Europe as a tax on uutsiders. They never move, so they never catch locals. The out of towners who get picked up help subside the town council.
We have robots for tapes and for CDs, because somebody at sometime may want data this is n years old. CDs have to low a capacity and tapes are much too slow. If I can get for $100K a unit that allows me to store and retrieve 100 platters with a drive or two, I would be very happy.
There are a lot of industries where vast quantities of data can be collected and archived. Think financial, think scientific, think engineering.
I am from Europe and do some skiing here on Red Bull's home turf (Austria). They like to turn up at the resorts, ideally up on a mountain and they do various stunts like dressing as surgeons (smocks, hat and face-mask) with syringes full of the stuff which they squirt into the mouths of various people. Sometimes for free (if you're cool enough) or for money with marketing giveaways. Oh and they definitely do market vodka-red-Bull and have even seen a joint promotion. Doing these promos at sporting venues helps to promote the coolness factor and leads to a lot of people wanting to order that sh1t at the apres-ski clubs. The combination with alcohol helps to disguise the fact that it tastes disgusting.
They do use media advertising over here (Germany), but mostly simple cartoon ads which are quite funny (not much humour in German advertiseing). Generally these are shown not on TV, but in movie theatres (younger audience again).
Personally, I think thay have been very clever, but essentially it is a one product company. Still, so was Coke in the early days.
The link for this particular marketing gimick is an ad where a guy in a suit on his way to work is sh1tted upon by a bird. The guy opens his briefcase, digs out a can of Red Bull and flaps his arms. He takes off flys above the bird and starts to remove his trousers to the alarm of the bird.
Those looking may like to note that Accenture's full name is Accenture Ltd and it is registered in an offshore tax-haven (Bermuda). It appears that they haven't lost their bad habits from the Andersen days. This fact is not revealed on their web site or their annual report, however its is revealed in their SEC 10K Filing. They in turn own shares in Accenture SCA, a Luxemburg based partnership which is the main operating body. That is minimal fiscal transparency.
IMHO you should stop for a moment and think why these now big consulting companies are so big. Do you really think all their clients are really stupid people?
I have worked with major consultancy firms. Their work is substandard and they attempt to bully their way past any independents or local technical management with incompetent ideas that are poorly implemented.
What they give to senior management is schmooze, payoffs (come visit our corporate HQ in the Bahamas) and the ability for the board to escape the blame when defending their poor results to shareholders.
I have seen the large consultancy companies take 200 people to do the work of 20 competent staff. This is why I dislike the biggies so much.
The poster isn't chasing Karma, but those browsing at +1 may miss this. It is hillarious and so true.
The main issue with Windows and their apps has been the hideous version control. It has improved since 2K/XP but trying to chase whether a DLL is really needed or not is interesting. Those apps sharing DLLs that install their own versions caus endless fun.
Ummm, well I normally work at a desk these days, but it would still be kind of useful for maintenance people to have these things. This is one iof the reason that the military are interested, very portable repair manuals.
I suppose I would quite like to have somthing like this for personal navigation ïf it were unobtrusive. I don't like wandering around with a GPS in my hand and a street map is often problematic. Otherwise, I would prefer something like this to my pocket pc for notes, schedules etc, because it should be less obtrusive (in time).
Not only the Kursk but it sank a British submarine a while back which is a) why NATO suspected an HTP explosion and b) no NATO torpedoes use HTP because of the understood dangers.
His statement about monopropellants shows a basic misunderstanding. This frightens me. Monpropellants are more reliable, but they are inherrently less stable.
Shall we say that certain parts of the industry, particularly those relation to pharmaceuticals have been a little too fond of hot money. Some academics like to have one foot at the University whilst the other is at a professional lab, tending to reduce the quality of 'open' work.
I agree with you that the point of patents is to promote disclosure in return for a limited monopoly. The problem is that because of the running time of the monopoly (about 10-15 yrs for a drug, because the first 5-10 years deals with the approval process), the patents will be left until the last moment.
The other issue is the non end-use related patents. Large companies can swap licenses on this but smaller companies and the third-world need to carefully avoid the intermediate steps that have been patented.
Again you are right that the Open Source movement is a bit of a Johnnie-Come-Lately as regards disclosure, but the use of copyleft is something that has come from the computer field and has given vast leverage to developers. You are right about the purpose of patents, but essentially they have become a way of sowing a legal minefield in a competitor's path.
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I had the benefit of using it at a couple of places (banking industry, they can or at least could afford it) under Solaris. Great, easy to instrument existing s/w. Of course one's software runs more than a little slower!!!!
I have played with some of the older Open Source stuff under Linux and it wasn't that helpful but haven't tried the newer stuff like valgrind yet.
Anyway, it is is good to see that Rational is taking Linux seriously now.
If you want really cold you need to find that place in Siberia where they have down to -57C.
I guess most people will have noticed the link appear on their browser, but this is an unusual troll mixing useful information with an infamous link.
This is also known as the Emporor's New Clothes Syndrome after the children's tale of that name.Cognitive dissonance sounds better, but it all comes down to believing that you get what you pay for!!!!
This gentleman refers to them by their stock ticker symbol, MSFT. The "use Open Source" solution is a threat to the great Ponzi scheme. Personally, I have worked in developing countries and can say sure, we give them a World Bank loan for a hundred copies of XP, but where are they going to money for their licence renewals/update fees?
Government led OS initiatives do not mean a Government monopoly. The Govt is a useful first-mover and because of open-source, anyone can compete for the provision of support services, even local companies in developing countries.
GUI manager developers seem to get even more religious.I am not particularly interested in a merger between GNOME and KDE but I do want their developers trying to use the best of the opposition to improve their products. Remember, one of the intentions of the open source movement is promote knowledge sharing not monopolies of the way of doing something.
Remember GSM handsets do encryption/decryption in real-time (not very strong, but it could be better without overloading the CPU).
Many persons claim that the media companies don't want so much control, if that is the case, why do some of them disable fast-forward on DVDs? We already have seen other aspects of IP law abused, so we need to show what can go wrong here too!
Remember that negative publicity hurts. Exagerate, tell the public that big business wants to take away their video recorders. Tell them that the fast forward button is being banned. Yes, this is a little strong but isn't what the NRA do when they tell Americans about their rights. Tell them that some idiot has got protection on work they ripped off from someone else over 50 years ago. Ask them whether they believe it is right for them to be able to take apart anything that they own so that they can maintain it themselves...
Leave the techie stuff out. The public and politicians won't understand.
AC is right. In a democracy we are all responsible for the actions of our government, however distasteful they are and whether or not we voted for them. It is unlikely that Bush would have seen to have been resonsiple for upsetting the terrorists that precipitated September 11th, it is more likely a number of actions (or inactions) by different governments over time. If we want our governments to be seen to be less offensive then there is always the ballot box. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we all let countries like Afghanistan suffer, and after arming them to the teeth as well.
Organisations such as USAID do a fine job, but there good works are undermined by stupid politicians who couldn't find central asia on a map until they had seen it on CNN.
The problem with Biometrics is that in the end it is nothing more than a digital signal going down a wire. If the hardware can be compromised, then your physical attribute that can be measured just becomes another signal that can be captured and replayed.
The problem with a CPU heatsink/cooling fan is that it would make the thing a little unwieldy for hand-held aiming.
How do you keep the thing cool? I have seen 10mw semiconductor lasers with some serious cooling in the form of a big heatsink. I understand the normal medical lasers have an assembly carrying power and cooling to link it back to a power unit.
To trade is human, to hedge, divine!
More on topic is that automatic speed traps are used in several smaller towns and villages in Europe as a tax on uutsiders. They never move, so they never catch locals. The out of towners who get picked up help subside the town council.
There are a lot of industries where vast quantities of data can be collected and archived. Think financial, think scientific, think engineering.
They do use media advertising over here (Germany), but mostly simple cartoon ads which are quite funny (not much humour in German advertiseing). Generally these are shown not on TV, but in movie theatres (younger audience again).
Personally, I think thay have been very clever, but essentially it is a one product company. Still, so was Coke in the early days.
The link for this particular marketing gimick is an ad where a guy in a suit on his way to work is sh1tted upon by a bird. The guy opens his briefcase, digs out a can of Red Bull and flaps his arms. He takes off flys above the bird and starts to remove his trousers to the alarm of the bird.
Those looking may like to note that Accenture's full name is Accenture Ltd and it is registered in an offshore tax-haven (Bermuda). It appears that they haven't lost their bad habits from the Andersen days. This fact is not revealed on their web site or their annual report, however its is revealed in their SEC 10K Filing. They in turn own shares in Accenture SCA, a Luxemburg based partnership which is the main operating body. That is minimal fiscal transparency.
I have worked with major consultancy firms. Their work is substandard and they attempt to bully their way past any independents or local technical management with incompetent ideas that are poorly implemented.
What they give to senior management is schmooze, payoffs (come visit our corporate HQ in the Bahamas) and the ability for the board to escape the blame when defending their poor results to shareholders.
I have seen the large consultancy companies take 200 people to do the work of 20 competent staff. This is why I dislike the biggies so much.
The main issue with Windows and their apps has been the hideous version control. It has improved since 2K/XP but trying to chase whether a DLL is really needed or not is interesting. Those apps sharing DLLs that install their own versions caus endless fun.
I suppose I would quite like to have somthing like this for personal navigation ïf it were unobtrusive. I don't like wandering around with a GPS in my hand and a street map is often problematic. Otherwise, I would prefer something like this to my pocket pc for notes, schedules etc, because it should be less obtrusive (in time).
A well known fictional character prefered his dry martinis "Shaken not stirred". With a this form of agitation a linear motor has some applicability.
Um, not only addresses but packet types as well. Certainly we had this capability because we could filter and route on traffic type.
His statement about monopropellants shows a basic misunderstanding. This frightens me. Monpropellants are more reliable, but they are inherrently less stable.
I agree with you that the point of patents is to promote disclosure in return for a limited monopoly. The problem is that because of the running time of the monopoly (about 10-15 yrs for a drug, because the first 5-10 years deals with the approval process), the patents will be left until the last moment.
The other issue is the non end-use related patents. Large companies can swap licenses on this but smaller companies and the third-world need to carefully avoid the intermediate steps that have been patented.
Again you are right that the Open Source movement is a bit of a Johnnie-Come-Lately as regards disclosure, but the use of copyleft is something that has come from the computer field and has given vast leverage to developers. You are right about the purpose of patents, but essentially they have become a way of sowing a legal minefield in a competitor's path.