I strongly suspect that those stupid Windows startup jingles have an infrasound component. Drives me NUTS every time I hear it... That would also explain why they were so expensive.
Just because somebody mentions Linux, does that mean they can post an article and get a few thousand people doing their market research for them?
Geez, buy a couple of magazines, go to some vendors websites, use Google and find out wether the box you want to buy has been successfully used with linux yet.
On another note, I would like to clean up my garden using linux, anybody want to help?
The experienced pilot and the trainee co-pilot are on the last leg of their flight home, when suddenly a thick fog appears and all the instruments in the plane fail - no sight whatsoever.
They cruise around for a while, then the pilot opens the window and yells to a guy sitting in an office skyscraper: "Where the f*&# are we?".
The guy yells back "YOU ARE IN A PLANE!!!"
Upon hearing this, the pilot banks sharp left, then right and lands the plane perfectly on the airstrip.
The co-pilot is completely amazed: "How did you know where the airport was from what that guy told you?" - "Easy," the pilot said, "the answer he gave me was brief, absolutely correct and completely useless. So the building must have been the Microsoft Helpdesk and the airport is just to the left of that."
UML design is not mainly for *you*, the original software architect (because you live and breathe the class structures and relationships anyway), but rather for other people that work with/on the software. Consider the case where you write a complex piece of software that publishes an API layer for other people to use to extend the software. If you follow good OOP practices in building your solution, decent UML documentation is an invaluable source of information for developers who want to build on top of your stuff. This is talking from experience with a large software package where I use the UML class diagrams much more frequently than the (good) API documentation.
Overdesign can be a problem, but with a reasonable amount of experience in software development, you should be able to minimise this happening. UML is more a communication aid than anything else.
I strongly believe that a good solid design makes up at least 50% of a successful software project. While this is not necessarily true for small projects, I try not to touch any code before I have a design thought out.
Now, I might have this all wrong, but to me it seems that SearchKings way of increasing it's customer's page ranking is just another form of electronic spam. It exposes Google users to information they do not require and furthermore may obscure the *real* information they are looking for.
This is exactly the same behaviour I see with email-based spamming. Any of the spammers tried to sue the manufacturers of spam-filter software yet?
PC manufacturers (Compaq, Dell, etc.) have long been forced to include OEM versoins of MS operating systems with their PCs - because they signed a contract that mandated them to do so!
Why should different rules apply to Microsoft? Don't like your own medicine?
Can you repair your own car? Build your own house? Hell, can you cook your own food? Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
These people are dumb because they TRY to repair their own car! Anybody with a reasonable degree of awareness of file sharing networks (and there has been no lack in media coverage lately) should have an idea what they are getting themselves into.
In Australia, where I happen to live, download limits on broadband connections are heavily capped. The ISPs usually offer 1GB plans for about 55A$ and 3GB plans for 75A$. Why on earth would I spend almost all of my precious 1GB download limit on a single ripped movie? For the same amount of money, I can go and see four movies at the cinema AND have popcorn as well!
I'm currently working for a medium-sized systems integrator and we are making use of web services where appropriate. You are right in saying that the technoloogy is mainly targeted at business apps, but certainly not only large-scale ones.
The latest development tools and middleware packages (which is, unfortunately, what I have to deal with day-to-day) offer easy support for communication based on web services.
This apporach cuts the time needed to integrate disparate systems so we can get on with coding the actual business logic and ultimately deliver a better tested, more feature-rich product in less time, which is all our customers care about.
Couldn't agree more.
A sample from a song by Dog Eat Dog springs to mind:
"Did you ever notice that dog spelled backwards, it's GOD?" - "Yeah, so?" - "Makes you think!"
Morons.
I wonder when they will start arguing that there has been no evolution in linguistic patterns either...
Sig with slightly religious overtones:
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
Well... you could always get a PS2 and run Linux on that.
I'm hoping for Sony to drop the PS2 prices as well, at least until they put MS out of business...
Just think about how many people on this list will now go out and actually BUY one of the damn things just to disprove Sony's claims.
I shudder in revulsion at the thought of owning one of her records, but the hacker in me really really wants to find out...
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Isn't user-mode linux supposed to provide something similar to partitioning, i.e. running applications in multiple kernel spaces?
I strongly suspect that those stupid Windows startup jingles have an infrasound component. Drives me NUTS every time I hear it...
That would also explain why they were so expensive.
Just because somebody mentions Linux, does that mean they can post an article and get a few thousand people doing their market research for them?
Geez, buy a couple of magazines, go to some vendors websites, use Google and find out wether the box you want to buy has been successfully used with linux yet.
On another note, I would like to clean up my garden using linux, anybody want to help?
The experienced pilot and the trainee co-pilot are on the last leg of their flight home, when suddenly a thick fog appears and all the instruments in the plane fail - no sight whatsoever.
They cruise around for a while, then the pilot opens the window and yells to a guy sitting in an office skyscraper: "Where the f*&# are we?".
The guy yells back "YOU ARE IN A PLANE!!!"
Upon hearing this, the pilot banks sharp left, then right and lands the plane perfectly on the airstrip.
The co-pilot is completely amazed: "How did you know where the airport was from what that guy told you?" - "Easy," the pilot said, "the answer he gave me was brief, absolutely correct and completely useless. So the building must have been the Microsoft Helpdesk and the airport is just to the left of that."
Ta-daaaa!
Then I am already encrypted! Most of the time people have absolutely no clue what I'm on about...
what is commonly called the "Hillary Rosen Retirement Fund"!
UML design is not mainly for *you*, the original software architect (because you live and breathe the class structures and relationships anyway), but rather for other people that work with/on the software.
Consider the case where you write a complex piece of software that publishes an API layer for other people to use to extend the software. If you follow good OOP practices in building your solution, decent UML documentation is an invaluable source of information for developers who want to build on top of your stuff. This is talking from experience with a large software package where I use the UML class diagrams much more frequently than the (good) API documentation.
Overdesign can be a problem, but with a reasonable amount of experience in software development, you should be able to minimise this happening. UML is more a communication aid than anything else.
I strongly believe that a good solid design makes up at least 50% of a successful software project. While this is not necessarily true for small projects, I try not to touch any code before I have a design thought out.
Didn't have time to RTFA - I was trying for FP...
But to reiterate, I want to be looking at colour porn on a high-res display - which is REALLY REALLY SMALL - why?
And I want to be looking at porn on a black and white 80x80 pixel screen why?
Now, I might have this all wrong, but to me it seems that SearchKings way of increasing it's customer's page ranking is just another form of electronic spam. It exposes Google users to information they do not require and furthermore may obscure the *real* information they are looking for.
This is exactly the same behaviour I see with email-based spamming. Any of the spammers tried to sue the manufacturers of spam-filter software yet?
Ludicrous? I think not...
PC manufacturers (Compaq, Dell, etc.) have long been forced to include OEM versoins of MS operating systems with their PCs - because they signed a contract that mandated them to do so!
Why should different rules apply to Microsoft? Don't like your own medicine?
The carry overflow bit that led to the Ariane V rocket being destroyed must have been the most expensive bit in human history...
Can you repair your own car? Build your own house? Hell, can you cook your own food? Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
These people are dumb because they TRY to repair their own car! Anybody with a reasonable degree of awareness of file sharing networks (and there has been no lack in media coverage lately) should have an idea what they are getting themselves into.
In Australia, where I happen to live, download limits on broadband connections are heavily capped. The ISPs usually offer 1GB plans for about 55A$ and 3GB plans for 75A$. Why on earth would I spend almost all of my precious 1GB download limit on a single ripped movie? For the same amount of money, I can go and see four movies at the cinema AND have popcorn as well!
Will there be Linux drivers for those things?
I'm currently working for a medium-sized systems integrator and we are making use of web services where appropriate. You are right in saying that the technoloogy is mainly targeted at business apps, but certainly not only large-scale ones.
The latest development tools and middleware packages (which is, unfortunately, what I have to deal with day-to-day) offer easy support for communication based on web services.
This apporach cuts the time needed to integrate disparate systems so we can get on with coding the actual business logic and ultimately deliver a better tested, more feature-rich product in less time, which is all our customers care about.
Just my 2c.
Couldn't agree more.
A sample from a song by Dog Eat Dog springs to mind:
"Did you ever notice that dog spelled backwards, it's GOD?" - "Yeah, so?" - "Makes you think!"
Morons.
I wonder when they will start arguing that there has been no evolution in linguistic patterns either...
Sig with slightly religious overtones: "Black holes are where God divided by zero."
Well... you could always get a PS2 and run Linux on that.
I'm hoping for Sony to drop the PS2 prices as well, at least until they put MS out of business...
Push to test." (click) "Release to detonate..."
Just think about how many people on this list will now go out and actually BUY one of the damn things just to disprove Sony's claims. I shudder in revulsion at the thought of owning one of her records, but the hacker in me really really wants to find out...