The whole basis for the degree is that you read a book or play written by someone else, listen to your lecturer and then write a critique of something written by someone with miles more talent than you have.
The whole basis of an English degree is ripping off other people's work and using it to justify your grades.
Lets put it this way, if that "Linus stole Linux" paper had been submitted as literary critisism it would have got an A.
The guy was a prat, he cheated, he was caught. But cheating in English... damn that is a waste of time. What jobs come out of that ?
Umm does anyone else here remember the Sears/Gap/Borders are dead stories from around 1998/99 because the Mom and Pop stores would beat them thanks to ".com".
I've read the article and I'm not seeing anything different, and certainly nothing that thinks about the realities of providing secure 911 access and QoS over a WiFi router and ADSL.
So far the US approach has been to bomb the crap out of building with helicopters and planes from miles away, and then go an look at the bodies.
If the marines are never close enough to people when they are alive to identify that it is a wedding party not a group of fighters then this is hardly going to help. Unless of course it can be deployed from 20 miles away.
Ummm call me an old fart here but I don't think that is exactly a small, or could be considered embedded. Given people have written decent browsers (e.g. Opera, and a few cracking J2ME ones) which run in 10s of K and at make 100 this really isn't anything special or challenging.
1995 - NCSA Mosaic, IBM PC, 16Mb of RAM.
I for one am not impressed at a project that considers embedded devices as having to have 64Mb of RAM, that is just a PC with a small screen.
Move on folks, its only on Slashdot because they mentioned Linux.
In 1992 I was working on a Radar Display project which used Barco graphics generators on Sony 20kx20k displays with two screens, front and back.
The back screen held the flight information, and the front held the information windows. It was possible to make the front windows fade to invisible if required (outline only left). Sounds like a graduated window to me.
This was an absolute piece of piss in X using the PEXLib extensions BTW.
Having transparent or translucent windows was pretty common in Radar Display system, both commercial and military.
And another swing and a miss by the Kuiper belt, the Kuiper belt is batting a.0000001 ERA against small blue planets over the course of this aeon. Of course the last hit that wasn't called foul was a grand-slam homer which cleared the field for a couple of seasons.
Maybe the lack of specs is why people offshore more, they want more definition, they want more quality elements defined up front and don't want the project to run out of control based on trusting IT.
Given a choice between a nice spec, and a bloke from IT who says "trust me I'll talk to you lots"...
I encrypt everything on my hard-drive using one-way compact encryption, it only cost me $100 and converts every file into 0 bytes that can't be de-crypted by anyone... not even me. Now THAT is proper security.
I previously used 2^(10e20) bit encryption which would have taken several universes to crack. Unfortunately it took one earth life to encrypt a 1 Mb file so I had to revert to the super-secure method above.
And Yes I do have a tin-foil hat... why do you ask ? Oh and the application that does the one way encryption. Well I work on Windows but I get this Unix utility called Cygwin and the guy sold me a program that does the encryption. I had a look at what was in encrypt.sh and what it says is
cat/dev/null > $1
Amazing how simple UNIX makes encryption... but then I use Windows so its all beyond me.
Where you take a mommy plant and a daddy plant and then make lots of baby plants. The you take the brother plant and the sister plant and create strange uncle Jethro who no-one in the family talks about much but HELL can he survive in hot weather.
Uncle Jethro is currently serving 25 life sentences for a string of murders in Arkansas.
I love it when people talk about "natural" a normal ways when talking about this stuff. Arsenic is a natural product... doesn't make it safe.
The key is safe and not likely to go postal like Uncle Jethro, that means long term testing and genetic strength, something tradtional breeding often fails at (potato blight anyone ?). Equally genetic engineering is not tested in the long term and we have no clue to the effects (thalidomide(sp?) anyone ?).
I want to eat a cow that is not pumped with hormones, wheat that isn't racked with chemicals... and a realisation that we can produce enough food for the world but the west subsidises farmers the way it never would do to steel (except in the US), coal, cars, manufacturing etc etc.
Maybe the solution isn't more products, its a decent and fair economic policy. Shocking I know, but more expensive plants for the 3rd world might not be what they are after, fair access to our markets might just be a better bet.
The shift to GUI PCs and MS Word allowed companies to force their PHBs to type their own memos. They then could dismiss/reassign most of the admin staff for considerable cost savings. This wasn't so much a "cultural shift" but a matter of pure $$$.
And yet as Tom De Marco in his excellent book "Slack" points out... what this means is PHBs (myself included) now spend huge amounts of time writing documents that previously we would have dictated to assistants and worrying about formating that they would have sorted for us.
The average sec gets what... $20,000 ? The average senior exec gets $100,000+... and if 25% of their time is in things that a sec could do.
Is it a real cost saving or has a perceived cost saving actually cost us more.
I propose going back to troff, perfect formating, perfect control....
Against the J2EE platform supported by IBM, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, BEA, Sun, Manugistics etc etc
Against J2SE supported by IBM, Sun, Dell, HP etc
Against J2ME supported by IBM, Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, Sun etc
How about positioning it as a useful tool for corporate developers with minimal tooling support and no easy integration with corporate applications.
OSS needs to realise what WORKS in a corporate environment and why it does, and why re-inventing, or competing with, the wheel is not a great idea.
I like OSS, I advocate OSS with my clients, but its this sort of visionless statement that makes many serious IT directors walk away as they know its a bollocks statement made by people without a grasp of their problems.
Well why worry about that and just use Cell-triangulation which is already used in many applications of this sort in Europe.
Great concept... but its already been solved much better. GPS adds accuracy but costs money to put in the phone (some do have it though). Location based elements are already accessible on Symbian devices and will be accessible on all next gen Java devices via the Location APIs.
This is a pointless solution to a problem that has been solved.
He needs networking connection, a decent threading model and doesn't want to crash your box.
So while he could spend a huge amount of time doing all these basic things in C and still have major risks for the people running it, he has chosen to use the right tool for the job.
Also the Maths libraries are IEEE compliant in Java and not in C on the PC, so I'm assuming that also played in to his reasoning.
I hate to break it to the hack and slashdot crowd, but Testing is actually a whole career in itself, and the application of different testing processes and methods to different projects is a critical part of ensuring projects succeed.
This article covers NOTHING about the different types of testing on a project, or indeed how test cases should even be constructed. Its basically about some UnitTesting elements that could be done by testing.
I know its unpopular here on Slashdot to claim that there are more developers working on big projects than people hacking in Python. Buts its articles like these that underline the difference between professional software development and hacking.
Call me silly here, but that article talks about developer ONLY testing, and doesn't seem to discuss different types of projects at all. This was about basic code testing, and mainly unit-test.
No UAT, no System Test, no Integration Test... no how test cases should be defined.
Please go an get a decent, non-language specific book on testing before reading and listening to this article.
IBM will leave a pulp of tissue with the blood sucked out of it...
On the plus side you can make a decent soccer ball out of dried human body parts so Red Hat should be able to have a decent kick-around after winning the rights to the dismembered body parts.
Estimated value of this football game is around $1m as it will be considered "conceptual art" and snapped up in minutes.
Game playing doctors did however show a 25% increase in car-jacking, 14% increase in shooting incidents and 23% increase in slashing peoples throats with a knife.
They also had 46% fewer complaints than other doctors but this could be attributed to other factors. One patient saying...
"Would you complain to a guy who claims he is a crack shot with a railgun ?"
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The whole basis for the degree is that you read a book or play written by someone else, listen to your lecturer and then write a critique of something written by someone with miles more talent than you have.
The whole basis of an English degree is ripping off other people's work and using it to justify your grades.
Lets put it this way, if that "Linus stole Linux" paper had been submitted as literary critisism it would have got an A.
The guy was a prat, he cheated, he was caught. But cheating in English... damn that is a waste of time. What jobs come out of that ?
Socom X, don't just hear your buddies, get to smell them too....
Including genuine "rotting corpse" smell when you make a kill.
Then again the smell of grass as you walk onto the football pitch would be superb.
1) Great another competitor, we should support it
2) Its in Java it will suck
3) Java sucks
4) It should be in Perl
5) It should be in C
6) I use vi and troff.
Umm does anyone else here remember the Sears/Gap/Borders are dead stories from around 1998/99 because the Mom and Pop stores would beat them thanks to ".com".
I've read the article and I'm not seeing anything different, and certainly nothing that thinks about the realities of providing secure 911 access and QoS over a WiFi router and ADSL.
What so a company would give their own brand products priority over the competition ?
You mean like in Walmart, Albertsons etc etc where their own brand elements have prime positions ? Or do you me like the Adidas section in NikeTown.
Welcome to Captialism...
So far the US approach has been to bomb the crap out of building with helicopters and planes from miles away, and then go an look at the bodies.
If the marines are never close enough to people when they are alive to identify that it is a wedding party not a group of fighters then this is hardly going to help. Unless of course it can be deployed from 20 miles away.
Ummm call me an old fart here but I don't think that is exactly a small, or could be considered embedded. Given people have written decent browsers (e.g. Opera, and a few cracking J2ME ones) which run in 10s of K and at make 100 this really isn't anything special or challenging.
1995 - NCSA Mosaic, IBM PC, 16Mb of RAM.
I for one am not impressed at a project that considers embedded devices as having to have 64Mb of RAM, that is just a PC with a small screen.
Move on folks, its only on Slashdot because they mentioned Linux.
Ummmm while it is fairly global, the biggest issue remains the US, which is also the only country not doing anything about it.
In 1992 I was working on a Radar Display project which used Barco graphics generators on Sony 20kx20k displays with two screens, front and back.
The back screen held the flight information, and the front held the information windows. It was possible to make the front windows fade to invisible if required (outline only left). Sounds like a graduated window to me.
This was an absolute piece of piss in X using the PEXLib extensions BTW.
Having transparent or translucent windows was pretty common in Radar Display system, both commercial and military.
And somewhat strangely the Audi A6 is BIGGER and the Audi A3 is smaller.
Those crazy germans and their sense of humour
And another swing and a miss by the Kuiper belt, the Kuiper belt is batting a
Maybe the lack of specs is why people offshore more, they want more definition, they want more quality elements defined up front and don't want the project to run out of control based on trusting IT.
Given a choice between a nice spec, and a bloke from IT who says "trust me I'll talk to you lots"...
Which is a business person going to chose ?
Engineers specify, DIYers just knock it together.
I encrypt everything on my hard-drive using one-way compact encryption, it only cost me $100 and converts every file into 0 bytes that can't be de-crypted by anyone... not even me. Now THAT is proper security.
I previously used 2^(10e20) bit encryption which would have taken several universes to crack. Unfortunately it took one earth life to encrypt a 1 Mb file so I had to revert to the super-secure method above.
And Yes I do have a tin-foil hat... why do you ask ? Oh and the application that does the one way encryption. Well I work on Windows but I get this Unix utility called Cygwin and the guy sold me a program that does the encryption. I had a look at what was in encrypt.sh and what it says is
cat
Amazing how simple UNIX makes encryption... but then I use Windows so its all beyond me.
Where you take a mommy plant and a daddy plant and then make lots of baby plants. The you take the brother plant and the sister plant and create strange uncle Jethro who no-one in the family talks about much but HELL can he survive in hot weather.
Uncle Jethro is currently serving 25 life sentences for a string of murders in Arkansas.
I love it when people talk about "natural" a normal ways when talking about this stuff. Arsenic is a natural product... doesn't make it safe.
The key is safe and not likely to go postal like Uncle Jethro, that means long term testing and genetic strength, something tradtional breeding often fails at (potato blight anyone ?). Equally genetic engineering is not tested in the long term and we have no clue to the effects (thalidomide(sp?) anyone ?).
I want to eat a cow that is not pumped with hormones, wheat that isn't racked with chemicals... and a realisation that we can produce enough food for the world but the west subsidises farmers the way it never would do to steel (except in the US), coal, cars, manufacturing etc etc.
Maybe the solution isn't more products, its a decent and fair economic policy. Shocking I know, but more expensive plants for the 3rd world might not be what they are after, fair access to our markets might just be a better bet.
The shift to GUI PCs and MS Word allowed companies to force their PHBs to type their own memos. They then could dismiss/reassign most of the admin staff for considerable cost savings. This wasn't so much a "cultural shift" but a matter of pure $$$.
And yet as Tom De Marco in his excellent book "Slack" points out... what this means is PHBs (myself included) now spend huge amounts of time writing documents that previously we would have dictated to assistants and worrying about formating that they would have sorted for us.
The average sec gets what... $20,000 ? The average senior exec gets $100,000+... and if 25% of their time is in things that a sec could do.
Is it a real cost saving or has a perceived cost saving actually cost us more.
I propose going back to troff, perfect formating, perfect control....
And no sodding powerpoint
Ahhhh so THAT is why the spaceship had an RS232 port.... everything had to be accessible via a Mac to enable proper support.
And I thought it was rubbish....
Which bit ?
Against the J2EE platform supported by IBM, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, BEA, Sun, Manugistics etc etc
Against J2SE supported by IBM, Sun, Dell, HP etc
Against J2ME supported by IBM, Nokia, Ericsson, Sony, Sun etc
How about positioning it as a useful tool for corporate developers with minimal tooling support and no easy integration with corporate applications.
OSS needs to realise what WORKS in a corporate environment and why it does, and why re-inventing, or competing with, the wheel is not a great idea.
I like OSS, I advocate OSS with my clients, but its this sort of visionless statement that makes many serious IT directors walk away as they know its a bollocks statement made by people without a grasp of their problems.
Corporate IT _is_ IT.
Well why worry about that and just use Cell-triangulation which is already used in many applications of this sort in Europe.
Great concept... but its already been solved much better. GPS adds accuracy but costs money to put in the phone (some do have it though). Location based elements are already accessible on Symbian devices and will be accessible on all next gen Java devices via the Location APIs.
This is a pointless solution to a problem that has been solved.
If Geeks inherit the earth....
Won't that mean there is only one generation then extinction ? Or a Geeks going to have to breed ?
He needs networking connection, a decent threading model and doesn't want to crash your box.
So while he could spend a huge amount of time doing all these basic things in C and still have major risks for the people running it, he has chosen to use the right tool for the job.
Also the Maths libraries are IEEE compliant in Java and not in C on the PC, so I'm assuming that also played in to his reasoning.
I hate to break it to the hack and slashdot crowd, but Testing is actually a whole career in itself, and the application of different testing processes and methods to different projects is a critical part of ensuring projects succeed.
This article covers NOTHING about the different types of testing on a project, or indeed how test cases should even be constructed. Its basically about some UnitTesting elements that could be done by testing.
I know its unpopular here on Slashdot to claim that there are more developers working on big projects than people hacking in Python. Buts its articles like these that underline the difference between professional software development and hacking.
This is about hacking.
Call me silly here, but that article talks about developer ONLY testing, and doesn't seem to discuss different types of projects at all. This was about basic code testing, and mainly unit-test.
No UAT, no System Test, no Integration Test... no how test cases should be defined.
Please go an get a decent, non-language specific book on testing before reading and listening to this article.
IBM will leave a pulp of tissue with the blood sucked out of it...
On the plus side you can make a decent soccer ball out of dried human body parts so Red Hat should be able to have a decent kick-around after winning the rights to the dismembered body parts.
Estimated value of this football game is around $1m as it will be considered "conceptual art" and snapped up in minutes.
The football match will be titled
"Icarus compressed"
Game playing doctors did however show a 25% increase in car-jacking, 14% increase in shooting incidents and 23% increase in slashing peoples throats with a knife.
They also had 46% fewer complaints than other doctors but this could be attributed to other factors. One patient saying...
"Would you complain to a guy who claims he is a crack shot with a railgun ?"
Economics
"The following theory assumes there are no external factors"
External Factor = People
Sociology
"The following theory is based on a majority sample"
Majority = 50 in a sample of 99.
Slashdot
"The following company/technology categorisation is correct given the sample data"
Sample data = Slashdot
And now we have
"The following design is correct for a given definition of road"
Reminds me of the old maths joke
"1+2=4 for sufficiently large values of 2 and small values of 4"