Err so this is why the World Superbikes, 500cc, 250cc and in fact every division is dominated by European or Japanese bikes. This is the very top level of the sport, and not an American bike in sight.
Bloody hell there really is none so blind as those that will not see.
I don't know about you but for some strange reason playing football (soccer), basketball etc with my mates is for some reason alot more fun than looking at a computer game.
Life isn't watching a TV set, and as good as graphics get, no game will ever equal that feeling as you blast in a shot from 20 yards, or nail a 3 pointer over your work mates.
Games are fun, but if you can't tell the difference between a game and your life... then you need help.
And no game ever will beat the smile you get from your kid first thing in the morning.
Cool game, I might get it, but please... like real life ?
So lets get this straight, in a hotel in Vegas you may or may not get through when you dial out...
Next week "$5 on getting through on the 4th occasion at 3-2"
And "The Gamblers Suite, where even the phone has the element of chance, get through when the blue light is on and win a free meal for two at the Belagio"
So If I take a bunch of C4 explosive, press it down into a CD shape and put it in then it should still be okay, EVEN if I put a small detonator in that is kicked off by exposure to the light in the CD laser.
Repeat for fragile glass, cookie dough etc etc...
The "thing" that is put in is not a CD as the manufacturers of it have not obeyed the first thing in the spec.... compatibility.
If you wire your Motherboard directly to the mains and it gets fried then you are a fool, if you get supplied with a PC without a transform its the producer of the PC not the motherboard that you should blame.
1) Samba - Created to bypass MS braindead sharing, and to allow Linux to act as file servers, so HW and OS platform choice is irrelevant
2) Java - Created to make HW + OS Platform choice irrelevant
3) BEA, based on a standard approach to app servers that makes chosing the HW and OS a best fit decision.
Anyone spot the connection ? 3 Tools all made to bring together disparate environments.
But of course this sort of thing can't be done, you can't be modular, you can't be portable, you can't be flexible (Java comes in versions for Smart Cards, Phones, PDAs, PCs, Servers and Mainframes) I know that because the DOJ believe it.
Lets get this straight, here is a company set up to fleece money out of ambulance chasers, audit dodgers and doctors (feel sorry for them being lumped in with the others). Brillant, and inspired, pray on their inate structures and desire for recognition. All those crappy adverts on US TV will now have "certified professional" because of their $300.pro address.
Fleecing those whose business is to fleece others (and doctors so they don't spot its just aimed at them).
Just think those Anderson/Enron people will be certified as trustworthy.pro people.
And people on Slashdot haven't worked out that this is in fact the first time the geeks get to fleece the suits.... shame on you.
Isn't it odd that the only Java security exploit to be used in the wild is in the VM produced by Microsoft that didn't obey the Java spec.
Now a cynical person would say that this would enable Microsoft to point at Java and say "Java is insecure" but of course I'm not a cynical person and I'm sure it was purely an accident.
Radiation found to be harmful, largest Radiation source found to be the Sun, blow up the Sun advises Slashdot.
Scientists claim radiation can be use to kill cancer, carry more mobile phones advises Slashdot.
Living in City can lead to lung disease, move to the country advises Slashdot.
Living in country results in lower salaries, move to City advises Slashdot.
Car pollution causes Global warming, buy bigger cars advises Slashdot.
Is there a risk from this RF, yup, is there more of a risk from people driving while using a mobile than from this... oh boy yes. Is there a risk from Coal fired powerstations from radiation... oh wow yes.
Passive Mobile phone usage, Caligormia to legislate.
I don't agree with that, the Millenium Bug went off at the right time on a few systems, did prove unreliable as it was expected to work elsewhere too, but they did get it out (well done guys).
Those timestamped virii seem to do pretty well, announcement goes out before hand and it does work for some people, of course for others it gets broken by another piece of software that just seems designed to break it (which doesn't seem very good software practice to me).
And of course Unix, which is delivered EVERYTIME you install it as Jan 1 1970, which is very impressive, that means you install it BEFORE you need it, even if you decide to install it after you need it!
This isn't a troll, or flamebait, its a standard old fashioned flame.
Peer Programming means continual review by two people, two bad people = bad code. 1 good + 1 bad = 1 slow average. Code review must be done by several people and must also include a senior resource to help less experienced ones.
This was also the tennant behind the Team oriented approach of the Mythical Man Month, which was based around the assumption of everyone should be good, just fire the rest.
XP is basically the re-hashing of some long held good ideas, interspersed with some total drivel from a bunch of hackers.
XP DOES say don't design the overall architecture of the system, it DOES say don't design how each service should work. It relies on the concept of Unit Tests where anyone will tell you that bad developers = bad unit tests.
XP is a sham and a fraud that is only allowed because the industry doesn't care about quality.
XP is for teams of upto 10 people. Personally I think that any methodology that isn't founded on a good design is a load of rubbish. XP is the worst form of hacking imaginable. If we really want to be considered an engineering discipline we should behave as one. Engineering requires thought, planning, requirements, design, implementation and testing, while some iteration is possible and continual delivery is possible (you can cross the bridge on foot, before you cross it in a car) within engineering, the idea of continually changing each piece is not one that fits within engineering.
XP is for hackers who want to improvise, and upon whom nobody relies for their survival. If people built houses, bridges and planes this way we'd all be up in arms about the lack of quality.
"I need the book to sell, so I decided to advertise it"
Well Duh! At least dress up the advertisement is something resembling English or the standard "developers and dogs work well together, as I say in my book (link to the one click wizards at Amazon)...." the art of advertising is to make someone want the product, so a well thought out article on dogs and developers might have stood something of a chance.
An article on "I used the worlds least effective advertising medium because I'm desperate" is a lot less effective.
But the best dog for the developer is the newfie anyway. Needs bugger all exercise, its big and therefore impresses your geek friends, its cuddly do women like it, and can be used to pull things that your too weak to handle Newfies are also ace with kids.
Abiogenesis is the creation of the first self replicating life form. Done in a lab but how it happened on earth, who knows exactly ?
Its strange that after each proof of "what must be proven else..." that another is created. If you want to say that God, little green men or whom ever created the first self replicating piece of clay or whatever, then fine. You have no evidence and no proof, you ask for Science to give proof but offer none in return.
In terms of Adultery in the Bible, they have incest in there which many people would regard as much worse. Also condones murder, including of infants.
For the flow analysis stuff they will have a large amount of people to deal with an predict. On the mugging front however its going to be harder maybe its a simple
"That bloke is wearing 50k of gold round his neck and a 10k Rolex... he better watch out or he'll get mugged":-)
The key is in finding those who dissent against certain policies of the US and take a best guess at whether they are committed enough to lash out against them that they are willing to take their own life or other's lives in order to acheive attention for their cause.
And these people of course would be living in the US where this bill applies ? Sometimes with people like Timothy McVeigh that is true, but lots of times it is not. This is an act that is in reality going to find the McVeigh's of this world, not the bin Ladens. Sure that saves hundreds of US citizens being killed by another US citizen, and if that is the aim the obvious question is...
Why wasn't this enacted after Oklahoma ?
The key to eliminating terrorism, and after all that must be the aim. Is to reduce the causes of terrorism and the backing for that. This means have a decent policy abroad and not being seen as the big Bully on the block who throws toys out of the pram.
And at the end of it all remember that the US Goverment were warned by the French goverment that dangerous terrorists were heading their way.. and they did... nothing. A database analyst means nothing if the people supposedly in charge can drop the ball in such a spectacular manner.
This is an act squarely at the American people out of the pages of 1984. The enemy changes, bin Laden, Taliban, Iraq... who else.. but the goverment retains the myth of a continous struggle.
How do you think Oracle et al make these huge amounts of cash. Is it via technical excellence or flogging to muppets on the golf course.
Actually apologies to Kermit he wouldn't be stupid enough. Barnum applies and these guys are just applying that law. Stupid people get fleeced, they should quit on grounds of low intellect.
That the average Joe on the street doesn't want to cut power to a domestic railway system, but that your average nutcase or terrorist might.
What would you say to a site that said
"10 easy ways to Hijack and airliner and slam it into a building" ?
And if you say it isn't the same imagine a train carrying nuclear waste being damaged or destroyed. It is censorship but surely this is also an incitement to a criminal act which is a police matter anyway.
X-Windows came before MS-Windows, Linux runs X-Windows. The term "window" was coined along with the first GUIs of the 60s and 70s to mean a segmented rendering space on screen.
MS-Windows is called Windows because of that research, Apple Macs have "windows" into which you type. GEM had "windows", EVERY GUI on planet earth calls them "windows". Its a generic term.
What this is saying is that if you know something of the person you can work out what they will say. This is always going to be the case until it is something actually unique for the person (fingerprint, iris etc). While we all _know_ that we should have passwords like "sdf987*(&^JJHASBDjkasdjkh231*()&as" and every account should have a different one it tends to be simpler to use something you can remember easily.
So this isn't a suprise, and its what the Biometrics people have been saying for years.
The Largest project I worked on was when I was leader of a team of 6 people, which was in a team of 20 people, in a sub-project of 100 people, in a project of 1,000 people. And that was just development.
Tools are great, but for large projects the hammer rules.... don't know the hammer ? The hammer says "Fuck up the build, I nail your testicals to the floor, fuck up the release and I nail your eye-lids to your testicals first."
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Err so this is why the World Superbikes, 500cc, 250cc and in fact every division is dominated by European or Japanese bikes. This is the very top level of the sport, and not an American bike in sight.
Bloody hell there really is none so blind as those that will not see.
Umm lets see so Japan tolerates bugs does it.
Japan has Sony, Nintendo, Panasonic etc etc the consumer gods of planet earth. Why do we like them ? Because they work EVERYTIME.
The US has Microsoft, CDMA, Oracle and the gods of bloatware.
They are testing in Japan because ITS A JAPANESE GAME!
Don't be lulled into a feeling that they can't build things better in Japan.... imagine Honda v Harley Davidson in a race.
I don't know about you but for some strange reason playing football (soccer), basketball etc with my mates is for some reason alot more fun than looking at a computer game.
Life isn't watching a TV set, and as good as graphics get, no game will ever equal that feeling as you blast in a shot from 20 yards, or nail a 3 pointer over your work mates.
Games are fun, but if you can't tell the difference between a game and your life... then you need help.
And no game ever will beat the smile you get from your kid first thing in the morning.
Cool game, I might get it, but please... like real life ?
So lets get this straight, in a hotel in Vegas you may or may not get through when you dial out...
Next week "$5 on getting through on the 4th occasion at 3-2"
And "The Gamblers Suite, where even the phone has the element of chance, get through when the blue light is on and win a free meal for two at the Belagio"
This is competition for SonyEricsson's P800 ? I think not. Compare the two operating systems, the operator support, the vendor support on that OS.
The standalone PDA is dead, long live the Smart Phone.
"Physically compatible"
So If I take a bunch of C4 explosive, press it down into a CD shape and put it in then it should still be okay, EVEN if I put a small detonator in that is kicked off by exposure to the light in the CD laser.
Repeat for fragile glass, cookie dough etc etc...
The "thing" that is put in is not a CD as the manufacturers of it have not obeyed the first thing in the spec.... compatibility.
If you wire your Motherboard directly to the mains and it gets fried then you are a fool, if you get supplied with a PC without a transform its the producer of the PC not the motherboard that you should blame.
Ummm so this is an AS/400 competitor then ?
Sorry to be a pedant but main, mini, micro is the naming convention, and micro is where this sits. A mini computer with a handle is a hernia in a box.
Wish PDA stood for Pico Device Architecture.
However an AS/400 or top end Unix server would kick-arse as a LAN gaming station, 32 processors, 4 TB disk, 20GB RAM. Ummmm.
1) Samba - Created to bypass MS braindead sharing, and to allow Linux to act as file servers, so HW and OS platform choice is irrelevant
2) Java - Created to make HW + OS Platform choice irrelevant
3) BEA, based on a standard approach to app servers that makes chosing the HW and OS a best fit decision.
Anyone spot the connection ? 3 Tools all made to bring together disparate environments.
But of course this sort of thing can't be done, you can't be modular, you can't be portable, you can't be flexible (Java comes in versions for Smart Cards, Phones, PDAs, PCs, Servers and Mainframes) I know that because the DOJ believe it.
Lets get this straight, here is a company set up to fleece money out of ambulance chasers, audit dodgers and doctors (feel sorry for them being lumped in with the others). Brillant, and inspired, pray on their inate structures and desire for recognition. All those crappy adverts on US TV will now have "certified professional" because of their $300
Fleecing those whose business is to fleece others (and doctors so they don't spot its just aimed at them).
Just think those Anderson/Enron people will be certified as trustworthy
And people on Slashdot haven't worked out that this is in fact the first time the geeks get to fleece the suits.... shame on you.
Isn't it odd that the only Java security exploit to be used in the wild is in the VM produced by Microsoft that didn't obey the Java spec.
Now a cynical person would say that this would enable Microsoft to point at Java and say "Java is insecure" but of course I'm not a cynical person and I'm sure it was purely an accident.
Radiation found to be harmful, largest Radiation source found to be the Sun, blow up the Sun advises Slashdot.
Scientists claim radiation can be use to kill cancer, carry more mobile phones advises Slashdot.
Living in City can lead to lung disease, move to the country advises Slashdot.
Living in country results in lower salaries, move to City advises Slashdot.
Car pollution causes Global warming, buy bigger cars advises Slashdot.
Is there a risk from this RF, yup, is there more of a risk from people driving while using a mobile than from this... oh boy yes. Is there a risk from Coal fired powerstations from radiation... oh wow yes.
Passive Mobile phone usage, Caligormia to legislate.
I don't agree with that, the Millenium Bug went off at the right time on a few systems, did prove unreliable as it was expected to work elsewhere too, but they did get it out (well done guys).
Those timestamped virii seem to do pretty well, announcement goes out before hand and it does work for some people, of course for others it gets broken by another piece of software that just seems designed to break it (which doesn't seem very good software practice to me).
And of course Unix, which is delivered EVERYTIME you install it as Jan 1 1970, which is very impressive, that means you install it BEFORE you need it, even if you decide to install it after you need it!
This isn't a troll, or flamebait, its a standard old fashioned flame.
Peer Programming means continual review by two people, two bad people = bad code. 1 good + 1 bad = 1 slow average. Code review must be done by several people and must also include a senior resource to help less experienced ones.
This was also the tennant behind the Team oriented approach of the Mythical Man Month, which was based around the assumption of everyone should be good, just fire the rest.
XP is basically the re-hashing of some long held good ideas, interspersed with some total drivel from a bunch of hackers.
XP DOES say don't design the overall architecture of the system, it DOES say don't design how each service should work. It relies on the concept of Unit Tests where anyone will tell you that bad developers = bad unit tests.
XP is a sham and a fraud that is only allowed because the industry doesn't care about quality.
XP is for teams of upto 10 people. Personally I think that any methodology that isn't founded on a good design is a load of rubbish. XP is the worst form of hacking imaginable. If we really want to be considered an engineering discipline we should behave as one. Engineering requires thought, planning, requirements, design, implementation and testing, while some iteration is possible and continual delivery is possible (you can cross the bridge on foot, before you cross it in a car) within engineering, the idea of continually changing each piece is not one that fits within engineering.
XP is for hackers who want to improvise, and upon whom nobody relies for their survival. If people built houses, bridges and planes this way we'd all be up in arms about the lack of quality.
Why should Software be any different ?
So lets get this straight all those words to say
"I need the book to sell, so I decided to advertise it"
Well Duh! At least dress up the advertisement is something resembling English or the standard "developers and dogs work well together, as I say in my book (link to the one click wizards at Amazon)...." the art of advertising is to make someone want the product, so a well thought out article on dogs and developers might have stood something of a chance.
An article on "I used the worlds least effective advertising medium because I'm desperate" is a lot less effective.
But the best dog for the developer is the newfie anyway. Needs bugger all exercise, its big and therefore impresses your geek friends, its cuddly do women like it, and can be used to pull things that your too weak to handle Newfies are also ace with kids.
Abiogenesis is the creation of the first self replicating life form. Done in a lab but how it happened on earth, who knows exactly ?
Its strange that after each proof of "what must
be proven else..." that another is created. If you want to say that God, little green men or whom ever created the first self replicating piece of clay or whatever, then fine. You have no evidence and no proof, you ask for Science to give proof but offer none in return.
In terms of Adultery in the Bible, they have incest in there which many people would regard as much worse. Also condones murder, including of infants.
For the flow analysis stuff they will have a large amount of people to deal with an predict. On the mugging front however its going to be harder maybe its a simple
"That bloke is wearing 50k of gold round his neck and a 10k Rolex... he better watch out or he'll get mugged"
Yes folks its Cosmos "Desktop and Tower Outfits for the girl about town"
Feb: Black is back, everything will be black for ever
May: Beige is the new Black
June: Curved monitors are the new Flat Screens
July: Oooh look at the pretty iMac and "how to make your keyboard match your nail polish"
Sept: Black is back
November: The must have USB accessories of the season, can you use your USB security key as an earing.. ifs its the D&G one you can
December: Your Colour Therapy Horoscope for the coming year, how the colour of your PC case can change your life.
The key is in finding those who dissent against certain policies of the US and take a best guess at whether they are committed enough to lash out against them that they are willing to take their own life or other's lives in order to acheive attention for their cause.
And these people of course would be living in the US where this bill applies ? Sometimes with people like Timothy McVeigh that is true, but lots of times it is not. This is an act that is in reality going to find the McVeigh's of this world, not the bin Ladens. Sure that saves hundreds of US citizens being killed by another US citizen, and if that is the aim the obvious question is...
Why wasn't this enacted after Oklahoma ?
The key to eliminating terrorism, and after all that must be the aim. Is to reduce the causes of terrorism and the backing for that. This means have a decent policy abroad and not being seen as the big Bully on the block who throws toys out of the pram.
And at the end of it all remember that the US Goverment were warned by the French goverment that dangerous terrorists were heading their way.. and they did... nothing. A database analyst means nothing if the people supposedly in charge can drop the ball in such a spectacular manner.
This is an act squarely at the American people out of the pages of 1984. The enemy changes, bin Laden, Taliban, Iraq... who else.. but the goverment retains the myth of a continous struggle.
George Orwell was only out by 18 years, not bad.
How do you think Oracle et al make these huge amounts of cash. Is it via technical excellence or flogging to muppets on the golf course.
Actually apologies to Kermit he wouldn't be stupid enough. Barnum applies and these guys are just applying that law. Stupid people get fleeced, they should quit on grounds of low intellect.
That the average Joe on the street doesn't want to cut power to a domestic railway system, but that your average nutcase or terrorist might.
What would you say to a site that said
"10 easy ways to Hijack and airliner and slam it into a building" ?
And if you say it isn't the same imagine a train carrying nuclear waste being damaged or destroyed. It is censorship but surely this is also an incitement to a criminal act which is a police matter anyway.
X-Windows came before MS-Windows, Linux runs X-Windows. The term "window" was coined along with the first GUIs of the 60s and 70s to mean a segmented rendering space on screen.
MS-Windows is called Windows because of that research, Apple Macs have "windows" into which you type. GEM had "windows", EVERY GUI on planet earth calls them "windows". Its a generic term.
What this is saying is that if you know something of the person you can work out what they will say. This is always going to be the case until it is something actually unique for the person (fingerprint, iris etc). While we all _know_ that we should have passwords like "sdf987*(&^JJHASBDjkasdjkh231*()&as" and every account should have a different one it tends to be simpler to use something you can remember easily.
So this isn't a suprise, and its what the Biometrics people have been saying for years.
Test first....
But tests are written by the developers, so good developers = good tests, bad developers = bad tests.
Don't do XP, anything in engineering that says Requirements and Design don't come before implementation lose the right to be considered engineering.
The Largest project I worked on was when I was leader of a team of 6 people, which was in a team of 20 people, in a sub-project of 100 people, in a project of 1,000 people. And that was just development.
Tools are great, but for large projects the hammer rules.... don't know the hammer ? The hammer says "Fuck up the build, I nail your testicals to the floor, fuck up the release and I nail your eye-lids to your testicals first."