I can show you two programs written in Java that are so different that you wouldn't know it was the same language if you found them in the wild. As remarked before, switching languages is almost never the problem.
The problem is that developers in different divisions are not interchangeable like parts in a machine.
Newsflash: developers are not interchangeable.
If you hire and train in a smart way you might get developers that are smart enough to deal with somebody elses messes and that leave messes that can be dealt with by somebody else.
The first thing that a developer will say when he starts at an existing project: "This should have been done differently, using language Y, framework X. This is a pile of shit!" (Y and X varying among developers and over time). Doing everything with language Y and framework X doesn't fix anything though, because they are in constant flux.
Newsflash: projects are not all the same.
If all your projects are the same you should come up with a way to let the business owners roll out variations on the theme and get the hell out of there.
The interesting bit about writing software is to learn the domain and find the programming model that works best there. Then simplify it until you're done.
This is not to say that developers should be allowed to try anything new. Reducing the choice a bit (dare I mention web frameworks?) makes a lot of sense. Eliminating all choice is just plain stupid.
If you dumb down the organization by eliminating evolution of the programming model and robbing the developers of the freedom to do what makes sense, you will see the smartest developers walk first. The next thing you will see is a huge drop in the rate of change in the products and the responsiveness to the market. The last thing you will see is lawyers.
Thanks for the tips. We're going completely off topic, but anyway.
fwiw I've tried again with the pc 3 meters away from the router with clear line of sight. The speed is still well below 0.5mbit. I have tested the same nic before on windows: speeds were fine. I'm pretty sure it is either the linux driver or my configuration thereof.
I should really try with ndiswrapper before doing a clean install. But getting the inf and sys files out of the exe is a whole new part of hell (yes I have tried wine). Or maybe I should just build a cantenna. Or an antenna on a really long wire...
In the book, the chess-boxing match ends with the main protagonist (possessed by a god) killing his opponent with some kind of laser shot from his eyes during a chess round.
Well, battle chess was quite boring on the battle side. The outcome was only based on the chess rules. This at least gives you a fair chance. I would hate to sacrifice a pawn to Mike Tyson with battle chess rules.
Uh, perhaps the bluetooth card was already installed. Suppose their customer(my employer at the time) decided to add bluetooth functionality afterward. And, if the blob was obstructing the slot as you suggested, then why would a bluetooth slot be purposely obstructed? That's still shady(though not at all surprising).
Yes, maybe he could have just installed the driver and the guy was a moron for opening up the box at all.
There's always Linux for compute-intensive jobs, however.
Well, I'm running Ubuntu Hardon at home where it is mainly used by my wife for browsing purposes. I reasoned that for browsing the web you don't need more than the AMD 3200+ 1gb I put in there.
Strangely it manages to get completely swamped with talking to my wireless router when I take it far enough away from it.
I confess that I probably managed to screw with it and I should just do a clean install like I used to to with windows; it is just some anecdotal evidence to the point that you can slow down any box running any OS.
Then, he put in a driver CD to enable bluetooth functionality. It was absurd! Why crack the box open at all? My guess was to rationalize an obscene price by making a simple driver install an illusion of a "ZOMG hardware surgery performed by a engineer".
He would have to check if there was any hardware to install drivers for now wouldn't he?
Since you probably didn't bother to check if the price was reasonable either, nor if that which he needed to remove obstructed the slot he needed to stick the bluetooth card in, i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Some examples to fume over:
"So how fast is that, 3000 miles/hour?
- Well, mach 3 is about 2300 miles/hour so mach 6 would be ERM about ERM 10000 miles/hour"
"So mach 6... how will a human be able to stand that?
- Well the acceleration will be gradual, you wouldn't be able to take that immediate acceleration.."
immediate acceleration... I learned a new concept today. O wait, I didn't learn anything.
Just because the average human is a moron, doesn't mean you have to make it worse! Brings back memories of that one time that somebody asked me: "So you study physics, what's the deal with that black hole?
- which black hole are you talking about?
Well that black hole that everybody is talking about.
- There are quite a few probably you know, the interesting thing to be talking about is the concept of a black hole, not a specific instance.
... blank stare..."
It is not that strange. When I was studying physics we were also taught to guess (yes, that is strange isn't it;). What I found out is that if you do it consciously there is always some kind of (fuzzy) theory behind the guess. Also almost always there are multiple different theories that you might base your guess on.
For example if you look at the jelly beans, you can count roughly 10% of the beans you can see, calculate the % of the area of the jar you can see and do the math. You can also estimate the size of a bean, the size of the jar and the packing factor. Both will be off, but the error is unrelated, so if you average them the error will be reduced relative to the actual value (probably that is).
So if you guess multiple times there is a chance you base your guess on multiple theories, and if you wait longer in between, the chance of not remembering the old guess (and therefore the chance that you pick a new theory) increases. All these theories have their flaws, but naturally they are all off in different directions. Average them and you will strengthen the commonalities and blur out the differences.
This works remarkably well if you do it consciously, and even better when you do it as a group. But it is no surprise to me that it also works to some measurable extent when it is done unconsciously.
It'll solve the interference problem, but if BPL noise is the normal state of things, you won't have many hams left.
Good point.
In my case, I've just got my car (battery/alternator) for backup power, but I've seen a few stations with dedicated generators. In the realm of emergency communication, most of the check-ins I hear on the weekly Houghton Co, MI net are on "emergency power" (battery/generator) just to make sure everything's working right, and IIRC the Lake Co, IL EOC has its own backup generators.
Yep, that emphasizes as well that you need to get rid of the interference to be able to test.
Very true. When I teach my security class I always start explaining Authentication and Authorization. The thing I want the students to take home is that security is broken on Authentication by definition, but there is no reason to make it worse.
If you authorize somebody to do something you're always taking a risk, you should minimize that risk as much as feasible by doing your best at authorization. That's as good as it gets.
The point was made before that the article is just too vague. One of the main flaws is that it doesn't make the distinction between results (data) and method.
In the "petabyte age", most of the data you sift through will show no correlation, but you have a much better chance of finding the unexpected if indeed, there is some unknown factor out there My irk with this is that you have no chance to find a correlation, if you have no method to register it if you find one. Data in itself is useless, you need to know how you got it and you need to do something sensible with it.
If you added a component to your system that consumed an extra 20 watts, your PSU would supply an additional 20 watts, and draw an additional 25 watts (again, 80% efficiency). Simple as that. Closer, but no sigar. If the PSU is 80-plus certified, it could be much more efficient. The only thing that you know for sure is that you'd be drawing up to 25% more power than your equipment actually needs. Of course most PSUs will be hugging the 80% limit because it's cheaper.
The paradigm is embedded in the quantity, or subset, of data you choose to analyse. No, it's embedded in the methodology that selects the subset. Data is data.
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same in Dutch. It is actually quite grossly misleading come to think of it.
..we'll still end up giving them free support.
First of all, it's a pile of shit and it stinks.
I can show you two programs written in Java that are so different that you wouldn't know it was the same language if you found them in the wild. As remarked before, switching languages is almost never the problem.
The problem is that developers in different divisions are not interchangeable like parts in a machine.
Newsflash: developers are not interchangeable.
If you hire and train in a smart way you might get developers that are smart enough to deal with somebody elses messes and that leave messes that can be dealt with by somebody else.
The first thing that a developer will say when he starts at an existing project: "This should have been done differently, using language Y, framework X. This is a pile of shit!" (Y and X varying among developers and over time). Doing everything with language Y and framework X doesn't fix anything though, because they are in constant flux.
Newsflash: projects are not all the same.
If all your projects are the same you should come up with a way to let the business owners roll out variations on the theme and get the hell out of there.
The interesting bit about writing software is to learn the domain and find the programming model that works best there. Then simplify it until you're done.
This is not to say that developers should be allowed to try anything new. Reducing the choice a bit (dare I mention web frameworks?) makes a lot of sense. Eliminating all choice is just plain stupid.
If you dumb down the organization by eliminating evolution of the programming model and robbing the developers of the freedom to do what makes sense, you will see the smartest developers walk first. The next thing you will see is a huge drop in the rate of change in the products and the responsiveness to the market. The last thing you will see is lawyers.
Thanks for the tips. We're going completely off topic, but anyway.
fwiw I've tried again with the pc 3 meters away from the router with clear line of sight. The speed is still well below 0.5mbit. I have tested the same nic before on windows: speeds were fine. I'm pretty sure it is either the linux driver or my configuration thereof.
I should really try with ndiswrapper before doing a clean install. But getting the inf and sys files out of the exe is a whole new part of hell (yes I have tried wine). Or maybe I should just build a cantenna. Or an antenna on a really long wire...
Interestingly there are no rules against that.
Well, battle chess was quite boring on the battle side. The outcome was only based on the chess rules. This at least gives you a fair chance. I would hate to sacrifice a pawn to Mike Tyson with battle chess rules.
Uh, perhaps the bluetooth card was already installed. Suppose their customer(my employer at the time) decided to add bluetooth functionality afterward. And, if the blob was obstructing the slot as you suggested, then why would a bluetooth slot be purposely obstructed? That's still shady(though not at all surprising).
Yes, maybe he could have just installed the driver and the guy was a moron for opening up the box at all.
This humor is way to subtle for the average moderating audience. Know though that it is appreciated none the less. Keep up the good work.
There's always Linux for compute-intensive jobs, however.
Well, I'm running Ubuntu Hardon at home where it is mainly used by my wife for browsing purposes. I reasoned that for browsing the web you don't need more than the AMD 3200+ 1gb I put in there.
Strangely it manages to get completely swamped with talking to my wireless router when I take it far enough away from it.
I confess that I probably managed to screw with it and I should just do a clean install like I used to to with windows; it is just some anecdotal evidence to the point that you can slow down any box running any OS.
Then, he put in a driver CD to enable bluetooth functionality. It was absurd! Why crack the box open at all? My guess was to rationalize an obscene price by making a simple driver install an illusion of a "ZOMG hardware surgery performed by a engineer".
He would have to check if there was any hardware to install drivers for now wouldn't he?
Since you probably didn't bother to check if the price was reasonable either, nor if that which he needed to remove obstructed the slot he needed to stick the bluetooth card in, i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Thanks, I didn't think you'd notice!
As many of us I concur.
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Some examples to fume over: "So how fast is that, 3000 miles/hour? - Well, mach 3 is about 2300 miles/hour so mach 6 would be ERM about ERM 10000 miles/hour"
"So mach 6... how will a human be able to stand that? - Well the acceleration will be gradual, you wouldn't be able to take that immediate acceleration.."
immediate acceleration... I learned a new concept today. O wait, I didn't learn anything.
Just because the average human is a moron, doesn't mean you have to make it worse! Brings back memories of that one time that somebody asked me:
"So you study physics, what's the deal with that black hole?
- which black hole are you talking about?
Well that black hole that everybody is talking about.
- There are quite a few probably you know, the interesting thing to be talking about is the concept of a black hole, not a specific instance.
... blank stare
The horror... the unspeakable horror
It is not that strange. When I was studying physics we were also taught to guess (yes, that is strange isn't it ;). What I found out is that if you do it consciously there is always some kind of (fuzzy) theory behind the guess. Also almost always there are multiple different theories that you might base your guess on.
For example if you look at the jelly beans, you can count roughly 10% of the beans you can see, calculate the % of the area of the jar you can see and do the math. You can also estimate the size of a bean, the size of the jar and the packing factor. Both will be off, but the error is unrelated, so if you average them the error will be reduced relative to the actual value (probably that is).
So if you guess multiple times there is a chance you base your guess on multiple theories, and if you wait longer in between, the chance of not remembering the old guess (and therefore the chance that you pick a new theory) increases. All these theories have their flaws, but naturally they are all off in different directions. Average them and you will strengthen the commonalities and blur out the differences.
This works remarkably well if you do it consciously, and even better when you do it as a group. But it is no surprise to me that it also works to some measurable extent when it is done unconsciously.
Well I know flamebait when I see it, don't you be callin' me humor impaired, you twat!
It'll solve the interference problem, but if BPL noise is the normal state of things, you won't have many hams left.
Good point.
In my case, I've just got my car (battery/alternator) for backup power, but I've seen a few stations with dedicated generators. In the realm of emergency communication, most of the check-ins I hear on the weekly Houghton Co, MI net are on "emergency power" (battery/generator) just to make sure everything's working right, and IIRC the Lake Co, IL EOC has its own backup generators.
Yep, that emphasizes as well that you need to get rid of the interference to be able to test.
I know I was nitpicking, need I remind you we're on /.?
Very true. When I teach my security class I always start explaining Authentication and Authorization. The thing I want the students to take home is that security is broken on Authentication by definition, but there is no reason to make it worse.
If you authorize somebody to do something you're always taking a risk, you should minimize that risk as much as feasible by doing your best at authorization. That's as good as it gets.
Google is not magically going to correlate data.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/robotic-snake-moves-by-pushing-off-obstacles/ I remember reading an article about a guy designing robotic snakes more than 10 years ago. Hardly surprising that they have found an application for them now.
The value of 15B was mentioned in relation to the 1.6% share that microsoft has... It could be an error.
Let's all turn off d2 and put some google adds on /.!
how about just resolving myspace to localhost?