Probably not. But the time and effort spent creating new languages doesn't really hurt anyone. Unless you credit the idea that, by not working on another existing Open/Free Source project, they are diluting efforts to control Microsoft's attempts to embrace and extend the world.
Consider the materials necessary for flight alone.
And after materials, then consider the degree of control required. Kites are designed to work in a certain amount of wind. Too much wind for the design and the kite will tear itself apart. Too little wind and the kite won't get off the ground.
A varying windspeed or direction would play heck with pulling a large stone anything in anything like a specified direction.
Basically, it's a lot easier to control sand than wind.
The decline of the passenger pigeon began when the westward migration of man finally reached the pigeon's tradional flyways. Shortly thereafter, American men began hearing a refrain that is familiar even today; "Wilbur, you fix them durn pigeons so they quits messing on my wash line or you'll be sleeping in the barn."
The difference is that today we raise them for food instead of chasing hundreds of them off a cliff
People have been eating bison since shortly after the first people saw their first bison. The real difference is that now we selectively harvest the herd by mechanical means instead of running the entire herd off of a cliff to avoid taking massive personal damage in hand-to-horn combat.
Actually, it was Disney's "Lloyd in Outer Space" just a few weeks ago. Remember, the one where Lloyd's science fair project developed a taste for junk food?
Carry an old-fashioned clipboard. Nobody questions a guy taking notes on a clipboard. And if they do, ask them their name and employee number and then write it down on (the otherwise blank) page three of the clipboard.
Well, if you have bothered to read the article you'd realize that in fact this new design reduces the amount of dangerous radiation absorbed by the user
Unless the researchers have succeeded in developing a completely new form of radio frequency radiation in addition to their basic claim (a new type of antenna), the output from any of their "antennas" will be exactly as harmful or benign as the RF from any conventional wire antenna.
Multiple little technological slips like this in the article cause me to wonder if this isn't a delayed printing of a press release dated April First.
Years of reading the April annual reports from Larson E. Rapp in QST have helped me develop a highly sensitive Bullshit Filter (BF). And, after reading this article, the meter on my BF is pegged full-scale.
Ancient saying states that any sufficiently advanced science is indestinguishable from black magic.
Corollary of ancient saying states that any sufficiently buzz-worded press release is indestinguishable from newspaper representation of scientatific fact.
I'll get more resumes than I can ever respond to. I can get literally dozens of resumes weekly from any recruiter I contact.
You can thin those out pretty easily. The ones who didn't bother to spell-check their resume are the same ones who won't bother to check their code. I have gotten flamed over this multiple times over the years, but I have never seen anyone with spelling errors on a resume who could code his/her way out of a simple financial statement print program.
Looks like a good thing. Another company getting into the open-ness.
But the question to me is, if SAP has their own database, why don't SAP customers use that instead of adding complexity by purchasing third-party databases from (among others) Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft? If the SAP SQL database works, why don't they use that? Can't be a matter of cost; surely SAP doesn't charge more for their SQL product than other companies.
At my last client site, we spent two years trying to force SAP to work on a mandated third-party database. We were never told that there was an option to use a SAP database engine.
I ain't trolling. Anybody know for sure? Is this thing viable?
The incident is reported in Robert Dallek's biography of Johnson, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973 although this is not where I first heard of it.
An online reference can be found near the bottom of page 53 of the document : http://www.nku.edu/~phi/v15.pdf
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was brought to pass as one of the earliest actions of President Lyndon Johnson as a direct result of his having been embarrassed in some hick town in the south when his family's black/colored/negro staff were (in his presence) refused the use of public restrooms and forced to squat in a ditch beside the highway. According to the rules of "good old boy" politics that Johnson grew up in, the insult passed up to him personally and could not go unanswered.
Protests and marches and songs are all very colorful, but for guaranteed action, all you need to do is see that someone personally humiliates the future President of the United States.
I did not make this up. Put aside the "official" history books and go read the history of Lyndon Johnson.
The amateur radio world is divided into three regions. ( see map: http://www.iaru.org/ituzonesc.gif )
For the graphics-impaired (I'm running lynx this morning), region 1 is Europe, Middle-East, Africa, and Russia. Region 2 is North, Central, and South America. Region 3 is Pacific and Indian Ocean nations.
Oh, and China.
Asteroid-size" is not particularly descriptive. Rather, let's say that you need rocks about the size of a Volkswagen / Ford Escort and some way to alter their course. The more rocks and the cheaper the navigation controls, the more dangerous.
See: Heinlein, Robert. "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress". ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312863551/ o/qid=987087687/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/107-482474 7-2198150 )
Adam's comments show that, if nothing else, he has managed to learn the four hardest rules of life in the commercial world.
I am just sorry that he learned them the hard way. If you, (Mr/Ms) Slashdot reader, read no other story today, please read Adam's four warnings. Understanding or at least accepting them can literally change your life as a techie.
As somebody else once said, "This is no-shit serious".
Maybe if this "radio" were to cost as much as a regular radio...
Too right. Companies that forget to check market realities often get the rug yanked out from under them.
Classic case from history: Engineers at Texas Instruments designed the ultimate Citizen's Band radio. 23 channels of frequency-synthesized delight that was to sell for $1500.00. Until somebody outside the project showed them a copy of a local newspaper with page after page of ads for 40-channel radios from other companies selling under $100.00.
Sometimes it's not just programmers who come up with solutions for problems that don't exist.
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Do we really need another...
Probably not. But the time and effort spent creating new languages doesn't really hurt anyone. Unless you credit the idea that, by not working on another existing Open/Free Source project, they are diluting efforts to control Microsoft's attempts to embrace and extend the world.
Hmm... Austrailian chicks on an 800- number. I got to get me one of them Cisco thingies.
Rebooting does not solve the problem because Windows is the problem.
But wouldn't you really rather have a piece of software named "FAOL" (pronounced "foul") and standing for... well, you figger it out.
And after materials, then consider the degree of control required. Kites are designed to work in a certain amount of wind. Too much wind for the design and the kite will tear itself apart. Too little wind and the kite won't get off the ground.
A varying windspeed or direction would play heck with pulling a large stone anything in anything like a specified direction.
Basically, it's a lot easier to control sand than wind.
The decline of the passenger pigeon began when the westward migration of man finally reached the pigeon's tradional flyways. Shortly thereafter, American men began hearing a refrain that is familiar even today; "Wilbur, you fix them durn pigeons so they quits messing on my wash line or you'll be sleeping in the barn."
The difference is that today we raise them for food instead of chasing hundreds of them off a cliff
People have been eating bison since shortly after the first people saw their first bison. The real difference is that now we selectively harvest the herd by mechanical means instead of running the entire herd off of a cliff to avoid taking massive personal damage in hand-to-horn combat.
And another great, new advertising slogan is born:
Actually, it was Disney's "Lloyd in Outer Space" just a few weeks ago. Remember, the one where Lloyd's science fair project developed a taste for junk food?
If you have to ask how much it would cost, you couldn't afford it.
Carry an old-fashioned clipboard. Nobody questions a guy taking notes on a clipboard. And if they do, ask them their name and employee number and then write it down on (the otherwise blank) page three of the clipboard.
Unless the researchers have succeeded in developing a completely new form of radio frequency radiation in addition to their basic claim (a new type of antenna), the output from any of their "antennas" will be exactly as harmful or benign as the RF from any conventional wire antenna.
Multiple little technological slips like this in the article cause me to wonder if this isn't a delayed printing of a press release dated April First.
Years of reading the April annual reports from Larson E. Rapp in QST have helped me develop a highly sensitive Bullshit Filter (BF). And, after reading this article, the meter on my BF is pegged full-scale.
Ancient saying states that any sufficiently advanced science is indestinguishable from black magic.
Corollary of ancient saying states that any sufficiently buzz-worded press release is indestinguishable from newspaper representation of scientatific fact.
You can thin those out pretty easily. The ones who didn't bother to spell-check their resume are the same ones who won't bother to check their code. I have gotten flamed over this multiple times over the years, but I have never seen anyone with spelling errors on a resume who could code his/her way out of a simple financial statement print program.
Budgie - In the U.S., the bird known as parakeet.
Buttie - In the U.K., a sandwich.
A google search returns no occurances of the term "budgie buttie". Just in case you were going to ask.
What kind of hazard-duty pay for the admins?
But the question to me is, if SAP has their own database, why don't SAP customers use that instead of adding complexity by purchasing third-party databases from (among others) Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft? If the SAP SQL database works, why don't they use that? Can't be a matter of cost; surely SAP doesn't charge more for their SQL product than other companies.
At my last client site, we spent two years trying to force SAP to work on a mandated third-party database. We were never told that there was an option to use a SAP database engine.
I ain't trolling. Anybody know for sure? Is this thing viable?
An online reference can be found near the bottom of page 53 of the document : http://www.nku.edu/~phi/v15.pdf
Protests and marches and songs are all very colorful, but for guaranteed action, all you need to do is see that someone personally humiliates the future President of the United States.
I did not make this up. Put aside the "official" history books and go read the history of Lyndon Johnson.
"Bob, what's that on your screen. Are you reading a technical website again? Damn it, I'm paying you to watch this porn site. Now get back to work!"
The amateur radio world is divided into three regions. ( see map: http://www.iaru.org/ituzonesc.gif )
For the graphics-impaired (I'm running lynx this morning), region 1 is Europe, Middle-East, Africa, and Russia. Region 2 is North, Central, and South America. Region 3 is Pacific and Indian Ocean nations.
Oh, and China.
Is there an OldSchool tie?
Asteroid-size" is not particularly descriptive. Rather, let's say that you need rocks about the size of a Volkswagen / Ford Escort and some way to alter their course. The more rocks and the cheaper the navigation controls, the more dangerous.
See: Heinlein, Robert. "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress". ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312863551/ o/qid=987087687/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/107-482474 7-2198150 )
The rule is that the more manuverable craft yields to the less manuverable. Air or sea. Same rule.
I am just sorry that he learned them the hard way. If you, (Mr/Ms) Slashdot reader, read no other story today, please read Adam's four warnings. Understanding or at least accepting them can literally change your life as a techie.
As somebody else once said, "This is no-shit serious".
Too right. Companies that forget to check market realities often get the rug yanked out from under them.
Classic case from history: Engineers at Texas Instruments designed the ultimate Citizen's Band radio. 23 channels of frequency-synthesized delight that was to sell for $1500.00. Until somebody outside the project showed them a copy of a local newspaper with page after page of ads for 40-channel radios from other companies selling under $100.00.
Sometimes it's not just programmers who come up with solutions for problems that don't exist.