Oops -- forgot to mention, this is NOT 3-5 years off. Rather, this shows what technology will be HOT in the research community 3-5 years from now. Materials and such still must advance by a few leaps and bounds before this will show up on your desktop.
I worked with Professor Mark Reed from 1993-1995, and I can definitively say that he is (a) completely on top of the field, and (b) is probably closer than any other researcher to making this stuff work.
The problem is that most of the really exciting research results don't work above liquid nitrogen temperatures, and some don't even work above liquid HELIUM (4K) temperatures!
But I actually saw the quantum dot working, and helped perform some of the analysis of it (on some good old VAX hardware!) I also helped construct a custom I-V trace unit which used a wiggle voltage to produce better curve traces of the results. Some of these novel quantum semiconductor devices (see, for instance, the I-V trace of this one are actually capable of operating in more than just one single state -- the multiple plateaus in the 9 T graph show that this device can operate as a trinary logic device if you know what you're doing. Then again, it requires a 9 Tesla field to bring out these characteristics...
As I've said before on/., we need to solve the temperature and interconnect issues. Interconnect may have a new solution, per that article on molecular computing posted a few days ago here. Our materials science friends, though, need to keep making progress on materials which possess these unique characteristics at room temperature.
Now I've been reading of digital watermarks on DVD-Audio, which, in fact, are not entirely transparent and somewhat degrade the quality of sound. Don't you think the future of DVD-Audio is sort of written on a wall?
Not necessarily. Look at mp3 - a clearly inferior standard (to full 16bit, 44.1kHz 2-channel stereo CD audio) has taken off because people are willing to sacrifice some audio quality for a small file size. MiniDisc is now also taking off under much the same auspices - psychoacoustic processing reduces the amount of information stored, so the physical medium can be smaller.
What's a more interesting question, and is approaching completely off-topic, is whether or not all musicians will embrace 5.1 audio for their production. 2-channel audio is quite well entrenched, and the optimization of a stereo system in a room is MUCH easier than setting up a room for good 5.1 audio. The end result is that it's a hell of a lot easier to make 2-channel audio sound great...and with the typical DUMB consumer out there, the advantages of DVD-Audio aren't yet obvious.
Getting back on track, digital watermarking is being proven out which does not affect the quality of the audio. A brilliant audio engineer and electronic musician, Larry Fast (of Synergy and Peter Gabriel fame) has wholeheartedly endorsed this technology - and mentions on his site that he wants to use it for attribution ("Hey, I wrote this song!") rather than for copy protection. This, more than anything, may set a trend -- not as a means by which copying is prohibited, but to serve as an identifier of the original source of a given audio recording. I expect to see this everywhere in 10 years; think of it as a GIF comment for audio.
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Y'all need to check out Actuality Systems. These guys have some stellar technology which is just on the verge of being available. I actually went to college with the founder of the company, and this summary in the online-WSJ (no subscription required) of Gregg Favalora's technology is an incredible read. Among other things, he's won the BFGoodrich Collegiate Inventors Competition and the MIT $50,000 Entrepreneurship Competition. Watch this guy...and get in on his IPO.:)
If you're into the small robot concept, check out Stiquito, a nifty 6-legged robot. The books you can buy with Stiquito are also excellent introductions into the basics of robotics. They help introduce some of the basics without overwhelming you with nasty things like calculating Jacobians of matrices. It's $15 on its own, and between $30-$50 with one of the books
Thus spake Starlady: I'd like to reference the Y2K thread started by AC and continued by Paranoid Diatribe here - women are working in disproportionate numbers on this project because they feel that their time is well spent, as they will be able to see a definite end result.
Surprise, surprise! I'm responsible for Y2K compliance efforts for the products our company produces, exactly for that reason. Without generalizing (there are certainly a lot of men involved too!), we women are taking on this role precisely because we feel we make a difference. Perhaps it is a bit of indulging our maternal instincts.
Heaven knows I could have benefited from one. All I have learned about computing has been in the last four years. Granted, this has been a very good time to learn just based on the developments in the Internet, the Web, and the open source community, but my road towards geekdom would have been much simpler had I been exposed to computing - and female role models in the field - at a younger age.
Then do what I do - volunteer and tutor or mentor those younger than you. You clearly have the knowledge and expertise to impart; why not pass on your knowledge at the local high school or within your own company?
As for female leaders in technology, I've only recently been exposed to Lightbridge's CEO and President, Pamela Reeve.
Apology accepted! See my other append. We do get tired of pathetic sex-crazed geeks, but it doesn't make us give up on the online world forever. IRC? Yes. The Internet? No.:]
You make an excellent point, though I had a less-than-stellar experience at the Lab schools (I left immediately after third grade).
This is why I donate upwards of 100 hours a year tutoring and working with middle-school and high-school girls in math, science, and computers. I often encourage those women around me who are strong individuals (and don't have little children tying up their schedules!) to do the same. For those who do have children, I see them bringing their daughters into work on a semi-regular basis, showing them anything from how to browse the web from a real-live better-than-T1 connection to what Mommy's job programming in Java and C++ is all about.
Along the same lines, I have a mentor at my current company who is, in turn, tutoring me in the ways of management and project planning. I can't be enough of an advocate for these sorts of programs. If you're a woman in a higher position of responsibility within your company, offer to mentor those just starting out - it's fun, and utterly immensely important to whoever you mentor. You might even learn something from your mentee! (Is that even a word?)
So I'm with you, completely. The solution to getting more participation of women in technology isn't necessarily changing the attitudes of those male geeks out there - they're already more than receptive enough to having a woman in the cube next door - it's passing on your knowledge to your peers and those in the generation following your own.
I'm sorry, I didn't articulate clearly enough. I meant that most women who take up the effort to "get online" aren't going to be scared off-line forever by some ICQ 10S3R asking what they're wearing.
I intended to state that most aren't afraid to ask for help, and are willing to look for ways to "clean up" their experience of the Internet without giving up altogether (as suggested by the original poster.)
You're right, mail filters are a bit obscure of a concept. My fault for choosing a poor example.
I'm sure plenty of women are scared away from computers the first time they show up at a user's group meeting or similar get-together, log into IRC and start chatting, send EMail, post on/. or any other method of socializing whereby it becomes known that they are female.
Utter and complete bullshit. Yes, sometimes you run across the stalker who won't leave you alone, and you have to change your email addresses and install lots of filters. But this rubbish about women being scared away is simply perpetuating the myth that "women are scared, defenseless little creatures who must be protected from the big bad world at all costs."
Perhaps your mother or your grandmother viewed the world that way, but the vast majority of women my age (twentysomethings, that is) are fully actualized, self-confident people who know how to set up a mail filter, or at least who know how to man procmail or RTFM of their favorite mail reader.
The quicker you guys learn that today's woman can take care of herself, the quicker you'll find that elusive mate you've been looking for these past few years.
In your favor, though, your first two points are quite valid and need more serious attention. I'm doing my part by tutoring middle-school and high-school girls in math, science, and computers. Why not get your favorite female friend who likes geek stuff to do the same thing?
My third grade teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools was named Ms. Fano. She had the distinction of having assisted in the running and programming of one of the first computers - UNIVAC. It was directly because of her example, and the exciting stories she used to tell about a single console controlling rooms full of vacuum tubes, that I started taking those beige boxes with the colorful apple logo on them a bit more seriously. I can only hope that other girls in my class were just as impressed with those stories of a woman far ahead of her time.
As for open source: over the years, I've found that generally I contribute to projects which directly affect both myself and others who share the same ideals. I wouldn't be caught dead assisting in writing some inane Quake user editor because I don't feel it positively contributes to the world at large. However, I've happily contributed to Mozilla, Rio MP3 transfer software, a now-abandoned terminal emulator for OS/2, xlockmore, and other projects (including games!) which LONG pre-date Linux and the Open Source movement. These projects have helped me feel like I'm making a difference, like I'm doing something to help my peers. I certainly wouldn't rule out assisting in kernel development, device drivers, or pure UNIX-related stuff on an idealistic basis. However....
I'd never presume to speak for women in general, but most of those females I know who program and use *NIX as much as I do don't obsessively do so. On the contrary, most men I know who program and use *NIX do so all night long, sustaining themselves on Jolt and Oreos. I'll bring myself to do that once in a blue moon, but I (like my friends) like to spend more of my free time away from computers. When I get home in the evenings, I like to spend time with my cats, tutor, direct musicals, go out dancing, or a whole slew of other things which don't directly relate to programming. Because of this, I don't usually get involved with open source projects which are time-critical (like kernel releases) or require intense debugging and pouring over technical manuals (like device drivers). I do enough of that at my day job -- and I'd rather leave that sort of work to someone who really enjoys hooking up a logic analyzer, a disassembler and an external serial console to their PC at 2AM to try and get that bizarro sound card warbling correctly with the latest bleeding-edge kernel release.
So when you ask "How do we attract more women to these development projects?" you might also want to ask yourself "Are these projects something which a woman would want to work on?"
I'll let someone else give a review of the significant computing accomplishments provided by women to the Linux and Open Source movements . . . but if it's anything like the contributions women have made to commercial operating systems over the years, it may well be true that key portions of Linux were written entirely by women!
Oh, and by the way, keep your judgements of my preferences of recreational activites to yourself. Just because I don't and won't play Quake doesn't mean I will do anything to stop you from doing so.
Browsing through search matches on IBM's website, I came across this fascinating paper from the MIT Media Lab which discusses powering a wearable computer by body heat, breath, blood pressure, upper limb motion, walking, and finger motion. If IBM would just incorporate one of these technologies and a wireless LAN connection into their wearable PC, I'd never have to "plug-in" again!:)
Of course, this reminds me of a fake advertisement in a 1984-vintage computer magazine for the Micro Man-Frame. It featured Direct Retinal Graphics (DRG), an integrated keyboard (strapped to the guy's waist), and an easily stored battery back (don't ask.) Does anyone remember this?
If you're interested in not running NAT, and having a few honest-to-goodness IP addresses in the real world (none of this 10.x.x.x stuff), then forget about getting what you need from a cable company.
Also, some companies have gone so far as to refuse to install a cable modem for anyone not running Windows or MacOS on their machines. Last year, it even had to specifically be Win95 or 98 for one company in the Boston area -- they wouldn't even "install" their precious cable modem on an NT box!
Bandwidth concerns aside, if you want to do more than just consume data from other sites, cable modems (and especially their parent companies) are less than friendly.
I just heard a really cool talk given by Mr. Neil Weste (co-author of a VERY famous VLSI textbook) about a chip he's been working on in association with DARPA which can detect such things as anthrax, ebola, and so on in very minute quantities.
The title of his paper, Who put the sugar in Sydney Harbor?, refers to the sensitivity of his chip. It's capable of detecting concentrations as small as a teaspoon of sugar placed in Sydney Harbor. That's impressive. Check out his abstract or nice non-technical article. It's an interesting, entertaining, and not-too-technical read.
After completing umpteen years of higher education and receiving a couple of degrees, I've found myself sorely wanting more out of life than spending 18 hours writing Java or C code each day. It's already been bad enough struggling to prove that a woman can code circles around her male counterparts... and now it's just becoming tiresome. You, on the other hand, have obviously broken out of the mold and found a place for yourself with your strip.
People always ask that stupid question, "What advice do you have for people starting in field x, y, or z?" Rather than bore you with that, I want to know: What can I do to build my self-confidence enough to try and strike out on my own? What helped you get through the nervousness that you'd be perenially broke, sitting day after day, waiting for that "big break?" I find that's the biggest block to me leaving my current job (which pays very well, thank you very much) and trying to do something that I'll truly enjoy.
I know that, one day, I won't be coding this shit anymore, and that I'll move on to something more meaningful. Help me understand what I can do to quell my logical side for just those few nanoseconds so that I can break free of the corporate culture.
Um, at least Bambi and Dawn are both of African descent (see today's strip). Or perhaps you've never mingled with people descended from different lineage than yourself? *smirk*
And, of course, I get a great tan just driving to and from work. I'll bet those of us techno babes living in the Silicon Valley could get a great tan in the 1+ hours traffic each way on 101...
id games are a bit more recent than the target for the database. It's intended to be more of a warehouse of games made in the 80s and PERHAPS early 90s...
Some of the best demos of yesteryear were programmed on hardware of this vintage. As my friend Trixter used to say, "A 386 can run Windows 95. A 286 makes for a great spreadsheet. You can even browse the web with an old PC. And the games - - oh, the games are much, much better than you remember them."
...how IBM just never got it with OS/2. They now (according to some second-hand resources) make more off of OS/2 than AIX, and yet they still (10 years later) can't sell it externally.
...most likely against IBM, who is poised to port their journalled file system (JFS, which rox my world) to their "project Monterey" version of a semi-free, semi-commercial x86 UNIX.
Has anyone ever run comparisons between JFS and XFS? I'd be interested in reading the results of a head-to-head comeptition. I've always been a fan of JFS on my AIX boxen. There's nothing like experiencing a hard power failure and having your UNIX box come back up without so much as batting an eyelash.
This article once again shows how Monty Python was directly influenced by The Goon Show. You should definitely seek out and purchase these fine radio programs. Prepare for 30 minutes of absolute and complete confusion to warp your fragile little mind. Peter Sellers went on record before his death and said his 9 years with the Goon Show were the best years of his life. Hey, who am I to argue?
Be forewarned -- the first one you listen to will be so confusing that you might be tempted to stop listening. DON'T. Once you understand the basic characters (Major Dennis Bloodnok, Bluebottle, Neddie Seagoon, Eccles, and Hercules Grytpype-Thynne) and what the heck they're doing, you'll split your sides laughing.
What's your favorite episode? Mine must be Six Charlies In Search Of An Author. Pirandello, eat your heart out!
I've been working hard with Henry Sobotka (and previously John Fairhurst) in trying to get the OS/2 port completed, the Makefiles and header files modified so that we can actually build it automatically, and integrate those changes into the tip of the source tree.
Unfortunately for us, there has been little-to-no support from people who have been blessed with CVS checkin authority to allow us to get the build patches in that we need to stay current with the latest changes on the tree. Without getting these patches in (regardless of whether we boxcar or not), our ability to address bugs is virtually nil.
What good is a bug fix metric when we can't even build the latest tree?
Before I rant for too long, it's important to note that support has changed very recently (Henry is working with someone to get the OS/2 build patches checked in), but it took WAY too long before that support materialized.
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Oops -- forgot to mention, this is NOT 3-5 years off. Rather, this shows what technology will be HOT in the research community 3-5 years from now. Materials and such still must advance by a few leaps and bounds before this will show up on your desktop.
The problem is that most of the really exciting research results don't work above liquid nitrogen temperatures, and some don't even work above liquid HELIUM (4K) temperatures!
But I actually saw the quantum dot working, and helped perform some of the analysis of it (on some good old VAX hardware!) I also helped construct a custom I-V trace unit which used a wiggle voltage to produce better curve traces of the results. Some of these novel quantum semiconductor devices (see, for instance, the I-V trace of this one are actually capable of operating in more than just one single state -- the multiple plateaus in the 9 T graph show that this device can operate as a trinary logic device if you know what you're doing. Then again, it requires a 9 Tesla field to bring out these characteristics...
As I've said before on /., we need to solve the temperature and interconnect issues. Interconnect may have a new solution, per that article on molecular computing posted a few days ago here. Our materials science friends, though, need to keep making progress on materials which possess these unique characteristics at room temperature.
Not necessarily. Look at mp3 - a clearly inferior standard (to full 16bit, 44.1kHz 2-channel stereo CD audio) has taken off because people are willing to sacrifice some audio quality for a small file size. MiniDisc is now also taking off under much the same auspices - psychoacoustic processing reduces the amount of information stored, so the physical medium can be smaller.
What's a more interesting question, and is approaching completely off-topic, is whether or not all musicians will embrace 5.1 audio for their production. 2-channel audio is quite well entrenched, and the optimization of a stereo system in a room is MUCH easier than setting up a room for good 5.1 audio. The end result is that it's a hell of a lot easier to make 2-channel audio sound great...and with the typical DUMB consumer out there, the advantages of DVD-Audio aren't yet obvious.
Getting back on track, digital watermarking is being proven out which does not affect the quality of the audio. A brilliant audio engineer and electronic musician, Larry Fast (of Synergy and Peter Gabriel fame) has wholeheartedly endorsed this technology - and mentions on his site that he wants to use it for attribution ("Hey, I wrote this song!") rather than for copy protection. This, more than anything, may set a trend -- not as a means by which copying is prohibited, but to serve as an identifier of the original source of a given audio recording. I expect to see this everywhere in 10 years; think of it as a GIF comment for audio.
The hacker, who also altered a handful of government Web sites in recent days, says he expects to be arrested soon.
Yet it seems obvious to me from flipz's first crack on attrition.org that flipz is a woman.
Just another example of gender bias in the media. out
Oh, I'm sorry, we needed heating engineer Tuttle, not Buttle! It's too late though, your husband is dead.
WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HIS BODY?
Get your morning tea, Wohali....
The short of it - the economic discussions might be fair, but the DVORAK argument is not.
I'd like to reference the Y2K thread started by AC and continued by Paranoid Diatribe here - women are working in disproportionate numbers on this project because they feel that their time is well spent, as they will be able to see a definite end result.
Surprise, surprise! I'm responsible for Y2K compliance efforts for the products our company produces, exactly for that reason. Without generalizing (there are certainly a lot of men involved too!), we women are taking on this role precisely because we feel we make a difference. Perhaps it is a bit of indulging our maternal instincts.
Heaven knows I could have benefited from one. All I have learned about computing has been in the last four years. Granted, this has been a very good time to learn just based on the developments in the Internet, the Web, and the open source community, but my road towards geekdom would have been much simpler had I been exposed to computing - and female role models in the field - at a younger age.
Then do what I do - volunteer and tutor or mentor those younger than you. You clearly have the knowledge and expertise to impart; why not pass on your knowledge at the local high school or within your own company?
As for female leaders in technology, I've only recently been exposed to Lightbridge's CEO and President, Pamela Reeve.
This is why I donate upwards of 100 hours a year tutoring and working with middle-school and high-school girls in math, science, and computers. I often encourage those women around me who are strong individuals (and don't have little children tying up their schedules!) to do the same. For those who do have children, I see them bringing their daughters into work on a semi-regular basis, showing them anything from how to browse the web from a real-live better-than-T1 connection to what Mommy's job programming in Java and C++ is all about.
Along the same lines, I have a mentor at my current company who is, in turn, tutoring me in the ways of management and project planning. I can't be enough of an advocate for these sorts of programs. If you're a woman in a higher position of responsibility within your company, offer to mentor those just starting out - it's fun, and utterly immensely important to whoever you mentor. You might even learn something from your mentee! (Is that even a word?)
So I'm with you, completely. The solution to getting more participation of women in technology isn't necessarily changing the attitudes of those male geeks out there - they're already more than receptive enough to having a woman in the cube next door - it's passing on your knowledge to your peers and those in the generation following your own.
I'm sorry, I didn't articulate clearly enough. I meant that most women who take up the effort to "get online" aren't going to be scared off-line forever by some ICQ 10S3R asking what they're wearing.
I intended to state that most aren't afraid to ask for help, and are willing to look for ways to "clean up" their experience of the Internet without giving up altogether (as suggested by the original poster.)
You're right, mail filters are a bit obscure of a concept. My fault for choosing a poor example.
I'm sure plenty of women are scared away from computers the first time they show up at a user's group meeting or similar get-together, log into IRC and start chatting, send EMail, post on /. or any other method of socializing whereby it becomes known that they are female.
Utter and complete bullshit. Yes, sometimes you run across the stalker who won't leave you alone, and you have to change your email addresses and install lots of filters. But this rubbish about women being scared away is simply perpetuating the myth that "women are scared, defenseless little creatures who must be protected from the big bad world at all costs."
Perhaps your mother or your grandmother viewed the world that way, but the vast majority of women my age (twentysomethings, that is) are fully actualized, self-confident people who know how to set up a mail filter, or at least who know how to man procmail or RTFM of their favorite mail reader.
The quicker you guys learn that today's woman can take care of herself, the quicker you'll find that elusive mate you've been looking for these past few years.
In your favor, though, your first two points are quite valid and need more serious attention. I'm doing my part by tutoring middle-school and high-school girls in math, science, and computers. Why not get your favorite female friend who likes geek stuff to do the same thing?
As for open source: over the years, I've found that generally I contribute to projects which directly affect both myself and others who share the same ideals. I wouldn't be caught dead assisting in writing some inane Quake user editor because I don't feel it positively contributes to the world at large. However, I've happily contributed to Mozilla, Rio MP3 transfer software, a now-abandoned terminal emulator for OS/2, xlockmore, and other projects (including games!) which LONG pre-date Linux and the Open Source movement. These projects have helped me feel like I'm making a difference, like I'm doing something to help my peers. I certainly wouldn't rule out assisting in kernel development, device drivers, or pure UNIX-related stuff on an idealistic basis. However....
I'd never presume to speak for women in general, but most of those females I know who program and use *NIX as much as I do don't obsessively do so. On the contrary, most men I know who program and use *NIX do so all night long, sustaining themselves on Jolt and Oreos. I'll bring myself to do that once in a blue moon, but I (like my friends) like to spend more of my free time away from computers. When I get home in the evenings, I like to spend time with my cats, tutor, direct musicals, go out dancing, or a whole slew of other things which don't directly relate to programming. Because of this, I don't usually get involved with open source projects which are time-critical (like kernel releases) or require intense debugging and pouring over technical manuals (like device drivers). I do enough of that at my day job -- and I'd rather leave that sort of work to someone who really enjoys hooking up a logic analyzer, a disassembler and an external serial console to their PC at 2AM to try and get that bizarro sound card warbling correctly with the latest bleeding-edge kernel release.
So when you ask "How do we attract more women to these development projects?" you might also want to ask yourself "Are these projects something which a woman would want to work on?"
I'll let someone else give a review of the significant computing accomplishments provided by women to the Linux and Open Source movements . . . but if it's anything like the contributions women have made to commercial operating systems over the years, it may well be true that key portions of Linux were written entirely by women!
Oh, and by the way, keep your judgements of my preferences of recreational activites to yourself. Just because I don't and won't play Quake doesn't mean I will do anything to stop you from doing so.
Of course, this reminds me of a fake advertisement in a 1984-vintage computer magazine for the Micro Man-Frame. It featured Direct Retinal Graphics (DRG), an integrated keyboard (strapped to the guy's waist), and an easily stored battery back (don't ask.) Does anyone remember this?
Also, some companies have gone so far as to refuse to install a cable modem for anyone not running Windows or MacOS on their machines. Last year, it even had to specifically be Win95 or 98 for one company in the Boston area -- they wouldn't even "install" their precious cable modem on an NT box!
Bandwidth concerns aside, if you want to do more than just consume data from other sites, cable modems (and especially their parent companies) are less than friendly.
The title of his paper, Who put the sugar in Sydney Harbor?, refers to the sensitivity of his chip. It's capable of detecting concentrations as small as a teaspoon of sugar placed in Sydney Harbor. That's impressive. Check out his abstract or nice non-technical article. It's an interesting, entertaining, and not-too-technical read.
After completing umpteen years of higher education and receiving a couple of degrees, I've found myself sorely wanting more out of life than spending 18 hours writing Java or C code each day. It's already been bad enough struggling to prove that a woman can code circles around her male counterparts ... and now it's just becoming tiresome. You, on the other hand, have obviously broken out of the mold and found a place for yourself with your strip.
People always ask that stupid question, "What advice do you have for people starting in field x, y, or z?" Rather than bore you with that, I want to know: What can I do to build my self-confidence enough to try and strike out on my own? What helped you get through the nervousness that you'd be perenially broke, sitting day after day, waiting for that "big break?" I find that's the biggest block to me leaving my current job (which pays very well, thank you very much) and trying to do something that I'll truly enjoy.
I know that, one day, I won't be coding this shit anymore, and that I'll move on to something more meaningful. Help me understand what I can do to quell my logical side for just those few nanoseconds so that I can break free of the corporate culture.
Wohali
And, of course, I get a great tan just driving to and from work. I'll bet those of us techno babes living in the Silicon Valley could get a great tan in the 1+ hours traffic each way on 101...
You can check out those old games at MobyGames.
Funny.
Has anyone ever run comparisons between JFS and XFS? I'd be interested in reading the results of a head-to-head comeptition. I've always been a fan of JFS on my AIX boxen. There's nothing like experiencing a hard power failure and having your UNIX box come back up without so much as batting an eyelash.
Be forewarned -- the first one you listen to will be so confusing that you might be tempted to stop listening. DON'T. Once you understand the basic characters (Major Dennis Bloodnok, Bluebottle, Neddie Seagoon, Eccles, and Hercules Grytpype-Thynne) and what the heck they're doing, you'll split your sides laughing.
What's your favorite episode? Mine must be Six Charlies In Search Of An Author. Pirandello, eat your heart out!
He's fallen in the water! Needle Nardle Noo!
Unfortunately for us, there has been little-to-no support from people who have been blessed with CVS checkin authority to allow us to get the build patches in that we need to stay current with the latest changes on the tree. Without getting these patches in (regardless of whether we boxcar or not), our ability to address bugs is virtually nil.
What good is a bug fix metric when we can't even build the latest tree?
Before I rant for too long, it's important to note that support has changed very recently (Henry is working with someone to get the OS/2 build patches checked in), but it took WAY too long before that support materialized.