The problem was discovered years ago, took 6 months to investigate and nearly 2 years to resolve. The BBC told us all about it with nice graphics the other night.
Its important not to loose sight of the harshness of the enviroment these systems are designed to operate in. As a simple example striking a match is an easy task to perform yet people trapped in cold remote areas have died because they were under too much stress to light a fire even though they had the tools. Its also question of consequences when something goes wrong, and space is not very forgiving.
Except this race is way cooler and will likely pay off in a much more productive way.
Yes because this sort of computing power holds no attraction to the military for weapon modeling purposes or to the untouchables running echelon type programs.
So a microsoft monoculture is bad but a GNU/Linux monoculture is good?
Personally I am pleased to see the BSD's get some attention. I had a brief dabble with FreeBSD a while ago and I have to say it was a pleasure. Easy to install and configure, very solid feel to it and excellent performance on quite limited hardware, so much so that I would consider FreeBSD before a Linux distro for a server installation. You are correct in that their focus does tend to be a bit narrow, and the majority are probably not going to be running FreeBSD on their desktop but thats not to say it does not have its place, as do OpenBSD and NetBSD. What was the Unix ethos again? Oh yeah, do one thing and do it well.
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Only on Slashdot could the issue of patents be seriously compared to the issue of Armageddon.
And as if that was not enough the poster tries to equate a situation where we would all presumably die rather unpleasantly for the most part with a few lawyers making a killing in the short term. People here really need some perspective. Producing such moronic analogies just makes your argument seem ridiculous.
I dont know and dont care what Rob Pike thinks about patents but I thought his answer perfect given the stupid phrasing of the question.
I'm confused. Please enlighten me as to how a web browser is an implementation of the HTML standard? If IRC HTML is a language and the standard says if you are going to build a web site, use this.
Browsers are under _no_ obligation to implement it and can render it however they see fit but obviously its in their interest to be compatible. This was my point. There is no official standard that says a browser must do anything.
And for your information Java is not a standard. Its an implementation from SUN, the specification of which they control and have consistently refused to submit to a standards body. There was no battle with IE, it was with MS over MS attempting to extend the language with platform specific features. The Common Language Runtime on the other hand is a standard having been submitted to the EMCA and anyone can build an implementation. Please learn what a standard actually is.
Sorry what standard was IE based on exactly? Oh wait, there was no standard for browsers. MS were free to innovate or assimilate as they saw fit with IE.
I find it somewhat ironic that the OSS movement often bang on about standards but are usually less forthcoming when it comes to actually implementing standards. Everyone is happy to run off and do things their own way because obviously they know best. Commercial vendors on the other had are far more willing to conform to a 'standard' (be it actual or micky mouse) because its a selling point for them and help customers part with their cash.
The problem I have with standards (I am broadly in favour of them though) in IT is they often attempt a one size fits all solution, the vendors fight over what should be in them and a hodge podge of a solution results that sometimes works, sometimes doesnt. Very often there is a disconnect between what the talking heads decide and what engineers/users want or implement. What I find tends to happen is first to market with a decent implementation sets the standard, and this is not necessarily a bad thing because it forces competitors to improve their offerings to compete. A product can only be so compliant, after that it needs something else to differentiate itself in the market.
Can you please not post dupe stories so fast. Normally for dupes I like to have a quick scan of the original to pilfer some highly moderated comments as part of my on going karma whoring policy. Obviously this is process is made much more difficult by you posting the dupes in such quick succession.
Please allow at least a day between dupes co I hate having to make up my own posts.
if you check out the config file it has the following
<!--This section covers objects to be ignored by ZoneMind
<ignore-section>
<postman/>
<neighbours dog/>
<trees/>
<!--Do not uncomment the following unless you want no proof your home was robbed
<villans/>
-->
<neighbours kid/>
</ignore-section>
I think Intel have realised they are reaching the point of diminishing return with trying to keep cranking up the Mhz on the current architecture and there are cheaper performance gains to be had else where.
I thought I was a star wars fan till I found slashdot, now I realise I just thought they were entertaining movies. Its been so long since I have see the originals I doubt I would actually notice the changes or even be aware of them if I had not been forewarned.
And where exactly is all of this methane going to come from?
The article neglected to mention that beans were to be enforced as the staple diet for the whole planet. Initially every citizen will be expected to report daily to their nearest power plant for 'fuel' retrieval but it is envisaged that within a few years there will be sufficient levels of methane for direct extraction from the air in the major cities.
It goes without saying a ban on all naked flames will be required in the major metropolitan areas.
So 70+ hours a week of detail-oriented, highly-skilled work is easy?
Your reading skills are so poor its no wonder you have a 70 hour week. I said nothing about it being easy, quite the opposite in fact.
When the IT staff is underpaid and overworked, and they see the company president's idiot nephew get hired out college for twice the IT staffer's salary (the ones with 20+ years of experience), they get mad.
See my IT staff have an amazing capacity to be whiney bitches comment.
Yes I have seen the scandals and newsflash buddy, they apply to everyone. IT staff were not picked out individually as victims in them.
The fact is, if you are working for them then YES - THEY DO OWE YOU
No, they will recompense you with the salary and bonuses you agreed when you took the position. If thats not enough then why are you there? Is there some other company willing to pay you more that you present position is preventing you from obtaining?
If its making you life hell then you choose the wrong profession. Suck up the pain and change career or work a bit harder to improve you current situation.
What a load of bollox.
We are up against shady corporations who lack the motivation to really give us our fair due
Get a grip. No one owes you a living. You are due nothing.
Coders who lack the necessary financial or social rewards in their lives sometimes choose the dark side of the force.
You mean social misfits or those who are not able/willing to build up a solid portfolio of work history?
This attitude a lot of developers have that they are 'elite' or somehow deserving of greater renumeration or social pathos gives me a pain. Its a job, thats it. Its not a vocation, or a mission from God. Some are better than others just as some doctors are better than others. At the end of day its just a job you can either perform well in a professional environment or not. Millions of people work shit jobs for even shittier pay without a fration of the whining the IT community can manange at the drop of a hat. As my uncle often told me 'Hard work was never meant to be easy'. If a bit of effort is too much for you then go win the lottery.
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Of course they are confident, theres an emule client on board connected to DonkeyServer 27
You must be new here.
Or just not yet cynical enough if you have not learned to accept the double standards that abound around here.
I think they are referring to the seas of liquid hydrocarbons suspected to exist on Titan as oil.
excepting the /. dedication to journalism of course, no fear of seeing anything unsubstantiated here.
You really have no idea what discrimination means do you. Try not to confuse your bias with womens choices in future.
The problem was discovered years ago, took 6 months to investigate and nearly 2 years to resolve. The BBC told us all about it with nice graphics the other night.
Its important not to loose sight of the harshness of the enviroment these systems are designed to operate in. As a simple example striking a match is an easy task to perform yet people trapped in cold remote areas have died because they were under too much stress to light a fire even though they had the tools. Its also question of consequences when something goes wrong, and space is not very forgiving.
Except this race is way cooler and will likely pay off in a much more productive way.
Yes because this sort of computing power holds no attraction to the military for weapon modeling purposes or to the untouchables running echelon type programs.
Put a metric shitload of money in my bank account they would find my buy button pretty quickly.
I will wait for Dennis Ritchie to develop I love Cees
Who could hang a name on you
Oh come on someone had to do it.
So a microsoft monoculture is bad but a GNU/Linux monoculture is good?
Personally I am pleased to see the BSD's get some attention. I had a brief dabble with FreeBSD a while ago and I have to say it was a pleasure. Easy to install and configure, very solid feel to it and excellent performance on quite limited hardware, so much so that I would consider FreeBSD before a Linux distro for a server installation. You are correct in that their focus does tend to be a bit narrow, and the majority are probably not going to be running FreeBSD on their desktop but thats not to say it does not have its place, as do OpenBSD and NetBSD. What was the Unix ethos again? Oh yeah, do one thing and do it well.
Only on Slashdot could the issue of patents be seriously compared to the issue of Armageddon.
And as if that was not enough the poster tries to equate a situation where we would all presumably die rather unpleasantly for the most part with a few lawyers making a killing in the short term. People here really need some perspective. Producing such moronic analogies just makes your argument seem ridiculous.
I dont know and dont care what Rob Pike thinks about patents but I thought his answer perfect given the stupid phrasing of the question.
I'm confused. Please enlighten me as to how a web browser is an implementation of the HTML standard? If IRC HTML is a language and the standard says if you are going to build a web site, use this.
Browsers are under _no_ obligation to implement it and can render it however they see fit but obviously its in their interest to be compatible. This was my point. There is no official standard that says a browser must do anything.
And for your information Java is not a standard. Its an implementation from SUN, the specification of which they control and have consistently refused to submit to a standards body. There was no battle with IE, it was with MS over MS attempting to extend the language with platform specific features. The Common Language Runtime on the other hand is a standard having been submitted to the EMCA and anyone can build an implementation. Please learn what a standard actually is.
Sorry what standard was IE based on exactly? Oh wait, there was no standard for browsers. MS were free to innovate or assimilate as they saw fit with IE.
I find it somewhat ironic that the OSS movement often bang on about standards but are usually less forthcoming when it comes to actually implementing standards. Everyone is happy to run off and do things their own way because obviously they know best. Commercial vendors on the other had are far more willing to conform to a 'standard' (be it actual or micky mouse) because its a selling point for them and help customers part with their cash.
The problem I have with standards (I am broadly in favour of them though) in IT is they often attempt a one size fits all solution, the vendors fight over what should be in them and a hodge podge of a solution results that sometimes works, sometimes doesnt. Very often there is a disconnect between what the talking heads decide and what engineers/users want or implement. What I find tends to happen is first to market with a decent implementation sets the standard, and this is not necessarily a bad thing because it forces competitors to improve their offerings to compete. A product can only be so compliant, after that it needs something else to differentiate itself in the market.
Just send a diplomat to Mars, establish a trade agreement and an alliance with them and build a road.
Then we can quickly invade when they least expect it. When you play enough Rome Total War these things become soooo obvious.
If you had bothered to look the lenses of the glasses flip up away from the frame so you see indoors or when it gets darker.
Can you please not post dupe stories so fast. Normally for dupes I like to have a quick scan of the original to pilfer some highly moderated comments as part of my on going karma whoring policy. Obviously this is process is made much more difficult by you posting the dupes in such quick succession.
Please allow at least a day between dupes co I hate having to make up my own posts.
if you check out the config file it has the following
<!--This section covers objects to be ignored by ZoneMind
<ignore-section>
<postman/>
<neighbours dog/>
<trees/>
<!--Do not uncomment the following unless you want no proof your home was robbed
<villans/>
-->
<neighbours kid/>
</ignore-section>
I think Intel have realised they are reaching the point of diminishing return with trying to keep cranking up the Mhz on the current architecture and there are cheaper performance gains to be had else where.
I thought I was a star wars fan till I found slashdot, now I realise I just thought they were entertaining movies. Its been so long since I have see the originals I doubt I would actually notice the changes or even be aware of them if I had not been forewarned.
And where exactly is all of this methane going to come from?
The article neglected to mention that beans were to be enforced as the staple diet for the whole planet. Initially every citizen will be expected to report daily to their nearest power plant for 'fuel' retrieval but it is envisaged that within a few years there will be sufficient levels of methane for direct extraction from the air in the major cities.
It goes without saying a ban on all naked flames will be required in the major metropolitan areas.
So 70+ hours a week of detail-oriented, highly-skilled work is easy?
Your reading skills are so poor its no wonder you have a 70 hour week. I said nothing about it being easy, quite the opposite in fact.
When the IT staff is underpaid and overworked, and they see the company president's idiot nephew get hired out college for twice the IT staffer's salary (the ones with 20+ years of experience), they get mad.
See my IT staff have an amazing capacity to be whiney bitches comment.
Yes I have seen the scandals and newsflash buddy, they apply to everyone. IT staff were not picked out individually as victims in them.
The fact is, if you are working for them then YES - THEY DO OWE YOU
No, they will recompense you with the salary and bonuses you agreed when you took the position. If thats not enough then why are you there? Is there some other company willing to pay you more that you present position is preventing you from obtaining?
If its making you life hell then you choose the wrong profession. Suck up the pain and change career or work a bit harder to improve you current situation.
What a load of bollox.
We are up against shady corporations who lack the motivation to really give us our fair due
Get a grip. No one owes you a living. You are due nothing.
Coders who lack the necessary financial or social rewards in their lives sometimes choose the dark side of the force.
You mean social misfits or those who are not able/willing to build up a solid portfolio of work history?
This attitude a lot of developers have that they are 'elite' or somehow deserving of greater renumeration or social pathos gives me a pain. Its a job, thats it. Its not a vocation, or a mission from God. Some are better than others just as some doctors are better than others. At the end of day its just a job you can either perform well in a professional environment or not. Millions of people work shit jobs for even shittier pay without a fration of the whining the IT community can manange at the drop of a hat. As my uncle often told me 'Hard work was never meant to be easy'. If a bit of effort is too much for you then go win the lottery.
Is there anything or anyone the US is not actually at war with at the moment?