PLEASE, PLEASE don't say "boxen." The plural form of "box" is boxes [m-w.com]. Saying "boxen" makes it seem like you played too much D&D.
I could swear I've seen this same post a couple of times before. If you can't accept the construct "boxen" as a humorous plural of box, then you appear to be really hidebound.
However, since I just received the LOTR DVD in the mail, I'm going to leave the box, boxen, boxed-set arguments to the rest of you and go watch the movie.
The idea is so bad on so many levels, I can't believe anyone taking it seriously. Oh yeah sure, we have poorly designed boards/enclosures that are overheating components, so we'll just add more complexity and failure points instead of fixing the original problem. And anyone who believes occasionally zapping a hot chip/whatever with coolant is a good thing should look up thermal shock and thermal creep. That's enough, I'm gonna log off and play video games -- a lot more reality there.
And the cause is those damned kids pirating photons for use in their computer monitors. If this doesn't stop, the movie industry will have no choice but to refrain from producing anything in the visible spectrum.
Are you issuing more security alerts because you are looking for more bugs?
By pulling the Windows developers off--8,000 (to) 8,500 people--for a couple of months to look for stuff, if you put that many eyes on it, they're going to find stuff.
It's pretty obvious that not all 8,000 developers were looking at the same line of code. So, followed to the logical conclusion, MS admits that open source software is more trustworthy. Endgame.
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The Bulova Accutron. Introduced in 1961, it was the first successful transistorized watch, far more accurate than any other watch then on the market and a major advance in timekeeping technology. Prior to reading this article I had never heard of it. Interesting history.
Woah! Oldtimers (pun intended) invented transistorized watches. They also invented things like ICs, CPUs, computers, and television. I don't know if I'm more frightened by the current accepted ignorance of recent history or the M$ Visual Studio.NET (R)(TM) ad that assaulted me when I clicked in.
I know exactly what you mean, I was IN the programming zone yesterday. I redesigned the complete applet based scripting system for our product. I coded as fast as I could type and didn't make a single logical mistake. Nine hours straight. The other 2 guys on the team (I am the lead) came in and sat down at their computers and jaw dropped. 'My god you checked out every single file, and added, lemme see almost 1000 lines of code'.
D00d! You are like unto a programming god. I hope none of those lines included meaningful comments - those don't count when you have to calculate SLOC.
It's called "product placement" and it's all the rage now. Commercials/ads not working? Put the commercials/ads into the regular progamming/product. Who says/. isn't cutting-edge?:)
Yeah, the Ataris were fun. I've still got a box of circuit boards and cases for building cartridges. The serial floppy drives are in a box somewhere - the rubber bands are probably shot. The Okidata thermal printer and the cassette tape storage thing... You're right, those were the days.
I am tempted to tell the IEEE to go stuff themselves next time they ask me to chair a conference or workshop for them.
As an IEEE and IEEE-USA member, i would appreciate it if you do so. Thanks. Bye.
This type of activity is pretty clueless. Two years ago the US was screaming out for every engineer it go lay its hands on.
Crap. The U.S. wasn't screaming for foreign labor, Some U.S. companies claimed that they couldn't find resident workers, and those claims have been refuted. You, sir, are clueless.
It's apparent that you're fairly clueless. When they come tell you to train your H-1B replacement if you want to get severance, then you will get it.
It is now all about the short-term, corporate, bottom-line (read cheap, subservient labor, and think Robber Barons). Individual competence has nothing to do with it. If you don't believe it, you might want to read a newspaper once in a while.
Near my 7th year, I became frustrated, started telling people how stupid I thought they were to their face (Usually after the 8th time of explaining something) And generally degraded into the self absorbed irritating prick that I am today.
No, that's not right. It should be self-absorbed, irritating prick. Watch that punctuation!:)
Kenshi Manabe, senior vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment Semiconductor division, said the Playstation3 will need memory with incredibly high speed and tens-of-gigahertz bandwidth.
Nothing to see here. The Playstation3 is dead. Time to start looking for articles about Playstation4 (or 2.5).
More American voters voted for Al Gore than for any other candidate. That is an undisputed fact [infoplease.com]. And yet, Mr. Gore is not in office. So let's correct that sentence to read, "in a flawed, unrepresentative faux democracy, what most people want may or may not be what you get".
How many times does it have to be said? The U.S. is not a democracy. It never was. It was never supposed to be.
The U.S. is a collection of states, not just a collection of individuals. More voters in more states voted for George Bush than for any other candidate. (Even after the infamous media recount in Florida.)
The U.S. system, including the bicameral congress, was designed to protect the rights of states as well as the rights of individuals. Maybe it isn't perfect, but there are a helluva lot of people who want to move here and subject themselves to our "flawed, unrepresentative faux democracy." Personally, I don't want the frootloops in New York and California dictating national policy.
Hah, just wait until they get the "audit or else" order from M$. Man, talk about organized crime warfare. This could make the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look like a water-pistol fight.
I can see it coming. Every 30,000 teraflops I'll have to haul the computer to Bendover's Quick-lube and have the coolant flushed or the warranty will be void.
I still have my 800XL and run M.U.L.E. on it occasionally when I need a fix.
Oh, a rich guy, huh? Well, I still have my 600XL, modded up to a whopping 64K;) (talk about sweating bullets during brain surgery), and it still runs fine. I did have to build a new power supply - those Atari floor warts never did last too long. And contrary to some of the Atari game dissing by some of the other posters, I played River Raid a couple of months ago, and it still rocks.
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Air travel promotes global cooling. It is your duty to counteract all the other consumer evil you've done. Get on that plane and go!
PLEASE, PLEASE don't say "boxen." The plural form of "box" is boxes [m-w.com]. Saying "boxen" makes it seem like you played too much D&D.
I could swear I've seen this same post a couple of times before. If you can't accept the construct "boxen" as a humorous plural of box, then you appear to be really hidebound.
However, since I just received the LOTR DVD in the mail, I'm going to leave the box, boxen, boxed-set arguments to the rest of you and go watch the movie.
And in today's marketplace, what percentage of the resumes/CVs crossing their desk do you think will be from competent, well meaning CEOs?
Hey, Carly Fiorna should be finished raid^H^H^H^Hhelping HP pretty soon. Maybe she'd be interested.
But sharks won't eat lawyers -- professional courtesy, you know.
The idea is so bad on so many levels, I can't believe anyone taking it seriously. Oh yeah sure, we have poorly designed boards/enclosures that are overheating components, so we'll just add more complexity and failure points instead of fixing the original problem. And anyone who believes occasionally zapping a hot chip/whatever with coolant is a good thing should look up thermal shock and thermal creep. That's enough, I'm gonna log off and play video games -- a lot more reality there.
And the cause is those damned kids pirating photons for use in their computer monitors. If this doesn't stop, the movie industry will have no choice but to refrain from producing anything in the visible spectrum.
from the interview:
It's pretty obvious that not all 8,000 developers were looking at the same line of code. So, followed to the logical conclusion, MS admits that open source software is more trustworthy. Endgame.
The Bulova Accutron. Introduced in 1961, it was the first successful transistorized watch, far more accurate than any other watch then on the market and a major advance in timekeeping technology. Prior to reading this article I had never heard of it. Interesting history.
Woah! Oldtimers (pun intended) invented transistorized watches. They also invented things like ICs, CPUs, computers, and television. I don't know if I'm more frightened by the current accepted ignorance of recent history or the M$ Visual Studio .NET (R)(TM) ad that assaulted me when I clicked in.
This is the md5 checksum of the openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz in the FreeBSD ports system: ...
This is the md5 checksum of the trojaned openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz:...
And we know you're not the cracker, and we should believe you because ... oh, it's posted on /. so it must be true.
I know exactly what you mean, I was IN the programming zone yesterday. I redesigned the complete applet based scripting system for our product. I coded as fast as I could type and didn't make a single logical mistake. Nine hours straight. The other 2 guys on the team (I am the lead) came in and sat down at their computers and jaw dropped. 'My god you checked out every single file, and added, lemme see almost 1000 lines of code'.
D00d! You are like unto a programming god. I hope none of those lines included meaningful comments - those don't count when you have to calculate SLOC.
It's called "product placement" and it's all the rage now. Commercials/ads not working? Put the commercials/ads into the regular progamming/product. Who says /. isn't cutting-edge? :)
The Code Zone? Sure I've been there, but every time I'm there, the half-witted compiler starts barking and ruins it. Stupid compiler.
from the because-thinking-perl-hurts-too-much dept.
Thinking (and writing) Perl doesn't hurt at all. It's reading Perl that hurts. Write Once Read Never.
Yeah, the Ataris were fun. I've still got a box of circuit boards and cases for building cartridges. The serial floppy drives are in a box somewhere - the rubber bands are probably shot. The Okidata thermal printer and the cassette tape storage thing... You're right, those were the days.
I am tempted to tell the IEEE to go stuff themselves next time they ask me to chair a conference or workshop for them.
As an IEEE and IEEE-USA member, i would appreciate it if you do so. Thanks. Bye.
This type of activity is pretty clueless. Two years ago the US was screaming out for every engineer it go lay its hands on.
Crap. The U.S. wasn't screaming for foreign labor, Some U.S. companies claimed that they couldn't find resident workers, and those claims have been refuted. You, sir, are clueless.
It's apparent that you're fairly clueless. When they come tell you to train your H-1B replacement if you want to get severance, then you will get it.
It is now all about the short-term, corporate, bottom-line (read cheap, subservient labor, and think Robber Barons). Individual competence has nothing to do with it. If you don't believe it, you might want to read a newspaper once in a while.
Near my 7th year, I became frustrated, started telling people how stupid I thought they were to their face (Usually after the 8th time of explaining something) And generally degraded into the self absorbed irritating prick that I am today.
No, that's not right. It should be self-absorbed, irritating prick. Watch that punctuation! :)
Kenshi Manabe, senior vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment Semiconductor division, said the Playstation3 will need memory with incredibly high speed and tens-of-gigahertz bandwidth.
Nothing to see here. The Playstation3 is dead. Time to start looking for articles about Playstation4 (or 2.5).
More American voters voted for Al Gore than for any other candidate. That is an undisputed fact [infoplease.com]. And yet, Mr. Gore is not in office. So let's correct that sentence to read, "in a flawed, unrepresentative faux democracy, what most people want may or may not be what you get".
How many times does it have to be said? The U.S. is not a democracy. It never was. It was never supposed to be.
The U.S. is a collection of states, not just a collection of individuals. More voters in more states voted for George Bush than for any other candidate. (Even after the infamous media recount in Florida.)
The U.S. system, including the bicameral congress, was designed to protect the rights of states as well as the rights of individuals. Maybe it isn't perfect, but there are a helluva lot of people who want to move here and subject themselves to our "flawed, unrepresentative faux democracy." Personally, I don't want the frootloops in New York and California dictating national policy.
So, if the critical quality is lack of substance, the ultimate chip material is... horsefeathers.
Hah, just wait until they get the "audit or else" order from M$. Man, talk about organized crime warfare. This could make the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look like a water-pistol fight.
The "Worst Case Scenario" would be having one that rusts. Gives a whole new reason for Lexan cases.
I can see it coming. Every 30,000 teraflops I'll have to haul the computer to Bendover's Quick-lube and have the coolant flushed or the warranty will be void.
I still have my 800XL and run M.U.L.E. on it occasionally when I need a fix.
Oh, a rich guy, huh? Well, I still have my 600XL, modded up to a whopping 64K ;) (talk about sweating bullets during brain surgery), and it still runs fine. I did have to build a new power supply - those Atari floor warts never did last too long. And contrary to some of the Atari game dissing by some of the other posters, I played River Raid a couple of months ago, and it still rocks.
And still twenty years to go until the next code review.