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Well, that just reinforces the arguement that will be made that companies should stay away from any Open Source projects.
Really, you can't force companies to reveal their source code with technicalities, no matter how much the company's management are being jerks, without it setting off alarm bells in management at all companies.
And anyone designing a public web site and willing to discard 10% of customers is also a fringe player.
In some instances, discarding a 10% of 'fringe players' in a market is a wise business solution. It might get rid of 80% of the kind of cranks who frequently call up customer service after purchase, are most likely to return product, etc. etc.
It's sometimes sound business practice.
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Take it from me, I've got two young women in my home who are all but completely computer-illiterate, and if I didn't have Mac OS X running they'd be constantly lost at sea.
Mac Advocacy doesn't have to just be ignorant. It can be sexist, too.
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Oh, puhlease. Nobody in the Mac community referred to it as the brain-deadness of the 68k series until the marketing fax from Apple told them it was time to.
You're all lead by the nose by Steve Jobs, Bill Gate's mini-me.
And since the market doesn't feature prehistoric beeping XT's, we're not forced between the choice of using those, or dinkyscreen black-and-white squawking Macintoys.
Who's in IT? I'm an electronics guy. Lots of us aren't in IT. I detest recruiters who think that because I can write tight Assembly Language code for embedded controllers I am in 'IT.' The hell with that.
Who says I am worried that I have a neurosis. I was just pointing out that there was name-calling and parody going on. Which, now, there's more of.
One of the most foolish things a political movement can do is only attack their own parody of a perceived opponent. Hastily tossing around words like 'fundie' and 'cult' are evidence of this sort of thing. It's often necessary, though, if arguing against the 'real thing' would lose the arguement or make the attacker look ridiculous.
Later, when you've matured, you'll grow beyond your stereotypes of those who disagree with you. Hopefully.
No, that would be the Anthony dollar, which looks like crap after it's passed through two or three hands. As opposed to the Canadian Loon, which seems to be going quite well.
I like the Canadian Two Dollar coin best, myself. Bimetallic is cool. And can probably be rigged into a thermocouple by some adventurous soul....
One of the side benefits for Law Enforcement is that if the currency changes gradually erode consumer confidence in the currency, more people will stop using Cash. Cash is something that encumbers Law Enforcement. They would prefer that everbody use more tracable forms of monetary exchance.
Certainly. And you can perform mathematical proofs on a pad of paper. Maybe even prove a long-unproved Theorem and get tenure for publishing it. And make your mortgage payments with even more money left over each month than when you were just an Assistant Professor.
Other people get their grants for more applied research, for 'making it real.' Perhaps that's wrong, perhaps they're pandering too much to the notion that things shouldn't remain purely theoretical. They do run the risk of getting accused of being 'mere technicians' and drummed out of the department and into private industry. Where they can get enough money to buy a second home, in Hawaii, but we'd better not go there. heh.
The 'straw man' argument (and maybe I misapplied the term 'straw man' here) is Asimov's posing it as his defintion of 'knowledge' against anything else as being 'ignorance.'
The difference between knowledge and wisdom is a key to the point I was trying to make.
Anybody can gather up a big box of facts. There is always the possibility that big box of facts will become so heavy that it causes the floor to collapse and destroy the whole 'building' that all the 'facts' are contained in. That's the kind of possibility a wise person would consider, and a mere 'knowledge technician' would miss.
Actually I believe the F series was generally faster than the Schottky parts
My understanding is that the 'F' parts were just standard TTL with the 'compromise between speed and power consumption' tipped in the direction of more speed and as a result more power consumption. Whereas the Schottky parts are a whole new class of device.
But there are and were so damned many deriviative familes of TTL, as vendors tried to achieve product differentiation in a commodity logic market.
To bring the thread back on topic- I doubt if Will Wheaton even knows what a 74LS30 is, let alone why it's a better part to use than a 7430.
The power loom industry wasn't producing 'power looms for the sake of power looms'. And they weren't selling book after expensive book hyping up power looms.
And accusing my comment of being luddism doesn't address my point at all- people close to the actual work the computer will be performing have an inherent advantage over people mired in the internal theory of how the computer works. They're not spending 60% of their time in efforts to justify their existence.
Referring to religion as a neurosis is one of those things only a scienceist (yet another form of fundamentalist, vastly different from a scientist) would do.
I hate to be an Assembly Language redneck about this but: Object Oriented doo daa doo is seeming more and more like software-for-the-sake-of-software-developers. A lot of hand waving about 'code reuse' goes on, and a lot of talk about 'well written code' but in the end there are two areas of software development that look bright in the future:
1. Tightly written embedded code.
2. Code written by people 'close to the site where it will be used', i.e. code for point-of-sale written by people specialized in the POS biz.
As software development tools become more and more powerful, fewer and fewer guru-level experts are needed. It's far more valueable to the development process to involve the people who actually do the real-world tasks that the software will assist in accomplishing. And those are NOT going to be people who plonked down their $70 for the latest Gooch/Rational Software propaganda hype-hardbacks.
The buzz surrounding 'Object-Oriented' and similar catch phraseology seems like a job program for specialists with no experience outside of software engineering, and a panacea for academics wanting to weave fancy webs.
I know that the Sparc processor in my Ultra 1 has some sort of an 64 bit instruction bug that's bad enough that Sun defaulted the firmware in Ultra 1's to 32 bit mode. You have to change a jumper on the motherboard (hard to get to after opening the case) in order to reflash the Firmware and run 64 bits. I believe the bug is an instruction you can call that crashes the system. Someone else can add more details, I just run NetBSD/Sparc64 on the machine and it's not publically accessable.
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Well, that just reinforces the arguement that will be made that companies should stay away from any Open Source projects.
Really, you can't force companies to reveal their source code with technicalities, no matter how much the company's management are being jerks, without it setting off alarm bells in management at all companies.
Isn't VA Linux/Software/whatever-its-called-now, the owner of hAndover, the owner of Slashdot, a stock now trading below a dollar?
You can hope, anyway.
And anyone designing a public web site and willing to discard 10% of customers is also a fringe player.
In some instances, discarding a 10% of 'fringe players' in a market is a wise business solution. It might get rid of 80% of the kind of cranks who frequently call up customer service after purchase, are most likely to return product, etc. etc.
It's sometimes sound business practice.
Take it from me, I've got two young women in my home who are all but completely computer-illiterate, and if I didn't have Mac OS X running they'd be constantly lost at sea.
Mac Advocacy doesn't have to just be ignorant. It can be sexist, too.
Oh, puhlease. Nobody in the Mac community referred to it as the brain-deadness of the 68k series until the marketing fax from Apple told them it was time to.
You're all lead by the nose by Steve Jobs, Bill Gate's mini-me.
And since the market doesn't feature prehistoric beeping XT's, we're not forced between the choice of using those, or dinkyscreen black-and-white squawking Macintoys.
Who's in IT? I'm an electronics guy. Lots of us aren't in IT. I detest recruiters who think that because I can write tight Assembly Language code for embedded controllers I am in 'IT.' The hell with that.
The paragraph description is "Marketing Boilerplate"
Actually, it makes it a less fun movie.
Remember how they wrecked books in High School English. Wait a decade or so and read those books again. Some of them were pretty good books.
How many warehouses in the world have people with doctorates making boxes?
Two points:
1. It would amaze you how many academic subjects there are these days that you can earn a doctorate in.
2. Not everbody has the skills needed to work the till at a McDonalds.
Problem is, you can only find a book at Half-Price Books if someone else decided it's not worth keeping.
Who says I am worried that I have a neurosis. I was just pointing out that there was name-calling and parody going on. Which, now, there's more of.
One of the most foolish things a political movement can do is only attack their own parody of a perceived opponent. Hastily tossing around words like 'fundie' and 'cult' are evidence of this sort of thing. It's often necessary, though, if arguing against the 'real thing' would lose the arguement or make the attacker look ridiculous.
Later, when you've matured, you'll grow beyond your stereotypes of those who disagree with you. Hopefully.
No, that would be the Anthony dollar, which looks like crap after it's passed through two or three hands. As opposed to the Canadian Loon, which seems to be going quite well.
I like the Canadian Two Dollar coin best, myself. Bimetallic is cool. And can probably be rigged into a thermocouple by some adventurous soul....
One of the side benefits for Law Enforcement is that if the currency changes gradually erode consumer confidence in the currency, more people will stop using Cash. Cash is something that encumbers Law Enforcement. They would prefer that everbody use more tracable forms of monetary exchance.
you can do ai work on a terminal.
Certainly. And you can perform mathematical proofs on a pad of paper. Maybe even prove a long-unproved Theorem and get tenure for publishing it. And make your mortgage payments with even more money left over each month than when you were just an Assistant Professor.
Other people get their grants for more applied research, for 'making it real.' Perhaps that's wrong, perhaps they're pandering too much to the notion that things shouldn't remain purely theoretical. They do run the risk of getting accused of being 'mere technicians' and drummed out of the department and into private industry. Where they can get enough money to buy a second home, in Hawaii, but we'd better not go there. heh.
Even worse, they're spending their money on hand tools when they could be buying Minsky's books!
The 'straw man' argument (and maybe I misapplied the term 'straw man' here) is Asimov's posing it as his defintion of 'knowledge' against anything else as being 'ignorance.'
The difference between knowledge and wisdom is a key to the point I was trying to make.
Anybody can gather up a big box of facts. There is always the possibility that big box of facts will become so heavy that it causes the floor to collapse and destroy the whole 'building' that all the 'facts' are contained in. That's the kind of possibility a wise person would consider, and a mere 'knowledge technician' would miss.
Sorry for going a bit overboard with analogies.
Actually I believe the F series was generally faster than the Schottky parts
My understanding is that the 'F' parts were just standard TTL with the 'compromise between speed and power consumption' tipped in the direction of more speed and as a result more power consumption. Whereas the Schottky parts are a whole new class of device.
But there are and were so damned many deriviative familes of TTL, as vendors tried to achieve product differentiation in a commodity logic market.
To bring the thread back on topic- I doubt if Will Wheaton even knows what a 74LS30 is, let alone why it's a better part to use than a 7430.
The power loom industry wasn't producing 'power looms for the sake of power looms'. And they weren't selling book after expensive book hyping up power looms.
And accusing my comment of being luddism doesn't address my point at all- people close to the actual work the computer will be performing have an inherent advantage over people mired in the internal theory of how the computer works. They're not spending 60% of their time in efforts to justify their existence.
Your Asmimov quote makes use of the straw-man argument that we need to choose between (Asimov's defintion of) knowledge, or ignorance.
Part of 'wisdom', as opposed to just knowing a lot of stuff, is context. And part of context is having values, weighing the good and bad in things.
'dull and swinish' sounds like name calling, and not a heck of a lot else.
Referring to religion as a neurosis is one of those things only a scienceist (yet another form of fundamentalist, vastly different from a scientist) would do.
He has one hell of a lot of egg on his face, too. It seems to just keep layering on there.
I hate to be an Assembly Language redneck about this but: Object Oriented doo daa doo is seeming more and more like software-for-the-sake-of-software-developers. A lot of hand waving about 'code reuse' goes on, and a lot of talk about 'well written code' but in the end there are two areas of software development that look bright in the future:
1. Tightly written embedded code.
2. Code written by people 'close to the site where it will be used', i.e. code for point-of-sale written by people specialized in the POS biz.
As software development tools become more and more powerful, fewer and fewer guru-level experts are needed. It's far more valueable to the development process to involve the people who actually do the real-world tasks that the software will assist in accomplishing. And those are NOT going to be people who plonked down their $70 for the latest Gooch/Rational Software propaganda hype-hardbacks.
The buzz surrounding 'Object-Oriented' and similar catch phraseology seems like a job program for specialists with no experience outside of software engineering, and a panacea for academics wanting to weave fancy webs.
Well, enough said.
I know that the Sparc processor in my Ultra 1 has some sort of an 64 bit instruction bug that's bad enough that Sun defaulted the firmware in Ultra 1's to 32 bit mode. You have to change a jumper on the motherboard (hard to get to after opening the case) in order to reflash the Firmware and run 64 bits. I believe the bug is an instruction you can call that crashes the system. Someone else can add more details, I just run NetBSD/Sparc64 on the machine and it's not publically accessable.