75% of the graduating class is under house arrest for hacking back into the schools' cc merchant account servers and getting their $4000 back. The other 25% also stole back their money, but couldn't be traced, and are presumed at large.
1. the bad programmer can't fix it, but says they can, tries anyways and makes it worse.
2. the good programmer can't design it, but says they can, tries anyways and makes it ok.
3. the great programmer invents something like the blinking cursor, which makes life better.
3. the expert is on an island living off of the revenue generated by their two great ideas, one was to hire the good and the bad programmer for peanuts, since the economy sucks, and two was score clients using the great programmer's invention of the blinking cursor.
My dad worked with the ENIAC, and from his recollections to me, I can tell you that the people involved with that machine created nearly everything we now take for granted in software development (or wish we had, for those of us at shoddy development houses). We owe our lives to these guys. As the inventors of computers and computer science pass, let's not forget the ways they did it (i.e. check the code BEFORE it goes in the computer), and let's not doom ourselves to repeat the mistakes they tried so hard to help us avoid.
someone owned the patent on the internal combustion engine, and Ford had to pay them in the early days. What was the recourse? They just waited for the patent to expire. These things do expire, you know.
It seems that Intel is probably scared of their own success. They can't make crappy chips so that people will buy more when the chip dies, because everyone will just switch to a more reliable chip. So, they must expect that their chips would actually do well overclocked, and so are blocking it b/c those are potential sales of some faster chip later. However, they neglect to notice that the people overclocking chips are the same people that will get around any lock on anything eventually, given their drive to tinker and manipulate the system. Ironically, these people don't even care if it DOES blow up, it's just cooler to have a faster computer anyways. Same attitude goes to the guy that buys a Ford SVT Cobra and puts a chip in it to make it go faster, only to have the $17,000 engine blow up. Oh well, it was cool while it lasted!
Interesting. Sun and Microsoft settle their big argument, and magically, Microsoft comes out with a patch to Windows that hampers the ability of JIT's to run. That's not playing nice!
Check this out: the new SP is supposed to provide an area of memory called "NX" for non-executable, where anything in that area is harmless (for virus quarantine, i suppose). What if I create a virus that modifies the parameters so that ALL the memory is NX? Boy, that would screw stuff up pretty good!
They already showed the algorithm they use for Pagerank, and let's see... they have thousands of systems all hooked together, that process terabytes of data every month. That sounds more like hard work and money than magic. The magic will be how they are keeping Microsoft at bay.
I would like to point out how rapid the battery consumption really is. My laptop runs about 3-4 hours on the battery, which I considered to be pretty good, until I thought about my little radio. Granted, it is not nearly as complicated, but it uses 2 AAA batteries about every 2-3 WEEKS of 2-3 hours per day use. Come on, now. Where is that kind of power? Is it very expensive at the wattage/space/heat we need, or is it not available by any means?
It's possible that the blocking is happening because of some poor sap's unfortunate legal name. He might actually be named "Instant Winner", or "Free Vacation". Crazy hippies.
It's a little hard to understand this chart w/o understanding the systems that propagated these language shifts. Plus, it really sucks that all the versions are on the same line... it is really hard to read that information and glean any kind of useful stuff, except for the off-shoots from the other languages to form new ones. That part is cool!
Also, about costs... may I point out the following: Mars lander that Jose'd itself into the surface: ~100 million dollars. Mars lander that did NOT Jose itself, and that sent back kick ass pictures: ~1 billion dollars (Viking). Do it right or don't do it at all!
Now I can write a virus that before it kills your NT systems, it plays Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" with this little tool. Or perhaps it plays Queen's "Another one bites the dust". Or, I can make it quasi-speech-synthesize something... "all your base are belong to us", anyone?
Issuance of a bounty > maniacal development all over the place to get solution first > solution delivered by party X. Could it be any simpler? I actually prefer bounties to regular contracts. If you're the first one to get us X, you get $Y. What's the harm in that? It's almost like a reverse Dutch auction.
I imagine that this "big bang" will conclude with the controlling company(ies) charging money for practically every type of content, since they'll have a service and device for everything.
Why not use a pocket PC? If you could get a fast enough connection, it would be like having an iPod with a pseudo-infinite song library, only the songs cost a few cents. That would be pretty awesome.
If only artists still had sinecures, so that they could be compensated by the very wealthy to simply produce works. It's at least time-consuming, if not expensive, to make great recordings... I would like to see a way for artists to at least earn a living wage so they can produce the music.
It's pretty tough to argue with a legal listen for 1-2 cents (exchange rate varies). I bet that 50-100 times is about as many as I could listen to a song before I'm bored of it anyways, and for 99 cents I can get either that, or I can own the song. Plus, unscrupulous listeners could always record the stream!
Finally we have an outlet by which we can mod those crap bands down into the center of the earth, where they will melt and contribute to plate tectonics. I am assuming that anyone who listens will have some kinda e-mail access to the various groups beaming music around, surely they'll want to collect some consumer data.
And now, the proliferation of accidental performance art pieces, whereby viewers are greeted with 2.5 hours of "silence". (i.e. "Connecting..." "Buffering...")
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I'm pretty sure anything that ends in eeww is a joke. :)
Visual Studio encourages people who don't know what they're doing to go into the biz, then once you're hooked, you have to buy the products... eeww!
75% of the graduating class is under house arrest for hacking back into the schools' cc merchant account servers and getting their $4000 back. The other 25% also stole back their money, but couldn't be traced, and are presumed at large.
1. the bad programmer can't fix it, but says they can, tries anyways and makes it worse.
2. the good programmer can't design it, but says they can, tries anyways and makes it ok.
3. the great programmer invents something like the blinking cursor, which makes life better.
3. the expert is on an island living off of the revenue generated by their two great ideas, one was to hire the good and the bad programmer for peanuts, since the economy sucks, and two was score clients using the great programmer's invention of the blinking cursor.
My dad worked with the ENIAC, and from his recollections to me, I can tell you that the people involved with that machine created nearly everything we now take for granted in software development (or wish we had, for those of us at shoddy development houses). We owe our lives to these guys. As the inventors of computers and computer science pass, let's not forget the ways they did it (i.e. check the code BEFORE it goes in the computer), and let's not doom ourselves to repeat the mistakes they tried so hard to help us avoid.
someone owned the patent on the internal combustion engine, and Ford had to pay them in the early days. What was the recourse? They just waited for the patent to expire. These things do expire, you know.
I am glad the people deciding "right" from "wrong" figured out it would be "wrong" to run Microsoft Windows, and "right" to run Linux. That's cool.
It seems that Intel is probably scared of their own success. They can't make crappy chips so that people will buy more when the chip dies, because everyone will just switch to a more reliable chip. So, they must expect that their chips would actually do well overclocked, and so are blocking it b/c those are potential sales of some faster chip later. However, they neglect to notice that the people overclocking chips are the same people that will get around any lock on anything eventually, given their drive to tinker and manipulate the system. Ironically, these people don't even care if it DOES blow up, it's just cooler to have a faster computer anyways. Same attitude goes to the guy that buys a Ford SVT Cobra and puts a chip in it to make it go faster, only to have the $17,000 engine blow up. Oh well, it was cool while it lasted!
Interesting. Sun and Microsoft settle their big argument, and magically, Microsoft comes out with a patch to Windows that hampers the ability of JIT's to run. That's not playing nice!
Check this out: the new SP is supposed to provide an area of memory called "NX" for non-executable, where anything in that area is harmless (for virus quarantine, i suppose). What if I create a virus that modifies the parameters so that ALL the memory is NX? Boy, that would screw stuff up pretty good!
They already showed the algorithm they use for Pagerank, and let's see... they have thousands of systems all hooked together, that process terabytes of data every month. That sounds more like hard work and money than magic. The magic will be how they are keeping Microsoft at bay.
I would like to point out how rapid the battery consumption really is. My laptop runs about 3-4 hours on the battery, which I considered to be pretty good, until I thought about my little radio. Granted, it is not nearly as complicated, but it uses 2 AAA batteries about every 2-3 WEEKS of 2-3 hours per day use. Come on, now. Where is that kind of power? Is it very expensive at the wattage/space/heat we need, or is it not available by any means?
It's possible that the blocking is happening because of some poor sap's unfortunate legal name. He might actually be named "Instant Winner", or "Free Vacation". Crazy hippies.
It's a little hard to understand this chart w/o understanding the systems that propagated these language shifts. Plus, it really sucks that all the versions are on the same line... it is really hard to read that information and glean any kind of useful stuff, except for the off-shoots from the other languages to form new ones. That part is cool!
"spiral evolutionary development"?? D'OH!
Also, about costs... may I point out the following:
Mars lander that Jose'd itself into the surface: ~100 million dollars.
Mars lander that did NOT Jose itself, and that sent back kick ass pictures: ~1 billion dollars (Viking).
Do it right or don't do it at all!
Now I can write a virus that before it kills your NT systems, it plays Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" with this little tool. Or perhaps it plays Queen's "Another one bites the dust". Or, I can make it quasi-speech-synthesize something...
"all your base are belong to us", anyone?
RAID 0, you need a hero,
RAID 1, is equally fun,
but RAID 5 keeps you alive!
Issuance of a bounty > maniacal development all over the place to get solution first > solution delivered by party X.
Could it be any simpler? I actually prefer bounties to regular contracts. If you're the first one to get us X, you get $Y. What's the harm in that? It's almost like a reverse Dutch auction.
I think he means that the people working on the program have soul, which could yield a great product.
I imagine that this "big bang" will conclude with the controlling company(ies) charging money for practically every type of content, since they'll have a service and device for everything.
Why not use a pocket PC? If you could get a fast enough connection, it would be like having an iPod with a pseudo-infinite song library, only the songs cost a few cents. That would be pretty awesome.
If only artists still had sinecures, so that they could be compensated by the very wealthy to simply produce works. It's at least time-consuming, if not expensive, to make great recordings... I would like to see a way for artists to at least earn a living wage so they can produce the music.
It's pretty tough to argue with a legal listen for 1-2 cents (exchange rate varies). I bet that 50-100 times is about as many as I could listen to a song before I'm bored of it anyways, and for 99 cents I can get either that, or I can own the song. Plus, unscrupulous listeners could always record the stream!
Finally we have an outlet by which we can mod those crap bands down into the center of the earth, where they will melt and contribute to plate tectonics. I am assuming that anyone who listens will have some kinda e-mail access to the various groups beaming music around, surely they'll want to collect some consumer data.
And now, the proliferation of accidental performance art pieces, whereby viewers are greeted with 2.5 hours of "silence". (i.e. "Connecting..." "Buffering...")