It probably will be quite cool. Imagine, you still have access to technology (internet, etc.) so it's not like you're in a cave, yet you are not bugged by managers, bosses, or anyone for that matter, yet still have a lot of time to do research and other sorts of mind exercises (you could do a huge hunk of a PhD in there - maybe even on behavioral analysis or something). Or just read/write a bunch of books! Sleep! (and get paid for it!)
And 500 (or so) days is NOT a lot. Just think how quickly the last 2 years of your life passed... You probably would be a lot less stressed out than anybody. Just think, a 500 day vacation from work!
And don't go around thinking that diamonds have ever been a good investment. The vast majority of diamonds actually depreciate relative to inflation.
That's why everyone should collect Gold. There is only a set amount of it in the solar system, and it's nowhere near increasing, and there are no economically feasible ways of making it:-)
Not to mention it has a ton of uses outside of jewelry.
In an unprecedented generosity, Microsoft has licensed Windows source code under the GPL, and has subsequently created a source-code download link on their website. A new non-profit organization, windows.org has been established to work on the project.
Learning experience is fun, etc., but what will they test?
Now, imagine going to the test, and finding 90% of the questions being about the intricate details of compiler implementation?
Most stuff that "programmers" do has nothing to do with computer science. Yes, many non-college computer folks are great at "programming" but I've yet to personally meet anyone who's great at "science" portion (without a college degree).
In my mind, programmers can do VB menus, etc., but that it takes a scientist to actually figure out serious problems.
This thread is ambiguous about whether they wanna call programmers engineers, or scientists engineers...
Why not just lower connection speed for all SMTP servers. Well, maybe not "connection", but lets say you are only allowed to send 1 e-mail to one address per 30 seconds.
Probably wouldn't effect 99% of home users, but would make it extraordinarily time consuming to spam even hundreds of people.
...CG complete rendered at 1/2 (and soon to be 1/10) the cost...
Hmm... If not using a top model for your shots, it will be a long while before a 30 minute photographing session (with some Photoshop touchups later) will be more expensive than months of meticulous work in creating these 3D models.
Using life human actors is still, for the most part, a lot cheaper than CG.
I could never understand why it's so damn expensive (and similarly profitable). Isn't all you need is a big server and maybe 2 admins, and that's it? I mean, even $10 year that the lowest guys charge for domain registration is a LOT, considering that nobody ever does anything on your behalf (everything is 100% automated), and the whole thing is just for them to keep a record in their database which you enter and maintain yourself. And that's for every year!
The cost is not high for a website, but domain registrars must be making a huge profit (99% profit?) on these things. Anybody has an idea of the costs involved to the registrar?
Same for ssl certificates. What's the deal with that? It's just a freaking key (I can make one myself!), and it costs how much for them to sign it (via a 100% automated process)???
IMHO, it costs them (or should cost them) less than pennies to deal with you.
Scripts are usually written in a few hours/days. Java/C++ development efforts often take months. Yes, they may do exactly the same thing, and have comprable complexity, but a person who makes the job seem difficult (or more precicely: seems to be doing a difficult job) gets the admiration of managment, etc.
If you can do something in 2 hours (using Perl), then you're just goofind off and not really putting your effort into development (like C/C++ programmers do).
Hah!
Actually, this would happen less and less if people were smart enough to pick the best language for the job. There are programs best written in Perl, there are those best to be written in assembly (microcontroller code?), and those best written in C/C++, PHP, etc. It all depends on the job, not the language.
...it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source Java application servers, such as Tomcat and JBoss, have eaten into the revenue of commercial providers of Java application servers
And the alternative? That these providers would have eaten into the pockets of all the companies that chose free open source solutions? Anybody remember how freakishly expensive first application servers were?
I don't think they get the point. Software is not there to make software companies rich. It's there to make all the other companies productive and rich.
...the software informed us that our 30-day trial period had ended and we must contact...
More likely the software was a few years old. It is not unlikely for setup code to check the current date on the system and see if it's sometime in the future from where it sorta should be. (ie: if you're using a trial version from 3 years ago, you might as well upgrade...)
An employer of mine sent out a very important e-mail with "IMPORTANT - MUST READ" in the title, and guess how many people got it? All thanks to wonderful e-mail filters...
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Then again, most of the 'revolutionary' concept things we find in windows/linux/solaris, etc., were developed in the 1950-60s:-)
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I agree with you 100% on the quality of Sun hardware and the Solaris operating system, but unfortunately it's not a question of quality. We could end up with inferior hardware and inferior operating systems because of marketing by Microsoft (and others)...
Linux now is where Solaris was 10 years ago. It will be another 10 years before Linux reaches the architectural robustness & flexibility of the current Solaris system. Yet you ask any geek out there and they'd jump on Linux any day... Yes, Linux is cool, but it's still a baby in the UNIX world.
Also remember that people were still using DOS and Win3.1 until 1996!!! (Win95 didn't ship until August 1995, and most people didn't even upgrade until 1997!) We had FREE Linux (which was, at the time, better than DOS/Win3.1), etc., yet people still used DOS! Nobody cares about quality when a well funded marketing department gets involved.
And someone would hack it to display a different amount. Here, have a card, it has $1000 on it; but in fact has $0.
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The security considerations around opening port 80 are understood.
Wait until some next worm spreads itself via a bug in a web-service, and forces just about every admin to block port 80.
Port 80 (as in "running Apache") is usually harmless; expose some serious capabilities to the net through it, and all of a sudden administrators see it as something they shouldn't expose to the general internet in the first place.
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Well, I'd do it for a few million.
It probably will be quite cool. Imagine, you still have access to technology (internet, etc.) so it's not like you're in a cave, yet you are not bugged by managers, bosses, or anyone for that matter, yet still have a lot of time to do research and other sorts of mind exercises (you could do a huge hunk of a PhD in there - maybe even on behavioral analysis or something). Or just read/write a bunch of books! Sleep! (and get paid for it!)
And 500 (or so) days is NOT a lot. Just think how quickly the last 2 years of your life passed... You probably would be a lot less stressed out than anybody. Just think, a 500 day vacation from work!
And I will still be refusing to maintain them.
Would be nice to have that kind of job security. - OS.
Try narcotics...
And don't go around thinking that diamonds have ever been a good investment. The vast majority of diamonds actually depreciate relative to inflation.
:-)
That's why everyone should collect Gold. There is only a set amount of it in the solar system, and it's nowhere near increasing, and there are no economically feasible ways of making it
Not to mention it has a ton of uses outside of jewelry.
In an unprecedented generosity, Microsoft has licensed Windows source code under the GPL, and has subsequently created a source-code download link on their website. A new non-profit organization, windows.org has been established to work on the project.
Learning experience is fun, etc., but what will they test?
Now, imagine going to the test, and finding 90% of the questions being about the intricate details of compiler implementation?
Most stuff that "programmers" do has nothing to do with computer science. Yes, many non-college computer folks are great at "programming" but I've yet to personally meet anyone who's great at "science" portion (without a college degree).
In my mind, programmers can do VB menus, etc., but that it takes a scientist to actually figure out serious problems.
This thread is ambiguous about whether they wanna call programmers engineers, or scientists engineers...
Hmm... I wonder, ... This "Recorder" will self-destruct in 5 seconds...
Why not just lower connection speed for all SMTP servers. Well, maybe not "connection", but lets say you are only allowed to send 1 e-mail to one address per 30 seconds.
Probably wouldn't effect 99% of home users, but would make it extraordinarily time consuming to spam even hundreds of people.
Everyone knows real coders use vi :-)
...CG complete rendered at 1/2 (and soon to be 1/10) the cost...
Hmm... If not using a top model for your shots, it will be a long while before a 30 minute photographing session (with some Photoshop touchups later) will be more expensive than months of meticulous work in creating these 3D models.
Using life human actors is still, for the most part, a lot cheaper than CG.
it might be possible, to drift off one 'side' of the Universe and reappear on the other.
If I was getting circular results in a simulation, I'd blame the software, not redefine the universe as being circular like an asteroids game.
I could never understand why it's so damn expensive (and similarly profitable). Isn't all you need is a big server and maybe 2 admins, and that's it? I mean, even $10 year that the lowest guys charge for domain registration is a LOT, considering that nobody ever does anything on your behalf (everything is 100% automated), and the whole thing is just for them to keep a record in their database which you enter and maintain yourself. And that's for every year!
The cost is not high for a website, but domain registrars must be making a huge profit (99% profit?) on these things. Anybody has an idea of the costs involved to the registrar?
Same for ssl certificates. What's the deal with that? It's just a freaking key (I can make one myself!), and it costs how much for them to sign it (via a 100% automated process)???
IMHO, it costs them (or should cost them) less than pennies to deal with you.
http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
4 Gigs of ram out of be enough for anybody... :-)
Scripts are usually written in a few hours/days. Java/C++ development efforts often take months. Yes, they may do exactly the same thing, and have comprable complexity, but a person who makes the job seem difficult (or more precicely: seems to be doing a difficult job) gets the admiration of managment, etc.
If you can do something in 2 hours (using Perl), then you're just goofind off and not really putting your effort into development (like C/C++ programmers do).
Hah!
Actually, this would happen less and less if people were smart enough to pick the best language for the job. There are programs best written in Perl, there are those best to be written in assembly (microcontroller code?), and those best written in C/C++, PHP, etc. It all depends on the job, not the language.
c:\dos
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c:\dos\run
run\dos\run
As Lisa said, only one person in a million would find that funny... about the same number (and same people) who'd find the parent post funny
And the alternative? That these providers would have eaten into the pockets of all the companies that chose free open source solutions? Anybody remember how freakishly expensive first application servers were?
I don't think they get the point. Software is not there to make software companies rich. It's there to make all the other companies productive and rich.
...the software informed us that our 30-day trial period had ended and we must contact... More likely the software was a few years old. It is not unlikely for setup code to check the current date on the system and see if it's sometime in the future from where it sorta should be. (ie: if you're using a trial version from 3 years ago, you might as well upgrade...)
An employer of mine sent out a very important e-mail with "IMPORTANT - MUST READ" in the title, and guess how many people got it? All thanks to wonderful e-mail filters...
Then again, most of the 'revolutionary' concept things we find in windows/linux/solaris, etc., were developed in the 1950-60s :-)
I agree with you 100% on the quality of Sun hardware and the Solaris operating system, but unfortunately it's not a question of quality. We could end up with inferior hardware and inferior operating systems because of marketing by Microsoft (and others)...
Linux now is where Solaris was 10 years ago. It will be another 10 years before Linux reaches the architectural robustness & flexibility of the current Solaris system. Yet you ask any geek out there and they'd jump on Linux any day... Yes, Linux is cool, but it's still a baby in the UNIX world.
Also remember that people were still using DOS and Win3.1 until 1996!!! (Win95 didn't ship until August 1995, and most people didn't even upgrade until 1997!) We had FREE Linux (which was, at the time, better than DOS/Win3.1), etc., yet people still used DOS! Nobody cares about quality when a well funded marketing department gets involved.
http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/c om1921.htm
And someone would hack it to display a different amount. Here, have a card, it has $1000 on it; but in fact has $0.
The security considerations around opening port 80 are understood.
Wait until some next worm spreads itself via a bug in a web-service, and forces just about every admin to block port 80.
Port 80 (as in "running Apache") is usually harmless; expose some serious capabilities to the net through it, and all of a sudden administrators see it as something they shouldn't expose to the general internet in the first place.
I doubt they're even interested in desktops. Sun never was. Workstations, maybe, but desktops for non-techies? No way.