RPC Web Services as specified by the W3C are doomed to failure because of their unnecessary complexity and the apparent need of the vendors to create additional standards such as "Web Services choreography" and B2BXML. In contrast, the much simpler and more powerful RESTful web services have been successful for years in this samemarketplace.
RESTful web services are the services primarily in place today: they utilize existing WWW security standards, are easy to implement and debug, and are available today.
To be fair this technique would require that investigators
scan the entire crime scene for DNA at the 10 nanogram level,
filter out extraneous DNA (i.e., discard DNA from garden slugs, insects, your pet dog, etc.),
Finally with a list of all distinct human DNA found at the crime scene, other information would be used to determine reasonable suspects.
The amount of residual human DNA (at the 10 nanogram level) in any area where humans transit or live is very high. It would be very easy to miss a critical piece of DNA which may be of microscopic size. Consequently the technology would be of questionable utility for use other than as corroboration in a court of law.
Even the above definition of "the entire crime scene" is fuzzy; expanding that area increases the likelihood of finding additional DNA by a factor proportional to at least the area and possibly to the volume of the space investigated.
The technology could also be defeated by dumping DNA from other sources at the crime scene or by dumping enzymes that break down DNA and render it useless. This has been done before.
AFAIK no web (WWW) standards are 20 years old yet; 1991 is the earliest year for an HTTP specification.
And Perl works just fine, thank you, with any of the newer standards, so the term "standards based technology" is gratuitous at best.
Perl development is so much quicker than JSP servlet development partially because there are so many well-written and thoroughly debugged CPAN modules written for Perl (and partially because Perl is simply so much quicker for development!-P)
My father and I were discussing men's socks and both over the years had independently concluded that all manufactured socks were too tight. We both have somewhat large (size 13-14 U.S.) feet. Neither of us have ever found comfortable loose socks even in specialty stores. When we remove our socks they leave an impression on the skin up to 30 minutes.
Consequently I stretch new socks to fatigue them and make them loose.
Given the recent publicity on deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) on airplanes due to impaired leg circulation, I think that a look at how socks fit and whether they affect one's circulation is a good idea.
One between India and Pakistan, the other between any set of interested parties in the current Peoples' Republic of China. The first would eliminate all stateside developers' job fears almost immediately. The second would eliminate the possibility of Chinese developers ever being a threat.
Many political models of PRC include the possibility of a break-up into a number of warring kingdoms after the "old men" die.
Perhaps the presence of children fires genetic triggers in the parents' brains to provide a more nurturing environment for the children.
For example, both my sisters love animals and swore that they would not kick their cats or dogs out when children arrived. But as soon as they came home from the hospital with child in hand the first thing they did was get all animals out of the house! Both swear that it was an automatic response, a reflex, and that they could not stand to have animals around the child, despite their previous insistence that the animals would stay. The existence of a genetic trigger to protect the newborn child from animals would explain this apparently inexplicable behavior.
It only makes sense that there may be genetic mechanisms to ensure the well-being of offspring and that those mechanisms may fire even in adulthood (parent-child bonding might be another example). It may be that the need to protect the new offspring takes highest priority, certainly higher than inventing the wheel or getting a Nobel prize.
They work by trapping a layer of air between the suit and the skin and increasing buoyancy. Swimmers who don't use the suits are penalized slightly, so eventually (the manufacturers hope) all swimmers will use the suits and increase revenues accordingly. The amount of material in the full body suits is several times that of the Speedo(tm), so costs and price rise accordingly.
Many IT products (e.g., PCs, databases, web servers, CRM systems, etc.) are now commodity items. Any company can purchase these such products. For this reason such software no longer provides any strategic advantage. In fact not having such software, even momentarily (your web farm goes down) is a risk that must be well managed.
Specialized software for a given industry segment is available to any company in that industry segment because the vendor seeks to maximize his sales. So even specialized software within an industry confers no strategic advantage.
specialized software developed in-house provides little or no strategic advantage because:
companies that create innovative software pay unduly for it's development. They get an early version with many bugs. An old saying: "You can always tell the pioneers, they're the ones with arrows in their backs." In your example, the cost of developing, patenting and defending innovative software and any interfaces are just the sort of "arrows" that a pioneer might suffer.
companies that wait and adopt innovative software at a later date buy it at reduced cost and with fewer bugs. Costs are lower and adoption is easier.
"The smartest users of technology--here again, Dell and Wal-Mart stand out--stay well back from the cutting edge, waiting to make purchases until standards and best practices solidify. They let their impatient competitors shoulder the high costs of experimentation, and then they sweep past them, spending less and getting more."
Although I do not like what Carr says, I believe he is correct, that he has his hand on the pulse of IT, and that his articles will further strengthen what is already a trend in IT. For example see Does an organization have anything to gain from.Net? (published prior to Carr's work) wherein Carmine Mangione analyzes the strategic advantages and risks of moving to Microsoft's.NET platform. This and many other articles about IT's shift to a focus on risk-managment seems to indicate that Carr is correct.
Build a reflector. Grind the lens yourself and save beaucoup $$. Take your time and make it perfect. Every time he sees it he will think "My son built this for me." and be grateful and proud. And you'll have something to pass to your son.
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RESTful web services are the services primarily in place today: they utilize existing WWW security standards, are easy to implement and debug, and are available today.
Human factors experts at Sandia take new approach
to studying human failure in engineered systems"
It might be best to remember that a paradox is an apparent contradiction and therefore, not a real contradiction, whether in theory or in science.
As a physicist, I find Lynd's paper provides nothing new, nothing insightful and in summary to be of no significance.
The amount of residual human DNA (at the 10 nanogram level) in any area where humans transit or live is very high. It would be very easy to miss a critical piece of DNA which may be of microscopic size. Consequently the technology would be of questionable utility for use other than as corroboration in a court of law.
Even the above definition of "the entire crime scene" is fuzzy; expanding that area increases the likelihood of finding additional DNA by a factor proportional to at least the area and possibly to the volume of the space investigated.
The technology could also be defeated by dumping DNA from other sources at the crime scene or by dumping enzymes that break down DNA and render it useless. This has been done before.
AFAIK no web (WWW) standards are 20 years old yet; 1991 is the earliest year for an HTTP specification.
And Perl works just fine, thank you, with any of the newer standards, so the term "standards based technology" is gratuitous at best.
Perl development is so much quicker than JSP servlet development partially because there are so many well-written and thoroughly debugged CPAN modules written for Perl (and partially because Perl is simply so much quicker for development!-P)
Japanese researcher Sugeno developed a voice-controlled autonomously stabilized small helicopters in 1991.
My father and I were discussing men's socks and both over the years had independently concluded that all manufactured socks were too tight. We
both have somewhat large (size 13-14 U.S.) feet. Neither of us have ever found comfortable loose socks even in specialty stores. When we remove our socks they leave an impression on the skin up to 30 minutes.
Consequently I stretch new socks to fatigue them and make them loose.
Given the recent publicity on deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) on airplanes due to impaired leg circulation, I think that a look at how socks fit and whether they affect one's circulation is a good idea.
Once all IT jobs are move offshore, losing weight and getting into shape will come quite naturally; it's difficult to eat when you have no income.
Many political models of PRC include the possibility of a break-up into a number of warring kingdoms after the "old men" die.
For example, both my sisters love animals and swore that they would not kick their cats or dogs out when children arrived. But as soon as they came home from the hospital with child in hand the first thing they did was get all animals out of the house! Both swear that it was an automatic response, a reflex, and that they could not stand to have animals around the child, despite their previous insistence that the animals would stay. The existence of a genetic trigger to protect the newborn child from animals would explain this apparently inexplicable behavior.
It only makes sense that there may be genetic mechanisms to ensure the well-being of offspring and that those mechanisms may fire even in adulthood (parent-child bonding might be another example). It may be that the need to protect the new offspring takes highest priority, certainly higher than inventing the wheel or getting a Nobel prize.
They work by trapping a layer of air between the suit and the skin and increasing buoyancy. Swimmers who don't use the suits are penalized slightly, so eventually (the manufacturers hope) all swimmers will use the suits and increase revenues accordingly. The amount of material in the full body suits is several times that of the Speedo(tm), so costs and price rise accordingly.
After the supercomputer in Terminator III.
Many IT products (e.g., PCs, databases, web servers, CRM systems, etc.) are now commodity items. Any company can purchase these such products. For this reason such software no longer provides any strategic advantage. In fact not having such software, even momentarily (your web farm goes down) is a risk that must be well managed.
Specialized software for a given industry segment is available to any company in that industry segment because the vendor seeks to maximize his sales. So even specialized software within an industry confers no strategic advantage.
specialized software developed in-house provides little or no strategic advantage because:
In Why IT Doesn't Matter AnymoreCarr states that
Although I do not like what Carr says, I believe he is correct, that he has his hand on the pulse of IT, and that his articles will further strengthen what is already a trend in IT. For example see Does an organization have anything to gain from .Net? (published prior to Carr's work) wherein Carmine Mangione analyzes the strategic advantages and risks of moving to Microsoft's .NET platform. This and many other articles about IT's shift to a focus on risk-managment seems to indicate that Carr is correct.
Build a reflector. Grind the lens yourself and save beaucoup $$. Take your time and make it perfect. Every time he sees it he will think "My son built this for me." and be grateful and proud. And you'll have something to pass to your son.