Engineers don't have the money and don't make the buying decisions, so there is no need to wrap products up in geek-appeal.
To sell anything, you have to pitch the product to the person with the signing power. If your target customers are six year old girls you paint it pink and sparkly. If your target customer is a CEO/CIO + board of directors then you dress it up with buzzwords and phrases. Technical details are stuff these folk don't understand add confusion.
We also need to reserve bandwidth for future uses. If we fill the ether now, we'll hate ourselves in ten years time.
Already 2.4G is a wild west with Bluetooth, Wifi etc stomping eachother. When every apartment gets a Wifi AP, and a few BT devices throughput will suck. Add a bunch of extra idiots adding to the mess
That would include six months or so too. The judicial system does not have to impose maximum sentences. It is important though that they have the teeth to be able to have effective countermeasures.
After doing two degrees I considered doing the next step and going for a PhD. Then I wondered if it was an effective use of my time and energy.
I learnt very little doing my BSc in Computer Science. All my notes fitted on about 4 sheets of paper. I learnt much more just screwing around writing code.
I didn't learn much doing the other degree either.
Before going back to school, figure out if it's really what you want/need to do. Perhaps you can learn more by changing workplace or taking some time off and getting involved in an open source project or something.
I don't think so. As more and more people and business inhabit "cyberspace" it is important that "cyberlife" gets protection equivalent to RealLife(tm).
Is breaking into a person's server or blogsite and messing with the contents any different from breaking in to a person's house/business and messing around? In both cases peoples "space" and privacy have been violated.
Is defacing a website any different from spraying graffiti on someones walls?
If a beurocrat can get a power-kick out of doing something (s)he will. "Security" is just the latest tool that the beurocrats can use. It's a hard one to argue against because you're instantly labelled a terrorist sympathiser.
AFAIK, there is not a linear relationship between miles and Watts - it's either a square or cubic relationship, I forget which. ie. you need to x4 or x8 the power to get x2 the miles.
Of course you could flip this relationship on its head to make a new record: build a femtoWatt (10^-15) level transmitter and place it, say, 1mm away from the receiver. If that could work, you'd be getting 10^12 metres/Watt compared to this record of approx 2x10^10 metres/Watt.
All proofs rely on some assumptions (axioms). Therefore all proofs still require one to accept the axioms. Therefore in reality, nothing can be completely proven.
Those "idiots" you speak of don't necessarily dispute the proof, but they might dispute the set of axioms.
Quite. Most of us have very little choice as to what we can use.I work in a company that uses Windows for all email etc. Some internal packages are IE based and won't work with other browsers. As a result I have not been bothered to set up a different browser etc. At home I use Linux and Opera.
What is interesting though is that almost 20% of MS employees run non-IE. I expect a good percentage of MS employees live the faith and are Windows/IE zealots, I expect MS corporate websites are only IE friendly. It's quite suprising to see such a high % use non-IE. I wonder how many run Linux desktops?
You're making the mistake of rating Darl on making SCO a viable business/technical entity. This is not his goal and this is not how he should be judged. Longer term solvency issues etc are not part of the plan.
How you rate Darl depends what you're looking for. OK, Darl would suck to work for if you're a developer, but he has achieved what he set out to do: pump and dump.
Two or three years ago SCO stock holders had toilet paper stock that had no future and no trade value. Over the last year Darl managed to pulp the price to over 18 bucks giving a lot of people an excellent exit option. If you rate him on that, he did rather well.
Dolly the cloned sheep was much celebrated, but developed arthritis early ask Google for "dolly arthritis". There is some speculation about this, but one is that the DNA slowly fall apart due to aging and therefore the cloned animal is "pre-aged".
If this is the case then that kitten you had cloned from your aging cat will start costing a lot in vet bills and will die at an early age.
Forking happens more than people realise. Something I've seen a few times is A is the developer/maintainer of some code and B develops a new feature/fixes a bug etc and sends it back to A. A refuses to accept the patch. This forces B to fork or live withouth the patch.
I've seen this happen in pretty important chunks of code - even gcc - which is pretty sad.
As a maintainer for a file system, I try to treat people as "customers". Sure, unless they're paying, they don't have any legal rights, but there is still some moral obligation to serve. I try to add the features that people want without breaking the design goals etc. I'm sure this is easier with a file system which is very deeply buried than with a userpsace program where everybody has a beef about itty-bitty features.
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To sell anything, you have to pitch the product to the person with the signing power. If your target customers are six year old girls you paint it pink and sparkly. If your target customer is a CEO/CIO + board of directors then you dress it up with buzzwords and phrases. Technical details are stuff these folk don't understand add confusion.
If NASA had tried, it would have taked $100M so far and not been finished yet.
Perhaps we need to overclock the editors??
Geez, what have you been eating???
We also need to reserve bandwidth for future uses. If we fill the ether now, we'll hate ourselves in ten years time.
Already 2.4G is a wild west with Bluetooth, Wifi etc stomping eachother. When every apartment gets a Wifi AP, and a few BT devices throughput will suck. Add a bunch of extra idiots adding to the mess
That would include six months or so too. The judicial system does not have to impose maximum sentences. It is important though that they have the teeth to be able to have effective countermeasures.
I learnt very little doing my BSc in Computer Science. All my notes fitted on about 4 sheets of paper. I learnt much more just screwing around writing code.
I didn't learn much doing the other degree either.
Before going back to school, figure out if it's really what you want/need to do. Perhaps you can learn more by changing workplace or taking some time off and getting involved in an open source project or something.
Is breaking into a person's server or blogsite and messing with the contents any different from breaking in to a person's house/business and messing around? In both cases peoples "space" and privacy have been violated.
Is defacing a website any different from spraying graffiti on someones walls?
If a beurocrat can get a power-kick out of doing something (s)he will. "Security" is just the latest tool that the beurocrats can use. It's a hard one to argue against because you're instantly labelled a terrorist sympathiser.
The tsumani did not hit Nigeria!
Of course you could flip this relationship on its head to make a new record: build a femtoWatt (10^-15) level transmitter and place it, say, 1mm away from the receiver. If that could work, you'd be getting 10^12 metres/Watt compared to this record of approx 2x10^10 metres/Watt.
Those "idiots" you speak of don't necessarily dispute the proof, but they might dispute the set of axioms.
Many GPS receivers have a "pulse per second" output. The timing on these is accurate to way better than 1 millisecond - no matter where you are.
What is interesting though is that almost 20% of MS employees run non-IE. I expect a good percentage of MS employees live the faith and are Windows/IE zealots, I expect MS corporate websites are only IE friendly. It's quite suprising to see such a high % use non-IE. I wonder how many run Linux desktops?
You're making the mistake of rating Darl on making SCO a viable business/technical entity. This is not his goal and this is not how he should be judged. Longer term solvency issues etc are not part of the plan.
How you rate Darl depends what you're looking for. OK, Darl would suck to work for if you're a developer, but he has achieved what he set out to do: pump and dump.
Two or three years ago SCO stock holders had toilet paper stock that had no future and no trade value. Over the last year Darl managed to pulp the price to over 18 bucks giving a lot of people an excellent exit option. If you rate him on that, he did rather well.
That's right. Cubic increment for speed beats proportional loss by a lot.
Since the power in the air is proportional to the cube of the speed, all speed up helps.
If this is the case then that kitten you had cloned from your aging cat will start costing a lot in vet bills and will die at an early age.
I've seen this happen in pretty important chunks of code - even gcc - which is pretty sad.
As a maintainer for a file system, I try to treat people as "customers". Sure, unless they're paying, they don't have any legal rights, but there is still some moral obligation to serve. I try to add the features that people want without breaking the design goals etc. I'm sure this is easier with a file system which is very deeply buried than with a userpsace program where everybody has a beef about itty-bitty features.
May they get eaten for lunch!
If the share certs are printed on soft paper, preferably scented, I'll take a few rolls.
Church: "Give us your money and listen to us or you BURN IN HELL!"
DOE: "Give us your money etc or YOU'LL RUN OUT OF GAS!"
NASA: "Give us your money or YOU'LL GET KILLED BY AN ASTEROID!"
It seems to me that this is a far simpler and more reliable way of getting the info out than through a long chain of Wifi networking from car to car.
Just like the internet, car-to-car networking will soon get swamped with all kinds of crap and the true value services will get starved of bandwidth.
It's just $1billion duped many times on Slashdot!