Anybody who has tried Using Linux Gnome Compiz Fusion cube and starts rotating their desktops mouse scroll-wheel well then see OS X and Windows Vista as crap. No Patents, no legal BS. Just good'ol Open Source making the most of graphic accelerators. Next step: Invert the cube and turn the Desktop into a room. The walls are the Desktops. The Walls/Desktops have doors and when you scroll into a door you enter a new room....perhaps your pc at home. Hey! I patented that! Right now! na na na na..can't touch this!
Hi, my name is Mr. Technology lead in the Software Dev. Department. Today had a very busy schedule meeting w/ #SOME_EXPENSIVE_SOFTW_SOLUTION_COMPANY and had a 6 hr presentation in #SOME_REMOTE_LOCATION_OFFICE where we discussed the details of the licensing package for our company. My boss already lined up the budget and my team and I are ready to start a 1 wk training in SAN DIEGO next month. During lunchtime at #SOME_FANCY_STEAKHOUSE I got an emailf from #SOME_DOUCHEBAG_UNDERLING suggesting me to consider an open source solution.
I got a good chuckle while my new buddies insisted on picking up the check.
Can you point me at the site were I can buy some of that "bug resistent" code. And while we are at it, may I interest you on a year supply of "airborne" Immune boosting tablets. Now, seriously, QA teams are not bug-detector teams. Their expertise focus on pushing the next company flagship product over the limit and back. The ego-centric developer believe that the QA team is giving the "thumbs-up" to them, in reality, they are giving it to the user.
The policy is WHAT (data) they want and WHEN (time/event).
The mechanism is the HOW (language, libraries, ADT's, Architecture(eg. I'm going to use a generic container class, or No1 I'll use an array..or no1 I'll use pointers to my managed memory, and a huge private library of home-brewed accessor methods).
Of course the WHAT will change before you can say "blue berry pie". Will that derail your HOW..? eh?
How much the WHAT is affecting the HOW?
A new/changed requirement is a one-two liner change with simple steps to rebuild and re-test or a nightmare of side effects and gotcha's. Eh? How cleverly you do the HOW will determine whether you are writing throw away code or the killer module that will spread like fire through your company/web.
Once you build a house made out of wood-sheet-rock and 1ft insulation with itti-bitty windows you expect the central AC to do the rest; right? We are indeed like a virus. Our modern needs require more and more consumption of resources. A family of 3 consumes 10 times the energy that the same family consumed in the 1920.
If some one ask you to bring your code to an interview answer this:
Would you ask a farmer to bring their fertilizer to the bank when asking for a loan so the loan officer may take a whiff?
Of course not.
You would ask him about his farm. About his tools and machinery, about their property value and then method of irrigation, crop rotation, tilling or non-tilling, credit history that sort of thing. And btw, organic farms use standard c.
You remind me a case in England where a couple's child died and they engraved in his tombstone a picture of Disney's Winnie the Pooh. Disney came and asked them to remove it. After all, Disney owns the Copyright of the Winnie the Pooh cartoon. The whole story hit the news and Disney had to come to some settlement with the grieving parents to avoid looking like complete aholes. For you see, We humans are by nature, copiers. We copy everything! From DNA to Coldplay Albums. But we humans are also competitive and want the upper hand on everything, from DNA to having some sort of contrived retribution for something that once created, is completely inexpensive to be distributed by the owner or owners. But hey! Some Countries even used to charge taxes for radio waves! Is not just a stupid idea; It's the LAW!
Well, my basement is a chaotic mosaic of toys, old pc's and cat 5 cables. I'm trying to re-launch the vpnc on my fedora 8 server while the kids throw at each other scratched CD's as frees bees.
"Time to go to bed" I yell! They all shout back: "Why?" and I reply: "Because early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy and wise" My 10 yr daughter looks around at the mayhem of cables and switches, sktateboards and legos and snaps: "Dad, does this looks wise to you?"
A physics major arguing about what computer language is best is like an English major arguing pencil vs. ballpoint. It's just a freaking tool. The universe it's so darn complex you should be worrying about dark matter and time symmetry. That cool stuff that rocks. Computer languages are cool, but when it comes to string theory and black holes, a blackboard and a piece of chalk will do.
Here is the solution. In the winter run your web farm in the North hemisphere. In the winter migrate to the South hemisphere. Run it in basements of large apartment complex. Charge for the heating. Heating oil is going up the roof.
For those unfamiliar with the show, the premise, are the drama of an undercover counter-espionage counter-terrorism squad team (Section 9). In the last installment of the series (Gits 2nd GiG). There are suicide bombers, cyberbots prostitutes and all kind of uber-violence. Gits is adult animation for detective stories. And if Lewis Coleman is going to ef_up this work into some Teenage-Power-Rangers/Staship-troopers crap we should send Batou with some Tachikomas to straighten up his aaaz.
Ride the Tour de France like the pro's.
This book encourage you to think about the possible technical and physical hurdles you may encounter when riding the longest, toughest bicycle race known to men.
The book covers some basic subjects like wheel tunning, seat height and handlebars using real life examples.
Other chapters cover more advance subjects such as sprinting, time trials and team-riding.
Mountain stages are not included in this book.
I recommend this book to anyone who has a need to ride bicycles either professionally or in amateur circuits.
I must interject. Real computer science majors could work on better computing related premises to help the morons who write sci-fi today thinking that computers are just some sleek dude typing fast on a keyboard. Movies like "Swordfish" "Independence Day" and alikes are clear example on how the better educated bunch are excluded from the Hollywood "dream machine". The Matrix series was a good exception. Also the movie Primer. Basically what I'm trying to say is that if you have a science/engineering degree and go see a sci-film nowdays chances are you they are going to spit on your face and call it frosting. There I'm done.
My father took me the movie theater to watch Space Odyssey in 1976. I was 10. It changed the way I see time. I have the DVD now but I don't watch it because I think is too long. I'm watching it now. And hope time will care of the rest.
Can you speak English without knowing Latin? Sure. Will Latin ever disappear? Unlikely. People that know or understand Latin are superior in their understanding of languages and history of languages and etymology. Using this analogy, people that use, understand Linux/Unix, are superior in their understanding of computer programs and computer architecture. Recent surveys show that IT professionals and Developers with strong Unix/Linux background pull highest income. BTW, I am a developer. E pluribus Unum.
I'm the proud owner of a Diamond Rio PMP 300. Works fine with Fedora 8 using rio107 open Source project. If it wasn't by Open Source my trusty 64M mp3 player would have suffer the fate of much good hardware. My thanks to the rio107 developers:
Acknowledgments =============== The following people especially contributed to version 1.07 of the Rio utilities, many thanks to them and all others who contributed.
Rio 64M SE (Special Edition) Support
(Martin Sjolin martin@sjolin.ch).
FreeBSD support (Dermot McNally )
BSDI support (Steve Schultz sms@moe.sbsd.com).
OS/2 support (Bob Pesner bpesner@pcdialogs.com).
Playlist support comments and blank lines
(Tim Hogard thogard@abnormal.com).
Directory listing now shows sample frequency and
bit rate of each file (Bernhard Nebel
nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Faster detection of device (Harald Niesche hn@mind.de).
IO delays for initialization, tx and rx can be specified
on command line(Bob Pesner bpesner@pcdialogs.com).
An extra special thanks to "Mark B. Elrod"
for providing a 64mb Rio for us - without this, we would have been
unable to test and tweak the 64mb support.
Sounds wasteful, I know (data replication everywhere). But there is a reason for that. The process becomes resilient to unexpected changes (corruption). The bus is the enzymes, the cpu is the cell and thread of execution is, well, the DNA. The replication and communication process is autonomous.
I don't know python but if you can do something as succinct as
myList = [] 10.times do |i|
mList.push(i) end myList.each do |l|
puts l end
Again it is not about Rails of structuring things, Is the organic aspect of the language that works as an extension of your action with so little translation/morphing. With Ruby, my actions are more transparent. With Ruby I see the actions, not the syntax, which is what I want. Now, If this looks very similar to Python, great. I heard that python requires you to count your spaces, that stopped me right on the start. Cheers.
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I equate ethics with moral character. You do what you consider to be right. Furthermore, you must support your actions by displaying great expertise and knowledge and overall, good will. At the core of the divergent paths between business ethics and technology ethics, lies the concept of what we consider to be good and bad. To make myself clear let us recall a Simpsons Tree of Horrors episode where Homer is buying a "Crusty the Clown Toy at a strange shop in China Town"
Owner: We sell forbidden objects from places men fear to tread.
We also sell frozen yogurt, which I call ``Frogurt''!
Homer tells the owner that he is looking for a present for his son's birthday. The owner hands to him a talking Krusty doll.
Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse! Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad. Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt! Homer: [relieved] That's good. Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed. Homer: [worried] That's bad. Owner: But you get your choice of topping! Homer: [relieved] That's good. Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate. Homer: [stares] Owner: That's bad. Homer: Can I go now?
Here we see knowledge, expertise and how they determine what is considered good or bad, hence ethics. And this exactly why Lawmakers, Artists and Business people in general are unqualified to exercise good ethics in IT. Due to their lack of expertise and knowledge.
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Anybody who has tried Using Linux Gnome Compiz Fusion cube and starts rotating their desktops mouse scroll-wheel well then see OS X and Windows Vista as crap. No Patents, no legal BS. Just good'ol Open Source making the most of graphic accelerators. Next step: Invert the cube and turn the Desktop into a room. The walls are the Desktops. The Walls/Desktops have doors and when you scroll into a door you enter a new room....perhaps your pc at home. Hey! I patented that! Right now! na na na na..can't touch this!
Hi, my name is Mr. Technology lead in the Software Dev. Department. Today had a very busy schedule meeting w/ #SOME_EXPENSIVE_SOFTW_SOLUTION_COMPANY and had a 6 hr presentation in #SOME_REMOTE_LOCATION_OFFICE where we discussed the details of the licensing package for our company. My boss already lined up the budget and my team and I are ready to start a 1 wk training in SAN DIEGO next month. During lunchtime at #SOME_FANCY_STEAKHOUSE I got an emailf from #SOME_DOUCHEBAG_UNDERLING suggesting me to consider an open source solution.
I got a good chuckle while my new buddies insisted on picking up the check.
Can you point me at the site were I can buy some of that "bug resistent" code. And while we are at it, may I interest you on a year supply of "airborne" Immune boosting tablets.
Now, seriously, QA teams are not bug-detector teams. Their expertise focus on pushing the next company flagship product over the limit and back. The ego-centric developer believe that the QA team is giving the "thumbs-up" to them, in reality, they are giving it to the user.
I created a small project that uses Ruby Tk. Is not Quake Arena, but you get the point.
http://winlearnseries.sourceforge.net/
I don't agree with the idea of dumb-down development.
Programming is about rules, lots of rules.
Programming is like comedy, either you dig it or you don't.
My litmus test is the rubik cube. Give a teenager a rubik cube.
If she/he toys w/ it for a while and then tosses it. Don't waste your time.
If she/he tries for a while and then asks for directions. Good news, she/he is ready to learn programming.
If she/he tries, fails and then returns tomorrow with the cube solved, you have in your hands a kernel developer.
If she/he already knows how to solve it and you have not bought her/him a laptop yet you are wasting precious time.
If you don't know how to solve the Rubik cube, you clicked the wrong link, this is Slashdot, not Digg.
On code reuse.. a flexible driver.
From the Book Linux Kernel Dev.
more or less..
"provide mechanism, not policy"
The policy is WHAT (data) they want and WHEN (time/event).
The mechanism is the HOW (language, libraries, ADT's, Architecture(eg. I'm going to use a generic container class, or No1 I'll use an array..or no1 I'll use pointers to my managed memory, and a huge private library of home-brewed accessor methods).
Of course the WHAT will change before you can say "blue berry pie". Will that derail your HOW..? eh?
How much the WHAT is affecting the HOW?
A new/changed requirement is a one-two liner change with simple steps to rebuild and re-test or a nightmare of side effects and gotcha's. Eh?
How cleverly you do the HOW will determine whether you are writing throw away code or the killer module that will spread like fire through your company/web.
Once you build a house made out of wood-sheet-rock and 1ft insulation with itti-bitty windows you expect the central AC to do the rest; right? We are indeed like a virus. Our modern needs require more and more consumption of resources. A family of 3 consumes 10 times the energy that the same family consumed in the 1920.
If some one ask you to bring your code to an interview answer this: Would you ask a farmer to bring their fertilizer to the bank when asking for a loan so the loan officer may take a whiff? Of course not. You would ask him about his farm. About his tools and machinery, about their property value and then method of irrigation, crop rotation, tilling or non-tilling, credit history that sort of thing. And btw, organic farms use standard c.
You remind me a case in England where a couple's child died and they engraved in his tombstone a picture of Disney's Winnie the Pooh. Disney came and asked them to remove it. After all, Disney owns the Copyright of the Winnie the Pooh cartoon. The whole story hit the news and Disney had to come to some settlement with the grieving parents to avoid looking like complete aholes. For you see, We humans are by nature, copiers. We copy everything! From DNA to Coldplay Albums. But we humans are also competitive and want the upper hand on everything, from DNA to having some sort of contrived retribution for something that once created, is completely inexpensive to be distributed by the owner or owners. But hey! Some Countries even used to charge taxes for radio waves! Is not just a stupid idea; It's the LAW!
Well, my basement is a chaotic mosaic of toys, old pc's and cat 5 cables. I'm trying to re-launch the vpnc on my fedora 8 server while the kids throw at each other scratched CD's as frees bees. "Time to go to bed" I yell! They all shout back: "Why?" and I reply: "Because early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy and wise" My 10 yr daughter looks around at the mayhem of cables and switches, sktateboards and legos and snaps: "Dad, does this looks wise to you?"
A physics major arguing about what computer language is best is like an English major arguing pencil vs. ballpoint. It's just a freaking tool. The universe it's so darn complex you should be worrying about dark matter and time symmetry. That cool stuff that rocks. Computer languages are cool, but when it comes to string theory and black holes, a blackboard and a piece of chalk will do.
If you have to ask, Linux is not for you. The same way is you have ever wonder: Who are these people they are referring too? You are one of them.
Here is the solution. In the winter run your web farm in the North hemisphere. In the winter migrate to the South hemisphere. Run it in basements of large apartment complex. Charge for the heating. Heating oil is going up the roof.
And they used a yellow plastic shoobeedoo.
For those unfamiliar with the show, the premise, are the drama of an undercover counter-espionage counter-terrorism squad team (Section 9). In the last installment of the series (Gits 2nd GiG). There are suicide bombers, cyberbots prostitutes and all kind of uber-violence. Gits is adult animation for detective stories. And if Lewis Coleman is going to ef_up this work into some Teenage-Power-Rangers/Staship-troopers crap we should send Batou with some Tachikomas to straighten up his aaaz.
Ride the Tour de France like the pro's. This book encourage you to think about the possible technical and physical hurdles you may encounter when riding the longest, toughest bicycle race known to men. The book covers some basic subjects like wheel tunning, seat height and handlebars using real life examples. Other chapters cover more advance subjects such as sprinting, time trials and team-riding. Mountain stages are not included in this book. I recommend this book to anyone who has a need to ride bicycles either professionally or in amateur circuits.
I must interject. Real computer science majors could work on better computing related premises to help the morons who write sci-fi today thinking that computers are just some sleek dude typing fast on a keyboard. Movies like "Swordfish" "Independence Day" and alikes are clear example on how the better educated bunch are excluded from the Hollywood "dream machine". The Matrix series was a good exception. Also the movie Primer. Basically what I'm trying to say is that if you have a science/engineering degree and go see a sci-film nowdays chances are you they are going to spit on your face and call it frosting.
There I'm done.
er.. a program that executes when a signal is caught(SIGINT). So what's your excuse, Pointdexter?
OMG OMG OMG! My kernel is vulnerable!!
- regs->flags &= ~(X86_EFLAGS_TF);
+ regs->flags &= ~(X86_EFLAGS_TF | X86_EFLAGS_DF);
make
done.
My father took me the movie theater to watch Space Odyssey in 1976.
I was 10.
It changed the way I see time.
I have the DVD now but I don't watch it because
I think is too long.
I'm watching it now.
And hope time will care of the rest.
Can you speak English without knowing Latin?
Sure.
Will Latin ever disappear?
Unlikely.
People that know or understand Latin are superior in their understanding
of languages and history of languages and etymology.
Using this analogy, people that use, understand Linux/Unix, are superior
in their understanding of computer programs
and computer architecture.
Recent surveys show that IT professionals and Developers with strong Unix/Linux background
pull highest income.
BTW, I am a developer.
E pluribus Unum.
I'm the proud owner of a Diamond Rio PMP 300.
Works fine with Fedora 8 using rio107 open Source
project. If it wasn't by Open Source my trusty 64M
mp3 player would have suffer the fate of much good
hardware. My thanks to the rio107 developers:
Acknowledgments
===============
The following people especially contributed to version 1.07 of the Rio utilities,
many thanks to them and all others who contributed.
Rio 64M SE (Special Edition) Support
(Martin Sjolin martin@sjolin.ch).
FreeBSD support (Dermot McNally )
BSDI support (Steve Schultz sms@moe.sbsd.com).
OS/2 support (Bob Pesner bpesner@pcdialogs.com).
Playlist support comments and blank lines
(Tim Hogard thogard@abnormal.com).
Directory listing now shows sample frequency and
bit rate of each file (Bernhard Nebel
nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Faster detection of device (Harald Niesche hn@mind.de).
IO delays for initialization, tx and rx can be specified
on command line(Bob Pesner bpesner@pcdialogs.com).
An extra special thanks to "Mark B. Elrod"
for providing a 64mb Rio for us - without this, we would have been
unable to test and tweak the 64mb support.
LongLive Open Source!
Sounds wasteful, I know (data replication everywhere). But there is a reason for that. The process becomes resilient to unexpected changes (corruption). The bus is the enzymes, the cpu is the cell and thread of execution is, well, the DNA. The replication and communication process is autonomous.
Thanks for the examples.
..
...check it out,
I like your examples, yet
the do the very thing I no longer have to do with Ruby.
And that is.
Call c like operators like for, while etc.
I create objects and use the operators that the object provides.
So instead of calling for upper range lower range inside some list....bla bla bla.
(I have done Perl for many years now)
I just call the inherited operator
each
which is part of the Ruby Array Class
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html
it shows you the smogarboard of operators you automatically
inherit (more than 50) the moment you type something as simple as
myList = []
In Ruby EVERYTHING is an object.
Even the number 10 is an object.
So you can still do good'ol a-la c-style loops in Ruby, but
you shouldn't.
So I still want to learn Python, but mostly to understand it, not
for my every day scripting.
Cheers.
I don't know python but if you can do something as succinct as
myList = []
10.times do |i|
mList.push(i)
end
myList.each do |l|
puts l
end
Again it is not about Rails of structuring things, Is the organic aspect of the language that works as an extension of your action with so little translation/morphing. With Ruby, my actions are more transparent. With Ruby I see the actions, not the syntax, which is what I want. Now, If this looks very similar to Python, great. I heard that python requires you to count your spaces, that stopped me right on the start. Cheers.
I equate ethics with moral character. You do what you consider to be right. Furthermore, you must support your actions by displaying great expertise and knowledge and overall, good will. At the core of the divergent paths between business ethics and technology ethics, lies the concept of what we consider to be good and bad.
To make myself clear let us recall a Simpsons Tree of Horrors episode where Homer is buying a "Crusty the Clown Toy at a strange shop in China Town"
Owner: We sell forbidden objects from places men fear to tread.
We also sell frozen yogurt, which I call ``Frogurt''!
Homer tells the owner that he is looking for a present for his son's
birthday. The owner hands to him a talking Krusty doll.
Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!
Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad.
Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: [worried] That's bad.
Owner: But you get your choice of topping!
Homer: [relieved] That's good.
Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate.
Homer: [stares]
Owner: That's bad.
Homer: Can I go now?
Here we see knowledge, expertise and how they determine what is considered good or bad, hence ethics.
And this exactly why Lawmakers, Artists and Business people in general are unqualified to
exercise good ethics in IT. Due to their lack of expertise and knowledge.