I like the extreme programming technique of writing a failing test case first; you deliver when the test case no longer fails. Good discipline, been using it for years.
Pariffin is one of the higher fractions of petroleum cracking -- asphalt at the bottom, pariffin near the top. You can bias your output from a barrel of oil a bit, but it still comes out of the ground.
Do a Google search for "fabber". Ennex sells them now. Ford uses them. They're great for making complex models, some of them use an epoxy bronze sintering effect for some pretty durable stuff -- not just candle wax.
I once had a farmer attend a housewarming party I held in Tasmania. Knowing what I did for a crust, he said "Don't computers take jobs away from people?"
The point is that the government doesn't just regulate the little bit you want -- once they own a piece of the business, their Bureaucratic Oath requires them to extend their market share to include everything. Soon you'd need a license to log into your own computer.
When you're connected to the Internet, you have a lot more neighbors to offend. Code of practice could include vcheck before delivery of repaired system.
Scientific theory seems to have been first documented by Bacon in "Novum Organum". It was a treatise on the "mysteries" but very clearly laid out hypothesis, theory, proof, and the need for independent corroboration before a principle could be considered true. Interesting transition from metaphysics to physics I thought.
Possibly -- probably. Could have mis-read a detail sequence on a busy network (I'm being charitable here).
I'd be interested if the results could be observed on an isolated net segment, just the client and web server machines plugged into an isolated hub or switch. Wait for a quiet period then do a single page lookup. If you can see it there I might believe.
Quite right. I was having trouble when I read Atlas Shrugged. I've never been able to use the word astonishing properly since. Teacher didn't like my book report, either. There's more to life than going back to the gold standard.
Ok, blatant flamebait
For a real slippery slope to the bottom, try rock surfing in the Ohlone pools Maui north. Almost ended my honeymoon...
Liberty Alliance, Passport are just attempts at providing peer-to-peer version of enterprise single-signon solutions such as those provided by Netegrity's SiteMinder etc.
Of course there's always a server involved somewhere, isn't there? Can't ever be true peer-to-peer, just "mostly distributed".
Like UDDI, great idea but I'll keep my own registry, thanks.
I hate to bring up the old question of instruction set compatibility (I'm wearing my nomex undies in any event;-/ ) but a friend of mine owns/runs a small vertical market ISP and says he couldn't get his hw raid-5 controller drivers to load on servers using AMD chips. He tried several variations of controllers and a couple of different AMD servers. No problems doing it with P3's. I didn't think to ask him which versions. Hardware was all new (report was a good few months ago though) and the guy is not entirely clue-proof. Has anyone else seen this behaviour with AMD processors? Can someone give me a bit of confidence that these chips are really, truly compatible? I don't want to give my friends bad advice.
Brooks is definitely required reading. Hard knocks plus common sense from the days of punch cards.
My vote goes for standards -- getting people to agree on/anything/ is what pushes the revolution forward. This pre-dates W3C, OASIS etc. I'm talking about innovations such as ASCII. Before that was codified, you couldn't get an ICL machine to talk to a Univac, or a Burroughs, or CDC, or IBM (who's mainframes are still holdouts with EBCDIC).
When corporations are big enough that they have their own internal weather, standards are the only thing that hold them together. Where would we be without SMTP or HTML? It's not the fab technology, it's the fact that everybody knows them and accepts them that make the difference.
If you're not busy, a PDA is just pocket ballast. If you are, they're godlike.
It's great to be able to schedule meetings when you have ten different people to see in a day and you can't get back to your laptop to see your calendar, and you're too coordination-challenged to keep the pages from falling out of a loose-leaf organiser.
The most important feature is being small enough to fit in a pocket. If you don't have them with you, they're useless. Basic Palm V is good enough.
You should move to Melbourne, here in Horse Trailer. We're totally networked by train, tram and bus networks (one ticket for all) and they carry more passengers per day than the road system. The beer's better too, and you can get totally tanked and still get home without driving. Hah! So there.
Remember "SPAM" was used since WWII as a euphemism for a metabolic by-product. Remember what they called creamed chipped beef on toast? (hint: "**** on a shingle") The chipped beef was usually Spam. The metaphor is still good.
Who else would have a llama as a character? Disney, I think. New Groove
BTW and no offence intended, but free comics exist in many web continua. Try www.ubersoft.net or www.sluggy.com for a treat. These guys sell books of their (free) online stuff, pretty high quality. Lots of amateur graphics sites as well.
My vote? Try harder. Good set of attitudes but pull the content. Nice venue otherwise.
You know, I generally skip past posts with the word "Windooze" in them as evidence of an insufficiently critical mind, prone to cyber theology. I read yours because there was a grain of insight in it.
I'm a linux fan too, but I try not to trivialise my posts by adding insulting cliche's. The practice is self modding, and you might want to think about that.
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I like the extreme programming technique of writing a failing test case first; you deliver when the test case no longer fails. Good discipline, been using it for years.
still have "rocket scientist" on my resume after all these years -- Eldergeek
Pariffin is one of the higher fractions of petroleum cracking -- asphalt at the bottom, pariffin near the top. You can bias your output from a barrel of oil a bit, but it still comes out of the ground.
Do a Google search for "fabber". Ennex sells them now. Ford uses them. They're great for making complex models, some of them use an epoxy bronze sintering effect for some pretty durable stuff -- not just candle wax.
"Yes" I replied, "but so does the tractor".
The point is that the government doesn't just regulate the little bit you want -- once they own a piece of the business, their Bureaucratic Oath requires them to extend their market share to include everything. Soon you'd need a license to log into your own computer.
When you're connected to the Internet, you have a lot more neighbors to offend. Code of practice could include vcheck before delivery of repaired system.
Scientific theory seems to have been first documented by Bacon in "Novum Organum". It was a treatise on the "mysteries" but very clearly laid out hypothesis, theory, proof, and the need for independent corroboration before a principle could be considered true. Interesting transition from metaphysics to physics I thought.
I'd be interested if the results could be observed on an isolated net segment, just the client and web server machines plugged into an isolated hub or switch. Wait for a quiet period then do a single page lookup. If you can see it there I might believe.
Why? Tidal effects?
it doesn't take a mycroft holmes to do it any more (ref "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" R.A.Heinlein)
Idea from a friend in Perth: revector popup sites to single-pixel invisible .gif
Ok, blatant flamebait
For a real slippery slope to the bottom, try rock surfing in the Ohlone pools Maui north. Almost ended my honeymoon...
Of course there's always a server involved somewhere, isn't there? Can't ever be true peer-to-peer, just "mostly distributed".
Like UDDI, great idea but I'll keep my own registry, thanks.
My life, my world, my data.
I hate to bring up the old question of instruction set compatibility (I'm wearing my nomex undies in any event ;-/ ) but a friend of mine owns/runs a small vertical market ISP and says he couldn't get his hw raid-5 controller drivers to load on servers using AMD chips. He tried several variations of controllers and a couple of different AMD servers. No problems doing it with P3's. I didn't think to ask him which versions. Hardware was all new (report was a good few months ago though) and the guy is not entirely clue-proof. Has anyone else seen this behaviour with AMD processors? Can someone give me a bit of confidence that these chips are really, truly compatible? I don't want to give my friends bad advice.
My vote goes for standards -- getting people to agree on /anything/ is what pushes the revolution forward. This pre-dates W3C, OASIS etc. I'm talking about innovations such as ASCII. Before that was codified, you couldn't get an ICL machine to talk to a Univac, or a Burroughs, or CDC, or IBM (who's mainframes are still holdouts with EBCDIC).
When corporations are big enough that they have their own internal weather, standards are the only thing that hold them together. Where would we be without SMTP or HTML? It's not the fab technology, it's the fact that everybody knows them and accepts them that make the difference.
Just a larger version, is all. Remember Agincourt!
It's great to be able to schedule meetings when you have ten different people to see in a day and you can't get back to your laptop to see your calendar, and you're too coordination-challenged to keep the pages from falling out of a loose-leaf organiser.
The most important feature is being small enough to fit in a pocket. If you don't have them with you, they're useless. Basic Palm V is good enough.
You should move to Melbourne, here in Horse Trailer. We're totally networked by train, tram and bus networks (one ticket for all) and they carry more passengers per day than the road system. The beer's better too, and you can get totally tanked and still get home without driving. Hah! So there.
St.Kilda Road is great.
22% of all statistics are made up on the spot
Funny thing is, I don't mind the ads on Slashdot. Most other places perhaps, but not the dot. Why?
Remember "SPAM" was used since WWII as a euphemism for a metabolic by-product. Remember what they called creamed chipped beef on toast? (hint: "**** on a shingle") The chipped beef was usually Spam. The metaphor is still good.
Who else would have a llama as a character? Disney, I think. New Groove BTW and no offence intended, but free comics exist in many web continua. Try www.ubersoft.net or www.sluggy.com for a treat. These guys sell books of their (free) online stuff, pretty high quality. Lots of amateur graphics sites as well. My vote? Try harder. Good set of attitudes but pull the content. Nice venue otherwise.
You know, I generally skip past posts with the word "Windooze" in them as evidence of an insufficiently critical mind, prone to cyber theology. I read yours because there was a grain of insight in it. I'm a linux fan too, but I try not to trivialise my posts by adding insulting cliche's. The practice is self modding, and you might want to think about that.
The thought of Steve Jobs stealing another paradigm scares the living eyeballs out of me.
So what else is it doing? I can't believe Apple inserted wait loops to slow it down. Maybe it's polling more components?