Process? When I think "process", I think IBM. Process stifles innovation. Yes, you need a balance between process and wrecklessness, but process isn't the answer. Seriously -- what talented, creative devs want to walk into a place where they have to produce 10 lines of documentation for every line of code? Nobody -- that's why startups are cool and MS, Google, and Amazon still try to retain a startup culture.
I was heartened to see the Stevens networking books...but what about Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment? This book is W. Richard Stevens' masterpiece on UNIX programming -- it's the bible. It's the ONE book that you can expect every programmer to have.
The timebomb thing is because Bart reverse-engineered Microsoft's WinPE. All WinPE copies are timebombed for 24 hours to prevent people from running it as an OS (it has the Win32 API's among other things). Believe it or not, the XP/WS03 release of WinPE works the same way (by copying binaries from a full OS distro).
A few years ago, they purchased Rational Software Corporation, which was a market leader in development process software (Purify, Quantify, Rational Rose, Apex). They also make the best ada compiler ever.
Rational was one of the best software companies you've never heard of. And IBM still sells their products and employs most of what was the company.
1) You completely dodged the parent's point about selling products v. services.
2) Your "once upon a time" nonsense reads just like any other fairytale in that it is make-believe. The software industry was born when demand was created by the advent of PCs. It had nothing to do with a mythical band of hand-holding programmers. Keep selling your install services and numbing your mind. I'll keep selling software products.
I'm currently a senior in CS at Purdue University West Lafayette. Our freshman enrollment rates have dropped at a rate on par with the UCLA study. The department here is doing everything they can to boost retention and enrollment in CS. I personally have seen many changes since enrolling. Mentoring programs, curiculum changes (more group work), and more personal advising have all been implemented since 2000 to try to curb this. It's a real problem and it exists at schools other than UCLA.
Not to be pedantic, but the primitive types in C# are not actually objects, they just behave like objects via boxing. This is done so that native 32-bit ints don't carry object overhead, but still maintain object-like usage. Best of both worlds...
Maybe this indicates a more serious disagreement at a fundamental level between the Stallmanites (developer-centeric vs. Mac/Design centered folks (Customer-centric).
IMHO, as someone who isn't enirely broke, I would pay the extra $200 or whatever for a superior product. People want to use the best tools...look at the success of Firefox which is clearly better than IE.
I think the success of projects like this will depend on ditching the Stallmanite mentality of "good enough" and moving to what customers want.
I'm going to use it, along with many other people who haven't felt compelled to switch to Firefox.
I plan to uninstall the Google Desktop Search and install this, as I'm sure it will work just as well (the search technology comes from Lookout Software) and now I'll have search term highlighting (which wasn't in SP2).
So Microsoft releases cool utilities that will help people who won't/can't upgrade to SP2 and Slashdot pans them. I really should stop reading opinions, but morbid curiosity gets the best of me every day.
Main Entry: exploit
Pronunciation: ik-'sploit, 'ek-"
Function: transitive verb
1 : to make productive use of : UTILIZE
2 : to make use of meanly or unjustly for one's own advantage
Clearly, this word has a positive and a negative connotation. Generally, when people talk about exploiting foreign labor, they probably are referring to (2).
I agree. From the disposition of her interview, it seems like testing is beneath her; programs should will themselves to work flawlessly. Just like NASA's reflector tests on the Hubble...right. This is definitely hand-waving. She whines about how modern OO languages aren't intuitive for certain relationships and offers no concrete (or abstract) solution for these shortcomings.
The bottom line is: software has bugs because it is complex. Deal with it. It's very hard to write large, qualtiy applications. We need more skilled and better educated engineers, not more language constructs. Launching a space shuttle or writing a weapons targeting system will never be an intuitive process. Also, intuition and simplicity will never be a substitute for testing. What malarkey.
-AZ
Strengths: whining and moaning
Weaknesses: independent thought
Battery replacement is the largest portion of the cost-per-mile for an electric car. To demonstrate how this works, we use Optima's cycle life vs. depth of discharge graph. This graph applies to laboratory-controlled charge and discharge cycles, yet is quite indicative of the effects of driver habits. If the Tango were driven to 80% DOD (depth of discharge) or more (approximately 64 to 80 miles regularly between charges), the pack will only yield 250 cycles. This works out to approximately 16 cents per mile with current Optima Yellow Top prices of $100. However, if discharged to 25% DOD (20 to 24 miles between charges), the chart shows 4,000 cycles can be achieved yielding 80,000 miles with a cost of only 3.1 cents per mile.
Where's the Fibre-Channel uplink?
What's this FM radio crap! It should use satellite radio!
Screw a 5GB HD...how about a 1TB HD
Batteries!? This think should use one of those micro steam tubines from IBM instead!
Nokia puts out a badass gadget and all/. users can do is bitch about how horrible it is. Typical.
As I had said earlier, this unit packs a punch in terms of performance. Due to its large size there is much more room for fans as well as allow much better air circulation. This particular tower came to us equipped with 2 80MM Antec fans serving as rear exhausts. I added 2 additional fans, 1 on the side, acting as a blower, and 1 in the front acting as an intake. In total there is room to place 5 80MM fans. Again, due to its size, and the fact that components aren?t tightly packed together, you can expect much better airflow right off the bat. With the combined fans, things simply run much cooler. "
Damn...I wish I had known all this time that the reason my computer is so damn slow is because of the case! Instead of upgrading my PII/300 motherboard and processor, I'm gonna get my self a hi-performance case!!!
My bedroom has a far less hospitable climate than Pluto...just ask my friends. I'm sure there is an entire ecosystem evolving in my dirty laundry...if life can thrive there....
There are only a couple of scenarios in which this makes any sense to me:
1. The SA gov't is trying to create an embargo on the importation of crypto in order to spur domestic development of crypto.
2. The SA gov't believes that if they know who is distributing and receiving crypto, it will make things easier for them to track and quash any political uprising that may come as a result of a particular group having the ability to communicate securely.
I really don't think I understand why govenments are still concerned with crypto regulation. Even the NSA is finally easing exportation laws.
Even Bruce Schiner (Atlanitic Monthly, Sept. 2002) has revamped his whole philosophy on crypto since Applied Cryptograpy was released...a very interesting article....
-me
Hey...thanks for the back-up. I'm afraid that since I discovered the plan, I am the first of the many victims of these brutal attacks! I knew all the/. moderators were 13 year-old "gamerz"!! The proof is in the pudding!! Mwa ha ha...
Allowing our children to play violent 3-d shooting games will inadvertnetly grow an army of pissed-off 13 year olds who will beat people to death with mice and keyboards!
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Yes, IE8 does use multiple processes to prevent a crash from taking down the whole browser. In fact, we were the first browser to have this. See http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/11/ie8-and-loosely-coupled-ie-lcie.aspx for more info. Thanks, Andy
Process? When I think "process", I think IBM. Process stifles innovation. Yes, you need a balance between process and wrecklessness, but process isn't the answer. Seriously -- what talented, creative devs want to walk into a place where they have to produce 10 lines of documentation for every line of code? Nobody -- that's why startups are cool and MS, Google, and Amazon still try to retain a startup culture.
I was heartened to see the Stevens networking books...but what about Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment? This book is W. Richard Stevens' masterpiece on UNIX programming -- it's the bible. It's the ONE book that you can expect every programmer to have.
The timebomb thing is because Bart reverse-engineered Microsoft's WinPE. All WinPE copies are timebombed for 24 hours to prevent people from running it as an OS (it has the Win32 API's among other things). Believe it or not, the XP/WS03 release of WinPE works the same way (by copying binaries from a full OS distro).
Is it just me or is this guy speaking English? I'm not a web programmer but geez...that article seems like a steaming pile of drivel.
A few years ago, they purchased Rational Software Corporation, which was a market leader in development process software (Purify, Quantify, Rational Rose, Apex). They also make the best ada compiler ever. Rational was one of the best software companies you've never heard of. And IBM still sells their products and employs most of what was the company.
1) You completely dodged the parent's point about selling products v. services.
2) Your "once upon a time" nonsense reads just like any other fairytale in that it is make-believe. The software industry was born when demand was created by the advent of PCs. It had nothing to do with a mythical band of hand-holding programmers. Keep selling your install services and numbing your mind. I'll keep selling software products.
I'm inside of a doughnut shop and I need to find a way to get fat. Does anyone know how to do this?
I'm currently a senior in CS at Purdue University West Lafayette. Our freshman enrollment rates have dropped at a rate on par with the UCLA study. The department here is doing everything they can to boost retention and enrollment in CS. I personally have seen many changes since enrolling. Mentoring programs, curiculum changes (more group work), and more personal advising have all been implemented since 2000 to try to curb this. It's a real problem and it exists at schools other than UCLA.
Not to be pedantic, but the primitive types in C# are not actually objects, they just behave like objects via boxing. This is done so that native 32-bit ints don't carry object overhead, but still maintain object-like usage. Best of both worlds...
Maybe this indicates a more serious disagreement at a fundamental level between the Stallmanites (developer-centeric vs. Mac/Design centered folks (Customer-centric).
IMHO, as someone who isn't enirely broke, I would pay the extra $200 or whatever for a superior product. People want to use the best tools...look at the success of Firefox which is clearly better than IE.
I think the success of projects like this will depend on ditching the Stallmanite mentality of "good enough" and moving to what customers want.
I'm going to use it, along with many other people who haven't felt compelled to switch to Firefox.
I plan to uninstall the Google Desktop Search and install this, as I'm sure it will work just as well (the search technology comes from Lookout Software) and now I'll have search term highlighting (which wasn't in SP2).
So Microsoft releases cool utilities that will help people who won't/can't upgrade to SP2 and Slashdot pans them. I really should stop reading opinions, but morbid curiosity gets the best of me every day.
From m-w.com
Main Entry: exploit
Pronunciation: ik-'sploit, 'ek-"
Function: transitive verb
1 : to make productive use of : UTILIZE
2 : to make use of meanly or unjustly for one's own advantage
Clearly, this word has a positive and a negative connotation. Generally, when people talk about exploiting foreign labor, they probably are referring to (2).
I agree. From the disposition of her interview, it seems like testing is beneath her; programs should will themselves to work flawlessly. Just like NASA's reflector tests on the Hubble...right. This is definitely hand-waving. She whines about how modern OO languages aren't intuitive for certain relationships and offers no concrete (or abstract) solution for these shortcomings. The bottom line is: software has bugs because it is complex. Deal with it. It's very hard to write large, qualtiy applications. We need more skilled and better educated engineers, not more language constructs. Launching a space shuttle or writing a weapons targeting system will never be an intuitive process. Also, intuition and simplicity will never be a substitute for testing. What malarkey. -AZ Strengths: whining and moaning Weaknesses: independent thought
From the commutercars.com website: specifications
Battery replacement is the largest portion of the cost-per-mile for an electric car. To demonstrate how this works, we use Optima's cycle life vs. depth of discharge graph. This graph applies to laboratory-controlled charge and discharge cycles, yet is quite indicative of the effects of driver habits. If the Tango were driven to 80% DOD (depth of discharge) or more (approximately 64 to 80 miles regularly between charges), the pack will only yield 250 cycles. This works out to approximately 16 cents per mile with current Optima Yellow Top prices of $100. However, if discharged to 25% DOD (20 to 24 miles between charges), the chart shows 4,000 cycles can be achieved yielding 80,000 miles with a cost of only 3.1 cents per mile.
yea yea!
/. users can do is bitch about how horrible it is. Typical.
Where's the Fibre-Channel uplink?
What's this FM radio crap! It should use satellite radio!
Screw a 5GB HD...how about a 1TB HD
Batteries!? This think should use one of those micro steam tubines from IBM instead!
Nokia puts out a badass gadget and all
From the Antec case review:
"Details & Specs
As I had said earlier, this unit packs a punch in terms of performance. Due to its large size there is much more room for fans as well as allow much better air circulation. This particular tower came to us equipped with 2 80MM Antec fans serving as rear exhausts. I added 2 additional fans, 1 on the side, acting as a blower, and 1 in the front acting as an intake. In total there is room to place 5 80MM fans. Again, due to its size, and the fact that components aren?t tightly packed together, you can expect much better airflow right off the bat. With the combined fans, things simply run much cooler.
"
Damn...I wish I had known all this time that the reason my computer is so damn slow is because of the case! Instead of upgrading my PII/300 motherboard and processor, I'm gonna get my self a hi-performance case!!!
Thanks Slashdot!
My bedroom has a far less hospitable climate
than Pluto...just ask my friends. I'm sure
there is an entire ecosystem evolving in my
dirty laundry...if life can thrive there....
There are only a couple of scenarios in which this makes any sense to me: 1. The SA gov't is trying to create an embargo on the importation of crypto in order to spur domestic development of crypto. 2. The SA gov't believes that if they know who is distributing and receiving crypto, it will make things easier for them to track and quash any political uprising that may come as a result of a particular group having the ability to communicate securely. I really don't think I understand why govenments are still concerned with crypto regulation. Even the NSA is finally easing exportation laws. Even Bruce Schiner (Atlanitic Monthly, Sept. 2002) has revamped his whole philosophy on crypto since Applied Cryptograpy was released...a very interesting article.... -me
Hey...thanks for the back-up. I'm afraid that since I discovered the plan, I am the first of the many victims of these brutal attacks! I knew all the /. moderators were 13 year-old "gamerz"!! The proof is in the pudding!! Mwa ha ha...
Allowing our children to play violent 3-d shooting games will inadvertnetly grow an army of pissed-off 13 year olds who will beat people to death with mice and keyboards!