And in fact, the whole and entire point of a space program imo. It's *space*, and plenty of it -- complete with all the resources in the universe and all the elbow room you need to fulfil anyone's perception of Manifest Destiny.
Bugger this fighting your brother stuff for a lark.
Actually, the quality of work coming out of India is improving (scares me to say it though, and I'm reasonably current on the subject). So are their work conditions, their work environment, their training, their... pretty much what was happening to developers in Cupertino in the early 80's. Their lifestyle is reflecting the respect their profession is given in India.
The only difference between them and us is the value of their currency, and that will change when Endaka hits the Rupee like it did in Japan when the world's expendable cash hit that country. The balance will probably shift again, but it won't be back in our direction -- probably to Afghanistan or Iraq, just as soon as their bombed-out economies replace their infrastructure as Japan and Germany did after WWII.
It's the challenge, not the prize, that drives the game. I once bet my QA team a six pack of fine Pilsener that our current SW release was totally bug-free. They took up the challenge, and 100 or so bug reports came out in the next week as opposed to the usual four or five I could get out of them. They sure showed me, didn't they?;-) Darn, gosh, they won the bet. Best SW release we ever had, and it only cost me a few bucks worth of beer. My next pay rise sort of more than covered it, and it beat having to fine-tooth a few hundred thousand lines of the ancient Fortran we used.
In a logical world, you'd sum the angles. In a rational world, you'd know it was a circle. The educational value is in getting the little bastards to think about the quandary.
And of course, in very old trade calendars (1930's or thereabouts IIRC) phases of the moon were prominently displayed with the calendar dates. If a page spilled over to another month, and a full moon was shown, it was invariably printed in blue ink.
"Any flexibility, however small, that allows us to reduce our logistics dependency is good in my opinion."
It worked for Napoleon, didn't it? A major component of his success was due to technology take-up. His soldiers had canned food, which seriously broke the rules his opponents played under. The British Navy came close, with their barrels of salt beef.
A few years ago in Australia the Vax computer and the Vax vacuum cleaner went toe to toe on a trademark conflict.
Unfortunately for Digital, the only way they could have successfully contested the issue would have been to agree that their functionality could be described in similar terms...
The book was "Big Blues", a NYT columnist's documentation of IBM's travails around the days of the rise of Microsoft. Speaker was TJ Watson Jr. I think.
I saw an article on making a plotter from an etch-a-sketch in the mid-70's. I don't remember the magazine but it was definitely in the Altair-kit era.
Excellent novel written on this subject
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Have a look at "Achilles' Choice" by Larry Niven & Steve Barnes; future olympiads required atheletes to have a corresponding intellectual pursuit of equal calibre to win the gold. Interesting premise, good read.
A couple of times I noticed I'd inadvertently modded things "offtopic" when I really wanted "insightful" or "interesting". I got better when I realised I was rotating the options with the wheelmouse. Perhaps something like that?
What we need to do is send up a satellite network that strings wires around the Earth in low orbit, so our planet becomes the ferrite core of a huge electric motor. We could then dump all the energy we capture from the Core Flip back into the ground in time to save us from a vengeful Willow. I'd suggest a rebuilt Wardenclyffe with a pseudosphere on top of the tower for an earthing point.
Or maybe they got rid of a single batch job with a read-only lock that had interactive folk running on the log file for years...
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Apple actually had 95% market share until we brought out the Apple/// (we used them as desktop VT100 emulators as well as WP machines -- other word processor we had at the time was a fairly large mini connected to a Selectric). It was a very nice upgrade from the ][, and might have gone on to greatness if it hadn't suffered from unreliable component suppliers and -- oh yes, that little offering from IBM that came out about then.
When Black Friday came about (okay, I forget just which day of the week it was) we were humbled by something Mike Markkula said -- "They (IBM) make more off the interest in their petty cash accounts than we turn over in a year, and you're making a Duck Quack Synthesizer?". After we moved to Australia, we bought a new LC II and discovered "Quack" was one of the options for the system bell. Laughed so hard i hurt myself.
A lot of the cryptic SYSGEN parameters were duplicated in the Registry, and I've seen at least one exotic kernel-mode bug show up on both architectures.
If you ran IIS and the FTP server on an NT4 box you could get Windows Explorer to show Pathworks file trees on the same LAN, provided you had a workgroup name in common. Was a great migration tool.
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Probably a direct order from He Who Is Most Spammed, Mr. Bill G.
Oh, hang on ... were you talking about taking that sort of damage for real?
Bugger this fighting your brother stuff for a lark.
Wouldn't hurt to take an art class or two, get those cross-brain neurons firing. Think "precise creativity". Save money and get a new hobby to boot.
The only difference between them and us is the value of their currency, and that will change when Endaka hits the Rupee like it did in Japan when the world's expendable cash hit that country. The balance will probably shift again, but it won't be back in our direction -- probably to Afghanistan or Iraq, just as soon as their bombed-out economies replace their infrastructure as Japan and Germany did after WWII.
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In a logical world, you'd sum the angles. In a rational world, you'd know it was a circle. The educational value is in getting the little bastards to think about the quandary.
And of course, in very old trade calendars (1930's or thereabouts IIRC) phases of the moon were prominently displayed with the calendar dates. If a page spilled over to another month, and a full moon was shown, it was invariably printed in blue ink.
Send me the signal, I'll integrate it somehow.
Some might question that...
It worked for Napoleon, didn't it? A major component of his success was due to technology take-up. His soldiers had canned food, which seriously broke the rules his opponents played under. The British Navy came close, with their barrels of salt beef.
Unfortunately for Digital, the only way they could have successfully contested the issue would have been to agree that their functionality could be described in similar terms...
Any relation to Caspar O'Rillian?
For the truly heaviest, scariest interrupt-driven bit twisting crank-addled software, nothing quite beats Tangerine Dream...
Specifically, Big Blues - The Unmaking of IBM and it was Wall Street Journal, not NYT.
The book was "Big Blues", a NYT columnist's documentation of IBM's travails around the days of the rise of Microsoft. Speaker was TJ Watson Jr. I think.
I saw an article on making a plotter from an etch-a-sketch in the mid-70's. I don't remember the magazine but it was definitely in the Altair-kit era.
Have a look at "Achilles' Choice" by Larry Niven & Steve Barnes; future olympiads required atheletes to have a corresponding intellectual pursuit of equal calibre to win the gold. Interesting premise, good read.
A couple of times I noticed I'd inadvertently modded things "offtopic" when I really wanted "insightful" or "interesting". I got better when I realised I was rotating the options with the wheelmouse. Perhaps something like that?
Increase your working set size. Alternatively, add RAM until your lights go dim.
Tinfoil hats -- HAH!
Or maybe they got rid of a single batch job with a read-only lock that had interactive folk running on the log file for years...
When Black Friday came about (okay, I forget just which day of the week it was) we were humbled by something Mike Markkula said -- "They (IBM) make more off the interest in their petty cash accounts than we turn over in a year, and you're making a Duck Quack Synthesizer?". After we moved to Australia, we bought a new LC II and discovered "Quack" was one of the options for the system bell. Laughed so hard i hurt myself.
A lot of the cryptic SYSGEN parameters were duplicated in the Registry, and I've seen at least one exotic kernel-mode bug show up on both architectures.
If you ran IIS and the FTP server on an NT4 box you could get Windows Explorer to show Pathworks file trees on the same LAN, provided you had a workgroup name in common. Was a great migration tool.