One of the problems I see growing older is that remembering things doesn't seem that important -- I mean if it's technical, why bother? Look it up again if you need it.
On the other hand, when it does seem important, build a visual-imaginative metaphor, a symbol or icon, to associate whatever it is with. It's particularly easy with people's names. Build a picture of the person wearing stuff or holding stuff that sounds like their name. For example, Robert Fisher is obvious -- imagine the person wearing a robber's mask and holding a fishing pole. Picture that then mentally (or out loud, if you must) say the person's name. Tricks like that have been keeping my memory working fairly well despite my being somewhat older than dirt.
Ruin their lives, make them pay for what they do. Do you think the courts will? Do you think the politicians will?
Your anger is laudable; it's a terrible thing they're doing. But after the French Revolution you propose, who will step in and stop the Guillotines once people have heard them drum?
Yes, the RIAA sucks. The cure you propose however is worse than the disease; killing the patient will cure cancer, but it's overcure.
I think I would have to side with Daniel Webster here -- If I may misquote him from memory, "I'd give the Devil himself a fair trial". The legal system is worth preserving, as there's no other way to keep the world from falling into rule by vendetta.
We all desire to have the multimedia data streams flow...
Please keep writing. Not necessarily on this forum, as you will likely be crushed by the criticism and carried off by a grue. But keep practicing until your prose is up to the level of your imagery and is more well-formed and mature. As it is it looks like your post should be structured as poetry.
Take this as a lone complement from a dark corner -- you should continue to write, but there are other places that might sharpen your pen a little more quickly. I do not wish to offend, but don't take a level 30 into a level 80 zone...
What the RIAA is doing is falsely accusing large numbers of people, knowing that only a small number are possibly actionable. This "drift net" technique is indeed "suing people at random" and is not allowed by any court's procedures. They then exercise ex parte discovery (i.e. without the accused being able to answer the charges in court) which is basically rounding up bunches of people and asking them to turn out their pockets on the hope that they'll catch someone.
They then drop the nonproductive suits (after costing them a packet on legal fees) focus on the remainder, bring suit to assess egregious civil damages, which is counter to the principle of the 8th Amendment, in the core document of US law. Read NYCL's article on the subject at his web site - he's the authority on their techniques.
So I have to disagree with you -- it does necessarily mean that what they're doing is illegal.
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." -- Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution.
In short, if you are flying any Cessna 185, 206 or 207 which has a prop reaching transonic speeds, your prop needs to be replaced as it has been overhauled too many times.
Please mod parent "Informative". I live near Moorabbin Airport (about 2km away) and once in a while a light plane makes way too much noise on takeoff. The more operators who see that message the better.
Oh and they're all generally dead-quiet on landing.
I believe we have John McCain to thank for providing the media antibodies that will protect us against Sarah Palin in a national role well into the future. I mean, with an IQ of 83 she represents a certain segment of the underprivileged altogether too well...
My father used to enjoy telling me an aphorism from his US Army Air Corps days: There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots.
You need a programmer who enjoys the challenge, but doesn't (from experience) enjoy being shot down. Careful, quiet innovators make the best programmers. The ones who learn that English is an acceptable language for communication (even though it doesn't always generate fully-formed XML) are the ones who move up in the business.
Personally I'd want to test their approach to creativity by some situational metaphor, and their logic by presenting them something that requires problem decomposition. Then look at their code and see if they really wrote it. A big grin is often an indicator that they did.
Beware of people who learn to program by assembling tag lines out of job advertisements... if they're good, and have a good set of shill phone numbers, you can be conned. I was taken in that way, exactly once. That's the kind of lesson that you want your prospective employees (at least those who hire developers) to have learned on someone else's dime, so I'd say yes, experience counts. It translates into a lot of money you won't lose from an old mistake applied to a fresh project.
Where do you think the overhead is at? GUI, mouse, I/O? Do you think Internet Explorer is dragging it down?
File system would be my guess. Those context menus are pretty instant, the population with all those headers is what takes the time. If you had a shortcut method (say, analogous to VMS' old "Install" header cache forcing mechanism) for locating and ID'ing the items in the menu list it would probably help. As it is, I think it's lumped in with the "file index" capability on Windows that everybody turns off to cut back on the annoying disk activity. Just my A$0.02
I grew up learning about the world from Life and National Geographic. We were poor - pre-transistor days, couldn't even afford a radio -- but we had the media at our fingertips. I remember my father's part in WWII from pictures he showed me of places he'd been, in old copies of Life. I watched as the first seven astronauts were chosen. I watched the last moments of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King and watched an immense culture change from the pages of Life. The ability of Life photographers to capture the eyes of people and stories and places has never been equalled to my mind.
The fact that Google has arranged with the owners of all this Life Magazine material to put the archive online for the rest of you makes me feel a good bit better about Google's place in the Internet.
If there's a guy in a tower with a machine gun taking shots into the crowd bellow, and some subset of the crowd has the ability to DDos, what would you want them to do?
I would probably eat a banana for the potassium or paint the railings green.
Year after year, I maintain the feeling that Windows is teetering on the brink. The immense army of Microsoft's R&D organisation is employed to add "differentiators", i.e. more features, rather than less, so you'll always have planned obsolesence. This is inconsistent with getting the price per unit down to where it's competitive in the TCO equation they're selling to. At the Enterprise back office, it's still perceived by most of our customers that a Windows server solution is easier to plug together in a scalable way with the fewest possible high-end engineers. Because of this perception (aided by a very good single-source support portal in MSDN with a lot of expensive polish) many of our Enterprise customers see a Windows desktop -- at whatever level of evolution -- is the client of least resistance. This amounts to a lot of technology knitted together with a glue consisting of 1 part content, 1 part support, and 1 part marketing polish.
As far as overall quality and ease, well, you and I know different.
To make Linux prevail across the Enterprise will require a differentiator, something that can compensate for the immense marketing engine that is MSFT. This will have to be not just a convincing alternative, but a convincing argument that is driven home.
A couple of holdouts keep MSFT on the cliff instead of off it. A diminishing yet prevalent feeling of product consistency across the board (reinforced by their consistent portal graphics, I kid you not), the immense momentum of the installed product base and the fact that the users' home devices can run World of Warcraft on that platform and no other.
The cost equation is at present very much in favour of a Linux desktop + **Nix back end. Unless we somehow counter that marketing engine, however, we'll never be able to give the beast that last push over the cliff. And we'll need to do it in some other way than they do -- remember, it took a year-after-year consistency for Volkswagen to break the tailfin aristocracy of the 1950's car makers. Of course by that time planned obsolescence had reached absurd levels and people were ready for the change.
Maybe that's our marketing message -- "Do you really need the tailfins? Or would a simple, economical desktop do the job?"
If any marketing types out there have the links, it would be great to see some of the old VW beetle adverts. Inspirational simplicity.
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere...
Seriously, think of all that vacuum available for distillation, and all that cold-side refrigeration, plus the infinite surrounding junkyard, space is the ideal place to purify water.
And if you need more, there's a fair bit circling Saturn you could probably use, with a bit of work.
I may be totally out of touch by now, but I thought the windows swapper was used for other reasons besides managing oversize virtual images, wasn't it?. When I was into the subject some years ago, the swapper was also used in image activation -- executable images were paged into memory rather than read in via the file system. This is actually more efficient as unused portions of a program aren't read into RAM until they're needed.
So would I. Large IT structures interest me. Huge computer installations fascinate me. Seeing how information structures interrelate and the ebb and flow of cache management gives me a silvery tingle in my eyeballs* (*that's poetry, I'm too old for drugs) and an itch to connect wires to see what they do.
Whenever my character on WoW gets hung in loot-lag I wonder -- did they run out of journal space (they must use journals, I've seen compelling game-play evidence) or did one of their load balancers chuck a reggie?** (**Australian cultural isomorphism, no apologies). That little moment of invisibility when I log in to Orgrimmar, but can still play -- how much parallelism is going on? How do they link those little conversation bubbles with the chat so quickly - is that my client or the server coordinating that?
Really, it's like another internal game, second-guessing how they move so many chess pieces around. But geez I would SO love to see a network layout.
If the game play doesn't interest you any more, then consider an IT client-server delivery system that manages 11 million customers on a daily basis, each of whom have up to 9 entities per x servers (I don't know how many there are now, but their are 3 major groupings of them) each entity with up to a hundred objects or so each with their own attributes, with those objects involved with a number of transfers, creations and disposals per hours-long encounters, and a similar number of entities living on the server (as PvE mobs).
Think of 11 million customers and the absolutely monsterous OLTP system that allows for all that database management with a surprisingly small amount of lag overall.
If the computer system that supports all that isn't "stuff that matters" then I suspect you may find spending your time on a different forum more profitable.
This is encouraging. It always is when the previously defenseless dig in their heels against standover artists.
I wonder if a certain amount of this new-found courage is coming from the subtle tides of a nation changing direction?
Sometime during the recent campaign marathon I heard one sound bite that made a difference to me -- "I will reinstate Habeas Corpus". Five words, that's all it took.
Slashdot Mirror
Truly, this is a two-bag arm-chewingly ugly development. I really don't like it.
On the other hand, when it does seem important, build a visual-imaginative metaphor, a symbol or icon, to associate whatever it is with. It's particularly easy with people's names. Build a picture of the person wearing stuff or holding stuff that sounds like their name. For example, Robert Fisher is obvious -- imagine the person wearing a robber's mask and holding a fishing pole. Picture that then mentally (or out loud, if you must) say the person's name. Tricks like that have been keeping my memory working fairly well despite my being somewhat older than dirt.
Ruin their lives, make them pay for what they do. Do you think the courts will? Do you think the politicians will?
Your anger is laudable; it's a terrible thing they're doing. But after the French Revolution you propose, who will step in and stop the Guillotines once people have heard them drum?
Yes, the RIAA sucks. The cure you propose however is worse than the disease; killing the patient will cure cancer, but it's overcure.
I think I would have to side with Daniel Webster here -- If I may misquote him from memory, "I'd give the Devil himself a fair trial". The legal system is worth preserving, as there's no other way to keep the world from falling into rule by vendetta.
We all desire to have the multimedia data streams flow...
Please keep writing. Not necessarily on this forum, as you will likely be crushed by the criticism and carried off by a grue. But keep practicing until your prose is up to the level of your imagery and is more well-formed and mature. As it is it looks like your post should be structured as poetry.
Take this as a lone complement from a dark corner -- you should continue to write, but there are other places that might sharpen your pen a little more quickly. I do not wish to offend, but don't take a level 30 into a level 80 zone...
What the RIAA is doing is falsely accusing large numbers of people, knowing that only a small number are possibly actionable. This "drift net" technique is indeed "suing people at random" and is not allowed by any court's procedures. They then exercise ex parte discovery (i.e. without the accused being able to answer the charges in court) which is basically rounding up bunches of people and asking them to turn out their pockets on the hope that they'll catch someone.
They then drop the nonproductive suits (after costing them a packet on legal fees) focus on the remainder, bring suit to assess egregious civil damages, which is counter to the principle of the 8th Amendment, in the core document of US law. Read NYCL's article on the subject at his web site - he's the authority on their techniques.
So I have to disagree with you -- it does necessarily mean that what they're doing is illegal.
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." -- Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Some may even say that the RIAA's asking settlements constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
Text of the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution:
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
In short, if you are flying any Cessna 185, 206 or 207 which has a prop reaching transonic speeds, your prop needs to be replaced as it has been overhauled too many times.
Please mod parent "Informative". I live near Moorabbin Airport (about 2km away) and once in a while a light plane makes way too much noise on takeoff. The more operators who see that message the better.
Oh and they're all generally dead-quiet on landing.
I believe we have John McCain to thank for providing the media antibodies that will protect us against Sarah Palin in a national role well into the future. I mean, with an IQ of 83 she represents a certain segment of the underprivileged altogether too well...
Will this eventually be a browser style UNC activation or will we all move more to a google-sidebar sort of 'fing?
Currently, there's no way to time-compress experience,
You'd still end up old, just sooner (and old age is not for sissies). I'm fortunate to work for an IT company that values grey hair. We're profitable.
My father used to enjoy telling me an aphorism from his US Army Air Corps days: There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots.
You need a programmer who enjoys the challenge, but doesn't (from experience) enjoy being shot down. Careful, quiet innovators make the best programmers. The ones who learn that English is an acceptable language for communication (even though it doesn't always generate fully-formed XML) are the ones who move up in the business.
Personally I'd want to test their approach to creativity by some situational metaphor, and their logic by presenting them something that requires problem decomposition. Then look at their code and see if they really wrote it. A big grin is often an indicator that they did.
Beware of people who learn to program by assembling tag lines out of job advertisements... if they're good, and have a good set of shill phone numbers, you can be conned. I was taken in that way, exactly once. That's the kind of lesson that you want your prospective employees (at least those who hire developers) to have learned on someone else's dime, so I'd say yes, experience counts. It translates into a lot of money you won't lose from an old mistake applied to a fresh project.
Where do you think the overhead is at? GUI, mouse, I/O? Do you think Internet Explorer is dragging it down?
File system would be my guess. Those context menus are pretty instant, the population with all those headers is what takes the time. If you had a shortcut method (say, analogous to VMS' old "Install" header cache forcing mechanism) for locating and ID'ing the items in the menu list it would probably help. As it is, I think it's lumped in with the "file index" capability on Windows that everybody turns off to cut back on the annoying disk activity. Just my A$0.02
Sounds like IBM's MQ Anywhere combined with a router and DNS.
...if that doesn't work I'll just transform into Optimus Prime...
Good telco, that.
Life-like indeed. It's magnificent.
I grew up learning about the world from Life and National Geographic. We were poor - pre-transistor days, couldn't even afford a radio -- but we had the media at our fingertips. I remember my father's part in WWII from pictures he showed me of places he'd been, in old copies of Life. I watched as the first seven astronauts were chosen. I watched the last moments of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King and watched an immense culture change from the pages of Life. The ability of Life photographers to capture the eyes of people and stories and places has never been equalled to my mind.
The fact that Google has arranged with the owners of all this Life Magazine material to put the archive online for the rest of you makes me feel a good bit better about Google's place in the Internet.
If there's a guy in a tower with a machine gun taking shots into the crowd bellow, and some subset of the crowd has the ability to DDos, what would you want them to do?
I would probably eat a banana for the potassium or paint the railings green.
Year after year, I maintain the feeling that Windows is teetering on the brink. The immense army of Microsoft's R&D organisation is employed to add "differentiators", i.e. more features, rather than less, so you'll always have planned obsolesence. This is inconsistent with getting the price per unit down to where it's competitive in the TCO equation they're selling to. At the Enterprise back office, it's still perceived by most of our customers that a Windows server solution is easier to plug together in a scalable way with the fewest possible high-end engineers. Because of this perception (aided by a very good single-source support portal in MSDN with a lot of expensive polish) many of our Enterprise customers see a Windows desktop -- at whatever level of evolution -- is the client of least resistance. This amounts to a lot of technology knitted together with a glue consisting of 1 part content, 1 part support, and 1 part marketing polish.
As far as overall quality and ease, well, you and I know different.
To make Linux prevail across the Enterprise will require a differentiator, something that can compensate for the immense marketing engine that is MSFT. This will have to be not just a convincing alternative, but a convincing argument that is driven home.
A couple of holdouts keep MSFT on the cliff instead of off it. A diminishing yet prevalent feeling of product consistency across the board (reinforced by their consistent portal graphics, I kid you not), the immense momentum of the installed product base and the fact that the users' home devices can run World of Warcraft on that platform and no other.
The cost equation is at present very much in favour of a Linux desktop + **Nix back end. Unless we somehow counter that marketing engine, however, we'll never be able to give the beast that last push over the cliff. And we'll need to do it in some other way than they do -- remember, it took a year-after-year consistency for Volkswagen to break the tailfin aristocracy of the 1950's car makers. Of course by that time planned obsolescence had reached absurd levels and people were ready for the change.
Maybe that's our marketing message -- "Do you really need the tailfins? Or would a simple, economical desktop do the job?"
If any marketing types out there have the links, it would be great to see some of the old VW beetle adverts. Inspirational simplicity.
You bring up an excellent point. In response, I have edited my google.xml search file...
Mod Beav007 +5 "Bloody Useful" please.
Seriously, think of all that vacuum available for distillation, and all that cold-side refrigeration, plus the infinite surrounding junkyard, space is the ideal place to purify water.
And if you need more, there's a fair bit circling Saturn you could probably use, with a bit of work.
For a Cray upon my wrist
Because life's a simulation
So I'll give the knobs a twist.
Now reality has schism'd
And I wonder if I'm missed
Because I've gone into recursion
And my manager is pissed.
Burma Shave
I may be totally out of touch by now, but I thought the windows swapper was used for other reasons besides managing oversize virtual images, wasn't it?. When I was into the subject some years ago, the swapper was also used in image activation -- executable images were paged into memory rather than read in via the file system. This is actually more efficient as unused portions of a program aren't read into RAM until they're needed.
So would I. Large IT structures interest me. Huge computer installations fascinate me. Seeing how information structures interrelate and the ebb and flow of cache management gives me a silvery tingle in my eyeballs* (*that's poetry, I'm too old for drugs) and an itch to connect wires to see what they do.
Whenever my character on WoW gets hung in loot-lag I wonder -- did they run out of journal space (they must use journals, I've seen compelling game-play evidence) or did one of their load balancers chuck a reggie?** (**Australian cultural isomorphism, no apologies). That little moment of invisibility when I log in to Orgrimmar, but can still play -- how much parallelism is going on? How do they link those little conversation bubbles with the chat so quickly - is that my client or the server coordinating that?
Really, it's like another internal game, second-guessing how they move so many chess pieces around. But geez I would SO love to see a network layout.
really, how is this stuff that matters?
If the game play doesn't interest you any more, then consider an IT client-server delivery system that manages 11 million customers on a daily basis, each of whom have up to 9 entities per x servers (I don't know how many there are now, but their are 3 major groupings of them) each entity with up to a hundred objects or so each with their own attributes, with those objects involved with a number of transfers, creations and disposals per hours-long encounters, and a similar number of entities living on the server (as PvE mobs).
Think of 11 million customers and the absolutely monsterous OLTP system that allows for all that database management with a surprisingly small amount of lag overall.
If the computer system that supports all that isn't "stuff that matters" then I suspect you may find spending your time on a different forum more profitable.
RIAA is making a packet off this racket
But the hassle is their vassals have the DRM that is FU!
This is encouraging. It always is when the previously defenseless dig in their heels against standover artists.
I wonder if a certain amount of this new-found courage is coming from the subtle tides of a nation changing direction?
Sometime during the recent campaign marathon I heard one sound bite that made a difference to me -- "I will reinstate Habeas Corpus". Five words, that's all it took.