Before the inevitable complaints ("But it never went anywhere!") start, let's remember that everything is relative. A "Googlefight" on, say, Java vs.NET tells us that all has not necessarily gone Java's way just recently. A "mere" 66 million "Java" hits...versus 388 million for "NET" - but that may all be about to change.
With this as a measure of Java's success it's amazing it did as well as it did. Java fared pretty well compared to counting the google hits for anything on the net with the term ".net", such as every freekin url in the net TLD. At this point I just stopped reading.
Significant digits are used to expressing the accuracy and precision of a measurement. Your willingness to blindly spew incorrect information as fact is a great example of why learning "only" through osmosis is a bad idea and why self-taught programers usually produce total crap.
Second, there is no such thing as "original deductive thought." Deductive reasoning does not produce original (new) information, it simply states the information already contained in the premises in a different way. Assuming the premises are true and the argument is valid.
Go to school, buy a few books, learn from the past.
The fundamental concepts in computing and mathematics that drive current software development methodologies were developed decades ago.
It is ignorance (just lack of knowledge, so don't get offended) like this the condemns the field of computer science to continue to repeat the mistakes of the past. Who was that Dijkstra guy? Whatever, I've got a great idea, let's use goto. It's so much more flexible than all that structured programming stuff.
The first Turing Award was given in 1966. The concepts that drive modern database management techniques were developed in the 60's and 70's. Dijkstra received his Turing Award in the 70's, Codd in the early 80's. Decades ago.
Except that DRM is a very different problem domain.
Securing access to a traffic control system is a simple matter of authentication/authorization. It is a well understood problem.
Managing secure access even across insecure channels is practical, not perfect but practical. Without it the internet would be a very diffferent scene than it is today.
The real problem is the brain dead "security through obscurity" mindset of the municipal administrators who allowed the receivers to be purchased with public money without demanding that the manufacturers build in a decent access control mechanism.
Every post like yours reveals a serious lack of understanding for how the US economy is managed by the government. Capitalism has serious flaws that have revealed themselves throughout history. The US government has taken many steps to foster, protect and manage its psudo-capitalist economy. These steps include patent laws, the Federal Reserve and yes, even antitrust laws.
The repercussions of a government not managing its economy are a lesson you should have received in grammar school.
I can clearly understand how someone could disagree with the particular policies of government or the ruling of the court. I don't know how anyone with a rudimentary education could not understand the fundamental issue of why the US does not have the kind of free-for-all, do-as-you-please economic system you seem to think exists.
Using HDDs is just plain retarted. AIT3 is 100GB native. ~260GB using hardware compression & drives run at ~30 MB/Sec. That's 30MB with a big "B". This jackass is backing up over 100Mb ethernet. You do the math. As far as the robotic library, how is swapping tapes more difficult than swapping drives. Oh, Oh, I know lets get a robotic library for swapping ide drives.
This wasn't really the point of your article, i understand, but I'd just like to point out:
You've touched on something that I've never seen benchmarked & is obviously missed in these type of "this app & that app" shootouts. Windows based systems tend to get slower with the addition of more and more applications. The also seem to get slower over time. I worked in a University lab for some time & it was amazing how fast a new PC would be with only a few apps on it. By the end of an academic year we had probably loaded 30 different major applications. By this point the systems were dog slow. It was amazing how much faster the next years load set would run on the same hardware with a basic configuration of OS & a half dozen major apps. I've never seen this on a Mac or Linux system. This is not attributable to fragmentation because even the fully app laden systems would be cloned to other systems & they would be just as slow.
How does an uninformed opinion rate as informative. At the very least, the damn moderators should read the article. This is not 41 Win boxes being replaced by 3 x86 pieces of crap running redhat. The configuration includes iseries servers that run up to 31 separate linux environments on a single AS/400 systems. Read the article. When you read something you don't understand, look it up.
"And they know it's trusted since it came from you"
Was this supposed to be funny? The problem is that they don't know it is from you. If this is what you are teaching users then don't be surprised when they click through any dialog they get while surfing the web. "Are you sure you would like to install the latest network backdoor activex control?"OK
The point is not (or should not have been) about the ability to create some tool. Testing is a basic part of software engineering & should have been planned ahead of time. The question is, do you want to engineer your software or do you want to just keep banging on the keyboard & hope everything works? This is why so much software is so poorly designed. Yes, testing is something that is part of the design.
There is nothing new about modeling cellular automata in CS but the natural world could have a lot to contribute in this area. Finding the set of rules that produce a particular equilibrium system can be as much art as it is science. Instead we could look to nature for a pattern that represents our desired outcome. Then look at the rules in the natural system to see how the equilibrium is reached.
The system would still be fully predictable because the rules can be modeled. If you want to know what will happen if you take a base station off-line just get status info from all the stations, load your model & see how it changes. Need to fix a problem, same solution.
Perhaps river channel migration can be applied to the problem of network bottlenecks. Very cool stuff
What you have not heard, apparently, is that MS Access is not used as (just) a DBMS. MS Access is used as an application environment for database applications. It allows for rapid application development even by non-programmers. A technically savy end-user can be taught how to develop simple data input and reporting applications in just a few hours. I'd love to see you teach a receptionist how to create a simple data input & reporting application using MySQL and Apache. Don't get me wrong, both of these are nice tools. They just don't cover the field that MS Access is filling. As for Filemaker, It covers some of the same ground as MS Access but it is not in the same league for application development unless you buy the developer version.
The long and short of it is, in an organization that relies on MS Access as an application environment, Macs are not a welcome addition and VirtualPC just does not cut it. I say this as a Mac user in a predominatly PC organization. Fortunatly my position does not depend on MS Access applications but many if not most of the clerical & administrative positions do.
...Do we really want alpha- and beta-level projects released and visible...
Everythig except the quote above is totally unrelated to the issue at hand. The issue is that Lindows did release(distribute) the project. Of course only to those willing to fork over $99. I'm sure they would have been more than happy to accept $99 from the entire linux-using community so your point is meaningless.
Lindows is a perfect example of the corporate desire to re-market free beer. The GPL is nothing more than an annoyance for this kind of operation and the open-source community is a free source of raw materials. Does anyone honestly think Mr. Robertson would create anything other than a shrink-wrapped, restrictivly licenced, binary only product if he was not obligated to do so by the GPL? I think not.
If you had done the homework yourself to begin with, you would not need to. You can certainly spout out any opinion you want but doing it in a public forum is just a waste of time. If you feel you have something important to say, then take the time to support your argument.
Chose what you will for yourself, but please do not presume to chose(sic) for me
Think for a moment about how society operates. The choices of a society affect everyone and not everyone always agrees. Sometimes we have to think/choose for you.
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Before the inevitable complaints ("But it never went anywhere!") start, let's remember that everything is relative. A "Googlefight" on, say, Java vs .NET tells us that all has not necessarily gone Java's way just recently. A "mere" 66 million "Java" hits...versus 388 million for "NET" - but that may all be about to change.
With this as a measure of Java's success it's amazing it did as well as it did. Java fared pretty well compared to counting the google hits for anything on the net with the term ".net", such as every freekin url in the net TLD. At this point I just stopped reading.
The scary part is that it probably is a good idea. Good for Fox to make $. Personally I don't get it but people seem to love this kind of trash.
Hopefully you did not pay 27k for your education.
Significant digits are used to expressing the accuracy and precision of a measurement. Your willingness to blindly spew incorrect information as fact is a great example of why learning "only" through osmosis is a bad idea and why self-taught programers usually produce total crap.
Second, there is no such thing as "original deductive thought." Deductive reasoning does not produce original (new) information, it simply states the information already contained in the premises in a different way. Assuming the premises are true and the argument is valid.
When someone writes "It's really frustrating that they're laying off teatures", it really is frustrating that they are laying off teachers.
Tru64 and Alpha, well there's two products with a bright future ahead of them. Can you say end-of-life? Trust us you'll love HP-UX on Integrity.
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Maybe I've just got a dicked up sense of humor, but somebody should mod this up as funny.
Go to school, buy a few books, learn from the past.
The fundamental concepts in computing and mathematics that drive current software development methodologies were developed decades ago.
It is ignorance (just lack of knowledge, so don't get offended) like this the condemns the field of computer science to continue to repeat the mistakes of the past. Who was that Dijkstra guy? Whatever, I've got a great idea, let's use goto. It's so much more flexible than all that structured programming stuff.
The first Turing Award was given in 1966. The concepts that drive modern database management techniques were developed in the 60's and 70's. Dijkstra received his Turing Award in the 70's, Codd in the early 80's. Decades ago.
Except that DRM is a very different problem domain.
Securing access to a traffic control system is a simple matter of authentication/authorization. It is a well understood problem.
Managing secure access even across insecure channels is practical, not perfect but practical. Without it the internet would be a very diffferent scene than it is today.
Nuf Said
The real problem is the brain dead "security through obscurity" mindset of the municipal administrators who allowed the receivers to be purchased with public money without demanding that the manufacturers build in a decent access control mechanism.
The equivalent in km/l is left as an exercise for the interested reader
Actually, it's an exercise for the Google Calculator.
42 miles per gallon in kilometers per liter
Can you read the article?
Oops, I forgot this is Slashdot.
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Every post like yours reveals a serious lack of understanding for how the US economy is managed by the government. Capitalism has serious flaws that have revealed themselves throughout history. The US government has taken many steps to foster, protect and manage its psudo-capitalist economy. These steps include patent laws, the Federal Reserve and yes, even antitrust laws.
The repercussions of a government not managing its economy are a lesson you should have received in grammar school.
I can clearly understand how someone could disagree with the particular policies of government or the ruling of the court. I don't know how anyone with a rudimentary education could not understand the fundamental issue of why the US does not have the kind of free-for-all, do-as-you-please economic system you seem to think exists.
Using HDDs is just plain retarted. AIT3 is 100GB native. ~260GB using hardware compression & drives run at ~30 MB/Sec. That's 30MB with a big "B". This jackass is backing up over 100Mb ethernet. You do the math. As far as the robotic library, how is swapping tapes more difficult than swapping drives. Oh, Oh, I know lets get a robotic library for swapping ide drives.
This wasn't really the point of your article, i understand, but I'd just like to point out:
You've touched on something that I've never seen benchmarked & is obviously missed in these type of "this app & that app" shootouts. Windows based systems tend to get slower with the addition of more and more applications. The also seem to get slower over time. I worked in a University lab for some time & it was amazing how fast a new PC would be with only a few apps on it. By the end of an academic year we had probably loaded 30 different major applications. By this point the systems were dog slow. It was amazing how much faster the next years load set would run on the same hardware with a basic configuration of OS & a half dozen major apps. I've never seen this on a Mac or Linux system. This is not attributable to fragmentation because even the fully app laden systems would be cloned to other systems & they would be just as slow.
How does an uninformed opinion rate as informative. At the very least, the damn moderators should read the article. This is not 41 Win boxes being replaced by 3 x86 pieces of crap running redhat. The configuration includes iseries servers that run up to 31 separate linux environments on a single AS/400 systems. Read the article. When you read something you don't understand, look it up.
"And they know it's trusted since it came from you"
Was this supposed to be funny? The problem is that they don't know it is from you. If this is what you are teaching users then don't be surprised when they click through any dialog they get while surfing the web. "Are you sure you would like to install the latest network backdoor activex control?" OK
The point is not (or should not have been) about the ability to create some tool. Testing is a basic part of software engineering & should have been planned ahead of time. The question is, do you want to engineer your software or do you want to just keep banging on the keyboard & hope everything works? This is why so much software is so poorly designed. Yes, testing is something that is part of the design.
There is nothing new about modeling cellular automata in CS but the natural world could have a lot to contribute in this area. Finding the set of rules that produce a particular equilibrium system can be as much art as it is science. Instead we could look to nature for a pattern that represents our desired outcome. Then look at the rules in the natural system to see how the equilibrium is reached.
The system would still be fully predictable because the rules can be modeled. If you want to know what will happen if you take a base station off-line just get status info from all the stations, load your model & see how it changes. Need to fix a problem, same solution.
Perhaps river channel migration can be applied to the problem of network bottlenecks.
Very cool stuff
What you have not heard, apparently, is that MS Access is not used as (just) a DBMS. MS Access is used as an application environment for database applications. It allows for rapid application development even by non-programmers. A technically savy end-user can be taught how to develop simple data input and reporting applications in just a few hours. I'd love to see you teach a receptionist how to create a simple data input & reporting application using MySQL and Apache. Don't get me wrong, both of these are nice tools. They just don't cover the field that MS Access is filling. As for Filemaker, It covers some of the same ground as MS Access but it is not in the same league for application development unless you buy the developer version.
The long and short of it is, in an organization that relies on MS Access as an application environment, Macs are not a welcome addition and VirtualPC just does not cut it. I say this as a Mac user in a predominatly PC organization. Fortunatly my position does not depend on MS Access applications but many if not most of the clerical & administrative positions do.
...Do we really want alpha- and beta-level projects released and visible...
Everythig except the quote above is totally unrelated to the issue at hand. The issue is that Lindows did release(distribute) the project. Of course only to those willing to fork over $99. I'm sure they would have been more than happy to accept $99 from the entire linux-using community so your point is meaningless.
Lindows is a perfect example of the corporate desire to re-market free beer. The GPL is nothing more than an annoyance for this kind of operation and the open-source community is a free source of raw materials. Does anyone honestly think Mr. Robertson would create anything other than a shrink-wrapped, restrictivly licenced, binary only product if he was not obligated to do so by the GPL? I think not.
I will not do your homework for you.
If you had done the homework yourself to begin with, you would not need to. You can certainly spout out any opinion you want but doing it in a public forum is just a waste of time. If you feel you have something important to say, then take the time to support your argument.
Chose what you will for yourself, but please do not presume to chose(sic) for me
Think for a moment about how society operates. The choices of a society affect everyone and not everyone always agrees. Sometimes we have to think/choose for you.