I may be a bit low on information on this one, but doesn't bittorrent pull from a whole lot of sources and pick the best one? This would mean that you set up a big server with a fat upload pipe it would be selected more often for transfer and PIECES of the full file would be corrupted...
The question then becomes whether BT or whatever rehashes the file and finds it different upon download. My guess is that yes, this would come up with a different result and get flagged quite quickly.
After reading the document, I can't help but notice that it's highly possible that things have changed in the last 13 years. Is it possible that the large number of 'QA' style positions I see available in my area (Greater Portland, OR) are an expression of his slowly being proved right? Is this the marking of an industry shift towards code as a real commodity?
As a side note, this document is all about C++ as an object oriented programming language. My question is whether software development can now be done so quickly (I have heard commentary from people saying they are outputting 10k lines of code in a day with Eclipse) with more effective hardware / software that design and code will eventually merge.... One has heard that the ideal design document creation software would be one that could make not just a mock-up but a working piece of code on spot, and many posts are mentioning steps towards this. How far off is this kind of software?
If the economy was growing like it used to, you lazy bum, you wouldn't have to worry about social security.
Stop reading Slashdot and go back to work.
As to being on-topic? Can anyone seeing our government saying, "FU" to MS like Brazil did? This is just the groundwork, Linux needs a charismatic leader with an incredible product to lead it to actual mainstream status.
Consultants also have the advantage of a fresh and mildly objective viewpoint. If asked, "Is your network secure, mr Paid Employee whose Job It Is," is stupid on a human - level, and managers want to know they're paying someone at least competent. Look at it like an accountant has to look at a tax audit - only more expensive. That's probably how an employer looks at it.
Diamonds don't rely on natural resources anymore either. Go Google for 'cultured diamonds.' I'm never buying DaBeers. Don't like it, sweetie? Why would you like one that's not as shiny and not as pure? What's your problem with better again?
On second thought, that might not go over so well. Anyways, anything Patented / Copywritten is an unnatural limited monopoly, and anything that REQUIRES a limited resource is a natural limited monopoly. OPEC is probably a better example than diamonds at this point, although we can create oil too, just not as cheaply and efficiently. Cultured diamonds cost 10$ apiece to make. Per carat or something, go look for it.
"This is an error that pops out pretty regularly when using a particular mode of communication with FoxPro"
Before I joined Microsoft, I was an independent, and I cautioned clients against using Access about 95% of the time they brought it up simply because they usually wanted to throw it at problems for which it was never intended.
Sometimes, as an independent or even employee, you're forced to work within environments you'd rather not. Part of the reason I hate what I do is because I'm forced to use technology I consider frustrating due to lack of support when working outside the norms.
As with any technology, avoiding errors and doing well with the software requires an understanding of the terrain - I'm not saying that your problem is trivial or insignificant, but I've never seen it before.
Just because you've never seen it before doesn't mean I'm an idiot, it means you haven't seen it before. In this particular situation, I want - essentially - extra functionality that works as advertised. It doesn't. It won't. It's recommended that we go to a different system. We are migrating.
Sometimes, it comes down to particular installs.
Really?
Anyway, your story reminds me of the frustration I used to feel whenever X would shit itself, drop me to the command line, and refuse to start again.
The difference being if X is that broken you can switch to something else pretty easily or solve the damn thing yourself if it bothers you that much.
Trying to get help from the h4x0rz in the user groups was like pounding my head against the wall.
At least they were free and no help instead of 75 bucks a call and no help.
There are problems on both sides of the fence.
"I hate Microsoft"
Wow. That's a bit of a strong sentiment.
I deserve to hate them. They don't give a damn about making me happy as a customer, merely bilking me for more money as many times as possible over the period of many years. This is a fine business model until I get pissed off about stuff not running like it's expected to and leave.
I certainly don't hold the entire OSS world for every problem I've ever had with open source software (and the problems have been many).
One of the fundamental differences between Open Source and Propietary software is that there is complete accountability. You won't let people have the source code, you're responsible for your program working to the extent the customer WANTS. Especially in the cases where you have advertised something or put it in white papers. If it doesn't work to spec, you're cheating your customers. If someone has the source and all the responsibility for implementation, it's THEIR problem if it doesn't work. They can fix it as they like. If they don't, it's yours.
Your use of a label for an argument belies your education, narrow-mindedness, and self-righteous conformity. I bet you were an 'A' student.
Look up the terms 'expert,' 'paragon,' 'intellect,' and 'openmindedness,' then think about how they should be interrelated in a university (or any classroom) setting please. Try to think for yourself for a short period, I know it hurts.
"MSAccess.exe has generated an error. This program will need to be restarted. An error log is being created."
This is an error that pops out pretty regularly when using a particular mode of communication with FoxPro (unsupported at this point) on a certain scale. I cannot remember the circumstances, because I hacked a workaround that involved less stress upon the communicating subsystem (DAO) but more complication and time programming on my side. And burden upon my Access client. Etc. These error messages happen in other programs occasionally as well, you might have heard of them. I hate Microsoft, but I sure can make decent money fixing problems that shouldn't exist. Compared to, say, digging ditches, that is. Although, I hear unions pay well and have retirement plans.
PETA itself, however, doesn't actually create a usable product. The OSS community does. Perhaps I was unclear about this distinction.
I'm not saying that companies aren't able to take advantage of that as an advertising and sustainable business bonus. That's a different thing completely.
I work with microsoft software, and occasionally I am filled with rage rather than that, "hrm.... how do I fix this," feeling. Natural reaction in a way, but when all you get is a little error box and a, "Please reboot this app" and it happens multiple times and your event log is pretty much crap and you look for help and there's virtually none out there so you go to a third party help site where there's THOUSANDS of experts supposedly but everyone has either, "Yeah, that's a problem" or "No, never heard of it happening," well, then I get mad.
Linux is as much a product of Microsoft-Hate and Big-Company-Hate as it is a product of people wanting to do things more efficiently and cheaply. In fact, I might think it was more of a result of the former than the latter. Until the advent of PC's and MS soft being so prevalent, not many were writing their own OS's and then giving them away, as far as I've heard.
I'm not sure whether the business practices at Microsoft are that bad, but they certainly seem like it on the other end occasionally, and eventually people get mad enough at being helpless that they start to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING about it. And if railing about microsoft in the only public forum where it is truly accepted is what they want to do, well, more power to them.
Attacking people paid (or oddly biased) because they disagree with you? That's pretty normal human behavior. Especially from the frustrated.
Microsoft's FUD - Everyone's FUD, really - is designed to keep people where they are. So people who are frustrated will react to this FUD irrationally, because they see it as something to fight, a target.
Amusingly enough, people should be fighting the FUD by flooding the inbox of every bad reviewer with piles of information about how much Microsoft sucked until they moved to Linux. Eventually, if enough information piled up on whatshername's desk, she would listen and change her mind unless she was paid enough. And at some point, she wouldn't be able to either a: keep credibility or b: get paid enough. Problem is, money makes credibility so her keeping hers might happen longer than it should. Like, maybe, long enough for M$'s coffers to run out of spare cash to pay for people like her, if they are. You never know on that.
And as to your article, it's nice to see you're a believer. I like the blinders about innovation and the first comment on your blog... But I'm not going to go there, I'm not much of a troll.
KFC and Microsoft are a good parallel - greasy product coated in fatty starchy fluff that's turned crusty with heat and time.
The difference between PETA and Open Source is that Open Source is good for a: making more money easier, and b: living life with less frustration.
While you can say PETA is a great thing, and I personally might agree with you, it's never going to be a viable business model to save the kittens (or mink, if you want to be more direct.)
It will, however, be a viable business model to run better software, which Open Source has the capacity to be. No number of fanatics will stop the free market if Linux is truly better than Microsoft's software for any extended period of time. It's a matter of virtual inevitability. Note how Microsoft started cashing out a bit of their huge bankroll to investors last year.
As someone who once had a professor say to me, "Talk to me once you have a doctorate," and then have the balls to call ME immature, I'd like to say that your holding of professors as such paragons of intellect and openmindedness is the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
This was a philosophy professor, btw. Speaking of ironic. I don't invalidate the work people put into doctorates, but how many people do YOU know that have spent their lives doing the same thing badly?
But, at the same time, they retrieve the rest of your search results. It's not like they tell you they've got the only answer, they just give you what they consider their best answer. Much like, say, a lucky button or something. Only non-optional.
Err... You're forgetting all the analysts, publicists, bodyguards, schedulers, network administrators, chauffers, etc.... That a congressman hires. The 100k a year figure is for the congressman alone while his staff probably costs at least 10x that. 565 members of the HOUSE ALONE talking about this proposal for 1/2 hour, voting for 1/2 hour, you've got 1210 hours right there. The analysts for each one of them costing 80k+ a year (40 salary, 40 benefits / cost of being on staff) spend two days reading it, making it 2 man years of their time.... I mean, these things snowball so quickly when you look at how much time is involved.... Really, I wuold love to see how much a bill put before congress costs ME as a taxpayer.... off I go to google.... Nope, no information there too easily. I'm too bored with this argument to continue looking at it. You're not going to look with a broad mind, and I'm not going to care about your numbers. Both positions are defensible, unless you're a pinhead.
What about lost GDP due to National Guard troops being overseas?
There are other costs involved in going to war and depending as completely upon our military as we do in the current circumstances, and looking at straight budgetary allocations is a crap way to assess overall cost. It's like saying a video game you play 100 hours a week doesn't cost you any more than the original money you spent on your hardware and internet connection when you become sleep deprived, underexercised, depressed and poor. (to bring an example out of my own life)
This narrow-minded thinking is great for publicity but bad in the long run and is one of the main reasons modern politics is so pathetically out of whack with actually making things better for the people under the governments run by them.
I'm off topic, but this comes back around for this daylight savings thing - how much time do you think those congressmen have put into that proposal? A hundred man hours? The proposal going to committee, being debated for an hour on the floor and voted on? How much time is being spent here in the end? Take that money, stop spending it on stopgaps, and pay for more schools or a real energy-independence task force or something, please.
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Well, all they need to do then is store the 2^256,000 hash codes and their collisions and then upload them when requested.
That's how many codes again?
I may be a bit low on information on this one, but doesn't bittorrent pull from a whole lot of sources and pick the best one? This would mean that you set up a big server with a fat upload pipe it would be selected more often for transfer and PIECES of the full file would be corrupted...
The question then becomes whether BT or whatever rehashes the file and finds it different upon download. My guess is that yes, this would come up with a different result and get flagged quite quickly.
After reading the document, I can't help but notice that it's highly possible that things have changed in the last 13 years. Is it possible that the large number of 'QA' style positions I see available in my area (Greater Portland, OR) are an expression of his slowly being proved right? Is this the marking of an industry shift towards code as a real commodity?
As a side note, this document is all about C++ as an object oriented programming language. My question is whether software development can now be done so quickly (I have heard commentary from people saying they are outputting 10k lines of code in a day with Eclipse) with more effective hardware / software that design and code will eventually merge.... One has heard that the ideal design document creation software would be one that could make not just a mock-up but a working piece of code on spot, and many posts are mentioning steps towards this. How far off is this kind of software?
If the economy was growing like it used to, you lazy bum, you wouldn't have to worry about social security.
Stop reading Slashdot and go back to work.
As to being on-topic? Can anyone seeing our government saying, "FU" to MS like Brazil did? This is just the groundwork, Linux needs a charismatic leader with an incredible product to lead it to actual mainstream status.
It's like a billion voices of reason all cried out at once, and then were silenced.
Uh.... They went into their video games in Tron years ago, and I'm still freaking waiting.
Consultants also have the advantage of a fresh and mildly objective viewpoint. If asked, "Is your network secure, mr Paid Employee whose Job It Is," is stupid on a human - level, and managers want to know they're paying someone at least competent. Look at it like an accountant has to look at a tax audit - only more expensive. That's probably how an employer looks at it.
That a technology company would find its money better spent upon building the future than enshrining the most important things of its past.
But then, I'm bitter, Intel rejected me for a job long ago.
Diamonds don't rely on natural resources anymore either. Go Google for 'cultured diamonds.' I'm never buying DaBeers. Don't like it, sweetie? Why would you like one that's not as shiny and not as pure? What's your problem with better again?
On second thought, that might not go over so well. Anyways, anything Patented / Copywritten is an unnatural limited monopoly, and anything that REQUIRES a limited resource is a natural limited monopoly. OPEC is probably a better example than diamonds at this point, although we can create oil too, just not as cheaply and efficiently. Cultured diamonds cost 10$ apiece to make. Per carat or something, go look for it.
Companies building OS solutions for consortiums. Linus is smart, and has a good business model that will work for a while.
4 = Sell your business and services to Google.
New, much better business model than the old one of sell your business to M$ or Intel. Why better business model? Who would you rather work for?
The real test is whether XP can handle all the complicated operations involved in loading Google's homepage.
"This is an error that pops out pretty regularly when using a particular mode of communication with FoxPro"
Before I joined Microsoft, I was an independent, and I cautioned clients against using Access about 95% of the time they brought it up simply because they usually wanted to throw it at problems for which it was never intended.
Sometimes, as an independent or even employee, you're forced to work within environments you'd rather not. Part of the reason I hate what I do is because I'm forced to use technology I consider frustrating due to lack of support when working outside the norms.
As with any technology, avoiding errors and doing well with the software requires an understanding of the terrain - I'm not saying that your problem is trivial or insignificant, but I've never seen it before.
Just because you've never seen it before doesn't mean I'm an idiot, it means you haven't seen it before. In this particular situation, I want - essentially - extra functionality that works as advertised. It doesn't. It won't. It's recommended that we go to a different system. We are migrating.
Sometimes, it comes down to particular installs.
Really?
Anyway, your story reminds me of the frustration I used to feel whenever X would shit itself, drop me to the command line, and refuse to start again.
The difference being if X is that broken you can switch to something else pretty easily or solve the damn thing yourself if it bothers you that much.
Trying to get help from the h4x0rz in the user groups was like pounding my head against the wall.
At least they were free and no help instead of 75 bucks a call and no help.
There are problems on both sides of the fence. "I hate Microsoft" Wow. That's a bit of a strong sentiment.
I deserve to hate them. They don't give a damn about making me happy as a customer, merely bilking me for more money as many times as possible over the period of many years. This is a fine business model until I get pissed off about stuff not running like it's expected to and leave.
I certainly don't hold the entire OSS world for every problem I've ever had with open source software (and the problems have been many).
One of the fundamental differences between Open Source and Propietary software is that there is complete accountability. You won't let people have the source code, you're responsible for your program working to the extent the customer WANTS. Especially in the cases where you have advertised something or put it in white papers. If it doesn't work to spec, you're cheating your customers. If someone has the source and all the responsibility for implementation, it's THEIR problem if it doesn't work. They can fix it as they like. If they don't, it's yours.
Your use of a label for an argument belies your education, narrow-mindedness, and self-righteous conformity. I bet you were an 'A' student.
Look up the terms 'expert,' 'paragon,' 'intellect,' and 'openmindedness,' then think about how they should be interrelated in a university (or any classroom) setting please. Try to think for yourself for a short period, I know it hurts.
"MSAccess.exe has generated an error. This program will need to be restarted. An error log is being created."
This is an error that pops out pretty regularly when using a particular mode of communication with FoxPro (unsupported at this point) on a certain scale. I cannot remember the circumstances, because I hacked a workaround that involved less stress upon the communicating subsystem (DAO) but more complication and time programming on my side. And burden upon my Access client. Etc. These error messages happen in other programs occasionally as well, you might have heard of them. I hate Microsoft, but I sure can make decent money fixing problems that shouldn't exist. Compared to, say, digging ditches, that is. Although, I hear unions pay well and have retirement plans.
PETA itself, however, doesn't actually create a usable product. The OSS community does. Perhaps I was unclear about this distinction.
I'm not saying that companies aren't able to take advantage of that as an advertising and sustainable business bonus. That's a different thing completely.
I work with microsoft software, and occasionally I am filled with rage rather than that, "hrm.... how do I fix this," feeling. Natural reaction in a way, but when all you get is a little error box and a, "Please reboot this app" and it happens multiple times and your event log is pretty much crap and you look for help and there's virtually none out there so you go to a third party help site where there's THOUSANDS of experts supposedly but everyone has either, "Yeah, that's a problem" or "No, never heard of it happening," well, then I get mad.
Linux is as much a product of Microsoft-Hate and Big-Company-Hate as it is a product of people wanting to do things more efficiently and cheaply. In fact, I might think it was more of a result of the former than the latter. Until the advent of PC's and MS soft being so prevalent, not many were writing their own OS's and then giving them away, as far as I've heard.
I'm not sure whether the business practices at Microsoft are that bad, but they certainly seem like it on the other end occasionally, and eventually people get mad enough at being helpless that they start to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING about it. And if railing about microsoft in the only public forum where it is truly accepted is what they want to do, well, more power to them.
Attacking people paid (or oddly biased) because they disagree with you? That's pretty normal human behavior. Especially from the frustrated.
Microsoft's FUD - Everyone's FUD, really - is designed to keep people where they are. So people who are frustrated will react to this FUD irrationally, because they see it as something to fight, a target.
Amusingly enough, people should be fighting the FUD by flooding the inbox of every bad reviewer with piles of information about how much Microsoft sucked until they moved to Linux. Eventually, if enough information piled up on whatshername's desk, she would listen and change her mind unless she was paid enough. And at some point, she wouldn't be able to either a: keep credibility or b: get paid enough. Problem is, money makes credibility so her keeping hers might happen longer than it should. Like, maybe, long enough for M$'s coffers to run out of spare cash to pay for people like her, if they are. You never know on that.
And as to your article, it's nice to see you're a believer. I like the blinders about innovation and the first comment on your blog... But I'm not going to go there, I'm not much of a troll.
KFC and Microsoft are a good parallel - greasy product coated in fatty starchy fluff that's turned crusty with heat and time.
The difference between PETA and Open Source is that Open Source is good for a: making more money easier, and b: living life with less frustration.
While you can say PETA is a great thing, and I personally might agree with you, it's never going to be a viable business model to save the kittens (or mink, if you want to be more direct.)
It will, however, be a viable business model to run better software, which Open Source has the capacity to be. No number of fanatics will stop the free market if Linux is truly better than Microsoft's software for any extended period of time. It's a matter of virtual inevitability. Note how Microsoft started cashing out a bit of their huge bankroll to investors last year.
It's the guvmint, how high quality can the feed be?
Is there a torrent-like streamer out there? Would be cool to see a live-feeding BitTorrent... This would be perfect for that, too.
As someone who once had a professor say to me, "Talk to me once you have a doctorate," and then have the balls to call ME immature, I'd like to say that your holding of professors as such paragons of intellect and openmindedness is the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
This was a philosophy professor, btw. Speaking of ironic. I don't invalidate the work people put into doctorates, but how many people do YOU know that have spent their lives doing the same thing badly?
But, at the same time, they retrieve the rest of your search results. It's not like they tell you they've got the only answer, they just give you what they consider their best answer. Much like, say, a lucky button or something. Only non-optional.
Hippies believe in Gun Control, I want to be able to blow your stupid head off when you come to my door to shove your point of view down my throat.
Err... You're forgetting all the analysts, publicists, bodyguards, schedulers, network administrators, chauffers, etc.... That a congressman hires. The 100k a year figure is for the congressman alone while his staff probably costs at least 10x that. 565 members of the HOUSE ALONE talking about this proposal for 1/2 hour, voting for 1/2 hour, you've got 1210 hours right there. The analysts for each one of them costing 80k+ a year (40 salary, 40 benefits / cost of being on staff) spend two days reading it, making it 2 man years of their time.... I mean, these things snowball so quickly when you look at how much time is involved.... Really, I wuold love to see how much a bill put before congress costs ME as a taxpayer.... off I go to google.... Nope, no information there too easily. I'm too bored with this argument to continue looking at it. You're not going to look with a broad mind, and I'm not going to care about your numbers. Both positions are defensible, unless you're a pinhead.
What about lost GDP due to National Guard troops being overseas?
There are other costs involved in going to war and depending as completely upon our military as we do in the current circumstances, and looking at straight budgetary allocations is a crap way to assess overall cost. It's like saying a video game you play 100 hours a week doesn't cost you any more than the original money you spent on your hardware and internet connection when you become sleep deprived, underexercised, depressed and poor. (to bring an example out of my own life)
This narrow-minded thinking is great for publicity but bad in the long run and is one of the main reasons modern politics is so pathetically out of whack with actually making things better for the people under the governments run by them.
I'm off topic, but this comes back around for this daylight savings thing - how much time do you think those congressmen have put into that proposal? A hundred man hours? The proposal going to committee, being debated for an hour on the floor and voted on? How much time is being spent here in the end? Take that money, stop spending it on stopgaps, and pay for more schools or a real energy-independence task force or something, please.