One thing that's been interesting watchint the your election from over here is the media coverage Palin recieves. We get shown report after report of "middle" Americans gushing about how much they connect with Palin. The coverage is factual, but you don't have to look between the lines to much to read "can you beleive this shit!".
When I studied law (I switched to IT in 2nd year) one of our lectures made the point that in representative democracy we get the government we deserve. McCain picked her. If McCain & Palin is elected, over the most thoughtful, balanced, unifying statesman I've seen in any presidential race, you deserve them.
That's all well and good until your Warcraft 3 CD fails, and Blizzard charges more for replacement media than you can get the game for down at a second hand store.
Of course you can back it up with Blindwite or similar, but there's goes the whole point of bad bit copy protection stopping reproduction.....
Hehe - cmoputer games & reproduction (sorry it's been a long day).
One word: Firebug. It's by far the most powerful tool I know for untangling the front end HTML generated from JSF etc and helping work out which actual CSS styles are being picked up by HTML elements.
And if you've given money to the OLPC money based on it's goals of openness? Refunds?
I'm just amazed at how they can try and sell this as not affecting the project much. They might as well add a stinking great padlock to each machine and give the keys to MS.
Oh - and think how much funny the kiddies will have infecting each other with whatever virus/rootkit/botnet/..... walks right through the rock solid MS OS.
I've been working as a developer for various companies in various domains (finance, control systems etc) for nearly a decade (mainly C++). I love problem solving and working with really smart people... but since the Y2K /.com bubble burst, words like "development" or "innovation" have become dirty. The excitement, optimism and energy that were in the industry when I entered are all gone.
IT workplaces today are typically environments where even immediate managers don't understand our daily activities, and since they don't understand them, they fail to value them. This works itself out in subtle and not so subtle ways (outsourcing anyone?). However I think we tend to bring some of this upon ourselves because development the latest technologies tend to be "vogue" and often marketing driven. Technology churn takes a lot of energy, and jumping to new development technologies every 18 months often has absolutely no real or even perceived benefit.
I have lots of IT friends and we all have one thing in common: we'd leave the industry in a heartbeat if we could find a job in a different field for comparative wages. I'm just so thankful that I got the chance to make the most of it while things where good, and set myself up to afford to retrain in a different profession if need be. What's really hard is watching the grads die a little when they realise what commercial development is really about and what shape the industry is in, when they've just spent 3+ years and a heap of $ studying to break into it.
My understanding is that it's almost impossible to do any realtime systems in java. I've just come off a complex traffic control systems project done in C++ to meet the very strict failure response time requirements.
Now I'm working on a finance back office system in J2EE. Horses for courses.Java/J2EE is great for GUI/enterprise stuff. C++ is great for control systems and high performance components.
It's easy to get caught up in the hype regarding the newest wiz-bang developement techs that will make all others redundant. For those of us simply wanting to solve problems in a efficient, mercinary like way, there's massive value in using a proven techs for a given problem space while the early adptors bed down the newer techs.
I travelled to the US around 4 times a year between 1999 and 2001 (before 9/11) and each time had to list where I'd be staying. Just part of the visa program between Oz & US. No biggie.
Unfortunately the semi-hysterical reaction to 9/11 has me too spooked to go back.... even though I've been hanging out to see Vegas again. I don't even speed, so getting treated like a criminal (finger printed etc at customs) is not for me. Also, just being a foreigner in the US in the current climate would be worrisome I think. Once the bigger issues like patriout act, detention without trial, and some respect for international law are sorted I'll gladly come back.
Would you volunteer to be in that 10 million? How about those you care about? How about 1000 Americans?
The hysteria generated by ~2000 deaths in the US on Sept 11 compared with the indifference shown over 3 million tutsis deaths, or ferver for a war with 10,000 iraqi civilian casualties, speaks better than any words could about how the western world values human life in other cultures.
Ahhh democracy - here I am angry as a anything about this piss-ant tyrant making Australia an agressor in an illegal war and about to vote Labour for the first time.
Takes all kinds 8)
muggings are nearly unheard of in florida
SO I'm the unlucky statistic that makes up Florida's low mugging victim figures... and I cam all the way from Oz to get that experience
My only concliation is the bastard who made me lie in the gutter with a gun to the back of my head is probably dead or in jail by now.
Given the questions over whether he SCO has violated the GPL and whether he has the right to enforce it, I don't think turning to the courts is the best solution
What if instead of simply not supporting the SCO platform in the future, he actively put a sheck in there that crippled the software if running on the Unixware platform?
If SCO found themselves having to hire engineers to change code to work on their platform (rather than marketing & PR people) they might rethink defaming the GPL.
Of course all this is based on the premise that they still want to produce software, not lawsuits.
As someone from a US-friendly nation, who's lived in the US for a while, and experienced the good (generous friendly people) and the bad (made lie face down in the gutter with a gun to the head while robbed), all I can say is how sorry I am that the country base on the nothion that all men are equal, and the have the right to freedom has moved so far from those nobel truths.
9/11 was a horrible evil from the hands of a few hate filled men.... Iraq et. al. seems like evil carried out by a scared, vengance seeking nation.
I know you won't care about one Aussie, but your scanners don't worry me - I won't be coming back to "the land of the free" (does that term still apply post Patriot Act?) for a long time.
Oh wait it's just the sound of Redhat's goodwill evaporating.
We run RH AS 2.1, and in two words: it's crap. Every now & then one node in the cluster goes beserk and continualy reboots the other (should hvas disabled the "High Unavailabity: option on instal.
RH 9 was however a very nice and relatively easy to run OS - even on my brand new, somewhat obscure toshiba P20 laptop.
I guess it was only a matter of time until RH shifted to "uniformed monkey" (ie MBA) decision making.
Cause we've been fighting to get it stable on RH "certified" hardware for nearly a year. Everyone say "shoot the partner". Now say it over & over again.
Don't get me started on "Platinum support".
Being a software guy I only know who to make a few eclectrons at a time do my bidding so.......
What happens to the smarties who've installed solar arrays ot power their homes and are feeding excess power into the grid?
I can just see the whole of NY powered off a./er's roof... maybe not.
There are 10 sorts of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who dont.
We just used linux (Redhat AS 2.1) as the OS for a real time traffic control system developed from scratch. The two things that really hurt us were:
1 - no shared conditional variables
2 - immature clustering
The lack of cond vars burnt us trying to wake multiple processes when a shared memory value changed.
We ran into problems with RH AS (and are still working through them) where one node would "shoot" (reboot) the other. If we were doing the project again I think we would roll our own fail-over capabilities.
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http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/windows-7/2441-windows-7-ultimate-solid-state-drive-speed-tweaks.html has a list of tweaks for windows on a SSD. Amongst them is disabling hibernate on the assumption that you're start up time is good enough.
Disclaimer: I've came across this researching SSD's before I buy & haven't tried it yet. Thought it might help you.
One thing that's been interesting watchint the your election from over here is the media coverage Palin recieves. We get shown report after report of "middle" Americans gushing about how much they connect with Palin. The coverage is factual, but you don't have to look between the lines to much to read "can you beleive this shit!".
When I studied law (I switched to IT in 2nd year) one of our lectures made the point that in representative democracy we get the government we deserve. McCain picked her. If McCain & Palin is elected, over the most thoughtful, balanced, unifying statesman I've seen in any presidential race, you deserve them.
Good luck.
That's all well and good until your Warcraft 3 CD fails, and Blizzard charges more for replacement media than you can get the game for down at a second hand store.
Of course you can back it up with Blindwite or similar, but there's goes the whole point of bad bit copy protection stopping reproduction.....
Hehe - cmoputer games & reproduction (sorry it's been a long day).
Whalers on the moon have to carry their harpoons. ;-)
One word: Firebug. It's by far the most powerful tool I know for untangling the front end HTML generated from JSF etc and helping work out which actual CSS styles are being picked up by HTML elements.
And if you've given money to the OLPC money based on it's goals of openness? Refunds?
I'm just amazed at how they can try and sell this as not affecting the project much. They might as well add a stinking great padlock to each machine and give the keys to MS.
Oh - and think how much funny the kiddies will have infecting each other with whatever virus/rootkit/botnet/..... walks right through the rock solid MS OS.
You're stalling.
I couldn't agree more with this.
I've been working as a developer for various companies in various domains (finance, control systems etc) for nearly a decade (mainly C++). I love problem solving and working with really smart people... but since the Y2K / .com bubble burst, words like "development" or "innovation" have become dirty. The excitement, optimism and energy that were in the industry when I entered are all gone.
IT workplaces today are typically environments where even immediate managers don't understand our daily activities, and since they don't understand them, they fail to value them. This works itself out in subtle and not so subtle ways (outsourcing anyone?). However I think we tend to bring some of this upon ourselves because development the latest technologies tend to be "vogue" and often marketing driven. Technology churn takes a lot of energy, and jumping to new development technologies every 18 months often has absolutely no real or even perceived benefit.
I have lots of IT friends and we all have one thing in common: we'd leave the industry in a heartbeat if we could find a job in a different field for comparative wages. I'm just so thankful that I got the chance to make the most of it while things where good, and set myself up to afford to retrain in a different profession if need be. What's really hard is watching the grads die a little when they realise what commercial development is really about and what shape the industry is in, when they've just spent 3+ years and a heap of $ studying to break into it.
My understanding is that it's almost impossible to do any realtime systems in java. I've just come off a complex traffic control systems project done in C++ to meet the very strict failure response time requirements.
Now I'm working on a finance back office system in J2EE. Horses for courses.Java/J2EE is great for GUI/enterprise stuff. C++ is great for control systems and high performance components.
It's easy to get caught up in the hype regarding the newest wiz-bang developement techs that will make all others redundant. For those of us simply wanting to solve problems in a efficient, mercinary like way, there's massive value in using a proven techs for a given problem space while the early adptors bed down the newer techs.
Unfortunately the semi-hysterical reaction to 9/11 has me too spooked to go back.... even though I've been hanging out to see Vegas again. I don't even speed, so getting treated like a criminal (finger printed etc at customs) is not for me. Also, just being a foreigner in the US in the current climate would be worrisome I think. Once the bigger issues like patriout act, detention without trial, and some respect for international law are sorted I'll gladly come back.
Should I start holding my breath? 8)
The hysteria generated by ~2000 deaths in the US on Sept 11 compared with the indifference shown over 3 million tutsis deaths, or ferver for a war with 10,000 iraqi civilian casualties, speaks better than any words could about how the western world values human life in other cultures.
Ahhh democracy - here I am angry as a anything about this piss-ant tyrant making Australia an agressor in an illegal war and about to vote Labour for the first time.
Takes all kinds 8)
muggings are nearly unheard of in florida
SO I'm the unlucky statistic that makes up Florida's low mugging victim figures... and I cam all the way from Oz to get that experience
My only concliation is the bastard who made me lie in the gutter with a gun to the back of my head is probably dead or in jail by now.
What if instead of simply not supporting the SCO platform in the future, he actively put a sheck in there that crippled the software if running on the Unixware platform?
If SCO found themselves having to hire engineers to change code to work on their platform (rather than marketing & PR people) they might rethink defaming the GPL.
Of course all this is based on the premise that they still want to produce software, not lawsuits.
As someone from a US-friendly nation, who's lived in the US for a while, and experienced the good (generous friendly people) and the bad (made lie face down in the gutter with a gun to the head while robbed), all I can say is how sorry I am that the country base on the nothion that all men are equal, and the have the right to freedom has moved so far from those nobel truths.
9/11 was a horrible evil from the hands of a few hate filled men.... Iraq et. al. seems like evil carried out by a scared, vengance seeking nation.
I know you won't care about one Aussie, but your scanners don't worry me - I won't be coming back to "the land of the free" (does that term still apply post Patriot Act?) for a long time.
Proverbs is a fantistic book and has lots to say about "fools". Just a couple of examples:
Do not speak to a fool, for he will scorn the wisdom of your words (23:9)
Wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin. (10:14)
Of what use is money in the hand of a fool, since he has no desire to get wisdom? (17:6)
A mocker resents correction; he will not consult the wise. (15:12)
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid. (12:1)
And my personal favourite:
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. (26:11)
Two words - Preemptive strike. They proabably have invisible WMDs too
Oh wait it's just the sound of Redhat's goodwill evaporating.
We run RH AS 2.1, and in two words: it's crap. Every now & then one node in the cluster goes beserk and continualy reboots the other (should hvas disabled the "High Unavailabity: option on instal.
RH 9 was however a very nice and relatively easy to run OS - even on my brand new, somewhat obscure toshiba P20 laptop.
I guess it was only a matter of time until RH shifted to "uniformed monkey" (ie MBA) decision making.
Cause we've been fighting to get it stable on RH "certified" hardware for nearly a year. Everyone say "shoot the partner". Now say it over & over again. Don't get me started on "Platinum support".
An uninformed monkey boy rubs his hands with glee.
We do have a product in your price range..... but any hair growth will be purely coincidental.
Sorry, my experience with linux only cover the New Testament....
If your brother takes your source code, give him your make system as well.
Being a software guy I only know who to make a few eclectrons at a time do my bidding so....... What happens to the smarties who've installed solar arrays ot power their homes and are feeding excess power into the grid? I can just see the whole of NY powered off a ./er's roof... maybe not.
There are 10 sorts of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who dont.
I wonder if Nasa has lost any mars missions over color / colour conversions 8)
We just used linux (Redhat AS 2.1) as the OS for a real time traffic control system developed from scratch. The two things that really hurt us were:
1 - no shared conditional variables
2 - immature clustering
The lack of cond vars burnt us trying to wake multiple processes when a shared memory value changed.
We ran into problems with RH AS (and are still working through them) where one node would "shoot" (reboot) the other. If we were doing the project again I think we would roll our own fail-over capabilities.