Are you implying that there was something wrong with Spy Game or Inspector Gadget? What could possibly go wrong with a film starring either Robert Redford or Matthew Broderick? Who didn't love those films?
Uh, I've had this problem well before 10.2.8. I never trust the battery timer, instead I go by the percentage remaining indicator (even that is a bit wonky).
This is definitely going to be a really hot one in the near future. I know of a company that does semantic search stuff (right now for business projects).
When they went around soliciting money from VC's the part that really turned them on (the VC's) was the possibility of becoming the "Semantic google". I don't know that these guys will make it but I bet in the near future, someone will.
Everyone better be careful about slamming Smith on the internet... apparently you didn't see the end to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back... where the dynamic duo go around and kick the ass of everyone that talked trash about them on the internet...
If you hear someone knocking at your door -- look out!
At the risk of getting flamed as a Mac nut, I just thought I'd point out a couple of your wishes that I already enjoy:
Connectivity. 'tis getting better. Google is good. P2P is good. Email is ok. IM is good. Video phone anyone?
Yep, I've already got a videophone -- it is called iChat AV and although it has some room for improvement, it is pretty incredible to start with... now we need more clients to support the protocol.
Music and Video on demand.
iTunes music store is pretty close on this one... I'd be willing to bet video comes in the next few years!
You're preaching to the converted in this case... But it is quite an effort for a company to re-code their entire Win32 application in Java or Perl or some other suitable language for unix deployment (as opposed to VisualBasic) whereas Microsoft's VisualStudio.Net makes it less painful to just expose the appropriate calls using a SOAP based web service...
At least this is how I understand it...
Inertia is a pretty powerful piece of business logic, especially when it comes to moving code from one system to another. In a perfect world, you are right, anything on the web would be served by a *NIX... sadly... this world isn't terribly perfect, and there are a lot of shops out there that wrote a lot of code using Windows tools......
I'm sure this incident affected them, but there has to be more than that. I did some work for a Navy contractor and they were told to migrate their applications away from Microsoft and onto Linux -- I believe the ultimate goal is to have all of the in-field deployed systems on Navy ships running on non-MS OSes.
The transition is pretty far-reaching. The Navy was even balking at using a Windows server for a web service back end that would feed info to a Linux (java) front end!
Maybe there are some intelligent people in the government these days after all...
I applaud people posting articles from there because I don't visit the site
You don't visit the site? Then what are you doing making a comment about them -- you don't even know what they do!?!?!
You might have a bit more respect if you actually read some of their articles. Some of their ongoing story lines have been awesome and would be of great interest to much of the "slashdot" crowd. They have a great series on Clear Channel that really opened my eyes and their coverage of issues like the DMCA and DRM is great (and very much in line with what slashdotters write on a daily basis). Not only that but their coverage also (and this is rare these days) attempts to back up their claims with actual facts. Amazing, isn't it?
I for one would be very sad to see Salon go (and thus I subscribe) because I see them as a shining example of a publication that writes what it believes (and can prove) to be true rather than what it believes will make it the most money.
Actually, in all seriousness, I've heard that the Navy is pushing an initiative to move all of the critical data systems to Linux or at least a *NIX flavor. I did some work for a navy contractor and they were told to move all of their applications from a Microsoft platform to a web services platform with servers running on Linux.
They are pushing this pretty hard, even though I'm sure it'll take a few years before it is complete...
Much of literature and art reflect the current thoughts, feelings and questions of their time. Take a look at a novel like Frankenstein. At that time, semi-complex machines were coming into their own, while medicine was starting to understand the different organ systems of the human body. A novel like Frankenstein reflects the questions of that time in history. Given what they then knew about the human body and its various parts, what made a human being? Was it a sum of the individual parts (cogs in a machine) or something more?
The Matrix is a modern piece of art/literature that engages the questions we face from our technology in this era. We will soon be able to create alternate realities, what does this mean? Are they real? Our machines may become smarter than us, is this a good thing? How do we maintain control? How would the machines maintain control? (hence the "hacker programs" in Reloaded.
You could say that this is just a movie, just like Frankenstein was just a book, but they both offer insight into their times and just by dealing with their subject matter, they both make philosophical arguments about the world around them. I think it is a blast to engage those arguments -- they make me think about myself and my world (and in the case of The Matrix I get to see some amazing visuals too).
I'm not so sure age matters too much these days, instead there is a sweet spot of experience that people want. I've been unemployed since I graduated from school last June and I went to a pretty decent program (Stanford). I managed to get some work only in the last month (short term contracts though).
In looking for jobs, it seems that nobody wants to take a chance on an unproven commodity (someone with no experience outside of school) so they are all looking for people with 3-5 years in the industry (that way the new hires aren't too expensive).
I doubt that age matters too much, instead they want someone new enough to be on the lower end of the pay scale but also experienced enough that there isn't too much risk involved
He always looked (and sounded) to me like the Israeli Adam Sandler. Damn he's smart. One of the best CS profs I ever had! He's lent his name/work to a new little company:
Slashdot Mirror
Are you implying that there was something wrong with Spy Game or Inspector Gadget? What could possibly go wrong with a film starring either Robert Redford or Matthew Broderick? Who didn't love those films?
Uh, I've had this problem well before 10.2.8. I never trust the battery timer, instead I go by the percentage remaining indicator (even that is a bit wonky).
This is definitely going to be a really hot one in the near future. I know of a company that does semantic search stuff (right now for business projects).
When they went around soliciting money from VC's the part that really turned them on (the VC's) was the possibility of becoming the "Semantic google". I don't know that these guys will make it but I bet in the near future, someone will.
Everyone better be careful about slamming Smith on the internet... apparently you didn't see the end to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back... where the dynamic duo go around and kick the ass of everyone that talked trash about them on the internet...
If you hear someone knocking at your door -- look out!
At the risk of getting flamed as a Mac nut, I just thought I'd point out a couple of your wishes that I already enjoy:
Connectivity. 'tis getting better. Google is good. P2P is good. Email is ok. IM is good. Video phone anyone?
Yep, I've already got a videophone -- it is called iChat AV and although it has some room for improvement, it is pretty incredible to start with... now we need more clients to support the protocol.
Music and Video on demand.
iTunes music store is pretty close on this one... I'd be willing to bet video comes in the next few years!
You're preaching to the converted in this case... But it is quite an effort for a company to re-code their entire Win32 application in Java or Perl or some other suitable language for unix deployment (as opposed to VisualBasic) whereas Microsoft's VisualStudio .Net makes it less painful to just expose the appropriate calls using a SOAP based web service...
At least this is how I understand it...
Inertia is a pretty powerful piece of business logic, especially when it comes to moving code from one system to another. In a perfect world, you are right, anything on the web would be served by a *NIX... sadly... this world isn't terribly perfect, and there are a lot of shops out there that wrote a lot of code using Windows tools......
I'm sure this incident affected them, but there has to be more than that. I did some work for a Navy contractor and they were told to migrate their applications away from Microsoft and onto Linux -- I believe the ultimate goal is to have all of the in-field deployed systems on Navy ships running on non-MS OSes.
The transition is pretty far-reaching. The Navy was even balking at using a Windows server for a web service back end that would feed info to a Linux (java) front end!
Maybe there are some intelligent people in the government these days after all...
I applaud people posting articles from there because I don't visit the site
You don't visit the site? Then what are you doing making a comment about them -- you don't even know what they do!?!?!
You might have a bit more respect if you actually read some of their articles. Some of their ongoing story lines have been awesome and would be of great interest to much of the "slashdot" crowd. They have a great series on Clear Channel that really opened my eyes and their coverage of issues like the DMCA and DRM is great (and very much in line with what slashdotters write on a daily basis). Not only that but their coverage also (and this is rare these days) attempts to back up their claims with actual facts. Amazing, isn't it?
I for one would be very sad to see Salon go (and thus I subscribe) because I see them as a shining example of a publication that writes what it believes (and can prove) to be true rather than what it believes will make it the most money.
Actually, in all seriousness, I've heard that the Navy is pushing an initiative to move all of the critical data systems to Linux or at least a *NIX flavor. I did some work for a navy contractor and they were told to move all of their applications from a Microsoft platform to a web services platform with servers running on Linux.
They are pushing this pretty hard, even though I'm sure it'll take a few years before it is complete...
Easy place to look:
c sssupport.html
http://www.macedition.com/cb/resources/macbrowser
Much of literature and art reflect the current thoughts, feelings and questions of their time. Take a look at a novel like Frankenstein. At that time, semi-complex machines were coming into their own, while medicine was starting to understand the different organ systems of the human body. A novel like Frankenstein reflects the questions of that time in history. Given what they then knew about the human body and its various parts, what made a human being? Was it a sum of the individual parts (cogs in a machine) or something more?
The Matrix is a modern piece of art/literature that engages the questions we face from our technology in this era. We will soon be able to create alternate realities, what does this mean? Are they real? Our machines may become smarter than us, is this a good thing? How do we maintain control? How would the machines maintain control? (hence the "hacker programs" in Reloaded.
You could say that this is just a movie, just like Frankenstein was just a book, but they both offer insight into their times and just by dealing with their subject matter, they both make philosophical arguments about the world around them. I think it is a blast to engage those arguments -- they make me think about myself and my world (and in the case of The Matrix I get to see some amazing visuals too).
I'm not so sure age matters too much these days, instead there is a sweet spot of experience that people want. I've been unemployed since I graduated from school last June and I went to a pretty decent program (Stanford). I managed to get some work only in the last month (short term contracts though).
In looking for jobs, it seems that nobody wants to take a chance on an unproven commodity (someone with no experience outside of school) so they are all looking for people with 3-5 years in the industry (that way the new hires aren't too expensive).
I doubt that age matters too much, instead they want someone new enough to be on the lower end of the pay scale but also experienced enough that there isn't too much risk involved
He always looked (and sounded) to me like the Israeli Adam Sandler. Damn he's smart. One of the best CS profs I ever had! He's lent his name/work to a new little company:
IdentiCrypt