Some gems: Naming variables:
#1 Baby names: Buy a copy of a baby naming book and you'll never be at a loss for variable names. Fred is a wonderful name, and easy to type. If you're looking for easy-to-type variable names, try adsf or aoeu if you type with a DSK keyboard.
#17 Bedazzling Names: Choose variable names with irrelevant emotional connotation. e.g.:
marypoppins = ( superman + starship ) / god;
This confuses the reader because they have difficulty disassociating the emotional connotations of the words from the logic they're trying to think about.
#26 Misleading names: Make sure that every method does a little bit more (or less) than its name suggests. As a simple example, a method named isValid(x) should as a side effect convert x to binary and store the result in a database.
Unix to Linux migration makes sense.
Just remember: not all Linux platforms are created equal. Just consider:
Moving from Unix to the world of Linux gives you new control over your compute environment, at a lower cost. However, not all Linux platforms are created equal.
What are the growth/scalability limits for your platform?
Can you increase only the compute resources that you need?
Will you have to call multiple vendors for support?
The SGI Altix family of servers lets you run Linux with no limits. Unlike other systems, Altix scales from 2 processors up to 256 processors in a single Linux system image, and enables you to independently increase I/O, memory, and processors for perfectly right-sized systems. Altix is also easy on your budget, with the ability to start small and grow big, all in a unified architecture - no more "forklift upgrades"! With over 20 years of industry leadership in developing high performance systems, we know what it takes. We've helped to extend the Linux kernel with performance optimizations. We also know that you want to go to a single vendor if you have a system problem, so will be your single point of contact for system problems - regardless of the source.
Merriam Webster entry for "verses"
Main Entry: 1verse
Pronunciation: 'v&rs
Function: noun
(3) : POETRY 2 b : POEM c : a body of metrical writing (as of a period or country)
3 : STANZA
4 : one of the short divisions into which a chapter of the Bible is traditionally divided
Merriam Webster entry for "versus":
Main Entry: versus
Pronunciation: 'v&r-s&s, -s&z
Function: preposition
1 : AGAINST
2 : in contrast to or as the alternative of
While it's possible the "Verses" in the article title was a subtle pun/play on the fact the Bible is creationist and consists of "verses", I am apt to believe it wasn't so.
And at the last UN World Summit on the Information Society, Brazil led a bloc including India, South Africa, and China that thwarted an attempt by the US and its allies to harden the UN's line on intellectual property rights, insisting that the final conference document recognize just as strongly the cultural and economic importance of shared knowledge.
It's a good thing that developing nations are not overrun with banks of lawyers and corporate-puppet politicians out to abuse the legal system" in order to "enforce IP rights" and essentially abuse the legal system. Either that, or they have different more important priorities to take care of rather than pursue extreme protectionism based on artificially created property, like's happening in the developed countries.
Whatever the case is, it's good to see *somebody* take a sane stand on the issue of Shared Knowledge, which has been that way for a few thousand years in human history now.
https://voteprotect.org/ and typed in a random login/password, which redirected me to https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRAddUs er
after I clicked on the "Volunteer Now!" link.
This info incase you need it for debugging/etc...Thanks for the other link.
Internet users are doing far fewer searches for sex and pornography and more for e-commerce and business than they were seven years ago, University of Pittsburgh and Penn State researchers say in a new book.
In other news, "Internet searches" for the terms in question skyrocketed through the roof today leaving the UPitt and Pennstate researchers puzzled and dismayed. It appears one of the Master's thesis was withdrawn after the event. More at 11.
The results of the SPEC benchmarks (Page 8) look quite impressive, from a cursory look at the graphs (more=better). It seemed to outperform RH9 and SuSE9.1 on most of them.
An old (2002) thread from AVForums about this guy who took "watercooling" a little too literally. Turns out it was tongue in cheek, but the whole thread is hilarious.
I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad
The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a bugger to get out.
The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.
Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.
The first, Gaia, will use a single telescope to create an extraordinarily precise three-dimensional map of a billion stars throughout our galaxy and will reveal exo-planets by the disturbing effect they have on their parent stars' movements.
stay away from the Beta Quadrant. We all know those Romulans and Klingons don't take kindly to unauthorized surveillance activity.
It's an interesting dilema... if we pull out of funding the world's research, that research just isn't going to get done. On the other hand, we're funding the research that the rest of the world is benefiting from and not paying for.
On the contrary, it's US companies who're hurting the developing countries by monopolizing new drugs, and making sure that nobody else can produce them.
Heavy handed patenting is killing millions of people and forcing countries to buy drugs from these Companies who care shit about anything other than profit (like saving lives for example).
I could refer you to examples, but it's Friday night, and I have people coming over. Drug companies in the developing world have taken to developing *alternate techniques* to developing a drug to escape the clutch of these pharma companies.
The heavy-handed, litigation/IP oriented, corporate funded policies of the US Govt are hurting people outside of just the USA.
- Lots of great Hospitals with excellent doctors and state of the art facilities/equipment
- Low cost (atleast in USD)
Negatives:
- Lots of quack type hospitals/doctors out to lure people.
- Low malpractice_insurance/legal liabilities (though this may be construed a good thing looking at the frivolous lawsuits and skyrocketing insurance in the US of A).
Bottomline: there are great and affordable medical facilities available (from personal/family experience), but you have to be careful in separating the grain from the chaff. On the other hand, facilities in USA aren't exemplary either.
If anybody's really considering this, feel free to post to my Journal, and I'll try to provide my objective view from personal experience/knowledge. Some of the well known hospitals : Wockhardt (cardiac), also google for "manipal hospital", "bombay hospital", "NIMHANS"(mental hospital:) for the trolls).
This article is mainly about Hardware/Electronics companies where most of the work is done on an actual shopfloor. Usually conditions at silicon manufacturers are *far* worse than those at software companies because of environmental hazards and actual physical labor.
Regarding your point about LOW wages in the software services business (which you call the IT Boom in Bangalore), most of the profits for companies shipping work to other countries comes *not* from paying low wages, BUT because of the *low* Cost of Living in these countries. For example, (according to the same program you saw) the cost of living in India is 1/5th (0.2x) that in the US. This means that you can pay employees 1/5th of the wage and still keep them happy. There's also the exchange rate factor which comes in, but I've rambled enough.
The Conditions being targetting by this Code of Conduct are not for software programmers (usually White Collar workers) but for workers in the actual silicon chip manufacturing units (usually a Blue Collar job).
I'm tired of people claiming that Software engineers in India/etc work in pathetic conditions, while most of the people I know who work live at a *higher* standard of living than the rest of the population. Just because they get paid 1/5th the equivalent in US Dollars does *not* mean they're working for less. It's just that it costs less to maintain a comfortable lifestyle there.
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Some gems: :
Naming variables
#1 Baby names: Buy a copy of a baby naming book and you'll never be at a loss for variable names. Fred is a wonderful name, and easy to type. If you're looking for easy-to-type variable names, try adsf or aoeu if you type with a DSK keyboard.
#17 Bedazzling Names: Choose variable names with irrelevant emotional connotation. e.g.:
marypoppins = ( superman + starship ) / god;
This confuses the reader because they have difficulty disassociating the emotional connotations of the words from the logic they're trying to think about.
#26 Misleading names: Make sure that every method does a little bit more (or less) than its name suggests. As a simple example, a method named isValid(x) should as a side effect convert x to binary and store the result in a database.
New browser takes on Microsoft. Pretty fair coverage IMHO.
Unix to Linux migration makes sense.
Just remember: not all Linux platforms are created equal. Just consider:
Moving from Unix to the world of Linux gives you new control over your compute environment, at a lower cost. However, not all Linux platforms are created equal.
What are the growth/scalability limits for your platform?
Can you increase only the compute resources that you need?
Will you have to call multiple vendors for support?
The SGI Altix family of servers lets you run Linux with no limits. Unlike other systems, Altix scales from 2 processors up to 256 processors in a single Linux system image, and enables you to independently increase I/O, memory, and processors for perfectly right-sized systems. Altix is also easy on your budget, with the ability to start small and grow big, all in a unified architecture - no more "forklift upgrades"! With over 20 years of industry leadership in developing high performance systems, we know what it takes. We've helped to extend the Linux kernel with performance optimizations. We also know that you want to go to a single vendor if you have a system problem, so will be your single point of contact for system problems - regardless of the source.
So, expect the best - SGI Altix.
Stop by and take a look....unfortunately I couldn't locate a place to leave "Comments" and "Feedback" to their FUD.
Main Entry: 1verse
Pronunciation: 'v&rs
Function: noun
(3) : POETRY 2 b : POEM c : a body of metrical writing (as of a period or country)
3 : STANZA
4 : one of the short divisions into which a chapter of the Bible is traditionally divided
Merriam Webster entry for "versus":
Main Entry: versus
Pronunciation: 'v&r-s&s, -s&z
Function: preposition
1 : AGAINST
2 : in contrast to or as the alternative of
While it's possible the "Verses" in the article title was a subtle pun/play on the fact the Bible is creationist and consists of "verses", I am apt to believe it wasn't so.
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 2004.
Just don't forget to wear a bullet proof vest when you venture out.
It's a good thing that developing nations are not overrun with banks of lawyers and corporate-puppet politicians out to abuse the legal system" in order to "enforce IP rights" and essentially abuse the legal system. Either that, or they have different more important priorities to take care of rather than pursue extreme protectionism based on artificially created property, like's happening in the developed countries.
Whatever the case is, it's good to see *somebody* take a sane stand on the issue of Shared Knowledge, which has been that way for a few thousand years in human history now.
This info incase you need it for debugging/etc...Thanks for the other link.
MUHWAAHAAHAA!! l33tspeak, meet the power of .tldspeek.
And all I got was this ugly error message. Reported promptly to developers, though it's likely due to the /. effect.
c kname,address1,address2,city,state_id,postalcode,p h_office,ph_mobile,ph_fax,ph_home,ph_pager,homepag e,email,imid,imtype_id,notes) values (now(),1,now(),'slashdot', '3ba3637e426f7ef4ad70a3600a6f06b3','A', 'slashdot', 'slashdot', 'slashdot','slashdot', '', '', '', NULL, '09832', '213-230-2302', '', '', 'support@slashdot.org', '', NULL, '')
Db error #1044 in EIRS
Error message was:
Access denied for user: 'vevo4-ro@localhost' to
database 'advokit'
SQL was:
insert into akeir_person (createdon,createdby,lastactivity,username, password,status,firstname,middlenames,lastname,ni
Could not connect : Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)
I know this'll be redundant by the time I get through clicking a few more times, typing, copying and pasting...but what the heck.
(For the uninitiated http://www.466453.com/ belongs to google.)
There you go:
Google search for s3x
Google search for pr0n
In other news, "Internet searches" for the terms in question skyrocketed through the roof today leaving the UPitt and Pennstate researchers puzzled and dismayed. It appears one of the Master's thesis was withdrawn after the event. More at 11.
With my new choices, I will be downl0ad lots of different internets and chann3ls.
I'm adding a shortcut to ghostview on my desktop.
The results of the SPEC benchmarks (Page 8) look quite impressive, from a cursory look at the graphs (more=better). It seemed to outperform RH9 and SuSE9.1 on most of them.
Quite an extensive review IMHO.
Agent Elrond?
I shure hope so.
I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad
The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a bugger to get out.
The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.
Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.
Read on...
stay away from the Beta Quadrant. We all know those Romulans and Klingons don't take kindly to unauthorized surveillance activity.
-GillBates0, 2004.
On the contrary, it's US companies who're hurting the developing countries by monopolizing new drugs, and making sure that nobody else can produce them.
Heavy handed patenting is killing millions of people and forcing countries to buy drugs from these Companies who care shit about anything other than profit (like saving lives for example).
I could refer you to examples, but it's Friday night, and I have people coming over. Drug companies in the developing world have taken to developing *alternate techniques* to developing a drug to escape the clutch of these pharma companies.
The heavy-handed, litigation/IP oriented, corporate funded policies of the US Govt are hurting people outside of just the USA.
- Lots of great Hospitals with excellent doctors and state of the art facilities/equipment
- Low cost (atleast in USD)
Negatives:
- Lots of quack type hospitals/doctors out to lure people.
- Low malpractice_insurance/legal liabilities (though this may be construed a good thing looking at the frivolous lawsuits and skyrocketing insurance in the US of A).
Bottomline: there are great and affordable medical facilities available (from personal/family experience), but you have to be careful in separating the grain from the chaff. On the other hand, facilities in USA aren't exemplary either.
If anybody's really considering this, feel free to post to my Journal, and I'll try to provide my objective view from personal experience/knowledge. Some of the well known hospitals : Wockhardt (cardiac), also google for "manipal hospital", "bombay hospital", "NIMHANS"(mental hospital :) for the trolls).
Just my $0.02.
Regarding your point about LOW wages in the software services business (which you call the IT Boom in Bangalore), most of the profits for companies shipping work to other countries comes *not* from paying low wages, BUT because of the *low* Cost of Living in these countries. For example, (according to the same program you saw) the cost of living in India is 1/5th (0.2x) that in the US. This means that you can pay employees 1/5th of the wage and still keep them happy. There's also the exchange rate factor which comes in, but I've rambled enough.
The Conditions being targetting by this Code of Conduct are not for software programmers (usually White Collar workers) but for workers in the actual silicon chip manufacturing units (usually a Blue Collar job).
I'm tired of people claiming that Software engineers in India/etc work in pathetic conditions, while most of the people I know who work live at a *higher* standard of living than the rest of the population. Just because they get paid 1/5th the equivalent in US Dollars does *not* mean they're working for less. It's just that it costs less to maintain a comfortable lifestyle there.