If we are going to dream pie-in-the-sky energy sources, why the hell not cold fusion? If it ever becomes a reality it would make hydrogen (and coal/gas/...) a blip on the road to free energy and mankind.
As you know, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle postulates that the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known. My question is: do you know your position or momentum? Inquiring minds want to know.
doug in Seattle
PS Do you think you are less funny, as funny, or more funny than Scott Adams? He gave me $5 to ask.
I wonder if this isn't some of the technology they snarfed from Sequent? I worked there in the late '80s and they were one of the top Unix technology shops around (or at least we thought so of ourselves at the time).
I just browsed the "News, views, feature articles and announcements from around the community" section of http://www.eclipse.org and found:
"An Introduction to the Eclipse IDE" (http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/12/11/ecl ipse.html)
I remembered a decent intro to Eclipse on IBM's site, probably developerworks (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/), so I searched for "eclipse" there. Yep, the article's at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-e cov/.
doug
Sysadmins hell, I want to kill the execs; story
on
When Sysadmins Go Bad
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Forget the sysadmins hosing the company, how many friggin execs run the thing into the ground looking to pad their stock options, then leave?
At a big EDA firm I worked at the sysadmin got into big trouble (I think he was fooling around on his old lady and was trying to run away with some other chick). He decided to hose the backups by placing a small magnet on the read/write head (IIRC). Then he did real backups, which he hid in the drop-down ceiling. His stupidity led him to try to blackmail the company (gold coins). The episode ended badly--high speed chase, crash, prison. Now that I think about it, yeah, a Fox mini-series!
Just how does XP result in disorganized, yet working, code? There is nothing in the tenets of XP that proposes this. Have you tried XP? Please attribute your source.
So now that the hi-tech job prospects are in the tank, any push to rescind the increase in H1-B visas that corporations pumped up during the.COM heyday?
"We are developing a Developer's Kit CD-ROM... This CD will be distributed free of charge to developers registered with iDEN's® Developer Support Program."
So once I'm registered I can just sit back and await its arrival?
There is no such thing as "the media". That smacks of some grand conspiracy to hide the truth. Sure companies strive to put a positive spin on their information, just as all of us do.
And what's this crap about the quality going down? What the hell do you expect with the number of new news organizations going online every day? It's like a pro sport expanding from 12 to 24 teams. The pool of top-notch talent is only so deep, so diluting it by 50%/team is only going to bring more inexperienced folks on board.
That and the push to be first has done more than any bias to undermine the quality of the news. I love the old saying "don't attribute to malice what simple incompetence will explain" or something like that.
I'll take today's news organizations over what passed as news when Hearst ran his empire!
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If we are going to dream pie-in-the-sky energy sources, why the hell not cold fusion? If it ever becomes a reality it would make hydrogen (and coal/gas/...) a blip on the road to free energy and mankind.
doug
Dave,
As you know, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle postulates that the more precisely
the position is determined, the less precisely
the momentum is known. My question is: do you know your position or momentum? Inquiring minds want to know.
doug in Seattle
PS Do you think you are less funny, as funny, or more funny than Scott Adams? He gave me $5 to ask.
I wonder if this isn't some of the technology they snarfed from Sequent? I worked there in the late '80s and they were one of the top Unix technology shops around (or at least we thought so of ourselves at the time).
I just browsed the "News, views, feature articles and announcements from around the community" section of http://www.eclipse.org and found:
l ipse.html)
e cov/.
"An Introduction to the Eclipse IDE" (http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/12/11/ec
I remembered a decent intro to Eclipse on IBM's site, probably developerworks (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/), so I searched for "eclipse" there. Yep, the article's at http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-
doug
Forget the sysadmins hosing the company, how many friggin execs run the thing into the ground looking to pad their stock options, then leave?
At a big EDA firm I worked at the sysadmin got into big trouble (I think he was fooling around on his old lady and was trying to run away with some other chick). He decided to hose the backups by placing a small magnet on the read/write head (IIRC). Then he did real backups, which he hid in the drop-down ceiling. His stupidity led him to try to blackmail the company (gold coins). The episode ended badly--high speed chase, crash, prison. Now that I think about it, yeah, a Fox mini-series!
doug
Goddamnit, I often sign my emails with TIA, for "Thanks in advance". Now I'm probably in the friggin' gummints gun sights as a potential terrorist.
Just how does XP result in disorganized, yet working, code? There is nothing in the tenets of XP that proposes this. Have you tried XP? Please attribute your source.
Hell, the got the top Borland dev, Anders Hejlsberg, by paying him $1 million to come on board and they're sitting on ~$40 billion, so why not?
doug
* an office with a door
* the best tools
* minimal interruptions
* minimal meetings
* reasonable schedules
Fuggit about measuring anything, you'll only
get what you measure.
So now that the hi-tech job prospects are in the tank, any push to rescind the increase in H1-B visas that corporations pumped up during the .COM heyday?
I've written both Washington senators, FWIW.
So I'm browsing your site and read:
... This CD will be distributed free of charge to developers registered with iDEN's® Developer Support Program."
"We are developing a Developer's Kit CD-ROM
So once I'm registered I can just sit back and await its arrival?
Is it ever possible to objectively analyze? Would we have approved of the PC, the Net, or the Web?
There is no such thing as "the media". That smacks of some grand conspiracy to hide the truth. Sure companies strive to put a positive spin on their information, just as all of us do.
And what's this crap about the quality going down? What the hell do you expect with the number of new news organizations going online every day? It's like a pro sport expanding from 12 to 24 teams. The pool of top-notch talent is only so deep, so diluting it by 50%/team is only going to bring more inexperienced folks on board.
That and the push to be first has done more than any bias to undermine the quality of the news. I love the old saying "don't attribute to malice what simple incompetence will explain" or something like that.
I'll take today's news organizations over what passed as news when Hearst ran his empire!