If these asshat enterprises would follow a little procedure and not operate like a cowboy coding basement we would have semi-secure systems that don't require a tuesday patch session. It's not just doing the paperwork, It means that the code you write DOES SOMETHING that is in the spec, and you can show that from the design document. Coverage analysis really shows dead code and crap that was added as an afterthought. Testing shows that the thing you wrote does what the spec said it would. Revision control keeps a rope around the whole project. Gebus people, It's 2005 not 1980!
Hillsboro Or. ( home to some of Intel's assets ) has the most counterintuitive traffic controls. One is Evergreen parkway, when the left lane ends, you merge right. The other stupidity is traffic signals that totally screw up the expected and learned sequencing. I wonder how many rear-ends have happened in the turn lane as drivers jump off the line expecting the right turn signal. Feh!
A coworker purchased all the glossies and specs for "the peoples" flying car in 1993. Its design hasn't changed since then. I thought Mitsubishi ???? bought Moller out back then? Personally, I wouldn't take it around the block without a parachute.
Jim. Having experienced a FAA cert to DO-178B level B, It would cost tens of millions and another 20 years to certify that deathtrap, If ever.
Do I get n>1 virgins? If I get my head cut off. do I get a picture of my head on a pike as a souvenir, or maybe the head, I always wanted a skull bong.
I'm tired reading of another solution for the poor urban that can afford a laptop and wireless. How about us sad 48K dialup bastards in the dark zone of rural internet.
Are we overlooking one inportant fact, internet?
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The internet, Google and persistant archives are saving this history now. The idea that CD roms will not be readable, or cd drives that read this media won't be available in 40 years seems laughable. I'm sure somebody is going to produce legacy CD media readers, the market is there. As for 7 track mag tape, I can't see anybody coming out with a home version. The only dead tech is un-archived tech.
JimD.
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I have 10 year old CDRs, Gold backing with the dark purple / blue phenol? dye, burnt on a 1X scsi plexstor in 1995. Those still read flawlessly. I also have some cheap Al / yellow dye, They lasted about 3-4 years before starting to generate checksum errors. It all depends on the media and storage conditions. Conditions here are very dry 20% Humidity most of the time and stored at room temp.
Off topic? Slash dot is off topic! Daily dups, moronic headlines and typos that *POP* out at you. I feel for the subscribers that can't get a refund. Buh Bye. You were once informative, Now you're just stupid. If I want stupid, I'll read Drudge.
Where the hell is my apple II and C64 desktop?
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But fission fuel is almost limitless, Only a small percent of the fuel in a reactor is used. It's the ecofraud morons that are stopping us from using nuclear energy and forcing the controlling powers to dispose of trillions of kilowatts of usable energy into the ground as so called nuclear waste.
Inertial confinement generates huge amounts of neutrons that create large amounts of nuclear waste within the containment vessel. Mostly radioactive carbon isotopes and a mutated enclosure. It least in the old days.
Ya, but $2 to $3 dollars of that is applied to taxes to support your welfair state.
That argument is such bullshit.
I'm sure we'll be in the same boat real soon now.
Wasn't this method tried over 30 years ago? I worked with a Scientist that worked on the shiva laser system in 1990. This sounds like another revisited money sink, Since they can't get anything to break the unity barrier.
Didn't a Noble prize winner, Mr Shockley, Find that Nigros and brown people in general were mentally deficent? and hasn't it been shown that the yellow cross-eyed bucktooth menace from ching-chong-china are better at math?
So? What's the problem?
It must be the color, or the sun, or stupidity.
Can I get karma by pointing out the DUP? Really, Intel IS FILTHY. Most offices/prisons with 3000 roaming employees/prisoners is contaminated. This is the final result of cube mentality. It's the indian smallpox blanket, but for nerds. Feh
Don't sit down on a uncovered toilet seat. Touch a commom surface or eat in the cafeteria. Jones Farm is a Staph bacteria and MRSA hotbed. Touch the elevator button and then you face, PusBoils d00d. UGH!
I once worked for a "family" owned company. It was known as "Advanced Nepotism and Paranoia Corporation" They took care of, as in hiring and firing on whim and requirements, The Staff.
ANPC for short.
Never trust anybody.
My father told me a parable when I was a child.
A Man placed his son high up on a tree limb and told him to jump, The kid was afraid and refused. The father eventually convinced the kid to jump, "Don't worry, I'll catch you!" The kid jumped and the father let the kid hit the ground with a thud.
The kid cried, You said you would catch me? The father replied, Never trust ANYBODY, Not even your father.
I should have listened to my father. The prick.
This seems to be a common occurence. Bi-polar engineers able to outperform normals in development and design poisoned and driven to suicidal thoughts by managers who praise the wage slaves one day and castigate them as lazy and imcompetent the next.
I recently left a position at Intel Jones Farm 3. The building is filled with English speaking people when working with the anglophones. Listening to speech in the halls, the engineers talk in an seemingly infinite number of languages when working with their compatrates. Less then 1/8 of the employees in my group were US native, or even US citizens. Yes, that building contained the cream of the crop of IC and systems design. Sorry.
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If these asshat enterprises would follow a little procedure and not operate like a cowboy coding basement we would have semi-secure systems that don't require a tuesday patch session. It's not just doing the paperwork, It means that the code you write DOES SOMETHING that is in the spec, and you can show that from the design document. Coverage analysis really shows dead code and crap that was added as an afterthought. Testing shows that the thing you wrote does what the spec said it would. Revision control keeps a rope around the whole project. Gebus people, It's 2005 not 1980!
Hillsboro Or. ( home to some of Intel's assets ) has the most counterintuitive traffic controls. One is Evergreen parkway, when the left lane ends, you merge right. The other stupidity is traffic signals that totally screw up the expected and learned sequencing. I wonder how many rear-ends have happened in the turn lane as drivers jump off the line expecting the right turn signal.
Feh!
A coworker purchased all the glossies and specs for "the peoples" flying car in 1993. Its design hasn't changed since then. I thought Mitsubishi ???? bought Moller out back then? Personally, I wouldn't take it around the block without a parachute.
Jim.
Having experienced a FAA cert to DO-178B level B, It would cost tens of millions and another 20 years to certify that deathtrap, If ever.
Are you dim? She would weigh 2.21188352 million U.S. dollars
good grief!
Do I get n>1 virgins? If I get my head cut off.
do I get a picture of my head on a pike as
a souvenir, or maybe the head, I always wanted
a skull bong.
I'm tired reading of another solution for the poor urban that can afford a laptop and wireless. How about us sad 48K dialup bastards in the dark zone of rural internet.
The internet, Google and persistant archives are saving this history now. The idea that CD roms will not be readable, or cd drives that read this media won't be available in 40 years seems laughable. I'm sure somebody is going to produce legacy CD media readers, the market is there. As for 7 track mag tape, I can't see anybody coming out with a home version. The only dead tech is un-archived tech. JimD.
I have 10 year old CDRs, Gold backing with the dark purple / blue phenol? dye, burnt on a 1X scsi plexstor in 1995. Those still read flawlessly. I also have some cheap Al / yellow dye, They lasted about 3-4 years before starting to generate checksum errors.
It all depends on the media and storage conditions. Conditions here are very dry 20% Humidity most of the time and stored at room temp.
WTF?
Off topic? Slash dot is off topic! Daily dups, moronic headlines and typos that *POP* out at you. I feel for the subscribers that can't get a refund.
Buh Bye.
You were once informative, Now you're just stupid.
If I want stupid, I'll read Drudge.
Well?
I wish I could mod you -1 troll to a third world hellhole. Free speech requires free listeners.
But fission fuel is almost limitless, Only a small percent of the fuel in a reactor is used. It's the ecofraud morons that are stopping us from using nuclear energy and forcing the controlling powers
to dispose of trillions of kilowatts of usable energy into the ground as so called nuclear waste.
Inertial confinement generates huge amounts of neutrons that create large amounts of nuclear waste within the containment vessel. Mostly radioactive carbon isotopes and a mutated enclosure. It least in the old days.
Lawrence Livermore has a nice review of their laser fusion projects, Some stadium sized: http://www.llnl.gov/str/September02/September50th. html
Ya, but $2 to $3 dollars of that is applied to taxes to support your welfair state. That argument is such bullshit. I'm sure we'll be in the same boat real soon now.
Wasn't this method tried over 30 years ago? I worked with a Scientist that worked on the shiva laser system in 1990. This sounds like another revisited money sink, Since they can't get anything to break the unity barrier.
MSCD,MCSA,MCP,MCSA,MCSE,CCNA,CCNP,MCDBA,CISCO,BLA, BLABLA...
To bad intelligence isn't delivered in a TLA/FLA.
I'm glad I don't live in your space.
Didn't a Noble prize winner, Mr Shockley, Find that Nigros and brown people in general were mentally deficent? and hasn't it been shown that the yellow cross-eyed bucktooth menace from ching-chong-china are better at math? So? What's the problem? It must be the color, or the sun, or stupidity.
NOTHING HERE..... Just like slashdot...
Can I get karma by pointing out the DUP?
Really, Intel IS FILTHY. Most offices/prisons with 3000 roaming employees/prisoners is contaminated.
This is the final result of cube mentality.
It's the indian smallpox blanket, but for nerds.
Feh
Don't sit down on a uncovered toilet seat. Touch a commom surface or eat in the cafeteria. Jones Farm is a Staph bacteria and MRSA hotbed. Touch the elevator button and then you face, PusBoils d00d.
UGH!
I once worked for a "family" owned company. It was known as "Advanced Nepotism and Paranoia Corporation" They took care of, as in hiring and firing on whim and requirements, The Staff. ANPC for short. Never trust anybody. My father told me a parable when I was a child. A Man placed his son high up on a tree limb and told him to jump, The kid was afraid and refused. The father eventually convinced the kid to jump, "Don't worry, I'll catch you!" The kid jumped and the father let the kid hit the ground with a thud. The kid cried, You said you would catch me? The father replied, Never trust ANYBODY, Not even your father. I should have listened to my father. The prick.
This seems to be a common occurence. Bi-polar engineers able to outperform normals in development and design poisoned and driven to suicidal thoughts by managers who praise the wage slaves one day and castigate them as lazy and imcompetent the next.
I recently left a position at Intel Jones Farm 3. The building is filled with English speaking people when working with the anglophones. Listening to speech in the halls, the engineers talk in an seemingly infinite number of languages when working with their compatrates. Less then 1/8 of the employees in my group were US native, or even US citizens.
Yes, that building contained the cream of the crop of IC and systems design.
Sorry.