I can see how the Snowball Earth might have worked, but it's the surviving life under the ice that I can't quite accept. The idea of the Sun's energy penitrating the ice sufficiently to keep plants and microbes alive for such a long period of time seems to be a very weak argument at best.
We have received 22 calls in October bashing Republican candidates and only 1 call bashing a Democratic candidate. Might I also mention, all the calls were brutal and that 17 of the 23 calls were actually endorsed by the favored candiate. Personally, I really hate bashing - I want to know the candidate's plan! I don't understand that "we the people" send these folks into office and all they do is bitch at each other. At my place of employment there are folks that I wouldn't invite over to my house or go out and have a drink with, but they do have good ideas and we listen to each other. What is it with politicians that they don't do the same? I really don't like bashing any standing president - I think it undermines progress.
I was rasied never to complain about a situation unless you have a solution, so since this post might be interpreted as a complaint, here's my solution... Rather than having an up-or-down vote in Congress, Democrats should be Horde, Republicans Alliance (or roll for it - I don't care which); they should play Alterac Valley and the winner earns a vote. They should get sucked up into this time sink so their other deeds, like raising taxes and starting IRL wars cannot get done. Of course, the standing president can always veto a bill - after all, they would be the GM:)
To control the Internet is to control the free flow of information for which every company, government, and organization around the world wants badly. Recognize it and fight against it - it may be your last true "right".
As a child and into my young adult years I was so proud of NASA and looked so forward to the future of manned space exploration. Sure, I began to become disappointed in the '90's that NASA wasn't doing much and that no Shuttle replacement was even on the horizon.
However, this whole CEV concept is "One Giant Step Backward for Mankind" - I don't care how they spin it. It represents a failure of nerve before the Universe and reflects a "tuck tail and run" policy of our nation as a whole.
Freeking politicians are screwing the whole thing up and NASA is a massive beuracracy maintaining jobs for the "less than creatives". Long live Burt Rutan, Richard Branson and their crews - poke the crap out of NASA's eye!
This guy is nothing but a mouthpiece for Microsoft C#. The real problem with C/C++ is it has libraries developed by comities. The industry is polluted with poor programmers in general because no-can-do professors insist on using Java to teach under graduate computer science.
Recall that most of the security bugs and buffer overruns in applications come from the standard runtime library (CRT) and NOT the native NT or Win32 APIs. Dinkumware and/or Microsoft could have done a much better job wrapping the CRT around Win32 here. And while I'm speaking out, the STL implementation that Plauger built is an absolute abomination (i.e. horse shit).
Microsoft did not need to "invent" another language (Microsoft C#) - they needed to innovate a better runtime library, period!
Perhaps Jeff's blame on the C/C++ language itself should be directed elsewhere.
Our company [which I will not mention, sorry] invested $100,000,000 in outsourcing software development to Inda a little over a year ago.
So far, we have received nothing in return. As a matter of fact, we don't expect to get anything in return and are waiting for the CTO to pull the plug once again.
You see, the exact same thing happend in 2002 (at $5,000,000) and 2003 (at $25,000,000).
The executives of the company must be doing this for tax purposes or something like it. It can't possibly be for ROI.
My personal experience with India over the past 9 years with three different companies tells a similar story. Whatever the hype is about India must be hidden in the details somewhere.
Because we have several decades of experience, American software engineers (government employees excluded, sorry) are by far the most productive, innovative and adaptable in the world [this is a fact].
We also get the job done! Sure, our schedules slip (an average of 2% for each 1 year duration) once in a while, the important thing to note is that our products ship and make money! Something India can't do today - and may never be able to catch up.
It would be more cost effective to ship executive jobs over seas. After all, they suck up the corporate money in salaries, bonuses and dicresionary spending (bashes) and produce no product to sell - they are the silent liability to any company's success.
Of course, this is just my opinion - I could be wrong.
Many of you nerds formed and expressed an opinion based on the answers that were given. But few seem to have the intelect to ponder, let alone to discover the reasons behind their answers. I guess I sometimes just expect too much from those who often claim that they have all the answers.
I can only imagine how many patents must be researched in order to "embed" such a kludge like WinFS into the OS - you know, to avoid infringment.
Today, NTFS has only one primary index - the path/name components. Adding more indecies will significantly reduce performance since all indecies (system and user defined) will need to be updated with each change in a file's properties (i.e. name, times, attributes, etc.).
This will simply not fly, especially with heavy file writters/readers (backup, scanners, HSM, archive and the like).
How many IT admins have turned off their user's stupid, performance sucking volume indexing feature?
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I can see how the Snowball Earth might have worked, but it's the surviving life under the ice that I can't quite accept. The idea of the Sun's energy penitrating the ice sufficiently to keep plants and microbes alive for such a long period of time seems to be a very weak argument at best.
We have received 22 calls in October bashing Republican candidates and only 1 call bashing a Democratic candidate. Might I also mention, all the calls were brutal and that 17 of the 23 calls were actually endorsed by the favored candiate. Personally, I really hate bashing - I want to know the candidate's plan! I don't understand that "we the people" send these folks into office and all they do is bitch at each other. At my place of employment there are folks that I wouldn't invite over to my house or go out and have a drink with, but they do have good ideas and we listen to each other. What is it with politicians that they don't do the same? I really don't like bashing any standing president - I think it undermines progress. I was rasied never to complain about a situation unless you have a solution, so since this post might be interpreted as a complaint, here's my solution... Rather than having an up-or-down vote in Congress, Democrats should be Horde, Republicans Alliance (or roll for it - I don't care which); they should play Alterac Valley and the winner earns a vote. They should get sucked up into this time sink so their other deeds, like raising taxes and starting IRL wars cannot get done. Of course, the standing president can always veto a bill - after all, they would be the GM :)
To control the Internet is to control the free flow of information for which every company, government, and organization around the world wants badly. Recognize it and fight against it - it may be your last true "right".
As a child and into my young adult years I was so proud of NASA and looked so forward to the future of manned space exploration. Sure, I began to become disappointed in the '90's that NASA wasn't doing much and that no Shuttle replacement was even on the horizon.
However, this whole CEV concept is "One Giant Step Backward for Mankind" - I don't care how they spin it. It represents a failure of nerve before the Universe and reflects a "tuck tail and run" policy of our nation as a whole.
Freeking politicians are screwing the whole thing up and NASA is a massive beuracracy maintaining jobs for the "less than creatives". Long live Burt Rutan, Richard Branson and their crews - poke the crap out of NASA's eye!
This guy is nothing but a mouthpiece for Microsoft C#. The real problem with C/C++ is it has libraries developed by comities. The industry is polluted with poor programmers in general because no-can-do professors insist on using Java to teach under graduate computer science.
Recall that most of the security bugs and buffer overruns in applications come from the standard runtime library (CRT) and NOT the native NT or Win32 APIs. Dinkumware and/or Microsoft could have done a much better job wrapping the CRT around Win32 here. And while I'm speaking out, the STL implementation that Plauger built is an absolute abomination (i.e. horse shit).
Microsoft did not need to "invent" another language (Microsoft C#) - they needed to innovate a better runtime library, period!
Perhaps Jeff's blame on the C/C++ language itself should be directed elsewhere.
Our company [which I will not mention, sorry] invested $100,000,000 in outsourcing software development to Inda a little over a year ago.
So far, we have received nothing in return. As a matter of fact, we don't expect to get anything in return and are waiting for the CTO to pull the plug once again.
You see, the exact same thing happend in 2002 (at $5,000,000) and 2003 (at $25,000,000).
The executives of the company must be doing this for tax purposes or something like it. It can't possibly be for ROI.
My personal experience with India over the past 9 years with three different companies tells a similar story. Whatever the hype is about India must be hidden in the details somewhere.
Because we have several decades of experience, American software engineers (government employees excluded, sorry) are by far the most productive, innovative and adaptable in the world [this is a fact].
We also get the job done! Sure, our schedules slip (an average of 2% for each 1 year duration) once in a while, the important thing to note is that our products ship and make money! Something India can't do today - and may never be able to catch up.
It would be more cost effective to ship executive jobs over seas. After all, they suck up the corporate money in salaries, bonuses and dicresionary spending (bashes) and produce no product to sell - they are the silent liability to any company's success.
Of course, this is just my opinion - I could be wrong.
Even a highly polished 100kt diamond isn't worth one red cent if nobody wants it.
I wish they'd go after VIACOM as aggresively as they went after Microsoft.
Many of you nerds formed and expressed an opinion based on the answers that were given. But few seem to have the intelect to ponder, let alone to discover the reasons behind their answers. I guess I sometimes just expect too much from those who often claim that they have all the answers.
I can only imagine how many patents must be researched in order to "embed" such a kludge like WinFS into the OS - you know, to avoid infringment.
Today, NTFS has only one primary index - the path/name components. Adding more indecies will significantly reduce performance since all indecies (system and user defined) will need to be updated with each change in a file's properties (i.e. name, times, attributes, etc.).
This will simply not fly, especially with heavy file writters/readers (backup, scanners, HSM, archive and the like).
How many IT admins have turned off their user's stupid, performance sucking volume indexing feature?