The summary was pretty misleading, the two year time frame is just for a feasability study
fta: "IBM estimates that it will take two years to determine if the goals of The Battery 500 Project can be met with lithium-air battery technology."
They may abandon it or we may see multiple generations before getting something usable like we have with flash drives. Whatever the case there is no 'mass exodus' coming any time soon, there will be plenty of time to write off the gasoline infrastructure
Whoa, there buddy, I don't throw any of my people under the bus. But if you think that I am going to sit idly by and watch a team member dig himself a hole just because it is the quickest way to deliver a product... well I wouldn't be doing my job and, imho, would deserve to be tossed under the bus myself.
Maybe you are familiar with Oracle 11i apps, maybe not. I have seen (and been) the bright guy that just 'picks it up', but I can also tell you that most of the code I wrote early on was utter crap and may have even broken certain arcane licensing and support rules...
The database schema is _sick_ and works into it a security model based on synonyms of views of tables that spans dozens of schemas and is necessary for sound information control. A lot of the time you can create your own tables and use them to handle changing business rules or even *shudder* hard code values and rev up the code when the values change (Joe's favorite approach). However, by merely reading the RTM's (there are many of them), learning the funtional setups and spending a few years dicking around with the system, you discover that some bright programmer within the halls of oracle already considered it and provided a really effective method to deal with it.
I challenge anybody to convince any (in this case really nice and competent) fellow to change their ways with just a few years remaining until retirement. Joe accepted a lot of it, but that does not automagically change all the legacy code hanging out just waiting for our business people to make some changes to the setups and start screaming when stuff stops working.
So, I take your '20 year challenge' to heart and I work daily to keep that from happening with my own code or my co-workers. IMHO, there are way too many programmers out there that will read this 'duct tape' piece and use it to justify their own shoddy methods for me to read it without my head spinning around and taking the time to spout off about taking the time to do it right.
FTA: "Zawinski didn't do many unit tests. They "sound great in principle. Given a leisurely development pace, that's certainly the way to go. But when you're looking at, 'We've got to go from zero to done in six weeks,' "
Oh yeah, abandoning unit testing to get code out the door!
Maybe you got confused by his depiction of the architecture idiot at the beginning, but the core idea of this article is to abandon anything that slows delivery...
I manage a small team of programmers. When I first started, I 'inherited' a developer, let's call him Crufty Joe, who had worked at the company for 20 years and had developed financial and hr routines on the old mainframe and spiffy new oracle apps system. Joe had developed a lot of code, but he was always having to perform updates and corrections...
Why? Because he was a duct tape programmer! He always got it done by the deadline, but then he spent 75% of his time maintaining the huge pile of cruft that he had left in his wake over the years.
Well, Joe retired and I had to place two developers on his projects for the next year just to clean out all of the old '50% working' routines, in some cases we just tossed the exisiting work and started from scratch. What was really frustrating about this was that the Oracle apps have a huge, nearly incomprehensible, but extremely useful architecture that he did not even bother to leverage, but just wrote around.
This story acts like stopping to think about what you are doing means that you are going to implement huge, stupid architectures, but in reality he is just making excuses for being a sloppy hack. I feel damn sorry for anybody that has to support this crap in the future.
Surely the riaa can take a lesson from the war on drugs and get the children to turn in their parents and friends for dmca violations!
I mean c'mon wouldn't it be worth it to any kid to receive a free cd (with rootkit) for sending their parents, friends, neighbors and relatives to the slammer?
HP bought EDS, EDS sells a lot of Sun hardware. By purchasing Sun hardware business, HP can satisfy EDS clients while maintaining a broad profit margin.
Not all companies are as 'with it' as Google and many subscribe to the 90's-ism, 'The Internet runs on Sun'.
There is still a lot of money to be made selling Sun servers and that is a BIG reason that Sun failed to commit to 'commodity' processors
So where is your secret cache of googling-porn....
.
I'm not talking about searching images with safe search off, I'm talking about streaming screen captures of a particularly skilled googler performing complex searches tying together some disparate bits of web info into a coherent world view.
.
Mmmmm googly!
The US Nuclear Navy has operated for nearly fifty years and the only two 'accidents' have been related to the submarines the reactors were in going down due to other factors.
On the other hand, the Soviet Navy has managed to turn a large portion of the North Sea into a large radioactive experiment.
As much disdain as the 'free marketers' love to throw at the government, we need to recognize that the US government is quite capable of handling complex projects with a great deal of safety.
The government should be running the nuclear plants. It would eliminate problems like this one which are born of the corporate need to 'enhance shareholder value', and keep the people running the plant focused on performance and safety.
over at DarkReading they say:
Earlier Wednesday, the National Intelligence Service said in a statement that 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 computers overseas had been infected and used for the cyberattack.
Seems a little more realistic for a national threat
1. Gotta remember, really, really advanced technology. For all we know the Romulan mining vessel was designed to eat entire planets and has enough shielding to operate in a sun's corona.
2. Atmosphere degrades weapons fire from the planet surface, same reason the drill rig had to hang from orbit to just above the surface. Also, Star Trek's depiction of earth defenses have always been really weak, remember the dozen or so ships that crashed against the Borg in TNG.
3. Yeah, that confused me also, not to mention a HUGE black area in the star field for what would have to be a micro-sized black hole. Maybe it was an adjacent planet...
4. The Narada had warped away from earth and was sitting off in the middle of nowhere when Spock's ship caught up to it
5. See #1, any sufficiently advanced technology would appear to be magic...
6. The trip from Vulcan to Earth was broken out into two story lines, and converged, they were pretty vague about how long it actually took. Plus Spock spent who knows how long trying to get to the alternate meet up spot.
According to the CNET article, CERN stands for China Education and Research Network...
What about History of CERN?
Oh well, I guess that there are advantages to living in a world without legacy systems or intellectual property...
This is for 99% Magnesium, alloys may take a higher temp to reach point of auto-ignition
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m0088.ht m
Fire: Autoignition temperature: 473C (883F) When heated in air to a temperature near its melting point, magnesium may ignite and burn. Dangerous in the form of dust or flakes, and when exposed to flame or by violent chemical reaction with oxidizing agents. Magnesium may react with moisture or acids to evolve hydrogen gas, which is a highly dangerous fire or explosion hazard.
Autoignition temperature is for Magnesium turnings or ribbon. Explosion: Fine dust dispersed in air in sufficient concentrations, and in the presence of an ignition source is a potential dust explosion hazard. Minimum explosible concentration 0.030 grams/liter. Water used on molten magnesium will produce hydrogen gas and may cause an explosion. Fire Extinguishing Media: Use metal extinguishing powders such as G-1® graphite powder, Met-L-X® powder, powdered talc, dry graphite, powdered sodium chloride, soda ash, or dry sand. Warning! Do not use foam, chlorinated products such as Halon®, carbon dioxide, or water to extinguish magnesium fires, because dangerous reactions will occur. Use of water on molten magnesium will produce hydrogen gas and may cause an explosion. Special Information: In the event of a fire, wear full protective clothing and NIOSH-approved self-contained breathing apparatus with full facepiece operated in the pressure demand or other positive pressure mode. Fire fighters should protect their eyes and skin from flying particles. In order to prevent eye injury, do not look directly at magnesium fires.
Then maybe Kevin will give Jim Mahfood a chance to do the animation design/artwork instead of using him for the comic (like in Clerks) and dumping him for the series...
Ah Windows, How can I forget the first time that I saw you, in 1988, immature and overdressed like a 16 year old street-walker. The sparkle was eye-catching, but I knew that there was not enought maturity to keep me interested.
It was years later before I had you thrust apon me again. An old friend of mine needed to use my 386sx to edit a Word document on, so he loaded up a mountain of diskettes and left you behind. Sure, it was fun at first with Solataire and, uh, solataire... But you got in the way and I was soon tired of running around between you, AutoCAD and my video games support.
Next thing I knew, there you were in my workplace, pushing my old favorites like wordperfect and lotus around like the cheap little strumpet you are. Fortunately, I was able to take solace in my Motif desktop and RISC processors, intoxicated by their maturity and power.
Of course, I started passing you off on other, less knowledgable computer users. I must have pimped you out thousands of times, "Oh sure, just USE windows" for this or that. There was even that "Coming of age" thing for my son when I let him have his way with you. What was it, a month, before you had overun his data with viruses...
So now you try and pass yourself off as mature and worldly, no better game around huh? I hate to let you know it, but there's a pretty hot kid on the block, willing to do most anything (for free too), so why don't you just take a walk, windows.
Sure thing, I had 3g(2.5g really) gprs service attached to a Treo through Sprint in '02.
It was pretty nifty, but the small screen size, poor accomodation for html (especially frames) and billing rate (first 10mb included in plan everything billed by the bit afterwards) made it a not-so-attractive toy.
IMHO, hotspots offer a lot more promise if only in the aspect of pricing.
Plus, if hotspots become competitive with cell phone networks, then the cell phone providers will have to really put forward some innovative and price-competitive products.
Heck, look at the wringer that the 'net put ATT through;)
Thanks for ruining 2010 for me!!! I was waiting for the semi-centinnial release of 2001 so that I could watch 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001 all at the same time.
l0pht had to recognize that they had some seriously marketable skills and that they required a complete makeover to become salable to the corporate crowd.
I remember that I was in the habit of creeping around the archives in the old l0pht site (something about the notebooks of aleister crowley). One day I go to l0pht.org and I'm re-directed to atstake.com...
It was pretty fascinating how they had lined up all sorts of phd's and illuminaries to dress up their organization. There was still something of a link to the old site in their 'Research' link, but that is all waaaay gone now.
IMHO, this epic deserves a chapter in the _next_ industry tell-all
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This would be a GREAT zombie decoy!
Smells like human brains, tastes like human brains, runs away to attract attention...
What more could the fragments of humanity hope for to save them from the impending global zombie domination?
sounds like fud from the days when people tried to introduce a clean burning hydrogen engine... Remember the Hindenburg!
The summary was pretty misleading, the two year time frame is just for a feasability study fta: "IBM estimates that it will take two years to determine if the goals of The Battery 500 Project can be met with lithium-air battery technology." They may abandon it or we may see multiple generations before getting something usable like we have with flash drives. Whatever the case there is no 'mass exodus' coming any time soon, there will be plenty of time to write off the gasoline infrastructure
Whoa, there buddy, I don't throw any of my people under the bus. But if you think that I am going to sit idly by and watch a team member dig himself a hole just because it is the quickest way to deliver a product... well I wouldn't be doing my job and, imho, would deserve to be tossed under the bus myself.
Maybe you are familiar with Oracle 11i apps, maybe not. I have seen (and been) the bright guy that just 'picks it up', but I can also tell you that most of the code I wrote early on was utter crap and may have even broken certain arcane licensing and support rules...
The database schema is _sick_ and works into it a security model based on synonyms of views of tables that spans dozens of schemas and is necessary for sound information control. A lot of the time you can create your own tables and use them to handle changing business rules or even *shudder* hard code values and rev up the code when the values change (Joe's favorite approach). However, by merely reading the RTM's (there are many of them), learning the funtional setups and spending a few years dicking around with the system, you discover that some bright programmer within the halls of oracle already considered it and provided a really effective method to deal with it.
I challenge anybody to convince any (in this case really nice and competent) fellow to change their ways with just a few years remaining until retirement. Joe accepted a lot of it, but that does not automagically change all the legacy code hanging out just waiting for our business people to make some changes to the setups and start screaming when stuff stops working.
So, I take your '20 year challenge' to heart and I work daily to keep that from happening with my own code or my co-workers. IMHO, there are way too many programmers out there that will read this 'duct tape' piece and use it to justify their own shoddy methods for me to read it without my head spinning around and taking the time to spout off about taking the time to do it right.
FTA:
"Zawinski didn't do many unit tests. They "sound great in principle. Given a leisurely development pace, that's certainly the way to go. But when you're looking at, 'We've got to go from zero to done in six weeks,' "
Oh yeah, abandoning unit testing to get code out the door!
Maybe you got confused by his depiction of the architecture idiot at the beginning, but the core idea of this article is to abandon anything that slows delivery...
Seriously, no Unit Testing???
I manage a small team of programmers. When I first started, I 'inherited' a developer, let's call him Crufty Joe, who had worked at the company for 20 years and had developed financial and hr routines on the old mainframe and spiffy new oracle apps system. Joe had developed a lot of code, but he was always having to perform updates and corrections...
Why? Because he was a duct tape programmer! He always got it done by the deadline, but then he spent 75% of his time maintaining the huge pile of cruft that he had left in his wake over the years.
Well, Joe retired and I had to place two developers on his projects for the next year just to clean out all of the old '50% working' routines, in some cases we just tossed the exisiting work and started from scratch. What was really frustrating about this was that the Oracle apps have a huge, nearly incomprehensible, but extremely useful architecture that he did not even bother to leverage, but just wrote around.
This story acts like stopping to think about what you are doing means that you are going to implement huge, stupid architectures, but in reality he is just making excuses for being a sloppy hack. I feel damn sorry for anybody that has to support this crap in the future.
Surely the riaa can take a lesson from the war on drugs and get the children to turn in their parents and friends for dmca violations!
I mean c'mon wouldn't it be worth it to any kid to receive a free cd (with rootkit) for sending their parents, friends, neighbors and relatives to the slammer?
Synopsis from the article...
HP bought EDS, EDS sells a lot of Sun hardware. By purchasing Sun hardware business, HP can satisfy EDS clients while maintaining a broad profit margin.
Not all companies are as 'with it' as Google and many subscribe to the 90's-ism, 'The Internet runs on Sun'.
There is still a lot of money to be made selling Sun servers and that is a BIG reason that Sun failed to commit to 'commodity' processors
And then HP can kill the Sparc cpu and Solaris os lines like they did DEC Alpha and OS1... While focusing on Itanium and HPUX... Yuck!
I, for one, look forward to welcoming our bio-nano-tech overlords
So where is your secret cache of googling-porn.... . I'm not talking about searching images with safe search off, I'm talking about streaming screen captures of a particularly skilled googler performing complex searches tying together some disparate bits of web info into a coherent world view. . Mmmmm googly!
The US Nuclear Navy has operated for nearly fifty years and the only two 'accidents' have been related to the submarines the reactors were in going down due to other factors. On the other hand, the Soviet Navy has managed to turn a large portion of the North Sea into a large radioactive experiment. As much disdain as the 'free marketers' love to throw at the government, we need to recognize that the US government is quite capable of handling complex projects with a great deal of safety.
The government should be running the nuclear plants. It would eliminate problems like this one which are born of the corporate need to 'enhance shareholder value', and keep the people running the plant focused on performance and safety.
over at DarkReading they say: Earlier Wednesday, the National Intelligence Service said in a statement that 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 computers overseas had been infected and used for the cyberattack. Seems a little more realistic for a national threat
has to do with the CoS, I would think a face tattoo saying, "Abusive Con Artist" would be more appropriate.
Maybe as a mandated sig, digital signature, etc... too.
1. Gotta remember, really, really advanced technology. For all we know the Romulan mining vessel was designed to eat entire planets and has enough shielding to operate in a sun's corona.
2. Atmosphere degrades weapons fire from the planet surface, same reason the drill rig had to hang from orbit to just above the surface. Also, Star Trek's depiction of earth defenses have always been really weak, remember the dozen or so ships that crashed against the Borg in TNG.
3. Yeah, that confused me also, not to mention a HUGE black area in the star field for what would have to be a micro-sized black hole. Maybe it was an adjacent planet...
4. The Narada had warped away from earth and was sitting off in the middle of nowhere when Spock's ship caught up to it
5. See #1, any sufficiently advanced technology would appear to be magic...
6. The trip from Vulcan to Earth was broken out into two story lines, and converged, they were pretty vague about how long it actually took. Plus Spock spent who knows how long trying to get to the alternate meet up spot.
And yeah, I loved it!
According to the CNET article, CERN stands for China Education and Research Network... What about History of CERN? Oh well, I guess that there are advantages to living in a world without legacy systems or intellectual property...
This is for 99% Magnesium, alloys may take a higher temp to reach point of auto-ignition
t m
http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/m0088.h
Fire:
Autoignition temperature: 473C (883F)
When heated in air to a temperature near its melting point, magnesium may ignite and burn. Dangerous in the form of dust or flakes, and when exposed to flame or by violent chemical reaction with oxidizing agents. Magnesium may react with moisture or acids to evolve hydrogen gas, which is a highly dangerous fire or explosion hazard.
Autoignition temperature is for Magnesium turnings or ribbon.
Explosion:
Fine dust dispersed in air in sufficient concentrations, and in the presence of an ignition source is a potential dust explosion hazard. Minimum explosible concentration 0.030 grams/liter. Water used on molten magnesium will produce hydrogen gas and may cause an explosion.
Fire Extinguishing Media:
Use metal extinguishing powders such as G-1® graphite powder, Met-L-X® powder, powdered talc, dry graphite, powdered sodium chloride, soda ash, or dry sand. Warning! Do not use foam, chlorinated products such as Halon®, carbon dioxide, or water to extinguish magnesium fires, because dangerous reactions will occur. Use of water on molten magnesium will produce hydrogen gas and may cause an explosion.
Special Information:
In the event of a fire, wear full protective clothing and NIOSH-approved self-contained breathing apparatus with full facepiece operated in the pressure demand or other positive pressure mode. Fire fighters should protect their eyes and skin from flying particles. In order to prevent eye injury, do not look directly at magnesium fires.
Then maybe Kevin will give Jim Mahfood a chance to do the animation design/artwork instead of using him for the comic (like in Clerks) and dumping him for the series...
Ah Windows,
How can I forget the first time that I saw you, in 1988, immature and overdressed like a 16 year old street-walker. The sparkle was eye-catching, but I knew that there was not enought maturity to keep me interested.
It was years later before I had you thrust apon me again. An old friend of mine needed to use my 386sx to edit a Word document on, so he loaded up a mountain of diskettes and left you behind.
Sure, it was fun at first with Solataire and, uh, solataire... But you got in the way and I was soon tired of running around between you, AutoCAD and my video games support.
Next thing I knew, there you were in my workplace, pushing my old favorites like wordperfect and lotus around like the cheap little strumpet you are. Fortunately, I was able to take solace in my Motif desktop and RISC processors, intoxicated by their maturity and power.
Of course, I started passing you off on other, less knowledgable computer users. I must have pimped you out thousands of times, "Oh sure, just USE windows" for this or that. There was even that "Coming of age" thing for my son when I let him have his way with you. What was it, a month, before you had overun his data with viruses...
So now you try and pass yourself off as mature and worldly, no better game around huh? I hate to let you know it, but there's a pretty hot kid on the block, willing to do most anything (for free too), so why don't you just take a walk, windows.
Why do I see a new line of sex toys being based on this?
;)
Or at least a splint that packs down small but that remains rigid when in contact with a warm body.
Um.. Maybe that would apply to a sex toy
Sure thing, I had 3g(2.5g really) gprs service attached to a Treo through Sprint in '02.
;)
It was pretty nifty, but the small screen size, poor accomodation for html (especially frames) and billing rate (first 10mb included in plan everything billed by the bit afterwards) made it a not-so-attractive toy.
IMHO, hotspots offer a lot more promise if only in the aspect of pricing.
Plus, if hotspots become competitive with cell phone networks, then the cell phone providers will have to really put forward some innovative and price-competitive products.
Heck, look at the wringer that the 'net put ATT through
Thanks for ruining 2010 for me!!!
I was waiting for the semi-centinnial release of 2001 so that I could watch 2001, 2010, 2061 and 3001 all at the same time.
This'll look great next to my Dalek.
Soon I will have amassed a machine army to wipe out all of mankind!
(obligatory)/mwahahahah!
l0pht had to recognize that they had some seriously marketable skills and that they required a complete makeover to become salable to the corporate crowd.
I remember that I was in the habit of creeping around the archives in the old l0pht site (something about the notebooks of aleister crowley). One day I go to l0pht.org and I'm re-directed to atstake.com...
It was pretty fascinating how they had lined up all sorts of phd's and illuminaries to dress up their organization. There was still something of a link to the old site in their 'Research' link, but that is all waaaay gone now.
IMHO, this epic deserves a chapter in the _next_ industry tell-all