that is exactly the experience I had when we dumped AOL for Comcast..the rep did everything in the book to act like I the only choices I had were for other grades of service...I had to demand, I had to say "we are done: I pay you nothing, you give me no service"
economics and scalability are not that simple to mix. Your $400 machine simply can't handle the dataset or the array sizes or the threads or much any metric you'd get when you size up any number of huge but very practical programs that businesses sometimes run. To name but one example: the monster linear systems that model supply chain and what-if a huge number of variables so the company can find the right product mix...the list of such programs is bigger than you may be aware.
that a wildly successful software company that only went public a year or so ago is scaring venture $ away from start-ups...what the heck was Google until 2 years ago if not a start-up?
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And another thing, While I am glad someone will finally start reading all these fantastic offers to freeload the pilfered wealth of some pathetic african nation in exchange for my bank account number, I still welcome y'all to eat my shorts.
coming soon. I just asked at Barnes and Noblel...they can search for upcoming titles...the first they will have on their shelves is november. one more to be published before new years. two or 3 on their radar for next year. I can't wait! anybody have new of an earlier publication?
any docs on line?
A name whose absence seems even louder than Apple' is Sun Microsystems.
I don't know why this story was not news when I submitted it yesterday NYTimes slant on the story was that it was a strategic move to keep Microsoft out of the game becoming a "standard" before MS had a chance to establish its own competing methods. The real deal with MS of course is that they dread VM because virtual machines reduce the importance of the OS role.
you could just opt out of posts from Zonk by editing your profile.
but your question is one I am asking myself, as I piss away precious work hours calming myself by typing furiously against this gratuitously aggravating drivel. I already submint articles to/. and find that some probably don't get accepted for posting because they are too technical. I already browse many of the orgiginal sources that make up many of the things appearing on/. I just worry I would miss something interesting.
But flamebait post such as TFA, I would not miss a bit.
Watch out Hairy, comments that tumble to the possiblity that this piece of crap is just/. trying to goose its traffic are being modded OT by mysteriously effective modders. But you are right on AFAIK.
I think I can stop submitting articles now and uncheck "willing to moderate". This whole scene is getting polluted with non-technical and uniformative issues. When the eds only work to build traffic [their perogative since I sure don't pay the hosting bills around here], then slashdot itself is entirely OT as far as my interests and the value I place on my time are concerned.
I had to waste my time reading TFA just to be sure. If I didn't have work to do [on my XP and Solaris boxes] I'd take the time to refute each paragraph of this vaccuous polemic. but lets just hit some of the most egregious lies:
microsoft "single handedly created the market for personal computers": utter BS. IBM was under heavy threats from a then-recent anti-trust settlement and was forced to find an OS vendor for its new PC design rather than promote OS/2 with all the muscle it had shown in pushing OS/360. The IBM executive who socialized with Bill Gate's mom pretty much handed Gates the keys to the kingdom when other DOS work-alikes were available.
Macs... cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.... Yes, it costs more. I bought a 128K Mac and printer for $3K in '84...and it DOES MORE...It sitll runs. and I jumped to buy it when I did because nobody else had a "word processor" that integrated graphics in the document as gracefully. Mac's have always been ahead of Windows in ease of use and functionality. TFA exagerates the price difference.
explaining Microsoft's dismal security lapses as simply the result of its market share is dishonest./. readers never bought this line and shouldn't now. That the browser and OS are joined at the hip by ActiveX, for instance, is one of the reasons windows is a more vulnerable platform and a fair article would mention that.
Microsoft does not deserve "the antitrust lawsuits being slammed on it". Microsoft has been shown in court, repeatedly, to have threatened PC makers, to have used its huge financial strength to suck all the money out of emerging markets such as browsers where its own products were neither novel nor particularly competative [has anyone forgotten what MS did to Netscape?] and to have used bundling to deter and disuade the non-technical majority of users from using other applications than those provided by Microsoft. Even proficient users have difficulty uninstalling Microsofts bundled apps [my office forbids the use of IE yet we CAN'T rid ourselves of it entirely.]
Arrrgh! this bum just wants to get a rise out of us. Its not worth my time to say more.
....actually, the Eds probalby just set this crap in front of us because traffic has been a bit light on/. on summer weekends.
so say the researchers who finally pulled this off. From the News@Nature article:
He's also quite a survivor, being the only one of 1,095 cloned embryos implanted in 123 dogs to survive to healthy puppyhood.
The human uterus does not gladly make litters as dogs do. Twins are already a strain. So instead of a 10-to-1 eggs-to-wombs ratio you might
be looking at impregnating 500 women if your eggs-to-live births ratio is the same 1000:1 odds as dogs provide. Is anyone thinking about the heartbreak of 999 still births and the costs of 500 surrogate mothers that we would have to endure for one live human clone? [And humans, if anything, would have even worse odds of clone gestational success than dogs].
Just want you all to keep this thing in perspective.
point well taken; to "create" a reality, it is just as effective to work on the perceptual machinery as to work externally manufacturing stimuli to be filtered through that mass of neurologic machinery.
But what about the need for serveral persons or an entire audiance to have a sufficiently identical experience that they could cooperatively react to the experience and interact with each other? That sort of thing is often depicted in Star Trek holodeck scenes and its so very unlikely that a bunch of drugged viewers could be sharing the same "dream".
Maybe not. Even from its earliest days, software engineering was known by its best practitioners to be a sloppy business. consider this quote of an even older quote:
Anyone who had much ME or EE would have refered to an out-of-control compounding of virii+worms+hacks as positive feedback and not "... It's almost the definitive negative feedback loop...."
you need backprojection to the viewing surface to keep people from
casting a shadow by being between the projector and the projection
with which they are to interact. Holodeck doesn't work. Not for
anything except sitting on your ass and watching the action.
One company I worked for had a way of dealing with people like you...the rule was:
if a programmer has become indispensible, fire him!
that company, I might add, is still in business, unlike some of the biggest [remember DEC?] I have worked for. Funny thing, now that I think of it. I remember trying to read device driver code for RSX-11 that had hardly any comments in it....my point being most of you will be saying "RSX what? whats he talking about?" Uncommented code dies young. and does nothing for the longevity of the company that tollerated its creation.
yow! I wonder how many stories like that are around...maybe we are just
lucky our entire banking system hasn't been siphoned off to untracible
off shore accounts. I used to visit our companys cage at an Exodus
data center to install my server code and it seemed like fort knox:
call ahead for appointment, you had to be expected, you didn't just stroll in
present ID at front desk,
sign in,
get buzzed through security door, and
when leaving show what you are carrying matches what you declared at sign-in.
Not everybody has such high standards it would seem.
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that is exactly the experience I had when we dumped AOL for Comcast..the rep did everything in the book to act like I the only choices I had were for other grades of service...I had to demand, I had to say "we are done: I pay you nothing, you give me no service"
economics and scalability are not that simple to mix. Your $400 machine simply can't handle the dataset or the array sizes or the threads or much any metric you'd get when you size up any number of huge but very practical programs that businesses sometimes run. To name but one example: the monster linear systems that model supply chain and what-if a huge number of variables so the company can find the right product mix...the list of such programs is bigger than you may be aware.
that a wildly successful software company that only went public a year or so ago is scaring venture $ away from start-ups...what the heck was Google until 2 years ago if not a start-up?
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And another thing, While I am glad someone will finally start reading all these fantastic offers to freeload the pilfered wealth of some pathetic african nation in exchange for my bank account number, I still welcome y'all to eat my shorts.
coming soon. I just asked at Barnes and Noblel...they can search for upcoming titles...the first they will have on their shelves is november. one more to be published before new years. two or 3 on their radar for next year. I can't wait! anybody have new of an earlier publication? any docs on line?
do you think they would like to take a look at some of this old Ada code I inherited?
A name whose absence seems even louder than Apple' is Sun Microsystems. I don't know why this story was not news when I submitted it yesterday NYTimes slant on the story was that it was a strategic move to keep Microsoft out of the game becoming a "standard" before MS had a chance to establish its own competing methods. The real deal with MS of course is that they dread VM because virtual machines reduce the importance of the OS role.
you could just opt out of posts from Zonk by editing your profile. /. and find that some probably don't get accepted for posting because they are too technical. I already browse many of the orgiginal sources that make up many of the things appearing on /. I just worry I would miss something interesting.
But flamebait post such as TFA, I would not miss a bit.
but your question is one I am asking myself, as I piss away precious work hours calming myself by typing furiously against this gratuitously aggravating drivel. I already submint articles to
you have just reminded me: we can edit our /. user profiles to exclude posts from selected editors. Goodbye, Zonk.
If the eds are gonna make us read a steaming pile of bias and hogwash, the least we can do is get a good laugh.
Watch out Hairy, comments that tumble to the possiblity that this piece of crap is just /. trying to goose its traffic are being modded OT by mysteriously effective modders. But you are right on AFAIK.
I think I can stop submitting articles now and uncheck "willing to moderate". This whole scene is getting polluted with non-technical and uniformative issues. When the eds only work to build traffic [their perogative since I sure don't pay the hosting bills around here], then slashdot itself is entirely OT as far as my interests and the value I place on my time are concerned.
You said it better than I did. TFA was not worthy of our time and the /. eds are just yanking our chain.
- microsoft "single handedly created the market for personal computers": utter BS. IBM was under heavy threats from a then-recent anti-trust settlement and was forced to find an OS vendor for its new PC design rather than promote OS/2 with all the muscle it had shown in pushing OS/360. The IBM executive who socialized with Bill Gate's mom pretty much handed Gates the keys to the kingdom when other DOS work-alikes were available.
- Macs... cost the moon and the stars along with both your arms and legs.... Yes, it costs more. I bought a 128K Mac and printer for $3K in '84...and it DOES MORE...It sitll runs. and I jumped to buy it when I did because nobody else had a "word processor" that integrated graphics in the document as gracefully. Mac's have always been ahead of Windows in ease of use and functionality. TFA exagerates the price difference.
- explaining Microsoft's dismal security lapses as simply the result of its market share is dishonest.
/. readers never bought this line and shouldn't now. That the browser and OS are joined at the hip by ActiveX, for instance, is one of the reasons windows is a more vulnerable platform and a fair article would mention that. - Microsoft does not deserve "the antitrust lawsuits being slammed on it". Microsoft has been shown in court, repeatedly, to have threatened PC makers, to have used its huge financial strength to suck all the money out of emerging markets such as browsers where its own products were neither novel nor particularly competative [has anyone forgotten what MS did to Netscape?] and to have used bundling to deter and disuade the non-technical majority of users from using other applications than those provided by Microsoft. Even proficient users have difficulty uninstalling Microsofts bundled apps [my office forbids the use of IE yet we CAN'T rid ourselves of it entirely.]
Arrrgh! this bum just wants to get a rise out of us. Its not worth my time to say more.....actually, the Eds probalby just set this crap in front of us because traffic has been a bit light on
Just want you all to keep this thing in perspective.
Good question. You'd think 30 years of taking UV pictures of flowers would eventually expose the occasional bird in a frame or two.
say it: "Slashdot Redefines acronym for National Labor Relations Board"
Its been known for over a decade that flowers have a surprising degree of UV variability, to which pollinators [but not humans] are sensative.m blebees.html
e.g.:
http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_flowers_list.html
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/wildlife/2000su_bu
If they can get high speed internet in middle of the atlantic ocean but I can't even get DSL in most of my zipcode, its time to go.
point well taken; to "create" a reality, it is just as effective to work on the perceptual machinery as to work externally manufacturing stimuli to be filtered through that mass of neurologic machinery.
But what about the need for serveral persons or an entire audiance to have a sufficiently identical experience that they could cooperatively react to the experience and interact with each other? That sort of thing is often depicted in Star Trek holodeck scenes and its so very unlikely that a bunch of drugged viewers could be sharing the same "dream".
The original "architect" quote is usually attributed to Gerald Weinberg.
I was unaware of this development: a projection volume rather than a projection surface .
Anyone who had much ME or EE would have refered to an out-of-control compounding of virii+worms+hacks as positive feedback and not "... It's almost the definitive negative feedback loop...."
you need backprojection to the viewing surface to keep people from casting a shadow by being between the projector and the projection with which they are to interact. Holodeck doesn't work. Not for anything except sitting on your ass and watching the action.
One company I worked for had a way of dealing with people like you...the rule was:
if a programmer has become indispensible, fire him!
that company, I might add, is still in business, unlike some of the biggest [remember DEC?] I have worked for. Funny thing, now that I think of it. I remember trying to read device driver code for RSX-11 that had hardly any comments in it....my point being most of you will be saying "RSX what? whats he talking about?" Uncommented code dies young. and does nothing for the longevity of the company that tollerated its creation.
I used to visit our companys cage at an Exodus data center to install my server code and it seemed like fort knox:
- call ahead for appointment, you had to be expected, you didn't just stroll in
- present ID at front desk,
- sign in,
- get buzzed through security door, and
- when leaving show what you are carrying matches what you declared at sign-in.
Not everybody has such high standards it would seem.