If I thought about it much, and I haven't since my grad school days, I'd pretty much agree with your stance on whether you even need to invoke an author of creation when, for all we know:
the slightest alteration of the constants and the relationships that physics has found would cause all existance to wink out in a puff of impossible inconsistency [we have no choice of worlds and to talk of others is pointless]
Yet there may be equally inescapable laws or logic that demand a univers must exist [of this I have NO certainty]
A nice quote from the Math Quote Server:
Smith, David Eugene One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes." In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
So, Pi and e are intimately entwined and thus are not at liberty to have arbitrary values...and I suspect, when we have penetrated to the bottom of all the puzzles, we will find that this is how it generally goes. That I hold that suspicion...THAT is my leap of faith [and could be viewed as a form of laziness if you like]
..which doesn't seem to be a specialty much in vogue with most of our commenters:( a scan of the comments would leave you thinking the topic was some pretext for venomous and misinformed rankor.) But there was some interesting science in TFA:
Their experiments indicate that we pick up the sugars from the foods we eat--in particular beef and other meat from mammals. Our cells absorb the foreign Neu5Gc and stick them on their surfaces, alongside their normal Neu5Ac sugars. It's possible that their similarity fools our cells into making this mistake. This happens only rarely, but often enough that we develop antibodies to Neu5Gc.
What I find striking about this information is that it fits with the
recently pubulished findings of strong correlation between colon cancer and eating red meat. I got no axe to grind one way or the other on meat eating but I am curious if it is reasonable to suspect that correlation has to do with riling up our immune systems against our very cells when they glom on to "foriegn" sugars.
Far be it from me to step in a pile of God doodoo, especially on/. but...
There is a pattern of sorts in the digits of Pi. Providing you don't mind working in hexadecimal, [why that base and no other?...any math PhD's in the audiance?] formula 29 on this page gives you a way to calculate any arbitrary digit of Pi without running a series calculation up to that digit's precision. If a formula for any digit, with independence from all other digits doesn't stretch the definition too much, I'll call it a pattern in the digits of Pi.
I for one welcome a creator who would leave us such puzzles.
...the people making the decisions will be the ones least qualified to do so. Selecting critical business tools is not a trivial undertaking,...
Thats a bit broad but I [and, reading the comments, many of us] have experience that supports the generalization. I expect that where this trend of weak technical insight on the part of those signing the PO hits the hardest is in government. For examples, consider how the FBI had to scrap its
"Emporer's new case management database" system from SAIC as the job approached the half billion $ mark. Or the way they dropped their "Carnivore" email sniffer, citing the availabity of sufficiently capable COTS products. On the other hand, the DOD funded research lab where I work has suffered a noticable throughput/productivity problem in several areas, especially hiring and purchasing as they struggle to replace their departmental patchwork of COTS and homebrewed enterprise integration [and that is naming it VERY generously] with SAP...POs for contractors drag out for months now. Its not just the chiefs that don't get it...sometimes its the indians and you gotta weigh your buy/make decision by considering how hard each choice will be to use when put in the hands of the workers.
Don't get me wrong; Ada is technically a better language. And what, other than technology especially concerning reliability, criteria should be used to measure a language? You measure it against the needs of your job and the costs you can bear. My employer's job is to find people who can maintain Ada code...they failed in that. So my job is to translate Ada code to C++ and as I've tried to explain, that is hard...Its an "interesting" problem but its using me up and teaching me nothing that will make me more employable in a year or two
a tool that proves automatically that a program is correct before allowing it to run
That sounds a lot like the problem at the heart of the Church-Turing thesis, the so-called halting problem. And that one was shown to be impossible [well, "undecidable" was their exact word] because it can be mapped to Goedel's incompleteness result...What did I miss? This will be hard even for trivial programs, let alone any you would want to run.
Besides, this correctness mirage has been, since the dawn of computing, a holy grail that commerce wishes for but declares to be an actual BigGulp of poison Koolade everytime academic computer science serves it up.
[witness Ada, witness the discussion of Coyotos on/. today]
Well, you are quite right that the array bounds checking built into Ada would toss an exception anytime somebody tried a buffer overflow attack on an IP stack. I have to explain my rather jaded view of Ada: I am getting paid to translate 10 year old ada code to C++. Its a nightmare. In theory [and all the whitepapers, now yellow with age, on Ada vs
C++ assure me] Ada is superior. Wonderful! But the fact that Ada has 2 or 3 ways to enforce things that are damned awkward in C++ is only an obstacle for me. I expect that interchangability between the proposed BitC [which actually strikes me as a pretty good language as far as I have read] and other languages will be similarly broken by the significant differences between what is built in and what must be programmed in to code written in the various languages.
BTW, page 479 of Schildt's 3rd Ed. of C++ the Complete Reference shows how to create a templated class that replaces arrays and overloads the array ref operator, [] for bounds checking. I wish I was working with a clean slate instead of 50k lines of code sans authors
I wish there were as clean a way to emulate bit lenghth wraping and packing in C++...they are primative in Ada so code that uses them has no syntactic handles upon which to work an automated change.
we have nearly a small book on managment in very short chapters...I guess the better comments take longer to type.
My favorites are warnings that the new role requires new relationship to the team members, that communication is now as important an asset as your technical mastery used to be.
Still, I would not want to herd nerds for a living.
....yumm, nice parens! tastes a bit like Lisp...hurray for econmomical parsing. ....skimming... monomorphic variables ? what happens to procedure with two variables not bound as to type? infer all you want but how to mix/promote types? ....no module idea, charset limited to 7bit unicode: thats gotta get fixed.
(fixint size align signed)
OMG! Shades of Ada "MOD" types in wolves clothing!..breaks all attempts at straightforward mapping to C/C++/Java short of introducing a class template that replaces "int" and overloads all the arithmetic and bitwise operators...yuch! SKIMMING HALTED
indeed, here we go again. Actually not a bad language...just not of this world.
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its obvious as poop in punchbowl that/. is the very worst place you could go looking for answers about transforming yourself into a mangager.
[ok some comments are insightful but by and large, it/.ers are typical of the kind of crew you would have to manage...well, I'd say you are mad or soon will be.]
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"...position is pretty boring (I manage normals)..."
Ask to manage tangentials...much less boring than normals.
Sorry, I just cant't take this seriously. You must have done something to deserve this "promotion". I have managed only one thing: I have managed to have "no leadership potential" echo subliminally in the minds of every employer I ever had. Thirty years of just being an engineer and tackling more INTERESTING problems [to me, that is] than "incentivizing" and "coordinating" a herd of coders. Sorry man, I just can't get my head around this question. My attitude may be connected to my experiences in some way but I have not been able to flow chart it yet.
http://www.terroircoffee.com/store/ is one of my 7 bookmarks for bean vendors...I like the Esmeralda
I'm sure the Planet hosting is of much higher quality than godaddy [which lo-balls on prices then has "extras" you really can't do without ]but even so...I know lots of Persians who wouldn't notice $200/mo.
To elaborate a bit on what happened to Ada 83:
That version supported provability of correctness, a feature that was easy to sell to a security conscious customer [not customers as there was really only one]. But that provability meant that many dynamic coding practices, in particular the method dispatching needed for object oriented programming, were not tolerable: for a compiler to prove code was right, it had to be immutable and look at run time exactly as it did at compile time.
This restriction proved intolerable and the next version, Ada 95, added features in a vain attempt to achieve OOness...and explicitly abandonded provability for the more valuable and pervasive need: re-use. on-the-fly and informal and inherent re-use by inheritance. Too little too late though: what got proved was that Ada proved to be a language even its mother didn't love. [I mean the BNF has 277 production rules...it is seriously ugly to map to other languages.]
"...It also specifies a new language, called BitC which allows the programmer to prove that the code implements certain semantics, thus providing another layer of verifiable security...." Developers, promoters and users of this language should consider the fate of Ada83 language before they invest a ton of effort or money. Yes, it may be strong as Fort Knox but writing software costs money and the language supports provability but does NOT eliminate the need to do up front design and heavy integration testing at the end of a project...Only the proprietors of Fort Knox would consider the cost benefit ratio of such software worthwhile. The rest of us would have to weigh it more carefully. C-derived languages got a lot of code written quickly mostly because they did not encumber the engineer with many considerations beyond the function or behavior and representation of data...the "I'm not going to give you a chance to screw up" approach to programming embodied in Ada does not map well to typical [if somewhat shoddy] coding practices and creates a much steeper learning curve for would-be programmers. I admit I have yet to RTFA but I already have this "here we go again" feeling.
Its not that simple. Yes Iran is an economic midget sitting on billions of barrels of oil reserves. Much of the poverty is cultrually/structurally induced. And the poverty and illiteracy serve the Iyatollahs quite well so don't look for great leaps forward any time soon. And that is such a shame. Iranians are as smart as anyone. The web presence in question in the article is NOT something being put up by the peasants. MOST college educated Iranians are necessarily expatriates, if only for 4 years. No one with the resources to study abroad would lack $4 a month to put up a modest web site with e-mail service. And trust me, the modest bourgeoisie that grew up around the Shah had a few billions and neither they nor their money were completely liquidated. And if we suppose instead that the "students" are a front for the Imam's? I bet they could pry a few bucks loose from their Nuclear Weaponsbudget to inform or disinform as they please via the web.
No, money is not the real problem for any of the players here.
Have to agree and disagree about the MSWord fixation. It does NOT telegraph the incompetence of the organization or department or manager for which you may work, just that of the of HR departments and headhunters. It is typically these middle-persons who have no computer skill beyond MS Office but need a unified tool with which to scan a bazillion pages of resume a week. The real reason for lowering your expectations when a prospect insists on the MSWord form of your CV is that you now know that you are either dealing with a PHB for whom you will have to work or you are dealing with HR or a recruiter and, more often than not, their job is principally to eliminate candidates...the guy who is going to get the job has a friend inside and his CV went around those MS Office addicts entirely. Not that I can prove its effectiveness, but FWIW, my trick is I put up an interactive resume as a web site, complete with JavaScript pull downs, dynamically generated navigation frames based on area of experience the user selected and funky page refreshing. I tuck the URL into the CV...My quandary is putting a MAILTO tag: I don't want to get spammed so I'd rather point to a disposable address but I don't want to make a bad impression with a CV showing the e-mail equivalent of "I live under a bridge" when I have a long-held address that pretty well resembles my own name. But at least I am demonstrating some of the skills claimed in my resume.
job search results cut from Dice, Monster, and all othe sources into a text log...its searchable via editor that way and automatically indicates freshness-of-lead by file position.
a text file log of tries and responses, mostly as pasted from e-mail but sometimes just notes taken from conversations and contacts. Also searchable and editable as I revisit some prosects that take time and a series of contacts and overtures to warm up, invite an interview, and reject me because I slip up and mention/.
But now with Gmail, I just let Dice and monster [and anything else that can be so configured] feed filtered job postings to my Gmail acct and also leave all job correspondence there...its searchable and if it ever fills up, I can write a book about how not to get a job and I'll have 6 gmail invites to give my self for my next round of job hunting. Does this work? I have landed 19 different jobs in 30 years, [and more relevantly: 5 jobs since the dawn of the dot-com era] so yes, it works. Now if somebody can tell me how to use my computer literacy to KEEP a job, I'll be all set! NOTE: this is a lazier technique than any get-a-job book or headhunter would advise...you should always network...but I am a nerd and mostly incapable of networking with anything that does not have an IP address.
"...definitely not cut and dried one way or another" One of the more apt punch lines I can recall reading in/. But all the more reason to cry foul: precicely because it is not well and widley know whether its a propaganda site or the tattered soap box of some oppressed students, its should be left up to the intelligence of the readers on the web to decide what they believe and what they reject. I have enormous difficulty accepting that the disruption is due, in effect, to the failure of someone to pay their hosting bills. I spend more on coffee than it takes to host a medium traffic webpage. And both the Iyatollahs and the Shah loyalists and just about everybody but the women in Iran have all the cash that could be needed.
If "de minimus" means some [subjective and arbitrary] threshold of borrowing of the wave form [as opposed to just the melody or perhaps the MIDI] then sound fonts are also off limits. Would that mean that companies like Roland and Alesis will join RIAA [or at least be in a legal position to join] in a crusade to eradicate forms of "piracy" that amount to less than a few hundred miliseconds of a.WAV file? You'd have to place a realtime correlation filter athwart all media streams and use it to trigger DRM hardware [software couldn't keep up] to ever catch such "piracy".
What a slippery slope this stupid court has entered with its deference to copyright owners!
Sounds cool. Not sure why they modded you FUNNY...coffee is not good unless you get serious about it. Whenever the VC's wanted to drop in
on the sundry starups for which I have toiled, we
always had to think of some nice place to take them for lunch since the shop is always a shambles...you guys have a nice solution for that problem: suggest that you all "go out" for coffee.
Water: I have well water that tests out like bottled spring water, i.e. enough hardness to gum up a steam toy in three months. I put two Cuno whole-house filter systems with bypass valves in parallel where the pump feeds into the house so I can change filters even while the water is running.
Beans: George Howell roasts the best I have ever had and he is local for me.
I used to think that software companies were
exuses for drinking coffee...but by the time I
got through installing a burr grinder and $400
espresso machine next to my terminal at work, I
realized that it would not be so odd to have a
coffee shop that was an excuse for writing
software...hope they succeed because I can
apply for work there.
the then-vs-now for computer graphics animation than it will be as a movie per se. [it was hard to swallow then as a story] When I went to SigGraph in Boston in '82, it was more like a sci-fi con than
a computing conference or trade show: young comp. graphics geeks all had tron on the brain and were very impressed withourselves despite how crude the technology was. in Pixar was pretty much a gleam in Ed Catmull's eye back then. Tron was a technicolor collage of animation from a whole zoo of hacked graphic engines and computers like the Foonlee, none of which could out-draw a low end NVIDIA product nowadays.
But with the Disney-Pixar divorce, how are they going to draw this thing?
yep, the small business webmaster is going to piss off the accountant when he comes in one day and says" We just added our 50001st document...gotta scap the the 5000$ search serever for a 32000$ search server.
given hyperlinking and the dozens of file types indexed, how precise could their 50000 page limit be? Some pages are absolutely nothing but pointers to other pages, Frames incorportate multiple files/documents at a single URL...its gotta be messy to do the counting.
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- the slightest alteration of the constants and the relationships that physics has found would cause all existance to wink out in a puff of impossible inconsistency [we have no choice of worlds and to talk of others is pointless]
- Yet there may be equally inescapable laws or logic that demand a univers must exist [of this I have NO certainty]
A nice quote from the Math Quote Server:So, Pi and e are intimately entwined and thus are not at liberty to have arbitrary values...and I suspect, when we have penetrated to the bottom of all the puzzles, we will find that this is how it generally goes. That I hold that suspicion...THAT is my leap of faith [and could be viewed as a form of laziness if you like]Far be it from me to step in a pile of God doodoo, especially on /. but...
There is a pattern of sorts in the digits of Pi. Providing you don't mind working in hexadecimal, [why that base and no other?...any math PhD's in the audiance?] formula 29 on this page gives you a way to calculate any arbitrary digit of Pi without running a series calculation up to that digit's precision. If a formula for any digit, with independence from all other digits doesn't stretch the definition too much, I'll call it a pattern in the digits of Pi.
I for one welcome a creator who would leave us such puzzles.
...the people making the decisions will be the ones least qualified to do so. Selecting critical business tools is not a trivial undertaking,...
Thats a bit broad but I [and, reading the comments, many of us] have experience that supports the generalization. I expect that where this trend of weak technical insight on the part of those signing the PO hits the hardest is in government. For examples, consider how the FBI had to scrap its "Emporer's new case management database" system from SAIC as the job approached the half billion $ mark. Or the way they dropped their "Carnivore" email sniffer, citing the availabity of sufficiently capable COTS products. On the other hand, the DOD funded research lab where I work has suffered a noticable throughput/productivity problem in several areas, especially hiring and purchasing as they struggle to replace their departmental patchwork of COTS and homebrewed enterprise integration [and that is naming it VERY generously] with SAP...POs for contractors drag out for months now. Its not just the chiefs that don't get it...sometimes its the indians and you gotta weigh your buy/make decision by considering how hard each choice will be to use when put in the hands of the workers.
Don't get me wrong; Ada is technically a better language. And what, other than technology especially concerning reliability, criteria should be used to measure a language? You measure it against the needs of your job and the costs you can bear. My employer's job is to find people who can maintain Ada code...they failed in that. So my job is to translate Ada code to C++ and as I've tried to explain, that is hard...Its an "interesting" problem but its using me up and teaching me nothing that will make me more employable in a year or two
Besides, this correctness mirage has been, since the dawn of computing, a holy grail that commerce wishes for but declares to be an actual BigGulp of poison Koolade everytime academic computer science serves it up. [witness Ada, witness the discussion of Coyotos on
Well, you are quite right that the array bounds checking built into Ada would toss an exception anytime somebody tried a buffer overflow attack on an IP stack. I have to explain my rather jaded view of Ada: I am getting paid to translate 10 year old ada code to C++. Its a nightmare. In theory [and all the whitepapers, now yellow with age, on Ada vs C++ assure me] Ada is superior. Wonderful! But the fact that Ada has 2 or 3 ways to enforce things that are damned awkward in C++ is only an obstacle for me. I expect that interchangability between the proposed BitC [which actually strikes me as a pretty good language as far as I have read] and other languages will be similarly broken by the significant differences between what is built in and what must be programmed in to code written in the various languages.
BTW, page 479 of Schildt's 3rd Ed. of C++ the Complete Reference shows how to create a templated class that replaces arrays and overloads the array ref operator, [] for bounds checking. I wish I was working with a clean slate instead of 50k lines of code sans authors
I wish there were as clean a way to emulate bit lenghth wraping and packing in C++...they are primative in Ada so code that uses them has no syntactic handles upon which to work an automated change.
we have nearly a small book on managment in very short chapters...I guess the better comments take longer to type. My favorites are warnings that the new role requires new relationship to the team members, that communication is now as important an asset as your technical mastery used to be.
Still, I would not want to herd nerds for a living.
....skimming
....yumm, nice parens! tastes a bit like Lisp...hurray for econmomical parsing.
....skimming...
monomorphic variables ? what happens to procedure with two variables not bound as to type? infer all you want but how to mix/promote types?
....no module idea, charset limited to 7bit unicode: thats gotta get fixed.
OMG! Shades of Ada "MOD" types in wolves clothing!..breaks all attempts at straightforward mapping to C/C++/Java short of introducing a class template that replaces "int" and overloads all the arithmetic and bitwise operators...yuch! SKIMMING HALTED
indeed, here we go again. Actually not a bad language...just not of this world.
its obvious as poop in punchbowl that /. is the very worst place you could go looking for answers about transforming yourself into a mangager.
[ok some comments are insightful but by and large, it /.ers are typical of the kind of crew you would have to manage...well, I'd say you are mad or soon will be.]
"...position is pretty boring (I manage normals)..."
Ask to manage tangentials...much less boring than normals.
Sorry, I just cant't take this seriously. You must have done something to deserve this "promotion". I have managed only one thing: I have managed to have "no leadership potential" echo subliminally in the minds of every employer I ever had. Thirty years of just being an engineer and tackling more INTERESTING problems [to me, that is] than "incentivizing" and "coordinating" a herd of coders. Sorry man, I just can't get my head around this question. My attitude may be connected to my experiences in some way but I have not been able to flow chart it yet.
http://www.terroircoffee.com/store/ is one of my 7 bookmarks for bean vendors...I like the Esmeralda
I'm sure the Planet hosting is of much higher quality than godaddy [which lo-balls on prices then has "extras" you really can't do without ]but even so...I know lots of Persians who wouldn't notice $200/mo.
To elaborate a bit on what happened to Ada 83:
That version supported provability of correctness, a feature that was easy to sell to a security conscious customer [not customers as there was really only one]. But that provability meant that many dynamic coding practices, in particular the method dispatching needed for object oriented programming, were not tolerable: for a compiler to prove code was right, it had to be immutable and look at run time exactly as it did at compile time. This restriction proved intolerable and the next version, Ada 95, added features in a vain attempt to achieve OOness...and explicitly abandonded provability for the more valuable and pervasive need: re-use. on-the-fly and informal and inherent re-use by inheritance. Too little too late though: what got proved was that Ada proved to be a language even its mother didn't love. [I mean the BNF has 277 production rules...it is seriously ugly to map to other languages.]
"...It also specifies a new language, called BitC which allows the programmer to prove that the code implements certain semantics, thus providing another layer of verifiable security...."
Developers, promoters and users of this language should consider the fate of Ada83 language before they invest a ton of effort or money. Yes, it may be strong as Fort Knox but writing software costs money and the language supports provability but does NOT eliminate the need to do up front design and heavy integration testing at the end of a project...Only the proprietors of Fort Knox would consider the cost benefit ratio of such software worthwhile. The rest of us would have to weigh it more carefully. C-derived languages got a lot of code written quickly mostly because they did not encumber the engineer with many considerations beyond the function or behavior and representation of data...the "I'm not going to give you a chance to screw up" approach to programming embodied in Ada does not map well to typical [if somewhat shoddy] coding practices and creates a much steeper learning curve for would-be programmers. I admit I have yet to RTFA but I already have this "here we go again" feeling.
Its not that simple. Yes Iran is an economic midget sitting on billions of barrels of oil reserves. Much of the poverty is cultrually/structurally induced. And the poverty and illiteracy serve the Iyatollahs quite well so don't look for great leaps forward any time soon. And that is such a shame. Iranians are as smart as anyone. The web presence in question in the article is NOT something being put up by the peasants. MOST college educated Iranians are necessarily expatriates, if only for 4 years. No one with the resources to study abroad would lack $4 a month to put up a modest web site with e-mail service. And trust me, the modest bourgeoisie that grew up around the Shah had a few billions and neither they nor their money were completely liquidated. And if we suppose instead that the "students" are a front for the Imam's? I bet they could pry a few bucks loose from their Nuclear Weapons budget to inform or disinform as they please via the web.
No, money is not the real problem for any of the players here.
Have to agree and disagree about the MSWord fixation. It does NOT telegraph the incompetence of the organization or department or manager for which you may work, just that of the of HR departments and headhunters. It is typically these middle-persons who have no computer skill beyond MS Office but need a unified tool with which to scan a bazillion pages of resume a week.
The real reason for lowering your expectations when a prospect insists on the MSWord form of your CV is that you now know that you are either dealing with a PHB for whom you will have to work or you are dealing with HR or a recruiter and, more often than not, their job is principally to eliminate candidates...the guy who is going to get the job has a friend inside and his CV went around those MS Office addicts entirely.
Not that I can prove its effectiveness, but FWIW, my trick is I put up an interactive resume as a web site, complete with JavaScript pull downs, dynamically generated navigation frames based on area of experience the user selected and funky page refreshing. I tuck the URL into the CV...My quandary is putting a MAILTO tag: I don't want to get spammed so I'd rather point to a disposable address but I don't want to make a bad impression with a CV showing the e-mail equivalent of "I live under a bridge" when I have a long-held address that pretty well resembles my own name. But at least I am demonstrating some of the skills claimed in my resume.
But now with Gmail, I just let Dice and monster [and anything else that can be so configured] feed filtered job postings to my Gmail acct and also leave all job correspondence there...its searchable and if it ever fills up, I can write a book about how not to get a job and I'll have 6 gmail invites to give my self for my next round of job hunting.
Does this work? I have landed 19 different jobs in 30 years, [and more relevantly: 5 jobs since the dawn of the dot-com era] so yes, it works. Now if somebody can tell me how to use my computer literacy to KEEP a job, I'll be all set!
NOTE: this is a lazier technique than any get-a-job book or headhunter would advise...you should always network...but I am a nerd and mostly incapable of networking with anything that does not have an IP address.
"...definitely not cut and dried one way or another" /.
One of the more apt punch lines I can recall reading in
But all the more reason to cry foul: precicely because it is not well and widley know whether its a propaganda site or the tattered soap box of some oppressed students, its should be left up to the intelligence of the readers on the web to decide what they believe and what they reject.
I have enormous difficulty accepting that the disruption is due, in effect, to the failure of someone to pay their hosting bills. I spend more on coffee than it takes to host a medium traffic webpage. And both the Iyatollahs and the Shah loyalists and just about everybody but the women in Iran have all the cash that could be needed.
If "de minimus" means some [subjective and arbitrary] threshold of borrowing of the wave form [as opposed to just the melody or perhaps the MIDI] then sound fonts are also off limits. Would that mean that companies like Roland and Alesis will join RIAA [or at least be in a legal position to join] in a crusade to eradicate forms of "piracy" that amount to less than a few hundred miliseconds of a .WAV file? You'd have to place a realtime correlation filter athwart all media streams and use it to trigger DRM hardware [software couldn't keep up] to ever catch such "piracy".
What a slippery slope this stupid court has entered with its deference to copyright owners!
of course solaris 8 and 9 didn't fare as well as Linux: you have to wait for Solaris 10 to get the magic open source effect on security;-)
Sounds cool. Not sure why they modded you FUNNY...coffee is not good unless you get serious about it.
Whenever the VC's wanted to drop in on the sundry starups for which I have toiled, we always had to think of some nice place to take them for lunch since the shop is always a shambles...you guys have a nice solution for that problem: suggest that you all "go out" for coffee.
Water: I have well water that tests out like bottled spring water, i.e. enough hardness to gum up a steam toy in three months. I put two Cuno whole-house filter systems with bypass valves in parallel where the pump feeds into the house so I can change filters even while the water is running.
Beans: George Howell roasts the best I have ever had and he is local for me.
I used to think that software companies were exuses for drinking coffee...but by the time I got through installing a burr grinder and $400 espresso machine next to my terminal at work, I realized that it would not be so odd to have a coffee shop that was an excuse for writing software...hope they succeed because I can apply for work there.
oops, that was the Foonly computer. But really it was a pdp10 on steriods...doing Tron helped drive the company out of business.
the then-vs-now for computer graphics animation than it will be as a movie per se. [it was hard to swallow then as a story] When I went to SigGraph in Boston in '82, it was more like a sci-fi con than a computing conference or trade show: young comp. graphics geeks all had tron on the brain and were very impressed withourselves despite how crude the technology was.
in Pixar was pretty much a gleam in Ed Catmull's eye back then. Tron was a technicolor collage of animation from a whole zoo of hacked graphic engines and computers like the Foonlee, none of which could out-draw a low end NVIDIA product nowadays.
But with the Disney-Pixar divorce, how are they going to draw this thing?
yep, the small business webmaster is going to piss off the accountant when he comes in one day and says" We just added our 50001st document...gotta scap the the 5000$ search serever for a 32000$ search server.
given hyperlinking and the dozens of file types indexed, how precise could their 50000 page limit be? Some pages are absolutely nothing but pointers to other pages, Frames incorportate multiple files/documents at a single URL...its gotta be messy to do the counting.