I've managed to recover most data on CD's/DVD's damaged on the bottom, but I have a few that have top reflective layer damage, and I haven't found a way to recover those yet. The most annoying are the Memorex with the flaking foil and the Verbatim with the scratched white surface.
As a starting point, I'd like to suggest designers read, "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink, and check out some articles at: http://www.danpink.com/. Furthermore, I suggest visiting IDEO http://www.ideo.com/ideo.asp. Pay special attention to their "method card" deck. Lastly (for purposes of this discussion) I suggest visiting http://www.mcdonough.com/# . The common thread in all this is DESIGN. William McDonough says that the need for regulation indicates a failure in design.
The IDEO method cards are different from the "Creative Whack Pack" or "Thinkertoys" cards, in that they redefine the product design domain. The jobs of the future are going to be design jobs requiring both high creativity and high technical ability. If someone in India or China can do your job as well and cheaper than you, or if a computer can do your job better and faster, your job is obsolete.
I didn't mean it as flame bait. I simply don't think MS is a totally reliable, un-biased source of information about the quality of security within their OS, and I don't think the independent security product manufacturers should put themselves in position where they are dependent on MS for information on OS behavior that represents a security vulnerability. I also don't think they should belong to an organization or consortium that is controlled by MS, because MS has conflicts of interest between presenting their OS as secure, their security products as the best, and the "outsiders" as welcome.
C'mon, folks! It is no longer in Microsoft's interest to divulge techniques that may allow a competitor to secure the most profitable OS in History against it's own vulnerabilities.
The security companies will be better off forming their own knowlege pool and inviting Microsoft representatives to learn from them.
As I see it, the problem is not the EC, but that the elections are a "popularity contest" bereft of any real content, and designed to attract ignorant voters. The EC might possibly prevent a Hitler, Lyndon LaRouche, or "Mickey Mouse" being elected to the White House.
I have a standard procedure I developed during the Bush/Gore election. When someone starts bitching and moaning about a candidate for presidency, I ask them, "I can see you're concerned. It really bothers me that most people voting in the election are not informed enough to make a good decision. It usually comes down to a popularity contest, or a 'MY TEAM vs. "YOUR TEAM' contest. That's pathetic, isn't it?"
Usually they agree with me that it's terrible that ignorant people are casting un-informed votes.
Then I ask them, "What, specifically, qualifies a person to be President? What are the main duties of the President, and why is one candidate more qualified than the other?"
Needless to say, most people don't have a ready answer. (It really IS pathetic that so many ignorant people are casting votes!) So I ask them, "What does it say in the Constitution?" Unless the person is a lawyer, most people don't know the Constitution. There are exceptions, but it's pathetic that most people don't know the Constitution and still insist on "Constitutional Rights".
I then hand them a small booklet with the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States and tell them, "Don't vote until you've memorized the Constitution." These booklets are available for a dollar or less at any Libertarian bookstore, or they can be ordered here: http://www.ashbrook.org/constitution/ I used to carry a number of them in my car and pocket.
If you don't want to order the booklet, you can read the Constitution many places online. Don't vote until you've memorized the Constitution.
Now, Bush is probably the lesser of two evils, which is STILL evil. The CATO Institute will send you a free booklet called, "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush". I also recommend reading, "We the People" by Mortimer Adler and "The Law" by Frederick Bastiat: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1753. You have a little over two years before the next Presidential election to educate yourselves.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a member fo the Libertarian Party, but I do consider myself a "libertarian? (small 'l') in the same sense as Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill.
Look at his columns. They are mostly bereft of useful info. Membership in an organization does not confer competency. I suspect that he belongs to those organizations to get newsletters and pick up gossip.
I've looked at a few of Kreb's columns, and he has no qualifications for writing a column on security. He's a gossip-monger with limited skills. If he could see to take pictures, he'd give papparazi a bad name.
I suspect this article was written to "scoop" other reporters. That's the only reason I can think of for the total lack of real information. Perhaps he ought to take lessons from Steve Rambam on how get information?
I've followed Mark's advice and used some of his utilities for years. I will be forever grateful for the things I learned by analyzing the source code to some of the utilities. I think Mark is entitled to cash in on his effort, but I'm not very optimistic about the quality of stuff that will come from Winternals from now on. Mark (and Winternals) was independent and worked at an independent pace, which is going to degrade now that there are layers of bureaucracy added.
On the other hand, the Winternals utilities represent about 10% (IMO) of the utilities needed to really analyze and fix Windows when it malfunctions. I'm too old to do this myself, but maybe a group of ambitious analysts could step up and continue the good work. Even more important, maybe a good group of analysts could develop a methodology for analyzing the OS and then point the way toward needed utilities.
I'm actually feeling a little grief over the demise of Winternals as an independent company.
When I lived in Alaska, the ing Crab was pretty much over-harvested. Bottom fish, such as pollock, were then able to eat the small crabs before they became harvestable size. the Crab industry was in danger.
Now, we have a different situation in the Barents Sea. There are not enough bottom fish to keep the crab population under control. I think I see a possible solution here that would revitalize the fishing industry for Norway and other Northern countries....
From the article:
"The criticism we expect to hear most is of the stacks we left out--including commercial J2EE platforms, such as those available from BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, as well as the many other database and server platform permutations."
I can't believe they came to this conclusion on such little data. They did, however, create a blog to disparate results can be shared.
I have no confidence in the ability of the politicians to make an informed, logical decision. I also have no hope that any ordinary, reasonable person can actually influence a politician. (Of course, I live in Texas. One look at our Representatives, and you can see why I gave up hope.
If I want to gamble in the USA I can get on a plane, train or car and go to Las Vegas, Boloxi or some other place that allows gambling. I might meet someone new in Las Vagas, and I might hear some new ideas, but they will be limited to people who can travel to Las Vegas (mosty Americans). My community at home is still "protected" from "immoral" influences. Now they want to make it so I can't do virtual travel to accomplish the same thing I could do with physical travel. (This whole concept is beyond the intelligence of the average politician, even if they didn't have special interests to protect.) Actually, since I don't gamble, I don't have a stake in this decision other than to regret that it's another sign of Big Government chipping away at individual choice.
And, it's an election year: Politicians have to be perceived as being upright and moral, so what better target for publicity than an "immoral" activity supported by a population too small to have any influence across other issues? (They're against Prostitution and Drunkeness also, but that doesn't keep them from getting laid and drunk.)
The politicians are afraid of open interchange, and are heading toward deciding that we can't travel on the Information Superhighway without a passport.
Yeah, well I have to repair those pieces of junk. The Compaq/HP notebooks are a lot better than their desktops, but still 'way inferior to Toshiba or Thinkpads. (Of course, nobody really knows what the future of Thinkpad quality is going to be.) I even prefer the VAIO to Compaq/HP, even though there is a lot more proprietary configuration. (VAIO stands for "Video Audio Input Output" and I seldom recommend VAIOs unless the customer has strong multimedia needs.) In Houston, where I live, the impression of Compaq/HP in Tomball is a campus of potheads. Who else would design such junk?
A huge component of my criteria for a good system is the quality of customer support: I want my customers to be able to resolve their own minor problems and call me when they have real problems. If the customer support sucks, the value of the system goes 'way down. HP customer service is bulky and inferior. Too many ignorant techs behind too many layers of administration. Dell used to have the best customer support in the industry. Now, I'd rather have a dead rat in my mouth than recommend a Dell.
Carly sacrificed the design and precision that HP was noted for and made the company mediocre. She acquired Compaq, which had a fairly good PC server division and some of the worst workstations in the business, and then never took advantage fo the Alpha technology that could have brought HP to the top.
Compaq's low-end desktops were a technician's nightmare, but it wasn't always that way. In the early 90's the ASE certification was the least-bullshit, best PC technical training around. In the late 90's the ProLiant line of servers were the only things I'd buy from Compaq, because even if you were Compaq authorized, fixing the lower-end machines was too much hassle. If you weren't Compaq authorized it was almost impossible, even if you could afford it.
For those of you who are interested, the original HP design and precision is embodied in Agilent Technologies. There you find super fine instrumentation, quality design, good morale, and good financial performance. All they need now is a good web site designer.
When my daughter was about 2, she started learning to read using methods developed by Glen Doman.
I was totally impressed to find out about the recovery work in neuro-stimulation that Dr. Doman was doing; people with paralyzing strokes learned to speak and walk normally, a boy with no brain on one hemisphere learned and acted normally, people with brain injuries were recoveing normal or near-normal function.
This story illustrates a dramatic case of something that we might have had a handle on for over 40 years! I'm disturbed by the mention in the article that the patient was refused a re-evauation at a later date.
To see some other information regarding lesser brain damage, see http://www.iahp.org/Brain_Injured_Children.203.0.h tml. Contrast that with the information by Dr. Daniel Amen http://www.amenclinic.com/ and check out the "Brainplace" link. Dr. Doman wanted to treat the brain, and characterizes approaches like Dr. Amen's as "treating the symptoms", yet Dr. Amen seems to believe that Psychiatrists and Neuro-whatevers should actually LOOK at the organ they are treating and take appropriate action for now. Both have a very good record. Personally, if my kid was suffering from something like ADHD, I'd want to relieve the symptoms as soon as possible on one hand, but I'd hate to spoil the chancs for a permanent cure on the other.
It is nearly impossible to predict the actual delivery time for a programming project because there are too many dependent variables. (For a good pciture of the problems caused by independent variables, read Gordratt's books, "The Goal", "It's Not Luck" and "Critical Chain". "Critical Chain" leads you to the best insights for your position, but the other books are essential prep.) http://www.goldratt.com/
There are two keys to delivering almost always on time; Planning and Management.
Planning means thinking the project through in the best detail before you start coding. Agile programming seems to work in short, quick-and-dirty projects, but my experience is that it falls short if the project is large and complex. The less decisons you have to make in the middle of the project, and the less changes you have to make as a result, means that the work can me seen to progress along the planned path.
Management means controlling the variables, and that's where the techniques in "Critical Chain" shine. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is allowed to delay the critical chain in the plan. The biggest dividends come from two parctices: Continuity and Resource management.
It used to be that if I had a week to do a job that I knew I could do in a day or two, I'd do whatever else needed doing and start two days before the task was due. Of course, If something came up, (essential co-worker gets sick, computer crash, virus, software needs updates, whatever) then I might be delayed during that two days and the task is delivered late. If the task was on the critical path, then the whole project becomes late. The first 10% delay on a project typically costs 25% of the profitability, the next 10% late costs 20%, so being only 20% late can cost 45% of the profitability. People tend to think that if they have some slack, they can relax. Then they wonder why they are late. They should work as if there was no slack! Relax at the END, not during.
In a large project with multiple developers, some of them may be required to cordinate along different paths, not just the critical path. This is why Godratta called it the "Critical CHain". Those resources MUST be focussed on keeping the essential workflow from bogging down anywhere that may delay the longest chain of dependencies.
This idea came out years ago, and I've been following project management ever since the 60's. This is the first big change I've seen since 1969. Everyone who told me they tried the Critical Chain method and it didn't work, didn't follow the process. Siemens practically took the whole market for 7200 rpm hard drives by developing them first using the Critical Chain method.
I almost agree with you. If I buy a CD and loan it to a friend, that is acceptable behavior. I didn't create any illegal copies and I didn't deprive the author of any compensation because the CD was paid for. If I invite a friend over to listen to music, the same situation applies. Now if I put my music on a computer and allow my friends to listen to it, I agree that should be legal as long as they aren't making copies for their own use. I don't believe that would be a case of stealing anymore than inviting a bunch of friends over to listen. So, streaming audio should be OK as long as you don't charge for it without compensating the artist. Copying a file to your server for storage should be OK (IMO) as long as your friends can't create a copy for themselves. IMO, this constitutes "fair use".
However, file sharing typically creates a copy of the music without compensating the artist. The creation and distribution of files containing copyrighted material without compensating the artist or authors is stealing, just as burning a CD for friend is stealing. Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right.
Sorry, but no matter how slick the words, it is still depriving someone of the compensation for their work. Stealing is a general category, and the slick technical wording falls clearly under that category. I can think of a few others: Working for someone who doesn't pay you the commission due, for instance, is not the same as armed robbery. Someone not paying you for the software you wrote for him is fraud. They are all forms of stealing. True, the amount in question is trivial on an individual basis, but stealing is stealing whether you shoplift a pack of gum or rip off your stockholders for millions.
What I like about Spain's law is that it represents reparative justice. It compensates the victim for the value of the loss. (Hard to think of the RIAA as a victim, isn't it?) Too many times in the USA, the offender gets a slap on the wrist or a "punishment", and the victim is still out of pocket for the value of the loss.
Let's get something straight: Downloading music without paying for it is stealing! (Common practice, but still stealing.) The new Spanish law requires a person to reimburse the owner for price and costs of recovery if they are caught. (If your kid steals from the grocery store, don't you make him go back and pay for the items?) The Spanish law is saying that any ISP that collaborates with the theft is committing a crime. This makes sense, right? The ISP should not be setting up a P2P server for sharing illegal content. (This may be hard to enforce, since there is so much legal content to be shared.)
It is true that the music and movie industries are overly grasping (IMHO) and unresponsive to consumers desires, but we mustn't forget that we don't have a RIGHT to steal just because they are ignorant, unethical, and we don't like the price. If you steal and get caught, there should be consequences.
The headline is overly sensational and inaccurate.
The reasons for making the source code available are sound. The exact source for each version of the distro should be available. When I get a distro, I could be satisfied with an archive of the complete source, even though it contains lots of code that hasn't been modified. I would also appreciate an archive of source for only the changed packages. Perhaps someone hasa set of best practices to share with us?
Yup- I should have re-read the article before I posted my comment, but I did and I caught it before you commented. Thanks for your polite(!), late, ego-boosting, useless comment. Are you happy now?
ChoicePoint is an aggregator. As much as 20% of their data could be inaccurate. Employers (for instance) make decisions based on ChoicePoint data, even though ChoicePoint "suggests" that they independently verify the accuracy of any negative reports. (Of course, it may work the other way also: 20% inaccuracy suggests that ChoicePoint will give subscribers false positive data, too.) Is this important? Well, Baseline Magazine wrote a nice article on this last year, http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1825320 ,00.asp http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1825287 ,00.asp and I was really impressed with the fact that a Home Depot employee spent a week in jail for crimes he did not commit.
Security is only half of it; Accuracy is the other half.
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I've managed to recover most data on CD's/DVD's damaged on the bottom, but I have a few that have top reflective layer damage, and I haven't found a way to recover those yet. The most annoying are the Memorex with the flaking foil and the Verbatim with the scratched white surface.
As a starting point, I'd like to suggest designers read, "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink, and check out some articles at: http://www.danpink.com/. Furthermore, I suggest visiting IDEO http://www.ideo.com/ideo.asp. Pay special attention to their "method card" deck. Lastly (for purposes of this discussion) I suggest visiting http://www.mcdonough.com/# . The common thread in all this is DESIGN. William McDonough says that the need for regulation indicates a failure in design.
2 ,00.asp http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/ ) to really innovative interfaces ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/).
The design of the product goes 'way beyond just cosmetics. There is only so much you can do with an enclosure for a PC board, but there is LOTS you can do with the system as a whole. Case modding is just a place to start. Functional design improvements are being made in everything from the input devices ( http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,111201
The IDEO method cards are different from the "Creative Whack Pack" or "Thinkertoys" cards, in that they redefine the product design domain. The jobs of the future are going to be design jobs requiring both high creativity and high technical ability. If someone in India or China can do your job as well and cheaper than you, or if a computer can do your job better and faster, your job is obsolete.
"Someday, we will have the ability to create totally new "people" for movies, without relying on any existing images."
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This has been done in Japan. The first one I remember is Kyoko http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9702/04/japan.date/kyoko.
but I've seen other, more realistic stuff since then.
How long before (virtual) snuff films are so real the "thought police" legislate against them?
I didn't mean it as flame bait. I simply don't think MS is a totally reliable, un-biased source of information about the quality of security within their OS, and I don't think the independent security product manufacturers should put themselves in position where they are dependent on MS for information on OS behavior that represents a security vulnerability. I also don't think they should belong to an organization or consortium that is controlled by MS, because MS has conflicts of interest between presenting their OS as secure, their security products as the best, and the "outsiders" as welcome.
C'mon, folks! It is no longer in Microsoft's interest to divulge techniques that may allow a competitor to secure the most profitable OS in History against it's own vulnerabilities.
The security companies will be better off forming their own knowlege pool and inviting Microsoft representatives to learn from them.
As I see it, the problem is not the EC, but that the elections are a "popularity contest" bereft of any real content, and designed to attract ignorant voters. The EC might possibly prevent a Hitler, Lyndon LaRouche, or "Mickey Mouse" being elected to the White House.
I have a standard procedure I developed during the Bush/Gore election. When someone starts bitching and moaning about a candidate for presidency, I ask them, "I can see you're concerned. It really bothers me that most people voting in the election are not informed enough to make a good decision. It usually comes down to a popularity contest, or a 'MY TEAM vs. "YOUR TEAM' contest. That's pathetic, isn't it?"
Usually they agree with me that it's terrible that ignorant people are casting un-informed votes.
Then I ask them, "What, specifically, qualifies a person to be President? What are the main duties of the President, and why is one candidate more qualified than the other?"
Needless to say, most people don't have a ready answer. (It really IS pathetic that so many ignorant people are casting votes!) So I ask them, "What does it say in the Constitution?" Unless the person is a lawyer, most people don't know the Constitution. There are exceptions, but it's pathetic that most people don't know the Constitution and still insist on "Constitutional Rights".
I then hand them a small booklet with the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States and tell them, "Don't vote until you've memorized the Constitution." These booklets are available for a dollar or less at any Libertarian bookstore, or they can be ordered here: http://www.ashbrook.org/constitution/ I used to carry a number of them in my car and pocket.
If you don't want to order the booklet, you can read the Constitution many places online. Don't vote until you've memorized the Constitution.
Now, Bush is probably the lesser of two evils, which is STILL evil. The CATO Institute will send you a free booklet called, "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush". I also recommend reading, "We the People" by Mortimer Adler and "The Law" by Frederick Bastiat: http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G1753. You have a little over two years before the next Presidential election to educate yourselves.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a member fo the Libertarian Party, but I do consider myself a "libertarian? (small 'l') in the same sense as Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill.
Look at his columns. They are mostly bereft of useful info. Membership in an organization does not confer competency. I suspect that he belongs to those organizations to get newsletters and pick up gossip.
I've looked at a few of Kreb's columns, and he has no qualifications for writing a column on security. He's a gossip-monger with limited skills. If he could see to take pictures, he'd give papparazi a bad name.
I suspect this article was written to "scoop" other reporters. That's the only reason I can think of for the total lack of real information. Perhaps he ought to take lessons from Steve Rambam on how get information?
I've followed Mark's advice and used some of his utilities for years. I will be forever grateful for the things I learned by analyzing the source code to some of the utilities. I think Mark is entitled to cash in on his effort, but I'm not very optimistic about the quality of stuff that will come from Winternals from now on. Mark (and Winternals) was independent and worked at an independent pace, which is going to degrade now that there are layers of bureaucracy added.
On the other hand, the Winternals utilities represent about 10% (IMO) of the utilities needed to really analyze and fix Windows when it malfunctions. I'm too old to do this myself, but maybe a group of ambitious analysts could step up and continue the good work. Even more important, maybe a good group of analysts could develop a methodology for analyzing the OS and then point the way toward needed utilities.
I'm actually feeling a little grief over the demise of Winternals as an independent company.
When I lived in Alaska, the ing Crab was pretty much over-harvested. Bottom fish, such as pollock, were then able to eat the small crabs before they became harvestable size. the Crab industry was in danger.
Now, we have a different situation in the Barents Sea. There are not enough bottom fish to keep the crab population under control. I think I see a possible solution here that would revitalize the fishing industry for Norway and other Northern countries....
From the article: "The criticism we expect to hear most is of the stacks we left out--including commercial J2EE platforms, such as those available from BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, as well as the many other database and server platform permutations." I can't believe they came to this conclusion on such little data. They did, however, create a blog to disparate results can be shared.
I have no confidence in the ability of the politicians to make an informed, logical decision. I also have no hope that any ordinary, reasonable person can actually influence a politician. (Of course, I live in Texas. One look at our Representatives, and you can see why I gave up hope.
If I want to gamble in the USA I can get on a plane, train or car and go to Las Vegas, Boloxi or some other place that allows gambling. I might meet someone new in Las Vagas, and I might hear some new ideas, but they will be limited to people who can travel to Las Vegas (mosty Americans). My community at home is still "protected" from "immoral" influences. Now they want to make it so I can't do virtual travel to accomplish the same thing I could do with physical travel. (This whole concept is beyond the intelligence of the average politician, even if they didn't have special interests to protect.) Actually, since I don't gamble, I don't have a stake in this decision other than to regret that it's another sign of Big Government chipping away at individual choice.
And, it's an election year: Politicians have to be perceived as being upright and moral, so what better target for publicity than an "immoral" activity supported by a population too small to have any influence across other issues? (They're against Prostitution and Drunkeness also, but that doesn't keep them from getting laid and drunk.)
The politicians are afraid of open interchange, and are heading toward deciding that we can't travel on the Information Superhighway without a passport.
Yeah, well I have to repair those pieces of junk. The Compaq/HP notebooks are a lot better than their desktops, but still 'way inferior to Toshiba or Thinkpads. (Of course, nobody really knows what the future of Thinkpad quality is going to be.) I even prefer the VAIO to Compaq/HP, even though there is a lot more proprietary configuration. (VAIO stands for "Video Audio Input Output" and I seldom recommend VAIOs unless the customer has strong multimedia needs.) In Houston, where I live, the impression of Compaq/HP in Tomball is a campus of potheads. Who else would design such junk?
A huge component of my criteria for a good system is the quality of customer support: I want my customers to be able to resolve their own minor problems and call me when they have real problems. If the customer support sucks, the value of the system goes 'way down. HP customer service is bulky and inferior. Too many ignorant techs behind too many layers of administration. Dell used to have the best customer support in the industry. Now, I'd rather have a dead rat in my mouth than recommend a Dell.
Yup-
Carly sacrificed the design and precision that HP was noted for and made the company mediocre. She acquired Compaq, which had a fairly good PC server division and some of the worst workstations in the business, and then never took advantage fo the Alpha technology that could have brought HP to the top.
Compaq's low-end desktops were a technician's nightmare, but it wasn't always that way. In the early 90's the ASE certification was the least-bullshit, best PC technical training around. In the late 90's the ProLiant line of servers were the only things I'd buy from Compaq, because even if you were Compaq authorized, fixing the lower-end machines was too much hassle. If you weren't Compaq authorized it was almost impossible, even if you could afford it.
For those of you who are interested, the original HP design and precision is embodied in Agilent Technologies. There you find super fine instrumentation, quality design, good morale, and good financial performance. All they need now is a good web site designer.
I reloaded the page and it got cooler. It said:
"Gang Violence - Browse a huge selection. Find exactly what you want today."
But then I reloaded again and it only said:
"Books - Browse a huge selection. Find exactly what you want today."
Not always cool, I guess.
I had a link at the bottom that said:
"Gangs of America - Browse a huge selection. Find exactly what you want today."
It was sponsored by eBay.
When my daughter was about 2, she started learning to read using methods developed by Glen Doman.
h tml. Contrast that with the information by Dr. Daniel Amen http://www.amenclinic.com/ and check out the "Brainplace" link. Dr. Doman wanted to treat the brain, and characterizes approaches like Dr. Amen's as "treating the symptoms", yet Dr. Amen seems to believe that Psychiatrists and Neuro-whatevers should actually LOOK at the organ they are treating and take appropriate action for now. Both have a very good record. Personally, if my kid was suffering from something like ADHD, I'd want to relieve the symptoms as soon as possible on one hand, but I'd hate to spoil the chancs for a permanent cure on the other.
I was totally impressed to find out about the recovery work in neuro-stimulation that Dr. Doman was doing; people with paralyzing strokes learned to speak and walk normally, a boy with no brain on one hemisphere learned and acted normally, people with brain injuries were recoveing normal or near-normal function.
This story illustrates a dramatic case of something that we might have had a handle on for over 40 years! I'm disturbed by the mention in the article that the patient was refused a re-evauation at a later date.
To see some other information regarding lesser brain damage, see http://www.iahp.org/Brain_Injured_Children.203.0.
It is nearly impossible to predict the actual delivery time for a programming project because there are too many dependent variables. (For a good pciture of the problems caused by independent variables, read Gordratt's books, "The Goal", "It's Not Luck" and "Critical Chain". "Critical Chain" leads you to the best insights for your position, but the other books are essential prep.)
http://www.goldratt.com/
There are two keys to delivering almost always on time; Planning and Management.
Planning means thinking the project through in the best detail before you start coding. Agile programming seems to work in short, quick-and-dirty projects, but my experience is that it falls short if the project is large and complex. The less decisons you have to make in the middle of the project, and the less changes you have to make as a result, means that the work can me seen to progress along the planned path.
Management means controlling the variables, and that's where the techniques in "Critical Chain" shine. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is allowed to delay the critical chain in the plan. The biggest dividends come from two parctices: Continuity and Resource management.
It used to be that if I had a week to do a job that I knew I could do in a day or two, I'd do whatever else needed doing and start two days before the task was due. Of course, If something came up, (essential co-worker gets sick, computer crash, virus, software needs updates, whatever) then I might be delayed during that two days and the task is delivered late. If the task was on the critical path, then the whole project becomes late. The first 10% delay on a project typically costs 25% of the profitability, the next 10% late costs 20%, so being only 20% late can cost 45% of the profitability. People tend to think that if they have some slack, they can relax. Then they wonder why they are late. They should work as if there was no slack! Relax at the END, not during.
In a large project with multiple developers, some of them may be required to cordinate along different paths, not just the critical path. This is why Godratta called it the "Critical CHain". Those resources MUST be focussed on keeping the essential workflow from bogging down anywhere that may delay the longest chain of dependencies.
This idea came out years ago, and I've been following project management ever since the 60's. This is the first big change I've seen since 1969. Everyone who told me they tried the Critical Chain method and it didn't work, didn't follow the process. Siemens practically took the whole market for 7200 rpm hard drives by developing them first using the Critical Chain method.
Good luck on your projects.
I almost agree with you. If I buy a CD and loan it to a friend, that is acceptable behavior. I didn't create any illegal copies and I didn't deprive the author of any compensation because the CD was paid for. If I invite a friend over to listen to music, the same situation applies. Now if I put my music on a computer and allow my friends to listen to it, I agree that should be legal as long as they aren't making copies for their own use. I don't believe that would be a case of stealing anymore than inviting a bunch of friends over to listen. So, streaming audio should be OK as long as you don't charge for it without compensating the artist. Copying a file to your server for storage should be OK (IMO) as long as your friends can't create a copy for themselves. IMO, this constitutes "fair use".
However, file sharing typically creates a copy of the music without compensating the artist. The creation and distribution of files containing copyrighted material without compensating the artist or authors is stealing, just as burning a CD for friend is stealing. Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right.
Sorry, but no matter how slick the words, it is still depriving someone of the compensation for their work. Stealing is a general category, and the slick technical wording falls clearly under that category. I can think of a few others: Working for someone who doesn't pay you the commission due, for instance, is not the same as armed robbery. Someone not paying you for the software you wrote for him is fraud. They are all forms of stealing. True, the amount in question is trivial on an individual basis, but stealing is stealing whether you shoplift a pack of gum or rip off your stockholders for millions.
What I like about Spain's law is that it represents reparative justice. It compensates the victim for the value of the loss. (Hard to think of the RIAA as a victim, isn't it?) Too many times in the USA, the offender gets a slap on the wrist or a "punishment", and the victim is still out of pocket for the value of the loss.
Let's get something straight: Downloading music without paying for it is stealing! (Common practice, but still stealing.) The new Spanish law requires a person to reimburse the owner for price and costs of recovery if they are caught. (If your kid steals from the grocery store, don't you make him go back and pay for the items?) The Spanish law is saying that any ISP that collaborates with the theft is committing a crime. This makes sense, right? The ISP should not be setting up a P2P server for sharing illegal content. (This may be hard to enforce, since there is so much legal content to be shared.)
It is true that the music and movie industries are overly grasping (IMHO) and unresponsive to consumers desires, but we mustn't forget that we don't have a RIGHT to steal just because they are ignorant, unethical, and we don't like the price. If you steal and get caught, there should be consequences.
The headline is overly sensational and inaccurate.
The reasons for making the source code available are sound. The exact source for each version of the distro should be available. When I get a distro, I could be satisfied with an archive of the complete source, even though it contains lots of code that hasn't been modified. I would also appreciate an archive of source for only the changed packages. Perhaps someone hasa set of best practices to share with us?
Yup- I should have re-read the article before I posted my comment, but I did and I caught it before you commented. Thanks for your polite(!), late, ego-boosting, useless comment. Are you happy now?
Sorry, the article says Frye's, not Home Depot...I should have double-checkd before writing.
ChoicePoint is an aggregator. As much as 20% of their data could be inaccurate. Employers (for instance) make decisions based on ChoicePoint data, even though ChoicePoint "suggests" that they independently verify the accuracy of any negative reports. (Of course, it may work the other way also: 20% inaccuracy suggests that ChoicePoint will give subscribers false positive data, too.) Is this important? Well, Baseline Magazine wrote a nice article on this last year, http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1825320 ,00.asp7 ,00.asp
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,182528
and I was really impressed with the fact that a Home Depot employee spent a week in jail for crimes he did not commit.
Security is only half of it; Accuracy is the other half.