Intel's trying to shoehorn x86 everywhere reminds me of that scene in The Brady Bunch Movie where Mike Brady (played by Gary Cole) keeps designing every project as a clone of his house.
Thanks for sharing your experience! ReactOS seems very much alive (e.g., they have a GSoC intern adding BTRFS support). If you wish to hasten its production-ready status, why not join the project?;)
I'm not a member of the ReactOS project, just shilling as an alpha user who's impressed with the progress so far.
Yes, the project has been around for two decades, but it's made remarkable strides in the last couple of years. Give it two more—coincidentally when all support for Win7 ceases—and I think people will be pleasantly surprised by its usability. My only concern is that the Kremlin has dumped a bunch of money into the project, and I'd feel better if someone did an independent security audit of the code to see that Vlad didn't have some backdoor put in.
I agree with your cautious optimism. In a 40-hour work-week, 5% equates to two hours, which is more generous than it sounds. They could spend that time taking an online class via MOOC, studying for a certification, or whatever. The staff are all paid $16/hr, which is decent. If this guy can sustain the model, I say more power to him. Interesting to see if his model gets tweaked and replicated.
THIS. It's kind of like IBM during WW2, selling to both the Allies and the Nazis. Most corporations will take a dollar from Satan. With this robocall spam, bet your arse the telco's are padding their profits and will be loth to do anything that costs them even this ill-gotten filthy lucre. The solution has to be legislative as well as technological. As far as the former, don't hold your breath.
Not to be pedantic, but merely having a four-year engineering degree is necessary but insufficient to be legally called an engineer in most states. One must also pass an NCEES PE exam.
All of the developments you cite were created and developed by the Greatest Generation or the Silent Generation, not Boomers (born between 1946-1965)...the latter were too young.
And what would be wrong with that? FIDO, and federated networks like it, was ingeniously specced and implemented. The only bane of its existence, long-distance charges, is now a thing of the past. As far as GUI vs text-only, there were already GUI implementations of BBSing such as Worldgroup (from Galacticomm, the creators of Major BBS), and the RIP protocol. Suitably updated, BBSes could lead to a renaissance.
You're misunderstanding him. He's saying that this GUI is entirely too fragile, where it should be fault-tolerant. In essence, you're preaching to the choir.
Putin is a KGB-cancer snake in the grass. He seeks nothing less than the restoration and subsequent expansion of the USSR. And he is playing the long game. People also underestimated Hitler as 'that Mickey Mouse from Austria with a funny moustache'. That didn't turn out very well, either.
To Apple, form takes precedence over function. That's the way they design all of their products: is it any wonder that's how they'd demand their new campus be designed?
4. Postscript As A GUI
There was an attempt to build an X11 alternative, and then an X11 WM, around Postscript. If you're wanting to do vectors rather than pixels, it is a much better way to go. If you are wanting a WM for wordprocessing rather than web surfing or games, why pay the huge overhead involved in the current approach? Computers should always be about empowering choice.
HR should restrict its screening to formalities (for example, can this person legally work here?) and objective facts about the candidate.
Fully agree. Unfortunately, HR seems to be the place to park incompetents—i.e., people whose main asset is their physical appearance—in a place where they can do the least harm. Such people seem eager to show that they're 'doing something' and so they try to expand the scope of their job to include things they have no business touching or influencing.
At the Egghead in suburban Richmond, VA, some of us camped out up to 24 hours before the software was made available. You'd think people were waiting for Led Zeppelin tix because Bonzo had suddenly come back from the dead. People in other cities across the country told of similar stories. Queues blocks long. Windows 95's launch was one of the biggest software events in history from the standpoint of the unwashed masses, and certainly Microsoft's most memorable coup.
Too bad there's no integrated substitute for Outlook. And no, Thunderbird isn't the answer. To co-opt Churchill: 'Outlook is the worst PIM ever tried, except for all the others.'
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Intel's trying to shoehorn x86 everywhere reminds me of that scene in The Brady Bunch Movie where Mike Brady (played by Gary Cole) keeps designing every project as a clone of his house.
Thanks for sharing your experience! ReactOS seems very much alive (e.g., they have a GSoC intern adding BTRFS support). If you wish to hasten its production-ready status, why not join the project? ;)
I'm not a member of the ReactOS project, just shilling as an alpha user who's impressed with the progress so far.
Yes, the project has been around for two decades, but it's made remarkable strides in the last couple of years. Give it two more—coincidentally when all support for Win7 ceases—and I think people will be pleasantly surprised by its usability. My only concern is that the Kremlin has dumped a bunch of money into the project, and I'd feel better if someone did an independent security audit of the code to see that Vlad didn't have some backdoor put in.
I agree with your cautious optimism. In a 40-hour work-week, 5% equates to two hours, which is more generous than it sounds. They could spend that time taking an online class via MOOC, studying for a certification, or whatever. The staff are all paid $16/hr, which is decent. If this guy can sustain the model, I say more power to him. Interesting to see if his model gets tweaked and replicated.
He never said he worked three jobs of 40hrs/wk each...
This is actually slowly happening. Telco's are switching to Diameter, which is a part of the System Architecture Evolution platform, which is all-IP.
THIS. It's kind of like IBM during WW2, selling to both the Allies and the Nazis. Most corporations will take a dollar from Satan. With this robocall spam, bet your arse the telco's are padding their profits and will be loth to do anything that costs them even this ill-gotten filthy lucre. The solution has to be legislative as well as technological. As far as the former, don't hold your breath.
And partial x64 support is coming soon, .
Not to be pedantic, but merely having a four-year engineering degree is necessary but insufficient to be legally called an engineer in most states. One must also pass an NCEES PE exam.
All of the developments you cite were created and developed by the Greatest Generation or the Silent Generation, not Boomers (born between 1946-1965)...the latter were too young.
...which is why we need to transition to a steady-state economy ASAP. Check out Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics for more information.
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And what would be wrong with that? FIDO, and federated networks like it, was ingeniously specced and implemented. The only bane of its existence, long-distance charges, is now a thing of the past. As far as GUI vs text-only, there were already GUI implementations of BBSing such as Worldgroup (from Galacticomm, the creators of Major BBS), and the RIP protocol. Suitably updated, BBSes could lead to a renaissance.
You're misunderstanding him. He's saying that this GUI is entirely too fragile, where it should be fault-tolerant. In essence, you're preaching to the choir.
Too bad that from Big Business' perspective, it's always 'heads I win, tails you lose'.
Russia is the least of your worries
Putin is a KGB-cancer snake in the grass. He seeks nothing less than the restoration and subsequent expansion of the USSR. And he is playing the long game. People also underestimated Hitler as 'that Mickey Mouse from Austria with a funny moustache'. That didn't turn out very well, either.
To Apple, form takes precedence over function. That's the way they design all of their products: is it any wonder that's how they'd demand their new campus be designed?
I'll see your bet and raise you a Cokesbury.
4. Postscript As A GUI There was an attempt to build an X11 alternative, and then an X11 WM, around Postscript. If you're wanting to do vectors rather than pixels, it is a much better way to go. If you are wanting a WM for wordprocessing rather than web surfing or games, why pay the huge overhead involved in the current approach? Computers should always be about empowering choice.
The NeXT had Display Postscript. When Apple bought NeXT, they bastardised it and turned it into Quartz 2D.
Stroustrup has a book on learning modern C++, and it's very well written and makes the curve much gentler.
Would this be A Tour of C++, 1ed? I want to add whatever book you're referencing to my Amazon wish-list.
HR should restrict its screening to formalities (for example, can this person legally work here?) and objective facts about the candidate.
Fully agree. Unfortunately, HR seems to be the place to park incompetents—i.e., people whose main asset is their physical appearance—in a place where they can do the least harm. Such people seem eager to show that they're 'doing something' and so they try to expand the scope of their job to include things they have no business touching or influencing.
Win 95 was NOT that big of deal.
At the Egghead in suburban Richmond, VA, some of us camped out up to 24 hours before the software was made available. You'd think people were waiting for Led Zeppelin tix because Bonzo had suddenly come back from the dead. People in other cities across the country told of similar stories. Queues blocks long. Windows 95's launch was one of the biggest software events in history from the standpoint of the unwashed masses, and certainly Microsoft's most memorable coup.
Too bad there's no integrated substitute for Outlook. And no, Thunderbird isn't the answer. To co-opt Churchill: 'Outlook is the worst PIM ever tried, except for all the others.'
...same as the old boss.
Thanks for your reasoned and detailed response. I should've done more homework before responding to the OP. :(