In all seriousness, this article is one of the better linux history pieces I've seen as well. Personally, the first picture of Linus bears a striking resemblence to a young Jerry Lewis - the second one of a slumped over Dean Martin after a martini.
Software? How about movies? Shoot, crack down on that and everyone in Hollywood could be eating caviar and crapping gold bricks. Oh, wait. They already do.
Thomas added that Microsoft has been ramping up the project slowly to avoid the massive performance problems Google had when it launched its free Web Analytics service in November 2005. The company had to suspend new subscriptions for the service a week after it launched because unforeseen demand impeded its performance. It reopened to new users in January 2006.
Sounds a lot like the lines at a Disney World opening to a traveling parking lot Carnival.
However, I would pay good money to see the Carnival freak show with a chair throwing humanoid jumping up and down behind some bars yelling, "Demographics! Demographics! DEMOGRAPHICS! YEAH!"
Take your pick. That's just for one controller series. Who knows which Cisco hardware Duke is using, but the problems associated with LEAP (lightweight extensible authentication protocol) are of particular interest.
I'm not pointing fingers either. I have to many broken of my own.
Does the University of Kansas have a lot of legacy-admits?
You mean like people over 50?
[ Charles takes notice of a peculiar looking elderly gentleman sitting next to him... ]
Charles: "Hi. Are you a professor or something?" Johnny: "HaHa. No way daddy-o! First year fish myself. How about that Dolly two rows down? She's a real wheelie, ain't she."
[ Johnny leans over, nudges Charles in the shoulder, and drops his voice a bit... ]
Johnny: "By the way, I got some really cool mp3 beats to lay on ya. It'll razz your berries, man." Charles: "Uh. No, thanks. You know - one strike, you're out." Johnny: "Don't be such a square, man. I won't tell anyone one one ONEeEEEEEEEEEAKRaaaEEIEEEE!!."
[ Just then, a high pitched reverbing echo screams out from the inside of Johnny's bermuda shirt. ]
Johnny: "Sorry about that. I was, uh, just taking notes..."
[ Johnny gets up and quickly heads for the back door... ]
Wasn't Opportunity on it's final journey to a burial cave or something? Maybe NASA isn't so heartless afterall with it's aging robots. It saw this storm coming and was trying to get the elderly to shelter.
Maybe like Huey or Dewie from Silent Running, Spirit will seek out poor old Louie in the retirement cave and look after him.
ODF. ODF. ODF. All I hear is ODF. Yet for some strange reason, the extension is.odt! Ah, I get it now. A t upside down is an f. They are gonna turn Microsoft upside down on their head with this. Clever gal. Clever gal...
The GPs point is valid. Whether you're in Scottland Yard or Langley, those sites are tagged, flagged, and bagged when such queries are made. After that, rounding up the inquisitive is simple math. In small part, I believe this is why this camp is safe since it's open. Cockroaches prefer the dark, and with the google sunrise come the CIA dressed in Orkin suits wearing shades.
Sit at your desk. Now, the whole time you're normally at your computer, keep your hand suspended in the air touching the screen.
Who says it needs to be limited by this design only? Remember Tron and Ed Dillinger's desk panel? You could easily have the screen at eye level and controls and wrist level. Whatever the case...
The main benefit of such technology is portability. Also, the next phase of Apple's technology (I hope) would be voice recognition. If we can offload graphics to a dedicated GPU, why not voice to a VPU? Hell, with quad cores and gigahertz, even my poor little 8830 blackberry can recognize last names that would twist your tongue into a pretzel when pronouncing it. And it apparently has no problems decrypting my Texan drawl either.
As I see it on all future computing devices, the mouse and keyboard should be relegated to the same status as the game port. With Apples' touch technology, you could even redesign the keyboard for external devices. For example, if you've ever used Never Lost on rental vehicles, once you type in a letter, the next set of letters decreases, et cetera, until you have that word. Some words obviously require fewer setup letters. But, you could minimize that effort even further. Say, just have 10 keypad spots for the finger. The left pinky is for articles - a, the, an, etc. The next finger over is for conjunctions - and, or, but, because, etc. And so on. The right few fingers for numerals, etc. After little training, I bet I could spell out words faster than I do now with a qwerty. The alphabet is finite for any language. Also, how many of us actually use a thesaurus in daily communication - the most often used words make that alphabet even more finite.
Either way, I hope Apple continues this trend, and extends it.
Prediction: Within a year, all Apple products with displays will have multi-touch. Laptops, external monitors, iPods, the whole shebang.
Anybody remember the Atari 400 keypad? Great for coffee, not so great for typing. I hope Apple starts a trend here. Really I do. The mouse and keypad should be in the Smithsonian already.
Instead of "Netherlands" I read "Neanderthals" and I begun to wonder... since when Neanderthals had lasers !?
Thetans were the original Neanderthals after Xenu booked them onto a DC-8 liner. I believe the Teegeeack Safety Administration (TSA) confiscated them shortly after departure into Krakatoa.
Quite frankly, my concern is running linux 10 years from now with these new laser drives. A lot of applications discard items to the black hole/dev/null. The escape velocity of these photons might just be insufficient, redirecting information to/dev/oldmem instead, thus reawakening lost Thetan memories trapped inside my computer. Surely, as unsuspecting emails on linux beowulf clusters around the globe are automatically sent to helpme@scientology.org, this will usher in the great Auditing Apocalypse we all fear.
I'm no web dev, but it would appear that the primary failure point is in the parser itself (for processing POST data). A well tested robust parser under attack should simply respond, "fuzz you!".
Pretty much. I suppose the last few sentences are more supportive and illustrative in how NSA mismanages their funds, which ties back into the brownouts and the NSA telling Washington Electric that "the check is in the mail".
By the way, Wonko, are you Willy Wonka's half brother?
Anti competitive? What's next? Norton sues Microsoft because their AV may occasionally cause Virtual Memory error messages? Hey, let's just disassemble the OS entirely piece by piece by lawsuits, one step at a time (like Johnny Cash says), and put it all back together with 3rd party craplets.
Lucky me. I was in Orlando this Friday. First time I ever saw a shuttle launch up close. With the naked eye, I could see the tank separation. Even cooler was watching the shuttle follow the curvature of the earth as it ascended. Speed? From just a huge plume to a barely visible dot on the horizon, it probably lasted no more than a minute. Now that's hauling ass. The whole experience was like sitting in some NHRA bleachers, but turned 90 degrees skyward.
Actually, FTA it seems that Google's success may depend on part of ex-google employee's forming new startups (that depend on Google of course).
Excellent point not really mentioned in the article. But Cringley really focuses on internal combustion versus external resuscitation. And wouldn't it cost Google more to reacquire former employee startups versus just implementing the idea?
What I primarily gathered FTA was the internal nuisances HR must overcome in appeasing these Googlets just to stay put. I would imagine greed or just the simple human nature of discovery and adventure are challenges every corporation must face. NDAs make most prior employee's capitalist ideas go poof in the night anyways.
great-grandson of the first president of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
Was that before NAM merged with BLA?
BLA? Buyers Lovers Association? If so, as a primary world Manufacturer now, China is the adult?
Hell, at least to remain slightly on topic here, I thought this Cringley article was quite insightful and bewitching. Sure, it may never come to fruition as this eye of newt cast into his cauldron might predict. However, much like Macbeth, Cringley tossed in a whole slew of frog toe and adder's fork in there just to convince me that it will happen. Maybe I'm just under his well versed spell, but his ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
I like the cut of your jib. Somebody mod parent up. I don't necessarily agree with your analysis, but at least you fire shots across both bows - like I do with my apolitical cynicism. You're jiblets are well seasoned, my friend.
What about NASA missing the moon tapes? Personally, I find that more alarming. Surely those Apollo broadcasts were sent over the airwaves at some point, right? I say we build a temporal feedback warp bubble and redirect the radio broadcast waves back to earth, storing them on Blu-ray this time.
As for the missing emails? I salvaged a dead hard drive once by putting it in the freezer. Maybe we should put some politicians on cold ice for a spell. Maybe that will unjar a few memories.
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Nothing to compile here. Move along.
In all seriousness, this article is one of the better linux history pieces I've seen as well. Personally, the first picture of Linus bears a striking resemblence to a young Jerry Lewis - the second one of a slumped over Dean Martin after a martini.
Software? How about movies? Shoot, crack down on that and everyone in Hollywood could be eating caviar and crapping gold bricks. Oh, wait. They already do.
However, I would pay good money to see the Carnival freak show with a chair throwing humanoid jumping up and down behind some bars yelling, "Demographics! Demographics! DEMOGRAPHICS! YEAH!"
hmmm...
Take your pick. That's just for one controller series. Who knows which Cisco hardware Duke is using, but the problems associated with LEAP (lightweight extensible authentication protocol) are of particular interest.
I'm not pointing fingers either. I have to many broken of my own.
[ Charles takes notice of a peculiar looking elderly gentleman sitting next to him... ]
Charles: "Hi. Are you a professor or something?"
Johnny: "HaHa. No way daddy-o! First year fish myself. How about that Dolly two rows down? She's a real wheelie, ain't she."
[ Johnny leans over, nudges Charles in the shoulder, and drops his voice a bit... ]
Johnny: "By the way, I got some really cool mp3 beats to lay on ya. It'll razz your berries, man."
Charles: "Uh. No, thanks. You know - one strike, you're out."
Johnny: "Don't be such a square, man. I won't tell anyone one one ONEeEEEEEEEEEAKRaaaEEIEEEE!!."
[ Just then, a high pitched reverbing echo screams out from the inside of Johnny's bermuda shirt. ]
Johnny: "Sorry about that. I was, uh, just taking notes..."
[ Johnny gets up and quickly heads for the back door... ]
No. From the picture, thank God the work dress code got more casual. I'm guessing with motor oil and 3 piece suits, there was a laundromat next door.
Wasn't Opportunity on it's final journey to a burial cave or something? Maybe NASA isn't so heartless afterall with it's aging robots. It saw this storm coming and was trying to get the elderly to shelter.
Maybe like Huey or Dewie from Silent Running, Spirit will seek out poor old Louie in the retirement cave and look after him.
ODF. ODF. ODF. All I hear is ODF. Yet for some strange reason, the extension is .odt! Ah, I get it now. A t upside down is an f. They are gonna turn Microsoft upside down on their head with this. Clever gal. Clever gal...
The main benefit of such technology is portability. Also, the next phase of Apple's technology (I hope) would be voice recognition. If we can offload graphics to a dedicated GPU, why not voice to a VPU? Hell, with quad cores and gigahertz, even my poor little 8830 blackberry can recognize last names that would twist your tongue into a pretzel when pronouncing it. And it apparently has no problems decrypting my Texan drawl either.
As I see it on all future computing devices, the mouse and keyboard should be relegated to the same status as the game port. With Apples' touch technology, you could even redesign the keyboard for external devices. For example, if you've ever used Never Lost on rental vehicles, once you type in a letter, the next set of letters decreases, et cetera, until you have that word. Some words obviously require fewer setup letters. But, you could minimize that effort even further. Say, just have 10 keypad spots for the finger. The left pinky is for articles - a, the, an, etc. The next finger over is for conjunctions - and, or, but, because, etc. And so on. The right few fingers for numerals, etc. After little training, I bet I could spell out words faster than I do now with a qwerty. The alphabet is finite for any language. Also, how many of us actually use a thesaurus in daily communication - the most often used words make that alphabet even more finite.
Either way, I hope Apple continues this trend, and extends it.
Quite frankly, my concern is running linux 10 years from now with these new laser drives. A lot of applications discard items to the black hole
I'm no web dev, but it would appear that the primary failure point is in the parser itself (for processing POST data). A well tested robust parser under attack should simply respond, "fuzz you!".
"Since then" or "what if". You're either bleeding edge or yesterday's news. I'm a "what if" type of guy myself.
Yes! And when it's time for departure, we exit out the rear lacquered up in shock absorbing dirty white suits, dropping down into our parked cars.
Pretty much. I suppose the last few sentences are more supportive and illustrative in how NSA mismanages their funds, which ties back into the brownouts and the NSA telling Washington Electric that "the check is in the mail".
By the way, Wonko, are you Willy Wonka's half brother?
Yes. Since Susy Hotpants will take notice of the Beamer in the parking lot instead of the coat hanger holding up the muffler on our Beetle.
What do disgruntled CIA skeletons eat at restaurants?
Spare ribs!
Anti competitive? What's next? Norton sues Microsoft because their AV may occasionally cause Virtual Memory error messages? Hey, let's just disassemble the OS entirely piece by piece by lawsuits, one step at a time (like Johnny Cash says), and put it all back together with 3rd party craplets.
Lucky me. I was in Orlando this Friday. First time I ever saw a shuttle launch up close. With the naked eye, I could see the tank separation. Even cooler was watching the shuttle follow the curvature of the earth as it ascended. Speed? From just a huge plume to a barely visible dot on the horizon, it probably lasted no more than a minute. Now that's hauling ass. The whole experience was like sitting in some NHRA bleachers, but turned 90 degrees skyward.
What I primarily gathered FTA was the internal nuisances HR must overcome in appeasing these Googlets just to stay put. I would imagine greed or just the simple human nature of discovery and adventure are challenges every corporation must face. NDAs make most prior employee's capitalist ideas go poof in the night anyways.
Hell, at least to remain slightly on topic here, I thought this Cringley article was quite insightful and bewitching. Sure, it may never come to fruition as this eye of newt cast into his cauldron might predict. However, much like Macbeth, Cringley tossed in a whole slew of frog toe and adder's fork in there just to convince me that it will happen. Maybe I'm just under his well versed spell, but his ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
I like the cut of your jib. Somebody mod parent up. I don't necessarily agree with your analysis, but at least you fire shots across both bows - like I do with my apolitical cynicism. You're jiblets are well seasoned, my friend.
What about NASA missing the moon tapes? Personally, I find that more alarming. Surely those Apollo broadcasts were sent over the airwaves at some point, right? I say we build a temporal feedback warp bubble and redirect the radio broadcast waves back to earth, storing them on Blu-ray this time.
As for the missing emails? I salvaged a dead hard drive once by putting it in the freezer. Maybe we should put some politicians on cold ice for a spell. Maybe that will unjar a few memories.