They catch lots of child porn people now but what is the end result, they are let loose back into society.
Child porn is being used as the equivalent of legal harassment of the Jews in Germany.
As other posters have said, just email some porn to someone you don't like, then turn them in.
Everyday the noose tightens, one day, you or your family members will be caught in it, then what will you do? What will anyone do when papa government begins to crush their own family? What if your own government was terrorizing you?
I see a lot of "HC is paid for by the Governement". Which is who exactly? Ohhhh workers who pay TAXES. What happens when the whole thing tips and the majority ARE government workers and illegals who don't pay taxes? Will 20% of the population have such great paying jobs that they support the other 80% outright? Will the Gov just print money, start a more wars??? And what if we add the Pentagon welfare as someone pointed out?
Ford announced last week that 10,000 salaried employees will be fired in the next year, along with 30,000 line workers. Not too good, especially since this is not isolated. America is really becoming a service economy, and yet, everywhere I go the service sucks rocks. Fast food, cable, electronic shops, they all suk.
Am I the only who thinks that the US worker/workforce led by really piss poor management is circling the drain? At my fairly large corps, IT is near totally useless. Email ALWAYS fails on Saturday, everything apparently gets rebooted on Monday since most tools are offline until about 9am. And this is ORACLE stuff, I get more emails about oracle being 'down' for this or that. I thought one bought the oracle koolaid for the fact it was a 24/7 deal?
My management of a software department DOES NOT KNOW WHY WE NEED VERSION CONTROl. And the only project making money is the one that started as R&D by 2 workers.
Finally, management of a software department does not know how to save money by implementing Open and Free Softare. They could actually buy us some ink pens. Am I working at the only place in the country where you have to bring your own pens and pencils? I guess so.
Well as Richard B. Riddick said "It had to end sometime."
What you are leaving out are the advances in paperwork that have occurred over the years. With the advent of computers, engineers are required to generate 10000x more paper than during the Apollo era, this leads to a 'quality' product that was impossible to create in the '60s. (sarcasm)
The sheer volume of requirements, design, detail design, CMM, quality, overview, parts lists, billing, scheduling and contracting on this project will create a pile of paper you could climb to the moon if you stacked it all up!
80% of USA business is paper pushers who think they created a great, quality product just because they stamped off on a requirements review.
What I cannot find is size and weight tables of each part of ISS. Not that it matters, the whole ISS plan is DESIGNED around the STS. If it were instead designed around the Proton D1...or Energia.
The Ariane V outclasses anything we have thought of building. Russia, China, India and Japan have launch vehicles.
ISS stops when the Shuttle is grounded because the US won't pay for those launches, makes us look bad and all.
Also I will remind all the gentle readers, that the USSR launched more space stations than the number of times we landed on the Moon. I really rather think the Russians know a thing or two about launching, assembling and running an orbital platform.
This 'We're 'mericans and we know more than anybody' attitude really ticks me off. ISS was a disaster when they were planning it over 30 years ago.
"I wish the government would stay out of my life. However, I also appriciate the fact that the crazies down the street know that their asses will end up on jail, should they try to hurt me or my family."
Now whos being naive?
Only political dissidents actually GOTO jail, do not pass Go.
This IS happening to my parents, the cops 'say' they can do nothing. Even tho they are selling drugs and other illegal activities. When they arrest 1, 2 more show up to take his place.
People like that only know 1 thing, force. And you better have a lot of it.
As my good buddy Acius was fond of saying "Let them hate, so long as they fear."
In a 'REAL' company, you have to do: 1. Requirements 2. Requirements Review (meeting) 3. Complete Requirements Review paperwork,and store that
1. Design 2. Design Review (meeting) 3. Complete Design Review paperwork, and store that 4. Complete a Design Checklist,and store that
1. Then you get to Code. (insert 1000 lines of code here) 2. Have a Code Review (meeting) what this really means is that you need to tie up 2 other developers to check your 1000s of lines) 3. Revise all changes and complete Code. 4. Complete a Code Checklist and store that
1. Unit Test
1. Integration Test
1. Update and maintain the Software Design Document (ongoing).
Welcome to CMM!
For us the metrics are about 30 lines per day, but for Rule of Thumb we use 18.
The project I am on started as R&D,then it was fun, we just coded like you did. We did ALOT of good stuff. Then when the product sells and makes ALOT of $$$$, we started to get all these MANAGERS, the ones who thought we were all STUPID, piling onto the project SUKING up all our money. Then we get this CMM crap to do too. Some of it helps, At least if my Requirements change, I start at #1 and managment, if they have any questions, see what the impact of thier whims are.
Now if somoeone would just buy Serena and put PVCS out of its fscking misery. Oh Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.
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Yeah, UserModeLinux was suggested to me also for an embedded project I work on. But the issue of having the UMLkernel be the one you need, yet your host is different, whacked out patches that don't match up to known kernel versions, yada, yada....
I went and got Qemu, and that works much better. After a few days I have a script that builds all the code, makes an img file and configures the whole show to be networked when running. Oh and works in windows too.
I saw that show. They raced the car against a honda CBR600. The CBR600 while darn quick still has about half the performace of the Honda CBR1000-RR And it just didn't look like the biker was trying that hard either... Look at his lean angles.
However the bike in real world terms still hold several advantages over the Atom. Smaller size ( I can get more of them in my garage!) Cheaper, I could buy 2 brand new sportbikes and insurance for the cost of the Atom. Better fuel econony. Better parts availablility.
I'd still rate my Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat as way more fun.
Besides, you'd never get an Atom down the white stripes in the middle between 2 dumbasses cruising side by side down the Intersate either.
Yup you got it. Thats absolutely right about MontaVista, Eval Boards and licensing costs. Although I will add a few more tokens to the mix.
Another thing that happens is if your product uses DSPs, the hardware people will expect that you will not even use an embedded OS and write the application directly to hardware. As one HW engineer told me, "Its very easy, what do you mean you need a driver? When I did it it was just one line of C code (to write data to memory)." Once I pointed out we were upgrading the HW to use the 400,000 lines of code we ALREADY wrote and tested...
Our product line is just now evaluating a PPC core due to physical dimension and power problems in a new product. The other older product parts use x86 PC104 cards, not really embedded, more like tinyPC. But we rolled our own Linux OS to do the things we want.
The other thing I note, is that large companies, really do love to throw piles of money at problems.
The Russians have a very strong aerospace tradition and a penchant for thinking outside the box. My thinking is that manned fighter/bomber aircraft will be obsolete in 10 years. A B2 costs like $2Billion + operating + training costs. Boeing has already demonstrated a remote piloted bomber for about $1million... for the prototype. Thats 2000 remotes for the price of 1 B2.
Besides we don't give them the source, because, well we suk at writing avionics software, and QA is horrid. US companies wouldn't know how to give them the source code. I know I am there. Compilers for FPGAs are owned by the hardware manufacturers (and also horrid). If I were the Brits, I'd invest in engineers who know FPGAs and avionics and computer science and just buy the airframes. Then I'd put in my own avionics. The EU could easily standardize all this stuff.
Some apps are easy to add. I have a static compiled program and 3 executable Java Jar files. Adding the jre15.dsl (from the dsl website) and the jars to the / of a pendrive is easy. Then boot the DSL cdrom and use the mydsl option to load the 'modules'. This is per some DSL Wiki info. Search for 'create package'.
Its HARDER if you need to compile some program and dynamically link it to the libs. I found the easiest way is to install DSL to its own HD partition, then use the myDSL tool to download gcc, c libs, kernel headers etc. Thats very easy with the myDSl tool and net access. Then build the app on DSL. At this point my DSL build partition consumes about 500Mb. From there I have to determine the libs, apps, deps and config stuff to put into a package.
BTW I am doing this so I can create a 'portable' Test system, that I can load onto any PC with a network card, to be used in our software test lab. You know the kind where we get hand-me-down computers that are well past their useful life. They are typically p2-400 or p3-500 slot 1 pcs. They tend to die at the worst times.
Its pretty easy, but its very difficult to separate the 'old' docs from the 'new' info about some sections of the system.
Make a cdrom, boot a box off that, then from the menus, choose to create a bootable usb OR a usb that can be started from within Windows or Linux as a guest OS.
BUT: Of the many hundreds of computers here I have not found one that would in fact boot from USB!
Running as a Guest OS inside of Windows doesn't provide any Network Access. Now Qemu site says its possible, but its not obvious how to configure such a thing.
Adding your own stuff. It is very difficult, for some reason, to package your own stuff for use with DSL(mostly lack of clear docs). We have our own programs we want to add, so I have to figure this out myself.
Bad News dude, I run XP with the 'Classic' look and its still a dog. This on a dual core P4 2.8Ghz with 512Mb ram. Damn I have p2-400s with 256mb ram running linux in the lab that are faster than this.
I've had to spend this week in the latest XP upgrade, doing paperwork process stuff that requires Word, Agile and PVCS releasing software. This system is SOOO cumbersome and clunky my hands still hurt. Every single action in windows throws up a damn 'I am doing XYZ, are you sure?', 'Attached programs may contain viruses are you sure?'
Outlook+Exchange takes 30-90+ seconds EVERY DAMN TIME I send a email out to connect to the server.
And every layer of windows in the corps(e) structure has a password!
Windows and its ilk are a SERIOUS drag to getting any work done.
In the past, Microsoft helped people 'get things done', but lately they are in the way. They are seriously dragging down productivity in the office.
I worked in a retail shop as a tech after a period of unemployment and jobs were tough. I KNEW I was gone at the very next job when the boss described the pc repair operations should be run "like the car repair shops". You know, while I got the 'hood' off it looks like you could use some more memory or another hard drive, etc, etc. Talking to customers about their pcs and upgrades is one thing, pestering them endlessly about stuff the don't need is another. But thats how one makes money (and it is pretty easy to do).
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Agreed. Gonzales wants this for something else.
They catch lots of child porn people now but what is the end result, they are let loose back into society.
Child porn is being used as the equivalent of legal harassment of the Jews in Germany.
As other posters have said, just email some porn to someone you don't like, then turn them in.
Everyday the noose tightens, one day, you or your family members will be caught in it, then what will you do? What will anyone do when papa government begins to crush their own family? What if your own government was terrorizing you?
"We have always been at war with Oceana."
I see a lot of "HC is paid for by the Governement". Which is who exactly? Ohhhh workers who pay TAXES. What happens when the whole thing tips and the majority ARE government workers and illegals who don't pay taxes? Will 20% of the population have such great paying jobs that they support the other 80% outright? Will the Gov just print money, start a more wars??? And what if we add the Pentagon welfare as someone pointed out?
Ford announced last week that 10,000 salaried employees will be fired in the next year, along with 30,000 line workers. Not too good, especially since this is not isolated. America is really becoming a service economy, and yet, everywhere I go the service sucks rocks. Fast food, cable, electronic shops, they all suk.
Am I the only who thinks that the US worker/workforce led by really piss poor management is circling the drain? At my fairly large corps, IT is near totally useless. Email ALWAYS fails on Saturday, everything apparently gets rebooted on Monday since most tools are offline until about 9am. And this is ORACLE stuff, I get more emails about oracle being 'down' for this or that. I thought one bought the oracle koolaid for the fact it was a 24/7 deal?
My management of a software department DOES NOT KNOW WHY WE NEED VERSION CONTROl. And the only project making money is the one that started as R&D by 2 workers.
Finally, management of a software department does not know how to save money by implementing Open and Free Softare. They could actually buy us some ink pens. Am I working at the only place in the country where you have to bring your own pens and pencils? I guess so.
Well as Richard B. Riddick said "It had to end sometime."
Oh great, Metallica now gets more royalties?
What you are leaving out are the advances in paperwork that have occurred over the years. With the advent of computers, engineers are required to generate 10000x more paper than during the Apollo era, this leads to a 'quality' product that was impossible to create in the '60s.
(sarcasm)
The sheer volume of requirements, design, detail design, CMM, quality, overview, parts lists, billing, scheduling and contracting on this project will create a pile of paper you could climb to the moon if you stacked it all up!
80% of USA business is paper pushers who think they created a great, quality product just because they stamped off on a requirements review.
OK self-correcting my comment.
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Heres a nice table of vehicles:
http://www.tbs-satellite.com/tse/online/thema_lan
STS is the heavy lifter currently to LEO.
What I cannot find is size and weight tables of each part of ISS. Not that it matters, the whole ISS plan is DESIGNED around the STS. If it were instead designed around the Proton D1...or Energia.
Anyway STS is not the only game in town.
WTF have you been smokin? Can I have some?
The Ariane V outclasses anything we have thought of building.
Russia, China, India and Japan have launch vehicles.
ISS stops when the Shuttle is grounded because the US won't pay for those launches, makes us look bad and all.
Also I will remind all the gentle readers, that the USSR launched more space stations than the number of times we landed on the Moon. I really rather think the Russians know a thing or two about launching, assembling and running an orbital platform.
This 'We're 'mericans and we know more than anybody' attitude really ticks me off. ISS was a disaster when they were planning it over 30 years ago.
"I wish the government would stay out of my life. However, I also appriciate the fact that the crazies down the street know that their asses will end up on jail, should they try to hurt me or my family."
Now whos being naive?
Only political dissidents actually GOTO jail, do not pass Go.
This IS happening to my parents, the cops 'say' they can do nothing. Even tho they are selling drugs and other illegal activities. When they arrest 1, 2 more show up to take his place.
People like that only know 1 thing, force. And you better have a lot of it.
As my good buddy Acius was fond of saying "Let them hate, so long as they fear."
Remember Dinky got moonrocks, which beep in moonlight.
Maybe he has some extra footage, even tho the rocket he built sank in a swamp.
I'm sure Mr. Douglas can help him out.
No, the real question is,
Why can't we do anything about the perverts?
I say stoke 'em in feet first. End of energy crisis.
They don't like their own developer base(ones that pay for certs), why would they like the OSS ones?
Yes, it would be better to avoid X, even TinyX is going to be 6Mb or more.
You could try hacking uClinux, and use microX and see where that goes.
I am doing a hack to target i386, but theres lot to do yet to compile...
Me, I'd use Twin (a console windowing kit, ala the DOS IDEs) and a load of console apps.
And use Qemu to test it all...
Where is this 1 good M$ product of which you speak????
Cowboy!
In a 'REAL' company, you have to do:
1. Requirements
2. Requirements Review (meeting)
3. Complete Requirements Review paperwork,and store that
1. Design
2. Design Review (meeting)
3. Complete Design Review paperwork, and store that
4. Complete a Design Checklist,and store that
1. Then you get to Code. (insert 1000 lines of code here)
2. Have a Code Review (meeting)
what this really means is that you need to tie up 2 other developers to check your 1000s of lines)
3. Revise all changes and complete Code.
4. Complete a Code Checklist and store that
1. Unit Test
1. Integration Test
1. Update and maintain the Software Design Document (ongoing).
Welcome to CMM!
For us the metrics are about 30 lines per day, but for Rule of Thumb we use 18.
The project I am on started as R&D,then it was fun, we just coded like you did. We did ALOT of good stuff. Then when the product sells and makes ALOT of $$$$, we started to get all these MANAGERS, the ones who thought we were all STUPID, piling onto the project SUKING up all our money. Then we get this CMM crap to do too. Some of it helps, At least if my Requirements change, I start at #1 and managment, if they have any questions, see what the impact of thier whims are.
Now if somoeone would just buy Serena and put PVCS out of its fscking misery. Oh Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.
Yeah, UserModeLinux was suggested to me also for an embedded project I work on. But the issue of having the UMLkernel be the one you need, yet your host is different, whacked out patches that don't match up to known kernel versions, yada, yada....
I went and got Qemu, and that works much better. After a few days I have a script that builds all the code, makes an img file and configures the whole show to be networked when running. Oh and works in windows too.
I saw that show. They raced the car against a honda CBR600.
The CBR600 while darn quick still has about half the performace of the Honda CBR1000-RR
And it just didn't look like the biker was trying that hard either...
Look at his lean angles.
However the bike in real world terms still hold several advantages over the Atom.
Smaller size ( I can get more of them in my garage!)
Cheaper, I could buy 2 brand new sportbikes and insurance for the cost of the Atom.
Better fuel econony.
Better parts availablility.
I'd still rate my Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat as way more fun.
Besides, you'd never get an Atom down the white stripes in the middle between 2 dumbasses cruising side by side down the Intersate either.
Yup you got it. Thats absolutely right about MontaVista, Eval Boards and licensing costs. Although I will add a few more tokens to the mix.
Another thing that happens is if your product uses DSPs, the hardware people will expect that you will not even use an embedded OS and write the application directly to hardware. As one HW engineer told me, "Its very easy, what do you mean you need a driver? When I did it it was just one line of C code (to write data to memory)." Once I pointed out we were upgrading the HW to use the 400,000 lines of code we ALREADY wrote and tested...
Our product line is just now evaluating a PPC core due to physical dimension and power problems in a new product. The other older product parts use x86 PC104 cards, not really embedded, more like tinyPC. But we rolled our own Linux OS to do the things we want.
The other thing I note, is that large companies, really do love to throw piles of money at problems.
Yup, I see this all the time...
"Those who keep saying that some thing is impossible,
should stop interrupting those who are doing it."
I get quite a few interruptions.
Agreed.
... for the prototype. Thats 2000 remotes for the price of 1 B2.
The Russians have a very strong aerospace tradition and a penchant for thinking outside the box. My thinking is that manned fighter/bomber aircraft will be obsolete in 10 years. A B2 costs like $2Billion + operating + training costs. Boeing has already demonstrated a remote piloted bomber for about $1million
Besides we don't give them the source, because, well we suk at writing avionics software, and QA is horrid. US companies wouldn't know how to give them the source code. I know I am there. Compilers for FPGAs are owned by the hardware manufacturers (and also horrid). If I were the Brits, I'd invest in engineers who know FPGAs and avionics and computer science and just buy the airframes. Then I'd put in my own avionics. The EU could easily standardize all this stuff.
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Some apps are easy to add. I have a static compiled program and 3 executable Java Jar files. Adding the jre15.dsl (from the dsl website) and the jars to the / of a pendrive is easy. Then boot the DSL cdrom and use the mydsl option to load the 'modules'. This is per some DSL Wiki info.
Search for 'create package'.
Its HARDER if you need to compile some program and dynamically link it to the libs. I found the easiest way is to install DSL to its own HD partition, then use the myDSL tool to download gcc, c libs, kernel headers etc. Thats very easy with the myDSl tool and net access. Then build the app on DSL. At this point my DSL build partition consumes about 500Mb. From there I have to determine the libs, apps, deps and config stuff to put into a package.
BTW I am doing this so I can create a 'portable' Test system, that I can load onto any PC with a network card, to be used in our software test lab.
You know the kind where we get hand-me-down computers that are well past their useful life. They are typically p2-400 or p3-500 slot 1 pcs. They tend to die at the worst times.
Hope that helps someone.
Damn Small Linux.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
Its pretty easy, but its very difficult to separate the 'old' docs from the 'new' info about some sections of the system.
Make a cdrom, boot a box off that, then from the menus, choose to create a bootable usb OR a usb that can be started from within Windows or Linux as a guest OS.
BUT:
Of the many hundreds of computers here I have not found one that would in fact boot from USB!
Running as a Guest OS inside of Windows doesn't provide any Network Access. Now Qemu site says its possible, but its not obvious how to configure such a thing.
Adding your own stuff. It is very difficult, for some reason, to package your own stuff for use with DSL(mostly lack of clear docs). We have our own programs we want to add, so I have to figure this out myself.
Agreed! 100%
I used to fix other peoples VB apps. Then I learned python, java then ruby, and somewehere in there C.
Ruby is so nice, its small, easily deployed. And the language fits in 1 book.
Unlike Java where one has to refer to volumes of tomes (or online).
Also for the ultimate in cross-platform single file deployability see Tcl/Tk.
Bad News dude, I run XP with the 'Classic' look and its still a dog.
This on a dual core P4 2.8Ghz with 512Mb ram. Damn I have p2-400s with 256mb ram running linux in the lab that are faster than this.
I've had to spend this week in the latest XP upgrade, doing paperwork process stuff that requires Word, Agile and PVCS releasing software. This system is SOOO cumbersome and clunky my hands still hurt. Every single action in windows throws up a damn 'I am doing XYZ, are you sure?', 'Attached programs may contain viruses are you sure?'
Outlook+Exchange takes 30-90+ seconds EVERY DAMN TIME I send a email out to connect to the server.
And every layer of windows in the corps(e) structure has a password!
Windows and its ilk are a SERIOUS drag to getting any work done.
In the past, Microsoft helped people 'get things done', but lately they are in the way. They are seriously dragging down productivity in the office.
They would see 'Patented by Mom."
Mom's Robot Oil, made with 10% MORE Love.
Damn those anchovies.
You example is upheld by my experiences.
There are a couple of display bugs between windows(tm) and X. The one I think of is that X doesn't include the caption bar at top=0.
However add PDAs to the mix and you get real problems. There are quite a few 'issues' lurking in the pda vm's.
IMHO, Sun should rework the vm, bring back the component builder Java Studio, promote beans and component architecture.
Alas, Sun never 'fixes' anything.
How do you think they make money?
On a $20 house call?
I worked in a retail shop as a tech after a period of unemployment and jobs were tough.
I KNEW I was gone at the very next job when the boss described the pc repair operations should be run "like the car repair shops". You know, while I got the 'hood' off it looks like you could use some more memory or another hard drive, etc, etc. Talking to customers about their pcs and upgrades is one thing, pestering them endlessly about stuff the don't need is another. But thats how one makes money (and it is pretty easy to do).