"One uber-programmer does just as much work as one ordinary programmer. It's just that the results solve ten times as many problems."
This statement appears to contain an internal inconsistency.
Isn't the job of a programmer to solve problems? The code is just an expression of the solution. If he/she solves 10x problems in the same amount of time as an average programmer, that programmer has 10x the productivity.
Maybe the key word is "work". The expert does not have to "work" as hard to solve the same problem. With code, the expert will sove a problem with less code. Then again, anybody with experience knows, it is much more difficult to create a small simple solution for a problem.
They probably based that number on the number of various criminal groups involved in identity theft and how much they could potentially sell the data for.
to put it another way. when you vote for someone offering "strong leadership" instead of "strong representation" you are subjugating yourself. If the guy running for office says America needs a "strong leader" and you vote for him, you are making him your leader because you are part of America (or whatever your country). When you decide that you need a leader you are abdicating your responsibility, power, and rights. We've seen a lot of "leaders" elected and thus the decline.
I had a cop do this to me in Florida when I was 17. Out in a back-woods road, and this guy is tailgating with the highbeams. I tapped the brake to flash the lights, no reaction. I waited a minute and did it again. after the third time, I just slammed the brakes.
He turns on his blue lights a I pull over, he jumps out of his car yelling and screaming. I'm like, dude, "a deer jumped in front of me, you probably couldn't see it because you were tailgating". Then he has the nerve to say he was tailgating because he saw me swerve a few miles back. As if that makes any kind of sense. If I'm swerving pull me over, don't tailgate. You are increasing public danger by leaving me on the road.
one more c) they would enforce the law "strictly". None of this, let it go for a few miles over the limit. The limit is just that, "the limit". It you can safely go faster, then raise the damn limit. The current system just encourages selective enforcement of the law. Selective enforcement begets (unintended) racial profiling.
Seems things could be a little better with consistent and clear enforcement of the laws. And if it turns out that a law sucks, "repeal it". Lets stop leaving sucky laws on the books just to be available for selective enforcement.
I agree another farm subsidy, oh, I mean corn based ethanol, probably isn't the way to go. BTW, the only problem with your math is using ethanol to *replace* petroleum instead of augment it. That said, I thank you for running the numbers instead of the mouth. If more people actually examined the numbers, as you have, then these pdiscussions would have more meaningful content.
Run a google for Brazil and Ethanol, you'll see wide usage, and production from sugar beets.
the other poster suggested replacing all of the stuff you have to carry. Let me offer another idea. How about a compact utility trailer to haul the extras. A good one can be found for a couple hundred. An added benefit is if you are planning a weekend trip, you spouse can prepare the trailer on friday while you are still at work (as opposed to waiting for the vehicle to get home). A small trailer is also easier to load/unload than the trunk or back of an SUV. Its also much cheaper than the price differential of a bigger vehicle. Then, you can hook-up and go.
Only yiou can decide if its the solution for you but, it should definitely get some consideration.
This isn't unlike my argument about pick-up trucks. The majority are purchased for very occational hauling. A cheap 8' trailer from harbour freight can make this up. I picked up their folding trailer. The bonus is, while folded up, it takes hardly any space in the garage and when loaded, it can be easily transferred between vehicles. Of course, for your usage, you probably want an enclosed one.
"I do have a small car that I drive when I don't need to carry everybody else" That is the key (practical, pragmatic, intelligent) statement. You are pointing out that one vehicle isn't going to meet every purpose.
These arguments always kill me. Okay, lets take a typical scenario. You commute to work (alone), you also have a family and maybe want to tow a boat. How about two cars. Get an old used pocket size car for the day to day commute (this is the over-whelming majority of your miles anyway). Then get a nice newer sufficiently large vehicle for the family (and towing) for the times you need it. The nice vehicle won't get very many miles and can stay nice (keeping a higher resale value), and an old beater for commuting won't cost much to begin with and will save lots of gas. Just get an old VW Golf or Subaru 2dr or something similar (around 40mpg). Save money, save the planet, stop arguing, yada yada yada.
absolutely correct. Even during the so called "boom", it was usually the 2nd or 3rd product to market that ended up dominating. Of course, a big factor in this was that they could learn from the mistakes of the leader. The leader's poor code quality made changes and fixes slow. Everybody likes to use MS as the classic example of this.
Although the article presents a neat mathematical trick, it seems to fail to take into account geagraphical separation. I'm trying to figure out how I had ancestors in the Americas 5000 years ago if they supposedly came accros the land bridge 100,000 years ago. Or how Autralian Aboringese come into my family tree?
Unless maybe Thor Heyerdahl was right, and people really were travering the globe back then.
We should be talking about this as a little tutorial on SEO. Look at the Source of the pages. They are very short. The Meta description, page title, and headline tags (H1) all have the exact same text. Using Google link search, it appears he/she used blog spamming to create lots of links to the site. The biggest negative I see is, the pages do fail XHTML 1.0 Transitional even though they are marked as such.
Just think, $20 + a few hours. I wonder how much this site is really making.
You bring up a good point which I'll just try to expand on with my own $0.02.
That is why does our society consider some types of things done for enhancement bad? Many people take vitamins because they believe that it makes them healthier, smarter, better physically, etc... Some argue this is ok because vitamins are "natural". Well, surprise, most vitamins sold are manufactured chemicals and not natual extracts. Some are even byproducts of industtrial waste. Exercise changes the body and the brain's chemistry not unlike drugs.
Yet, we say steroids are bad. If you really look at the steroid issue though, the majority of the problems occured from taking them in excessive doses. Its further complicated because of the new legal status. Many athletes turn to either veterinary steroids while the wealthy ones turn to designer drugs cooked up in somebody's basement. Both of these are obviously less safe than drugs designed for humans. This gets further complicated because it hurts research into saving the lives of Cancer/AIDS patients by using steroids to counter the wasting effects of these diseases and their treatments.
Then for brain enhancement. Its aparently ok to provoke diabetes drinking gallons of MountainDew/RedBull but bad to take Ritalin/Adderall.
I think what we need to do is just stop and be honest with ourselves. Everybody is concerned with enhancing themselves in one form or another. Whether Jenny Craig, marathon addicts, smart drug enthusiasts, body builders, chess champions, or whatever. And the market is further proof that they are going to do it, look at what the best selling drugs are, Viagra, Ritatlin, Steroids, PhenPhen. Lets just drop these non-sensical stigmas, and do some honest research and allow people to do (what they are going to do anyway) their enhancements in a safe, well informed, manner. Because lets face it, the legally obtainable means for many of these things are much more dangerous than the pharmaceutical counterparts.
Going to the Apache site, I see tons of projects in Java and very little with mono. Perhaps, its because people can take the Jakarta projects and use them on WebSphere, Weblogic, Sun One (or whatever its called today), Oracle App Server, or almost any other J2EE server. Developers are using free software on proprietary servers in huge numbers. Perhaps, just perhaps, the majority don't really care about the license issue. If they did then maybe there would be a lot more people working on the CLASSPATH project. Java probably has a huge market because that market has so many players and is so damn big. OTOH,.net has Microsoft. Who else makes a.net appserver? (Apache mono doesn't quite cut it)
Most businesses (in my experience) choose proprietary over open source because a salesperson SOLD it to them and they want somebody to blame when things go wrong. You'll argue that this is stupid. You are right it is. Sun's not going to pay them anything for a bug in the VM (neither will IBM). But, when their boss comes down with the hammer, they want someone else to point to.
Granted, its a nice gesture to report a vulnerability to a site owner. This seems like an excessive amount of effort to do it.
If someone leaves their headlights on and you can just yell, "hey, your lights are on", thats great. But, if they left their keys in the car and you have to put on a disguise and pay a kid $5 to go tell them, thats just freakin excessive.
We are in a sad state now that its "dangerous" for someone to simply be a good citizen.
"Bomb grade" ammonium nitrate. Thats funny. Any ammonium nitrate can be used as an explosive. Although its easier when it has a lower moisture content. Processes for doing this are very easier found with a simple google search. It only takes a small amount of dynamite to detonate a large amount of it. In the Army, we used it for cratering charges. As for quantities, farmers buy it by the ton. TNT although trivial to make, is just plain easier (and cheaper) to buy. In many areas, the process is to file a claim for some mineral or another exists on your land that you wish to mine. With an assay report, you get permission to buy it.
Whatever, thats all beside the point. I was trying to demonstrate that after the attack, none of the things used in it were made less available or harder to get. (nor do I personally think they should have been) What I find ammusing is that when someone from another country commits an act of terrorism, everyone is ready to throw away their liberties. When the act is commited by a White, U.S. citizen, people just forget about it.
My experience using VMWare for a test platform showed that is better to not use your primary PC. Use another computer and install VNC on the virtual machines in VMWare. Then your primary PC can access them remotely. Install lots of RAM too. Note: this was for J2EE developemnt.
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"One uber-programmer does just as much work as one ordinary programmer. It's just that the results solve ten times as many problems."
This statement appears to contain an internal inconsistency.
Isn't the job of a programmer to solve problems? The code is just an expression of the solution. If he/she solves 10x problems in the same amount of time as an average programmer, that programmer has 10x the productivity.
Maybe the key word is "work". The expert does not have to "work" as hard to solve the same problem. With code, the expert will sove a problem with less code. Then again, anybody with experience knows, it is much more difficult to create a small simple solution for a problem.
Have you ever noticed that bridges are almost always over-budget and over-schedule? Usually by a factor of 2x or 3x
They probably based that number on the number of various criminal groups involved in identity theft and how much they could potentially sell the data for.
to put it another way.
when you vote for someone offering "strong leadership" instead of "strong representation" you are subjugating yourself.
If the guy running for office says America needs a "strong leader" and you vote for him, you are making him your leader because you are part of America (or whatever your country).
When you decide that you need a leader you are abdicating your responsibility, power, and rights. We've seen a lot of "leaders" elected and thus the decline.
I had a cop do this to me in Florida when I was 17.
Out in a back-woods road, and this guy is tailgating with the highbeams.
I tapped the brake to flash the lights, no reaction.
I waited a minute and did it again.
after the third time, I just slammed the brakes.
He turns on his blue lights a I pull over, he jumps out of his car yelling and screaming.
I'm like, dude, "a deer jumped in front of me, you probably couldn't see it because you were tailgating".
Then he has the nerve to say he was tailgating because he saw me swerve a few miles back. As if that makes any kind of sense. If I'm swerving pull me over, don't tailgate. You are increasing public danger by leaving me on the road.
In the end the a** got back in his car and left.
one more
c) they would enforce the law "strictly". None of this, let it go for a few miles over the limit. The limit is just that, "the limit". It you can safely go faster, then raise the damn limit. The current system just encourages selective enforcement of the law. Selective enforcement begets (unintended) racial profiling.
Seems things could be a little better with consistent and clear enforcement of the laws. And if it turns out that a law sucks, "repeal it". Lets stop leaving sucky laws on the books just to be available for selective enforcement.
I was just thinking "finally, an appropriate use of the DMCA" (killing the electric slide).
That was very nice of them.
Good point, questioning a persons morals never seems increase the quality of a discussion.
I agree another farm subsidy, oh, I mean corn based ethanol, probably isn't the way to go.
BTW, the only problem with your math is using ethanol to *replace* petroleum instead of augment it. That said, I thank you for running the numbers instead of the mouth. If more people actually examined the numbers, as you have, then these pdiscussions would have more meaningful content.
Run a google for Brazil and Ethanol, you'll see wide usage, and production from sugar beets.
the other poster suggested replacing all of the stuff you have to carry.
Let me offer another idea. How about a compact utility trailer to haul the extras. A good one can be found for a couple hundred. An added benefit is if you are planning a weekend trip, you spouse can prepare the trailer on friday while you are still at work (as opposed to waiting for the vehicle to get home). A small trailer is also easier to load/unload than the trunk or back of an SUV. Its also much cheaper than the price differential of a bigger vehicle.
Then, you can hook-up and go.
Only yiou can decide if its the solution for you but, it should definitely get some consideration.
This isn't unlike my argument about pick-up trucks. The majority are purchased for very occational hauling. A cheap 8' trailer from harbour freight can make this up. I picked up their folding trailer. The bonus is, while folded up, it takes hardly any space in the garage and when loaded, it can be easily transferred between vehicles. Of course, for your usage, you probably want an enclosed one.
"I do have a small car that I drive when I don't need to carry everybody else"
That is the key (practical, pragmatic, intelligent) statement.
You are pointing out that one vehicle isn't going to meet every purpose.
These arguments always kill me.
Okay, lets take a typical scenario.
You commute to work (alone), you also have a family and maybe want to tow a boat.
How about two cars.
Get an old used pocket size car for the day to day commute (this is the over-whelming majority of your miles anyway). Then get a nice newer sufficiently large vehicle for the family (and towing) for the times you need it. The nice vehicle won't get very many miles and can stay nice (keeping a higher resale value), and an old beater for commuting won't cost much to begin with and will save lots of gas. Just get an old VW Golf or Subaru 2dr or something similar (around 40mpg).
Save money, save the planet, stop arguing, yada yada yada.
absolutely correct. Even during the so called "boom", it was usually the 2nd or 3rd product to market that ended up dominating. Of course, a big factor in this was that they could learn from the mistakes of the leader. The leader's poor code quality made changes and fixes slow.
Everybody likes to use MS as the classic example of this.
Although the article presents a neat mathematical trick, it seems to fail to take into account geagraphical separation.
I'm trying to figure out how I had ancestors in the Americas 5000 years ago if they supposedly came accros the land bridge 100,000 years ago. Or how Autralian Aboringese come into my family tree?
Unless maybe Thor Heyerdahl was right, and people really were travering the globe back then.
Even more interesting is that it worked.
We should be talking about this as a little tutorial on SEO.
Look at the Source of the pages. They are very short.
The Meta description, page title, and headline tags (H1) all have the exact same text.
Using Google link search, it appears he/she used blog spamming to create lots of links to the site.
The biggest negative I see is, the pages do fail XHTML 1.0 Transitional even though they are marked as such.
Just think, $20 + a few hours. I wonder how much this site is really making.
You bring up a good point which I'll just try to expand on with my own $0.02.
That is why does our society consider some types of things done for enhancement bad?
Many people take vitamins because they believe that it makes them healthier, smarter, better physically, etc... Some argue this is ok because vitamins are "natural". Well, surprise, most vitamins sold are manufactured chemicals and not natual extracts. Some are even byproducts of industtrial waste. Exercise changes the body and the brain's chemistry not unlike drugs.
Yet, we say steroids are bad. If you really look at the steroid issue though, the majority of the problems occured from taking them in excessive doses. Its further complicated because of the new legal status. Many athletes turn to either veterinary steroids while the wealthy ones turn to designer drugs cooked up in somebody's basement. Both of these are obviously less safe than drugs designed for humans. This gets further complicated because it hurts research into saving the lives of Cancer/AIDS patients by using steroids to counter the wasting effects of these diseases and their treatments.
Then for brain enhancement. Its aparently ok to provoke diabetes drinking gallons of MountainDew/RedBull but bad to take Ritalin/Adderall.
I think what we need to do is just stop and be honest with ourselves. Everybody is concerned with enhancing themselves in one form or another. Whether Jenny Craig, marathon addicts, smart drug enthusiasts, body builders, chess champions, or whatever. And the market is further proof that they are going to do it, look at what the best selling drugs are, Viagra, Ritatlin, Steroids, PhenPhen. Lets just drop these non-sensical stigmas, and do some honest research and allow people to do (what they are going to do anyway) their enhancements in a safe, well informed, manner. Because lets face it, the legally obtainable means for many of these things are much more dangerous than the pharmaceutical counterparts.
When I fisrt saw the headline I thought it said tritium.
You're right, until we can make cheaper nano-tube we'll probably keep making super capacitors with carbon aerogel.
Didn't they have to remove sendmail to conform with the Jesux directive?
Going to the Apache site, I see tons of projects in Java and very little with mono. .net has Microsoft. Who else makes a .net appserver? (Apache mono doesn't quite cut it)
Perhaps, its because people can take the Jakarta projects and use them on WebSphere, Weblogic, Sun One (or whatever its called today), Oracle App Server, or almost any other J2EE server. Developers are using free software on proprietary servers in huge numbers. Perhaps, just perhaps, the majority don't really care about the license issue. If they did then maybe there would be a lot more people working on the CLASSPATH project.
Java probably has a huge market because that market has so many players and is so damn big. OTOH,
Most businesses (in my experience) choose proprietary over open source because a salesperson SOLD it to them and they want somebody to blame when things go wrong. You'll argue that this is stupid. You are right it is. Sun's not going to pay them anything for a bug in the VM (neither will IBM). But, when their boss comes down with the hammer, they want someone else to point to.
Granted, its a nice gesture to report a vulnerability to a site owner. This seems like an excessive amount of effort to do it.
If someone leaves their headlights on and you can just yell, "hey, your lights are on", thats great.
But, if they left their keys in the car and you have to put on a disguise and pay a kid $5 to go tell them, thats just freakin excessive.
We are in a sad state now that its "dangerous" for someone to simply be a good citizen.
"Bomb grade" ammonium nitrate. Thats funny.
Any ammonium nitrate can be used as an explosive. Although its easier when it has a lower moisture content. Processes for doing this are very easier found with a simple google search. It only takes a small amount of dynamite to detonate a large amount of it.
In the Army, we used it for cratering charges.
As for quantities, farmers buy it by the ton.
TNT although trivial to make, is just plain easier (and cheaper) to buy. In many areas, the process is to file a claim for some mineral or another exists on your land that you wish to mine. With an assay report, you get permission to buy it.
Whatever, thats all beside the point. I was trying to demonstrate that after the attack, none of the things used in it were made less available or harder to get. (nor do I personally think they should have been)
What I find ammusing is that when someone from another country commits an act of terrorism, everyone is ready to throw away their liberties. When the act is commited by a White, U.S. citizen, people just forget about it.
The Oklahoma City bomobing was done by one guy and a truck.
He drove away from the bombing.
How soon things are forgotten.
My experience using VMWare for a test platform showed that is better to not use your primary PC. Use another computer and install VNC on the virtual machines in VMWare. Then your primary PC can access them remotely. Install lots of RAM too.
Note: this was for J2EE developemnt.