X.Org is the worldwide consortium empowered with the stewardship and collaborative development of the X Window System technology and standards.
OK, So we have X space windows, but space is a non printing character. They Dropped the S, but Capitalized the W Again. I'll grant you two whole letters.
I Don't think they've trade marked the Letter X. Then again, maybe they were the Corporate Sponser for WHen Sesame Street Was brought to us by the Letter X.
I wonder who trade marked the letter B? THey brought us a lot of Sesame Street
Unless you are doing an Ascii diff in which case Capitalization counts. But Capitalization counts on Unix file systems, but not on dos based file systems. So I'll give you a letter and a third.
OK, you are at a bar. A band is playing classic rock. they are OK, but not great. They just finished a cover of Led Zeps, oh, lets say, Livin Lovin Maid. Some Drunk guy at the bar shouts out , "Play..."
If you can fill in the blank, you get the joke.
I'll Take Free as in bird over that Michael Jackson Tune anyday.
Sorry no mod points, but TMMM is the book about estimation. Won't really get you an answer, but it helps understand the process.
However, there is a reason why people say to extrapolate from past results. You can only have a sense of time once a team is in place. It is like asking how fast can a car go. Depends on the type of car. Some cars don't run at all.
Another way to think about it is: how much time do you have? Get a single programmer that is reasonable talented and reasonably easy to work with. Scale down to the absolute minimum application required to show someone. Get her to build it. Look for something no longer than a three week full time effort. Be available to provide direction a couple of times a day.
A decent coder at $50/hour * 3 Weeks * 40 hours per week = $6000. Feel free to play with this equasion until you have something you like. You can find university coders that are quite good willing to work for less, but you are competing with their classes and projects. You can find freelance people willing to work for less, too, but you want to be sure of the qulity of their work. If the application is simple, you can possibly get away with less time, as well.
UM, Most people that study Quantum mechanics and other Highlevel physics seem to need math in order to explain it to anyone. Does that mean that they don't really understand the concepts?
Round world...most people assumed the world was flat. Took someone with some sailing background to explain what was obvious to any sailor to the map makers and politicians. The round world theory required so much back up explaination to fully under stand: We still don't grok Gravity.
Economics may seem to be explainable in grand terms, so long as you hold everything else in stasis you can explain one phenomenon. What you can't explain is why any one thing happened in the grand scheme of things. Remeber the Term Sensitive dependance on initial criteria, the key concept from Gleicks [sp?] chaos book? Economics has so many variables that it is inheriantly non-deterministic.
Actually, that goes for pretty much all of human history. Which means that we have no way of figuring out what is going to happen next.
The Boudoir [sp?] Somewhere Else The Operating Room The Swamp (ala M*A*S*H) Check Point Charlie (ah the days of the Cold War) Cryogenic Storage/The Fridge MIR Detroit The Bunker 38 North Yankee (Ah the Korean War) Hiroshima/Nagasaki Chernobyl/Three Mile Island The Playground The Gulag Angband Compton Malkovich Birdland The Mother Ship The Dark TOwer Heritcorp Columbia Internet The Dimension of Pain Olympus/Kilamanjaro/Denali/K2/Everest The Satellight odf Love Paris Istanbul (not Constantinople) Dien Bien Phu/Dak Tow/Da Nang... Iwo Jima/Pearl Harbor/Midway... Dover, Delaware Epicenter The Brain Nirvana Yggdrasil/Asgard/Midgard/Bifrost The Bronx Kalevala/Pohjola (Lets hear it for Deities and Demigods) Lankhmar/Newhom Camelot The Citidel The Nucleus THe Moon The Core IT Oakland The Conservatory (With the Candlestick)
These are climbs in Yosemite: Wyoming Sheep Ranch Zodiac The Nose Salathe Central Pillar of Frenzy Serenity Crack
Reading about the horse back riding thing leads me to suggest my favorite sport. Climbing occupies your whole brain and your body. It has the same left-to-right-brain-shift effect as drawing, but with endorphins.
I'd agree if they didn't have a mentor there walking them through the process, but with guidance, I'd say it is OK to start simple. However, since it seems they are going to be using Linux/BSD in server mode, guess it doesn't matter anyway.
Not that we as Americans are consistant about this but:
You are not compensated for anything but the value you provide to someone else. That compensation is the point where the amount you are willing to accept for it crosses the amount someone is willing to pay you for it. Since the amount of value you can give someone by spending your time is different depending on person and task, people get compensated differently.
It is not what you should get, it is what you can get.
The reason people are willing to pay for software as it is cheaper than paying with their own time to create the software. Open Source and Free software affiliates have recongnized that the gentleman's agreement (sorry for the sexist connotation, we need a new word here) about sharing code is in the best interested of all involved. I write code, let you use it, but you provide insight/code back that increases my value to a greater degree than if I had merely sold it to you.
Put it this way. If a competent Software Developer can get paid $50 and hour to customize code for a client (no value to anyone but the client and a potential hacker) Then selling code for $25 bucks a pop versus something that will save him thousands of hours of development time makes the free software route worth while. Developing software is time ($) intensive. THe more code that is in the publically usable pool, the more time that can be spent on the customizations for a particular client.
I have to agree. Do a distro where you can do a startx to get into x, but you boot directly to a prompt. Gets them realizing that the windowing system runs on top of the rest of the OS.
Depends on the terrin. Mountains are easy to terrain associate in, if they are distinctive. Gentle rolling hills with a lot of wood can get get you LLAMF fast.
Try strolling around Fort Polk Lousiana for a couple of days, with little sleep, and other people out there trying to set off your MILES gear. GPS telling you exactly where you are can be nice. Of course, you need enough Satellights...
However, I agree with the need to be able to read a Topo map. Nothing more dangerous than a LT with a Map...I should know, I was one once.
Actually, the points you bring up support Sun's argument. I am a Javaphile and on m,y last project I couldn't use Applets because the overhead of ensuring our customers had the correct Java installed was too high. It was not this way before: MS has made it nigh unto impossible to use Java applets for mass distribution.
Sun has suport optimized Swing running on Solaris.Why is it so slow on Windows? They don't have the same access to the source.
INstall Linux. Set it up as a local router and firewall using IPChain/IPTable. Config QMail, OpenLDAP etc.
Use two small machines as subnets, route traffic between them. Suggest 10.10.1.255 for one and 10.10.2.255 as the other subnet. Your router will need multiple NICs to do it right.
Is there anything happening from the Terminals or are they just displaying information? Can you screen scrape your existing app, send it over the web, and then have all the wimpy boxes out there run Lynx/Lightweigh browser of your choice?
One commenct about Java is that it has the Sandbox limitations. An applet can only open a connection back to the server that it was installed from. So while a server could DOS itselfd, it wouldn't make much sense.
Sun did a much better job thinkling trhough the security issues with applets than MS did with IE.
Of course, now we have Flash becoming the defatco web UI standard, the thing to worry about it what will Macromedia do? Fortunately, I think it is mostly Java Code, so you will have the same limitations as the sandbox, but I couldn't tell you for sure.
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From the X.org site:
X.Org is the worldwide consortium empowered with the stewardship and collaborative development of the X Window System technology and standards.
OK, So we have X space windows, but space is a non printing character. They Dropped the S, but Capitalized the W Again. I'll grant you two whole letters.
I Don't think they've trade marked the Letter X. Then again, maybe they were the Corporate Sponser for WHen Sesame Street Was brought to us by the Letter X.
I wonder who trade marked the letter B? THey brought us a lot of Sesame Street
Um Xwindows and Windows differ by one letter.
Unless you are doing an Ascii diff in which case Capitalization counts. But Capitalization counts on Unix file systems, but not on dos based file systems. So I'll give you a letter and a third.
I hate explaining throw away lines butt..
..."
"Free as in bird,"
OK, you are at a bar. A band is playing classic rock. they are OK, but not great. They just finished a cover of Led Zeps, oh, lets say, Livin Lovin Maid. Some Drunk guy at the bar shouts out , "Play
If you can fill in the blank, you get the joke.
I'll Take Free as in bird over that Michael Jackson Tune anyday.
Sorry no mod points, but TMMM is the book about estimation. Won't really get you an answer, but it helps understand the process.
However, there is a reason why people say to extrapolate from past results. You can only have a sense of time once a team is in place. It is like asking how fast can a car go. Depends on the type of car. Some cars don't run at all.
Another way to think about it is: how much time do you have? Get a single programmer that is reasonable talented and reasonably easy to work with. Scale down to the absolute minimum application required to show someone. Get her to build it. Look for something no longer than a three week full time effort. Be available to provide direction a couple of times a day.
A decent coder at $50/hour * 3 Weeks * 40 hours per week = $6000. Feel free to play with this equasion until you have something you like. You can find university coders that are quite good willing to work for less, but you are competing with their classes and projects. You can find freelance people willing to work for less, too, but you want to be sure of the qulity of their work. If the application is simple, you can possibly get away with less time, as well.
Adam
UM, Most people that study Quantum mechanics and other Highlevel physics seem to need math in order to explain it to anyone. Does that mean that they don't really understand the concepts?
Round world...most people assumed the world was flat. Took someone with some sailing background to explain what was obvious to any sailor to the map makers and politicians. The round world theory required so much back up explaination to fully under stand: We still don't grok Gravity.
Economics may seem to be explainable in grand terms, so long as you hold everything else in stasis you can explain one phenomenon. What you can't explain is why any one thing happened in the grand scheme of things. Remeber the Term Sensitive dependance on initial criteria, the key concept from Gleicks [sp?] chaos book? Economics has so many variables that it is inheriantly non-deterministic.
Actually, that goes for pretty much all of human history. Which means that we have no way of figuring out what is going to happen next.
Now I'm depressed.
The Boudoir [sp?]
The Bronx
Somewhere Else
The Operating Room
The Swamp (ala M*A*S*H)
Check Point Charlie (ah the days of the Cold War)
Cryogenic Storage/The Fridge
MIR
Detroit
The Bunker
38 North Yankee (Ah the Korean War)
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Chernobyl/Three Mile Island
The Playground
The Gulag
Angband
Compton
Malkovich
Birdland
The Mother Ship
The Dark TOwer
Heritcorp
Columbia Internet
The Dimension of Pain
Olympus/Kilamanjaro/Denali/K2/Everest
The Satellight odf Love
Paris
Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Dien Bien Phu/Dak Tow/Da Nang...
Iwo Jima/Pearl Harbor/Midway...
Dover, Delaware
Epicenter
The Brain
Nirvana
Yggdrasil/Asgard/Midgard/Bifrost
Kalevala/Pohjola (Lets hear it for Deities and Demigods)
Lankhmar/Newhom
Camelot
The Citidel
The Nucleus
THe Moon
The Core
IT
Oakland
The Conservatory (With the Candlestick)
These are climbs in Yosemite:
Wyoming Sheep Ranch
Zodiac
The Nose
Salathe
Central Pillar of Frenzy
Serenity Crack
I suspected that. Thanks for confirming.
OK, I know way too much about this:
The Seven Were devoured by dragons or gathered to Sauron himself.
The Nine Sauron Keeps as a way to keep control of the Ring Wraiths. Probably to keep them from being too powerful as well.
Galndalf recounts a bit of this when explaining to Frodo what the Ring is, after Bilbo's sudden departure.
If so look at JBoss's load balancing.
If you just want it for Web server there is an Apache module for load balancing as well.
Reading about the horse back riding thing leads me to suggest my favorite sport. Climbing occupies your whole brain and your body. It has the same left-to-right-brain-shift effect as drawing, but with endorphins.
I bet your local climbing gym has a kids program.
Adam
I'd agree if they didn't have a mentor there walking them through the process, but with guidance, I'd say it is OK to start simple. However, since it seems they are going to be using Linux/BSD in server mode, guess it doesn't matter anyway.
Not that we as Americans are consistant about this but:
You are not compensated for anything but the value you provide to someone else. That compensation is the point where the amount you are willing to accept for it crosses the amount someone is willing to pay you for it. Since the amount of value you can give someone by spending your time is different depending on person and task, people get compensated differently.
It is not what you should get, it is what you can get.
The reason people are willing to pay for software as it is cheaper than paying with their own time to create the software. Open Source and Free software affiliates have recongnized that the gentleman's agreement (sorry for the sexist connotation, we need a new word here) about sharing code is in the best interested of all involved. I write code, let you use it, but you provide insight/code back that increases my value to a greater degree than if I had merely sold it to you.
Put it this way. If a competent Software Developer can get paid $50 and hour to customize code for a client (no value to anyone but the client and a potential hacker) Then selling code for $25 bucks a pop versus something that will save him thousands of hours of development time makes the free software route worth while. Developing software is time ($) intensive. THe more code that is in the publically usable pool, the more time that can be spent on the customizations for a particular client.
Now I feel behind the times. It took me until 27 to get that far...
I have to agree. Do a distro where you can do a startx to get into x, but you boot directly to a prompt. Gets them realizing that the windowing system runs on top of the rest of the OS.
Depends on the terrin. Mountains are easy to terrain associate in, if they are distinctive. Gentle rolling hills with a lot of wood can get get you LLAMF fast.
Try strolling around Fort Polk Lousiana for a couple of days, with little sleep, and other people out there trying to set off your MILES gear. GPS telling you exactly where you are can be nice. Of course, you need enough Satellights...
However, I agree with the need to be able to read a Topo map. Nothing more dangerous than a LT with a Map...I should know, I was one once.
Um...probably not a CS graduate student. Maybe an MBA going to focus on Supply Chain in the tech industry?
Lieutenants talk Strategy but Generals talk logistics.
Actually, the points you bring up support Sun's argument. I am a Javaphile and on m,y last project I couldn't use Applets because the overhead of ensuring our customers had the correct Java installed was too high. It was not this way before: MS has made it nigh unto impossible to use Java applets for mass distribution.
Sun has suport optimized Swing running on Solaris.Why is it so slow on Windows? They don't have the same access to the source.
Because it is all fun and games until someone Immenantizes the Eschaton
No, it is
One nation under Canada, Indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!
Or the Linux version:
INstall Linux. Set it up as a local router and firewall using IPChain/IPTable. Config QMail, OpenLDAP etc.
Use two small machines as subnets, route traffic between them. Suggest 10.10.1.255 for one and 10.10.2.255 as the other subnet. Your router will need multiple NICs to do it right.
Well done..if you meant it.
If not, send me an email and I'll explain
Stop bein such a Tahd
Is there anything happening from the Terminals or are they just displaying information? Can you screen scrape your existing app, send it over the web, and then have all the wimpy boxes out there run Lynx/Lightweigh browser of your choice?
One commenct about Java is that it has the Sandbox limitations. An applet can only open a connection back to the server that it was installed from. So while a server could DOS itselfd, it wouldn't make much sense.
Sun did a much better job thinkling trhough the security issues with applets than MS did with IE.
Of course, now we have Flash becoming the defatco web UI standard, the thing to worry about it what will Macromedia do? Fortunately, I think it is mostly Java Code, so you will have the same limitations as the sandbox, but I couldn't tell you for sure.
Don't I wish. CDE still. Yes, Gnome runs on Solaris. But here as a contractor in a big sun building, It's CDE