Microsoft has never "gotten" regular expressions, and I doubt they're about to. Also, there's still the silly reliance on the file extension to tell the operating system how to handle a particular file.
TFA is thin on alternatives to selling licenses, but at my company, we've gone to more of a "rental" type model of licensing, a monthly payment which bundles in support and upgrades. This is a win-win for everybody, as the customers are able to pay for it out of their discretionary budget, where a big-ticket license requires approval from the board, god and everybody.
Your point would be true if any ISPs expressed even the slightest interest in stopping machines their clients (you) have allowed to become spam zombies. The fact is, the ISPs simply can't be bothered to police their part of the Internet. Call the ISP of the next clown who port scans you if you want proof. They couldn't be less interested.
Agreed, the math has yet to catch up with the notion (theory), but the measurable evidence will always be secondary evidence, as a superstring is, by definition, smaller than the Plank constant, and therefore unobservable directly.
"Only question now is not if but when will Linux become the number one OS on earth?"
Wasn't UNIX already a viable, mature operating system when MS-DOS was first released?
Didn't Byte and InfoWorld think that UNIX was the obvious eventual winner? Didn't Byte even suggest that secretaries (there were secretaries then) would/should be learning UNIX? Why do engineers always believe that "If you build it, they will come"?
As noted before, here (FCC Asks For Comments On Internet Wiretapping), and here (FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable), the federal Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) mandates law enforcement "back doors" on these networks to allow wiretapping.
VOIP is the leading edge of big government/big moneys effort to quell the anarchy that is the Internet.
with these systems is that you have to guess what category to report/look-up the bug in. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone's gotten snippy with me "Why'd you report that under 'GUI'? It's obviously 'useability'".
That EPCOTCenter was supposed to be the "Experimental Prototye City Of Tomorrow" and not some goddam RIDE????
In an October 1966 interview, Walt Disney said:
"It's like the city of tomorrow ought to be, a city that caters to the people as a service function. It will be a planned, controlled community, a showcase for American industry and research, schools, cultural and educational opportunities. In EPCOT there will be no landowners and therefore no voting control. People will rent houses instead of buying them, and at modest rentals. There will be no retirees. Everyone must be employed. One of our requirements is that the people who live in EPCOT must help keep it alive."
Me, I've had robo-lawn-mower plans and algorithms on the drawing board since the Z8000 days. (That's early the early 80's for the youngsters) Electric-fence/trained perimeter, learned path, electric goat; take your pick.
At some point, the vulture capitalist guys would ask: "OK, and so what prevents/what do we do (from a product liability standpoint) when it eats/kills the neighbor's cat???"
Ummmmm... Aaaahhhhhhh...
Meanwhile, still selling my time by the hour...
From TFA: <breathless hyperbole> ...Such considerations may seem a thousand light years away from the concerns of today's IT, where we struggle to keep our dull brutes going on a diet of buggy software and tainted data streams... <more hyperbole>
I don't know about you guys, but this sounds almost exactly like the workings (and environment) of my brain, every day.
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Microsoft has never "gotten" regular expressions, and I doubt they're about to. Also, there's still the silly reliance on the file extension to tell the operating system how to handle a particular file.
TFA is thin on alternatives to selling licenses, but at my company, we've gone to more of a "rental" type model of licensing, a monthly payment which bundles in support and upgrades. This is a win-win for everybody, as the customers are able to pay for it out of their discretionary budget, where a big-ticket license requires approval from the board, god and everybody.
I wondered who'd want a flash-baked disk drive.
Your point would be true if any ISPs expressed even the slightest interest in stopping machines their clients (you) have allowed to become spam zombies. The fact is, the ISPs simply can't be bothered to police their part of the Internet. Call the ISP of the next clown who port scans you if you want proof. They couldn't be less interested.
Agreed, the math has yet to catch up with the notion (theory), but the measurable evidence will always be secondary evidence, as a superstring is, by definition, smaller than the Plank constant, and therefore unobservable directly.
Wasn't UNIX already a viable, mature operating system when MS-DOS was first released?
Didn't Byte and InfoWorld think that UNIX was the obvious eventual winner?
Didn't Byte even suggest that secretaries (there were secretaries then) would/should be learning UNIX?
Why do engineers always believe that "If you build it, they will come"?
They found it in a props warehouse at Paramount studios, right next to the Apollo 11 LEM.
TFA still doesn't explain (other than stating it to be so) how:
1. Why doesn't the beam extend to infinity, obeying the inverse square wave law?
and
2. Why can't the beams pass through each other?
Rest assured that the first service pack will consist almost entirely of draconian DRM "enhancements".
(You did read the EULA, didn't you?)
How about better instruction sets?
Which uses more power: 20 micro-ops or 400 micro-ops?
The CEO skill that's in shortest supply: GETTING IT!
For her replacement, I nominate Bill Joy. Maybe then HP can go back to being an engineering company.
Does it hang in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't?
VOIP is the leading edge of big government/big moneys effort to quell the anarchy that is the Internet.
Uhh Darl, you're fifteen minutes are up.
with these systems is that you have to guess what category to report/look-up the bug in. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone's gotten snippy with me "Why'd you report that under 'GUI'? It's obviously 'useability'".
In an October 1966 interview, Walt Disney said:
"It's like the city of tomorrow ought to be, a city that caters to the people as a service function. It will be a planned, controlled community, a showcase for American industry and research, schools, cultural and educational opportunities. In EPCOT there will be no landowners and therefore no voting control. People will rent houses instead of buying them, and at modest rentals. There will be no retirees. Everyone must be employed. One of our requirements is that the people who live in EPCOT must help keep it alive."
We're about to enter a really exciting time in computing. And you know what the Chinese said about that.
Actually, it was bird seed.
Thanks, try the veal.
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe."
It knew he was going to say that.
More likely, it's going to predict that someone's going to say "Let's circle back and touch base tomorrow".
Me, I've had robo-lawn-mower plans and algorithms on the drawing board since the Z8000 days. (That's early the early 80's for the youngsters)
Electric-fence/trained perimeter, learned path, electric goat; take your pick.
At some point, the vulture capitalist guys would ask:
"OK, and so what prevents/what do we do (from a product liability standpoint) when it eats/kills the neighbor's cat???"
Ummmmm... Aaaahhhhhhh...
Meanwhile, still selling my time by the hour...
The picture looks like the hamon on a good samurai sword. Amazing!
But Noooooooooooooooooo it's Skylab!!!
Of course there were. Those pink, mono things with the twisted pair wire.
I recall a wonderful family story where everyone came home from a wake saying "I didn't realize Uncle Joey wore a hearing aid...".
Uncle Joey was listening to the World Series at the funeral home. He spent years living it down when the truth was discovered.
We re-told the story at his wake.
<breathless hyperbole>
...Such considerations may seem a thousand light years away from the concerns of today's IT, where we struggle to keep our dull brutes going on a diet of buggy software and tainted data streams...
<more hyperbole>
I don't know about you guys, but this sounds almost exactly like the workings (and environment) of my brain, every day.