Much agreed with 2, 3, and 4. For better or worse, one of the project managers is big on XML and web services, to the point that developing web services is the first thing that I think of with their name.
You know what they say about round holes and square pegs? I've come to learn that XML is like play-doh. It's not round and it's not square, but it doesn't feel strong enough to last at the end of the day.
Imagine the voltage going through the electromagnetic rails steadily dropping slowly until the train car was moving at a sedate speed. It's pretty easy to turn off the gas on a maglev train.
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I can't help but think that leaving NASA in something of a funding "holding pattern" helps to limit the planetary observation that they were chastised for shorting, leading to less evidence on silly politically charged topics like global warming, greenhouse gases, and air pollution.
Although amusing, NASA already discarded the idea. They have a higher charge-out rate than the astronauts, their science experiments are invalid and off-topic, and the conservatives in Congress refused to approve their funding.
In the end, it was decided that a reprogramable Fem-Bot was the best of both worlds, required less input mass over time since they didn't need food or water, and were curiously flexible and patient with more conventional scientific monitoring.
Very relevant caveat, but you have to ask the follow-up question about (security) software monocultures when every computer has its own globally unique address.
"Oops! Windows XXLP has a glaring vulnerability in~"
All machines networked together? Does this guy know how businesses use VPNs? Has the adage "If you don't want it known, don't use the phone" been forgotten?
As long as there are secrets to keep, machines will be kept off the big networks, behind firewalls, and completely offline as appropriate. Starry-eyed visions of global networks are outright absurd.
Fun, but a projectile traveling at Mach 8 will take out the windows in most of St Petersburg, including any and all churches. It'd likely also take out three or four buildings before coming to a stop... a little much collateral damage to whack someone running a botnet.
We had an article up a few days ago where a file-sharer hunting company was starting criminal cases to get the person's name, settling out of court, and dropping the case. Though forcing everyone to play hardball makes it interesting, is this really the best way to go about things? Litigating groups will just pull the same stunt until the judges get sick and tired of the riff-raff dragging rather harmless defendants across the coals.
...the most interesting thing about accusing all the engineers in the US of being potential terrorists is that there are a great many engineers who hold DOE and DOD security clearances in order to access the information they require to maintain the very structures that terrorists may wish to destroy.
Is this peculiar attribute that they share, perchance, a strange sense of loyalty to the people paying them to play with fancy toys? Or to the toys themselves?
How are they supposed to read the SOP manual when it doesn't exist? The next batch of recruits learn the SOPs through the attrition of their (former) peers.
If you aren't sure if your kids are old enough, don't let them play games. Parents are supposed to make the major choices for their kids, last time I checked. Why is this even a question?
Right, having DRM-free music will ruin the music business, because everyone know that the DRM-free music, such as what we had during Kazaa's heyday back to the beginning of the CD and the DRM-free cassette tapes were copied and distributed so freely that the entire music industry collapsed twenty years ago.
DRM is much newer than P2P file sharing, CDs, and online file transfers. The loss of DRM'd media will mean that normal consumers, like the salaried Western or European worker, will be more likely to grab a CD and rip it for their MP3 player if they won't have to worry about their drive, player, or CD software complaining that the end user cannot be trusted.
User feedback? Use cases? The ability to modify or consume equipment?
If you've done any sort of development, you know quite well that anything that gets pushed out the door, even if it's to the guys down the hall, will get beaten, bludgeoned, bullied, and blown up in ways that you never expect.
WoW also has the funny distinction of being an order of magnitude larger than the next MMOG out there, for better or worse. It'd be somewhat absurd NOT to have a disproportionately large share of material for a disproportionately popular game.
Warden's also nettled a lot of people who look into it, even if Joe User doesn't care so long as it doesn't break anything.
I'll agree that you need to understand concurrency before you leave uni and try to claim you're competent, rather in the program contexts or the OS contexts.
I disagree that pthreads require lunacy, however. They're pretty simple to use.
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Sure thing. Just gotta jimmy a paperclip in there at the 45nm level.
Much agreed. Computer science and set theory, for example, are joined at both hips.
It's definitely a feature. Get out of the way, you're hogging all the heat!
I, for one, welcome our plane-landing overlords. From Soviet Russia, as well, where the planes land you (onto the ground).
Much agreed with 2, 3, and 4. For better or worse, one of the project managers is big on XML and web services, to the point that developing web services is the first thing that I think of with their name.
You know what they say about round holes and square pegs? I've come to learn that XML is like play-doh. It's not round and it's not square, but it doesn't feel strong enough to last at the end of the day.
Imagine the voltage going through the electromagnetic rails steadily dropping slowly until the train car was moving at a sedate speed.
It's pretty easy to turn off the gas on a maglev train.
How 'bout that bug-free, crash-tolerant version of Windows they got in the works?
Oregon still requires that fuel attendants pump gas. My sister lives across the river in Portland, OR, and not pumping my own gas throws me.
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[whirrrr-click] Target identified. Model recognized as Slashdot Visitor. Preparing "In Mother Russia" meme-milk and "Cowboy Neal" flakes.
I can't help but think that leaving NASA in something of a funding "holding pattern" helps to limit the planetary observation that they were chastised for shorting, leading to less evidence on silly politically charged topics like global warming, greenhouse gases, and air pollution.
Although amusing, NASA already discarded the idea. They have a higher charge-out rate than the astronauts, their science experiments are invalid and off-topic, and the conservatives in Congress refused to approve their funding.
In the end, it was decided that a reprogramable Fem-Bot was the best of both worlds, required less input mass over time since they didn't need food or water, and were curiously flexible and patient with more conventional scientific monitoring.
"whendidnewmexicostartbelievingindinosaurs" wins the "Best Tag" award for this article. (but ouch!)
Very relevant caveat, but you have to ask the follow-up question about (security) software monocultures when every computer has its own globally unique address.
"Oops! Windows XXLP has a glaring vulnerability in~"
All machines networked together? Does this guy know how businesses use VPNs? Has the adage "If you don't want it known, don't use the phone" been forgotten?
As long as there are secrets to keep, machines will be kept off the big networks, behind firewalls, and completely offline as appropriate. Starry-eyed visions of global networks are outright absurd.
Insects swarm, birds flock. Shouldn't theses be called "flockbots"?
"...and Microsoft is working to bring you the tools YOUR company needs to be competitively productive!"
Fun, but a projectile traveling at Mach 8 will take out the windows in most of St Petersburg, including any and all churches. It'd likely also take out three or four buildings before coming to a stop ... a little much collateral damage to whack someone running a botnet.
We had an article up a few days ago where a file-sharer hunting company was starting criminal cases to get the person's name, settling out of court, and dropping the case. Though forcing everyone to play hardball makes it interesting, is this really the best way to go about things? Litigating groups will just pull the same stunt until the judges get sick and tired of the riff-raff dragging rather harmless defendants across the coals.
...the most interesting thing about accusing all the engineers in the US of being potential terrorists is that there are a great many engineers who hold DOE and DOD security clearances in order to access the information they require to maintain the very structures that terrorists may wish to destroy.
Is this peculiar attribute that they share, perchance, a strange sense of loyalty to the people paying them to play with fancy toys? Or to the toys themselves?
How are they supposed to read the SOP manual when it doesn't exist? The next batch of recruits learn the SOPs through the attrition of their (former) peers.
Did I just... Oh, sh-
"When there's doubt, there is no doubt."
If you aren't sure if your kids are old enough, don't let them play games. Parents are supposed to make the major choices for their kids, last time I checked. Why is this even a question?
Right, having DRM-free music will ruin the music business, because everyone know that the DRM-free music, such as what we had during Kazaa's heyday back to the beginning of the CD and the DRM-free cassette tapes were copied and distributed so freely that the entire music industry collapsed twenty years ago.
DRM is much newer than P2P file sharing, CDs, and online file transfers. The loss of DRM'd media will mean that normal consumers, like the salaried Western or European worker, will be more likely to grab a CD and rip it for their MP3 player if they won't have to worry about their drive, player, or CD software complaining that the end user cannot be trusted.
User feedback? Use cases? The ability to modify or consume equipment?
If you've done any sort of development, you know quite well that anything that gets pushed out the door, even if it's to the guys down the hall, will get beaten, bludgeoned, bullied, and blown up in ways that you never expect.
WoW also has the funny distinction of being an order of magnitude larger than the next MMOG out there, for better or worse. It'd be somewhat absurd NOT to have a disproportionately large share of material for a disproportionately popular game.
Warden's also nettled a lot of people who look into it, even if Joe User doesn't care so long as it doesn't break anything.
I'll agree that you need to understand concurrency before you leave uni and try to claim you're competent, rather in the program contexts or the OS contexts.
I disagree that pthreads require lunacy, however. They're pretty simple to use.