Yeah, don't forget about those random solar flares either. Stray neutrinos and shit...
No java VM can be any more "correct" than the underlying discrete hardware, so I can't see the point of your second paragraph in relation to the first.
Compiled code breaks when you make ASSUMPTIONS about what is available to you. If you make an assumption that your software is going to be run on WindowsXP on a P4, you have no right to bitch when you run it on Windows2000 on a Pentium and it breaks.
The problem with software is that no one has yet created a language that appropriately deals with improper assumptions. That word size is always 32 bit, that alignment is always on word boundaries, that floating point is accurate to 15 places, etc.
I will disagree with you that autogenerated code is crap. Microsoft's ATL stubs, for example, were just as good my hand-coded stubs, taking care of things that I would necessarily have ASSUMED were taken care of. MFC is also a fairly good example of this, even though it is bloated and slow.
The environmental cost of adding one giant battery to your car instead of 2000 parts made by 200 different vendors using all sorts of caustic chemicals is negligible compared to the lifecycle cost of a car spitting out tons of CO2 and CO over it's 3-10 year lifespan.
You're already doing that by paying for electricity to keep the device cool. If instead you can use a passive heat/cooling sink, you can indeed save money. That heat energy lost to keep your fridge cold is lost no matter what.
Who says? What's to prevent scramjet/rocket hybrids? We have LOTS of experience with building rockets, we've got that part down. What we don't have is experience operating in the high-mach air regime. By running all these tests, we get closer to the day when all our spacecraft have turbofans to get to mach-speed, and scramjet/rocket hybrids to take us to orbit.
Say this town can't get DSL, because it's not "profitable" enough for verizon to service it.
Say this town passes a referendum authorizing use of tax dollars to build out a DSL infrastructure, charge people what Verizon would normally charge for service, and give tax breaks based off the profits.
How is this not serving the needs of the voters?
Even if the service never makes a profit, it's what the voters wanted. Why should this be outlawed?
I guess my point is, that if a store wants to track trends based on product sales, it's all available to them already based on the UPC codes already stored in the computer when you're ringing up your order at checkout. If they want to entice you back into the store, all the information is already there in what you are currently buying. If you're buying a DVD player, you'll get a $10 off coupon on your receipt for your next visit, in the hopes that you'll buy 3 or 4 DVD's.
In such cases, I don't know what a loyalty card provides to a store, other than a known address to ship (arguably expensive) circular marketing material to. But then you might as well just plaster the entire neighborhood, since the opportunity cost is lower the more people you send your material too, right?
But I see your point. Loyalty cards really are not much more than disloyalty penalty cards.:-/ While I am not paranoid enough to care that CVS can track my condom and greeting card purchases through my credit card, I'm just a little bit pissed I have to carry a lot of these cards, just to get the lowest price available... Sad really.
holy shit, you must be the only guy besides my roommate who's survived that carnal incestuous perversion... I don't know a single Baybank customer who stuck with Fleet after the merger...
Poor guy. May this next merger be less painful than the last (closed accounts, ATM's not working, money going to the wrong people, direct deposits failing).
+3 informative for some guy who can't even format a plagarized article? Good grief, and I though at least a few of the moderators had some sanity left...
Let's use another example based on your scenarios...
If all of a sudden the Navy found that landing aircraft caused CVN's to sink, they'd lay those bastards up on their keels faster than you can say holy shite!
You'd expect the same from a $4billion dollar spaceship.
You almost never see gears painted. Anodized, maybe, but not painted. Finished, maybe. The chances of paintchips getting in the mix, fouling the lube is too great. Any part that is involved with great friction isn't going to be painted.
That is utter crap. For an always-on connection, there is *NO* reason not to give the end-user a static IP address, other than to wring more money out of the user, prevent them from running "services", and to make network remapping easier. For dial-up, this argument can make sense. Not DSL, not Cable.
What you forget is that most of the time, that is what we TRY to do. Where we get hamstrung is when a problem that is affecting our business is "fixed in rev+1". Throw enough problems fixed in rev+1 in the mix, and all of a sudden our ammunition for getting a patch for rev-base is gone, so we are forced to upgrade.
As someone who just recently went through this hell, I can tell you most emphatically that I *WOULDN'T* have upgrade if I had had a choice.
The NIH syndrome also applies to open source. Sadly enough. Many developers want a piece of software that does X + Y, but other developers have a vision that specifically excludes Y, so a new project gets spawned. Rather than come to some sort of compromise, the world is filled with two substandards pieces of software.
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Neither the parent, nor the grandparent mention the word stupid, only "confused", which is a state even Einstein has been in...
Because we don't WANT them to wrap? If we wanted lines to end at 78 characters, we'd put in carriage returns. ;-)
-10 Troll.
Yet Another Microsoft Zealot Who Hasn't Touched Linux Since 1993.
Doh.
Yeah, don't forget about those random solar flares either. Stray neutrinos and shit...
No java VM can be any more "correct" than the underlying discrete hardware, so I can't see the point of your second paragraph in relation to the first.
Compiled code breaks when you make ASSUMPTIONS about what is available to you. If you make an assumption that your software is going to be run on WindowsXP on a P4, you have no right to bitch when you run it on Windows2000 on a Pentium and it breaks.
The problem with software is that no one has yet created a language that appropriately deals with improper assumptions. That word size is always 32 bit, that alignment is always on word boundaries, that floating point is accurate to 15 places, etc.
I will disagree with you that autogenerated code is crap. Microsoft's ATL stubs, for example, were just as good my hand-coded stubs, taking care of things that I would necessarily have ASSUMED were taken care of. MFC is also a fairly good example of this, even though it is bloated and slow.
That doesn't mean the Air Force or the DoD hasn't flown nuclear payloads.
The environmental cost of adding one giant battery to your car instead of 2000 parts made by 200 different vendors using all sorts of caustic chemicals is negligible compared to the lifecycle cost of a car spitting out tons of CO2 and CO over it's 3-10 year lifespan.
Aren't they really called buckminsterfullerines? Say that 5 times fast...
Define "space" and we can get started.
You're already doing that by paying for electricity to keep the device cool. If instead you can use a passive heat/cooling sink, you can indeed save money. That heat energy lost to keep your fridge cold is lost no matter what.
Who says? What's to prevent scramjet/rocket hybrids? We have LOTS of experience with building rockets, we've got that part down. What we don't have is experience operating in the high-mach air regime. By running all these tests, we get closer to the day when all our spacecraft have turbofans to get to mach-speed, and scramjet/rocket hybrids to take us to orbit.
Say I live in a town.
Say this town is serviced by Verizon.
Say this town can't get DSL, because it's not "profitable" enough for verizon to service it.
Say this town passes a referendum authorizing use of tax dollars to build out a DSL infrastructure, charge people what Verizon would normally charge for service, and give tax breaks based off the profits.
How is this not serving the needs of the voters?
Even if the service never makes a profit, it's what the voters wanted. Why should this be outlawed?
SuSE is a no-cost distribution. You can use the live eval to bootstrap off of their FTP site. How does it get less no-cost than that?
-Chris
I guess my point is, that if a store wants to track trends based on product sales, it's all available to them already based on the UPC codes already stored in the computer when you're ringing up your order at checkout. If they want to entice you back into the store, all the information is already there in what you are currently buying. If you're buying a DVD player, you'll get a $10 off coupon on your receipt for your next visit, in the hopes that you'll buy 3 or 4 DVD's.
:-/ While I am not paranoid enough to care that CVS can track my condom and greeting card purchases through my credit card, I'm just a little bit pissed I have to carry a lot of these cards, just to get the lowest price available... Sad really.
In such cases, I don't know what a loyalty card provides to a store, other than a known address to ship (arguably expensive) circular marketing material to. But then you might as well just plaster the entire neighborhood, since the opportunity cost is lower the more people you send your material too, right?
But I see your point. Loyalty cards really are not much more than disloyalty penalty cards.
Cheers,
-Chris
Which is also likely stored in the same database, no?
You do realize that they already know what you purchased from the UPC code, and don't have to rely on the loyalty card, right?
holy shit, you must be the only guy besides my roommate who's survived that carnal incestuous perversion... I don't know a single Baybank customer who stuck with Fleet after the merger...
Poor guy. May this next merger be less painful than the last (closed accounts, ATM's not working, money going to the wrong people, direct deposits failing).
Why would that be useful, when they already have everything you just purchased packaged up neatly in a relational database somewhere?
table order
- qtp
table order-items
- 1
- 2
- 3
???
That sounds like more of a design flaw of whoever designed your windfarm.
+3 informative for some guy who can't even format a plagarized article? Good grief, and I though at least a few of the moderators had some sanity left...
Let's use another example based on your scenarios...
If all of a sudden the Navy found that landing aircraft caused CVN's to sink, they'd lay those bastards up on their keels faster than you can say holy shite!
You'd expect the same from a $4billion dollar spaceship.
You almost never see gears painted. Anodized, maybe, but not painted. Finished, maybe. The chances of paintchips getting in the mix, fouling the lube is too great. Any part that is involved with great friction isn't going to be painted.
That is utter crap. For an always-on connection, there is *NO* reason not to give the end-user a static IP address, other than to wring more money out of the user, prevent them from running "services", and to make network remapping easier. For dial-up, this argument can make sense. Not DSL, not Cable.
What you forget is that most of the time, that is what we TRY to do. Where we get hamstrung is when a problem that is affecting our business is "fixed in rev+1". Throw enough problems fixed in rev+1 in the mix, and all of a sudden our ammunition for getting a patch for rev-base is gone, so we are forced to upgrade.
As someone who just recently went through this hell, I can tell you most emphatically that I *WOULDN'T* have upgrade if I had had a choice.
I do believe 30b a year is about twice what it costs us to maintain our ground based nuclear deterrance forces.
IIRC...
The NIH syndrome also applies to open source. Sadly enough. Many developers want a piece of software that does X + Y, but other developers have a vision that specifically excludes Y, so a new project gets spawned. Rather than come to some sort of compromise, the world is filled with two substandards pieces of software.
Sad, really.