I am a slogger, I am a fixer of bugs, an exterminator of dastardly demons. I don't have the attention span for a 3 month feature development project, or new shiny sexy. I don't care. But I'll spend 6 months tracking down an esoteric timing bug in a application, and slaughter it.
My 5 year plan is, and always has been, to be a fixer of problems, not a creator of new ones, and I have a 15 year track record of proving it.
I just looked up the fabric speeds of a 6509 I used at my last company. 40 Gb/slot, 720 Gb total system throughput. At 24 port densities, this was almost fast enough to run every port at 1Gb/full duplex. Almost. At a total system cost of nearly $750,000, it wasn't a cheap investment, but aside from port density, we never had a problem with it. For that reason alone it was worth it's weight in gold...:-/
Professionals should be expected to act like professionals. If they are, their personal thoughts and feelings on the matter shouldn't apply. Anti-abortion does not necessarily mean bombings, and spouting off vitriol about the President, last I checked, wasn't illegal, unless you of course threatened to kill him, where it is illegal for pretty much anybody (but which the Secret Service takes an especial disliking to).
Criminal records can be held against you, but even in the holy Democratic Union of Massachusetts, that's only true for seven years. Murder your family, a schoolbus full of children and a puppy, and 7 years after your parole ends you too can be bank manager or something similar.
I wonder how much of the craptastic handwriting experiences to be had with "convertible" tablets has more to do with screen resolution than anything else. I mean, how does 1024x768 compare to 150dpi on a piece of paper? With 4" screens now routinely doing 900x400 (moto droid) why can't our laptop/convertible resolutions get half-an-order-of-magnitude better?
Palm was destroyed by the very same thing that almost killed Apple - trying to build an open platform.
Palm dominated the early PDA field, but decided at the height of the dotCom era to get out of device manufacturing, and into developing a platform. The next major batch of innovations came from Handspring, which FINALLY put a GSM phone in a Palm device, and let to Palm eventually contracting back to an integrated device manufacturer.
Their forays into WinMo are the only thing that kept them from dying through their multiple attempts to reboot Garnet.
Except HP is already present in every BestBuy, Walmart, Target, Staples, OfficeMax and OfficeDepot in the country.
That's a LOT of floor-space for eyeballs, and with the right marketing campaign (iPad++), and the right price point, they could make serious inroads (maybe not 1/2 a million in week 1).
I remember when my local Apple store (affiliated reseller circa 1998) was in a small, isolated building next to the paintball store, with pegboard on the walls.
And the way to cure that problem is to leverage yourself into a market where MS doesn't control your survival.
Nevermind the fact that Microsoft can't STOP selling product to HP. They may lose preferential pricing deals, but they'll still always be able to buy Windows at OEM prices.
Since HP doesn't have much of a business laptop market, they're not going to suffer there. Let Dell have the low-hanging fruit. HP wants to own the Datacenter, and a little WebOS isn't going to change the HP->Microsoft relationship there at all.
It's like they built the hardware to only be used by really small people (women), and then forgot that most women have these things called nails, which makes half the keyboard (the side edges) impossible to use for their target market.
Had the Pre been the size of the iPhone, and not the size of the iPhone's screen, it might have been usable by my fat geek fingers, and my gf's sleek yet heavily armored finger-tips.
cheap crap compared to the workstations and mainframes.
That was the quote. And yes, even an $8000 compaq 386 in 1988 was cheep crap compared to a $50,000 PDP-11. Or something from Data General, for example, one of which my father's manufacturing company is still using to this day (which is both amazing and frightening at the same time).
Find me any Intel machine that's been in daily use since the mid-to-late-80's, and I'll eat my shoe.:-)
Would be great to have a kernel-powermanagement in the Ubuntu repository. I'm not using LFS or gentoo specifically because I hate fucking recompiling my kernel.
And the beauty of this is that Tridge could have gotten a patent on rsync as a superset of the Windows update functionality, claiming Microsoft's prior art, licensed it to SF.com, and then Microsoft would have to STFU and dance.
Remember, you can patent an improvement to ANYONE's patent, and then license it for free to the world.
Dynamics is a typical Microsoft product. Build 80% of what customers want, including the hard stuff. But don't build the 15% of the Easy stuff that we really NEED, that make your product polished and usable. They go so far to get something great, and then stop.
Dynamics was a checkmark product for Microsoft. "Oh yes, we can do CRM" just like Sharepoint was a checkmark "Oh yes, we can do content and document management." Unfortunately, Sharepoint is a great example of shitty document management. Again, 80% was there, and well done (webdav), but the missing 20% killed me.
The only exception to date is SQL Server (IMHO), which is getting more awesome every year.
This is why competition is good. Moto Droid and HTC Incredible are continuing to eat into the mobile marketspace and Verizon is pushing very hard on Android.
SMS originally was free. I was using it for paging alerts in 2001/2002 and never paid a dime. Something between the loss of my datacenter job in 2002 and my gaining a new one in 2005, they'd started charging for it. It may have "cost" something on paper (.08?) but they never billed it (Verizon) - perhaps because they couldn't.
Once they saw usage go up, it made sense to charge for it - it was a profit-making revenue stream. I'd have done the same. I don't think I'd be as greedy as the telco motherfuckers, but hey, that's just me. If you don't like the extra $20/m, don't get it.
What I don't like is the phone company not supporting a total blockage on SMS. I don't want SMS at all - and I don't want people texting me to cost me $.20 a pop. Last I tried with Verizon, they wouldn't block incoming at all.
Why the FUCK (in line with today's other ACLU article) can't I have this feature in a modern OS? Linux? Windows?
chroot is not good enough, IMHO. jails are closer, but still not good enough. I'm not sure on SELinux... I don't want virtualization - I want application sandboxing!
Maybe system hooks to a supervisor module to prompt me for a password whenever the app tries to break the sandbox (system or network documents, maybe)...
Seriously, this is the next wave of OS protections from malware - where are the people working on this?
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I am a slogger, I am a fixer of bugs, an exterminator of dastardly demons. I don't have the attention span for a 3 month feature development project, or new shiny sexy. I don't care. But I'll spend 6 months tracking down an esoteric timing bug in a application, and slaughter it.
My 5 year plan is, and always has been, to be a fixer of problems, not a creator of new ones, and I have a 15 year track record of proving it.
I just looked up the fabric speeds of a 6509 I used at my last company. 40 Gb/slot, 720 Gb total system throughput. At 24 port densities, this was almost fast enough to run every port at 1Gb/full duplex. Almost. At a total system cost of nearly $750,000, it wasn't a cheap investment, but aside from port density, we never had a problem with it. For that reason alone it was worth it's weight in gold... :-/
Yeah. That only took 15 years.
Professionals should be expected to act like professionals. If they are, their personal thoughts and feelings on the matter shouldn't apply. Anti-abortion does not necessarily mean bombings, and spouting off vitriol about the President, last I checked, wasn't illegal, unless you of course threatened to kill him, where it is illegal for pretty much anybody (but which the Secret Service takes an especial disliking to).
Criminal records can be held against you, but even in the holy Democratic Union of Massachusetts, that's only true for seven years. Murder your family, a schoolbus full of children and a puppy, and 7 years after your parole ends you too can be bank manager or something similar.
Powertripping employer/manager is more like it.
I wonder how much of the craptastic handwriting experiences to be had with "convertible" tablets has more to do with screen resolution than anything else. I mean, how does 1024x768 compare to 150dpi on a piece of paper? With 4" screens now routinely doing 900x400 (moto droid) why can't our laptop/convertible resolutions get half-an-order-of-magnitude better?
Palm was destroyed by the very same thing that almost killed Apple - trying to build an open platform.
Palm dominated the early PDA field, but decided at the height of the dotCom era to get out of device manufacturing, and into developing a platform. The next major batch of innovations came from Handspring, which FINALLY put a GSM phone in a Palm device, and let to Palm eventually contracting back to an integrated device manufacturer.
Their forays into WinMo are the only thing that kept them from dying through their multiple attempts to reboot Garnet.
Except HP is already present in every BestBuy, Walmart, Target, Staples, OfficeMax and OfficeDepot in the country.
That's a LOT of floor-space for eyeballs, and with the right marketing campaign (iPad++), and the right price point, they could make serious inroads (maybe not 1/2 a million in week 1).
I remember when my local Apple store (affiliated reseller circa 1998) was in a small, isolated building next to the paintball store, with pegboard on the walls.
Keep waiting. Vapourware.
And the way to cure that problem is to leverage yourself into a market where MS doesn't control your survival.
Nevermind the fact that Microsoft can't STOP selling product to HP. They may lose preferential pricing deals, but they'll still always be able to buy Windows at OEM prices.
Since HP doesn't have much of a business laptop market, they're not going to suffer there. Let Dell have the low-hanging fruit. HP wants to own the Datacenter, and a little WebOS isn't going to change the HP->Microsoft relationship there at all.
It's like they built the hardware to only be used by really small people (women), and then forgot that most women have these things called nails, which makes half the keyboard (the side edges) impossible to use for their target market.
Had the Pre been the size of the iPhone, and not the size of the iPhone's screen, it might have been usable by my fat geek fingers, and my gf's sleek yet heavily armored finger-tips.
I think said 3-strikes ought to include a little bit of jail time (1 year) for treason.
Windows expands to fill all available memory...
cheap crap compared to the workstations and mainframes.
:-)
That was the quote. And yes, even an $8000 compaq 386 in 1988 was cheep crap compared to a $50,000 PDP-11. Or something from Data General, for example, one of which my father's manufacturing company is still using to this day (which is both amazing and frightening at the same time).
Find me any Intel machine that's been in daily use since the mid-to-late-80's, and I'll eat my shoe.
I know. remember when WindowsNT 4.0 and Mosaic/Netscape ran awesome in a comparatively paltry 128MB of RAM?
Would be great to have a kernel-powermanagement in the Ubuntu repository. I'm not using LFS or gentoo specifically because I hate fucking recompiling my kernel.
And the beauty of this is that Tridge could have gotten a patent on rsync as a superset of the Windows update functionality, claiming Microsoft's prior art, licensed it to SF.com, and then Microsoft would have to STFU and dance.
Remember, you can patent an improvement to ANYONE's patent, and then license it for free to the world.
Multiprocess tabbed browser. IE8's beta was the first, beating Chrome's beta by about half a year.
Hmm, I can't seem to recall if MyIE [url:http://www.myie2.com] did this or not?
Eclipse has prior art (at least), resizeable toolbars, etc. Maybe the only innovation seems to be the Live Preview bit.
Dynamics is a typical Microsoft product. Build 80% of what customers want, including the hard stuff. But don't build the 15% of the Easy stuff that we really NEED, that make your product polished and usable. They go so far to get something great, and then stop.
Dynamics was a checkmark product for Microsoft. "Oh yes, we can do CRM" just like Sharepoint was a checkmark "Oh yes, we can do content and document management." Unfortunately, Sharepoint is a great example of shitty document management. Again, 80% was there, and well done (webdav), but the missing 20% killed me.
The only exception to date is SQL Server (IMHO), which is getting more awesome every year.
And prey tell how do you do hat without jailbreaking your iPhone?
:-)
Oh wait, buy one from another country at 20% more.
This is why competition is good. Moto Droid and HTC Incredible are continuing to eat into the mobile marketspace and Verizon is pushing very hard on Android.
SMS originally was free. I was using it for paging alerts in 2001/2002 and never paid a dime. Something between the loss of my datacenter job in 2002 and my gaining a new one in 2005, they'd started charging for it. It may have "cost" something on paper (.08?) but they never billed it (Verizon) - perhaps because they couldn't.
Once they saw usage go up, it made sense to charge for it - it was a profit-making revenue stream. I'd have done the same. I don't think I'd be as greedy as the telco motherfuckers, but hey, that's just me. If you don't like the extra $20/m, don't get it.
What I don't like is the phone company not supporting a total blockage on SMS. I don't want SMS at all - and I don't want people texting me to cost me $.20 a pop. Last I tried with Verizon, they wouldn't block incoming at all.
Everywhere on Earth we find water, we find life.
He's an idiot. Nothing to see here, move along.
Ignoring any JVM based systems, such as Android or Blackberry?
Just because it's Java doesn't make it "not open."
Why the FUCK (in line with today's other ACLU article) can't I have this feature in a modern OS? Linux? Windows?
chroot is not good enough, IMHO. jails are closer, but still not good enough. I'm not sure on SELinux... I don't want virtualization - I want application sandboxing!
Maybe system hooks to a supervisor module to prompt me for a password whenever the app tries to break the sandbox (system or network documents, maybe)...
Seriously, this is the next wave of OS protections from malware - where are the people working on this?