You sound like one of those people who said that Florida would become the murder capital of the world as every fender-bender turned into a shootout when Florida switch to a shall-issue Conceal and Carry state.
Yeah. Chicken Little is a great morality tale when we tell it to our children. You might want to learn a little something from it.
After years of watching it, and the redirection and misdirection, and the golden parachutes, the short-term operation of companies today is simply to line the pockets of the professional managers. The ongoing pumping out of MBAs in this country is going to kill US long term. Pretty much when the founders get out, the company loses it's ideals and it's drive. Once the professional managers come in you get things like "largest layoff in company history" to refocus and drive the company, while projecting 10% higher year over year growth.
I did this years ago back in 1998 when I had an issue getting my MAPI service provider working to provide an interface to my companies calendaring tool. I hijacked the Outlook calendar to create items in my software, while supporting regular Outlook email. Good stuff.
Except in 2006, the only people who had confidence in the whole ponzi scheme were Mr. Greenspan (Bernanke actually), the Real Estate market, and the Banks and homeowners. Many of us had been talking about a real-estate crash since the bubble began in the late 90's. The only think I had wrong was the date. I expected a peak in 2005, not 2008. Then again, I had no idea that CDOs were propping the whole house of cards up.
Hopefully, having learned their lessons from Afghanistan, Chechnya and Georgia, I'm pretty sure that arming the nations of Islam with nuclear weapons is *NOT*, repeat *NOT*, on the agenda for Russia.
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Books tend to weight in the 1-2 kilo range. Most kitchen cooking bookstands are more than sturdy enough for an iPad.
The biggest failure of Java was the whole "applet" integration mess with the browser. Slow to download, mixed-bag JREs that were usually mutually exclusive (Java evolved fast back then). and 80% of the time the applet just didn't load or start.
Left the whole industry with a sour taste in it's mouth. Could be why I've heard HTML5 is dropping applet support.
That's okay, because from what I'm reading about HTML5, applets are deprecated anyway.
I just want my Java based order-entry system to work on my iPhone. Is it so much to ask? Now that I actually have a Mac to test on, I'll see about giving your idea a whirl.
Traditional OODBMS have two major problems... well, maybe three, going against them
1. Hard to adhoc restructure data to do set-based modelling (is this really a downside?) 2. Schema evolution (changing a model from one version to another. 3. Lack of tools sophistication. For ObjectStore (which I have supported in the past and work for today) - we have always had a lack of easy-to-use tools like Crystal Reports and some visualization tools that the SQL market has had almost since day 1. Requiring a programmer to do your data mining is a serious downside to using a pure OODBMS.
Although since we added Xquery support to the product, it's getting easier to do adhoc queries without requiring access to a C++ or Java compiler.
Again, I don't blame the cops - I blame the court of public opinion. This guy is going to be stygmatized for life based on a crime he didn't commit. And like others have argued better than I can - the Great Google Memory hole will remember this guy.
I understand that - I think my point was that the media then takes this arrest, parrots their latest "ZOMG child molestor" and when it turns out there's nothing there to substantiate the claims, they aren't forced to eat their words, while the victim (the original suspect) is now burdened with his name forever being linked to every google search on child pornographer.
I understand and support the arrest process, on reasonable suspicion, but there has to be suitable repercussions for people involved in fucking up.
Like the idiot police departments who shoot up grandma in a no-knock drug raid based on faulty intel. Those people need to do hard time. Personal responsibility is GONE when it comes to police departments and the media, and we as citizens are expected to have any? Okay, I know I digress, but you're right, except where you think I think people can't be arrested. I'm mostly arguing for your point #2.
From what I hear, the latest FreeBSD (7.x) rates it as production-quality, but the version in the currently available FreeNAS is merely experimental. Though I hear lots of anecdotal evidence that it runs well there as well.
I use the Android app market, and I find what I need. I think the Apple App Store is more plagued with marketers vying for positioning in the vaunted "Top 75" than in any other fashion. How about letting me sort by "5 stars"? Anybody?
I'm not sure I want anyone except the community "in charge" of what gets bubbled up in each category.
Really? Because with my T2300 at full-blast, I'm lucky if I can get two dvds to transcode to avis for me to play on my iPod Touch. My guess is your not capturing 30fps, or are using hardware acceleration, because there's no way my Core 2 Duo at 1.6Ghz (running ubuntu and gnome) can do what you say your Atom is doing.
Not sure about in the UK, but innocent until PROVEN guilty used to mean something across the pond.
It's just the dumb-ass media castrating police departments the world over. The media is all about front-page spreads ruining someone's life, but they're never about front-page spreads about what they printed ended up turning into blatent libel.
Off-topic, but I love how a certain unknown Windows patch undid all my registry tweaks so now the damn balloon/tool-tips for Dummies keep popping up every time something happens on my desktop. Love it!:-)
There's an argument to be made that we have been seeing them all along, but that in Toyota's particular case, we're seeing a system far more susceptible to random bit-rot, since so much more of their vehicles are fly-by-wire.
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You sound like one of those people who said that Florida would become the murder capital of the world as every fender-bender turned into a shootout when Florida switch to a shall-issue Conceal and Carry state.
Yeah. Chicken Little is a great morality tale when we tell it to our children. You might want to learn a little something from it.
After years of watching it, and the redirection and misdirection, and the golden parachutes, the short-term operation of companies today is simply to line the pockets of the professional managers. The ongoing pumping out of MBAs in this country is going to kill US long term. Pretty much when the founders get out, the company loses it's ideals and it's drive. Once the professional managers come in you get things like "largest layoff in company history" to refocus and drive the company, while projecting 10% higher year over year growth.
Good stuff. I can't wait to be a business owner.
I did this years ago back in 1998 when I had an issue getting my MAPI service provider working to provide an interface to my companies calendaring tool. I hijacked the Outlook calendar to create items in my software, while supporting regular Outlook email. Good stuff.
Except in 2006, the only people who had confidence in the whole ponzi scheme were Mr. Greenspan (Bernanke actually), the Real Estate market, and the Banks and homeowners. Many of us had been talking about a real-estate crash since the bubble began in the late 90's. The only think I had wrong was the date. I expected a peak in 2005, not 2008. Then again, I had no idea that CDOs were propping the whole house of cards up.
Hopefully, having learned their lessons from Afghanistan, Chechnya and Georgia, I'm pretty sure that arming the nations of Islam with nuclear weapons is *NOT*, repeat *NOT*, on the agenda for Russia.
Books tend to weight in the 1-2 kilo range. Most kitchen cooking bookstands are more than sturdy enough for an iPad.
Awesome astroturfing dude!
Difficult to access from multiple languages simultaneously... what rock have you been living under the past 20 years?
The biggest failure of Java was the whole "applet" integration mess with the browser. Slow to download, mixed-bag JREs that were usually mutually exclusive (Java evolved fast back then). and 80% of the time the applet just didn't load or start.
Left the whole industry with a sour taste in it's mouth. Could be why I've heard HTML5 is dropping applet support.
That's okay, because from what I'm reading about HTML5, applets are deprecated anyway.
I just want my Java based order-entry system to work on my iPhone. Is it so much to ask? Now that I actually have a Mac to test on, I'll see about giving your idea a whirl.
I liked CORBA, way back in the day... but why isn't there a cross-platform version of COMs IDispatch? Surely that would be the bees knees?
Check out Berkeley DB XML
http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/xml/index.html
Traditional OODBMS have two major problems... well, maybe three, going against them
1. Hard to adhoc restructure data to do set-based modelling (is this really a downside?)
2. Schema evolution (changing a model from one version to another.
3. Lack of tools sophistication. For ObjectStore (which I have supported in the past and work for today) - we have always had a lack of easy-to-use tools like Crystal Reports and some visualization tools that the SQL market has had almost since day 1. Requiring a programmer to do your data mining is a serious downside to using a pure OODBMS.
Although since we added Xquery support to the product, it's getting easier to do adhoc queries without requiring access to a C++ or Java compiler.
I concur. If microsoft were to ever "die" I would want SQL Server saved from certain destruction.
Again, I don't blame the cops - I blame the court of public opinion. This guy is going to be stygmatized for life based on a crime he didn't commit. And like others have argued better than I can - the Great Google Memory hole will remember this guy.
I understand that - I think my point was that the media then takes this arrest, parrots their latest "ZOMG child molestor" and when it turns out there's nothing there to substantiate the claims, they aren't forced to eat their words, while the victim (the original suspect) is now burdened with his name forever being linked to every google search on child pornographer.
I understand and support the arrest process, on reasonable suspicion, but there has to be suitable repercussions for people involved in fucking up.
Like the idiot police departments who shoot up grandma in a no-knock drug raid based on faulty intel. Those people need to do hard time. Personal responsibility is GONE when it comes to police departments and the media, and we as citizens are expected to have any? Okay, I know I digress, but you're right, except where you think I think people can't be arrested. I'm mostly arguing for your point #2.
From what I hear, the latest FreeBSD (7.x) rates it as production-quality, but the version in the currently available FreeNAS is merely experimental. Though I hear lots of anecdotal evidence that it runs well there as well.
I use the Android app market, and I find what I need. I think the Apple App Store is more plagued with marketers vying for positioning in the vaunted "Top 75" than in any other fashion. How about letting me sort by "5 stars"? Anybody?
I'm not sure I want anyone except the community "in charge" of what gets bubbled up in each category.
Really? Because with my T2300 at full-blast, I'm lucky if I can get two dvds to transcode to avis for me to play on my iPod Touch. My guess is your not capturing 30fps, or are using hardware acceleration, because there's no way my Core 2 Duo at 1.6Ghz (running ubuntu and gnome) can do what you say your Atom is doing.
:-)
Color me amazed!
I had an iPhone for a month. But because of the AT&T lockdown, I was giving up network quality and tethering - both of which are important for me.
So I now have a Droid. But whenever I'm in range of a Wifi hotspot, I'm using my iPod Touch.
About the only App I'm going to buy for the Droid is PDAnet, which I own for my Treo (and love).
Not sure about in the UK, but innocent until PROVEN guilty used to mean something across the pond.
It's just the dumb-ass media castrating police departments the world over. The media is all about front-page spreads ruining someone's life, but they're never about front-page spreads about what they printed ended up turning into blatent libel.
Fucking hypocrites.
This has always been the case with NFS. Even SGI IRIX, AIX and SunOS and Solaris way back in the day (1994).
Linux is just obeying the standard set by others.
As usual.
Off-topic, but I love how a certain unknown Windows patch undid all my registry tweaks so now the damn balloon/tool-tips for Dummies keep popping up every time something happens on my desktop. Love it! :-)
Don't worry. BSD has ZFS and is progressing quite nicely.
The only reason I'm running Solaris today is because ZFS is well supported in nv129, and is still "experimental" in FreeNAS.
As soon as FreeNAS gets a refresh, I'm migrating.
There's an argument to be made that we have been seeing them all along, but that in Toyota's particular case, we're seeing a system far more susceptible to random bit-rot, since so much more of their vehicles are fly-by-wire.