All the +4 and +5 scored posts are all about GNU/Linux being the one true name but none refuting this claim have been modded up. I sense bias again?
No, since/. moderation is more or less a democratic process, you sense the majority's opinion. You should call something "bias" if it falsely represents the minority's opinion as the only truth. Which is fine; there's nothing wrong with stating your opinion, but at the end of the day, when you lose a democratic election, you shouldn't whine that the voters were wrong in not agreeing with you. If you do, you're basically arguing that democracy doesn't work and that everybody should just shut up and listen to you.
I would concur, except that they should shut up and listen to ME instead, of course.;-)
The idea of using a speaker for feedback seems a bit stupid to me. What if I'm listening to loud music, or I'm in a noisy environment, or I'm deaf?
I don't have a set of salvaged IBM loud clicker keyboards at home just because I like the *noise* the keys make. I have them because I love the *feel* of it.
And yeah, since there's really a speaker in it, I wonder if it's hackable to make it make other noises. It'd be great to stick an unsuspecting subject with a squeaky mouse. Just imagine someone desperately trying to convince Apple tech support that his optical mouse has developed a mechanical squeaky...
Mod parent up. Now put that together with the recent stats on how many businesses have started to use MacOS X because of its better security. And you have Apple targetting the corporate desktop with MacS X and Apple hardware, allowing dual boot / virtualisation / Windows API emulation as a means of transitioning users who still need some Windows apps.
I wonder what The Steve will break in a fit of rage if and when AMD's case against Intel results in a ruling that renders the volume deal illegal and void. You'd almost think that AMD (lawsuit) and IBM (PPC announcements, Cell) banded together to flip The Steve the finger after he had already made the decision.
Go to mappy.com.
Search for a big city. I've only tried Brussels.
There's a Transparency slider at the top left.
Mappy has had satellite maps with transparency for at least a few months. It has been truly interactive for ages. I have no idea why nobody's mentioned this, and why anybody thinks Google's US-only, slow, hardly interactive maps are any good at all.
So if the M$ helpdesk sends you an e-mail stating that you've lost all your data and you should format and reinstall from the recovery CD, M$ can be fined $500K?
I'm a professional embedded developer.
I agree with other posters warning about premature optimisation, and the trade-off between legibility and maintainability vs. performance.
Now, when it comes to optimising your bottlenecks at the end, take into account that compilers really sucks at optimising. Badly. Last week, I was debugging this line of code:
a/= 4;
I had to come to the horrible conclusion that the compiler had taken this integer division and made it into a library call to the divide function. Solution:
a >>= 2;
I write my code legibly. I test and debug until it is correct. Then I look at the generated assembler (objdump -DS is your friend). Then I rewrite my C code until the compiler generates somewhat decent machine code.
Doesn't anybody program in C anymore? Has Slashdot degraded to an audience of non-programmers? The convention is to use caps for macro names, and they tend to be very long because they're global, so they'll need a namespace identifier, and descriptive.
I thought he was a scientific chef? The recipes are in oz, cups, and 'seconds' is abbreviated as 'sec' rather than the S.I. standard 's'. I call shenanigans!
I worked in the U.S. for a while, and I seem to recall that most programming jobs were done by Indian contractors, living and working in the U.S., obviously.
So, now those programming jobs will be done by... Indian contractors, living and working in India.
They didn't say anything about moving those dead weight jobs for American-born and educated managers, project managers, team leaders and other non-productive job functions overseas did they? Those can still sit on their butts, in meetings or on the phone all day, and keep pulling in a considerably higher salary than the immigrant work-force.
So, at the end of the day, nothing will change, except for a reduced demand for Indian food.
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In Enzo Biochem Inc. v. Gen-Probe Inc. the court held that deposit of biological material in a public facility may satisfy the written-description requirement of the Patent Act
Umm... so if I go take a dump in a public toilet, I own a patent on what I 'deposited'...? U.S. Patent law is insane!
... by reading this article. IBM isn't "dropping support for Linux on ThinkPads," it's just axing jobs all over.
Now, my requirements for a laptop are: three mouse buttons, no Windows keys, black, fast, good display, trackpoint. I don't think anything else than an IBM ThinkPad qualifies.
Funny. I don't have a high school degree. Four years after I joined IBM as an end user helpdesk support agent, I was being sent around the world at their expense as a senior software architect.
Once you get in, a whole world of opportunity opens before your eyes. What you studied and how well you performed in school is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is how you perform - correction - how well you manage to convince your management chain that you perform well.
It is possible that an IBM recruiter who goes out to universities looks at your grades. Without a reputation or experience, what else do you have to show for? But maybe you should look for a way to build up your reputation and experience (e.g. contributing to useful open source projects, doing I.T.-related jobs while studying as a freelancer) and try to tap into the recruitment process from a different angle.
So there's no reference (by name) to any other company doing embedded open source development, no attempt to determine why RedHat and other (U.S. only) companies laid off staff... Sorry, but this article is fluff.
I work for an (open source technologies) embedded development consultancy company. The only thing limiting our growth is finding competent personnel. Demand exceeds what we can deliver by a large factor. Linux has taken the embedded development world like a tornado grabbing a trailer. I see no bubble building up here.
Of course, other companies may have been less realistic in their growth perspectives and may have had more venture capital to burn.
michaelatwd21dotcodotukdotspamproof stated with hilarious arrogance: "its" does not require apostrophes in any of its incarnations, possessive or abbreviative
Well, now we know what the British public school system is worth. It's useless!
Does this mean that they'll throw Bill Cosby et al. in jail next? This might actually be a good thing!
In further news, hurricane Hugo is sueing the news media for having recorded his actions without prior written consent. Hugo's legal counsel has stated that they intend to plea that this law should be extended to all antropomorphised entities.
This makes me think of the item on "prima donna" programmers the other day. If we for a second assume that the preposterous be true, and there is a God and he created man, then
he's a spaghetti coder
he doesn't document any of his code
he supports the "embrace and extend" method of evolving functionality
he's clearly into this whole job security through obscurity thing
lots of people die because we can't figure out his code, so he doesn't give a rodent's behind about us
Actually... it looks like God works for Bill Gates!
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That standard document format exists. It's called HTML.
No, since /. moderation is more or less a democratic process, you sense the majority's opinion. You should call something "bias" if it falsely represents the minority's opinion as the only truth. Which is fine; there's nothing wrong with stating your opinion, but at the end of the day, when you lose a democratic election, you shouldn't whine that the voters were wrong in not agreeing with you. If you do, you're basically arguing that democracy doesn't work and that everybody should just shut up and listen to you.
I would concur, except that they should shut up and listen to ME instead, of course. ;-)
Ok, I'll be more specific. I want feedback, but I want *tactile* feedback.
I don't have a set of salvaged IBM loud clicker keyboards at home just because I like the *noise* the keys make. I have them because I love the *feel* of it.
And yeah, since there's really a speaker in it, I wonder if it's hackable to make it make other noises. It'd be great to stick an unsuspecting subject with a squeaky mouse. Just imagine someone desperately trying to convince Apple tech support that his optical mouse has developed a mechanical squeaky...
Mod parent up. Now put that together with the recent stats on how many businesses have started to use MacOS X because of its better security. And you have Apple targetting the corporate desktop with MacS X and Apple hardware, allowing dual boot / virtualisation / Windows API emulation as a means of transitioning users who still need some Windows apps.
That'll work in the basement lab. ;-) I can just see the whole office sitting in the garden or on the parking lot, just to be able to log in.
I wonder what The Steve will break in a fit of rage if and when AMD's case against Intel results in a ruling that renders the volume deal illegal and void. You'd almost think that AMD (lawsuit) and IBM (PPC announcements, Cell) banded together to flip The Steve the finger after he had already made the decision.
Go to mappy.com.
Search for a big city. I've only tried Brussels.
There's a Transparency slider at the top left.
Mappy has had satellite maps with transparency for at least a few months. It has been truly interactive for ages. I have no idea why nobody's mentioned this, and why anybody thinks Google's US-only, slow, hardly interactive maps are any good at all.
(I'm joking - I'm a rabid anti-smoking crusader just like you. If they would just fire all the smokers, this would not be an issue.)
So if the M$ helpdesk sends you an e-mail stating that you've lost all your data and you should format and reinstall from the recovery CD, M$ can be fined $500K?
Now, when it comes to optimising your bottlenecks at the end, take into account that compilers really sucks at optimising. Badly. Last week, I was debugging this line of code:
a /= 4;
I had to come to the horrible conclusion that the compiler had taken this integer division and made it into a library call to the divide function. Solution:
a >>= 2;
I write my code legibly. I test and debug until it is correct. Then I look at the generated assembler (objdump -DS is your friend). Then I rewrite my C code until the compiler generates somewhat decent machine code.
Minutes?! You jest, sir! Surely, you mean centons?
It's it's a a great great idea idea to to use use open open source source software software to to battle battle redundancy redundancy!
Doesn't anybody program in C anymore? Has Slashdot degraded to an audience of non-programmers? The convention is to use caps for macro names, and they tend to be very long because they're global, so they'll need a namespace identifier, and descriptive.
I thought he was a scientific chef? The recipes are in oz, cups, and 'seconds' is abbreviated as 'sec' rather than the S.I. standard 's'. I call shenanigans!
So, now those programming jobs will be done by... Indian contractors, living and working in India.
They didn't say anything about moving those dead weight jobs for American-born and educated managers, project managers, team leaders and other non-productive job functions overseas did they? Those can still sit on their butts, in meetings or on the phone all day, and keep pulling in a considerably higher salary than the immigrant work-force.
So, at the end of the day, nothing will change, except for a reduced demand for Indian food.
Umm... so if I go take a dump in a public toilet, I own a patent on what I 'deposited'...? U.S. Patent law is insane!
Now, my requirements for a laptop are: three mouse buttons, no Windows keys, black, fast, good display, trackpoint. I don't think anything else than an IBM ThinkPad qualifies.
Once you get in, a whole world of opportunity opens before your eyes. What you studied and how well you performed in school is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is how you perform - correction - how well you manage to convince your management chain that you perform well.
It is possible that an IBM recruiter who goes out to universities looks at your grades. Without a reputation or experience, what else do you have to show for? But maybe you should look for a way to build up your reputation and experience (e.g. contributing to useful open source projects, doing I.T.-related jobs while studying as a freelancer) and try to tap into the recruitment process from a different angle.
I work for an (open source technologies) embedded development consultancy company. The only thing limiting our growth is finding competent personnel. Demand exceeds what we can deliver by a large factor. Linux has taken the embedded development world like a tornado grabbing a trailer. I see no bubble building up here.
Of course, other companies may have been less realistic in their growth perspectives and may have had more venture capital to burn.
In a way, this is sad. Giving sexual favours to superiors have traditionally been a stepping stone in a career...
(In case you don't get it, I started my career doing helpdesk work.)
"its" does not require apostrophes in any of its incarnations, possessive or abbreviative
Well, now we know what the British public school system is worth. It's useless!
In further news, hurricane Hugo is sueing the news media for having recorded his actions without prior written consent. Hugo's legal counsel has stated that they intend to plea that this law should be extended to all antropomorphised entities.
Actually... it looks like God works for Bill Gates!
Are you suggesting DVD's migrate?