the sun will go nova and the earth will cease to be and all human endeavor will vanish forever. Nothing lasts. Nothing is worth doing except enjoying the small bit of time we get on this planet. If you get your joy playing WoW for 27 hours, being first to level 80, good for you.
They cannot compete with lower cost alternatives. The broad acceptance of the web and the victory of scale-out over scale-up has destroyed their market. They have the best buggy whip, only nobody wants a buggy whip these days.
We all want racks of interchange-able throw-away blades. And there's no way Sun competes in that market.
They're as dead as Cray, DEC, SGI and Data General. They just don't know it yet.
From your original post, it sounds like you need command control. This is significantly easier than general speech recognition and is well within reach for current computers and software.
If you have a relatively small and consistent set of applications and actions, it's easy to program the voice recognition to map distinct sounds to specific hot key combinations. And with a decent microphone, you can get consistent results. I've used this technique, the only problem we had was ambient noise triggering the commands.
... but you would be wrong. Christopher Tolkien did not have the original inspiration...mashing up Norse, Celtic and some unknown number of other mythos to create the foundation for D&D and about 50% of modern nerd culture as we know it today.
Public Domain is important and it's been stultified, largely through the efforts of the Disney Corporation. They don't want Mickey entering public domain and they bribe the makers of laws to alter the copyright laws for their own greed.
I'll tell you, if you just get an assignment, in writing, every week or two and you go off by yourself and do you work without ever communicating with other employees, then it absolutely does NOT matter what time you do your work. Very few organizations run this way, so it probably matters what time you work.
Women and religion, a potent and dangerous cocktail that will warp and debase even the most rational man's thought processes. Add the power of government and you get coercive nightmares like this poor schmuck in Afghanistan is experiencing.
>> And as I'm sure others will point out, she's just shifting the emissions to a power plant, which may end up being worse than burning fuel in her car depending on the fuel the plant uses,
With Xcel In Minnesota you can specify wind source.
4th Graders love Webkinz. Talk about servers behind the game a bit, but mostly talk about how many Webkinz you have at the office and what kind of unique objects you've acquired.
Yes, but you are talking about anime - the same animation style that introduced the world to tentacle porn.
Due to years of exposure to mass quantities of anime and specifically tentacle porn, I can no longer walk through the cephalopod exhibit at the local aquarium without popping a woody.
Only sissies code in Perl. Real men write only in machine code. If you need more than 10 buttons on your keyboard, you're not doing it properly.
Seriously, Perl is not the most readable computer language on the planet. Maybe it's better than... oh well, I can't think of a less readable language at the moment, but I'm sure one exists.
I love these religous debates on the merits of this or that programming language, O/S, code editor. They're all so much fun.
1. REAL Campaign finace reform. Our congress is wholly-owned. The administration is wholly-owned. It's what Bush must have meant when he spoke of an "ownership society." We live in a plutocracy. It's not one man, one vote. It's one dollar, one vote. Anyone who can gather 5,000 signatures should get 100% federal funding for running for the House. For 15,000 signatures, you get funding for Senate. For 15,000 signatures 40 or more states, you get funded for president. It should be 100% illegal to give any amount of money to any elected official in the Federal Government. Period. The reason this is the #1 issue is it underpins the entire system.
2. Energy independence. We are warping our foreign policy because we're addicted to cheap foreign oil. We need to fix this by reducing our dependence on oil as a transportation fuel and eliminating our depenence on oil as a fuel for electric generators. Funding mass transit in our 50 largest cities would be a good start. Taxing gasoline to pay for it would be even smarter. With the $1.5 trillion we've wasted in Iraq, we could have built out 10 subway lines in EACH of our 50 largest cities. The majority of our population lives in these big cities. If we shift en-mass to mass transit, we'll lower our oil consumption by millions of barrels per day and that will have an effect on demand which will make it more reasonable for rural citizens who cannot use mass transit efficiently to get around based on oil. Geothermal systems can be installed and homes in the NE can be converted from oil to electricity produced by wind and wave farms.
3. Increased funding for scientific research. Because we get better batteries, better generators, better wind turbines, and better all kinds of stuff. We're under funding our basic science.
4. Increased funding for maintenance of existing infrastructure. No more collapsing bridges, please.
5. Stop funding Ethanol. It's stupid.
6. Stop subsidizing the RIAA. Don't regulate the internet.
7. Continue to let individuals decide if Abortion is right or wrong. Land of the Free means people are free to live in ways that do not meet your approval.
8. Give every law-abiding citizen over ten years of age 15 RPG's and an AK47 and 5,000 rounds of ammunition. After the carnage ceases, have a reasonable discussion of gun ownership rights and responsibilities.
>> It is highly likely that the "average" consumer
In the USA, it is highly likely that the "average" consumer cannot spell average...or computer one given a series of 3 single digit numbers. Or spell consumer.
>> The first flight which ends up with the death of a customer will scare away all potential customers and stop investment for 10 years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_aircraft
>> It's just ass paper to cover your ass when the client says thats not what they wanted.
I understand, but I find that if I don't write the ass paper and the client says "that's not what I wanted" I have the time to change it into what they wanted and they're much happier if I do that than if I show them a "gotcha" piece of ass paper.
1. Keep the team small. 2-4 people is best. 2. Ignore heavyweight Methodologies and Methodists. 3. You need a specification, a small document in the language of the customer, that describes what the customer hopes to accomplish with the software you're writing. If the customer cannot understand the spec, you're doing it wrong. 4. You need some white boards. 5. You need to get good with a pretty-printer so you don't have to waste hundreds of hours arguing about coding styles. 6. If you have documents that describe the programs and they are constantly getting out of sync with the code, write clear code with decent names and throw the documents away. On 99% of the projects I've seen (mostly Fortune 500 co's), the documentation outside the code quickly becomes actually misleading and slows people down if they read it first in their attempt to understand the code. 7. 1 talented, motivated, socially adept programmer is worth 1,000 mid-range unmotivated socially inept programmers.
Peopleware is pretty good. Mythical Man Month is better.
Given: Most programmers love one programming environment and hate all others.
Given: Most programmers, working in the programming environment they love are more productive than they are in all others.
Given: Most programmers, confronted with working in the programming environment they do not love, will spend a lot of time arguing with everyone trying to switch their project to the programming environment they love.
If managment decrees, we are a Java shop, do not hire ANY programmers who love C#, even if they could program in Java, you'll just get a religious war and a huge amount of wasted time.
The whole 'right tool for the job' argument is only appropriate for about the top 1% of programmers. The vast majority picked their favorite tool at some formative point in their programming life and are not mature enough as human beings to move from language to language over time.
I'd say, if your programming group has "upper management" then its large enough that everything is doomed in the first place, so if you don't want to work on projects that will fail to produce something useful 50% of the time and be despised by your customers 100% of the time, RUN SCREAMING from this workplace.
WHEN you work on project teams with more than 5 people and you have no interaction with the actual people who will use the software you write, THEN your project is going to end in failure, even if your lower and middle management pretend otherwise and throw a morale event and print a banner on a big wide HP printer every time the whole mess builds.
At www.pan-univeralism.com we use 16-bytes for a brane ID, 16-bytes for a galactic identifier, a 4 byte galactic sub-region identifier, a 16-byte solar system identifier (we recommend the top bit as an interstellar flag) and 4 bytes for planet identifier, then we use a simple 16-byte id for each computer on the planet.
Then, we use CNames to map each computer's numeric id to a porn starlet's name, so we can remember them.
>> This is a result of "mainstreaming" and social promotion
Unlike either of these practices, NCLB causes a large number of teachers to spend a large amount of class time teaching to the test.
A more insidious problem than NCLB and teaching the test and nothing but the test is "elminate the achievement gap" goals. The idea that all children should get a good education, regardless of race or class is a noble idea. The way a bureaucracy implements this idea is, however, quite predictable. The district where my kids attend school, given this "close the gap" directive from the community, the school board and the superintendant of schools are responding by dramatically and explicitly dumbing-down the curricula in order to prevent the bright students from scoring higher than the not-so-bright.
My kids' somewhat excellent 3rd-grade teacher told my wife and I that we should take our moderately bright kids out of public schools and send them to private school. We did.
Slashdot Mirror
buzzword for the 2nd decade of the century. Usage: "I just downloaded another craplication for my smart phone."
All the big companies are corrupt dens of snake handling pedophiles.
the sun will go nova and the earth will cease to be and all human endeavor will vanish forever. Nothing lasts. Nothing is worth doing except enjoying the small bit of time we get on this planet. If you get your joy playing WoW for 27 hours, being first to level 80, good for you.
They cannot compete with lower cost alternatives. The broad acceptance of the web and the victory of scale-out over scale-up has destroyed their market. They have the best buggy whip, only nobody wants a buggy whip these days. We all want racks of interchange-able throw-away blades. And there's no way Sun competes in that market. They're as dead as Cray, DEC, SGI and Data General. They just don't know it yet.
From your original post, it sounds like you need command control. This is significantly easier than general speech recognition and is well within reach for current computers and software. If you have a relatively small and consistent set of applications and actions, it's easy to program the voice recognition to map distinct sounds to specific hot key combinations. And with a decent microphone, you can get consistent results. I've used this technique, the only problem we had was ambient noise triggering the commands.
...out of gas. If it works (gets me safely to and from work and short errands around town, 40 miles per day), very cool. I'd buy one. No batteries.
... but you would be wrong. Christopher Tolkien did not have the original inspiration...mashing up Norse, Celtic and some unknown number of other mythos to create the foundation for D&D and about 50% of modern nerd culture as we know it today. Public Domain is important and it's been stultified, largely through the efforts of the Disney Corporation. They don't want Mickey entering public domain and they bribe the makers of laws to alter the copyright laws for their own greed.
I'll tell you, if you just get an assignment, in writing, every week or two and you go off by yourself and do you work without ever communicating with other employees, then it absolutely does NOT matter what time you do your work. Very few organizations run this way, so it probably matters what time you work.
Women and religion, a potent and dangerous cocktail that will warp and debase even the most rational man's thought processes. Add the power of government and you get coercive nightmares like this poor schmuck in Afghanistan is experiencing.
>> And as I'm sure others will point out, she's just shifting the emissions to a power plant, which may end up being worse than burning fuel in her car depending on the fuel the plant uses,
With Xcel In Minnesota you can specify wind source.
4th Graders love Webkinz. Talk about servers behind the game a bit, but mostly talk about how many Webkinz you have at the office and what kind of unique objects you've acquired.
Due to years of exposure to mass quantities of anime and specifically tentacle porn, I can no longer walk through the cephalopod exhibit at the local aquarium without popping a woody.
Only sissies code in Perl. Real men write only in machine code. If you need more than 10 buttons on your keyboard, you're not doing it properly.
Seriously, Perl is not the most readable computer language on the planet. Maybe it's better than ... oh well, I can't think of a less readable language at the moment, but I'm sure one exists.
I love these religous debates on the merits of this or that programming language, O/S, code editor. They're all so much fun.
1. REAL Campaign finace reform. Our congress is wholly-owned. The administration is wholly-owned. It's what Bush must have meant when he spoke of an "ownership society." We live in a plutocracy. It's not one man, one vote. It's one dollar, one vote. Anyone who can gather 5,000 signatures should get 100% federal funding for running for the House. For 15,000 signatures, you get funding for Senate. For 15,000 signatures 40 or more states, you get funded for president. It should be 100% illegal to give any amount of money to any elected official in the Federal Government. Period. The reason this is the #1 issue is it underpins the entire system. 2. Energy independence. We are warping our foreign policy because we're addicted to cheap foreign oil. We need to fix this by reducing our dependence on oil as a transportation fuel and eliminating our depenence on oil as a fuel for electric generators. Funding mass transit in our 50 largest cities would be a good start. Taxing gasoline to pay for it would be even smarter. With the $1.5 trillion we've wasted in Iraq, we could have built out 10 subway lines in EACH of our 50 largest cities. The majority of our population lives in these big cities. If we shift en-mass to mass transit, we'll lower our oil consumption by millions of barrels per day and that will have an effect on demand which will make it more reasonable for rural citizens who cannot use mass transit efficiently to get around based on oil. Geothermal systems can be installed and homes in the NE can be converted from oil to electricity produced by wind and wave farms. 3. Increased funding for scientific research. Because we get better batteries, better generators, better wind turbines, and better all kinds of stuff. We're under funding our basic science. 4. Increased funding for maintenance of existing infrastructure. No more collapsing bridges, please. 5. Stop funding Ethanol. It's stupid. 6. Stop subsidizing the RIAA. Don't regulate the internet. 7. Continue to let individuals decide if Abortion is right or wrong. Land of the Free means people are free to live in ways that do not meet your approval. 8. Give every law-abiding citizen over ten years of age 15 RPG's and an AK47 and 5,000 rounds of ammunition. After the carnage ceases, have a reasonable discussion of gun ownership rights and responsibilities.
Economic Theory declares unspent money worthless....that explains the US savings rate.
>> It is highly likely that the "average" consumer In the USA, it is highly likely that the "average" consumer cannot spell average...or computer one given a series of 3 single digit numbers. Or spell consumer.
>> The first flight which ends up with the death of a customer will scare away all potential customers and stop investment for 10 years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_accidents_and_incidents_on_commercial_aircraft
One troll lies and uses anonymity on the web to damage people. The other uses lawyers. Not much difference, really.
>> It's just ass paper to cover your ass when the client says thats not what they wanted.
I understand, but I find that if I don't write the ass paper and the client says "that's not what I wanted" I have the time to change it into what they wanted and they're much happier if I do that than if I show them a "gotcha" piece of ass paper.
1. Keep the team small. 2-4 people is best.
2. Ignore heavyweight Methodologies and Methodists.
3. You need a specification, a small document in the language of the customer, that describes what the customer hopes to accomplish with the software you're writing. If the customer cannot understand the spec, you're doing it wrong.
4. You need some white boards.
5. You need to get good with a pretty-printer so you don't have to waste hundreds of hours arguing about coding styles.
6. If you have documents that describe the programs and they are constantly getting out of sync with the code, write clear code with decent names and throw the documents away. On 99% of the projects I've seen (mostly Fortune 500 co's), the documentation outside the code quickly becomes actually misleading and slows people down if they read it first in their attempt to understand the code.
7. 1 talented, motivated, socially adept programmer is worth 1,000 mid-range unmotivated socially inept programmers.
Peopleware is pretty good. Mythical Man Month is better.
Good luck.
Programmers are like the old Tareyton Smokers
Given: Most programmers love one programming environment and hate all others.
Given: Most programmers, working in the programming environment they love are more productive than they are in all others.
Given: Most programmers, confronted with working in the programming environment they do not love, will spend a lot of time arguing with everyone trying to switch their project to the programming environment they love.
If managment decrees, we are a Java shop, do not hire ANY programmers who love C#, even if they could program in Java, you'll just get a religious war and a huge amount of wasted time.
The whole 'right tool for the job' argument is only appropriate for about the top 1% of programmers. The vast majority picked their favorite tool at some formative point in their programming life and are not mature enough as human beings to move from language to language over time.
I'd say, if your programming group has "upper management" then its large enough that everything is doomed in the first place, so if you don't want to work on projects that will fail to produce something useful 50% of the time and be despised by your customers 100% of the time, RUN SCREAMING from this workplace.
WHEN you work on project teams with more than 5 people and you have no interaction with the actual people who will use the software you write, THEN your project is going to end in failure, even if your lower and middle management pretend otherwise and throw a morale event and print a banner on a big wide HP printer every time the whole mess builds.
At www.pan-univeralism.com we use 16-bytes for a brane ID, 16-bytes for a galactic identifier, a 4 byte galactic sub-region identifier, a 16-byte solar system identifier (we recommend the top bit as an interstellar flag) and 4 bytes for planet identifier, then we use a simple 16-byte id for each computer on the planet.
Then, we use CNames to map each computer's numeric id to a porn starlet's name, so we can remember them.
In my very limited experience, I've had no problems with domaindirect.com.
>> This is a result of "mainstreaming" and social promotion
Unlike either of these practices, NCLB causes a large number of teachers to spend a large amount of class time teaching to the test.
A more insidious problem than NCLB and teaching the test and nothing but the test is "elminate the achievement gap" goals. The idea that all children should get a good education, regardless of race or class is a noble idea. The way a bureaucracy implements this idea is, however, quite predictable. The district where my kids attend school, given this "close the gap" directive from the community, the school board and the superintendant of schools are responding by dramatically and explicitly dumbing-down the curricula in order to prevent the bright students from scoring higher than the not-so-bright.
My kids' somewhat excellent 3rd-grade teacher told my wife and I that we should take our moderately bright kids out of public schools and send them to private school. We did.
You don't think the guys investing $10,000,000.00 in this have thought of those costs before they calculated their $50 / bbl number?