Only an individual new to the computing industry would put much faith in "momentum".
I'm not saying that PHP will be the be-all and end-all of websites. All I'm saying is that when you have a userbase... people are, by nature, lazy. They will maintain and update their code rather than upgrade it. Software is not hardware. Your "illustration" fails because hardware needs replacement whereas code needs maintenance.
I'd be surprised if you've ever even seen a picture of their hardware.
My father owned a Data General "luggable". I learned basic on it. I also built a robot out of it in grade school. Watch what you say it might come back to bite you.
Few problems with that. First one is momentum. PHP has a large userbase and is currently on version 5.1.1... Ruby just announced 1.0. Version numbers don't mean squat except that just hitting 1.0 versus hitting a few version numbers *does* mean something.
And I hate the people who talk about the "Bad reputation with respect to security." I can write bad code in Perl, Javascript, or C++ if I want. Repeat after me folks, the security of the code is only as good as the competence of the programmer. PHP offers mechanisms and defaults that encourage good coding practices. Pick a tool and code with good programming practices. Ruby on rails won't make your code unbreakable. PHP won't make your code broken.
and you could probably even build a small one within the confines of the shuttle
You'd have excessive coriolis effects, and the gravity differential between your feet and your head would be very noticeable. You would fool no one and in fact your "passengers" would be quite ill. At that size you would probably be spinning at 6-10RPM.
Most of this has to do with horrible advisors in my opinion.
No, it mostly has to do with the fact that you have a heavy courseload. Take aerospace engineering (my field... graduated a year back). Five classes on top of a fully accredited Mechanical degree. Yes, they had an "example four year course" outlined in the student handbook. I know one person who managed to pull it off. Not to mention the chains of prerequisites - not just one but two dimensional in many cases - often screwed a student over. I took five years to graduate and enjoyed my college experiance.
I do 95% of my work from a shell too, but working in a windowing environment lets me tile shells, etc. I'm tailing output from some program while I'm editing code somewhere else, etc.
Personally I use KDE at work, although I'm a blackbox fan... haven't gotten around to putting it on my work machine. KDE's been good enough haven't been able to justify the time.
Americans are told from birth that they are entitled to all sorts of material things.
I'm an american, 23, growing up my father told me, "you can anything you want in life, but you can't have everything."
Not all Americans are spoiled, believing the american dream is a huge ass house, a SUV, boat, camper and debt up to their ears... that's a stereotype. Some of us have common sense, although I will admit that is a characteristic that is lacking.
I wonder if all of these programmers in India are even slightly concerned that he ditched out on the (I'm assuming here) more expensive U.S. programmers to hire "more cost effective" employees in India?
The new money Microsoft is dumping into India is creating new jobs, not replacing existing American jobs.
The vomit comet gives you seconds of "micrgravity" and its crappy at that. You can't do protein and crystal research in that. Its better that they find commercially viable outlets - like this, commercial space tourists, etc. - to keep themselves afloat.
Protein and crystal growth requires days and weeks of microgravity. And don't say ISS... the vibrations of humans aboard are significant enough to disturb it. You need a freefloating platform with no humans or vibrating experiments onboard. Or at least an experiment bay tethered to ISS by a loose nylon cable with no tension over the experiment period.
One of the restriction NC puts down is that they need a list of developers of **all** of the code on the machine - that would include the Linux kernel. Can you list beyond a shadow of a doubt the name of every developer that has contributed in **any** capacity to the kernel or any related project? dd? g++? X?
Part of the problem is that the rules are way too overbearing. It would actually be a lot easier to do the job in WindowsCE (the source is available... Microsoft keeps a paper trail of developers)
Click on any of the menus. Any of them. Applications/Computer/Whatever the third one is. Fedora core 4, complete install. 1 in 2 chance your first click won't go thru. 1 in 2 chance your secnod click won't go thru... rare put possible chance your third click won't go through.
However its a problem thats presented on a few of my coworkers machines (we all run identical development boxes) and I switched to gnome to confirm its existance... with regularity.
Well... that seems like a simple enough interface function, right? Selecting a menu isn't processor intensive or memory intensive. (at least not from my experiance... I've programmed interfaces mostly in Qt) I don't see why it should miss clicks... thats an obvious flaw from a user perspective. They could at least leave the flaws for the stuff the average joe isn't going to run into.
Doesn't come up then. First click doesn't come through. Sometimes second click doesn't. On rare occasions third click doesnt. Fourth click always seems to.
...the most popular browser will obviously be the most popular to target. What, you think people are going to try to exploit a browser that doesn't hold the majority marketshare? When/if Firefox overtakes IE, you will see the number of Firefox vulnurabilities jump tenfold...
Heres your first complaint. Why do i have to click on the menu bar 3-5 times to get the damn menu to pop up? No, its not my mouse. No, its not my computer (dual core Pentium 3.8GHz, 2 gigs of RAM)... dont have those problems with KDE and Windows runs slick as shit on the identical box sitting next to it... not flamin' just sayin'
The work I do is classified. I cant say shit. I dont work on JDAM but yes JDAM does use INS and GPS. Together INS and GPS is a great system. But remember guidance for a missile isnt concerned about direction its concerned about position (direction is a secondary effect of position... think about it. From two positions you can derive a vector, which is a direction). You said GPS can't do direction; that's the argument I'm addressing.
Look at this commercial off the shelf product GPS product: http://www.gpspilot.com/products/modules/gps.shtml Look at the red words in the middle of the page... The directional arrow at the center shows direction you are heading to. Guides like this one http://www.walkgps.com/GPS%20Navigation.htm also refer to using the compass pointer on the GPS unit primarily and only having a magnetic compass as a backup, if your GPS were to fail.
True story. Used to be an RA and one of the rooms had a image outside with a kitten running in a field with the quote "Whenever you masterbate, God kills a kitten". Below the sign was a tally of the number of kittens killed that week...
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Only an individual new to the computing industry would put much faith in "momentum".
I'm not saying that PHP will be the be-all and end-all of websites. All I'm saying is that when you have a userbase... people are, by nature, lazy. They will maintain and update their code rather than upgrade it. Software is not hardware. Your "illustration" fails because hardware needs replacement whereas code needs maintenance.
I'd be surprised if you've ever even seen a picture of their hardware.
My father owned a Data General "luggable". I learned basic on it. I also built a robot out of it in grade school. Watch what you say it might come back to bite you.
-everphilski-
Few problems with that. First one is momentum. PHP has a large userbase and is currently on version 5.1.1 ... Ruby just announced 1.0. Version numbers don't mean squat except that just hitting 1.0 versus hitting a few version numbers *does* mean something.
And I hate the people who talk about the "Bad reputation with respect to security." I can write bad code in Perl, Javascript, or C++ if I want. Repeat after me folks, the security of the code is only as good as the competence of the programmer. PHP offers mechanisms and defaults that encourage good coding practices. Pick a tool and code with good programming practices. Ruby on rails won't make your code unbreakable. PHP won't make your code broken.
-everphilski-
and you could probably even build a small one within the confines of the shuttle
You'd have excessive coriolis effects, and the gravity differential between your feet and your head would be very noticeable. You would fool no one and in fact your "passengers" would be quite ill. At that size you would probably be spinning at 6-10RPM.
-everphilski-
Most of this has to do with horrible advisors in my opinion.
No, it mostly has to do with the fact that you have a heavy courseload. Take aerospace engineering (my field... graduated a year back). Five classes on top of a fully accredited Mechanical degree. Yes, they had an "example four year course" outlined in the student handbook. I know one person who managed to pull it off. Not to mention the chains of prerequisites - not just one but two dimensional in many cases - often screwed a student over. I took five years to graduate and enjoyed my college experiance.
-everphilski-
Taco, you're no gamer, stop pretending you are to look cool.
Yup, agreed. WoW (or "warcrack" in some mad attempt to be "leet") doesn't make you a hardcore gamer.
-everphilski-
I do 95% of my work from a shell too, but working in a windowing environment lets me tile shells, etc. I'm tailing output from some program while I'm editing code somewhere else, etc.
Personally I use KDE at work, although I'm a blackbox fan... haven't gotten around to putting it on my work machine. KDE's been good enough haven't been able to justify the time.
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for the win!
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http://www.real.com/rhapsody/
-everphilski-
Americans are told from birth that they are entitled to all sorts of material things.
I'm an american, 23, growing up my father told me, "you can anything you want in life, but you can't have everything."
Not all Americans are spoiled, believing the american dream is a huge ass house, a SUV, boat, camper and debt up to their ears... that's a stereotype. Some of us have common sense, although I will admit that is a characteristic that is lacking.
-everphilski-
I wonder if all of these programmers in India are even slightly concerned that he ditched out on the (I'm assuming here) more expensive U.S. programmers to hire "more cost effective" employees in India?
The new money Microsoft is dumping into India is creating new jobs, not replacing existing American jobs.
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Cause thats all you got in a vomit comet...
-everphilski-
The vomit comet gives you seconds of "micrgravity" and its crappy at that. You can't do protein and crystal research in that. Its better that they find commercially viable outlets - like this, commercial space tourists, etc. - to keep themselves afloat.
Protein and crystal growth requires days and weeks of microgravity. And don't say ISS... the vibrations of humans aboard are significant enough to disturb it. You need a freefloating platform with no humans or vibrating experiments onboard. Or at least an experiment bay tethered to ISS by a loose nylon cable with no tension over the experiment period.
-everphilski-
One of the restriction NC puts down is that they need a list of developers of **all** of the code on the machine - that would include the Linux kernel. Can you list beyond a shadow of a doubt the name of every developer that has contributed in **any** capacity to the kernel or any related project? dd? g++? X?
Part of the problem is that the rules are way too overbearing. It would actually be a lot easier to do the job in WindowsCE (the source is available... Microsoft keeps a paper trail of developers)
-everphilski-
Click on any of the menus. Any of them. Applications/Computer/Whatever the third one is. Fedora core 4, complete install. 1 in 2 chance your first click won't go thru. 1 in 2 chance your secnod click won't go thru... rare put possible chance your third click won't go through.
-everphilski-
Switched to KDE :)
However its a problem thats presented on a few of my coworkers machines (we all run identical development boxes) and I switched to gnome to confirm its existance... with regularity.
-everphilski-
Well... that seems like a simple enough interface function, right? Selecting a menu isn't processor intensive or memory intensive. (at least not from my experiance... I've programmed interfaces mostly in Qt) I don't see why it should miss clicks... thats an obvious flaw from a user perspective. They could at least leave the flaws for the stuff the average joe isn't going to run into.
-everphilski-
Doesn't come up then. First click doesn't come through. Sometimes second click doesn't. On rare occasions third click doesnt. Fourth click always seems to.
-everphilski-
...the most popular browser will obviously be the most popular to target. What, you think people are going to try to exploit a browser that doesn't hold the majority marketshare? When/if Firefox overtakes IE, you will see the number of Firefox vulnurabilities jump tenfold...
-everphilski-
Heres your first complaint. Why do i have to click on the menu bar 3-5 times to get the damn menu to pop up? No, its not my mouse. No, its not my computer (dual core Pentium 3.8GHz, 2 gigs of RAM) ... dont have those problems with KDE and Windows runs slick as shit on the identical box sitting next to it ... not flamin' just sayin'
-everphilski-
The work I do is classified. I cant say shit. I dont work on JDAM but yes JDAM does use INS and GPS. Together INS and GPS is a great system. But remember guidance for a missile isnt concerned about direction its concerned about position (direction is a secondary effect of position... think about it. From two positions you can derive a vector, which is a direction). You said GPS can't do direction; that's the argument I'm addressing.
l Look at the red words in the middle of the page... The directional arrow at the center shows direction you are heading to. Guides like this one http://www.walkgps.com/GPS%20Navigation.htm also refer to using the compass pointer on the GPS unit primarily and only having a magnetic compass as a backup, if your GPS were to fail.
Look at this commercial off the shelf product GPS product: http://www.gpspilot.com/products/modules/gps.shtm
-everphilski-
True story. Used to be an RA and one of the rooms had a image outside with a kitten running in a field with the quote "Whenever you masterbate, God kills a kitten". Below the sign was a tally of the number of kittens killed that week...
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LOL
Read my profile and draw your own conclusions:
Aerospace engineer: Missile systems
I can't make any specific comments but rest assured... direction is done with GPS
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you insensitive clod!
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uh, uh, uh, uh, ooooh baby....
er.... sorry, you caught me at a bad time, I was podjacking...
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