"...looking at "average" pieces of code can make me cry. The structure is appalling, and the programmers clearly didn't think deeply about correctness, algorithms, data structures, or maintainability."
Maybe it's because the average programmer is enslaved in company business. They don't have the time to create masterpieces or art in programming. Instead of that they are forced to create something adequate in a given time. Happens almost everytime, when science becomes business. I don't like that, you don't like that, no one likes that, but that's the way commercial industries are working (at the moment).
that's ok too. When i'm remembering right they did sometimes the same in the late 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. They used the same boxes for Amiga/PC/AtariST, just a sticker made the difference of the boxes.
... of an astronaut after his two fellows died in
the exploding return-vehicle: "Double Kill!"
After another look on his oxygen indicator: "Multi Kill!"
...why the heck evolution developed it? You could be eaten by a lion during the sleeping time. So sleeping must be such a relevant behaviour, that its benefit is it worth to be possibly killed by an predator. And that means it is better not to prevent you from fall asleep, because the consequence must be much worse than to be the lunch for another animal.
And then i'm happy because all the cables of
computers, external drives, routers, switches,
printer and so on are gone. But how the hell do i
secure the wireless "power line"? Any close neighbour
could steal my wireless energy. It's the same problem
with wireless lan, but the difference is that i cannot
encrpyt "energy waves", everybody could join that energy
network.
... but like all small things it has the chance to grow. And you can be on board. Apple and Microsoft where small companies too, today their founders are mill/billionaires. Well, the chance that the PERL-copmany becomes a new MS is very small, but when you want to make big money/career in the large company, you'll have to spent your entire worklife to reach that aim. When the small company makes it right in the future, you'll automatically grow with them...
There is nothing you can do against Desertification. There is nothing you can do against the fact that most agricultural plants won't grow anymore in that amount as they do today. There is nothing you can do against the increasing of the level of the oceans. There is nothing
If for myself see there no possibility of unification. What i see is chaos and people killing each other for some crappy corn or a litre of drinkable water. Look what happened in N'Orleans after it's destruction by Katrina. The people went crazy, the police forces had quit their jobs, the mob's gone raping and ravaging. The world of tomorrow is the world of Mad Max beyound the Thundedome:D
...except the partition with the home-directories which are
including the personal config-files, themes, settings and other
custom things.
This leads to a new, clean system. All you have to to ist to
restore the system's configurations related to hardware-settings,
services etc. And in most cases you also can backup these files
from the/etc/-directory.
I do it that way since many years, never had any problems or
instabilities. And the time-consuming is moderate.
I use Slack since 1999, no other distribution of Linux wowed me like Slack did. Nothing comes close, other distributors try to overload their distros with lot's of slow and bloated administration-services like YAST2 and so on. But Slackware just runs, and runs and runs...
Well, but there are more ten one company which produces condoms:D
And the Anti-Baby-Pill is widely used for birth control in Europe.
Especially in GB, D, F. Most of the girls i know are using "The Pill".
When MS ships it's products with it's own security software (antivirus, intrusion detection, ), the market will shrink dramatically. No one of the competitioners would have a chance to sell it's products to private ans small buisness customers.
And i think we all know what happens when there is no more competition at the free market. The quality goes down the drain.
BTW. This would end in a monoculture of security-products by MS, and monoculture makes the whole infrastructure extremely vulnerable for real big or well organized attacks.
That's not the thing i mean. IBM has anounced
to build a real desktop workstation based on
the CELL-processor. Similar to IBM-blade-servers
with CELL inside (these machines are already for sale).
A Protptype has been shown at the LinuxTag Conference
two years ago.
Great, maybe the beginning of a new family of
RISC-processors which could be widely used,
and much more relevant, is cheap enough to be buyable
for a average/power-user for homeusage
But the real question is: Where is the Linux/UNIX-powered
CELL-Workstation, so ein can run such a elegant baby
on my desktop? It was anounced years ago.
... bought my first CD-ROM-Drive more than 10 years ago.
A cool _and_ cheap storage system with small size medias
with about the size of a MiniDisc or 8 cm CD-ROM. Maybe in a
caddy for best protection.
Small medias, easy to transport, fitting easily in the pockets
of your jacket.
Small devices (maybe without a rotating media), consuming low power,
ideal for subnotebooks or fitting in a 3.5"-bay in your desktop computer,
to replace the old floppy-drive.
And what's going on? From generation to generation the standard (!) size of
the medias stays at 12cm. And the memory on it doesn't increase like the
storage capacity of the harddisks, meaning that the conventional optical
medias become less usefull.
I hope the holo-medias have a chance against the existing BR/DVD/HD-DVD-consortiums
to establish the storage-solution which i demand. Would buy it, even if it would be
a few percent higher in price.
> Most of the networks that were "interconnected" to form the "internet" were in the United States.
I think, that's not correct. There is no source for thata in the Wiki-article. But even if true,
these nets would be the biggest absolute nummber, but not the majority. And at last, not a majority
of attached users. And for the very last: Even if a big number of nets would came from the US, the
US-nets would be useless without the completion of the non-US-nets in creatin a Internet.
You're right with the www-thing, but you're not completely right withe the Internet. How can the US invent or build a INTERnational NETwork? They can't. An they never did. They build the ArpaNET, but not the Internet. The Internet is a cooperation of many national/regional/corporate-owned networks. The entire thing known as Internet is build by everyone who's contributing bandwidth and servers and make them public trgough gateways.
So, the Internet is'nt build by the US, also they shouldn't have the total control over it. That's even part of worldwide democracy. The US would never have a Internet, if the other nations wouldn't open their networks. The US has the profit, but they don't want that one of the other childs plays in the sandbox.
First: freescale aims on the usage of MRAM in embeddet devices and
microcontrollers. There will be no MRAM-Harddisk next month in the
shops.
2nd: There is not only Freescale. Micromem will produce
MRAM-Chips for the Aerospace industry. And IBM/Infineon
already have an 16-MBit-MRAM-Chip since last year.
There are also Renesas/Toshiba in the race.
It's a completely new tech, you heard about years ago,
when the first theories about mram came from the labs.
But such a thing needs everytime many years to go
to the serial production lines.
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"...looking at "average" pieces of code can make me cry. The structure is appalling, and the programmers clearly didn't think deeply about correctness, algorithms, data structures, or maintainability."
Maybe it's because the average programmer is enslaved in company business. They don't have the
time to create masterpieces or art in programming. Instead of that they are forced to create
something adequate in a given time. Happens almost everytime, when science becomes business.
I don't like that, you don't like that, no one likes that, but that's the way commercial industries
are working (at the moment).
that's ok too. When i'm remembering right they did sometimes the same
in the late 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. They used
the same boxes for Amiga/PC/AtariST, just a sticker made the difference
of the boxes.
So, sell it per mail, a simple jewel case an a piece of paper with the installation instructions only. That should be cheap enough.
...drops the first egg* ?
*a complete set of games. i don't count the
few ego-shooters of the last ten years as the
beginning.
... of an astronaut after his two fellows died in the exploding return-vehicle: "Double Kill!" After another look on his oxygen indicator: "Multi Kill!"
...why the heck evolution developed it? You could be eaten
by a lion during the sleeping time. So sleeping must be such
a relevant behaviour, that its benefit is it worth to be possibly
killed by an predator. And that means it is better not to
prevent you from fall asleep, because the consequence must
be much worse than to be the lunch for another animal.
...how many delicious frogs you can fry with that thing at a single blow. ;-)
...everybody knows that Peddle was Chuck Norris' maiden name :D
And then i'm happy because all the cables of computers, external drives, routers, switches, printer and so on are gone. But how the hell do i secure the wireless "power line"? Any close neighbour could steal my wireless energy. It's the same problem with wireless lan, but the difference is that i cannot encrpyt "energy waves", everybody could join that energy network.
... but like all small things it has the chance to grow. And you
can be on board. Apple and Microsoft where small companies too,
today their founders are mill/billionaires. Well, the chance that the
PERL-copmany becomes a new MS is very small, but when you want to make
big money/career in the large company, you'll have to spent your entire
worklife to reach that aim. When the small company makes it right in the
future, you'll automatically grow with them...
Yes, the other 500 millions of the chinese population doesn't need such gadgets.
They never left the plants of the company they're working for.
There is nothing you can do against Desertification. There is
:D
nothing you can do against the fact that most agricultural plants
won't grow anymore in that amount as they do today. There is nothing
you can do against the increasing of the level of the oceans. There
is nothing
If for myself see there no possibility of unification. What i see
is chaos and people killing each other for some crappy corn or
a litre of drinkable water. Look what happened in N'Orleans after
it's destruction by Katrina. The people went crazy, the police forces
had quit their jobs, the mob's gone raping and ravaging. The world of
tomorrow is the world of Mad Max beyound the Thundedome
...except the partition with the home-directories which are including the personal config-files, themes, settings and other custom things.
/etc/-directory.
This leads to a new, clean system. All you have to to ist to restore the system's configurations related to hardware-settings, services etc. And in most cases you also can backup these files from the
I do it that way since many years, never had any problems or instabilities. And the time-consuming is moderate.
The licence to legally rip the contents to DRM-free formats and
to gave some copies to friends and family. That would be a fair deal.
... can read my mind !!!??!
I use Slack since 1999, no other distribution of Linux
wowed me like Slack did. Nothing comes close, other
distributors try to overload their distros with lot's
of slow and bloated administration-services like YAST2
and so on. But Slackware just runs, and runs and runs...
The correct word is "Herrscher", or if you want: "Überherrscher" ;)
Ich für meine Wenigkeit heiße unseren neuen insektoiden Herrscher herzlich willkommen!
And not of black painted F5E Tiger-II as evil sovjet intruders of :D
the free worlds airspace
http://www.airpower.at/flugzeuge/f-5e/index.html
Well, but there are more ten one company which produces condoms :D
And the Anti-Baby-Pill is widely used for birth control in Europe.
Especially in GB, D, F. Most of the girls i know are using "The Pill".
When MS ships it's products with it's own security software
(antivirus, intrusion detection, ), the market will shrink
dramatically. No one of the competitioners would have a chance
to sell it's products to private ans small buisness customers.
And i think we all know what happens when there is no more
competition at the free market. The quality goes down the drain.
BTW. This would end in a monoculture of security-products
by MS, and monoculture makes the whole infrastructure
extremely vulnerable for real big or well organized attacks.
That's not the thing i mean. IBM has anounced to build a real desktop workstation based on the CELL-processor. Similar to IBM-blade-servers with CELL inside (these machines are already for sale). A Protptype has been shown at the LinuxTag Conference two years ago.
Great, maybe the beginning of a new family of
RISC-processors which could be widely used,
and much more relevant, is cheap enough to be buyable for a average/power-user for homeusage
But the real question is: Where is the Linux/UNIX-powered
CELL-Workstation, so ein can run such a elegant baby
on my desktop? It was anounced years ago.
... bought my first CD-ROM-Drive more than 10 years ago.
A cool _and_ cheap storage system with small size medias
with about the size of a MiniDisc or 8 cm CD-ROM. Maybe in a
caddy for best protection.
Small medias, easy to transport, fitting easily in the pockets
of your jacket.
Small devices (maybe without a rotating media), consuming low power,
ideal for subnotebooks or fitting in a 3.5"-bay in your desktop computer,
to replace the old floppy-drive.
And what's going on? From generation to generation the standard (!) size of
the medias stays at 12cm. And the memory on it doesn't increase like the
storage capacity of the harddisks, meaning that the conventional optical
medias become less usefull.
I hope the holo-medias have a chance against the existing BR/DVD/HD-DVD-consortiums
to establish the storage-solution which i demand. Would buy it, even if it would be
a few percent higher in price.
> Most of the networks that were "interconnected" to form the "internet" were in the United States. I think, that's not correct. There is no source for thata in the Wiki-article. But even if true, these nets would be the biggest absolute nummber, but not the majority. And at last, not a majority of attached users. And for the very last: Even if a big number of nets would came from the US, the US-nets would be useless without the completion of the non-US-nets in creatin a Internet.
You're right with the www-thing, but you're not completely right
withe the Internet. How can the US invent or build a INTERnational
NETwork? They can't. An they never did. They build the ArpaNET,
but not the Internet. The Internet is a cooperation of many
national/regional/corporate-owned networks. The entire thing
known as Internet is build by everyone who's contributing
bandwidth and servers and make them public trgough gateways.
So, the Internet is'nt build by the US, also they shouldn't
have the total control over it. That's even part of worldwide
democracy. The US would never have a Internet, if the other
nations wouldn't open their networks. The US has the profit,
but they don't want that one of the other childs plays in the
sandbox.
First: freescale aims on the usage of MRAM in embeddet devices and microcontrollers. There will be no MRAM-Harddisk next month in the shops. 2nd: There is not only Freescale. Micromem will produce MRAM-Chips for the Aerospace industry. And IBM/Infineon already have an 16-MBit-MRAM-Chip since last year. There are also Renesas/Toshiba in the race. It's a completely new tech, you heard about years ago, when the first theories about mram came from the labs. But such a thing needs everytime many years to go to the serial production lines.