Maybe you follow the commandments of XP to the letter, maybe you spend countless hours in waterfall meetings... regardless, I think considering XP, if nothing else, makes software development's collective weaknesses more apparent. I'm not saying that XP solves those problems. Instead, it just throws them into a sharper relief.
And in the sense that XP *does* propose a solution... well... my advice (coming from a relatively competent programmer and project manager) is learn to think for yourself and to constructively pressure your management for the latitude to experiment.
XP makes some good points... but to be fair, I've felt like a walking buzz word whenever I've attempted to pitch and/or defend it. If I could change one thing about it... I'd change the name. What's next... Pimp my Test Harness?
... I guess I assumed wormholes were established within a particular solution to general relativity? Wikipedia didn't make it much clearer to me... I mean, what else does it mean for something to "come" from a theoretical framework?... I only minored in physics, forgive my insolence:)
The point is that what seems extraordinary today will be common sense tommorrow... no one knows that better than "any one of those guys"... that's what makes their ideas visionary
The more evidence we have to support the fundamentals of the General Relativity model, the more reason we have to suppose that it's more exotic predictions, such as worm holes, are correct.
Assuming we haven't nuked or gassed ourselves into oblivion, I like to imagine in a few hundred years we'll come to regard the work of Einstein, Hawking, Heisenberg, etc. as certainly great but somewhat primitive and rudimentary in our understanding of the universe.
After all, when Archimedes famously realized the principals of buoyancy around 250 BC, it was one of the revelations of its time.
A good observation... however the measured inertia of a common galaxy would seem to indicate that there should be so much non-luminous "rock" that we should see these rocky structures much more commonly. Or to be more specific, that space should be much... much... more dense with solid debris... and not just galactic space, but all space.
But I digress... the dark matter "problem" doesn't absolutely require that there is some exotic substance permeating all known space... it also suggests that our observations and/or conclusions regarding the known universe are grossly false.
Is it just me, or has Sony gone decidedly down hill since the new CEO started? It's a real shame that not every single piece of equipment in my entertainment center still bears the Sony name...
I understand that this is America and we feel an urge to whack off copiously to free enterprise and all that... but I'm seriously tired of feeling like the gravel in george lucas' drive way... don't get me wrong, the guy has made some amazing movies, but could he try being just slightly less of a whore for a change?
George baby, I get it already, star wars is nerd crack. You changed the landscape of nerd masterbation fantasies forever. And most true SW fans would love to relive the originals, esp. empire. And of course I, amoung you, want to see the originals again, sans all the CGI and other BS.
And I will see these movies, but I swear by dagobah I won't buy them. Esp. if I have to buy the remasters along with them. George, conservation babe? Save a few trees here and there and bring your ewok constituents back into the fold.
No I won't buy them. I pledge to you george, I will bootleg these movies. I won't distribute, but I will bootleg. And even after I've made good copies, I will bootleg some more. I will bootleg while making light saber sounds. I will bootleg while watching STTNG reruns on spike. I will bootleg just for the satisfaction of knowing there's a few less ounces of imported egyptian marble lining the bidet in your carribean summer home.
I'm not saying the French weren't involved... or didn't play a significant part in the discovery... just that there's nothing particularly gingoistic about the article.
Where in this article does it say anything about a french scientist actually discovering this creature?
I read:
- "PARIS, France (AP) -- Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific..."
- "A team of American-led divers found the animal"
- "The diving expedition was organized by Robert Vrijenhoek of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California."
Correct me if my geography is out of date, but isn't California still a state? An American state right? And Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute... hmmmm, sounds familiar... isn't that the one founded and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard? And isn't Hewlett-Packard an American company? And this article comes from the Associated Press right?... not The O'Reilly Factor or Good Morning America?
Should I continue?
Do you think you could maybe pay attention to the article next time?
Are you a five year old?
Wanna know where Axel Rose is, you America-hating DICK? He's giving your mother a nice think coating of graffiti... American graffiti.
The real reason/.ers have their collective cyber-panties in a bunch over this kid is because he comes off like sucha friggin jag off... even if he does show some slight penance in the end.
We want our black hatters to exude a character of conflicted, mischevious, misunderstood brilliance... we want a pony-tailed, prison-raped Ben Kingsley or an angelina-spanking Dade Murphy. We'd even settle for wolverine getting a bj at gunpoint. (i'd more than settle for that actually)
But that's hollywood... and the days of hackery lying strictly in the domain of the elite have well come to pass. And we have some right to be bitter... I don't expect that we'll ever have a magic bullet, I don't expect that that is what we really want anyway. I expect that we'd all be happier if hacking was hard again so that Bojangles the Bot Smoker would have to earn his living... legitimate or otherwise.
Yeah, you're right of course... And actually I do remember the first few links being relevant... I suppose my initial memory of the event was obscured by the porno just a few links down... damn you porno, damn you
That's a part of my point though... combating malware at a grassroots level is a game of cat and mouse, by nature. That said, it's still absolutely necessary... even if it doesn't attack the root of the problem, it is the last front from which the legitimate community can protect itself.
Systemically, this does little of course. In the US, we do have some loosely written, technically adolescent laws to help us hold black hatters and spammers accountable. But there's still 3 problems:
1) These laws are still evolving, and there are few precedents to follow.
2) Current law enforcement doesn't really have the man-power or experience to track-down this category of offender.
3) These laws apply only in the US. Many other countries are even more deliquent in developing effective anti-computer crime infrastructures.
Rendered more briefly: The risk to profit ratio is still quite favorable for the offender.
That's why an organization like RIAA is a good starting place. While RIAA is an american association... given the rising corporate interest in DRM, I don't doubt that they hold at least some sway over big multi-national coroporations that in turn have lots of influence in other nations (e.g. Sony). As I previously stated, they also have a sizeable bank roll, time on their collective hands, and the surprisingly heartless impetus to make legal examples out of awkward teenagers.
Long story short... I'm not a fan of RIAA... but maybe they can be leveraged into doing some good for us all... even if their actual intention is only to protect their own grossly overweight margins.
A couple weeks ago I read a Tom Robbins story about a place in Nevada called "The Canyon of the Vaginas". Casually wondering one day if this canyon was real or not I googled it. Of course, googling "The Canyon of the Vaginas" is the same as googling "Canyon Vaginas"... so I ended up with a bunch of porn links for Christy Canyon. And thinking to myself, "Oh wow, I haven't seen Christy Canyon naked in like 10 years"... i followed one of the links and BAM... i'm infected with some bs that my anti-vi doesn't recognize...
Now just so you know, I haven't been infected (that i know of) in maybe 5 years. And I usually consider myself to be somewhat digitally savy... So what i'm tryin to get at is this:
The poblem here is not that average users are incompetent, it's not that Bill and Larry are too busy gold plating their bidets, and its not because morally defunct script kiddies can make money annoying the every loving bile out of us... we need to stop pointing fingers and start coming up with solutions.
How many people to date have been arrested for file sharing and file sharing related activities? Hundreds at this point right? Why them and not Cleetus the BotMaster? Because the world is insane? Well yes, but not really... its because not only does RIAA have the money and power.. they have the *free* time. Before Naptser, an exciting day for RIAA execs involved picking lice out of each others back fur. And I contend that they have plenty more free time where that came from. Ladies and gentlemen, just need to find a way to sick those storm troppers at RIAA on these inbred c junkies...
Yes, in fact people *are* essentially incapable of interpreting economic data in a straightforward way... but then, it is the economic activities of those same seemingly irrational people that the market reflects. My point being that while the machines will likely come to a deeper understanding of the market than us higher-cortex skin-sacks... it will likely come at the price of what will appear as bias.
Without change to the most fundamental mechanisms upon which the economy works, it might well be that no matter how profound our collective understaning becomes the economy will always be capable of 1929's, Asian Crisis and Internet Bubbles. Otherwise, our machines are only serving us to find progressively more convaluted exploits in the market... and those exploits are all about bias.
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Maybe you follow the commandments of XP to the letter, maybe you spend countless hours in waterfall meetings ... regardless, I think considering XP, if nothing else, makes software development's collective weaknesses more apparent. I'm not saying that XP solves those problems. Instead, it just throws them into a sharper relief.
... well ... my advice (coming from a relatively competent programmer and project manager) is learn to think for yourself and to constructively pressure your management for the latitude to experiment.
... but to be fair, I've felt like a walking buzz word whenever I've attempted to pitch and/or defend it. If I could change one thing about it ... I'd change the name. What's next ... Pimp my Test Harness?
And in the sense that XP *does* propose a solution
XP makes some good points
... I guess I assumed wormholes were established within a particular solution to general relativity? Wikipedia didn't make it much clearer to me ... I mean, what else does it mean for something to "come" from a theoretical framework? ... I only minored in physics, forgive my insolence :)
The point is that what seems extraordinary today will be common sense tommorrow ... no one knows that better than "any one of those guys" ... that's what makes their ideas visionary
The more evidence we have to support the fundamentals of the General Relativity model, the more reason we have to suppose that it's more exotic predictions, such as worm holes, are correct.
Assuming we haven't nuked or gassed ourselves into oblivion, I like to imagine in a few hundred years we'll come to regard the work of Einstein, Hawking, Heisenberg, etc. as certainly great but somewhat primitive and rudimentary in our understanding of the universe.
After all, when Archimedes famously realized the principals of buoyancy around 250 BC, it was one of the revelations of its time.
A good observation ... however the measured inertia of a common galaxy would seem to indicate that there should be so much non-luminous "rock" that we should see these rocky structures much more commonly. Or to be more specific, that space should be much ... much ... more dense with solid debris ... and not just galactic space, but all space.
... the dark matter "problem" doesn't absolutely require that there is some exotic substance permeating all known space ... it also suggests that our observations and/or conclusions regarding the known universe are grossly false.
:)
But I digress
My money is on grossly false
i thought it was "making enormous swiss cheese"?
Is it just me, or has Sony gone decidedly down hill since the new CEO started? It's a real shame that not every single piece of equipment in my entertainment center still bears the Sony name ...
I understand that this is America and we feel an urge to whack off copiously to free enterprise and all that ... but I'm seriously tired of feeling like the gravel in george lucas' drive way ... don't get me wrong, the guy has made some amazing movies, but could he try being just slightly less of a whore for a change?
George baby, I get it already, star wars is nerd crack. You changed the landscape of nerd masterbation fantasies forever. And most true SW fans would love to relive the originals, esp. empire. And of course I, amoung you, want to see the originals again, sans all the CGI and other BS.
And I will see these movies, but I swear by dagobah I won't buy them. Esp. if I have to buy the remasters along with them. George, conservation babe? Save a few trees here and there and bring your ewok constituents back into the fold.
No I won't buy them. I pledge to you george, I will bootleg these movies. I won't distribute, but I will bootleg. And even after I've made good copies, I will bootleg some more. I will bootleg while making light saber sounds. I will bootleg while watching STTNG reruns on spike. I will bootleg just for the satisfaction of knowing there's a few less ounces of imported egyptian marble lining the bidet in your carribean summer home.
I'm not saying the French weren't involved ... or didn't play a significant part in the discovery ... just that there's nothing particularly gingoistic about the article.
Why does this thing remind of Ricardo Mantalban in Wrath of Khan?
Where in this article does it say anything about a french scientist actually discovering this creature?
... hmmmm, sounds familiar ... isn't that the one founded and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard? And isn't Hewlett-Packard an American company? And this article comes from the Associated Press right? ... not The O'Reilly Factor or Good Morning America?
... American graffiti.
I read:
- "PARIS, France (AP) -- Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific..."
- "A team of American-led divers found the animal"
- "The diving expedition was organized by Robert Vrijenhoek of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California."
Correct me if my geography is out of date, but isn't California still a state? An American state right? And Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Should I continue?
Do you think you could maybe pay attention to the article next time?
Are you a five year old?
Wanna know where Axel Rose is, you America-hating DICK? He's giving your mother a nice think coating of graffiti
According to wikipedia ... bill gates never actually said that:
wiki
but me still like
The real reason /.ers have their collective cyber-panties in a bunch over this kid is because he comes off like sucha friggin jag off ... even if he does show some slight penance in the end.
... we want a pony-tailed, prison-raped Ben Kingsley or an angelina-spanking Dade Murphy. We'd even settle for wolverine getting a bj at gunpoint. (i'd more than settle for that actually)
... and the days of hackery lying strictly in the domain of the elite have well come to pass. And we have some right to be bitter ... I don't expect that we'll ever have a magic bullet, I don't expect that that is what we really want anyway. I expect that we'd all be happier if hacking was hard again so that Bojangles the Bot Smoker would have to earn his living ... legitimate or otherwise.
We want our black hatters to exude a character of conflicted, mischevious, misunderstood brilliance
But that's hollywood
Yeah, you're right of course ... And actually I do remember the first few links being relevant ... I suppose my initial memory of the event was obscured by the porno just a few links down ... damn you porno, damn you
That's a part of my point though ... combating malware at a grassroots level is a game of cat and mouse, by nature. That said, it's still absolutely necessary ... even if it doesn't attack the root of the problem, it is the last front from which the legitimate community can protect itself.
... given the rising corporate interest in DRM, I don't doubt that they hold at least some sway over big multi-national coroporations that in turn have lots of influence in other nations (e.g. Sony). As I previously stated, they also have a sizeable bank roll, time on their collective hands, and the surprisingly heartless impetus to make legal examples out of awkward teenagers.
... I'm not a fan of RIAA ... but maybe they can be leveraged into doing some good for us all ... even if their actual intention is only to protect their own grossly overweight margins.
Systemically, this does little of course. In the US, we do have some loosely written, technically adolescent laws to help us hold black hatters and spammers accountable. But there's still 3 problems:
1) These laws are still evolving, and there are few precedents to follow.
2) Current law enforcement doesn't really have the man-power or experience to track-down this category of offender.
3) These laws apply only in the US. Many other countries are even more deliquent in developing effective anti-computer crime infrastructures.
Rendered more briefly: The risk to profit ratio is still quite favorable for the offender.
That's why an organization like RIAA is a good starting place. While RIAA is an american association
Long story short
A couple weeks ago I read a Tom Robbins story about a place in Nevada called "The Canyon of the Vaginas". Casually wondering one day if this canyon was real or not I googled it. Of course, googling "The Canyon of the Vaginas" is the same as googling "Canyon Vaginas" ... so I ended up with a bunch of porn links for Christy Canyon. And thinking to myself, "Oh wow, I haven't seen Christy Canyon naked in like 10 years" ... i followed one of the links and BAM ... i'm infected with some bs that my anti-vi doesn't recognize ...
... So what i'm tryin to get at is this:
... we need to stop pointing fingers and start coming up with solutions.
... its because not only does RIAA have the money and power .. they have the *free* time. Before Naptser, an exciting day for RIAA execs involved picking lice out of each others back fur. And I contend that they have plenty more free time where that came from. Ladies and gentlemen, just need to find a way to sick those storm troppers at RIAA on these inbred c junkies ...
Now just so you know, I haven't been infected (that i know of) in maybe 5 years. And I usually consider myself to be somewhat digitally savy
The poblem here is not that average users are incompetent, it's not that Bill and Larry are too busy gold plating their bidets, and its not because morally defunct script kiddies can make money annoying the every loving bile out of us
How many people to date have been arrested for file sharing and file sharing related activities? Hundreds at this point right? Why them and not Cleetus the BotMaster? Because the world is insane? Well yes, but not really
Yes, in fact people *are* essentially incapable of interpreting economic data in a straightforward way ... but then, it is the economic activities of those same seemingly irrational people that the market reflects. My point being that while the machines will likely come to a deeper understanding of the market than us higher-cortex skin-sacks ... it will likely come at the price of what will appear as bias.
Without change to the most fundamental mechanisms upon which the economy works, it might well be that no matter how profound our collective understaning becomes the economy will always be capable of 1929's, Asian Crisis and Internet Bubbles. Otherwise, our machines are only serving us to find progressively more convaluted exploits in the market ... and those exploits are all about bias.