I'm tired of carrying dozens of keys. I want to be able to just unlock my house each morning and have all the rest of the doors I encounter all day long to be unlocked.
Do you only want fast food workers that really care, that are excited about work, That are energetic and caring about every customer, that want to improve the process at every chance? Hell no. I want someone that follows the procedures and washes their hands occasionally, so the cost of the burger is ~$1 US. You know, some of your customers want the same; they want to predictably produce inexpensive systems solutions to business problems. They don't want to break new ground with the best solutions. The don't want to fund R&D.
We need "clueless PHBs, the cookbook programmers in it for the money, the middle managers who choose our tools based on marketing hype and FUD" to do the laborous work of implementing recipes.
I graduated from Rose-Hulman in '94. Starting salaries are up significantly since I left. This year they averaged $51,378. I've unofficially heard that the CS students were starting higher than the engineers. The highest offer was $72,000.
I run out of space and upgrade before my drives wear out. I've never had a drive failure in 11 years. My machines are on about 85% of the time (not during vacation). I've only recently started spinning my drives down though; it is soooo much quieter.
>If you want the data to actually be _safe_, then
>you've got to have off-line copies
I've got all my school work from '90-'94 and I've lost about 3 drives since I started keeping this stuff. I use machine to machine backups, multiple OSs and raid arrays. This is completeley automated as opposed to manually finding a tape, putting it in a recorder, putting it in a cabinet, indexing it, dusting it, reindexing it, etc.
To delete my datastructures homework from 1991, you'd need to delete it from a Debian box (in two different places (one of which might not even be mounted and the other is mirrored)), a RedHat box, and my laptop (which is normally with me 90 miles from the other two). No offline backups, and I think my data is safe. I suppose that my house could catch on fire and I could wreck my car on the way home, but then my data structures homework is the least of my worries.
And, I don't keep a clean enough house to even find my offline data.
Hell, in school, I had to keep the case off of my box so that I could manually stager the spin up on the drives. I had to unplug one or two drives to get the first set of drives spinning, then plug in the rest of the drives.
So other than "the people who developed computer microchips", and developers (who have to analyse algorithms), and network admin (who have to optimize networks), and people who build houses (who make estimates based on simple plans), and buyers for large companies who make purchases based on economic indicators and polls, and may be chemists, yah, you're right.
You see a bad buyer might use someone elses formula, but a better buyer will understand that model and adjusted it to better suit her particular environment.
We don't normally train folks to be below average, therefore everyone (named above, and possible just a few more) needs to be trained in math, not just counting.
I can't find a "FPGAs for Idiots". Can you recommend a site for me to get started?
I've talk talked about this stuff at a highy conceptual level for years and have a very strong CS background, but I keep getting lost in the marketing literature.
I read about a dozen emails a day, and delete about 2 dozen spam messages a day without even reading them, but I haven't read a postal mail since Christmas brought me many "family updates" from around the country.
You want to get a hold of me, send email. I don't answer the phone or read postal mail (unless the return address includes a family member).
What career choice other than management and used car sales (I know, redundant) could you choose that would not expose you to the evils of the computer?
Engineers, econ, finance, office admins, they all end up progrmaming in one way or another (schedulers, Excel, macros, mail filter, etc.).
At Rose-Hulman, you could double in EE/CS, but not CE/CS because of the heavy overlap. That's what I did, then at the end of my sophomore year, I dropped the EE (I hate memorizing junk).
Sure, but I know some policemen and firefighters that are alive and happy, but I don't know of a single spy that is alive and happy; All the spies of heard of in jail or dead. So, as far as I'm concerned all spies end up dead or in jail, but most firefighters and policeman live long happy lives:-)
Acutally, in fiction "recruiting for espionage (whether corporate or national) is usually rooted in finding some personal problem and exploiting it with the proper carrot", but in recent interviews on NPR, they stress that spies in real life are motivated by money and ego.
I can't imaging risking my life and my family's happiness for $600k + a promise of an additional $800K ofer 15 years. That's just $100K a year, assuming that the Russian will eventually pay the additional $800k, to commit treason, which is punishable by DEATH! This guy was already making $110k/year salary, so this only doubled his salary.
If I double your salary, could I take a couple pot shots at you with my 9mm? What was this guy on?!
Corporations exist to satisfy the share holders. If you invest your money in a corporation that is only attempting to maximize profits, then you are at fault. Instead invest in a corporation that attends to your wishes.
I've worked with corporations that purpose was economic development of a community. The share holders invested money (bought shares) not attempting to maximize profit, but to change to community.
The problem isn't corporations, it's that American can't see through more than one layer of indirection! (We have the same problem with folks complaining about high medical costs, then assuming that "insurance will pay for it", duh...somebody paid for it!)
I think that an organized group should have the ability to own property and express opinions. I also think that Americans should think a little more everytime they encourage some behavior by spending a buck.
I've used NetInfo from NeXTSTEP. It was pretty cool (much like the registry, but would span machines in a hierarchical fashon), BUT it was still a single point of failure. When it failed, it did, you were in a world of hurt.
I suggested the filesystem, because I could imagine it being a simpler implementation than a database. It could even be backed by a standard filesystem, which would let use use standard tools to manipulate it (like dump/restore/tar/grep).
I think the registry is a good thing, just too fragile of a single point of failure.
Joe
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I think your most informed comment is "GlassCode in C/C++ wouldn't necessarily help, if its algorithms are dumb."
Perl has it's place, so does Java. If Perl is written with out reguard to how it works underneath, it is slow; same with Java. I've seen many very slow systems that allocate and deallocate tremendous amount of memory for every transaction.
Java is sort of like VB, it is very easy to write bad code; it is difficult to write good code. In perl it is difficult to write/maintain anything, hence most things have been somewhat thought out. Linus uses this as an arguement to not allow debuggers into the kernel. It would enable lesser programmers to participate creating ugly code (apparently me included).
Since I haven't connected yet, I'm assuming that there isn't a cache (like squid) sitting in front of the server, which does seem dumb.
The government is an individual entity just as much as corporations are.
We, the citizens of the US, can decide to change the policies of the US governement just like we, the share holders of GM, can change the policies of GM.
The goverment just has a monopoly on many services and every citizen own a share.
We should have many corporations running the net for many of the same reasons that we have many countries on the planet or many states in the union .
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I'm tired of carrying dozens of keys. I want to be able to just unlock my house each morning and have all the rest of the doors I encounter all day long to be unlocked.
You know what, it still sounds stupid.
Joe
What if everyone took this attitude?
Do you only want fast food workers that really care, that are excited about work, That are energetic and caring about every customer, that want to improve the process at every chance? Hell no. I want someone that follows the procedures and washes their hands occasionally, so the cost of the burger is ~$1 US. You know, some of your customers want the same; they want to predictably produce inexpensive systems solutions to business problems. They don't want to break new ground with the best solutions. The don't want to fund R&D.
We need "clueless PHBs, the cookbook programmers in it for the money, the middle managers who choose our tools based on marketing hype and FUD" to do the laborous work of implementing recipes.
Joe
I graduated from Rose-Hulman in '94. Starting salaries are up significantly since I left. This year they averaged $51,378. I've unofficially heard that the CS students were starting higher than the engineers. The highest offer was $72,000.
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Do you have problem with drives wearing out?
I run out of space and upgrade before my drives wear out. I've never had a drive failure in 11 years. My machines are on about 85% of the time (not during vacation). I've only recently started spinning my drives down though; it is soooo much quieter.
Joe
...and I'm a Linux bigot.
Being able to configure Linux helps me as a software developer, but wouldn't help _most_ people.
Operating Microsoft Office, or a clone like OpenOffice, is required in today's professional environment.
Joe
>If you want the data to actually be _safe_, then
>you've got to have off-line copies
I've got all my school work from '90-'94 and I've lost about 3 drives since I started keeping this stuff. I use machine to machine backups, multiple OSs and raid arrays. This is completeley automated as opposed to manually finding a tape, putting it in a recorder, putting it in a cabinet, indexing it, dusting it, reindexing it, etc.
To delete my datastructures homework from 1991, you'd need to delete it from a Debian box (in two different places (one of which might not even be mounted and the other is mirrored)), a RedHat box, and my laptop (which is normally with me 90 miles from the other two). No offline backups, and I think my data is safe. I suppose that my house could catch on fire and I could wreck my car on the way home, but then my data structures homework is the least of my worries.
And, I don't keep a clean enough house to even find my offline data.
Joe
Hell, in school, I had to keep the case off of my box so that I could manually stager the spin up on the drives. I had to unplug one or two drives to get the first set of drives spinning, then plug in the rest of the drives.
Joe
I get longer life out of Linux, because emacs, make, gcc and a couple xterms takes few cycles than VisualStudio.
Joe
So other than "the people who developed computer microchips", and developers (who have to analyse algorithms), and network admin (who have to optimize networks), and people who build houses (who make estimates based on simple plans), and buyers for large companies who make purchases based on economic indicators and polls, and may be chemists, yah, you're right.
You see a bad buyer might use someone elses formula, but a better buyer will understand that model and adjusted it to better suit her particular environment.
We don't normally train folks to be below average, therefore everyone (named above, and possible just a few more) needs to be trained in math, not just counting.
Joe
Any company that does lots of IT stuff is looking for cheap labor (which is normally excellent pay for college students).
Try local insurance companies, communications companies, utilities, anyone who shuffles paper.
Joe
Use a one time pad for logging in. This way, someone may monitor one session, but that doesn't open up your machine.
Joe
I can't find a "FPGAs for Idiots". Can you recommend a site for me to get started?
I've talk talked about this stuff at a highy conceptual level for years and have a very strong CS background, but I keep getting lost in the marketing literature.
Thanks,
Joe
Obviously you haven't met RMS.
I read about a dozen emails a day, and delete about 2 dozen spam messages a day without even reading them, but I haven't read a postal mail since Christmas brought me many "family updates" from around the country.
You want to get a hold of me, send email. I don't answer the phone or read postal mail (unless the return address includes a family member).
Joe
[ before you ask, no I don't do the bills. ]
What career choice other than management and used car sales (I know, redundant) could you choose that would not expose you to the evils of the computer?
Engineers, econ, finance, office admins, they all end up progrmaming in one way or another (schedulers, Excel, macros, mail filter, etc.).
Joe
At Rose-Hulman, you could double in EE/CS, but not CE/CS because of the heavy overlap. That's what I did, then at the end of my sophomore year, I dropped the EE (I hate memorizing junk).
Joe
Sure, but I know some policemen and firefighters that are alive and happy, but I don't know of a single spy that is alive and happy; All the spies of heard of in jail or dead. So, as far as I'm concerned all spies end up dead or in jail, but most firefighters and policeman live long happy lives :-)
Acutally, in fiction "recruiting for espionage (whether corporate or national) is usually rooted in finding some personal problem and exploiting it with the proper carrot", but in recent interviews on NPR, they stress that spies in real life are motivated by money and ego.
Joe
I can't imaging risking my life and my family's happiness for $600k + a promise of an additional $800K ofer 15 years. That's just $100K a year, assuming that the Russian will eventually pay the additional $800k, to commit treason, which is punishable by DEATH! This guy was already making $110k/year salary, so this only doubled his salary.
If I double your salary, could I take a couple pot shots at you with my 9mm? What was this guy on?!
Joe
Corporations exist to satisfy the share holders. If you invest your money in a corporation that is only attempting to maximize profits, then you are at fault. Instead invest in a corporation that attends to your wishes.
I've worked with corporations that purpose was economic development of a community. The share holders invested money (bought shares) not attempting to maximize profit, but to change to community.
The problem isn't corporations, it's that American can't see through more than one layer of indirection! (We have the same problem with folks complaining about high medical costs, then assuming that "insurance will pay for it", duh...somebody paid for it!)
I think that an organized group should have the ability to own property and express opinions. I also think that Americans should think a little more everytime they encourage some behavior by spending a buck.
Joe
I've used NetInfo from NeXTSTEP. It was pretty cool (much like the registry, but would span machines in a hierarchical fashon), BUT it was still a single point of failure. When it failed, it did, you were in a world of hurt.
I suggested the filesystem, because I could imagine it being a simpler implementation than a database. It could even be backed by a standard filesystem, which would let use use standard tools to manipulate it (like dump/restore/tar/grep).
I think the registry is a good thing, just too fragile of a single point of failure.
Joe
I think your most informed comment is "GlassCode in C/C++ wouldn't necessarily help, if its algorithms are dumb."
Perl has it's place, so does Java. If Perl is written with out reguard to how it works underneath, it is slow; same with Java. I've seen many very slow systems that allocate and deallocate tremendous amount of memory for every transaction.
Java is sort of like VB, it is very easy to write bad code; it is difficult to write good code. In perl it is difficult to write/maintain anything, hence most things have been somewhat thought out. Linus uses this as an arguement to not allow debuggers into the kernel. It would enable lesser programmers to participate creating ugly code (apparently me included).
Since I haven't connected yet, I'm assuming that there isn't a cache (like squid) sitting in front of the server, which does seem dumb.
Joe
Let's replace /etc with something like the proc filessytem that eforces a common tabular record structure to all the files.
That's would seem to be the best of both the single registry and the flat file worlds.
It could even be a stackable style filesystem if it needs to be.
Joe
The government is an individual entity just as much as corporations are.
We, the citizens of the US, can decide to change the policies of the US governement just like we, the share holders of GM, can change the policies of GM.
The goverment just has a monopoly on many services and every citizen own a share.
We should have many corporations running the net for many of the same reasons that we have many countries on the planet or many states in the union .
Joe
WE are corporations also. Do you think corps are owned and run by aliens?
I prefer not to put all my eggs in one basket. I'd rather have many corporations running the show instead of one goverment.
Joe
I got sick in a ferry out there. uhg!
Joe