many have mentioned that his sample seems arbitrary, but what if we did the same thing as he for a coder of a specific language? The optimal layout for C, perl, Java, etc. That could be an interesting way to escape sore wrists...
Wonder what EMC thinks?
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EMC is in fierce competition with Hitachi in the enterprise market. EMC used to buy it's drives, the base units anyway, from IBM. Wonder how EMC will do having to buy its drives from its biggest competitor?
I know this from dealing with them. It runs their whole business. It is even, as an earlier poster said, "an old Unix tied to a vendor". That makes me laugh...
glad to see someone else sees the other side here. how can they validate the doctot's papers? how can they know it's not a bomb? many make the point these security gaurds are generally dubm. and they are. too dumb to tell the difference between a wearable computing aparatus and something potentially dangerous. imagine that. personally I hope they're always more careful than smart...
I'm on Comcast@home in NJ and according to http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ my speed is about 2.5 down and 384 up. Not bad. I don't know if this means the test is bad, they just haven't hit my subnet yet with the limits or the limits are only in Cali, but the speed is just fine for me. I'll kep paying the same fee if they keep this level of speed up no matter who runs things at the other end...
right now, none of these services providers do anything to check. They just say no and then leave it to you. If a big stink is made, they may take notice. This is the second mention I've seen of it here and it was also discussed in some newsgroups lately (no links b/c *I* don't want to make a big deal of it).
...are bad news. Not that IE market growth hasn't already been growing, but if the ad community can justify dollars for these ads then thing are going the BAD way. Ad-peeps are a group of gods and monsters driven SOLEly by numbers and not influenced by any tech loyalty at all.
...and the only way to flourish is to operat along with it. As long as people can make money by making software, they will keep it closed. So if you want to push free, open software to the fullest extent it can reach you'll need it to interoperate with the money makers. Not to do that will be counter-productive.
Man this is conflicting. Sure, it's bad to let a potential terrorist gain access to info about a nuclear plant that may help them kill millions. On the other hand, the slippery slope to police state only requires a 1 degree dip to start the ball rolling. Hmmm...
...most of the time. Unless something shows such a HUGE benefit from a technology standpoint that the business side cannot ignore it, commercial support will always win out. Just ask anyone trying to push Linux in corporate arenas right now (read:me). The relational database has IBM, Oracle, M$ and all manner of other flora and fauna behind it. It's not going anywhere. And, as someone further up noted, if you can't beat it, integrate it. Most of the major relational DBs have facilities which allow for use of models other than relational (OO, Hierarchical, even Navigational).
if there's one thing the current world climate will speed up it's globalization in every respect...now it seems an issue of safety that everyone is (forced to be) on the same moral/politicol/economic page. then what happens to the little liberties like this? the little first amendment issues? what will a PC attitude adjusted for every culture on earth look like?
...about small development cycles and source files. If that was all it took, there a dozen much more established laguages and tools which should have ousted them long, long ago. It'll take more than YAP to beat the beast....
your site is php. you have a thinkgeek banner and many other geek cues. do you consider youself one of the unwashed masses? do you think you're a geek? --in the good sense =]
i am from NJ, right outside NYC about 10 minutes from ground zero. I was in Cali 9/11. My wife called me hysterical and woke me up. We spoke for a short while and got cut off. I could not reach her by phone. I got to the office, hooked into the network and she had her IM client up. We were able to talk all that day thanks to it. We had a radio in the office and I listened to NPR while she watched CNN. We both scanned the net for news too. For news, I used every source I could get - none stood out. But the net let me keep a constant instant watch over my family from 3000 miles away and that was cool.
I've worked with a lot of gov/mil sites as a vendor and they seemed to always have a very mixed bag. The funding goes project by project and the decisions are made that way too it seems. So I'd say there are going to be patches in every branch willing to look at this and patches that would feel threatened by it. Just like anywhere else... =]
most people will be more than happy to get rid of WIMPs alltogether and trade it in for a slightly intelligent agent.
"Computer, go get the news and put it on the screen in the bedroom and bathrooms."
"OK, sir." says the mindless but usefully understanding vioce from the wall.
I agree about the right tool for the right job. For most/.ers WIMP is just dandy, but I bet the majority of the world will be more than ahppy to do away with it and request with their vioce and scroll with their eyes...
i agree that the big names have slowed =[ , but if you get a thrill from trying out new fun widgets (as I do as well) there have been some good ones suggested and I'll ad flwm(http://flwm.sourceforge.net/) to the list -fastest one I've ever seen. Also has a super-keen set of buttons to size windows and the title bars are sideways!
small devices, with their own power which can be placed on/in any person and run off of them for an indefinite amount of time... tagged at birth, tracked in secret... never off the screen for even a nanosecond...
I have been in Jesuit instutions, both high school and university. I think they did a good job. Generally their goal was teaching critical thought. They always encouraged my expression - which was generally at odds with their articles of faith. That willingness to encourage a dialogue was impressive. I also saw them put down badly formed thought. Generally, if you simply spit out some non-sense you could be sure not to get your views aired. But any viewpoint expressed coherently was considered and given a full treatment. That's a healthy atmosphere to strive for in education. They were just there to equip us to better enter those dialogues as informed and thoughtful people.
it's far from being the first time hackers have been called to serve in the way only they can. we can probably thank goodness for it too or guys like Turing would never had had the chance to invent these curious machines we're all so occupied with...
I work for avendor and go do onsite trials of our software all the time at every shape and size of shop you can think of. Fun crops up all over - in all shapes. I think it's the people not the place or type of business that make the difference. The one observation I have made, though; is that the places that have seemed to be having the most fun to me are the ones who have their s**t together the best. These shops have the luxury of knowing all is well and management who is happy and therefore tolerant of geeky indulgences...
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many have mentioned that his sample seems arbitrary, but what if we did the same thing as he for a coder of a specific language? The optimal layout for C, perl, Java, etc. That could be an interesting way to escape sore wrists...
EMC is in fierce competition with Hitachi in the enterprise market. EMC used to buy it's drives, the base units anyway, from IBM. Wonder how EMC will do having to buy its drives from its biggest competitor?
I know this from dealing with them. It runs their whole business. It is even, as an earlier poster said, "an old Unix tied to a vendor". That makes me laugh...
glad to see someone else sees the other side here. how can they validate the doctot's papers? how can they know it's not a bomb? many make the point these security gaurds are generally dubm. and they are. too dumb to tell the difference between a wearable computing aparatus and something potentially dangerous. imagine that. personally I hope they're always more careful than smart...
I'm on Comcast@home in NJ and according to http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ my speed is about 2.5 down and 384 up. Not bad. I don't know if this means the test is bad, they just haven't hit my subnet yet with the limits or the limits are only in Cali, but the speed is just fine for me. I'll kep paying the same fee if they keep this level of speed up no matter who runs things at the other end...
right now, none of these services providers do anything to check. They just say no and then leave it to you. If a big stink is made, they may take notice. This is the second mention I've seen of it here and it was also discussed in some newsgroups lately (no links b/c *I* don't want to make a big deal of it).
...are bad news. Not that IE market growth hasn't already been growing, but if the ad community can justify dollars for these ads then thing are going the BAD way. Ad-peeps are a group of gods and monsters driven SOLEly by numbers and not influenced by any tech loyalty at all.
...and the only way to flourish is to operat along with it. As long as people can make money by making software, they will keep it closed. So if you want to push free, open software to the fullest extent it can reach you'll need it to interoperate with the money makers. Not to do that will be counter-productive.
how can M$ respond in any way that does not portray them as recieving an award through the original "settlement".
Man this is conflicting. Sure, it's bad to let a potential terrorist gain access to info about a nuclear plant that may help them kill millions. On the other hand, the slippery slope to police state only requires a 1 degree dip to start the ball rolling. Hmmm...
...most of the time. Unless something shows such a HUGE benefit from a technology standpoint that the business side cannot ignore it, commercial support will always win out. Just ask anyone trying to push Linux in corporate arenas right now (read:me). The relational database has IBM, Oracle, M$ and all manner of other flora and fauna behind it. It's not going anywhere. And, as someone further up noted, if you can't beat it, integrate it. Most of the major relational DBs have facilities which allow for use of models other than relational (OO, Hierarchical, even Navigational).
if there's one thing the current world climate will speed up it's globalization in every respect...now it seems an issue of safety that everyone is (forced to be) on the same moral/politicol/economic page. then what happens to the little liberties like this? the little first amendment issues? what will a PC attitude adjusted for every culture on earth look like?
...about small development cycles and source files. If that was all it took, there a dozen much more established laguages and tools which should have ousted them long, long ago. It'll take more than YAP to beat the beast....
sounds like the american way at work... =]
Can't wait to see this one on QVC.
your site is php. you have a thinkgeek banner and many other geek cues. do you consider youself one of the unwashed masses? do you think you're a geek? --in the good sense =]
i am from NJ, right outside NYC about 10 minutes from ground zero. I was in Cali 9/11. My wife called me hysterical and woke me up. We spoke for a short while and got cut off. I could not reach her by phone. I got to the office, hooked into the network and she had her IM client up. We were able to talk all that day thanks to it. We had a radio in the office and I listened to NPR while she watched CNN. We both scanned the net for news too. For news, I used every source I could get - none stood out. But the net let me keep a constant instant watch over my family from 3000 miles away and that was cool.
we speak the way we breath --Fugazi
I've worked with a lot of gov/mil sites as a vendor and they seemed to always have a very mixed bag. The funding goes project by project and the decisions are made that way too it seems. So I'd say there are going to be patches in every branch willing to look at this and patches that would feel threatened by it. Just like anywhere else... =]
most people will be more than happy to get rid of WIMPs alltogether and trade it in for a slightly intelligent agent.
/.ers WIMP is just dandy, but I bet the majority of the world will be more than ahppy to do away with it and request with their vioce and scroll with their eyes...
"Computer, go get the news and put it on the screen in the bedroom and bathrooms."
"OK, sir." says the mindless but usefully understanding vioce from the wall.
I agree about the right tool for the right job. For most
i agree that the big names have slowed =[ , but if you get a thrill from trying out new fun widgets (as I do as well) there have been some good ones suggested and I'll ad flwm(http://flwm.sourceforge.net/) to the list -fastest one I've ever seen. Also has a super-keen set of buttons to size windows and the title bars are sideways!
small devices, with their own power which can be placed on/in any person and run off of them for an indefinite amount of time... tagged at birth, tracked in secret... never off the screen for even a nanosecond...
I have been in Jesuit instutions, both high school and university. I think they did a good job. Generally their goal was teaching critical thought. They always encouraged my expression - which was generally at odds with their articles of faith. That willingness to encourage a dialogue was impressive. I also saw them put down badly formed thought. Generally, if you simply spit out some non-sense you could be sure not to get your views aired. But any viewpoint expressed coherently was considered and given a full treatment. That's a healthy atmosphere to strive for in education. They were just there to equip us to better enter those dialogues as informed and thoughtful people.
it's far from being the first time hackers have been called to serve in the way only they can. we can probably thank goodness for it too or guys like Turing would never had had the chance to invent these curious machines we're all so occupied with...
here's me admitting IANAL nor do i get law at all, but does the admission of reverse engineering here actually put Soren at any real risk?
I work for avendor and go do onsite trials of our software all the time at every shape and size of shop you can think of. Fun crops up all over - in all shapes. I think it's the people not the place or type of business that make the difference. The one observation I have made, though; is that the places that have seemed to be having the most fun to me are the ones who have their s**t together the best. These shops have the luxury of knowing all is well and management who is happy and therefore tolerant of geeky indulgences...
SuSE is great for those who are new to Linux but not new to computers. Mandrake is another good starter, but it does sorta spoon feed you.