Posts by Firewalker
6 posts • joined Thursday 24th December 2009 15:56 GMT
It's called job security
Coding without enough sleep ensures that the programmer will be busy the next day debugging and undoing the damage done today.
Want to Kill People?
'"My reaction was one of stunned amazement that they want to kill people with my software that doesn't work," IISi's CTO Richard Zimmerman told the court.'
My reaction is one stunned amazement that they want to kill people with his -- or anyone's -- software, even if the software works. There's a big difference between wanting to kill people and self-defense. Does one hunt for the act of eating or does one hunt for the act of killing?
There is nothing in Afghanistan or Iraq or Pakistan that is worth the life of any one of our troops.
Guaranteed Supply
Very interesting. One point that seems to have slipped by is that opening their own fab for the FPGA production Intel has a direct supply of high quality, very fast, FPGAs along with the basic recipe to make them. Among other things, Intel can use this knowledge to directly test their HDL before any commitment to silicon. Knowledge is power and the knowledge Intel will gain through this move will be immense.
Good move Intel!
Intel and Oregon is an on-going success
"What's more, you can bet your last dollar or euro that if Intel could get the right kind of intellectual-property assurances from the Chinese government, and if the US Congress wouldn't go completely nuts, it would build more fabs in China and fold up Old Glory in perfect triangles and stuff it into a closet somewhere."
Having worked at Intel and having a pretty good knowledge of Intel, the above statement is wrong. Intel is very well aware that if it takes the short term profit approach that Wall Street demands by doing bleeding edge work in China, etc it will lose it's intellectual strength and ability to compete. Investing in local manufacturing, in a locality already proven highly successful/profitable for Intel, makes perfect sense for a company driven by cutting end technology. Remember Intel's products are not only cutting edge but equally important is their manufacturing capability for their products. See Andy Grove's take: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html
Posted in PHPers prefer Windows desktop to Linux
Not a free choice
The choice of O/S to develop upon at the places I've worked was broken down into two groups; those whose upper management required us to use MS and those that gave us the choice. Invariably in the places where we had a choice we chose Linux and used a shared MS box(es) for testing. The only time MS was used was when we were forced to and by the occasional, fresh out of school, developer that was not familiar with Linux.
Posted in Toshiba Satellite T110
Silly Person
It's not the CPU that's hobbling the system, it's the software. Try running an efficient O/S with efficient software and you can get the system screaming.
