You realize, don't you, that the most failsafe method of preventing another terrorist hijacking is to allow people that are legally owned to carry a firearm to do so on planes?
Preventing a hijacking: yes.
Raizing the changes of innocents getting killed with false alarms: double-yes.
FUD and guns kill people, I think that is something you shoudl realize.
I have to disagree here: although there are coding standards out there that do not help a coder to understand foreign code, most rules can only help and will never prevent someone from effectively dealing with the code. The essentials are:
A name or identifier shall only consist of US English words and digits.
Comments shall be made in US English.
There shall be a header at the beginning of each source file, containing the author, scope (project), version, status, last modification date and time
If parts of the code (including comments) is not made by the original owner of a document, there shall be a comments including the name of that personBlock shall be indented
There are several other rules that help preventing common coding errors (e.g. do not use else-clauses without brackets), but they are of minor importance IMHO.
Lio
Building your PVR is much easier if you are using VDR with one of the numerous VDR distributions that are based on Debian, Gentoo or SuSE. Check out the English version of the VDR-Wiki for information on hardware, installations etc.
The knowledge of assembler language and the way computers work deep inside can help a lot in designing software, but they often lead to "clever code". I.e. a code which is so sophisticated and so cool, that you as the programmer will be very proud of it. But the pitiable new employee who is assigned to your team will struggle with that code as it turns out to be so clever that no one else will be able to maintain it.
If you are looking for a real nice performance comparison of different languages, check out the The Great Computer Language Shootout at http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/. Why I did not link it directly? Because it has a "slashhole"!
At least for Germany, this is not accurate: the law prohibits a regular work time of more than 48 hours a week and 10 hours a day. You may not volunteer to work longer unless you are a freelancer! In fact anyone who would be disadvantaged by this situation could file a complaint...
... these idiots are British. I really don't understand their buzz for guns. But for all of you who think this is is really fun, I suggest some more projects: - a home-theatre inside a M1 tank - a landmine with a boom-box - a bomb with a webcam. Ok, we already know the latter from the first gulf-war...
Full ack! I downloaded a C64-emulator a year ago together with some games. Conclusion: Boulder Dash, Le Mans Joy, Donkey Kong still rule! On the other side I found Jedi Outcast very boring. Nice graphics, fast gameplay, but boring.
... now I can can hit my mouse until my desk goes to pieces. I just hope, that I remember this when the next anger-attack comes around... damn hargglllll JuuhGUSUDFUz uasdfuUUhjhj *crack*
Is this media really usable for long storage and how reliable is it? If I encounter a small blip during a movie, this would just bug me a bit, but a missing file in a backup is a different thing. An example, where a technical solution for digital audio is also used for data storage is DAT and according to my experiences, this is far away from what I'd call reliable. Digital video tapes have about the same recording density and the the mechanical setup is also nearly the same. This backup solution (if someone will succeed in writing a driver) might have just the advantage of being cheap...
I wonder why Microsoft has not come up with this: bug report licenses! Everybody who wants to read them has to agree to the EULA first and pays a small amout for each report. I volunteer for a bug-report distributor:-)
Did anybody really expect that outer space is 4-letter-words-free? Although being an astronaut might be one of the most interesting jobs, it still is a job with all the problems and accompaniment that allways pertain to jobs. And talking about the amount of work: when someone assigns a task to you who never did this himself - do you really think he knows how much time it will take?
Will MRAM be regarded as a breakthrough in 4 years? If they could ship it NOW, it would. Especially the non-volatile feature rocks, but I am pretty cautious to jump this train: wasn't there some company that promised a kind of optical RAM made of polymeres with access times around 5ns?
The fact is: software development takes time. Lots of it. And it takes more time than even the designers and programmers themselves expect. Is there a market for almost perfect, expensive products that do not ship before they are tested sufficiently? No, because the users wants the software for a task or problem now - he does not want to wait nor does he want to pay astronomous amounts of money for it. The whole marketing process really relies on this simple principle: sell it. At this point I totally agree with the author of the article, but the ones to blame are not the techies, but the users and the sales managers. They decide about the features and when the product should be available. Techies can only match these conditions by producing half-finished, roughly tested software - sorry about that!
I said that I registered last year BEFORE version 4.0 which means that I registered for version 3.6x or something and I could not upgrade for free for 4.0 - neither can I for 5.0...
This is how "normal" telephone and the internet could grow together: 8-digit hex phone-numbers! Use your IP, Luke! Or in others words: I am off, having a talk with www.whitehouse.gov...
I registered Opera last year because I liked the speed of the browser and they promised to add some of the missing features soon: Javascript support had its bugs back then and forget about Java...
When they announced the version 4.0, I was very disappointed that I could not upgrade for free, because now they had added the features for which I had registered in the first place. Meanwhile, I don't care much about speed with an Athlon system now - I am going to try out the new version, but I doubt that it will convince me to pay another 50 bucks...
Big cables for the power consumption, 4 (!) big fans to fight the heat: this looks like it has been assembled by some overclocker at home rather than a commercial product from a company that once ruled the 3d-market. Is this a joke? Will it fit in my case? Would I buy this? Yes, no, no...
uhm - very nice. thank you. now I get another slap in the face with this "geez, come all to this biiiig party", which does of course only matters for that half percent of/.-readers who can attend... *sniff*... leave me alone, will ya?
An overall benchmark for DBMS (and especially the ANSI-SQL one) tells you just the information you don't need: performance on a random task. Normally you have to find a DBMS for your specific application, so this information is completely useless to you! After you have specified the requirements for your database, you can single out the one that fits best. And believe me: there are applications where you don't choose Postgres...
I really miss a different approach for integrated office applications: there is no need for some more free MS Office pendents (and there are already a lot...). What we really need is an intelligent and usable groupware concept!
From what I've read about the 1.13 GHz Pentium-III (for example in the article and update at Tom's Hardware Guide), I seriously doubt that Intel is the position of being able to ship a stable 1.4 GHz CPU within a year, not to think about 2 GHz...
This frightens me: what could be next? Maybe we are close to get VBS-support for Linux eMail applications... beware! Don't download any more Natalie Portman stuff!!!
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You realize, don't you, that the most failsafe method of preventing another terrorist hijacking is to allow people that are legally owned to carry a firearm to do so on planes?
Preventing a hijacking: yes.
Raizing the changes of innocents getting killed with false alarms: double-yes.
FUD and guns kill people, I think that is something you shoudl realize.
Lio
- A name or identifier shall only consist of US English words and digits.
- Comments shall be made in US English.
- There shall be a header at the beginning of each source file, containing the author, scope (project), version, status, last modification date and time
- If parts of the code (including comments) is not made by the original owner of a document, there shall be a comments including the name of that personBlock shall be indented
There are several other rules that help preventing common coding errors (e.g. do not use else-clauses without brackets), but they are of minor importance IMHO. LioBuilding your PVR is much easier if you are using VDR with one of the numerous VDR distributions that are based on Debian, Gentoo or SuSE. Check out the English version of the VDR-Wiki for information on hardware, installations etc.
Lio
The knowledge of assembler language and the way computers work deep inside can help a lot in designing software, but they often lead to "clever code". I.e. a code which is so sophisticated and so cool, that you as the programmer will be very proud of it. But the pitiable new employee who is assigned to your team will struggle with that code as it turns out to be so clever that no one else will be able to maintain it.
If you are looking for a real nice performance comparison of different languages, check out the The Great Computer Language Shootout at http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/. Why I did not link it directly? Because it has a "slashhole"!
At least for Germany, this is not accurate: the law prohibits a regular work time of more than 48 hours a week and 10 hours a day. You may not volunteer to work longer unless you are a freelancer! In fact anyone who would be disadvantaged by this situation could file a complaint ...
But still, they all died. Except for Ripley of course ;-)
... these idiots are British. I really don't understand their buzz for guns. ...
But for all of you who think this is is really fun, I suggest some more projects:
- a home-theatre inside a M1 tank
- a landmine with a boom-box
- a bomb with a webcam.
Ok, we already know the latter from the first gulf-war
Full ack! I downloaded a C64-emulator a year ago together with some games. Conclusion: Boulder Dash, Le Mans Joy, Donkey Kong still rule! On the other side I found Jedi Outcast very boring. Nice graphics, fast gameplay, but boring.
... now I can can hit my mouse until my desk goes to pieces. I just hope, that I remember this when the next anger-attack comes around ... damn hargglllll JuuhGUSUDFUz uasdfuUUhjhj *crack*
Is this media really usable for long storage and how reliable is it? If I encounter a small blip during a movie, this would just bug me a bit, but a missing file in a backup is a different thing. An example, where a technical solution for digital audio is also used for data storage is DAT and according to my experiences, this is far away from what I'd call reliable. Digital video tapes have about the same recording density and the the mechanical setup is also nearly the same. This backup solution (if someone will succeed in writing a driver) might have just the advantage of being cheap ...
I wonder why Microsoft has not come up with this: bug report licenses! Everybody who wants to read them has to agree to the EULA first and pays a small amout for each report. I volunteer for a bug-report distributor :-)
Did anybody really expect that outer space is 4-letter-words-free? Although being an astronaut might be one of the most interesting jobs, it still is a job with all the problems and accompaniment that allways pertain to jobs. And talking about the amount of work: when someone assigns a task to you who never did this himself - do you really think he knows how much time it will take?
Will MRAM be regarded as a breakthrough in 4 years? If they could ship it NOW, it would. Especially the non-volatile feature rocks, but I am pretty cautious to jump this train: wasn't there some company that promised a kind of optical RAM made of polymeres with access times around 5ns?
The fact is: software development takes time. Lots of it. And it takes more time than even the designers and programmers themselves expect. Is there a market for almost perfect, expensive products that do not ship before they are tested sufficiently? No, because the users wants the software for a task or problem now - he does not want to wait nor does he want to pay astronomous amounts of money for it. The whole marketing process really relies on this simple principle: sell it. At this point I totally agree with the author of the article, but the ones to blame are not the techies, but the users and the sales managers. They decide about the features and when the product should be available. Techies can only match these conditions by producing half-finished, roughly tested software - sorry about that!
I said that I registered last year BEFORE version 4.0 which means that I registered for version 3.6x or something and I could not upgrade for free for 4.0 - neither can I for 5.0 ...
This is how "normal" telephone and the internet could grow together: 8-digit hex phone-numbers! Use your IP, Luke! Or in others words: I am off, having a talk with www.whitehouse.gov ...
I registered Opera last year because I liked the speed of the browser and they promised to add some of the missing features soon: Javascript support had its bugs back then and forget about Java ...
When they announced the version 4.0, I was very disappointed that I could not upgrade for free, because now they had added the features for which I had registered in the first place. Meanwhile, I don't care much about speed with an Athlon system now - I am going to try out the new version, but I doubt that it will convince me to pay another 50 bucks ...
Big cables for the power consumption, 4 (!) big fans to fight the heat: this looks like it has been assembled by some overclocker at home rather than a commercial product from a company that once ruled the 3d-market. Is this a joke? Will it fit in my case? Would I buy this? Yes, no, no ...
"e-biker crashed while playing quake" ... nah - not for me!
uhm - very nice. thank you. now I get another slap in the face with this "geez, come all to this biiiig party", which does of course only matters for that half percent of /.-readers who can attend ... *sniff* ... leave me alone, will ya?
An overall benchmark for DBMS (and especially the ANSI-SQL one) tells you just the information you don't need: performance on a random task. Normally you have to find a DBMS for your specific application, so this information is completely useless to you! After you have specified the requirements for your database, you can single out the one that fits best. And believe me: there are applications where you don't choose Postgres ...
I really miss a different approach for integrated office applications: there is no need for some more free MS Office pendents (and there are already a lot ...). What we really need is an intelligent and usable groupware concept!
From what I've read about the 1.13 GHz Pentium-III (for example in the article and update at Tom's Hardware Guide), I seriously doubt that Intel is the position of being able to ship a stable 1.4 GHz CPU within a year, not to think about 2 GHz ...
This frightens me: what could be next? Maybe we are close to get VBS-support for Linux eMail applications ... beware! Don't download any more Natalie Portman stuff!!!