Reminds me of an episode of The Goodies - in the era before microwaves, that is. They were going to set fire to an oil-slick but not before throwing in a heap of chopped potatoes... mmm.. yummy fish n chips.
Yeah, if you manage to do it pre-disaster. Afterwards, well, you learn an expensive lesson about doing backups. I learnt that lesson. Worse still I learnt that (at least in Australia) Apple won't let you keep your fried hard drive when they replace it under warranty. By the time I found out they had already sent it overseas to the manufacturer.
When NASA stops offering "cost plus" contracts to the usual suspects (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc) then you can have a big celebration, but until then its just business as usual.
When this kind of thing comes up, I always wonder what implications private outsourcing of critical work has on problem solving. I mean, if another shuttle explodes or some such thing, it's probably straightforward in getting all the commerical secrets out of the offending company, but couldn't it be argued that private outsourcing causes these kinds of accidents (because the private company doesn't want to reveal everything to NASA about their product)?
This isn't a religious debate, it is an ethical one. If it's not a religious debate, it's not about morality and not about ethics. Because absolute values really come only from religions. If it's about human rights then it's about the United Nations and a consensus view and whether this should change. If it's a legal debate then it's rather boring really. But you can't rule religion out of this because that's the very reason why all of this is controversial.
Headline singles out AMD machines, body indicates that AMD and Intel are equally affected by various modes of crash. Sounds like someone's trying to drum down AMD stock or something... nah, we'd never have a processor partisan writing for Slash would we? Possibly, but how many people with enough money are going to take this seriously? Suspecting stock options bought around the blowing up of the twin towers is fair enough, but trying to make a buck on the stocks via Slashdot is a it obtuse, don't you think?
Why not try at the university? If they adopted your software, they might/probably are also be interested in getting it further developed.
That's a good point, but of course it's hard to guess what the application is.
But more generally, I would say that support is more forthcoming if you make tinkering with your application by end users easier. For example, storing your graphics as external files, maximizing use of plain-text config files and, as mentioned elsewhere, allowing plug-ins or making the effort to make your application very easy to control externally/talk to other applications.
Then, hopefully, people will find uses for your application that you might not have thought of yourself and then your audience broadens and the chance of getting partners for development greater.
Oh, and what happened to the spiffy discussion2 stuff? Now comments open in new pages again and I can't reply inline. What's up with that? You have to enable XML on your browser;).. err.. Javascript and cookies I mean.
ncluding some irrational fear of hydrogen that makes it the target of lame jokes like this one. The joke didn't need legs, so being a lame joke, it could still float.
Or, for a hydrogen filled Zeppelin, they are offering the discounted, insurance free rate of $50 per person, one way. Any person having a bad outcome in the said NT Zeppelin will be met with the BSOD (Blue Sky of Death).
Rides will cost from $250 to $500 per person. Esther Dyson is one of the investors. Or, for a hydrogen filled Zeppelin, they are offering the discounted, insurance free rate of $50 per person, one way.
But you know, coming from Google, at least we can be sure that the spam is context aware, targeted and very easy to search. If you happened to miss out on some spam, you can always look at the cache too.
Matter of opinion. Conrad Blacks little rag is just a tabloid with bigger words IMO.
What have you got against Blacks, huh? Racist! I'll have you put up for hatespeech. I bet you put milk in your coffee for fear of making it black, too!
(I'm only joking - but it's gone that far in some quarters that you can't even call a black coffee a black coffee.)
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Reminds me of an episode of The Goodies - in the era before microwaves, that is. They were going to set fire to an oil-slick but not before throwing in a heap of chopped potatoes... mmm.. yummy fish n chips.
Google cache?
When this kind of thing comes up, I always wonder what implications private outsourcing of critical work has on problem solving. I mean, if another shuttle explodes or some such thing, it's probably straightforward in getting all the commerical secrets out of the offending company, but couldn't it be argued that private outsourcing causes these kinds of accidents (because the private company doesn't want to reveal everything to NASA about their product)?
Actually this sounds more like Microsoft deliberately trying to drum down their stock prices. Are they planning a share buy-back or something?
I suppose now we have to wait until "Windows XP Service Pack 3" Service Pack 1 comes out before it becomes usable.
That's a good point, but of course it's hard to guess what the application is.
But more generally, I would say that support is more forthcoming if you make tinkering with your application by end users easier. For example, storing your graphics as external files, maximizing use of plain-text config files and, as mentioned elsewhere, allowing plug-ins or making the effort to make your application very easy to control externally/talk to other applications.
Then, hopefully, people will find uses for your application that you might not have thought of yourself and then your audience broadens and the chance of getting partners for development greater.
Better XML support. That's a biggie. Might it mean we can, for a whole heap of projects, discard mysql? Would it make things run faster?
Crikey, I can't believe I have to RTFA to come up with something funny to say about this short-ass summary!
But you know, coming from Google, at least we can be sure that the spam is context aware, targeted and very easy to search. If you happened to miss out on some spam, you can always look at the cache too.
im not really surprised that you're not really surprised
Oh thanks. And am I going to be conscious when it tells me that? Talk about BSOD!
Nobody is going to be walking around with freakin' defibrillator pads on their chest and a Microsoft Guardian Angel in their pocket.
What have you got against Blacks, huh? Racist! I'll have you put up for hatespeech. I bet you put milk in your coffee for fear of making it black, too!
(I'm only joking - but it's gone that far in some quarters that you can't even call a black coffee a black coffee.)
I hate Smurfing!