Perhaps there's hope, and RMS can sue MSFT for the illegal infringement of his initials. Prior use (unfortunately). RMS stood for "Root Mean Square" before Richard Stallman was a package in his father's installation manager.
The article I referenced doesn't assume that; it recognises the importance of the teams' skill and company processes etc. But the actual data shows that to be swamped by other factors. That's not to say that the quality of the final software is unaffected, but the relationship between discovered and undiscovered bugs still seems to take the same form and seems to dominate over the differences due to development quality. I suspect that better development processes would tuck the curve in tighter to the origin, and better review and test processes would move the point on the curve towards the bugs discovered end. That's one of the reasons there's a scatter, not a tight curve (another reason is the natural variation between projects, of course).
- If many people are analysing code, you will find more bugs. If you don't review your code (or for example, don't have peer review - which closed source often lacks.) Then no bugs at all will be discovered.
- The existing number of unfound bugs is related to the number of discovered bugs. Well no not really: The number of found bugs is actually related to how long and how many researchers have been testing and actively looking for the bugs and second to that is how buggy the software is. I can assign a team of one researcher with no experience and they'll never find any bugs in the poorest of software.
There's a good discussion of this from software metrics guru Norman Fenton at http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~norman/papers/metrics_r oadmap.pdf, which shows that the existing number of unfound bugs is related to the number of discovered bugs. It's related negatively. In one sense this is a "well, duh!" finding -- that the more bugs you've discovered, the fewer are undiscovered. But much software quality assurance is founded on the assumption (which realise is what you were really challenging) that number of bugs discovered is positively correlated with number of bugs undiscovered. The empirical data says otherwise.
Yup, and its not fraud. Lying and fraud are NOT synonymous. Yes, they are. You can't stop at the first definition in your dictionary. Fraud does not require financial gain as a component (even if it's usually the case, and is part of the first definition in your dictionary). Your dictionary is probably not the best available guide to the law.
So you're saying Internet Radio will be able to survive by not offering any of the popular music that most people want to listen to? If I want to hear the music everybody is playing, I don't need internet radio. Even if I choose to use internet radio I can tune in to one of the major stations. As far as I can see this rate hike is all but irrelevant to people who want to listen to the mainstream and (at least some of) the stations that serve them. Most of the music I like to listen to I can only find on the net, and because it's minority interest the majors are not interested and most artists negotiate their own deals. The rate hike isn't the end of internet radio, but I can imagine it polarising more between the populist and the obsure.
I mainly buy CDs directly from bands at gigs too, or directly from artists websites, as do many other folks I know. Those sales would fall below the radar of the RA, but they seem to be an increasing market segment. That's not to sat the CD won't become obsolete -- I expect every medium will eventually -- but the decline is not as fast as those who don't realise that this shift in the market is taking place (and the irrelevance to us of "declining floor space") believe. I believe that the democratisation of music production and distribution to be far more significant than the media used for the distribution. More and more artists are making their mark on net sales before record labels even look at them, and I suspect that more and more bands are going to start asking whether the record labels actually do anything for them. To Forbes that will look like a decline in sales and music production, because AFAICS they're only interested in bug business.
Not many people in England had phones at the time, so the namespace for phone numbers only required four digits. *please mod flamebait, please mod flamebait* Too close to the truth for flamebait. Although plenty of people had phones, Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD -- another ambiguous TLA!) was very far from widespread, so most calls went through an operator and the "number" would consist of an exchange name and the number on that exchange (my parents' number was "Penketh 5425"; I assume that the "Pennsylvania 65000" system in the USA was similar, although if the Glen Miller Orchestra is to be trusted the USA had bigger exchanges). And yes, the system did put a limit on the phones available; there was a waiting list of months or even years in some places to be allocated a number.
Re:You still have service fees?
on
ATM Turns 40
·
· Score: 1
I understand that The UK banks have an agreement not to charge each other's customers, but there are lots of ATM's not owned by the banks and which do charge. Some of them are owned by companies owned by the banks, which is enough to get around the agreement and which leads to fairly clear-cut commercial decisions when installing ATMs away from bank premises. The ATMs in shops, pubs, motoway service stations, racetracks and so on nearly all charge -- at least, the newer ones do, the ones installed since the banks worked out this dodge to avoid the agreement.
Right. We'll get right on that. We only have 93 years to go, according to this article. Yep. Remind us in 93 years' time to check up on whether the article was true or not.
it's not like they interrupt the movie to run an ad. At least they haven't started to do that yet. Yes they have. It's called "product placement", and it's getting more invasive. It's no longer enough to have the products lying around, now the action stops whilst the actors plug the products. Didn't you notice how Casino Royale stopped for the scene with the watch ad?
Vista? I can't even get SLI to work on XP Home. And that's SLI that was supposed to be preconfigured on the machine. Every time I call Mesh support about it they tell me the call is taking too long and hang up on me!
So they know what they're talking about. Are there any countries that don't engage in spying? That doesn't mean that they roll over and let everybody spy on them. This is all part of the game.
I used to think that would happen when Hong Kong went back actually - that if they allowed it to stay relatively free the freedom would spread and destroy them, but if they clamped down the money would leave and then they would be ruined by popular discontent. But HK is a special case like the treaty ports in imperial times. The Emperors managed to keep foreign influences confined to them before and the CCP could do the same. But they can't do that inside China as this story seems to tell you.
I think people tend to underestimate just how rapidly China is changing, just because it didn't turn into a western-style capitalist democracy at the flick of a switch when Hong Kong (or Macau) was handed over. A few years ago when my wife went to Beijing the first thing that met her as she left the arrivals gate was a huge poster of Mao; now it's a Kentucky Fried Chicken. On that visit she was issued with tourist food vouchers; now one just draws cash from a cashpoint with an ordinary bank card and spends it in an ordinary shop or cafe. My mother-in-law hadn't seen her sister for over 35 years, even though they lived just a few miles apart, because the borders were closed. The borders opened and they had an emotional reunion a couple of years before the HK handover. Just after the handover, my wife brought back some dried lychee from HK; it turned out that they were from a tree in her aunt's garden in Mainland China, and that these were from the first crop she had ever been allowed to keep: previous years the crop had belonged to the state. We ate them like a sacrament.
Yes, those changes are social and economic, not political, and there is still a lot of change needed, but the pace of change is breathtaking.
Language evolves over time by itself, not because we're telling it to evolve. Wow, clever language! How does it manage that, without the help of people to provide the mutation and selection?
(BTW: is Esperanto the language of religious fundamentalists? It's Intelligently Designed!)
Here in the UK, everywhere I have lived the door has had a spring latch on it that locks the door automatically when the door is closed, so I have always locked myself inside because it's the default. True, there has usually been a dead bolt available for extra security, and I've not usually used that when I've been inside, but the door has been locked.
Even if it were possible we'd still be screwed long-term. No amount of migration will let us survive the heat-death of the universe (or whatever the present teleological theory predicts). Migration just buys us time.
Anyway, when the sun explodes, lack of energy won't be our problem (though harnessing it might be).
"Pack" is almost certainly a typo for "back", even though the keys are not close on a qwerty keyboard. "In the most difficult rest" is perfectly conventional grammar, if a little archaic. For the rest,/. probably isn't the place for a couple of thousand words on the Russian formalists' concept of foregrounding, Bakhtin's theory of centrifugal and centripetal influences on language and Halliday's work on functional linguistics, though I could write them if necessary. Suffice to say that bad writing breaks the rules, good writing follows the rules, and the best writing breaks the rules. Do you object to the fact that of the first fifteen "sentences" in Dickens' "Bleak House" not a single one has a principal verb?
Jesus christ, hopefully you didn't get the job, it was harder then fuck to understand what the hell you just said. I think that shows your need of a good English teacher. I found the posting clear and well-expressed. Or, to put it in your terms, "Up yours dumbass. It was good."
Why would someone spend that much on a car when they can get 4 door Toyota Corolla for around the same price with the same fuel efficiency? Here in the UK a lot of city dwellers like them because they can park in spaces that the driver of that 4-door Corolla wouldn't even notice.
Slashdot Mirror
trillion miles to not know how to fly a spacecraft well enough to avoid crashing.
Generation ship. Pilot with no experience of flying in significant gravitation fields/flying in an atmosphere/flying whilst watching "I Love Lucy".Hey, I'm not saying it did happen, just that it could have, ok?
The article I referenced doesn't assume that; it recognises the importance of the teams' skill and company processes etc. But the actual data shows that to be swamped by other factors. That's not to say that the quality of the final software is unaffected, but the relationship between discovered and undiscovered bugs still seems to take the same form and seems to dominate over the differences due to development quality. I suspect that better development processes would tuck the curve in tighter to the origin, and better review and test processes would move the point on the curve towards the bugs discovered end. That's one of the reasons there's a scatter, not a tight curve (another reason is the natural variation between projects, of course).
- The existing number of unfound bugs is related to the number of discovered bugs. Well no not really: The number of found bugs is actually related to how long and how many researchers have been testing and actively looking for the bugs and second to that is how buggy the software is. I can assign a team of one researcher with no experience and they'll never find any bugs in the poorest of software.
There's a good discussion of this from software metrics guru Norman Fenton at http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~norman/papers/metrics_If I had modding rights at the moment I'd be torn between "insightful" and "off-topic".
I mainly buy CDs directly from bands at gigs too, or directly from artists websites, as do many other folks I know. Those sales would fall below the radar of the RA, but they seem to be an increasing market segment. That's not to sat the CD won't become obsolete -- I expect every medium will eventually -- but the decline is not as fast as those who don't realise that this shift in the market is taking place (and the irrelevance to us of "declining floor space") believe. I believe that the democratisation of music production and distribution to be far more significant than the media used for the distribution. More and more artists are making their mark on net sales before record labels even look at them, and I suspect that more and more bands are going to start asking whether the record labels actually do anything for them. To Forbes that will look like a decline in sales and music production, because AFAICS they're only interested in bug business.
I understand that The UK banks have an agreement not to charge each other's customers, but there are lots of ATM's not owned by the banks and which do charge. Some of them are owned by companies owned by the banks, which is enough to get around the agreement and which leads to fairly clear-cut commercial decisions when installing ATMs away from bank premises. The ATMs in shops, pubs, motoway service stations, racetracks and so on nearly all charge -- at least, the newer ones do, the ones installed since the banks worked out this dodge to avoid the agreement.
Yes, but those things were just there. Old school product placement. With the watch the action actually stopped for the plug.
Vista? I can't even get SLI to work on XP Home. And that's SLI that was supposed to be preconfigured on the machine. Every time I call Mesh support about it they tell me the call is taking too long and hang up on me!
So they know what they're talking about. Are there any countries that don't engage in spying? That doesn't mean that they roll over and let everybody spy on them. This is all part of the game.
I think people tend to underestimate just how rapidly China is changing, just because it didn't turn into a western-style capitalist democracy at the flick of a switch when Hong Kong (or Macau) was handed over. A few years ago when my wife went to Beijing the first thing that met her as she left the arrivals gate was a huge poster of Mao; now it's a Kentucky Fried Chicken. On that visit she was issued with tourist food vouchers; now one just draws cash from a cashpoint with an ordinary bank card and spends it in an ordinary shop or cafe. My mother-in-law hadn't seen her sister for over 35 years, even though they lived just a few miles apart, because the borders were closed. The borders opened and they had an emotional reunion a couple of years before the HK handover. Just after the handover, my wife brought back some dried lychee from HK; it turned out that they were from a tree in her aunt's garden in Mainland China, and that these were from the first crop she had ever been allowed to keep: previous years the crop had belonged to the state. We ate them like a sacrament.
Yes, those changes are social and economic, not political, and there is still a lot of change needed, but the pace of change is breathtaking.
Here in the UK, everywhere I have lived the door has had a spring latch on it that locks the door automatically when the door is closed, so I have always locked myself inside because it's the default. True, there has usually been a dead bolt available for extra security, and I've not usually used that when I've been inside, but the door has been locked.
Even if it were possible we'd still be screwed long-term. No amount of migration will let us survive the heat-death of the universe (or whatever the present teleological theory predicts). Migration just buys us time.
Anyway, when the sun explodes, lack of energy won't be our problem (though harnessing it might be).
"Pack" is almost certainly a typo for "back", even though the keys are not close on a qwerty keyboard. "In the most difficult rest" is perfectly conventional grammar, if a little archaic. For the rest, /. probably isn't the place for a couple of thousand words on the Russian formalists' concept of foregrounding, Bakhtin's theory of centrifugal and centripetal influences on language and Halliday's work on functional linguistics, though I could write them if necessary. Suffice to say that bad writing breaks the rules, good writing follows the rules, and the best writing breaks the rules. Do you object to the fact that of the first fifteen "sentences" in Dickens' "Bleak House" not a single one has a principal verb?
Maybe on the merits? I can understand that he might actually want to know what those merits were, though.
"One lawyer in a town starves to death. Two lawyers in a town live in luxury."