No, that bit is all well known and documented. I was querying your assertions that branching is what people do when they fail to work effectively as a team. More, that you imply that this is the ONLY reason people use branching, and that if people could only learn to get along and work as a team, they would not need branching in their source control software.
It's because people have trouble forming teams and maintaining strong relationships in large groups. The cost of communication gets too high for humans to effectively maintain the shared understandings necessary to work smoothly together.
So again, branching is what you do when a group fails to work effectively as a team.
I see. Please link to your data proving these are facts, because they look a lot like your personal opinions to me.
Infection diseases strike individuals, yes, but they thrive or die on a population. If everyone around you is immunized, but you are not, there is ZERO BENEFIT to you getting immunized. You call yourself an economist, and you've never heard of the Tragedy of the Commons? Sure, individually not having a vaccination might possibly be the "smart choice", but when everyone makes the "smart choice", everyone loses.
Actually it's a little more than 5%. 50% of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. ar caused by medical expences. Most of these people actually had medical insurance at the time too.
There were farms on Greenland, yes. But they were never 'booming'. In fact they stuggled to produce enough to survive, when the conditions were similar to what they are like today. Their society collapsed largely due to their farms failing to produce enough food when the "Little Ice Age" came to Europe.
Today weather conditions are very similar to what they were like during the Viking settlements, and the farms, even using modern methods and technology do not break even - the Danish governemnt subsidises the sheep farmers about $14,000 each just so that they can survive.
Actually QUANGO stands for QUasi Autonomous Non Government Organisation. It means any organisation funded by a government, but not directly run by the government, such as the BBC, the (Australian) ABC, the DMV etc., as well as government think-tanks.
So Windows Media Centre is going to allow you to navigat your media files in "a very rich way". And Longhorn and MSN search are going to provide a "very rich search" on the desktop. What exactly does this mean?
Are we going to all get gout from using Windows in the future?
It was launched from Alice Springs, but developed a leak sometime after launch it developed a leak, and came down 200km from the launch site, using a parachute. Apparently the experiment on board survived, but will probably not be re-used. NASA has a spare balloon in Alice Springs, and will try the launch again in the near future.
It may have failed, but it looked quite spectacular on the news. They say it doesn't mean and end to the project.
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I thought Graeme Garden had already done something like this (at least outside the 5 mile limit) for his pirate radio station.
"..and now 'A Walk in the Black Forest'".
No, that bit is all well known and documented. I was querying your assertions that branching is what people do when they fail to work effectively as a team. More, that you imply that this is the ONLY reason people use branching, and that if people could only learn to get along and work as a team, they would not need branching in their source control software.
Yes, and why is that?
It's because people have trouble forming teams and maintaining strong relationships in large groups. The cost of communication gets too high for humans to effectively maintain the shared understandings necessary to work smoothly together.
So again, branching is what you do when a group fails to work effectively as a team.
I see. Please link to your data proving these are facts, because they look a lot like your personal opinions to me.
I think your source is wrong on that one.
They've going to rename it Urectum.
I'm quite amused by his comment (in the comments) comparing Apple PR to Joseph Gerbils [sic]
Actually it's a little more than 5%. 50% of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. ar caused by medical expences. Most of these people actually had medical insurance at the time too.
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Here's some links:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6895896/
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0202-08.h
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?n
Yes, just like you can't use GPL software on Windows or Mac OS X....
There were farms on Greenland, yes. But they were never 'booming'. In fact they stuggled to produce enough to survive, when the conditions were similar to what they are like today. Their society collapsed largely due to their farms failing to produce enough food when the "Little Ice Age" came to Europe.
Today weather conditions are very similar to what they were like during the Viking settlements, and the farms, even using modern methods and technology do not break even - the Danish governemnt subsidises the sheep farmers about $14,000 each just so that they can survive.
I recommend reading "Collapse" by Jared Diamond.
Actually QUANGO stands for QUasi Autonomous Non Government Organisation. It means any organisation funded by a government, but not directly run by the government, such as the BBC, the (Australian) ABC, the DMV etc., as well as government think-tanks.
Here is a good article on implementing State Machines (PDF link):
2 _state.pdf
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/nov_0
Crighton: Tell him who his daddy is D'Argo
D'Argo: I'M your daddy!
There is a GMail notifier program for mac. It sits in your menu bar, and also integrates with Growl if you have it.
t us/
GMailStatus
http://homepage.mac.com/carsten.guenther/GmailSta
So Windows Media Centre is going to allow you to navigat your media files in "a very rich way". And Longhorn and MSN search are going to provide a "very rich search" on the desktop. What exactly does this mean?
Are we going to all get gout from using Windows in the future?
That would be all the time wouldn't it?
In my experience, C# is not too bad a language, and has some nice improvements over Java 1.4, but the documentation is nowhere near as good.
TOLR? The of lord rings?
Ask not for whom the of lord rings, the of lord rings for thee.
It may have failed, but it looked quite spectacular on the news. They say it doesn't mean and end to the project.