If a test suite is costly to maintain it is defeating the purpose (because test failures don't indicate code bugs), and something is wrong. You have to find a way at reasonable cost to eliminate the bogus failures. Testijng a GUI and testing the output of multithreaded code is problematic, good solutions are hard to find.
Take the other side of it: if you code for easy testability your code does look different and the tests you write will work perfectly forever (and only fail if the software being tested gets broken). But you won't get there if you don't start by writing the test driver and then the code, as unless you start right you won't write easily-testable code. BTDT (both ways).
Uh, I'd love to do that on a home machine, but Comcast says that is against Comcast Terms Of Service. No can do. Wait, I could rent space on Amazon's cloud and... Oops. No. Against some TOS there.
Ever try to buy anything from SGI? Unless you were a megacustomer it was nearly impossible. While fixing that might have added a couple billion to sales figures over time, I have to doubt fixing it would have saved either company.
When we've tried calling 911 to report a drunk driver (freeway near San Francisco) nobody answers the phone. Called local police (from car) and they said "Yes, that is true, no one answers, and 911 is the only number we have to call the CHP."
Lets see, we are 18000 feet by wire from a central office (measured by PacBell) and the wires were installed in 1947 or so. And no new wires are going to be installed. So bonding wires-that-do-not-exist over a few hundred feet is going to help how?
The article says it was given to a group of researchers for a day, who found nasty defects and the politicians did not like that. Nothing suggests the machine was not returned after a day. Retroactively the grant of the machine is now considered theft. One suspects the intent is to discredit the research.
2. The phone company (government helped pay for the wiring and used eminent domain to purchase easements for same).
Agreed on all counts. I live but 10 miles from the border of San Francisco and within 2.5 miles of a town of 100,000 people and the only internet connection available from the phone company is about 56Kbit/S with DSL.
So short of moving I have no choice, it has to be cable internet, the phone company is no more an option for the internet than a cell connection. Yes, that is why NN is absolutely necessary.
One of the problems with the whole debate is that by the time we have definitive proof CO2 emissions are causing global warming it will be far, far too late..
Regardless what is causing the warming we need to take action to avoid a debacle for humans.
If towns would make reasonable speed limits.... oh wait. More ticket revenue with artificially low limits.
On the rare occasion we see someone driving really fast or drunk we try to call 911 (California) and no one answers the d*** phone.
On the frequent occasion someone drives 50 or 60 MPH in a 70 zone we just drive around. The funniest ones go from the entry lane (where they are going 35 mph) and dart all the way (4 lanes over) to the fast lane and slowly accelerate to 55MPH (70 zone).
I'm looking forward to your printing your social security number, birthdate, name, bank routing numbers, and credit card data here, "alienized". You just said you would, since there is nothing wrong with having those numbers, right?
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If a test suite is costly to maintain it is defeating the purpose (because test failures don't indicate
code bugs), and something is wrong. You have to find a way at reasonable cost to eliminate
the bogus failures. Testijng a GUI and testing the output of multithreaded code is problematic,
good solutions are hard to find.
Take the other side of it: if you code for easy testability your code does look different and
the tests you write will work perfectly forever (and only fail if the software being tested gets
broken). But you won't get there if you don't start by writing the test driver and then the code,
as unless you start right you won't write easily-testable code. BTDT (both ways).
Fortunately most moral people disagree with you.
Neither the 'most' nor the 'moral' in that statement can be accepted.
Argued or discussed, perhaps. Accepted, no.
Uh, I'd love to do that on a home machine, but Comcast says that is against Comcast Terms Of Service.
No can do. Wait, I could rent space on Amazon's cloud and... Oops. No. Against some TOS there.
Ever try to buy anything from SGI? Unless you were a megacustomer it was nearly
impossible. While fixing that might have added a couple billion to sales
figures over time, I have to doubt fixing it would have saved either company.
...means obeying the laws the legislators actually wrote?
Those of us supporting the high-speed rail idea will now forget that entirely, TSA at railroads means rail loses my support.
Sad.
When we've tried calling 911 to report a drunk driver (freeway near San Francisco)
nobody answers the phone. Called local police (from car) and they said
"Yes, that is true, no one answers, and 911 is the only number we have to call the CHP."
So this would mean my wife cannot phone her friends and relatives while I am driving? What?
Right. Color charts in "The Economist" are barely intelligible on Kindle.
So Amazon saying color is just for cookbooks/childrens-books is silly.
Lets see, we are 18000 feet by wire from a central office (measured
by PacBell) and the wires were installed in 1947 or so.
And no new wires are going to be installed.
So bonding wires-that-do-not-exist over
a few hundred feet is going to help how?
Maybe bitter compounds can be made illegal, so only drug companies can sell them?
Intel: Arresting/Suing your customer is a tried and true solution to everything.
No, we've never heard of that sort of error before, sir.
No, wait, wasn't that Monster Park? SBC Park? drat.
Yeah, or maybe he really stole a voting machine.
The article says it was given to a group of researchers for a day, who found nasty defects
and the politicians did not like that. Nothing suggests the machine was not
returned after a day. Retroactively the grant of the machine is now
considered theft. One suspects the intent is to discredit the research.
2. The phone company (government helped pay for the wiring and used eminent domain to purchase easements for same).
Agreed on all counts. I live but 10 miles from the border of San Francisco and within
2.5 miles of a town of 100,000 people and the only internet connection available from the phone company is
about 56Kbit/S with DSL.
So short of moving I have no choice, it has to be cable internet, the phone company is no more an
option for the internet than a cell connection. Yes, that is why NN is absolutely necessary.
I cannot see 3D (along with ?? percent of the population) so the 3D versions
are simply something to be avoided.
One of the problems with the whole debate is that by the time we have definitive proof CO2 emissions are causing global warming it will be far, far too late. .
Regardless what is causing the warming we need to take action to avoid a debacle for humans.
whoosh...
Isn't it interesting that the US DoD invented the internet and essentially gave it, free, to the world?
Wi-Spy only works for Windows/Mac. Not Linux. Sigh.
If towns would make reasonable speed limits .... oh wait. More ticket revenue with artificially low limits.
On the rare occasion we see someone driving really fast or drunk we try to call 911 (California) and no one answers the d*** phone.
On the frequent occasion someone drives 50 or 60 MPH in a 70 zone we just drive around. The funniest ones
go from the entry lane (where they are going 35 mph) and dart all the way (4 lanes over) to the fast lane
and slowly accelerate to 55MPH (70 zone).
What makes you think the FBI has the slightest interest in DDoS period?
They don't. Forget it.
I'm looking forward to your printing your social security number, birthdate, name,
bank routing numbers, and credit card data here, "alienized". You just said you would,
since there is nothing wrong with having those numbers, right?
"blasting hot air or music on the radio" would be really great, I'm looking forward to a video of hot air coming out of the radio.