If you know what operating system you are running on a *device* then it has already failed...
The only times I have realised what operating system things are running are when they fail, you occasionally see the OS grinning through on ATM's, In flight entertainment, e-book readers Set top boxes, etc... when they fail and need rebooting/updating, otherwise you don't know and don't care what they are...
It is noticeable that most of the ones you see failing are running (older versions of) Windows ?
The point of (M)MIX is that it is unlike any language, and yet like and so people are not distracted by it being like the language of the moment, it is there to show fundamental algorithms not how to code...
You can bet the the designers of C# own very worn copies of Knuth's books, it is one of the compiler writers bibles...it is still relevant because it is so fundamental, there are tricks you can use in each language to speed up or simplify but all depend on you knowing the basics first, and all of these are in (or will be...) in Knuth...
...This is government collected and stored data, it is not on one hard drive, or one system, it is scattered on multiple systems, backed up of many others, and parts are now in other databases, this is why it costs this much, most of this is search fees to find output where the data is from audit trails....
I didn't say BP were not to blame, they are, and they were in charge and so should take the majority of the blame , and they are paying for it, it's just that every news story is "BP.." it fails to mention the rest, who actually did the work, and made some of the poor decisions, and this includes the US government who asked BP, Halliburton, Transocean, et al if it was safe and since they all said yes they let them drill where a blowout had never been stopped before...
But sorry no the media want a simple story, so it was all BP's fault totally and with no-one else involved, in fact it was all Tony Hayward's fault exclusively and no-one else had any responsibility at all...
...and does not know about many sites, and does not block new sites....
Something that is 80% effective is worse than useless for protection
All this proves this that filtering in all browsers is rubbish (even IE) and should not be relied upon, internet filtering software is better but still not as effective as it needs to be
The only two solutions are :
1) Don't let your kid on the internet at all - Not practical nowadays 2) Supervise your children....rather than trying to let technology do it for you...
It works everywhere they have a released browser that supports it...
IE9 is still beta - When released it will support the bits of HTML5 that MS can be bothered to implement, and for everything else they will say, "It doesn't do that use Silverlight"
Silence --- Thankful no one seems to have noticed "Phew we seem to have got away with that, everyone is blaming BP"
as in the Gulf Oil Spill :
Hyundai - Built the Deepwater Horizon
Transocean - Owned the Deepwater Horizon
Halliburton - Contractors doing the work, and Maintaining the Rig
Anadarko, MOEX - Co-Operators of the field and Rig
Stargazing, over three nights when there was A partial Lunar Eclipse, A meteor shower, a guide to how to use a telescope and how to navigate around the sky, and reports and interviews from Mauna Kea....
One small part of this (very small due to the unsurprising cloudy conditions) was this astronomer stargazing live.... which was joked about by the presenters because they knew there was total cloud cover on two of the nights...
..but as a Second (third, fourth... ) Language the rest of the world outnumbers the US...
The US version is not dominant, nor the is British English, what is often called International English is...
This has many small variations, spelling is optional, and pronunciation very regional, but it is distinctly not what is taught in US schools or UK schools....
It's been shown that giving the same medicine (real or placebo) in different ways, or different environments, or with different attitude gives different effects...
Being given an injection is more effective than a pill - regardless of the actual effectiveness
Being given a pill by a concerned attentive sympathetic senior doctor, is more effective than the same pill by a scruffy indifferent junior doctor
Being given a pill in a plush pleasant consulting room, is more effective than the same pill in a grubby run down pokey office
..I'm awaiting the announcement that Apple and Google are withdrawing from the US market and only selling to the rest of the world due solely to Patents...
If she had brought in a pages torn from volume of the Britannica it would have been the same
The point is not that it is from Wikipedia and so unreliable, it is that it is from anywhere that has not been approved as reliable enough by the judge or the defence and prosecution, anything can be brought into evidence however unreliable as long as all parties agree, and anything not approved however reliable can cause a mistrial....
Except the people who pay tax do not want it spent on Military unless they are in danger, Police unless there is crime near them, Roads, unless they use them, etc...
If you can pick and choose you would make all the wrong choices (not that the government always gets it right either)
Only one of these is a federal country, Switzerland
The Swiss Federal Constitution declares the cantons to be sovereign to the extent their sovereignty is not limited by federal law. The cantons also retain all powers and competencies not delegated to the Confederation by the Constitution. Most significantly, the cantons are responsible for healthcare, welfare, law enforcement and public education; they also retain the power of taxation.
Does this sound familiar...
Australia's federal system is actually based on the US system and is very very similar...
If you need a framework - your language is not suitable - Ruby is a scripting language not really designed for web transactions, that's why rails was invented
If your language allows you to do any of these mistakes ask yourself if you need the power it gives you, if you do then it's your responsibility to not do these, if you can't/won't avoid these use a language that manages it for you....
Is there a US army - Yes, the individual states only have a militia and contribute to the National Guard - But do not have an standing Army? Is there a US President who can make policy - Yes Can the individual states have diplomatic relations with other countries - No
The US is one country, with constituent parts, like Switzerland, India, Australia etc...
The internet even filtered and firewalled to the max is like the empty lot around the block - anyone could be there, anything could happen
When you trust your kid to go there unsupervised in the knowledge that they will avoid trouble and know what to do if anything bad happens then and only then give them unsupervised internet access....
Supervision does not mean trusting filters and blockers, it means knowing when you kid is responsible enough to not need them....
Both Stephen and Douglas have used Apple Mac's since 1984.. and both have had stories told about them of their ability to fix low level problems with them
Yes they may never have never complied a program in their life and their knowledge may be limited to a set of machines, but if that means they are not techies then you seem to be moving the goalposts to exclude them deliberately ?
There is no EU Military - Each country has it's own There is No EU president who can make policy There is no EU taxation at all - there are tax laws which each state should implement to some degree the european parliment cannot make policy, and all laws made are subject to ratification by the member states
The US has one president, one senate, one Army, one house of representatives, all who can make laws that have to be make countrywide....
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Most people use MSOffice at work, they do not make the choice ...the same as they have no choice in running Windows ...
The IT people who implement it, do it for either an easy life, or because they were told to by someone who did not know there was an alternative
People at home are the initial target ...
...or not ... go and look at how many people prefer OpenOffice/LibreOffice because it does *not* have the Ribbon ...
If they do implement one please please please give us the option of turning it off ....
...the failure in this is taking fuel with you
A Solar sail works with no fuel ... and with some clever steering could tour many stars (although not visit very near any of them?)
A Buzzard Ramjet (if they can build it) does not need any fuel, it gathers it as it goes...and could accelerate forever ?
If you know what operating system you are running on a *device* then it has already failed...
The only times I have realised what operating system things are running are when they fail, you occasionally see the OS grinning through on ATM's, In flight entertainment, e-book readers Set top boxes, etc ... when they fail and need rebooting/updating, otherwise you don't know and don't care what they are ...
It is noticeable that most of the ones you see failing are running (older versions of) Windows ?
The point of (M)MIX is that it is unlike any language, and yet like and so people are not distracted by it being like the language of the moment, it is there to show fundamental algorithms not how to code ...
You can bet the the designers of C# own very worn copies of Knuth's books, it is one of the compiler writers bibles ...it is still relevant because it is so fundamental, there are tricks you can use in each language to speed up or simplify but all depend on you knowing the basics first, and all of these are in (or will be...) in Knuth ...
H2G2 is older than Wikipedia... or even it's predecessors ...
http://xkcd.com/548/ ..it is also an online community preserve the website and the community is lost
...This is government collected and stored data, it is not on one hard drive, or one system, it is scattered on multiple systems, backed up of many others, and parts are now in other databases, this is why it costs this much, most of this is search fees to find output where the data is from audit trails ....
They need private contractors to do this so when the data turns up later they can blame the contractor ....
I didn't say BP were not to blame, they are, and they were in charge and so should take the majority of the blame , and they are paying for it, it's just that every news story is "BP .." it fails to mention the rest, who actually did the work, and made some of the poor decisions, and this includes the US government who asked BP, Halliburton, Transocean, et al if it was safe and since they all said yes they let them drill where a blowout had never been stopped before ...
But sorry no the media want a simple story, so it was all BP's fault totally and with no-one else involved, in fact it was all Tony Hayward's fault exclusively and no-one else had any responsibility at all ...
...and does not know about many sites, and does not block new sites ....
Something that is 80% effective is worse than useless for protection
All this proves this that filtering in all browsers is rubbish (even IE) and should not be relied upon, internet filtering software is better but still not as effective as it needs to be
The only two solutions are :
1) Don't let your kid on the internet at all - Not practical nowadays ....rather than trying to let technology do it for you ...
2) Supervise your children
It works everywhere they have a released browser that supports it ...
IE9 is still beta - When released it will support the bits of HTML5 that MS can be bothered to implement, and for everything else they will say, "It doesn't do that use Silverlight"
Silence --- Thankful no one seems to have noticed "Phew we seem to have got away with that, everyone is blaming BP"
as in the Gulf Oil Spill :
Hyundai - Built the Deepwater Horizon
Transocean - Owned the Deepwater Horizon
Halliburton - Contractors doing the work, and Maintaining the Rig
Anadarko, MOEX - Co-Operators of the field and Rig
"....it dosn't seem to work in IE ...." is like scratching nails down a blackboard ....
Stargazing, over three nights when there was A partial Lunar Eclipse, A meteor shower, a guide to how to use a telescope and how to navigate around the sky, and reports and interviews from Mauna Kea ....
One small part of this (very small due to the unsurprising cloudy conditions) was this astronomer stargazing live .... which was joked about by the presenters because they knew there was total cloud cover on two of the nights ...
..but as a Second (third, fourth... ) Language the rest of the world outnumbers the US...
The US version is not dominant, nor the is British English, what is often called International English is ...
This has many small variations, spelling is optional, and pronunciation very regional, but it is distinctly not what is taught in US schools or UK schools ....
It's been shown that giving the same medicine (real or placebo) in different ways, or different environments, or with different attitude gives different effects ...
Being given an injection is more effective than a pill - regardless of the actual effectiveness
Being given a pill by a concerned attentive sympathetic senior doctor, is more effective than the same pill by a scruffy indifferent junior doctor
Being given a pill in a plush pleasant consulting room, is more effective than the same pill in a grubby run down pokey office
All of these are the placebo effect ...
..I'm awaiting the announcement that Apple and Google are withdrawing from the US market and only selling to the rest of the world due solely to Patents ...
If she had brought in a pages torn from volume of the Britannica it would have been the same
The point is not that it is from Wikipedia and so unreliable, it is that it is from anywhere that has not been approved as reliable enough by the judge or the defence and prosecution, anything can be brought into evidence however unreliable as long as all parties agree, and anything not approved however reliable can cause a mistrial ....
Except the people who pay tax do not want it spent on Military unless they are in danger, Police unless there is crime near them, Roads, unless they use them, etc ...
If you can pick and choose you would make all the wrong choices (not that the government always gets it right either)
Only one of these is a federal country, Switzerland
The Swiss Federal Constitution declares the cantons to be sovereign to the extent their sovereignty is not limited by federal law. The cantons also retain all powers and competencies not delegated to the Confederation by the Constitution. Most significantly, the cantons are responsible for healthcare, welfare, law enforcement and public education; they also retain the power of taxation.
Does this sound familiar ...
Australia's federal system is actually based on the US system and is very very similar ...
If you need a framework - your language is not suitable - Ruby is a scripting language not really designed for web transactions, that's why rails was invented
If your language allows you to do any of these mistakes ask yourself if you need the power it gives you, if you do then it's your responsibility to not do these, if you can't/won't avoid these use a language that manages it for you ....
Is there a US army - Yes, the individual states only have a militia and contribute to the National Guard - But do not have an standing Army?
Is there a US President who can make policy - Yes
Can the individual states have diplomatic relations with other countries - No
The US is one country, with constituent parts, like Switzerland, India, Australia etc ...
The internet even filtered and firewalled to the max is like the empty lot around the block - anyone could be there, anything could happen
When you trust your kid to go there unsupervised in the knowledge that they will avoid trouble and know what to do if anything bad happens then and only then give them unsupervised internet access ....
Supervision does not mean trusting filters and blockers, it means knowing when you kid is responsible enough to not need them ....
...and you base this on what ?
Both Stephen and Douglas have used Apple Mac's since 1984.. and both have had stories told about them of their ability to fix low level problems with them
Yes they may never have never complied a program in their life and their knowledge may be limited to a set of machines, but if that means they are not techies then you seem to be moving the goalposts to exclude them deliberately ?
The difference between the EU and the USA
There is no EU Military - Each country has it's own
There is No EU president who can make policy
There is no EU taxation at all - there are tax laws which each state should implement to some degree
the european parliment cannot make policy, and all laws made are subject to ratification by the member states
The US has one president, one senate, one Army, one house of representatives, all who can make laws that have to be make countrywide....