So who says we have to stay with 120mm disks. I'm thinking 40TB on a 25mm disk is a sweet spot. Those monster trays have never been well suited to laptops, and they've been nonstarters for tablets. Time we moved on.
Well, not quite. One case arises only if I think someone would be interested in seeing the images. The other arises only if I think it worth going somewhere.
"Alone reliefless in thy cold distress."
"Where that cosmetic..Shall e'er revirginize that brow's abuse."
"Raw November's rheumatizing grass."
"If a thought Should cream the blood in sanctuaried court."
"He crowned his head but with another cap Than Cardinal'sâ"for that he wants no Sap."
"Yon vermined Sarcophage."
"Scarf-like and ethereally slight."
"The brain will scavage and the breast unstuff."
"He looked submission with a shoeward eye."
"We..Rambled such river sides and templed lands."
"So thence uprooted with transplanter care, In other soil it scents another air."
"Her nature may with thine be tribed."
"Tribunalled judge, he weds the weaker cause, Holds sternly up as he lays down the laws."
"The belted blouse Of velvet black, and closely-fitting trouse."
"A thing unmental, mannerless and crude."
"If bigotted, or most unbusy herd, O'er stocked with time and talent, were preferred."
"The brain [it] will scavage and the breast unstuff."
"Yon vermined Sarcophage."
"She was not vulgar-viewed, her thinkings took The selfsame tenor."
"Vain and virtueless and warmthless grown."
"The wen-necked women."
"With cur-like whinge to such soft cutting whip."
"The widthless road."
Here's the first half of the cited quotations, since oed hasn't bothered to consolidate them:
"The Chapelled templer."
"Who can trim a cock~abundy, turn a rod with him?"
"Care for your couchward path."
"Day-drowsiness--and night's arousing power."
"Dyke-cloistered Taddington, of cold intense."
"The dikeside watch when Midnight-feeders stray."
"In the droop ash shade."
"An heiress doughy-like and dump."
"'Tis noted down--Epistled to the Duke."
"Matter to sustain The staggering extemporizer's pain."
"The fancy-grazing herds of freedom's pen."
"Flambeaued folly of the long procession."
"Air coloured, scarcely carnate, or a flesh."
"Galls them no more their foodlessness or fag."
"Fluttering as the mantle's fringy rim."
"Where full-dug foragers at evening meet In Cow-bell concert."
"One is the sculptor, of the statue nice, Or Gigantomachies of rock and ice."
"With a giddy foot and goal-ward rush."
"Hag of the hearthward cringe and tripod stool."
"A heathen lamp supplies With meagre beam his Idol-anchored eyes."
"A margin stone I crave Inscriptionless, or chiselled by the wave."
"I the mattress spread, And equal lay whatever lumps the bed."
"Coins that were tinkled, ever shook In pouch of peacelessness."
"With art's refinement he would..rape the soul."
"O too rebrutalized! oh too bereaved!"
number of (known) defects per 1000 lines of code is a very poor metric
It's not a poor metric, but it is a metric of something which isn't very useful. If I already knew the unfixed defects in the product, I'd just fix them.
More useful metrics relate to simplicity and testability. Is every module understandable on its own by a cleanroom reviewer who first saw it ten minutes ago? How free is the code from hand-tuning? How few parameters are passed? Are there state variables that go uninitialized? How small are the largest individual modules? How completely does the test code exercise all branches? How thoroughly has the test code itself been tested?
I'd look at it differently. Assume the staffing stays the same. Faster build cycles should shorten the product cycle. The markteteers understand how important it is to be first to market. Get them on your side by showing them that the tool buy means an earlier ship date and let them convince management.
As usual, government creates a total mess and "free markets" take the blame. There is no "free market" for pharmaceuticals. There is a hybridized government/corporate cluster****.
There is however, thanks to anonymous political action committees, a free market for legislators. Strangely, their buyers are not interested in having them put an end to the legislated patent cartel system which lets them patent a new trivially different (or even inferior) version of an old drug, then protect the old one under the new patent. How this can be justified as a bargain in the public interest requires the best spin doctors money can buy. Fortunately for the buyers, they are conveniently already owned and readily available in the legislatures of the world.
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So just which "incompetent, overweening bunch of wanna-be tyrants" should we give more money?
Surely that's the premise of "Breaking Dad"?
So who says we have to stay with 120mm disks. I'm thinking 40TB on a 25mm disk is a sweet spot. Those monster trays have never been well suited to laptops, and they've been nonstarters for tablets. Time we moved on.
The next battlespace will be Africa
Next? WTF do you call what is going on there now?
"If thoughts could ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWhen thoughts can kill" this may not be seen as such a great idea.
Well, not quite. One case arises only if I think someone would be interested in seeing the images. The other arises only if I think it worth going somewhere.
Why isn't there an app for that? Somebody start a free project, and RFN !!!
Copper is an essential nutrient.
Yeah, kills off those zebra mussels growing in your throat...
... the Ides of March!
... for "high speed trains"
program the drones to look for big red trucks with "Halliburton" signs?
That's 4.17e-13 c to you.
Intel's home state
Multinationals have no "home". They spend money wherever it's best for the bottom line, full stop.
The site at http://linuxgizmos.com/linuxdevices-gone-but-not-forgotten.html seems to have been temporarily replaced by a static page. Bookmark and return later.
"Alone reliefless in thy cold distress."
"Where that cosmetic..Shall e'er revirginize that brow's abuse."
"Raw November's rheumatizing grass."
"If a thought Should cream the blood in sanctuaried court."
"He crowned his head but with another cap Than Cardinal'sâ"for that he wants no Sap."
"Yon vermined Sarcophage."
"Scarf-like and ethereally slight."
"The brain will scavage and the breast unstuff."
"He looked submission with a shoeward eye."
"We..Rambled such river sides and templed lands."
"So thence uprooted with transplanter care, In other soil it scents another air."
"Her nature may with thine be tribed."
"Tribunalled judge, he weds the weaker cause, Holds sternly up as he lays down the laws."
"The belted blouse Of velvet black, and closely-fitting trouse."
"A thing unmental, mannerless and crude."
"If bigotted, or most unbusy herd, O'er stocked with time and talent, were preferred."
"The brain [it] will scavage and the breast unstuff."
"Yon vermined Sarcophage."
"She was not vulgar-viewed, her thinkings took The selfsame tenor."
"Vain and virtueless and warmthless grown."
"The wen-necked women."
"With cur-like whinge to such soft cutting whip."
"The widthless road."
Here's the first half of the cited quotations, since oed hasn't bothered to consolidate them:
"The Chapelled templer."
"Who can trim a cock~abundy, turn a rod with him?"
"Care for your couchward path."
"Day-drowsiness--and night's arousing power."
"Dyke-cloistered Taddington, of cold intense."
"The dikeside watch when Midnight-feeders stray."
"In the droop ash shade."
"An heiress doughy-like and dump."
"'Tis noted down--Epistled to the Duke."
"Matter to sustain The staggering extemporizer's pain."
"The fancy-grazing herds of freedom's pen."
"Flambeaued folly of the long procession."
"Air coloured, scarcely carnate, or a flesh."
"Galls them no more their foodlessness or fag."
"Fluttering as the mantle's fringy rim."
"Where full-dug foragers at evening meet In Cow-bell concert."
"One is the sculptor, of the statue nice, Or Gigantomachies of rock and ice."
"With a giddy foot and goal-ward rush."
"Hag of the hearthward cringe and tripod stool."
"A heathen lamp supplies With meagre beam his Idol-anchored eyes."
"A margin stone I crave Inscriptionless, or chiselled by the wave."
"I the mattress spread, And equal lay whatever lumps the bed."
"Coins that were tinkled, ever shook In pouch of peacelessness."
"With art's refinement he would..rape the soul."
"O too rebrutalized! oh too bereaved!"
The list of 49 words is available by querying oed.com, e.g. http://www.oed.com/search?case-insensitive=true&f_0=-+Quotation+Title&nearDistance=1&ordered=false&q_0=Meanderings+of+Memory&scope=ENTRY
Drat! That's "Matthew Arnold", not "Mathew Arnold"
I've got to consider Oxford's own Mathew Arnold (1822-1888) as a plausible candidate for "Nightingale". His "The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems" (1849), and "Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems" (1852) were published under the pseudonym "A.", but they certainly seem characteristic. Odd that he hasn't been made mention of. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/strayed-reveller http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172862 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/matthew-arnold
number of (known) defects per 1000 lines of code is a very poor metric
It's not a poor metric, but it is a metric of something which isn't very useful. If I already knew the unfixed defects in the product, I'd just fix them.
More useful metrics relate to simplicity and testability. Is every module understandable on its own by a cleanroom reviewer who first saw it ten minutes ago? How free is the code from hand-tuning? How few parameters are passed? Are there state variables that go uninitialized? How small are the largest individual modules? How completely does the test code exercise all branches? How thoroughly has the test code itself been tested?
I'd look at it differently. Assume the staffing stays the same. Faster build cycles should shorten the product cycle. The markteteers understand how important it is to be first to market. Get them on your side by showing them that the tool buy means an earlier ship date and let them convince management.
Don't like it? Don't use it.
I don't, and I don't. But other people I care about do. Should I ignore the misdeeds simply because the victim isn't me?
... it's antisocial media at its worst: screwing up the lives of people whether they use it or not.
Proof that you are a moron: you don't know the difference between 'whose' and 'who is'...
That's why he's pissed at PD. They didn't like his work product.
As usual, government creates a total mess and "free markets" take the blame. There is no "free market" for pharmaceuticals. There is a hybridized government/corporate cluster****.
There is however, thanks to anonymous political action committees, a free market for legislators. Strangely, their buyers are not interested in having them put an end to the legislated patent cartel system which lets them patent a new trivially different (or even inferior) version of an old drug, then protect the old one under the new patent. How this can be justified as a bargain in the public interest requires the best spin doctors money can buy. Fortunately for the buyers, they are conveniently already owned and readily available in the legislatures of the world.