Cameron is no fool; he may be a PR man but he has a first class degree from Oxford. So does one of my kids, so I know how hard that is to do. And what he saw was that Murdoch tried to swing the UK election and failed. In the UK, Murdoch has shot his bolt. Politicians know he cannot deliver. And Cameron depends on Clegg, and the Lib Dems have constantly been rubbished by Murdoch. It takes a worried man to sing a worried song, and that man is Keith Rupert Murdoch. Because he has been seen to have no clothes.
Actually, sorry, no. Ricoh has been putting effort recently into its gel printer technology. The latest models have ink cartridges that do 4000 pages, cost around $60, and my own lifetime costs estimate suggests they are about 2/3 the lifetime per-page running cost of a typical 30ppm color laser. I bought one with my own money, and they work. The technology has stationary tanks and pipes to the heads, and the unit costs just a little more than an equivalent laser.
Expect Epson and Lexmark to go down the same route. Ink printing is proven to be more environmentally friendly than laser printing until you get to really large units with separate drums and toner tanks, and these are a small fraction of the market, as they need high volumes to justify the initial costs.
I've been an admirer of Canon Kupfernigk since I learned about his work and his book at University. Since the root of his name means "copper" (Kupfer in German) and I spent a number of years working for a company that did interesting things with copper alloys, I adopted his name as my Internet nick. I'm pleased that the Church eventually caught up with the historians of science, but I have only one question for Benedict 16th: What the Hell took you so long?
A kind letter from Gardner after I sent him the results of an investigation I had done into polyominoes went some way to convince me that I had enough symbolic manipulation skills to change career to systems design. This proved the best decision I ever made after deciding to get married. So long, Martin Gardner, resquiescat in pace.
it is very sad to see people who cannot code without IDE and who think building the binary is equivalent to clicking the little button on the toolbar
I use Unix/Linux command line stuff all the time for installations, deployment, management and so on, but I develop using a visual IDE because it is more productive for me. Since I began doing assembler on PDP-11 and 9900 processors, moved on to C, and am still actively involved in development, I think I'm in a position to say that command line snobbery is simply counterproductive. If some kind person has already configured Ant for me to run in an IDE, I accept what I am given and am grateful. Why do I want a programmer to spend all day on a script to automate something that the IDE can do in 9 seconds? The object program is exactly the same size and runs identically.
It's like stupid people who boast about using stick shifts as if this made them virtuous. I've used them for over 40 years alongside automatics. Current autos have computer controlled manual gearboxes that use less fuel and change more appropriately than human drivers, and I'm glad I bought one.
I want programmers who understand exception handling, corner cases, graceful recovery from external failures, automated database backups, data prevalidation, efficient algorithms and data structures, bloat avoidance, profiling, and debug. I really don't care if they drive an auto or a manual when it comes to compiling, so long as they don't thereby waste time getting from A to B.
Mobs will be led by people with carbon fibre jacket liners and helmets. Innocent people will get killed. Given the ability of our own police to shoot innocent electricians, guys carrying chair legs, and kill innocent bystanders in demonstrations, presumably pour decourager les autres, this thing is bad news for civil liberties and brings closer the risk of retaliation against the police. It sounds to me like a perfect "unintended consequences" weapon.
Read it up, it's by Kipling. It is a sarcastic poem about the effects of well meaning intervention. Kipling was a strange imperialist; he believed, for instance, that Britain would only succeed in India by working with the Indian population, not against it, and he has an Indian woman comment, at one point, in passing, that the only British officers who will succeed in India are from intermarried families. He's a terrible example for neocons, because he objected to all their ideas a hundred years ago. A couple of brief examples:
From the "White Man's Burden" poem:
And when the end is on you The end for others sought See heathen waste and folly Bring all thy work to naught.
As for the British Empire
The heathen heart that puts its trust In reeking tube and iron shard All valiant dust that builds on dust
For those unfamiliar with early 20th century British English, he's saying "You cannot rely on artillery to build an empire, it's like trying to construct a building by piling dust on dust""
The library is witness to both truth and falsehood I'd check the quotation properly in my translation, but currently it's hiding somewhere in L-space, probably afraid to come out.
After I posted this the post was rapidly marked troll, but I couldn't post at work owing to the firewall, so I never managed to post my explanation. People understood it the wrong way round. My daughter is a chartered structural engineer (First at good University, worked abroad, qualified at top UK consultancy) and has only ever had positive attitudes from other engineers while working on some very technically challenging projects. As someone who has worked in electronic engineering with some very good women engineers, I'm disappointed that IT is becoming a more male dominated occupation in which many women complain of negative attitudes and discrimination. I was suggesting, too briefly obviously, that the PM article might make some of those women think about changing to mechanical engineering, because the article showed that it isn't all about vroom vroom, and that women engineers can get interesting and challenging jobs.
About five minutes after I posted I realised the post could be taken another way, but by then I was on the way to the office and it was too late.
I was in a meeting of our (electrical) industry body discussing how we would work on harmonisation of standards across the EU, with a QC (senior legal counsel) present as adviser. I asked more or less the same question - whether it would be possible to mandate that European law should require that any technology essential to meet a harmonised standard be free of licensing requirements. This would mean that a company making a single product relying on patented technology would only be able to sell it across the EU if the patent was unencumbered by licensing requirements. The reply of learned counsel?
Programming includes elements of analysis, system design, algorithm specification, library selection, test methodology and all the other things you have to do to make a computer do what you want. Coding is the process of converting the results of all these specifications and decisions into something that can be compiled, by writing source code. Traditionally, they were done by quite different people (and the compilations and run done by a third group.) A lot of bad code results from design while coding. The functions should be clearly separated.
So, you don't understand Zen.
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I don't know what you have read, but you do not understand Zen. Satori is not a "total zero" state. It is what you experience when you suddenly realise that you have spent a whole day coding without distraction, that you have never been conscious of thinking about what you are doing, and the compiled program just works. Or when you realise that you have just driven from London to Birmingham (or your local equivalent) without ever thinking about it: it just happened. Satori is the state when you are "just doing", what programmers (and market traders) call being "in the groove". Zen training can help develop the mind to achieve this state.
Zen philosophy also has the principle of "nothing superfluous". You see something of this in the iPod, or an old Lotus sports car. No irrelevant decoration, no junk, just form fitting function as perfectly as possible.
Zen is not a religion; it is a way of life. Zen masters are famous for anti-religious statements, like the sermon that is said to have gone "What are the spiritual masters? The spiritual masters are a dirty toilet". You do not have to believe in and kind of God to follow Zen, but it helps if you can find an advisor who you relate to. Zen masters, like rabbis, will put off anyone who they think is not yet ready for teaching, or unsuited to their kind of teaching.
However, you show in your third paragraph that you don't have a clue what schizophrenia is either. My advice to you is to do the research, proper research, before posting bullshit. And until you start to overcome your childish and self-important prejudices, you are nowhere near ready even to approach Zen.
One of the most successful supermarket and department store businesses in the UK is John Lewis - which is a mutual, a partnership of its employees. Which is very much like Open Source projects.
Moby-Dick is a great book. OK, It's a little harder to read than kindergarten reading primers, but droning on it does not do. You get everything from the technology of whaling to the problems of dealing with a psychopath on an isolated boat. It is a truly great American novel. But, like anything else with lots of food for thought, what you see in it is a measure of your own ability, not the writer's.
I am running the rc's on 64 bit and 32 bit platforms. Yes there have been some annoying problems. the latest update has screwed my Nvidia 64 bit driver, and I have had the samba problem. Production is still in 9.10 and likely to stay that way for a while.
BUT:
Nowadays everything is late.
It is going, I think, to be a worthwhile upgrade with its 3 year timeframe.
As for the menu widgets - I actually like it that way and I find myself annoyed that Chrome doesn't follow the rules. Sorry.
It seems pretty clear that the N900 as is will run Meego, since you can already evaluate it. Nokia != Apple.
I am finding that the biggest issue with the N900 is that it is being bought by people who think they are technically knowledgeable and are then finding that, basically, anything non-Windows is difficult. I went for it because it can ssl into my servers, and because the multitasking lets me run certain background applications that would never be accepted by Apple (they are our remote management tools.) So for me, as a developer, the N900 is a tool for which the iPhone could never be a substitute.
That, Earthlings, is the replica of our home environment we've set up from where we will launch the conquest of your planet. And, for your information, here on Titan we call that a "five star hotel".
How does 3D work? Two cameras with the same lens separation as the human eye (roughly) photograph the scene in parallel, resulting in 2 images taken from slightly different viewpoints. (Or this can be synthesised in software, but the principle is the same.)These images are then arranged so the left one is viewed by the left eye, and the other by the right eye. This can be done with a viewer (as by the Victorians who discovered it) or by projecting polarised images and using corresponding polarised glasses.
Now, the secret of this is that for the illusion to work, the viewer must see the images at the same magnification and from the same viewpoint as the original camera. You cannot turn your head to look at a different part of the scene because, in the real world, doing this would alter your point of view, and since the cameras were fixed, the point of view is fixed.
Now think of a movie theater. All the viewers are in different positions around the auditorium. They see the on-screen images from different viewpoints with different magnifications. Only a small number of them (probably close the center) see the 3D effect as it should be seen. The further from the center, the less realistic the effect.
Of course when Hollywood execs and selected critics go to special screenings, they can be placed close to the ideal position and the illusion will be quite good. But the majority of the paying public will be sufficiently far away from the ideal to be dissatisfied.
3D technology doesn't work in a cinema because of quite basic optics. It could be made to work well with properly designed single-viewer head mounted stereo imagers, and I suspect that Oleds will do a very good job before long. But in a movie theater, it just cannot work properly.
Hello Mr. rich person. As you appear to be dead set on having your own way contrary to the received opinion of most of Western Society, we will allow you to cure yourself of this tendency by transferring large sums of money from your account to those of various lawyers. You might call it a tax on arrogance. Quem dii vult perdere, dementat prius (if you lose the gods your Prius accelerates mysteriously)
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Cameron is no fool; he may be a PR man but he has a first class degree from Oxford. So does one of my kids, so I know how hard that is to do. And what he saw was that Murdoch tried to swing the UK election and failed. In the UK, Murdoch has shot his bolt. Politicians know he cannot deliver. And Cameron depends on Clegg, and the Lib Dems have constantly been rubbished by Murdoch. It takes a worried man to sing a worried song, and that man is Keith Rupert Murdoch. Because he has been seen to have no clothes.
Expect Epson and Lexmark to go down the same route. Ink printing is proven to be more environmentally friendly than laser printing until you get to really large units with separate drums and toner tanks, and these are a small fraction of the market, as they need high volumes to justify the initial costs.
I've been an admirer of Canon Kupfernigk since I learned about his work and his book at University. Since the root of his name means "copper" (Kupfer in German) and I spent a number of years working for a company that did interesting things with copper alloys, I adopted his name as my Internet nick. I'm pleased that the Church eventually caught up with the historians of science, but I have only one question for Benedict 16th: What the Hell took you so long?
A kind letter from Gardner after I sent him the results of an investigation I had done into polyominoes went some way to convince me that I had enough symbolic manipulation skills to change career to systems design. This proved the best decision I ever made after deciding to get married. So long, Martin Gardner, resquiescat in pace.
Riding motorbikes was not illegal in Germany. I suggest you point us to the precise bit of the German criminal code.
I use Unix/Linux command line stuff all the time for installations, deployment, management and so on, but I develop using a visual IDE because it is more productive for me. Since I began doing assembler on PDP-11 and 9900 processors, moved on to C, and am still actively involved in development, I think I'm in a position to say that command line snobbery is simply counterproductive. If some kind person has already configured Ant for me to run in an IDE, I accept what I am given and am grateful. Why do I want a programmer to spend all day on a script to automate something that the IDE can do in 9 seconds? The object program is exactly the same size and runs identically.
It's like stupid people who boast about using stick shifts as if this made them virtuous. I've used them for over 40 years alongside automatics. Current autos have computer controlled manual gearboxes that use less fuel and change more appropriately than human drivers, and I'm glad I bought one.
I want programmers who understand exception handling, corner cases, graceful recovery from external failures, automated database backups, data prevalidation, efficient algorithms and data structures, bloat avoidance, profiling, and debug. I really don't care if they drive an auto or a manual when it comes to compiling, so long as they don't thereby waste time getting from A to B.
Mobs will be led by people with carbon fibre jacket liners and helmets. Innocent people will get killed. Given the ability of our own police to shoot innocent electricians, guys carrying chair legs, and kill innocent bystanders in demonstrations, presumably pour decourager les autres, this thing is bad news for civil liberties and brings closer the risk of retaliation against the police. It sounds to me like a perfect "unintended consequences" weapon.
From the "White Man's Burden" poem:
As for the British Empire
For those unfamiliar with early 20th century British English, he's saying "You cannot rely on artillery to build an empire, it's like trying to construct a building by piling dust on dust""
The library is witness to both truth and falsehood
I'd check the quotation properly in my translation, but currently it's hiding somewhere in L-space, probably afraid to come out.
He was the lawyer, I was just a consultant. Guess who was taken notice of?
About five minutes after I posted I realised the post could be taken another way, but by then I was on the way to the office and it was too late.
You're a smartass. Everybody hates a smartass.
There is a picture of a mechanical engineer working on renewables which will cause some Slashdot readers suddenly to want a career change.
Programming includes elements of analysis, system design, algorithm specification, library selection, test methodology and all the other things you have to do to make a computer do what you want. Coding is the process of converting the results of all these specifications and decisions into something that can be compiled, by writing source code. Traditionally, they were done by quite different people (and the compilations and run done by a third group.) A lot of bad code results from design while coding. The functions should be clearly separated.
Zen philosophy also has the principle of "nothing superfluous". You see something of this in the iPod, or an old Lotus sports car. No irrelevant decoration, no junk, just form fitting function as perfectly as possible.
Zen is not a religion; it is a way of life. Zen masters are famous for anti-religious statements, like the sermon that is said to have gone "What are the spiritual masters? The spiritual masters are a dirty toilet". You do not have to believe in and kind of God to follow Zen, but it helps if you can find an advisor who you relate to. Zen masters, like rabbis, will put off anyone who they think is not yet ready for teaching, or unsuited to their kind of teaching.
However, you show in your third paragraph that you don't have a clue what schizophrenia is either. My advice to you is to do the research, proper research, before posting bullshit. And until you start to overcome your childish and self-important prejudices, you are nowhere near ready even to approach Zen.
One of the most successful supermarket and department store businesses in the UK is John Lewis - which is a mutual, a partnership of its employees. Which is very much like Open Source projects.
Moby-Dick is a great book. OK, It's a little harder to read than kindergarten reading primers, but droning on it does not do. You get everything from the technology of whaling to the problems of dealing with a psychopath on an isolated boat. It is a truly great American novel. But, like anything else with lots of food for thought, what you see in it is a measure of your own ability, not the writer's.
My nerd card has been duly handed in at the office and I have been escorted out of the building by Security.
BUT:
Nowadays everything is late.
It is going, I think, to be a worthwhile upgrade with its 3 year timeframe.
As for the menu widgets - I actually like it that way and I find myself annoyed that Chrome doesn't follow the rules. Sorry.
I guess this is a very junior officer, and that more senior ones know very much better.
erm - "they" are citizens keeping Google out of "their" street. The opposite of Big Brother.
I am finding that the biggest issue with the N900 is that it is being bought by people who think they are technically knowledgeable and are then finding that, basically, anything non-Windows is difficult. I went for it because it can ssl into my servers, and because the multitasking lets me run certain background applications that would never be accepted by Apple (they are our remote management tools.) So for me, as a developer, the N900 is a tool for which the iPhone could never be a substitute.
That, Earthlings, is the replica of our home environment we've set up from where we will launch the conquest of your planet. And, for your information, here on Titan we call that a "five star hotel".
How does 3D work? Two cameras with the same lens separation as the human eye (roughly) photograph the scene in parallel, resulting in 2 images taken from slightly different viewpoints. (Or this can be synthesised in software, but the principle is the same.)These images are then arranged so the left one is viewed by the left eye, and the other by the right eye. This can be done with a viewer (as by the Victorians who discovered it) or by projecting polarised images and using corresponding polarised glasses.
Now, the secret of this is that for the illusion to work, the viewer must see the images at the same magnification and from the same viewpoint as the original camera. You cannot turn your head to look at a different part of the scene because, in the real world, doing this would alter your point of view, and since the cameras were fixed, the point of view is fixed.
Now think of a movie theater. All the viewers are in different positions around the auditorium. They see the on-screen images from different viewpoints with different magnifications. Only a small number of them (probably close the center) see the 3D effect as it should be seen. The further from the center, the less realistic the effect.
Of course when Hollywood execs and selected critics go to special screenings, they can be placed close to the ideal position and the illusion will be quite good. But the majority of the paying public will be sufficiently far away from the ideal to be dissatisfied.
3D technology doesn't work in a cinema because of quite basic optics. It could be made to work well with properly designed single-viewer head mounted stereo imagers, and I suspect that Oleds will do a very good job before long. But in a movie theater, it just cannot work properly.
Hello Mr. rich person. As you appear to be dead set on having your own way contrary to the received opinion of most of Western Society, we will allow you to cure yourself of this tendency by transferring large sums of money from your account to those of various lawyers. You might call it a tax on arrogance. Quem dii vult perdere, dementat prius (if you lose the gods your Prius accelerates mysteriously)