If you know math and language theory the actual language you currently know does not matter. Language is a tool. You can learn to use a new tool in a matter of weeks if not days. Math is the knowledge on how to use all of the tools, not just the particular shiny one that has just been produced last week.
After learning 5 or 6, the next one comes in a matter of days. Been there, seen that, trying to do it.
This has not changed since Dykstra and ain't going to change. Ever. This is the fact known as the 5 times salary difference between the factory floor and the chief designer office.
It is a fact of life, it exists in all industries and it is here to stay.
Actually, Asimov has described this brilliantly in one of his novells. Read "Profession". It is thy best novell he ever wrote.
Shall we add to this that the launch system using uncontrollable solid fuel boosters and a grafted fuel tank is also an ugly hack. As a ugly as it gets. Even uglier then the thermal protection system which at least more or less works.
IMO shutlles should be grounded until there is a horisontal launch system from a proper reusable first stage vehicle. Either a high altitude plane or a proper missile system that does not fall apart on every launch. If NASA cannot effing build it ask the russians to build a few Enegia launchers. That was what they were designed for in first place.
After all this is a country that has a racial purity law and fines its cittizens the equivalent of 1000 dollars for merrying unsuitable foreigners (russian or other ex-soviet block).
Before deciding that this is flamebait check their legal code. I know what I am talking about.
So invention of new human rights in estonia - give me a brak. Let them first give their cittizens back the most basic right - the right to chose a partner in life without government intervention.
They are not. They have nuclear weapons as well and this is what any exploration of near space is all about for the time being. It is a reminder that "we can loft some sh***" on your head when you least expect it.
Bollocks. Nothing to do with DMCA. Note the quote:
Meeker noted that Baystate had reproduced a handful of errors in Bowers program. Kann, Baystate's lawyer, said all the errors came from Bowers' user interface, not the underlying code.. This sounds like theft to me. If you rev eng you usually find errors and fix them. If you copy without going through the effort of understanding how things work you get the errors copied as well.
As a person who have bought quite a few Alphas in the past I will have to correct you - it was within Joe Sixpack range. At least the cheaper nonames with Samsung LX motherboards were definitely around 2000 dollars.
Still, we have to give Apple the credit of delivering the first production consumer 64 bit OS (as neither Alpha Linux, nor 64 bit WinXP are anywhere around consumer OSes, anyone having objections please try installing one first).
It is not free. It is funded by 40 percent of my salary, 75% of what I pay for fuel, 30+% of what I pay for food and goods (delivery and other fuel related expenses are calculated before VAT), 25% of my company's profits, ad fscking naseum.
Frankly anything government funded should be either BSD or public domain at least in countries with extortionate taxation like UK. The taxpayer has payed for it 100 times. He should be entitled to use it as he sees fit.
So no closed source, royalty shit either. I have payd for it, I am fscking entitled to use it. So just play good ole BSD.
Second, this puts internet media on even footing with newspapers which do not seem to have died from this. This is a standard condition under which newspapers, radio and TV in EU operate and they have established very good rules on how to do this over the years. Actually it is a good thing (TM). Saves feeding the lawyers which cannot be bad.
Third, any claims that this will put small sites out of business due to expenses on verifying repliers is complete crap. In most (if not all) EU countries you are allowed to require genuine identity documents (fency sending your real passport?) and can charge the requester a fair handling fee that covers authentication and any postage expenses. Even without that fee sorting out documents will cost the requesting side at least 50 quid so not like this will attract a lot of nuisance callers.
Fourth, if someone has smeared me all over I frankly do not see why I should be denied the right to answer as long as I have decided that the matter to be serious enough to take the risk of having my identity stolen after sending my passport (or a copy confirmed by a public notary).
Which still does not prevent them from being sued for a breach of contract for "diluting the trademark". It is not the source in question here 'mind 'ya. They can be sued happily as well.
The story is that most small PC builders in the US in the late 80-es to the early 90-es payed IBM a considerable amount of licensing fees without saying a "eek" and being allowed to say a "eek".
It basically worked like this. IBM let the builder start to operate (usually with components from the far east). Once the operation has started bringing revenue the suits payd a visit. From there on it was exactly as you describe. The important bit is that at the end the guy also had to sign an NDA that said that he is not allowed to say that he pays licensing fees to IBM. The reason is fairly obvious - so that the new PC builders are not put off from day one by the perspective of paying royalties on what they do.
Frozen stakes and hamburgers in a cantene are an even better idea. We used to do it at the Uni. All you need is an unsuspecting victim that has forgotten to pick up a fork, a knife or a napkin. As a result you have your 30 secs and when the poor sod comes back his meal is frozen solid and steaming water vapour.
Bollocks. Every european newspaper has standard terms of reply which already specify the requirements for authentication. There is no problem to require the replying side to offer a valid identity document (or a true copy of) and pay for all postage and handling (and in some countries an identity check). So once again. Bollocks.
And I think that adding this requirement to the internet media is a good thing (TM) as it decreases the number of cases that go to court and feed the lawyers.
That is one of the inputs to bog standard traction control in modern cars. So there is no problem whatsover to determine if the wheels had or did not have traction if the relevant information has been recorded.
Actually, the most important bit in the article is that the defence tried to object to the data from the EDR on the basis that the vehicle has been modified to go faster then manufacturer specs. Frankly, if this has been done it should not have been let on the road and considered roadworthy without a full retune of all safety systems - trax, abs, airbag deployment, etc.
Considering that it is not a legal requirement to do so the enforcement is up to the insurance companies. Frankly, the person who sold this guy insurance without requiring that the vehicle go through a full safety reevalutaion is as guility as the guy himself. He should have got the same sentence.
Had that by changing the tires on my dad's 15 year old GSA from medium profile 15" WS (bought with these) to high profile 15" D (only ones I could find of the 15" that did not cost more then the car at the time).
As a result the speedo went off by about 7% which exceeds the legally allowed error and had to be retuned for the car to pass the yearly safety check. Thank's god that all it took was to adjust two screws (after spending 2 hours to get to them).
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Pianos haven't progressed You meant have not regressed to having one effing button (mouse) right?
I am not very young and I limit myself to perl tenliners nowdays, but around the time when I started it was normal (and expected from a programmer) to know assembler (at least one flavour), several high level languages (at least C and Pascal) and some knowledge of insanities like Lisp and Prolog. Knowing at least some machine internals was also a must (you could not even beep without this on some platforms).
Nowdays it has all been replaced by C++ and/or Java written a graphical IDE. Actually, ask a CS graduate to write you a vector addition in assembler and optimise it by hand to intersperse register ops and memory accesses so that the prefetch is always full (something absolutely normal once upon a time in the graphics programming for 2,3,4x86). Watch the show. Repeat until it is no longer funny.+
If we count the entire soviet + russian space programs we are talking at least 10 times more manned flights, at least 100 times more time in space. Losses AFAIK were all in all 3+2 in two accidents. There were rumours of several more but these have never been confirmed so we can so far assume that it is what says on the label. And that stacks up.
If we are talking about people on board - shuttle crews are too bloody big. Period. A decent spacecraft should be able to take of and land automated (as the Buran did). And require two people at most to run.
Also, the shuttle leaks like there is no tomorrow and its life support system sucks rotten eggs through a thin straw. IMO this, along with the absurdly big crew is actually the primary reason for the disaster. It could not stay in orbit a reasonable amount of time even if a check showed a problem. So nobody even considered a check to be a reasonable option.
Also, Russia (in those days SU) handled Buran launches on a platform that did not require ugly hacks like strapping foam coated fuel tanks and uncontrollable solid fuel boosters. Also AFAIK the original design for the first stage of Energia assumed a controlled descent and reuse. And until there is a reasonable platform for a horisontal take off launching on the back of a real launcher is the only right way to launch a reusable vehicle.
So all in all: US needs to buy (or redesign its own for carrying large off-balance loads which is not easy) some launchers useable for strapping a shuttle to them and buy (or license) some proper life support systems. After all the superiority of the latter was admitted for the ISS and the ISS runs with russian life support. So sticking to the 20+ year old crapper (literally) used on the shuttle is outright stupid.
That is exactly what Buran was all about. Just not solid fuel boosters.
A real laucnher. Energia, bless it.
Unfortunately they do not make them any more. Actually it may be cheaper for NASA to order some from the russians, then to continue this external tank+halfbaked solid fuel abomination.
After all ESA ended up buying Soyuz launchers (OK they call it cooperation but this is what it is for all practical purposes)
Correct, I was addressing the subject from a worker perspective. Still, I think you are treating all workers like mindless sheep. They aren't.
Yes we are in for the paycheck. But some of us can understand the concept of having a paycheck next year or the year after. Some cannot. I was referring to the ones that can and that frankly I prefer to work with people who have the brain to fall into the "can" category.
For example, in the past, I have taken a 20+k dollars (in another currency though) annual salary cut to see a light down the end of the tunnel different from the chapter 11 incoming train.
By the time my notice period was over and I walked out of the door the management has scheduled 20+% of the personnel for a cull.I had no prior information that this was forthcoming. I just saw that with the current business practice something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. And frankly, I have a family to feed.
So no, we are not interested in a pay check now. At least I am not. I am interested in a paycheck now and a paycheck next year at the same time por favor. And if the PHB cannot run the business to satisfy this elementary requirement there is no point to get loyalty involved. It aint going to work anyway.
Will you prefer a daft slug that stays until the final solution has descended on the office?
Alternatively, will you take someone who can actually foresee the reality and where will the business develop to and has gone and tried to fend for himself before the shit has hit the fan (due to some idiot PHB with a mi(bi)llion sized compensation package)? Or an idiot with no business sense and a firm belief that "Build it and they will come"?
I frankly prefer to work people with guts, brains and at least some elementary survival skills. If you like to work the gutless and brainless ones I am not really amused that you have to speak about things like loyalty to retain employees. That is instead of speaking of business perspectives (if any).
Overall, loyalty is a concept to be mentioned around countries and ideologies. Die for your country for loyalty reasons - yes. Stay on a sinking ship (company) for loaylty sake - the f*** no.
Loyalty and business do not mix. A decent business should cause a sufficient level of interest in the employee for him/her to be loyal without having to call on that loyalty. That is especially and mainly from the "what happens next perspective". Under "what happens next" I do not mean tomorrow. I mean years down the road. Yeah, times can get tough. But there is no reason to despise an employee that has jumped ship in a tough time if you could not make him/her believe that the times will get better and when they will get better.
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Frawn is very softly said. Ever checked the position of Sega, Microsoft, etc on grey imports?
You have entirely missed the point.
If you know math and language theory the actual language you currently know does not matter. Language is a tool. You can learn to use a new tool in a matter of weeks if not days. Math is the knowledge on how to use all of the tools, not just the particular shiny one that has just been produced last week.
After learning 5 or 6, the next one comes in a matter of days. Been there, seen that, trying to do it.
This has not changed since Dykstra and ain't going to change. Ever. This is the fact known as the 5 times salary difference between the factory floor and the chief designer office.
It is a fact of life, it exists in all industries and it is here to stay.
Actually, Asimov has described this brilliantly in one of his novells. Read "Profession". It is thy best novell he ever wrote.
Shall we add to this that the launch system using uncontrollable solid fuel boosters and a grafted fuel tank is also an ugly hack. As a ugly as it gets. Even uglier then the thermal protection system which at least more or less works.
IMO shutlles should be grounded until there is a horisontal launch system from a proper reusable first stage vehicle. Either a high altitude plane or a proper missile system that does not fall apart on every launch. If NASA cannot effing build it ask the russians to build a few Enegia launchers. That was what they were designed for in first place.
You meant fashist aparteid whores. Right?
After all this is a country that has a racial purity law and fines its cittizens the equivalent of 1000 dollars for merrying unsuitable foreigners (russian or other ex-soviet block).
Before deciding that this is flamebait check their legal code. I know what I am talking about.
So invention of new human rights in estonia - give me a brak. Let them first give their cittizens back the most basic right - the right to chose a partner in life without government intervention.
They are not. They have nuclear weapons as well and this is what any exploration of near space is all about for the time being. It is a reminder that "we can loft some sh***" on your head when you least expect it.
Debian is better for corp usage then the "corp" distros. I do not like dealing with broken machines and Debian happily achieves it.
Nope.
More likely the chap whose name starts with Jar, continues with Jar and ends with Binks.
Considering the popularity of the Star Wars prequels such casting does should not be entirely unexpected.
Bollocks. Nothing to do with DMCA. Note the quote: Meeker noted that Baystate had reproduced a handful of errors in Bowers program. Kann, Baystate's lawyer, said all the errors came from Bowers' user interface, not the underlying code.. This sounds like theft to me. If you rev eng you usually find errors and fix them. If you copy without going through the effort of understanding how things work you get the errors copied as well.
As a person who have bought quite a few Alphas in the past I will have to correct you - it was within Joe Sixpack range. At least the cheaper nonames with Samsung LX motherboards were definitely around 2000 dollars.
Still, we have to give Apple the credit of delivering the first production consumer 64 bit OS (as neither Alpha Linux, nor 64 bit WinXP are anywhere around consumer OSes, anyone having objections please try installing one first).
It is not free. It is funded by 40 percent of my salary, 75% of what I pay for fuel, 30+% of what I pay for food and goods (delivery and other fuel related expenses are calculated before VAT), 25% of my company's profits, ad fscking naseum.
Frankly anything government funded should be either BSD or public domain at least in countries with extortionate taxation like UK. The taxpayer has payed for it 100 times. He should be entitled to use it as he sees fit.
So no closed source, royalty shit either. I have payd for it, I am fscking entitled to use it. So just play good ole BSD.
First, this is a dupe
Second, this puts internet media on even footing with newspapers which do not seem to have died from this. This is a standard condition under which newspapers, radio and TV in EU operate and they have established very good rules on how to do this over the years. Actually it is a good thing (TM). Saves feeding the lawyers which cannot be bad.
Third, any claims that this will put small sites out of business due to expenses on verifying repliers is complete crap. In most (if not all) EU countries you are allowed to require genuine identity documents (fency sending your real passport?) and can charge the requester a fair handling fee that covers authentication and any postage expenses. Even without that fee sorting out documents will cost the requesting side at least 50 quid so not like this will attract a lot of nuisance callers.
Fourth, if someone has smeared me all over I frankly do not see why I should be denied the right to answer as long as I have decided that the matter to be serious enough to take the risk of having my identity stolen after sending my passport (or a copy confirmed by a public notary).
Which still does not prevent them from being sued for a breach of contract for "diluting the trademark". It is not the source in question here 'mind 'ya. They can be sued happily as well.
XFS. You are forgetting NUMA.
This stroy is not true.
The story is that most small PC builders in the US in the late 80-es to the early 90-es payed IBM a considerable amount of licensing fees without saying a "eek" and being allowed to say a "eek".
It basically worked like this. IBM let the builder start to operate (usually with components from the far east). Once the operation has started bringing revenue the suits payd a visit. From there on it was exactly as you describe. The important bit is that at the end the guy also had to sign an NDA that said that he is not allowed to say that he pays licensing fees to IBM. The reason is fairly obvious - so that the new PC builders are not put off from day one by the perspective of paying royalties on what they do.
Frozen stakes and hamburgers in a cantene are an even better idea. We used to do it at the Uni. All you need is an unsuspecting victim that has forgotten to pick up a fork, a knife or a napkin. As a result you have your 30 secs and when the poor sod comes back his meal is frozen solid and steaming water vapour.
Bollocks. Every european newspaper has standard terms of reply which already specify the requirements for authentication. There is no problem to require the replying side to offer a valid identity document (or a true copy of) and pay for all postage and handling (and in some countries an identity check). So once again. Bollocks.
Yes.
And I think that adding this requirement to the internet media is a good thing (TM) as it decreases the number of cases that go to court and feed the lawyers.
That is one of the inputs to bog standard traction control in modern cars. So there is no problem whatsover to determine if the wheels had or did not have traction if the relevant information has been recorded.
Actually, the most important bit in the article is that the defence tried to object to the data from the EDR on the basis that the vehicle has been modified to go faster then manufacturer specs. Frankly, if this has been done it should not have been let on the road and considered roadworthy without a full retune of all safety systems - trax, abs, airbag deployment, etc.
Considering that it is not a legal requirement to do so the enforcement is up to the insurance companies. Frankly, the person who sold this guy insurance without requiring that the vehicle go through a full safety reevalutaion is as guility as the guy himself. He should have got the same sentence.
Yes it does.
Had that by changing the tires on my dad's 15 year old GSA from medium profile 15" WS (bought with these) to high profile 15" D (only ones I could find of the 15" that did not cost more then the car at the time).
As a result the speedo went off by about 7% which exceeds the legally allowed error and had to be retuned for the car to pass the yearly safety check. Thank's god that all it took was to adjust two screws (after spending 2 hours to get to them).
I am not very young and I limit myself to perl tenliners nowdays, but around the time when I started it was normal (and expected from a programmer) to know assembler (at least one flavour), several high level languages (at least C and Pascal) and some knowledge of insanities like Lisp and Prolog. Knowing at least some machine internals was also a must (you could not even beep without this on some platforms).
Nowdays it has all been replaced by C++ and/or Java written a graphical IDE. Actually, ask a CS graduate to write you a vector addition in assembler and optimise it by hand to intersperse register ops and memory accesses so that the prefetch is always full (something absolutely normal once upon a time in the graphics programming for 2,3,4x86). Watch the show. Repeat until it is no longer funny.+
If we count the entire soviet + russian space programs we are talking at least 10 times more manned flights, at least 100 times more time in space. Losses AFAIK were all in all 3+2 in two accidents. There were rumours of several more but these have never been confirmed so we can so far assume that it is what says on the label. And that stacks up.
If we are talking about people on board - shuttle crews are too bloody big. Period. A decent spacecraft should be able to take of and land automated (as the Buran did). And require two people at most to run.
Also, the shuttle leaks like there is no tomorrow and its life support system sucks rotten eggs through a thin straw. IMO this, along with the absurdly big crew is actually the primary reason for the disaster. It could not stay in orbit a reasonable amount of time even if a check showed a problem. So nobody even considered a check to be a reasonable option.
Also, Russia (in those days SU) handled Buran launches on a platform that did not require ugly hacks like strapping foam coated fuel tanks and uncontrollable solid fuel boosters. Also AFAIK the original design for the first stage of Energia assumed a controlled descent and reuse. And until there is a reasonable platform for a horisontal take off launching on the back of a real launcher is the only right way to launch a reusable vehicle.
So all in all: US needs to buy (or redesign its own for carrying large off-balance loads which is not easy) some launchers useable for strapping a shuttle to them and buy (or license) some proper life support systems. After all the superiority of the latter was admitted for the ISS and the ISS runs with russian life support. So sticking to the 20+ year old crapper (literally) used on the shuttle is outright stupid.
That is exactly what Buran was all about. Just not solid fuel boosters.
A real laucnher. Energia, bless it.
Unfortunately they do not make them any more. Actually it may be cheaper for NASA to order some from the russians, then to continue this external tank+halfbaked solid fuel abomination.
After all ESA ended up buying Soyuz launchers (OK they call it cooperation but this is what it is for all practical purposes)
Correct, I was addressing the subject from a worker perspective. Still, I think you are treating all workers like mindless sheep. They aren't.
Yes we are in for the paycheck. But some of us can understand the concept of having a paycheck next year or the year after. Some cannot. I was referring to the ones that can and that frankly I prefer to work with people who have the brain to fall into the "can" category.
For example, in the past, I have taken a 20+k dollars (in another currency though) annual salary cut to see a light down the end of the tunnel different from the chapter 11 incoming train.
By the time my notice period was over and I walked out of the door the management has scheduled 20+% of the personnel for a cull.I had no prior information that this was forthcoming. I just saw that with the current business practice something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. And frankly, I have a family to feed.
So no, we are not interested in a pay check now. At least I am not. I am interested in a paycheck now and a paycheck next year at the same time por favor. And if the PHB cannot run the business to satisfy this elementary requirement there is no point to get loyalty involved. It aint going to work anyway.
Do a search on Nigeria and muslim fundametalists. That's all I am willing to say.
May I refrase the question:
Will you prefer a daft slug that stays until the final solution has descended on the office?
Alternatively, will you take someone who can actually foresee the reality and where will the business develop to and has gone and tried to fend for himself before the shit has hit the fan (due to some idiot PHB with a mi(bi)llion sized compensation package)? Or an idiot with no business sense and a firm belief that "Build it and they will come"?
I frankly prefer to work people with guts, brains and at least some elementary survival skills. If you like to work the gutless and brainless ones I am not really amused that you have to speak about things like loyalty to retain employees. That is instead of speaking of business perspectives (if any).
Overall, loyalty is a concept to be mentioned around countries and ideologies. Die for your country for loyalty reasons - yes. Stay on a sinking ship (company) for loaylty sake - the f*** no.
Loyalty and business do not mix. A decent business should cause a sufficient level of interest in the employee for him/her to be loyal without having to call on that loyalty. That is especially and mainly from the "what happens next perspective". Under "what happens next" I do not mean tomorrow. I mean years down the road. Yeah, times can get tough. But there is no reason to despise an employee that has jumped ship in a tough time if you could not make him/her believe that the times will get better and when they will get better.