In Star Trek the shields are always exactly the right strength to keep the crew alive without making the crisis too short to fill a one hour slot on TV.
The Brits seem to be on the forefront of pseudo-science debunking.
As a Brit, I'd like to think that too. Unfortunately, it's undeniable that you can get homeopathy on the NHS i.e. the government funds some homeopathy (hence the reason for this committee suggesting it should stop).
It's also undeniable that our next head of state is a firm believer in homeopathy. I am not an abolitionist, but it makes me weep to think I have to defend the cretin that will be our next King.
No, I don't see that at all. For instance, after September 09 there's a huge peak in Windows profits but the Office products remain flat. There are also two peaks in June and December 08 in the server tools section where Windows and Office remain mostly flat.
At least, that is my reading of the graph. The top line is Microsoft's total profits and the shaded areas represent the contributions of particular areas. You could also read it as five separate graphs superimposed, but I would argue that makes it deceptive.
Probably Jobs just wanted the scale economies and vendor diversity,
I think he wanted a processor he could put in his laptops that didn't suck.
The G5 was too power hungry to put in a laptop and the G4 clocked at 1GHz when "equivalent" Intel and AMD laptop processors were achieving about 2GHz (if my memory serves me correct).
The latest version of Firefox is still supported on Tiger. It's the next one that will be dropping Tiger support.
I'd bet my house that the next version of Safari (Safari 5) will not be supported on Tiger. If nothing else, it'll probably use the Objective-C 2 runtime which doesn't work on Tiger.
Imagine a discussion forum about developing with Rails on OS X (I just checked, rails is part of the standard OS X install). You'd probably need asbestos trousers for that discussion group.
Now, while you still have your $100 (its in the bank),
Err, no it isn't. $10 of it is in the bank. Bob has the other $90. Imagine you and Bob are the only customers of the said bank, if you try to withdraw your $100 before he pays his loan back, you'll find out that the money is definitely not there.
My name is Bjorn Swedishguy and I am writing to inform you that the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to The Internet has so far gone unclaimed. As a user of The Internet I believe you can help me release the funds that constitute the prize. We will divide the funds 50/50.
Please send me your bank account details to enable the transfer of funds out of^H^H^H^H^H^Hinto your account.
How is this +5 informative? It's completely false.
The reason it didn't make it to mainline is because the Google code was reviewed and found to have problems that stopped it being accepted into mainline. Because there are user space items in Android that would be affected, only Google could make the changes without breaking Android.
Think about it, if you were unable to build the Android kernel because Google were withholding stuff, it would be in direct violation of GPL v2. Do you see Greg KH complaining that Android violates the Linux licence? No.
Especially given the high risk of flying in the past decade
What high risk?
How many people have died thanks to terrorist incidents on aircraft in the last decade? How many people hove flown in aircraft? Divide the first number by the second to get the risk and you'll see it's a very small number indeed.
People can use both email types, until gradually the 'micropayment' emails become the norm, and the free, spam ones are ditched by more and more people.
Won't happen.
So maybe 95% of the e-mail that is sent to me is spam. What is it worth to me to have to pay to send e-mails as I sit in front of my PC trying to decide whether to use the free system or the pay-for system to send my mate Bob an e-mail. The answer is apparently nothing. My e-mail is perfectly serviceable and spam is only a minor inconvenience. I don't see almost any of that 95% spam because virtually all of it gets filtered before it drops into my inbox.
You could argue that there is an infrastructure cost to all this spam and there is, but it is completely out of sight of most e-mail users and also probably negligible compared to the infrastructure cost of (say) providing the bandwidth for everybody to download TV programmes off the BBC.
Except that they won't. Head up displays have to be in focus when your eyes are focussed on the terrain ahead. If you have to refocus your eyes to the windscreen to see the display, it'll probably be distracting more than anything.
Some people don't do it for the money. You can't buy them. Ever.
For me it's like that: I have a goal that I see as the point of my existence.
Yes, well these people would be being paid to give up working on a database server. If your goal in life is to work on a database server, you probably need to get out more.
It was actually pretty good, in fact, quite a bit more entertaining than The Phantom Menace.
I get your point that the written word is often a better medium but that doesn't mean there is no room for these videos as well.
What, after all was the point of the film The Godfather when we already had the story already written down? I'm not saying this video is The Godfather but it's pretty good.
In an alternate reality where the American economy had collapsed, giving a chance to Afghanistan to actually win the war, you know how the books where going to describe this conflict.
Afghanistan is on the same side of the Americans.
However, the people they are both fighting (the Taliban) could easily still win even without American economic collapse.
Do you think it's fair to analyse a single sentence in isolation? Here's a sentence in isolation:
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Charles Darwin wrote that at the beginning of chapter 6 of The Origin of Species and it's much beloved of creationists because it seems to be evidence against evolution. Of course it's really just a set up for the next three pages explaining how the eye evolved.
Anyway, the point is that you should be analysing ideas expressed, not just single sentences.
I'm sorry, but I can't help but disagree with this sentence.
I think you miss the point. Nobody is arguing that the job of the programmer is not to tell the computer what to do. Knuth is claiming that by using the literate programming paradigm, your team (i.e. you, the other programmers and maintainers) will ultimately make a better job of telling the computer what to do.
One must not compromise the precision of the orders it gives to the computer in order to achieve readability by something/someone else than the computer. One should, however, try to make his code as readable and elegant as he possibly can without sacrificing precision in the message to the computer.
But we do. Simply by using a high level language, we sacrifice some of the precision of what we tell the computer. By using a high level language, you expose yourself to ambiguities in the language definition and bugs in the compiler/interpreter. You do it because the loss of precision is massively outweighed by the ease (for a human) of writing code in a high level language.
I disagree. erating might be OK if it's in a struct of type Employee, but then why do you need the e? In other contexts "employeeRating" is better because it means the maintainer doesn't have to go back to the definition to find out what it is.
risk() is also better. Since the author says its a method, it's in a class. Investment.risk() is a hell of a lot better than Investment.calculateRiskInvestment()
I would say that depends. If it's an accessor for a property, I think "risk()" is better. However, if it's the implementation of a method to calculate risk, "calculateRisk()" is better.
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In Star Trek the shields are always exactly the right strength to keep the crew alive without making the crisis too short to fill a one hour slot on TV.
The Brits seem to be on the forefront of pseudo-science debunking.
As a Brit, I'd like to think that too. Unfortunately, it's undeniable that you can get homeopathy on the NHS i.e. the government funds some homeopathy (hence the reason for this committee suggesting it should stop).
It's also undeniable that our next head of state is a firm believer in homeopathy. I am not an abolitionist, but it makes me weep to think I have to defend the cretin that will be our next King.
There's a humungous file on my Linux system called "vmlinuz" Can I just delete it because it doesn't seem to do anything.
Also I noticed quite a big gap on my hard disk labelled "swap". Can I get rid of that?
Plan9 is in the Unix family, one secuirty alert in 15 years
I tried to figure out how many bugs per production system that is, but I got "division by zero error".
No, I don't see that at all. For instance, after September 09 there's a huge peak in Windows profits but the Office products remain flat. There are also two peaks in June and December 08 in the server tools section where Windows and Office remain mostly flat.
At least, that is my reading of the graph. The top line is Microsoft's total profits and the shaded areas represent the contributions of particular areas. You could also read it as five separate graphs superimposed, but I would argue that makes it deceptive.
Probably Jobs just wanted the scale economies and vendor diversity,
I think he wanted a processor he could put in his laptops that didn't suck.
The G5 was too power hungry to put in a laptop and the G4 clocked at 1GHz when "equivalent" Intel and AMD laptop processors were achieving about 2GHz (if my memory serves me correct).
The latest version of Firefox is still supported on Tiger. It's the next one that will be dropping Tiger support.
I'd bet my house that the next version of Safari (Safari 5) will not be supported on Tiger. If nothing else, it'll probably use the Objective-C 2 runtime which doesn't work on Tiger.
A shame. I know people who bought nice new Macbooks running 10.4 in 2008
No you don't. OS X 10.5 was released in October 2007. Any new Macbook bought in 2008 would have shipped with it.
As of now, 10.5 is nearly two and a half years old. By the time Firefox 3.6 stops getting patched, (end of 2011?) it will be about four years old.
Imagine a discussion forum about developing with Rails on OS X (I just checked, rails is part of the standard OS X install). You'd probably need asbestos trousers for that discussion group.
Now, while you still have your $100 (its in the bank),
Err, no it isn't. $10 of it is in the bank. Bob has the other $90. Imagine you and Bob are the only customers of the said bank, if you try to withdraw your $100 before he pays his loan back, you'll find out that the money is definitely not there.
Dear JeremyP,
My name is Bjorn Swedishguy and I am writing to inform you that the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to The Internet has so far gone unclaimed. As a user of The Internet I believe you can help me release the funds that constitute the prize. We will divide the funds 50/50.
Please send me your bank account details to enable the transfer of funds out of^H^H^H^H^H^Hinto your account.
Bjorn Swedishguy - Nobel Prize Administrator
mailto:scammer67548@hotmail.com
How is this +5 informative? It's completely false.
The reason it didn't make it to mainline is because the Google code was reviewed and found to have problems that stopped it being accepted into mainline. Because there are user space items in Android that would be affected, only Google could make the changes without breaking Android.
Think about it, if you were unable to build the Android kernel because Google were withholding stuff, it would be in direct violation of GPL v2. Do you see Greg KH complaining that Android violates the Linux licence? No.
Needs Another Shuttle Aswell.
Especially given the high risk of flying in the past decade
What high risk?
How many people have died thanks to terrorist incidents on aircraft in the last decade? How many people hove flown in aircraft? Divide the first number by the second to get the risk and you'll see it's a very small number indeed.
People can use both email types, until gradually the 'micropayment' emails become the norm, and the free, spam ones are ditched by more and more people.
Won't happen.
So maybe 95% of the e-mail that is sent to me is spam. What is it worth to me to have to pay to send e-mails as I sit in front of my PC trying to decide whether to use the free system or the pay-for system to send my mate Bob an e-mail. The answer is apparently nothing. My e-mail is perfectly serviceable and spam is only a minor inconvenience. I don't see almost any of that 95% spam because virtually all of it gets filtered before it drops into my inbox.
You could argue that there is an infrastructure cost to all this spam and there is, but it is completely out of sight of most e-mail users and also probably negligible compared to the infrastructure cost of (say) providing the bandwidth for everybody to download TV programmes off the BBC.
Actually true Rugby Football fans refer to Rugby as Football at times, and refer to Football as Association Football.
It can get complicated :)
Rugby League or Rugby Union?
Open System Preferences.
Click on the keyboard icon.
Make sure you have the "Keyboard" tab selected.
Click on the check box with the caption: "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys"
It worked for Dr. Who and (to an arguable extent with the film) Hitchhiker's Guide.
It did not work with H2G2.
Except that they won't. Head up displays have to be in focus when your eyes are focussed on the terrain ahead. If you have to refocus your eyes to the windscreen to see the display, it'll probably be distracting more than anything.
DUH!
Some people don't do it for the money. You can't buy them. Ever.
For me it's like that: I have a goal that I see as the point of my existence.
Yes, well these people would be being paid to give up working on a database server. If your goal in life is to work on a database server, you probably need to get out more.
It was actually pretty good, in fact, quite a bit more entertaining than The Phantom Menace.
I get your point that the written word is often a better medium but that doesn't mean there is no room for these videos as well.
What, after all was the point of the film The Godfather when we already had the story already written down? I'm not saying this video is The Godfather but it's pretty good.
In an alternate reality where the American economy had collapsed, giving a chance to Afghanistan to actually win the war, you know how the books where going to describe this conflict.
Afghanistan is on the same side of the Americans.
However, the people they are both fighting (the Taliban) could easily still win even without American economic collapse.
Do you think it's fair to analyse a single sentence in isolation? Here's a sentence in isolation:
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Charles Darwin wrote that at the beginning of chapter 6 of The Origin of Species and it's much beloved of creationists because it seems to be evidence against evolution. Of course it's really just a set up for the next three pages explaining how the eye evolved.
Anyway, the point is that you should be analysing ideas expressed, not just single sentences.
I'm sorry, but I can't help but disagree with this sentence.
I think you miss the point. Nobody is arguing that the job of the programmer is not to tell the computer what to do. Knuth is claiming that by using the literate programming paradigm, your team (i.e. you, the other programmers and maintainers) will ultimately make a better job of telling the computer what to do.
One must not compromise the precision of the orders it gives to the computer in order to achieve readability by something/someone else than the computer. One should, however, try to make his code as readable and elegant as he possibly can without sacrificing precision in the message to the computer.
But we do. Simply by using a high level language, we sacrifice some of the precision of what we tell the computer. By using a high level language, you expose yourself to ambiguities in the language definition and bugs in the compiler/interpreter. You do it because the loss of precision is massively outweighed by the ease (for a human) of writing code in a high level language.
I disagree. erating might be OK if it's in a struct of type Employee, but then why do you need the e? In other contexts "employeeRating" is better because it means the maintainer doesn't have to go back to the definition to find out what it is.
risk() is also better. Since the author says its a method, it's in a class. Investment.risk() is a hell of a lot better than Investment.calculateRiskInvestment()
I would say that depends. If it's an accessor for a property, I think "risk()" is better. However, if it's the implementation of a method to calculate risk, "calculateRisk()" is better.