Kind of, if you can call the Virtual File System a wrapper. Both the VFS and the network kernel are, or were, straight ports from BSD. For OS X 10.4, both were rewritten to proceduralise (if that's a word) the APIs.
a) you are surprised he knows enough about anything to actually do something right
b) you are impressed that he knows how to spell RADAR properly
c) you think he is wrong and he shouldn't have used all-caps?
Technically RADAR stands for RAdio Direction And Ranging and should be in all caps, but it's so commonly used nowadays that maybe it's considered a normal word.
Actually, the brass strip is in the wrong place, at least with respect to the WGS84 datum used by the existing GPS system. In fact, in common with the rest of the UK, the brass strip is moving North Eastwards.
60mph is far from benign. If you hit a solid object such as a tree head on going at that speed (you, not the tree), the accident has a good chance of being fatal. If you hit an oncoming truck also travelling at 60, death must be almost certain.
The first time I went to the USA, after the plane touched down (a TWA plane, it was a while ago), the pilot gave us the usual "thank you for flying..." speech but he ended with "and for you British, welcome to the colonies".
Well I'm on digital cable and there are no problems whatever with reception that can be attributed to the weather. The only problems I've ever had have been due to incompetent NTL engineers.
The picture quality can be poor in certain circumstances though, due to the compression techniques used.
In areas where speed cameras have been deployed speeding has been reduced and in those same areas the rate of fatal accidents have been reduced. This somewhat undermines the suggestion that speed limits do not have a beneficial effect.
That is a statistical artefact known as regression to the mean. If you have a couple of years of higher than average accidents on a stretch of road, it could mean that it is dangerous or it could just be bad luck. In either case, if you put a speed camera in, the chances are that the following year there will be fewer accidents.
I dream of a cubicle. In this country (the UK), the norm is completely open plan. That is, you have a big room where everybody works with no internal walls or partitions. The open plan room I'm in at the moment is relatively OK, there's only five people in it and it is quite small. Yesterday I was at the Gherkin and the floor I was on was completely open except for a central core where the toilets, lifts and other services were, the cafeteria and the meeting rooms.
Um, subversion is Open Source. You can download it for free. It shares none of its code with CVS. Although it is a direct replacement for CVS, its architecture is completely different.
In short just about everything in your post is wrong.
Interfaces should conform to the guidelines of the platform they are running on. This is because most people use lots of apps on one OS, not one app on lots of OS's.
The iPod is successful *because* of the tight integration with iTunes. Most people don't care about proprietary versus open solutions, they just want to be able to put their music CDs into a CD ROM drive, press a button or two and have the tracks appear on their MP3 player. The iTunes/iPod combination does this really well.
There are no laws in science. Scientific Laws are just theories that people have thought at some time or another were somehow fundamental. e.g. the laws of thermodynamics, The Law of Gravitation.
We have Newton's "Law" of Gravity and Einstein's "Theory" of general relativity. Which are the more accurate - the law or the theory?
No he's talking about Macintosh aliases. These are nothing to do with Unix shell aliases. In fact they are similar to Unix symlinks except that the link follows the target file if it is moved.
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Kind of, if you can call the Virtual File System a wrapper. Both the VFS and the network kernel are, or were, straight ports from BSD. For OS X 10.4, both were rewritten to proceduralise (if that's a word) the APIs.
Is that because
a) you are surprised he knows enough about anything to actually do something right
b) you are impressed that he knows how to spell RADAR properly
c) you think he is wrong and he shouldn't have used all-caps?
Technically RADAR stands for RAdio Direction And Ranging and should be in all caps, but it's so commonly used nowadays that maybe it's considered a normal word.
Actually, the brass strip is in the wrong place, at least with respect to the WGS84 datum used by the existing GPS system. In fact, in common with the rest of the UK, the brass strip is moving North Eastwards.
If there are two bank robbers, one in each front seat...
60mph is far from benign. If you hit a solid object such as a tree head on going at that speed (you, not the tree), the accident has a good chance of being fatal. If you hit an oncoming truck also travelling at 60, death must be almost certain.
In England we'd use engine oil. This is one of those English English / American English things.
The first time I went to the USA, after the plane touched down (a TWA plane, it was a while ago), the pilot gave us the usual "thank you for flying..." speech but he ended with "and for you British, welcome to the colonies".
you had to be there I guess.
Well I'm on digital cable and there are no problems whatever with reception that can be attributed to the weather. The only problems I've ever had have been due to incompetent NTL engineers.
The picture quality can be poor in certain circumstances though, due to the compression techniques used.
In my long and varied career I've worked in offices without any windows at all.
You were lucky!
When I first started working we didn't have a dumb terminal, we wrote our programs on paper and drove 100 miles to the customer site to type them in.
That was 1987 by the way.
I dream of a cubicle. In this country (the UK), the norm is completely open plan. That is, you have a big room where everybody works with no internal walls or partitions. The open plan room I'm in at the moment is relatively OK, there's only five people in it and it is quite small. Yesterday I was at the Gherkin and the floor I was on was completely open except for a central core where the toilets, lifts and other services were, the cafeteria and the meeting rooms.
Did anybody else get as wound up as I did about the soundtrack advertising Macromerdia products?
Um, subversion is Open Source. You can download it for free. It shares none of its code with CVS. Although it is a direct replacement for CVS, its architecture is completely different.
In short just about everything in your post is wrong.
The most important one is:
x = 0.99999.....
10x = 9.99999......
9x = 9
x = 1
0.99999.... = 1
since when do mail servers have anything to do with the web?
The Avengers was not a BBC production.
You mean A'B + AB'
No.
Interfaces should conform to the guidelines of the platform they are running on. This is because most people use lots of apps on one OS, not one app on lots of OS's.
You don't understand do you?
The iPod is successful *because* of the tight integration with iTunes. Most people don't care about proprietary versus open solutions, they just want to be able to put their music CDs into a CD ROM drive, press a button or two and have the tracks appear on their MP3 player. The iTunes/iPod combination does this really well.
There are no laws in science. Scientific Laws are just theories that people have thought at some time or another were somehow fundamental. e.g. the laws of thermodynamics, The Law of Gravitation.
We have Newton's "Law" of Gravity and Einstein's "Theory" of general relativity. Which are the more accurate - the law or the theory?
That story was posted on Dec 16th. He may have changed his mind by now.
No he's talking about Macintosh aliases. These are nothing to do with Unix shell aliases. In fact they are similar to Unix symlinks except that the link follows the target file if it is moved.