Yes size does matter; but bigger is not necessarily better. To small and there is not much to work with, to big and it becomes a painful experiance. A compatible size is what matters; even Kamasutra notes that. Then again, most of the sex happens in the head, not the crotch area...
At least with C and C++; VERY BAD EXAMPLE! Granted C and C++ contain a "safe subset" that is works reliably everywhere. But the problem really starts in what the standard does not provide, basically everything that needs OS interaction. Want to use threads, go through the OS, want to use TCP, go though the OS, user interface, go through the OS. The C++11 standard fixed some issues, even here you have inconsistencies in implementation and feature completeness.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a piece of cake when you use the subset that was there with HTML 4, but all the new and useful features warrant testing. This is especially with when using experimental features, such as the prefixed CSS properties.
Plus, for places with electronic voting machines, it's good to have a technically oriented person there, because it is, after all, a computer and setting them up is usually not easy for non-techies.
Honestly, if a voting machine needs more maintenance than a TV, it is designed wrong. It the procedure is more than plug in, turn on, run poll, read out results, something is wrong. (Configure step should be done before by certified technicians, of site.)
But yea, knowing how most IT systems work or rather how they may fail, I am totally on the paper ballot side of things. An election is not something that should be tampered by a subtle bug.
If I recall correctly, they where convicted of criminal copyright infringement. If I post an image on my website that is normal copyright infringement, but if print that same image on cards and sell them I am criminal copyright infringement. The difference is that I do it in a "commercial way" and with "significant damage". The really important difference is that copyright holders can get the police involved and serve jail sentences in criminal copyright infringement.
But your assertion is correct, copyright is a civil matter, how they got criminal copyright infringement is a mystery to me. This is especially perverse, since the maximum jail sentence for criminal copyright infringement is 3 years and rape is 2 years.
That is exactly what I wanted to say. Most modern fly by wire aircraft take the control inputs as "suggestions" and adapt them into actual control responses. The important thing is that the response properly evaluates the constraints.
Your retelling of the legal situation is accurate, but it does not make it right. For starters Google (in the context of the search engine, not plus or ads) is not collecting data about you but about the websites. This includes the indexed content of the website. This is the only way a search engine can work. Search engines are an essential part of the internet, without it would barley work. (It will work, but you will not find much.)
To make a real world example. Say I produce some widget and sell it wholesale. But I don't like your shop and how you sell my product. Since your shop has legally acquired my product through wholesale resellers I can not do anything against you. But because of some loophole in the law I can let road blocks be erected that bar any access to your shop. Sure you can still sell my product, that you acquired legally, but it does not matter.
If you say that Google needs to comply with the Data Protection Directive regarding data about you that is stored in ads, plus, youtube and whatever service, I wholeheartedly agree with you. But except for a few mishaps, Google has complied with the laws.
In the context of search, there is no real legal foundation on why data can be removed form the search index that was not illegal to be published in the first.place. If the published data is not restricted by the Data Protection Directive it is nonsensical that Google, in the context of search may not process the data. The fact that Google displays ads alongside is irrelevant to the discussion. Mentioning that Google makes money of it is at best a copyright issue and that was resolved, as being clearly within fair use.
And before you go ranting on my American ways, I am German by the way and even many Germans with their relative acute sense of privacy don't really understand how the Data Protection Directive relates to Google Search.
The important point about most extinctions in the past is that they actually did not have self correcting forces. The problem is that many ecological niches have multiple species that can fill it. For example take the Zebra, the Gazelle and the Buffalo. Each more or less occupy the same niche, large herbivore in arid grass lands. If one should, for some reason, start to fall in numbers others will rise in numbers. There is no self correcting factor here. But should the land change it's properties all species in that niche will see the same pressure. Here it may be that one specie is better adapted to cope with the change.
In contrast humans are do not have competitors in the niche they occupy. As a result out success is directly tied to the resources we have. But honestly I think overpopulation will get us before climate change will. But his basically is just the Monkey and Banana Problem. The only difference is that we make take allot of other species with us on the down turn.
The author argues that women who avoid CS are actually making a good career decision.
I have yet to see an unemployed programmer. The only unemployed "programers" I have seen where either Visual Basic or HTML, unwilling/unable to learn something else. As long as companies are still hiring physicists, electrical engineers or what not as programmers, this assertion is wrong.
But I understand where he gets his impression, the IT mood swings are real. But it just means that the programmers have to work for "real" companies instead of sexy start up companies. The people who are really in the hurt when the current trend in IT goes belly up are the suckered investors. (The real pro investors knew to pull out in time.)
Why should it be social? A testosterone infused.com boom, not social. A aggressive venture capital driven web 2.0 scene, not social.
My experience with many young and male only teams, they degrade into brogrammers, with all the social ills. When banter and one-up-manship are the daily routine, only few want to participate. These few tend to be young, male and have something to prove.
This situation is not prevalent in the industry, especially with an R&D department integrated into larger companies. But these these "new and hip" companies, where such bad behavior may thrive, are what people tend to see. I can understand when people, including women do not want to participate, if they perceive that the industry is like this.
Anyone who claims that ISO9000 means they produce a good product is either lying or doesn't understand what ISO9000 means.
Although I agree with your assertion, the misconception comes from the fact the standard is "ISO 9000 - Quality management". The disconnect comes from the assumption that quality == good. The standards where introduced for quality management and to provide a basis to improve product quality. In addition most companies introduced ISO 9001 in the hopes to improve product and service quality. The silver bullet to solve all quality issues. What most missed is the simple fact that you need to do something with all the data you collected and actually improve the production process.
Um logic fallacy much? Following that logic, nobody would have a bank account. People are not born with a bank account, so with that logic, they could not get any. In almost all cases where people don't have a bank account is because they have bad credit based on the plain fact that they failed to pay their dues. When you have no prior debt your credit score is plainly not so abysmal that you will not get a bank account; they won't give you a large credit though.
I did no say that Columbus did not have an important part in world history. But in the US the meme "Columbus discovered America" is somewhat misguided. But then again world history is glossed over in US schools.
Yes but measured at what layer? Do Ethernet/ATM/PPP/IP/TCP headers count against the bandwidth? In some cases the headers make up biggest part of the bandwidth. I see this being a problem...
You are well aware that IBM was a merger from the three companies Tabulating Machine Company, International Time Recording Company and Computing Scale Company to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company in the year 1880. They then renamed the company to International Business Machines in 1924. Their core business was building tabulators, time clocks and other specialized machines.
The general purpose computer was not necessarily the most useful tool for business. In the aforementioned 60s and 70s some large companies used them for accounting purposes, but even there their use was limited. For universities and research labs general purpose computers was more useful and here you found them there.
That does not mean that IBM did not have their hands in other specialized applications. You could probably equip you entire company with only IBM products. Only until the late 70s and 80s did the IBM general purpose computers find their way into mainstream business applications.
The notion that Columbus, "discovered" America is odd at best. The fact that it was already inhabited and he was not even the first European sort of renders the "discovered" point moot. He not even was able to notice that he was not really in India. Sure the travel was sort of epic for the time, but the "Columbus discovered America" meme is sort of nonsense.
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Yes size does matter; but bigger is not necessarily better. To small and there is not much to work with, to big and it becomes a painful experiance. A compatible size is what matters; even Kamasutra notes that. Then again, most of the sex happens in the head, not the crotch area...
Sorry, only mentioned that I meant German in a follow up post, but yes, 107 UrhG grants up to 3 years, (And rape is minimum 2 ... )
At least with C and C++; VERY BAD EXAMPLE! Granted C and C++ contain a "safe subset" that is works reliably everywhere. But the problem really starts in what the standard does not provide, basically everything that needs OS interaction. Want to use threads, go through the OS, want to use TCP, go though the OS, user interface, go through the OS. The C++11 standard fixed some issues, even here you have inconsistencies in implementation and feature completeness.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a piece of cake when you use the subset that was there with HTML 4, but all the new and useful features warrant testing. This is especially with when using experimental features, such as the prefixed CSS properties.
Not until you stop using tt for every post!
Plus, for places with electronic voting machines, it's good to have a technically oriented person there, because it is, after all, a computer and setting them up is usually not easy for non-techies.
Honestly, if a voting machine needs more maintenance than a TV, it is designed wrong. It the procedure is more than plug in, turn on, run poll, read out results, something is wrong. (Configure step should be done before by certified technicians, of site.)
But yea, knowing how most IT systems work or rather how they may fail, I am totally on the paper ballot side of things. An election is not something that should be tampered by a subtle bug.
jail sentences are for German law...
If I recall correctly, they where convicted of criminal copyright infringement. If I post an image on my website that is normal copyright infringement, but if print that same image on cards and sell them I am criminal copyright infringement. The difference is that I do it in a "commercial way" and with "significant damage". The really important difference is that copyright holders can get the police involved and serve jail sentences in criminal copyright infringement.
But your assertion is correct, copyright is a civil matter, how they got criminal copyright infringement is a mystery to me. This is especially perverse, since the maximum jail sentence for criminal copyright infringement is 3 years and rape is 2 years.
That is exactly what I wanted to say. Most modern fly by wire aircraft take the control inputs as "suggestions" and adapt them into actual control responses. The important thing is that the response properly evaluates the constraints.
Your retelling of the legal situation is accurate, but it does not make it right. For starters Google (in the context of the search engine, not plus or ads) is not collecting data about you but about the websites. This includes the indexed content of the website. This is the only way a search engine can work. Search engines are an essential part of the internet, without it would barley work. (It will work, but you will not find much.)
To make a real world example. Say I produce some widget and sell it wholesale. But I don't like your shop and how you sell my product. Since your shop has legally acquired my product through wholesale resellers I can not do anything against you. But because of some loophole in the law I can let road blocks be erected that bar any access to your shop. Sure you can still sell my product, that you acquired legally, but it does not matter.
If you say that Google needs to comply with the Data Protection Directive regarding data about you that is stored in ads, plus, youtube and whatever service, I wholeheartedly agree with you. But except for a few mishaps, Google has complied with the laws.
In the context of search, there is no real legal foundation on why data can be removed form the search index that was not illegal to be published in the first.place. If the published data is not restricted by the Data Protection Directive it is nonsensical that Google, in the context of search may not process the data. The fact that Google displays ads alongside is irrelevant to the discussion. Mentioning that Google makes money of it is at best a copyright issue and that was resolved, as being clearly within fair use.
And before you go ranting on my American ways, I am German by the way and even many Germans with their relative acute sense of privacy don't really understand how the Data Protection Directive relates to Google Search.
The important point about most extinctions in the past is that they actually did not have self correcting forces. The problem is that many ecological niches have multiple species that can fill it. For example take the Zebra, the Gazelle and the Buffalo. Each more or less occupy the same niche, large herbivore in arid grass lands. If one should, for some reason, start to fall in numbers others will rise in numbers. There is no self correcting factor here. But should the land change it's properties all species in that niche will see the same pressure. Here it may be that one specie is better adapted to cope with the change.
In contrast humans are do not have competitors in the niche they occupy. As a result out success is directly tied to the resources we have. But honestly I think overpopulation will get us before climate change will. But his basically is just the Monkey and Banana Problem. The only difference is that we make take allot of other species with us on the down turn.
The author argues that women who avoid CS are actually making a good career decision.
I have yet to see an unemployed programmer. The only unemployed "programers" I have seen where either Visual Basic or HTML, unwilling/unable to learn something else. As long as companies are still hiring physicists, electrical engineers or what not as programmers, this assertion is wrong.
But I understand where he gets his impression, the IT mood swings are real. But it just means that the programmers have to work for "real" companies instead of sexy start up companies. The people who are really in the hurt when the current trend in IT goes belly up are the suckered investors. (The real pro investors knew to pull out in time.)
Why should it be social? A testosterone infused .com boom, not social. A aggressive venture capital driven web 2.0 scene, not social.
My experience with many young and male only teams, they degrade into brogrammers, with all the social ills. When banter and one-up-manship are the daily routine, only few want to participate. These few tend to be young, male and have something to prove.
This situation is not prevalent in the industry, especially with an R&D department integrated into larger companies. But these these "new and hip" companies, where such bad behavior may thrive, are what people tend to see. I can understand when people, including women do not want to participate, if they perceive that the industry is like this.
Anyone who claims that ISO9000 means they produce a good product is either lying or doesn't understand what ISO9000 means.
Although I agree with your assertion, the misconception comes from the fact the standard is "ISO 9000 - Quality management". The disconnect comes from the assumption that quality == good. The standards where introduced for quality management and to provide a basis to improve product quality. In addition most companies introduced ISO 9001 in the hopes to improve product and service quality. The silver bullet to solve all quality issues. What most missed is the simple fact that you need to do something with all the data you collected and actually improve the production process.
Um logic fallacy much? Following that logic, nobody would have a bank account. People are not born with a bank account, so with that logic, they could not get any. In almost all cases where people don't have a bank account is because they have bad credit based on the plain fact that they failed to pay their dues. When you have no prior debt your credit score is plainly not so abysmal that you will not get a bank account; they won't give you a large credit though.
There is no reason why it can not. If you can handle the civil disorder charges afterwards, you know since it is in a public place...
Sounds like fun...
I did no say that Columbus did not have an important part in world history. But in the US the meme "Columbus discovered America" is somewhat misguided. But then again world history is glossed over in US schools.
How far do you get in 7 years, if you walk?
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Yes but measured at what layer? Do Ethernet/ATM/PPP/IP/TCP headers count against the bandwidth? In some cases the headers make up biggest part of the bandwidth. I see this being a problem...
You are well aware that IBM was a merger from the three companies Tabulating Machine Company, International Time Recording Company and Computing Scale Company to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company in the year 1880. They then renamed the company to International Business Machines in 1924. Their core business was building tabulators, time clocks and other specialized machines.
The general purpose computer was not necessarily the most useful tool for business. In the aforementioned 60s and 70s some large companies used them for accounting purposes, but even there their use was limited. For universities and research labs general purpose computers was more useful and here you found them there.
That does not mean that IBM did not have their hands in other specialized applications. You could probably equip you entire company with only IBM products. Only until the late 70s and 80s did the IBM general purpose computers find their way into mainstream business applications.
Have you actually looked at the picture?! The monitor is in portrait orientation... That looks like 4:3 ratio; or rather a 3:4.
But don't take my word for the meaning of the word "orientation" when it comes to displays or paper, take Wikipedia's article: Page orientation.
Sirius B is a white dwarf that 7 years from here
Just to be pedantic... 7 light-years.
The notion that Columbus, "discovered" America is odd at best. The fact that it was already inhabited and he was not even the first European sort of renders the "discovered" point moot. He not even was able to notice that he was not really in India. Sure the travel was sort of epic for the time, but the "Columbus discovered America" meme is sort of nonsense.
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