...famous for verbal jousting with MPs and other officials on "Newsnight".
Not so much of the jousting, more a sort of ripping to shreads. Except when he appears to get bored and he cuts them off short. He has put the fun back into politics for me.
However, he let Bill Gates off easily when he interviewed him, which was very dissapointing. It wasn't part of the Newsnight program, so may be Bill's people had everything tied down in advance.
The UK media gave the US media a low grade for journalistic merit. Who knows which is true, but you can read something about the story from this side on the BBC.
We have a different culture when it comes to guns. We do have problems with violent crime, but when people start waving guns they find that we do also have armed police.
We were short of time to get a lot of work done so our company hired an Indian company to do some of it. They came highly recommended. Another local company was using them too for the same reasons.
They were given the task of converting all the strings in a piece of code to wide characters, because we didn't think this would need too much specification. Amittedly there was a communication problem (they examined every file manually when they should have been using grep), but when they did change code it often would not even compile afterwards, it would contain memory leaks, or would segment. It took up a lot of our time sorting it out. It also took them so long that they did not finish the job before their contract expired (this was supposed to just be the first job of many).
We heard from programmers at the other company the same sort of thing was happening there. So imaging our suprise when both companies declared the out sourcing projects to be a great success.
Our director who was responsible for taking them on quickly moved on to bigger and better pastures new, but the company still recommends the Indian company involved. I was watching News Night on the BBC this week and this Indian company came up as one of the great success stories in out-sourcing, infact they were highly recommended.
You would be doing well to insert code to be executed using a buffer overflow. Buffer overflows generally just corrupt the stack (other variables and the return addresses from function calls). The net effect is to crash the program. It is what the OS does when the login program crashes that can cause a hole.
Many years ago a friend of mine who had dropped out of university, got himself onto a basic computing course and then went looking for a job. He wrote to hundreads of places but no one would even give him an interview. Eventually he cracked up and wrote to a bank and said something like "... and of course I am prepared to work all day and night for little or no money". They gave him an interview and eventually offered him a job. During the interview he was told that they just wanted to see what sort of fruit cake would write this.
Fortune cookie is nice and simple. You can use a DB (no joins though). You can do it on the command line and then expand onto a web page. There is even random number generation. The fun part is making up (ripping off) the cookies http://www.rny.com/fun/fortune.cookie.fc gi
I have also implemented systems in the typesetting industry. I worked with people that had spent most of their working lives with the hot lead process. It had been a skilled job with a long apprenticeship that commanded good pay, because sometimes people lost their fingers, arms or sometimes their lives to the machinery. For some the change was difficult to come to terms with as they effectively became unskilled workers overnight. But the change came, it was bound to sooner or later.
Musicans and the music industry are going to have to come around the idea that technology is going to change their world just as radically and grasp the opportunity rather than hold back.
So here is what the industry needs to do. Put a sole user licence into the encrypted music files as they are download from offical websites. OK so you are not going to stop someone giving a copy to a friend (you never could), but people get wary of giving away thousands of copies of something that pops up the message "Licenced for the sole private use of Fred Bloggs" every time it is played.
I live in the UK and have been gadget prone since I was a teenager. I have had endless computers and all sorts of other gizmos, but I have never had a cell phone. I just don't like talking to people on the phone, I find it unnerving, they always sound like they are taking the piss.
OK. Maybe I'm weird, but I don't mind talking face to face or using e-mail. I even carry a good old-fashioned pager around with me. It just does'nt bother me the same. Maybe other people are the same and hence this trend.
Or maybe it's just that the line quality is so bad.
Sorry no offense intended to anyone in particular. It's just that anyone volunteering for such a job when there is no management will to make it work (and therefore keep it workable), is probably the last person that it should be given to.
I'm probably just bitter, but in our case we ended up with a 40 page document on how you should use source control (which the auditors caught us failing to comply with). A 5 point check list would have been more in order.
I'm sure it could work. Unfortunately I cannot be sure as what always seems to happen is that there is a complete lack of will to do this properly. Management hands the implementation over to lower levels and promptly forgets about it. The lower levels think "Well if you can't be bothered neither can I". The result is that the some nerd at the end of the office takes the opportunity to; create a small empire/get out of a line of work he finds boring/get his particular coding style enforced company wide.
Before you know it you don't have your current procedures documented, you have something far more complex, but then you have to follow it to conform. This is then followed by tears and recriminations.
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I woundn't get ratty about spelling when you use 'there' in place of 'their'.
Not so much of the jousting, more a sort of ripping to shreads. Except when he appears to get bored and he cuts them off short. He has put the fun back into politics for me.
However, he let Bill Gates off easily when he interviewed him, which was very dissapointing. It wasn't part of the Newsnight program, so may be Bill's people had everything tied down in advance.
The UK media gave the US media a low grade for journalistic merit. Who knows which is true, but you can read something about the story from this side on the BBC .
We have a different culture when it comes to guns. We do have problems with violent crime, but when people start waving guns they find that we do also have armed police.
A bit vague. Might get something like: He's got a good barber.
They were given the task of converting all the strings in a piece of code to wide characters, because we didn't think this would need too much specification. Amittedly there was a communication problem (they examined every file manually when they should have been using grep), but when they did change code it often would not even compile afterwards, it would contain memory leaks, or would segment. It took up a lot of our time sorting it out. It also took them so long that they did not finish the job before their contract expired (this was supposed to just be the first job of many).
We heard from programmers at the other company the same sort of thing was happening there. So imaging our suprise when both companies declared the out sourcing projects to be a great success.
Our director who was responsible for taking them on quickly moved on to bigger and better pastures new, but the company still recommends the Indian company involved. I was watching News Night on the BBC this week and this Indian company came up as one of the great success stories in out-sourcing, infact they were highly recommended.
You would be doing well to insert code to be executed using a buffer overflow. Buffer overflows generally just corrupt the stack (other variables and the return addresses from function calls). The net effect is to crash the program. It is what the OS does when the login program crashes that can cause a hole.
Many years ago a friend of mine who had dropped out of university, got himself onto a basic computing course and then went looking for a job. He wrote to hundreads of places but no one would even give him an interview. Eventually he cracked up and wrote to a bank and said something like " ... and of course I am prepared to work all day and night for little or no money". They gave him an interview and eventually offered him a job. During the interview he was told that they just wanted to see what sort of fruit cake would write this.
Fortune cookie is nice and simple. You can use a DB (no joins though). You can do it on the command line and then expand onto a web page. There is even random number generation. The fun part is making up (ripping off) the cookies http://www.rny.com/fun/fortune.cookie.fc gi
Hmm. True, but it can depend on the game. A lot of games don't pull in working with databases or client/server comms.
I have also implemented systems in the typesetting industry. I worked with people that had spent most of their working lives with the hot lead process. It had been a skilled job with a long apprenticeship that commanded good pay, because sometimes people lost their fingers, arms or sometimes their lives to the machinery. For some the change was difficult to come to terms with as they effectively became unskilled workers overnight. But the change came, it was bound to sooner or later.
Musicans and the music industry are going to have to come around the idea that technology is going to change their world just as radically and grasp the opportunity rather than hold back.
So here is what the industry needs to do. Put a sole user licence into the encrypted music files as they are download from offical websites. OK so you are not going to stop someone giving a copy to a friend (you never could), but people get wary of giving away thousands of copies of something that pops up the message "Licenced for the sole private use of Fred Bloggs" every time it is played.
OK. Maybe I'm weird, but I don't mind talking face to face or using e-mail. I even carry a good old-fashioned pager around with me. It just does'nt bother me the same. Maybe other people are the same and hence this trend.
Or maybe it's just that the line quality is so bad.
I'm probably just bitter, but in our case we ended up with a 40 page document on how you should use source control (which the auditors caught us failing to comply with). A 5 point check list would have been more in order.
Before you know it you don't have your current procedures documented, you have something far more complex, but then you have to follow it to conform. This is then followed by tears and recriminations.