Give developers a personal directory on a shared network drive. Developer repositories/branches stay there(*). Backup shared network drive. Done.
(*) Don't know about any other systems than Bazaar, but I expect they have similar functionality: Bazaar has "checkouts" which enable you to have a local branch (i.e. on C:/Projects/Whatever) while also auto-committing to the "source" (i.e. the shared directory/drive) when you do a local commit.
Have the "trash-instead-of-rm" script md5sum the "deleted" file and rename it to ~/.Trash/.. If you get clashes it's very likely to be an identical file anyway and you avoid the various issues that might crop up if you try to recreate directory structures in ~/.Trash.
This might need a fair bit of cpu on very large files (anything below a few MB is trivial on modern CPUs), but then you probably don't want to keep very large files lying around in ~/.Trash anyway (prevents good block allocation by the file system), so you could just opt to delete those immediately.
... and I'll just mention that Behe(!) testified under oath during the Dover trial that relaxing scientific inquiry such that ID could be admitted would also make astrology admissible as a scientific theory.
Fossils aren't just dated with carbon dating. Fossils are dated with many different, independent methods which all agree to within some known error margin.
If you're actually interested in learning about evolution I suggest you browse through the Talk Origins site. They already have answers for all your questions.
I also do not think of human beings as animals.
Well, that's nice and all, but it's generally not conducive to rational thought to start out with preconceived ideas. Besides, there are senses in which humans are very different from most animals.
(I know it's absurdly late in slashdot terms, but I just felt like posting. So sue me.)
But isn't the main argument that they have FAITH and therefore can believe in a god without needing proof.
In that case they have immediately lost the argument. That's called "begging the question" and it doesn't work in any (rational/logical) argument.
More to the point isn't it ironic that Dawkins is appearing on a show that has been portraying the Doctor as a Messiah figure for the past three series?
Not unless you've drastically misunderstood the meaning of the word "ironic".
Do you know about man who was not made an EU commissioner because he was a Catholic?
That's disingenuous: He was rejected because he stated that he would be compelled to force his religiously based views on others -- it had nothing to do with him being Catholic.
I do think Dawkins does do one thing that is harmful: he attacks theism without understanding it.
This is a fallacy. You positively do not have to be understand very much about Norse mythology to realize that's it's a silly belief system. The same applies to other gods.
their world would be shattered completely if they learned that they were wrong.
"Learned" implies evidence, and if there were any evidence they would simply change their stance to the appropriate form of theism. That's the rational way to go about things. To date there has not been any single piece of credible evidence for the existence of God(s).
Like the other poster said: Please just read The God Delusion, it explains all of this.
That was just the standard trivial example -- it stands to reason that some people have hacked around it since it's such a common practical limitation. There are also other examples, say, anything requiring arbitrary amounts of (token) lookahead to resolve ambiguities.
but the difference is miniscule compared to the effect of just eating everso slightly less. If you can control your eating it's very easy to lose weight with the Hacker's Diet.
Why in the world would you uproot stable data and put it somewhere you don't trust?
Umm... the block hasn't gone bad yet, and you can check its integrity while you're swapping the blocks. These devices also typically have an area of spare blocks for such emergencies where you actually do enounter a bad block while swapping blocks like this.
By doing what I described you're guaranteeing that the number of total writes to any block will be approximately the same for the whole disk. Hence the term 'wear levelling'.
Wear levelling can only occur when there are free blocks to utilise.
That is incorrect. If the drive notices that a certain block has been written a lot (say a bit of the swap partition) and another block has been written much less (say a bit of/usr/bin/gcc) it can just swap the two blocks in the logical-block#-to-physical-block# mapping and all future writes to that particular part of the swap partition will go to a much less worn block in future. (Yes, the swapping of blocks requires yet another write, but it's one you can afford to do since the subsequent behavior of the system is desirable.)
those who are incompetent, i.e. those who merely think that they're responsible and upstanding, but who in reality aren't. The tragic thing is that the more incompetent you are at something, the more likely you are to be bad at judging your own skills (a pretty famous study was done on this; can't remember the title though -- you might want to try google). That is a recipe for disaster when mistakes can have fatal consequences.
There are various (at least supposedly) independent authorities you can complain to if you've been wrongfully prosecuted. I have no idea what the success rate of such complaints is, but the option is there.
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Give developers a personal directory on a shared network drive. Developer repositories/branches stay there(*). Backup shared network drive. Done.
(*) Don't know about any other systems than Bazaar, but I expect they have similar functionality: Bazaar has "checkouts" which enable you to have a local branch (i.e. on C:/Projects/Whatever) while also auto-committing to the "source" (i.e. the shared directory/drive) when you do a local commit.
Have the "trash-instead-of-rm" script md5sum the "deleted" file and rename it to ~/.Trash/.. If you get clashes it's very likely to be an identical file anyway and you avoid the various issues that might crop up if you try to recreate directory structures in ~/.Trash.
This might need a fair bit of cpu on very large files (anything below a few MB is trivial on modern CPUs), but then you probably don't want to keep very large files lying around in ~/.Trash anyway (prevents good block allocation by the file system), so you could just opt to delete those immediately.
they just like their porn pixelated?
... and I'll just mention that Behe(!) testified under oath during the Dover trial that relaxing scientific inquiry such that ID could be admitted would also make astrology admissible as a scientific theory.
Alas, they can't! You know, the whole "first, do no harm" thing
Fossils aren't just dated with carbon dating. Fossils are dated with many different, independent methods which all agree to within some known error margin.
If you're actually interested in learning about evolution I suggest you browse through the Talk Origins site. They already have answers for all your questions.
Well, that's nice and all, but it's generally not conducive to rational thought to start out with preconceived ideas. Besides, there are senses in which humans are very different from most animals.
In that case they have immediately lost the argument. That's called "begging the question" and it doesn't work in any (rational/logical) argument.
Not unless you've drastically misunderstood the meaning of the word "ironic".
That's disingenuous: He was rejected because he stated that he would be compelled to force his religiously based views on others -- it had nothing to do with him being Catholic.
This is a fallacy. You positively do not have to be understand very much about Norse mythology to realize that's it's a silly belief system. The same applies to other gods.
"Learned" implies evidence, and if there were any evidence they would simply change their stance to the appropriate form of theism. That's the rational way to go about things. To date there has not been any single piece of credible evidence for the existence of God(s).
Like the other poster said: Please just read The God Delusion, it explains all of this.
It's either "X Window System" or just plain "X".
is that cron and ls aren't in the chrooted filesystem. That's why they're (supposedly) more secure than just running the daemons "from" /.
That was just the standard trivial example -- it stands to reason that some people have hacked around it since it's such a common practical limitation. There are also other examples, say, anything requiring arbitrary amounts of (token) lookahead to resolve ambiguities.
Try writing a regex for parsing documents consisting of arbitrarily deeply nested elements. Say, documents of the form
<x><x><x><x>...</x></x></x></x>
See?
This is all just a long-winded way of saying that your point about fail-fast is completely moot.
A cube using the time dimension looks more like this.
Yeah, and just look how well that worked out.
(empahsis mine)
Are there any actual properly controlled studies on this? I'm not being facetious, I'm geniuinely interested.
Let's see:
There. Fixed that for ya.
but the difference is miniscule compared to the effect of just eating everso slightly less. If you can control your eating it's very easy to lose weight with the Hacker's Diet.
Umm... the block hasn't gone bad yet, and you can check its integrity while you're swapping the blocks. These devices also typically have an area of spare blocks for such emergencies where you actually do enounter a bad block while swapping blocks like this.
By doing what I described you're guaranteeing that the number of total writes to any block will be approximately the same for the whole disk. Hence the term 'wear levelling'.
That is incorrect. If the drive notices that a certain block has been written a lot (say a bit of the swap partition) and another block has been written much less (say a bit of
those who are incompetent, i.e. those who merely think that they're responsible and upstanding, but who in reality aren't. The tragic thing is that the more incompetent you are at something, the more likely you are to be bad at judging your own skills (a pretty famous study was done on this; can't remember the title though -- you might want to try google). That is a recipe for disaster when mistakes can have fatal consequences.
a dislike to Hans Reiser...
Jebus, don't you realize? It was the ALIENS, man! The ALIENS!
There are various (at least supposedly) independent authorities you can complain to if you've been wrongfully prosecuted. I have no idea what the success rate of such complaints is, but the option is there.