a permissions-based filesystem is Linux's saving grace... if Microsoft implemented the same in Win8, their woes would be over (well, at least as far as viruses etc goes)
Experimental category allows you to fly an aircraft that isn't certified in any other category (such as "normal category"). Every aircraft has to go through the experimental stage regardless of its safety. Extensive flight testing is required during the certification process. In Australia, the experimental certificate conditions can be found here: http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_assets/main/rules/1998casr/021/021c10.pdf
However, getting an experimental certificate is usually the last step in a long process of getting the aircraft ready. Even making relatively small modifications can require an experimental certificate for an already certified aircraft type. There are a lot of restrictions imposed and a lot of supporting documentation required. I have written a fair few flight test schedules for modifications to a type certified aircraft as a requirement for experimental certificates. These reports detail the testing involved, the flight profile (limited by experimental certificate conditions such as within 25nm from an aerodrome, but in some cases can be more strict), risk analysis, etc. These documents must be approved by an airworthiness authority approved person (AP) or delegate.
I'm no longer working in the field (got sick of the politics), but I'm a former (but still qualified) aerospace engineer with experience in normal category aircraft certification.
For parachuting, the smaller, slower planes are better. Even the Sheikh of UAE has a parachuting plane (GippsAero Airvan) that cost him less than a million Aussie dollars (small change for him no doubt). I’ve seen a photo of it parked in a huge hangar amongst a bunch of jet helos.
so they strung a few playstations together... PSN is really just a huge botnet that Sony uses to crack encryption of all sorts. How do you think they're going to sue (save) people that use SSH or VPN from illegally downloading pirated copies of "Not Another Teen Movie"?
merely comparatively speaking, i would trust a report ranking canadian internet performance from the OECD on face value more so than i would trust a similar report funded by a canadian telco on face value.
the factual accuracy (or lack thereof) of either is irrelevant in making such a decision (in this case bias trumps).
in aus i pay $80 for home line + 50 Gb ADSL2+/month
i get about 8 mbps consistent download on speedtest.net which is good enough for my needs, but it will be interesting to see how this all changes when (if) the NBN (fibre to the premises) gets implemented in my area. no doubt performance will increase (probably not incredibly though) but cost will also increase.
i do the same thing. i just avoid VB wherever possible. all other languages i use call it something else, though php has print_r. i've been a bit spoiled having delphi (object pascal is probably the most strict and typecast language i've used, which makes debugging much easier)
its just terminology, but using accepted jargon will get your message across easier. it doesn't have to change how you go about security. i use some security by obscurity measures, but only on top of authentication and hardening. its easy to spend a lot of effort on security and still get hacked, so most people rely on "best practices" to come up with a practical security solution that will cover the typical threats but won't be prohibitively expensive (no point in making a really secure product that nobody can afford). the other advantages of especially written best practices (such as ISO standards) is that they give you a legal leg to stand on if and when you do get hacked, whereas any novel solution that you might come up with will have to be defended in court.
The company developed a somehow niche application and published it under an open license (GPLv2). Each time the company gets a contract to develop new functionality for the product it goes open source to the main product, which in turn makes it more attractive to new customers. Rinse and repeat. Add to that 24x7 managed services and support for the product and there you have a business plan.
you forgot the bit about how you actually make money from that, given that your "customers" are free to seek extensions from elsewhere after pillaging your freely available "main product" source code. seems like a pretty risky business model (particularly if you have greedy shareholders to look after), but I don't work for a FOSS "company", so ok.
other FOSS companies (MySQL AB, Red Hat Inc, Canonical, etc) sell support contracts, which may include development of extensions, but their "main product" is released for free (as it must under GPL terms).
on its technical side is about *guaranteeing* enough quality and serviceability despite the speed: it is the realm of unit testing, of continuous delivery and of standards adherence.
no, its about focusing on incremental results and allowing for changing requirements. perhaps you've never tried it (since you don't seem to have much regard for it)
main one being what the "correct result" is to start with
clients rarely know exactly what they want at the start of a project (they'll give you a highly subjective and obscure top level goal written in management-speak because that was who it had to convince in the first place to get a budget for it, and then "you're the engineer so you go figure it out" is usually what follows). what client talks about results in terms of maintainability or scalability? they are usually interpreted as requirements by the engineer from the various meetings with the client that never actually feature those words.
any engineering is not about if it produces the correct result but how likely is in advance that the correct results *will* be produced
i can tell you as a professional mechanical/structural engineer that if you're not sure that you'll produce the correct results in advance, you shouldn't be an engineer in the first place. as someone who also develops engineering software, if you only focus on the final result from the beginning, you will never finish your project because the final result always evolves, especially if you want to stay in business (its called shifting the goal posts, and managers in every organization are exceedingly good at it). if you spend a lot of money developing something that achieves a specific objective, when the client says they want to change something, your contract will lose some of its appeal because it will cost them more to change than a contract that provides flexibility via extreme programming
I very much doubt that any organization would be allowed to review Windows kernel source code (regardless of budget), but we might just have to agree to disagree there.
gimp has "Script-Fu" for macros (if you can't find or write your own plugin). experts who require a specific functionality would probably prefer a plugin to macros anyway (you can do macros by recording in MS Office apps too, but who actually uses it for anything expect getting the VBA code for the specific function they really want?). recording macros is about as noob as it gets.
when you design software that be easily picked up by noobs, it generally becomes a hindrance to experts (ribbons are a perfect example). gimp was designed for experts.
while probably not the be all and end all, there is a lot of stuff in a simple google search for "gimp adjustment layers"
what you're likely to find (when comparing any software) is that terminology may be different, and in FOSS sometimes ease-of-use for newbies isn't a criteria for developers (though an expert with gimp is likely more efficient than an expert with photoshop)
there is usually ways to achieve what you want with gimp though, you just have to be a bit smarter than most photoshop users
there are also a lot of gimp plugins that can help
i think that's why we have movie rentals, although they aren't cheap either i must admit (better than cluttering my living room with movies i'll never watch again though)
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so the entire story could be a typical fabricated /. pos
a permissions-based filesystem is Linux's saving grace... if Microsoft implemented the same in Win8, their woes would be over (well, at least as far as viruses etc goes)
china doesn't use silos... they use bunkers to store and trucks to deploy (Russia does the same). mobile target makes them harder to track/disable.
Hah, the largest nuclear stockpile on the planet would like to see them try to collect.
what's Russia got to do with this?
PSN is like SETI@HOME, except that rather than volunteering for a worthy cause, you pay for a corporation to take advantage of you
they probably paid the actors with red cordial for that movie
Experimental category allows you to fly an aircraft that isn't certified in any other category (such as "normal category"). Every aircraft has to go through the experimental stage regardless of its safety. Extensive flight testing is required during the certification process. In Australia, the experimental certificate conditions can be found here: http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_assets/main/rules/1998casr/021/021c10.pdf
However, getting an experimental certificate is usually the last step in a long process of getting the aircraft ready. Even making relatively small modifications can require an experimental certificate for an already certified aircraft type. There are a lot of restrictions imposed and a lot of supporting documentation required. I have written a fair few flight test schedules for modifications to a type certified aircraft as a requirement for experimental certificates. These reports detail the testing involved, the flight profile (limited by experimental certificate conditions such as within 25nm from an aerodrome, but in some cases can be more strict), risk analysis, etc. These documents must be approved by an airworthiness authority approved person (AP) or delegate.
I'm no longer working in the field (got sick of the politics), but I'm a former (but still qualified) aerospace engineer with experience in normal category aircraft certification.
For parachuting, the smaller, slower planes are better. Even the Sheikh of UAE has a parachuting plane (GippsAero Airvan) that cost him less than a million Aussie dollars (small change for him no doubt). I’ve seen a photo of it parked in a huge hangar amongst a bunch of jet helos.
so they strung a few playstations together... PSN is really just a huge botnet that Sony uses to crack encryption of all sorts. How do you think they're going to sue (save) people that use SSH or VPN from illegally downloading pirated copies of "Not Another Teen Movie"?
merely comparatively speaking, i would trust a report ranking canadian internet performance from the OECD on face value more so than i would trust a similar report funded by a canadian telco on face value.
the factual accuracy (or lack thereof) of either is irrelevant in making such a decision (in this case bias trumps).
let me guess... you are borg?
in aus i pay $80 for home line + 50 Gb ADSL2+ /month
i get about 8 mbps consistent download on speedtest.net which is good enough for my needs, but it will be interesting to see how this all changes when (if) the NBN (fibre to the premises) gets implemented in my area. no doubt performance will increase (probably not incredibly though) but cost will also increase.
canada does so have an internet... wtf do you think the internet is? you don't think they have tubes in canada?
i do the same thing. i just avoid VB wherever possible. all other languages i use call it something else, though php has print_r. i've been a bit spoiled having delphi (object pascal is probably the most strict and typecast language i've used, which makes debugging much easier)
Good one :)
I'm a bit lazy, though I have intercepted some bots (using PHP's $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) and served them up cute messages before.
its just terminology, but using accepted jargon will get your message across easier. it doesn't have to change how you go about security. i use some security by obscurity measures, but only on top of authentication and hardening. its easy to spend a lot of effort on security and still get hacked, so most people rely on "best practices" to come up with a practical security solution that will cover the typical threats but won't be prohibitively expensive (no point in making a really secure product that nobody can afford). the other advantages of especially written best practices (such as ISO standards) is that they give you a legal leg to stand on if and when you do get hacked, whereas any novel solution that you might come up with will have to be defended in court.
The company developed a somehow niche application and published it under an open license (GPLv2). Each time the company gets a contract to develop new functionality for the product it goes open source to the main product, which in turn makes it more attractive to new customers. Rinse and repeat. Add to that 24x7 managed services and support for the product and there you have a business plan.
you forgot the bit about how you actually make money from that, given that your "customers" are free to seek extensions from elsewhere after pillaging your freely available "main product" source code. seems like a pretty risky business model (particularly if you have greedy shareholders to look after), but I don't work for a FOSS "company", so ok.
other FOSS companies (MySQL AB, Red Hat Inc, Canonical, etc) sell support contracts, which may include development of extensions, but their "main product" is released for free (as it must under GPL terms).
on its technical side is about *guaranteeing* enough quality and serviceability despite the speed: it is the realm of unit testing, of continuous delivery and of standards adherence.
no, its about focusing on incremental results and allowing for changing requirements. perhaps you've never tried it (since you don't seem to have much regard for it)
main one being what the "correct result" is to start with
clients rarely know exactly what they want at the start of a project (they'll give you a highly subjective and obscure top level goal written in management-speak because that was who it had to convince in the first place to get a budget for it, and then "you're the engineer so you go figure it out" is usually what follows). what client talks about results in terms of maintainability or scalability? they are usually interpreted as requirements by the engineer from the various meetings with the client that never actually feature those words.
any engineering is not about if it produces the correct result but how likely is in advance that the correct results *will* be produced
i can tell you as a professional mechanical/structural engineer that if you're not sure that you'll produce the correct results in advance, you shouldn't be an engineer in the first place. as someone who also develops engineering software, if you only focus on the final result from the beginning, you will never finish your project because the final result always evolves, especially if you want to stay in business (its called shifting the goal posts, and managers in every organization are exceedingly good at it). if you spend a lot of money developing something that achieves a specific objective, when the client says they want to change something, your contract will lose some of its appeal because it will cost them more to change than a contract that provides flexibility via extreme programming
I very much doubt that any organization would be allowed to review Windows kernel source code (regardless of budget), but we might just have to agree to disagree there.
gimp has "Script-Fu" for macros (if you can't find or write your own plugin). experts who require a specific functionality would probably prefer a plugin to macros anyway (you can do macros by recording in MS Office apps too, but who actually uses it for anything expect getting the VBA code for the specific function they really want?). recording macros is about as noob as it gets.
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-scripting.html
when you design software that be easily picked up by noobs, it generally becomes a hindrance to experts (ribbons are a perfect example). gimp was designed for experts.
nah tried that one, although not with winetricks
i'll prolly just put it on my wife's (windows) pyewta and she'll play it... i reckon that was her intent in the first place.
smartphone.... pfft.
try angry birds on a 46" LED with surround sound and a thundering sub
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/thread1259.htm
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/gimptutorials/tp/fake-adjustment-layers.htm
etc...
while probably not the be all and end all, there is a lot of stuff in a simple google search for "gimp adjustment layers"
what you're likely to find (when comparing any software) is that terminology may be different, and in FOSS sometimes ease-of-use for newbies isn't a criteria for developers (though an expert with gimp is likely more efficient than an expert with photoshop)
there is usually ways to achieve what you want with gimp though, you just have to be a bit smarter than most photoshop users
there are also a lot of gimp plugins that can help
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIMP
i think that's why we have movie rentals, although they aren't cheap either i must admit (better than cluttering my living room with movies i'll never watch again though)