Just read the guy's entry on wikipedia, seemed to ask sensible questions and got sensible answers (from a politician of all people!). So what's the big deal? What did this guy do that the man wants to come down on him for...
Steve Balmer has his chairs.... so google go and buy a fighter jet - wonder what good ol' Steve's going to get next? Stinger missiles hidden as a sofa?
Thinking about it calmly for a minute, a software with a version number of 9.x could mean one of two things: Each major increment has introduced some major new feature and so is a sign of a rapidly growing product which the developers care about... OR that the other 8 versions had so many bugs the thing is about a stable as the economy.
Version numbers are a double edged sword, be careful how you get cut by it.
CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF
Given CBRNE is usually Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Event then this looks more like a brigade setup to help civil authorities in the event of an incident which they are unable to cope with - most civil police departments lack the equipment (as do EMS) to deal with these events I'm not sure what the problem is..
Excellent. Please implement at once. While you're at it persuade the media and public at large to accept that 'the web' != 'the internet' ('the web' 'the internet')
Amen to that... pity you don't work in a position to influence handset manufacturers:
I want a phone which is primarily a phone first and foremost. I don't care how many pixels the camera has, if I want to get a good photo I'll use either my point and shoot or my DSLR, if I want to browse the internet I'll use my N800 or my pda.
If only handset manufacturers would remember the most important ability for a phone is the ease of making calls alot of people would have an easier time.
Yep, I'm sure there is some form of inverse square law which can be applied to a group of people: The more intelligent the group is on an individual basis as a collective whole the group rates about the same as something yet evolve out of the primordial soup...
"On a side note, the dell inspiron mini 9 finally makes no-moving-parts a reality in a mainstream laptop!...I value that more than an increase in battery life--not to say that increased battery life isn't awesome, but we all know that no moving parts is teh hawt, holy grail."
One small snag. It has moving parts... the screen opens and closes, so there is a hinge involved somewhere - possibly even a catch to stop the screen from opening accidenatlly, the keys are movable (I hope - none tactile keyboards suck).
And being factious you could argue the electrons are moving as well;)
Uhhh... one problem - they're not actually doing any collisions yet - so plenty of time for a blackhole to form and swallow us all (or for the blackhole to consume more funding;) )
What hacks me off the most is that where I work (defence contractor) we have to have baseline encryption on our entire laptop drives and a second encrypted area for the more sensitive stuff. USB drives have to be encrypted as well, and PDA type (so ipod's phones etc) devices can't connect unless you are in the priviledged few who need to share data with external agencies or with our test systems.
(My personal laptop (the one I'm typing this on) I've got my own encrypted linux filesystem on, only the windows bit isn't encrypted and bar photoediting its not used much)
Why if we have to jump through various hoops or lose our supplier status can't the UK government departments and contractors working directly on their behalf do the same? (And ditto for banks.)
Everyone involved with handling personal data needs to look into data minimization and data protection (integrity, access control, non-repudation, auditing, the whole shooting match), and any company found not doing so should be banned from handling personal data ever again. Government departments are harder to control (after all the MPs won't vote in a law which would neuter the IRS;) ) - so make the law such that the minister and the civil servant in charge of the affected department face a 1 month jail sentance for every 100 records lost, loss of pension rights, barred from being company directors etc...
I was going to mod this up but can't decide if its funny, informative or what...
Regardless it doesn't reflect well on the OOXML spec - wonder how many of those pages could be culled by a good editing session and removing all the redundant repeated information?
Actually in the current case in the media today... it has been lost in the proper sense.
The USB stick containing details of all the current UK prison population has been lost (or if I am generous misplaced) by the contractor who had the data for analysis.
So yes the original data is intact but this copy of the data has been lost.
Slashdot Mirror
Add in the odd blackhole or other odd event and it will look Eureka as well as sounding like it ;)
What do Acorn have to do with this? The BBC-B was a lovely computer, the electron wasn't too poor either :)
Just read the guy's entry on wikipedia, seemed to ask sensible questions and got sensible answers (from a politician of all people!). So what's the big deal? What did this guy do that the man wants to come down on him for...
Steve Balmer has his chairs.... so google go and buy a fighter jet - wonder what good ol' Steve's going to get next? Stinger missiles hidden as a sofa?
Thinking about it calmly for a minute, a software with a version number of 9.x could mean one of two things: Each major increment has introduced some major new feature and so is a sign of a rapidly growing product which the developers care about... OR that the other 8 versions had so many bugs the thing is about a stable as the economy.
Version numbers are a double edged sword, be careful how you get cut by it.
Have the product version number as what ever marketing want.
Have the build version number as what ever engineering want.
Use your CM system so your internal revisions use your numbering scheme with the marketing scheme being applied as a tag to the relevant files...
other than you forgot Windows 1 and 2..
Using your list
So depending on how you count ME/2000/2003/WfW that's either the 9th Windows release or about the 12th..
I just noticed that the subset symbol is missing from my ('the web' {sub set of} 'the internet').
Anyone have a subset code which works? 8834; or sub; (& removed to stop /. parsing them) don't.
Given CBRNE is usually Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Event then this looks more like a brigade setup to help civil authorities in the event of an incident which they are unable to cope with - most civil police departments lack the equipment (as do EMS) to deal with these events I'm not sure what the problem is..
For $DEITY sake stop tagging stories with story tag or the gets it!
To tag a story with story once is misfortune, to tag a story with story twice is annoying, to do it three its enemy action!
Would end Web 2.0????
Excellent. Please implement at once. While you're at it persuade the media and public at large to accept that 'the web' != 'the internet' ('the web' 'the internet')
Does anything make RMS happy? So far not seen much signs of any happiness in the man.
Good god, I know I nodded off at my keyboard but for 2 whole years, new record for sleeping on the job...
Until the 13 yr old boy asks why does he need a breast enlargement and the 13 yr old girl asks why does she need a... well you get the picture ;)
Amen to that... pity you don't work in a position to influence handset manufacturers:
I want a phone which is primarily a phone first and foremost. I don't care how many pixels the camera has, if I want to get a good photo I'll use either my point and shoot or my DSLR, if I want to browse the internet I'll use my N800 or my pda.
If only handset manufacturers would remember the most important ability for a phone is the ease of making calls alot of people would have an easier time.
Yep, I'm sure there is some form of inverse square law which can be applied to a group of people: The more intelligent the group is on an individual basis as a collective whole the group rates about the same as something yet evolve out of the primordial soup...
Err???
255.255.255.0 doesn't give 256 host addresses ;)
One for broadcast, one for network so 254 is the number you looking for...
One small snag. It has moving parts... the screen opens and closes, so there is a hinge involved somewhere - possibly even a catch to stop the screen from opening accidenatlly, the keys are movable (I hope - none tactile keyboards suck).
And being factious you could argue the electrons are moving as well ;)
Uhhh... one problem - they're not actually doing any collisions yet - so plenty of time for a blackhole to form and swallow us all (or for the blackhole to consume more funding ;) )
My default background for my desktop is a black screen...
So this would affect me how?
(And how will they do this to my X desktop ;> )
What hacks me off the most is that where I work (defence contractor) we have to have baseline encryption on our entire laptop drives and a second encrypted area for the more sensitive stuff. USB drives have to be encrypted as well, and PDA type (so ipod's phones etc) devices can't connect unless you are in the priviledged few who need to share data with external agencies or with our test systems.
(My personal laptop (the one I'm typing this on) I've got my own encrypted linux filesystem on, only the windows bit isn't encrypted and bar photoediting its not used much)
Why if we have to jump through various hoops or lose our supplier status can't the UK government departments and contractors working directly on their behalf do the same? (And ditto for banks.)
Everyone involved with handling personal data needs to look into data minimization and data protection (integrity, access control, non-repudation, auditing, the whole shooting match), and any company found not doing so should be banned from handling personal data ever again. Government departments are harder to control (after all the MPs won't vote in a law which would neuter the IRS ;) ) - so make the law such that the minister and the civil servant in charge of the affected department face a 1 month jail sentance for every 100 records lost, loss of pension rights, barred from being company directors etc...
Since when have CNet ever let facts stand in the way of making a story...?
(Actually, belay that - come to think of it when has any media ever let the facts get in the way?)
I was going to mod this up but can't decide if its funny, informative or what...
Regardless it doesn't reflect well on the OOXML spec - wonder how many of those pages could be culled by a good editing session and removing all the redundant repeated information?
If your processor isn't doing anything else why worry?
Actually in the current case in the media today... it has been lost in the proper sense.
The USB stick containing details of all the current UK prison population has been lost (or if I am generous misplaced) by the contractor who had the data for analysis.
So yes the original data is intact but this copy of the data has been lost.