I saw a stock analyst state that HP's profit mostly comes from ink refills. He then made the comment that ink has been around since paper and how high tech can that really be.
It would be pretty embareassing for Captain Copyright to be sued for copyright infringement. I think we should have an email campaign to whatever identifiable email address is available pointing out some of these issues.
Yes, UML cannot portray all the information text can, especially when you are specifying business rules. Yet text can be a very confusing way of decribing a class heirarchy or set of states and transitions or relationships in a set of database tables. For this sort of information a diagramming language like UML is very very useful.
I also agree with you about code generation - it is a very minor feature of UML tools. What isn't so minor however is reverse engineering. Taking a legacy project and generating a set of class diagrams can be a powerful way of finding design problems quickly. Showing a spaghetti class diagram makes it pretty easy to convince a room full of developers that what they have wrought is in need of refactoring.
The problem with this is that while thee would be some people that would consent to this these would not be the people you would want as immigrants - you want the skilled, highly educated workers, not the unskilled. The skilled people have alternatives - stay where tey are, go to Europe, etc.
This dumb move would make the US a lot less attractive to exactly the people you want as immigrants.
My cable ISP recently upgraded from 10 Mbps to 15 mMps and is offering a 30 Mbps connection for another $10 per month. When the switchover came there was a period of a week or so where speeds were very inconsistent, but since then I've been relaibly getting 13-15 Mbps on downloads from fast servers. It is really cool to be able to download a CD ISO in 7 minutes is the server is fast enough. I'm not sure if I am going to try the 30 Mbps service though - I sort of think that there would be very few servers that would fill that pipe.
The molasses flood was not an engineering mistake. The basic design of the structure was ok, the disaster is believed to be most likely to been have caused by shoddy contruction techniques and/or overfilling plus pressure buildup due to fermentation of the molasses in the tank.
Surely this must be more than just a language translator. Translation of a high level language to another language prior to compilation has been around for decades. Back in 1970 I wrote a program in DEC Fortran for a PDP-8 - and the steps to turn it into a running program turned it into assembly first, and then finally binary. Other such translators include the first C++ compilers that were really C++ to C translators, and of course for many years now FORTRAN compilers like F2C are really translators.
I think the difference it makes is that the data is partioned to some extent. For example if I were to go out and buy health insurance or an automobile (without taking a loan) there is no particular reason to expect that I'd have to give a social security number. In fact the last time I bought a car I didn't give a social security number. The dealership tried to get me to sign a credit check release, but when I pointed out that there was no reason for this they agreed it wasn't needed. As such it is import to fight extension of the SSN as a proxy for a universal identification number.
I'm not arguing against IDs, just the reasoning people have saying America is freer of them than Europe.
My main experience with Europe has been in France. I think that I can state with a pretty good degree of certainty that the US is freer of that sort of thing than France is.
As far as the need for an ID number prior to the advent of the SS adminitration, well I don't think the process in that period of time was all that wonderful. You used to have to take your tax form and swear an affidavit in front of the collector, at which time he would assign a file number to your return.
As far as per capita tax, I did a search on Google. It really doesn't look like somthing that is widely practiced. I've lived in 4 US states myself and have never run into it.
I agree - a little more money spent on the SS ID process to make it more robust against falsification is what is justifyable. The laws are already on the books, it is simply a matter of making what is there enforceable.
Do you think America is any less of an ID culture?
Yes. For example there are about 100 nations including France and Germany that have national ID cards. In general there seems to be a correlation between the use of common law and the lack of a national ID card. Those countries that don't have such a card always have something equivalent to the US social security card, which is considerably better because it is at least ostensibly a single purpose (tax and social benefit ID). You are going to have to tell me how a tax system is going to work without smoething like an SS number. The problem with the SS card is that the number often gets abused and ties to unrelated things. BTW, the reason a bank needs IDs is that they have to report interest paid above a certain amount as taxable income.
In most areas, your landlord is required to report who lives at his apartements to the township/county.
Really? Do you have documentation of that? I've never heard of such a thing.
You got a little carried away with that bar thing - bars certainly don't track who you are, merely that you are of legal age.
As far as stolen identies, call up your state legislator. Most states are passing or considering credit freeze laws now that prevent issuance of new credit cards if the account owner has a freeze on his credit history. My state has such a law on the books now.
I am sure there are better ways to handle this issue without a national fingerprint / DNA database. Many states are putting money into making drivers licenses harder to falsify without anything like a DNA database.
The seatbelt legislation is to save the insurance companies money.
On what basis can you make such a statement? Surely the insurance companies just pass their costs on to the policy holders. The costs of not wearing seatbelts is much more widespread than just the insurance companies (which is unlikely anyway). It drives up everyone's insurance rates. For children it is surely a case of parental neglect to put them in a car unrestrained. There is also a societal cost associated with carnage on the highways. One of the best functions of the insurance industry is that they work to reduce their loss rates so that they can offer lower rates to their customers. Surely seatbelt legislation is a worthy expression of this.
Mandatory seatbelts is a freedom issue, but what kind of freedom is it? It is a freedom to play Russian roulette with your and your children's lives, and make everyone else on the highway and for that matter in the rest of society pay for it. If it didn't affect anyone else nobody would care if you felt like competing for a Darwin Award whenever you got in a car. But life is more interrelated than all that.
If you have a DSLR and are not using RAW you are wasting 1/2 or more of the capability of your camera. The cost of a CF card is trivial compared to the cost of even one good lens let alone the entire DLSR kit which is likely to run 2000+.
The law is quite murky on the point with cases in some juristictions going one way, and others the opposite way. It is going to take a high level court to resolve the mess.
If Sony really wants to kill the resale market what they need to do is to offer to buy back the games.
AFAIK the guy is full of it and he knows it. The current judicial standard is that prior restraint can only be granted if publication would harm national security. That is a very different standard than "Classified" and the government has to prove that national security would be harmed.
All he is trying to do is intimidate the press. Waste of time, nothing here to see, move along.
A big IDE like Eclipse would not be a great idea, but vi and emacs would also get in the way of teaching the students about the language. I'd suggest something simple like jedit.
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I saw a stock analyst state that HP's profit mostly comes from ink refills. He then made the comment that ink has been around since paper and how high tech can that really be.
An interesting observation.
Capability is exactly the issue. It is ALWAYS how threats are assesed from a military point of view.
The UK has exactly the same issues in regards to DNA accumulation and misuse.
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It would be pretty embareassing for Captain Copyright to be sued for copyright infringement. I think we should have an email campaign to whatever identifiable email address is available pointing out some of these issues.
Yes, UML cannot portray all the information text can, especially when you are specifying business rules. Yet text can be a very confusing way of decribing a class heirarchy or set of states and transitions or relationships in a set of database tables. For this sort of information a diagramming language like UML is very very useful.
I also agree with you about code generation - it is a very minor feature of UML tools. What isn't so minor however is reverse engineering. Taking a legacy project and generating a set of class diagrams can be a powerful way of finding design problems quickly. Showing a spaghetti class diagram makes it pretty easy to convince a room full of developers that what they have wrought is in need of refactoring.
The problem with this is that while thee would be some people that would consent to this these would not be the people you would want as immigrants - you want the skilled, highly educated workers, not the unskilled. The skilled people have alternatives - stay where tey are, go to Europe, etc.
This dumb move would make the US a lot less attractive to exactly the people you want as immigrants.
My cable ISP recently upgraded from 10 Mbps to 15 mMps and is offering a 30 Mbps connection for another $10 per month. When the switchover came there was a period of a week or so where speeds were very inconsistent, but since then I've been relaibly getting 13-15 Mbps on downloads from fast servers. It is really cool to be able to download a CD ISO in 7 minutes is the server is fast enough. I'm not sure if I am going to try the 30 Mbps service though - I sort of think that there would be very few servers that would fill that pipe.
Needless to say I'm very happy with my service.
The molasses flood was not an engineering mistake. The basic design of the structure was ok, the disaster is believed to be most likely to been have caused by shoddy contruction techniques and/or overfilling plus pressure buildup due to fermentation of the molasses in the tank.
Surely this must be more than just a language translator. Translation of a high level language to another language prior to compilation has been around for decades. Back in 1970 I wrote a program in DEC Fortran for a PDP-8 - and the steps to turn it into a running program turned it into assembly first, and then finally binary. Other such translators include the first C++ compilers that were really C++ to C translators, and of course for many years now FORTRAN compilers like F2C are really translators.
If this is all they have, they have nothing.
This sort of informed response is why Slashdot's rating system needs to be revised to support scores of up to +10 informative on a logrithmic scale.
Ultimately you will have many jobs, but one family. It isn't worth it. Nobody ever says "I wish I focussed more on my career" on their deathbed.
I think the difference it makes is that the data is partioned to some extent. For example if I were to go out and buy health insurance or an automobile (without taking a loan) there is no particular reason to expect that I'd have to give a social security number. In fact the last time I bought a car I didn't give a social security number. The dealership tried to get me to sign a credit check release, but when I pointed out that there was no reason for this they agreed it wasn't needed. As such it is import to fight extension of the SSN as a proxy for a universal identification number.
I'm not arguing against IDs, just the reasoning people have saying America is freer of them than Europe.
My main experience with Europe has been in France. I think that I can state with a pretty good degree of certainty that the US is freer of that sort of thing than France is.
As far as the need for an ID number prior to the advent of the SS adminitration, well I don't think the process in that period of time was all that wonderful. You used to have to take your tax form and swear an affidavit in front of the collector, at which time he would assign a file number to your return.
As far as per capita tax, I did a search on Google. It really doesn't look like somthing that is widely practiced. I've lived in 4 US states myself and have never run into it.
I agree - a little more money spent on the SS ID process to make it more robust against falsification is what is justifyable. The laws are already on the books, it is simply a matter of making what is there enforceable.
Do you think America is any less of an ID culture?
Yes. For example there are about 100 nations including France and Germany that have national ID cards. In general there seems to be a correlation between the use of common law and the lack of a national ID card. Those countries that don't have such a card always have something equivalent to the US social security card, which is considerably better because it is at least ostensibly a single purpose (tax and social benefit ID). You are going to have to tell me how a tax system is going to work without smoething like an SS number. The problem with the SS card is that the number often gets abused and ties to unrelated things. BTW, the reason a bank needs IDs is that they have to report interest paid above a certain amount as taxable income.
In most areas, your landlord is required to report who lives at his apartements to the township/county.
Really? Do you have documentation of that? I've never heard of such a thing.
You got a little carried away with that bar thing - bars certainly don't track who you are, merely that you are of legal age.
As far as stolen identies, call up your state legislator. Most states are passing or considering credit freeze laws now that prevent issuance of new credit cards if the account owner has a freeze on his credit history. My state has such a law on the books now.
I am sure there are better ways to handle this issue without a national fingerprint / DNA database. Many states are putting money into making drivers licenses harder to falsify without anything like a DNA database.
The seatbelt legislation is to save the insurance companies money.
On what basis can you make such a statement? Surely the insurance companies just pass their costs on to the policy holders. The costs of not wearing seatbelts is much more widespread than just the insurance companies (which is unlikely anyway). It drives up everyone's insurance rates. For children it is surely a case of parental neglect to put them in a car unrestrained. There is also a societal cost associated with carnage on the highways. One of the best functions of the insurance industry is that they work to reduce their loss rates so that they can offer lower rates to their customers. Surely seatbelt legislation is a worthy expression of this.
Mandatory seatbelts is a freedom issue, but what kind of freedom is it? It is a freedom to play Russian roulette with your and your children's lives, and make everyone else on the highway and for that matter in the rest of society pay for it. If it didn't affect anyone else nobody would care if you felt like competing for a Darwin Award whenever you got in a car. But life is more interrelated than all that.
Seems to me like the difference between RAW and JPEG is more like a giant leap.
If you have a DSLR and are not using RAW you are wasting 1/2 or more of the capability of your camera. The cost of a CF card is trivial compared to the cost of even one good lens let alone the entire DLSR kit which is likely to run 2000+.
The law is quite murky on the point with cases in some juristictions going one way, and others the opposite way. It is going to take a high level court to resolve the mess.
If Sony really wants to kill the resale market what they need to do is to offer to buy back the games.
Lenovo hasn't issued Vista drivers for their spy chipset yet.
AFAIK the guy is full of it and he knows it. The current judicial standard is that prior restraint can only be granted if publication would harm national security. That is a very different standard than "Classified" and the government has to prove that national security would be harmed.
All he is trying to do is intimidate the press. Waste of time, nothing here to see, move along.
I think the UI in Eclipse isn't that great for a beginner. There are a lot of views etc that can be a PITA to figure out.
From my experience it went from being wrong 90% of the time to 50% of the time, and it resulted in more predictable results.
The negative was that it expanded the amount of material considered patentable, especially business processes.
DLP uses a weird technigue called wobulation to get 1920x1080. Plus you may have been looking at a non-1920x1080 signal source.
Personally I don't like DLP - the color wheel effects give me headaches. I would never recommend DLP because of the color wheel.
My personal favorite is SXRD...
A big IDE like Eclipse would not be a great idea, but vi and emacs would also get in the way of teaching the students about the language. I'd suggest something simple like jedit.