They can be much smaller or larger than a bathtub, as the article says.
Damnit, and I was just to mail them and ask if they could build one *exactly* the size of my bathtub. Guess I'll have to stay with coal power for another 100 years...
I had an amazing day there a few years back - one of the most amazing things was that many of the volunteers were connected to Bletchley Park originally and you could talk to them to get their stories first hand. There are very few opportunities for such things these days and well worth taking the opportunity to meet them (and have a nice cup of tea!)
As with pretty much every other employment around the world, Bush should expect his work related email (i.e. White House) to be monitored and archived by his employers and as such shouldn't have expectations of privacy. If he want's to write personal emails to his daughters that he'd rather not be read by his employers he should have personal email as everyone else does, no?
So you've stored your documents on an encrypted partition. What happens to all the "~wrdxxxx.tmp" temp files then? Generally they're in your user or windows's temp directories and probably have all sorts of recoverable juicy info. I'm not convinced that anything other than full disk encryption (pref in hardware) is really worth the effort...
you have to sign EACH of your binaries EVERY time a modification is made. That's incentive for developers to NOT release patches.
Not really - it's a model for people that have decent coding standards and rigorous testing strategies who don't release itsy bitsy patches every couple of days. That's not to say that I don't appreciate fast moving code-on-the-fly type projects as they can produce amazing software, but it's a different way of thinking, and for commercial software it's the only way that is practicable.
Why send them to some poor random failies house? I'm sure you've got enough ***hole pro "police state" hardline politicians who could benefit from a first hand experience of what they're legislating onto the rest of the population to gain some perspective.
Is 30 middle aged nowadays? Personally, I'm planning on living a full life well past my 80's. I guess you must be expecting to bow out sooner? Or maybe even sooner than you think if you keep on calling 30 year old women middle aged anywhere near them...!
In the practical world we live in this is great for identifying the ****. However in the legal world his lawyers live in surely all they have to do is claim that the prosecution is relying on a doctored digital image as the sole evidence...?
I remember a little ditty I heard once that seems appropriate, which I think from memory goes like :
My friend he died on the road today
He died defending his right of way
He was right, dead right as he sped along
But now he's still just as dead as if he were wrong
It's a thin line between living easily and living by principles and it's also a pretty blurry line. I wish the chap every success however - just hope that he doesn't end up metaphorically matyring himself...
As a brit who shops in the states every so often, I wonder how this would have played out if it was myself in the same situation - given that I obviously don't have the same rights as a US citizen (I can picture the office giving me the speech about us having no rights in the states since the war of independence (-;... ) I think I'd have just had to pucker up, bend over and go for the safer option...
I'm sorry but the very concept of region coding bothers me so much that, until I see clear evidence that the same thing is going to be implemented with HD-DVD some day, HD-DVD easily wins over BluRay. Higher capacity be damned. I'll take at least some level of consumer-oriented freedom over that any day, thanks.
Funnily enough, I thought the same but more along the lines of PAL DVD's are great quality and I bought my (now multi-region) player for £15 so why should I give a rats hoot about either HDDVD or BR? Plus I get to watch a great library of DVD's that I already bought for free!
A note to our American cousins : This was never the case when you were under British rule. If you ever get fed up of this litigous madness you're always welcome to re-join us and become part of United Kingdom of Great Britain;-)
If Engineers are legally liable for their work that can put people at risk, perhaps Programmers should be legally liable for their work that can put people at risk.
Reality check : Most programmers are under commercial pressures from managers and customers. For example, as a programmer I can reccommend using Misra-C and a very thorough testing regime for a project but that doesn't mean the customer is willing to pay for it.
This has always been a real bugbear of mine and I suspect always will be. Given that this is the real world scenario, why should I be held to account for deficiencies that I'm not allowed to address due to commercial issues?
I do agree, *but* its also an indication of the direction the language is currently taking. Given that languages change and words get added to to the dictionary based on popular usage. Whether it's fruitful or valid doesn't alter the fact it's becoming common parlance - the force of weight of many individual destructions of the language eventually ends up as a sea change on a national scale over the long term. Yes this boils down to poor English skill but that's how things change. Just look at recent additions to the OED or the proliferation of txt spk....
Whatever they do on their web site is a non-issue, although I'm a bit annoyed that I have to use a UK based proxy server to access some of the program guides.
The oldest UK TV guide (AFAIK) is the Radio Times. This is online at http://www.radiotimes.co.uk/ if you want to know whats on and when!
Blimey, that's an odd argument to make - language DOES evolve. We're not speaking the same English we were in 1907. In 1907 they were speaking a different English from those in 1807. If as you say you should always speak which version of English are you taking as the definitive one? Besides that, how is "English" English more valid than "US English" or "Australian English"?
If you're interested, I can reccommend reading "The Adventure of English 500 AD - 2000" as a fascinating read with a good history on the topic of the evolution of our language.
For the record, as a well brought up UK resident I read and write "The Queens" English and naturally don't particularly like Americanisms - especially their dropping of an entire syllable from the word "Aluminium", but that doesn't mean that particular adaptation of the language is invalid.
~Pev
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To go from where I live to London by train is about an hour and a halfs journey and costs about 50 quid return (around 100 USD). In contrast, when I visit Spain I can travel to my friends apartment by train which is again about an hour and a halfs journey for around 12 EU. It's borderline criminal IMHO.
I think there's a critical observation to note - these days there's a clear separation between "American English" and "English English". In American English it's a kind of lazier language with many more complicated rules dropped and things shortened or slackened. That doesn't necessarily make it wrong, just a different parallel evolution. I wouldn't be surprised if they completely dropped the apostrophe completely one day as it would be easier. At the end of the day, people know what you mean with or without it so why use it in the first place?
Still that still doesn't excuse American flight attendants use of the word "de-plane". Really, who thought of such a ridiculous and superfluous word?!
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No one who is poor in London can afford a car anyway
I use a car in London but I'm not not very well off... How could this be...?! Actually, I choose not to live in London itself - as do a large number of car users in the capital for whom it's not a practical option to use public transport due to insane cost and time required being even greater than private car ownership.
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Damnit, and I was just to mail them and ask if they could build one *exactly* the size of my bathtub. Guess I'll have to stay with coal power for another 100 years...
Knowing our government it's probably an autoexec script that ejects the CD if you don't have the password so you "can't access the files".
~Pev
Eh? The English have been using the metric system for a very long time now - do you mean Imperial to Metric conversion?
~Pev
I guess you're not old enough to remember a time before the internet when computers were use for meaningful things then?
~Pev
I had an amazing day there a few years back - one of the most amazing things was that many of the volunteers were connected to Bletchley Park originally and you could talk to them to get their stories first hand. There are very few opportunities for such things these days and well worth taking the opportunity to meet them (and have a nice cup of tea!)
As with pretty much every other employment around the world, Bush should expect his work related email (i.e. White House) to be monitored and archived by his employers and as such shouldn't have expectations of privacy. If he want's to write personal emails to his daughters that he'd rather not be read by his employers he should have personal email as everyone else does, no?
~Pev
So you've stored your documents on an encrypted partition. What happens to all the "~wrdxxxx.tmp" temp files then? Generally they're in your user or windows's temp directories and probably have all sorts of recoverable juicy info. I'm not convinced that anything other than full disk encryption (pref in hardware) is really worth the effort...
~Pev
Not really - it's a model for people that have decent coding standards and rigorous testing strategies who don't release itsy bitsy patches every couple of days. That's not to say that I don't appreciate fast moving code-on-the-fly type projects as they can produce amazing software, but it's a different way of thinking, and for commercial software it's the only way that is practicable.
~Pev
g/failies/families/
Why send them to some poor random failies house? I'm sure you've got enough ***hole pro "police state" hardline politicians who could benefit from a first hand experience of what they're legislating onto the rest of the population to gain some perspective.
~Pev
Is 30 middle aged nowadays? Personally, I'm planning on living a full life well past my 80's. I guess you must be expecting to bow out sooner? Or maybe even sooner than you think if you keep on calling 30 year old women middle aged anywhere near them...!
~Pev
In the practical world we live in this is great for identifying the ****. However in the legal world his lawyers live in surely all they have to do is claim that the prosecution is relying on a doctored digital image as the sole evidence...?
~Pev
Um... Don't you do code reviews before code becomes mainstream or gets released?
I remember a little ditty I heard once that seems appropriate, which I think from memory goes like :
My friend he died on the road today
He died defending his right of way
He was right, dead right as he sped along
But now he's still just as dead as if he were wrong
It's a thin line between living easily and living by principles and it's also a pretty blurry line. I wish the chap every success however - just hope that he doesn't end up metaphorically matyring himself...
As a brit who shops in the states every so often, I wonder how this would have played out if it was myself in the same situation - given that I obviously don't have the same rights as a US citizen (I can picture the office giving me the speech about us having no rights in the states since the war of independence (-;... ) I think I'd have just had to pucker up, bend over and go for the safer option...
~Pev
Funnily enough, I thought the same but more along the lines of PAL DVD's are great quality and I bought my (now multi-region) player for £15 so why should I give a rats hoot about either HDDVD or BR? Plus I get to watch a great library of DVD's that I already bought for free!
~Pev
Hey, if you do send me an email - the first beer's on me!
~Pev
A note to our American cousins : This was never the case when you were under British rule. If you ever get fed up of this litigous madness you're always welcome to re-join us and become part of United Kingdom of Great Britain
~Pev
Try saying that again, a little bit louder when you're being wheeled into a hospital in need of urgent medical care...
~Pev
Reality check : Most programmers are under commercial pressures from managers and customers. For example, as a programmer I can reccommend using Misra-C and a very thorough testing regime for a project but that doesn't mean the customer is willing to pay for it.
This has always been a real bugbear of mine and I suspect always will be. Given that this is the real world scenario, why should I be held to account for deficiencies that I'm not allowed to address due to commercial issues?
~Pev
I do agree, *but* its also an indication of the direction the language is currently taking. Given that languages change and words get added to to the dictionary based on popular usage. Whether it's fruitful or valid doesn't alter the fact it's becoming common parlance - the force of weight of many individual destructions of the language eventually ends up as a sea change on a national scale over the long term. Yes this boils down to poor English skill but that's how things change. Just look at recent additions to the OED or the proliferation of txt spk....
~Pev
The oldest UK TV guide (AFAIK) is the Radio Times. This is online at http://www.radiotimes.co.uk/ if you want to know whats on and when!
~Pev
Blimey, that's an odd argument to make - language DOES evolve. We're not speaking the same English we were in 1907. In 1907 they were speaking a different English from those in 1807. If as you say you should always speak which version of English are you taking as the definitive one? Besides that, how is "English" English more valid than "US English" or "Australian English"?
If you're interested, I can reccommend reading "The Adventure of English 500 AD - 2000" as a fascinating read with a good history on the topic of the evolution of our language.
For the record, as a well brought up UK resident I read and write "The Queens" English and naturally don't particularly like Americanisms - especially their dropping of an entire syllable from the word "Aluminium", but that doesn't mean that particular adaptation of the language is invalid.
~Pev
To go from where I live to London by train is about an hour and a halfs journey and costs about 50 quid return (around 100 USD). In contrast, when I visit Spain I can travel to my friends apartment by train which is again about an hour and a halfs journey for around 12 EU. It's borderline criminal IMHO.
~Pev
I think there's a critical observation to note - these days there's a clear separation between "American English" and "English English". In American English it's a kind of lazier language with many more complicated rules dropped and things shortened or slackened. That doesn't necessarily make it wrong, just a different parallel evolution. I wouldn't be surprised if they completely dropped the apostrophe completely one day as it would be easier. At the end of the day, people know what you mean with or without it so why use it in the first place?
Still that still doesn't excuse American flight attendants use of the word "de-plane". Really, who thought of such a ridiculous and superfluous word?!
~Pev
I use a car in London but I'm not not very well off... How could this be...?! Actually, I choose not to live in London itself - as do a large number of car users in the capital for whom it's not a practical option to use public transport due to insane cost and time required being even greater than private car ownership.
~Pev