Indeed. Last year I took three MOOC courses (in the field of mathematics). Two of them I passed with a distinction, but one of them I had to drop halfway through just because I got too busy at work. The one I dropped I don't consider a "failure" because I learned interesting things from it (one of which I had an immediate application for), and I'll take it again when it is re-offered.
We did CMM 3 and we never had anyone come and tell us that. We did all our code reviews after the code was at least unit tested.
While the majority of what the reviews found was coding standard stuff (I suspect it usually is) we did have a lower defect rate on the delivered software than the industry average, and the code reviews had the side benefit that people in the team knew what each other's code did and how it worked, rather than having to try to figure it out when a crash report came in and the original developer had left or was out on vacation in Patagonia. This we found to be pretty valuable.
In the two states I've lived in (North Carolina and Texas) there most certainly was a requirement to show proof of insurance when getting a driving license.
There are quite a good number of good French films. However, the French have an uphill struggle making a movie profitable even if it were the world's best movie, because they are in French.
Hollywood has it easy, the English speaking world that understands US culture is enormous (300M Americans, 30 odd million Canadians, 60 odd million Brits and Irish, several million Australians and Kiwis, plus a huge number of people who can speak English fluently as a second language). The French on the other hand have only 65 million French people as their potential audience and that's it and hardly anyone learns French (yes, British people tend to be forced to learn French at school, but probably under 1% ever actually go on to learn it well enough to enjoy a movie in French, I'd wager the number of British people who can even hold a basic conversation in French is in single digit percentages).
If the French want any French language films at all, they almost have no choice but to subsidise them.
Whut? Land Rovers are the original work truck, usually on farms hauling shit or full of shit. They are about the only 4wd vehicles I see locally being used for work and covered in mud. Most have low/high range and diff locks so they can be used on farms.
Worse than that, they continued using it AS THE DEFAULT for years after security researchers revealed that it was flawed. The flaws and possible backdoor in the RNG was noted back in 2007 but RSA kept it as the default until September this year. So it's either a case that they kept it as the default because of a secret deal with the NSA or because of incompetence. Either way, that makes RSA a company I don't want to deal with.
They put DRBG in BSAFE because it was a NIST standard. However, what they did do that seems suspicious is make it the default, and keep it as the default even though way back in 2007, security researchers said it was slow, flawed and possibly had a backdoor. No one else used it as the default. Why did RSA keep it as the default?
If it wasn't the NSA giving them a bung for keeping it as the default, then the only other answer is incompetence. Incompetence is certainly believable, after all there was that thing with their keyfobs a year or two back. So either way we ought to avoid doing business with RSA - because either they are in cahoots with the NSA and took an under-the-table payment to keep a known bad RNG with a possible backdoor *as the default* for their product, or they are incompetent - and you don't want either of those in something incorporated in your company's security.
But beware, if you do that you might end up typing something stupid or embarrassing.
Consider: "Feliz año nuevo" - it means "Happy new year". The ñ isn't merely an accented character, it's a letter in its own right, and choosing the letter "n" instead seems innocent enough, but "Feliz ano nuevo" means "happy new anus".
I'd love facial recognition. I have a really bad memory for names and faces, and I often end up in the embarrassing situation of meeting someone in the street who knows who I am but I only vaguely recognise their face and certainly don't remember their name. Having a prosthetic "face to name" system would save me from many embarrassing situations.
If they didn't do it for the NSA, why did they make a slow and vulnerable RNG the default? Of course we can apply the principle "Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence". In which case it's immaterial anyway to our company's purchasing decisions on security products: we either avoid RSA because they are in cahoots with the NSA, or the alternative - because they are flat out incompetent (which is entirely believable, given their earlier security breaches).
In which case Bitcoin fails massively as a store of value. For instance, if you try to sell something in bitcoin, the value of the bitcoin you got paid with may have changed by 30% by the time the transaction is confirmed, it is so massively volatile. Bitcoin - at this stage - is suitable only as an instrument of speculation.
A high pressure nozzle would make a hell of a racket. Imagine driving along with the equivalent of three or four Dyson Airblades going at full speed in front of the windscreen. You'd soon be wishing you had ordinary, almost silent winscreen wipers.
It's pretty much useless as a currency though. It's so volatile that by the time a Bitcoin transaction has been confirmed, the value of the bitcoin concerned may have moved by 30%. If it moves the wrong way the merchant may make a loss on the sale.
People drove a car on my route to work perhaps 70 or 80 years ago. But that doesn't mean my Honda Civic is 80 year old tech. While the outcome is the same and the principles are the same, the technology used to make that journey now is quite different.
* Does it involve strenuous physical activity? * Does it entail some level of risk greater than just every day activity? * Does it involve competition?
If it does, it's a sport in my book. If not, it might be entertaining, it might be fun, but it's a pasttime. Starcraft 2 fails on the first two counts. Golf fails on the first two counts in my book. Snooker fails in the first two counts. I think of all these things as perhaps being entertaining and highly competitive, but not really a sport much less athletic. Motor racing does require all three, as does football, rugby, cricket, tennis, arm-wrestling etc. so I consider them sports. Motor racing for me falls into the set of sports but falls outside of the set of athletics (although you need to be in good shape to be a competitive motor racer in many categories, and it does involve strenuous physical activity).
I thought there was already an O (I think) visa for people who are outstanding in their field (i.e. musicians, bands, entertainers etc).
It does seem odd to call it an "athletic visa" when this P visa is also for entertainment groups (presumably, musicians will now be getting this kind of visa).
Generally I wouldn't call a Starcraft pro an athlete, nor would I call Starcraft a sport (I wouldn't call chess a sport. I wouldn't even call golf a sport - it's a pleasant past-time, but not a sport). Don't mistake this for me devaluing gaming tournaments - I enjoy them, I watch pro-league SC2, I've even participated in a few Starcraft tournaments and I play too much SC2 for my own good. But even playing in top level SC tournaments does not make you an athlete nor does it make SC2 a sport.
I don't know what you mean about classic UK bank numbers but at least bank account numbers that have been around since MICR writing was put on cheques do have check digits. However, there is absolutely no standardization on these check digits and different banks use different algorithms (there aren't many algorithms in use but different banks may use the same algorithm in creatively different ways). There is a file you can download with the rules to apply depending on sort code. (I know this because I had to write a Java library to verify sort code/account combinations that were being read from the MICR codeline on a cheque).
Well, perhaps not a dark and stormy night, but a dull, windy and wet winter Saturday afternoon.
I was playing Doom on my 486, with headphones on on said dull afternoon. I had been playing a while and was really into it - Doom actually has great atmosphere with the music and the sounds of the various creatures and monsters shuffling around the map, and especially good atmosphere when played in a dimly lit room with proper headphones that cover the ears.
So my friend who I lived with at the time comes back from wherever he'd gone for the afternoon. In this place we rented there had been left these bean bag things for propping open doors. My back was to the door, and my friend seeing me fully engrossed in the game picks up one of these small bean bag frogs and throws it at me. The bean bag landed on my shoulder at the EXACT MOMENT one of those demons that go "Whoooooooooooo!!!!" (the ones that fire rockets) appeared behind me on the same side as the shoulder on which the bean bag had landed...
I almost died of heart failure right there on the spot. I certainly screamed like a little girl.
We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Doom this year at RetroEuskal (which is held within Euskal Encounter in Bilbao, one of Europe's largest LAN parties with about 5000 people who bring their machines (Euskal Encounter itself has been going for 21 years now, it came out of the Amiga demoscene and still hosts quite a bit of demoscene stuff).
Here's the video I made of the tournament. Proper e-sports with prizes and everything:-)
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Indeed. Last year I took three MOOC courses (in the field of mathematics). Two of them I passed with a distinction, but one of them I had to drop halfway through just because I got too busy at work. The one I dropped I don't consider a "failure" because I learned interesting things from it (one of which I had an immediate application for), and I'll take it again when it is re-offered.
They destroyed a Polish concert pianist's $200,000 custom built Steinway piano because they thought "the glue smelled funny".
We did CMM 3 and we never had anyone come and tell us that. We did all our code reviews after the code was at least unit tested.
While the majority of what the reviews found was coding standard stuff (I suspect it usually is) we did have a lower defect rate on the delivered software than the industry average, and the code reviews had the side benefit that people in the team knew what each other's code did and how it worked, rather than having to try to figure it out when a crash report came in and the original developer had left or was out on vacation in Patagonia. This we found to be pretty valuable.
In the two states I've lived in (North Carolina and Texas) there most certainly was a requirement to show proof of insurance when getting a driving license.
It's "for all intents and purposes", not "for all intensive purposes". HTH, HAND.
If it's Haswell then surely the Intel bit of 'wintel' has nothing to fear?
There are quite a good number of good French films. However, the French have an uphill struggle making a movie profitable even if it were the world's best movie, because they are in French.
Hollywood has it easy, the English speaking world that understands US culture is enormous (300M Americans, 30 odd million Canadians, 60 odd million Brits and Irish, several million Australians and Kiwis, plus a huge number of people who can speak English fluently as a second language). The French on the other hand have only 65 million French people as their potential audience and that's it and hardly anyone learns French (yes, British people tend to be forced to learn French at school, but probably under 1% ever actually go on to learn it well enough to enjoy a movie in French, I'd wager the number of British people who can even hold a basic conversation in French is in single digit percentages).
If the French want any French language films at all, they almost have no choice but to subsidise them.
Whut? Land Rovers are the original work truck, usually on farms hauling shit or full of shit. They are about the only 4wd vehicles I see locally being used for work and covered in mud. Most have low/high range and diff locks so they can be used on farms.
Worse than that, they continued using it AS THE DEFAULT for years after security researchers revealed that it was flawed. The flaws and possible backdoor in the RNG was noted back in 2007 but RSA kept it as the default until September this year. So it's either a case that they kept it as the default because of a secret deal with the NSA or because of incompetence. Either way, that makes RSA a company I don't want to deal with.
They put DRBG in BSAFE because it was a NIST standard. However, what they did do that seems suspicious is make it the default, and keep it as the default even though way back in 2007, security researchers said it was slow, flawed and possibly had a backdoor. No one else used it as the default. Why did RSA keep it as the default?
If it wasn't the NSA giving them a bung for keeping it as the default, then the only other answer is incompetence. Incompetence is certainly believable, after all there was that thing with their keyfobs a year or two back. So either way we ought to avoid doing business with RSA - because either they are in cahoots with the NSA and took an under-the-table payment to keep a known bad RNG with a possible backdoor *as the default* for their product, or they are incompetent - and you don't want either of those in something incorporated in your company's security.
But beware, if you do that you might end up typing something stupid or embarrassing.
Consider: "Feliz año nuevo" - it means "Happy new year". The ñ isn't merely an accented character, it's a letter in its own right, and choosing the letter "n" instead seems innocent enough, but "Feliz ano nuevo" means "happy new anus".
I'd love facial recognition. I have a really bad memory for names and faces, and I often end up in the embarrassing situation of meeting someone in the street who knows who I am but I only vaguely recognise their face and certainly don't remember their name. Having a prosthetic "face to name" system would save me from many embarrassing situations.
If they didn't do it for the NSA, why did they make a slow and vulnerable RNG the default? Of course we can apply the principle "Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence". In which case it's immaterial anyway to our company's purchasing decisions on security products: we either avoid RSA because they are in cahoots with the NSA, or the alternative - because they are flat out incompetent (which is entirely believable, given their earlier security breaches).
In which case Bitcoin fails massively as a store of value. For instance, if you try to sell something in bitcoin, the value of the bitcoin you got paid with may have changed by 30% by the time the transaction is confirmed, it is so massively volatile. Bitcoin - at this stage - is suitable only as an instrument of speculation.
The image of Fournier's Gangrene on the Spanish Wikipedia is far, far worse, trust me.
McLaren cars cost over a million dollars. I don't think the owner of this kind of car is going to be overly worried about the replacement price.
A high pressure nozzle would make a hell of a racket. Imagine driving along with the equivalent of three or four Dyson Airblades going at full speed in front of the windscreen. You'd soon be wishing you had ordinary, almost silent winscreen wipers.
It's pretty much useless as a currency though. It's so volatile that by the time a Bitcoin transaction has been confirmed, the value of the bitcoin concerned may have moved by 30%. If it moves the wrong way the merchant may make a loss on the sale.
No it's not 40 year old tech.
People drove a car on my route to work perhaps 70 or 80 years ago. But that doesn't mean my Honda Civic is 80 year old tech. While the outcome is the same and the principles are the same, the technology used to make that journey now is quite different.
Where I draw the line is:
* Does it involve strenuous physical activity?
* Does it entail some level of risk greater than just every day activity?
* Does it involve competition?
If it does, it's a sport in my book. If not, it might be entertaining, it might be fun, but it's a pasttime. Starcraft 2 fails on the first two counts. Golf fails on the first two counts in my book. Snooker fails in the first two counts. I think of all these things as perhaps being entertaining and highly competitive, but not really a sport much less athletic. Motor racing does require all three, as does football, rugby, cricket, tennis, arm-wrestling etc. so I consider them sports. Motor racing for me falls into the set of sports but falls outside of the set of athletics (although you need to be in good shape to be a competitive motor racer in many categories, and it does involve strenuous physical activity).
I thought there was already an O (I think) visa for people who are outstanding in their field (i.e. musicians, bands, entertainers etc).
It does seem odd to call it an "athletic visa" when this P visa is also for entertainment groups (presumably, musicians will now be getting this kind of visa).
Generally I wouldn't call a Starcraft pro an athlete, nor would I call Starcraft a sport (I wouldn't call chess a sport. I wouldn't even call golf a sport - it's a pleasant past-time, but not a sport). Don't mistake this for me devaluing gaming tournaments - I enjoy them, I watch pro-league SC2, I've even participated in a few Starcraft tournaments and I play too much SC2 for my own good. But even playing in top level SC tournaments does not make you an athlete nor does it make SC2 a sport.
I don't know what you mean about classic UK bank numbers but at least bank account numbers that have been around since MICR writing was put on cheques do have check digits. However, there is absolutely no standardization on these check digits and different banks use different algorithms (there aren't many algorithms in use but different banks may use the same algorithm in creatively different ways). There is a file you can download with the rules to apply depending on sort code. (I know this because I had to write a Java library to verify sort code/account combinations that were being read from the MICR codeline on a cheque).
If you ever need to do it, this website tells you how: http://www.vocalink.com/products/payments/customer-support-services/modulus-checking.aspx
Well, perhaps not a dark and stormy night, but a dull, windy and wet winter Saturday afternoon.
I was playing Doom on my 486, with headphones on on said dull afternoon. I had been playing a while and was really into it - Doom actually has great atmosphere with the music and the sounds of the various creatures and monsters shuffling around the map, and especially good atmosphere when played in a dimly lit room with proper headphones that cover the ears.
So my friend who I lived with at the time comes back from wherever he'd gone for the afternoon. In this place we rented there had been left these bean bag things for propping open doors. My back was to the door, and my friend seeing me fully engrossed in the game picks up one of these small bean bag frogs and throws it at me. The bean bag landed on my shoulder at the EXACT MOMENT one of those demons that go "Whoooooooooooo!!!!" (the ones that fire rockets) appeared behind me on the same side as the shoulder on which the bean bag had landed...
I almost died of heart failure right there on the spot. I certainly screamed like a little girl.
We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Doom this year at RetroEuskal (which is held within Euskal Encounter in Bilbao, one of Europe's largest LAN parties with about 5000 people who bring their machines (Euskal Encounter itself has been going for 21 years now, it came out of the Amiga demoscene and still hosts quite a bit of demoscene stuff).
Here's the video I made of the tournament. Proper e-sports with prizes and everything :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukdDE96RN3w&noredirect=1
We also had a tournament in November at RetroMañía at the University of Zaragoza.
Most of us would rather have the Queen as head of state than any recent prime minister.