Actually, if you want to take the time to follow the Biblical chronology, it works out to only about 4371 years ago, in the autumn of 2370 BC.
(The derivation of this figure is left as an exercise for the reader.)
As an earlier comment pointed out, legends of a great flood are so widespread that there is very likely to be at least some truth behind them.
Of course, with the present lack of evidence about this particular site, it is pointless to speculate as to whether this forms an argument for or against the Biblical/Creationist model of history.
The "fix" in 1.0 is to just pop up an error dialog rather than crash the entire program. Yeah, that's nice, but I would consider sending email a critical feature.
Am I the only one with this problem?
Evolution looks cool, and it has several features I want, but if I can't perform simple tasks like clicking "New Message" without a crash, I shudder to think what else is wrong with it.
In the interim, I'm using Mozilla Mail (yeah, I know, I know) -- at least it has a (halfway) decent address book, decent UI, multi-account, multi-identity support, and the ability to read HTML mail. I dislike it, but when my boss sends me a message full of crazy M$ Word/Outlook HTML tags, I need to be able to at least read it. I'll switch to Evolution the first chance I get.
It looks, though, that I won't get that chance for some time yet...
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year (see
graph on next page). Certainly over the short term this rate
can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the
longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly
constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost
will be 65,000.
I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer.
So, you're wrong: the doubling period Moore initially predicted was 12 months; this held true for the 10 years that Moore originally estimated, and then dropped to 18 months not long afterward.
The definition from the Jargon File:
Moore's Law/morzlaw/ prov.
The observation that the
logic density of silicon integrated circuits has closely followed
the curve (bits per square inch) = 2^(t - 1962) where t
is time in years; that is, the amount of information storable on a
given amount of silicon has roughly doubled every year since the
technology was invented. This relation, first uttered in 1964 by
semiconductor engineer Gordon Moore (who co-founded Intel four
years later) held until the late 1970s, at which point the doubling
period slowed to 18 months.
It was all in jest. My comments at the end of the show were in keeping with the spirit of our fun sparring. I wish I could even take credit for the idea. It was recomended that I say that by the producers. I thought it was funny.. Its a shame they cut away from my comment before I started laughing. The aim of the show is to create conflict... and I guessthey did. I didn't take offence to Bill Shatner saying he could take me in a fight. What does he think I am, a weak woman?!! LOL Come on everybody "lighten up" We were all having fun. Wil is great and I loved doing the show with him.
I agree... Wil is cool, Roxann was joking -- let's not start calling people names.
Interesting... I'm a writer, and a while back I had an idea for a novel about a group of grey hats called JiHAD who would go around bombing, cracking, DoSing, etc., etc. various parties opposed to free speech & human rights etc.
The concept would be something akin to Spiderman: wisecracking hero, hated and pursued by cops, but who does manage to give the bad guys their just desserts (tangling with a web, appropriately enough...)
The first chapter would involve our hero, on the anniversary of the Halloween memo incident, anonymously bringing to light hundreds of incriminating documents that he has "liberated" from some of M$'s most private servers....
A line from Shadowlands: "Are you trying to be insulting or just plain ignorant?"
JavaScript is a scripting language. It has been standardized into the HTML spec by the W3C. JavaScript was not developed by Sun, and is not directly affiliated with Sun.
Java is a programming language developed by Sun. It is compiled into a bytecode and is executable in a Java VM.
Some very complex and mission-critical code is written in Java, and it is by far the fastest-growing programming language today.
As with so many things, running to either extreme won't solve the problem. Yes, full disclosure will make sure a hole is plugged sooner. In the interim, however, all the kiddie crackers in the world can exploit it. And people with a proprietary OS like Windoze are stuck until M$ can release a patch (which will be significantly after the equivalent patches for OSS are out -- ESR proved that the bazaar can react faster than the cathedral.)
My thought: have a consortium analogous to this, but include every sysadmin for every major and minor company. (Perhaps even mailing lists for specific issues... eg. HTTP vulnerabilites get mailed to the Apache group, MS IIS team, etc., but not to, for instance, Intel.)
Of course, with this many people involved, the news will leak out anyway. But it will at least give the people who are going to fix the problem an insider's edge -- so that, as the story hits the front page of the newspaper, the OSS guys are already posting a patch.
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Actually, if you want to take the time to follow the Biblical chronology, it works out to only about 4371 years ago, in the autumn of 2370 BC. (The derivation of this figure is left as an exercise for the reader.)
As an earlier comment pointed out, legends of a great flood are so widespread that there is very likely to be at least some truth behind them.
Of course, with the present lack of evidence about this particular site, it is pointless to speculate as to whether this forms an argument for or against the Biblical/Creationist model of history.
... then the terrorists have already won!
LOL
The "fix" in 1.0 is to just pop up an error dialog rather than crash the entire program. Yeah, that's nice, but I would consider sending email a critical feature.
Am I the only one with this problem?
Evolution looks cool, and it has several features I want, but if I can't perform simple tasks like clicking "New Message" without a crash, I shudder to think what else is wrong with it.
In the interim, I'm using Mozilla Mail (yeah, I know, I know) -- at least it has a (halfway) decent address book, decent UI, multi-account, multi-identity support, and the ability to read HTML mail. I dislike it, but when my boss sends me a message full of crazy M$ Word/Outlook HTML tags, I need to be able to at least read it. I'll switch to Evolution the first chance I get.
It looks, though, that I won't get that chance for some time yet...
So, you're wrong: the doubling period Moore initially predicted was 12 months; this held true for the 10 years that Moore originally estimated, and then dropped to 18 months not long afterward. The definition from the Jargon File:
- It was all in jest. My comments at the end of the show were in keeping with the spirit of our fun sparring. I wish I could even take credit for the idea. It was recomended that I say that by the producers. I thought it was funny.. Its a shame they cut away from my comment before I started laughing. The aim of the show is to create conflict... and I guessthey did. I didn't take offence to Bill Shatner saying he could take me in a fight. What does he think I am, a weak woman?!! LOL Come on everybody "lighten up" We were all having fun. Wil is great and I loved doing the show with him.
I agree... Wil is cool, Roxann was joking -- let's not start calling people names.Interesting... I'm a writer, and a while back I had an idea for a novel about a group of grey hats called JiHAD who would go around bombing, cracking, DoSing, etc., etc. various parties opposed to free speech & human rights etc.
The concept would be something akin to Spiderman: wisecracking hero, hated and pursued by cops, but who does manage to give the bad guys their just desserts (tangling with a web, appropriately enough...)
The first chapter would involve our hero, on the anniversary of the Halloween memo incident, anonymously bringing to light hundreds of incriminating documents that he has "liberated" from some of M$'s most private servers....
What do you think? Do you think it has potential?
JavaScript is a scripting language. It has been standardized into the HTML spec by the W3C. JavaScript was not developed by Sun, and is not directly affiliated with Sun.
Java is a programming language developed by Sun. It is compiled into a bytecode and is executable in a Java VM.
Some very complex and mission-critical code is written in Java, and it is by far the fastest-growing programming language today.
Don't knock it 'till you've tried it...
As with so many things, running to either extreme won't solve the problem. Yes, full disclosure will make sure a hole is plugged sooner. In the interim, however, all the kiddie crackers in the world can exploit it. And people with a proprietary OS like Windoze are stuck until M$ can release a patch (which will be significantly after the equivalent patches for OSS are out -- ESR proved that the bazaar can react faster than the cathedral.)
My thought: have a consortium analogous to this, but include every sysadmin for every major and minor company. (Perhaps even mailing lists for specific issues... eg. HTTP vulnerabilites get mailed to the Apache group, MS IIS team, etc., but not to, for instance, Intel.)
Of course, with this many people involved, the news will leak out anyway. But it will at least give the people who are going to fix the problem an insider's edge -- so that, as the story hits the front page of the newspaper, the OSS guys are already posting a patch.
It's worth a try, anyway.
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>Hey, I've heard hell has the occasional cold snap.
Perhaps not M$Office... but what about KOffice? ... Or WordPerfect Suite for Linux, or StarOffice, or ApplixWare...
I mean, Office2k (which I use at work) is nice, but it's not the only thing out there.