Then also write a program that compares files of format A and B against each other and makes sure they are "equivalent" in whichever way that makes sense.
You do realize that's usually as hard as writing the program itself, don't you? To check for equivalence, you most likely will have to translate either one to the other, or both to a third format.
Write a program that takes files of format B and ensures that they make sense
Whenever you use your own format X, you should have a tool that does this.
The crook would leave your box behind and you could still get at your HDD to recover your data.
Except that no-one is going to open your box on-site. Sorry, this kind of protection makes no sense.
Why not skip the stem cell bullshit and just harvest these organs straight from aborted babies. Or bums in the streets. Or criminals. Or terrorists. Or Zionists. Or Anti-Semites. Or...
Not necessarily. When a technology becomes obsolete, most manufacturers will stop producing it. Therefore, the few that don't can raise their prices. (because there is always someone who still needs that tape.)
Ah the joy of a decent manual!
I remember going from MS-DOS 3.2 to 6.2, and wondering why the hell they had removed all useful information from the manual. The 3.2 manual had detailed memory maps, irq listings, an ascii table, keyboard layouts, serial and parallel pinouts, etc. The 6.2 manual just glossed over some commands.
What I meant is that it's ok to take a step back, and accept a job that is maybe a little less interesting (technically and financially.)
Also, I'm thinking about people less than 30 years old. I don't know how things are outside The Netherlands, but here a halfway decent developer/technician with 10 years of experience is not going to have trouble finding a new job.
I have heard the economy is starting to pick up again for months, yet no real signs of improvements show up. Probably the same for the job market for some time.
My advice: lay back, have a beer, meet new people and do interesting things with them, and when cash runs out go flip some burgers or something. In a few years time, when things look better, they'll come running for you again.
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Unfortubnatly, and object the size of a pea travelling nearly the speed of ight would also cause the atmospher to explode...All of it.
Why? It doesn't explode when a nuclear bomb goes off in it, and it doesn't explode when a largish meteor strikes, so I doubt a pea would cause it to explode.
Now, beans would be another story....
I didn't know CmdrTaco was a BBC editor: The two cars hovered just a centimetres above the track, kept their by magnetic force, providing a smooth ride.
You know the one, it's a signature that says: "Hi, I'm a signature virus. Copy me into your.sig file" or something.
Seriously though, I always get pissed when i open an avi, asf or quicktime movie with an url embedded in it, so you are sent to some website after viewing your favorite pr0n/movie/music video. This could also run commands on your local machine.
Ok, you should get a "do you want to execute this command" warning, but chances are it's possible to exploit this.
So jpeg no, but I wouldn't be surprised by an avi/mov virus.
You contradict yourself: "an Earth-sized planet has a gravity well deep enough to hold an inhospitably thick atmosphere. Only some quirks of Earth's formation and evolution..."
and
"Earth-like planets do seem to be the best place to look for non-microbal life"
Seems to me it would be better to search for a planet that's between earth and mars in size then, so it won't have to rely on a quirky formation and an exorbitantly large moon.
OTOH, I've read somewhere (in "The Science of Discworld" probably, a must-read for wannabe exoplanet specialists) that the large size of the moon has been a blessing for the Earth, because it dampens a lot of rotational inbalances.
So, you're dealing with geologists. These people are scientists, and therefore on average slightly more at home with abstract notions as network vs. local storage.
However, the average person DOESN'T understand the difference. They don't understand the difference between memory, harddisks and network storage, and they shouldn't have to. I don't have to understand anything about the internal combustion engine to drive a car.
The only viable solutions are those that force, or at least encourage them to use the network storage: make sure all "my documents", "favorites", etc. folders are located on the central server, make sure every application's default save directory is on the network, and make sure there is very little space on the local harddrive to store anything. (make the partition as small as possible, with a fixed (large) size swap file)
It does apply to me if my immediate family or acquaintances work for a government agency. Imagine your girlfriends father works there, and he concludes from your visits to goatse that you must be some anally fixated freak. That does not enhance your relationship. The problem is, you don't get a chance to explain the misunderstanding, because he will have made up his mind about you already, and will not ask you: "hey, I noticed you visited this website, care to elaborate?"
Don't think this is far-fetched: a lot of parents that work for the police/justice/whatever look up everything they can about potential new in-laws.
Same thing when looking for a new job: They will check you out, and if they can find your internet habits this way, they will. And again, you probably won't have a chance to explain the harmlessness of your actions.
You do not seem to understand how slashdot works.
I'll explain it to you briefly:
new article appears -> very few posts -> quickly post something not completely off-topic -> get moderated to +5 funny by moderators who didn't read the article either, and only moderate the top 20 posts or so -> get moderated back to +1 overrated -> get banned from posting because now you got 4 downmods in a row.
No I didn't read the full article, it was just a reflex to what I at first glance thought was a strange way of phrasing things.
The thing is, as soon as they start correcting spelling errors, they become responsible for every mistake in the article. By leaving in such (obvious) errors, everyone sees they don't do ANY error checking, so they cannot be blamed for more serious errors.
It's kind of the same as their policy not to delete even the most blatant crapflooders and trolls (except for the infamous copyrighted scientology posts of course): once they start doing that, they might be held responsible for some of the crap they don't delete.
Why someone who doesn't even do this basic spell checking is called an editor is beyond me though.
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Then also write a program that compares files of format A and B against each other and makes sure they are "equivalent" in whichever way that makes sense.
You do realize that's usually as hard as writing the program itself, don't you? To check for equivalence, you most likely will have to translate either one to the other, or both to a third format.
Write a program that takes files of format B and ensures that they make sense
Whenever you use your own format X, you should have a tool that does this.
The crook would leave your box behind and you could still get at your HDD to recover your data.
Except that no-one is going to open your box on-site. Sorry, this kind of protection makes no sense.
Why not skip the stem cell bullshit and just harvest these organs straight from aborted babies. Or bums in the streets. Or criminals. Or terrorists. Or Zionists. Or Anti-Semites. Or...
Not necessarily. When a technology becomes obsolete, most manufacturers will stop producing it. Therefore, the few that don't can raise their prices. (because there is always someone who still needs that tape.)
Ah the joy of a decent manual!
I remember going from MS-DOS 3.2 to 6.2, and wondering why the hell they had removed all useful information from the manual. The 3.2 manual had detailed memory maps, irq listings, an ascii table, keyboard layouts, serial and parallel pinouts, etc. The 6.2 manual just glossed over some commands.
What I meant is that it's ok to take a step back, and accept a job that is maybe a little less interesting (technically and financially.)
Also, I'm thinking about people less than 30 years old. I don't know how things are outside The Netherlands, but here a halfway decent developer/technician with 10 years of experience is not going to have trouble finding a new job.
You can modify the date/time format in your preferences.
You can relax now.
Look which /. subjects seem to get most attention. I consider these subjects "hot"
DON'T!!! before you know it, you'll be pouring hot grits into your widened asshole.
Oh he meant the articles... My bad.
I have heard the economy is starting to pick up again for months, yet no real signs of improvements show up. Probably the same for the job market for some time.
My advice: lay back, have a beer, meet new people and do interesting things with them, and when cash runs out go flip some burgers or something. In a few years time, when things look better, they'll come running for you again.
Because repeated stories happen a lot here maybe?
Unfortubnatly, and object the size of a pea travelling nearly the speed of ight would also cause the atmospher to explode...All of it.
Why? It doesn't explode when a nuclear bomb goes off in it, and it doesn't explode when a largish meteor strikes, so I doubt a pea would cause it to explode.
Now, beans would be another story....
note the plural
I didn't know CmdrTaco was a BBC editor:
The two cars hovered just a centimetres above the track, kept their by magnetic force, providing a smooth ride.
It's worse when conversations with your girlfriends are routed to your wife.
Yes, but can you resist downloading YOURWIFEHAVINGS.EXE?
the signature virus?
.sig file" or something.
You know the one, it's a signature that says: "Hi, I'm a signature virus. Copy me into your
Seriously though, I always get pissed when i open an avi, asf or quicktime movie with an url embedded in it, so you are sent to some website after viewing your favorite pr0n/movie/music video. This could also run commands on your local machine.
Ok, you should get a "do you want to execute this command" warning, but chances are it's possible to exploit this.
So jpeg no, but I wouldn't be surprised by an avi/mov virus.
You contradict yourself:
"an Earth-sized planet has a gravity well deep enough to hold an inhospitably thick atmosphere. Only some quirks of Earth's formation and evolution..."
and "Earth-like planets do seem to be the best place to look for non-microbal life"
Seems to me it would be better to search for a planet that's between earth and mars in size then, so it won't have to rely on a quirky formation and an exorbitantly large moon.
OTOH, I've read somewhere (in "The Science of Discworld" probably, a must-read for wannabe exoplanet specialists) that the large size of the moon has been a blessing for the Earth, because it dampens a lot of rotational inbalances.
I apologise, my verbatim MP knowledge is sadly lacking.
He probably submitted the article himself.
(Well, he's not slashdotted yet, so he seems to have prepared himself)
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries! Now go away or I will taunt you one more time.
So, you're dealing with geologists. These people are scientists, and therefore on average slightly more at home with abstract notions as network vs. local storage.
However, the average person DOESN'T understand the difference. They don't understand the difference between memory, harddisks and network storage, and they shouldn't have to. I don't have to understand anything about the internal combustion engine to drive a car.
The only viable solutions are those that force, or at least encourage them to use the network storage: make sure all "my documents", "favorites", etc. folders are located on the central server, make sure every application's default save directory is on the network, and make sure there is very little space on the local harddrive to store anything. (make the partition as small as possible, with a fixed (large) size swap file)
Good troll, interesting enough to answer:
It does apply to me if my immediate family or acquaintances work for a government agency. Imagine your girlfriends father works there, and he concludes from your visits to goatse that you must be some anally fixated freak. That does not enhance your relationship. The problem is, you don't get a chance to explain the misunderstanding, because he will have made up his mind about you already, and will not ask you: "hey, I noticed you visited this website, care to elaborate?"
Don't think this is far-fetched: a lot of parents that work for the police/justice/whatever look up everything they can about potential new in-laws.
Same thing when looking for a new job: They will check you out, and if they can find your internet habits this way, they will. And again, you probably won't have a chance to explain the harmlessness of your actions.
You do not seem to understand how slashdot works.
I'll explain it to you briefly:
new article appears -> very few posts -> quickly post something not completely off-topic -> get moderated to +5 funny by moderators who didn't read the article either, and only moderate the top 20 posts or so -> get moderated back to +1 overrated -> get banned from posting because now you got 4 downmods in a row.
No I didn't read the full article, it was just a reflex to what I at first glance thought was a strange way of phrasing things.
Otherwise known as a television
The thing is, as soon as they start correcting spelling errors, they become responsible for every mistake in the article. By leaving in such (obvious) errors, everyone sees they don't do ANY error checking, so they cannot be blamed for more serious errors.
It's kind of the same as their policy not to delete even the most blatant crapflooders and trolls (except for the infamous copyrighted scientology posts of course): once they start doing that, they might be held responsible for some of the crap they don't delete.
Why someone who doesn't even do this basic spell checking is called an editor is beyond me though.