I'm a moderate case. Some of my family members and friends run Windows, which exposes my email addresses to spammers. Some of my email addresses have to be fairly public. I have 5 email accounts, with the oldest being from 1993. They all dump into the same gmail account. Based on the size of my spam bucket and the 30-day deletion policy, I'd say gmail automatically disposes of 133 emails per day. I never check for false positives. I probably delete at least a dozen spams myself, maybe two dozen. I also accidentally delete legit email.
I have it easy compared to some people. Thousands of spams per day is not unheard of. Even the smallest imperfection in the spam filters will leave that unusable.
Earthlink is unusually bad. The better solutions only drop 10% of the legit mail, much of which is idiotic crud like "birthday cards" with background images and even *.exe files. (yes, I know some AOL users)
Your idealism is right out of the 1970s, back when this stuff was getting designed. Back in the day it was considered rude to refuse to relay an email.
Now it's like this: drop spam as cheaply as possible (and lose half the legit email) or just give up on email entirely. One does have less-spammy alternatives: fax, phone, postal mail, FedEx, courier, personal face-to-face meeting...
Modern email is an extremely unreliable communication method. Get used to it.
The patents will expire before this project is done.
Seriously, even assuming that the project is successful, the patents will be expired. For the new patents, either you have prior art (you invented it!) or the patented ideas just don't make it into the design in time. The lead time on this thing will be a decade or two.
One of those super high speed trains should be damn near impossible to derail as long as the track remains intact. Collapsing the track seems like a serious danger though, especially with elevated sections, and braking will make that more likely.
That Stroustrap should even need to defend against this accusation is telling, no?
Do YOU know C?
Is assignment ("=") a sequence point? How about the double-ampersand? How about brackets? How about a cast? How about the parentheses for function calls? How about the comma operator? How about the tertiary operator? (Can you even explain what a sequence point is?)
Does "a = a++;" violate any rules? Does "a = a++ + a++" violate any rules? How about if those examples used "++a" instead of "a++"?
On a machine with sizeof(float)==sizeof(int), suppose you: take the address of a float, cast from float* to int*, then assign the result of (de)referencing the int* to an int. Where exactly have you violated the C standard? Assuming normal x86 hardware, what is the worst that could happen? Will such code always ensure that the bits of the float end up in the int?
This is all without getting into sick stuff like putchar(3["Holy crap"]) and trigraphs. On the off chance that maybe you really do understand C... congratulations for that, but shame on you for failing to notice that damn near everyone else is just throwing shit at the compiler until the error messages go away and then blindly poking around (perhaps with a debugger) until the compiler spits out something that mostly seems to run sort of OK.
Sounds like you haven't worked in the industry very much.
Perhaps you've been lucky enough to get away with BEING the wise-ass who writes fucked up code that relies on obscure stuff that nobody else knows. In that case, soon you'll meet another like yourself, only using a different set of obscure stuff.
The moment you have 2 people doing C++ on 1 project, at least 1 person will be faced with code written using features they just don't understand. C++ has features to spare.
Think you know C++? No, you don't. Heck, the compiler developers are often unsure.
This is a recipe for disaster, as we often see.
C was hard enough. Few people truly understood all the dark corners. (sequence points, aliasing rules, etc.)
C++ is addictive. Everybody wants one cool feature. C code is somewhat easy to convert. Soon you're using enough of C++ that you can't go back, and hey, more is better right? The next thing you know, some programmer on your team got the wise-ass idea to use Boost lambda functions (for no good reason) and you find yourself with 14 different string classes and... you have a mess that no one single developer can fully deal with.
Besides being tolerable as gas milage, minivans actually get filled with kids.
Pickups do not haul manure. They haul air and a driver, not counting the idiots who fill the back with kids! The milage is terrible, as is the safety. Basically, a pickup is an SUV without the rear upper portion.
There will be glass-lined craters, some filling with sea water to form circular bays.
I say we enjoy the show. It'll happen in any case. Let's get it over with. We can supply each side with 500 10-megaton fission-fusion-fission bombs and 500 cobalt-salted bombs. We can hand out the arming codes by radio, using Morse to be language-neutral.
I want nice video. Put HDTV cameras deep underground, using light-only periscopes to get a view without camera destruction.
The existing armament won't hurt anybody because people just aren't that stupid. OK, maybe ONE idiot tests it out.
For those that think the current border is "cruel" because of the harsh desert and mean ranchers, this is better. People will cross when the chance of death is only a few percent. They won't cross if death would be nearly certain. Thus, fewer people die.
This is probably cheaper than using a laser or that skin-heater beam. Despite the robot part, it's kind of low-tech.
The thick atmosphere will be great for running a cooler. Obviously that would require nuclear power.
To walk on the surface:
Use a phase-change material, possibly plain water ice, to keep people cool while they walk about.
The pressure is rough, but doable. It's 94 atmospheres worth. In terms of water depth, it's about 1000 meters or 3000 feet. You need to use a mixture of oxygen, hydrogen, and either helium or neon. (to avoid explosion, you don't add the hydrogen until your total pressure is such that the partial pressure of the oxygen is far below that of the helium or neon -- only then may you replace the inert gas with hydrogen and then continue to increase the pressure)
There are two very nice importer plug-ins. (FYI, both are supplied by Debian) I can mess with things as desired during the import, properly handling color temperature and such before dealing with it like any other image.
If you mean to save something back as RAW format, well that is nonsense.
Also, Google provides photo software with some raw format support.
Even if it's break-even on the SIDS issue, there is the issue of emotional behavior. For millions of years, babies have slept with their mothers. Changing this is not good.
There have been monkey experiments which back this up.
Imagine a world where everyone constantly needs invasive medical procedures and is horribly handicapped. People have bones that can't hold their weight, so they must be strapped into robots to go anywhere. Nobody gets to have sex, because their bodies can't handle the stress. (babies come from machines) Most humans are heartless, literally, with machines hooked up to move the blood. Breathing is done via mechanical device. Dyalysis is universal. Diabeties is universal. Human powered motion is impossible for nearly everyone.
That is not a good future. It is the future though, if we do nothing to direct natual selection away from it.
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Crummy RADAR is like a homing beacon.
Good RADAR sends out a directional beam that rapidly hops frequency in unpredictable ways.
Clearly, you aren't getting much spam.
I'm a moderate case. Some of my family members and friends run Windows, which exposes my email addresses to spammers. Some of my email addresses have to be fairly public. I have 5 email accounts, with the oldest being from 1993. They all dump into the same gmail account. Based on the size of my spam bucket and the 30-day deletion policy, I'd say gmail automatically disposes of 133 emails per day. I never check for false positives. I probably delete at least a dozen spams myself, maybe two dozen. I also accidentally delete legit email.
I have it easy compared to some people. Thousands of spams per day is not unheard of. Even the smallest imperfection in the spam filters will leave that unusable.
Earthlink is unusually bad. The better solutions only drop 10% of the legit mail, much of which is idiotic crud like "birthday cards" with background images and even *.exe files. (yes, I know some AOL users)
Your idealism is right out of the 1970s, back when this stuff was getting designed. Back in the day it was considered rude to refuse to relay an email.
Now it's like this: drop spam as cheaply as possible (and lose half the legit email) or just give up on email entirely. One does have less-spammy alternatives: fax, phone, postal mail, FedEx, courier, personal face-to-face meeting...
Modern email is an extremely unreliable communication method. Get used to it.
The patents will expire before this project is done.
Seriously, even assuming that the project is successful, the patents will be expired. For the new patents, either you have prior art (you invented it!) or the patented ideas just don't make it into the design in time. The lead time on this thing will be a decade or two.
5 pixels per mile, at least effectively
(I don't know if they magnify that to get something big and blurry)
A typical town will be the size of a small menu icon, or 3 to 4 characters in the default xterm font.
One of those super high speed trains should be damn near impossible to derail as long as the track remains intact. Collapsing the track seems like a serious danger though, especially with elevated sections, and braking will make that more likely.
That Stroustrap should even need to defend against this accusation is telling, no?
Do YOU know C?
Is assignment ("=") a sequence point? How about the double-ampersand? How about brackets? How about a cast? How about the parentheses for function calls? How about the comma operator? How about the tertiary operator? (Can you even explain what a sequence point is?)
Does "a = a++;" violate any rules? Does "a = a++ + a++" violate any rules? How about if those examples used "++a" instead of "a++"?
On a machine with sizeof(float)==sizeof(int), suppose you: take the address of a float, cast from float* to int*, then assign the result of (de)referencing the int* to an int. Where exactly have you violated the C standard? Assuming normal x86 hardware, what is the worst that could happen? Will such code always ensure that the bits of the float end up in the int?
This is all without getting into sick stuff like putchar(3["Holy crap"]) and trigraphs. On the off chance that maybe you really do understand C... congratulations for that, but shame on you for failing to notice that damn near everyone else is just throwing shit at the compiler until the error messages go away and then blindly poking around (perhaps with a debugger) until the compiler spits out something that mostly seems to run sort of OK.
That will add stress to the track.
It really doesn't matter if the building code specifies that all buildings are to be machined from 1-piece cast aluminum blocks.
Pay the inspector, and you can live in a house of bricks held together with dried cow dung.
A big-endian CPU would do the job nicely.
Sounds like you haven't worked in the industry very much.
Perhaps you've been lucky enough to get away with BEING the wise-ass who writes fucked up code that relies on obscure stuff that nobody else knows. In that case, soon you'll meet another like yourself, only using a different set of obscure stuff.
The KISS principle is totally lost on that guy.
The moment you have 2 people doing C++ on 1 project, at least 1 person will be faced with code written using features they just don't understand. C++ has features to spare.
Think you know C++? No, you don't. Heck, the compiler developers are often unsure.
This is a recipe for disaster, as we often see.
C was hard enough. Few people truly understood all the dark corners. (sequence points, aliasing rules, etc.)
C++ is addictive. Everybody wants one cool feature. C code is somewhat easy to convert. Soon you're using enough of C++ that you can't go back, and hey, more is better right? The next thing you know, some programmer on your team got the wise-ass idea to use Boost lambda functions (for no good reason) and you find yourself with 14 different string classes and... you have a mess that no one single developer can fully deal with.
If your idea of fun is participating in the Tour de France, then yeah, you belong on the road.
I sure do NOT belong on the road. I'm wicked slow compared to you people. I can't accelerate decently. Drivers get frustrated and pissed off at me.
I've even been hit when trying to ride on the road. Nobody ever hit me on the sidewalk, nor have I ever hit anybody on the sidewalk.
Asshole drivers like to buy huge intimidating vehicles, so the accident stats for those vehicles look bad.
If asshole drivers took a liking for minivans, for sure the minivan would be most dangerous.
The "safe" vehicles are: priced out of range of most young drivers, uncool, practical... like a luxury minivan.
Besides being tolerable as gas milage, minivans actually get filled with kids.
Pickups do not haul manure. They haul air and a driver, not counting the idiots who fill the back with kids! The milage is terrible, as is the safety. Basically, a pickup is an SUV without the rear upper portion.
Real humans will solve this so that they can kill kittens.
There will be glass-lined craters, some filling with sea water to form circular bays.
I say we enjoy the show. It'll happen in any case. Let's get it over with. We can supply each side with 500 10-megaton fission-fusion-fission bombs and 500 cobalt-salted bombs. We can hand out the arming codes by radio, using Morse to be language-neutral.
I want nice video. Put HDTV cameras deep underground, using light-only periscopes to get a view without camera destruction.
This is perfect as it is.
The existing armament won't hurt anybody because people just aren't that stupid. OK, maybe ONE idiot tests it out.
For those that think the current border is "cruel" because of the harsh desert and mean ranchers, this is better. People will cross when the chance of death is only a few percent. They won't cross if death would be nearly certain. Thus, fewer people die.
This is probably cheaper than using a laser or that skin-heater beam. Despite the robot part, it's kind of low-tech.
The thick atmosphere will be great for running a cooler. Obviously that would require nuclear power.
To walk on the surface:
Use a phase-change material, possibly plain water ice, to keep people cool while they walk about.
The pressure is rough, but doable. It's 94 atmospheres worth. In terms of water depth, it's about 1000 meters or 3000 feet. You need to use a mixture of oxygen, hydrogen, and either helium or neon. (to avoid explosion, you don't add the hydrogen until your total pressure is such that the partial pressure of the oxygen is far below that of the helium or neon -- only then may you replace the inert gas with hydrogen and then continue to increase the pressure)
We could at least randomize the order of the candidates so that idiots voting for the first name on the list won't affect the results.
Any yes/no questions should be written both ways, with each voter randomly getting it one way or the other.
A gimp is a midget or dwarf used for homosexual purposes.
You didn't want to know that, did you?
There are two very nice importer plug-ins. (FYI, both are supplied by Debian) I can mess with things as desired during the import, properly handling color temperature and such before dealing with it like any other image.
If you mean to save something back as RAW format, well that is nonsense.
Also, Google provides photo software with some raw format support.
Even if it's break-even on the SIDS issue, there is the issue of emotional behavior. For millions of years, babies have slept with their mothers. Changing this is not good.
There have been monkey experiments which back this up.
Imagine a world where everyone constantly needs invasive medical procedures and is horribly handicapped. People have bones that can't hold their weight, so they must be strapped into robots to go anywhere. Nobody gets to have sex, because their bodies can't handle the stress. (babies come from machines) Most humans are heartless, literally, with machines hooked up to move the blood. Breathing is done via mechanical device. Dyalysis is universal. Diabeties is universal. Human powered motion is impossible for nearly everyone.
That is not a good future. It is the future though, if we do nothing to direct natual selection away from it.
I'd think you'd need a separate wiki for each compartment/project/codeword.
Anything less and somebody needs to go to jail.