While there is no guarantee that some eyes will not be malicious, I think your statement doesn't really fit the probabilities. Most people who look at code will be looking because they want to modify it, because they have questions that can be answered better by the source than by documentation, because they are looking for examples of how to do something, or because they are curious. Most of these people have good intentions and will even experience some emotional fulfillment from helping to eliminate a bug and thus help all of the other users. People like the public-benefit aspect of Open Source and want to help.
When software doesn't have visible source code, the legitimate users have no assurances regarding what it's doing, other than those imposed by the operating system (which they might not have complete source for either).
However, the bad guys still take the trouble to disassemble the code and find its vulnerabilities.
With many eyes, you still might not find all bugs, but you can, and can do so without the unreasonable investment of disassembling the code and reading disassembly - which is not like reading the real source code.
The larger issue is that we need publicly-disclosed source code for some things, to assure the public good, whether it is proprietary or Open Source. For example the emission control code in automobiles, which it turns out multiple manufacturers have defrauded.
The ratio of the monolith dimensions is 1:4:9, the squares of the first three integers. The film was made in Super Panavision, which has a 2.20:1 aspect ratio. 9/4 is 2.25, so it's close.
However, the self-reference of this interpretation is, IMO, particularly appealing to film critics and places an autobiographical slant on the film that doesn't really fit. The film tells a story of the evolution of man, it's not self-referential.
That was a really strange book. In the first edition, he was selling Eiffel, which was made by his own company. In the second edition, due I guess to criticism, he continued to use Eiffel to write the examples, but never named the language he was using until the last word of the book, and various anagrams including the first letters of the title of the final chapter and the first letters of a series of consecutive chapters.
There is still lots of language research going on, and as a result closures are accepted in a number of productive modern languages, type inference and global optimization are seen more often, and there is a lot of work on functional programming because of the fact that it's the only sort we can prove.
This was already the case for bugs in templates and headers in languages like C and C++. In this case It's a cost you have to pay for a more powerful language.
Consider what Linux was at the start, and what it is now. That's how Open Source works. I think the quality of the language will assure its growth, as Linux grew from the hobby project of a pimply computer science lecturer at a Helsinki college whose wife is much more macho than him (she's a martial arts champ), to the OS behind an industry. It happens there is a company behind the Crystal developers. But they are a small team, and they collect money donations from the public.
The Australia battery plant does not reduce grid costs 90%. It reduces the cost of frequency correction, which is a tiny percentage of the total grid cost. We should also be aware that this is only a power storage system, it does not produce any electricity on its own. The point here is that if there is an excess of solar, wind, hydroelectric, or fossil-fuel generated power at one point, this can be stored and released at another point in time. This release happens almost instantly, where with a more conventional "peaker" power plant, run on fossil fuels, takes much longer to get started before it can contribute power to the network.
Unfortunately there are economic problems with energy storage. Because the battery can respond to demand so quickly, it performs service that the fossil fuel plants were formerly doing. So, the fossil fuel plants sit idle a lot of the time, but we still need them because a battery can't provide all of the power we need during high demand. So, what the fossil fuel peaker plants are now going to do is a bit of a mystery. Go out of business? We'll have a lot more blackouts. Charge more for energy? They're going to have to. And regulators are going to have to allow that.
I didn't do that stuff, and I don't have any "original sin" that somebody in someone eles's religion is supposed to have died for, either. I'll commit my own sins and be responsible for them. This doesn't mean I should be accepting of stupid stuff done by others, mostly before I was born.
Do other countries have such guilt for existing as the U.S. seems to have?
Only the ones that sincerely try to deal with their past wrongs. This in general means democracies. If you think we have problems in this regard, consider South Africa.
If you pump your own company's stock, or a stock you own, with false information, you run a pretty big risk with the SEC. In contrast, tracking down and prosecuting a short-seller for similar manipulation generally takes a civil suit by the company and is difficult and expensive for them to pursue.
Take, for example, the people who say that SpaceX profits from public subsidies. If you look into it, you will find that SpaceX gets paid to lift a satellite to space, at a lower cost than its competitor, and they are charging the government for the ride. In contrast, their competitor ULA has been getting a real public subsidy, a one Billion dollar per year fee simply to "maintain readiness" to launch military payloads, rather than a fee per ride.
It is absolutely the case that the white colonists really f**ked over the natives, and that this f**kage is embedded in the founding documents of the United States and even the fascia of the U.S. Capitol building.
We don't have to stand behind it today. We shouldn't.
2. Because they don't introduce themselves by telling you they have leukemia.
Everyone gets cancer if they live long enough not to be killed by other things. As far as we know, about half of it is due to natural processes, half is triggered by environmental carcinogens.
Thanks for typing that in. Sure, you got toxicity on a nerve. Or in your brain. A lot of people here just seem to think diving is putting on an air mask and then moving around normally.
Teslas are shipped out of Point Richmond. There is a railroad switch yard right next to the factory, but you don't always get the price you want from your next-door neighbor.
Well, consider that Musk is a stand-in for the United States. If Obama were president, he would have offered any sort of help, and made it happen. Trump doesn't exactly inspire confidence, whether you like his policies or not - he's still a non-reader, blowhard buffoon, not the sort of person you'd call on for help when a bunch of boys are trapped in a cave.
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While there is no guarantee that some eyes will not be malicious, I think your statement doesn't really fit the probabilities. Most people who look at code will be looking because they want to modify it, because they have questions that can be answered better by the source than by documentation, because they are looking for examples of how to do something, or because they are curious. Most of these people have good intentions and will even experience some emotional fulfillment from helping to eliminate a bug and thus help all of the other users. People like the public-benefit aspect of Open Source and want to help.
When software doesn't have visible source code, the legitimate users have no assurances regarding what it's doing, other than those imposed by the operating system (which they might not have complete source for either).
However, the bad guys still take the trouble to disassemble the code and find its vulnerabilities.
With many eyes, you still might not find all bugs, but you can, and can do so without the unreasonable investment of disassembling the code and reading disassembly - which is not like reading the real source code.
The larger issue is that we need publicly-disclosed source code for some things, to assure the public good, whether it is proprietary or Open Source. For example the emission control code in automobiles, which it turns out multiple manufacturers have defrauded.
The ratio of the monolith dimensions is 1:4:9, the squares of the first three integers. The film was made in Super Panavision, which has a 2.20:1 aspect ratio. 9/4 is 2.25, so it's close.
However, the self-reference of this interpretation is, IMO, particularly appealing to film critics and places an autobiographical slant on the film that doesn't really fit. The film tells a story of the evolution of man, it's not self-referential.
First, eliminate these causes before blamimg "hackers": employee pilferage, employee mistake, broken equipment, software bug.
That was a really strange book. In the first edition, he was selling Eiffel, which was made by his own company. In the second edition, due I guess to criticism, he continued to use Eiffel to write the examples, but never named the language he was using until the last word of the book, and various anagrams including the first letters of the title of the final chapter and the first letters of a series of consecutive chapters.
There is still lots of language research going on, and as a result closures are accepted in a number of productive modern languages, type inference and global optimization are seen more often, and there is a lot of work on functional programming because of the fact that it's the only sort we can prove.
This was already the case for bugs in templates and headers in languages like C and C++. In this case It's a cost you have to pay for a more powerful language.
Hey, you have to congratulate me for never even once mentioning WORLD DOMINATION.
This is one try at comparing many languages at different benchmarks. Crystal is still in development, but it's based on the LLVM compiler, which of course also compiles C. I think they're still going for functionality, rather than optimization.
Consider what Linux was at the start, and what it is now. That's how Open Source works. I think the quality of the language will assure its growth, as Linux grew from the hobby project of a pimply computer science lecturer at a Helsinki college whose wife is much more macho than him (she's a martial arts champ), to the OS behind an industry. It happens there is a company behind the Crystal developers. But they are a small team, and they collect money donations from the public.
C++ is a 1980's language (actually, Bjorn started work in 1979). It's lasted long enough that we don't have to shed any tears for its demise.
We have many better options today. Personally, I am writing in Crystal, and you can see my explorations here:
The Australia battery plant does not reduce grid costs 90%. It reduces the cost of frequency correction, which is a tiny percentage of the total grid cost. We should also be aware that this is only a power storage system, it does not produce any electricity on its own. The point here is that if there is an excess of solar, wind, hydroelectric, or fossil-fuel generated power at one point, this can be stored and released at another point in time. This release happens almost instantly, where with a more conventional "peaker" power plant, run on fossil fuels, takes much longer to get started before it can contribute power to the network.
Unfortunately there are economic problems with energy storage. Because the battery can respond to demand so quickly, it performs service that the fossil fuel plants were formerly doing. So, the fossil fuel plants sit idle a lot of the time, but we still need them because a battery can't provide all of the power we need during high demand. So, what the fossil fuel peaker plants are now going to do is a bit of a mystery. Go out of business? We'll have a lot more blackouts. Charge more for energy? They're going to have to. And regulators are going to have to allow that.
You mean genocidal savages with assault rifles.
I didn't do that stuff, and I don't have any "original sin" that somebody in someone eles's religion is supposed to have died for, either. I'll commit my own sins and be responsible for them. This doesn't mean I should be accepting of stupid stuff done by others, mostly before I was born.
Yes, you're right. And they still charge much more for the ride than SpaceX.
Speak for yourself. I can't get to the bottom of a pool without clearing my ears.
Only the ones that sincerely try to deal with their past wrongs. This in general means democracies. If you think we have problems in this regard, consider South Africa.
If you pump your own company's stock, or a stock you own, with false information, you run a pretty big risk with the SEC. In contrast, tracking down and prosecuting a short-seller for similar manipulation generally takes a civil suit by the company and is difficult and expensive for them to pursue.
Take, for example, the people who say that SpaceX profits from public subsidies. If you look into it, you will find that SpaceX gets paid to lift a satellite to space, at a lower cost than its competitor, and they are charging the government for the ride. In contrast, their competitor ULA has been getting a real public subsidy, a one Billion dollar per year fee simply to "maintain readiness" to launch military payloads, rather than a fee per ride.
It is absolutely the case that the white colonists really f**ked over the natives, and that this f**kage is embedded in the founding documents of the United States and even the fascia of the U.S. Capitol building.
We don't have to stand behind it today. We shouldn't.
1. Because they're dead.
2. Because they don't introduce themselves by telling you they have leukemia.
Everyone gets cancer if they live long enough not to be killed by other things. As far as we know, about half of it is due to natural processes, half is triggered by environmental carcinogens.
I have had PR firms offer me the service, while I've been a corporate officer.
Read the story here. The people who have bought shorts have billions at stake. They are very motivated to pay for this.
And my kid is a California state-certified search-and-rescue volunteer. I didn't mean to put down volunteer services.
Thanks for typing that in. Sure, you got toxicity on a nerve. Or in your brain. A lot of people here just seem to think diving is putting on an air mask and then moving around normally.
And I'm Russian, if you go back to my grandfather. Elon naturalized after a 5-year residency and is a U.S. citizen.
Teslas are shipped out of Point Richmond. There is a railroad switch yard right next to the factory, but you don't always get the price you want from your next-door neighbor.
Well, consider that Musk is a stand-in for the United States. If Obama were president, he would have offered any sort of help, and made it happen. Trump doesn't exactly inspire confidence, whether you like his policies or not - he's still a non-reader, blowhard buffoon, not the sort of person you'd call on for help when a bunch of boys are trapped in a cave.