>It's horrible that we live in such a litigious society that people have to worry about giving something away for free.
Agreed - Here in the UK the postoffice changed the style of its bicycles, so had several thousand 'old' bicycles. They wanted to give them away to third-world countries for doctors etc to get around easier. They were even willing to pay for them to be shipped over etc.
Unfortunately they couldn't find a way to remove the liability. If someone had an accident on the bikes they could sue the postoffice.
Sadly the post office had to cut every bike in half to reduce liability:(
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Does anyone know how to actually get imployed at these places? I'm currently at uni, and would love to work at NASA, or esa, etc. I emailed NASA and was told that they don't hire non-americans. I can't work out how to apply (as a student - for a placement or something) at esa.
I'm currently working at BAE, which is about as close I can get at the mo....
Heh - We wrote a one off program for internal use that used lots and lots of threads. However it leaked memory at 1MB a _minute_, so we just chucked in 1/2GB of extra memory, and rebooted at the end of the day ( since at 1MB a minute it would last for 512 minutes = 8.5 hours = approx a working day.)
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I'm working on a load of xml apps, and although they use and rely on xml a lot, they hardly ever have anything in the xml format. Everything is stored in databases, and database files, the data transfer is negotiated to find the optimin format, the xml schemas are turned into actual code, and so on.
However it does mean that I can plan and design it with xml in mind - meaning i get all the advantages of schemas etc, but without the disadvantages of verbosness, slowness, etc.
Oh definetly! If you plan and document etc, anything you do will probably be good. I was thinking more along the lines of a small hobbiest programmer, or the average company, where they knock out something quickly, then 6 months down the line run into problems because they forgot to specify the size of their ints in their file format, or what have you. XML just allows the novice-to-medium programmer and company to make less mistakes at that stage. Particulary early on where the data they are trying to save my vary a lot.
Faster for the computer sure. But what about later when you need to support different languages, or change your struct, or change to a different architecture? And still need to make it backward compatible?
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Please everyone, there are no words at all that end in "full" apart from the actual word "full".
It is only one "l".
I could never remember until someone pointed out that it is _always_ just one "l".
Pass the word on please.
Thanks,
JohnFlux
Always be careful when you say "fully ACID".
Even oracle doesn't (or shouldn't - I wouldn't be surprised if they do actually say it somewhere) say that.
Full ACID is too slow - nobody really does it.
The guy who wrote it, wrote a small document on his reasons etc. He sounds like a really talented programmer. Go read it!
>It's horrible that we live in such a litigious society that people have to worry about giving something away for free.
:(
;~(
Agreed - Here in the UK the postoffice changed the style of its bicycles, so had several thousand 'old' bicycles. They wanted to give them away to third-world countries for doctors etc to get around easier. They were even willing to pay for them to be shipped over etc.
Unfortunately they couldn't find a way to remove the liability. If someone had an accident on the bikes they could sue the postoffice.
Sadly the post office had to cut every bike in half to reduce liability
Sometimes I hate this system
JohnFlux
What does "neo-socialist" mean?
:)
Just curious
Does anyone know how to actually get imployed at these places? I'm currently at uni, and would love to work at NASA, or esa, etc. I emailed NASA and was told that they don't hire non-americans. I can't work out how to apply (as a student - for a placement or something) at esa.
I'm currently working at BAE, which is about as close I can get at the mo....
Any ideas?
Shouldn't that be "drink(40)" ?
To 'generate' gravity, you just need a rock. ;)
It will have to be a very heavy rock to notice it tho..
Heh - We wrote a one off program for internal use that used lots and lots of threads. However it leaked memory at 1MB a _minute_, so we just chucked in 1/2GB of extra memory, and rebooted at the end of the day ( since at 1MB a minute it would last for 512 minutes = 8.5 hours = approx a working day.)
wc -l == wc | awk "{print $1}" :)
Hmm, Why are my posts at score 0 now?
Bah, Well _I_ thought I was funny....
:)
oh well
JohnFlux
But great answers, thanks wallace!
about longer replies *grin*
JohnFlux
Only criminals need to hide
Actually someone id mention it here:? sid=364 29&cid=3923389
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> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety -B.F.
Ah, but the difficulty is defining what liberties are essential
The messaging thing is pretty neat yeah..
I'm working on a load of xml apps, and although they use and rely on xml a lot, they hardly ever have anything in the xml format.
Everything is stored in databases, and database files, the data transfer is negotiated to find the optimin format, the xml schemas are turned into actual code, and so on.
However it does mean that I can plan and design it with xml in mind - meaning i get all the advantages of schemas etc, but without the disadvantages of verbosness, slowness, etc.
Oh definetly!
If you plan and document etc, anything you do will probably be good.
I was thinking more along the lines of a small hobbiest programmer, or the average company, where they knock out something quickly, then 6 months down the line run into problems because they forgot to specify the size of their ints in their file format, or what have you.
XML just allows the novice-to-medium programmer and company to make less mistakes at that stage.
Particulary early on where the data they are trying to save my vary a lot.
Sure, but how many people specify the size of an int, the endiness etc in the actual file when they save a binary file?
What about using XUL mozilla stuff?
Nope... ;)
;)
Ask a lawyer - worst case it costs you £50 for the laywer, best case you sue for harrasment
But then they said they were actually camping outside with a tv van - maybe just sending letters doesn't count...
Check with a laywer
And if you forgot to indicate a version number?
Or forgot to indicate the language encoding
or endiness...
Out of curiosity, do they have AA guns?
;)
I saw on TV ppl testing flying planes into brick walls to test, they said, how a nuclear power plant would cope.
The plane just disapeared in a cloud of smoke, leaving the wall still standing tho
JohnFlux
:)
Exactly! Easy in XML, but how would you do this if you saved the files as a dump of a C data object...
Faster for the computer sure.
But what about later when you need to support
different languages, or change your struct,
or change to a different architecture?
And still need to make it backward compatible?