The rapist is like a wild animal - you have to protect yourself from it. If covering up reduces the chance or you being raped even by 1%, then you should probably cover up. After all, if you do get raped, it won't matter that the rapist will go to prison - you will still be raped (compared to theft where police may be able to recover your property).
And thus the Taleban is born.
What you are saying is that women should not have normal civil liberties. Who else will you deny them to, and what makes you believe your own liberties will remain safe if you allow this sort of disgraceful attitude to spread?
Very few people can actually use LaTeX. It's an exceptionally user-hostile approach to writing text. Yes, I know some people still use vi, but that doesn't make vi a good word processor. Similarly, LaTeX has exceptional strengths for creating particular sorts of highly technical documents, but for the sorts of documents most people write it is overcomplicated and just gets in the way.
Most people don't want to learn a new language before they can write a simple document. Even if they do want to learn a new language, Markdown is good enough for most people's uses - you can produce damn nice looking documents and, yes, books with it (my toolchain is text piped through a sed script which renders the markdown into rough HTML, through JTidy which cleans that up, through Prince which translates the HTML into nicely rendered PDF, and thence to print. I could use LaTeX - I have used LaTeX - but except for very complicated technical documents it just isn't worth it.
We are talking about a company that nearly went out of business because they didn't properly patent their UI (And Apple did a lot of improvements over the Xerox design)
Speaking as someone who worked on both Xerox and Apple computers during the mid 1980s, this is rubbish. There were no significant innovations which Apple and its offspring brought to their user interface - at least until NeXT Step - which had not at least been experimentally tried at Xerox PARC before Steve Jobs' famous visit. Even if they had, nothing in this ought to be patentable anyway - it's all reasonably obvious to any practitioner in the field as soon as the technology (bit-mapped screens and a pointing device) becomes available. When I last bothered to track it, there were fourteen US patents for which I personally had created prior art; I'm sure there are many more now.
This is true in Europe too. I'm in Scotland. I live in a small but comfortable house I built for myself on my own land last year. It cost in total more than I earn in one month, but less than I earn in two. I'm a senior geek, I get a good wage - but I'm not a banker or a pop-star.
What makes housing expensive is partly labour, but it is mainly that planning policy creates a form of artificial scarcity, and partly also that government support for home ownership creates a speculative bubble, further inflating the cost. Housing is not intrinsically expensive.
Managed to not tell me anything I'd like to know, availability, how big is it, how much does it cost, what materials and so on. Just hype.
This newly fangled Interweb thing has curious devices called 'links'. These are often represented by words distinctively coloured or otherwise marked. Your computational engine is most likely provided with a small carriage vulgarly known as a 'mouse'. If you trundle this carriage across the surface of your writing desk, a representation of a hand or arrow or similar pointing device is automatically and synchronously moved across your information display. If you manoeuvre your 'mouse' until this pointer appears to hover over the distinctively marked text, and then press down on the depressable are on the front left of the carriage until a light click is heard, a page of information will appear elucidating the point being made.
The ARM was designed for, and first used in, general purpose computers; I had an Acorn Archimedes on my desk in 1988, and an R260 (running BSD 4.2 with X11 and OSF Motif) on my desk two years later. BSD and the whole of Debian including Gnome and KDE are available for ARM, and with quad core chips and both MacOS and Windows 8 currently in development for ARM, new general purpose ARM hardware - mostly ultra-portable, but also desktop - is definitely on the way.
And if you flipped the bird on the street you could get arrested.
Where? Not in any civilised part of the world, for certain. In most places, freedom of expression is protected by law. There's even an amendment to the United States Constitution which guarantees your constitutional right to flip the bird in public.
This is more or less bollocks. We all started somewhere. People of my generation didn't learn from experts, because there were damn few experts. The college I went to had been given four Commodore PETs, but none of the teaching staff even knew how to turn one on, and until I and two other students wrote some, there were no programs.
Of course what we wrote was pretty simple and probably pretty bad, but it worked. We created magic. We made the machines do stuff. And for me that staeted a love affair with software that's lasted all my adult life and given me a good career.
But it has neither the software support nor the peripherals to be a computer, rather than just another media player.
A computer is a device which runs turing-equivalent stored programs. This does that. It's a computer. It's several thousand times faster and has several hundred thousand times the storage of the first computer I worked on, and that one supported eighteen simultaneous users. Add a display and a USB hub linking keyboard, mouse, backing store, and you have a 'personal computer' or 'workstation'. What more do you want?
I do keep sensitive data on my phone and in Google's cloud. That's why I use Android, after all. My phone is either in my belt or in my hand all the time. I don't put it down except when asleep in my bed, and when I'm asleep in my bed there aren't friends of friends present.What about recharging, you say? I have four batteries, one in the phone, one in the charger, two spare, usually fully charged. I shall investigate WhisperCore, but the fundamental security is physical security. Never lose the device.
As of now, it is running on my phone and the GPS is on for a few seconds every ten minutes. However, I'm not persuaded that it's detecting 3G accurately because it says I've had 0% 3G coverage today but in fact I'm posting this through my phone using USB tethering.
If you trust Vodafone (or any other commercial provider) to create an accurate and reliable map, I have this very valuable bridge in London I'd like to sell you.
It really doesn't matter whether current global warming is man made or not. That's a side issue. The real issue is that as global temperatures rise, the areas where we now grow most of the world's food will get drier and more arid, with desertification spreading. The areas which will benefit from improved fertility are smaller anyway, and are quite heavily developed. So we get a fairly large net loss in agricultural output. This at a time when the planet is already carrying a larger human population than ever before, and it's still growing.
Regardless of what is causing global warming, if we don't do our best to slow it or stop it there is going to be global starvation, war and economic disruption on a scale never seen before. Saying 'but it isn't our fault, it's the sun' isn't going to save your life.
I think the quality is tolerable. I photographed a document lying on my desk, without doing anything special to make it smooth or adjust lighting. This is a good simulation of a real-world situation where you can photograph a piece of text. There were errors in the transcription but it was readable, and with a very little editing would have been perfect. What surprised me was that apparently the whole image was uploaded from my phone to Google Docs, and then downloaded again, which is a little bit inefficient; I think that the OCR process runs server side.
I see this as very useful. This afternoon I'm going in to the local planning office to look at some planning applications; I won't be able to take them away, and I doubt I'll be allowed to use a photocopier, but I will have my phone. That's a real world application. I can think of hundreds more.
According to several of the police officers and volunteer helpers at the Lockerbie incident (Pan Am flight 103) whom I have personally spoken to, a substantial number of the passengers were not dead when initially found, although none survived. The cockpit came down in a field 150 metres from the house of a friend of mine. In the opinion of those witnesses what killed the passengers was injuries sustained in their impact with the ground, not the fall itself.
A Macbook makes a great Windows laptop, and since you already have it it'll be more cost effective to just buy a copy of Windows.
Set up a bootcamp partition (Apps > Utils > Boot Camp Assistant) and give it the lion's share of the disk if it's going to be her primary OS and then install.
Once you have Windows on there, the OS X software disks that came with it (or the ones for your MBP) have all the necessary drivers that are set up via install wizard - just pop it in after Windows boots for the first time.
OK, I don't use Mac OS. I don't own any Apple products at all, so you cannot accuse me of being a fanboi. I haven't even programmed a Mac since the 512k Fat Mac of 1986 or thereabouts. But, Mac OS is nevertheless a quality product, as a consumer operating system goes; probably (for non-geeks) the best available. Isn't putting Windows on a new Mac a bit like buying an Audi or a Porsche, and then replacing the engine with something made in Detroit or Stalingrad? Yes, you can do it. But seriously, someone, explain why you would want to?
I worked for a company once that had a strict rule of 7.5 hours per day 5 days a week. If you needed to work extra to finish something you had to get clearance from the director of development. Their reasoning was that after 7.5 hours per day you introduce much more errors and that will increase testing and bug fixing time and ultimately the company product.
With that reasoning in mind..... 10-11 hour days will likely f-ck up any programs developed pretty badly:-)
OK, one size does not fit all. Some people work well for longer than others. Furthermore, things a person can do for short periods - a few weeks, perhaps - are not necessarily things the same person can sustain over the long haul. And if you push people too hard, not only do error rates go up short term, but ultimately they burn out and become unable to work effectively at all (where 'ultimately' can mean a year - or less).
I've produced some of my best code working sixteen hour days. But I've also burned out working sixteen hour days for too long. In my opinion you need to treat your workforce as individuals each of whom will have a different most effective working pattern - and recognise that for any given individual their most efficient working pattern will vary over time. To get an effective workforce, someone in the team needs to be monitoring how individual team members' performance is changing over time, and seeking to understand why. And then, helping them to modify their working practice to achieve the best effectiveness they can.
But in my opinion if you have someone who's basically a good, creative programmer, and they're having an off period, perhaps because of domestic problems, a good team manager will allow that person to 'slack' for a period - work less, or be assigned less difficult or more interesting work - in the expectation that when they get back to full strength they will be a more committed and more loyal team member.
You absolutely do NOT want a garbage collector on a mobile device with limited memory and CPU power.
This is just one of the many things that Apple got 101% right in iOS.
My mobile phone has over six thousand times the compute power and over a million times the memory of the first computer I worked on, and that supported 18 concurrent users. More than that, my mobile phone has over five hundred times the compute power and one hundred times the memory of the first dedicated LISP workstation I worked on, and that had a full GUI and generational garbage collection. The idea that modern phones have limited memory or limited CPU power is an idea which only beginners or amateurs could possibly believe.
Back at the beginning of the automobile age, cars were so primitive that they didn't have automatic oil pumps. If the driver didn't remember to keep pumping oil, the engine would seize. We no longer think that's good engineering. Nowadays, our cars have automatic oil pumps, which use a tiny fraction of the engine's power to prevent it happening. Back at the very beginning of the computer age, software systems were so primitive that they didn't have automatic memory management. If the programmer didn't remember to keep freeing memory, the memory system would silt up and the machine would freeze. Do you really think that's good engineering?
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I struggled with Apache 2 for at least 4 years before switching to NginX. It was the best thing I ever did.
Quick translation into English: 'I am too clueless to run a webserver, but wish to get First Post'.
The rapist is like a wild animal - you have to protect yourself from it. If covering up reduces the chance or you being raped even by 1%, then you should probably cover up. After all, if you do get raped, it won't matter that the rapist will go to prison - you will still be raped (compared to theft where police may be able to recover your property).
And thus the Taleban is born.
What you are saying is that women should not have normal civil liberties. Who else will you deny them to, and what makes you believe your own liberties will remain safe if you allow this sort of disgraceful attitude to spread?
Very few people can actually use LaTeX. It's an exceptionally user-hostile approach to writing text. Yes, I know some people still use vi, but that doesn't make vi a good word processor. Similarly, LaTeX has exceptional strengths for creating particular sorts of highly technical documents, but for the sorts of documents most people write it is overcomplicated and just gets in the way.
Most people don't want to learn a new language before they can write a simple document. Even if they do want to learn a new language, Markdown is good enough for most people's uses - you can produce damn nice looking documents and, yes, books with it (my toolchain is text piped through a sed script which renders the markdown into rough HTML, through JTidy which cleans that up, through Prince which translates the HTML into nicely rendered PDF, and thence to print. I could use LaTeX - I have used LaTeX - but except for very complicated technical documents it just isn't worth it.
I actually have one of their PowerPC laptops running AIX. It's ancient now, of course, but in its day it was very impressive tech.
We are talking about a company that nearly went out of business because they didn't properly patent their UI (And Apple did a lot of improvements over the Xerox design)
Speaking as someone who worked on both Xerox and Apple computers during the mid 1980s, this is rubbish. There were no significant innovations which Apple and its offspring brought to their user interface - at least until NeXT Step - which had not at least been experimentally tried at Xerox PARC before Steve Jobs' famous visit. Even if they had, nothing in this ought to be patentable anyway - it's all reasonably obvious to any practitioner in the field as soon as the technology (bit-mapped screens and a pointing device) becomes available. When I last bothered to track it, there were fourteen US patents for which I personally had created prior art; I'm sure there are many more now.
But that's just the point. Third normal form requires just one basket for all the eggs! Any DBA worth their salt knows this.
This is true in Europe too. I'm in Scotland. I live in a small but comfortable house I built for myself on my own land last year. It cost in total more than I earn in one month, but less than I earn in two. I'm a senior geek, I get a good wage - but I'm not a banker or a pop-star.
What makes housing expensive is partly labour, but it is mainly that planning policy creates a form of artificial scarcity, and partly also that government support for home ownership creates a speculative bubble, further inflating the cost. Housing is not intrinsically expensive.
Managed to not tell me anything I'd like to know, availability, how big is it, how much does it cost, what materials and so on. Just hype.
This newly fangled Interweb thing has curious devices called 'links'. These are often represented by words distinctively coloured or otherwise marked. Your computational engine is most likely provided with a small carriage vulgarly known as a 'mouse'. If you trundle this carriage across the surface of your writing desk, a representation of a hand or arrow or similar pointing device is automatically and synchronously moved across your information display. If you manoeuvre your 'mouse' until this pointer appears to hover over the distinctively marked text, and then press down on the depressable are on the front left of the carriage until a light click is heard, a page of information will appear elucidating the point being made.
Just sayin'
Read TFL. It's available now, it costs $1,749.00, and the feedstock costs about fifty dollars a spool.
Yes, the National Health Service is wonderful.
Is that ((leap second) coming) or (leap (second coming))?
There's a significant difference!
The problem with the claim that 'their Nokia Lumia smart phone [nokia.co.uk] has beat sales in many European countries and Australia in December and November....' is just that it isn't true. As The Register reports, the the Lumia has bombed in the market, and just one model of Android phone is outselling it worldwide by more than one hundred to one. Nokia's Windows strategy is not 'going to fail', it has already failed. And consequently, so has Windows Phone.
The ARM was designed for, and first used in, general purpose computers; I had an Acorn Archimedes on my desk in 1988, and an R260 (running BSD 4.2 with X11 and OSF Motif) on my desk two years later. BSD and the whole of Debian including Gnome and KDE are available for ARM, and with quad core chips and both MacOS and Windows 8 currently in development for ARM, new general purpose ARM hardware - mostly ultra-portable, but also desktop - is definitely on the way.
And if you flipped the bird on the street you could get arrested.
Where? Not in any civilised part of the world, for certain. In most places, freedom of expression is protected by law. There's even an amendment to the United States Constitution which guarantees your constitutional right to flip the bird in public.
This is more or less bollocks. We all started somewhere. People of my generation didn't learn from experts, because there were damn few experts. The college I went to had been given four Commodore PETs, but none of the teaching staff even knew how to turn one on, and until I and two other students wrote some, there were no programs.
Of course what we wrote was pretty simple and probably pretty bad, but it worked. We created magic. We made the machines do stuff. And for me that staeted a love affair with software that's lasted all my adult life and given me a good career.
Of course
But it has neither the software support nor the peripherals to be a computer, rather than just another media player.
A computer is a device which runs turing-equivalent stored programs. This does that. It's a computer. It's several thousand times faster and has several hundred thousand times the storage of the first computer I worked on, and that one supported eighteen simultaneous users. Add a display and a USB hub linking keyboard, mouse, backing store, and you have a 'personal computer' or 'workstation'. What more do you want?
Personally, I want a beowulf cluster of these!
Exactly.
I do keep sensitive data on my phone and in Google's cloud. That's why I use Android, after all. My phone is either in my belt or in my hand all the time. I don't put it down except when asleep in my bed, and when I'm asleep in my bed there aren't friends of friends present.What about recharging, you say? I have four batteries, one in the phone, one in the charger, two spare, usually fully charged. I shall investigate WhisperCore, but the fundamental security is physical security. Never lose the device.
As of now, it is running on my phone and the GPS is on for a few seconds every ten minutes. However, I'm not persuaded that it's detecting 3G accurately because it says I've had 0% 3G coverage today but in fact I'm posting this through my phone using USB tethering.
If you trust Vodafone (or any other commercial provider) to create an accurate and reliable map, I have this very valuable bridge in London I'd like to sell you.
It really doesn't matter whether current global warming is man made or not. That's a side issue. The real issue is that as global temperatures rise, the areas where we now grow most of the world's food will get drier and more arid, with desertification spreading. The areas which will benefit from improved fertility are smaller anyway, and are quite heavily developed. So we get a fairly large net loss in agricultural output. This at a time when the planet is already carrying a larger human population than ever before, and it's still growing.
Regardless of what is causing global warming, if we don't do our best to slow it or stop it there is going to be global starvation, war and economic disruption on a scale never seen before. Saying 'but it isn't our fault, it's the sun' isn't going to save your life.
I think the quality is tolerable. I photographed a document lying on my desk, without doing anything special to make it smooth or adjust lighting. This is a good simulation of a real-world situation where you can photograph a piece of text. There were errors in the transcription but it was readable, and with a very little editing would have been perfect. What surprised me was that apparently the whole image was uploaded from my phone to Google Docs, and then downloaded again, which is a little bit inefficient; I think that the OCR process runs server side.
I see this as very useful. This afternoon I'm going in to the local planning office to look at some planning applications; I won't be able to take them away, and I doubt I'll be allowed to use a photocopier, but I will have my phone. That's a real world application. I can think of hundreds more.
According to several of the police officers and volunteer helpers at the Lockerbie incident (Pan Am flight 103) whom I have personally spoken to, a substantial number of the passengers were not dead when initially found, although none survived. The cockpit came down in a field 150 metres from the house of a friend of mine. In the opinion of those witnesses what killed the passengers was injuries sustained in their impact with the ground, not the fall itself.
A Macbook makes a great Windows laptop, and since you already have it it'll be more cost effective to just buy a copy of Windows.
Set up a bootcamp partition (Apps > Utils > Boot Camp Assistant) and give it the lion's share of the disk if it's going to be her primary OS and then install.
Once you have Windows on there, the OS X software disks that came with it (or the ones for your MBP) have all the necessary drivers that are set up via install wizard - just pop it in after Windows boots for the first time.
OK, I don't use Mac OS. I don't own any Apple products at all, so you cannot accuse me of being a fanboi. I haven't even programmed a Mac since the 512k Fat Mac of 1986 or thereabouts. But, Mac OS is nevertheless a quality product, as a consumer operating system goes; probably (for non-geeks) the best available. Isn't putting Windows on a new Mac a bit like buying an Audi or a Porsche, and then replacing the engine with something made in Detroit or Stalingrad? Yes, you can do it. But seriously, someone, explain why you would want to?
I worked for a company once that had a strict rule of 7.5 hours per day 5 days a week. If you needed to work extra to finish something you had to get clearance from the director of development.
Their reasoning was that after 7.5 hours per day you introduce much more errors and that will increase testing and bug fixing time and ultimately the company product.
With that reasoning in mind..... 10-11 hour days will likely f-ck up any programs developed pretty badly :-)
OK, one size does not fit all. Some people work well for longer than others. Furthermore, things a person can do for short periods - a few weeks, perhaps - are not necessarily things the same person can sustain over the long haul. And if you push people too hard, not only do error rates go up short term, but ultimately they burn out and become unable to work effectively at all (where 'ultimately' can mean a year - or less).
I've produced some of my best code working sixteen hour days. But I've also burned out working sixteen hour days for too long. In my opinion you need to treat your workforce as individuals each of whom will have a different most effective working pattern - and recognise that for any given individual their most efficient working pattern will vary over time. To get an effective workforce, someone in the team needs to be monitoring how individual team members' performance is changing over time, and seeking to understand why. And then, helping them to modify their working practice to achieve the best effectiveness they can.
But in my opinion if you have someone who's basically a good, creative programmer, and they're having an off period, perhaps because of domestic problems, a good team manager will allow that person to 'slack' for a period - work less, or be assigned less difficult or more interesting work - in the expectation that when they get back to full strength they will be a more committed and more loyal team member.
You absolutely do NOT want a garbage collector on a mobile device with limited memory and CPU power.
This is just one of the many things that Apple got 101% right in iOS.
My mobile phone has over six thousand times the compute power and over a million times the memory of the first computer I worked on, and that supported 18 concurrent users. More than that, my mobile phone has over five hundred times the compute power and one hundred times the memory of the first dedicated LISP workstation I worked on, and that had a full GUI and generational garbage collection. The idea that modern phones have limited memory or limited CPU power is an idea which only beginners or amateurs could possibly believe.
Back at the beginning of the automobile age, cars were so primitive that they didn't have automatic oil pumps. If the driver didn't remember to keep pumping oil, the engine would seize. We no longer think that's good engineering. Nowadays, our cars have automatic oil pumps, which use a tiny fraction of the engine's power to prevent it happening. Back at the very beginning of the computer age, software systems were so primitive that they didn't have automatic memory management. If the programmer didn't remember to keep freeing memory, the memory system would silt up and the machine would freeze. Do you really think that's good engineering?