Why not? Northrop Grumman and Airbus got the tanker deal. They could easily retool a couple of those for Airforce One. After all Marine One is scheduled to be of BAE/Augusta origins license built by Lockheed. All deals signed under a Republican administration; and license-building keeps the unions and pork-barrellers happy. You get the technology and keep the manufacturing base, and the europeans spend the money on the insanely long lead-times these projects always have. Win all round if you ask me.
Tadayo Honma (Nippon Credit) Christen Schnor (HSBC) Also HSBC, Neil Ellerbeck killed his wife. Kristy Hunt.
That makes 6 by my count.
Of course, bankers are as prone to suicide as much as anyone else in a high-stress job. However, some of these must relate to the current crisis, as much as some suicides related to the Enron crisis.
I think the number of 20s bankers suicides is exgerated, but not a myth. Anecdoctal evidence from the BBC site suggest at least some bankers committed suicide in the 20s.
There is no free-market in personal computers. Period. I do believe that there was a legal judgment a few years back regarding this. Maybe you heard of it in your bunker? Microsoft is an illegal monopoly. The fact that your government refused to pursue the illegality is a little disappointing. But the fact remains. Microsoft are criminals.
I wonder if Obama will revisit this. I can hear the squeals already.
I'm posting from a Mac BTW. My next machine will be a IEEE PC linux box.
I agree with you about the gp; but a while ago I noticed a lot of comments in the CPAN modules which started talking about the perl "way of doing things" rather than just nicking things wholesale from other languages. If they have started the latter again, then Perl 6 will be the better for it.
Given that a fair proportion of most of the firms I've worked for do not know how to use SCMS, a lot of the SCMS I've maintained contain rather large binary snapshots. Also, distributed firms. So this might be a useful tool if I could get people to use it. Which is unlikely.
but the politics? In this case, leave it out. Just a distraction.
The one problem we do have is that you can't objectively match the old exams with the new. In the Good Old Days, we used to have the Bell Curve, which could be shifted accordingly to make the Elite appear the Elite. So the old style of marking wasn't very "objective". Nowadays, the bar is set and the bar stays there, at least in English schools. I have a sneaky suspicion that this is what people really want. Witness one poster bemoaning the demise of the CSE. I took CSEs, and the maths exams I took weren't like he described so I really have to doubt the whole thrust of his argument.
Problem 2 is that the people who took those exams weren't trained in those "hard numerical" methods so surprise surprise fewer people passed. Are these methods exactly what people want? I'm not a chemist so I wouldn't know.
Problem 3 is the UK school leagues which, under whatever system you adopt, will always lead to gradgrind. Not sure gradgrinding will actually produce better pupils.
I think the real problem is multifold: turning schools in to gradgrind institutions with the incentive for Schools to "tweak" the results. Continually tampering with the school system. I think stability is better than this continually idiocy of sniping and bickering.
The reason for a lot of build machines in the rack may not be horsepower but rather you need x different machine versions, or a certain build only builds on a certain machine because of licence restrictions or you may only have one windows box with the Japanese character set installed because it causes so many problems that multiplying the problems just isn't worth it and so on and so forth. Building across n number of the same machine version just isn't worth the work IMO. Just get a bigger machine and save on the machine maintenance.
So the real benefit of distcc might be parallel compilation; I see a big future for this, particularly with the chipsets becoming commonplace. Once upon a time, I would not countenance a dual-chip machine in the rack because of the indeterminate mayhem it would sometimes cause to a random piece of code deep in the bowels. Those problems are well gone.
Umm. I wonder how this plays out how with VMWARE? A distributed compiler smart enough to use the (correct) local compiler across a varied build set would be worth having...
People say what you're saying every time a new Microsoft browser/OS system appears on the horizon.
Yes, any team could be on the ball. What possible business motive would they have, though? Re-factoring is always way down the list of any set of code. Way down. Way, way, way down. Indeed, notoriously Vista is the result of a junked re-factoring.
I see no evidence anywhere that anything different is happening this time. Indeed, with only one WinHec for Windows 7, I think it could be substantially worse.
How a post consisting of wishful thinking be marked interesting, I'm not sure.
I'm pretty sure something like this was part of the story in Miracleman: The Golden Age. The plot involved taking cold war spies and putting them in a recreation of East Germany.
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I voted Harold Saxon and never regretted a moment.
(Actually, I think all of my software is totally legit except for Photoshop, and I plan to buy it eventually)
We all plan to buy Photoshop.
we killed the website. More deadly than a rattle-snake ... slashdot
Anyone?
Why not? Northrop Grumman and Airbus got the tanker deal. They could easily retool a couple of those for Airforce One. After all Marine One is scheduled to be of BAE/Augusta origins license built by Lockheed. All deals signed under a Republican administration; and license-building keeps the unions and pork-barrellers happy. You get the technology and keep the manufacturing base, and the europeans spend the money on the insanely long lead-times these projects always have. Win all round if you ask me.
Doesn't this void the legal shit? Ummm ... why not wait for MS to come up with a fix ...
Tadayo Honma (Nippon Credit)
Christen Schnor (HSBC) Also HSBC, Neil Ellerbeck killed his wife.
Kristy Hunt.
That makes 6 by my count.
Of course, bankers are as prone to suicide as much as anyone else in a high-stress job. However, some of these must relate to the current crisis, as much as some suicides related to the Enron crisis.
I think the number of 20s bankers suicides is exgerated, but not a myth. Anecdoctal evidence from the BBC site suggest at least some bankers committed suicide in the 20s.
umm, the ponzi guy was an INVESTOR in the scheme. A scammee not a scammer.
I know of at least 3 bankers who have committed suicide recently, mostly from those banks whose funds have tanked. It's almost like the twenties.
The only "interesting deaths" surrounding the Clintons were those which their opponents tried to tar them with.
Not everything has to be a conspiracy. Aircraft do crash.
"First and foremost, this website is not a hoax or joke"
That's the warning there in BIG RED LIGHTS
There is no free-market in personal computers. Period. I do believe that there was a legal judgment a few years back regarding this. Maybe you heard of it in your bunker? Microsoft is an illegal monopoly. The fact that your government refused to pursue the illegality is a little disappointing. But the fact remains. Microsoft are criminals.
I wonder if Obama will revisit this. I can hear the squeals already.
I'm posting from a Mac BTW. My next machine will be a IEEE PC linux box.
I agree with you about the gp; but a while ago I noticed a lot of comments in the CPAN modules which started talking about the perl "way of doing things" rather than just nicking things wholesale from other languages. If they have started the latter again, then Perl 6 will be the better for it.
Abacus OS will support these "standards" in the next release, due in at the same time as DNF funnily enough.
Given that a fair proportion of most of the firms I've worked for do not know how to use SCMS, a lot of the SCMS I've maintained contain rather large binary snapshots. Also, distributed firms. So this might be a useful tool if I could get people to use it. Which is unlikely.
but the politics? In this case, leave it out. Just a distraction.
The one problem we do have is that you can't objectively match the old exams with the new. In the Good Old Days, we used to have the Bell Curve, which could be shifted accordingly to make the Elite appear the Elite. So the old style of marking wasn't very "objective". Nowadays, the bar is set and the bar stays there, at least in English schools. I have a sneaky suspicion that this is what people really want. Witness one poster bemoaning the demise of the CSE. I took CSEs, and the maths exams I took weren't like he described so I really have to doubt the whole thrust of his argument.
Problem 2 is that the people who took those exams weren't trained in those "hard numerical" methods so surprise surprise fewer people passed. Are these methods exactly what people want? I'm not a chemist so I wouldn't know.
Problem 3 is the UK school leagues which, under whatever system you adopt, will always lead to gradgrind. Not sure gradgrinding will actually produce better pupils.
I think the real problem is multifold: turning schools in to gradgrind institutions with the incentive for Schools to "tweak" the results. Continually tampering with the school system. I think stability is better than this continually idiocy of sniping and bickering.
Read the last paragraphs of that article. One can only assume that Shell are trying to clean-up their image after fucking up over a period of time.
In short, I need more than just the bleatings of a CEO in trouble to convince me that an oil company is fighting global warming.
Maybe you shouldn't be so naive.
patents on mice. That'll keep their monopoly intact.
The reason for a lot of build machines in the rack may not be horsepower but rather you need x different machine versions, or a certain build only builds on a certain machine because of licence restrictions or you may only have one windows box with the Japanese character set installed because it causes so many problems that multiplying the problems just isn't worth it and so on and so forth. Building across n number of the same machine version just isn't worth the work IMO. Just get a bigger machine and save on the machine maintenance.
So the real benefit of distcc might be parallel compilation; I see a big future for this, particularly with the chipsets becoming commonplace. Once upon a time, I would not countenance a dual-chip machine in the rack because of the indeterminate mayhem it would sometimes cause to a random piece of code deep in the bowels. Those problems are well gone.
Umm. I wonder how this plays out how with VMWARE? A distributed compiler smart enough to use the (correct) local compiler across a varied build set would be worth having ...
Dylan had a very powerful macro system.
http://www.opendylan.org/
with all the advantages of a late-bound language.
People say what you're saying every time a new Microsoft browser/OS system appears on the horizon.
Yes, any team could be on the ball. What possible business motive would they have, though? Re-factoring is always way down the list of any set of code. Way down. Way, way, way down. Indeed, notoriously Vista is the result of a junked re-factoring.
I see no evidence anywhere that anything different is happening this time. Indeed, with only one WinHec for Windows 7, I think it could be substantially worse.
How a post consisting of wishful thinking be marked interesting, I'm not sure.
Well, the originals were written in Greek, then translated to Aramaic. then English.
I've worked for a few companies where programmers were paid for "work"
that sound in your ear is your nurse telling you the joke has gone way over your head.
also, who modded the op insightful? He's clearly referring to Bush ...
Maybe we should create our own standards committees. And work out a way for them *not* to be corrupted.
How does this affect MyPirateBay again?
I'm pretty sure something like this was part of the story in Miracleman: The Golden Age. The plot involved taking cold war spies and putting them in a recreation of East Germany.