Well, webkit browsers and mobile opera browsers are pretty different. I have both on my Nokia (webkit based browser was preinstalled). Both are ok to use. I usually prefer opera mini for the lower amount of data and the 'image quality' setting, and webkit when it comes to more dynamic things (like forms etc).
as the gravel roads are used by few cars only this may be an good temporary solution. However i dont believe this is appropriate in a nation spending 600Billion $ for arms (=6 Million Kilometers of good road).
how many programmer are working with you. Can you exclude some of them are assholes? Can you exclude some of them are hating their job, want to leave tomorrow and are waiting to sabotage something? Can you exclude some newly hired guy is inexperienced or an idiot?
Well if nothing of that matters to you, you don't need anybody having looking at their code. However if something bad (sbdy of your shop stealing data etc....) happens and you will be asked if you had a well defined procedure how code enters you codebase, it might save your ass if you had code reviews.
The program takes three very reasonable measures, namely making sure a virusscanner is run, making sure windows update is run and disabling bridging (we can discuss about the last one). If there is no small print which i did not look for th9is does include "scan your hard drive". Having been an adminitrator in an university network which was connected with 100M (back then) to the switch where also the dormitories where conected to tith 100M, and running a logging firewall on the server, i can tell you that a lot of machines attacking us where from dormitories, i suppose trojan-infected.
I my opinion providing network services in dormitories should be done by a provider outside university. Who really needs it can then use a VPN.
If they don't like explicit content, then should filter the content, not the searches. I think it is possible to return informative web pages about sex.
Sorry, that is all i have too say. I prefer young people hugging each other and not feeling lonely instead of doing stupid things because they feel lonely. Whom you hug and where is a highly personal thing and i dint think that it is the task of the school to regulate it.
-Borland Pascal: One of the first complete affordable OO IDE environments with well organized UI elements -matlab: finding the eigenvalues of a Schroedinger equation numerically takes roughly three lines of code -macsyma/maxima, mathematica: automate handling of symbolic expressions -perl: the web 2.0 language before web 2.0 was named web 2.0 -emacs: Still the most feature-rich editor. The number of "emacs-like" clones which try to capture its core functionality without the bloat is impressive. -tex/latex: If you make a book, there is nothing better. -man: i think there was a time when manuals came on paper only -gopher: the web before the web.....
I am only a semi-professional developer, writing and numerical software for research (which influences some things). My perspective on this is simple, and has not changed much since Java 1.2 came out. At that time my personal focus shifted completely to writing applications which are as portable as possible. Before that i was extremely annoyed over having to choose between the different platforms for UNIX (motif, X, gtk, qt), which where at that time either not free or not running well on windows. There are actually not many toolkits stable on both platforms. i would suppose that i would stick nowadays to qt if somebody would force me to write C.
With Java it became obvious that i can trade of performance for development time and having something running on all platforms. Yes, i am aware that AWT was never perfect, but it was, for a long time it was the tool providing the best abstraction of your OS while maintaining performance (please spare me the "java is slow" generalization here. i know the drawbacks, but i had a quite complex DAQ application in java running on a P120 with 96MB of RAM). Best in terms of not having to learn much and getting programs which still run well. The other option i am following is tcl/tk. I am impressed on the stability and maturity of tk in everyday life, even if it *definitely* not my favourite Toolkit. Nowadays, using Swing is the obvious way to go for multi-platform.
So, if you want to save development effort (and that is what i guess this is about), bind your native renderer to Java and use Swing as an GUI. You wont event have to maintain different versions. If you are keen on having it native on all platforms, how about QT? But i think we are getting closer to the problem here. So, google, instead of taking one of the options available and using it, insists on a windows-like philosophy that this should be part of the OS. We should ask for the motivation here. Google recently released android. It seems to be flourishing. I think this is nothing bad, i enjoy that after many progressive small companies who have been pushe out of the market when trying to make free phones, google creates one strong pole of development. But, IMHO, this time would be exactly the right time for google to tell to the FOSS community: "look we have this google-backed platform; Netbooks, mobiles, pdas - linux will conquer the world" and "oh BTW did you notice a standardized platform is utterly lacking for Linux?". So i appreciate a certain consolidation of toolkits in use on linux, be it just to make copy and paste working finally. On the other hand, i think, seeing that Java is GPLed now, doomsday predictions for Linux on the Desktop due to this reasons are highly exaggerated and developer opinions from companies who have an interest in establishing their own platform (which i appreciate. I can't wait to use an android phone when these are mature) should be taken with a grain of salt.
Yes. It happens more often than reported. None of the cases i have heard of has been reported. One of the things happening most often is sabotage of the experiments of co-workers. Also a inappropriate authors list is quite common. Post-selecting data according to theory is something which you see often enough (although it is in a gray area if you experiments have a random component).
The only reason to switch away from a perfectly working fs to something which is less than 2 years in the stable kernel is that you need to do it (e.g. featurewise, performance). If it is about things barely measurable in normal life (e.g. speedups10%) for you application, forget it. The guys who need it can test it first. Most likely they make more qualified bug reports than somebody, who obviously does not even know if yhe needs it or not.
I used ext3 starting from 2003 in production systems and i can not say yhat i suffered from using ext2 for two years more. Some people tried to tell me that it helps me rebooting the fileserver i maintained (for 30-40 computer, approx 20 people) faster after a chrash, but our small fileserver anyway was not rebooted that often, and crashes where so seldom that the time for checking the fs was clearly acceptable.
I am an experimental physicist in solid state physics. I think this subject in low to medium-prone to misconduct. Lets analyze the different aspects of it:
a) Motivation: getting your thesis/paper finished quicker/better, getting research money
b) Control Is there a control actually considering scientific behavior to be a fundamental good or is it just important that nothing is uncovered?
c) Ways of misbehaviour (i only write down what happened in the range of what i have seen/recognized(e.g. in other groups papers) or friends told me what they saw. I exclude friends of friends stories): Unclear formulation of experimental hypotheses *before* the experiment ("fishing in the dark"), not noting all people involved as authors, mentioning people not involved as authors, post-selection of experimental data supporting a hypothesis. incorrect labeling of data (e.g. different sample of same type etc), sabotage of co-workers experiments, beautification of data (the line between nonlinear filtering and faking is a thin one).
d) Ways of reporting without shooting yourself in your foot: ????? None?
e) Education towards it: negative (if you report results in lab courses which dont match the supervisors expectation, you get in trouble instead of turning the device on an measuring again. This educates people to copy last years results.
So let me summarize: the subtleness of some ways of manipulation coming together with a lack of control, education, and ways of reporting without getting damaged while seeing a good expected reward for bending the rules of science a little has turned many good people bad. Imagine a Bank where the money in the evening is not counted, the people are eductaed to just take a little bit, nobody is interested if some money is missing.
And if you are talking about Japanese Buddism, which is half-merged into shintuism at some points, then it really does not matter. I have seldom seen a place (i live in Japan) where religion is lived in such a flexible way as here.
Hmmm. I had hoped to stimulate another response, but, oh, well, just lets go on as before. We can live with the order-of-magnitude hinger accident rates in labs, cant we?
We all know something is wrong. Normally wearing the right clothes is not enforced in a lab if it slows people down. It is normal that 23year old undergrads work alone with dangerous substances. It is normal that dangerous substances are not broken up into appropriate quantities by lab personal but that students use syringes to take these from a big bottle. We all know that bad planning leads to the phd student asking the masters student to wire the pump/heater/rack instead of bringing the thing to the workshop to do the power electrics a few days earlier. We all know how to skip the fuse if we don't have it in stock and then forget about it. We all know that the direct pressure on the student to bring scientific results will make him skip rules to save 10-20% of his worktime.
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Well, webkit browsers and mobile opera browsers are pretty different. I have both on my Nokia (webkit based browser was preinstalled). Both are ok to use. I usually prefer opera mini for the lower amount of data and the 'image quality' setting, and webkit when it comes to more dynamic things (like forms etc).
Hail to the imperial and other non-metric systems. Ideal for low mars flyovers.
as the gravel roads are used by few cars only this may be an good temporary solution. However i dont believe this is appropriate in a nation spending 600Billion $ for arms (=6 Million Kilometers of good road).
how many programmer are working with you. Can you exclude some of them are assholes? Can you exclude some of them are hating their job, want to leave tomorrow and are waiting to sabotage something? Can you exclude some newly hired guy is inexperienced or an idiot?
Well if nothing of that matters to you, you don't need anybody having looking at their code. However if something bad (sbdy of your shop stealing data etc....) happens and you will be asked if you had a well defined procedure how code enters you codebase, it might save your ass if you had code reviews.
My simple opinion: Follow the rules by the letter. Make the scanner swallow on a big random data file of yours and then call the helpdesk.
The program takes three very reasonable measures, namely making sure a virusscanner is run, making sure windows update is run and disabling bridging (we can discuss about the last one). If there is no small print which i did not look for th9is does include "scan your hard drive". Having been an adminitrator in an university network which was connected with 100M (back then) to the switch where also the dormitories where conected to tith 100M, and running a logging firewall on the server, i can tell you that a lot of machines attacking us where from dormitories, i suppose trojan-infected.
I my opinion providing network services in dormitories should be done by a provider outside university. Who really needs it can then use a VPN.
If they don't like explicit content, then should filter the content, not the searches. I think it is possible to return informative web pages about sex.
They need firewire.
Right now, Android is more a rival for symbian than for Windows.
Sorry, that is all i have too say. I prefer young people hugging each other and not feeling lonely instead of doing stupid things because they feel lonely. Whom you hug and where is a highly personal thing and i dint think that it is the task of the school to regulate it.
There are ton of small administrative web-tools in companies out there which only run when using ie6
-Borland Pascal: One of the first complete affordable OO IDE environments with well organized UI elements
-matlab: finding the eigenvalues of a Schroedinger equation numerically takes roughly three lines of code
-macsyma/maxima, mathematica: automate handling of symbolic expressions
-perl: the web 2.0 language before web 2.0 was named web 2.0
-emacs: Still the most feature-rich editor. The number of "emacs-like" clones which try to capture its core functionality without the bloat is impressive.
-tex/latex: If you make a book, there is nothing better.
-man: i think there was a time when manuals came on paper only
-gopher: the web before the web.....
I am only a semi-professional developer, writing and numerical software for research (which influences some things). My perspective on this is simple, and has not changed much since Java 1.2 came out. At that time my personal focus shifted completely to writing applications which are as portable as possible. Before that i was extremely annoyed over having to choose between the different platforms for UNIX (motif, X, gtk, qt), which where at that time either not free or not running well on windows. There are actually not many toolkits stable on both platforms. i would suppose that i would stick nowadays to qt if somebody would force me to write C.
With Java it became obvious that i can trade of performance for development time and having something running on all platforms. Yes, i am aware that AWT was never perfect, but it was, for a long time it was the tool providing the best abstraction of your OS while maintaining performance (please spare me the "java is slow" generalization here. i know the drawbacks, but i had a quite complex DAQ application in java running on a P120 with 96MB of RAM). Best in terms of not having to learn much and getting programs which still run well. The other option i am following is tcl/tk. I am impressed on the stability and maturity of tk in everyday life, even if it *definitely* not my favourite Toolkit. Nowadays, using Swing is the obvious way to go for multi-platform.
So, if you want to save development effort (and that is what i guess this is about), bind your native renderer to Java and use Swing as an GUI. You wont event have to maintain different versions. If you are keen on having it native on all platforms, how about QT? But i think we are getting closer to the problem here. So, google, instead of taking one of the options available and using it, insists on a windows-like philosophy that this should be part of the OS. We should ask for the motivation here. Google recently released android. It seems to be flourishing. I think this is nothing bad, i enjoy that after many progressive small companies who have been pushe out of the market when trying to make free phones, google creates one strong pole of development. But, IMHO, this time would be exactly the right time for google to tell to the FOSS community: "look we have this google-backed platform; Netbooks, mobiles, pdas - linux will conquer the world" and "oh BTW did you notice a standardized platform is utterly lacking for Linux?". So i appreciate a certain consolidation of toolkits in use on linux, be it just to make copy and paste working finally. On the other hand, i think, seeing that Java is GPLed now, doomsday predictions for Linux on the Desktop due to this reasons are highly exaggerated and developer opinions from companies who have an interest in establishing their own platform (which i appreciate. I can't wait to use an android phone when these are mature) should be taken with a grain of salt.
pack a trojan on the drives, send them to all people you know, and start a botnet.
Yes. It happens more often than reported. None of the cases i have heard of has been reported. One of the things happening most often is sabotage of the experiments of co-workers. Also a inappropriate authors list is quite common. Post-selecting data according to theory is something which you see often enough (although it is in a gray area if you experiments have a random component).
The only reason to switch away from a perfectly working fs to something which is less than 2 years in the stable kernel is that you need to do it (e.g. featurewise, performance). If it is about things barely measurable in normal life (e.g. speedups10%) for you application, forget it. The guys who need it can test it first. Most likely they make more qualified bug reports than somebody, who obviously does not even know if yhe needs it or not.
I used ext3 starting from 2003 in production systems and i can not say yhat i suffered from using ext2 for two years more. Some people tried to tell me that it helps me rebooting the fileserver i maintained (for 30-40 computer, approx 20 people) faster after a chrash, but our small fileserver anyway was not rebooted that often, and crashes where so seldom that the time for checking the fs was clearly acceptable.
I am an experimental physicist in solid state physics. I think this subject in low to medium-prone to misconduct. Lets analyze the different aspects of it:
a) Motivation: getting your thesis/paper finished quicker/better, getting research money
b) Control Is there a control actually considering scientific behavior to be a fundamental good or is it just important that nothing is uncovered?
c) Ways of misbehaviour (i only write down what happened in the range of what i have seen/recognized(e.g. in other groups papers) or friends told me what they saw. I exclude friends of friends stories): Unclear formulation of experimental hypotheses *before* the experiment ("fishing in the dark"), not noting all people involved as authors, mentioning people not involved as authors, post-selection of experimental data supporting a hypothesis. incorrect labeling of data (e.g. different sample of same type etc), sabotage of co-workers experiments, beautification of data (the line between nonlinear filtering and faking is a thin one).
d) Ways of reporting without shooting yourself in your foot: ????? None?
e) Education towards it: negative (if you report results in lab courses which dont match the supervisors expectation, you get in trouble instead of turning the device on an measuring again. This educates people to copy last years results.
So let me summarize: the subtleness of some ways of manipulation coming together with a lack of control, education, and ways of reporting without getting damaged while seeing a good expected reward for bending the rules of science a little has turned many good people bad. Imagine a Bank where the money in the evening is not counted, the people are eductaed to just take a little bit, nobody is interested if some money is missing.
And if you are talking about Japanese Buddism, which is half-merged into shintuism at some points, then it really does not matter. I have seldom seen a place (i live in Japan) where religion is lived in such a flexible way as here.
Check the top drawer of the your desk where the paper clips are lying normally.
Oh? It is locked and you dont know where the key is?
Mod parent up. I live in Japan and i always am fascinated ho educated people in the 21 century believe such psudoscientific crap
Hmmm. I had hoped to stimulate another response, but, oh, well, just lets go on as before. We can live with the order-of-magnitude hinger accident rates in labs, cant we?
The engineers said they are not qualified for it and somebody else should check it.
You don't know how right you are.
Most of them seem to come from the lab.
We all know something is wrong. Normally wearing the right clothes is not enforced in a lab if it slows people down. It is normal that 23year old undergrads work alone with dangerous substances. It is normal that dangerous substances are not broken up into appropriate quantities by lab personal but that students use syringes to take these from a big bottle. We all know that bad planning leads to the phd student asking the masters student to wire the pump/heater/rack instead of bringing the thing to the workshop to do the power electrics a few days earlier. We all know how to skip the fuse if we don't have it in stock and then forget about it. We all know that the direct pressure on the student to bring scientific results will make him skip rules to save 10-20% of his worktime.
So, dear co-postdocs, what will we do?
Netbook keyboard+large fingers+in hurry -> Messy spelling.