When I was at Durham University, I was told that the university didn't insure their buildings because the cost was so great compared to the perceived risk. Instead they invested in good fire detection systems.
For the people who think that women just aren't interested in IT, take a look at this article.
Specifically look at the 8th paragraph after the "Software for Grown-Ups" heading, though I'd encourage you to read the whole article.
Women aren't so much not interested in IT, as not interested in the unprofessional, hanging-on-by-our-fingertips, fly-by-night project 'management' that is so endemic in the industry.
Exactly. The oversight is in recognition that the British people are basically required to pay the license fee. Because they don't have a lot of choice, the government has to make sure that they (the people, not the government) are getting value for money, without getting directly involved and being accused of controlling the BBC.
Actually, for true independence, I think it's important to have both. Markets do not self-regulate for everyone's benefit - they do it for their own benefit.
An advertising-funded media will always be thinking about where the money is coming from, and won't want to upset its biggest funders. And, if you think the BBC is biased, try looking at some of the 'independent' newspapers in the UK.
A nationally funded broadcaster does not need to worry about large companies taking their funding away. And if you think that they aren't going to broadcast anything critical of the government - well there's always the 'independent' channels that can do that.
Perhaps - given that a significant proportion of this material is not just computing history, but British history - the bodleian might be a better suggestion?
Ah, the Atari ST. My happiest programming days (perhaps happiest because I wasn't yet old enough to have to earn a crust!) were spent in front of one of them.
I taught myself 68000 assembler using Devpac 3. I basically just stepped though code in the debugger until I'd worked out what each instruction did. Later I bought a book which filled in the details. When I got to uni I found myself correcting the Lecturer on details of the Processor - I passed that module practically with my eyes shut!
Unless I'm badly mistaken the later chips in the series did have a barrel shifter - Something like the 68020 or 68030 (As used in the Atari Falcon).
I'm now writing code for a PIC, and I certainly wish THAT had a barrel shifter! Very slow multiplication routines! The program I'm writing is so tight on memory that the C compiler is struggling - humans can allocate RAM far better than compilers at this scale! I've also found bugs in both the compilers I'm using. Grrr.
Someone has just spent 1 mod point, to take me down from 1 to 0, offtopic. I really don't think it was sooooo offtopic to deserve that. Surely it would have been far better to leave the post in the dregs (do many people read below about +3 anyway), and mod some other post UP.
This just gives an impression of pettiness - as if someone is more interested in putting people down than lifting them up!
I heard this claim two nights ago on the BBC World Service. I actually wrote a bit of a rant complaining about their lack of accuracy, and the way they had interviewed Darl, but not interviewed someone representing the other side of the argument.
Basically, they're not had a good technical editor look over what they were broadcasting, and have only listened to one side of the argument.
I didn't submit the rant in the end because I thought it was just one report, and because I had lost coherency part way through.
World Service is a separate company from the BBC, but there's a lot of flow of information/articles/people between them.
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What's wrong with the existing homesteading laws?
The Jurisdiction?
Dead flies? We're all over it.
Don't ever travel to Russia pal: In soviet russia, dead flies are all over you!
When I was at Durham University, I was told that the university didn't insure their buildings because the cost was so great compared to the perceived risk. Instead they invested in good fire detection systems.
I'd have described it as a comedy myself...
Well, there's their sourcesafe server for a start - that's riddled with malware.
Unfortunately, you forget that many kids can use Photoshop functions while many adults struggle to use MS Paint.
Makes you wonder where they get the ideas from. Hypothetically speaking, I'd probably mark my chip with a giant penis. Why? The world may never know.
We can only hope!
You lose your uptime.
I think Ataris had style when it came to crashing.
Did anyone else read the subject and think "Thick Ethernet? What do we want to bring that back for?"
Here's my solution to collision detection
What do software engineers do to primary schools kids?
How can something be almost fanless?
Yeah yeah, responding to my own post...
Specifically look at the 8th paragraph after the "Software for Grown-Ups" heading, though I'd encourage you to read the whole article.
Women aren't so much not interested in IT, as not interested in the unprofessional, hanging-on-by-our-fingertips, fly-by-night project 'management' that is so endemic in the industry.
Just take a quick glance through the comments here and it becomes kind of obvious.
Welcome to globalisation.
Exactly. The oversight is in recognition that the British people are basically required to pay the license fee. Because they don't have a lot of choice, the government has to make sure that they (the people, not the government) are getting value for money, without getting directly involved and being accused of controlling the BBC.
An advertising-funded media will always be thinking about where the money is coming from, and won't want to upset its biggest funders. And, if you think the BBC is biased, try looking at some of the 'independent' newspapers in the UK.
A nationally funded broadcaster does not need to worry about large companies taking their funding away. And if you think that they aren't going to broadcast anything critical of the government - well there's always the 'independent' channels that can do that.
Perhaps - given that a significant proportion of this material is not just computing history, but British history - the bodleian might be a better suggestion?
Bush heard that the moon is accelerating towards the Earth, and wants to destroy it before it hits us!
Ah, the Atari ST. My happiest programming days (perhaps happiest because I wasn't yet old enough to have to earn a crust!) were spent in front of one of them.
I taught myself 68000 assembler using Devpac 3. I basically just stepped though code in the debugger until I'd worked out what each instruction did. Later I bought a book which filled in the details. When I got to uni I found myself correcting the Lecturer on details of the Processor - I passed that module practically with my eyes shut!
Unless I'm badly mistaken the later chips in the series did have a barrel shifter - Something like the 68020 or 68030 (As used in the Atari Falcon).
I'm now writing code for a PIC, and I certainly wish THAT had a barrel shifter! Very slow multiplication routines! The program I'm writing is so tight on memory that the C compiler is struggling - humans can allocate RAM far better than compilers at this scale! I've also found bugs in both the compilers I'm using. Grrr.
Ok, this is whinging, I know, but:
What the fsck?
Someone has just spent 1 mod point, to take me down from 1 to 0, offtopic. I really don't think it was sooooo offtopic to deserve that. Surely it would have been far better to leave the post in the dregs (do many people read below about +3 anyway), and mod some other post UP.
This just gives an impression of pettiness - as if someone is more interested in putting people down than lifting them up!
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I heard this claim two nights ago on the BBC World Service. I actually wrote a bit of a rant complaining about their lack of accuracy, and the way they had interviewed Darl, but not interviewed someone representing the other side of the argument.
Basically, they're not had a good technical editor look over what they were broadcasting, and have only listened to one side of the argument.
I didn't submit the rant in the end because I thought it was just one report, and because I had lost coherency part way through.
World Service is a separate company from the BBC, but there's a lot of flow of information/articles/people between them.