I'd believe 1% as having "some experience". Some experience is what you put on your CV when you know what the buzword means.
If you ask how many can "regularly achieve significant performance through use of multiple threads" then 0.1% is far too high. If you mean "can exchange data between a userland thread and an ISR in compliance with the needs of reliable parallel execution" then its a safe bet that less than 0.1% are mentally up to the challenge./. readers are not typical of the programming cummiity. These days people who can drag-and-drop call themselves programmers. Poeple who can spell "l337" are one!
The cost of making a mobile phone call from a plane will be higher than making one from the ground
You bet... this is the UK here, the price of the call will exceed the price of the flight by a substantial margin. but dont panic... "the regulator will look into it real soon now".
We're targeting WinMo 5 +.Net Compact Framework 1.0 because that's the largest existing install base out there for Windows based SmartPhones and PocketPCs. When we run into problems and post questions to mailing lists we're regularly getting called idiots for not using Compact Framework 3 or WinMo 6. Sure, what we need to do would be easy using those platforms, but NOBODY sells a phone with that already installed and it's asinine to expect users to upgrade just to run our application.
Its worse than that - some of us actually bought products using WInCE3, and found that it was a pile of sh*te and that when WInCE4 came out, upgrade of our hardware was not possible What makes MS think that we, or anyone who has ever met us, would ever buy a mobile version of Windows again? The last two smart phones I bought the No1 spec requirement was *NOT RUNNING WINDOWS*, and corporately (yes I am the MD) we use Blackberries.
MS is about to learnt that if everyone who has a computer has MS products, and MS shafts their customers. The entire computer userbase, which is now mnearly 50% of the world's population, will know what it is like to be shafted, and they won't like it. If XP support goes before the market is ready, Amiga will be worth more than MS in a couple of years. There is no longer a huge pool of fresh suckers waiting to have their first taste of shafting. Where are DEC and DG now? Ken Olsen turns in his grave every time I say "Told you so!"
Well, there long, and there's long. AFAICR, I have been using FreeBSD as my desktop of choice since 1998 (I have my 2.2.7 install set in front of me now), but have used Un*x since about 1983. Sure I dont use if for games. I dont play games on a computer- I go swimming. (I lie - I played Collossal Cave on RSX11 before I had even heard of Unix, and its still playable on FBSD out of the box - and I still cant get that dammed pearl out of the oyster!). I don't expect FreeBSD to stop having updates in 2014.
As long as we are tied down the desktop, using doc documents.doc is not so bad, but now MS has muddied the water with.docx - it looks like.doc, it sounds like.doc, but not only it doesnt float on water, it sinks like a lead brick.
Yesterday, a cousin who is "thicker than two short planks" came round to visit. She had e-mailed her college work to us so she could use or Colour Laserjet 5 printer (which is 8 years old, and uses toner bought in pint bottles of e-bay for £6) because she and her husband are unable to get the drivers their new printer to install in Vista, and their old one has run out of toner (costing £26 for 5ml, or approximately £2,500 per pint), and it was cheaper to buy a new one.
There was a snag - her new PC has Office 2007 installed, and she sent the document as.docx. We have Windows 2000 and Office 2000, and no intention of upgrading. So she couldnt print her document.
I told her she should
a) ask before sending documents in random formats to other people
b) Not use docx, which is a random format
She said "my professer could print it"
I said lots of people can do lots of things. That is not the point. Microsoft formats are prone to random and spurious changes, put there for the sole purpose of exploiting people like me, and if she wanted to sue our computers, she had to learn Microsoft's posiiton in the universe.
In short, by sending me a.docx ducoment, she was supporting people who wanted to exploit me, and that as a matter of politeness, if she wanted to avoid annoying and insulting people, she would not send another.docx document to anyone, ever!
I hope you all will follow my example, and make puff propaganda value to demostrate to every available person that.docx, and Vista, and incompatibility from MS generally, are not accidents, but intentional acts of exploitation, and that there are ways to avoid being seen as supporting this kind of exploitation. I have no intention of installing Ubuntu on her laptop, but take every opportunity to demonstrate that a 3 year old dell running Ubunto is quicker and easier to use.
Where I live is definitely real and not the place of dreams (Its known locally as "the Murder Mile") but I am old, and quite possibly wiser than you:-}
I do not suppose that many politicians are wise and reputable, although is just possible some are. However, being old, I know that the life of a government is short, while the life of software is long. Look how no one has ever made money from Un*x, but Un*x lives. Sure people may vote in parliaments for all sorts of things, but over many years, it has become harder to use Windows, and easier to use Unix.
I have lived in parts of the world where the government has no influence at all! People may have their votes stolen, but they are not worried, because the government's own organisations ignore them! Not everywhere is like America.
Of course you could just chuck all this object-disoriented stuff and write in good, old fashioned C, like the rest of us.
If its too big to fit in the address space of a 6502, then you are doing it all wrong. (or maybe it should have been done in SNOBOL in the first place.)
OOXML cant kill ODF, because ODF is open, and OOXML isnt.People who want to guarantee access to their documents in perpetuity (eg legitimate governments) cannot use OOXML because it cannot meet their needs. It is full of rabbit holes.
It may take a while for the smoke and mirrors to clear, but in the end, the truth will out.
A crime against the Dalai Lama is a crime against God, and God is known to be able to defend himself! The Chinese will soon (in spiritual terms) be facing the wrath of God. Generally considered and unpleasant end!
Thanks to the modern miracle of SQL Injection, and similar high power technologies, any amount of fraudulent records can find their way into the database, while the legitimate ones leak out. If the UK government has anything to do with it, all the data will be available for a moderate price in Moscow, Lagos and Bangalore within days of the system going live.
In short, the people with most to gain from this are the criminals, who will have a really cheap, simple and reliable way of proving they are who they are not.
Meanwhile hoards of old ladies will be hauled of to jail "But officer, I thought it was my ID card - I realise now it was my library card/son's ID card - if you just let me go home, I can get my ID from the draw by the bed where I always keep it!"
You biometric database is exactly as secure as the PHP written by school leavers who lied on their CVs that protects it.
Thats easy to answer = the other 9 millon cards represent the alter-egos of terrorists.
In fact, you can be confident that
Only terrorists use Oyster. Normal people ride pushbikes, but are not recorded on the computers, so are invisible to the government.
The Labour government thinks "1984" is their manifesto. The reaon people voted for them wass that the alternative is the Conservative party "we are the party of conviction - most of us have already been convicted for something"
They should make records like this for all MPs and their families pubically available
They probably will, although maybe not deliberately. Expect them to leave the information
on an unencrypted CD in a laptop in the back of a car, from where it will be stolen and sold on e-bay. That is
the normal British process for handling secret data.
Please forward copies of this e-mail to the court, you congress critter and all members of the senate.
(By snail-mail on account of its quite clear none of them reads e-mail)
voice on the cellphone network is pretty cheap already.
Maybe in yor part of the world, but here in the UK, mobile to
mobile voice is $0.50 per minute, while mobile skype to skype over the cell
network is $10 per gigabyte. (on the "three" network)
Most top IT people think of 'top' executives as a bunch of lobotomized, management-speak babbling, suit wearing, golf playing, secret handshake boy club members that we'd rather not deal with.
as far as I know, our brain works like a heterogeneous multicore processor
Then your brain needs an upgrade.
The brain has a (virtual) single serial processor, and a great bundle of "neural networks"
which are essentially procedures built from hardware. (Kind of like early mainframes had a
circuit board per instruction, and then gated the results of the selected instruction onto the bus.)
The self-modifying neural network architecture is interesting, but not to people who want to
buy reliable computing engines.
While perhaps not immediately obvious to everyone,
learning==forgetting
Hence absent minded professors.
I do not want my wages computed by neural networks, and I dont want my bank to store my account on
one either. If they want to use one to data-mine, well and good. (But hopefully one good enough to
learn that I put their spam in the bin without reading it).
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If you ask how many can "regularly achieve significant performance through use of multiple threads" then 0.1% is far too high. If you mean "can exchange data between a userland thread and an ISR in compliance with the needs of reliable parallel execution" then its a safe bet that less than 0.1% are mentally up to the challenge. /. readers are not typical of the programming cummiity. These days people who can drag-and-drop call themselves programmers. Poeple who can spell "l337" are one!
Upgrade to Lear Siegler ADM3A on your serial port - at least you will have a half functional screen!
Warning: Unix not included.
You bet
We have this in Europe - Its called a TGV. Of couse it all depends what you call a "car". (This is a railroad car.)
Its worse than that - some of us actually bought products using WInCE3, and found that it was a pile of sh*te and that when WInCE4 came out, upgrade of our hardware was not possible What makes MS think that we, or anyone who has ever met us, would ever buy a mobile version of Windows again? The last two smart phones I bought the No1 spec requirement was *NOT RUNNING WINDOWS*, and corporately (yes I am the MD) we use Blackberries.
MS is about to learnt that if everyone who has a computer has MS products, and MS shafts their customers. The entire computer userbase, which is now mnearly 50% of the world's population, will know what it is like to be shafted, and they won't like it. If XP support goes before the market is ready, Amiga will be worth more than MS in a couple of years. There is no longer a huge pool of fresh suckers waiting to have their first taste of shafting. Where are DEC and DG now? Ken Olsen turns in his grave every time I say "Told you so!"
Well, there long, and there's long. AFAICR, I have been using FreeBSD as my desktop of choice since 1998 (I have my 2.2.7 install set in front of me now), but have used Un*x since about 1983. Sure I dont use if for games. I dont play games on a computer- I go swimming. (I lie - I played Collossal Cave on RSX11 before I had even heard of Unix, and its still playable on FBSD out of the box - and I still cant get that dammed pearl out of the oyster!). I don't expect FreeBSD to stop having updates in 2014.
Yesterday, a cousin who is "thicker than two short planks" came round to visit. She had e-mailed her college work to us so she could use or Colour Laserjet 5 printer (which is 8 years old, and uses toner bought in pint bottles of e-bay for £6) because she and her husband are unable to get the drivers their new printer to install in Vista, and their old one has run out of toner (costing £26 for 5ml, or approximately £2,500 per pint), and it was cheaper to buy a new one.
There was a snag - her new PC has Office 2007 installed, and she sent the document as .docx. We have Windows 2000 and Office 2000, and no intention of upgrading. So she couldnt print her document.
I told her she should
a) ask before sending documents in random formats to other people
b) Not use docx, which is a random format
She said "my professer could print it"
I said lots of people can do lots of things. That is not the point. Microsoft formats are prone to random and spurious changes, put there for the sole purpose of exploiting people like me, and if she wanted to sue our computers, she had to learn Microsoft's posiiton in the universe.
In short, by sending me a .docx ducoment, she was supporting people who wanted to exploit me, and that as a matter of politeness, if she wanted to avoid annoying and insulting people, she would not send another .docx document to anyone, ever!
I hope you all will follow my example, and make puff propaganda value to demostrate to every available person that .docx, and Vista, and incompatibility from MS generally, are not accidents, but intentional acts of exploitation, and that there are ways to avoid being seen as supporting this kind of exploitation. I have no intention of installing Ubuntu on her laptop, but take every opportunity to demonstrate that a 3 year old dell running Ubunto is quicker and easier to use.
I do not suppose that many politicians are wise and reputable, although is just possible some are. However, being old, I know that the life of a government is short, while the life of software is long. Look how no one has ever made money from Un*x, but Un*x lives. Sure people may vote in parliaments for all sorts of things, but over many years, it has become harder to use Windows, and easier to use Unix.
I have lived in parts of the world where the government has no influence at all! People may have their votes stolen, but they are not worried, because the government's own organisations ignore them! Not everywhere is like America.
If its too big to fit in the address space of a 6502, then you are doing it all wrong. (or maybe it should have been done in SNOBOL in the first place.)
It may take a while for the smoke and mirrors to clear, but in the end, the truth will out.
A crime against the Dalai Lama is a crime against God, and God is known to be able to defend himself! The Chinese will soon (in spiritual terms) be facing the wrath of God. Generally considered and unpleasant end!
The more efficient ones imply insert THEIR data against your name in the database index:
UPDATE biometric_data SET identity = 'fake_value' WHERE name='Your Name';Its easy when you know how, and the go'mint computer can do zillions of transactions a second.
And the truthful answer is: I'd rather not be reliably mis-identified as "Mustapha Al Gangsta" on the basis of a hacked government database.
And you think this can be provided by contractors working for the government? You must be new to this planet!
In short, the people with most to gain from this are the criminals, who will have a really cheap, simple and reliable way of proving they are who they are not.
Meanwhile hoards of old ladies will be hauled of to jail "But officer, I thought it was my ID card - I realise now it was my library card/son's ID card - if you just let me go home, I can get my ID from the draw by the bed where I always keep it!"
You biometric database is exactly as secure as the PHP written by school leavers who lied on their CVs that protects it.
Has anyone told Sgt Bilko about this?
In fact, you can be confident that Only terrorists use Oyster. Normal people ride pushbikes, but are not recorded on the computers, so are invisible to the government.
The Labour government thinks "1984" is their manifesto. The reaon people voted for them wass that the alternative is the Conservative party "we are the party of conviction - most of us have already been convicted for something"
They probably will, although maybe not deliberately. Expect them to leave the information on an unencrypted CD in a laptop in the back of a car, from where it will be stolen and sold on e-bay. That is the normal British process for handling secret data.
Please forward copies of this e-mail to the court, you congress critter and all members of the senate. (By snail-mail on account of its quite clear none of them reads e-mail)
Not to mention NYC!
Maybe in yor part of the world, but here in the UK, mobile to mobile voice is $0.50 per minute, while mobile skype to skype over the cell network is $10 per gigabyte. (on the "three" network)
We dont just think it, we know it!
Then your brain needs an upgrade.
The brain has a (virtual) single serial processor, and a great bundle of "neural networks" which are essentially procedures built from hardware. (Kind of like early mainframes had a circuit board per instruction, and then gated the results of the selected instruction onto the bus.)
The self-modifying neural network architecture is interesting, but not to people who want to buy reliable computing engines.
While perhaps not immediately obvious to everyone,
learning==forgetting
Hence absent minded professors.
I do not want my wages computed by neural networks, and I dont want my bank to store my account on one either. If they want to use one to data-mine, well and good. (But hopefully one good enough to learn that I put their spam in the bin without reading it).
hint: The ink-jet printer is your friend.