Guess what- plain old voting is digital too. And using only discrete numbers (integers) at that. You won't see anybody casting 1.00034573489582... votes.
The number of power cycles, 128, is too neat (2^7) to have been random.
And if it would have been 100 cycles? Would you have said: "The number of power cycles, 100, is too neat (10^2) to have been random."?
Brains and their affection for patterns. Just because you decide to attach a hidden meaning to a random number after the fact, it doesn't make it not random. If the power would've been recycled -128 times, you would have a point- they might've used a *signed* 8-bit char instead of an unsigned 8-bit char (which doesn't even hold the number 128). The limit you're talking about would've been more likely been reached at 255 power cycles.
In a democracy, votes are cast to see what the majority wants. My guess is the majority of people would like free downloads (hm... would this make a nice slashdot poll?) What gives the RIAA the right to bypass this democratic process?
Someone has always managed to fuck it up) over any capitalistic system. And the reason for this, is exactly because the power was in the hands of a few.
... what has worked for them before, on similar projects. Which may not always be the best solution, but it is usually the one that will get them up to speed in the least amount of time.
And maybe a lobotomy so I can forget the late 80s/early 90s once and for all. The booze doesn't seem to be working. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
If someone spends hours and hours and hours a day watching television, they're just normal Americans. Wow. And to think most of them live outside of the States.
Unfortunately, that doesn't usually work in countries ruled by repressive Communist regimes:-) Or simply in countries ruled by repressive regimes. No need for them to be communist to censor the crap out of the country.
Amiga? In 1982, the TI-99/4a with Terminal Emulator II and speech synthesizer already did what XP's tin man does nowadays. Pity that machine was crippleware, you had to buy all kinds of add-ons for it to get some power from it.
Brain was my first. We lived in Medan, Indonesia by then. Soon I whipped together a boot sector virus scanner called Serum. This was arguably the first antivirus with heuristics- if memory was allocated in the boot sector, the boot sector was flagged as virus. It allowed users to program new signatures in it by hand.
Most boot viruses would copy the original bootsector elsewhere (brain stored it in clusters marked as bad cluster, later a lot of viruses formatted track 41/42 of a floppy and stored the original there). Serum was able to find back this original bootsector and put it back in place, effectively eliminating the virus. Quite state-of-the art at the time (as far as it concerned boot viruses). I earned my first own computer with that serum, my trusty 12 Mhz 286.
Years later, the Michelangelo virus appeared in Medan. Serum could already detect it as 'a virus' and fix it. Only later did we find out it was in fact Michelangelo.
Ah, those were the days... Too bad I don't have the source code anymore, I'm sure I'd be terrified by it:)
I guess this test would be useful in determining if the subject was strangulated before decapitated, but how often are the investigators wondering that. Well, you know, the subject could have been strangulated *after* being decapitated. Although I'm not sure what the point of such action would be.
Call to all migrants - Do NOT settle for a lower salary.
Or maybe the migrants didn't have a choice but accept worse salary conditions, to at least allow them to re-start their lives? Most people don't imagine the cost to migrate from one country to another.
Whomever says "migrants lower the average salary" and complain about it should be ashamed of themselves.
Obviously the salaries were lower because the migrants were discriminated against 'natives' in the first place. ('Natives' between quotes because we're talking Australia after all) That problem is not solved by blaming the migrants and discriminating them twice over. It is only solved by not discriminating migrants to start with.
I think Linux, Firefox and Openoffice are great, and having a lot of eyes look upon source code may make all bugs shallow, but it still leaves finding bugs to chance rather than systematically preventing them.
These people produce code with defect rates better than CMM level 5 (most companies aren't even at CMM level 2). Firefox,OpenOffice and Linux aren't anywhere near zero-defects.
If you have $1000 of debts, you have a problem.
If you have $1000000 of debts, your bank has a problem.
If you have $1000000000 of debts, you are a third world entity. Everybody's in line to send money to the third world.
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Guess what- plain old voting is digital too. And using only discrete numbers (integers) at that. You won't see anybody casting 1.00034573489582... votes.
The number of power cycles, 128, is too neat (2^7) to have been random.
And if it would have been 100 cycles? Would you have said: "The number of power cycles, 100, is too neat (10^2) to have been random."?
Brains and their affection for patterns. Just because you decide to attach a hidden meaning to a random number after the fact, it doesn't make it not random. If the power would've been recycled -128 times, you would have a point- they might've used a *signed* 8-bit char instead of an unsigned 8-bit char (which doesn't even hold the number 128). The limit you're talking about would've been more likely been reached at 255 power cycles.
In a democracy, votes are cast to see what the majority wants. My guess is the majority of people would like free downloads (hm... would this make a nice slashdot poll?) What gives the RIAA the right to bypass this democratic process?
Someone has always managed to fuck it up) over any capitalistic system. And the reason for this, is exactly because the power was in the hands of a few.
... what has worked for them before, on similar projects. Which may not always be the best solution, but it is usually the one that will get them up to speed in the least amount of time.
And maybe a lobotomy so I can forget the late 80s/early 90s once and for all. The booze doesn't seem to be working.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Hm... any more suggestions for books on there?
1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Terrorism 101: A How-To Guide, Anonymous
The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, Mike Harding
RTFA. It will. But - mind you - *only* if you burn them.
Warning! Don't look directly at projector with remaining eye!
If someone spends hours and hours and hours a day watching television, they're just normal Americans. Wow. And to think most of them live outside of the States.
Unfortunately, that doesn't usually work in countries ruled by repressive Communist regimes :-)
Or simply in countries ruled by repressive regimes. No need for them to be communist to censor the crap out of the country.
His next story will cover that.
Makes me wonder if a fish would survive in whiskey-colored cold tea, to add to the effect :)
> For the project I selected a 1.5 litre Ballantine's bottle for case.
> That was the proper size and shape for the task at hand.
As the project was a success, I'm guessing his next project will be the 3 liter bottle.
Damn spaghetti monster? BLASPHEMY!!!!
Amiga? In 1982, the TI-99/4a with Terminal Emulator II and speech synthesizer already did what XP's tin man does nowadays. Pity that machine was crippleware, you had to buy all kinds of add-ons for it to get some power from it.
Brain was my first. We lived in Medan, Indonesia by then. Soon I whipped together a boot sector virus scanner called Serum. This was arguably the first antivirus with heuristics- if memory was allocated in the boot sector, the boot sector was flagged as virus. It allowed users to program new signatures in it by hand.
:)
Most boot viruses would copy the original bootsector elsewhere (brain stored it in clusters marked as bad cluster, later a lot of viruses formatted track 41/42 of a floppy and stored the original there). Serum was able to find back this original bootsector and put it back in place, effectively eliminating the virus. Quite state-of-the art at the time (as far as it concerned boot viruses). I earned my first own computer with that serum, my trusty 12 Mhz 286.
Years later, the Michelangelo virus appeared in Medan. Serum could already detect it as 'a virus' and fix it. Only later did we find out it was in fact Michelangelo.
Ah, those were the days... Too bad I don't have the source code anymore, I'm sure I'd be terrified by it
Now that is obviously "Honey, I shrunk the babysitter"
I guess this test would be useful in determining if the subject was strangulated before decapitated, but how often are the investigators wondering that. Well, you know, the subject could have been strangulated *after* being decapitated. Although I'm not sure what the point of such action would be.
Call to all migrants - Do NOT settle for a lower salary.
Or maybe the migrants didn't have a choice but accept worse salary conditions, to at least allow them to re-start their lives? Most people don't imagine the cost to migrate from one country to another.
Whomever says "migrants lower the average salary" and complain about it should be ashamed of themselves.
Obviously the salaries were lower because the migrants were discriminated against 'natives' in the first place. ('Natives' between quotes because we're talking Australia after all) That problem is not solved by blaming the migrants and discriminating them twice over. It is only solved by not discriminating migrants to start with.
Book: Rapid Development.
Section: Classic mistakes
"There are no silver bullets"
Check. As long as I can build entire sites over the weekend, I'll keep developing with a framework that I know.
Now I'm not saying you all should do this (wouldn't want to be charged with felony), but imagine the power of a *REFRESHING* slashdot crowd!
I think Linux, Firefox and Openoffice are great, and having a lot of eyes look upon source code may make all bugs shallow, but it still leaves finding bugs to chance rather than systematically preventing them.
These people produce code with defect rates better than CMM level 5 (most companies aren't even at CMM level 2). Firefox, OpenOffice and Linux aren't anywhere near zero-defects.
Nah, no luck there. a SUM OF THIRTY FIVE MILLION U.S. DOLLARS ONLY isn't going to cover for 11 billion of debts?
If you have $1000 of debts, you have a problem. If you have $1000000 of debts, your bank has a problem. If you have $1000000000 of debts, you are a third world entity. Everybody's in line to send money to the third world.