Acquiring the domain name would be a phisher's dream. If someone recalled that there was such an organisation as the NHTCU, and were unaware that the organisation no longer existed, they would be inclined to believe anything they read there. Including instructions to download and install a "critical security fix".
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
IIRC, some research by the philosopher of science Larry Lauden? showed that not to be so.
The eternal optimist in me feels some will see this as a step too far.
Whether you should be optimistic about it is questionable. A wheeze that New Labour hit upon to avoid accusations of being "soft on crime", a favourite jibe of the Conservatives, was to advance extremely oppressive law and order proposals, wait for the complaints, then scale them back.
"High quality" employees succeed by figuring out how to constantly be more useful to their boss. Don't confuse this as "sucking up" - creating efficiencies, new opportunities, and helping your boss achieve his tasks means your organization is making more money, and some of that money will get directed to the source if it can be found.
No, spineless slaves try to be more useful to their boss. The autonomous decide what they want to do, then go where they can do it, or do the minimum necessary work to get there. And no self respecting person should have "being useful to their boss" as an end in itself.
In all but the smallest of companies, your employer (the company) is not your friend, and will never be your friend.
For C++ code, Doxygen can be useful, as it shows the class inheritance. As requested, it uses a (rudimentary) parser. It works with several other languages too, although I can't vouch for its utility for them.
Yes. The C standard requires that time_t is an arithmetic type (see section 7.23.1 of the C99 standard). That means it can be an integer or floating type (see section 6.2.5 of the C99 standard), and therefore could be a float, double, long double, a complex-number (WTF?), a char, a signed integer type or an unsigned integer type.
The C standard requires that (time_t)(-1) is not a valid time value, so it can be used it indicate a failure (as a previous poster pointed out, this is what mktime() can do; see section 7.23.2.3 of the C99 standard).
POSIX requires that a time_t records time in seconds and must be an integer or real-floating type.
POSIX also requires that the time() function return the number of seconds since the Epoch, and therefore implicitly need not be able to represent times before the Epoch, so a time_t need not be a signed type. POSIX also provides the following rationale.
Implementations in which time_t is a 32-bit signed integer (many historical implementations) fail in the year 2038. IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 does not address this problem. However, the use of the time_t type is mandated in order to ease the eventual fix.
POSIX also notes the following as a future direction.
In a future version of this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, time_t is likely to be required to be capable of representing times far in the future. Whether this will be mandated as a 64-bit type or a requirement that a specific date in the future be representable (for example, 10000 AD) is not yet determined.
I bet you would prefer me to look at the road than at a map
Yes, but perhaps the best solution would be to plan the route before setting out.
What excuses can there be for taking a shortcut through a small village?
Should any trucks drive routes on minor roads through small villages?
I meant that statement in the context of shows being downloaded rather than watched on TV. A show download, say, off of iTunes, will have good information on how many downloaded it, but not necessarily the demographics of those who are downloading.
I see your point. Yes, if your measure merely the number of downloads, you have no demographic information. Techniques that measure the ratings of downloaded media at the time they are viewed, rather than the time they are downloaded, can provide demographic informations. Associating demographic informatino with viewing of a downloaded program is no more difficult thatn associating demographic information with viewing of a live broadcast or VCR playback.
TFA fails to mention that the new technologies that Nielsen intends to introduce have been in use in other countries for years. Nielsen (like Microsoft) has an effective monopoly that stifles innovation. Continued use of diaries, a tecnique being phased out in Third World countries is an example of Nielsen's deadening influence. Also of interset is that Nielsen games the patents system to prevent competitors operating in the USA.
they may not necessarily have good data (if any) on who is watching these shows. Companies like to tailor advertisements to a particular demographic, and without that demographic information connected to a show, regardless of how well its doing, I imagine that advertisers would be somewhat reluctant to throw money at it.
You seem to be saying that TV ratings have no demographic information attached to them. Incorrect, for the TV ratings produced by the company I work for (not Nielsen), and for Nielsen too. Quoth TFA:
If you can remember a particular 'Star Trek' episode from five years ago, we can find out how many people who were pet owners at the time were watching
(Whether you are a pet owner being an item of demographic information.
NOBODY wants to carry around a phone that does what this article describes. Even those who aren't concerned about the privacy implications are going to be nonplussed by the fact that their batteries suddenly only last half as long because their phones are so busy processing and transmitting this marketing trash.
Too much coffee? Didn't RTFA? This would not be a device secretly installed in cell phones. It would be a special device carried by recruited panellists. It's just a high tech way of doing continuous market research.
altered mathematically to make unintellilligible? How exactly, then, do they tell what advertising, programs, and other media you are exposed to?
In geek terms: it computes hashes of the audio, sending the hashes back to base, each with a timestamp. You compute a set of hashes of the audio (CDs, movies, ads, whatever) you wish to monitor. At base you compare the hashes recorded by your panellists with your database of hashes.
Something here doesn't add up. Mainly, why in the hell would people agree to be carrying around an overt bugging device with the sole stated intent of monitoring thier actions?
Why do people participate in any kind of market research?
Pannelists for TV ratings are (at least for the company I work for) given financial incentives. I expect IMMI would do likewise.
I work on the same kind of technology for a different market research company.
Engineers sometimes scoff that EM radiation is at such a low level that it cannot harm anyone. But engineers very often make the mistake of not accounting for resonance
If you believe that, you must be an idiot.
Engineers, or all kinds (electrical, mechanical, aeronautical), are acutely aware of the importance of resonance. Particularly asinine for you to make such a claim (presumably) in connection with electrical engineers, as radio receivers use resonance.
You might want to be careful, though, that your manager doesn't just decide that laying you off and hiring someone with the training is cheaper.
In England, firing someone for being unable to do a job to which they have been moved without training might (IANAL) count as unfair dismissal. You could take your ex-employer to an Employment Tribunal.
Mach 6 wind will sound pretty loud to human ears regardless of how turbulance-free it is, just because of the immense air pressure
The air pressure is of the magnitude found in explosions.
The hypersonic windtunnel at Imperial College in London is in an annex with blast doors and a flimsy roof so, if there was a catastrophe, the roof could rupture to release the pressure, rather than demolishing the neighbouring buildings.
Evidently only in the central London area in this case. I got an SMS message out here in Ealing from someone asking how I was (I used to work in Russell Square, near the bus bomb).
Fortran's longevity has come because it compiles fast programs & there have already been a ton of subroutine libraries to draw from, that have been built up over time by many coders. It is also an open standard with MANY compilers for most platforms.
Mod that guy +1,Funny. Fortran's longevity is nothing to do with such objective criteria, which would make it a good choice. It is because there is a whole computing sub culture (ghetto would be a better term) that simply knows nothing better. Fortran programmers program in Fortran because that was the only language they were taught, and they lack the knowledge that there could be anything better. They lack that knowledge because, despite spending considerable amounts of their time programming and using computers to run their programs, they do not think of themselves as programmers, and therfore do not fell that learning more about programming is worth their time.
People with college degrees in high paying jobs should have some degree of competency with the English language.
For my degree course, in Aeronautical Engineering, there were only two books we were told were mandatory. One was The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers.
Got Google?
It is not public domain. It is BSD licensed. And selling BSD licensed software without supplying the source code is allowed by the license.
In most European countries, TV ratings are measured using a set-top box, which determines what is being viewed second-by-second. The measurements are downloaded by modem and TV ratings are available for a program the morning after the broadcast. Urban China likewise. And Romania. And Uzbekistan.
But in the US, TV ratings rely on people filling in diaries once a month, to a precision of 15 minutes. Yes, the country in the world most associated with capitalism and TV advertising has the most primitive system for TV ratings.
The reason? In the US, TV ratings are measured by a company that has an effective monopoly, which uses patents to prevent competition.
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A world class operating system started from scratch by a single person, with no commercial incentive?
I am disturbed that you find it amazing that someone did something with no commerical incentives.
That attitude is chilling;
the idea that only corporations can do anything
is to become the ultimate passive consumer.
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Acquiring the domain name would be a phisher's dream. If someone recalled that there was such an organisation as the NHTCU, and were unaware that the organisation no longer existed, they would be inclined to believe anything they read there. Including instructions to download and install a "critical security fix".
Bear in mind that malware producers can be frighteningly sophisticated.
If they had used a .gov.uk domain, rather than a TLD, would this have happened?
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
IIRC, some research by the philosopher of science Larry Lauden? showed that not to be so.
Whether you should be optimistic about it is questionable. A wheeze that New Labour hit upon to avoid accusations of being "soft on crime", a favourite jibe of the Conservatives, was to advance extremely oppressive law and order proposals, wait for the complaints, then scale them back.
No, spineless slaves try to be more useful to their boss. The autonomous decide what they want to do, then go where they can do it, or do the minimum necessary work to get there. And no self respecting person should have "being useful to their boss" as an end in itself.
In all but the smallest of companies, your employer (the company) is not your friend, and will never be your friend.
For C++ code, Doxygen can be useful, as it shows the class inheritance. As requested, it uses a (rudimentary) parser. It works with several other languages too, although I can't vouch for its utility for them.
Yes. The C standard requires that time_t is an arithmetic type (see section 7.23.1 of the C99 standard). That means it can be an integer or floating type (see section 6.2.5 of the C99 standard), and therefore could be a float, double, long double, a complex-number (WTF?), a char, a signed integer type or an unsigned integer type. The C standard requires that (time_t)(-1) is not a valid time value, so it can be used it indicate a failure (as a previous poster pointed out, this is what mktime() can do; see section 7.23.2.3 of the C99 standard).
POSIX requires that a time_t records time in seconds and must be an integer or real-floating type. POSIX also requires that the time() function return the number of seconds since the Epoch, and therefore implicitly need not be able to represent times before the Epoch, so a time_t need not be a signed type. POSIX also provides the following rationale.
POSIX also notes the following as a future direction.
Yes, but perhaps the best solution would be to plan the route before setting out. What excuses can there be for taking a shortcut through a small village? Should any trucks drive routes on minor roads through small villages?
I see your point. Yes, if your measure merely the number of downloads, you have no demographic information. Techniques that measure the ratings of downloaded media at the time they are viewed, rather than the time they are downloaded, can provide demographic informations. Associating demographic informatino with viewing of a downloaded program is no more difficult thatn associating demographic information with viewing of a live broadcast or VCR playback.
TFA fails to mention that the new technologies that Nielsen intends to introduce have been in use in other countries for years. Nielsen (like Microsoft) has an effective monopoly that stifles innovation. Continued use of diaries, a tecnique being phased out in Third World countries is an example of Nielsen's deadening influence. Also of interset is that Nielsen games the patents system to prevent competitors operating in the USA.
You seem to be saying that TV ratings have no demographic information attached to them. Incorrect, for the TV ratings produced by the company I work for (not Nielsen), and for Nielsen too. Quoth TFA:
(Whether you are a pet owner being an item of demographic information.
Peregrine Service Centre was an appalingly awful product. I would rather saw my own leg off than ever have anything to do with it again.
How is outsourcing any different from sub contracting within your own country in this respect? Quoth the article:
Quite.
Too much coffee? Didn't RTFA? This would not be a device secretly installed in cell phones. It would be a special device carried by recruited panellists. It's just a high tech way of doing continuous market research.
In geek terms: it computes hashes of the audio, sending the hashes back to base, each with a timestamp. You compute a set of hashes of the audio (CDs, movies, ads, whatever) you wish to monitor. At base you compare the hashes recorded by your panellists with your database of hashes.
Why do people participate in any kind of market research? Pannelists for TV ratings are (at least for the company I work for) given financial incentives. I expect IMMI would do likewise.
I work on the same kind of technology for a different market research company.
If you believe that, you must be an idiot. Engineers, or all kinds (electrical, mechanical, aeronautical), are acutely aware of the importance of resonance. Particularly asinine for you to make such a claim (presumably) in connection with electrical engineers, as radio receivers use resonance.
In England, firing someone for being unable to do a job to which they have been moved without training might (IANAL) count as unfair dismissal. You could take your ex-employer to an Employment Tribunal.
The air pressure is of the magnitude found in explosions. The hypersonic windtunnel at Imperial College in London is in an annex with blast doors and a flimsy roof so, if there was a catastrophe, the roof could rupture to release the pressure, rather than demolishing the neighbouring buildings.
Evidently only in the central London area in this case. I got an SMS message out here in Ealing from someone asking how I was (I used to work in Russell Square, near the bus bomb).
Mod that guy +1,Funny. Fortran's longevity is nothing to do with such objective criteria, which would make it a good choice. It is because there is a whole computing sub culture (ghetto would be a better term) that simply knows nothing better. Fortran programmers program in Fortran because that was the only language they were taught, and they lack the knowledge that there could be anything better. They lack that knowledge because, despite spending considerable amounts of their time programming and using computers to run their programs, they do not think of themselves as programmers, and therfore do not fell that learning more about programming is worth their time.
For my degree course, in Aeronautical Engineering, there were only two books we were told were mandatory. One was The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers.
Cray sold a computer to a company I worked for, for the sum of (raises finger to mouth) ONE POUND. Bwahahaha.
Got Google? It is not public domain. It is BSD licensed. And selling BSD licensed software without supplying the source code is allowed by the license.
In most European countries, TV ratings are measured using a set-top box, which determines what is being viewed second-by-second. The measurements are downloaded by modem and TV ratings are available for a program the morning after the broadcast. Urban China likewise. And Romania. And Uzbekistan.
But in the US, TV ratings rely on people filling in diaries once a month, to a precision of 15 minutes.
Yes, the country in the world most associated with capitalism and TV advertising has the most primitive system for TV ratings.
The reason? In the US, TV ratings are measured by a company that has an effective monopoly, which uses patents to prevent competition.
I am disturbed that you find it amazing that someone did something with no commerical incentives. That attitude is chilling; the idea that only corporations can do anything is to become the ultimate passive consumer.