You know, I think I know a better solution. Tell the whole world about this abrogation of natural rights. Tell your friends. Spread the MS hate. Go post it to Facebook, twitter or whatever. Do it now.
Actually, that's not what just what I understand, It is what I often care about.
Should I go to dinner or wait for 2 for minutes so I can start installing the next package and then head out.
At other times what I care about is, "Has the install stalled" -- i.e., is it time to kill it -- so some short term measure of current progress is also very useful. Some stupid spinner animation is useless because it may continue spinning forever why the install has silently died.
Progress bars should not just be a form of entertainment, but actually useful feedback for the user that is trying to use the software he is attempting to install.
It is not just the people, it is the whole application architecture. The business logic is captured in the COBOL code. If you want to run transaction against the business logic, you do screen scraping and your like it. If you want to pull related records together, you run through the COBOL logic that logically connects them. This is not the fault of COBOL itself, but the engineering constraints of the '60s and '70s when people built the enterprise apps that they still depend on.
Sure COBOL is a bad language, did you really expect a good language when the only other high level language to learn from was FORTRAN?
How is the different than anything else in evolutionary theory. No actual observational science, a couple of fossils here and there, no soft tissue to examine. Then bang, an possible/probable ancestral relationship is declared by somebody -- often discarded later due to other discoveries. It is what it is and will always be unless you manage to make a time machine.
I was not aware we had imaged or otherwise observed atmospheric circulation on any tidally locked jovians. Not much success with Google, can you document? The only reference I found was under "strongly irradiated conditions" -- clearly not the same as a planet at the outer habitable zone. Since winds are driven by temperature differences, I would think that as you approach the center of the daylight side (or the night side), the winds would diminish.
Wouldn't a tidally locked planet at the outer edge of the habitable zone for a rotating planet be a nice planet on the sunny side. Near the terminus you could have nasty weather, but unless it is so cold on the dark side that "good stuff" in the atmosphere precipitates out, shouldn't the light side be reasonable for life.
Of course, gravity and temperature is only a part of what makes a planet habitable. You might want something solid to stand upon, water and other favorite chemicals, non-toxic atmosphere, etc. so 6% of planets being "habitable" is probably a gross overstatement.
I've coded for over 30 hours straight, then drove to the client to install the result, and it worked mostly correctly. No internet back then (pre NFS backbone).
Brilliant absolutely brilliant. Too bad the guys that wrote the Constitution didn't think of that. Oh wait -- they did. Bailing out corporations (or individuals) was not among the enumerated powers granted to the federal government. Probably half or more of the federal budget is likewise unconstitutional (not that almost anyone in Congress or the Courts care)
Let's assume that MS has an internal coup that throws out the retards running their current phone and delivers the following: 1) Upward compatibility with existing phone users including the ability to update to the new phone o/s -- not a big market issues, but keeps the fans happy/motivated 2) Update the hardware to add the latest bells & whistles at a good price. 3) Run Android apps as easily as windows phone apps, but add better access control features to not get owned by a misbehaving android app. 4) Write some very compelling winphone based apps. 5) Ability to win regular windows apps via x86 emulation (with a modest performance hit). 6) Write a very nice IOS cross targeting solution for developers that runs on windows & mac (and linux too if they want Slashdotters to play with) that makes it simple to port IOS apps to winphone -- make this available for free or nearly so. Ditto for Android. 7) Make this same tool (ideally) or a similar tool the best multi-platform dev, tool so developers naturally start developing for all phones at the same time -- this should includes a plug in architecture so RIM could add themselves as another target. 8) a compelling docking station for people that want to use their phone as their computer when they happen to be at the office/home office. 9) Windows v.9 that does not have brain damage and allows you to do truly clever and convenient things with your phone when docked -- i.e., the docking station would also network with for PC 10) Much improved cloud integration and coorporate management services, 11) Actually clever and useful marketing for said phone. 12) Hire Steve Jobs - zombie version (even implanting his decaying brain into Steve Balmer would be an improvement)
Yes, MS could in theory become a player in phones. If they could cut a deal with somebody to deliver decent high speed internet at a good price at the same time, they could even become dominant. I don't recommend holding your breath.
Slashdot article summary is very misleading at best. He was not expelled because he reported a security flaw, he was expelled because he ran Acunetix a website vulnerability scanner after he reported the vulnerability without permission of the web gods. Although no malicious intent by Ahmed Al-Khabaz, he stepped over the line and the University was not in a forgiving mood, arguably vindictive.
Taza explained that he was quite pleased with the work the two students did identifying problems, but the testing software Mr. Al-Khabaz ran to verify the system was fixed crossed a line.
“This type of software should never be used without prior permission of the system administrator, because it can cause a system to crash. He [Al-Khabaz] should have known better than to use it without permission, but it is very clear to me that there was no malicious intent. He simply made a mistake.”
For reporting the vulnerability in the first place, he was thanked by the University, but they did not take kindly to using Acunetix -- I would certainly agree that the university over-reacted, but they were not punishing him for discovering a vulnerability.
And since correlation is not causation, it still has not been proven. Other correlations include, the amount of time spend indoors around other people, Levels of vitamin D (reduced sunlight, less D), reduced overall physical fitness due to less physical activity, and changes in sleep behavior due to reduced daylight hours.
Well, you said any other. How about Bahama. Before you deny it being a "first world" nation -- the PPP GDP per capita for 2011 was $30,958. The murder rate was 27.4 per 100,000 people vs 4.8 in the US. About 80% of all Bahamian murders involve guns.
Guns are tightly controlled, Getting a personal carry permit is very difficult.
Maybe we should try Switzerland, murder rate 0.7 per 100,00, Yet gun owership rate is 45.7 per 100 people vs 88 per 100 in the US. Gun ownership over 50% of the US, yet murder rate only about 14% of the US.
Maybe, there are other factors than just gun ownership rates.
Using thorium is not even necessary for rare earth's to be feasible. All you have to do is change the regulations that make you treat it as horrible toxic waste. With a half-life of 14 billion years, it is so weakly radioactive (and alpha and beta emitters in the decay chain to boot) that the current regulations are asinine.
Thorium is just about everywhere, yet somehow it is not horribly toxic until it mined.
There is plenty more Federal government waste. Dept. of Education.......... $72B/Year Dept. of Energy............... $35B/Year Dept of Homeland Sec... $55B/Year Dept. of Agriculture......... $155B/Year National Intelligence........ $52B/Year Dept. of Labor................. $103B/Year
Now, I am not saying all of the above are 100% wasted, but it comes pretty close for some of them. There is no evidence that federal spending accomplishes stated purposes for Education or Energy. Certainly the TSA and farm subsidies for Archer Daniels Midland are not worth the money. Stopping all of the money used to invade our privacy would seem prudent. And there is a large amount of wasted cash for training programs known not to work and OSHA regulations that add cost but not safety. The EPA and FDA are also pretty ripe with wasteful spending from everything I know.
Should be easy to get rid of over $210B/year from the above. I bet my accountant could easily save $300B/Year from the list above.
I should add, this measure, like most taxes, has little to do with fairness. Indeed, the art of taxation, as seventeenth-century French administrator Jean-Baptiste Colbert reportedly said, "consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing." -- The measure is about collecting more taxes. Period.
In engineering classes about 30 years ago, I learned that road damage is roughly proportional to the fourth power of the weight per axle. Looks like it has not changed. Nothing says that the tax cannot be based on this model.
Note the not all road damage is a result of bending and flexing due to axle weight. You also get chemical changes (salt, water, oil, pollution), thermal cycling (daily and seasonal), topographical changes (a.k.a. earth quakes), and utilities dig-up. You also have non-damage items like mowing the grass, paying for lighting, interest on debt, etc. that must be considered a part of road maintenance. So, you really should not assign all of the maintenance costs to be based on axle weight if you really wanted to be fair about such things.
You may have noticed the signs on the back of trucks that mention something like, This vehicle pays $5,889 in road use taxes per year. According to this study in 2007 the average total tax burden was $13,889 total (for a 80,000 lb truck) and $397 per year for an automobile.
Consider that an 18 wheeler is over 20 times the weight of an average automobile (distributed over 5 axles, though not uniformly). So, ignoring the non-uniformities in automobile weight and axle weight distributions vehicle -- the axle weight related damage should be component should be roughly
(20/5)**4 : (1/2)**4 which equals 4**4 : 1/16 which equals 256 * 16 : 1 i.e., 4096:1
Considering only the 4th power rule component only, avg. damage for truck are roughly 4000 times that of a car. Actual studies show this is more like about 10000:1
it is probably a safe bet that trucks are proportionately undertaxed everywhere in the US.
It is a fact of law in the US that the police are not required to protect you or your property (at least in most jurisdictions).
In its landmark decision of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services,” Stevens writes, “the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution does not impose a duty on the state and local governments to protect the citizens from criminal harm.
In Warren v. District of Columbia, it is a "fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen."
In Castle Rock v. Gonzales, "the police have no duty under federal law to protect the citizens."
There are other cases that more or less have the same result.
When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away. Maybe.
If you are involved in your church or some other NPO that reflects something you actually care about - you will find it much more motivational for "free" programming than something you don't care about. If you don't care about the NPO, it will not be motivational. If working for "free" is not motiviational, you can try something like freelancer.com or rent-acoder.com -- you won't make much money, but it is easy to find work and your commitment to deliver something is more motivational than no commitment at all. You could also call some local business with crummy websites and offer them to write something better for low-money until you get your chops. These business can also be references and contacts to find a real job. Mostly, you need to do some coding. I have over 30 years experience as a programmer, I am not hiring you unless you without some experience unless you are fresh out of school -- in which case I will interview you very carefully to determine if you have strong potential as a developer.
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I just posted this on my facebook account. Feel free to post it everywhere.
Microsoft has just raised the bar on greed. MS Office 2013 has a non-transferable license, it can only be installed on 1 computer. So, you lose this computer or it dies or you upgrade, you lose your license to MS Office 2013. See http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/retail-copies-of-office-2013-are-tied-to-a-single-computer-forever-20130213/ for moredetails.
You know, I think I know a better solution. Tell the whole world about this abrogation of natural rights. Tell your friends. Spread the MS hate. Go post it to Facebook, twitter or whatever. Do it now.
Actually, that's not what just what I understand, It is what I often care about.
Should I go to dinner or wait for 2 for minutes so I can start installing the next package and then head out.
At other times what I care about is, "Has the install stalled" -- i.e., is it time to kill it -- so some short term measure of current progress is also very useful. Some stupid spinner animation is useless because it may continue spinning forever why the install has silently died.
Progress bars should not just be a form of entertainment, but actually useful feedback for the user that is trying to use the software he is attempting to install.
It is not just the people, it is the whole application architecture. The business logic is captured in the COBOL code. If you want to run transaction against the business logic, you do screen scraping and your like it. If you want to pull related records together, you run through the COBOL logic that logically connects them. This is not the fault of COBOL itself, but the engineering constraints of the '60s and '70s when people built the enterprise apps that they still depend on.
Sure COBOL is a bad language, did you really expect a good language when the only other high level language to learn from was FORTRAN?
How is the different than anything else in evolutionary theory. No actual observational science, a couple of fossils here and there, no soft tissue to examine. Then bang, an possible/probable ancestral relationship is declared by somebody -- often discarded later due to other discoveries. It is what it is and will always be unless you manage to make a time machine.
I was not aware we had imaged or otherwise observed atmospheric circulation on any tidally locked jovians. Not much success with Google, can you document? The only reference I found was under "strongly irradiated conditions" -- clearly not the same as a planet at the outer habitable zone. Since winds are driven by temperature differences, I would think that as you approach the center of the daylight side (or the night side), the winds would diminish.
Wouldn't a tidally locked planet at the outer edge of the habitable zone for a rotating planet be a nice planet on the sunny side. Near the terminus you could have nasty weather, but unless it is so cold on the dark side that "good stuff" in the atmosphere precipitates out, shouldn't the light side be reasonable for life.
Of course, gravity and temperature is only a part of what makes a planet habitable. You might want something solid to stand upon, water and other favorite chemicals, non-toxic atmosphere, etc. so 6% of planets being "habitable" is probably a gross overstatement.
And you cannot tell the difference between regulating commerce and giving out truckloads of taxpayer money to some company.
I've coded for over 30 hours straight, then drove to the client to install the result, and it worked mostly correctly. No internet back then (pre NFS backbone).
Sorry, 2^11-1 = 2047
2^4-1 = 15
Maybe you meant 2^n-1 where n is prime. Still no good 2^1-1 = 2047 = 23 * 89
Unless you meant this as a bad joke, you are mistaken.
Brilliant absolutely brilliant. Too bad the guys that wrote the Constitution didn't think of that. Oh wait -- they did. Bailing out corporations (or individuals) was not among the enumerated powers granted to the federal government. Probably half or more of the federal budget is likewise unconstitutional (not that almost anyone in Congress or the Courts care)
Let's assume that MS has an internal coup that throws out the retards running their current phone and delivers the following: 1) Upward compatibility with existing phone users including the ability to update to the new phone o/s -- not a big market issues, but keeps the fans happy/motivated 2) Update the hardware to add the latest bells & whistles at a good price. 3) Run Android apps as easily as windows phone apps, but add better access control features to not get owned by a misbehaving android app. 4) Write some very compelling winphone based apps. 5) Ability to win regular windows apps via x86 emulation (with a modest performance hit). 6) Write a very nice IOS cross targeting solution for developers that runs on windows & mac (and linux too if they want Slashdotters to play with) that makes it simple to port IOS apps to winphone -- make this available for free or nearly so. Ditto for Android. 7) Make this same tool (ideally) or a similar tool the best multi-platform dev, tool so developers naturally start developing for all phones at the same time -- this should includes a plug in architecture so RIM could add themselves as another target. 8) a compelling docking station for people that want to use their phone as their computer when they happen to be at the office/home office. 9) Windows v.9 that does not have brain damage and allows you to do truly clever and convenient things with your phone when docked -- i.e., the docking station would also network with for PC 10) Much improved cloud integration and coorporate management services, 11) Actually clever and useful marketing for said phone. 12) Hire Steve Jobs - zombie version (even implanting his decaying brain into Steve Balmer would be an improvement)
Yes, MS could in theory become a player in phones. If they could cut a deal with somebody to deliver decent high speed internet at a good price at the same time, they could even become dominant. I don't recommend holding your breath.
Nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure.
Looks like a flaw in the triggering code that allowed the other team to trigger the self-destruct could be a very costly mistake.
Slashdot article summary is very misleading at best. He was not expelled because he reported a security flaw, he was expelled because he ran Acunetix a website vulnerability scanner after he reported the vulnerability without permission of the web gods. Although no malicious intent by Ahmed Al-Khabaz, he stepped over the line and the University was not in a forgiving mood,
arguably vindictive.
Taza explained that he was quite pleased with the work the two students did identifying problems, but the testing software Mr. Al-Khabaz ran to verify the system was fixed crossed a line.
“This type of software should never be used without prior permission of the system administrator, because it can cause a system to crash. He [Al-Khabaz] should have known better than to use it without permission, but it is very clear to me that there was no malicious intent. He simply made a mistake.”
For reporting the vulnerability in the first place, he was thanked by the University, but they did not take kindly to using Acunetix -- I would certainly agree that the university over-reacted, but they were not punishing him for discovering a vulnerability.
And since correlation is not causation, it still has not been proven. Other correlations include, the amount of time spend indoors around other people, Levels of vitamin D (reduced sunlight, less D), reduced overall physical fitness due to less physical activity, and changes in sleep behavior due to reduced daylight hours.
Well, you said any other. How about Bahama. Before you deny it being a "first world" nation -- the PPP GDP per capita for 2011 was $30,958. The murder rate was 27.4 per 100,000 people vs 4.8 in the US. About 80% of all Bahamian murders involve guns.
Guns are tightly controlled, Getting a personal carry permit is very difficult.
Generally, only members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Royal Bahamas Defense Force are allowed to carry revolvers and other types of firearms (i.e. automatic rifles, assault rifles, canons, etc.) and ammunition associated with this form of weaponry. However the Licensing Authority holds the authority to permit the use of revolvers to Bahamian residents through the provision of a Special License (for revolvers) or a Firearm Certificate (for high powered weaponry). The Licensing Authority may also vest its powers to the Commissioner of Police to grant, reject, or revoke the provision of Special Licenses or Firearm Certificates. If you plan to submit an application for a Special License or Firearm Certificate, expect to present the same documentation as required for a Gun License application.
So tell me, how can this be?
Maybe we should try Switzerland, murder rate 0.7 per 100,00, Yet gun owership rate is 45.7 per 100 people vs 88 per 100 in the US. Gun ownership over 50% of the US, yet murder rate only about 14% of the US.
Maybe, there are other factors than just gun ownership rates.
Using thorium is not even necessary for rare earth's to be feasible. All you have to do is change the regulations that make you treat it as horrible toxic waste. With a half-life of 14 billion years, it is so weakly radioactive (and alpha and beta emitters in the decay chain to boot) that the current regulations are asinine.
Thorium is just about everywhere, yet somehow it is not horribly toxic until it mined.
For $17,000 it not only should run Windows, but clean them and make them bulletproof too.
There is plenty more Federal government waste. .......... $72B/Year ............... $35B/Year .. $55B/Year ......... $155B/Year ........ $52B/Year ................. $103B/Year
Dept. of Education
Dept. of Energy
Dept of Homeland Sec.
Dept. of Agriculture
National Intelligence
Dept. of Labor
Now, I am not saying all of the above are 100% wasted, but it comes pretty close for some of them. There is no evidence that federal spending accomplishes stated purposes for Education or Energy. Certainly the TSA and farm subsidies for Archer Daniels Midland are not worth the money. Stopping all of the money used to invade our privacy would seem prudent. And there is a large amount of wasted cash for training programs known not to work and OSHA regulations that add cost but not safety.
The EPA and FDA are also pretty ripe with wasteful spending from everything I know.
Should be easy to get rid of over $210B/year from the above. I bet my accountant could easily save $300B/Year from the list above.
I should add, this measure, like most taxes, has little to do with fairness. Indeed, the art of taxation, as seventeenth-century French administrator Jean-Baptiste Colbert reportedly said, "consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing." -- The measure is about collecting more taxes. Period.
In engineering classes about 30 years ago, I learned that road damage is roughly proportional to the fourth power of the weight per axle. Looks like it has not changed. Nothing says that the tax cannot be based on this model.
Note the not all road damage is a result of bending and flexing due to axle weight. You also get chemical changes (salt, water, oil, pollution), thermal cycling (daily and seasonal), topographical changes (a.k.a. earth quakes), and utilities dig-up. You also have non-damage items like mowing the grass, paying for lighting, interest on debt, etc. that must be considered a part of road maintenance. So, you really should not assign all of the maintenance costs to be based on axle weight if you really wanted to be fair about such things.
You may have noticed the signs on the back of trucks that mention something like, This vehicle pays $5,889 in road use taxes per year. According to this study in 2007 the average total tax burden was $13,889 total (for a 80,000 lb truck) and $397 per year for an automobile.
Consider that an 18 wheeler is over 20 times the weight of an average automobile (distributed over 5 axles, though not uniformly). So, ignoring the non-uniformities in automobile weight and axle weight distributions vehicle -- the axle weight related damage should be component should be roughly
(20/5)**4 : (1/2)**4 which equals 4**4 : 1/16 which equals 256 * 16 : 1 i.e., 4096:1
Considering only the 4th power rule component only, avg. damage for truck are roughly 4000 times that of a car. Actual studies show this is more like about 10000:1
it is probably a safe bet that trucks are proportionately undertaxed everywhere in the US.
It is a fact of law in the US that the police are not required to protect you or your property (at least in most jurisdictions).
In its landmark decision of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services,” Stevens writes, “the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Constitution does not impose a duty on the state and local governments to protect the citizens from criminal harm.
In Warren v. District of Columbia, it is a "fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen."
In Castle Rock v. Gonzales, "the police have no duty under federal law to protect the citizens."
There are other cases that more or less have the same result.
When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away. Maybe.
Well, with the JackBurger could have triggered a memorable trip to the ER for a quick stomach pump.
If you are involved in your church or some other NPO that reflects something you actually care about - you will find it much more motivational for "free" programming than something you don't care about. If you don't care about the NPO, it will not be motivational. If working for "free" is not motiviational, you can try something like freelancer.com or rent-acoder.com -- you won't make much money, but it is easy to find work and your commitment to deliver something is more motivational than no commitment at all. You could also call some local business with crummy websites and offer them to write something better for low-money until you get your chops. These business can also be references and contacts to find a real job. Mostly, you need to do some coding. I have over 30 years experience as a programmer, I am not hiring you unless you without some experience unless you are fresh out of school -- in which case I will interview you very carefully to determine if you have strong potential as a developer.