Oil also has some sort of litres/hectare ratio, but because it happend a long time ago it apparently doesn't matter. The fact is we're still digging it out faster than it can be produced which is worse than making it now from sustainable crops.
If you worked in software development you'd know that it is much easier to understand how a program does what it does if you have the source code. For example, I have no idea how to hack into a computer by sending crap to the internet server. If, however, I had the source code to a popular server, I could trace through the code looking for fixed size buffers, badly coded routines, assumptions or whatever and use this information to my advantage and possibly form a message that would exploit it. With a closed source system I wouldn't even know where to start.
I'm not saying that one is better than the other, but surely one is easier than the other.
I can tell you think I'm wrong. I'd be interested to hear why.
What about the fact that if you have access to the source code it is 100000000 times easier to find and create an exploit? Surely with closed source you have to guess a lot more?
Where does it all end though? How can you be sure that what you end up with bears any resemblance to what the director wanted? Perhaps some important message would get changed into sort of religeous propaganda or something along those lines.
A bit of an off topic analogy, but when a friend was at university, the local lefties proposed writing to president Regan informing him of something like "this universities dislike of nuclear weapons in England and please acknowledge our desire for you to remove them". Then all the right wing turned up en mas and proposed an amendment: "this univiersity thinks nukes are really jolly good and could we have some more". Being the majority, they won the vote, so assuming the letter got sent (which I doubt) someone could have got completely the wrong message.
I think it's slightly relevent.....
Agreed. Considering (admittedly according to very dubious sources) it would only take $500K or so to buy a vaccine against chicken pox (still a major killer in some countries) for everyone on earth. That leaves a lot left over for clean water facilities, education programs etc. I'm sure Elison et al would get far more positive advertising for participating in these sorts of programs than a fucking boat race.
Not that I have anything against cancer research or anything, but there are a few fundementals that need dealing with first, although that view probably depends on where you live & your political outlook.
I used video ram to do some indexing and sorting once because the closest thing to a disk cache we had was BUFFERS=20
It worked fine until I tried it on an Apricot machine. The disk read would DMA direct to the destination memory and the old VRAM didn't quite know what to make of that.
I'd mark up someone who suggested using a standard routine to do a task rather than some home grown version. In fact our C++ test includes some of the usual stupid new/delete/off by one type memory stuff. I award full marks for suggesting the whole lot is replaced with a string even if they don't pick up on the individual mistakes.
My favourite question:
What makes good software.
Best answer:
Software that does what the customer wants. Anything else is a bonus.
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Oil also has some sort of litres/hectare ratio, but because it happend a long time ago it apparently doesn't matter. The fact is we're still digging it out faster than it can be produced which is worse than making it now from sustainable crops.
If you worked in software development you'd know that it is much easier to understand how a program does what it does if you have the source code. For example, I have no idea how to hack into a computer by sending crap to the internet server. If, however, I had the source code to a popular server, I could trace through the code looking for fixed size buffers, badly coded routines, assumptions or whatever and use this information to my advantage and possibly form a message that would exploit it. With a closed source system I wouldn't even know where to start. I'm not saying that one is better than the other, but surely one is easier than the other. I can tell you think I'm wrong. I'd be interested to hear why.
And that's why you can't buy a car in America that does more than 65. Twat.
What about the fact that if you have access to the source code it is 100000000 times easier to find and create an exploit? Surely with closed source you have to guess a lot more?
Where does it all end though? How can you be sure that what you end up with bears any resemblance to what the director wanted? Perhaps some important message would get changed into sort of religeous propaganda or something along those lines. A bit of an off topic analogy, but when a friend was at university, the local lefties proposed writing to president Regan informing him of something like "this universities dislike of nuclear weapons in England and please acknowledge our desire for you to remove them". Then all the right wing turned up en mas and proposed an amendment: "this univiersity thinks nukes are really jolly good and could we have some more". Being the majority, they won the vote, so assuming the letter got sent (which I doubt) someone could have got completely the wrong message. I think it's slightly relevent.....
Agreed. Considering (admittedly according to very dubious sources) it would only take $500K or so to buy a vaccine against chicken pox (still a major killer in some countries) for everyone on earth. That leaves a lot left over for clean water facilities, education programs etc. I'm sure Elison et al would get far more positive advertising for participating in these sorts of programs than a fucking boat race. Not that I have anything against cancer research or anything, but there are a few fundementals that need dealing with first, although that view probably depends on where you live & your political outlook.
You really wouln't want to be out there working in the full heat believe me. It's probably a good idea!
I used video ram to do some indexing and sorting once because the closest thing to a disk cache we had was BUFFERS=20 It worked fine until I tried it on an Apricot machine. The disk read would DMA direct to the destination memory and the old VRAM didn't quite know what to make of that.
I'd mark up someone who suggested using a standard routine to do a task rather than some home grown version. In fact our C++ test includes some of the usual stupid new/delete/off by one type memory stuff. I award full marks for suggesting the whole lot is replaced with a string even if they don't pick up on the individual mistakes. My favourite question: What makes good software. Best answer: Software that does what the customer wants. Anything else is a bonus.
Not according to recent announcements in the press. http://www.private-eye.co.uk/images/cover/1058on.g if