That's all true, but does not imply that it would "work", in other words that people would actually do it. As a for instance, what if somebody could go from selling stuff every day in a store to selling stuff once a year by contract? Maybe that would be more efficient, but would they really keep doing it at all, or just quit SL? There's some equilibrium where vendors would consider it worthwhile to continue doing business on a contract-only basis, but there's no rule that says it must be reached. I guess we may find out if that equilibrium will be reached or not.
We're talking about the real plan to terraform Mars before we've even checked it for existing life.
One square kilometer. Since 1 km^2 obviously cannot jeopardize any meaningful Martian ecosphere, I thought you were talking about terraforming all or most of Mars. At that point we're already in the realm of SF, so the possible reasons and consequences of doing or not doing that purely hypothetical act seemed quite reasonable to bring up. But if you're really worried about the consequences of terraforming one square kilometer of Mars, please correct me.
OK, I realize this is/. but come on - you didn't think I was suggesting we could be at war with Martians at some point, did you? Really? Instead, maybe I was saying that it's possible that Earth could become much less hospitable to human life, possibly even uninhabitable. At that point (before that point actually), we could be faced with a decision to terraform and colonize Mars, thereby wiping out any life there, or stay on Earth and die out. Please keep in mind this is a huge chain of ifs - I am NOT saying any of this is going to happen, so replies to the effect of "that's not going to happen" will be ignored. My only point is that if we have to choose between our species and some other species, be it Terran or Martian, we will always choose ours.
Change your business model. Instead of selling copies of your thing, sell your creative services under contract. It's a model where people hire you to create something new that has never existed before, rather than paying you for a copy of something that already exists elsewhere.
It's possible that would work, and possible it would not. The problem is that I* may be better off looking around and waiting for something that's close to what I want, and copying it. Totally free and I get basically what I want. In other words, the only incentive to pay for anything is if nothing suitable exists anywhere in the world and the money to pay for it (which would have to be way, way more than it used to be when copying wasn't happening) is worth it. I would guess such a business model would lead to a very very small volume. But then I've never been in SL so maybe I'm wrong.
* By "I" I mean someone in SL, in other words not me
Yes, of course we should start terraforming Mars before we've even really begun to look for existing life there that we'd destroy.
If it's us or them, I vote us. Now it may not be us or them. But if at some point we have to choose between saving Earth life and saving Mars life (should there be any), guess which way that's going?
I have seen cases where rewriting a pretty trivial arithmetic expression in a tidier form worked fine on one machine, but completely broke the optimiser with a different compiler on a different OS, resulting in a subtle change in numerical outputs.
Then the test process is broken. Meaning, you deployed to a supported environment on which the tests were never run. If you had run all tests on all platforms, then that one would have failed, and the developer would be notified of exactly what happened. This is the great thing about automated tests - it doesn't matter if it takes hours to run them all.
IME the hard-core TDD advocates also have a false sense of security when it comes to design. Just because you have some tests in place, that does not mean you can design on-the-fly all the time, and suffer no overheads.
First, TDD is not having "some tests in place". Perfect TDD means everything has a test - everything! Is it possible to have perfect TDD? I don't know, but I think it's possible to come close. Second, is there anyone saying you can design on the fly all the time with no possible cost? If there is, I don't agree - no matter how good your tests are.
There is a reason that good software engineers spend a lot of time designing and not much time writing code: it's because writing the code (and getting it right) is much easier with a clean architecture that's designed to be flexible and maintainable. Of course you can't plan everything up-front, but the whole "anything's OK as long as it passes our unit tests" approach is a recipe for endless headaches when your design starts to evolve, and can lead to weeks or months of wasted time later when a new feature can't just fit into the existing code because there's simply nowhere to fit it.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you suggesting that TDD means you don't do design work ahead of time? That is certainly not the case. I don't think you're saying that unit tests are the only form of testing with TDD, but in case you are, that's not true either. You still do functional tests just like always, and you still have the same QA. Are you saying TDD leads to bad designs? Maybe you can clarify here.
Not you in particular, but a lot of the criticism and dismissal of TDD here seems to be from people who have never done it, or in some cases don't even understand what it is.
Guess what, since the attacker has all your keystrokes, he can easily put himself in the middle and take the pad you so careflly entered and give them to the bank himself and boom, he has access with minimal effort.
Maybe, if the keylogger is sending data to him in realtime and he's sitting there watching it, ready to act immediately. I hope that the server would accept only one login using that code, and only one login at a time from a user. Either the user logs in with the code, after which it's useless, or the bad guy logs in with it and the user is turned away. The user then tries logging in with the next key. The system sees that the same user has logged in, and then attempted to log in again with a valid username password and key. Various actions can be taken at that time, including ending both sessions and forcing the user to log in again. Or maybe they have to make a phone call, or a trace on the connections is started, or who knows. If the bank is going to the trouble of using OTP they may have some other pretty smart practices in place too.
Anyway, if the snooper comes back to his computer later, the information from the keylogger is already useless.
If you keel over in London you should get a paramedic equiped
with defibrilator within 10 minutes
Is anyone else in the US thinking 10 minutes to get a paramedic in the middle of a city is not that impressive? Now I know I'm unusual because I work down the street from where an ambulance sits waiting, and across a creek from a hospital. But still, it seems like a 10 minute response is in the neighborhood of what I would expect, rather than "wow I wish our health care were that good." Anybody else?
But when you are sick, and need treatment, you lose the luxury of being able to refrain from the sadistic option. You choose to (indirectly) make animals suffer to save yourself or your loved one because you have to.
Dvorak is interesting, and a good thing for some people who actually have to type in the english language as their primary use of their computer (transcriptionists or such). For coders and sysadmins, Dvorak breaks down because many of the things you are typing aren't words anyway (cd, ps -ef, pwd, chmod).
You should probably know what your tal... never mind, forgot I'm on/. As a coder who switched from QWERTY to Dvorak, I can attest that in my case it led to much less repetitive strain. Then again, I program in Java not Perl, so much of what I type is actually English words rather than punctuation. Efficiency - who cares, even if I'm a little slower now I'm still ahead of all the other programmers who are hunt and peck. Seriously, why do so few programmers touch type?
In fact, I'd go so far as to say the only things that should be left to voice communication are conversations involving more than two people, just for logistics - and with the advent of instant chat rooms on phones, that too will disappear.
Exactly. Within 10 years, no one will ever speak on the phone again. You heard it here first.
If they come in about vista be honest and tell them about it, and that it includes no compelling reasons to upgrade and that if they do choose to upgrade they will be asking for high costs without any real payback.
Sure, that'll happen. "Sir, rather than giving us several hundred dollars for this piece of software you would really be better served by going home and spending your money in some other store." Right...
That will only happen when MS decides to stop supporting XP.
I think that's his point - you're better off sticking with XP until MS stops supporting it, at which time you should upgrade (across-grade?) to a supported OS.
OK, totally off-topic, but by what definition are birds dinosaurs? They're descended from dinosaurs, but if that's your only criterion then we're all single-celled organisms. Do biologists put birds and dinosaurs in the same genera?
How does funding by a government-mandated TV license free the BBC from the politicians? I'm not trying to argue here, I'm just completely ignorant of this program and I'm not seeing the connection.
Are you saying you wish PBS and NPR had content more like BBC, or that you wish they were paid for by TV licenses instead of the ways they are paid for now? Or both?
Your post was already answered pretty well, but keep in mind that the moon is about as reflective as asphalt, and that thing is pretty darn bright. So it doesn't take something shiny to reflect a lot of light.
The whole point of the sunshade thing is that it stops the sun's heat, and therefore energy, from reaching the earth. If we start capturing that electrically and transporting it down to the surface, we will use it and eventually it will end up as heat anyway. So the net effect will be zero then.
That electricity would have been used no matter what, so that part of the heat equation would be zero. It would replace electricity that we would have generated by burning something, which reduces the heat output. That just adds to the effect that the solar panel blocked some sunlight from getting to the atmosphere.
They were saying if they were forced to comply, they pretty much had to remove the web site instead. Thats retarded as hell: it would punish everyone (including the blind person!, since a hard to navigate site is better than none at all!).
Generally speaking though, that's how enforcement has to be. Otherwise anybody could just say "oh, I can't possibly make my web site accessible, I would have to just take it down" and then they could leave it up in an inaccessible format. Where "anybody" includes Target, Wal-Mart, Amazon, and any other huge organization you care to name. Businesses would have a choice of spending time and money making their sites accessible, or not - so the law would be useless.
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That's all true, but does not imply that it would "work", in other words that people would actually do it. As a for instance, what if somebody could go from selling stuff every day in a store to selling stuff once a year by contract? Maybe that would be more efficient, but would they really keep doing it at all, or just quit SL? There's some equilibrium where vendors would consider it worthwhile to continue doing business on a contract-only basis, but there's no rule that says it must be reached. I guess we may find out if that equilibrium will be reached or not.
OK, I realize this is /. but come on - you didn't think I was suggesting we could be at war with Martians at some point, did you? Really? Instead, maybe I was saying that it's possible that Earth could become much less hospitable to human life, possibly even uninhabitable. At that point (before that point actually), we could be faced with a decision to terraform and colonize Mars, thereby wiping out any life there, or stay on Earth and die out. Please keep in mind this is a huge chain of ifs - I am NOT saying any of this is going to happen, so replies to the effect of "that's not going to happen" will be ignored. My only point is that if we have to choose between our species and some other species, be it Terran or Martian, we will always choose ours.
* By "I" I mean someone in SL, in other words not me
First, TDD is not having "some tests in place". Perfect TDD means everything has a test - everything! Is it possible to have perfect TDD? I don't know, but I think it's possible to come close. Second, is there anyone saying you can design on the fly all the time with no possible cost? If there is, I don't agree - no matter how good your tests are.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Are you suggesting that TDD means you don't do design work ahead of time? That is certainly not the case. I don't think you're saying that unit tests are the only form of testing with TDD, but in case you are, that's not true either. You still do functional tests just like always, and you still have the same QA. Are you saying TDD leads to bad designs? Maybe you can clarify here.
Not you in particular, but a lot of the criticism and dismissal of TDD here seems to be from people who have never done it, or in some cases don't even understand what it is.
Anyway, if the snooper comes back to his computer later, the information from the keylogger is already useless.
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How does funding by a government-mandated TV license free the BBC from the politicians? I'm not trying to argue here, I'm just completely ignorant of this program and I'm not seeing the connection.
Are you saying you wish PBS and NPR had content more like BBC, or that you wish they were paid for by TV licenses instead of the ways they are paid for now? Or both?
You need a LICENSE to watch TELEVISION?? I... uh.... wha.... I'm speechless!
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