Not really. But I do find it odd that the BBC would hire someone who was only interested in doing one season. I would of thought the usual practice is to contract someone for many seasons to prevent this sort of thing happening.
But does that guy deserve to get all that money? Sure may be Best Buy should be punished and they should have to pay out a large amount of money, but should it all go to the victim?
And those 1000's of people wouldn't of had to do all of this anyway if Linus had said the use of Bitkeeper was temporary?
Your argument doesn't make sense. There were advantages to using Bitkeeper. There were no alternatives available at the time. Bitkeeper is no longer an option so 1000's of people have to change over, which they would of had to do anyway at some stage.
So I'll rephrase the question. What consequences that wouldn't of happened anyway?
All the systems on my current project (http://www.gamespace.net.au/), except the forums, where developed with PHP5 in mind, and while their development started with PHP4 as soon as 5 was stable they were cut over and a lot of the new features were implimented. The greatest feature in PHP5 apart from the much improved OO has to be __autoload.
If an attempt is made to access a class that the interpreter doesn't know about it will call a special function __autoload which can be used to include the appropriate file. So you can split all of your classes into seperate files and they will only be included and compiled when you need them. It improved the performance of my systems by at least half.
We don't even know if there is a trend. We know nothing about the ozone hole except it is there now. We don't know if there has always been a hole. We have no idea what it's average size is. We don't know if grows and shrinks in a cycle and it's current growth is just a coincidence.
All we have is 2 decades of data which is like sampling 1 person on this planet and assuming their opinion represents everybody. In summary we know nothing, and claiming that the hole's current growth is being solely caused by Industrialisation is nothing but FUD.
Environmentalists understand that there are natural cycles but are concerned that the natural cycles are being upset by human action
I've never really understood this argument. We all seem to be acting as if humans are somehow seperate from the environment. Humans are very much a part of the environment and will always be a part of it, and as a result anything we do is part of the environment's natural evolution.
What these environmental arguments are always about isn't about protecting the environment but trying to lock it into some sort of stasis and ensure it never changes, which is impossible.
The truth of the matter is nobody has any idea what the hell they are talking about and nobody knows what they should be doing. Almost every time we try to fix a problem we just make things worse.
What we should be more worried about is resource management and should stop trying to exploit everything.
Well it's a trick that seemed to work for Isaac Asimov. The original "I, Robot" was a short story written by Eando Binder. Isaac Asimov was apparently appaled when he learned that his collection was going to be renamed from "Mind and Iron" to "I, Robot".
LOC does not determine how easy a project is to maintain. Design does. If the project is well designed then no matter how big it is it will be easier to maintain. I've worked on a bit of software that probably only had about 5000 LOC and it was a nightmare!
200K LOC isn't even a particularly big project. The linux kernel has over 30 million.
The only synchronous ADSL plans in Australia are 512/512. If you want a higher synchronous plans you have get shdsl which requires a different modem to normal residential ADSL.
Instead Australians have had to put up with the Corporate monopoly known as Telstra who service all the wholesale DSL in Australia, AND have their own retail division.
They have been responsible for wonderful retail plans that have been cheaper than what they charge wholesale to other providers making it impossible to compete.
While the rest of the world has been living in an unlimited download data haven, Australians have been artificially limited by restrictive data caps which traditionally have been around the 10Gig a month mark. It has only been in the last 12 months that competition has allowed it to climb to the very generous 20 - 40 Gig caps we see today.
It has only been because of constant pressure and fines from the ACCC that anything positive has happened at all with Australian DSL.
I had exactly the same problems with my 9800pro. Bloody expensive card and the biggest piece of crap I ever bought.
Not only does it overheat, but it's image quality is crap. All the Doom 3 tectures were covered in snow making the whole game look like arse.
Their drivers are especially buggy. Trying to set the gamma in windows would work until I reboot at which point windows would load with the default gamma setting Until I opened up the control panel again at which point it ATI would wake up and set everything the way I wanted it.
I'll never get an ATI card again. I loved my Ti4200 never had an issue, this card has been nothing but trouble.
Any technology that we create has good and bad uses. It's not the fault of technology, and we should stop trying to blame it. All these things stem back to society and the people in it.
We should be trying to find ways to fix the people, and not fix the technology.
Of course when their legal team now hears of this, maybe they will fix that......
I don't think they will. The ACCC made it a legal requirement that ALL DVD players must be able to play any region DVD in Australia, or must provide instructions on how to make it region free.
It doesn't provide instantaneous communication. What it does is instantaneously change another particle. You cannot believe H.U.P is real, and not believe in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox. That is a contradiction.
The maths and the observations made by the ancient greeks is not incorrect. It is all still perfectly valid and still perfectly observable. All we did was expand their theory and add a new expanation as to WHY it happens that way.
But as I said, if your message is the same size as the number of bits transferred, you can still send the message directly (not encrypted). You can publicly state "Bit 5 is the first bit of the message, Bit 7 is the second.." and so on. Since these are bits you know that the eavesdropper does not have, you provide no information.
But you don't know if another person has read the data until After you send the data, at which point it's too late. They have everything and they will be able to work out what the message says even if they don't know which are the correct bits because it's not encrypted, or more accuratly encrypted in such a basic way any machine can get the correct message in no time.
Read this guys post. It's very well written, and explains it perfectly. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136672&cid= 11417588
In this case I'm not talking about quantum encryption. The parent believed it was almost impossible to read a signal on a fibre optic cable so there is no point in having quantum encryption.
Because these sorts of codes can be broken. They are almost always basis in a known language and can eventually be translated.
This sort of encryption was used a lot in World War 1 where they would take words and phrases and replace them with other words. For example a single word "keyboard" may mean "Arial attack". These sorts of codes were broken. Usually by people good at crosswords.
A more famous case of decrypting this sort of cypher is Egyptian Hyroglyphics. Sure they were never ment to be a code but since knowledge of how to read it was lost it became one.
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it's got a higher rating because of all the swearing a cursing the audience will be shouting out in disgust as they watch the movie.
Not really. But I do find it odd that the BBC would hire someone who was only interested in doing one season. I would of thought the usual practice is to contract someone for many seasons to prevent this sort of thing happening.
But does that guy deserve to get all that money? Sure may be Best Buy should be punished and they should have to pay out a large amount of money, but should it all go to the victim?
And those 1000's of people wouldn't of had to do all of this anyway if Linus had said the use of Bitkeeper was temporary?
Your argument doesn't make sense. There were advantages to using Bitkeeper. There were no alternatives available at the time. Bitkeeper is no longer an option so 1000's of people have to change over, which they would of had to do anyway at some stage.
So I'll rephrase the question. What consequences that wouldn't of happened anyway?
"No Boss it's research! Look at the way her fingers move. It must be the easiest way to interface with anything!!"
All of my projects use PHP5.
All the systems on my current project (http://www.gamespace.net.au/), except the forums, where developed with PHP5 in mind, and while their development started with PHP4 as soon as 5 was stable they were cut over and a lot of the new features were implimented. The greatest feature in PHP5 apart from the much improved OO has to be __autoload.
If an attempt is made to access a class that the interpreter doesn't know about it will call a special function __autoload which can be used to include the appropriate file. So you can split all of your classes into seperate files and they will only be included and compiled when you need them. It improved the performance of my systems by at least half.
And the Hydrogen Bomb can be used to perform important experiments concerning nuclear fusion.
All we have is 2 decades of data which is like sampling 1 person on this planet and assuming their opinion represents everybody. In summary we know nothing, and claiming that the hole's current growth is being solely caused by Industrialisation is nothing but FUD.
I've never really understood this argument. We all seem to be acting as if humans are somehow seperate from the environment. Humans are very much a part of the environment and will always be a part of it, and as a result anything we do is part of the environment's natural evolution.
What these environmental arguments are always about isn't about protecting the environment but trying to lock it into some sort of stasis and ensure it never changes, which is impossible.
The truth of the matter is nobody has any idea what the hell they are talking about and nobody knows what they should be doing. Almost every time we try to fix a problem we just make things worse.
What we should be more worried about is resource management and should stop trying to exploit everything.
Well it's a trick that seemed to work for Isaac Asimov. The original "I, Robot" was a short story written by Eando Binder. Isaac Asimov was apparently appaled when he learned that his collection was going to be renamed from "Mind and Iron" to "I, Robot".
Except that the original "I, Robot" short story was not written by Asimov, but by a guy named Eando Binder in 1939.
Sorry to reply to my own post but I made a mistake on the SLOC in the kernel 30 million was in an entire distro.
The kernel has about 4.2 million.
What?
LOC does not determine how easy a project is to maintain. Design does. If the project is well designed then no matter how big it is it will be easier to maintain. I've worked on a bit of software that probably only had about 5000 LOC and it was a nightmare!
200K LOC isn't even a particularly big project. The linux kernel has over 30 million.
Actually I'm pretty sure the Gamecube was released after the XBox.
The only synchronous ADSL plans in Australia are 512/512. If you want a higher synchronous plans you have get shdsl which requires a different modem to normal residential ADSL.
Actually I believe iiNet are one of the top 5 ISP's with subs well over 150,000. Most of them were aquired through buy outs of other ISP's.
Their revenue is quite large.
Instead Australians have had to put up with the Corporate monopoly known as Telstra who service all the wholesale DSL in Australia, AND have their own retail division.
They have been responsible for wonderful retail plans that have been cheaper than what they charge wholesale to other providers making it impossible to compete.
While the rest of the world has been living in an unlimited download data haven, Australians have been artificially limited by restrictive data caps which traditionally have been around the 10Gig a month mark. It has only been in the last 12 months that competition has allowed it to climb to the very generous 20 - 40 Gig caps we see today.
It has only been because of constant pressure and fines from the ACCC that anything positive has happened at all with Australian DSL.
I had exactly the same problems with my 9800pro. Bloody expensive card and the biggest piece of crap I ever bought.
Not only does it overheat, but it's image quality is crap. All the Doom 3 tectures were covered in snow making the whole game look like arse.
Their drivers are especially buggy. Trying to set the gamma in windows would work until I reboot at which point windows would load with the default gamma setting Until I opened up the control panel again at which point it ATI would wake up and set everything the way I wanted it.
I'll never get an ATI card again. I loved my Ti4200 never had an issue, this card has been nothing but trouble.
This is insightful as well as funny.
Any technology that we create has good and bad uses. It's not the fault of technology, and we should stop trying to blame it. All these things stem back to society and the people in it.
We should be trying to find ways to fix the people, and not fix the technology.
I don't think they will. The ACCC made it a legal requirement that ALL DVD players must be able to play any region DVD in Australia, or must provide instructions on how to make it region free.
It doesn't provide instantaneous communication. What it does is instantaneously change another particle. You cannot believe H.U.P is real, and not believe in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox. That is a contradiction.
The maths and the observations made by the ancient greeks is not incorrect. It is all still perfectly valid and still perfectly observable. All we did was expand their theory and add a new expanation as to WHY it happens that way.
padding all messages so they are the same size is a pretty common technique, and not that difficult to do.
But you don't know if another person has read the data until After you send the data, at which point it's too late. They have everything and they will be able to work out what the message says even if they don't know which are the correct bits because it's not encrypted, or more accuratly encrypted in such a basic way any machine can get the correct message in no time.
Read this guys post. It's very well written, and explains it perfectly. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136672&cid= 11417588
In this case I'm not talking about quantum encryption. The parent believed it was almost impossible to read a signal on a fibre optic cable so there is no point in having quantum encryption.
This sort of encryption was used a lot in World War 1 where they would take words and phrases and replace them with other words. For example a single word "keyboard" may mean "Arial attack". These sorts of codes were broken. Usually by people good at crosswords.
A more famous case of decrypting this sort of cypher is Egyptian Hyroglyphics. Sure they were never ment to be a code but since knowledge of how to read it was lost it became one.