But don't forget that the last time a major western power (with access to the latest technology) became a repressive regime, between 9 and 11 million civilians were targeted for extermination by the state, and a total of 65 million deaths resulted in the wars largely initiated by the dictatorship.
Of course, that's nowhere near the number of deaths needed to bring the world population down to ideal levels, so I'm all for more tools of repression.
One extra feature that may not appear in other designs is the earth prong is longer than the live prong, so that the device is earthed before it connects to the live current. Modern sockets have shutters on the live sockets that are pushed open by the longer earth prong, so that small children cannot push stuff into the live socket.
Also, most Brits are exposed to Lego at an early age, and know how to walk over pointy objects in the dark. Those that forget are sent reminders in thier late 20's and again when they become grandparents.
Me too. I am getting suspicious of the ubuntu cheerleading going on here. It sounds a bit too much like other 'distro du jour' cheerleading we have seen previously, particularly the gentoo stuff.
Suse has great hardware support, a reasonable install, a good system configuration tool, and a nice enough desktop. Its let down by an enterprise focused package selection, and poor network based repositories.
Mandriva has good hardware support, excellent installer, a good system configuration tool and a good desktop. Its let down by rushed testing before major releases (2007 is OK, but 2006 had several flaws), and a weak website. You can subscribe (I.e. pay money) to Mandriva to get access to a distro with alot of free-but-commercial distro. It installs acrobat, realplayer, flash, nvidia drivers, and other software. Also check out Easyurpmi, a website that points you at the urpmi repositories for community packages.
I found ubuntu had good hardware support, but the installer was limited, the configuration tool poor, and the desktop came with a very limited set of default options. Online support is excellent. The basics (OOo, The GIMP, etc) were intalled by the installer, but stuff like Inkscape and games had to be installed from the command line. Before installing, check the web for tips, as there are some packages and things to do that make things alot easier (such as setting up big list of repostories in/etc/apt/sources.list)
I havent used redhat, but I understand its very much like SuSe.
What I would do is create a tri-boot system. Put windows in a partition, and then create a 50Mb/boot partition, 2 6Gb partitions for two system install root directories, possibly a 10Gb/usr/local partition, and a/home partition. Then you can install 2 distros and compare them, I would select Mandriva 2007 and Ubuntu 6.06 for the tests. Install Mandriva first, its partition manager is best. If you decide to go to a single distro, use the other 6Gb partition as a backup.
Anyone suggesting you try gentoo, debian or slackware is , quite frankly, an idiot.
Nah, a really smart guy would buy the book as a present for his mistress, so when the police come looking, they arrest her, you are rid of both of them and you can get back to some serious codeing.
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Single web page? That isn't a small project... that is a TINY project.
You have a flawed understanding of 'fact' since it was never a fact that the UK has always had a population of 60 million. It may currently have a population of that size, I don't know, but I don't think anyone has ever proposed that populations ever stay constant. The fact is that when the population is 60 million, it is 60 million and when it is 3 million, it is 3 million. This isn't that hard to grasp...
So a fact is, by your definition, something that is universally true and doesnt change?
The methane level 'predictions' you talk about are actually methane level 'projections'. In the absence of any data indicating how methane sources respond to climate change and changes in land use they pretty much have to just take a stab at the methane release rate, and they incorrectly projected a continuing rise.
Methane is not as dire a global warming gas as you characterize it. It oxidises in the atmosphere. I would guess its atmospheric 1/2 life somewhere in the range of 6months-2years (CO2 has an atmospheric 1/2 life of about 30 years). There is more on the impact of methane at realclimate.
BTW, almost everything you say is innaccurate:
scientists that can predict the next millenia's weather to three decimal points... they predict between 2 and 6 degrees of warming, and express what this means for the weather in very vague terms (increased storminess, etc).
didn't forsee the recent unexplained drop in atmospheric methane levels... read the literature. Theres loads of dissenting opinion on how much the various sinks and sources contribute, and how they change according to climate change and land use.
drop in atmospheric methane levels... Wrong, levels remained constant.
Methane is a worse greenhouse gas the CO2!... Methane is oxidized quite rapidly, so a 1 tonne release of methane does not have the long term effect a 1 tonne release of CO2 would have. (Ive seen similar, even more wrong, arguments about water vapour)
You can make all sorts of dire predictions if you assume that things will remain constant.... You can make all sorts of dire predictions if you assume things will change too. This statement is more meaningless than innacurate.
The problem is that in the real world, nothing is constant.... apart from the physical constants, and the laws of physics, and human stupidity.
Perhaps I did, I assumed your design docs were of the "word docs that nobody actually reads" type and your descriptive names were "MQ065_Quicker_info_from_source_data_definition()"
Getting into the code written at this place is a lifetimes work. No useful docs, no literate programming tools, comments are either absent or useless, the only machine parsable comments are those I create myself. No-one uses any wiki tools to note how anything is done. And most of them retire in the next 5 years. Welcome to my (increasingly well paid!) world.
Your approach might not be that useful. Your descriptive names are probably only decriptive to you, or are so long that the code becomes unreadable. You also have a weird belief that design documents bear any resembelance to the code.
I find about 1 comment line for every 10-20 lines of code is about right, and make sure the comments are a level of abstraction higher than the code, E.g. Dont comment that you are opening a file, comment why you are opening that file (E.g./* Open the inbound configuration file for parsing */)
Ive seen people go to both extremes, to the point of commenting that return statements will be returning, folks using 60 character variable names, folks who never write a single comment, and one particularly annoying individual who would tell me in the comments exactly what was in the next line of code, on every line of code, no matter how trivial, in boxed comments.
The technical name for this is Technical Analysis, and its a load of bunk.
Sure you can create programs that handle arbitrage opportunities, or detect shortterm effects (market movements lasting less than 1 hour), and these make lots of money for those lucky people who have realtime prices and no brokerage costs (I.e. investment banks, etc).
Stock prices for a company will move on news. Prices may drift around on speculation, but eventually a company will post its trading figures and you will know exactly how much that company is worth at that point in time. Unless these technical analysis programs know which comanies are moving product, who is about to sue who, which companies are in secret negotiations, what the future price of oil will be, etc, then they are going to miss price movements caused by events external to the markets.
Well, the exact rationale is lost in the midsts of time, but I think they aspire to Slack, which is analogous to Nirvana or "The Grace of God".
Is there a set of Scriptures with an excellent pedigree that I might examine?
There were, but they got lost, and anyway they were probably in a language no-one can read anymore. Bobists make do with a series of translated writings inspired by copies of the original documents.
Is there a historical record of this Bob?
Yes, a Roman historian mentions him, and all the places mentioned in the sacred texts are real places so they must talking about real people too. Rumours that old-time Bobists inserted extra passages into ancient documents to make the case for Bob seem stronger are just heresay.
He probably was referring to the KDE/Gnome flamewars that erupt on slashdot occassionaly. Evenyone knows those arguments are nonsense as Gnome is clearly inferior to KDE in every respect, apart from its gname.
Indeed, but they also have a short term (3 years) cooling effect from the particulates (sulphur mostly). Think nuclear winter.
These things are included in the models, and are significant, but not as significant as the anthropogenic CO2.
This sort of thing has been sorted for several years now, I suggest you read up on the basics, paying particular attention to the attibutions from the models.
It might be a bit tiresome for you to have to do some research before contributing to discussions, but trust me, its nowhere near as tiresome as seeing the same old misunderstandings and misrepresentations go past again and again.
Users do not have GPL restrictions, only people modifying and distributing do.
The only restriction that might conceivably hit a user is if they give away Linux CDs, or sell PCs with Linux installed, as they become liable to distribute the source too.
4 games that no one has heard of, that have no marketing muscle or names behind, are going to supplant EA or Ubisoft or whatever?
Just like some browser no-one has ever heard of is going to supplant IE?
Or some tinpot company from Seattle will never be able to take on IBM?
There have been "alternative" sources for indie games. Not counting just independent publishers going a shareware route, there are (were?) things like GarageGames where smaller teams were selling relatively quality but small games.
Shareware games have already removed the market for card games, platformers and side-scrollers.
In time, FOSS liscencing will mean the better 3D engines will get continual development, and eventually grow to rival the commercial versions, then only the big commercial games (WoW, Halo, etc) will survive, and the also-rans will be supplanted by these FOSS based games. Alot of the maps for NWN, Unreal Tournament and other FPS games are already community developed, so it is not a huge leap to have the engine supplied by a community too.
And we DO have SOME native games. (not many, but some).
I beleive this is starting to change, and to the detriment of the games producers.
Looking out there, there are quite a few FOSS games under development, and they also seem to fill each niche:
Vegastrike : Space sim Wesnoth: Turn based strategy Danger from the Deep: submarine sim Racer: Car sim etc.
I guess that sooner or later, all these projects will mature to the point they start displacing customers at the cheaper end of the games market, and big commercial games will be forced to either innovate, or find other revenue streams.
But even us zOS based devs have to deal with people who insist on putting the source management tools on CMS, or doing plenty of other stupid things that cause internal tools to fail to deliver business needs after a few years.
Even worse for zOS is the complete luddism of most develeopers. DTL, PDSE, and FTP have been around for years, and still they code panels the hard way, compress PDS datasets weekly, and use IND$FILE to move data about.
Try visiting a college campus at the beginning of a new semester.
So I have to travel to a certain place at at certain time of year to see teens being advertised too?
I'm sorry but Banana Republic, Tommy Hilfiger and specialized retailers like Hot Topic disagree.
And they are always on TV, and in the press, pushing product?. They may have products aimed at teens, but they dont work to get a universal brand recignition like Nike and Levis do. Ive never even heard of Hot Topic, so their mass marketting must be so niche it never appears in the mainstream media.
have you completely ignored the massive amounts of 80's cartoon remakes lately?
Its hard to ignore something thats targetted at me. Thats me being a 30-something who saw the original cartoons. I dont know why you think the Xmen/Spiderman/Superman films are being targetted at teens, when the principle audience is people who read the comics 15 years ago.
When was the last time you saw a senior citizens aimed advertisement? UK TV is always running a denture cream advert, dont see many teen targetted ads outside of niche channels, though.
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But don't forget that the last time a major western power (with access to the latest technology) became a repressive regime, between 9 and 11 million civilians were targeted for extermination by the state, and a total of 65 million deaths resulted in the wars largely initiated by the dictatorship.
Of course, that's nowhere near the number of deaths needed to bring the world population down to ideal levels, so I'm all for more tools of repression.
You are not allowed to use cricket bats to hit policemen in Britain.
The reasoning behind this law is that "it just wouldn't be cricket".
One extra feature that may not appear in other designs is the earth prong is longer than the live prong, so that the device is earthed before it connects to the live current. Modern sockets have shutters on the live sockets that are pushed open by the longer earth prong, so that small children cannot push stuff into the live socket.
Also, most Brits are exposed to Lego at an early age, and know how to walk over pointy objects in the dark. Those that forget are sent reminders in thier late 20's and again when they become grandparents.
Me too. I am getting suspicious of the ubuntu cheerleading going on here. It sounds a bit too much like other 'distro du jour' cheerleading we have seen previously, particularly the gentoo stuff.
/etc/apt/sources.list)
/boot partition, 2 6Gb partitions for two system install root directories, possibly a 10Gb /usr/local partition, and a /home partition. Then you can install 2 distros and compare them, I would select Mandriva 2007 and Ubuntu 6.06 for the tests. Install Mandriva first, its partition manager is best. If you decide to go to a single distro, use the other 6Gb partition as a backup.
Suse has great hardware support, a reasonable install, a good system configuration tool, and a nice enough desktop. Its let down by an enterprise focused package selection, and poor network based repositories.
Mandriva has good hardware support, excellent installer, a good system configuration tool and a good desktop. Its let down by rushed testing before major releases (2007 is OK, but 2006 had several flaws), and a weak website. You can subscribe (I.e. pay money) to Mandriva to get access to a distro with alot of free-but-commercial distro. It installs acrobat, realplayer, flash, nvidia drivers, and other software. Also check out Easyurpmi, a website that points you at the urpmi repositories for community packages.
I found ubuntu had good hardware support, but the installer was limited, the configuration tool poor, and the desktop came with a very limited set of default options. Online support is excellent. The basics (OOo, The GIMP, etc) were intalled by the installer, but stuff like Inkscape and games had to be installed from the command line. Before installing, check the web for tips, as there are some packages and things to do that make things alot easier (such as setting up big list of repostories in
I havent used redhat, but I understand its very much like SuSe.
What I would do is create a tri-boot system. Put windows in a partition, and then create a 50Mb
Anyone suggesting you try gentoo, debian or slackware is , quite frankly, an idiot.
Nah, a really smart guy would buy the book as a present for his mistress, so when the police come looking, they arrest her, you are rid of both of them and you can get back to some serious codeing.
Or a tiddly one!
So a fact is, by your definition, something that is universally true and doesnt change?
By most other peoples definitions a fact is just a peice of information.
so when you argue that facts dont change, you are just using a circular argument based on your own incrorrect definition. Facts change, deal with it.
Really?
So the population of the UK has always been 60 million, even back when it was 3 million?
A) find new resources and
B) improve and extend our use of existing resources.
and C) defy the laws of physics
The methane level 'predictions' you talk about are actually methane level 'projections'. In the absence of any data indicating how methane sources respond to climate change and changes in land use they pretty much have to just take a stab at the methane release rate, and they incorrectly projected a continuing rise.
Methane is not as dire a global warming gas as you characterize it. It oxidises in the atmosphere. I would guess its atmospheric 1/2 life somewhere in the range of 6months-2years (CO2 has an atmospheric 1/2 life of about 30 years). There is more on the impact of methane at realclimate.
BTW, almost everything you say is innaccurate:
Accuweather.com are climate scientists now?
If I lend you a fiver, can I be a financial expert?
Point me at predictions by Hadley Center, NOAA, or similar.
Perhaps I did, I assumed your design docs were of the "word docs that nobody actually reads" type and your descriptive names were "MQ065_Quicker_info_from_source_data_definition()"
Getting into the code written at this place is a lifetimes work. No useful docs, no literate programming tools, comments are either absent or useless, the only machine parsable comments are those I create myself. No-one uses any wiki tools to note how anything is done. And most of them retire in the next 5 years. Welcome to my (increasingly well paid!) world.
I am an accolyte of Pyad.
:-(
Wanna buy some cheap shares in Northern Foods? If only they hadnt announced that they wernt making any money, then theyd be expensive shares.
Your approach might not be that useful. Your descriptive names are probably only decriptive to you, or are so long that the code becomes unreadable. You also have a weird belief that design documents bear any resembelance to the code.
/* Open the inbound configuration file for parsing */)
I find about 1 comment line for every 10-20 lines of code is about right, and make sure the comments are a level of abstraction higher than the code, E.g. Dont comment that you are opening a file, comment why you are opening that file (E.g.
Ive seen people go to both extremes, to the point of commenting that return statements will be returning, folks using 60 character variable names, folks who never write a single comment, and one particularly annoying individual who would tell me in the comments exactly what was in the next line of code, on every line of code, no matter how trivial, in boxed comments.
The technical name for this is Technical Analysis, and its a load of bunk.
Sure you can create programs that handle arbitrage opportunities, or detect shortterm effects (market movements lasting less than 1 hour), and these make lots of money for those lucky people who have realtime prices and no brokerage costs (I.e. investment banks, etc).
Stock prices for a company will move on news. Prices may drift around on speculation, but eventually a company will post its trading figures and you will know exactly how much that company is worth at that point in time. Unless these technical analysis programs know which comanies are moving product, who is about to sue who, which companies are in secret negotiations, what the future price of oil will be, etc, then they are going to miss price movements caused by events external to the markets.
Oh, on what basis is Bobism founded?
Well, the exact rationale is lost in the midsts of time, but I think they aspire to Slack, which is analogous to Nirvana or "The Grace of God".
Is there a set of Scriptures with an excellent pedigree that I might examine?
There were, but they got lost, and anyway they were probably in a language no-one can read anymore. Bobists make do with a series of translated writings inspired by copies of the original documents.
Is there a historical record of this Bob?
Yes, a Roman historian mentions him, and all the places mentioned in the sacred texts are real places so they must talking about real people too. Rumours that old-time Bobists inserted extra passages into ancient documents to make the case for Bob seem stronger are just heresay.
He probably was referring to the KDE/Gnome flamewars that erupt on slashdot occassionaly. Evenyone knows those arguments are nonsense as Gnome is clearly inferior to KDE in every respect, apart from its gname.
Indeed, but they also have a short term (3 years) cooling effect from the particulates (sulphur mostly). Think nuclear winter. These things are included in the models, and are significant, but not as significant as the anthropogenic CO2.
This sort of thing has been sorted for several years now, I suggest you read up on the basics, paying particular attention to the attibutions from the models.
It might be a bit tiresome for you to have to do some research before contributing to discussions, but trust me, its nowhere near as tiresome as seeing the same old misunderstandings and misrepresentations go past again and again.
Users do not have GPL restrictions, only people modifying and distributing do.
The only restriction that might conceivably hit a user is if they give away Linux CDs, or sell PCs with Linux installed, as they become liable to distribute the source too.
Just like some browser no-one has ever heard of is going to supplant IE?
Or some tinpot company from Seattle will never be able to take on IBM?
There have been "alternative" sources for indie games. Not counting just independent publishers going a shareware route, there are (were?) things like GarageGames where smaller teams were selling relatively quality but small games.
Shareware games have already removed the market for card games, platformers and side-scrollers.
In time, FOSS liscencing will mean the better 3D engines will get continual development, and eventually grow to rival the commercial versions, then only the big commercial games (WoW, Halo, etc) will survive, and the also-rans will be supplanted by these FOSS based games. Alot of the maps for NWN, Unreal Tournament and other FPS games are already community developed, so it is not a huge leap to have the engine supplied by a community too.
And we DO have SOME native games. (not many, but some).
I beleive this is starting to change, and to the detriment of the games producers.
Looking out there, there are quite a few FOSS games under development, and they also seem to fill each niche:
Vegastrike : Space sim
Wesnoth: Turn based strategy
Danger from the Deep: submarine sim
Racer: Car sim
etc.
I guess that sooner or later, all these projects will mature to the point they start displacing customers at the cheaper end of the games market, and big commercial games will be forced to either innovate, or find other revenue streams.
But even us zOS based devs have to deal with people who insist on putting the source management tools on CMS, or doing plenty of other stupid things that cause internal tools to fail to deliver business needs after a few years.
Even worse for zOS is the complete luddism of most develeopers. DTL, PDSE, and FTP have been around for years, and still they code panels the hard way, compress PDS datasets weekly, and use IND$FILE to move data about.
Grrrrr.
Yeah? Well, it clearly has not, moron, so hand over the money.
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So I have to travel to a certain place at at certain time of year to see teens being advertised too?
I'm sorry but Banana Republic, Tommy Hilfiger and specialized retailers like Hot Topic disagree.
And they are always on TV, and in the press, pushing product?. They may have products aimed at teens, but they dont work to get a universal brand recignition like Nike and Levis do. Ive never even heard of Hot Topic, so their mass marketting must be so niche it never appears in the mainstream media.
have you completely ignored the massive amounts of 80's cartoon remakes lately?
Its hard to ignore something thats targetted at me. Thats me being a 30-something who saw the original cartoons. I dont know why you think the Xmen/Spiderman/Superman films are being targetted at teens, when the principle audience is people who read the comics 15 years ago.
When was the last time you saw a senior citizens aimed advertisement? UK TV is always running a denture cream advert, dont see many teen targetted ads outside of niche channels, though.