Also, take a close look at the statement
Windows XP, by comparison, contains about 40 million lines of code, with new bugs found on a frequent basis
Well, the number of lines of code in the code base isn't strictly relevant, but comparing an unquantified rate of bug discovery against a quantified absolute number of bugs doesn't sound like sound practice to me.
It also makes no statement about the relative severity of the bugs - 100 trivial bugs with simple workarounds would certainly be worth fixing, but how can you compare them against, say, one bug that trashes your principal hard disk?
That's a slight misunderstatement. In once sense (a set of steps that can be mechanically applied to find a solution), algorithms are as old as Euclid and appear in the Elements.
al-Khwarizmi was the author of an Arabic textbook on algebra (al-Jabr appears as part of the book title). The word algorithm is a western corruption of his name which came to be applied first to the use of Hindu/Arabic numbers in computation and later to the meaning it has today.
This might be true for the developing eastern European nations with relatively weak currencies, but less so in the West. Prices are pretty high in the Northern European countries as anyone who buys clothes in Britain or a beer in Sweden will attest.
I'm a Brit who visits USA quite often (holidays, every couple of years) and we always buy lots of stuff there..
And that's so *before* you take into account the US exchange rate issue. Mind you, if you get paid in Euros or Pounds sterling you might do well if the dollar drops again... or not.
Not a brilliant comparison, since Paisley's DUP and the other unionist parties want to maintain closer ties with Britain. I never thought that the Northern Ireland unionist parties wanted significant independence from England... it might be seen as playing into the hands of the nationalists/republicans.
Accusing Paisley of being a demagogue is a valid accusation, mind you.
Actually, the one that really changed my life was "Magnets, Bulbs and Batteries" which I was given in the early 1970s....
Basic Electrical engineering principles for kids! Electromagnets... parallel and serial bulb wiring... switches... electroplating... wonderful stuff.
When starting an Electronics degree course in 1981 (was it really so long ago, sigh) the lecturers recommended this book as a start point for anyone who had no idea about computers.
The ndiscvt tools that allow you to convert your NDIS network drivers into kernel modules works really well (at least in BETA7). I'm very impressed. (My only gripe was that it had problems reading my.INF file because it was unicode; I converted to ANSI and all was well). I can now run a pretty good GNOME desktop on my Acer laptop with wireless access.
my 8" floppy disk died and I had an error message
"BDOS ERR ON A: BAD SECTOR". Then I mistyped the PIP command and I had the error message "BDOS ERR ON A: BAD SECTOR"...
What exactly is your problem? The *BSD postings may not be much more than notifications of beta releases but that's pretty much par for the course here.
1995 seems a rather arbitrary cut-off point for this question. There may well have been a demystifying of programmers since, say, the 1960s, as IT has become more and more prevalent. But I can't think of any reason why 95 should be seen as a watershed in this regard.
Yes, sure, plan to be with your child as much as you can. But new parents need some time off to relax and socialise. A new mother of my acquaintance who is well-meaning and dedicated to her family didn't leave her son with anyone else, ever, for nearly a year, because she had extremely high (unrealistic) standards for prospective babysitters. It did them no good in the end.
But I certainly agree with other comments that remote web monitoring is not the way to go here.
We would, in fact say "This car has petrol".
But there has been a tendency in recent years to treat collective nouns as plurals, as in "The Manchester United football team are overpaid". I don't see this as a Brit/Yank difference.
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Well, the number of lines of code in the code base isn't strictly relevant, but comparing an unquantified rate of bug discovery against a quantified absolute number of bugs doesn't sound like sound practice to me.
It also makes no statement about the relative severity of the bugs - 100 trivial bugs with simple workarounds would certainly be worth fixing, but how can you compare them against, say, one bug that trashes your principal hard disk?
OK that's my opinion, now to R the FA.
Don't kid yourself. We don't hate you, just haven't the faintest idea what you are talking about.
al-Khwarizmi was the author of an Arabic textbook on algebra (al-Jabr appears as part of the book title). The word algorithm is a western corruption of his name which came to be applied first to the use of Hindu/Arabic numbers in computation and later to the meaning it has today.
"A History of Mathematics" Boyer/Merzbach.
I'm a Brit who visits USA quite often (holidays, every couple of years) and we always buy lots of stuff there..
And that's so *before* you take into account the US exchange rate issue. Mind you, if you get paid in Euros or Pounds sterling you might do well if the dollar drops again... or not.
Funny how we keep on anthropomorphising what most of you believe is an impersonal process.
Please tell me more...
Accusing Paisley of being a demagogue is a valid accusation, mind you.
Oh no, not again
Doctor Smith... Warning Will Robinson
Sheesh. Remind me to put SARCASM MODE = EXPLICIT in future. :-)
"Write once, infect everywhere."
Could this be an unwarranted inference on the part of the poster?
Actually, the one that really changed my life was "Magnets, Bulbs and Batteries" which I was given in the early 1970s.... Basic Electrical engineering principles for kids! Electromagnets ... parallel and serial bulb wiring ... switches ... electroplating ... wonderful stuff.
I presume it was the 79 edition they recommended.
What a lovely nostalgia trip. Thanks!
The ndiscvt tools that allow you to convert your NDIS network drivers into kernel modules works really well (at least in BETA7). I'm very impressed. (My only gripe was that it had problems reading my .INF file because it was unicode; I converted to ANSI and all was well). I can now run a pretty good GNOME desktop on my Acer laptop with wireless access.
my 8" floppy disk died and I had an error message "BDOS ERR ON A: BAD SECTOR". Then I mistyped the PIP command and I had the error message "BDOS ERR ON A: BAD SECTOR"...
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What exactly is your problem? The *BSD postings may not be much more than notifications of beta releases but that's pretty much par for the course here.
1995 seems a rather arbitrary cut-off point for this question. There may well have been a demystifying of programmers since, say, the 1960s, as IT has become more and more prevalent. But I can't think of any reason why 95 should be seen as a watershed in this regard.
Ask any UK TV viewer about the "W-A-N-K-E-R-S" incident on countdown...
But I certainly agree with other comments that remote web monitoring is not the way to go here.
We would, in fact say "This car has petrol". But there has been a tendency in recent years to treat collective nouns as plurals, as in "The Manchester United football team are overpaid". I don't see this as a Brit/Yank difference.
Troll, maybe. Funny, perhaps. Since when was beating up your roommate considered insightful???
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