Beg your pardon, Alberta citizen, but none of us citizens of Quebec AND Ontario wanted anything to do with the USA missile defense.
Two sane reasons: 1- it breaks important cold war treaties, which makes us Bad Guys; 2- the bloody thing does not even come close to faking expected behavior! (i.e.: shooting missiles down)
And the third reason, which does not suit everybody: 3- this is a bad, bad, bad idea. It just yells "throw me one!" to extremists of every horizon, state or not.
What he means, I think, is that you have to take more time to write the config files for multiple OS's than what is needed to compile.
Well, anyway, class projects or single programmer projects are not real programming projects in the context of the industry. I work in a tiny shop, and each and every project here has 2 or more people on it.
What we want is a platform that can be programmed to consistently; nobody wants to do any rewriting to port to every flavor of OS avaliable.(and yes, changing directory structures IS rewriting) Even porting from Win to Mac is a hassle nobody wants to pay for, and Mac has more share than any single Linux distro! So you get apps for Win, other apps for Mac, a lot of apps that work only on ONE Linux distro, and a few select blockbusters that work on 2 platforms.
If you want REAL political intrigue, double-crossing and some strategy, try Junta! from West end Games.
You are the ruling families of a banana republic (it sounds so eighties!) and the aim of the game is diverting the most foreign aid funds possible in your swiss account.
You are making the same stupid mistake as a lot of pompous bastards out there: The majority of people doing menial work (eg. flipping burgers, punching a cash register) do not do it because it is the pinnacle of their possibilities. They currently need the dough, that's all.
The technology exists, if you are prepared to:
a) double the cost of making a highway and retrofit the existing network, or
b) pay a whole lot more for your car (think a couple of ten grands)
There are many initiatives, especially in California, and in
Canada, but their goal is having a working prototype in 5 years, at least(that is, if everything goes well).
Having co-written the basic paper for the canadian lab, I can assure you the challenge is interesting. Don't try this at home! At least work with other researchers;-)
China develops parallel standards for everything because they could not afford the "standard" standards.
Forking out millions of US$ in licences would ruin any chinese company. Hell, do you know what 500$ US means for a chinese person? ONE THENTH of the per-capita GDP! and it won't even buy a single PC with Windows on it.
To those of you paranoiacs who still think Communism Is The Red Menace: communism has nothing to do with this issue. In fact, the Chinese are applying by-the-book capitalism to IP: get the cheapest source avaliable, and use it.
The "thermoelectric" effect used is the Peltier effect. So this guy "innovates" by packaging a whole bunch of Peltier elements in a flexible package AKA blanket.
Sheesh. How about a self-heating thermoelectric butter-cutting knife? Some innovation!
Well, if Petro-Canada profits, all canadians profit: the company is (partly) a property of the Government of Canada. Alas, there are rumors that it will be no more in some time...
As another comment said, new battery chemisteries are more efficient and benign than lead-acid or nickel-cadmium. There are nice nickel-zinc batteries, which is formed of two benign metals. Consider also Lithium-polymer, the current king of common battery chemisteries, which is completely solid-state(no mess in case of crash) and environmentaly friendly.
As for gasoline being a tame fuel, remember that a single cup of it explodes with the power of a stick of dynamite. How many cups in a 50 litre fuel tank? It seems safe to normal people because they use it every day. People are scared of hydrogen because of explosions: pfah!
As for supplying the energy for electric vehicles, there is also hydro-electricity and wind power which are now widely used. Moreover, a coal-fired electric power plant is more efficient than most (if not all) vehicle power plants. Even if coal replaced gasoline through our electric network, environment would be winning.
All that said, I think waste veggie oil is the fuel of the future. A recycled product, does not pollute, and smells good to boot!
According to the nice PATRIOT act, if you are on US territory, you are commiting a criminal act. Proof? you can be imprisoned without recourse, without the need for any reason, for an unlimited time.
I do not have any illusion of the existence of civil rights in the US.
I have no idea of the length or breadth of your experience in the field, but NOBODY writes monolithic programs anymore.
Functions are mandatory. Functions break down a program's task(s) in smaller chunks.
Projects which are implemented by a team of more than one programmer cannot be monolithic, for reasons which are self-evident.
There, you have it: two reasons why you stated a non-problem. Even if a system is broken down into perfect minimal functional units, bugs happen.
Non-trivial systems have so many parts interacting together that the interactions almost always are the source of bugs; some interactions are not predicted or expected by the designers of programmers. That is why nobody has a "silver bullet" to prevent bugs in non-trivial systems. Some day, a Nobel prize will be awarded to somebody who solves a part of this problem.
The lore you have is priceless for anthropologists.
Write a detailed book on the techniques and traditions of these people, before it is too late. You too are given a limited time span to do this. You could probably get some grants (nothing impressing but enough to pay the bills) and a nice title(Master's?), if you play your cards well.
Here in Canada, some aboriginal tribes re-learned their traditions and languages by researching the accounts of the european explorers.
Moreover, it will change you from the cool-today, forgotten tomorrow world of Slashdot!
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Sweden (feels like home, with all the snow) or Switzerland (mmmmm... chocolate)
Bonus: both are even more caring than Canada for their citizens!
Beg your pardon, Alberta citizen, but none of us citizens of Quebec AND Ontario wanted anything to do with the USA missile defense.
Two sane reasons:
1- it breaks important cold war treaties, which makes us Bad Guys;
2- the bloody thing does not even come close to faking expected behavior! (i.e.: shooting missiles down)
And the third reason, which does not suit everybody:
3- this is a bad, bad, bad idea. It just yells "throw me one!" to extremists of every horizon, state or not.
What he means, I think, is that you have to take more time to write the config files for multiple OS's than what is needed to compile.
Well, anyway, class projects or single programmer projects are not real programming projects in the context of the industry. I work in a tiny shop, and each and every project here has 2 or more people on it.
What we want is a platform that can be programmed to consistently; nobody wants to do any rewriting to port to every flavor of OS avaliable.(and yes, changing directory structures IS rewriting) Even porting from Win to Mac is a hassle nobody wants to pay for, and Mac has more share than any single Linux distro! So you get apps for Win, other apps for Mac, a lot of apps that work only on ONE Linux distro, and a few select blockbusters that work on 2 platforms.
If you want REAL political intrigue, double-crossing and some strategy, try Junta! from West end Games.
You are the ruling families of a banana republic (it sounds so eighties!) and the aim of the game is diverting the most foreign aid funds possible in your swiss account.
Hours of fun, for people with a sense of humour!
Which is why the canadian dollar is constantly gaining in value over the US Peso!
CQFD
The reading is 8% weight per volume, hence "0.08".
That TuPac was a scientologist, and that he attained OT1 too!
Well, it IS 2-day support. You don't get that from Microsoft short of a 20k$/year Premier support package.
Well, Premier gets you free forks for wierd problems too, but it's not needed by most companies.
Great idea! We could also package the thing as a nice screensaver so unused CPU and bandwidth of millions of people could be contributed to the cause!
We could call it something like spoof@home, or pdp@home!
Cool. I am breaking out the celebration Ethereal!
You are making the same stupid mistake as a lot of pompous bastards out there:
The majority of people doing menial work (eg. flipping burgers, punching a cash register) do not do it because it is the pinnacle of their possibilities. They currently need the dough, that's all.
a) double the cost of making a highway and retrofit the existing network, or
b) pay a whole lot more for your car (think a couple of ten grands)
There are many initiatives, especially in California, and in Canada, but their goal is having a working prototype in 5 years, at least(that is, if everything goes well).
Having co-written the basic paper for the canadian lab, I can assure you the challenge is interesting. Don't try this at home! At least work with other researchers ;-)
Amen, mon frère!
Looks like this thing takes the adresses of the included images in spam emails and makes you reload them a lot.
Give those spammers a slashdotting!!!
I use it as the exercise part of The Hackers' diet and voilà! instant weight control. I lost 10 of the 20 pounds extra I had.
Forking out millions of US$ in licences would ruin any chinese company. Hell, do you know what 500$ US means for a chinese person? ONE THENTH of the per-capita GDP! and it won't even buy a single PC with Windows on it.
To those of you paranoiacs who still think Communism Is The Red Menace: communism has nothing to do with this issue. In fact, the Chinese are applying by-the-book capitalism to IP: get the cheapest source avaliable, and use it.
Good advice, except it doesn't work. "shutdown" is not a valid command in Windows 2000.
Try it!
The "thermoelectric" effect used is the Peltier effect. So this guy "innovates" by packaging a whole bunch of Peltier elements in a flexible package AKA blanket.
Sheesh. How about a self-heating thermoelectric butter-cutting knife? Some innovation!
I was in the same bag as you, until last weekend.
I updated Windows, have a NAT firewall on a reasonably secure network, use AVG anti-virus, and voilà! I get Sasser.
Sure gets one to turn off the "if you do the right thing, it won't happen" attitude. Not to mention it was a huge blow to my CS master's ego.
Oh, and INCOMING traffic is not the worst that happens. It is OUTGOING traffic that gets you in trouble.
Well, if Petro-Canada profits, all canadians profit: the company is (partly) a property of the Government of Canada. Alas, there are rumors that it will be no more in some time...
As for gasoline being a tame fuel, remember that a single cup of it explodes with the power of a stick of dynamite. How many cups in a 50 litre fuel tank? It seems safe to normal people because they use it every day. People are scared of hydrogen because of explosions: pfah!
As for supplying the energy for electric vehicles, there is also hydro-electricity and wind power which are now widely used. Moreover, a coal-fired electric power plant is more efficient than most (if not all) vehicle power plants. Even if coal replaced gasoline through our electric network, environment would be winning.
All that said, I think waste veggie oil is the fuel of the future. A recycled product, does not pollute, and smells good to boot!
You just have to make a RAID-5 array of CD's with every CD you want to keep, so when a part finally fails you can reconstruct it!
At last, I have found a use for the RAID ports on my mobo!!
According to the nice PATRIOT act, if you are on US territory, you are commiting a criminal act. Proof? you can be imprisoned without recourse, without the need for any reason, for an unlimited time.
I do not have any illusion of the existence of civil rights in the US.
Many people compromise their health for a career, and have been forever:
Professional athletes
Stuntmen
Third world miners (even if it does not buy much for them...)
Conclusion: there will always be someone willing to risk life and limb for money or glory. More so if they are desperatly poor.
I have no idea of the length or breadth of your experience in the field, but NOBODY writes monolithic programs anymore.
Functions are mandatory. Functions break down a program's task(s) in smaller chunks.
Projects which are implemented by a team of more than one programmer cannot be monolithic, for reasons which are self-evident.
There, you have it: two reasons why you stated a non-problem. Even if a system is broken down into perfect minimal functional units, bugs happen.
Non-trivial systems have so many parts interacting together that the interactions almost always are the source of bugs; some interactions are not predicted or expected by the designers of programmers. That is why nobody has a "silver bullet" to prevent bugs in non-trivial systems. Some day, a Nobel prize will be awarded to somebody who solves a part of this problem.
The lore you have is priceless for anthropologists.
Write a detailed book on the techniques and traditions of these people, before it is too late. You too are given a limited time span to do this. You could probably get some grants (nothing impressing but enough to pay the bills) and a nice title(Master's?), if you play your cards well.
Here in Canada, some aboriginal tribes re-learned their traditions and languages by researching the accounts of the european explorers.
Moreover, it will change you from the cool-today, forgotten tomorrow world of Slashdot!