The implementation of nearly all commercial software is based around project timetables and milestones. For low profit margin projects, some managers would insist that the engineers abandon whatever task they were working on and move to the next item in their list, rather than allow the timetable to slip. In other projects, bonuses were paid according to whether various milestones had been reached. In one project I worked on, bonuses were actually based on the number of bugs reported (not found or fixed). So we were instructed not to report bugs until the bonuses were paid out. Once that happened, and the project moved into the maintenance phase, everyone left.
We should be grateful they came across that website and didn't come across the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie web site. They would have made Beanie hats mandatory for all state residents.
If every generation is forced to start from scratch, where does progress come from? What of "standing on the shoulders of giants"?
Because they might find something that everyone else has missed. You should consider algorithms to be like gold mining - most of the ground has already been well excavated, explored and mapped, but there are always areas that have still been unclaimed. Unless you know how CPU's operate, you don't know how to write efficient algorithms. You can't build complex systems out of basic components unless you know how each will interact with the others.
And more importantly, if the skills required to perform a task are reduced to "code assembly"; that type of work will more than likely be outsourced.
I hate to imagine what would happen to the subspace relay network if someone had a misconfigured router. Packets endlessly bouncing across the universe for millennia..
Amen to that! Ever since the last E-mail virus that circulated round our labs, I've been trying to account for every open port, http and ftp request on my PC. Finding out that certain components s were automatically self-updating every time someone logged in, has not made me happy. I wish this law would include self updating system components.
The term "Android" was introduced by Albertus Magnusin the 13th Century. Another automaton was a chess playing automaton called The Turk in the 18th Century.
I know where 'grok' came from (Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land), 'offog' ('Allamagoosa", by Eric Frank Russell (1955) but anyone know where 'tackymat' came from?
the difference between the "turbo" and the "standard" engine is a software patch and $20 in parts.
You mean that the button beside the steering column that makes half the indicators on the dashboard turn bright red when pressed isn't the turbo boost button?
One time there's a millionaire's wife out with her friends for an evening at a restaurant. As they were finishing the last course, she asks the waiter "I simply must have the recipe for the dessert. I would be the envy of all my friends". The waiter goes back into the kitchen in order to ask the chef, and comes back out. "No" he says, "the recipe is one of the chef's best kept secrets". "But I insist" said the millionaires wife. Eventually the waiter brings back a recipe along with the bill:
The person selling it may not be faking it, but how the hell did he get it in the first place?
He and the heads of the armed forced were playing five card stud poker one evening.
He won and gained one Titan missile complex, two airbases, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and three tank battalions. But since he didn't have the space for the latter three, he just kept the missile complex.
ASUS seem to have self-updating device drivers. One application is called "livenote.exe". It might lurk under C:\windows.
The best advice I have read is to get:
Ad-Aware, a firewall (it's amazing how many applications try and access the Internet), a good virus scanner (it's amazing how many public domain download ZIP files are infected, not forgetting E-mails), and SpyBot Search and destroy (it's amazing how many applications install spyware; even basic DVD's! will try and install GAIN trickler).
In the last apartment complex I lived in, the telephone lines to all the neighbors living above me, travelled down a conduit that went through one of the inside walls of each apartment, which could be accessed simply by removing the faceplate to the socket. The builders didn't exactly have security in mind.
And there are always stories of people finding unexplained telephone calls billed to their account, only to find out someone else had jacked a patch cable to their line on an outside wall.
I saw the movie... I really feel sorry for the poor sods who's sun is going to be sent flying out into the middle of deep deep intergalactic space. Their commute times are really going to skyrocket, although land prices might go down.
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Everytime I speed-read miniseries, it looks like miseries.
Commerical stuff is just too rushed maybe?
The implementation of nearly all commercial software is based around project timetables and milestones. For low profit margin projects, some managers would insist that the engineers abandon whatever task they were working on and move to the next item in their list, rather than allow the timetable to slip. In other projects, bonuses were paid according to whether various milestones had been reached. In one project I worked on, bonuses were actually based on the number of bugs reported (not found or fixed). So we were instructed not to report bugs until the bonuses were paid out. Once that happened, and the project moved into the maintenance phase, everyone left.
We should be grateful they came across that website and didn't come across the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie web site. They would have made Beanie hats mandatory for all state residents.
It's about reaching 100KM, with at least 1 person, in a vehicle capable of carring 3, twice in 2 weeks.
Which is slightly more frequently than your average rural bus service.
If every generation is forced to start from scratch, where does progress come from? What of "standing on the shoulders of giants"? Because they might find something that everyone else has missed. You should consider algorithms to be like gold mining - most of the ground has already been well excavated, explored and mapped, but there are always areas that have still been unclaimed. Unless you know how CPU's operate, you don't know how to write efficient algorithms. You can't build complex systems out of basic components unless you know how each will interact with the others.
And more importantly, if the skills required to perform a task are reduced to "code assembly"; that type of work will more than likely be outsourced.
Do the two photographs look similar:
Orland Soto
Richard Reid
Of course not. He doesn't want to be spammed with real messages. He's probably even got an E-mail filter that removes everything but spam.
My guess was that it Oxygen Dihydride. Either way, it's darn tricky to remove once your clothes have been contaminated by the stuff.
As a dialup user, I am less than thrilled about the idea of an extra 2 MB download each time I visit one of these sites."
Maybe you could set your Internet Options to restrict the space for temporary files to be less than 2 MB?
I hate to imagine what would happen to the subspace relay network if someone had a misconfigured router. Packets endlessly bouncing across the universe for millennia..
We have a industrial PC that sits in a wind-tunnel. To us that's the largest cooling fan anyone would ever want.
Amen to that! Ever since the last E-mail virus that circulated round our labs, I've been trying to account for every open port, http and ftp request on my PC. Finding out that certain components s were automatically self-updating every time someone logged in, has not made me happy. I wish this law would include self updating system components.
Oddly enough, whenever you do a Google search, the keywords and the IP address you are using, are sent to each of the web page sites that are found.
The term "Android" was introduced by Albertus Magnusin the 13th Century. Another automaton was a chess playing automaton called The Turk in the 18th Century.
I know where 'grok' came from (Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land), 'offog' ('Allamagoosa", by Eric Frank Russell (1955) but anyone know where 'tackymat' came from?
the difference between the "turbo" and the "standard" engine is a software patch and $20 in parts.
You mean that the button beside the steering column that makes half the indicators on the dashboard turn bright red when pressed isn't the turbo boost button?
My biggest worry is that they'd spill hot coffee over my CD before it was handed to me.
Another variation was on cooking
One time there's a millionaire's wife out with her friends for an evening at a restaurant. As they were finishing the last course, she asks the waiter "I simply must have the recipe for the dessert. I would be the envy of all my friends". The waiter goes back into the kitchen in order to ask the chef, and comes back out. "No" he says, "the recipe is one of the chef's best kept secrets". "But I insist" said the millionaires wife. Eventually the waiter brings back a recipe along with the bill:
1 dessert - $100
Recipe for dessert - $900
Total - $1000
The person selling it may not be faking it, but how the hell did he get it in the first place? He and the heads of the armed forced were playing five card stud poker one evening.
He won and gained one Titan missile complex, two airbases, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and three tank battalions. But since he didn't have the space for the latter three, he just kept the missile complex.
Add a wind-machine and you could have your own VR sky diving simulator.
But are you North or South of the equator? That determines whether they go round clockwise or anti-clockwise.
ASUS seem to have self-updating device drivers. One application is called "livenote.exe". It might lurk under C:\windows.
The best advice I have read is to get:
Ad-Aware, a firewall (it's amazing how many applications try and access the Internet), a good virus scanner (it's amazing how many public domain download ZIP files are infected, not forgetting E-mails), and SpyBot Search and destroy (it's amazing how many applications install spyware; even basic DVD's! will try and install GAIN trickler).
In the last apartment complex I lived in, the telephone lines to all the neighbors living above me, travelled down a conduit that went through one of the inside walls of each apartment, which could be accessed simply by removing the faceplate to the socket. The builders didn't exactly have security in mind.
And there are always stories of people finding unexplained telephone calls billed to their account, only to find out someone else had jacked a patch cable to their line on an outside wall.
I saw the movie ... I really feel sorry for the poor sods who's sun is going to be sent flying out into the middle of deep deep intergalactic space. Their commute times are really going to skyrocket, although land prices might go down.
Error 0C001A41 - Processor has run out of liquid coolant. Please refill, then reboot.