ESA has been sponsoring FOSS projects for years; I worked on the GPL'ed BEAT software no less than seven years ago that was commissioned by ESA (disclosure: I am no longer with the company that develops it).
See here for more examples of open source software funded by ESA. They are really ahead of the pack in this respect.
[i]It must have been terrible being one of these soldiers[/i]
It sure must have. Especially the ones who assisted the Serbs in separating the men from the women. And the CO Karremans who exchanged gifts with the Serb CO Mladic, while a mile down the road the genocide was being perpetrated.
It must have been terrible for them, terrible.
[i]the whole Dutch government resigned[/i]
Yeah, about two weeks prior to a scheduled change-of-government. Talk about an empty gesture.
I am dutch too and I am deeply ashamed of the cowardly way our military behaved over there. I cannot blame the soldiers, but at least the officers should have shown more of a backbone, or if they thought they were given an impossible order to defend the area they should have resigned before the shit hit the fan.
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to
communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and
bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
'Cellular operators like Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless know, within about 300 yards, the location of their subscribers whenever a phone is turned on.'
They may be able to track the location of the telephone, or the SIM card,/b> but not the subscriber.
A different thing alltogether - if you think about it. This cannot be used to locate a suspect on a crime scene, only her phone.
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The antennas are pyramid shaped because each of those pyramids actually contains two dipole antennas, to capture the EM field in two perpendicular polarisations. (I am involved in the project so trust me on this one;-))
Not true. I send my credit card through un-encrypted email all the time. People on the receiving end freak out and go into panic. Guess what? Never had a bit of trouble.
That's an interesting take. For the sake of putting one's money where one's mouth is, would you mind repeating all relevant data (name, card type, number, expiration date, security code) here?
Assuming you won't, why is that? And why doesn't that apply to the e-mail scenario you provide?
On a related note: I'm seeing really bad performance when copying a file from a Linux Samba share to my OSX machine (roughly 100 kb/sec, if that). Oddly enough, file uploads are ok (megabytes per second). Odder still, if I open a terminal and copy directly to my machine from the Samba share mount point, incoming copies are fast too.
This has been going on from at least 10.2, and much to my dismay it is still an issue in 10.4.
This really seems like the Finder is trying to talk Sambalese by itself (and does so differently than the SMB filesystem driver). Has anyone else noticed this behavior (and, perhaps, solved it)?
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Catch-22"
This quote is usually attributed to Emiliano Zapata, leader of the 1910 Mexican revolution; in Catch-22, it's only there to serve as an excuse for the boring retort: "It is better to live on your feet than to die on your knees"...
Technically, a fact is not "a true statement". A fact is a statement that is either objectively true OR objectively false, but cannot be both.
That is a false fact if I ever saw one.
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I've been on the lookout lately for a car audio player that can play Ogg Vorbis. There's plenty of choice if you want MP3 or WMA,
but I have yet to see Ogg Vorbis support advertized...
The standard documents applicable for recent ESA software engineering projects are the ECSS standards (http://www.ecss.nl/). These are followed with some leniency for non-critical ground-based S/W, but adherence demands becomes quite strict for critical ground-based S/W and flight-software.
Well if you want to be totally asinine, main() should also only ever return either EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE. Any other value is undefined behavour and likely system specific.
Nope, that's no longer true. From the C99 spec, 7.20.4.1#5:
"Finally, control is returned to the host environment. If the value of status is zero or EXIT_SUCCESS, an implementation-defined form of the status successful termination is returned. If the value of status is EXIT_FAILURE, an implementation-defined form of the status unsuccessful termination is returned. Otherwise the status returned is implementation-defined. "
So returning 0 from main() or exit(0) is properly defined nowadays. Also, there's quite an important
distinction between 'undefined behavior' and 'system specific' (more properly called 'implementation-defined')
behavior, As you can see from the spec quote, return values other than 0, EXIT_SUCCESS and
EXIT_FAILURE are implementation-defined, which means that your compiler/environment
documentation should specify their meaning. Undefined behavior would mean any behavior is allowed (e.g.,
formatting the harddisk) with no mention of it anywhere.
-"What if something goes wrong" scenarios tend to be based on the idea that stuff can "fall out of the sky." It can't. The people running the mission know where things are going
Yes, most of them know where things are going in SI units, while others know where things are going in imperial/US units. Surely, with that experience combined, nothing can go wrong?
Talking about 'Go', does anybody know a place where the rules are stated in a way that is properly formulated to mold it in an algorithm? If I look at the official Go rules, I have a hard time figuring out an algorithm for determining live/dead groups. Most computer programs I've seen take ages to score a position, which is an indication that this is indeed a difficult problem.
As a side note: chess is defined in a way that is much easier to implement (did that), with the exception of the rule that a game is
finished as a draw if a position is reached where no sequence of valid moves can lead to either side winning, For 'insufficient material' type
situations (e.g., KBvK) this is all well, but there are many complicated positions where this is not easy to see, e.g.:
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ESA has been sponsoring FOSS projects for years; I worked on the GPL'ed BEAT software no less than seven years ago that was commissioned by ESA (disclosure: I am no longer with the company that develops it).
See here for more examples of open source software funded by ESA. They are really ahead of the pack in this respect.
[i]It must have been terrible being one of these soldiers[/i] It sure must have. Especially the ones who assisted the Serbs in separating the men from the women. And the CO Karremans who exchanged gifts with the Serb CO Mladic, while a mile down the road the genocide was being perpetrated. It must have been terrible for them, terrible. [i]the whole Dutch government resigned[/i] Yeah, about two weeks prior to a scheduled change-of-government. Talk about an empty gesture. I am dutch too and I am deeply ashamed of the cowardly way our military behaved over there. I cannot blame the soldiers, but at least the officers should have shown more of a backbone, or if they thought they were given an impossible order to defend the area they should have resigned before the shit hit the fan.
From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy:
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."'Cellular operators like Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless know, within about 300 yards, the location of their subscribers whenever a phone is turned on.'
They may be able to track the location of the telephone, or the SIM card,/b> but not the subscriber.
A different thing alltogether - if you think about it. This cannot be used to locate a suspect on a crime scene, only her phone.
The antennas are pyramid shaped because each of those pyramids actually contains two dipole antennas, to capture the EM field in two perpendicular polarisations. (I am involved in the project so trust me on this one ;-))
Not true. I send my credit card through un-encrypted email all the time. People on the receiving end freak out and go into panic. Guess what? Never had a bit of trouble.
That's an interesting take. For the sake of putting one's money where one's mouth is, would you mind repeating all relevant data (name, card type, number, expiration date, security code) here?
Assuming you won't, why is that? And why doesn't that apply to the e-mail scenario you provide?
Thank you.
On a related note: I'm seeing really bad performance when copying a file from a Linux Samba share to my OSX machine (roughly 100 kb/sec, if that). Oddly enough, file uploads are ok (megabytes per second). Odder still, if I open a terminal and copy directly to my machine from the Samba share mount point, incoming copies are fast too. This has been going on from at least 10.2, and much to my dismay it is still an issue in 10.4. This really seems like the Finder is trying to talk Sambalese by itself (and does so differently than the SMB filesystem driver). Has anyone else noticed this behavior (and, perhaps, solved it)?
.... Imagine a beowolf cluster of these! Yummie!
Seriously folks, what does the patriot act allow the US government to do that it wasn't able to do before, just illegally?
It allows it to do bad things legally. Any other questions?
The goons have proven it, the slow boiling frog, most people will just slurp it down,
So what have the French to do with anything?
In addition to the mistakes others noticed: what's an elsif?
It's there (bottom-left, below Disclaimer).
I believe the success of GPS has always been the fact that it can reliably give you your position at any point in time.
Somebody mod this guy +1 Insightful!
The sheer amount of noise we're bashing out is what SETI is looking for in reverse.
The better word would be signal I suppose..
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Catch-22"
This quote is usually attributed to Emiliano Zapata, leader of the 1910 Mexican revolution; in Catch-22, it's only there to serve as an excuse for the boring retort: "It is better to live on your feet than to die on your knees" ...
Technically, a fact is not "a true statement". A fact is a statement that is either objectively true OR objectively false, but cannot be both. That is a false fact if I ever saw one.
What colour is the sky on your planet?
On a related note:
I've been on the lookout lately for a car audio player that can play Ogg Vorbis. There's plenty of choice if you want MP3 or WMA, but I have yet to see Ogg Vorbis support advertized...
Has anyone seen such a beast?
The standard documents applicable for recent ESA software engineering projects are the ECSS standards (http://www.ecss.nl/). These are followed with some leniency for non-critical ground-based S/W, but adherence demands becomes quite strict for critical ground-based S/W and flight-software.
FINISHED! Hmmmm.... For some strange reason, I seem to be 796,093,022,208 bits short of a terabyte.
One more time...
Well if you want to be totally asinine, main() should also only ever return either EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE. Any other value is undefined behavour and likely system specific.
Nope, that's no longer true. From the C99 spec, 7.20.4.1#5:
"Finally, control is returned to the host environment. If the value of status is zero or EXIT_SUCCESS, an implementation-defined form of the status successful termination is returned. If the value of status is EXIT_FAILURE, an implementation-defined form of the status unsuccessful termination is returned. Otherwise the status returned is implementation-defined. "
So returning 0 from main() or exit(0) is properly defined nowadays. Also, there's quite an important distinction between 'undefined behavior' and 'system specific' (more properly called 'implementation-defined') behavior, As you can see from the spec quote, return values other than 0, EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are implementation-defined, which means that your compiler/environment documentation should specify their meaning. Undefined behavior would mean any behavior is allowed (e.g., formatting the harddisk) with no mention of it anywhere.
-"What if something goes wrong" scenarios tend to be based on the idea that stuff can "fall out of the sky." It can't. The people running the mission know where things are going
Yes, most of them know where things are going in SI units, while others know where things are going in imperial/US units. Surely, with that experience combined, nothing can go wrong?
Talking about 'Go', does anybody know a place where the rules are stated in a way that is properly formulated to mold it in an algorithm? If I look at the official Go rules, I have a hard time figuring out an algorithm for determining live/dead groups. Most computer programs I've seen take ages to score a position, which is an indication that this is indeed a difficult problem.
As a side note: chess is defined in a way that is much easier to implement (did that), with the exception of the rule that a game is finished as a draw if a position is reached where no sequence of valid moves can lead to either side winning, For 'insufficient material' type situations (e.g., KBvK) this is all well, but there are many complicated positions where this is not easy to see, e.g.:
FEN 8/3k4/8/1pBp1p1p/1P1P1P1P/5b2/2K5/8 w - -
He'd be advised not to do that, as Thursay, the colors are reversed :-)
1.79 MHz? I take it you mean 1.7897725 MHz (NTSC models) or 1.773447 MHz (PAL-models)... Sjeeesh! :-)