specious claims include: "No solution for multi-tasking and communication between tasks" which is false as of UML 1.4 (active v. passive classes, message diagrams)" and "No dependency between use cases" which is also false --- add an association with the > stereotype. Wow, you really nailed that one criticism there! I bet the other 12 are just as specious as this one!
Oh wait, no I really don't. In fact, the other 12 ring very, very true. Please, let UML die already! The world doesn't need silly box-diagrams that are hard to draw (even with a "proper" tool like Rational Rose), hard to understand, hard to maintain, and convey little to no information.
I agree with you, but I think the timing of the US's scientific stagnation is also uncanny. It's been several generations since the last influx of extremely bright and educated scientists (and philosophers) from conquered lands. Iraq, I have to say, hasn't netted anything of the sort (with all due respect to Iraqis). I'm not sure what period of history you are talking about, but the only two waves of that kind I can think of is people leaving Europe because the New World held such high promise, and people fleeing Europe because the nazi's were threatening to call them all. At no point did such a wave occur because the US invaded another country and stole all their scientists.
But it's amazing how many people shut down the machine every single time they stop using it.) It is called "conserving energy", and if more people practiced it the world would be a better place.
I *really* don't need my equipment to be consuming power 24/7 when I'm only using it maybe four-six hours per day.
It still comes down to this: you SAW everything go to shit and all you thought to do was cover your own ass.
I don't expect a bean counter to sacrifice himself for the good of humanity, but there must have been thousands like you - and not a single one of them thought to maybe raise an alarm.
And yes, that's pathetic. "all that is necessary for evil to prevail, is for good men to do nothing"...
All of you guys that are now boasting here that you actually knew what was going wrong, but not one of you decided to open your mouth before it became a major disaster. Apparently the fact that the world economy has gone to shit over this means nothing to you, or the fact that thousands upon thousands are now homeless.
What I read here are admissions of guilt: you knew of a very serious crime with very serious consequences (and helped commit those crimes sa well) and chose to remain silent. It is both stupid (to admit to it now) and pathetic.
Look, the point of blacking out is not just to remove critical information, it is also to get you used to large parts of documents being blacked out. It is a way of hiding a signal within a lot of noise.
By randomly blacking out stuff, you will never know if there is vital information hiding underneath the black text. And you will become more and more accepting of documents that have barely any text at all.
The purpose is, of course, to allow more and more freedom to the agencies doing the blacking out. And less and less to you.
Hey, it's just the French. I deal with them regularly, and *any* software they write is always "perfect" even if it can be demonstrated to be a piece of crap in front of half a dozen decision makers. It's a cultural thing I think.
As to how they proved Astree with perfect, they ran it on itself until they had zero errors, obviously...
You kids these days with your graphical user interfaces! Just go with the One True Unix Way: command line! It is quick, it is easy, and it works on VT100 terminals over a 14k4 modem. Why would you need anything more?
All you need to do is set up an IRC-server in multi-pointcast mode using the -nrl option, and then connect to it with reverse protocol multiplication using the -t option. You can add new users by typing:nusername:ip;port:macaddress;. Trivial.
Just about 100% of all young, single females have never sent email to me! ...except a few from the Ukraine, and I think they weren't interested in *me* so much.
So it's the image that would be illegal as well as the act. Yes, yes it would be. As it stands they prosecute people who have the image but didn't commit the act. Those who seek sexual gratification from these images are likely the ones who are going to pursue the actual act in the future, or so goes the reasoning. Is there any actual proof for that, or are we all just parroting the politically correct, "please think of the children!" line? Because I could just as easily make a case that simulated childporn actually *protects* children by making predators spend their, uhm, energies on harmless images instead of finding a real child to rape.
You mean, the wall of books reaching some 4 meters above where you could possibly reach?;-)
There is a thin green line on every book case. The area above the line is just storage; the area below contains at least one copy of every book they have for sale.
I visit the American Book Centre in either The Hague or Amsterdam. Either one is a comfortable half hour by train from my house, and it has the widest selection of F&SF books you will encounter anywhere in the world - including the large bookshops in the US.
And before you protest that travelling to the Netherlands might not be any easier or cheaper than joining an online club, you never mentioned what country you were in so I have no reason to assume you are an american;-)
But let us be very clear about this: they have won because the OLPC project caved, NOT because the developers leave. There is no blaming the volunteers who were writing the software.
Why are they against excessive damages? They can easily afford going into revision again and again until a judge agrees with them (and some judges still have some semblance of sanity, so eventually they will hit one when they climb the judical ladder). Don't your options run out after three tries (with the supreme court only rarely accepting cases anyway, so they cannot count on that)?
Their victims usually don't have the money to do the same. Though... should it ever hit me, before I hand over my life savings to them, I pump it into the courts. At least there it MIGHT somehow be used for good. After such a trial, you're broke and in debt for life anyway.
Honestly, I wonder why nobody followed the thought train of "Hmm... my life's wasted now anyway. Why not blow up the joint and go out with a bang?" That's the mindset behind terrorism: people have nothing, and therefore have nothing to lose. So why not do something useful with your miserable life, and go and blow up some market or whatever to punish the infidels? Any solution for the middle east should somehow take this into account...
Not everyone that goes into the military is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, and quite a few of us are above average in terms of intelligence. Yeah, I bet at least 10% is above average. It could even be as high as 15%!
I mean, which intelligent person wouldn't jump at the chance to get shot at by unfriendly people in faraway countries, all for increasing the already-astronomical wealth of a few wealthy industrials?
I spent 6 years in the Navy, and I (nor anyone I knew) didn't shoot, rape OR pillage anyone. Hah, you are just frustrated because you missed out on all the good action!
Do only what only you can do. -Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Wow, my first time disagreeing with Dijkstra. I much rather prefer to do things that make me happy, rather than the crap that "only I can do".
In fact, getting to the point where someone else can do what only I can do is a rather important goal for me at the moment...
Wait a minute there, what are you counting for speed exactly?
I will agree that OpenOffice takes comparatively long to *load*. However, that time is spent only once per day; it will typically remain in memory for the rest of the working day (if you are one of those quaint people that actually turn their PC off before going home - otherwise it can remain in memory indefinitely!). So that cost isn't all that important.
Where it counts is what you do with it, and in my experience, editing is as fast as MS Office, and scrolling through a document, or printing it, or turning it into a PDF, is typically far faster than with Word.
I notice they are happily throwing benchmarks around, which is funny considering that Oracle will not allow benchmarking at all for their flagship product...
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Oh wait, no I really don't. In fact, the other 12 ring very, very true. Please, let UML die already! The world doesn't need silly box-diagrams that are hard to draw (even with a "proper" tool like Rational Rose), hard to understand, hard to maintain, and convey little to no information.
ROTFL! ;-)
I *really* don't need my equipment to be consuming power 24/7 when I'm only using it maybe four-six hours per day.
It still comes down to this: you SAW everything go to shit and all you thought to do was cover your own ass.
I don't expect a bean counter to sacrifice himself for the good of humanity, but there must have been thousands like you - and not a single one of them thought to maybe raise an alarm.
And yes, that's pathetic. "all that is necessary for evil to prevail, is for good men to do nothing"...
All of you guys that are now boasting here that you actually knew what was going wrong, but not one of you decided to open your mouth before it became a major disaster. Apparently the fact that the world economy has gone to shit over this means nothing to you, or the fact that thousands upon thousands are now homeless.
What I read here are admissions of guilt: you knew of a very serious crime with very serious consequences (and helped commit those crimes sa well) and chose to remain silent. It is both stupid (to admit to it now) and pathetic.
Look, the point of blacking out is not just to remove critical information, it is also to get you used to large parts of documents being blacked out. It is a way of hiding a signal within a lot of noise.
By randomly blacking out stuff, you will never know if there is vital information hiding underneath the black text. And you will become more and more accepting of documents that have barely any text at all.
The purpose is, of course, to allow more and more freedom to the agencies doing the blacking out. And less and less to you.
Hey, it's just the French. I deal with them regularly, and *any* software they write is always "perfect" even if it can be demonstrated to be a piece of crap in front of half a dozen decision makers. It's a cultural thing I think.
As to how they proved Astree with perfect, they ran it on itself until they had zero errors, obviously...
You kids these days with your graphical user interfaces! Just go with the One True Unix Way: command line! It is quick, it is easy, and it works on VT100 terminals over a 14k4 modem. Why would you need anything more?
:nusername:ip;port:macaddress;. Trivial.
All you need to do is set up an IRC-server in multi-pointcast mode using the -nrl option, and then connect to it with reverse protocol multiplication using the -t option. You can add new users by typing
Just about 100% of all young, single females have never sent email to me!
Are you arguing for a microkernel style solution, sir? If so, I salute your bravery! ;-)
You mean, the wall of books reaching some 4 meters above where you could possibly reach? ;-)
There is a thin green line on every book case. The area above the line is just storage; the area below contains at least one copy of every book they have for sale.
It took me a while to figure out as well...
I visit the American Book Centre in either The Hague or Amsterdam. Either one is a comfortable half hour by train from my house, and it has the widest selection of F&SF books you will encounter anywhere in the world - including the large bookshops in the US.
;-)
Online here: http://www.abc.nl/
And before you protest that travelling to the Netherlands might not be any easier or cheaper than joining an online club, you never mentioned what country you were in so I have no reason to assume you are an american
But let us be very clear about this: they have won because the OLPC project caved, NOT because the developers leave. There is no blaming the volunteers who were writing the software.
Honestly, I wonder why nobody followed the thought train of "Hmm... my life's wasted now anyway. Why not blow up the joint and go out with a bang?" That's the mindset behind terrorism: people have nothing, and therefore have nothing to lose. So why not do something useful with your miserable life, and go and blow up some market or whatever to punish the infidels? Any solution for the middle east should somehow take this into account...
I mean, which intelligent person wouldn't jump at the chance to get shot at by unfriendly people in faraway countries, all for increasing the already-astronomical wealth of a few wealthy industrials? I spent 6 years in the Navy, and I (nor anyone I knew) didn't shoot, rape OR pillage anyone. Hah, you are just frustrated because you missed out on all the good action!
In fact, getting to the point where someone else can do what only I can do is a rather important goal for me at the moment...
Somebody mod this guy funny ;-)
Wait a minute there, what are you counting for speed exactly?
I will agree that OpenOffice takes comparatively long to *load*. However, that time is spent only once per day; it will typically remain in memory for the rest of the working day (if you are one of those quaint people that actually turn their PC off before going home - otherwise it can remain in memory indefinitely!). So that cost isn't all that important.
Where it counts is what you do with it, and in my experience, editing is as fast as MS Office, and scrolling through a document, or printing it, or turning it into a PDF, is typically far faster than with Word.
I notice they are happily throwing benchmarks around, which is funny considering that Oracle will not allow benchmarking at all for their flagship product...
Also, Dutch-owned coffee shops in the US should legally be able to sell weed. It is, after all, legal in the Netherlands...
;-)
I do realize that this will get a lot of "hell yeah!" reactions though
In China, even *Americans* must obey Chinese law! Gee, who would have thought?
Don't like it? Your options are:
1. Don't do business there.
2. Ask them to change their laws. Good luck with that.
3. The Iraq thing. Good luck with that too.
A hotel is not an embassy; Chinese law applies within its walls.