Maybe he's biased against.net because it's an interpreted language (like Java)?
.Net is not a language, it is a technology suite supporting multiple languages. One important part is the CLR or Common Language Runtime, a platform whereby the source in C#/VB.net/etc is compiled to the same bytecode, which the CLR then executes.
And the CLR does not interpret the bytecode. Just-in-time compilation is always used.
Re:How to make sure your data is not readable
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Surely a few hours stuck amongst red-hot coals would do just as well?
If the failure rate of drives is constant (pretty close to reality), then if you've got 7 drives and I've got 1, you're seven times more likely to lose a drive than I am.
Unfortunately, like many bad things (e.g. road accidents at a traffic black spot) the occurences are not constant and evenly distributed: they clump. For an example of how disastrously bad the consequences of this falacy can be, see here
If I have seven drives and one fails, then it raises the odds of a failure in the other six, assuming that they were bought together, and have the same make/model and date of manufacture.
The safest way is that if one fails, replace the lot.
Civil engineers simply build things stronger than they need to be.
You're missing the point completely. What happens when the strength that you need to build it is stronger than you *can* build it? This has been the problem with the space elvator all along.
And safety margins are there for, you know, safety. Without them it would be, you know, unsafe.
3. Edge cases don't normally show up in test code. Test cases are typically designed to show that the code works, rather than finding the boundary where it fails.
It depends on how you test, doesn't it? Edge and out of bounds cases don't normally show up your in test code. You know this, so fix it.
It may be free to join, but it is self-selected, not representative of the general population, and so will have different biases to the general population.
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I think the BBC needs to first get rid its left wing, anti-US bias if it wants to be relevant in the digital age.
Rubbish.
Firstly, you're trolling. "you have to be right-wing in order to be relevant" ? WTF, get a life, go back under that bridge, troll, etc.
Secondly, the BBC is paid for by the citizens on the UK via the TV licence tax. It is not even directly controlled or financed by the UK government via tax budgets, but via the licence fee. If Americans don't like what it says, that is largely thier problem, not the BBCs problem, and not the citizens of the UK's problem.
Thirdly, the BBC does a stand-up job of reporting news, far better than, say, Fox or CNN. If anything, they were to easy on the US and UK goverments during the whole "Iraq has weapons of mas destruction" fiasco.
Ah, the good old "I played a 3-d shooter and it wasn't art, therefore all games ever cannot be art." bilge.
Eh, I read a paperback novel and it wasn't art, therefore books aren't art. I saw "Home Alone 2" and it wasn't art, therefore films aren't art. I watched "Extreme makeover home edition" and it wasn't art, therefore TV programs can't be art.
Slashdotters reply with variations on "what about the $EMOTION in $FAVOURITE_GAME". Correct but predictable.
It is "Communication Institute for Online Scholarship" or the plural of "Chief Information Officer" according to Google.
The original article has "CIOs" (note the lower-case "s") suggesting the latter usage, but it still could be anything. Creepy Informal Office Sleepover?
A decent writer/editor would have corrected, explained or expanded that.
If you're the kind of person who wants to eat $200 of steak all week long at the $5.95 buffet, we'd gladly help you go patronize someone else.
If you advertise a service that is "all you can eat" and then fail to make money when people eat, then be honest about it: restricting the amount that you serve is not "all you can eat", it is at best weaseling out of your promise because you screwed up.
Did you honestly think that there wouldn't be new ways invented to use more internet bandwidth? Why is P2p "abuse"? you offered them bandwidth, and then when they start to use it, you now want to take it away.
You know, I didn't start this thread in order to say "Tool is teh best band evar!!1!" because well, they aren't. Some of the rhythms are really nice, but I have to be in the mood to listen to it.
All I wished to point out is that this is a good prior example of Fibonacci numbers used this way. Thanks for your other examples, it's a pity that you didn't expand on how they used Fibonacci numbers, and chose to whinge instead.
claim that Tool is not "simple music", as the OP does, is just flat-out lying.
So, you are calling me a liar?
I realise that "simple" is all relative, and from your lofty stratosperic perch all music made by four guys with drums and guitar must be be so simple as to numb your exultedly erudite brain, but to most rock listeners, lines with fibonacci number lengths, in 9-8-7 time (if it's a standard rock rhythm, name another rock song in the same time) are actually not at all simple, nor mindless, nor bubblegum. If you can't see that, then you shouldn't bother trying to communicate, since you are bound to fail.
The company i'm with currently charges $2-$5 for a ringtone
it constantly amazes me that people fall for this. Just rip the track off the CD to wav, edit it down to a 20 second clip, convert to MP3, upload to your phone.
If there's a reason why you can't do a stage of this (can't rip the cd, or can't play Mp3 ringtones on your phone), then you have already been screwed.
Has there been any major terrorist attack on Australia?
Rightly or wrongly, the "2002 Bali bombings is percieved as such: The largest group among those killed were holiday-makers from Australia. The Bali bombing is sometimes called "Australia's September 11" because of the large number of its citizens killed in the attack.
Tell me an opensource solution which matches this as seamlessly.
You could always use the "meeting" system, using the "talking" communications protocol. Suppliment this by the "go over and chat" concept using "voice over voice" chat.
the term "Übermensch", which translates to "Overman" not "Superman".
And "super" is latin for "above". It surfaces in english words like "superstructure", "supervisor", "superintendant", "superimpose", "Supercell" etc.
A few decades ago, people with education in the classics and european languages (such as G B Shaw, as is noted in another post) would find it quite natural to translate "Übermensch" as "Superman" as well as "Overman".
The fact that no one wants to change what 98% of them complain about
I think you misread that. I did not say "no one wants to change" and it is not correct. I said "most want it kept and improved". Improvement is change, not so? A failure it isn't. There's a difference between "complaining about the quality of" and "complaining about the existence of".
an example of British lack of ambition
Insults and personal attacks, too. How adult.
I am surprised you are trying to uphold Scandinavian nations as proof of the viability of socialist regimes over a more economically free society, while ignoring the collapse of eastern Europe
There's socialism and then there's socialism. There's also capitalism and then there's capitalism. Equating municipal broadband to North Korean dictatorship is I think, not warranted.
there are any number of statist dictatorships you could immigrate to.
Since you ask, I emigrated to the UK (not from the USA) four years ago. I get all of those (so private companies technically provide them, but it's a government contract) and NHS heathcare too, thanks! Now 98% of brits will complain about the NHS, but very few of them would want it abolished, most want it kept and improved. The USA's position on this very much an aberation.
who "gives" us clean air?
That would be makers of laws against air polution. That would be incentives to use public transport such as the London congestion charge (which doesn't apply to electric or hybrid vehicles).
To sum up: socialism, government regulation, increased bureaucracy, and economic protectionism. Someone please tell me exactly which of these things has historically proven to be successful?
That would be socialism. It has delivered the world's best standards of living right across Scandinavia.
3. "universal broadband" -- and when did it become the responsibility of the governement to make sure we all had broadband?
yeah, and when did it become the responsibility of the governement to make sure we all had water, electricity, garbage collection, clean air, fire and ambulance services?
I take your point that geneic diseases and skin colour are strongly linked to ethnic groups. However this view that there are different "races" i.e. distinct gene-pools that interact only weakly with the gene-pools of other races has been shown to be false: the genetic difference between two members of the same tribe is greater than the genetic difference between one tribe and another. ie. The individuals vary more than the groups, and the groups overlap a lot. So the groups are not particuarlly meaningful.
Really? Explain that to my black friend in 8th grade as he suffered during a sickle-cell anemia crisis. I'm sure he'd be happy to know that he can't have a disease that affects primarily African-Americans, because there are no genetic differences in races.
Non sequitur. There are genetic differences between people. Some have sickle-cell anemia, some don't. True, that gene has a higher frequency in Africa. That doesn't define some concept called "race".
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And the CLR does not interpret the bytecode. Just-in-time compilation is always used.
Surely a few hours stuck amongst red-hot coals would do just as well?
If the failure rate of drives is constant (pretty close to reality), then
if you've got 7 drives and I've got 1, you're seven times more likely to lose a drive than I am.
Unfortunately, like many bad things (e.g. road accidents at a traffic black spot) the occurences are not constant and evenly distributed: they clump. For an example of how disastrously bad the consequences of this falacy can be, see here
If I have seven drives and one fails, then it raises the odds of a failure in the other six, assuming that they were bought together, and have the same make/model and date of manufacture.
The safest way is that if one fails, replace the lot.
Civil engineers simply build things stronger than they need to be.
You're missing the point completely. What happens when the strength that you need to build it is stronger than you *can* build it? This has been the problem with the space elvator all along.
And safety margins are there for, you know, safety. Without them it would be, you know, unsafe.
You're serious?
But we've got CCTV cameras everwhere, cameras that read license plates, and Id cards coming soon.
3. Edge cases don't normally show up in test code. Test cases are typically designed to show that the code works, rather than finding the boundary where it fails.
It depends on how you test, doesn't it? Edge and out of bounds cases don't normally show up your in test code. You know this, so fix it.
It may be free to join, but it is self-selected, not representative of the general population, and so will have different biases to the general population.
I think the BBC needs to first get rid its left wing, anti-US bias if it wants to be relevant in the digital age.
Rubbish.
Firstly, you're trolling. "you have to be right-wing in order to be relevant" ? WTF, get a life, go back under that bridge, troll, etc.
Secondly, the BBC is paid for by the citizens on the UK via the TV licence tax. It is not even directly controlled or financed by the UK government via tax budgets, but via the licence fee. If Americans don't like what it says, that is largely thier problem, not the BBCs problem, and not the citizens of the UK's problem.
Thirdly, the BBC does a stand-up job of reporting news, far better than, say, Fox or CNN. If anything, they were to easy on the US and UK goverments during the whole "Iraq has weapons of mas destruction" fiasco.
Ah, the good old "I played a 3-d shooter and it wasn't art, therefore all games ever cannot be art." bilge.
Eh, I read a paperback novel and it wasn't art, therefore books aren't art.
I saw "Home Alone 2" and it wasn't art, therefore films aren't art.
I watched "Extreme makeover home edition" and it wasn't art, therefore TV programs can't be art.
Slashdotters reply with variations on "what about the $EMOTION in $FAVOURITE_GAME". Correct but predictable.
No. Everything is not art. A bolt, for example, is not a piece of art.
Then by that logic, a urinal is not a piece of art either.
Give it up. It's all art, but most of it is bad art.
What's a "CIOS"?
It is "Communication Institute for Online Scholarship" or the plural of "Chief Information Officer" according to Google.
The original article has "CIOs" (note the lower-case "s") suggesting the latter usage, but it still could be anything. Creepy Informal Office Sleepover?
A decent writer/editor would have corrected, explained or expanded that.
If you're the kind of person who wants to eat $200 of steak all week long at the $5.95 buffet, we'd gladly help you go patronize someone else.
If you advertise a service that is "all you can eat" and then fail to make money when people eat, then be honest about it: restricting the amount that you serve is not "all you can eat", it is at best weaseling out of your promise because you screwed up.
Did you honestly think that there wouldn't be new ways invented to use more internet bandwidth? Why is P2p "abuse"? you offered them bandwidth, and then when they start to use it, you now want to take it away.
You know, I didn't start this thread in order to say "Tool is teh best band evar!!1!" because well, they aren't. Some of the rhythms are really nice, but I have to be in the mood to listen to it.
All I wished to point out is that this is a good prior example of Fibonacci numbers used this way. Thanks for your other examples, it's a pity that you didn't expand on how they used Fibonacci numbers, and chose to whinge instead.
claim that Tool is not "simple music", as the OP does, is just flat-out lying.
So, you are calling me a liar?
I realise that "simple" is all relative, and from your lofty stratosperic perch all music made by four guys with drums and guitar must be be so simple as to numb your exultedly erudite brain, but to most rock listeners, lines with fibonacci number lengths, in 9-8-7 time (if it's a standard rock rhythm, name another rock song in the same time) are actually not at all simple, nor mindless, nor bubblegum. If you can't see that, then you shouldn't bother trying to communicate, since you are bound to fail.
It is obligatory at this point to mention that the band Tool (very heavy, but not simple music) used this technique in the song Lateralus.
Given that, it hardly matters what OS it runs
It matters. An OS that comes with full source is an eductational tool in ways that a closed-source OS is not.
The company i'm with currently charges $2-$5 for a ringtone
it constantly amazes me that people fall for this. Just rip the track off the CD to wav, edit it down to a 20 second clip, convert to MP3, upload to your phone.
If there's a reason why you can't do a stage of this (can't rip the cd, or can't play Mp3 ringtones on your phone), then you have already been screwed.
Has there been any major terrorist attack on Australia?
Rightly or wrongly, the "2002 Bali bombings is percieved as such:
The largest group among those killed were holiday-makers from Australia. The Bali bombing is sometimes called "Australia's September 11" because of the large number of its citizens killed in the attack.
.. more experience than my partner ... a wide gap in talent
Make up your mind: is it a talent gap or an experience gap? They're not the same thing.
I'd try pairing with the other guy, see what your individual strengths are, and play to them.
Tell me an opensource solution which matches this as seamlessly.
You could always use the "meeting" system, using the "talking" communications protocol. Suppliment this by the "go over and chat" concept using "voice over voice" chat.
the term "Übermensch", which translates to "Overman" not "Superman".
And "super" is latin for "above". It surfaces in english words like "superstructure", "supervisor", "superintendant", "superimpose", "Supercell" etc.
A few decades ago, people with education in the classics and european languages (such as G B Shaw, as is noted in another post) would find it quite natural to translate "Übermensch" as "Superman" as well as "Overman".
The fact that no one wants to change what 98% of them complain about
I think you misread that. I did not say "no one wants to change" and it is not correct. I said "most want it kept and improved". Improvement is change, not so? A failure it isn't. There's a difference between "complaining about the quality of" and "complaining about the existence of".
an example of British lack of ambition
Insults and personal attacks, too. How adult.
I am surprised you are trying to uphold Scandinavian nations as proof of the viability of socialist regimes over a more economically free society, while ignoring the collapse of eastern Europe
There's socialism and then there's socialism. There's also capitalism and then there's capitalism. Equating municipal broadband to North Korean dictatorship is I think, not warranted.
there are any number of statist dictatorships you could immigrate to.
Since you ask, I emigrated to the UK (not from the USA) four years ago. I get all of those (so private companies technically provide them, but it's a government contract) and NHS heathcare too, thanks! Now 98% of brits will complain about the NHS, but very few of them would want it abolished, most want it kept and improved. The USA's position on this very much an aberation.
who "gives" us clean air?
That would be makers of laws against air polution. That would be incentives to use public transport such as the London congestion charge (which doesn't apply to electric or hybrid vehicles).
To sum up: socialism, government regulation, increased bureaucracy, and economic protectionism. Someone please tell me exactly which of these things has historically proven to be successful?
That would be socialism. It has delivered the world's best standards of living right across Scandinavia.
3. "universal broadband" -- and when did it become the responsibility of the governement to make sure we all had broadband?
yeah, and when did it become the responsibility of the governement to make sure we all had water, electricity, garbage collection, clean air, fire and ambulance services?
I take your point that geneic diseases and skin colour are strongly linked to ethnic groups. However this view that there are different "races" i.e. distinct gene-pools that interact only weakly with the gene-pools of other races has been shown to be false: the genetic difference between two members of the same tribe is greater than the genetic difference between one tribe and another. ie. The individuals vary more than the groups, and the groups overlap a lot. So the groups are not particuarlly meaningful.
Really? Explain that to my black friend in 8th grade as he suffered during a sickle-cell anemia crisis. I'm sure he'd be happy to know that he can't have a disease that affects primarily African-Americans, because there are no genetic differences in races.
Non sequitur. There are genetic differences between people. Some have sickle-cell anemia, some don't. True, that gene has a higher frequency in Africa. That doesn't define some concept called "race".