That brings up the cost since you then have to cover every execution path variation in the test to catch all bombs.
The cost of development raises exponentially for each stage. If the compiler doesn't catch it - it means that you have to write an enormous amount of tests for a large system. The number of tests can be much larger than the actual system that's the end product, and that will drive the cost to a horrible level.
In many companies it's hard to even get anything tested at all. They often drop the system after a cursory test session where it looks like it's working and then hope that the customers doesn't get too many problems.
And when a type check occurs at runtime it's a bomb in the code waiting to go off at the most inconvenient moment ever.
The cost of finding bugs in a solution is raising exponentially with each stage in the application process of compile-link-execution.
You may claim that those problems should be rectified when running tests, but that also means that you have to verify that you have covered every execution path leading to every case where there may be an error.
Java may not be fun or sexy, but on the other hand it is intended to be strict to make it easy to maintain in the long run.
The problem is that Python & co are more like Basic than anything else (it's a lot like dressed-up classic Basic) and that the strictness is missing which in turn means that what one person has written is hard to maintain by another person. This is especially hard if dynamic typing is used.
The point behind statically and strongly typed languages is that you will catch a large number of bugs during compilation, but if the type is assigned during runtime you get a lot of hidden bombs that are just waiting to go off.
That may be fine for a hobby project with only a few programmers, but if you insert a lot of programmers into a solution then you need all the support you can find from the language itself.
There are of course problems with Java too, but they are hardly solved with a script language. No language is perfect, but view it from the perspective of large systems. C/C++ aren't good either, but for small solutions C can be useful while C++ has the disadvantages of both C and object-orienting combined.
There is a reason why really old systems around have their code written even in Cobol, Fortran or Pascal. Languages that don't allow the user to write code that can contain too many unexpected bombs compared to C.
Exactly - Don't outsource if you are wary about your data.
There will not be any personal responsibility and the consultants working with your IT system will change over time and responsibilities will never stick.
You can end up in a long period of disagreement about what's not in the written agreement while the systems grinds to a halt. And the "paperwork" for getting things done can be horrible. An emergency fix can take ten days and be executed by someone in a different country that has a hard time understanding your language.
The biggest blunder a company can make is to try to hide that there has been a security breach because if they do try to hide a breach and it leaks then there may have been other breaches that aren't revealed.
Being open about breaches and the impact of the breach is not hurting a business, and it may also cause other businesses to look after their measures.
Repeated offenses may of course have an impact on the reputation.
For any laptop owners out there with sensitive data - use things like TrueCrypt. If you do then it's at least possible to claim that the data was encrypted and therefore not likely to spread.
The weight may not be the issue, but will the structure and volume change when it absorbs CO2 over time?
If there is a volume change then there may be problems with warping and cracking. It's not easy to make a cement that can handle all construction requirements.
Then there is also the concerns about the availability of the magnesium silicates used.
Only expect that there are some quirks that shows up on some web pages.
I know that pages that validates on W3C can get some quirks to show in IE6, but nothing serious. What I have seen is a scrollbar that appears for no reason.
Proactive actions during work can be intellectually stimulating. Especially if you have to take your time to predict what you actually shall do to make it work.
And then - different breeds have different levels of potential too. Having been in contact with different breeds I have realized that there are those that are almost dumb as a brick while others are smart enough to figure out exactly when to sneak out and sneak back without being noticed and also realize when their master has confused right and left when they are given a command.
Being a sysadmin can be anything from a stressful job to a rather boring job. It all depends on where you work. No site is like any other and you never know what problems that will arise from day to day.
A good sysadmin makes sure that there is time left in case something happens. So if you see a slacking sysadmin you should be cool because then everything works. If you see a sysadmin looking over the edge stressed then it's time to worry. At best it's just the coffee machine that's broken. At worst the servers are about to be water-logged.
And whatever - when there are TLD:s on the net for political groups then you may want to have.fascism.nazism.liberalism.g-marxism.communism and.capitalism just to name a few to add to the pot.
Microsoft is on their way to miss the train. If they hadn't been catching up at all the web would have been running away from them and out of their control. They think that Silverlight is the solution to everything, but in reality it isn't.
That they finally takes interest means that they have started to worry about losing their advantage. And things can go extremely fast if someone succeeds in a solution that is the next killer app.
Murdoch represents the old business model and has a hard time to understand new approaches.
New models are tried out all the time, but unfortunately some are too intrusive which produces counter-measures like AdBlock Plus. The upcoming generation is used to get news and everything in short snaps online, via SMS and on TV. The old media as newspapers are can survive only if they find the right model that attracts both old and new readers.
It will be painful, and anyone failing to adapt will die. Murdoch seems to have a hard time to adapt, and he may well lose unless he finds things that can attract people enough to buy the newspapers.
It's still the problem of seeing the ID card as a verification of someone's identity.
It isn't.
An ID card is a key to information that allows you to verify the identity of the person. For a full ID check the issuer of the ID card has to be trusted and the identity has to be verified in cooperation with the issuer.
But such a verification isn't easy and there are all kind of obstacles surrounding it. That means that the ID card has to carry a reasonable amount of data that can allow the person to be reasonably identified without contacting the issuer.
Unfortunately every nation has their own regulations around what's needed for an ID card to be valid. If there could be a consensus about the design of the information on an ID card that is truly internationally recognized then it should be possible to work out resolutions covering this. And I suspect that credit card companies are those that are best seated to be able to make things like that working. Then it's another question of if that's a good idea.
And then we have the SpaceNavigator and it's siblings, but that is actually used by a lot of CAD users. And if you use Google Earth you will love it.
The sad thing with it is that the default drivers doesn't allow it to be used as a joystick. There are thirdparty drivers but I haven't been able to make them work.
But don't forget to read up on "iptables" first and then configure it if you plan to do this on a Linux host.
And if you run Solaris - you may really want to have something corresponding to "iptables" installed and configured before you connect that computer to the wilderness of the internet.
And what does say that life has to have the form that we know here on Earth?
What if there is life on a planet that actually uses Fluorine or Chlorine instead of Oxygen? It may not be life as we know it, but the environment may have forced that kind of life to evolve.
XML in itself is sometimes a denial of service with strange side-effects.
As soon as you insert XML that isn't well-formed into a XML parser it will barf in one way or another. And then you will have to dedicate hours to figure out which tag/data in a 200kB XML request that was the culprit. If you are lucky you get a parsing exception, if not you get a Null pointer exception or an infinite loop in the parser.
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Which means that if there suddenly is a law that invalidates all money contaminated with cocaine things would get interesting.
We see this in many areas. Soon you will have to select brand of TV depending on cable operator too.
Like it is today with some telecom operators - you may only select the phones THEY are offering, not the phone you want.
That brings up the cost since you then have to cover every execution path variation in the test to catch all bombs.
The cost of development raises exponentially for each stage. If the compiler doesn't catch it - it means that you have to write an enormous amount of tests for a large system. The number of tests can be much larger than the actual system that's the end product, and that will drive the cost to a horrible level.
In many companies it's hard to even get anything tested at all. They often drop the system after a cursory test session where it looks like it's working and then hope that the customers doesn't get too many problems.
And when a type check occurs at runtime it's a bomb in the code waiting to go off at the most inconvenient moment ever.
The cost of finding bugs in a solution is raising exponentially with each stage in the application process of compile-link-execution.
You may claim that those problems should be rectified when running tests, but that also means that you have to verify that you have covered every execution path leading to every case where there may be an error.
Java may not be fun or sexy, but on the other hand it is intended to be strict to make it easy to maintain in the long run.
The problem is that Python & co are more like Basic than anything else (it's a lot like dressed-up classic Basic) and that the strictness is missing which in turn means that what one person has written is hard to maintain by another person. This is especially hard if dynamic typing is used.
The point behind statically and strongly typed languages is that you will catch a large number of bugs during compilation, but if the type is assigned during runtime you get a lot of hidden bombs that are just waiting to go off.
That may be fine for a hobby project with only a few programmers, but if you insert a lot of programmers into a solution then you need all the support you can find from the language itself.
There are of course problems with Java too, but they are hardly solved with a script language. No language is perfect, but view it from the perspective of large systems. C/C++ aren't good either, but for small solutions C can be useful while C++ has the disadvantages of both C and object-orienting combined.
There is a reason why really old systems around have their code written even in Cobol, Fortran or Pascal. Languages that don't allow the user to write code that can contain too many unexpected bombs compared to C.
Don't forget the Russians! They will take all credit card and personal information and start skimming!
$10k - that seems to be relatively ordinary pricing for a server.
I would call a high-end server something you have to pay at least six digits (in US dollars) to the left of the decimal point for.
Exactly - Don't outsource if you are wary about your data.
There will not be any personal responsibility and the consultants working with your IT system will change over time and responsibilities will never stick.
You can end up in a long period of disagreement about what's not in the written agreement while the systems grinds to a halt. And the "paperwork" for getting things done can be horrible. An emergency fix can take ten days and be executed by someone in a different country that has a hard time understanding your language.
The biggest blunder a company can make is to try to hide that there has been a security breach because if they do try to hide a breach and it leaks then there may have been other breaches that aren't revealed.
Being open about breaches and the impact of the breach is not hurting a business, and it may also cause other businesses to look after their measures.
Repeated offenses may of course have an impact on the reputation.
For any laptop owners out there with sensitive data - use things like TrueCrypt. If you do then it's at least possible to claim that the data was encrypted and therefore not likely to spread.
The weight may not be the issue, but will the structure and volume change when it absorbs CO2 over time?
If there is a volume change then there may be problems with warping and cracking. It's not easy to make a cement that can handle all construction requirements.
Then there is also the concerns about the availability of the magnesium silicates used.
Only expect that there are some quirks that shows up on some web pages.
I know that pages that validates on W3C can get some quirks to show in IE6, but nothing serious. What I have seen is a scrollbar that appears for no reason.
Proactive actions during work can be intellectually stimulating. Especially if you have to take your time to predict what you actually shall do to make it work.
That's an interesting idea.
And then - different breeds have different levels of potential too. Having been in contact with different breeds I have realized that there are those that are almost dumb as a brick while others are smart enough to figure out exactly when to sneak out and sneak back without being noticed and also realize when their master has confused right and left when they are given a command.
Being a sysadmin can be anything from a stressful job to a rather boring job. It all depends on where you work. No site is like any other and you never know what problems that will arise from day to day.
A good sysadmin makes sure that there is time left in case something happens. So if you see a slacking sysadmin you should be cool because then everything works. If you see a sysadmin looking over the edge stressed then it's time to worry. At best it's just the coffee machine that's broken. At worst the servers are about to be water-logged.
The EPA only has control in the US.
And whatever - when there are TLD:s on the net for political groups then you may want to have .fascism .nazism .liberalism .g-marxism .communism and .capitalism just to name a few to add to the pot.
Microsoft is on their way to miss the train. If they hadn't been catching up at all the web would have been running away from them and out of their control. They think that Silverlight is the solution to everything, but in reality it isn't.
That they finally takes interest means that they have started to worry about losing their advantage. And things can go extremely fast if someone succeeds in a solution that is the next killer app.
Maybe Murdoch ate the link?
Murdoch represents the old business model and has a hard time to understand new approaches.
New models are tried out all the time, but unfortunately some are too intrusive which produces counter-measures like AdBlock Plus. The upcoming generation is used to get news and everything in short snaps online, via SMS and on TV. The old media as newspapers are can survive only if they find the right model that attracts both old and new readers.
It will be painful, and anyone failing to adapt will die. Murdoch seems to have a hard time to adapt, and he may well lose unless he finds things that can attract people enough to buy the newspapers.
It's still the problem of seeing the ID card as a verification of someone's identity.
It isn't.
An ID card is a key to information that allows you to verify the identity of the person. For a full ID check the issuer of the ID card has to be trusted and the identity has to be verified in cooperation with the issuer.
But such a verification isn't easy and there are all kind of obstacles surrounding it. That means that the ID card has to carry a reasonable amount of data that can allow the person to be reasonably identified without contacting the issuer.
Unfortunately every nation has their own regulations around what's needed for an ID card to be valid. If there could be a consensus about the design of the information on an ID card that is truly internationally recognized then it should be possible to work out resolutions covering this. And I suspect that credit card companies are those that are best seated to be able to make things like that working. Then it's another question of if that's a good idea.
And then we have the SpaceNavigator and it's siblings, but that is actually used by a lot of CAD users. And if you use Google Earth you will love it.
The sad thing with it is that the default drivers doesn't allow it to be used as a joystick. There are thirdparty drivers but I haven't been able to make them work.
But don't forget to read up on "iptables" first and then configure it if you plan to do this on a Linux host.
And if you run Solaris - you may really want to have something corresponding to "iptables" installed and configured before you connect that computer to the wilderness of the internet.
The worst problem is not the small ads that are there and are static it's the flash (or whatever) ads that hogs 100% CPU when they are displayed.
So it's not surprising that there is a market for AdBlock Plus.
That is assuming an even distribution of the elements.
There is still a potential of different types of life.
And what does say that life has to have the form that we know here on Earth?
What if there is life on a planet that actually uses Fluorine or Chlorine instead of Oxygen? It may not be life as we know it, but the environment may have forced that kind of life to evolve.
XML in itself is sometimes a denial of service with strange side-effects.
As soon as you insert XML that isn't well-formed into a XML parser it will barf in one way or another. And then you will have to dedicate hours to figure out which tag/data in a 200kB XML request that was the culprit. If you are lucky you get a parsing exception, if not you get a Null pointer exception or an infinite loop in the parser.
As I can see - why does it even reach into the list of Slashdot articles?
It must be a very slow day when a dumbass local to Chicago makes the headlines on Slashdot and get the whole thing propagated worldwide.