The Windows 8 maker carried out a study which was focused on the Nitol botnet through which it found that nearly 20 percent of the all the PCs that were purchased through unsecure Chinese supply chain were infected with malware.
And 100% of microsoft's products are infected with poor design, bloat, BSODs, and other maladies.
It would be interesting to check if the floppies that I used over 20 years ago are still readable. I have to try that some day...
I just tried reading four original Lotus 1-2-3 5" floppies from 1983. No joy, but I can read three floppies with copies of 6502 cross-assembler stuff I did in 1986.
in my experience shelved hdd live as long or longer than powered ones...
Hard data point: I opened two sealed 60gb disks Tuesday (2012/08/07) and stuck'em into a server. The manufacture date was 2002 on both drives. One drive is DOA, one is working normally. YMMV.
I vote for D.F. Jones as being most under-appreciated. He wrote the Colossus trilogy, Denver is Missing, Earth Has Been Found, and others. I've read all his works listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Feltham_Jones except for Bound in Time.
His work was not always spectacular; Implosion, for example, has a weak ending. However,
IMHO, Earth Has Been Found remains the best science fiction ever written, with Denver is Missing being a close runner-up.
I would like to see a state call out the troopers to arrest some TSA thug or forcefully ignore an order from the feds.
Texas thought about doing something like this a year or so ago, then backed down (maybe the same day) after the TSA threatened to stop flights originating from Texas. This episode was covered by/.
My project isn't huge (less than 9,000 lines of C). When I find bugs, I jot down a short summary of the issue, then when time permits, I append enough text (mostly copying and pasting) to a "FixThis" file so I can reproduce the problem later.
When I fix a problem, I *always* document the fix at the top of the appropriate source code file.
All of the above are simple, clean, and efficient and have worked well for me.
Approximately 4,537 people across the country died in traffic accidents today as a result of programming errors in autonomous vehicles. Ford Motor Company was at a loss to explain the disasters, although a spokesman was quoted as having said that today's 1,972 accidents were to be expected as bugs were worked out of the autonomous vehicles.
Today's accidents push the death count beyond 23,000 since autonomous vehicles were introduced ten years ago.
I know nine programming languages, seven of them fluently. I also know the machine language of five different architectures, plus the microcode of a sixth architecture.
C is the seventh high level language I learned. I've been coding in C since about 1987. For any serious work, C is my only choice.
If you don't have the discipline or intellectual ability to code well and quickly in C and to produce code that is very nearly bug free on the first pass, you should go back to visual basic (or to other simpler languages) and leave the hard tasks to the pros.
Will somebody come to their senses and shoot down this stupid idea? And, in the process, save us taxpayers millions of dollars now (and, likely, billions later)?
I am a proponent of space activities, but this is just abysmally stupid and will be an incredibly expensive boondoggle.
well, being German I had never heard of Earhart but I sure as hell know about Hanna Reitsch.
In late 2000 I was at the Planes of Fame Air Museum at Valle Airport, Valle-Grand Canyon, Arizona, with an fgf (that's an Americanism for "former girl friend"). I saw a photo of Hanna Reitsch flying a V-1. http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/v1.html says she was "asked to work out why test pilots were unable to land it and had died in landing attempts." Very impressive work by an extremely gutsy aviatrix.
Ads are flashing images with convulsion-evoking abruptness.
Eloquently stated. What moron thinks the consumer wants to view commercials of this nature? I'm beginning to think everyone who makes commercials has severe attention deficit disorder.
We're not doing math? What is it we're doing then?
The math-averse among us couldn't solve (much less formulate) the appropriate equations for crossing a busy street. You cross a busy street successfully by applying prior successful busy-street experiences.
The US has the only mill in the world that can produce the propellers used in high speed silent running.
Didn't Jimmy Carter allow the sale of CNC machines by the US to the [former] USSR and didn't the Russkies use the CNC machines to mill near-silent props that went onto their subs?
I have been using windows since about 3.x. Other than DOS and Excel, ms products are generally bloated, slow, and prone to hangs, crashes, and severe security issues. I can't imagine why anyone would trust (or even want) HomeOS.
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You think you can drive and text at the same time and avoid causing an accident. You are wrong!
Please don't find out the hard way.
Go to http://xkcd.com/678/, pick your own time line.
The Windows 8 maker carried out a study which was focused on the Nitol botnet through which it found that nearly 20 percent of the all the PCs that were purchased through unsecure Chinese supply chain were infected with malware.
And 100% of microsoft's products are infected with poor design, bloat, BSODs, and other maladies.
... not a 100% exact, set-in-stone figure.
I saw what you did there. Nice pun.
It would be interesting to check if the floppies that I used over 20 years ago are still readable. I have to try that some day...
I just tried reading four original Lotus 1-2-3 5" floppies from 1983. No joy, but I can read three floppies with copies of 6502 cross-assembler stuff I did in 1986.
Not too shabby for 26 year old media!
in my experience shelved hdd live as long or longer than powered ones...
Hard data point: I opened two sealed 60gb disks Tuesday (2012/08/07) and stuck'em into a server. The manufacture date was 2002 on both drives. One drive is DOA, one is working normally. YMMV.
I vote for D.F. Jones as being most under-appreciated. He wrote the Colossus trilogy, Denver is Missing, Earth Has Been Found, and others. I've read all his works listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Feltham_Jones except for Bound in Time.
His work was not always spectacular; Implosion, for example, has a weak ending. However, IMHO, Earth Has Been Found remains the best science fiction ever written, with Denver is Missing being a close runner-up.
Obama's plan to turn America into yet another European-style socialist state.
Please take it private. Better yet, close it! I'll never darken its doorways again, and you can take that to the bank!
Oh, yeah. That's the browser I dumped two or three years ago for Chrome and Opera.
I would like to see a state call out the troopers to arrest some TSA thug or forcefully ignore an order from the feds.
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Texas thought about doing something like this a year or so ago, then backed down (maybe the same day) after the TSA threatened to stop flights originating from Texas. This episode was covered by
So much for "Don't mess with Texas."
Outdoor pursuits, really? There are outdoor pursuits as long as you get in your car with air conditioning and drive somewhere ELSE.
Try hiking to the top of Squaw Peak and/or Camelback. When I lived in PHX, I did that every few days. Great exercise, great views.
I miss Phoenix.
My project isn't huge (less than 9,000 lines of C). When I find bugs, I jot down a short summary of the issue, then when time permits, I append enough text (mostly copying and pasting) to a "FixThis" file so I can reproduce the problem later.
When I fix a problem, I *always* document the fix at the top of the appropriate source code file.
All of the above are simple, clean, and efficient and have worked well for me.
Yes, but only to the educated.
"In today's headlines:
Approximately 4,537 people across the country died in traffic accidents today as a result of programming errors in autonomous vehicles. Ford Motor Company was at a loss to explain the disasters, although a spokesman was quoted as having said that today's 1,972 accidents were to be expected as bugs were worked out of the autonomous vehicles.
Today's accidents push the death count beyond 23,000 since autonomous vehicles were introduced ten years ago.
Film at 11."
I know nine programming languages, seven of them fluently. I also know the machine language of five different architectures, plus the microcode of a sixth architecture.
C is the seventh high level language I learned. I've been coding in C since about 1987. For any serious work, C is my only choice.
If you don't have the discipline or intellectual ability to code well and quickly in C and to produce code that is very nearly bug free on the first pass, you should go back to visual basic (or to other simpler languages) and leave the hard tasks to the pros.
I mean we don't "make" tritium for example by stuffing in more nuetrons magically, we have to sort it out of seawater.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium) gives numerous ways to "make" tritium.
Will somebody come to their senses and shoot down this stupid idea? And, in the process, save us taxpayers millions of dollars now (and, likely, billions later)?
I am a proponent of space activities, but this is just abysmally stupid and will be an incredibly expensive boondoggle.
well, being German I had never heard of Earhart but I sure as hell know about Hanna Reitsch.
In late 2000 I was at the Planes of Fame Air Museum at Valle Airport, Valle-Grand Canyon, Arizona, with an fgf (that's an Americanism for "former girl friend"). I saw a photo of Hanna Reitsch flying a V-1. http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/v1.html says she was "asked to work out why test pilots were unable to land it and had died in landing attempts." Very impressive work by an extremely gutsy aviatrix.
Does this mean I could program the chip to deliver coffee on demand? Or Stoli?
Man, think of the possibilities...
Ads are flashing images with convulsion-evoking abruptness.
Eloquently stated. What moron thinks the consumer wants to view commercials of this nature? I'm beginning to think everyone who makes commercials has severe attention deficit disorder.
... a London Routemaster bus had been discovered there.
Anybody remember the story in one of the grocery store rags about a B-25 having been discovered on the moon?
This was at least 15 years ago. Sure wish I'd bought that issue.
We're not doing math? What is it we're doing then?
The math-averse among us couldn't solve (much less formulate) the appropriate equations for crossing a busy street. You cross a busy street successfully by applying prior successful busy-street experiences.
The US has the only mill in the world that can produce the propellers used in high speed silent running.
Didn't Jimmy Carter allow the sale of CNC machines by the US to the [former] USSR and didn't the Russkies use the CNC machines to mill near-silent props that went onto their subs?
I have been using windows since about 3.x. Other than DOS and Excel, ms products are generally bloated, slow, and prone to hangs, crashes, and severe security issues. I can't imagine why anyone would trust (or even want) HomeOS.