Introduce some gobbledeegook, heath-robinson-esq software design (ala piece-tables) just so the user can copy/paste ever so fast. <quote>For example, if you copy text from one document to another, you don't have to actually copy the text from one file to another--at least not right away</quote>
yes - therein lies the screw-up!!
They then live with this dog's breakfast of a code base for upwards of 10 (yes ten!!) years until its time to fix it. And the developers cant even work out which "Open file limit" has been reached. Well not very quickly anyway.
I have seen so much of this kind of "engineering" it makes me bleed from my ears. What's more, the author of this article portrays the story with so much nobility.
As someone who has just recently started flying training this is very interesting.
Back in 1999 the EEC member countries merged all the disparate national aviation regs into the common Joint Aviation Regulations (JAR) - this means (among other things) that you can get your PPL in any member country and fly all over europe without any other formalities.
The UK has since introduced a less stringent National PPL - limiting you to fly a single engine plane in VFR and only within UK airspace. But this can be achieved with a minimum 32 hours training and just a self-certified medical! After which you can climb into a 4 Seater Cessna 172 and fly off into the sunset, no questions asked.
The FAA's sport-license seems to be a step along these lines although a little more limiting as to choice of bird.
IMHO easing off the stringent regulations for purely recreational flyers who want to potter about in the sky on a sunny day is great news.
The terrorist arguments seem to me to be way off the mark.
BTW - Flying training this side of the pond is roughly twice as expensive as in the US. I reckon my full JAR-PPL will end up costing me close to 8,000 of our english pounds - thats around 14,000 USD - ouch !!!
I seem to remember this idea was originated by Douglas Adams quite a while back - as a pretty cool addon to H2G2. Switch on your guide and tadaaa.. instant information about where you are!!
Unfortunately as many posts point out - we have an infinite supply of stupid people... so sad.
However I am leaning more towards a radio-controlled mower. This would reduce the complexities of an autonomous unit plus it'd be fun to drive (?). I am guessing that kit rc units could be modified easily enough.
But thanks for the post - some very good ideas coming out of this discussion!
>>> Now, when we are past the political differences, we may consider how "technically" harder is it to write Linux viruses.
Ok - lets talk once 300 million arsehole users and sys-admins deploy linux. Are you SOOOOOOOO sure that there will be NO exploits?
GROW UP - I'm no windoluvver but hells bells!!!
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such major conurbations as Diss and Mold make it onto the main map.
that's the best way to learn new languages I find.
'nuf said
what a bunch of morons work at M$.
Let's see...
Introduce some gobbledeegook, heath-robinson-esq software design (ala piece-tables) just so the user can copy/paste ever so fast. <quote>For example, if you copy text from one document to another, you don't have to actually copy the text from one file to another--at least not right away</quote>
yes - therein lies the screw-up!!
They then live with this dog's breakfast of a code base for upwards of 10 (yes ten!!) years until its time to fix it. And the developers cant even work out which "Open file limit" has been reached. Well not very quickly anyway.
I have seen so much of this kind of "engineering" it makes me bleed from my ears. What's more, the author of this article portrays the story with so much nobility.
Things to always bear in mind I find are:
KISS
OCCAM's RAZOR
DONT TRY TO BE TOO SMART
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As someone who has just recently started flying training this is very interesting.
Back in 1999 the EEC member countries merged all the disparate national aviation regs into the common Joint Aviation Regulations (JAR) - this means (among other things) that you can get your PPL in any member country and fly all over europe without any other formalities.
The UK has since introduced a less stringent National PPL - limiting you to fly a single engine plane in VFR and only within UK airspace. But this can be achieved with a minimum 32 hours training and just a self-certified medical! After which you can climb into a 4 Seater Cessna 172 and fly off into the sunset, no questions asked.
The FAA's sport-license seems to be a step along these lines although a little more limiting as to choice of bird.
IMHO easing off the stringent regulations for purely recreational flyers who want to potter about in the sky on a sunny day is great news.
The terrorist arguments seem to me to be way off the mark.
BTW - Flying training this side of the pond is roughly twice as expensive as in the US. I reckon my full JAR-PPL will end up costing me close to 8,000 of our english pounds - thats around 14,000 USD - ouch !!!
Fiber-to-the-Porch - I'm sure they wont lay fiber throughout my house! ( and yes, its fiber and throughout )
I seem to remember this idea was originated by Douglas Adams quite a while back - as a pretty cool addon to H2G2. Switch on your guide and tadaaa.. instant information about where you are!!
... so sad.
Unfortunately as many posts point out - we have an infinite supply of stupid people
I have also been pondering this for a while.
However I am leaning more towards a radio-controlled mower. This would reduce the complexities of an autonomous unit plus it'd be fun to drive (?). I am guessing that kit rc units could be modified easily enough.
But thanks for the post - some very good ideas coming out of this discussion!
outsource it to India!
Gid indeværende anlæg ud nemlig funktionsdygtig
Hang on - I'm supposed to be designing the fjords...
how about NOT installing shit on your systems duh?
As a long time windows programmer I have seen tons of improvements in the development environement on windows over the last dozen years.
What's available for Linux? vi? pico? emacs?
As a Brit - I much prefer "maths" since it is an abbreviation of "Mathematics" not "Mathematic".
Also it sounds better (tounge-firmly-in-cheek)
I noticed one of the images superimposed with latitude and longitudes. Who decides (and how) where the 0 degree longitude is on astronomical bodies?
I prefer founts of times new roman.
I'll be flying tonight in europe - any chance i'll see anything out of the tiny 737 windows? should i insist on a window seat?
with no implementation in sight.? so why bother posting it on the front page?
yes.
>>> Now, when we are past the political differences, we may consider how "technically" harder is it to write Linux viruses.
Ok - lets talk once 300 million arsehole users and sys-admins deploy linux. Are you SOOOOOOOO sure that there will be NO exploits?
GROW UP - I'm no windoluvver but hells bells!!!
The article is misguided, misquoted, misleading and miswhateverhernameis.
The sheer fallacy that somehow one OS is *inherently* better than another!!!
Have you people not learnt anything?
Obviously not. I'm not even going to bother to spell it out here.
damned fool - unsubscribe from /. immediately, we dont want your type here!
Wow! Couple one of these with the earlier e-ink story! How cool would that be?
One question though - does the bios on these boot off a USB device?
on this by the authors is available here
See how the 'shape' of the pixel can determine where the ink goes when voltage is applied. hmm interesting!