I live in Ukraine where ALL incoming calls are free by law. So cell companies HAVE to compete on outgoing call rates. And the do compete - I see a lot of advertisements like: "0.1 cent for all calls!".
Also, the stupid '300 minute a month' plans are also US specific. Most plans here are of debit 'pay-as-you-go' type. For example, I pay about $20 a _year_ because I just don't talk much other the phone.
"If I were to say what the #1 problem with java programmers (programmers mind you, not the language) it's their irrational fear of variables. Every damn thing is a method. Can't have a variable without do-nothing getter/setter methods wrapped around it."
That's a good design. It'll look much better than properties will be added to the language later.
Uhm... I'm automatically redirected to google.com.ua the first time I visit Google. And it's in Ukrainian (or in Russian - it depends on your browser settings). And that's because I'm in Ukraine.
I did this many times. UML class, use-case and sequence diagrams were NEVER helpful - it's just much easier to explore code with a good IDE.
The argument that a new architect will have to spend days familiarizing with the code is moot. Architects are arguably THE main people in a project - their mistakes can cost A LOT. So I'd rather let him/her spend some time and get acquainted with the code and code 'style' then let him/her rush into drawing more diagrams.
Also, diagrams have a very nasty habit to fall out of sync from the real code.
FSM diagrams are very useful, though. Especially if they are automatically generated.
No. XFS is a multimedia-oriented filesystem, it was designed to support multithreaded streaming with guaranteed access times. It works well for these use-cases.
But it doesn't work well for a lot of other use-cases, though. Hence, the current development of Btrfs.
Won't help you. Solar desalination plants are not very cost-effective because of insanely high specific heat of water and pretty high specific heat of vaporization.
And no, you can't just pipe seawater through long glass tubes - they'll clog from salt depositions pretty soon. Instead you need to pump distilled water and then use it in heat exchangers to pre-heat salt water.
If we start building breeder reactors - then we'll have enough uranium and/or thorium to provide the current level of power output for more than 10000 years.
Nuclear fuel contains A LOT of power. Currently, we use less than 1% of it (powerplants burn about 15% of U-235 content).
You see, if there were no such thing as a right for unsecured content - then logically there's no right for corporations to keep their content secured.
But it turns out that you can't legally strip broadcast flag because corporations are granted _right_ to forbid usage of unauthorized decryption devices.
In the Ukraine, the Nazis were actually greeted as liberators by the survivors of the Holodomor. And that's why Kiev (where I live now, BTW) was given the 'Hero City' status after the WWII? Sure, there were people who defected to Hitler forces, particularly from west parts of Ukraine (which always were anti-Russian). But that was a small part of Ukrainian population.
Now maybe during the war Stalin realised he needed to stop doing shit like this and so the economy recovered back to pre 1917 levels. Nope. Economic rose to pre-1917 level shortly before the WWII.
As for 'socialism' - obviously it was different from European capitalistic socialism.
And I'm not defending Stalin. I'm just telling that fascism and Stalin-style socialism were two very different ideologies.
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Personally, I like to be able to find a video which I watched yesterday to send link to a friend.
A month is about the maximum time when such viewing history is useful.
Your notebook is safe - influenza and common cold viruses die quickly when exposed to open air.
It's not the case with bacteria, of course. Especially with sporulating bacteria. Endospores can survive almost anything.
I'm skeptical.
HIV is known to evolve affinity for new binding sites: http://endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-just-so-story-turns-into-just-so.html
Can it evolve around this change? I don't know, but it's very probable.
Wrong!
I live in Ukraine where ALL incoming calls are free by law. So cell companies HAVE to compete on outgoing call rates. And the do compete - I see a lot of advertisements like: "0.1 cent for all calls!".
Also, the stupid '300 minute a month' plans are also US specific. Most plans here are of debit 'pay-as-you-go' type. For example, I pay about $20 a _year_ because I just don't talk much other the phone.
Well, they just need to take blood from AIDS victims :)
The main problem: quartz is FRAGILE. There's no way we can make it safe.
Here: http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Neo%20Freerunner
Also check: http://www.openmoko.com/store.html
Array length: arr.length
String length: str.length()
"If I were to say what the #1 problem with java programmers (programmers mind you, not the language) it's their irrational fear of variables. Every damn thing is a method. Can't have a variable without do-nothing getter/setter methods wrapped around it."
That's a good design. It'll look much better than properties will be added to the language later.
Any plans to implement DX10?
Or at least make DX9 games (like HL2EP2) work decently.
Uhm... I'm automatically redirected to google.com.ua the first time I visit Google. And it's in Ukrainian (or in Russian - it depends on your browser settings). And that's because I'm in Ukraine.
So it's working already.
Javascript has a better object model?
You mean, a language without a basic stuff like namespaces (!!) has a better object model than Java?
Oh, and Java also has static typing. That's a great feature.
Yes, you are absolutely right.
I forgot about ER-diagrams and they are very useful.
Actually, a lot of FSM diagrams do look like the FSM!
Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!
I did this many times. UML class, use-case and sequence diagrams were NEVER helpful - it's just much easier to explore code with a good IDE.
The argument that a new architect will have to spend days familiarizing with the code is moot. Architects are arguably THE main people in a project - their mistakes can cost A LOT. So I'd rather let him/her spend some time and get acquainted with the code and code 'style' then let him/her rush into drawing more diagrams.
Also, diagrams have a very nasty habit to fall out of sync from the real code.
FSM diagrams are very useful, though. Especially if they are automatically generated.
That's a software problem, it _will_ be resolved soon.
PS: just ordered Moko.
Ditch your diagrams. They're far too often used to:
1) As a thing to show boss that you're working.
2) Unnecessary cruft which no one uses.
About the only case where diagrams are helpful are FSM diagrams.
Snails should be just another layer of slowness for
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1217.html system!
No. XFS is a multimedia-oriented filesystem, it was designed to support multithreaded streaming with guaranteed access times. It works well for these use-cases.
But it doesn't work well for a lot of other use-cases, though. Hence, the current development of Btrfs.
AdvFS is comparable in features to ZFS - it has snapshotting, intelligent striping and mirroring, dynamic resizing, etc.
In short, there's no comparable production filesystem in Linux right now. There's Btrfs from Oracle, but it's in deep alpha.
Won't help you. Solar desalination plants are not very cost-effective because of insanely high specific heat of water and pretty high specific heat of vaporization.
And no, you can't just pipe seawater through long glass tubes - they'll clog from salt depositions pretty soon. Instead you need to pump distilled water and then use it in heat exchangers to pre-heat salt water.
Yes, a lot of nuclear plants in Russia are used for heating.
Especially, in the northern parts of Russia which require A LOT of heating during winters.
If we start building breeder reactors - then we'll have enough uranium and/or thorium to provide the current level of power output for more than 10000 years.
Nuclear fuel contains A LOT of power. Currently, we use less than 1% of it (powerplants burn about 15% of U-235 content).
You see, if there were no such thing as a right for unsecured content - then logically there's no right for corporations to keep their content secured.
But it turns out that you can't legally strip broadcast flag because corporations are granted _right_ to forbid usage of unauthorized decryption devices.
But 2016 campaign is smashed by an accident at LHC!
Now maybe during the war Stalin realised he needed to stop doing shit like this and so the economy recovered back to pre 1917 levels. Nope. Economic rose to pre-1917 level shortly before the WWII.
As for 'socialism' - obviously it was different from European capitalistic socialism.
And I'm not defending Stalin. I'm just telling that fascism and Stalin-style socialism were two very different ideologies.