>> "Overreaction is what governments do best!"
Overreaction is what people do best. The other week I bought a uk-plug-to-us-socket power adapter in the hell that is Heathrow's flight-side mall
The clerk asked me what flight I was on. He didn't believe Plummet Airlines 402 to Tashkent and started on about security. What am I going to do? Stick it up the pilot's nose? If the guy said OK, we want to profile all our customers so we can see what sells where, I could say Bugger off mate, none of your business. But security?
On return, changing some US$ to UK£ elicited the same question, but this time Aeroflop 111 was a good enough answer.
And the adapter was useless as I'd forgotten my laptop power supply anyway and had to buy another one.
It is very important that the contract is fully understood. If Monty *must* reveal and allow the swap, we can see it like this.
The contestant marks a door and takes it out of play. There's a 2/3 chance that the car is elsewhere
Monty marks a door and takes it out of play. (But this one must be goatsy.)
There's one door left. Open it.
The contestant's original bet is 'the car ain't there'. He's 2/3 right. After that bet, he has no choice, there's only one door left.
If, however, Monty can refuse to allow the swap, contestant will probably loose unless Monty is feeling benevolent.
>> Sounds like they are negotiation with Microsoft for cheaper licenses
Yes, can we have 'obvious reaction' mod points. This is as insightful as banging on about a Beowulf cluster. It's a sensible report about real stuff. Why should my kid get taught that computer == Microsoft? She uses openoffice, firefox etc at home and gets on fine for her work. Why should her school haemorrhage money at Vista when it is not necessary? They've got better things to spend money on. Like teaching the teachers how to use Ubuntu
That's actually very interesting. Rotate the picture (better, the movies) 180 so our north pole is 'up' and the whole thing looks different. You're not 'flying over'; you're 'skimming under' or some such. A quite different perception
Indeed, a fascinating question. Worthy of thinking what measure to use to find some answers. I'm not sure I really care if I can read the code for an FFT, as long as it has good test credentials, but some things I need to get my head round.
When it comes to an OO structure, I am impressed if I can find the object I need to [derive,extend,whatever] easily, and the thing allows me the power to extend while refusing opportunity for self-immolation.
I'm not sure you could ask for perfect from anything. In the last decade I've been happy with most, but not all, Java libraries (although I don't do graphics that way) in that they are reasonably consistent, well thought through and let me do rational things.
I've also crossed some in-house C++ financial systems which are utterly terrifying - in particular from the exotic options floor of an London investment bank - where you extend an object at your peril. I guess it kept the guys in a job.
Why 'Sir' Bernie Lee-Taupins? Lord this, Baron that (hello Conrad). I've got a PhD but I don't call myself Doctor Who. Fluff, that's what it is. At least the buggers have been voted out of existence. But they'll have to be beaten with sticks before they go away. 'Sir' my ass. That's what you call the guy at the store, unless you call him George. And I'm a brit in London
Nearest I've seen to Maxwell's demon is stochastic cooling, as used for antiproton sources at CERN at FERMILAB.
It takes a lot of input energy to enthuse the demons, so it ain't a break of the rules
Well, some of that is due to Tarkovsky. The header made me think of Stalker; then I got me head on again.
I bet more people saw Solaris the movie than read Solaris the novel
Well, two parts of the reason are
1. I didn't know that she'd died; that's sad news.
2. You did know it and a. didn't post it or b. got ignored
Her work is considerable. 'easily the better writer' is a bit of a stretcher. I'm not sure you can add up the points. Lem was, surely, more influential. If nothing else, he rattled some cages 30 years before
Parasite or symbiote? I think that the Mozilla code is, as it happens, more difficult to compromise. Why I think that? Because I really dislike Microsnot and hope they are awful at coding. (joke hahaha do not respond). If - when - for-profit crackers are not able to be parasitic, symbiotic relationships may become profitable. Be nice to the machine, protect from nasties, and use it for your own ends. Although many of the users of exploits are our much-derided kiddies, there are some smart hackers doing real stuff. Black hat ain't necessarily dumb: if the money says it's worth it, Firefox will be hacked. At the moment, it seems IE in its current deployment is just too easy
A mechanism on a bicycle derived from early Parisian underwater railcars. Invented by Georges de Railleur in Marseille in 1870; his more famous nephew was M le Compte Frederick (later Capitan) Birdseye.
Indeed a very good sketch on legal nonsense
>> develop a alternative to HTTP
HTTP came out of CERN which is an acronym for "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire"; Horror! European and it has a French name.
It started in 1954, in large part as a means of healing the wounds of the war. Since then much fine research has been done there, not least because of the free and open collaboration between the physicists of Europe and the rest of the world - including the US. That group of people will show huge competitiveness - my experiment is ALWAYS the most important - but none of this mean-minded "I did it, it's my ball" BS.
The US physicists I have worked with - from SLAC, Fermi, Brookhaven - have never shown parochial jealousies. Perhaps because they get out and see what the rest of the world is like. Mostly because that's what they do - try to find out what the world is like.
>> So in the absence of sources, I don't believe a word of your snark.
Ain't that a boojum?
Never seen the word used like that, although it is onomat..oenomitoe...sounds right
The man is right.
There is 'learning the language'. Back in the day, it was 'The C Programming Language': K&R : you did not need anything else. PHP is like that, only it moves faster. Go to the source.
Then there is 'what can I do with it?'. Libraries, functions, classes, modules,whatever they are called. Go to the most up-to-date source
Then you get some value-added, perhaps: 'I've done this useful thing: watch how I did it'. There are your examples.
Then there is the glory; how you make this stuff sing by inventing with it, not following. To be honest, the best of that I've seen are the C++ guru words. I've not been stunned by writing about PHP, yet, but then again I wasn't impressed by CSS (yawn) until I needed to do stuff with it.
Re:this probably is not the only guy doing this.
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DRM Advocate Violates DRM
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Many moons ago I looked at the wee rotating world that was on Microsnot's site - to see how it worked, I didn't know about gif89a or whatever it was - and it had a little para in it saying 'built with shareware tool xxx, please pay $10 to yyy if you find this useful. This image unregistered'. Cheapskates.
Well, I look at my licence and see I'm paying some $20 a month for the beeb. Actually, so my kid can watch TV. Radio and web (which I use much more) do not require a licence. Add it up in (let us say) 20M households and you get to about $5 billion a year, I don't know where the 10 comes from - wikipedia quotes 2.6 billion quid in 2003. Anyway, I'd happily pay twice that not to watch Fox
>> You see, we can't really dictate a browser,
Take a letter, Moneypenny.
"'A Browser'. That's C-O-W"
Why they called browser? I ain't done that since Mosaic.
Slashdot Mirror
Horrible wobbly tippy things
So I used to use a top-rope from the chimney, and a jumar.
As long as you don't break the tiles, all is fine
>> "Overreaction is what governments do best!"
Overreaction is what people do best. The other week I bought a uk-plug-to-us-socket power adapter in the hell that is Heathrow's flight-side mall
The clerk asked me what flight I was on. He didn't believe Plummet Airlines 402 to Tashkent and started on about security. What am I going to do? Stick it up the pilot's nose? If the guy said OK, we want to profile all our customers so we can see what sells where, I could say Bugger off mate, none of your business. But security?
On return, changing some US$ to UK£ elicited the same question, but this time Aeroflop 111 was a good enough answer.
And the adapter was useless as I'd forgotten my laptop power supply anyway and had to buy another one.
No, because it was a Shoe
but it's written in green ink
It is very important that the contract is fully understood. If Monty *must* reveal and allow the swap, we can see it like this.
The contestant marks a door and takes it out of play. There's a 2/3 chance that the car is elsewhere
Monty marks a door and takes it out of play. (But this one must be goatsy.)
There's one door left. Open it.
The contestant's original bet is 'the car ain't there'. He's 2/3 right. After that bet, he has no choice, there's only one door left.
If, however, Monty can refuse to allow the swap, contestant will probably loose unless Monty is feeling benevolent.
Read those, and especially Brooks, and weep. Brooks did it on the IBM 360 (or was it earlier?) and the same mistakes are happening now, only more so
Parallel evolution, dear boy. Fitness for purpose. All Florida dicknuts survive by the same traits.
>> Sounds like they are negotiation with Microsoft for cheaper licenses
Yes, can we have 'obvious reaction' mod points.
This is as insightful as banging on about a Beowulf cluster.
It's a sensible report about real stuff.
Why should my kid get taught that computer == Microsoft? She uses openoffice, firefox etc at home and gets on fine for her work. Why should her school haemorrhage money at Vista when it is not necessary?
They've got better things to spend money on. Like teaching the teachers how to use Ubuntu
That's actually very interesting. Rotate the picture (better, the movies) 180 so our north pole is 'up' and the whole thing looks different. You're not 'flying over'; you're 'skimming under' or some such. A quite different perception
Indeed, a fascinating question. Worthy of thinking what measure to use to find some answers. I'm not sure I really care if I can read the code for an FFT, as long as it has good test credentials, but some things I need to get my head round.
When it comes to an OO structure, I am impressed if I can find the object I need to [derive,extend,whatever] easily, and the thing allows me the power to extend while refusing opportunity for self-immolation.
I'm not sure you could ask for perfect from anything. In the last decade I've been happy with most, but not all, Java libraries (although I don't do graphics that way) in that they are reasonably consistent, well thought through and let me do rational things.
I've also crossed some in-house C++ financial systems which are utterly terrifying - in particular from the exotic options floor of an London investment bank - where you extend an object at your peril. I guess it kept the guys in a job.
Why 'Sir' Bernie Lee-Taupins? Lord this, Baron that (hello Conrad). I've got a PhD but I don't call myself Doctor Who. Fluff, that's what it is. At least the buggers have been voted out of existence. But they'll have to be beaten with sticks before they go away. 'Sir' my ass. That's what you call the guy at the store, unless you call him George. And I'm a brit in London
Nearest I've seen to Maxwell's demon is stochastic cooling, as used for antiproton sources at CERN at FERMILAB. It takes a lot of input energy to enthuse the demons, so it ain't a break of the rules
Well, some of that is due to Tarkovsky. The header made me think of Stalker; then I got me head on again.
I bet more people saw Solaris the movie than read Solaris the novel
Well, two parts of the reason are 1. I didn't know that she'd died; that's sad news. 2. You did know it and a. didn't post it or b. got ignored Her work is considerable. 'easily the better writer' is a bit of a stretcher. I'm not sure you can add up the points. Lem was, surely, more influential. If nothing else, he rattled some cages 30 years before
>> scatters little *nix file turds all over various directories, HAHAHAHA That's funny. My dev machine's like the hamster box.
Parasite or symbiote? I think that the Mozilla code is, as it happens, more difficult to compromise. Why I think that? Because I really dislike Microsnot and hope they are awful at coding. (joke hahaha do not respond).
If - when - for-profit crackers are not able to be parasitic, symbiotic relationships may become profitable. Be nice to the machine, protect from nasties, and use it for your own ends.
Although many of the users of exploits are our much-derided kiddies, there are some smart hackers doing real stuff. Black hat ain't necessarily dumb: if the money says it's worth it, Firefox will be hacked. At the moment, it seems IE in its current deployment is just too easy
A mechanism on a bicycle derived from early Parisian underwater railcars. Invented by Georges de Railleur in Marseille in 1870; his more famous nephew was M le Compte Frederick (later Capitan) Birdseye.
Indeed a very good sketch on legal nonsense
>> develop a alternative to HTTP
HTTP came out of CERN which is an acronym for "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire"; Horror! European and it has a French name.
It started in 1954, in large part as a means of healing the wounds of the war. Since then much fine research has been done there, not least because of the free and open collaboration between the physicists of Europe and the rest of the world - including the US. That group of people will show huge competitiveness - my experiment is ALWAYS the most important - but none of this mean-minded "I did it, it's my ball" BS.
The US physicists I have worked with - from SLAC, Fermi, Brookhaven - have never shown parochial jealousies. Perhaps because they get out and see what the rest of the world is like. Mostly because that's what they do - try to find out what the world is like.
>> So in the absence of sources, I don't believe a word of your snark.
Ain't that a boojum? Never seen the word used like that, although it is onomat..oenomitoe...sounds right
The man is right.
There is 'learning the language'. Back in the day, it was 'The C Programming Language': K&R : you did not need anything else. PHP is like that, only it moves faster. Go to the source.
Then there is 'what can I do with it?'. Libraries, functions, classes, modules,whatever they are called. Go to the most up-to-date source
Then you get some value-added, perhaps: 'I've done this useful thing: watch how I did it'. There are your examples.
Then there is the glory; how you make this stuff sing by inventing with it, not following. To be honest, the best of that I've seen are the C++ guru words. I've not been stunned by writing about PHP, yet, but then again I wasn't impressed by CSS (yawn) until I needed to do stuff with it.
Many moons ago I looked at the wee rotating world that was on Microsnot's site - to see how it worked, I didn't know about gif89a or whatever it was - and it had a little para in it saying 'built with shareware tool xxx, please pay $10 to yyy if you find this useful. This image unregistered'. Cheapskates.
Three-and-a-half times, that's my final offer
Well, I look at my licence and see I'm paying some $20 a month for the beeb. Actually, so my kid can watch TV. Radio and web (which I use much more) do not require a licence. Add it up in (let us say) 20M households and you get to about $5 billion a year, I don't know where the 10 comes from - wikipedia quotes 2.6 billion quid in 2003. Anyway, I'd happily pay twice that not to watch Fox
>> sacred American values and traditions.
Not sacred.
>> How thick is America's collective skull?
Not just america's skull.
Modulo that, you are right
>> You see, we can't really dictate a browser,
Take a letter, Moneypenny.
"'A Browser'. That's C-O-W"
Why they called browser? I ain't done that since Mosaic.