But facts are subject to truth tests are they not?
Just to confuse things, consider the following sentence (printed perhaps in a respected science journal): "This sentence cannot be proved to be true." can be shown (loosely) to be true but cannot be proven true by considering the sentence false and finding a contradiction.
So I can state a fact, consider it true but cannot prove it so...
For a country that produces so much good high-quality science, I suppose it's not absurd that where the science conflicts with redneck extreme religious nutters' views and with ignorant right-wing shock jocks' cheek sucking polemic, you'll get some leakage of nonsense by normally sane editors and the like.
Besides, if you were to put all sides of an argument into all news articles, you'd find your column inches quadrupling and your revenues dropping like a stone.
Doing too many hours continually is well-known to be counterproductive. And like the Dinosaur in Dilbert, more often than not, if you wait a bit, things change outside your control, and all that hard work was wasted.
In my bright and early days in the industry, when I'd set up a company with my brother and we had a deadline to meet for a demo, we had a serious crunch approaching the demo date. We worked approaching 60 hours in three days until all seemed to be working well. We went home, changed into suits and ties, went back into the office only to be told the demo had been cancelled and could we re-schedule for two weeks later?
Another time, another crunch, finding and fixing all bugs until we were happy. Of course, an unforeseen bug occurred during the demo anyway... We were too tired to have thought of dumb users doing things the 'wrong way'.
Lately, I've insisted my team works only a maximum of 50 hours in a week. If they have to come in at weekends, they get comp time, no exceptions. I want bright, interested and fast developers, not jaded, hacked-off, error prone slow coaches.
In any case, I'm thinking of moving into another industry altogether. The politics, back-stabbing (aided and abeted by a lot of front-stabbing nowadays), the tension as deadlines loom, prima donnas, ignorant, slave-driving board members etc.etc.etc. have finally beaten me. Besides, I find I can earn just as much elsewhere, mainly working from home in an area which has virtually nothing to do with software. I get to lead a life at last...
They certainly did not all get invites. I sent emails and faxes to my MP (one of the Blair babes) who studiously ignored everything. I then wrote to Tam Dalyell (as he writes on tekky matters for New Scientist) who did reply. But I've had no invite.
From your link:
Las Vegas police have had a much different interpretation of the tape. They have for more than a year characterized the contents of the footage as "tourist-type" video and continued to do so Tuesday....
The mayor said he first viewed the Detroit tape Tuesday morning. "It was a very boring hour," Goodman said, noting that the video was little more than an "amateurish travelogue..."
And the National Guard put away had nothing to do with the Detroit and other 'terror cells'.
Since when does the Navy announce "Mission Accomplished" using ship sized banners? Were the crew utterly ignorant of their 9 month stint, have they forgotten how to count days? Puh-leeze...
A few years ago, I lived and worked in the South of France (I highly recommend doing this if you can...). But, taxes on my income amounted to a long list of sometimes tiny deductions most of which went to separate organizations. I asked the accountant why couldn't they do the same as in the UK, just have one organization collect tax on income. She said that would be a good idea as all these separate organizations consumed nearly 50% of the revenue collected!! It is not efficient.
But why tax VOIP, isn't your broadband connection taxed in some fashion anyway (for example, it's via VAT in Europe)? And what then, tax emails, IRC, QoS packets...?
..a license is available from Microsoft under whatever rights it may have...
Of what use is this license to the ordinary Joe? If MS terminates the license after 30 days, then what? Does Joe have to re-license the use of all 130 protocols elsewhere? And is Joe aware that there may be rights that are no longer valid making him have only partial rights to documentation and protocols? And, under the terms of the license, no improvement to the protocols is allowed either even if MS has no rights in that particular protocol.
Perhaps MS should have named it a...royalty free but (perhaps partially) restricting and confusing license...
Give it a rest. The usual boring ignorant redneck UN bashing is getting tiresome. The main purpose of the UN is to: "...achieve international co-operation in solving international problems...", not to run stuff like the Internet.
My (patented) self-cloning kit (instructions below) will break this security system in no time. In fact, I suspect MS are already flagging it on their all-new security alert system.
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Self-cloning Instructions (Pat. pending)
Go fuck yourself.
In which case, a lot of software will never be completed. Every single little change to my system which involves even the slightest change to the process (system shows error as light red instead of red) would have to be publicly documented (and presumably verified) such that I could be reasonably sure no one will patent my process. How is this useful?
So... what's obvious has always had to have prior documentation? Most people would say that what is obvious does not need documentation especially where it concerns a process.
Is it, for example, anywhere (presumably formally) documented what the process is that you go through when going to the toilet? If not, does that mean the USPTO could grant me a patent on such a process?
We remember the Lusitania specifically because it had nothing to do with the US entry into WWI.
The Lusitania was sunk in 1915, the US entered WWI in 1918. What precipited US entry was the Zimmerman telegram. For details, I cannot recommend highly enough the late Barbara Tuchman's (IMHO, the US' finest historian and a superb writer) 'The Zimmerman Telegram' Ballentine 1966.
First, getting an ID card should not take months (whereas getting an apartment and the subsequent utility bill and having to transfer deposit monies without having a bank account, does). Second, once I have an ID card, like other European countries, I can get a bank account without the need for a utility bill.
You should watch 'Outfoxed' to get some idea of quite how unfair and unbalanced Faux News really is. Fox News is owned by one the most right wing media oligarchs in the world and reflects his opinions religiously including the vitriolic bias against Clinton and the fawning cheek sucking for Bush. It's news bias is so warped that a majority of Fox News watchers (who tend to watch Fox rather than anything else) still believe WMDs have been found in Iraq. I seriously suggest you get your news from other sources...
I recently returned to the UK from the continent after nearly a decade in France, Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
Mostly in Germany and Switzerland, nothing happens without your ID but it makes life easy getting an apartment, opening bank accounts, getting mobile phone contracts and so on. In the UK, in the absence of an ID card, opening a bank account was a complete pain.
I am British, with a passport and NI number. But these are no good for opening a bank account in the UK (unless you already have a UK bank account...). The rules are that you have to show a recent utility bill (or equivalent) with your name and current address plus other forms of identification. Of course, to get such a utility bill, I had to get an apartment but a lot of landlords want your bank account so that they can be assured of regular and timely payment. A vicious circle which proved frustrating to break.
The banks do offer to write to your foreign bank but the British, being such insular little islanders expect everything to be conducted in English, even if you have only just arrived from a small island off Japan. They will not attempt to communicate even in another major European language. In contrast, European banks often conduct their operations in several major languages.
To survive, I had to use the services of a friend's bank account (gotta be someone you can trust implicitly) until after several months, I was able to get an apartment and then, after having a utility bill, open my own account.
I've spoken to other foreigners (Swedish, Spanish, Bulgarian etc.) who all had to go through the same farcical process. All come from places where ID cards are the norm and wonder why the UK has to make life so difficult.
I note that 'Blind Man' Blunkett (the current and, one fervently hopes only temporary, Home Secretary) is possibly rejecting the notion of an ID card, not because it might make things easier for ordinary citizens but because there might be workarounds for crooks and terrorists. This is typical of the horrendously authoritarian Blunkett, nothing he does is for Joe Soap but only to simplify (to make more 'efficient') police powers and processes. See, for example the US-UK Extradition Treaty 2003
Well, it's not considered that eccentric if you live in London. Driving in London is a complete pain and if you go anywhere near the centre you suffer the Congestion Charge. A lot of people I know can drive but don't and, like me, don't carry a driving license around with them.
Agreed. I found with multiple if..else that vertical formatting is always easier to read, otherwise I find myself drawing diagonal lines to see where the enclosing blocks might reside.
Slashdot Mirror
...especially if you use Babelfish...
That link is about the connection with aboriton to breast cancer from a biased non-science site...
But facts are subject to truth tests are they not?
Just to confuse things, consider the following sentence (printed perhaps in a respected science journal): "This sentence cannot be proved to be true." can be shown (loosely) to be true but cannot be proven true by considering the sentence false and finding a contradiction.
So I can state a fact, consider it true but cannot prove it so...
For a country that produces so much good high-quality science, I suppose it's not absurd that where the science conflicts with redneck extreme religious nutters' views and with ignorant right-wing shock jocks' cheek sucking polemic, you'll get some leakage of nonsense by normally sane editors and the like.
Besides, if you were to put all sides of an argument into all news articles, you'd find your column inches quadrupling and your revenues dropping like a stone.
Doing too many hours continually is well-known to be counterproductive. And like the Dinosaur in Dilbert, more often than not, if you wait a bit, things change outside your control, and all that hard work was wasted.
In my bright and early days in the industry, when I'd set up a company with my brother and we had a deadline to meet for a demo, we had a serious crunch approaching the demo date. We worked approaching 60 hours in three days until all seemed to be working well. We went home, changed into suits and ties, went back into the office only to be told the demo had been cancelled and could we re-schedule for two weeks later?
Another time, another crunch, finding and fixing all bugs until we were happy. Of course, an unforeseen bug occurred during the demo anyway... We were too tired to have thought of dumb users doing things the 'wrong way'.
Lately, I've insisted my team works only a maximum of 50 hours in a week. If they have to come in at weekends, they get comp time, no exceptions. I want bright, interested and fast developers, not jaded, hacked-off, error prone slow coaches.
In any case, I'm thinking of moving into another industry altogether. The politics, back-stabbing (aided and abeted by a lot of front-stabbing nowadays), the tension as deadlines loom, prima donnas, ignorant, slave-driving board members etc.etc.etc. have finally beaten me. Besides, I find I can earn just as much elsewhere, mainly working from home in an area which has virtually nothing to do with software. I get to lead a life at last...
They certainly did not all get invites. I sent emails and faxes to my MP (one of the Blair babes) who studiously ignored everything. I then wrote to Tam Dalyell (as he writes on tekky matters for New Scientist) who did reply. But I've had no invite.
From your link: ...
Las Vegas police have had a much different interpretation of the tape. They have for more than a year characterized the contents of the footage as "tourist-type" video and continued to do so Tuesday.
The mayor said he first viewed the Detroit tape Tuesday morning. "It was a very boring hour," Goodman said, noting that the video was little more than an "amateurish travelogue..."
And the National Guard put away had nothing to do with the Detroit and other 'terror cells'.
Since when does the Navy announce "Mission Accomplished" using ship sized banners? Were the crew utterly ignorant of their 9 month stint, have they forgotten how to count days? Puh-leeze...
A few years ago, I lived and worked in the South of France (I highly recommend doing this if you can...). But, taxes on my income amounted to a long list of sometimes tiny deductions most of which went to separate organizations. I asked the accountant why couldn't they do the same as in the UK, just have one organization collect tax on income. She said that would be a good idea as all these separate organizations consumed nearly 50% of the revenue collected!! It is not efficient.
But why tax VOIP, isn't your broadband connection taxed in some fashion anyway (for example, it's via VAT in Europe)? And what then, tax emails, IRC, QoS packets...?
Pollution link to heart disease
Hitler Youth, to be accurate.
..a license is available from Microsoft under whatever rights it may have...
...royalty free but (perhaps partially) restricting and confusing license...
Of what use is this license to the ordinary Joe? If MS terminates the license after 30 days, then what? Does Joe have to re-license the use of all 130 protocols elsewhere? And is Joe aware that there may be rights that are no longer valid making him have only partial rights to documentation and protocols? And, under the terms of the license, no improvement to the protocols is allowed either even if MS has no rights in that particular protocol.
Perhaps MS should have named it a
Give it a rest. The usual boring ignorant redneck UN bashing is getting tiresome. The main purpose of the UN is to: "...achieve international co-operation in solving international problems...", not to run stuff like the Internet.
My (patented) self-cloning kit (instructions below) will break this security system in no time. In fact, I suspect MS are already flagging it on their all-new security alert system.
-----------
Self-cloning Instructions (Pat. pending)
Go fuck yourself.
In which case, a lot of software will never be completed. Every single little change to my system which involves even the slightest change to the process (system shows error as light red instead of red) would have to be publicly documented (and presumably verified) such that I could be reasonably sure no one will patent my process. How is this useful?
So... what's obvious has always had to have prior documentation? Most people would say that what is obvious does not need documentation especially where it concerns a process.
Is it, for example, anywhere (presumably formally) documented what the process is that you go through when going to the toilet? If not, does that mean the USPTO could grant me a patent on such a process?
Call the toll free voter alert line: 1-866-MYVOTE1
We remember the Lusitania specifically because it had nothing to do with the US entry into WWI.
The Lusitania was sunk in 1915, the US entered WWI in 1918. What precipited US entry was the Zimmerman telegram. For details, I cannot recommend highly enough the late Barbara Tuchman's (IMHO, the US' finest historian and a superb writer) 'The Zimmerman Telegram' Ballentine 1966.
Michael Moore is already doing it. He has 1200 cameras in Ohio and Florida. Wonder what he'll call the movie?
The manula process is easy, fast and maximally safe
You ignore accurate... I've read elsewhere (I can't find the link at short notice) that electronic voting is more accurate than any manual system.
First, getting an ID card should not take months (whereas getting an apartment and the subsequent utility bill and having to transfer deposit monies without having a bank account, does). Second, once I have an ID card, like other European countries, I can get a bank account without the need for a utility bill.
You should watch 'Outfoxed' to get some idea of quite how unfair and unbalanced Faux News really is. Fox News is owned by one the most right wing media oligarchs in the world and reflects his opinions religiously including the vitriolic bias against Clinton and the fawning cheek sucking for Bush. It's news bias is so warped that a majority of Fox News watchers (who tend to watch Fox rather than anything else) still believe WMDs have been found in Iraq. I seriously suggest you get your news from other sources...
I recently returned to the UK from the continent after nearly a decade in France, Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
Mostly in Germany and Switzerland, nothing happens without your ID but it makes life easy getting an apartment, opening bank accounts, getting mobile phone contracts and so on. In the UK, in the absence of an ID card, opening a bank account was a complete pain.
I am British, with a passport and NI number. But these are no good for opening a bank account in the UK (unless you already have a UK bank account...). The rules are that you have to show a recent utility bill (or equivalent) with your name and current address plus other forms of identification. Of course, to get such a utility bill, I had to get an apartment but a lot of landlords want your bank account so that they can be assured of regular and timely payment. A vicious circle which proved frustrating to break.
The banks do offer to write to your foreign bank but the British, being such insular little islanders expect everything to be conducted in English, even if you have only just arrived from a small island off Japan. They will not attempt to communicate even in another major European language. In contrast, European banks often conduct their operations in several major languages.
To survive, I had to use the services of a friend's bank account (gotta be someone you can trust implicitly) until after several months, I was able to get an apartment and then, after having a utility bill, open my own account.
I've spoken to other foreigners (Swedish, Spanish, Bulgarian etc.) who all had to go through the same farcical process. All come from places where ID cards are the norm and wonder why the UK has to make life so difficult.
I note that 'Blind Man' Blunkett (the current and, one fervently hopes only temporary, Home Secretary) is possibly rejecting the notion of an ID card, not because it might make things easier for ordinary citizens but because there might be workarounds for crooks and terrorists. This is typical of the horrendously authoritarian Blunkett, nothing he does is for Joe Soap but only to simplify (to make more 'efficient') police powers and processes. See, for example the US-UK Extradition Treaty 2003
Well, it's not considered that eccentric if you live in London. Driving in London is a complete pain and if you go anywhere near the centre you suffer the Congestion Charge. A lot of people I know can drive but don't and, like me, don't carry a driving license around with them.
Agreed. I found with multiple if..else that vertical formatting is always easier to read, otherwise I find myself drawing diagonal lines to see where the enclosing blocks might reside.