In particular, write really good bug reports. Spend the time to track down the simplest conditions to reproduce the bug, write the steps up clearly and precisely, and contribute example code or data. This is an enormous help to open source projects.
Where did the figure of 610000 licenses come from? Because I am sure MS has sold far more than that, which would bring the price per license way down. Even if they only sold copies to 1 out of every 10 US citizens it would be 30M copies.
This is exactly what I'd expect from Verizon and it is why I Ieft them 3 years ago. They customize all the phones they sell to lock out functionality that comes with the basic phone model (like being able to transfer a picture between your computer and phone without paying them for each image). They are evil and screw their customers for every penny they can get. Existing customers should definitely be able to get out of their contracts. If you are not under contract you should just leave.
If you consider something at "University" a Youth Mistake. Most people are generally at the age of adulthood since then.
I did some very stupid and immature stuff in college. Luckily none of it is evident on the Internet. I am a very different person now.
As a Pro Tip: Make a Facebook Account, spend 1 weekend on it putting a few non-embarassing pictures, Change your status to something positive, and never touch it again. It'll get picked up on Google and the images you're tagged in - blamo, that small thing is going to the bottom of the list.
Or create your own website with domain name matching your real life name, with at least your phone number and resume. And post to technical mailing lists using your real name. All that stuff will probably come high on Google compared to that zine. Stop keeping a low profile.
What really amazes me is how easy it is to avoid SQL injection attacks. You don't have to be a security genius. Use PreparedStatements in Java (or their equivalent in other languages). Problem solved.
If this has been going on since the late 80s, why did it take so long to file the class action lawsuit?
Because it's only been the last few years that the RIAA has been claiming an outrageuous amount of money per infringement, which makes it worthwhile to file the suit by laiming the same amount.
Heat is not energy*, at least not useful energy. Specifically heat alone is not useful for doing work. You need a heat gradient to do work. Heat pumps increase the heat gradient, and that gradient could be used to do work, but the amount of energy you would get out of that is always less than you put in.
Heat pumps are a rather efficient way to heat your house, within a certain temperature range it can be much more efficient than burning chemical fuels.
*(yeah, heat really is energy, but heat pumps just move it around, they don't create it)
I believe you only need 2 towers for triangulation (you are the 3rd point in the triangle). And even with 1 tower, they still know your approximate location (i.e. they know you are close enough to that tower to get reception, and not close enough to any other tower to register). They might even be able to tell distance from the tower by signal strength or delay. Enough to support or destroy an alibi.
Is September 22, 2009 (and here) recent enough for you? It does say they plan to use the technology in their own products, but Microsoft has said that lots of times and not followed through. They are definitely killing the product line though.
Um, if it is not profitable, why buy the company and shut it down? Just let the company die on its own. And they're not buying them for the technology either, because they don't use it. They buy them and shut them own because they are worried that it will steal market share from them.
Microsoft has always cared far more about crushing competition than providing anything of value to consumers. They buy up cool products just to shut them down, have a massive FUD engine, and promise the next version will be better but instead deliver Windows ME and Vista. Even if Google is just a money-grubbing competitor, it is a real competitor that Microsoft can't crush. Which means both companies will have to compete by offering something better to the consumers. Consumers win.
RNA probably came before DNA, and some life uses only RNA (some viruses for example). DNA is not just 2 RNAs put together, there are substantial differences. So even on earth there are 2 different solutions to the basic problem. Even keeping the basic structure of DNA/RNA there are probably lots of ways to hang a few extra atoms of the bases to create completely different bases (which would then need different transcription enzymes, etc.). And I still wouldn't rule out a completely different structure, since there are so many ways to link carbons together to form complex structures.
DNA is much more complex than the basic building blocks floating around in space, and I bet there are many ways to build something that performs the same function as DNA but is not DNA. Genes are even more complex, there are some genes that are common to all life on earth (with mutations, but still recognizable as the same gene) - life that originated independently, even if it used DNA, would not have the same genes - there is too many solutions to each problem. I'm pretty sure if we had genetic material from another planet we could easily confirm or refute panspermia. Unfortunately we don't, and we may never have it.
I think Mars was already considered habitable range. We know that billions of years ago Mars was warmer and wetter, and if it was a little more massive, so it could better hold an atmosphere, it might still be. All this is true regardless of whether or not Mars once had life.
I'm rooting for independent evolution. It would make it far more likely that the universe is teaming with life. But unless we find current life on Mars, it may be hard to tell the difference.
It puts people at risk, and the motherfucker should be tried for sedition.
I think you mean treason. Sedition is encouraging insurrection. Treason is acts of disloyalty to one's nation. But in the US treason is narrowly defined by the constitution (to prevent abuses), so unfortunately they probably can't be prosecuted for treason.
No. The signal strength is 1/(r^2). Exponentially would be 1/(c^r), where c is some constant and r is the radius. Exponentially means r is in the exponent, not the base.
The other factors the strongly affect birthrate are education, equality for women, and availability of birth control. All of which are probably more important than prosperity, and many of which are not present in some prosperous countries (like the oil-rich middle-eastern countries).
And while you're spending your time figuring out why something that isn't broken works, he is coding something that you aren't coding at all. Sure, coding until it passes isn't the ideal, but it's a whole lot better than not coding at all (you).
Nope. The sloppy programmer may get his code out the door sooner, but then it comes back after QA. Then you try to fix the bugs from QA and introduce more bugs because the code is crap. Unit tests may help but sloppy programmers write crappy unit tests and never think though all the cases that need covering. I take 2-3 times as long to complete my code as that sloppy programmer but I almost never have a bug filed against my code, and when I do it is quick and easy to fix, so in the end I get more done in the same period of time.
I think the ACLU would definitely take on such a case. They would probably win. Since we haven't seen that exact case we can't say for sure but the US Supreme Court has a pretty good record of shooting down that type of censorship.
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Exactly, by that logic whales and elephants are vastly more intelligent than humans.
In particular, write really good bug reports. Spend the time to track down the simplest conditions to reproduce the bug, write the steps up clearly and precisely, and contribute example code or data. This is an enormous help to open source projects.
Where did the figure of 610000 licenses come from? Because I am sure MS has sold far more than that, which would bring the price per license way down. Even if they only sold copies to 1 out of every 10 US citizens it would be 30M copies.
This is exactly what I'd expect from Verizon and it is why I Ieft them 3 years ago. They customize all the phones they sell to lock out functionality that comes with the basic phone model (like being able to transfer a picture between your computer and phone without paying them for each image). They are evil and screw their customers for every penny they can get. Existing customers should definitely be able to get out of their contracts. If you are not under contract you should just leave.
If you consider something at "University" a Youth Mistake. Most people are generally at the age of adulthood since then.
I did some very stupid and immature stuff in college. Luckily none of it is evident on the Internet. I am a very different person now.
As a Pro Tip: Make a Facebook Account, spend 1 weekend on it putting a few non-embarassing pictures, Change your status to something positive, and never touch it again. It'll get picked up on Google and the images you're tagged in - blamo, that small thing is going to the bottom of the list.
Or create your own website with domain name matching your real life name, with at least your phone number and resume.
And post to technical mailing lists using your real name. All that stuff will probably come high on Google compared
to that zine. Stop keeping a low profile.
What really amazes me is how easy it is to avoid SQL injection attacks. You don't have to be a security genius. Use PreparedStatements in Java (or their equivalent in other languages). Problem solved.
a mickey mouse amount
If this has been going on since the late 80s, why did it take so long to file the class action lawsuit?
Because it's only been the last few years that the RIAA has been claiming an outrageuous amount of money per infringement, which makes it worthwhile to file the suit by laiming the same amount.
Heat is not energy*, at least not useful energy. Specifically heat alone is not useful for doing work. You need a heat gradient to do work. Heat pumps increase the heat gradient, and that gradient could be used to do work, but the amount of energy you would get out of that is always less than you put in.
Heat pumps are a rather efficient way to heat your house, within a certain temperature range it can be much more efficient than burning chemical fuels.
*(yeah, heat really is energy, but heat pumps just move it around, they don't create it)
I believe you only need 2 towers for triangulation (you are the 3rd point in the triangle). And even with 1 tower, they still know your approximate location (i.e. they know you are close enough to that tower to get reception, and not close enough to any other tower to register). They might even be able to tell distance from the tower by signal strength or delay. Enough to support or destroy an alibi.
Is September 22, 2009 (and here) recent enough for you? It does say they plan to use the technology in their own products, but Microsoft has said that lots of times and not followed through. They are definitely killing the product line though.
Um, if it is not profitable, why buy the company and shut it down? Just let the company die on its own. And they're not buying them for the technology either, because they don't use it. They buy them and shut them own because they are worried that it will steal market share from them.
Microsoft has always cared far more about crushing competition than providing anything of value to consumers. They buy up cool products just to shut them down, have a massive FUD engine, and promise the next version will be better but instead deliver Windows ME and Vista. Even if Google is just a money-grubbing competitor, it is a real competitor that Microsoft can't crush. Which means both companies will have to compete by offering something better to the consumers. Consumers win.
RNA probably came before DNA, and some life uses only RNA (some viruses for example). DNA is not just 2 RNAs put together, there are substantial differences. So even on earth there are 2 different solutions to the basic problem. Even keeping the basic structure of DNA/RNA there are probably lots of ways to hang a few extra atoms of the bases to create completely different bases (which would then need different transcription enzymes, etc.). And I still wouldn't rule out a completely different structure, since there are so many ways to link carbons together to form complex structures.
DNA is much more complex than the basic building blocks floating around in space, and I bet there are many ways to build something that performs the same function as DNA but is not DNA. Genes are even more complex, there are some genes that are common to all life on earth (with mutations, but still recognizable as the same gene) - life that originated independently, even if it used DNA, would not have the same genes - there is too many solutions to each problem. I'm pretty sure if we had genetic material from another planet we could easily confirm or refute panspermia. Unfortunately we don't, and we may never have it.
I think Mars was already considered habitable range. We know that billions of years ago Mars was warmer and wetter, and if it was a little more massive, so it could better hold an atmosphere, it might still be. All this is true regardless of whether or not Mars once had life.
I'm rooting for independent evolution. It would make it far more likely that the universe is teaming with life. But unless we find current life on Mars, it may be hard to tell the difference.
Sometimes I use the wrong verbs on purpose just so someone will correct me. It's like bumping into a stranger on the sidewalk just to get a hug.
Thanks for the correction. *hug*
And I assume you said verb instead of noun on purpose too :-) *hug*
It puts people at risk, and the motherfucker should be tried for sedition.
I think you mean treason. Sedition is encouraging insurrection. Treason is acts of disloyalty to one's nation. But in the US treason is narrowly defined by the constitution (to prevent abuses), so unfortunately they probably can't be prosecuted for treason.
No. The signal strength is 1/(r^2). Exponentially would be 1/(c^r), where c is some constant and r is the radius. Exponentially means r is in the exponent, not the base.
The other factors the strongly affect birthrate are education, equality for women, and availability of birth control. All of which are probably more important than prosperity, and many of which are not present in some prosperous countries (like the oil-rich middle-eastern countries).
No, unfortunately there is not
And while you're spending your time figuring out why something that isn't broken works, he is coding something that you aren't coding at all. Sure, coding until it passes isn't the ideal, but it's a whole lot better than not coding at all (you).
Nope. The sloppy programmer may get his code out the door sooner, but then it comes back after QA. Then you try to fix the bugs from QA and introduce more bugs because the code is crap. Unit tests may help but sloppy programmers write crappy unit tests and never think though all the cases that need covering. I take 2-3 times as long to complete my code as that sloppy programmer but I almost never have a bug filed against my code, and when I do it is quick and easy to fix, so in the end I get more done in the same period of time.
'Probably' is such nice word.
I think the ACLU would definitely take on such a case. They would probably win. Since we haven't seen that exact case we can't say for sure but the US Supreme Court has a pretty good record of shooting down that type of censorship.
Right, who build this thing? The French?