Logarithms, invented by John Napier born 1550. Henry Briggs, another British mathematician published a table of logarithms to 14 places of numbers from 1 to 20,000 and from 90,000 to 100,000 in 1624.
Then why do fighter jets still carry cannon? As I remember it the first all missile armed fighter was the Vietnam era F4 Phantom. Feedback from the pilots led firstly to a pod mounted cannon followed by a cannon armed Phantom variant. RN Harriers made kills with cannon in the Falklands. Missiles might have a BVR capability but you can't guarantee a hit, the opposition may be unsporting enough to use countermeasures. Dogfighting might be a rarity these days but I don't think you can consign it to the history books yet.
I sort of picture christmas with the family. I'm sitting there showing off some non DRM linux based audio juke that I can ssh into, compile my kernel on and browse the newsgroups, and my grease mechanic uncle will pull out the "Microwhore pocket media" device that straps to your chin and transmits 52 channel DRM audio through your jawbone. No matter how cool it is to other geeks I can run seti@home on my linux based juke, it won't matter to the other family members all pressing the micropoop to their chins and salivating from a near orgasmic audio experience.
Exactly, about 20 years ago a good friend came round to see me, the plan was to do serious damage to a bottle of Laphroaig and talk shite while our significant others were out shopping. He brought a CD with him and put it on, as the third track started I hit pause and asked if the rest of the album was as good as the first two tracks, he said yes, I taped the CD and now own 8 more by that artist and have seen him live any number of times.
For anyone who's interested the Laphroaig died, the shite talked was humongous, the shopping was (apparently) successful and the album in question was Amnesia, 1988, by Richard Thompson. Most years since then I spend the second weekend in August sitting in a field in the village of Cropredy listening to music and drinking Wadsworths ales at Fairport Conventions annual festival/pissup were Mr Thompson frequently appears, either as an artist in his own right or guesting with Fairport of which he used to be a member. All that from one "pirated" CD.
When I was doing my degree the rules were quite explicit, primary sources only, so no Wikipaedia (had it existed at the time) or Britannica. The parent was pointing out that quoting Wiki won't get you your degree, not claiming that it isn't citation.
Silly programmer, you ensure you help set the development standards, variables to be undeclared with names no more than 3 characters long, goto mandatory for exiting nested conditional statements and loops, preferably 4 or 5 levels down, functions and sub routines are right out and comments are only allowed if at least cryptic, ideally they should be down right misleading. Ensure that wherever possible the same business rule is coded in more than one place with subtle differences such that it will only produce the same result in 95% of cases. All links to other systems should obviously contain hard coded server names, remember hard coding is your friend, you can't be accused of obfuscation.
Oh yes, don't forget large chunks of code that will never actually run.
I could go on but at this point I'm off to cry in a dark corner with a stiff drink. Welcome to my world.
How is this insightful? By the time security has pulled their 100th false positive the search is no longer extensive, at best it's a cursory onceover because the detector obviously "doesn't work", you have to factor the human in. The system may flag the 1 in a million terrorist with its nice low false negative rate but because s/he's the 2,358th person the system has flagged due to its high false positive rate security has a quick peek in the rucksack and totally misses the det cord hanging out of the subjects arse.
As I understand it the argument "a firearm will cause a plane to crash" is related to the possibility of explosive decompression, that being so your WWII example doesn't really stand up as very few WWII aircraft had pressurized cockpits/crew areas, off the top of my head there's the B29 and a few high flying reccy aircraft.
Agreed, if music companies are going to assume I'm a criminal, ie put DRM on CD's, then fuck 'em, I'll behave like one and anything I want to listen to on my mp3 player I'll rip, whether I own a licensed copy or not. After all, it's a lot simpler than letting Sony put a rootkit on your box, yeah?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/02/10/ask thepilot173/index_np.html
Plea bargaining?
Correct. We can't afford colour, it's all those extra 'u's.
Doh! Slaps self around head and goes for more coffee.
Logarithms, invented by John Napier born 1550. Henry Briggs, another British mathematician published a table of logarithms to 14 places of numbers from 1 to 20,000 and from 90,000 to 100,000 in 1624.
c s/logarithm_hist.htm
http://www.thocp.net/reference/sciences/mathemati
So enlighten me, what sort of computer was he using?
Then why do fighter jets still carry cannon? As I remember it the first all missile armed fighter was the Vietnam era F4 Phantom. Feedback from the pilots led firstly to a pod mounted cannon followed by a cannon armed Phantom variant. RN Harriers made kills with cannon in the Falklands. Missiles might have a BVR capability but you can't guarantee a hit, the opposition may be unsporting enough to use countermeasures. Dogfighting might be a rarity these days but I don't think you can consign it to the history books yet.
I'm British and it's news to me, so I guess you're going senile :>)
It's the '73 Mini Cooper isn't it? Bastard.
Have you considered therapy?
For anyone who's interested the Laphroaig died, the shite talked was humongous, the shopping was (apparently) successful and the album in question was Amnesia, 1988, by Richard Thompson. Most years since then I spend the second weekend in August sitting in a field in the village of Cropredy listening to music and drinking Wadsworths ales at Fairport Conventions annual festival/pissup were Mr Thompson frequently appears, either as an artist in his own right or guesting with Fairport of which he used to be a member. All that from one "pirated" CD.
Bad me, BAD me.
For anyone out there who's not heard of it it's a UK law, and as the parent says, it can produce a quite dramatic change of attitude.
When I was doing my degree the rules were quite explicit, primary sources only, so no Wikipaedia (had it existed at the time) or Britannica. The parent was pointing out that quoting Wiki won't get you your degree, not claiming that it isn't citation.
If it's decent acid you shouldn't need the video ipod to watch your music :>)
Oh yes, don't forget large chunks of code that will never actually run.
I could go on but at this point I'm off to cry in a dark corner with a stiff drink. Welcome to my world.
Rabbits live in burrows not caves, try kobolds.
For a moment there I had a cogent argument to back up my position, then the gin kicked in.
Good night and may your God go with you.
With thanks to Dave Allen.
How is this insightful? By the time security has pulled their 100th false positive the search is no longer extensive, at best it's a cursory onceover because the detector obviously "doesn't work", you have to factor the human in. The system may flag the 1 in a million terrorist with its nice low false negative rate but because s/he's the 2,358th person the system has flagged due to its high false positive rate security has a quick peek in the rucksack and totally misses the det cord hanging out of the subjects arse.
As I understand it the argument "a firearm will cause a plane to crash" is related to the possibility of explosive decompression, that being so your WWII example doesn't really stand up as very few WWII aircraft had pressurized cockpits/crew areas, off the top of my head there's the B29 and a few high flying reccy aircraft.
Do you mean Ad-Aware? If so their personal edition is still available for free download,
http://www.lavasoft.de/
Products is the second section in the left hand navigation bar, Ad_Aware personal is the fourth link. Easy.
Personally I will concede a mild aversion to rocking the boat. If pushed, obviously.
Well done that man! Saved me the trouble. Orf now for another G&T.
Really? From the BBC yesterday,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4434852.stm
Agreed, if music companies are going to assume I'm a criminal, ie put DRM on CD's, then fuck 'em, I'll behave like one and anything I want to listen to on my mp3 player I'll rip, whether I own a licensed copy or not. After all, it's a lot simpler than letting Sony put a rootkit on your box, yeah?
It's in England therefore there is no 'barkeep' instaed we have a landlord.
Got kids? My niece trashed several DVDs before she was old enough to understand why she couldn't watch The Lion King again.