Unless it has been fixed recently, subversion does NOT track merge points. If you branch at revision 1000, merge the head into the branch at revision 2000, and want to do it again at revision 3000, you yourself have to remember to tell it to start at revision 2000, otherwise it will remerge all those already merged revisions from 1000-2000. It's a major pain in the butt and utterly inexcusable to have to manually track that, whether you do it in subversion comments, notes in external files, or postits.
Any distributed one. The first time I tried one (darcs), it blew me away how much easier and stress-free it felt. Like a fresh breeze on a hot muggy day. Darcs has a remaining problem (some specific kinds of actions can take waaaay too long) so altho I still use it for myself, I would not recommend it for massive projects (yet; they are working on it), but git or any number of other distributed systems are so much easier and friendlier than subversion.
Subversion is the best horse buggy you can get, much better than CVS, which is a major step up from the handcart that is RCS. But distributed systems are like cars compared to subversion.
Sometimes I intentionally troll and get modded insightful. Sometimes I try to be funny and get modded troll. It always amazes me, and this time is no exception. I thought I had laid it on thick enough that even the most self-righteous moral guardian could at least tell it was trying to be funny.
Oh well. Here comes an off-topic mod to set me on my ear:-)
(by the way, I'm joking for the humor impaired) By definition, the humor impaired won't understand your jokes, so there's no point in joking for them. Better to joke for the rest of us.
Your non-citation of studies and invocation of UWB as a panacea do not help your cause. Show me where I said it was my cause. Methinks you doth protest too much.
Not sure how much you are trolling and how much being sarcastic, but for the enlightenment of people who know little about the subject...
The government (and court-approved) excuse for regulating the broadcast airwaves is that the radio spectrum is a limited resource, therefore public, therefore not private property.
Out of the presumption that the nanny state is required to regulate the airwaves for the public good comes the corollary that regulation has to include preventing unauthorized transmitters and receivers, and that is why Software Radio is a prime candidate for outlawing.
Software Radio relies on the fact that computers nowadays are fast enough to dissect received signals and format transmitted signals completely in software in real time. You no longer need hardware frequency selectors. The hardware only has to receive or broadcast the general signal, and software formats the specific frequency desired.
Of course this scares the bejaysus out of the government. It would mean any computer and minimal hardware could bypass all government regulation. Consider all the recent spectrum auctions where telecom giants paid billions of dollars for exclusive access to specific frequencies -- along comes software which would let anybody broadcast on or receive from any signal desired without having to pay for specific hardware dedicated to specific frequencies. One small hardware investment, free software, and you have eliminated the need for all those many telecom-specific pieces of hardware for each purpose.
Certainly there is need for some standardization of frequencies and protocols, but studies have shown the current system is no longer necessary. Ultrawideband and frequency hopping may even make interference a thing of the past and reduce the need for regulation to general protocol specs, such as apply to phone lines and allow faxes, modems, answering machines, and so many other ubiquitous devices to connect to land lines without heavy handed regulation.
As for why so much technology is developed for the military... It's because they are willing to go into a cost plus contract with companies. Nothing like having the military pay for all the cost overruns & extra R&D. Military-inspired tech existed long before the concept of cost plus contracts.
You really need to extend your knowledge of history back farther than what has happened since you began reading.
People putting loaded handguns in their homes in the case of a wood-be assailant or robber breaking in. This is not only security theater, it increases the risk you are putting yourself and your family in. Look up the stats on the FBI website and you will find differently. Your well known stat is wrong, and promulgated by the Brady Bunch because it sounds plausible and intimidates the easily confused.
Go ahead, look up the stats for yourself. Very few people die from inappropriate use of guns in their own homes. More people use thme to scare off or kill burglars or other attackers.
There's a map floating around the tubes from after Bush and Cheney were inaugurated but before 9/11. It's from one of Cheney's groups and is a map of Iraq divided into sectors labeled with different oil company names. Now I doubt they actually would have gone to war just to fulfill the map, but it's long been obvious that 9/11 was simply a poor excuse for the invasion.
You only need more thrust than weight to climb vertically. After all, a 747 has four engines totaling around 200K pounds of thrust, and a max takeoff weight of around 800K pounds.
On the other hand, if you were attempting some kind of esoteric lame joke, I guess it went whoosh right over me head.
At some point you have to write a new LiveCD, yes? Or perhaps you have passwords too complicated and numerous to remember, and need to write them to an encrypted USB stick?
It seems to me that there are still opportunities to get infected. On the other hand, you have reduced the danger space, so that's good.
That's good, so they can mount the sensors ahead of the engine. Otherwise they might collect data on their own emissions rather than what they are flying thru.
Disk sizes are going up. In a few years you'll see a terabyte on a single drive. Unlike those two 1000 GB (or is it 1024) drives I have on my desk now.
The transponders are in the airplanes, not on the airports. I'm pretty sure they both have one. You're full of it. Transponders in airports make no sense. What mode does it operate in, mode U for Useless?
I hope you had a sense of humor when you were born, because it's sure been ground out of you now, along with the pattern recognition wetware to recognize those funny symbols at the end of his post.
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Unless it has been fixed recently, subversion does NOT track merge points. If you branch at revision 1000, merge the head into the branch at revision 2000, and want to do it again at revision 3000, you yourself have to remember to tell it to start at revision 2000, otherwise it will remerge all those already merged revisions from 1000-2000. It's a major pain in the butt and utterly inexcusable to have to manually track that, whether you do it in subversion comments, notes in external files, or postits.
Any distributed one. The first time I tried one (darcs), it blew me away how much easier and stress-free it felt. Like a fresh breeze on a hot muggy day. Darcs has a remaining problem (some specific kinds of actions can take waaaay too long) so altho I still use it for myself, I would not recommend it for massive projects (yet; they are working on it), but git or any number of other distributed systems are so much easier and friendlier than subversion.
Subversion is the best horse buggy you can get, much better than CVS, which is a major step up from the handcart that is RCS. But distributed systems are like cars compared to subversion.
It's because the reporters are dense too.
Sometimes I intentionally troll and get modded insightful. Sometimes I try to be funny and get modded troll. It always amazes me, and this time is no exception. I thought I had laid it on thick enough that even the most self-righteous moral guardian could at least tell it was trying to be funny.
:-)
Oh well. Here comes an off-topic mod to set me on my ear
Or else you follow slashdot patterns and eat too much
Or you are a nudist too
Or you shine your collection daily
Or you collect Titanic janitorial equipment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrawideband
Not sure how much you are trolling and how much being sarcastic, but for the enlightenment of people who know little about the subject ...
The government (and court-approved) excuse for regulating the broadcast airwaves is that the radio spectrum is a limited resource, therefore public, therefore not private property.
Out of the presumption that the nanny state is required to regulate the airwaves for the public good comes the corollary that regulation has to include preventing unauthorized transmitters and receivers, and that is why Software Radio is a prime candidate for outlawing.
Software Radio relies on the fact that computers nowadays are fast enough to dissect received signals and format transmitted signals completely in software in real time. You no longer need hardware frequency selectors. The hardware only has to receive or broadcast the general signal, and software formats the specific frequency desired.
Of course this scares the bejaysus out of the government. It would mean any computer and minimal hardware could bypass all government regulation. Consider all the recent spectrum auctions where telecom giants paid billions of dollars for exclusive access to specific frequencies -- along comes software which would let anybody broadcast on or receive from any signal desired without having to pay for specific hardware dedicated to specific frequencies. One small hardware investment, free software, and you have eliminated the need for all those many telecom-specific pieces of hardware for each purpose.
Certainly there is need for some standardization of frequencies and protocols, but studies have shown the current system is no longer necessary. Ultrawideband and frequency hopping may even make interference a thing of the past and reduce the need for regulation to general protocol specs, such as apply to phone lines and allow faxes, modems, answering machines, and so many other ubiquitous devices to connect to land lines without heavy handed regulation.
No, ARPA wanted some flexible way to communicate in the case of nuclear war of tremendous natural disasters. ARPA is a US defense agency.
It's because they are willing to go into a cost plus contract with companies.
Nothing like having the military pay for all the cost overruns & extra R&D. Military-inspired tech existed long before the concept of cost plus contracts.
You really need to extend your knowledge of history back farther than what has happened since you began reading.
Go ahead, look up the stats for yourself. Very few people die from inappropriate use of guns in their own homes. More people use thme to scare off or kill burglars or other attackers.
There's a map floating around the tubes from after Bush and Cheney were inaugurated but before 9/11. It's from one of Cheney's groups and is a map of Iraq divided into sectors labeled with different oil company names. Now I doubt they actually would have gone to war just to fulfill the map, but it's long been obvious that 9/11 was simply a poor excuse for the invasion.
Christianity has been waging war with the rest of the world since it was invented.
Most of the world that is Christian now is that way because of those wars.
Don't try to kid anyone. Fixed it for ya.
You only need more thrust than weight to climb vertically. After all, a 747 has four engines totaling around 200K pounds of thrust, and a max takeoff weight of around 800K pounds.
On the other hand, if you were attempting some kind of esoteric lame joke, I guess it went whoosh right over me head.
Parachutes and paragliders tend to be unpredictable and are not particularly safe, doubly so at speeds exceeding sound or at very low altitudes.
[answers phone]
You don't say.
You don't say.
You don't say.
[hangs up phone]
[roommate]Who was it?
He didn't say.
No, 1.18 was the 31 days of January, and he is quoting for February.
At some point you have to write a new LiveCD, yes? Or perhaps you have passwords too complicated and numerous to remember, and need to write them to an encrypted USB stick?
It seems to me that there are still opportunities to get infected. On the other hand, you have reduced the danger space, so that's good.
Science Museum of Manitoba, eh!
That's good, so they can mount the sensors ahead of the engine. Otherwise they might collect data on their own emissions rather than what they are flying thru.
I hope you had a sense of humor when you were born, because it's sure been ground out of you now, along with the pattern recognition wetware to recognize those funny symbols at the end of his post.
Relax. It's sarcasm. See bad, hot, cool, wicked, and any number of other examples.
You can get down off your grammar nazi guard tower now.