Could be any of those things, or all of those things. In a fully Microsoft monoculture of shared architecture and sloppy security practices, it only takes one weak link to break the whole chain.
From the story: 'For those of you inquiring about the strength of my Hotmail password - it was a seven-letter string of lowercase letters. Not a dictionary word, but part acronym, part proper noun.'
The media reports are all harping on the idea of "crash dive to avoid Venus", but that's incidential. There was an oncoming aircraft (but not on a collision course) and the FO erred in thinking it was going to collide. Source - TSB report.
Big corporations should have seen this coming. After decades of pushing for relaxation of laws and regulations on fraud and deceptive trade practices, the retailers are getting what they wanted. What they should have seen was that the agencies and organizations protecting the consumer also had a role in enforcing the law to protect the retailers, from each other and dishonest consumers.
Used to be that if someone tried to defraud a retailer by falsifying a return, there was a pretty good chance they'd face criminal charges. Now, thanks to policies that have benefited the most aggressive capitalist businesses, enforcement of that kind of law is way down. Things like that tend to become civil actions now, which is fine for companies with deep pockets going after big amounts, but too expensive to apply to every individual purchase transaction.
Now that big box retailers don't have the help of law enforcement to reduce their exposure to fraud, they have to deal with on their own dime.
I believe Ayn Rand would approve of this development.
The specifics of the tools and such I use aren't important to me. What is important is that weekly I push a duplicate full backup to my VPS instance, which lives in a hosting facility in another state. Should my home, or my entire city, fall to some disaster that wipes out everything in my study (and I survive) I will still be able to get to my backup using standard tools that have been around since the dawn of the internet. It might not be terribly convenient, certainly nothing like an actual restore, but the contents will be there, accessible.
I wondered that exact same thing myself. At the very least, the authors of the study need to touch on this question. How do their claims stack up when applied to those born blind, or who lose sight at an early age?
The system-modal splash screen is really the problem. If an application legitimately takes a long time to get to a usable state then fine, show me a dialog with a progress indicator, but I should be able to switch to some other program and work while that's happening. I wonder why operating systems and their GUIs even still have that ability for applications.
As others have noted, the applications that legitimately need start time should be down to a handful. Thanks to both hardware and operating system support for parallelism, along with better APIs for graphical applications developers (who here remembers the old Windows 3.x/95 message loop behavior?) it should be possible to nearly any application to let the user start doing something as soon as the O/S hands it control.
If the source of the isotopes was a test -- and that's a big if -- a boosted fission weapon is a very good possibility. Going to a 'real' thermonuclear or 'hydrogen bomb' is a much bigger and less likely step. However, once a country has accomplished building a plain Trinity-style fission device, boosting with tritium or deuterium (or less commonly lithium-6 deuteride) is pretty straightforward if you have access to those materials.
In addition, if the lower estimates of the yield of DPRK's two tests are taken a correct, at about 4kt, then a program that targets a boosted design makes a lot of sense, as it would produce weapon designs easily 10 times as powerful and with refinement up to 400kt yields.
Remember when everyone complained about how such-and-such browser was such a load of crap because it took *forever* to start up? Now we have browsers that start very rapidly, so everyone is happy, right?
GIMP is missing one thing that's pretty important in pre-press work: full built-in support for CMYK. Yes, the Separate and Separate+ plug-ins will allow you to do some work in that color model, but it's incomplete and not well-integrated.
If any GIMP developers are reading this: Please prioritize work on CMYK support! I can program a little C/C++ and am willing to help out!
"The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program aimed to replace several aircraft from three major military services with a fifth-generation model capable of short-takeoff and vertical-landing while maintaining the capability of sustained supersonic flight - all while staying affordable"
Parent might be a troll, but it's also somewhat true. Plenty of organizations out there unwilling or at least reluctant to deploy anything open source when there is a Microsoft-supported option. The bias in favor of propriety supported solutions remains even when the open source version is demonstrably better.
Here, let me reduce to practice the meaning of this change in today's world.
Several people or groups are all working in a field and certain ideas are in the air, as is typical of science and industry.
The organization that has the most patent-oriented mindset with the largest, most experienced, and highest paid team of patent lawyers gets the papers drawn up and filed first.
If you think that sounds a lot like certain large and well-known software and hardware companies, you've just figured out who benefits from this change.
Take a look at Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis. I've had a copy on my shelf for years. He covers C++ along with other common languages, and has examples from both very large and small programs.
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Perhaps more bluntly: when the math PhDs are paid as much as NFL quarterbacks.
This GTK+ bug is also holding back to port to other platforms, like OS X.
The main hurdle seems to be people with tablets who can test and report bugs.
It's a shame it depends on GTK and X11 on OS X anyway. A native port would be great, but I don't ever see that happening.
Could be any of those things, or all of those things. In a fully Microsoft monoculture of shared architecture and sloppy security practices, it only takes one weak link to break the whole chain.
Obligatory: Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
From the story: 'For those of you inquiring about the strength of my Hotmail password - it was a seven-letter string of lowercase letters. Not a dictionary word, but part acronym, part proper noun.'
The media reports are all harping on the idea of "crash dive to avoid Venus", but that's incidential. There was an oncoming aircraft (but not on a collision course) and the FO erred in thinking it was going to collide. Source - TSB report.
Big corporations should have seen this coming. After decades of pushing for relaxation of laws and regulations on fraud and deceptive trade practices, the retailers are getting what they wanted. What they should have seen was that the agencies and organizations protecting the consumer also had a role in enforcing the law to protect the retailers, from each other and dishonest consumers.
Used to be that if someone tried to defraud a retailer by falsifying a return, there was a pretty good chance they'd face criminal charges. Now, thanks to policies that have benefited the most aggressive capitalist businesses, enforcement of that kind of law is way down. Things like that tend to become civil actions now, which is fine for companies with deep pockets going after big amounts, but too expensive to apply to every individual purchase transaction.
Now that big box retailers don't have the help of law enforcement to reduce their exposure to fraud, they have to deal with on their own dime.
I believe Ayn Rand would approve of this development.
The specifics of the tools and such I use aren't important to me. What is important is that weekly I push a duplicate full backup to my VPS instance, which lives in a hosting facility in another state. Should my home, or my entire city, fall to some disaster that wipes out everything in my study (and I survive) I will still be able to get to my backup using standard tools that have been around since the dawn of the internet. It might not be terribly convenient, certainly nothing like an actual restore, but the contents will be there, accessible.
I wondered that exact same thing myself. At the very least, the authors of the study need to touch on this question. How do their claims stack up when applied to those born blind, or who lose sight at an early age?
The system-modal splash screen is really the problem. If an application legitimately takes a long time to get to a usable state then fine, show me a dialog with a progress indicator, but I should be able to switch to some other program and work while that's happening. I wonder why operating systems and their GUIs even still have that ability for applications.
As others have noted, the applications that legitimately need start time should be down to a handful. Thanks to both hardware and operating system support for parallelism, along with better APIs for graphical applications developers (who here remembers the old Windows 3.x/95 message loop behavior?) it should be possible to nearly any application to let the user start doing something as soon as the O/S hands it control.
If the source of the isotopes was a test -- and that's a big if -- a boosted fission weapon is a very good possibility. Going to a 'real' thermonuclear or 'hydrogen bomb' is a much bigger and less likely step. However, once a country has accomplished building a plain Trinity-style fission device, boosting with tritium or deuterium (or less commonly lithium-6 deuteride) is pretty straightforward if you have access to those materials.
In addition, if the lower estimates of the yield of DPRK's two tests are taken a correct, at about 4kt, then a program that targets a boosted design makes a lot of sense, as it would produce weapon designs easily 10 times as powerful and with refinement up to 400kt yields.
Same can be said for Ares/Constellation aka Porklauncher and its undead spawn the Space (aka Senate) Launch System.
At least the J2-X engine development has been proceeding. It's a good solid design that has potential uses. So-so thrust/weight ratio but good Isp
Remember when everyone complained about how such-and-such browser was such a load of crap because it took *forever* to start up? Now we have browsers that start very rapidly, so everyone is happy, right?
ed is the STANDARD!
Those that have jobs, at least :/
I like the idea of renaming the hangar to "Hangar One Percent".
We'll just rename the building to "Hanger One Percent"
They do. It's called The Millionaire
htons() and ntohs() and related functions are still important, too.
GIMP is missing one thing that's pretty important in pre-press work: full built-in support for CMYK. Yes, the Separate and Separate+ plug-ins will allow you to do some work in that color model, but it's incomplete and not well-integrated.
If any GIMP developers are reading this: Please prioritize work on CMYK support! I can program a little C/C++ and am willing to help out!
"The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program aimed to replace several aircraft from three major military services with a fifth-generation model capable of short-takeoff and vertical-landing while maintaining the capability of sustained supersonic flight - all while staying affordable"
Doesn't anyone remember the F-111?
Parent might be a troll, but it's also somewhat true. Plenty of organizations out there unwilling or at least reluctant to deploy anything open source when there is a Microsoft-supported option. The bias in favor of propriety supported solutions remains even when the open source version is demonstrably better.
Here, let me reduce to practice the meaning of this change in today's world.
Several people or groups are all working in a field and certain ideas are in the air, as is typical of science and industry.
The organization that has the most patent-oriented mindset with the largest, most experienced, and highest paid team of patent lawyers gets the papers drawn up and filed first.
If you think that sounds a lot like certain large and well-known software and hardware companies, you've just figured out who benefits from this change.
Also a good choice. I don't own it personally, but I've referred to it at work.
Take a look at Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis. I've had a copy on my shelf for years. He covers C++ along with other common languages, and has examples from both very large and small programs.